US11107628B2
A coil and an electrical strip or electrical sheet with at least one heat-hardening hotmelt varnish, namely a baked enamel layer, provided on its flat sides, which has an epoxy resin base, at least one hardener, and at least one filler, are disclosed. In order to achieve a high storage stability and long-term temperature stability, the proposal is made for the filler of the baked enamel layer to have a metal carbonate, sulfate, sulfide, silicate, or phosphate or any mix of a plurality of these.
US11107627B2
A method of manufacturing a plurality of R—Fe—B sintered magnets using a plasma flame apparatus and a furnace. The method includes a first step of providing a sintered magnet block. Then, the sintered magnet block is machined to form machined magnets. The method continues with a step of cleaning surfaces of the machined magnets to form cleaned magnets. The method then proceeds with depositing a plurality of spherical droplets of a heavy rare earth powder selected from at least one of Dy or Tb on the surfaces of the cleaned magnets, to produce a plurality of magnets including a uniform film of Dy or Tb. Then, the magnets including the uniform film are sintered to diffuse the uniform film into the magnets through grain boundary phases of the magnets to produce the R—Fe—B sintered magnets. A plasma flame apparatus is also disclosed herein.
US11107618B2
A core body includes a central iron core, an outer peripheral iron core surrounding the central iron core, and a single hoop material wound body formed by winding a hoop material. At least three iron portions of an outer circumferential surface of the hoop material wound body are bent radially inward thereof. The central iron core includes at least three iron cores, each of which having a cut tip, is made by cutting at least three projection portions of the hoop material wound body. Each of the at least three projection portions is located between the at least three portions.
US11107613B2
A resistance trimming circuit has a resolution of N=X+Y bits. Included is a first circuit with M resistors, where M=2X−1, with each of the M resistors having a resistance of R*(2Y)*i, i being an index having a value ranging from 1 to 2X−1. M switches are associated with the M resistors. Each of the M resistors is coupled between a first node and its one of the M switches, and each of the M switches couples its one of the M resistors to a second node. Included is a second circuit with P resistors, where P=2Y−1, with each of the P resistors having a resistance of R*i. P switches are associated with the P resistors. Each of the P resistors is coupled between the second node and its one of the P switches, and each of the P switches selectively couples its one of the P resistors to a third node.
US11107612B2
An overheat protection device and a varistor are provided. The overheat protection device comprises: a first electrode and a second electrode disposed to be spaced apart; a hot-melt wire located between the first electrode and the second electrode, the hot-melt wire being in electrical contact with the first electrode and the second electrode; and an insulator supporting the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the hot-melt wire is melted into a liquid hot-melt material when the ambient temperature reaches a predetermined temperature, the liquid hot-melt material wets the first electrode and the second electrode, and the liquid hot-melt material does not wet the insulator at least at a portion located between the first electrode and the second electrode.
US11107602B2
An electric wire conductor capable of achieving both flexibility and a space-saving property, a covered electric wire and a wiring harness including such an electric wire conductor. The electric wire conductor contains a wire strand containing a plurality of elemental wires twisted together, and has a flat portion where a cross-section intersecting an axial direction of the wire strand has a flat shape. A covered electric wire contains the electric wire conductors and an insulator covering the electric wire conductors. A wiring harness contains such covered electric wires.
US11107593B2
A depressurization and cooling system for steam and/or condensable gases located in a containment. The system contains a steam condenser having an upstream port connected to the containment through an exhaust line and a downstream port connected to the containment through a backfeed line. The backfeed line contains a backfeed compressor. A re-cooling system for re-cooling the steam condenser is provided. The depressurization and cooling system is effective for re-cooling of the steam condenser. Accordingly, this is achieved as the re-cooling system is self-sustainable.
US11107586B1
A system and method to identify, convey, and reduce the risk of hip dislocations following hip replacement surgery. Preoperative images are used to identify the pelvic tilt of a patient while the patient is in a sitting position, a standing position, and a supine position. Based on the pelvic tilt and pelvic mobility depicted in the preoperative images, the system can identify a quantitative and/or qualitative risk of hip dislocation when the patient is seated, standing, and lying. During surgery, an intraoperative image can confirm the acetabular cup orientation once implanted and the system can determine the risk of hip dislocation when patient is in the supine position. The system can also extrapolate the dislocation risk when the patient is seated and standing based on acetabular cup position and orientation depicted in the intraoperative image.
US11107585B2
A system and method are provided for collection and testing of a biologic sample. The system and method comprise collecting by a user of a testing device a biologic sample for use with the testing device, assigning correlative values as test results, and receiving the test results at a server disposed on a network. Some aspects further include presenting advertisements and other messages to users through a mobile application operating on a mobile device. These aspects take into account the results of the self-diagnostic test and present different advertisements to the user based on the results of the test.
US11107584B2
A diagnosis server for collaborating with electronic noses, a related mobile diagnosis unit and a related method may be provided. A diagnosis server may comprise a receiver unit for receiving a set of data from one out of a plurality of e-noses. The set of data may comprise a sensor identifier, a sensor output value, and a relevance flag for a predefined diagnosis. A determination unit may determine a probability factor for the predefined diagnosis based on the set of data, a relevance function and a distribution function.
US11107573B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for generating a specialized machine learning model by receiving a generalized machine learning model generated by processing a plurality of first training images to predict at least one cancer characteristic, receiving a plurality of second training images, the first training images and the second training images include images of tissue specimens and/or images algorithmically generated to replicate tissue specimens, receiving a plurality of target specialized attributes related to a respective second training image of the plurality of second training images, generating a specialized machine learning model by modifying the generalized machine learning model based on the plurality of second training images and the target specialized attributes, receiving a target image corresponding to a target specimen, applying the specialized machine learning model to the target image to determine at least one characteristic of the target image, and outputting the characteristic of the target image.
US11107567B2
The present disclosure relates to devices and processes for monitoring attributes of a user's physical activity (e.g., workout) or inactivity, and to user interfaces (e.g., an activity indicator) for displaying the same. In some examples, a device determines whether physical activity corresponds to a first type based on a first set of criteria, and whether physical activity corresponds to a second type based on a second set of criteria. In some examples, the device controls an inactivity timer that measures user's inactivity. In some examples, the device displays a first visual representation of an attribute or amount of a first type of physical activity, and a second visual representation of an attribute or amount of a second type. In some examples, the device displays a third visual representation of an attribute or amount of a third type of activity. In some examples, the third visual representation corresponds to user's inactivity.
US11107562B2
Techniques and architectures for clustering health care providers based on data regarding services that have previously been provided by health care providers are described herein. For example, the techniques and architectures may receive data from devices of health care providers regarding services that have been provided by the health care providers to patients. The techniques and architectures may perform various machine learning techniques, including clustering, to categorize health care providers into multiple clusters based on the services that were provided. Health care providers that lie within a cluster may be associated with a category of the cluster. While health care providers that lie outside a cluster, and have designated themselves as being associated with or are otherwise associated with a practice area that is associated with the cluster, may be flagged as potentially practicing outside an area that is designated by or otherwise associated with the health care providers.
US11107560B1
A method for facilitating integration of patient electronic healthcare record information from a community aggregator with electronic healthcare record information native to an electronic healthcare record (EHR) application includes, for each of a plurality of accessed community data items, comparing the community data item to native data items, and based on the comparison, identifying the community data item as a duplicate, a potential duplicate, or not a duplicate, and for each community data item which was not identified as a duplicate, comparing the community data item to entries in one or more native clinical dictionaries, and, based on the comparison, identifying the community data item as an exact match to a clinical dictionary entry, a potential match to one or more clinical dictionary entries, or not matched to any clinical dictionary entry.
US11107556B2
Systems and methods are provided for controlling dissemination of genomic data. One embodiment is a system that stores genomic data. The genomic data for each individual lists genetic variants determined to exist within that individual. The system receives an access request for a segment of genomic data for an individual, analyzes an authentication token within the request, authenticates the request as belonging to an account for a user based on the authentication token, and reviews authorization directives for the individual that indicate how predefined portions of genomic data are shared. The system also transmits the segment of genomic data in response to determining that the authorization directives permit the account to access the segment of genomic data, and prevents transmission of the segment of genomic data in response to determining that the authorization directives do not permit the account to access the segment of genomic data.
US11107552B2
Disclosed are data processing and analysis methods for gene expression data for identifying endogenous reference genes and a composition for the quantitative analysis of gene expression, comprising a pair of primers and/or probes useful in amplifying the identified endogenous reference genes. Introduced with the concepts of “Zero's proportion” and CV, the method allows different datasets to be integrally analyzed, thereby searching for novel reference genes. By the method, 2,087 genes are first found as housekeeping genes which are expressed in most tissues, and the usefulness thereof in the relative quantification of different target genes is determined by analyzing their expression stability. Of the 2,087 genes, 13 genes show higher expression stability with lower expression levels across a wide range of samples than traditional reference genes such as GAPDH and ACTS, and therefore are suitable for the normalization of universal genes having relatively low expression levels.
US11107550B2
A processing device in a memory system identifies a first range of a plurality of write-to-read delay ranges for the memory component, wherein the first range represents a plurality of write-to-read delay times and has an associated read voltage level used to perform a read operation on a segment of the memory component having a write-to-read delay time that falls within the first range. The processing device further identifies a first set of the plurality of write-to-read delay times at a first end of the first range and a second set of the plurality of write-to-read delay times at a second end of the first range, and determines a first error rate for the memory component corresponding to the first set of the plurality of write-to-read delay times and a second error rate for the memory component corresponding to the second set of the plurality of write-to-read delay times. The processing device determines whether a correspondence between the first error rate and the second error rate satisfies a first threshold criterion, and, responsive to the correspondence between the first error rate and the second error rate not satisfying the first threshold criterion, modifies the read voltage level associated with the first range.
US11107547B2
A semiconductor system includes a first semiconductor device and a second semiconductor device. The first semiconductor device outputs a chip selection signal, a command/address signal and a clock signal. The first semiconductor device outputs first external data and a strobe signal during a write operation in a test mode and receives second external data to adjust an output moment of the strobe signal during a read operation in the test mode. The second semiconductor device is synchronized with the strobe signal to latch input data generated from the first external data during the write operation according to the chip selection signal and the command/address signal. The second semiconductor device generates output data from the input data and outputs the output data as the second external data during the read operation according to the chip selection signal and the command/address signal.
US11107539B2
The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor chip including a first nonvolatile memory including a first memory block and a second memory block, CPU controlling the first nonvolatile memory, a first switch electrically connected to the first memory block and controlling the supply of the first power supply voltage to the first memory block, a second switch electrically connected to the second memory block and controlling the supply of the first power supply voltage to the second memory block, and a second nonvolatile memory electrically connected to each of the first switch and the second switch and storing flag information for controlling the first switch and the second switch, wherein the control of each of the first switch and the second switch is performed based on flag information indicating whether program data executed by CPU is written in the first memory block and the second memory block.
US11107538B2
The present disclosure relates to an electronic device. A storage device includes a memory device configured to include a plurality of memory cells and a memory controller configured to determine a read voltage for a read operation to be performed on the memory device according to whether the read operation is a cache read operation.
US11107536B2
Memory having a controller configured to cause the memory to determine a plurality of activation voltage levels for the plurality of memory cells, determine a plurality of activation voltage level distributions based on a subset of the plurality of activation voltage levels with each of the activation voltage level distributions corresponding to a respective first subset of memory cells of a plurality of first subsets of memory cells of the plurality of memory cells, determine a plurality of transition voltage levels based on the plurality of activation voltage level distributions, and assign a respective data state of a plurality of data states to each memory cell of a second subset of memory cells of the plurality of memory cells based on the determined activation voltage of that memory cell and the determined plurality of transition voltage levels.
US11107530B2
Disclosed herein is an integrated circuit including multiple magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) cells coupled to a static random access memory (SRAM). In one aspect, the integrated circuit includes a SRAM having a first port and a second port, and a set of pass transistors coupled to the first port of the SRAM. In one aspect, the integrated circuit includes a set of MTJ cells, where each of the set of MTJ cells is coupled between a select line and a corresponding one of the set of pass transistors.
US11107526B1
Technologies relating to controlling forming process in RRAM devices implemented in a cross-bar circuit using one or more feedback circuits are disclosed. An example apparatus includes an RRAM cell configured to form a channel; a MOSFET having a drain terminal, a source terminal, and a gate terminal, wherein the MOSFET is connected to the RRAM cell via the drain terminal; a TIA connected to the MOSFET via the source terminal; a first signal generator connected to the RRAM cell; a second signal generator connected to the MOSFET via the gate terminal; and a comparator having a first input end, a second input end, and an output end, wherein the comparator is connected to the TIA via the first input end, the second input end is connected to a reference voltage source, and the output end is connected to the first signal generator and the second signal generator.
US11107524B2
A resistive memory device is provided. The resistive memory device includes a resistive memory cell electrically connected to a local word line node; a local word line transistor configured to electrically connect the local word line node to a global word line node; a global word line transistor configured to electrically connect the global word line node to a sensing node; and a margin compensation circuit comprising a margin compensation switch electrically connected to the local word line node and the global word line node.
US11107520B2
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods for shift decisions. An example apparatus includes a memory device. The memory device includes an array of memory cells and sensing circuitry coupled to the array via a plurality of sense lines. The sensing circuitry includes a sense amplifier and a compute component coupled to a sense line and configured to implement logical operations and a decision component configured to implement a shift of data based on a determined functionality of a memory cell in the array.
US11107519B2
Techniques are described herein for mitigating parasitic signals induced by state transitions during an access operation of a selected memory cell in a memory device. Some memory devices may include a plate that is coupled with memory cells associated with a plurality of digit lines and/or a plurality of word lines. Because the plate is coupled with a plurality of digit lines and/or word lines, unintended coupling between various components of the memory device may occur during an access operation. To mitigate parasitic signals induced by the unintended coupling, the memory device may isolate the selected memory cell from a selected digit line during certain portions of the access operation. The memory device may isolate the selected memory cell when the plate transitions from a first voltage to a second, when the selected digit line transitions from a third voltage to a fourth voltage, or a combination thereof.
US11107511B2
A CAM device includes a cell array including a plurality of CAM cells, a search line driving circuit connected to the cell array through a plurality of search lines, and a match line sensing circuit connected to the cell array through a plurality of match lines. Each of the CAM cells includes a first half CAM cell connected to a first match line and a second half CAM cell connected to a second match line different from the first match line. The first match line connected to the first half CAM cell is precharged in a first phase, and the second match line connected to the second half CAM cell is precharged in a second phase after the first phase. Thus, power consumption of the CAM device is reduced and delay is minimized.
US11107502B2
A method and an apparatus for processing a virtual reality movie. The method includes acquiring road-related features of road segments of a travel route; and providing at least one video clip matching the road-related features of the road segments of the travel route, as video clips for playing on the road segments.
US11107495B2
Three systems for the destruction of the data storage portion of electronic media storage devices such as hard disk drives, solid state drives and hybrid hard drives. One system utilizes a mill cutter with which the hard drive has relative motion in the direction of the axis of the mill cutter to destroy the data storage portion. A second system utilizes a laser to physically destroy the data storage portion. The third system utilizes a chemical solvent to chemically destroy the data storage portion.
US11107488B1
A system configured to perform echo cancellation using a reduced number of reference signals. The system may perform multi-channel acoustic echo cancellation (MCAEC) processing on a first portion of a microphone audio signal that corresponds to early reflections and may perform single-channel acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) processing on a second portion of the microphone audio signal that corresponds to late reverberations. For example, the system may use MCAEC processing on a plurality of reference audio signals to generate a first echo estimate signal and may subtract the first echo estimate signal from the microphone audio signal to generate a residual audio signal. The system may delay the first echo estimate signal, perform the AEC processing to generate a second echo estimate signal, and subtract the second echo estimate signal from the residual audio signal to generate an output audio signal. This reduces an overall complexity associated with performing echo cancellation.
US11107486B2
The present disclosure provides a speech/audio signal processing method based on wideband switching and a coding apparatus. The method includes: if a first wideband speech/audio signal is a harmonic signal, adjusting a determining condition for determining that a second wideband speech/audio signal is a harmonic signal, to obtain a first determining condition, where the first wideband speech/audio signal is a signal before wideband switching, and the second wideband speech/audio signal is a signal after the wideband switching; and determining, according to the first determining condition, whether the second wideband speech/audio signal is a harmonic signal. In the case of wideband switching, signal types of speech/audio signals remain as consistent as possible before and after the switching, so that continuity of the speech/audio signal decoded by a decoder device is ensured as much as possible, further improving speech communication service quality.
US11107483B2
A schematic block diagram of an audio encoder for encoding a multichannel audio signal is shown. The audio encoder includes a linear prediction domain encoder, a frequency domain encoder, and a controller for switching between the linear prediction domain encoder and the frequency domain encoder. The controller is configured such that a portion of the multichannel signal is represented either by an encoded frame of the linear prediction domain encoder or by an encoded frame of the frequency domain encoder. The linear prediction domain encoder includes a downmixer for downmixing the multichannel signal to obtain a downmixed signal. The linear prediction domain encoder further includes a linear prediction domain core encoder for encoding the downmix signal and furthermore, the linear prediction domain encoder includes a first joint multichannel encoder for generating first multichannel information from the multichannel signal.
US11107482B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for speech signal processing on a signal to transcribe speech. In one implementation, the system may include a memory storing instructions and a processor configured to execute the instructions. The instructions may include instructions to receive the signal, determine if at least a portion of data in the signal is missing, and when at least a portion of data is missing: process the signal using a hidden Markov model to generate an output; using the output, calculate a set of possible contents to fill a gap due to the missing data portion, with each possible content having an associated probability; based on the associated probabilities, select one of the set of possible contents; and using the selected possible content, update the signal.
US11107478B2
This document generally describes systems, methods, devices, and other techniques related to speaker verification, including (i) training a neural network for a speaker verification model, (ii) enrolling users at a client device, and (iii) verifying identities of users based on characteristics of the users' voices. Some implementations include a computer-implemented method. The method can include receiving, at a computing device, data that characterizes an utterance of a user of the computing device. A speaker representation can be generated, at the computing device, for the utterance using a neural network on the computing device. The neural network can be trained based on a plurality of training samples that each: (i) include data that characterizes a first utterance and data that characterizes one or more second utterances, and (ii) are labeled as a matching speakers sample or a non-matching speakers sample.
US11107475B2
An exemplary automatic speech recognition (ASR) system may receive an audio input including a segment of speech. The segment of speech may be independently processed by general ASR and domain-specific ASR to generate multiple ASR results. A selection between the multiple ASR results may be performed based on respective confidence levels for the general ASR and domain-specific ASR. As incremental ASR is performed, a composite result may be generated based on general ASR and domain-specific ASR.
US11107474B2
A character input device includes a speech input unit that receives an input speech, a controller that detects a substitution voice included in the input speech received by the speech input unit, and generates a predictive suggestion including a part replaced with the substitution voice and corresponding to the input speech, and a suggestion output unit that outputs the predictive suggestion.
US11107464B2
A feeling estimation device includes: a first acquirer configured to acquire sound data of an utterance of a user; a second acquirer configured to acquire text data obtained by converting the sound data acquired by the first acquirer into text; a first estimator configured to merge an index value based on the sound data acquired by the first acquirer and an index value based on the text data acquired by the second acquirer via first fusion and estimate a feeling of the user on the basis of the merged index value; and a second estimator configured to merge an index value indicating a result of the estimation performed by the first estimator and the index value based on the text data acquired by the second acquirer via second fusion and estimate a feeling of the user on the basis of the merged index value.
US11107462B1
Exemplary embodiments relate to improvements in spoken language understanding (SLU) systems. Conventionally, SLU systems include an automatic speech recognition (ASR) component configured to receive an input of audio data and to generate a textual representation of the audio data. Conventional SLU systems also include a natural language understanding (NLU) component configured to receive a text-based transcript and perform language-based tasks such as domain classification, intent determination, and slot-filling. However, these two components are typically trained separately based on different metrics. In real-world situations, errors in the ASR component propagate to the NLU component, which degrades the performance of the overall system. Exemplary embodiments described herein perform SLU in an end-to-end manner that infers semantic meaning directly from audio features without an intermediate text representation. This may allow for more a more accurate translation performed in a more resource-efficient manner (particularly in terms of processing resources).
US11107457B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating speech from text. One of the systems includes one or more computers and one or more storage devices storing instructions that when executed by one or more computers cause the one or more computers to implement: a sequence-to-sequence recurrent neural network configured to: receive a sequence of characters in a particular natural language, and process the sequence of characters to generate a spectrogram of a verbal utterance of the sequence of characters in the particular natural language; and a subsystem configured to: receive the sequence of characters in the particular natural language, and provide the sequence of characters as input to the sequence-to-sequence recurrent neural network to obtain as output the spectrogram of the verbal utterance of the sequence of characters in the particular natural language.
US11107456B2
Discussed is an artificial intelligence (AI)-based voice sampling apparatus for providing a speech style, including a rhyme encoder configured to receive a user's voice, extract a voice sample, and analyze a vocal feature included in the voice sample, a text encoder configured to receive text for reflecting the vocal feature, a processor configured to classify the vocal feature of the voice sample input to the rhyme encoder according to a label, extract an embedding vector representing the vocal feature from the label, and generate a speech style from the embedding vector and apply the generated speech style to the text, and a rhyme decoder configured to output synthesized voice data in which the speech style is applied to the text by the processor.
US11107455B1
A method for providing a broadband constant beam pattern acoustic array includes providing an array of transducers in a known three dimensional axisymmetric spherical configuration with each transducer element having an associated signal. A user can specify a far field beam pattern for the array. Weightings are calculated for each transducer in the array as being proportional to the voltage that gives the beam pattern power level associated with the bearing for each transducer. Signal power levels for each transducer are modified in accordance with the weightings. The array can be operated for receiving and transmitting signals with a constant beam pattern over a broad range of frequencies.
US11107454B2
An audio processing device (100) includes a correction microphone (110), a reference microphone (120), a classification unit (130), an active noise cancellation (ANC) unit (140), and a speaker (150). The correction microphone is arranged in an area adjacent to an ear of a user of the device and picks up acoustic signals in the area and outputs same as a correction signal. The reference microphone picks up surrounding noises (124) from a surrounding area of the user and outputs same as a reference signal. The classification unit receives the reference signal and splits the reference signal corresponding to a spectrum and amplitude thereof into signal components of two or more classes and outputs a classified signal. The ANC unit receives and processes the correction signal based on the classified signal and outputs a corresponding audio signal. The speaker receives the audio signal and provides a corresponding acoustic signal output.
US11107451B2
The present invention relates to a method for preparing a sound-adsorbing material and a sound-adsorbing material. The method includes the following steps: S1, preparing a non-foaming material slurry and mixing the slurry uniformly; S2, forming the non-foaming material slurry by using an oil column forming method to form wet granules; S3, drying the wet granules to form dry granules; and S4, roasting the dry granules to form sound-adsorbing material granules. The method has the advantages of simple operation and high reliability. The formed granules can have a uniform size, a smooth surface and high sphericity, and the granules are in contact with each other in points and piled up uniformly, which can reduce the bed resistance.
US11107444B2
Systems, methods and apparatuses may provide for technology to reduce rendering overhead associated with light field displays. The technology may conduct data formatting, re-projection, foveation, tile binning and/or image warping operations with respect to a plurality of display planes in a light field display.
US11107442B2
An electro-optical device includes a plurality of scan lines, k signal lines, a pixel that is disposed corresponding to each of intersections between the plurality of scan lines and the k signal lines, an image signal circuit configured to sequentially supply the image signal to each of the k signal lines in a horizontal scanning period, a pre-charge circuit configured to supply, in the horizontal scanning period and in a prescribed order, a pre-charge signal to a signal line of the k signal lines to which the image signal circuit has not supplied the image signal yet; and a control circuit configured to set a first supply period of the k supply periods, during which the image signal is sequentially supplied to each of the k signal lines, to be longer than prescribed supply periods excluding the first supply period of the k supply periods.
US11107439B2
An image processing apparatus includes a first setting unit configured to set a target range of a luminance level, and a generation unit configured to generate a processed image by performing image processing on a first region of an image in such a manner that the first region is distinguished from a second region and a third region, the first region having a luminance level included in the target range and having a color not included in a target color gamut, the second region having a luminance level not included in the target range and having a color not included in the target color gamut, and the third region having a luminance level not included in the target range and having a color included in the target color gamut.
US11107434B2
A gamma adjustment circuit includes: a first node; a second node; a first decoder to which a first voltage signal and a second voltage signal are provided and which outputs either one of the first voltage signal and the second voltage signal as a third voltage signal; an amplifier receiving the third voltage signal as a positive input and outputting a fourth voltage signal; a second decoder receiving the fourth voltage signal and outputting the provided fourth voltage signal as a fifth voltage signal to one of the first and second nodes; a third decoder connected to the first and second nodes, receives the fifth voltage signal from one of the first and second nodes, and outputs the fifth voltage signal to a negative input terminal of the amplifier as a sixth voltage signal; and a first resistor connected between the first node and the second node.
US11107431B2
A display device includes: a display unit including pixels; a shift register connected to scan signal lines and outputting a pulse signal sequentially, the shift register being divided into shift register segments; a driver generating a clock signal to be supplied to each segment, and a video signal to be input to each pixel; and a controller controlling the driver for generating the clock signal and the video signal, the controller monitoring output of each segment and detecting a malfunction of any of the segments. A shift register unit of a first stage of each segment outputs the pulse signal at a prescribed timing after receiving a start signal. The unit of a stage differing from the first stage outputs the pulse signal at a prescribed timing after receiving a carry signal based on the pulse signal from the unit of a preceding stage.
US11107428B2
A driving method for a display panel and a display device are provided. The driving method includes adopting drive data of relatively high voltage and drive data of relatively low voltage respectively for driving any two adjacent pixels; and with four columns of pixels as a repeater, adopting a first polarity arrangement drive for former two columns of adjacent pixels, and adopting a second polarity arrangement drive for the rest two columns of adjacent pixels; the first polarity arrangement drive is to perform positive polarity drive, negative polarity drive, negative polarity drive and positive polarity drive on four sub-pixels in the pixel respectively; and the second polarity arrangement drive is to perform negative polarity drive, positive polarity drive, positive polarity drive and negative polarity drive on four sub-pixels in the pixel respectively. The display device uses such a driving method.
US11107423B2
The disclosure discloses a method and device for controlling backlight of a screen of a display device, and a display device. The method includes: generating backlight control information and caching the backlight control information, by a main controller, in response to an instruction for awakening the display device; starting, by the main controller, a backlight controller, to initialize the backlight controller; and outputting, by the main controller, the backlight control information to the backlight controller, in response to completion of initialization of the backlight controller, to cause the backlight controller to control the backlight of the screen of the display device according to the backlight control information.
US11107420B2
The display device according to the present disclosure may comprise a display panel equipped with a plurality of pixels connected to data lines and sensing lines; a source drive IC configured to provide a data voltage to a pixel through the sensing line and equipped with a sensing block obtaining sensing data related to driving characteristics of the pixel using a signal input through the sensing line; a switch configured to control a connection via the sensing line between the pixel and the sensing block; and a power source configured to provide a test voltage or a test current to the sensing block, and the source drive IC may obtain calibration data for the sensing block by using the test voltage or the test current in a state that the switch disconnects the pixel and the sensing block.
US11107418B2
A display device includes a display panel including pixels, a luminance controller that divides the display panel into blocks based on coordinate information, calculates a block reference current based on a block current sensed in each of the blocks when reference images are sequentially displayed on the blocks, calculates a target current based on the block reference current and a block load of each of the blocks based on input image data, and calculates a scaling factor based on the target current and a sensing current sensed in each of the blocks when an input image corresponding to the input image data is displayed on the display panel, and a data driver that generates a data voltage corresponding to the input image data and supplies the data voltage to the pixels by adjusting a voltage level of the data voltage based on the scaling factor.
US11107412B2
A pixel driving circuit includes a driving sub-circuit, a data writing sub-circuit, a compensation sub-circuit and a light-emitting control sub-circuit. The driving sub-circuit is configured to drive the light-emitting device. The data writing sub-circuit is configured to write a data signal to the driving sub-circuit. The compensation sub-circuit is configured to compensate a voltage of the driving sub-circuit. The compensation sub-circuit includes a first switching transistor whose gate is electrically connected to the scanning signal terminal, first electrode is electrically connected to a first terminal of the driving sub-circuit and second electrode is electrically connected to a second terminal of the driving sub-circuit. The first switching transistor is an indium gallium zinc oxide thin film transistor. The light-emitting control sub-circuit is electrically connected to the driving sub-circuit and configured to turn on a line between a first voltage terminal and a second voltage terminal.
US11107401B1
A pixel driving circuit, a driving method thereof, and a display panel are provided. The pixel driving circuit includes a first thin film transistor T1, a second thin film transistor T2, a third thin film transistor T3, a fourth thin film transistor T4, a fifth thin film transistor T4, a bootstrap capacitor Cbt, and an organic light emitting component.
US11107398B2
A pixel driver includes a plurality of stages, with each stage including a pixel driving signal generator, a shift register, and a selection circuit. The pixel driving signal generator generates a pixel driving signal. The shift register receives image data and the pixel driving signal and generates an output control signal for determining whether to output the pixel driving signal based on the image data and the pixel driving signal. The selection circuit selectively outputs the pixel driving signal in response to the output control signal.
US11107395B2
A method for detecting ambient light, includes: acquiring a detection signal of an ambient light sensor; acquiring a luminance level of a screen region corresponding to the ambient light sensor; and determining an intensity of the ambient light based on the detection signal of the ambient light sensor and the luminance level of the screen region corresponding to the ambient light sensor.
US11107391B2
A light emitting display device, includes: a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix form, each of the plurality of pixels including: a light emitting element in which a light emitting diode is between an anode and a cathode; a light emission transistor, one of a source or a drain of the light emission transistor is connected to the anode; a driving transistor, one of a source or a drain of the driving transistor is connected to the other of the source or the drain of the light emission transistor; and an initialization transistor which is configured to connect a gate of the driving transistor, the one of the source or the drain of the driving transistor, and the anode, the anode being connected to an initialization voltage line of a fixed voltage at a same time, wherein initialization transistor has a resistance greater than the driving transistor.
US11107365B1
Methods and systems are described regarding vehicular driver evaluation. Various aspects may include monitoring a vehicle operating environment in which a vehicle is operating. A target vehicle operating within the vehicle operating environment may be identified based upon sensor data from one or more sensors associated with the vehicle. An indication of an identity of the target vehicle may be recorded and an indication of an evaluation of an operation of the target vehicle may be received by the operator of the vehicle. The indication of the evaluation of the operation of the target vehicle may indicate the quality of operation of the target vehicle. The indication of the identity of the target vehicle and the indication of the evaluation of the operation of the target vehicle may be transmitted to a remote server.
US11107360B1
Automated air traffic control systems and methods may include one or more sensors, such as radar sensors, that are positioned and oriented at opposite ends of a runway. The sensors may detect aerial vehicles on the runway, as well as aerial vehicles within approach corridors at opposite ends of the runway, and other aerial vehicles proximate the runway. Based on data received by the sensors, various characteristics of aerial vehicles can be determined, and instructions for the aerial vehicles can be determined based on the detected characteristics. Then, the aerial vehicles may utilize the determined instructions to coordinate their operations proximate the runway, which may include takeoff, taxiing, and/or landing operations. Further, speech-to-data processing may be used to translate between data and speech or audio input/output in order to enable coordination between unmanned aerial vehicles, manned aerial vehicles, and combinations thereof.
US11107352B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for managing and routing ridesharing vehicles. In some implementations, the systems and methods may count the number of passengers entering a ridesharing vehicle, distribute vehicles in need of charge to charging stations based on predicted future demand, manage a fleet of petrol and electric ridesharing vehicles, route autonomous and non-autonomous vehicles, automatically adjust drop-off locations based on safety constraints, and preschedule a rideshare with an unknown pick-up location.
US11107351B2
A vehicle guidance system includes an onboard apparatus and a ground apparatus. The onboard apparatus includes a guide controller guiding a vehicle to enter a predetermined area through an entrance, a transmission controller transmitting a first wave, and a reception controller receiving a second wave obtained in response to the first wave. The ground apparatus includes a plurality of ground receivers arranged at a first position and a second position to receive the first wave, the first position and the second position corresponding to opposed ends of the entrance, and a plurality of first ground transmitters provided corresponding to the ground receivers and transmitting the second wave in a direction opposite to an entry direction of the vehicle. The guide controller determines an entry line to the entrance based on a change of a signal level of the second wave, the signal level changing depending on a vehicle position.
US11107348B1
A portable race starting light assembly for starting a race includes a stand is positionable at a starting line of a race track wherein the stand is configured to be visible to racers. A signal unit is coupled to the stand thereby facilitating the signal unit to be visible to the racers. The signal unit has a set of first indicators and a set of second indicators. Each of the first indicators and the second indicators is actuatable to display a visual countdown to the start of a race to communicate the start of the race to the racers. A remote control is provided and the remote control is in wireless communication with the signal unit. The remote control remotely turns on the signal unit to facilitate a race master to start the race for the racers.
US11107346B2
Systems, devices, and methods are disclosed in which one or more light sources, a detector, a processor and a controller are configured such that light from the one or more light sources improves the ability of a human or automated motor vehicle driver to identify and avoid pedestrians. The one or more light sources may provide spot illumination to moving objects or pedestrians on a road surface, with the spot illumination following the moving object or pedestrians along the portion of the road surface. The one or more light sources may project images on the ground or on other surfaces. The light source may be carried by a pedestrian or on personal transport used by a pedestrian. The light sources may be stationary and provide lighting for a pedestrian street crossing.
US11107343B2
A user mobility monitoring system has a user-wearable device and a remote analysis system. The user-wearable device monitors the physical mobility of a user, having a plurality of sensors, including at least motion sensors, the device being wirelessly connectable to the Internet and adapted in use to transmit wirelessly to the Internet real-time sensor data from the sensors for the duration of a monitoring period. The remote analysis system is connectable to the Internet and adapted in use to receive the sensor data transmitted via the Internet from the user-wearable device and, during the monitoring period, to analyse the data so as to detect a physical instability event of the user and generate corresponding alert data. An analogous method of monitoring the mobility of a user is also provided. The operation of the user-wearable device is controlled at least partly by the remote analysis system.
US11107339B2
An integrated communication and smoke detection system includes a fiber harness having at least one fiber optic cable for transmitting light, the at least one fiber optic cable defining a node arranged to measure one or more conditions at a predetermined area. A light source is operably connected to the fiber harness to transmit light along the at least one fiber optic cable to the node. A control system operably coupled to the fiber harness such that scattered light associated with the node is transmitted to the control system, wherein the control system analyzes the scattered light to determine at least one of a presence and magnitude of the one or more conditions at the node. The control system is configured to allow multiple inputs and outputs for communication of information through the fiber harness and node using modulated light.
US11107334B2
A connectible component is connected to a housing. A sensor of the housing is utilized to detect an identity element of the at connectible component. The connectible component is identified utilizing the at least one sensor. In some implementations, identification of the connectible component may identify whether or not a connectible component is connected to the housing. In other implementations, identification of the connectible component may identify the type of connectible component that is connected. In such implementations, the housing may house an electronic device and the electronic device may be configured based on the type of connectible component that is connected.
US11107332B1
A method includes receiving identification information at a transaction machine, the identification information being associated with an account holder, accessing, using the identification information, activity profile information for the account holder, determining screen content for the transaction machine based on the activity profile information, and displaying the screen content to the account holder via a display screen of the transaction machine.
US11107331B2
A gaming system has a plurality of reels. Each reel has a plurality of symbol locations. The gaming system is in communication with one or more processors. The gaming system involves the selection of a symbol location on a first reel of the plurality of reels. The selected symbol location is associated with a first type of symbol. At least one additional symbol location is added to the first reel at a location adjacent to the selected symbol location. Each additional symbol location is filled with the first type of symbol to create a first clump of the first type of symbols. Alternatively, the gaming system determines a number of additional symbol locations that are added to the first reel adjacent to the selected first symbol location. The gaming system then fills the additional symbol locations with symbols.
US11107293B2
A head mounted display system includes a scanning unit and a processing unit. The scanning unit is configured to scan a real object in a real environment so as to generate a scanning result. The processing unit is coupled to the scanning unit. The processing unit is configured to identify the real object according to the scanning result of the scanning unit, determine at least one predetermined interactive characteristic according to an identification result of the processing unit, create a virtual object in a virtual environment corresponding to the real object in the real environment according to the scanning result of the scanning unit, and assign the at least one predetermined interactive characteristic to the virtual object in the virtual environment. Therefore, the present disclosure allows a user to manipulate the virtual object in different ways more naturally, which effectively improves the user's interactive experience.
US11107289B2
Interference-based augmented reality hosting platforms are presented. Hosting platforms can include networking nodes capable of analyzing a digital representation of scene to derive interference among elements of the scene. The hosting platform utilizes the interference to adjust the presence of augmented reality objects within an augmented reality experience. Elements of a scene can constructively interfere, enhancing presence of augmented reality objects; or destructively interfere, suppressing presence of augmented reality objects.
US11107287B2
An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires three-dimensional information on a real object including one or more real objects. The information processing apparatus further includes a control unit that controls a method of interaction between a user and a virtual object mapped and displayed on a surface of the real object, based on the three-dimensional information on the real object.
US11107264B2
A sequence of instructions is included in a graphics processing shader program for controlling the way in which blending is implemented. The sequence of instructions includes a blend instruction which determines whether blending for a processing item is to be performed by fixed-function blending hardware or by executing a blend shader routine. If blend shading is to be performed, a sequence of instructions for setting up and performing blend shading is executed. If fixed-function blending is to be performed, an execution thread initiates fixed-function blending in response to the blend instruction, and skips over the sequence of instructions for setting up and performing blend shading.
US11107260B2
A control method for an image processing apparatus that generates a plurality of pieces of album data corresponding to a plurality of albums includes automatically selecting at least one piece of image data out of a plurality of pieces of image data as common image data corresponding to an image to be placed in a common page, which is a page common to all of the plurality of albums, based on an evaluation that is based on a first factor, and automatically selecting at least one piece of image data out of the plurality of pieces of image data as individual image data corresponding to an image to be placed in an individual page, which is a page not common to all of the plurality of albums, based on an evaluation that is based on a second factor.
US11107259B2
To increase convenience of centralized management of biological information acquired from plural subjects. A wireless communication device receives plural sensor signals corresponding to biological information of plural subjects. A display displays biological information of the subject in a display area generated for each subject based on association between plural subjects and plural sensor signals.
US11107256B2
Disclosed in the embodiments of the present application are a video frame processing method and apparatus. An embodiment of the method comprises: acquiring a video frame containing a hand, and detecting key points of the hand contained in the video frame; generating a special effect of the hand on the basis of the key points; and displaying the generated special effect in an image of the video frame.
US11107254B2
A calligraphy-painting device, a calligraphy-painting apparatus, and an auxiliary method for calligraphy-painting are disclosed. The calligraphy-painting device includes: a display portion, configured to display a preset calligraphy-painting information; an image acquiring portion, configured to acquire an image; and a control unit, in communication connection with the display portion, and configured to control the display portion to display the preset calligraphy-painting information, wherein the image is processed to obtain a calligraphy-painting region, and the preset calligraphy-painting information is virtually displayed in the calligraphy-painting region.
US11107253B2
Provided are an image processing method, the method includes the steps of dividing a picture of an image into a plurality of coding units which are basic units in which an inter prediction or an intra prediction is performed; and selectively configuring a prediction mode list for deriving a prediction direction of the decoding target block from an intra prediction direction of an decoding target object from an intra prediction direction of a neighboring block adjacent to the decoding target object for an intra predicted unit among the divided coding units; wherein includes the picture or the divided coding units is/are divided into a binary tree structure in the step of dividing the coding units.
US11107249B2
A method of mapping 3D point cloud data into 2D surfaces for further efficient temporal coding is described herein. Point cloud global tetris packing utilizes 3D surface patches to represent point clouds and performs temporally consistent global mapping of 3D patch surface data into 2D canvas images. Point cloud global tetris packing includes calculating an accumulated occupancy map and a weight of each patch according to the matched patches.
US11107238B2
A method by an imaging controller of detecting item facings from image sensor data includes: obtaining, at the imaging controller, the image sensor data corresponding to a support structure containing at least one item; identifying, by a feature detector of the imaging controller, a set of matched keypoint pairs from keypoints of the image sensor data; determining, by a peak detector of the imaging controller, a separation distance between the keypoints of each matched keypoint pair; detecting, by the peak detector, a count of item instances represented in the image sensor data based on the separation distances; and presenting item facing detection output including the count of item instances.
US11107231B2
An object detection device equipped with: a first object detection unit that uses a predetermined prediction model to acquire, from a known first image for which the coordinates of a detection subject are known, a confidence value with respect to each detection region extracted from a plurality of positions in the first image; a parameter determination unit that, on the basis of the acquired confidence value, determines parameters that include a detection threshold value which is a threshold value with respect to the confidence value; and a second object detection unit that uses the prediction model to acquire a confidence value with respect to each detection region extracted from the narrowed-down detection region candidates, and detects the detection subject on the basis of the acquired confidence value.
US11107226B2
A system includes sensors and a tracking subsystem. The subsystem tracks first and second objects in a space. Following a collision event between the first and second object, a top-view image of the first object is received from a first sensor. Based on the top-view image, a first descriptor is determined for the first object. The first descriptor is associated with an observable characteristic of the first object. If criteria are not satisfied for distinguishing the first object from the second object based on the first descriptor, a third descriptor is determined for the first object. The third descriptor is generated by an artificial neural network configured to identify objects in top-view images. The tracking subsystem uses the third descriptor to assign an identifier to the first object.
US11107222B2
A technique is disclosed for automating tracking of annotated objects and improves the throughput and efficiency of existing methods while maintaining a degree of accuracy comparable to a human annotator. In particular, the disclosed technique provides an automated annotated object tracking tool that allows machine-learning teams to annotate an object within a frame and have that annotation persist across frames as the annotated object is tracked within a series of frames, still ensuring that every frame is accurately reviewed by a human where high quality annotation is required. This technique incorporates human feedback via a user adjustment that allows the tool to adapt and improve its accuracy in tracking an annotated object across a sequence of frames.
US11107221B2
A method, system and apparatus for image capture, analysis and transmission are provided. A link aggregation method involves identifying controller network ports to a source connected to the same subnetwork; producing packets associating corresponding controller network ports selected by the source CPU for substantially uniform selection; and transmitting the packets to their corresponding network ports. An image analysis method involves producing by a camera an indication whether a region of an image differs by a threshold extent from a corresponding region of a reference image; transmitting the indication and image data to a controller via a communications network; and storing at the controller the image data and the indication in association therewith. The controller may perform operations according to positive indications. A transmission method involves receiving user input in respect of a video stream and transmitting, in accordance with the user input, selected data packets of selected image frames thereof.
US11107214B2
A method and device for evaluating the dynamics of a tear fluid layer to objectively and accurately evaluate breakdown of the tear fluid layer, which is a core mechanism of dry eye, are provided. The method includes a step of acquiring color information of each pixel in a predetermined region of a tear fluid layer interference fringe image, which is a moving image or a plurality of static images, a step of calculating a numerical value indicating the diversity of color from the acquired color information, a step of calculating the average value of the color information, and a step of calculating a coefficient of variation on the basis of the calculated numerical value indicating the diversity of color and the calculated average value of the color information. The coefficient of variation is used as an index for evaluating the dynamics of the tear fluid layer.
US11107213B2
In one embodiment a medical scan correction system includes a medical instrument having a distal end and an image sensor disposed at the distal end, and configured to be inserted into a body-part of a living subject, and a controller to register a medical scan of the body-part with a coordinate frame of the medical instrument, the medical scan including initial tissue-type indications, render a first image including a representation of the body-part and the initial tissue-type indications based on the medical scan, and a representation of the medical instrument, render a second image captured by the image sensor of a portion of the body-part, and responsively to a comparison between an appearance of a tissue in the second image of the portion of the body-part and an initial tissue-type indication of the tissue, update the medical scan to modify the tissue-type indication associated with the tissue.
US11107211B2
The present application provides a medical imaging method and system and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. The medical imaging method comprises identifying an image quality type of a medical image based on a trained learning network, and generating, based on the identified image quality type, a corresponding control signal for controlling a medical imaging system.
US11107206B2
In various embodiments, a defective pixel detection application automatically detects defective pixels in video content. In operation, the defective pixel detection application computes a first set of pixel intensity gradients based on a first frame of video content and a first neighborhood of pixels associated with a first pixel. The defective pixel detection application also computes a second set of pixel intensity gradients based on the first frame and a second neighborhood of pixels associated with the first pixel. Subsequently, the defective pixel detection application computes a statistical distance between the first set of pixel intensity gradients and the second set of pixel intensity gradients. The defective pixel detection application then determines that the first pixel is defective based on the statistical distance.
US11107205B2
A method includes obtaining multiple image frames of a scene using at least one camera of an electronic device. The method also includes using a convolutional neural network to generate blending maps associated with the image frames. The blending maps contain or are based on both a measure of motion in the image frames and a measure of how well exposed different portions of the image frames are. The method further includes generating a final image of the scene using at least some of the image frames and at least some of the blending maps. The final image of the scene may be generated by blending the at least some of the image frames using the at least some of the blending maps, and the final image of the scene may include image details that are lost in at least one of the image frames due to over-exposure or under-exposure.
US11107196B2
A basic image generation unit generates a base frame by synthesizing a reception frame sequence obtained by transmission/reception of ultrasonic waves, and an edge-enhanced image generation unit generates a compensation frame where an edge component of an object is emphasized based on the reception frame sequence. A synthesis unit generates an output frame by synthesizing the base frame and the compensation frame.
US11107194B2
A neural network is provided. The neural network includes 2n number of sampling units sequentially connected; and a plurality of processing units. A respective one of the plurality of processing units is between two adjacent sampling units of the 2n number of sampling units. A first sampling unit to an n-th sample unit of the 2n number of sampling units are DeMux units. A respective one of the DeMux units is configured to rearrange pixels in a respective input image to the respective one of the DeMux units following a first scrambling rule to obtain a respective rearranged image. An (n+1)-th sample unit to a (2n)-th sample unit of the 2n number of sampling units are Mux units. A respective one of the Mux units is configured to combing respective m′ number of input images to the respective one of the Mux units to obtain a respective combined image.
US11107189B2
Methods and systems are disclosed using improved Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) for image processing. In one example, an input image is down-sampled into smaller images with a smaller resolution than the input image. The down-sampled smaller images are processed by a CNN having a last layer with a reduced number of nodes than a last layer of a full CNN used to process the input image at a full resolution. A result is outputted based on the processed down-sampled smaller images by the CNN having a last layer with a reduced number of nodes. In another example, shallow CNN networks are built randomly. The randomly built shallow CNN networks are combined to imitate a trained deep neural network (DNN).
US11107187B2
A graph upscaling method and apparatus is disclosed. The graph upscaling apparatus may store, in a main memory, original graph data including topological data including a vertex and an edge, determine a parent edge using a hash function and the original graph data, and generate a new edge based on the determined parent edge. The graph upscaling apparatus may store, in a main memory, original graph data including topological data including a vertex and an edge, allocate identities (IDs) of edges to be generated to cores included in a central processing unit (CPU) based on the number of the cores, and generate new edges based on the IDs of the edges using a hash function and the original graph data.
US11107186B2
A method is implemented at an electronic device for displaying output from an application. The electronic device includes a display module and an application. The application sends to the display module a request to display output on the fixed orientation display. The display module determines whether the application is able to scale the output from the application to fit the fixed orientation display. In accordance with a determination that the application is able to scale the output, the electronic device causes the application to receive information concerning the fixed orientation display from the display module and scale the output for display on the fixed orientation display according to the information. In accordance with a determination that the application is not able to scale the output, the display module scales the output received from the application, thereby enabling the output of the application to be displayed on the fixed orientation display.
US11107182B2
Techniques for translating graphical representations of domain knowledge are provided. In one example, a computer-implemented method comprises receiving, by a device operatively coupled to a processor, a graphical representation of domain knowledge. The graphical representation comprises information indicative of a central concept and at least one chain of events associated with the central concept. The computer-implemented method further comprises translating, by the device, the graphical representation into an artificial intelligence planning problem. The artificial intelligence planning problem is expressed in an artificial intelligence description language. The translating comprises parsing the graphical representation into groupings of terms. A first grouping of terms of the grouping of terms comprises an event from the at least one chain of events and a second grouping of terms of the grouping of terms comprises the information indicative of the central concept. The computer-implemented method also comprises validating, by the device, the artificial intelligence planning problem.
US11107166B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, to predict future Day Sales Outstanding (DSO) forecasts for a number of future time periods. In one aspect, a method includes receiving open receivables financial line item data and revenue financial line item data, providing the open receivables financial line item data to a DSO predictor engine to generate a predicted open receivables that includes a multi-step time series forecasting regression generated from the open receivables financial line item data, providing the revenue financial line item data to the DSO predictor engine to generate a predicted revenue comprising the multi-step time series forecasting regression generated from the revenue financial line item data; generating a predicted DSO with the predicted open receivables and predicted revenue, and providing the predicted DSO to a client device.
US11107162B1
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for predictively determining a risk of damage to a property are provided. To determine the risk, a high resolution virtual model of a region that includes the property is obtained. The virtual model is imported into a simulation environment. One or more of the simulation parameters are set based on historic weather data for the region. For example, each parameter may be associated with a probability distribution derived based on the historic weather data that is sampled prior to executing the simulation. One or more simulations are executed in accordance with the sampled inputs to simulate the likely weather patterns the property will experience. The result of the simulation is analyzed to determine the predicted risk of damage to the property.
US11107159B2
A system for automated origination of capital client engagement is provided. The system includes a rate processor, a revenue forecaster, and an offer processor. The rate processor is configured to perform a binary logistic regression on subscriber data and metrics derived from historical POS data corresponding to subscribers of a point-of-sale (POS) subscription service to generate logistic regression coefficients that are used to calculate probability of default (PD) values for each of the subscribers, and configured to employ new subscriber data and metrics to generate updated PD values for the each of the subscribers. The revenue forecaster is coupled to the rate processor and is configured to employ the historical POS data to predict future POS data for establishments corresponding to the each of the subscribers, and to employ the future POS data to generate predicted total revenues corresponding to the each of the subscribers over a payback period, and configured to employ new POS data to generate updated predicted total revenues corresponding to the each of the subscribers. The offer processor is configured to compare the updated predicted total revenues with the predicted total revenues and the updated PD values with the PD values, and configured to automatically generate and transmit engagement instructions for establishments that have received a capital product offer and whose updated PD has increased by more than a threshold amount over the PD.
US11107146B2
A system of routing a purchase order may include a purchase order identification unit configured to identifying a purchase order format associated with a client. The system may also include a routing control unit. The routing control unit may be configured to determine purchase order data based on the purchase order and the purchase order format. The routing control unit may be configured to generate a processed purchase order based on the purchase order data. The routing control unit may be configured to supplement the processed purchase order with additional purchase order data associated with the client. The routing control unit may be configured to apply purchase order security. The routing control unit may be configured to communicate, to a vendor, the processed purchase order.
US11107126B2
Methods, systems and media for presenting media content that was advertised on a second screen device using a primary screen device are provided. In some implementations, a method for advertising media content to a user is provided, the method comprising: receiving an advertisement request from a computing device; receiving association information indicating that the computing device is associated with a media presentation device; receiving user account information associated with the user account; in response to the advertisement request, selecting an advertisement for media content based at least in part on the association information and the user account information; determining whether an indicator of subscription status of the user account to a service is to be presented in connection with the selected advertisement; causing the advertisement to be presented by computing device, wherein the advertisement is associated with instructions that, in response to interaction with the advertisement, cause the computing device to instruct the media presentation device to present the media content and the indicator of subscription status; receiving input indicating that the indicator of subscription status has been selected; causing an application associated with the service to be transmitted to the computing device; and updating the subscription status of the user account in connection with the service.
US11107121B2
Master computing device and method for determining an actual number of impressions provided by a synchronized group of devices comprising the master and one or more slave computing device. The master device transmits a synchronization request to the slave device(s) and determines a number of negative responses received from the slave device(s) in response to the synchronization request. A negative response indicates that one slave device is not capable of displaying digital content. The master device determines a number of displays D capable of displaying digital content based on the number of negative responses received. The master device determines a metric representative of the actual number of impressions provided by the master device and the slave device(s). The metric is calculated based on the number of displays D. The master device transmits the metric to a server and the server calculates the actual number of impressions using the metric.
US11107120B1
A social networking system receives information describing locations associated with a plurality of its users. Based on information identifying each user and a location associated with each user, the social networking system generates and stores hash values. For example, the social networking system maintains various geo-tiles that each identify geographic areas and generates a hash value based on a user identifier and an identifier of a geo-tile including the location associated with the user. Based on the hash values and locations associated with one or more users, the online system determines a number of unique users associated with locations included in a geographic region. When determining the number of unique users, the online system accounts for a rate at which the online system updates location information associated with various users.
US11107115B2
Machine-learning based multi-step engagement strategy modification is described. Rather than rely heavily on human involvement to manage content delivery over the course of a campaign, the described learning-based engagement system modifies a multi-step engagement strategy, originally created by an engagement-system user, by leveraging machine-learning models. In particular, these leveraged machine-learning models are trained using data describing user interactions with delivered content as those interactions occur over the course of the campaign. Initially, the learning-based engagement system obtains a multi-step engagement strategy created by an engagement-system user. As the multi-step engagement strategy is deployed, the learning-based engagement system randomly adjusts aspects of the sequence of deliveries for some users. Based on data describing the interactions of recipients with deliveries served according to both the user-created and random multi-step engagement strategies, the machine-learning models generate a modified multi-step engagement strategy.
US11107105B1
Systems, methods and software merge a Virtual World, Live Event and Entertainment Channel, thus creating “The Perfect Storm” of gaming and entertainment whereby the characters of a social network game (e.g., an online fantasy sports league) are represented by human beings who register to be avatars of characters supported by a “Character Service Center,” while players compete to bring avatars to life in a Real World event (e.g., a Real World sports league), where the human beings behind the avatars compete for prizes while staying in character, as these competitors and players are incentivized by a “Collaboration Incentive Platform.”
US11107097B2
A system and method for completing trend mapping using similarity scoring that include receiving data associated with a vehicle and an occupant of the vehicle. The system and method also include analyzing the data associated with the vehicle and the occupant to determine at least one of: vehicle dynamic data, vehicle utilization data, and occupant demographic data. The system and method additionally include determining a center of gravity value of at least one of: the vehicle dynamic data, the vehicle utilization data, and the occupant demographic data. The system and method further include calculating a similarity score with respect to the center of gravity value for respective categories of at least one of: the vehicle dynamic data, the vehicle utilization data, and the occupant demographic data.
US11107095B2
A method for display control executed by a display control device includes: acquiring, by the display control device, demand prediction information regarding prediction of demand for allocation of a vehicle in a prediction target area in units of block numbers of the prediction target area; and displaying, by the display control device, the demand prediction information acquired by the display control device on a display unit in a state of being superimposed on a map in the units of block numbers of the prediction target area.
US11107093B2
A distributed node cluster architecture within a parallel computing environment provides for the association of individuals and households accessing a communications network through multiple electronic communications devices with a particular digital touchpoint or touchpoints used when communicating on the network. The cluster facilitates the determination of a touchpoint when an individual or household name is determined, or, alternatively, the determination of an individual or household when a touchpoint is received. A persistent linkage of digital touchpoints to individuals or households communicates with an entity resolution system executing at the node cluster to track data pertaining to entities, allowing the coordination of touchpoints with such individual consumers or households over time.
US11107079B2
Methods, systems and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for verifying credibility of a consortium blockchain, including obtaining, by a client device of a consortium blockchain that comprises a plurality of nodes, respective addresses of the plurality of nodes; sending, by the client device, a simplified payment verification (SPV) request to each node of the plurality of nodes based on the respective addresses of the plurality of nodes, wherein each SPV request comprises a digest hash of the transaction; receiving, at the client device, a respective verification result returned by each node of the plurality of nodes that received the SPV request; and determining, by the client device, credibility of the consortium blockchain based on a consistency degree of the respective verification results returned by the plurality of nodes.
US11107076B1
The disclosed embodiments provide a system that verifies user access to accounts. One example method for verifying user access to accounts involves: receiving, at a processing apparatus via a network, a request to access a feature of a first account; obtaining, by the processing apparatus from a data repository in communication with the processing apparatus, one or more transactions of a first account; obtaining, by the processing apparatus from the data repository, one or more transactions of a second account; matching, by execution of a processor of the processing apparatus, at least one of the one or more transactions of the first account to at least one of the one or more transactions from the second account; generating, by execution of the processor of the processing apparatus, a first verification of ownership of the first account by a user based on the matching at least one of the one or more transactions of the first account to the at least one of the one or more transactions from the second account; and enabling the user to access the feature of the first account based on the first verification of ownership.
US11107066B1
Various examples are directed to systems and methods for processing offline payments from a mobile wallet. A computing system may receive, from a financial institution system, an authentication request message comprising a first offline token. The computing system may determine that the mobile wallet application is not online and determine that the first offline toke comprises first offline token data that matches the first offline token reference data. The computing system may send to the financial institution system a first authentication message indicating that the first offline token is associated with the mobile wallet application.
US11107064B2
Apparatus and methods for an erasable reusable check are provided. The method may include receiving in a card reader a microchip embedded in a check. The method may also include extracting from the microchip data identifying a payor name, a payor address, a bank account number of a payor bank account a routing number of the payor bank account, and pixelated data. The method may further include transforming the pixelated data into written text and creating an Image Replacement Document (“IRD”) of the check. The IRD may include the payor name, the payor address, the bank account number, the routing number, and the written text.
US11107063B2
A system, mobile device, backend server, and RFID toll module work in cooperation to automatically pay vehicular tolls to a toll agency that operates toll stations along a roadways travelled by the user of the mobile device. Upon approaching a toll station the mobile device enables the RFID toll module. The toll reader at the toll station transmits a toll reader signal that is received by the RFID toll module, which responds by transmitting a unique identifier. The unique identifier is associated with the mobile device at a toll account maintained by a toll service backend server. Upon completion of a toll transaction, the RFID toll module indicates the transaction to the mobile device, which forwards toll transaction information to the toll service backend server for payment from the toll account to the toll agency.
US11107062B2
Embodiments of the present specification provide methods and apparatuses for generating two-dimensional codes. One method comprising: receiving, by a secure element chip comprised in a two-dimensional code display device, code information comprising an account identifier of an account associated with the two-dimensional code display device; in response to obtaining a digital certificate for a private key stored in the secure element chip, signing, by the security element chip, the code information by using the private key to generate signed code information; and providing, the signed code information to the two-dimensional code display device for the two-dimensional code display device to generate and display a two-dimensional code based on the code information, wherein the two-dimensional code comprises information associated with the account identifier and changes dynamically over time.
US11107047B2
A method of operating an electronic device capable of operating a plurality of execution environments including a first execution environment and a second execution environment is provided. The method includes generating a first authentication value, using a first application executed in the first execution environment, transmitting the first authentication value from the first application through the second execution environment to a second application executed in the first execution environment, transmitting, based on reception of the first authentication value, a second authentication value and a result of authentication of the user from the second application to the first application through the second execution environment, and performing, when the second authentication value corresponds to the first authentication value, payment based on the result of the authentication, using the first application.
US11107040B2
Aspects of the present invention provide devices that generate a job description by generating at least one job description according to a plurality of job areas and a linguistic model trained on a plurality of cataloged job descriptions, each job area including one or more assigned job skills, and displaying the generated at least one job description on a display device.
US11107037B2
A method and system for sharing product data in a collaborative environment is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes establishing a session for sharing product data between a source device and a target device. The method includes adaptively generating one or more payload files corresponding to the product data based on payload processing information. The payload processing information includes number of payload files waiting to be processed at the target device. Moreover, the method includes sending the one or more payload files to the target device over the product data sharing session such that the product data is reproduced at the target device using the payload files.
US11107034B1
Portals and other chokepoints can be monitored with RFID reader systems. A portion of an RFID reader system capable of generating multiple beams can be mounted between two adjacent chokepoints such that some beams are associated with one chokepoint while other beams are associated with the other chokepoint. When replies from an item are received, the item can be associated with a chokepoint based on parameters or characteristics associated with the replies and/or the beam(s) on which the replies are received. If the detected item is moving, its movement direction through the chokepoint and/or its movement speed may also be determined.
US11107030B2
Improved systems, apparatus, and methods for enhanced positioning of an airborne relocatable communication hub supporting wireless devices are described. Such a method begins with moving an aerial communication drone operating as the airborne relocatable communication hub to a first deployed airborne position, detecting a first signal broadcast by a first wireless device using a communication hub interface on the drone, and detecting a second signal broadcast by a second wireless device using the communication hub interface. The method has the drone comparing a first connection signal strength for the first signal and a second connection signal strength for the second signal, and repositioning the aerial communication drone to a second deployed airborne position based upon the comparison. Once repositioned at the second deployed airborne position, the method has the drone linking the first and second wireless devices using the communication hub interface on the aerial communication drone.
US11107027B1
A method for utilizing an externally augmented propensity model for determining a future financial requirement. The method includes obtaining at least one propensity model that models how data associated with a business entity relates to a future financial requirement of the business entity, and gathering the data associated with the business entity. The data includes a first portion created based on a platform utilized by users associated with the business entity, and financial data of an owner of the business entity. The data matches at least a subset of the at least one propensity model. The business entity is scored by applying the at least one propensity model to the data. Further, based on the score, the future financial requirement of the business entity is classified. Still yet, a message is transmitted to the business entity based on the classification of the future financial requirement of the business entity.
US11107020B2
The techniques disclosed herein improve existing systems by automatically identifying tasks from a number of different types of user activity and providing suggestions for the tasks to one or more selected delivery mechanisms. A system compiles the tasks and pushes each task to a personalized task list of a user. The delivery of each task may be based on any suitable user activity, which may include communication between one or more users or a user's interaction with a particular file or a system. The system can identify timelines, performance parameters, and other related contextual data associated with the task. The system can identify a delivery schedule for the task to optimize the effectiveness of the delivery of the task. The system can also provide smart notifications. When a task conflicts with a person's calendar, the system can resolve scheduling conflicts based on priorities of a calendar event.
US11107019B2
A system can arrange a transport service for a rider. The system can receive, from a first computing device of a first rider, a request for a transport service. The request can include a first pickup location and a first destination location. Based on the first pickup location and the first destination location, the system can determine a plurality of candidate drivers that are each currently assigned to provide a transport service for a respective rider. The system can perform a selection process to select a driver from the plurality of candidate drivers by, for each candidate driver, determining a set of possible travel sequences in which that candidate driver can provide both the transport service for the respective rider and the transport service for the first rider and computing a score for each possible travel sequence.
US11107012B2
A system and method for displaying seat inventory at a venue and facilitating planning of ticket prices for events at the venue is presented. Methods to predict total revenue for an event are described. Also presented are systems and methods for determining at what price and when to release so-called ‘flex’ price tickets during an on-sale using the sales velocity and sales/inquiry ratios. Determining demand of seats from secondary markets is also described with methods to use the demand for either repricing the seats in the primary market or presenting ‘best value’ seats to a prospective purchaser.
US11107000B2
Systems, devices, media, and methods are presented for dynamically sampling training elements while training a plurality of machine learning models. The systems and methods access a plurality of training elements and generate an element buffer including a specified number of positions. The systems and methods generate a random value for each position for the element buffer and map a training element of the plurality of training elements to each position within the element buffer in a first order. The systems and methods generate a second order for the training elements and allocate the training elements to a plurality of machine learning models according to the second order.
US11106999B2
A method for generating an output comprising one or more segments includes obtaining a plurality of profiles derived from unstructured data associated with a plurality of users, wherein a given one of the profiles corresponds to a respective one of the users; repetitively executing at least one machine learning technique on the plurality of profiles, each execution producing a respective set of one or more segments from the plurality of profiles; generating a complete graph by performing pairwise comparisons between sets of segments from respective executions; applying at least one persistency graph algorithm to the complete graph to find one or more coherent clusters comprising one or more segments that are persistent across the repetitive executions of the machine learning technique; and producing the output at least in part by selecting at least one of the segments from at least one of the coherent clusters.
US11106994B1
A technology is provided for automated tuning of a machine learning model in a computing service environment. Predictive weights that include false positive outcomes, false negative outcomes, true positive outcomes, and true negative outcomes may be defined and/or received. A weight adjusted classification threshold, for use in a classification model of the machine learning model in a service provider environment, according to the predictive weights to enable the machine learning model to increase the total value of the machine learning model and decrease performance outcome errors. The improved classification threshold may be adjusted according to a change in the predictive weights. A data point may be classified according to the weight adjusted classification threshold in the classification model.
US11106992B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for parallel optimization of continuously running quantum error correction by closed-loop feedback. In one aspect, a method includes continuously and effectively optimizing qubit performance in-situ whilst an error correction operation on the quantum system is running. The method directly monitors the output from error detection and provides this information as feedback to calibrate the quantum gates associated with the quantum system. In some implementations, the physical qubits are spatially partitioned into one or more independent hardware patterns, where the errors attributable to each hardware pattern are non-overlapping. The one or more different sets of hardware patterns are then temporarily interleaved such that all physical qubits and operations are optimized. The method allows for the optimization of each section of a hardware pattern to be performed individually and in parallel, and can result is O(1) scaling.
US11106990B2
Detecting motion-sensor data anomalies by registering an event associated with received motion-detector sensor data at a current timestamp, calculating, a timestamp delta between a previous timestamp and the current timestamp, and counting transitions between a set of timestamp deltas using a finite state machine. The anomaly detection also includes using a Markov chain transition matrix, generated from the finite state machine, to determine that, a probability of transitioning from a current state to a next state associated with the event, is less than a predetermined value, and registering an anomaly associated with the sensor and the event.
US11106987B2
A computer-implemented method of determining an approximated value of a parameter in a first domain is described. The parameter is dependent on one or more variables which vary in a second domain, and the parameter is determined by a function which relates sets of values of the one or more variables in the second domain to corresponding values in the first domain. The method is implemented on a computer system including a processor, and the method comprises: determining a plurality of anchor points in the second domain, wherein each anchor point comprises a set of values of the one or more variables in the second domain; evaluating, at each anchor point, the function to generate corresponding values of the parameter in the first domain; generating an approximation function to the function by fitting a series of orthogonal functions or an approximation to a series of orthogonal functions to the corresponding values of the parameter in the first domain; and using the approximation function to generate the approximated value of the parameter in the first domain.
US11106971B2
A neuromorphic device may include a pre-synaptic neuron, a row line extending from the pre-synaptic neuron in a row direction, a post-synaptic neuron, a column line extending from the post-synaptic neuron in a column direction, and a synapse coupled between the row line and the column line. The synapse may be disposed in an intersection region between the row line and the column line. The post-synaptic neuron may include a subtracting circuit.
US11106970B2
In an approach to localizing tree-based convolutional neural networks, a method includes creating a first tree-based convolution layer (TBCL) corresponding to a tree, where the tree includes a first plurality of nodes and a node that has been indicated to be a first pivotal node. The first TBCL includes a second plurality of nodes and a second pivotal node having a feature vector based on node data from the first pivotal node. The method also includes creating a second TBCL corresponding to the tree. The second TBCL may include a third plurality of nodes. The method further includes determining a feature vector a third pivotal node in the third plurality of nodes based on the feature vectors from: (i) the second pivotal node, (ii) a parent node of the second pivotal node, and (iii) a child node of the second pivotal node.
US11106967B2
Methods, apparatus, and computer-readable media for determining and utilizing corrections to robot actions. Some implementations are directed to updating a local features model of a robot in response to determining a human correction of an action performed by the robot. The local features model is used to determine, based on an embedding generated over a corresponding neural network model, one or more features that are most similar to the generated embedding. Updating the local features model in response to a human correction can include updating a feature embedding, of the local features model, that corresponds to the human correction. Adjustment(s) to the features model can immediately improve robot performance without necessitating retraining of the corresponding neural network model.
US11106960B2
A secure dual frequency RFID device is provided. The secure RFID device includes a standard high frequency RFID transponder and a low-frequency authenticator. When the high-frequency transponder is activated, it generates a command signal to turn on the low-frequency authenticator, which in turn generates its own low frequency coded transponder signal. High and low frequency readers accept the respective transponder signals and system software confirms the identity of a tagged object using both signals. The authenticator may include a MEMs device or an ASIC. An authentication code generator generates a programmed sequence of authentication signals taking advantage of one or more authenticator parameters including capacitance, resistance, and/or RF frequency. Another embodiment includes a gaming piece housing the RFID device. Another embodiment includes a method of determining locations of gaming pieces on a gaming board, while yet another embodiment includes a gaming device with RFID tagged gaming pieces.
US11106959B2
Examples described herein describe a battery charger for a transaction card. According to some implementations, a charging device may detect a transaction card is received within a charging slot when an integrated circuit (IC) chip of the transaction card is in contact with a charging terminal; request a user device to provide power to charge the transaction card via the charging terminal, wherein the user device is communicatively coupled to the charging terminal; receive the power from the user device; and provide the power to the transaction card to charge a battery of the transaction card.
US11106954B2
A method for correcting in-track position errors in a digital printing system having a linear printhead includes printing a test target including a plurality of alignment marks. A data processing system is used to automatically analyze a captured image of the printed test target to determine a measured in-track position for each of the alignment marks. The measured in-track positions for the alignment marks are compared to reference positions to determine measured in-track position errors. An in-track position correction function is determined responsive to the measured in-track position errors, wherein the in-track position correction function specifies in-track position corrections to be applied as a function of cross-track position. A corrected digital image is determined by resampling an input digital image responsive to the in-track position correction function.
US11106948B2
In some examples, a server may receive, from a computing device, data identifying an event that occurred on the computing device. The server may determine a plurality of features associated with the event, determine a distance between individual features of the plurality of features and individual centroids of a plurality of clusters, and determine that a particular distance between a particular feature of the plurality of features and a centroid of a particular cluster of the plurality of clusters is a shorter distance than the distance between other features of the plurality of features and other centroids corresponding to other clusters of the plurality of clusters. The server may determine a classification of the event based on the particular cluster and determine that the classification is a remediable issue. Based on the classification, the server may select and perform a remediation action from a plurality of remediation actions.
US11106945B2
A training and application method for a neural network model is provided. The training method determines the first network model to be trained and sets a downscaling layer for at least one layer in the first network model, wherein the number of filters and filter kernel of the downscaling layer are identical to those of layers to be trained in the second network model. Filter parameters of the downscaling layer are transmitted to the second network model as training information. By this training method, training can also be performed even when the scale of the layer for training in the first network model is different from that of the layers to be trained in the second network model, and the amount of lost data is small.
US11106937B2
A method for creating point cloud representations for a point cloud generated based on images, wherein the method comprises receiving a point cloud generated based on images, retrieving, from a user, selection criterion information, wherein the selection criterion information is related to the quality information comprised by the points of the point cloud, and filtering the generated point cloud and creating a filtered-point-cloud representation to be displayed while leaving volume and substance of the generated point cloud unchanged, wherein for each point of the point cloud its quality information is compared with the retrieved selection criterion information and only those points of the point cloud are used for the creation of the filtered-point-cloud representation to be displayed, which have a quality information fulfilling the retrieved selection criterion information, and displaying the filtered-point-cloud representation to the user.
US11106933B2
The present disclosure provides a method, a device and a system for processing image tagging information. The method includes the following. A captured image and a capturing position are acquired from a terminal. Object recognition is applied to the captured image to determine a first object presented by the captured image. A first target image presenting the first object is searched for among one or more historical images associated with the capturing position. When the first target image is searched for, it is determined that the first object is duplicated with tagging information of an electronic map. When the first target image is not searched for, a corresponding position of the first object on the electronic map is tagged.
US11106931B2
Systems and methods for performing OCR of an image depicting text symbols and imaging a document having a plurality of planar regions are disclosed. An example method comprises: receiving a first image of a document having a plurality of planar regions and one or more second images of the document; identifying a plurality of coordinate transformations corresponding to each of the planar regions of the first image of the document; identifying, using the plurality of coordinate transformations, a cluster of symbol sequences of the text in the first image and in the one or more second images; and producing a resulting OCR text comprising a median symbol sequence for the cluster of symbol sequences.
US11106924B2
The present disclosure relates to a vehicle tracking method, a computer readable storage medium, and an electronic device. The method includes: determining a predicted value of state information of a target tracking vehicle based on a sequential Kalman filtering model according to a most recently acquired tracking value of the state information of the target tracking vehicle, wherein the state information at least includes location information; obtaining a detected value of the state information of the target tracking vehicle; and in response to the obtained detected value, acquiring a new tracking value of the state information of the target tracking vehicle based on the sequential Kalman filtering model according to the detected value and the most recently determined predicted value. Through the above technical solution, the tracking value of the state information of the target tracking vehicle may be determined more accurately.
US11106910B2
A method for simulating the estimation of a time to acquire satellite images associated with at least one predetermined area of the Earth, by at least one Earth observation satellite having an optical imaging system, the predetermined area being previously divided into a grid of cells, the acquisition being scheduled to be triggered starting on an analysis start date is disclosed having the steps of: (a) conducting an inventory of the cells planned to be overflown by the satellite on a current iteration date, on the basis of the orbital characteristics of the satellite on the current iteration date, thus obtaining candidate cells, (b) identifying among the candidate cells, on the basis of a mission plan of the satellite, those cells for which acquisition of at least one satellite image is scheduled, thus obtaining scheduled cells, (c) obtaining at least a first cloudiness value for each of the scheduled cells, (d) identifying, among the scheduled cells, those for which the first associated cloudiness value is above a predetermined validation threshold value, thus obtaining validated cells.
US11106909B2
The present specification discloses a data processing method, apparatus, and equipment. The method includes: obtaining an image sent by a user, wherein the image to is collected by the user for a merchant; identifying carbon-saving behavior of the merchant, comprising processing the image using a trained image recognition model; and determining, based on the carbon-saving behavior, a value representing an amount of carbon saved by the merchant.
US11106903B1
Techniques are generally described for object detection in image data. A first frame of image data associated with a first domain is received by a detector executing on at least one computing device. The detector generates a first feature data in the first domain. The first feature data is transformed from the first domain into a second feature data in a second domain. The detector may be effective to detect objects in the second domain. A location of an object in the first frame of image data is determined based at least in part on the second feature data.
US11106900B2
A person trend recording device includes: an image acquisition unit configured to acquire moving image data obtained by capturing an image of a target area; a person detector configured to detect and track a person, who acts within the target area, by analyzing the moving image data; an event detector configured to detect an event that occurs with the person during a period of tracking the person, by analyzing the moving image data; a physio-psychological index detector configured to detect a temporal change in a physio-psychological index of the person during the tracking period, by analyzing the moving image data; and a trend record generator configured to generate, as trend record data on the person, data in which at least one or more events that occur with the person are temporally associated with the temporal change in the physio-psychological index of the person.
US11106894B2
An image processing apparatus comprises a normalisation module operatively connected across a bus to a memory storing an image in which a region of interest (ROI) has been identified within the image. The ROI is bound by a rectangle having a non-orthogonal orientation within the image. In one embodiment, the normalisation module is arranged to divide the ROI into one or more slices, each slice comprising a plurality of adjacent rectangular tiles. For each slice, the apparatus successively reads ROI information for each tile from the memory including: reading a portion of the image extending across at least a width of the slice line-by-line along an extent of a slice. For each tile, the apparatus downsamples the ROI information to a buffer to within a scale SD<2 of a required scale for a normalised version of the ROI. The apparatus then fractionally downsamples and rotates downsampled information for a tile within the buffer to produce a respective normalised portion of the ROI at the required scale for the normalised ROI. Downsampled and rotated information is accumulated for each tile within a normalised ROI buffer for subsequent processing by the image processing apparatus.
US11106893B1
A method and apparatus are provided for optimizing one or more object detection parameters used by an autonomous vehicle to detect objects in images. The autonomous vehicle may capture the images using one or more sensors. The autonomous vehicle may then determine object labels and their corresponding object label parameters for the detected objects. The captured images and the object label parameters may be communicated to an object identification server. The object identification server may request that one or more reviewers identify objects in the captured images. The object identification server may then compare the identification of objects by reviewers with the identification of objects by the autonomous vehicle. Depending on the results of the comparison, the object identification server may recommend or perform the optimization of one or more of the object detection parameters.
US11106891B2
A system for extraction and verification of handwritten signatures from arbitrary documents. The system comprises one or more computing devices configured to: receive a digital image of a document; remove a subset of words from the digital image identified via OCR; determine a plurality of regions of connected markings that remain in the digital image; based at least in part on a pixel density or proximity to an anchor substring of each region, determine that a region contains a handwritten signature; extract first image data of the region containing a handwritten signature from the digital image; retrieve second image data of a confirmed example signature for a purported signer of the handwritten signature; and based on a comparison of the first image data with the second image data, forward a determination of whether the first image data and second image data are similar.
US11106880B2
A management device includes an antenna, a reader, and a processor. The antenna is positionable at a position near a conveyance path. The reader is configured to output wireless tag information based on a radio wave generated by a wireless tag and received by the antenna. The processor is configured to detect passage of an article through a predetermined position on the conveyance path based on an identifier of the article included in the wireless tag information and sign change of a slope of the phase of the radio wave, determine a position of the article based on a timing of the sign change, and store the determined position of the article in correspondence with the identifier of the article.
US11106869B1
A computer-implemented method includes receiving a message of a pharmacy customer wherein the message includes a text string, and generating a set of one or more intents corresponding to the pharmacy customer by analyzing the text string using a trained machine learning model, wherein each of the one or more intents correspond to a respective desired action pertaining to the pharmacy order. The machine learning model may be a classification model. The method further includes generating at least one response message based on the set of intents corresponding to the pharmacy customer and transmitting the at least one response message to a mobile device associated with the pharmacy customer. The set of one or more intents may be chosen from a list of commonplace pharmacy customer intents.
US11106849B2
A method for generating redundant configuration in FPGA devices includes: analysing the configuration pertaining to a given design to be configured, or already configured, in the FPGA device, in order to identify programmed and empty configuration memory portions, configuring the FPGA device for implementing said design, measuring the power consumption of the configured FPGA device, copying the configuration from at least some subsets of the programmed portion to subsets of the empty portion, (a) verifying the configuration read back from said subsets of the empty portion with the configuration data read from said subsets of the programmed portion, (b) verifying whether the functionality of the design after the copy is still correct, (c) measuring the power consumption of the FPGA device, and verifying whether the power consumption of the FPGA device after the copy is acceptable according to pre-defined criteria, if the verification steps (a), (b) and (c) are all successful the redundant configuration is correctly generated, and if the verification steps (a), (b) and (c) are not all successful the method restarts from the beginning choosing other subsets of the empty portion of the FPGA device for hosting the configuration data from said subsets of the programmed portion.
US11106847B2
Methods and systems for verifying a hardware design for an integrated circuit that implements a function that is polynomial in an input variable x over a set of values of x. The method includes formally verifying that a first instantiation of the hardware design implements a function that is polynomial of degree k in x by formally verifying that for all x in the set of values of x the first instantiation of the hardware design has a constant kth difference; and verifying that a second instantiation of the hardware design generates an expected output in response to each of at least k different values of x in the set of values of x.
US11106844B2
The invention relates to a method for determining the dimensions of an electrochemical cell allowing a total area of the electrochemical cell to be minimized while maximizing an electrical signal generated by the electrochemical cell in operation, including: a/ determining a first cost function expressing the variation in a first parameter representative of the total area as a function of an adjustment variable representative of an aspect ratio of the active zone; b/ determining a second cost function expressing the variation in a second parameter representative of the generated electrical signal as a function of the adjustment variable; c/ determining a compound cost function from the first and second cost functions and identifying a value of the adjustment variable that optimizes the compound cost function and that therefore conjointly optimizes the first and second cost functions.
US11106833B2
Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The method computer program products, and systems can include, for instance: presenting first data on a first area of a display, wherein the first data is non-sensitive data; presenting second data on a second area of the display, wherein the second data is sensitive data; wherein the first data is displayed to feature a first viewing angle, and wherein the second data is displayed to feature a second viewing angle, wherein the second viewing angle is narrower than the first viewing angle so that a range of viewing angles from the display at which displayed data is visible is larger for the first data than for the second data.
US11106832B1
In some embodiments, a method can include measuring, via a sensor disposed within an interior of a housing, an out-of-band characteristic of an electronic circuit disposed within the interior of the housing. The method can further include receiving, from the sensor and at a management circuit disposed within the interior of housing, a sensor signal indicating the out-of-band characteristic of the electronic circuit. The method can further include analyzing, at the management circuit, the out-of-band characteristic of the electronic circuit to produce an alarm signal. The method can further include sending, from the management circuit, the alarm signal to initiate a remedial action in response to receiving the alarm signal.
US11106826B2
Systems and methods are provided for sharing maps in a collaborative environment using classification-based access control. The generation of and dissemination of maps and/or data within such maps can be governed by classification-based access control, where a user's classification level can determine whether or not maps and/or data within those maps can be seen. In scenarios whether a plurality of users wishes to collaborate on the same map, the systems and methods provided herein generate multiple versions or views of the same map in accordance with different classification levels. In this way, users with different classification levels can nevertheless see the same map and engage in collaborations regarding the same map, while maintaining control of sensitive data.
US11106790B2
In one aspect, a computer-implemented method is disclosed. The computer-implemented method may include determining a sketch matrix that approximates a matrix representative of a reference dataset. The reference dataset may include at least one computer program having a predetermined classification. A reduced dimension representation of the reference dataset may be generated based at least on the sketch matrix. The reduced dimension representation may have a fewer quantity of features than the reference dataset. A target computer program may be classified based on the reduced dimension representation. The target computer program may be classified to determine whether the target computer program is malicious. Related systems and articles of manufacture, including computer program products, are also disclosed.
US11106788B2
Securing data exchanged between components such as hardware sub-systems of a computing device (e.g., internal communications) during a request-response cycle is desirable. In some implementations, methods and systems as disclosed to secure computing devices against attackers attempting to take physical control of a computer system (or portion thereof) to compromise the system or steal data managed by the computer system. In one example, data transmission request from sender to a receiver may be identified and associated with a unique identifier to individually identify the data transmission request (e.g., a request internal to the computer system). The request may then be provided to the receiver and a later response may be identified and validated prior to returning the response data to the requestor. The validation may include ensuring an associated tag (e.g., unique identifier) is provided with the response to tie it to the request for which the response is being sent.
US11106787B2
An information processing device including a security function related to information security and an information processing function related to predetermined information processing, includes: a control unit which performs control processing for realizing the security function and the information processing function; and a storage unit which stores information related to the security function and the information processing function, wherein: when the control unit detects an occurrence of a predetermined event related to the security function or the information processing function, the control unit determines an operation content of the security function based on the information stored in the storage unit.
US11106786B2
Methods and systems are provided to determine when a first electronic device is emulating a second electronic device. The first electronic device may be operated through indirect inputs such as through a mouse and keyboard. The second electronic device may be operated through direct inputs such as inputs received through a touchscreen. Interaction data received from the first electronic device may be used to determine that the first electronic device is operating an emulator. Interaction data may include data associated with scrolling on the electronic device and such data may allow a determination that the electronic device received indirect inputs and, thus, is operating an emulator.
US11106781B2
A secondary OS device unlocking system includes a key management system and a server device. The server device includes a storage device storing primary OS information, a remote access controller device, and a BIOS. During server device initialization operations, the BIOS sends the remote access controller device a request to unlock a storage device using a storage device locking key stored in the key management system. In response to the storage device not being unlocked, the BIOS retrieves secondary OS information and boots using the secondary OS information to provide the secondary OS that retrieves the storage device locking key and uses it to unlock the storage device, and then performs a reboot operation. The BIOS then retrieves the primary OS information from the unlocked storage device, and boots using the primary OS information to provide a primary OS.
US11106777B2
Systems and methods for authenticating a user to access a public terminal are described. Disclosed embodiments may include reading, using the physical credential reader, a user identifier from the physical credential device. Disclosed embodiments may also include transmitting the public terminal identifier and the user identifier to a secure server. Further, disclosed embodiments may include receiving, after completing the transmission, a unique code from the secure server. Disclose embodiments may additionally include displaying the unique code on the display device. Disclosed embodiments may include receiving, after displaying the unique code, an authentication message from the secure server. Disclosed embodiments may further include, responsive to receiving the authentication message, authorizing the user to use a terminal command at the public terminal.
US11106768B2
Devices and methods are presented for managing data security. One example method includes receiving user identification information from a screen of a device that is connectable to a database of secure information. The method includes authenticating the user identification information, the authenticating includes capturing image data of a user associated with the user identification information. The method provides access to the database of secure information upon authenticating the user identification information. The method records data of user interactive input and viewed images displayed on the screen while the access provided. The method stores audit data for the user when accessing the database of secure information, the audit data being associated with a history of use by the user. The audit data including a plurality of events associated with the use. The method enables replay of the audit data for at least one of the plurality of events associated with the use.
US11106766B2
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for embedding copyright information in one or more pages for presenting digital content. One of the methods includes generating, by a computing device, a unique identifier (ID) based on copyright information associated with the digital content; identifying one or more attributes associated with a page design of one or more blank pages of an electronic file; embedding the unique ID in the one or more blank pages by changing the one or more attributes to be representative of the unique ID; allocating the digital content to at least one of the one or more information-embedded pages; and distributing, by the computing device, the one or more information-embedded pages allocated with the digital content to the blockchain network.
US11106764B2
Techniques facilitating integrated circuit identification and reverse engineering are provided. A computer-implemented method can comprise identifying, by a system operatively coupled to a processor, an element within a first elementary cell of one or more elementary cells of an integrated circuit. The method can also comprise matching, by the system, the element with respective elements across the one or more elementary cells including the first elementary cell. The respective elements can be replicas of the element. Further, matching the element with respective elements can be based on a layout analysis of the integrated circuit.
US11106762B1
An application licensing system reduces the computational cost of providing application access to licensees by running instances of licensed applications in virtual machines and providing web-based user interfaces to client devices associated with users of a license pool. An application licensing system onboards one or more licenses for applications licensed by an organization from an application vendor. When a user of the organization wishes to access a licensed application, the application licensing system determines whether the organization's license pool permits the requested use and analyzes current uses of the requested application to determine whether a license is available for use by the user. If the set of application licenses for the organization permits the requested use, the system runs an instance of the application in a virtual machine and provides the user with access to the application through a web-based user interface.
US11106760B2
Enhanced metadata with optimized output. In an embodiment, a content object is received. First metadata to be associated with the content object is determined. At least one metadata field to be acquired is determined based on an association, within a stored knowledge structure, of the at least one metadata field with the first metadata. Second metadata to be associated with the content object is acquired based on the at least one metadata field. A metadata structure and markup format for the content object are determined. The metadata structure incorporates both the first metadata and the second metadata. The content object is output with the metadata structure and in the markup format.
US11106756B2
A method, apparatus and computer program product for dynamically grouping browser tabs in a web browser user interface is described. The web page content of a plurality of open web page tabs in a web browser displayed on a display of a computer are analyzed. Sets of tab group criteria, each set of tab group criteria for a respective tab group and based on user intent are used to evaluate the web page content. Based on the analyzing, which ones of the plurality of open web page tabs respectively satisfy a set of tab group criteria are determined. The plurality of open web page tabs is grouped into respective tab groups based on the determination. The tab groups are presented in the web browser display. Each tab group display contains tabs representing a subset of the plurality of open web page tabs which satisfy a respective set of tab group criteria.
US11106738B2
A method is provided for evaluating a next action of a target object in an environment. The method includes simulating, by a processor device for each of possible actions of the target object in the environment, a next state occurring thereafter to obtain a plurality of simulated next states, based on a pessimistic scenario in which all possible unfavorable actions of other objects occur in the next state in simulation. At least two of the possible unfavorable actions in the next state are unable to simultaneously occur in reality. The method further includes identifying, by the processor device, a safety area for the target object in each of the plurality of simulated next states. The method also includes evaluating, by the processor device, each of the possible actions of the target object, based on the safety area for the target object in each of the plurality of simulated next states.
US11106736B1
A method may compiling, using at least one processor, a corpus of training data by obtaining, for each respective concept object in an ontology, a respective concept label and respective annotations describing the respective concept object; generating a vocabulary of terms based on the corpus of training data; training a semantic model using the corpus of training data and the vocabulary of terms, wherein input features for the semantic model are based on context words in proximity to a term in the vocabulary of terms; and storing a set of word embeddings for the vocabulary of terms based on the trained semantic model.
US11106726B2
Systems and methods for managing an image repository for pathology. In an embodiment, a search request is received. One or more digital slide images are identified from an image repository based on the search request. A user is provided access to the identified digital slide images. In addition, each of a plurality of collections of digital slide images are associated with a search rating, and a value for each of the plurality of collections is computed based on the associated search rating and a size of the collection.
US11106725B1
A system and method are provide for searching, writing, editing, and publishing waveform shape information. A publishing module publishes a sequence of distinct shape code values in which each shape code value has the number of members, and the sum of the member values is the same for each shape code value.
US11106720B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media configured to generate session information based on information regarding items of a plurality of item types associated with interactions performed by active users of a social networking system. A graph is generated based on the session information. At least a first item of the items is assigned to a cluster based on similarity between the item and the cluster. The cluster is provided to a recommender system to facilitate selection of relevant information for potential presentation to a user.
US11106719B2
Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The methods include, for instance: metadata on respective datasets from a plurality of data sources. An enhanced metadata is prepared with semantic information, available data statistics, and search index associated with items of the metadata. The metadata is also classified based on ontology rules. An intent phrase to search the datasets from the plurality of data sources is obtained from a user. The enhanced metadata is searched with a semantic search query formed from the intent phrase, and search result is classified into semantic element classes generated from the intent phrase. A metadata model that satisfies the intent phrase is produced by identifying join columns and respective join relationships from the search result.
US11106709B2
The present disclosure provides a recommendation method and device, and a device for formulating recommendations. The recommendation method specifically includes obtaining a current context of an input method program after the input method program is triggered, analyzing data of past input actions by a current user under past contexts to obtain a target entry matching the current context in the data of the past input actions, and displaying the target entry. The present disclosure provides candidate entries to the user without any input operation by the user, thereby substantially improving the user's input efficiency.
US11106708B2
System and method of partitioning a plurality of data objects that are each represented by a respective high dimensional feature vector is described, including performing a hashing function on each high dimensional feature vector to generate a respective lower dimensional binary compact feature vector for the data object that is represented by the high dimensional feature vector; performing a further hashing function on each compact feature vector to assign a sub-index ID to the compact feature vector; and partitioning the compact feature vectors into respective partition groups that correspond to the sub-index IDs assigned to the compact feature vectors.
US11106705B2
Systems and methods for a multi-tenant parser generation platform. A human-readable document of a data provider system is accessed. The document includes a data dictionary table for opaque data of the data provider system that has a first type. Data dictionary information of the data dictionary table is extracted, and a schema file is generated from the extracted information. The schema file defines a parsing process for parsing an opaque data record of the first. The first schema file specifies each field of the opaque data record of the first type. Parsing instructions are generated based on the schema file. The parsing instructions are for parsing an opaque data record of the first type provided by the data provider system into a set of data fields. The parsing instructions are provided to an entity system external to the platform. The first entity system is associated with a first platform account.
US11106699B2
Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with updating data aggregation configurations and controlling data aggregation are described. Illustratively, a hierarchy of nodes is generated and displayed in a graphical representation of an energy supply network. The nodes store energy consumption data, and are selectable to identify where aggregations of the energy consumption data are to be performed. A settlement point is created to define an aggregation of the energy consumption data based on at least data from a plurality of the nodes identified from the hierarchy. The created settlement includes one or more characteristics selected from the database. The aggregation of the energy consumption data according to the settlement point is executed and controlled, and an electronic report including the aggregated energy consumption data is generated.
US11106693B2
A device, system and method for interoperability between digital evidence management systems (DEMS) is provided. A DEMS proxy computing device received, from a requesting device, a search string requesting digital evidence. The proxy provides, to a plurality of separate DEMS devices maintained by separate public safety agencies: corresponding search strings; and identification information identifying one or more of: a public safety role of a user of the requesting device, and a public safety agency membership of the user. The proxy receives, from at least a particular DEMS device, of the plurality of separate DEMS devices, a digital evidence record based on the search string, the digital evidence record describing a piece of digital evidence managed by the particular DEMS device, and including chain-of-custody information. The proxy provides, to the requesting device, the digital evidence record and the chain-of-custody information.
US11106692B1
Methods, systems and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media for a data record resolution and correlation system. One of the methods includes obtaining data sets each including records associated with entities, the records each specifying information for a plurality of aspects of an entity, the information being encoded in the records, for each of the data sets, according to a respective format. One or more bundles are determined from the data sets, with each bundle indicating records determined to be associated with a same entity and determined using similarity rules that compare aspects specified in the records. Information describing a particular bundle is presented to a reviewing user, and the reviewing user can specify one or more records included in the particular bundle that are properly matched. The particular bundle can be updated based on the reviewing user's specification.
US11106685B2
The present invention concerns a novel method to efficiently score documents (texts, images, audios, videos, and any other information file) by using a machine-learned ranking function modeled by an additive ensemble of regression trees. A main contribution is a new representation of the tree ensemble based on bitvectors, where the tree traversal, aimed to detect the leaves that contribute to the final scoring of a document, is performed through efficient logical bitwise operations. In addition, the traversal is not performed one tree after another, as one would expect, but it is interleaved, feature by feature, over the whole tree ensemble. Tests conducted on publicly available LtR datasets confirm unprecedented speedups (up to 6.5×) over the best state-of-the-art methods.
US11106678B2
The subject technology receives first metadata corresponding to a set of micro-partitions. The subject technology stores a first data structure and a second data structure in storage as a first file and a second file, first data structure including the first metadata and a second data structure including second metadata, the first metadata corresponding to a set of micro-partitions, the second metadata for a grouping of the first metadata, the second data structure including information associating the second metadata to the first metadata. The subject technology stores third metadata for a table, the third metadata comprising: cumulative table metadata comprising global information about a plurality of micro-partitions of the table, the cumulative table metadata being stored in a metadata micro-partition associated with the table.
US11106674B2
Techniques for data skipping that may be user defined and extensible may be provided. A method may include receiving a query, at a computer system comprising a processor, memory accessible by the processor, and computer program instructions stored in the memory and executable by the processor, modifying, at the computer system, the received query to utilize at least one data skipping index to evaluate at least one criterion of the query, wherein the at least one data skipping index comprises an index on at least one attribute of data that excludes index information for at least a portion of those data items that do not meet the at least one criterion, and wherein the at least one data skipping index is generated based on information received from an application programming interface, and evaluating, at the computer system, the query.
US11106673B2
A method, a system and a computer program product for execution of queries. A first query is executed using a first query execution plan to generate a first result data by applying a first query operator to a first data stored in a first storage location. The first result data is provided to a second query execution plan for execution of a second query. The second query is executed on a second data stored in a second storage location in accordance with the second query execution plan. The second query execution plan includes a second query operator. Based on the execution of the second query, a second result data is generated in accordance with the second query execution plan by at least applying the second query operator to at least the provided first result data.
US11106663B1
A search for a regular expression in a tree hierarchy, includes, in part, searching for a match to the regular expression in a first subtree defined by a first node name, recording information about the first subtree if there is no match, determining whether a second subtree defined by a second node name is identical to the first node, skipping search of the second subtree if the second subtree is determined to be identical and prefix equivalent, with respect to the regular expression, to the first subtree. The second subtree is determined to be prefix equivalent to the first subtree when for any string s, a first prefix defined by a concatenation of the first node name and the string s results in a match if and only if a second prefix defined by a concatenation of the second node name and the string s results in a match.
US11106662B2
In an embodiment, the disclosed technologies include extracting, from at least one search log, session data including at least three semantically related queries and corresponding timestamp data; using the session data, creating a training sequence that includes source query data, context query data, and target query data, the source query data having both a temporal relationship and a lexical relationship to the target query data and the context query data having a temporal relationship to the source query data; creating a learned model by, using a machine learning-based modeling process, learning a mapping of a semantic representation of the context query data and the source query data to a semantic representation of the target query data; in response to a new query, using the learned model to generate at least one recommended query that is semantically related to the new query.
US11106651B2
Table discovery in a distributed and dynamic computing system can include detecting an event of a type indicating an update to a data source of a selected node of a plurality of nodes of a computing system, in response to the event, generating, within the selected node, a first collaborative trigger having a query identifier correlated with the type of the event, and distributing the first collaborative trigger through other ones of the plurality of the nodes of the computing system so that the first collaborative trigger reaches an actor of the computing system. Table discovery further can include, in response to receiving the first collaborative trigger within the actor, generating, within the actor, a query for table definition information. The query may be implemented as an aggregation query and may be distributed through the plurality of the nodes.
US11106647B2
Provided are methods, systems, and computer readable media for user interaction with database methods and systems. In an aspect, a user interface can be generated to permit dynamic display generation to view data. The system can comprise a visualization component to dynamically generate one or more visual representations of the data to present in the state space.
US11106643B1
System and method for integrating systems to implement data quality processing. A business rule creation module is configured to create a business rule associated with a business term. A data quality specification module is configured to create a data quality specification based on the business rule. The data quality specification comprises (1) an identity of a column of a table stored in a database comprising data to be tested; (2) a test to perform on the data to be tested; and (3) reference data required to perform the test on the data. A validation module is configured to receive the data quality specification; retrieve data associated with the column from the database; and test the retrieved data in accordance with the test using the reference data. A result publication module is configured to return a result of the test to the data quality specification module.
US11106628B2
In an example, a method comprises determining, based on a set of metadata items to be stored, a first sequence and a second sequence, wherein the first sequence and the second sequence each include a plurality of key-value pairs, each key-value pair including a metadata item from the set of metadata items and a keyword corresponding to the metadata item in the set. The method also comprises causing a first co-routine to utilize available computing resources to process the first sequence. The method further comprises in response to an amount of computing resources available for the first co-routine to process the first sequence being below a first threshold, causing a second co-routine to process the second sequence, wherein the second co-routine is different from the first co-routine. This method can increase the utilization rate of the processor and more rapidly stores the metadata into the external storage device.
US11106624B2
A method is provided to generate a configuration descriptor for a chipset in a computing unit. The method includes determining, by one or more processors, a plurality of desired interface configurations for the chipset and for each of the one or more desired interface configurations, determining one or more ports of the chipset and corresponding platform connectors that satisfy features of the each of the one or more of the desired interface configurations based on a chipset description and a platform description. The method further includes assigning a port from among the determined one or more ports to the each of the one or more of the desired interface configurations and generating a chipset configuration descriptor based on the assigning of ports to each of the one or more desired interface configurations. In some embodiments, the chipset is initialized based on the configuration descriptor.
US11106623B1
A system on a chip may include a plurality of data plane processor cores sharing a common instruction set architecture. At least one of the data plane processor cores is specialized to perform a particular function via extensions to the otherwise common instruction set architecture. Such systems on a chip may have reduced physical complexity, cost, and time-to-market, and may provide improvements in core utilization and reductions in system power consumption.
US11106615B2
A single-wire bus (SuBUS) slave circuit is provided. The SuBUS slave circuit is coupled to a SuBUS bridge circuit via a SuBUS and can be configured to perform a slave task that may block communication on the SuBUS. Notably, the SuBUS slave circuit may not be equipped with an accurate timing reference source that can determine a precise timing for terminating the slave task and unblock the SuBUS. Instead, the SuBUS slave circuit is configured to terminate the slave task and unblock the SuBUS based on a self-determined slave free-running-oscillator count derived from a start-of-sequence training sequence that precedes any SuBUS telegram of a predefined SuBUS operation, even though the SuBUS operation is totally unrelated to the slave task. As such, it may be possible to eliminate the accurate timing reference source from the SuBUS slave circuit, thus helping to reduce cost and current drain in the SuBUS slave circuit.
US11106610B2
In certain aspects, a device comprises one or more IO inputs; a first receiver coupled to a first supply voltage and the one or more IO inputs, wherein the first receiver comprises thick oxide transistors; and a high-speed circuit comprising: an isolation block coupled to the one or more IO inputs, wherein the isolation block comprises thick oxide transistors; and a second receiver coupled to the isolation block and a second supply voltage, wherein the second receiver comprises thin oxide transistors.
US11106602B2
A computer-implemented method includes generating a plurality of test cases to test exploitation of speculative execution in a design of a computer processor, where the plurality of test cases include a first test case. Generating the first test case includes identifying a branch responsive to an attempted access to secure data and, responsive to the branch, marking each memory address of each memory access dependent on the attempted access to the secure data. The computer-implemented method further includes executing the first test case. Executing the first test case includes detecting an attempt to access a memory address that has been marked and, responsive to the attempt to access the memory address that has been marked, alerting of a security violation.
US11106601B2
A method for efficiently method for performing adaptive management of a cache with predetermined size and number of cells with different locations with respect to the top or bottom of the cache, for storing at different cells, data items to be retrieved upon request from a processor. A stream of requests for items, each of which has a temporal probability to be requested is received and the jump size is incremented on cache misses and decremented on cache hits by automatically choosing a smaller jump size and using a larger jump size when the probability of items to be requested is changed. The jump size represents the number of cells by which a current request is promoted in the cache, on its way from the bottom, in case of a cache hit, or from the outside in case of a cache miss, towards the top cell of the cache.
US11106596B2
Methods, devices, and systems for determining an address in a physical memory which corresponds to a virtual address using a skewed-associative translation lookaside buffer (TLB) are described. A virtual address and a configuration indication are received using receiver circuitry. A physical address corresponding to the virtual address is output if a TLB hit occurs. A first subset of a plurality of ways of the TLB is configured to hold a first page size. The first subset includes a number of the ways based on the configuration indication. A physical address corresponding to the virtual address is retrieved from a page table if a TLB miss occurs, and at least a portion of the physical address is installed in a least recently used way of a subset of a plurality of ways the TLB, determined according to a replacement policy based on the configuration indication.
US11106590B2
The described technology is generally directed towards detecting and propagating changes that affect information maintained in a cache. Data may be pre-cached in advance of its actual need, however such data can change, including in various different source locations. A change monitoring/signaling service detects relevant changes and publishes change events to downstream listeners, including to a cache population service that updates pre-cache data as needed in view of such data changes. Per-user-specific data also may be pre-cached, such as when a user logs into a data service.
US11106585B2
A method, computer program product, and computer system for receiving, by a computing device, an IO request on a first node. It may be determined whether a virtual address for the IO request is in a virtual cache. A read to RAID may be issued using the virtual address when the virtual address for the IO request is not in the virtual cache. A return of a cached page associated with the virtual address may be issued when the virtual address for the IO request is in the virtual cache.
US11106571B2
A computing device includes a processor and a medium storing instructions. The instructions are executable by the processor to: record a test script for an application in a first display configuration, the test script including a user interaction with an input object in a graphical user interface (GUI) of the application; in response to reaching the user interaction during a configuration execution of the recorded test script, determine identifier information of the input object for each of a plurality of display configurations; and store the identifier information of the input object for each of the plurality of display configurations, the stored identifier information used during testing executions of the test script.
US11106569B1
A requirements to test (R2T) system is implemented, which provides an automated system by which a user interface (UI)-test automation script package is generated and the generated test scripts therein are executed against software. A visualized workflow is translated into some machine-consumable formatted file. The translated workflow is utilized by an artificial intelligence driven automated R2T engine to discover paths through the workflow, a series of executable steps for the paths that detail how the software will be used, and ultimately test scripts that are generated using pre-defined validation templates. An automation platform executes the test scripts through the software associated with the workflow, which automatically captures evidence of the executed test scripts to fulfill computer system validation requirements. The R2T system provides an automated solution for test script creation and system validation to expedite the validation process and thereby streamline a software's time to market.
US11106562B2
A system and method for detecting anomalies in task workflows uses a directed acyclic graph constructed using metrics for a workflow of a task collected from software entities that perform operations to execute the task. A feature signature of the task workflow is generated using key values extracted from the directed acyclic graph, which is then used to compute a similarity value by comparing the feature signature with a reference feature signature for a baseline task workflow. The similarity value is then used to diagnose any performance issues in the workflow of the task executed by the software entities.
US11106531B2
A flash memory controller used to access a flash memory includes a read-only memory, a processor, and an error correction code unit. The read-only memory is used to store a code. The processor executes the code to control access to the flash memory. The error correction code unit includes a control module and a decoder. The control module respectively calculates a first correlation between innate bad-column information which records the location of innate bad columns that become damaged after the read-only memory being manufactured and a plurality of trapping sets of a plurality of preset LDPC (low-density parity check) codes and uses the preset LDPC code which has the lowest first correlation as a selected LDPC code. The decoder decodes read information obtained from the flash memory according to the selected LDPC code.
US11106530B2
A variety of applications can include apparatus and/or methods that provide parity data protection to data in a memory system for a limited period of time and not stored as permanent parity data in a non-volatile memory. Parity data can be accumulated in a volatile memory for data programmed via a group of access lies having a specified number of access lines in the group. A read verify can be issued to selected pages after programming finishes at the end of programming via the access lines of the group. With the programming of the data determined to be acceptable at the end of programming via the last of the access lines of the group, the parity data in the volatile memory can be discarded and accumulation can begin for a next group having a specified number of access lines. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
US11106529B1
A PPR memory location reporting system includes BIOS coupled to a non-volatile memory system and a volatile memory system. During boot operations, the BIOS identifies a memory location identifier in the non-volatile memory system for a memory location that is included in the volatile memory system and that is associated with PPR, performs PPR operations on the memory location, and determines that the PPR operations on the memory location have failed. In response to determining that the PPR operations on the memory location have failed, the BIOS stores the memory location identifier in a boot error report table that is configured for use by an operating system to prevent use of the memory location by the operating system, and reserves the memory location identifier in a memory map that is configured for use by the operating system to prevent use of the memory location by the operating system.
US11106528B2
One example method includes performing a machine learning process that involves performing an assessment of a state of a computing system, and the assessment includes analyzing information generated by an IoT edge sensor in response to a sensed physical condition in the computing system, and identifying an entity in the computing system potentially impacted by an event associated with the physical condition. The example method further includes identifying a preemptive recovery action and associating the preemptive recovery action with an entity, and the preemptive recovery action, when performed, reduces or eliminates an impact of the event on the entity, determining a cost associated with implementation of the preemptive recovery action, evaluating the cost associated with the preemptive recovery actions and identifying the preemptive recovery action with the lowest associated cost, implementing the preemptive recovery action with the lowest associated cost, and repeating part of the machine learning process.
US11106524B1
Methods, systems, and storage media including instructions for resolving technology issues is described. One of the methods includes receiving, by at least one processor, a session record of user producing a technical error on a computer system. The method includes providing, by the at least one processor, the session record for resolution to a processing system. The method also includes providing, by the at least one processor, a potential solution to the technical error.
US11106522B1
In one aspect, a method includes identifying a memory dump generated by an operating system, identifying, within the memory dump, a set of memory segments associated with an instance of a program to map to virtual memory of a new process, loading the set of memory segments into virtual memory of the new process, and performing one or more diagnostics using the program in the new process. Performing the one or more diagnostics using the program in the new process may include calling code associated with the instance of the program and new program code, such as a newly built program that is part of a runtime diagnostic tool.
US11106521B2
Devices and techniques for fatal error logging in a memory device are described herein. For example a read request can be received for a component of the memory device. A fatal error indication of an error that prevents correct execution of read request can be detected. Diagnostic information for the failure indication can be collected. A response to the read request can then be made with a portion of the diagnostic information as payload instead of the user data that would have occupied the payload had the read succeeded. Metadata in the response can be used to communicate an error code.
US11106518B2
A method for error correction in a memory system includes determining a bit error ratio for a memory block of the memory system during a read operation. The method further includes determining whether the bit error ratio is between a first threshold and a second threshold. The method further includes based on a determination that the bit error ratio is between the first threshold and the second threshold, performing a select gate drain (SGD) read operation on a SGD word line of the memory block. The method further includes generating first soft bit data using SGD data corresponding to the SGD read operation. The method further includes performing a low-density parity-check correction using the first soft bit data on the memory block.
US11106515B1
A computing system includes a network circuit configured to communicate data over a network, an accounts database configured to store information pertaining to accounts associated with a plurality of customers, and a plurality of application programming interfaces (APIs). The computing system also includes an integration circuit configured to receive a plurality of indications from different third parties of third party preferences to integrate different ones of the functionalities into different third party services. The integration circuit is further configured to select different subsets of the plurality of APIs for the different third parties based on functionalities identified via the indications. The integration circuit is further configured to provide, via a first selected subset of the plurality of APIs, information associated with a first functionality to an external device to facilitate access to the first functionality via a first third party service.
US11106510B2
A processing system comprising: a subsystem for acting as a work accelerator to a host processor, the subsystem comprising an arrangement of tiles; and an interconnect for communicating between the tiles and connecting the subsystem to the host. The interconnect comprises synchronization logic to coordinate barrier synchronizations between a group of the tiles. The synchronization logic comprises a host sync proxy module, comprising a counter written with a number of credits by the host processor, and being configured to automatically decrement the number of credits each time one of the barrier synchronizations requiring host involvement is performed. When the number of credits in the counter is exhausted, the barrier is not released until a further write from the host to the host sync proxy module, but when the number is credits in the counter is not exhausted the barrier is released without a separate write from the host.
US11106499B2
A method for allocating a resource associated with a root node is disclosed. The method includes: obtaining resource distribution data, wherein the resource distribution data indicates a proportional distribution of resources among one or more descendant nodes of a child node of the root node; and allocating the resource to the one or more descendant nodes of the child node by: determining a total amount of resources allocated to the child node; based on the resource distribution data, allocating respective portions from the total amount of resources allocated to the child node to the one or more descendant nodes of the child node; and automatically generating reports for the one or more descendant nodes of the child node based on respective amount of resources allocated to the one or more descendant nodes of the child node.
US11106495B2
Various embodiments are generally directed to techniques for partitioning parallelizable tasks into subtasks for processing. Some embodiments are particularly directed to dynamically determining chunk sizes to use in partitioning tasks, such as parallel loops or divide and conquer algorithm tasks, into subtasks based on the probability of a priority task source introducing a high-priority task. For example, a measurement signal received from a probe indicating an operational characteristic associated with a priority task source may be used to generate an estimate of the probability of a priority task source introducing a high-priority task. In such examples, the estimate may be used to determine a chunk size for a parallelizable task and the parallelizable task may be partitioned into a plurality of subtasks based on the chunk size and the subtasks may be assigned, for execution, to at least one task queue in a task pool.
US11106485B2
Modeling space consumption of a migrated VM is disclosed, including: obtaining aggregated effective historical space usage data associated with a plurality of VMs at a storage device; using the aggregated effective historical space usage data to generate one or more predicted metrics of space usage at the storage device; and using the one or more predicted metrics of space usage to potentially migrate a VM with respect to the storage device.
US11106481B2
A hypervisor detects a VM exit issued by a first virtual processor of a virtual machine, where the first virtual processor is associated with a first logical processor of a host CPU, and determines that a second virtual processor of the virtual machine is associated with a second logical processor of the host CPU. The hypervisor determines the execution state of the second virtual processor. Responsive to determining that the execution state of the second virtual processor indicates that the second virtual processor is running, the hypervisor sends a first instruction to the second logical processor to cause the second virtual processor to return control to the hypervisor. Responsive to determining that the execution state of the second virtual processor indicates that the second virtual processor has returned control to the hypervisor, the hypervisor executes a hypervisor task using the first logical processor.
US11106477B2
Systems and methods are described for modifying input and output (I/O) to an object storage service by implementing one or more owner-specified functions to I/O requests. A function can implement a data manipulation, such as filtering out sensitive data before reading or writing the data. The functions can be applied prior to implementing a request method (e.g., GET or PUT) specified within the I/O request, such that the data to which the method is applied my not match the object specified within the request. For example, a user may request to obtain (e.g., GET) a data set. The data set may be passed to a function that filters sensitive data to the data set, and the GET request method may then be applied to the output of the function. In this manner, owners of objects on an object storage service are provided with greater control of objects stored or retrieved from the service.
US11106470B2
An information processing apparatus includes a setting unit configured to receive designation of a setting value for one or a plurality of parts if a workflow for generating a product formed by one or a plurality of parts is set, and a management unit configured to manage, as a setting value for a part, a presetting in which a set of setting values capable of being shared is defined. If a change in a setting value for a part to which a setting is made using a first presetting managed by the managing unit is received, the setting unit further receives designation of a range which reflects the change in the setting value.
US11106469B2
Methods and systems for implementing an instruction selection mechanism with class-dependent age-array are described. In an example, a system can include a processor that may sequence instructions. The system can further include a memory operatively coupled to the processor. The system can further include an array allocated on the memory. The array can be operable to store instruction age designations associated with a plurality of instructions sequenced by the processor. The array can be further operable to store the instruction age designations based on instruction classes. The processor can be operable to fetch an instruction from the memory. The processor can be operable to dispatch the instruction to a queue. The processor can be operable to store the instruction age designations associated with the instruction, in the array, based on an instruction class of the instruction.
US11106441B2
The disclosed technology provides for packaging a secure cloud workload at a workload provisioning service. A unique device identifier is received from an edge device. The unique identifier is associated with the edge device. A unique packaging key is cryptographically generated based on the received unique device identifier, a unique workload identifier corresponding to a secure cloud workload to be executed on the edge device, and a nonce. The secure cloud workload is encrypted to generate a packaged secure cloud workload using the cryptographically generated unique packaging key. The encrypted secure cloud workload is transmitted to the edge device. The edge device is capable of independently cryptographically generating the unique packaging key using the unique device identifier, the unique workload identifier, and the nonce. The edge device is also capable of decrypting the packaged secure cloud workload using the generated unique packaging key cryptographically generated by the edge device.
US11106434B1
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, a device, and a computer program product for generating program code. In one embodiment, a method for generating program code is disclosed, including: acquiring code configuration information that includes code function information indicating a target function and device configuration information of a target device; and generating program code based on the code configuration information, wherein when executed, the program code can cause the target device to implement the target function. Through the embodiments of the present disclosure, the diversity and flexibility of function implementation can be improved, and the workload of developing program code can be significantly reduced.
US11106432B2
An execution unit is described which is particularly configured to generate an exponential of an operand floating point format. The operand is multiplied by a fixed multiplicand, logged to the base 2 (e) to generate a multiplication result. An integer part and a fractional part are extracted from the multiplication result. An exponent register stores the integer part to form the exponent of the exponential result. A lookup table has a plurality of entries each providing a value of 2f for a fractional part f used to access a lookup table. The fractional part is derived from a mantissa of the operand. That is, first and second bit sequences are extracted from the mantissa. One of the bit sequences is used to generate an estimated fractional component, and the other is used to access a value from the lookup table.
US11106426B2
A vehicle conversation information output device is configured to output conversation information created according to a generated pseudo-emotion and includes: an obtaining part that obtains operation information related to at least one driving operation performed by a driver of a vehicle; a determining part that determines, based on the operation information obtained by the obtaining part, an operation level for the at least one driving operation performed by the driver, the operation level corresponding to the difficulty of the at least one driving operation; a generating part that generates a pseudo-emotion based on the operation level determined by the determining part; a creating part that creates conversation information to be output to the driver based on the pseudo-emotion generated by the generating part; and an outputting part that outputs the conversation information created by the creating part.
US11106421B2
Disclosed is a display method for a wireless intelligent multi-screen display. A control terminal and at least two displays are comprised, wherein the control terminal comprises a first wireless communication module; the displays comprise a second wireless communication module; and the control terminal is connected to each of the displays by means of wireless communication. The display method comprises the following steps: a control terminal scanning nearby displays to establish a connection with the displays, wherein a display mode is configured at the control terminal or the displays according to the number of displays and/or a combination mode thereof, and a corresponding device ID is configured for each of the displays; the control terminal encoding, according to the configured display mode, image data, which is to be transmitted, into sub-image data corresponding to each of the displays.
US11106419B2
A multi-screen display adjusting system including: a first signal path to which a first video input signal is input and a second signal path to which a second video input signal is input that are independent from each other; a display panel configured to display a first image based on the first video input signal and a second image based on the second video input signal; a screen composing unit configured to determine an arrangement of the first screen and an arrangement of the second screen on the display panel on the basis of an output from the first signal path and an output from the second signal path; a frame memory unit configured to store data of the arrangement of the first screen and data of the arrangement of the second screen; a video output processing unit configured to read the data of the arrangement of the first screen from the frame memory unit and generate a first signal timing for displaying the first screen and read the data of the arrangement of the second screen from the frame memory unit and generate a second signal timing for displaying the second screen; and a control unit.
US11106418B2
An image display apparatus includes an input unit that receives an image from a first external apparatus, an output unit that outputs an image to a second external apparatus, a communication unit that performs communication with the first external apparatus or the second external apparatus, a receiving unit that receives a control signal that is transmitted from the first external apparatus and indicates that the first external apparatus transits to an image signal transmission stopping state, an inquiry unit that inquires of the second external apparatus about whether or not the second external apparatus supports the transmission stopping state, and a control unit that, in a case the control signal is received, switches a response to the control signal according to a result of the inquiry of the inquiry unit.
US11106416B2
Cable (200) for connecting an image displaying device (133) to a digital computer network (120), which cable (200) comprises only a first end (201), arranged to receive a digital network signal, and a second end (202), arranged to be connected to the image displaying device (133) and deliver a digital image signal to the image displaying device (133). The invention is characterised in that the cable (200) comprises an integrated general-purpose programmable computer device (203), arranged to execute a piece of cable computer software in turn arranged to read the network signal and produce said image signal using the said network signal, and in that the computer device (203) is arranged to be powered by a voltage provided y an ethernet socket (121) to which the first end (201) is arranged to be physically connected or by an image signal receiving socket to which the second end (202) is arranged to be physically connected.
US11106414B2
A printing system includes: a printing apparatus; and an information processing apparatus coupled to the printing apparatus over a network. The information processing apparatus includes a history storage unit that stores a print history that indicates a history of a printing operation performed by the printing apparatus. An acquisition unit acquires a keyword contained in a voice print command from a voice intermediate apparatus. A target record determiner determines, based on the keyword, a target record from individual records contained in the print history; the target record is an individual record to be reprinted. A print data transmitter generates print data, based on a related content and transmits the print data to the printing apparatus; the related content is one of printed contents which corresponds to the target record. The printing apparatus receives the print data and performs the printing operation in accordance with the print data.
US11106407B2
A media processing apparatus has N medium drives (N is an integer equal to or greater than 2), a label printer, and a medium-processing-apparatus control section. When K, which indicates the number of media on which to perform media creation (K is an integer not greater than 2N), is greater than N, the medium-processing-apparatus control section writes a first photographic data file and a second photographic data file to N media at the time when they are received. After writing has been terminated, the medium-processing-apparatus control section performs printing on the label surfaces of the N media. After writing to the N media is terminated, the medium-processing-apparatus control section writes the stored first photographic data file and second photographic data file to (K−N) media.
US11106405B2
A printer and a printer search system according to one embodiment include a communication interface and a control unit. The communication interface performs wireless communication with an external device. If the communication interface receives a search command from the external device, the control unit controls the communication interface to notify communication connection information to the external device.
US11106403B2
An image forming apparatus controls at least one proximity communication device in such a manner that an external apparatus is not capable of reading information from the at least one proximity communication device during a period in which power supply to the at least one proximity communication device is stopped.
US11106402B2
An information processing system includes a server system receives usage history information and identification information of an image forming apparatus, stores, in a memory, the identification information and user information in association with each other, with the user information including destination information of a notification, and obtains the user information from the memory, based on the received identification information. In addition, from the received usage history information, a value related to image forming based on an instruction from a predetermined application included in an information processing apparatus capable of communicating with the image forming apparatus is obtained, and a notification including predetermined information, based on the obtained destination information can be output. The notification is output in a case where the value does not satisfy a predetermined condition, and the notification is not output in a case where the value satisfies the predetermined condition.
US11106400B2
An image printing apparatus includes a memory containing instructions, and a controller executing the instructions to operate as a first obtaining unit to obtain incidental information accompanying a reference image selected by a user, a setting unit to set information about permission of printing an image according to a user's operation, a second obtaining unit to obtain a print target image, and a decision unit to decide whether to permit printing of the print target image based on incidental information accompanying the print target image and a print permission condition set based on the incidental information accompanying the reference image and the information set according to the user's operation.
US11106393B2
A computer system having a host coupled to a storage device via a peripheral component interconnect express bus. The host communicates write commands of low priority to the storage device, which places them in a queue for execution at an idle time. In response to a determination that the storage device is in an idle state, the storage device best accommodates the write commands in the idle queue in connection with housekeeping tasks, such as garbage collection and wear leveling, to best reduce write amplification.
US11106389B2
The present disclosure describes data transfer in a memory device from sensing circuitry to controller. An example apparatus includes a controller coupled to a memory device. The controller is configured to execute a command to transfer data from a latch component to a register file in the controller. The memory device includes an array of memory cells and the latch component is coupled to rows of the array via a plurality of columns of the memory cells. The latch component includes a latch selectably coupled to each of the columns and configured to implement the command to transfer the data. The memory device includes a data line to couple the latch component to the register file to transfer the data. The controller is configured to couple to the data line and the register file to perform a write operation on the transferred data to the register file in the controller.
US11106388B2
Monitoring health of associated, but separated storage clusters can be done at both a node scope and a cluster scope. Monitoring the storage clusters at the cluster scope includes monitoring the network elements that support the storage clusters and connect the storage clusters. Initially, a fabric monitor in each cluster discovers cluster topology. This cluster topology is communicated and maintained throughout the managing storage elements of the storage clusters. After the storage cluster topologies have been discovered, the fabric monitors of each cluster can periodically determine status of network elements of the storage clusters. This allows the storage clusters to maintain awareness of interconnect status, and react to changes in status. In addition, each managing storage element monitors its own health. This information is aggregated to determine when to trigger corrective actions, alerts, and/or storage features in accordance with rules defined at the managing storage elements.
US11106387B2
A method of operation of a storage system includes: collecting performance data including periodically sampling a non-volatile (NV) device for loading a statistics and capacity usage table; comparing a policy and threshold table to the statistics and capacity usage table; and configuring a virtual disk from a network of storage application servers for supplementing or replacing the NV device that exceeded the policy and threshold table while an application continues to utilize the NV device.
US11106386B1
Techniques for dynamic throttling of capacity reclamation are described. A method of dynamic throttling of capacity reclamation may include obtaining a plurality of deletion requests, the plurality of deletion requests including client device-originating deletion requests and service-originating deletion requests, generating a plurality of deletion tasks corresponding to the plurality of deletion requests, determining a deletion request rate associated with the client device-originating deletion requests based on request metadata, and executing the plurality of deletion tasks based on the deletion request rate.
US11106384B2
A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving locally-generated original data and remotely-generated replication data on the computing device; initially storing the locally-generated original data in a non-volatile memory system; initially storing the remotely-generated replication data in a volatile memory system; subsequently storing the locally-generated original data in a faster-tier storage system; and subsequently storing the remotely-generated replication data in a slower-tier storage system.
US11106374B2
A method is used in managing inline data de-duplication in storage systems. The method receives a request to write data at a logical address of a file in a file system of a storage system. The method determines whether the data can be de-duplicated to matching data residing on the storage system in a compressed format. Based on the determination, the method uses a block mapping pointer associated with the matching data to de-duplicate the data. The block mapping pointer includes a block mapping of a set of compressed data extents and information regarding location of the matching data within the set of compressed data extents.
US11106373B2
Systems and methods for managing content in a flash memory. Content or data in a flash memory is overwritten when the write operation only requires bits to be set. This improves performance of the flash and extends the life of the flash memory.
US11106372B2
An asynchronous power loss (APL) event is determined to occur. A first erased page (FEP) in a block of a memory device is determined and a last written page (LWP) is determined from the FEP. Data is read from the LWP and peer pages corresponding to the LWP. The data is copied to a temporary area in the memory device and a write pointer is incremented by a deterministic number of pages in the block. Data from the temporary area is copied to a page location in the block identified by the write pointer and the write pointer is incremented by the deterministic number of pages again. A host system is notified that the memory device is ready for a subsequent programming operation after the APL event.
US11106371B1
Example implementations described herein are directed to Input/Output (I/O) path reservation with out of band management. In example implementations, for failure of a storage orchestrator to delete the path between the container and the first volume, the example implementations described herein are directed to deleting a path between the first volume and a quorum volume; and establishing an I/O path between the new container and the second volume.
US11106365B1
An aspect of performing flow control of IO in a synchronous replication session between a local storage and a remote storage of a storage system includes tracking an amount of time an input/output (IO) request is processed at the remote storage including an amount of time the IO request is in transmit to and from the remote storage system. The amount of time indicates a remote latency value. An aspect also includes tracking an amount of time the IO request is processed at the local storage and calculating a difference between the remote latency value and the amount of time the IO request is processed at the local storage. The difference indicates a local latency value. An aspect further includes modifying an amount of IO requests admitted at the storage system as a function of the local latency value.
US11106361B2
Technologies for quality of service (QoS) management include a computing device having a physical storage volume and multiple processor cores. A management thread reads I/O counters that are each associated with a logical volume and a processor core. The logical volumes are backed by the physical storage volume. The management thread configures stop bits as a function of the I/O counters and multiple QoS parameters. Each stop bit is associated with a logical volume and a processor core. The QoS parameters include minimum guaranteed bandwidth and optional maximum allowed bandwidth for each logical volume. A worker thread reads the stop bit associated with a logical volume and a processor core, accesses the logical volume if the stop bit is not set, and updates the I/O counter associated with the logical volume and the processor core in response to accessing the logical volume. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11106360B1
A method, computer program product, and computer system for receiving, by a computing device, an I/O request. It may be identified whether the I/O request is eligible for handling via a first path without also requiring handling via a second path. If the I/O request is eligible, the I/O request may be processed via the first path on a host I/O stack without processing the I/O request via the second path on a storage array I/O stack. If the I/O request is ineligible, the I/O request may be processed via the first path on the host I/O stack and via the second path on the storage array I/O stack.
US11106359B1
A method and apparatus of performing a data transmission from an electronic device or a peripheral device of an electronic device to a peripheral device of a remote electronic device is disclosed. One example method of performing the data transmission may include transmitting data designated for the remote peripheral device to a local virtual device object. The data that is received by the local virtual device object is transmitted via at least one communication interface or peripheral device of the electronic device to at least one remote communication interface or peripheral device of the remote electronic device. The data arriving at the least one remote communication interface or peripheral device of the remote electronic device is received by a remote virtual device object and transmitted to the designated remote peripheral device.
US11106356B2
Arrangement for the controlled manual selection of an image and/or the adjustment of the display parameters thereof to be shown on a display (13, 22) of a smart electronic device that comprises a handling field (2, 25, 32, 41) controlled by the touch of a finger, wherein a first predetermined group of image and/or display parameters can be controlled by a finger of a user, and the arrangement comprises a further handling field (1, 27, 37, 38, 42) arranged in a position that can be touched by a different finger of the same user and by being touched at least one further display parameter can be adjusted that does not belong to the first group, and the further handling field (1, 27, 37, 38, 42) is arranged spaced from said handling field (2, 25, 32, 41) and the handling fields are mechanically connected through a common body (11, 24, 31).
US11106355B2
A method and apparatus configured to implement a Drag Menu for providing data service includes selecting menu items from a menu of a mobile device. A processor of a mobile device causes a base icon to be displayed on a touch-sensitive display of the mobile device at a position easy to access by a user of the mobile device with a finger of a hand of the user when the user is holding the mobile device with only the hand. This causes the processor to display a plurality of context menu items in at least a partial ring around the base icon. The processor also causes a plurality of global menu items to be displayed on the display in at least a partial ring around the context menu items. The processor accesses or implements an action associated with one of the menu items in response to the user using a drag gesture from the base icon to one menu item on the touch-sensitive display.
US11106352B2
While displaying the wake screen user interface, in response to detecting a first input that is directed to a portion of the wake screen user interface: if the first input includes first movement in a first direction, the computer system displays of a home screen user interface; and the first movement is in a second direction, the computer system displays a widget screen user interface that is different from the wake screen user interface and the home screen user interface, wherein the widget screen user interface includes a plurality of user interface objects corresponding to different applications, wherein a respective user interface object of the plurality of user interface objects contains application content from an application corresponding to the respective user interface object, and when selected, causes display of an application corresponding to the respective user interface object.
US11106346B2
A battery optimization method for sensors in communication with a first device is provided. The battery optimization method includes receiving, by a graphic user interface of the first device, an input on the graphic user interface. The input is an operation of a graphic element of the graphic user interface. The battery optimization method includes associating, by the first device, the input with a configuration parameter. The configuration parameter is assigned to each the sensors. The battery optimization method includes adjusting, by the first device, the configuration parameter to generate an adjusted parameter. The battery optimization method includes transmitting, by the first device, the adjusted parameter to the sensors.
US11106343B1
Disclosed are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media to perform an interactive image recolorization process. The method includes receiving user input including a stroke drawn on an image presented on a client device. The stroke comprises a user-specified color. The method further includes determining a region of interest in the image. The method further includes recolorizing the region of interest on the image based on the user-specified color and causing presentation of a result of the recolorization on the client device.
US11106342B1
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 electronic chat conversations between users via multiple modes of electronic communication. A conversation view is displayed on a touch screen display of a client device. The conversation view presents messages exchanged between a first user and at least one other user in an electronic chat conversation. A user input comprising a touch gesture corresponding to an interaction with the display of the conversation view is received. Based on the user input, a camera feed view is displayed on the touch screen display. The camera feed view comprises a display of image data and enables a user to create a message comprising one or more images. A message is generated, and an indication of the message is displayed in the conversation view.
US11106328B1
Systems, methods, and non-transitory media are provided for generating private control interfaces for extended reality (XR) experiences. An example method can include determining a pose of an XR device within a mapped scene of a physical environment associated with the XR device; detecting a private region in the physical environment and a location of the private region relative to the pose of the XR device, the private region including an area estimated to be within a field of view (FOV) of a user of the XR device and out of a FOV of a person in the physical environment, a recording device in the physical environment, and/or an object in the physical environment; based on the pose of the XR device and the location of the private region, mapping a virtual private control interface to the private region; and rendering the virtual private control interface within the private region.
US11106326B2
At an electronic device with a touch screen display, display a user interface, where the user interface includes at least two windows of an application, a first icon displayed in association with a first window of the at least two windows, and a second icon at a location different from the at least two windows. While displaying the at least two windows, detect a gesture on the touch screen display. In response to detecting the gesture: in accordance with detecting the gesture on the first icon associated with the first window on the touch screen display, remove from the display the first window of the at least two displayed windows corresponding to the gesture; and in accordance with detecting the gesture on the second icon at the location different from the at least two windows of the application, display a new window of the application on the touch screen display.
US11106321B2
A manufacturing method for a touch panel includes defining a removing area of a photo-sensitive conductive layer and a photo-sensitive layer by an exposure process. On a display area, the photo-sensitive layer and a metal nanowire layer in the removing area are removed by a developer solution so as to form a touch sensing electrode on the display area. On a peripheral area, the photo-sensitive conductive layer, the photo-sensitive layer, and the metal nanowire layer in the removing area are removed by the developer solution so as to form a peripheral trace on the peripheral area. The touch sensing electrode and the peripheral trace are electrically connected with each other.
US11106319B2
A layer electrode for touchscreens, in particular one which is suitable for the construction of capacitive touchscreens, wherein the detection accuracy of the touchscreen is virtually independent of an increase in the number of electrode arrays in the touchscreen. This is achieved in that, within the transparent field of view of the touchscreen, conductivity centres are formed through first electrode arrays which are connected directly to supply lines into the edge region and to a controller.
US11106317B1
A processing system is disclosed. The processing system includes an amplifier configured to generate a feedback signal, including a spatial common mode estimate generated from spatial-common-mode-processed signals. The processing system further includes charge integrators configured to obtain resulting signals from capacitive sensor electrodes, the resulting signals including a spatial common mode. The charge integrators generate the spatial-common-mode-processed signals by mitigating the spatial common mode in the resulting signals using the feedback signal. The processing system also includes a controller configured to obtain digital touch signals by analog-to-digital converting the spatial-common-mode-processed signals, obtain a digital spatial common mode estimate by analog-to-digital converting the spatial common mode estimate, and obtain at least one digital resulting signal by combining at least one of the digital touch signals with the digital spatial common mode estimate.
US11106316B2
A display panel includes pixel electrodes disposed in a display region, position detection electrodes constituting a common electrode, a source line, position detection lines disposed in a layer identical to a layer of the source line and each connected to one of the position detection electrodes, a first position detection lead-out line disposed in a layer identical to a layer of the source line in a non-display region and extending from one end of one of the position detection lines, and a second position detection lead-out line disposed in a layer different from a layer of the source line in the non-display region and extending from one end of another of the position detection lines, the second position detection lead-out line extending overlapping the first position detection lead-out line.
US11106313B1
A capacitive sensor system for touch detection includes a sensor surface, a first sensor electrode, a second sensor electrode, and an evaluation device. The sensor electrodes are both situated on and border the sensor surface. The first sensor electrode has a first closed conductor loop and the second sensor electrode has a second closed conductor loop. The first closed conductor loop surrounds the second closed conductor loop without the closed conductor loops touching each other. Each sensor electrode generates a sensor signal that depends on a position of a touch of an object on the sensor surface relative to the closed conductor loop of the sensor electrode. The evaluation device detects the touch based on a comparison of a ratio value to a threshold value, wherein the ratio value is a ratio of (i) a difference and (ii) a sum of the sensor signals.
US11106309B1
A smartwatch includes a multiresolution touch interface, a second electrode, and a third electrode. The transparent conductive screen includes a first electrode, a display layer, and an array of IR sensors. The display layer of the transparent conductive screen includes a plurality of display pixels, and is positioned beneath a bottom surface of the transparent conductive screen. The array of IR sensors of the transparent conductive screen is configured to detect infrared light transmitted through the transparent conductive screen. The second electrode is communicatively coupled to the first electrode. The first electrode and the second electrode together are configured to measure a bioimpedance of a user of the smartwatch. The third electrode is coupled to a bottom portion of the smartwatch, and is configured to contact an extremity of the user. The first electrode and the third electrode together are configured to measure ECG data associated with the user.
US11106306B2
The present invention relates to a method comprising providing one or more information carrier(s) with a dielectric and/or conductive pattern and a detection device having a capacitive touch screen and inducing an interaction between the information carrier and the touch screen, wherein the interaction is based on a difference in the dielectric coefficient and/or the conductivity of the pattern and generates a touch signal and wherein the interaction is induced by relative motion between the information carrier and the touch screen. The invention further relates to a system comprising an information carrier comprising a dielectric and/or conductive pattern which encodes information and a detection device having a touch screen; the detection device is able to decode the information upon interaction between the information carrier and the touch screen, wherein the interaction is caused by a difference in the dielectric coefficient and/or the conductivity of the pattern.
US11106305B2
A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes touch electrodes on an encapsulating element. Each of the touch electrodes can be connected to a first touch line extending in a direction, and a second touch line extending in a direction opposite to the first touch line. Each of the touch electrodes can be connected to one of touch pads by one of the first touch lines. The second touch line can include an end on the encapsulating element. Thus, in the display apparatus, the reliability for the touch of a user or tool can be improved.
US11106283B2
Motion detection computing devices may have difficulty determining precise motions of a user who suffers from unintended movement, such as tremors, associated with a physical or medical condition. Aspects described herein relate to motion compensation for detected motion input, e.g., 3D motion, from such users. As described herein, a system may detect the presence of rhythmic motion and/or other input characteristics within captured motion input from a user. The system may determine one or more filters to apply to the captured motion input based on the rhythmic motion, other input characteristics, and/or information in a user profile. The one or more filters may be applied to the captured motion input in order to suppress or minimize the effects of the rhythmic motion and/or other input characteristics thereby resulting in an enhanced user experience in an interactive system, such as a 3D, virtual and/or augmented reality environment.
US11106280B1
Calibration of eye tracking is improved by collecting additional calibration pairs when user is using apps with eye tracking. A user input component is presented on a display of an electronic device, detecting a dwelling action for user input component, and in response to detecting the dwelling action, obtaining a calibration pair comprising an uncalibrated gaze point and a screen location of the user input component, wherein the uncalibrated gaze point is determined based on an eye pose during the dwelling action. A screen gaze estimation is determine based on the uncalibrated gaze point, and in response to determining that the calibration pair is a valid calibration pair, training a calibration model using the calibration pair.
US11106278B2
The invention provides an operation method for multi-monitor applicable to an electronic system including a plurality of monitors. The operation method for multi-monitor includes capturing a current image including a user by using a camera, calculating a current gaze direction of the user according to the current image, and determining a target monitor according to the current gaze direction of the user. After the target monitor is determined, the operation method for multi-monitor further includes moving an object to a display area of the target monitor. In addition to the operation method for multi-monitor, an electronic system using the operation method is also provided.
US11106277B2
Provided is a method of providing statistical data related to cartoon data provided to a cartoon data display apparatus, the method including: obtaining, by a controller, first cartoon reading information by analyzing a cartoon reading pattern of a first user when the first user reads first cartoon data; generating, by the controller, first statistical data from the obtained first cartoon reading information; and providing, by a communication unit, the generated first statistical data to an external apparatus in communication with the controller.
US11106272B2
Power management may be performed in a basic input/output system (BIOS) of an information handling system to provide flexibility in system operation. The BIOS may include a user setting specifying a power level, and that power level used to control a central processing unit (CPU) or other hardware components. For example, the BIOS power level may specify a sustained power setting for the CPU. One example sustained power setting is the PL1 value, which is a fixed value that specifies a thermal design power (TDP) for the CPU. As another example, the power level may specify whether to enable and/or disable a discrete graphics processing unit (GPU) or other hardware component operating from the same battery as the CPU.
US11106270B2
In one example, a printer with parallel/serial operational sequencing includes an engine control unit and an image processor unit each coupled to a set of sub-systems. A network unit is coupled to the image processor unit to monitor network packets while the engine control unit, the set of sub-systems, and the image processor unit are in sleep states. When a first predetermined packet is received, the network unit signals with a first modulation signal that the image processor unit is to awaken first before the image processor unit determines whether to awaken the engine control unit and any of the set of sub-systems. When a second predetermined packet is received, the network unit signals with a second modulation signal that the image processor unit, the engine control unit, and a portion of the set of sub-systems are to awaken at the same time.
US11106256B2
Embodiments described herein may include apparatuses, systems and/or processes to provide cooling to a heat source. In embodiments, a first set of cooling fins are thermally coupled to a heat source in a first orientation to allow first airflow to pass through in between the first set of cooling fins to dissipate heat from the heat source. A second set of cooling fins thermally coupled to the heat source in a second orientation to allow second airflow to pass through in between the second set of cooling fins to dissipate heat from the heat source. A barrier may be coupled to the second set of cooling fins to substantially divert the second airflow away from the first airflow about to pass through in between the first set of cooling fins so that pre-heated air does not flow over the first set of cooling fins.
US11106254B2
In order to achieve the above object, according to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a conductive member including a wiring portion that is composed of a plurality of thin metal wires. The wiring portion has two or more insulated wiring layers and has a mesh-shaped wiring pattern in which line wirings each being composed of a plurality of thin metal wires arranged in parallel in one direction are overlapped in two or more directions, in front observation of the conductive member. The line wiring in at least one direction is a straight line wiring in which the plurality of thin metal wires are straight lines. The straight line wiring in at least one direction is a wiring in which the two or more thin metal wires are consecutively arranged on at least one wiring layer among the two or more wiring layers, and has a non-equal pitch wiring pattern in which repetitive pitches of a predetermined number of the thin metal wires are equal pitches and at least two pitches of the respective pitches of the predetermined number of the thin metal wires are different, in front observation of the conductive member. The conductive member has a wiring pattern that is able to reduce occurrence of moiré in both front observation and oblique observation regardless of the observation angle (viewing angle). A conductive film, a display device, and a touch panel each include the conductive member.
US11106244B2
A flexible touch screen and a flexible display device including the flexible touch screen are provided in the present disclosure. The flexible touch screen includes a first substrate and a first conductive layer located on the first substrate. The first substrate includes a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. When the flexible touch screen is bent in a first direction in a manner that the first surface becomes convex and the second surface becomes concave, the first conductive layer is located on one side of the first substrate where the first surface is located and is subject to compressive stress or zero stress. The flexible touch screen of the present disclosure can effectively improve an anti-bending ability and prolong the service life.
US11106243B2
An apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes a first display unit; a touch screen including a second display unit and a detection unit; and a start-up control unit that displays index information on the touch screen, and displays a screen configuration on the first display unit. Another apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes a first chassis; a second chassis coupled to the first chassis; a first display unit; and a touch screen including a second display unit, and a detection unit that detects a touch operation made on the second display unit. A control method for an apparatus that includes a first display unit and a touch screen including a second display unit and a detection unit is disclosed. The control method includes displaying index information on the second display unit; and displaying, a screen configuration corresponding to an operation area in which a touch operation is performed.
US11106241B2
The present invention provides a display device including: a backlight module, including a back bezel having a bottom surface, and a frame having a side wall portion, where the side wall portion has an inner side surface and an outer side surface, and the back bezel faces the inner side surface of the side wall portion; a display module, disposed on the backlight module and supported by the frame; a tape, attached to the outer side surface of the side wall portion of the frame and extending to the bottom surface of the back bezel; and a sealant, disposed and extending from an end edge of the display module to the bottom surface of the back bezel through an outer side of the outer side surface of the side wall portion of the frame, and at least partially covering the tape.
US11106239B2
A display device includes a display module including non-folding areas arranged with each other in a first direction and a folding area between the adjacent non-folding areas, a hinge under the display module and configured to fold the display module with respect to the folding area, a supporter between the non-folding areas and the hinge, and a guide portion connected to the supporter and configured to be inserted into a guide groove defined in the hinge. A length in the first direction of the guide groove is obtained utilizing a length of an arc of the folding area when the display module is folded.
US11106235B2
A configurable clock buffer including first and second buffers and isolation circuitry. The first buffer has an input coupled to a clock input node and has an output coupled to a clock output node. The second buffer has an input coupled to an intermediate input node and has an output coupled to an intermediate output node. The isolation circuitry is responsive to at least one mode signal, in which it electrically couples the intermediate input node to the clock input node and electrically couples the intermediate output node to the clock output node when the at least one mode signal is in a first state, and in which it electrically couples the intermediate input node to a static node and electrically isolates the intermediate output node from the clock output node when the at least one mode signal is in a second state.
US11106234B2
An input/output apparatus for a PLC includes at least first and second sub-systems. In each sub-system, a DC-DC converter controls a voltage of an external power supply to a target voltage by switching a PWM signal, and a microcomputer is driven by a clock signal. In the microcomputer, a PWM signal generating unit generates the PWM signal and a frequency analyzing unit samples an inputted voltage at a cycle shorter than a cycle of the PWM signal, and analyzes the frequency of the inputted voltage. The frequency analyzing unit acquires a frequency of the PWM signal from the frequency of the inputted voltage, calculates a frequency of the clock signal, and outputs an abnormality-notifying signal when the frequency of the clock signal falls outside a prescribed range. An output voltage of the DC-DC converter of the first sub-system is inputted to the frequency analyzing unit of the second sub-system.
US11106222B2
A control terminal includes a memory storing program instructions, a communication interface configured to communicate with an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), receive position information outputted by a positioning device of the UAV and sent by the UAV, and receive flight state information of a plurality of aircrafts detected by an aircraft detection device of the UAV and sent by the UAV, and a processor configured to execute the program instructions to detect an operation state of the positioning device based on the position information and the flight state information.
US11106212B2
According to some embodiments, an ADV includes a method to plan a path trajectory. The method initializes a path length to a initial path length and performs a path planning operation using the initial path length. The method determines if the path planning operation successfully generates the path trajectory. If the path trajectory fails to be successfully generated, the method determines a reason for the failure. If the path trajectory fails to be generated for reasons other than an obstacle blocking the vehicle, the method defaults the path trajectory to a backup path. If the path trajectory fails to be generated due to an obstacle blocking the vehicle, the method reduces the path length by an incremental amount to generate a reduced path length. The method performs the path planning operation using the reduced path length until a path trajectory is successfully generated or until a stop condition is reached.
US11106209B2
The disclosure includes embodiments for generating improved anomaly maps. In some embodiments, a method for a connected vehicle includes detecting an occurrence of an anomaly in a roadway environment based on sensor data describing the roadway environment. The method includes creating, by the connected vehicle, an anomaly map that describes the anomaly. The method includes modifying an operation of a communication unit of the connected vehicle to receive one or more other anomaly maps describing the anomaly from one or more cooperation endpoints in the roadway environment. The method includes generating an updated anomaly map based on the anomaly map created by the connected vehicle and the one or more other anomaly maps created by the one or more cooperation endpoints so that an accuracy of the updated anomaly map is improved.
US11106207B2
An apparatus for controlling autonomous driving of a vehicle includes a communication device configured to receive a first determination value, which is calculated based on information obtained as surroundings are sensed, from a surrounding vehicle or configured to receive a second determination value from a server. The apparatus includes a sensor configured to sense surroundings of a subject vehicle. The apparatus includes a controller configured to: calculate a third determination value based on information sensed by the sensor; to calculate a final determination value based on at least one of the first determination value and the second determination value, and the third determination value; and to control the autonomous driving by using the final determination value.
US11106206B2
A vehicle control device includes a recognizer (130) that recognizes a situation near an own-vehicle, and a driving controller (140, 160) that controls one or both of steering or acceleration/deceleration of the own-vehicle on the basis of a recognition result of the recognizer, wherein the driving controller does not perform determination of an operation mode of control of the acceleration/deceleration when the recognizer has recognized that an occupant is riding in the own-vehicle, and determines the operation mode of control of the acceleration/deceleration on the basis of a state of another vehicle present near the own-vehicle recognized by the recognizer when the recognizer has recognized that no occupant is riding in the own-vehicle.
US11106203B2
A method for generating a first person view (FPV) of an environment includes, with aid of one or more processors individually or collectively, analyzing stereoscopic video data of the environment to determine environmental information and generating augmented stereoscopic video data of the environment by fusing the stereoscopic video data and the environmental information.
US11106197B2
A prediction model creation apparatus includes a feature amount acquisition unit that acquires values of types of feature amounts that are calculated from operating state data indicating an operating state of a production facility that produces a product, for both a normal time at which the production facility produces the product normally and a defective time at which a defect occurs in the product that is produced, a feature amount selection unit that selects a feature amount effective in predicting the defect from among the acquired types of feature amounts, based on a predetermined algorithm that specifies a degree of association between the defect and the types of feature amounts, from the values of the types of feature amounts acquired at the normal time and the defective time, and a prediction model construction unit that constructs a prediction model for predicting occurrence of the defect, using the selected feature amount.
US11106193B1
A neural network-based error compensation method for 3D printing includes: compensating an input model by a deformation network/inverse deformation network constructed and trained according to a 3D printing deformation function/inverse deformation function, and performing the 3D printing based on the compensated model. Training samples of the deformation network/inverse deformation network include to-be-printed model samples and printed model samples. The deformation network constructed according to the 3D printing deformation function is marked as a first network. During training of the first network, the to-be-printed model samples are used as real input models, and the printed model samples are used as real output models. The inverse deformation network constructed according to the 3D printing inverse deformation function is marked as a second network. During training of the second network, the printed model samples are used as real input models, and the to-be-printed model samples are used as real output models.
US11106186B2
Aspects of the present disclosure include anonymous, asynchronous, and randomized control schemes for distributed energy resources (DERs). Such control schemes may include packetized energy management (PEM) control schemes for managing DERs that may provide near-optimal tracking performance under imperfect information and consumer quality of service (QoS) constraints.
US11106183B1
Various examples are provided related to adaptive architectures for controlling uncertain system with unmodeled dynamics. A closed-loop dynamical system subject to an adaptive controller can remain stable if there does not exist significant unmodeled dynamics or the effect of system uncertainties is negligible. In one example, a system includes a controller that can receive one or more input signals including control signals, sensor data associated with operation of the aircraft or aviation system, or a combination thereof; generate an system control signal utilizing a model reference adaptive control architecture comprising an adaptive robustifying term that maintains system stability within defined bounds; and provide the system control signal to an actuator or other system components to adjust operation of, e.g., an aircraft or aviation system.
US11106175B1
An image forming apparatus includes a photoconductor unit, a developing device, a space maintaining device, a pressing device, a securing device, and at least one connecting device. The photoconductor unit includes a photoconductor and a first part. The developing device includes a developing roller and a second part. The space maintaining device has a third part, is provided in the photoconductor unit or the developing device, and is brought into contact with the first part or the second part at the third part so as to maintain a space between the developing roller and the photoconductor. The pressing device presses the developing device toward the photoconductor unit. The securing device is removable. The at least one connecting device secures the photoconductor unit and the developing device by using the securing device so as to connect the photoconductor unit and the developing device to each other.
US11106157B1
A developer supply device includes: a toner storage part that can be attached to/removed from a body of the developer supply device and stores toner therein; a toner supply part that receives the toner from the toner storage part and supplies the toner to a developing device that develops an electrostatic latent image formed on an image carrier with developer containing the toner and carrier; a carrier storage part that can be attached to/removed from the body and stores the carrier therein; and a carrier supply part that receives the carrier from the carrier storage part and supplies the carrier to the developing device, the carrier supply part having a smaller capacity than the toner supply part.
US11106154B2
An imaging system includes a developing roller connected to a supply channel to supply a developing agent and to transfer toner in the developing agent to a photosensitive drum at a supply position, a regulation member located adjacent to the developing roller at an upstream side of the supply position to restrict a thickness of the developing agent; and a casing that forms a release chamber in the periphery of the developing roller between an upstream side of the regulation member and a downstream side of the supply position. The release chamber includes an outlet to discharge scattered toner to an inlet of the supply channel.
US11106149B2
Provided is an image forming method using an electrophotographic photoreceptor provided with a photosensitive layer and a protective layer in this order on a conductive support, and a toner, and the image forming method containing a charging step, an exposure step, a development step, a transfer step, a fixing step, and a cleaning step, wherein the protective layer contains at least a cured resin obtained by curing a polymerizable compound; the toner contains 50% by number or more of toner particles having a shape factor calculated by the equation (1) in the range of 1.2 to 1.6, and a variation coefficient of the shape factor is 16% or less; and the toner contains alumina particles having a number average particle diameter in the range of 5 to 60 nm and silica particles having a number average particle diameter in the range of 80 to 200 nm.
US11106147B2
There is provided an electrophotographic photoconductor in which at least an undercoat layer and a photosensitive layer are laminated in an order mentioned on a conductive support, wherein at least one of the undercoat layer and the photosensitive layer contains a compound represented by a formula A below: wherein Y in the above formula A is a group represented by: wherein R1 and R2 are each independently an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, m is an integer of 1 to 4, and X is each independently a group selected from a group 1 below: wherein R3 to R8 in the above group 1 are each independently an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms.
US11106141B2
A method for optimizing a sequence of processes for manufacturing of product units, includes: associating measurement results of performance parameters (e.g., fingerprints) with the recorded process characteristics (e.g., context); obtaining a characteristic (e.g., context) of a previous process (e.g. deposition) in the sequence already performed on a product unit; obtaining a characteristic (e.g., context) of a subsequent process (e.g., exposure) in the sequence to be performed on the product unit; determining a predicted performance parameter (e.g., fingerprint) of the product unit associated with the sequence of previous and subsequent processes by using the obtained characteristics to retrieve measurement results of the performance parameters (e.g., fingerprints) corresponding to the recorded characteristics; and determining corrections to be applied to future processes (e.g. exposure, etch) in the sequence to be performed on the product unit, based on the determined predicted performance parameter.
US11106137B2
New photoresist compositions are provided that are useful for immersion lithography. Preferred photoresist compositions of the invention comprise one or more materials that comprise one or more base reactive groups and (i) one or more polar groups distinct from the base reactive groups, and/or (ii) at least one of the base reactive groups is a non-perfluorinated base reactive group. Particularly preferred photoresists of the invention can exhibit reduced leaching of resist materials into an immersion fluid contacting the resist layer during immersion lithography processing.
US11106136B2
The invention relates to a laser-ablatable mask film for the exposing of relief printing plates and screen printing stencils, comprising at least (i) a dimensionally stable base sheet, (ii) a UV-transparent adhesion layer, and (iii) a laser-ablatable mask layer, characterized in that the laser-ablatable mask layer (iii) comprises a) a binder comprising a crosslinked polyvinyl alcohol, b) a material which absorbs UV/VIS light and IR light, and c) optionally an inorganic filler.
US11106132B2
An energy-sensitive composition including at least one of a silane compound monomer capable of forming a polysilane compound, a silane compound oligomer and the polysilane compound, and a base generator (B) represented by the following formula (1): in which R1 to R11 each independently represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a nitro group, an alkyl group, an aryl group, an arylalkyl group or an alkoxy group, R5 and R6 may be connected to each other via a single bond or a divalent linking group, Zq+ represents a q-valent counter cation composed of a base having a pKa of 24 or more, and q represents an integer of 1 or more.
US11106130B2
A direct patterning method of touch panel is provided. A substrate having a display region and a peripheral region is provided. A periphery circuit having a bonding pad is disposed on the periphery region. A metal nanowire layer made of metal nanowires are disposed on the display region and the peripheral region. A photosensitive pre-cured layer is disposed on the metal nanowire layer. A photolithography process is performed, which includes exposing the pre-cured layer to define a removal area and a reserved area, and removing the pre-cured layer and the metal nanowire layer on the removal area using a developer solution to form a touch-sensing electrode disposed on the display region and to expose the bonding pad disposed on the periphery region. The touch sensing electrode made of the pre-cured layer and the metal nanowire layer is electrically connected to the periphery circuit.
US11106129B2
An imprint apparatus performs an imprint process for forming a pattern of a cured product of an imprint material on a substrate by using a mold. The apparatus includes a substrate holder configured to hold the substrate, a substrate deformation mechanism configured to deform the substrate so the substrate will have a convex shape toward the mold in a state in which the substrate is held by the substrate holder, and a controller configured to control the deformation of the substrate by the substrate deformation mechanism in accordance with orientation information related to a crystal orientation of the substrate and a target shot region on which the imprint process is to be performed among a plurality of shot regions on the substrate.
US11106125B2
A transparent screen, wherein a direction normal to a reference surface is defined as a first direction, a direction which is perpendicular to the first direction and in which each reflective inclined surface extends as seen from the first direction is defined as a second direction, and a direction which is perpendicular to the first direction and the second direction and in which the reflective inclined surfaces are arranged side by side is defined as a third direction, and in at least a part of an image projection area, to which the image is projected, in a section perpendicular to the second direction, the reflective inclined surfaces are formed so that inclination angles of the reflective inclined surfaces, measured on a per-respective reflective inclined surface basis, decrease, in a stepwise manner or continuously, away from one end in the third direction toward another end in the third direction.
US11106121B2
A laser light source (300), a wavelength conversion light source, a light combining light source, and a projection system. The laser light source comprises a laser element array, a focusing optical element (33), a collimation optical element (34), an integrator rod (36) for receiving and homogenizing a secondary laser beam array (382), an angular distribution control element (35) disposed on the light path between the laser element array and the integrator rod (36) for enlarging the divergence angle of the laser beam array (382) in the direction of the short axis of the light distribution, such that the rate between the divergence angle of each of the secondary laser beam that enters the integrator rod (36) in the direction of the short axis of the light distribution and the divergence angle in the direction of the long axis is greater than or equal to 0.7.
US11106116B2
A universal tripod clamp system is provided having a base member having a top side and a bottom side. The top side includes a plate receiving area configured to accept a mounting plate in conjunction with camera equipment. The bottom side includes an adapter receiving port having a first shape. A clamp is provided, wherein the clamp is configured to alter the plate receiving area. A universal adapter is provided, wherein the universal adapter is removably positioned in the adapter receiving port. The adapter is configured to receive a portion of a tripod head, such as a ball head. The adapter includes an opening having a second shape (pattern) configured to conform to the portion of the tripod head having the same shape (pattern).
US11106111B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for generating Kerr frequency combs. The system includes a continuous-wave pump laser to provide a master comb pump. The system includes a microresonator that generates a master Kerr frequency comb using the master comb pump. The system includes a splitter that splits the master Kerr frequency comb into multiple CW comb lines including a first comb line used to transmit a data signal and a second comb line used as a slave comb pump. The system includes a combiner that is configured to combine the first comb line and the second comb line to produce a combination of a data channel and CW comb line. The system includes a second demultiplexer that extracts the second comb line that is used as the slave comb pump. The system includes another microresonator that uses the second comb line and generates a slave Kerr frequency comb.
US11106109B2
A photoluminescence display panel for three-axis focal point length conversion includes: a lens layer having a two-dimensional Fresnel pattern formed thereon to adjust a path of light entering from a light source; a light conversion layer stacked on the lens layer to convert a color of light that has pass through the lens layer; and a power supply unit for directly applying a voltage to the lens layer, in which as the lens layer is partitioned into a plurality of areas and the power supply unit adjusts the voltage applied to each area of the lens layer partitioned into a plurality of areas, a focal point position can be changed in a three-dimensional space, and thus the aperture and resolution of the display panel can be enhanced.
US11106108B2
A semiconductor MZM of the present invention includes the first and second signal electrodes formed to be parallel to the first and second arm waveguides, respectively; the first and second phase modulation electrodes that are branched from the first and second signal electrodes and that are provided on the first and second arm waveguides in a discrete manner along the first and second signal electrodes; the first and second ground electrodes formed parallelly along the first and second signal electrodes; and a plurality of connection wirings to connect the first and second ground electrodes between a plurality of points. A differential signal is inputted to or outputted from the first and second signal electrodes. The plurality of connection wirings adjacent to each other are arranged with an interval ¼ times smaller than wavelength of a signal propagated through the first and second signal electrodes.
US11106106B2
An electrochromic device reversibly and controllably colored and decolored by electricity is provided. The electrochromic device is configured to control at least one of the following functions f1 and f2 based on at least one of an operating environment temperature of the electrochromic device, a continuous elapsed time of a colored state or a decolored state, and an illuminance around the electrochromic device: a function f1 of transiting to a colored state and/or limiting transition to a decolored state; and a function f2 of transiting to a decolored state and/or limiting transition to a colored state.
US11106104B2
A distributed energy management system (EMS) for supplying power to a set of drivers that charge and discharge a set of electrochromic devices is described. One distributed EMS includes an external power supply interface to couple to an external power supply, a multi-device boost power supply comprising a set of batteries, and a driver interface to supply power to a set of drivers that charge and discharge a set of electrochromic devices. The distributed EMS also includes a communication subsystem to communicate with the set of drivers and EMS circuitry to supply power to the set of drivers, via the driver interface, based on a power state of the multi-device boost power supply and a state of the set of electrochromic devices.
US11106103B2
A control system for a switchable privacy display apparatus comprises sensors arranged to determine device location, operating environment, document type, application type and further comprises a privacy policy for control of privacy images. High image visibility is provided for public mode operation while in privacy mode a high visual security level may be obtained by means of control of image luminance, contrast and white point in response to the privacy policy.
US11106101B2
An object is to provide a semiconductor device having a structure in which parasitic capacitance between wirings can be efficiently reduced. In a bottom gate thin film transistor using an oxide semiconductor layer, an oxide insulating layer used as a channel protection layer is formed above and in contact with part of the oxide semiconductor layer overlapping with a gate electrode layer, and at the same time an oxide insulating layer covering a peripheral portion (including a side surface) of the stacked oxide semiconductor layer is formed. Further, a source electrode layer and a drain electrode layer are formed in a manner such that they do not overlap with the channel protection layer. Thus, a structure in which an insulating layer over the source electrode layer and the drain electrode layer is in contact with the oxide semiconductor layer is provided.
US11106097B2
According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display apparatus includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate includes a gate wiring, a source wiring, an insulating film, a shield electrode, a primary pixel electrode, a peripheral wiring and a peripheral connecting electrode. The shield electrode is opposite to at least a portion of the gate wiring and the source wiring. The peripheral connecting electrode electrically connects the shield electrode and the peripheral wiring. The second substrate includes a pair of primary common electrodes.
US11106090B2
To provide a vertical alignment liquid crystal display device capable of achieving a high-definition image display. Tilt directions of liquid crystal molecules when a voltage is applied are within a plane that is in parallel to a border between a first pixel and a second pixel, and are different by 180 degrees between the first and second pixels. The first pixel is constituted with three sub-pixels for R, G, and B arranged in a direction in parallel to the border. Similarly, the second pixel is constituted with three sub-pixels for R, G, and B. The tilt directions of the liquid crystal molecules when a voltage is applied are different by 180 degrees from each other between the sub-pixels for R of the first and second pixels, between the sub-pixels for G of the first and second pixels, and between the sub-pixels for B of the first and second pixels.
US11106076B2
A protective panel for a display device includes a substrate and a light-blocking layer provided over the substrate. A display window is defined on a region of the substrate where the light-blocking layer is not provided. The light-blocking layer includes a first layer which comprises a first material having a first color. The protective panel further includes a hole formed through the light-blocking layer. The hole having an inner sidewall, which is clad with a cladding material having a color different from the first color.
US11106075B2
The present invention provides a display module and an electronic device, and the display module includes a backlight module, with a light source disposing on one side of a light guide plate; a liquid crystal display panel; a housing, wherein an interior of the housing accommodates the backlight module and the liquid crystal display panel, a light-absorbing layer is disposed at least on an inner surface of a first side of the housing, and a position of the light-absorbing layer corresponds at least to a position of the light guide plate, and wherein the first side is a side facing the light source and distant from the light source.
US11106074B2
The present disclosure provides a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a base substrate and light-shielding strips. The base substrate includes light-shielding regions and light-transmitting regions. The display panel further includes a backlight module including a light guide plate and light extraction gratings. The display panel further includes a first electrode layer, a second electrode layer, and a liquid crystal layer. The first and second electrode layers are configured to, in response to a control signal, control the liquid crystal layer to forms a plurality of liquid crystal grating periods. The liquid crystal within each of the plurality of liquid crystal grating periods includes a plurality of segments with different refractive indices, and the refractive indices of the plurality of segments progressively increase in a direction perpendicular to an extending direction of the first electrodes in the first electrode layer.
US11106070B2
The invention provides an array substrate, a manufacturing method thereof and a display panel. The array substrate includes a substrate, a buffer layer, an active layer, a first insulating layer, a gate electrode, a second insulating layer, a touch signal line, a source and drain electrode, a touch signal line, a source and drain electrode, a first electrode, a planarization layer, and a second electrode. The first electrode and the second electrode are respectively connected to one of the drain electrode and the touch signal line. Thus, photomask processes can be reduced, and production cycle can be shortened.
US11106068B2
A method of manufacturing a display device includes fixing a display panel to a stage, attaching a printed circuit board to a first side surface of the fixed display panel, and irradiating the first side surface of the display panel with light from a first lighting and irradiating a second side surface of the display panel opposite the first side surface of the display panel with light from a second lighting to check alignment of the printed circuit board.
US11106064B2
A method of achieving higher polar anchoring strength of liquid crystal (LC) using monolayer graphene flakes in an LC device and attaining faster electro-optic switching in an LC device comprising the steps of providing graphene in an ethanol solvent, adding a liquid crystal to the graphene and ethanol solution, forming a liquid crystal graphene ethanol solution, evaporating the ethanol, and forming a pure liquid crystal graphene mixture. A liquid crystal device with faster electro-optic switching and higher polar anchoring strength comprising an LC cell having a polyimide (PI) alignment layer, the liquid crystal graphene mixture, wherein the graphene flakes preferentially attach to the PI alignment layer; wherein the effective polar anchoring energy in the LC cell is enhanced by an order of magnitude and wherein the electro-optic response of the LC is accelerated.
US11106063B1
An electrically-tunable optical filter has an optical cavity that forms an absorption peak in light that is incident on the filter. The optical cavity includes a layer composed of a material with a high electro-optic coefficient so that the index of refraction of the layer changes in response to a voltage applied by a controller. By adjusting the voltage, the controller can control the index of refraction so that an absorption peak of the filter can be tuned as may be desired without having to alter the physical structure of the filter.
US11106059B2
A system and method providing correlated color temperature-tunable (CCT-tunable) white light using a laser diode(s) in conjunction with a III-Nitride nanowires-based LED element grown on a semi-transparent substrate. The tunability spans across yellow, amber, and red wavelengths and can be implemented by current injection. The current-dependent broad wavelength tunability enables control of wide range of CCT values (intensity, peak wavelength, and spectral coverage). The broad coverage in the yellow-amber-red color regime mimics that of a passive yellow phosphor, while the injection of current into the LED element defines an active phosphor element. The semi-transparent active phosphor element allows direct transmission of light from a laser diode(s) for achieving extreme wide tunability of CCT.
US11106057B2
Optical polymeric sheets with specific ranges of optical retardation, elastic modulus, and Shore A hardness were used to construct flexible polar patches. The polar patches conform to non-polarizing lenses of various diopter bases and provide polarizing efficiency that is comparable to regular polarizing lenses.
US11106055B2
To ease and improve the production of objects, a method is described for producing an object (60) comprising a structural core (10) and an outer coating of polymeric material (52), comprising the steps of (i) coating with polymeric material (50) a lamina (10), wherein the lamina comprises a surface exhibiting macroscopic discontinuities (32) configured so that the polymeric material grips to them in order to form a multilayered piece; (ii) removing parts from the multilayer piece to obtain a contour corresponding to the object, the contour comprising an edge (B) along which a margin of the lamina remains uncovered by the polymeric material.
US11106049B2
A display apparatus is disclosed for enabling a user to experience a 3D perception when visual information is presented by the display apparatus. The display apparatus has an image forming unit having a two-dimensional array of image subpixels arranged to emit light for presenting associated visual information, and an optical system having an array of diffractive optical elements associated with respective ones of the array of image subpixels. Each diffractive optical element is arranged to diffract light from the associated image subpixel into a diffraction pattern with a plurality of diffraction orders to provide the visual information from the associated image subpixel to a plurality of directional viewing regions associated with the plurality of diffraction orders.
US11106044B2
An alignment system for a HUD is provided and includes a mirror, a mirror actuator, first and second light sources, an optic assembly, and a control module. The mirror actuator adjusts mirror orientation. The first light source generates a first light beam. The mirror directs the first light beam from the HUD to a combiner to generate a virtual image. The second light source generates a second light beam. The optic assembly directs the second light beam to the combiner to generate a fiducial. The control module: performs an alignment process including, based on received inputs, controlling the mirror actuator to adjust mirror orientation to adjust a position of the virtual image and align a portion of the virtual image, the fiducial and an eye of a viewer; determines a height of the eye based on a mirror angle; and displays another virtual image based on the height.
US11106038B2
The invention relates to a minimalistic pair of AR glasses having very high resolution, any field of view, total transparency, continuously variable object focal length, minimal eye lights and a projector unit behind the ear without any socially harmful indications of technology around the user's face. An integral image grid is constructed in a rimless pair of glasses, wherein, using multimode glass fiber projectors and MEMS switch rods the individual images are delivered directly before the eye by means of gradient-index camouflaged-optical-unit tubes, preferably by means of a combination of multimode glass fiber projectors for indiscernibly supplying high-resolution holographic projections, an integral imaging concept for resolution of any level and any field of view, fast SLM DMD chips for huge image-generation throughput, a gradient-index camouflaged optical unit for perfectly concealed hardware in rimless glasses lenses, and an eye-tracking-controlled adaptive resolution controller for producing huge virtual resolutions.
US11106036B2
The image display apparatus includes a light attenuation section that reflects a portion of light emitted from a light source and a scanning section that scans the light reflected by the light attenuation section. The light attenuation section transmits a portion of light emitted from the light source. The light attenuation section has reflectance and transmittance and the reflectance is smaller than the transmittance. The image display apparatus further includes a light receiving element on which the light transmitted through the light attenuation section is incident. The image display apparatus also includes a control section that controls activation of the light source in accordance with detection results of the light receiving element.
US11106034B2
A head-mounted display includes an optical assembly and an actuator. The actuator includes a movement mechanism configured to adjust a position of an optical component within the optical assembly, a locking-release mechanism configured to modify operation of the movement mechanism upon detection of a dynamic event, and a dampening mechanism configured to control positional changes of the optical component during the dynamic event.
US11106031B2
A light deflector is provided including a mirror unit including a reflection plane, the mirror unit configured to rotate around a predetermined rotational axis, a pair of supporting beams configured to support the mirror unit in a rotatable manner, and drivers configured to drive the mirror unit to rotate, through the supporting beams. Each of the drivers has one end coupled to the supporting beams and another end coupled to a supporting unit formed to surround the mirror unit, and the supporting unit at least partially includes a thick portion and a thin portion different from each other in thickness.
US11106025B2
A multi-color LED illumination device and specifically a lens comprising a cylindrical opening extending into the lens from a light entry region at which one or more LEDs are configured. A concave spherical surface extends across the entirety of the light exit region of the lens, and a TIR outer surface shaped as a CPC extends between the light entry region and the light exit region. There are various diffusion surfaces placed on the sidewall surface of the cylindrical opening, as well as its upper planar surface and the exit surface of the lens. Lunes can also be configured on the sidewall surfaces of the cylindrical opening. The combination of lunes, diffusion elements, and the overall configuration of the lens provides improved color mixing and output brightness using three interactions in a first portion of light and two interactions in a second portion of light. Those interactions includes two refractions either with an intermediate reflection or not, all of which are necessary to achieve the improved performance of the multi-color LED illumination device and lens hereof.
US11106019B2
A plastic barrel includes an inner portion and an outer portion. The inner portion defines an interior space. The inner portion includes, in order from an object side to an image side, an object-side opening, a plurality of inner annular surfaces and an image-side opening. The interior space is configured for accommodating an imaging lens assembly, and the imaging lens assembly includes a plurality of plastic lens elements. The outer portion surrounds the inner portion. The outer portion includes a mounting structure. The mounting structure is disposed on a surface of the outer portion. The mounting structure is injection molded for mounting a planar conductive element and a wiring element. The mounting structure includes at least three gate traces, and the three gate traces are located on a surface of the mounting structure.
US11106018B2
Folded cameras comprising a lens having a lens optical axis, an image sensor and a prism for folding light from a first optical path to a second optical path along the lens optical axis towards the image sensor, wherein the camera has a full camera cone of vision, wherein the prism intersects the full camera cone of vision, and wherein a camera has a construction that prevents double reflected stray light from reaching the image sensor.
US11106012B2
An optical lens assembly includes, in order from an object side to an image side, six lens elements. The first lens element with negative refractive power has an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof and at least one convex critical point in an off-axis region of the object-side surface thereof, and both the object-side surface and an image-side surface thereof are aspheric. The second lens element has negative refractive power. The third lens element has positive refractive power. The fourth lens element has negative refractive power. The fifth lens element has positive refractive power. The sixth lens element with negative refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof and at least one convex critical point in an off-axis region of the image-side surface thereof. Both an object-side surface and the image-side surface of the sixth lens element are aspheric.
US11106007B2
The present disclosure relates to the technical field of optical lens and discloses a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens includes, from an object side to an image side: a first lens having a positive refractive power, a second lens having a positive refractive power, a third lens having a negative refractive power, a fourth lens, a fifth lens and a sixth lens. The camera optical lens satisfies the following conditions: 5.00≤f1/f≤10.00 and 20.00≤R3/d3≤−5.00, where f denotes a focal length of the camera optical lens; f1 denotes a focal length of the first lens; R3 denotes a curvature radius of an object-side surface of the second lens; d3 denotes an on-axis thickness of the second lens. The camera optical lens can achieve a high imaging performance while obtaining a low TTL.
US11106004B2
A connecting device for connecting to a focusing lens or an aiming lens includes a frame detachably connected to an external device and including an installing member for fixing with a lens, and a fastening member for connecting the frame with the external device. The fastening member includes at least one group of wedge-shaped pair members engaged with each other and an adjusting device for driving two components with the at least one group of wedge-shaped pair members to slide relatively to the external device so that the frame can be tightly fixed with the external device. The frame can be tightly and reliably fixed with a guiding slider via the wedge-shaped pair member when they are locked to each other, and the adjusting device is provided for conveniently adjusting or locking the frame and the guiding slider so that the installation or disassembly of the frame can be conveniently obtained.
US11106002B2
The present disclosure provides a lens driving device which is small and has good focus adjustment and hand shake correction. The lens driving device includes: a case; a lens module; a support frame; a spring leaf; a support part connecting the support frame with the fixing base in such a manner that the support frame is freely movable relative to the fixing base in a direction orthogonal to an optical axis of a lens; a magnet steel; a first driving coil; and a second driving coil. Under an electromagnetic interaction between the second driving coil and a second portion of the magnet steel opposite to the second driving coil, the support frame moves relative to the fixing base in the direction orthogonal to the optical axis of the lens.
US11105990B2
The present invention is to provide an optical transceiver module comprising a housing, a substrate, an optical receiving device and a plurality of optical transmitting devices. The substrate is disposed in the housing. The optical receiving device is disposed on the substrate. The plurality of optical transmitting devices are connected to the substrate, and there is a tilt angle between the optical transmitting devices and the substrate.
US11105988B2
A Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) photonic integration circuit (PIC) that implements a DWDM system, such as a transceiver, is described. The DWDM PIC architecture includes photonic devices fully integrating on a single manufacturing platform. The DWDM PIC has a multi-wavelength optical laser, a quantum dot (QD) laser with integrated heterogeneous metal oxide semiconductor (H-MOS) capacitor, integrated on-chip. The multi-wavelength optical laser can be a symmetric comb laser that generates two equal outputs of multi-wavelength light. Alternatively, the DWDM PIC can be designed to interface with a stand-alone multi-wavelength optical laser that is off-chip. In some implementations, the DWDM PIC integrates multiple optimally designed photonic devices, such as a silicon geranium (SiGe) avalanche photodetector (APD), an athermal H-MOS wavelength splitter, a QD photodetector, and a heterogenous grating coupler. Accordingly, fabricating the DWDM PIC includes a unique III-V to silicon bonding process, which is adapted for its use of SiGe APDs.
US11105981B2
Detachable optical connectors for optical chips and methods of their fabrication are disclosed. In one embodiment, an optical connector includes a ferrule that supports ferrule waveguides. The optical connector further includes a waveguide support coupled to the ferrule and that supports transition waveguides that are optically coupled to the ferrule waveguides. Ends of the ferrule waveguides are exposed at one end of the ferrule to define a first pitch while ends of the second waveguides are exposed at a chip coupling surface of the waveguide support. The transition waveguides provide at least one type of transition for the guided light traveling within the ferrule waveguides to enable either edge coupling, surface coupling or evanescent coupling to chip waveguides of an optical chip. The transition can include a change in mode-field diameter, direction of the guided light, and/or pitch.
US11105979B2
Based on graphene heterostructure in chip-scale silicon nitride microresonators, optoelectronic control and modulation in frequency combs via group velocity dispersion modulation can be demonstrated. By tuning graphene Fermi level from 0.50 eV to 0.65 eV via electric-field gating, deterministic in-cavity group velocity dispersion control from anomalous (−62 fs2/mm) to normal (+9 fs2/mm) can be achieved with Q factor remaining high at 106. Consequently, both the primary comb lines and the full comb spectra can be controllable dynamically with the on/off switching of the Cherenkov radiation, the tuning of the primary comb lines from 2.3 THz to 7.2 THz, and the comb span control from zero comb lines to ˜781 phase-locked comb lines, directly via the DC voltage.
US11105974B2
A waveguide-coupled Silicon Germanium (SiGe) photodetector. A p-n silicon junction is formed in a silicon substrate by an n-doped silicon region and a p-doped silicon region, a polysilicon rib is formed on the silicon substrate to provide a waveguide core for an optical mode of radiation, and an SiGe pocket is formed in the silicon substrate along a length of the polysilicon rib and contiguous with the p-n silicon junction. An optical mode of radiation, when present, substantially overlaps with the SiGe pocket so as to generate photocarriers in the SiGe pocket. An electric field arising from the p-n silicon junction significantly facilitates a flow of the generated photocarriers through the SiGe pocket. In one example, such photodetectors have been fabricated using a standard CMOS semiconductor process technology without requiring changes to the process flow (i.e., “zero-change CMOS”).
US11105967B2
An illumination system includes a light source, and an optical fiber having opposed first and second end faces, a core, a cladding surrounding the core, an outer surface, and a plurality of nano-sized structures configured to scatter light traveling within the optic fibers towards the outer surface. The light source has an effective numerical aperture NAO, the optical fiber has a numerical aperture NALDF which is more than the effective numerical aperture NAO of the light source. The light source is optically coupled to the first end of the optical fiber such that a propagation pathway of light outputted by the light source forms an incident angle θi, with respect to the first end face, that is non-orthogonal to the first end face and within approximately 5° of sin−1 NALDF−sin−1 NAO.
US11105965B2
Provided is a radiation-sensitive composition with which a pattern having excellent infrared shielding properties and excellent rectangularity can be formed. In addition, provided are an optical filter, a laminate, a pattern forming method, a solid image pickup element, an image display device, and an infrared sensor. This radiation-sensitive composition includes: a near infrared absorber; a resin; a radically polymerizable compound; and a photoradical polymerization initiator, in which the radiation-sensitive composition has an absorption maximum in a wavelength range of 700 to 1000 nm, a ratio absorbance Amax/absorbance A550 of an absorbance Amax at the absorption maximum to an absorbance A550 at a wavelength of 550 nm is 50 to 500, the resin includes a resin having an acid group, and a mass ratio radically polymerizable compound/resin having an acid group of the radically polymerizable compound to the resin having an acid group is 0.3 to 0.7.
US11105960B2
A related-art optical element using an antireflection film having a layer having an uneven structure or a porous layer has involved a problem in that the performance of the antireflection film is degraded by SO2 in an exhaust gas. In view of the problem, provided are an optical element in which a positive ion spectrum of a surface of an antireflection film measured by TOF-SIMS has a peak of CmHnN+, where m represents an integer of 1 or more to 8 or less, and n represents an integer of 2 or more to 16 or less, and a method of producing the element.
US11105956B2
In one embodiment, a method includes facilitating a real-time display of drilling-performance data for a current well. The method further includes receiving new channel data for the current well from a wellsite computer system. The method also retrieving input data including historical drilling-performance data for an offset well relative to the current well. In addition, the method includes computing calculated data for the current well based on the channel data and the input data. Moreover, the method includes updating the real-time display with the calculated data.
US11105940B2
A spectroscopic gamma and neutron detecting device includes a scintillation detector that detects gamma and thermal neutron radiation, the scintillation detector including signal detection and amplification electronics, and a stabilization module configured to measure a pulse height spectrum of neutron radiation, determine a thermal neutron peak position in the neutron pulse height spectrum originating from cosmic ray background radiation, monitor the thermal neutron peak position in the neutron pulse height spectrum during operation of the spectroscopic gamma and neutron detecting device, and adjust the signal detection and amplification electronics based on the thermal neutron peak position in the neutron pulse height spectrum, thereby stabilizing the spectroscopic gamma and neutron detecting device.
US11105936B2
The invention relates to a gas drift detector (100) comprising: a chamber formed by: a housing (102) having a first end and a second end; a radiation window (104) arranged to cover an opening of the first end of the housing (102); and a substrate (106) arranged to cover an opening of the second end of the housing (102), an anode (110) arranged to the substrate (106), one or more conductive rings (108) arranged on a surface (106a) of the substrate facing inside the chamber, and an amplifier (112) arranged to the opposite surface (106b) of the substrate than the conductive rings (108). The amplifier (112) is electrically connected to the anode (110). The chamber is filled with a gas.
US11105935B2
An image sensor comprises a plurality of pixels, each pixel including: a light-receiving element that outputs an output voltage that varies in response to a photon entering; at least one comparator that compares the output voltage with a plurality of mutually-different threshold voltages and outputs a single signal each time the output voltage varies so as to exceed either of the threshold voltages; and at least one counter that counts a number of signals output by the comparator upon comparing the output voltage with the plurality of threshold voltages and outputs a count value, for each of the threshold voltages.
US11105933B2
A method for determining an environment-specific data profile for a satellite-based determination of a position of a vehicle includes ascertaining the position of the vehicle and receiving satellite data. The environment-specific data profile is determined using the ascertained position of the vehicle, a satellite position of a satellite from the received satellite data, and a path length of a satellite signal between the satellite position and the vehicle position determined from the satellite data.
US11105930B1
A self-contained satellite-navigation-based (SatNav-based) method and micro system is disclosed, wherein SatNav-derived (e.g., GPS-derived) position and velocity measurements are obtained and processed to achieve a low cost, micro size, real-time solution for the position and velocity of the carrier relative to a vertical and/or horizontal plane of previously measured location and heading, and for the slant range from a fixed position located on said vertical or horizontal plane. The method includes two parts: 1) a method for defining both the spatial orientation of the vertical and/or horizontal plane of interest, along with a selected fixed position of interest on one of those planes, and 2) a method for obtaining the real-time relative position and velocity of the carrier relative to the plane(s) of interest, and its position relative to the fixed position of interest. This system and method thus provides the necessary information onboard the carrier to navigate relative to said vertical and/or horizontal plane, and relative to the said fixed position of interest on one of those planes. Therefore, this system and method should be especially useful for use on uninhabited aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones, but may also be used on manned aircraft.
US11105922B2
A system is provided for imaging an underwater environment. The system includes a transducer assembly with at least one transmit transducer element and an array of receive transducer elements. Each receive transducer element is configured to receive sonar returns and form sonar return data. A sonar signal processor is configured to receive the sonar return data from each receive transducer element and generate sonar image data. The sonar return data from all of the receive transducer elements may be summed and used to form a high-definition 1D (e.g., time-based) sonar image. The sonar return data from only a subgroup may be summed and used to form a lower-definition 1D sonar image. In some systems, an array of series-connected transmit transducer elements can be used. The orientation of the emitting faces of the array may vary slightly to mimic a curved surface for increased beam coverage.
US11105911B2
A method for perceiving physical bodies comprises the following steps: a) acquisition of a plurality of distance measurements of the physical bodies arising from one or more sensors; b) acquisition or computation of a value of a priori probability of occupancy of the cells of an occupancy grid; and c) application of an inverse sensor model on the occupancy grid to determine a probability of occupancy of a set of cells of the grid; d) construction of a consolidated occupancy grid by fusing the occupancy probabilities estimated during step c); wherein each the inverse sensor model is a discrete model, associating with each cell of the corresponding occupancy grid, and for each distance measurement, a probability class chosen inside one and the same set of finite cardinality and identified by an integer index; and wherein step d) is implemented by means of integer computations performed on the indices of the probability classes determined during step c), and as a function of the value of a priori occupancy probability. A system for perceiving physical bodies, adapted to implement the method is provided.
US11105907B2
An ultrasound imaging system according to the present disclosure may include an ultrasound probe, a display unit, and a processor configured to receive source image data having a first dynamic range, wherein the source image data comprises log compressed echo intensity values based on the ultrasound echoes detected by the ultrasound probe, generate a histogram of at least a portion of source image data, generate a cumulative density function for the histogram, receive an indication of at least two points on the cumulative density function (CDF), and cause the display unit to display an ultrasound image representative of the source image data displayed in accordance with the second dynamic range.
US11105901B2
Provided is a surveying instrument comprises a total station, a mounting base which is fixed on an upper surface of the total station at three points, and a two-dimensional laser scanner which is fixed on an upper surface of the mounting base at three points, wherein the total station is configured to perform a three-dimensional measurement of a measuring point by a first distance measuring light, wherein the two-dimensional laser scanner is configured to acquire point cloud data along a scanning line by a second distance measuring light.
US11105900B2
A chip-scale LIDAR (light detection and ranging) system, optical package and LIDAR platform. The system includes a photonic chip, a laser associated with the photonic chip, an optical circulator, and a MEMS scanner. The laser, the optical circulator and the MEMS scanner are collinear. The photonic chip includes an edge coupler. The optical package includes a housing having an aperture, and a platform within the housing. The platform includes the laser, an optical circulator, and MEMS scanner.
US11105894B2
A weak target detection method includes transmitting a plurality of frequency modulated continuous wave signals during rotation of a microwave radar sensor, receiving a plurality of echo signals reflected by a weak target, accumulating the plurality of echo signals in a beam width of the microwave radar sensor to obtain an accumulated echo signal, and determining position information of the weak target according to the accumulated echo signal.
US11105892B2
The purpose is to provide a radar apparatus which can create and display only necessary trail data. The radar apparatus may include an acquisition module, an echo data creation module, a memory, a trail data creation module, and a display unit. The acquisition module may acquire an echo based on a reflected wave from a target object, of a transmitted electromagnetic wave. The echo data creation module may create, based on the echo, echo data at least indicative of a position of the target object. The memory may store determination data set, for every given display area, whether trail data indicative of a moving trail of the target object is to be newly created based on the echo. The trail data creation module may create the trail data based on the echo and the determination data. The display unit may display the echo data and the trail data.
US11105886B2
Described examples include light fixtures and/or radio frequency (RF) nodes located in a service volume provided with a mobile asset detection system. The RF nodes receive beacon signals transmitted by mobile assets within the service volume. The mobile asset detection system includes a processor, a transceiver and multi-element antenna array. The multi-element antenna array includes multiple discrete antenna elements that, in some examples, are arranged so that at least one of the discrete antenna elements is non-coplanar with the other discrete antenna elements of the antenna array. Using signal attribute values determined from a signal received via each of the respective discrete antenna elements, a three dimensional estimate of the location of the mobile assets in a service volume may be determined.
US11105873B2
According to some aspects, a low-field magnetic resonance imaging system is provided. The low-field magnetic resonance imaging system comprises a magnetics system having a plurality of magnetics components configured to produce magnetic fields for performing magnetic resonance imaging, the magnetics system comprising, a B0 magnet configured to produce a B0 field for the magnetic resonance imaging system at a low-field strength of less than 0.2 Tesla (T), a plurality of gradient coils configured to, when operated, generate magnetic fields to provide spatial encoding of magnetic resonance signals, and at least one radio frequency coil configured to, when operated, transmit radio frequency signals to a field of view of the magnetic resonance imaging system and to respond to magnetic resonance signals emitted from the field of view, a power system comprising one or more power components configured to provide power to the magnetics system to operate the magnetic resonance imaging system to perform image acquisition, and a power connection configured to connect to a single-phase outlet to receive mains electricity and deliver the mains electricity to the power system to provide power needed to operate the magnetic resonance imaging system. According to some aspects, the power system operates the low-field magnetic resonance imaging system using an average of less than 1.6 kilowatts during image acquisition.
US11105859B2
A sensor abnormality determination device that determines abnormality in a current sensor includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a closed circuit voltage of the battery and acquires an open circuit voltage of the battery obtained from a state of charge of the battery when the closed circuit voltage is acquired based on a predetermined SOC−OCV characteristic curve, a derivation unit configured to derive a first voltage difference which is a difference value between the closed circuit voltage and the open circuit voltage and a second voltage difference which is a change amount of a voltage obtained from a current of the battery detected by the current sensor and an internal resistance, and a determination unit configured to determine whether the current sensor is abnormal based on the first and the second voltage difference when the first voltage difference is equal to or larger than a first predetermined value.
US11105843B2
A stabilization technique is disclosed that suppresses or inhibits glitching behavior on automated test equipment (ATE) during mode transitions. Adjustable stabilizing circuitry can be coupled to at least one of a force voltage circuit or a force current circuit is forcing voltage or current to a device under test (DUT). The adjustable stabilizing circuitry can be adjustably configurable in response to whether at least one of a current clamp or a voltage clamp is in an active clamping mode. In this manner, unwanted glitching behavior associated with mode changes can be reduced or suppressed.
US11105835B2
A method for operating a current sensor, having a first measurement resistor, a second measurement resistor and a reference resistor. The first and second measurement resistors are arranged in series. The reference resistor is electrically disconnected from the first and second measurement resistors in a first measurement state and connected in parallel with the first measurement resistor in a second measurement state. In the first measurement state, identifying the respective first and second measurement resistors voltage drop and determining the ratio of the voltage drops. In the second measurement state, identifying the respective first and second measurement resistors voltage drop and the reference resistor voltage drop, and determining the electrical resistance of the first and second measurement resistors from the identified voltage drops, the electrical resistance of the reference resistor and the ratio of the voltage drops of the first and second measurement resistors determined in the first measurement state.
US11105832B2
The present disclosure pertains to systems and methods for detecting traveling waves in electric power delivery systems. In one embodiment, a system comprises a capacitance-coupled voltage transformer (CCVT) in electrical communication with the electric power delivery system, the CCVT comprising a stack of capacitors and an electrical contact to a first ground connection. Electrical signals from accessible portions of the CCVT are used to detect traveling waves. Current and/or voltage signals may be used. In various embodiments, a single current may be used. The traveling waves may be used to detect a fault on the electric power delivery system.
US11105830B2
A voltage detector includes a first voltage detection circuit, a second voltage detection circuit, and a voltage divider circuit having a first node for providing a first divided voltage, and a second node for providing a second divided voltage. The second voltage detection circuit has a comparator circuit including a first input end connected to the first node and a second input end connected to a reference voltage. The first voltage detection circuit has a first NMOS transistor including a gate to which the second divided voltage is applied, and a constant current source with one end connected to the first NMOS transistor. The first NMOS transistor is configured to turn on in response to the second divided voltage being higher than a second threshold voltage and turn off in response to the second divided voltage being lower than the second threshold voltage.
US11105827B2
A physical quantity sensor includes a base, at least two arms, a movable plate, a hinge, and a physical quantity measurement element. Four quadrants of the sensor are defined by first and second orthogonal lines. The first line passes through the center of the sensor and crosses the hinge. The second line extends along the hinge. Fixed regions of the sensor are located in the first and second quadrants. No fixed regions are located in at least one of the third and fourth quadrants. The third and fourth quadrants are closer to the base than the first and second quadrants in a plan view.
US11105826B2
An inertial sensor includes a movable mass spaced apart from a surface of the substrate. The movable mass is adapted for motion about a rotational axis positioned between first and second ends of the movable mass in response to a first force imposed upon the movable mass in a first direction that is perpendicular to the surface of the substrate. The inertial sensor further includes a damping system configured to limit motion of the movable mass in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The damping system includes a first damping structure coupled to the movable mass, a second damping structure adjacent to the first damping structure, the first and second damping structures being spaced apart from the surface of the substrate, and a spring structure interconnected between the movable mass and the second damping structure.
US11105825B2
The present disclosure is, in one aspect, directed to a locking assembly for securing a sample tube assembly to a sample manifold of a measurement system. The locking assembly includes a ramp block having one or more slots defined therein and configured to at least partially receive a portion of the sample tube assembly. The ramp block also includes a plurality of surface features defined therealong and configured to engage and move the sample tube assembly toward and into engagement with the sample manifold. The ramp block further is movable between a plurality of positions including an open position for allowing the sample tube assembly to be received through the one or more slots or openings, and a closed position substantially sealing the sample tube assembly against or within the sample manifold. Other aspects also are described.
US11105816B2
Provided is a method for identifying and treating a pregnancy devoid of uterine fetal or embryonic tissue in a subject by determining a concentration of alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) in a specimen evacuated from the uterus of the subject; comparing the concentration of AFP to a reference value; wherein when the AFP concentration in the specimen evacuated from the uterus is below that of a reference value, absence of uterine fetal or embryonic tissue is indicated. Also provided is a method for identifying and treating a presence of fetal or embryonic tissue in a location of a subject other than the uterus by determining a concentration of AFP in a non-uterine specimen obtained from the subject; comparing the concentration of AFP in the specimen to a reference value; wherein when the AFP concentration in the specimen is above that of a reference value, presence of fetal or embryonic tissue is indicated.
US11105815B2
Methods for determining the presence of pathologic amylin in a subject with diabetes or pre-diabetes are provided herein. The method includes obtaining a skin sample from a subject and determining if there is pathologic amylin present in the skin sample.
US11105813B2
The present invention relates to a method for identifying a target protein using a thermal stability shift-based fluorescence difference in two-dimensional gel electrophoresis, and more specifically, a method for identifying a protein, which is a target of a specific drug, by analyzing, by means of a fluorescence difference in two-dimensional gel electrophoresis, a thermal stability shift in the protein when a specific drug, preferably a bioactive molecule, binds to the target protein.
US11105801B2
This invention discloses a signal amplification sandwich structure for amplifying detection signals from proteins, nucleic acids and microbes using a plurality of an electrochemically detectable oligonucleotide tag bound to a multifunctional particle. The invention further discloses a method and device that uses the signal amplification sandwich structure to detect and/or quantify low levels of one or more biological analytes using an off-the-shelf point-of-care electrochemical potentiostat, like a glucose meter for virtually any biological analyte. The invention further discloses a method and device that applies an artificial intelligence (AI) system to recommend actions for assessment and diagnosis of a disease, outbreak or condition with an artificial intelligence learning system to incorporate improvements, additions and modifications to the artificial intelligence systems and its constituents.
US11105797B2
An apparatus for ligand binding assays includes an incubator that incubates a plurality of beads with a sample of interest wherein each of the plurality of beads comprises a tag of predetermined mass and a bait molecule. A washer washes the incubated beads so that weakly bound molecules are removed while strongly bound molecules are retained. A sample plate loader loads the washed beads into the sample plate such that respective ones of the plurality of beads are loaded into respective ones of the plurality of well. A sprayer deposits matrix assisted laser desorption ionization (MALDI) matrix material on the surface of the sample plate so that each of the plurality of beads is exposed to MALDI matrix material. A MALDI-TOF mass spectrometer receives the sample plate and performs mass spectrometry on samples in the plurality of wells. A computer executes an algorithm that analyzes the mass spectra.
US11105780B2
The invention provides compression fittings and methods of assembling compression fittings. In exemplary embodiments, compression fittings are provided that include a fitting body, a ferrule and a tube. For example, the fitting body can be removably coupled to the ferrule when the tube is disposed therethrough.
US11105779B2
A pressure system for liquid chromatography allows multiple fluid lines to be driven in parallel by a single pump. A fluid pressure medium supply provides fluid pressure to the system. The fluid pressure medium supply is connected to a plurality of fluid transfer pipes, each with a flow limiter. The fluid pressure medium supply is configured to provided more flow than the flow limiters combined, and excess flow is either diverted with a pressure limiter or reduced with a pressure adjuster, or both. Further layers of pressure and flow control may be added with additional pressure limiters and/or pressure adjusters and flow limiters connected together. In some cases, multiple lines containing different fluids may be driven by the same pressure source through the use of flexible fluid delivery inner containers, each within a rigid container that is pressurized by the pressure source.
US11105773B2
An eddy current flaw detecting probe includes a plurality of excitation coils (3) which is configured to generate an eddy current in an inspection target and a plurality of detection coils (4) which are differentially connected to each other. The plurality of detection coils (4) includes a first detection coil (41) which is disposed on a second center line (4a) intersecting a first center line (3a) which connects a center of a first excitation coil (31) and a center of a second excitation coil (32) to each other and a second detection coil (42) which is disposed on a side opposite to the first detection coil (41) on the second center line (4a). The excitation coil (3) and the detection coil (4) are disposed to be inclined toward an inspection target surface as approaching each other.
US11105771B2
A magnetic field generation device (100) includes a first magnet (1), a second magnet (2), and a position adjustment mechanism (5). The second magnet (2), together with the first magnet (1), generates a magnetic field. The position adjustment mechanism (5) adjusts a position of the first magnet (1). The magnetic field generation device (100) controls the value of the product of a magnetic flux density and a magnetic flux density gradient in the magnetic field through the adjustment of the position of the first magnet (1) by the position adjustment mechanism (5).
US11105758B2
A prediction method for mold breakout based on feature vectors and hierarchical clustering is disclosed, which comprises: respectively extracting temperature feature vectors of historical data under sticking breakout and normal conditions and on-line actually measured data to establish a feature vector sample set; performing normalization and hierarchical clustering on the sample set; and checking and judging whether the feature vectors extracted on line belong to a breakout cluster, and then identifying and predicting mold breakout. The method avoids the steps of tedious adjustment and modification of alarm threshold and other parameters, overcomes the artificial dependence of the previous breakout prediction method, has good robustness and mobility; and through temperature feature extraction, achieves accurate identification of sticking breakout temperature patterns, avoids missing alarms and significantly reduces the number of times of false alarms, and greatly reduces the data calculation amount and calculation time, guaranteeing the timeliness of on-line prediction.
US11105751B2
A method of analyzing a sample located on a hydrophilic portion of a surface is disclosed. The method includes directing a first incident non-destructive electromagnetic beam through the sample at a non-zero incidence angle relative to the surface. The method also includes analyzing a first reflected non-destructive electromagnetic beam reflected from the hydrophilic portion to obtain a first measurement associated with at least one property of the sample.
US11105740B2
Systems and methods for optical inspection of a sample are provided. Radiation scattered from the sample includes a first portion having a first polarization state and a second portion having a second polarization state that is a mirror image of the first polarization state. The first polarization state of the first portion of the scattered radiation is transposed using a polarizing mirroring device so that the scattered radiation output from the polarizing mirroring device has substantially the second polarization state.
US11105727B2
The present invention provides a device for measuring a particle size at a low temperature, specifically, which includes a refrigerant tank containing a refrigerant; a heat conduction plate thermally connected to the refrigerant tank; and a nanoantenna located on the heat conduction plate, thereby it is possible to determine a degree of light transmission to the sample to be measured located on an upper portion of the nanoantenna, and predict the physical properties of the sample.
US11105726B2
Calibrated particle analysis apparatus and method are provided. In the calibrated particle analysis apparatus, a gas exchange device and several flow controllers are disposed in front of a particle analyzer. Therefore, when the calibrated particle analysis apparatus is used, gases of a sample can be exchanged with a carrier gas suggested to be used with the particle analyzer. Hence, the accuracy of analyzing the particles can be increased, and possible hazards from dangerous or toxic materials can be avoided.
US11105725B2
The invention relates to a computer implemented method of analysing data comprising measured values of characteristics of objects in samples, the data comprising —a first set of data (Xireference)′ with measured values of characteristics of objects in reference samples; —a test set of data (Xitest) with measured values of the characteristics of objects in a test sample; characterised by the method comprising; —fitting a control model to the first set of data to determine control loadings (Pcontrol) each representing an independent correlation between characteristics; —projecting the first set of data (Xireference) onto the control loadings (Pcontrol) for determining a first set control scores (Tcontrol,ireference) and determining one or more confidence intervals for the first set of control scores (Tcontrol,ireference); —projecting the test data onto the control loadings (Pcontrol) for determining test control scores; —determining if the test control scores are within one or more the confidence intervals.
US11105722B2
Certain implementations of the subject matter can be implemented to screen demulsifiers. A live emulsion of a live hydrocarbon sample and a water sample is flowed through a capillary viscometer. The live hydrocarbon sample includes dissolved gases retrieved from a hydrocarbon-carrying reservoir. While flowing the live emulsion through the capillary viscometer, a demulsifier sample is flowed through the capillary viscometer. The demulsifier sample is capable of causing breakdown of the live emulsion. Using the capillary viscometer, change in a viscosity of the live emulsion over time resulting from the breakdown of the live emulsion due to the demulsifier sample is measured. Multiple images of the breakdown of the live emulsion over time are captured. A strength of the live emulsion is classified based, in part, on the change in the viscosity of the live emulsion over time and on the plurality of images.
US11105720B1
An apparatus for applying force to a workpiece, the apparatus having a frame with spaced first and second side members and a top frame assembly. An anchor is spaced downwardly from the top frame assembly. There is a force generator connected to the frame assembly. The force generator is operative to apply a force to a workpiece connected between and to the force generator and anchor.
US11105718B2
A device is described that overlays a first fluid, such as blood or a cellular suspension onto a base material, such as a density gradient. In some embodiments, the fluid layering device includes a cylindrical reservoir, a fluid barrier, a coupling extension, a plunger, and an exhaust vent. The fluid layering device can be coupled through its coupling extension to an open end of a container, such as a conical centrifuge tube, including the density gradient. Once attached, the plunger may be lowered to a position above the surface of the density gradient. A first fluid may flow from the reservoir into the conical tube across the plunger, so that a suitable overlay is formed without substantially disturbing a surface of the density gradient.
US11105712B2
A method for fault diagnosis of a bearing includes detecting, using an oil debris monitor (ODM) sensor, ODM data corresponding to an amount of debris flowing downstream from the bearing. The method also includes detecting, using a vibration sensor, vibration data corresponding to vibration of the bearing during use. The method also includes determining, by a controller, a vibration stage flag corresponding to a severity of damage of the bearing based on the vibration data. The method also includes determining, by the controller, a severity level of the damage of the bearing based on a combination of the vibration stage flag and the ODM data. The method also includes outputting, by an output device, the severity level.
US11105711B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for monitoring a rolling bearing of an electric motor, wherein the rolling bearing forms a capacitive parasitic antenna, having the following steps of: a. capturing the electromagnetic spectrum emitted by the parasitic antenna in a manner triggered by spark formation in the rolling bearing over a respectively defined period t during operation of the electric motor; b. evaluating the number N of electromagnetic pulses (a, b, c, d, e) received in the spectrum and the amplitude A of said pulses; c. capturing the change in the number N of electromagnetic pulses (a, b, c, d, e) and/or the amplitude A of said pulses, and d. determining whether the increase in the number N and/or in the amplitudes A of the electromagnetic pulses (a, b, c, d, e) increases in a non-linear manner with time.
US11105701B2
An input-side control device includes: a feedback controller that generates a first control input signal for eliminating the difference between a model speed signal ωm and a speed detection signal ω by using the signal difference between a higher order torque command signal Tref and an axial torque detection signal Tsh to generate the model speed signal ωm which corresponds to the rotational speed of an inertial body having a set moment of inertia Jset moving under a torque corresponding to the signal difference; a feed-forward controller that generates a second control input signal by multiplying the signal difference by k·Jdy/Jset; and a low-pass filter that generates a torque command signal Tr from a signal obtained by combining the outputs of the controllers and attenuating components at a higher frequency than a cut-off frequency fc set in the vicinity of the resonant frequency.
US11105696B2
A system for measuring power output of a runner is disclosed. In some embodiments the system comprises a first sensor component including a first sensor, microprocessor, and a signal transceiver; a second sensor component including a second sensor and a signal transmitter; wherein the first sensor is configured to measure a vertical velocity and horizontal velocity, the second sensor is configured to measure the slope angle of a foot of the runner during a stance phase of the foot, the signal transmitter configured to send slope angle data, the signal transceiver configured to receive the slope angle data from the signal transmitter, and the microprocessor has computing instructions configured to calculate a power output based on the vertical velocity, horizontal velocity, and slope angle data.
US11105688B2
A temperature-sensitive element including an element main body and a pair of lead wires that is drawn out from the element main body; a case accommodating the temperature-sensitive element and having a heat transfer surface configured to come into contact with a measurement object for temperature; a pair of lead frames electrically connected with each of the lead wires and drawn out from the case; and a filler covering the temperature-sensitive element accommodated in the case and the lead frames and holding the temperature-sensitive element and the lead frames in the case while maintaining a state of the connection.
US11105675B2
This disclosure relates to monitoring of machines having one or more vibrating objects. Conventional systems that address the technical problem of detecting frequency of vibrating objects are expensive, require manual intervention, sometimes depend on prior knowledge of location of faults or involve high convergence time. Systems and methods of the present disclosure provide a cost-effective and fully automated solution that employ multiple strobe sources along with a low cost camera. Besides being cost-effective and automated, the solution also reduces convergence time significantly. Employing multiple strobe sources enables generating multiple strobing frequencies in a single iteration. The strobing frequency is a configured to be a multiple of a camera frame rate selected from a set of camera frame rates having mutually prime elements to ensure faster convergence compared to the art.
US11105671B2
The present invention refers to a device for storage and dosage of a powder or a liquid, wherein the device comprises a removable top cap, an annular grip portion that encircles an upper part of a main container, which connects and locks to an outer container, which main container is arranged to store an amount of a powder or a liquid and the outer container encircles and connects the main container to a volume container, which volume container is used to adjust a dispensing volume of the device and has a removable bottom cap in its lower end through which the desired amount can be discharged. The invention further relates to the use of such a device.
US11105665B2
An electromagnetic flowmeter measures a flow rate of a liquid of a measurement target that flows in a magnetic field formed within a measurement pipe. The electromagnetic flowmeter includes at least one pair of detection electrodes configured to detect an electromotive force generated due to a flow of the liquid, and configured to output a flow rate signal of a magnitude of the detected electromotive force, a measurement circuit configured to supply an alternating current between the detection electrodes and an earth electrode, and a control calculator configured to control a frequency of the alternating current to be 1 kHz or more, and configured to calculate a conductivity of the liquid whose conductivity is 1 mS/cm or more based on the flow rate signal output when the alternating current flows between the detection electrodes and the earth electrode.
US11105656B2
Scale pattern in a scale of an optical encoder includes a first scale mark that blocks a first light from being guided to an image capturer and guides a second light to the image capturer, and a second scale mark that guides the first light and the second light to the image capturer. Second scale mark is arranged in an ABS pattern and the first scale mark is arranged in an INC pattern by incorporating the second scale mark. Image capturer includes a first image capturing section that captures an image of the ABS pattern from the first light that arrives via the second scale mark, and a second image capturing section that captures an image of the INC pattern from the second light that arrives via the first scale mark and the second scale mark. Calculator calculates a position of a head relative to the scale.
US11105643B2
A method and system for generating tactical routes includes an intervisibility database pre-populated with pre-computed optical lines of sight between locations or nodes in geographic terrain, an intervisibility analyzer for analyzing propagation of the pre-computed optical lines of sight between the locations or nodes in the geographic terrain, a speed analyzer for analyzing speeds of travelers across the locations or nodes in the geographic terrain, a cost generator for generating a blended cost grid using said intervisibility and speed analyses, and a route generator for generating routes that facilitate tactical movement based on said blended cost grid. The route generator computes intervisibility unions at the locations or nodes in the geographic terrain and minimizing intervisibility unions along the generated route.
US11105634B2
A method includes receiving relative position data from a laser range finder, where the relative position data includes a distance and a relative angle between a first node and a second node measured by the laser range finder from a first position of the first node. The method may also include computing a second position of the second node based on the relative position data, providing the second position of the second node to a computing device of one or more of the first node and the second node, and computationally reconstructing a route traversed by the first node and the second node from a number of computed positions for the first node and the second node based on data received from the laser range finder.
US11105633B2
A system operating in a dead reckoning mode accumulates relative yaw measurements, i.e., measurements of rotation about a z-axis, made by one or more over mechanization update intervals and produces dead reckoning mechanization update values. The system accumulates the values over a turn rate accumulation period, calculates a yaw rate and determines if the yaw rate exceeds a turn rate threshold. If so, the system directs an INS filter to perform a zero yaw rate update at the start of a next mechanization update interval, to correct for the z-axis drift errors of the gyroscopes based on the sensed rotation in the relative yaw measurements over the previous mechanization update interval. The system then sets the z-axis drift errors to zero. If the system determines that the yaw rate exceeds the turn rate threshold, the zero yaw rate update is not performed at the start of the next mechanization update interval.
US11105632B2
A method and a device for processing signals, including a demodulator demodulating a modulated signal during a first time interval in such a way that a quadrature signal is generated, the quadrature signal is stored in a memory unit of the device, the demodulator demodulating the modulated signal in such a way that an in-phase signal is generated during a second time interval and an output signal for describing a rotation of the gyroscope about a defined sensing axis is generated from the in-phase signal.
US11105630B2
This disclosure describes a multiaxis gyroscope comprising a first proof mass quartet centered around a first quartet center point and a second proof mass quartet centered around a second quartet center point. In the primary oscillation mode all masses in each proof mass quartet move simultaneously either radially toward and away from the corresponding quartet center point, or in the same tangential direction in relation to the corresponding quartet center point.
US11105626B2
Position-sensitive light beam detector comprising photodiodes and at least two weighting networks, each of which includes a signal output and network nodes. According to the invention, a plurality of the network nodes of the first weighting network is provided for the photodiode terminal in such a way that each node of said plurality of nodes is connected to a node of the second weighting network via a photodiode.
US11105624B2
Methods and apparatus to track a blade are disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus includes a blade that is pivotable, first and second optical targets operatively coupled to the blade, and a first camera for collecting first imaging data of the first optical target within a first field of view. The example apparatus also includes a second camera for collecting second imaging data of the second optical target within a second field of view. The example apparatus also includes a selector to select at least one of the first or second imaging data, and a processor to determine an orientation of the blade based on the selected imaging data.
US11105622B2
An apparatus for determining an altitude of a mobile unit includes one or more processors individually or collectively configured to obtain local measurement data comprising a local atmospheric pressure at a location of the mobile unit, obtain reference measurement data comprising a reference atmospheric pressure at a location of a reference unit that is movable, and determine the altitude of the mobile unit based on the local measurement data and the reference measurement data.
US11105616B2
An apparatus is described for measuring surface topography of a patient's teeth. The apparatus may include an optical probe, a light source configured to generate incident light, and focusing optics configured to focus the incident light to a focal plane external to the optical probe, wherein the focal plane is a diagonal focal plane that is non-orthogonal to a direction of propagation of the incident light. The apparatus may further include a light sensor configured to measure a characteristic of returned light generated by illuminating the patient's teeth with the incident light, and a processing unit operable to determine the surface topography of the patient's teeth based on the measured characteristic of the returned light.
US11105609B2
A system and method for measuring. The system has at least one rail with a downstream end and an upstream end. There is a deflector at a downstream end which is used in conjunction with a measurement laser which is coupled to a shuttle. The shuttle is moveable relative to the rail. The shuttle also has a sight for zeroing in on the item to be measured.
US11105605B2
A metrology device with automated compensation and/or alert for orientation errors. The device may include a processor, a probe portion and at least one orientation sensor. The probe provides an output representative of a raw measurement of a characteristic of a device under test and the orientation sensor provides a sensor output representative of an orientation of the metrology device to the device under test. The processor applies a correction factor to the raw measurement in response to the sensor output to establish a compensated measurement to compensate for misalignment of the metrology device to the device under test. In addition, or alternatively, the processor provides an alert indicating the existence and/or extent of the misalignment.
US11105601B2
An explosive threat mitigation unit (TMU) stands ready to receive a suspected bomb, enclose it, and contain the explosion if one occurs. An operator protects bystanders and surroundings by putting the suspected bomb in a TMU and then closing the TMU. If the bomb goes off, the TMU mitigates the effects of both the blast and the fragments. One variation has a container, a tube, a cap, and a door. The container includes an opening. The tube, arranged in the container, aligns with the opening. The cap slides through the opening and over the tube. The door slides into place to close the opening and enclose the cap within the container.
US11105596B1
A deliverable weapon, such as a missile, an artillery round, an aerial bomb, or a mortar round, having an explosive warhead, utilizes concentric annular sleeves that upon detonation provide placement of smaller fragments of an inner annular sleeve interstitially with respect to larger fragments of an outer annular sleeve in an expanding fragmentation curtain that contains expanding gases to increase the pressure of the explosion and the kinetic energy transferred to the fragments. In embodiments, the sleeves are comprised of ordered layers of spherical metal fragments encased in binder material and an outer casing.
US11105593B2
In some embodiments, projectile comprises a first body portion comprising a tip, a second body portion comprising a nock and a tether attached to the first body portion and attached to the second body portion. In some embodiments, the projectile comprises a first configuration where the first body portion contacts the second body portion. In some embodiments, the projectile comprises a second configuration where the first body portion is spaced apart from the second body portion.
US11105592B1
An arrow with a shaft having a reduced outer diameter. The outer diameter of the arrow shaft may be in the range of 0.231 to 0.274 inches. The arrow may also include an insert. The arrow may also include a nock. The nock may have an enlarged section including two opposing arms defining a recess for placement of the bowstring, with each of the opposing arms including a safety tab configured to increase an outer diameter of the nock. The arrow is capable of withstanding 400 pounds of force and travel at a velocity of up to 500 fps.
US11105591B2
An anti-projectile protection device for an attachment means of a member attached to a wall of a structure includes a plate designed to be spaced apart from the attachment means and fixed directly or indirectly to the wall by means of deformable connecting tabs which are secured to the plate and on which engage connecting screws. The heads of the connecting screws are interposed between the plate and the tab in question and holes are created in the plate to allow the connecting screws to be tightened. The connecting tabs include notches such that the heads of the connecting screws can be engaged between the plate and the tab by simple translation of the plate when they are installed in their tapped holes. An inspection hatch also incorporates such a protection device.
US11105587B2
In one embodiment, the disclosure relates to a turret for a firearm. In another embodiment, the disclosure relates to a turret zero stop.
US11105571B2
A forward charging system is disclosed. The forward charging system contains a charging trolley containing one or more channels configured to accommodate one or more rails associated with a hand guard, wherein the charging trolley is movable along the one or more rails between a rest position and a charging position, and a rod coupled to a rear portion of the charging trolley, the rod is configured to move a bolt carrier assembly away from a locked position when the charging trolley is moved away from the rest position.
US11105554B2
A drying system for drying an agriculture product is disclosed. The drying system includes an enclosure having one or more wall structures and defining a chamber for receiving and storing the agricultural product. Each wall structure includes an inner wall having a plurality of wood panels and an outer wall. Each wood panel is a treated wood panel and is adapted to absorb moisture from an air circulating inside the chamber. Each wood panel is treated with a solution of calcium chloride to enhance a moisture absorbing capacity. The outer wall is disposed substantially parallel and spaced apart from the inner wall and defines a gap therebetween. The enclosure further includes one or more moisture absorbing materials disposed inside the gap to absorb moisture received from the inner wall.
US11105553B2
A drive system for liquefied natural gas (LNG) production. A standardized machinery string consisting of a multi-shaft gas turbine with no more than three compressor bodies, where the compressor bodies are applied to one or more refrigerant compressors employed in one or more refrigerant cycles (e.g., single mixed refrigerant, propane precooled mixed refrigerant, dual mixed refrigerant). The standardized machinery strings and associated standardized refrigerators are designed for a generic range of feed gas composition and ambient temperature conditions and are installed in opportunistic liquefaction plants without substantial reengineering and modifications. The approach captures D1BM (“Design 1 Build Many) cost and schedule efficiencies by allowing for broader variability in liquefaction efficiency with location and feed gas composition.
US11105551B2
A refrigerator includes a cabinet, a front panel door part, a drawer part located rearward of the front panel door part, and a connection device that is located at the front panel door part, that is configured to couple the front panel door part with the drawer part, and that is configured to transmit power from the front panel door part to the drawer part. The connection device includes an exposed portion that is exposed through the rear surface of the front panel door part and that allows a user to manipulate the connection device, and the connection device is configured to, based on a manipulation of the exposed portion of the connection device by the user, decouple the front panel door part from the drawer part.
US11105550B2
A refrigerator may be installed in a storage space defined by a wall of an object and includes a contact mechanism to bring the refrigerator into contact with the wall.
US11105549B2
A refrigerator appliance includes a cabinet defining multiple food storage chambers which are operable at distinct temperatures. The refrigerator appliance includes a cabinet comprising a plurality of insulated mullions. The insulated mullions at least partially define a fresh food chamber, a freezer chamber, a convertible chamber, and a plenum. The refrigerator appliance also includes a first damper selectively providing fluid communication between the fresh food chamber and the plenum, a second damper selectively providing fluid communication between the freezer chamber and the plenum, and a fan disposed between the convertible chamber and the plenum. The fan is configured to force air from the plenum into the convertible chamber.
US11105548B2
A nucleation nozzle for forming freezing nuclei for devices for making artificial snow, starting from a jet of pressurised liquid, comprising a compressed air duct having an inlet opening and an outlet opening. A first stretch of the compressed air duct has a cross section which decreases in the flow direction of the compressed air, from the inlet opening to the outlet opening. The first stretch is followed by a second stretch having a cross section which increases in the flow direction of the compressed air from the inlet opening to the outlet opening. There is provided at least one water duct having an inlet opening and an outlet opening. The water duct is separate from the compressed air duct. The outlet opening of the water duct is positioned close to the outlet opening of the compressed air duct.
US11105545B2
A purge system for removing non-condensables from a chiller system includes a purge chamber, a plurality of carbon beds fluidly connected to the purge chamber into which a flow of refrigerant and non-condensables is selectably directed from the purge chamber to remove the non-condensables therefrom. A vent line is fluidly connected to the plurality of carbon beds to dispose of the collected non-condensables, and a heater is operably connected to the plurality of carbon beds to selectably heat one or more of the carbon beds of the plurality of carbon beds to release refrigerant therefrom and direct the released refrigerant to the purge chamber.
US11105542B2
Disclosed are a generator and a condensing system. The generator, a rectifier, a condenser, an evaporator, an absorber and a liquid storage tank are sequentially connected to form a loop, a gas outlet chamber is communicated with the rectifier by a lifting pipe, and a liquid conveying pipe is arranged between a heating chamber and the liquid storage tank. The generator includes the heating chamber and the gas outlet chamber, wherein the gas outlet chamber is connected with the lifting pipe, and has a width gradually reduced in a gas outlet direction.
US11105537B2
A refrigeration cycle apparatus refrigeration cycle apparatus in which refrigerant circulates in an order of a compressor, an oil separator, a condenser, an expansion valve, an evaporator, and an accumulator. The refrigeration cycle apparatus includes: an oil returning path extending from the oil separator to the compressor; a first electromagnetic valve provided on the oil returning path; an oil returning path extending from the accumulator to the compressor; a second electromagnetic valve provided on the oil returning path; and a controller configured to control a degree of opening of the first electromagnetic valve and a degree of opening of the second electromagnetic valve.
US11105532B2
An electric heating includes a housing having a partition wall which separates a connection chamber from a heating chamber for dissipating heat and from which at least one receiving pocket, protruding into the heating chamber as a heating rib, preferably tapering towards its lower and closed end, protrudes. A PTC heating element, including at least one PTC element and conductor tracks for energizing the PTC element with different polarities, is accommodated in the housing with the conductor tracks being electrically conductively connected to the PTC heating element and being are electrically connected in the connection chamber. A pressure element is received in the housing and holds heat extraction surfaces of the PTC element abutted against oppositely disposed inner surfaces of the receiving pocket. To reduce mechanical stress on the PTC element or an insulating layer and, while at the same time retaining the PTC heating element in the receiving pocket, at least one web acts in a positive-fit and/or force-fit manner on the pressure element.
US11105528B2
Systems and methods of automatic synchronization of point read frequency are provided. The system can include data sources that receive data point values at respective deposit frequencies and a building enterprise managing device that performs an automatic synchronization process. The building enterprise managing device can receive a user configuration setting indicating a read frequency and obtain the data point values from a data source at the read frequency. The building enterprise managing device can identify a deposit frequency at which the data point values are received at the data source. The building enterprise managing device can determine whether the read frequency matches the deposit frequency. The building enterprise managing device can adjust the read frequency to match the deposit frequency in response to determining that the read frequency does not match the identified deposit frequency and obtain the data point values from the data source at the adjusted read frequency.
US11105521B2
Provided is an outdoor unit for use in a refrigeration cycle apparatus circulating refrigerant mixture inclusive of 1,1,2-trifluoroethylene, the outdoor unit including: a casing; a pipe configured to allow the refrigerant mixture to flow through the pipe, the pipe being accommodated inside the casing and including a bend portion, the bend portion including a breakage-guide structure having a pressure resistance lower than a pressure resistance of rest of the pipe; and a plate interposed between the breakage-guide structure and outside of the casing.
US11105517B2
The invention is a device, system and method of use for cooling the temperature in an interior space without the need for a power source or moving parts.
US11105515B2
A cooking apparatus includes a case including an inner case having a cooking chamber formed therein and an outer case configured to surround the inner case, and having an open front surface, a tray put on the cooking chamber, a door coupled to the front surface of the case and configured to selectively open and close the open front surface, an elevating device installed at left and right internal surfaces of the inner case and configured to move the tray in forward and backward directions and upward and downward directions, wherein the elevating device includes a fixed rail fixed to an internal side surface of the inner case, a moveable rail configured to slide and move in forward and backward directions in a state where the moveable rail is coupled to the fixed rail, a support link configured to connect a side surface of the tray and the moveable rail, and a manipulator connected to the moveable rail and the support link.
US11105508B2
A flare burner for burning combustible waste gases with a manifold, at least two arms, and a plurality of outlets disposed on the plurality of arms. The arms may be perpendicular to the manifold. The arms may also extend outwardly from the manifold. The arms may extend into annuli, to produce oppositely flowing exit gas. A curved dispersing surface may be disposed above the manifold. The arms may comprise a curvilinear shape or include both a linear and a curvilinear portion. The arms are unequal in length and may curve in an opposite direction from each other. The outlets are configured and spaced such that flame is short relative to size of the flare burner.
US11105507B2
The procedure (1) for obtaining raw materials resulting from waste material comprises: the supply (A) of harmonic steel resulting from waste material and prepared in a skein to be treated (3); a heat treatment (B) of the skein to be treated (3) for obtaining a treated skein (3a);—a post-treatment (E) of the treated skein (3a) for obtaining steel reusable as raw material; where the heat treatment (B) comprises an inductive exposure step (B1) of the skein to be treated (3) to at least an alternate magnetic field for the induction in the skein to be treated (3) of alternate eddy currents adapted to raise the temperature of same.
US11105504B2
An atomizing burner and corresponding method for turning an atomizing burner from an ON state to an OFF state. The burner has independently controllable flows of atomizing air, combustion air, and fuel flow, the burner in the ON state having flow values of burner parameters including flow of atomizing air, flow of combustion air, and fuel flow. The method includes: changing, in response to an OFF instruction, flow of at least one of the flow of atomizing air, combustion air and/or fuel to a lower non-zero value; first discontinuing, after a first period of time since the changing, flow of fuel and flow of atomizing air; maintaining, for a second period of time since the first period of time, flow of combustion air; second discontinuing, after the maintaining, flow of combustion air; wherein the maintaining prevents buildup of excess heat inside the burner during the transition to the OFF state.
US11105502B2
A insert for a staged fuel burner and processes for using a burner with the insert. The insert has a burner tip that injects a mixture of primary fuel and combustion air into a combustion zone to produce a flame. A staged fuel is also injected into the combustion zone. Prior to being injected into the combustion zone, from the burner tip, the staged fuel, is injected into the burner tip and draws combustion air from the mixer of the burner insert into the burner tip with the staged fuel.
US11105494B2
This invention includes a first base which is movably connected to the rail; an end surface of the first base which is close to the rail is further provided with a first hooking part for hooking the rail; a movable pull rod which is movably connected to the first base and includes a first connecting part, a second hooking part for hooking the rail, and a first adjusting part connected to the first connecting part; the first connecting part is fixed to an inner wall of the chamber through a first elastic member, so that the first hooking part and the second hooking part form a clamping device; a rack fixedly mounted inside the chamber; the rack teeth and the teeth cooperate to fix the movable pull rod and the rack; a second base for fixing the tactical light.
US11105489B2
An illumination lens includes an incident face (510), being provided in a recessed manner in a bottom apex part of the lens body (51), and receiving light from the light source (41); a reflection face (520) on the inner side of an outer periphery of the lens body (51), totally reflecting the light, having reached from the incident face (510); and an emission face (530) at the upper end of the lens body (51), emitting the light, having reached from the incident face (510) and the reflection face (520), to the outside, and the incident face (510) distributes the light, which could be directed toward the entire region of the reflection face (520), only in a predetermined range (521) within the reflection face, being adjacent to the upper end side portion, following the emission face (530), and being closer to the bottom apex part.
US11105471B2
Provided is an aircraft water tank with a lid joined to an opening portion via internal threads and external threads. An O-ring is compressed so that the opening portion is liquid-tightly sealed, which forms a sealed water storage space in a tank body. The portion of the lid that compresses the O-ring is a corner portion formed by an end surface of an annular plate portion and an outer peripheral surface of a tube portion. The portion of an inner liner that compresses the O-ring is a portion of the inner liner attached to an inclined surface. An end portion of the inner liner attached to the surface of a bulging portion is located outside the water storage space.
US11105463B2
A robot teaching apparatus includes a safety switch unit including a claw adjustable in width and an adapter case corresponding to a shape of a mobile terminal and attached to the mobile terminal. An inner fitting portion that fits into an outer frame of the mobile terminal is disposed on at least a portion of an inside of the adapter case, and an outer fitting portion that fits with the claw of the safety switch unit is disposed on at least a portion of an outside of the adapter case.
US11105457B2
A screw joint has a tubular element with a female thread and a tubular element with a male thread, wherein the male thread and the female thread have first contact surfaces that cooperate with each other, and the tubular elements optionally have second contact surfaces adjacent to the female thread and/or the male thread, wherein the first contact surfaces and the optional second contact surfaces each have a coating including a first and a second layer, wherein the first layer is formed as a conversion layer in each case, one of the first contact surfaces that cooperate with each other has a second layer made of ceramic material with a friction reducing effect and the other of the two contact surfaces that cooperate with each other has, as a second layer, a varnish layer with a binding agent made of an organic polymer throughout which solid lubricant particles are distributed.
US11105455B2
The invention relates to a tubular liner for the rehabilitation of an, in particular, underground sewer pipe, comprising at least an inner tubular film, a resin-carrier layer surrounding the inner tubular film, and comprising a mechanically protective outer film system. The outer film system comprises at least one outer film in the form of a UV-radiation- and short-wavelength, visible light-absorbing and/or -reflecting, single-layer or multi-layer film which contains, in one or more polymer layers, at least one short-wavelength, visible light-absorbing and/or -reflecting, organic or inorganic color pigment or a corresponding dye, and at least one organic or inorganic compound which absorbs and/or reflects the UV radiation. Moreover, the outer film system comprises at least one mechanically stable reinforcing web which rests on the aforementioned outer film. The outer film system has a transmittance for visible light at at least one wavelength in the range of 550 nm to 800 nm of at least 1%. The invention also relates to a method for manufacturing such an outer film system and to such an outer film system itself.
US11105453B2
A pipe coupling member is configured to prevent a coil spring from being plastically deformed or dislodged from a coupling body even when a force acts on a valve element. The pipe coupling member includes a coupling body having a fluid passage, a valve element displaceable in the fluid passage, and a coil spring configured to urge the valve element toward a closed position. The coil spring is formed by helically winding a wire and has a fitting portion fitted and secured in a spring fitting groove, a locking portion contiguous with the fitting portion and having an outer diameter larger than an inner diameter of the fitting portion when fitted in the spring fitting groove, a valve support portion supporting the valve element, and an expanding-contracting portion extending between the locking portion and the valve support portion to expand and contract.
US11105452B1
A push-to-connect joint assembly, device and method include a fitting formed with an interior wall having axially inner, axially intermediate and axially outer portions that facilitate re-use and repair of push-to-connect fittings and valves without damage to the fitting or valve elements or the pipe, and without coining, gluing or threaded engagement of parts. In embodiments, a packing arrangement inserted into a fitting includes a sealing member, a fastening ring, a seat ring, and a retainer including a shield member and/or a seat retainer.
US11105446B1
The present disclosure generally pertains to methods and systems for reinforcing a plastic pipe bell. The disclosure may include arranging a sleeve fabricated from a heat shrinkable plastic around the plastic pipe bell, and shrinking the sleeve around the plastic pipe bell thereby forming a first interference fit between the sleeve and the plastic pipe bell. The disclosure may further include inserting a spigot into the plastic pipe bell and shrinking the sleeve around the spigot thereby and forming a second interference fit directly between the sleeve and the spigot.
US11105442B2
A connection between a hose reel and an anchoring support, with an L-shaped mounting bracket attached to the anchoring support, the L-shaped mounting bracket having an extension flange and a mounting flange disposed at an angle to the extension flange with the mounting flange being connected to the anchoring support, and the frame attached to the mounting bracket with the frame supporting the hose reel in a manner that allows the hose reel to rotate with respect to the frame.
US11105440B2
A water control device includes a valve, the valve including a valve body, the valve body including a first end and a second end, the valve body defining a transmission cavity allowing fluid communication between the first end and the second; a control mechanism located within the transmission cavity, the control mechanism arranged to provide modifiable fluid control within the valve; at least one sensor, the at least one sensor being in fluid communication with the transmission cavity; and at least one remote transmission unit in electronic communication with the sensor.
US11105435B2
A subsea hydraulic system comprises a dual (or dual action) check valve on a port for connection to a remotely operated vehicle (ROV). The check valve provides backpressure to flow in either direction. This keeps hydraulic fluid in the hydraulic system, and seawater out. If flow needs to return to the ROV, it may flow out the port, subject to a selected back pressure.
US11105429B2
A check valve for opening/closing intake-side communication passages through which fuel passes, includes a pump body including a partition wall with the communication passages formed therein, a valve body supported by the partition wall, made of a flexible material, and formed into a plate shape, and a valve seat provided around opening portions of the communication passages on the partition wall and including a seat surface to abut against the valve body when the valve is closed, the seat surface including a groove having an opening-portion-side wall surface lying on an upstream side and an outer-side wall surface lying on a downstream side, the upstream and downstream sides being sides in a direction in which fluid passes between the valve body and the seat surface when the valve is opened, the outer-side wall surface having a gentler slope than a slope of the opening-portion-side wall surface.
US11105427B2
A gate valve includes a first plate with a first opening; a second plate with a second opening positioned opposite the first plate such that the first opening is aligned with the second opening; a gate with a gate opening positioned between the first plate and second plate and movable from a close position where the gate blocks flow through the first opening and the second opening and an open position where the gate opening aligns with the first opening and the second opening to allow flow through the valve; and a wear ring lining the gate opening.
US11105417B2
A continuous speed variation device includes a input friction disc, a output friction disc, and at least three idle oscillating friction roller members. The input and output friction discs have a friction surface of toroidal shape and the idle oscillating roller members have a friction surface shaped in the form of a spherical dome.
US11105416B2
A pressure back-up valve (300) includes a release piston (320) movable between first and second stop positions and a closing body (340) movable to a closing position in which this separates first and second connection pressure chambers (327, 326) when the release piston (320) is in a first stop position. The release piston (320) moves the closing body (340), in the second stop position, into an opening position. The release piston (320) is pressurizable on a first pressure surface (A1) from a first side via a third connection pressure chamber (324) and on a second pressure surface (A2) from a second side via a second connection pressure chamber (326). The closing body (340) is pressurized, in the closing position, from a first side via the second connection pressure chamber (326) on a first pressure surface (A4) and from a second side via the first connection pressure chamber (327) on a second pressure surface (A3) of the closing body (34).
US11105415B2
The “factory installed” hydraulic circuitry of an automotive transmission is modified to increase line pressure to permit heavy duty and high performance applications of the transmission, and to prevent the onboard computer from sensing and counteracting the increased line pressure. The “factory installed” Torque Converter Clutch (TCC) regulator valve is modified to prevent over pressuring of this valve which would otherwise result from the increased line pressure. The “factory installed” Torque Converter Clutch control valve is modified to compensate for the increase in line pressure to adjust the application of the valve to prevent rough or abrupt gear shifts and provide smooth application of the torque converter clutch.
US11105398B1
An offset torque multiplier includes an input planetary gearset configured to receive an input torque. The input planetary gearset includes an input sun gear. The input sun gear is rotatable about a first axis of rotation. The offset torque multiplier includes an output planetary gearset configured to provide an output torque. The output planetary gearset includes an output sun gear. The output sun gear is rotatable about a second axis of rotation. The second axis of rotation is offset from the first axis of rotation. The offset torque multiplier includes at least one intermediate planetary gearset coupled between the input planetary gearset and the output planetary gearset. The output torque is greater than the input torque.
US11105389B2
A metallic liner includes a cylindrical body defining a wear resilient surface, and a bearing carrier extending radially inward from the wear resilient surface, wherein the wear resilient surface and the cylindrical body are formed as a monolithic piece.
US11105388B2
A brake assembly having a non-braking configuration and a braking configuration includes a brake shoe having a brake lining coupled thereto. An actuator is coupled to the brake shoe, the actuator movable along an actuation path between a neutral actuator position and a braking actuator position. An actuator distance between the neutral actuator position and the braking actuator position increases over time in response to a reduction in thickness of a brake lining installed on the brake shoe. Moving the actuator from the neutral actuator position to the braking actuator position past a predetermined actuation distance causes a ratchet mechanism to advance to a next sequential ratchet position, which in turn moves the neutral actuator position of the actuator a predetermined distance away from the minimum actuator position. A sensor is coupled to the ratchet mechanism for detecting the sequential ratchet position of the ratchet mechanism.
US11105385B2
A twin piston caliper with an electric parking brake and method of operating such a twin piston caliper with an electric parking brake. The twin piston caliper housing comprises two separate inner brake pads for each of the two pistons; one outer brake pad at the outer housing finger area; an electric parking brake mechanism configured to be incorporated in between the two pistons so that it is not embedded in the hydraulic piston and not the hydraulic brake fluid; and wherein the electric parking brake mechanism uses its own electric parking brake friction brake pad to clamp against the brake rotor. The method of operating the twin piston caliper with the electric parking brake comprising the following steps: using hydraulic pressure, preferably high pressure overlay, to clamp up inner brake pads and the outer brake pad against a brake rotor; applying the electric parking brake mechanism to clamp an electric parking brake friction brake pad against the brake rotor; releasing the hydraulic pressure to unclamp the two inner brake pads whereby the electric parking brake mechanism maintains the clamp between the outer brake pad and the electric parking brake friction brake pad.
US11105384B2
Systems and a method for braking an object are provided. An example method, includes determining the expected speed of the object, monitoring the expected speed of the object, and determining if the actual speed of the object is within a preset tolerance of the expected speed. If the speed is not within the preset tolerance of the expected speed, a magnetorheological brake is activated to slow the object.
US11105372B2
A sheet metal bearing cage segment includes a first ring section, at least one second ring section, and a plurality of bridges connecting the first and second ring sections to each other and defining a plurality of pockets between the bridges. The bearing cage segment includes first and second circumferentially directed joint edges, the first joint edge is configured to connect to the second joint edge of the bearing cage segment or to a second joint edge of another sheet metal bearing cage segment, and the first joint edge includes at least one body of welding material projecting from the joint edge. The body of welding material may be pressed against the second joint edge while leaving a gap between the joint edges, and the welding material can be liquified by a resistance welding process to connect the joint edges.
US11105370B1
A bearing cage includes a first annular body having a plurality of circumferentially arranged fingers that extending axially therefrom. Each of the fingers have a tab with a first arcuate engagement surface. A second annular body has a plurality of circumferentially arranged finger-receiving holes extending axially and configured to receive the fingers. Each of the holes have an associated second arcuate engagement surface configured to engage with the first arcuate engagement surface when the fingers are received in the holes to secure the first and second bodies together to form the bearing cage.
US11105365B2
A first component with a fixing groove is affixed to a second component, using a ball-head screw having a thread and a ball head, a slot nut for the thread fitting into the fixing groove of the first component, and a fixation part having a ball head seat and a planar fixation support surface for fixing the fixation part to the second component. The ball head seat receives the ball head, forming a ball joint. In a central position, the fixation support surface is parallel and offset to a longitudinal axis of the ball-head screw. The ball-head seat includes recessed portions receiving a screw portion of the ball-head screw. An inclination angle between the longitudinal axis of the ball-head screw in the central position, and the longitudinal axis of the ball-head screw in the position when received in the recessed portion, is at least 90°.
US11105361B2
A screw includes: a head end, a shank and a tapered end, the head end including a tool engaging part, the head end located at one end of the shank and the tapered end located at an opposite end of the shank, wherein a thread is formed along the shank, the thread begins on the tapered end, extends onto the shank and terminates at a set location short of the head end, the thread being a right-hand thread and having a peripheral edge, at least a first helical portion of the peripheral edge includes a plurality of notches and a second helical portion of the thread lacks any notches, wherein the first helical portion is closer to the tapered end than the second helical portion, wherein the head includes an underside formed by a frustoconical part with a plurality of nibs. The head may also include an outer ledge.
US11105360B2
A system for attaching layers of material together comprised of a self-piercing rivet, a layer having a clearance hole through which the self-piercing rivet passes on assembly, and a layer free of a clearance hole and into which the self-piercing rivet is at least partially inserted. The system may include a third layer free of a clearance hole. The system may also include three layers wherein the clearance hole is formed in the middle layer. If the clearance hole is formed in the middle layer, the width of the hole may be greater than the diameter of the self-piercing rivet to avoid contact between the rivet and the middle layer. The layer having the clearance hole may be a hard material such as steel. One or more of the layers may be material that is difficult to pierce or can be damaged if pierced.
US11105358B2
A fastening system is provided, including an anchor (1), which has an anchor area (22) in a front area (32) for anchoring the anchor in a hole (99) in a substrate (5), and a load receiving device (18) in a rear area (33) for introducing a tensile force. A sensor (40) is provided for measuring a distance of the front area from a reference position of the substrate. A measuring method, using a fastening system of this type is also provided.
US11105355B2
A connecting device having a hollow-body-like plug-in part which is of variable outer circumference and which interacts with a fixing device which is at least partially insertable into the plug-in part, wherein the fixing device is connectable to an actuation section which projects out of the plug-in part. Here, the plug-in part, with the fixing device inserted therein and with the actuation section connected thereto, has the minimum external shape thereof in terms of the dimensions thereof when the actuation section is in a rest position. The actuation section is moved by means of axial or radial movement relative to the plug-in part into a working position in which the plug-in part has the maximum external shape thereof in terms of the dimensions thereof, wherein the plug-in part has a closed shape on its side situated opposite the insertion side of the fixing device.
US11105353B2
A connection system for connection of two or more overlapping layers of material includes: a rivet having a head and a stem, the head being configured to bear upon a surface of a first layer of the layers of material, the stem having an outer surface that includes a surface sculpturing and being configured for passing through the layers of material and projecting beyond them; and a washer configured to fit on the stem and configured to bear upon a surface of a last layer of the layers of material, the washer being deformable by axial compression from an undeformed condition where it fits on the stem with play, to a deformed condition where it fits on the stem in a condition of interference with the outer surface of the stem. Moreover described is a corresponding method for joining the layers of material using the connection system.
US11105348B2
A control system for construction machinery, includes a hydraulic pump, first and second actuators connected to the hydraulic pump through first and second parallel lines respectively, first and second control valves installed in the first and second parallel lines respectively and configured to control operations of the first and second actuators, first and second spool displacement adjusting valves configured to control displacement amounts of the spools of the first and second control valves, and a control valve control portion configured to output the control signal, and configured to limit a maximum allowable value of the manipulation signal for the first actuator to a value selected by the operator and limit a spool displacement amount of the second control valve according to the limited manipulation signal for the first actuator when the manipulation signal for a multiple operation of the first and second actuators is received.
US11105347B2
The present disclosure relates to a load dependent flow control system for directing hydraulic fluid to a hydraulic actuator. The load dependent flow control system includes a closed-center valve device for controlling hydraulic fluid flow to the actuator. The closed-center valve device includes a valve spool and an electro-actuator that adjusts a position of the valve spool to adjust a rate of the hydraulic fluid flow supplied to the hydraulic actuator. A pressure sensor is provided for sensing a pressure of the hydraulic fluid provided to the hydraulic actuator. The system also includes an electronic controller configured to receive an operator flow command from an operator interface. The operator flow command corresponds to a base flow through the closed-center valve device. The electronic controller interfaces with the electro-actuator of the closed-center valve device and with the pressure sensor. At least when the sensed pressure is above a threshold pressure, the electronic controller uses the operator flow command and the sensed pressure to generate a pressure-modified flow command that is sent to the closed-center valve device to control flow through the closed-center valve device. The pressure-modified flow command corresponds to a pressure-modified flow through the closed-center valve device. The pressure-modified flow is less than the base flow through the closed-center valve device.
US11105346B2
A hydraulic pressure amplifier arrangement (1) is described comprising a supply port (A1), a pressure outlet (A2) connected to the supply port via check valve means (3), a tank port (B1), an intensifier section (5) having a high pressure piston (6) in a high pressure cylinder (7) which is connected to the pressure outlet (A2), a low pressure piston (8) in a low pressure cylinder (9) and connected to the high pressure piston (6), an intermediate space (11) between the high pressure piston (6) and the low pressure piston (8), a control valve (12) controlling a pressure in the low pressure cylinder (9), and a feeder arrangement of the intensifier section (5) including an input connection (19) connected to the supply port (A1) and a return connection (20) connected to the tank port (B1). Such a pressure amplifier arrangement should have a simple construction. To this end the feeder arrangement (19, 20) comprises throttling means (21).
US11105343B2
The present invention relates in general to the field of fluid reaction surfaces, and more specifically, to a fluid-foil impeller and method of use. One aspect of the fluid-foil impeller utilizes a plurality of fluid-foil discs that may be of uniform and/or variable thickness and configured to rotate rapidly in series to produce propulsion. Each fluid-foil disc comprises a leading edge, a trailing edge, a chord and a fixed pitch. The fluid-foil impeller may further include a standard or Venturi shroud that is designed to encompass the plurality of fluid-foil discs. The plurality of fluid-foil discs are configured to act in cooperation with the shroud to reduce losses incurred from turbulence and the conversion of mechanical work to fluid movement. Fluid may be acted upon by the plurality of fluid-foil discs and/or shroud, singly or in an array. A purpose of the invention is to provide a fluid-foil impeller and method of use that reduces harmful cavitation effects typically encountered by traditional propeller blades when operating at high revolutions per minute. An additional purpose of the invention is to provide a fluid-foil impeller that may be used efficiently and safely in a variety of industrial applications that requires successful propulsion a fluid.
US11105342B2
A tool for removal of a bushing (such as a bushing of a variable stator vane assembly of a compressor) is provided. The tool includes a cylindrical housing, a lead screw, a threaded nut, and a pulling module with puller arms to engage the bushing. The housing defines a longitudinal axis along which the lead screw extends. The lead screw is rotatably secured within the cylindrical housing by a threaded nut engaged with the lead screw. The pulling module is removably attached to the threaded nut, such that the lead screw passes through the threaded nut before passing through the pulling module. The pulling module is provided with a pair of oppositely disposed puller arms, and each puller arm is provided with a hook portion having an engagement tab configured to engage a respective notch on the bushing. A method of removing the bushing using the tool is also disclosed.
US11105337B2
The present invention relates to an axial flow fan and, more particularly, to an axial flow fan comprising: a hub; and a plurality of blades that are disposed radially on the circumference of the hub such that roots of the blades are coupled to the hub, wherein the blades are formed so as to have a waveform shape such that a position of a trailing edge gradually approaches and recedes from a leading edge repeatedly, the trailing edge is positioned on the same plane, and an installation angle changes in the lengthwise direction of the blades.
US11105333B2
A disclosed submersible pump apparatus includes a three-dimensional frame, a pump housing, a drive shaft, an impeller, and first and second motors. The impeller is mounted on the driveshaft within the pump housing and is driven by one or both of the motors. The first motor is connected to a first end of the drive shaft and the second motor connected a second end of the drive shaft. The first and second motors are hydraulic motors and in a first configuration, the first and second motors are configured to cooperatively rotate the drive shaft with hydraulic fluid supplied to and removed from the first and second motors using a parallel fluidic connection. In a second configuration, only one of the motors has a drive gear and drives the drive shaft while the second motor does not have a drive gear and acts as a frictionless bearing supporting the drive shaft.
US11105316B2
A method of controlling noise produced by a wind turbine is disclosed. The wind turbine comprises one or more component cooling devices, and the method comprises: receiving one or more inputs indicative of noise generated by the one or more component cooling devices; determining the contribution of noise from the one or more component cooling devices to overall turbine noise based upon the one or more inputs; and modifying turbine operation based upon the contribution of cooling device noise to overall turbine noise and based upon turbine noise requirements. A corresponding wind turbine controller is also provided.
US11105314B2
Provided is a wind turbine blade for a wind turbine, the wind turbine blade including an electrical conductor extending in a longitudinal direction of the wind turbine blade, and a carbon fiber material being electrically conductive and having a first portion which is arranged beside the electrical conductor, a second portion which is connected to the first portion and is attached and electrically connected to the electrical conductor, and a third portion which is connected to the second portion and at least partially overlaps with the first portion. Due to such an electrical connection between the electrical conductor and the carbon fiber material arcing and, thus, delamination of carbon can be avoided when conducting current of a lightning strike.
US11105309B2
A drive system includes an engine as a drive source, a lead storage battery that is charged using the engine as a motive power source, a starter that starts up the engine by being driven by electric power from the lead storage battery, and a voltage sensor that measures an inter-vehicle voltage of the lead storage battery. A control device that is applied to the drive system determines that the battery has been degraded, when a voltage difference between a first battery start-up voltage and a second battery start-up voltage is larger than a preset degradation determination threshold, the first battery start-up voltage being measured by the voltage sensor when the starter is driven, the second battery start-up voltage being measured by the voltage sensor when the starter is driven at a different timing from a timing when the first battery start-up voltage is measured.
US11105300B2
Methods and systems are provided for a cooling system. In one example, a cooling system comprises a device for regulating a coolant flow, where the device is in force-fit connection to a plurality of crankshafts, each crankshaft corresponding to a single cylinder of a plurality of cylinders. The cooling system further comprises a plurality of injectors for injecting coolant onto outer surfaces of the plurality of injectors.
US11105293B2
A port belt arrangement for use in a two-stroke internal combustion engine containing a pair of adjacent cylinders. The arrangement including a first hollow annulus defining a first annular channel, the first annular channel tapering in a radial direction, with increasing circumferential distance from a first port, an inner wall of the first annular channel having a second port, and a second hollow annulus defining a second annular channel, the second annular channel tapering in a radial direction, with increasing circumferential distance from a third port, an inner wall of the second annular channel having a fourth port, wherein the first hollow annulus and the second hollow annulus are joined together at a joining point located on each of their circumferences. The cross-sectional area of the first annular channel at the joining point is less than the cross-sectional area of the first annular channel at the point on the circumference of the first hollow annulus which is furthest from the joining point.
US11105290B2
Provided is an electronic control device capable of always achieving a desired injector injection amount by preventing a change in injector opening time regardless of a change (a decrease) of a power supply voltage for opening a valve of an injector. A precharge current amount at the time of precharge control is changed in a stepwise manner based on a voltage of the injector valve open power supply device 10 at the time of the precharge control.
US11105289B2
A method and control device for monitoring the function of a particulate filter in an exhaust gas duct of an internal combustion engine. A soot emission in the exhaust gas duct downstream from the particulate filter is determined with a particle sensor, an expected soot emission after a limit particulate filter at the location of the particle sensor is simulated and a comparison value is ascertained. A good particulate filter is found if the measured soot emission is less than the comparison value of the simulated soot emission. A defective particulate filter is found if the measured soot emission is higher than the comparison value of the simulated soot emission. The simulated soot emission is determined as being a simulated soot particle concentration at the installation site of the particle sensor such that a basic soot concentration in a soot concentration model is corrected at least with an oxygen correction.
US11105287B1
Systems and methods for stopping and starting a direct injection engine are described. In one example, the air is injected into one or more pre-chambers of engine cylinders to adjust engine pumping torque during an engine stop so that the engine may stop at a crankshaft position that facilitates direct engine starting.
US11105282B2
Provided is a control device for an internal combustion engine, which can control an injection amount of water injected into each cylinder of the internal combustion engine to a minimum injection amount that allows knock to be suppressed for each cylinder. Therefore, in a control device 1 that controls water supply valves 35 (water supply devices) that supply water into each of combustion chambers of a plurality of cylinders R (cylinders R1 to R3 in the embodiment) of an internal combustion engine 100, the control device 1 includes a water supply amount calculation unit 2 that calculates a supply amount of water supplied to each of the combustion chambers of the plurality of cylinders R1 to R3 for each cylinder, and a water supply control unit 3 that controls the water supply valves 35 based on the supply amount of water calculated by the water supply amount calculation unit 2 for each cylinder.
US11105276B2
A method (30) of protecting an internal combustion engine (12) of a vehicle (10) from damage by induction of liquid, the method (30) comprising: detecting (31) liquid in a gas induction system (11) to the engine (12); and causing (32) valve control means (44) to at least perform one or both of the following: inhibiting gas intake into a combustion chamber (47) of the engine (12) during a gas intake stage (50) of a combustion cycle of the combustion chamber (47); causing gas exhaust from a combustion chamber (47) of the engine (12) during a gas compression stage (51) of the combustion cycle of the combustion chamber (47), wherein the valve control means (44) comprises at least one of a hydraulic circuit or an electromagnetic actuator for controlling, at least in part, the inhibiting gas intake into a combustion chamber (47) and/or at least one of a hydraulic circuit or an electromagnetic actuator for controlling, at least in part, the causing gas exhaust from a combustion chamber (47).
US11105273B2
A system and a method for automatically controlling an exhaust brake of a vehicle may automatically operate an exhaust brake by automatically recognizing a downhill condition during vehicle traveling. The system and method may automatically operating the exhaust brake by determining whether a current vehicle speed is equal to or greater than a speed limit of a speed limit device together with automatically recognizing a downhill condition, thereby achieving safe traveling together with providing traveling convenience of a driver upon downhill traveling.
US11105271B2
A circuit for metering fuel for a turbomachine, including a fuel metering element, a pump designed to pump a flow of fuel to the metering element, and a control valve designed to return, toward the pump, an excess flow of fuel delivered to the metering element as a function of a fuel pressure difference at the terminals of the metering element, the control valve is designed to modulate the excess flow returned toward the pump as a function of variations in the density of the fuel delivered to the metering element. A turbomachine can include such a circuit.
US11105261B2
Detecting manipulation of an SCR catalytic converter system of a motor vehicle. A control command (61) for the SCR catalytic converter system, transmitted from a control unit outside the motor vehicle, is received by the motor vehicle. Manipulation is detected (57) if a response (55) of the SCR catalytic converter system to the execution (54) of the control command (61) does not correspond to expectation. Embodiments also relate to monitoring manipulation of the SCR catalytic converter system. Here, a control command (61) for the SCR catalytic converter system is transmitted (41) to the motor vehicle (10) from a control unit (20) outside the motor vehicle.
US11105258B2
Exhaust gases from an engine, input to turbo-compounder, drive a bladed turbine rotor therein, which drives a multi-phase AC generator, the output of which is used to electrically drive a multi-phase induction motor, the rotor of which is mechanically coupled to the engine, so as to provide for recovering power to the engine. The multi-phase AC generator may be coupled to the engine either by closure of a contactor, engagement of an electrically-controlled clutch, or by control of either a solid-state switching or control system or an AC excitation signal, when the frequency (fGENERATOR) of the multi-phase AC generator meets or exceeds that (fMOTOR) of the multi-phase induction motor.
US11105254B2
A cooling system of an internal combustion engine includes a plurality of components in the form of heat sources, coolant pumps, actuator devices, and temperature sensors that are fluidically connected to one another via coolant lines, wherein a plurality of cooling circuits, each including at least one of the various components, is formed. In addition, a control device is provided that is in signal-conducting connection with at least one of the temperature sensors, with at least one of the coolant pumps, and with at least one of the actuator devices. The control device stores information concerning the association of the individual components with the various cooling circuits and their specific arrangement relative to one another in the individual cooling circuits, information concerning which of the coolant pumps during operation brings about a coolant flow in the individual cooling circuits, information concerning which actuator device(s) may be used to set a volume flow of the coolant by the individual heat sources, and information concerning a setpoint temperature that is stored for each of the heat sources, The control device also is designed to automatically set a volume flow of coolant through the heat sources that is required for reaching the setpoint temperatures, by appropriate control of the particular coolant pump(s) and actuator device(s).
US11105250B1
The present disclosure provides a rain shield assembly, a pipe assembly and a turbine fracturing unit. The rain shield assembly comprises at least two sets of cover plate assemblies, wherein each set of cover plate assembly comprises a cover plate, a transmission mechanism and a locking device. When the cover plate(s) is(are) at a closed position, the opening is covered; when the cover plate of each set of cover plate assembly is at an open position, an additional pipe structure which is open at both ends and extends along an extension direction of the pipe is formed by which. According to the present disclosure, the cover plate(s) of the rain shield assembly, when opened, will jointly form an additional pipe structure connected to the open end of the pipe to guide the exhaust gas of the pipe to a further space. Such an arrangement may reduce noise on the one hand, and prevent backflow of the exhaust gas on the other hand. The cover plate(s) of the rain shield assembly, when closed, can shield the opening of the pipe to prevent entry of rainwater.
US11105242B2
The exhaust gas purification device of the present embodiment is provided in an exhaust gas flow path of an internal combustion engine. The exhaust gas purification device includes a honeycomb catalyst and a PM trapping filter. The honeycomb catalyst is formed by supporting a catalyst on a first substrate which is made of a promoter and has a honeycomb structure. The PM trapping filter is located on the exhaust gas downstream side of the honeycomb catalyst and includes a second substrate having a honeycomb structure, configured to be capable of trapping PM.
US11105237B2
A vehicle engine aftertreatment system includes: a purification module including a plurality of aftertreatment devices having different characteristics, the aftertreatment devices being arranged in parallel; an upstream selection device provided at one side of the purification module for selectively supplying exhaust gas from an engine to one of the aftertreatment devices; and a downstream selection device provided at the other side of the purification module for discharging exhaust gas from one of the aftertreatment devices to out of the purification module.
US11105234B2
The disclosure generally relates to filters, methods, and systems for filtering particulates from the exhaust of internal combustion engines such as gasoline direct injection engines and methods of preparing particulate filters.
US11105231B1
A vehicle liquid testing system includes a liquid testing apparatus with a form factor of a dipstick. The system includes a sensor that detects a property of a fluid in a vehicle and emits a signal indicative of the property. A transmitter receives the signal from the sensor and transmits the signal. A controller receives the signal from the transmitter and compares the signal from the sensor to a threshold level to determine a condition of the fluid.
US11105229B2
A hydraulic camshaft adjuster has a stator, a rotor arranged movably with respect to the stator, and a central valve via which oil supply of working chambers of the hydraulic camshaft adjuster is controlled. A deformable sealing sleeve is arranged between the central valve and the rotor. The sealing sleeve has an initial length in an axial direction, and after assembly, has a deformation such that the length of the sealing sleeve changes from the initial length to an assembled length. The sealing sleeve bears at least partially in the radial direction against the central valve and against the rotor.
US11105225B2
Provided is a new binary power generation system that, in the binary power generation system using exhaust gas as a heating source, maximizes the power generation amount while considering the sulfuric acid dew point temperature of the exhaust gas. In this binary power generation system, corrosion due to sulfuric acid is prevented. Provided is a binary power generation system including a binary power generation apparatus that generates power by vaporizing a power generation medium using heat of exhaust gas output from a drive apparatus, wherein the binary power generation apparatus includes a control section that controls a mass flow rate of the power generation medium based on at least a sulfur concentration of the exhaust gas.
US11105224B2
A water-injection system for power plants and for injecting water into a steam system includes a supply unit, a metering unit and an injection unit. The supply unit is configured to make water available to the metering unit. The metering unit is in the form of an electrically actuable system and is configured to meter a quantity of water to be injected into the steam system and to make it provide to the injection unit. The injection unit is configured to introduce the water into the steam system.
US11105219B2
A stator vane angle system includes an engine case, a plurality of stator vanes located at an interior of the engine case. Each stator vane is rotatable about a stator vane axis. A synchronization ring is located at an exterior of the engine case. The synchronization ring is operably connected to each stator vane of the plurality of stator vanes such that movement of the synchronization ring urges rotation of each stator vane of the plurality of stator vanes about their respective stator vane axes. A plurality of impingement openings extend through the engine case from the interior of the engine case to the exterior of the engine case. The plurality of impingement openings are configured to direct flowpath gases from the interior of the engine case to impinge on the synchronization ring, thereby reducing a thermal mismatch between the engine case and the synchronization ring.
US11105217B2
A turbine generator contains a turbine part and a generator part. The turbine contains a turbine wheel. A sealing arrangement is arranged between the turbine wheel and the generator part, the sealing effect of which varies during operation. The generator part further has a generator shaft, which is supported by an axial bearing configured as a magnetic bearing with two coils axially spaced apart from each other. A bearing ring is arranged between these coils with an axial distance from the coils. To ensure a safe operation, a setpoint value for the axial distance is varied to change the sealing effect of the sealing arrangement. Alternatively or additionally, it is provided that when a current threshold of a coil current is exceeded, a control signal is emitted to control the flow of the medium or the rotational speed.
US11105215B2
A flow path component includes a base portion that extends between a first circumferential side and a second circumferential side. A first wall and a second wall extend radially outward from the base portion. The first wall is axially spaced from the second wall to form a passage between the first and second walls. A slot is formed in the first circumferential side. A notch in the base portion extends in a radial direction from the passage to the slot.
US11105214B2
A blade outer air seal includes a base portion. A first wall and a second wall extend from the base portion. The first wall is circumferentially spaced from the second wall. The first and second walls extend at an angle less than 90° from the base portion. The first and second walls extend towards one another.
US11105206B1
A turbine blade for a gas turbine engine, the turbine blade having: an airfoil including leading and trailing edges joined by spaced apart pressure and suction sides to provide an exterior airfoil surface extending from a platform in a radial direction to a tip; and wherein the exterior airfoil surface is formed in substantial conformance with multiple cross-sectional profiles of the airfoil described by a set of Cartesian coordinates set forth in at least one of Tables 1-3, and wherein the set of Cartesian coordinates in Tables 1-3 are offset from a center point of an inner diameter edge of a forward root face of a root of the turbine blade by offsets of Table 4 to provide the exterior airfoil surface at a span location.
US11105205B2
A rotor shaft adapted to rotate about a rotor axis thereof. The rotor shaft includes a rotor cavity configured concentrically to the rotor axis inside the rotor shaft. The rotor shaft further includes a plurality of cooling bores extending radially outward from the rotor cavity to feed cooling air into an internal cooling system in a blade. Each cooling bore includes a bore inlet portion and a distal bore outlet portion. The respective bore inlet portion ends in a plateau, projecting above the outer circumference contour of the rotor cavity. Thus, cooling bore inlets are shifted to a low stress area and the lifetime of the rotor is improved.
US11105201B2
A steam turbine includes: a rotor; a casing; a thrust bearing; a steam inlet; a first pipe; a first regulation valve; a second pipe; a second regulation valve; and a control device. The control device estimates an exhaust flow rate of the steam turbine based on an operating point map which derives the exhaust flow rate of the steam turbine from an operating point of the steam turbine and estimates the thrust force applied to the thrust bearing based on the exhaust flow rate.
US11105194B2
A probe for a non-excavation guide can include an outer casing and a transmitting antenna. The transmitting antenna can be disposed in the outer casing, with the transmitting antenna including a magnetic core and a coil. The magnetic core can include a plurality of magnetic core segments. The magnetic core segments can be annular in shape and thereby define a hollow segment interior. The magnetic core segments can be sequentially arranged within the outer casing, with the coil located around an outside of the plurality of magnetic core segments. The probe assembly can facilitate the manufacture of the magnetic cores, reduce the disposition of insulating members, facilitate the assembly of the transmitting antenna, and/or reduce production costs.
US11105178B2
A tubular connection system comprises a slip sized to fit about an outer diameter of a tubular, one or more pipeline connectors sized to fit within a tubular housing and comprising a graphite packer and a set of slip limiting rings disposed on either the first side or the second side of the graphite packer against the graphite packer's first C-shaped ring or the second C-shaped ring, and a connector activator operatively in communication with the tubular housing and operative to compress or decompress the first graphite packer.
US11105177B2
A sealing tool for sealing a tubing string at a predetermined location, the sealing tool having a prong assembly and a plug assembly, each of which includes a cavity configured to capture and retain debris, and the plug assembly including at least one equalization hole for fluid communication through the plug when unobstructed by the prong.
US11105176B2
Cementing plugs and methods of forming cementing plugs containing a plurality of objects are disclosed. In some implementations, the cementing plug includes a body having a plurality of objects dispersed within the body. One or more of the objects may protrude from a surface of the body of the cementing plug. In some implementations, the plurality of objects may be irregularly-shaped, uniformly-shaped, or a combination of irregularly-shaped and uniformly-shaped. The plurality of objects may be randomly distributed in the body of the cementing plug or uniformly arranged in the body of the cementing plug. In some implementations, a portion of the plurality of objects may be uniformly arranged and another portion of the plurality of objects may be randomly distributed in the body of the cementing plug.
US11105174B2
A blowout preventer (BOP) stack module includes a chassis core having a module frame, wherein the chassis core supports one or more submodules each configured to perform a function of a BOP stack, an underwater vehicle coupling hardware coupled to the chassis core, wherein the underwater vehicle coupling hardware couples with an underwater vehicle configured to transport and selectively couple and uncouple the BOP stack module relative to the BOP stack, and a mechanical connector coupled to the chassis core, wherein the mechanical connector couples to a stack frame of the BOP stack, and at least one port coupled to the chassis core, wherein the at least one port is a fluid port, a hydraulic port, a pneumatic port, an electrical port, or a combination thereof, wherein the at least one port couples with a corresponding port of the BOP stack.
US11105171B2
This disclosure includes auxiliary-line riser segment assemblies (e.g., with isolation units) that are suitable for managed pressure drilling (MPD) and that can be lowered (e.g., when connected to other riser segment assemblies) through a rotary of a drilling rig. Some embodiments are configured to have portions of the auxiliary lines connected (e.g., without welding) below the rotary.
US11105164B2
A system and method for separating two or more materials, such as a solid from a liquid, or a solid from a slurry, are provided. An exemplary system and method for separating drill cuttings from drilling fluids are provided, as well as a system and method of processing such separated drill cuttings. In another implementation, a system and method is provided for separating gold (or another mineral, element, or solid) from a slurry or liquid that includes mining cuttings.
US11105162B1
A system for injecting a tubing into a wellbore including a length of tubing; and an injector apparatus for disposing the length of tubing within a wellbore. The injector apparatus includes a pair of gripper chains where each gripper chain has a plurality of gripper blocks coupled therewith and a block body positioned adjacent to the gripping region and configured to couple the gripper chain. Each of the gripper blocks include a gripping region having a radical/curved v-shaped gripping surface.
