US11128131B2
The power control device reliably disconnects the current path of the failed output transistor. In particular, the power control device includes output transistors, an output terminal, bonding wires connecting the output transistors to the output terminal, output transistor driving circuits controlling the output of the output transistors, and a failure detection circuit detecting the failure of the output transistors. When the failure detection circuit detects the failure of the output transistors and outputs the failure detection signals, the output transistor drive circuits control the outputs of the output transistors so that a larger current flows through the bonding wires than when the failure is not detected.
US11128114B2
A power control apparatus can include a power circuit configured to transfer power to a load circuit. The apparatus can also include one or more environmental sensors configured to register environmental data including at least one of movement, hazardous gas, environmental temperature, environmental moisture, and collision data associated with the apparatus. The apparatus can also include a power controller circuit operatively connected to the one or more environmental sensors and the power circuit, the power controller circuit being configured to receive the environmental data from the one or more environmental sensors, determine whether the received environmental data exceeds a predetermined threshold, and in response to determining that the received environmental data exceeded a predetermined threshold, interrupting supply of power from the power circuit to the load circuit.
US11128107B2
An electrical protection component having a short-circuit device is disclosed. In an embodiment an electrical protection component includes a short-circuiting device including a surge arrester including electrodes and a thermal short-circuiting device including a clip, a first section of which is snapped onto the surge arrester and a second section of which comprises a short-circuiting link, wherein the short-circuiting link of the clip is spaced apart from at least one of the electrodes by a fusible element, wherein the short-circuiting link electrically conductively connects two of the electrodes to one another when the fusible element melts, and wherein the fusible element has a melting point of at least 300 degrees Celsius.
US11128094B2
A method and apparatus can include: audio interface pins coupled to swappable connections including a BCLK, an LRCLK, a DIN, and a DOUT; a BCLK determiner configured to identify the BCLK as the swappable connection with a highest frequency; an LRCLK determiner configured to: measure cycle lengths, compare the cycle lengths to a pre-defined multiple, identify the LRCLK as the swappable connections, and output an association between the LRCLK and one of the audio interface pins; and a mode determiner configured to identify and output a mode based on the association of the BCLK to the audio interface pins and the association of the LRCLK to the audio interface pins.
US11128091B2
A lever-type connector includes a mating housing having a cam boss, a housing fitted into and detached from the mating housing, a lever rotatably supported by the housing via a lever boss and rotating an operation unit to fit the both housings and a cable cover mounted to the rear of the housing and protecting a plurality of the cables pulled out from the rear of the housing. The lever has a temporary locking lock unit. The housing includes a temporary locking unit that temporarily locks the temporary locking lock unit, and a storage unit that stores the temporary locking lock unit in which the temporarily locked state with the temporary locking unit is released. The mating housing has a release unit that releases the temporarily locked state between the temporary locking lock unit and the temporary locking unit.
US11128090B2
It is aimed to provide a connector capable of dispersing stress during unlocking and avoiding enlargement in a connected state. A connector includes a housing body and a lock arm for locking a mating housing in a connected state. The lock arm includes a leg rising from the housing body and an arm body facing the housing body and extending to intersect the leg. The leg is inclined in a connecting direction of the mating housing with distance from the housing body. The lock arm includes an entrance space, into which a tip of the mating housing enters, in a formation range of the leg in the connecting direction and between the leg and the arm body.
US11128089B2
A connecting device for connecting runs of communication material having a predetermined length and coupling elements at both ends is provided. The connecting device includes a first end, an opposing second end, and a separating element. The first end couples to a coupling element of a first run of communication material and the second end couples to a coupling element of a second run of communication material. The first run and second run of communication material is separated in response to activation of the separating element. Also provided is a bulk cable packaging system that includes a plurality of runs of communication material, each run having a predetermined length and coupling elements at both ends and a plurality of connecting devices. The runs of communication material are coupled together with the connecting devices is operatively coupled to a reel. The reel is then operatively coupled within a container.
US11128088B2
A terminal can be slidably held while liquid-tightness and airtightness are steadily maintained. Included are a base part where a rear through-hole is formed; a terminal storage case which includes a front plate part where a front through-hole is formed, and in which a rear end is connected to the base part; a terminal that includes an axis part, a contact part, and a flange, the rear end proximity part of the axis part being slidably inserted into the rear though-hole, and the contact part being slidably inserted into the front through-hole; an energizing member that is mounted on the circumference of the axis part and energizes the flange to a front; and a cylindrical sealing member that includes a first sealing member interposed between the tip end of the energizing member and the flange, a second sealing member interposed between the rear end of the energizing member and the base part, and a central cylinder for connecting the first sealing member with the second sealing member.
US11128085B2
The subject matter of the present invention is a sealing system configured to form a leak tight electrical connection on a face of an electrical equipment, said sealing system including: a base, comprising a first plate, comprising a through orifice of which the edge is continually comprised in a face of said first plate, a plug comprising a second plate comprising at least one through hole, configured for the passage of at least one electric wire, and a part projecting from said plate suited to being inserted into the orifice, a face of the second plate coming against a face of the first plate, said plug having a flexibility greater than the flexibility of the base, such that the difference in flexibility ensures a constraining of the second plate on the first plate, in such a way as to ensure the sealing of the electrical equipment.
US11128080B2
An electrical connector or electrical connector assembly that has a housing, a contact carrier, one or more spring members, and an interposer or contact system. The contact carrier is movable with respect to the housing between unmated and mated electrical positions.
US11128078B1
A current carrying clip contact and electrical connector have a first stationary beam and a movable beam. The first stationary beam has first planar tab engagement section and a first lead-in surface which extends from the first planar tab engagement section. The has a second planar tab engagement section, an arcuate retention section extending from the second planar tab engagement section, and a second lead-in surface extending from the arcuate retention section. The arcuate retention section of the movable beam is movable across a plane of the first planar tab engagement section of the first stationary beam as a mating tab is inserted between the first stationary beam and the movable beam.
US11128071B2
Systems for interfacing a printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) adapter module to a receiver housing are provided. The receiver housing may have a first interface mounted on the receiver housing via a first mount and the PCBA adapter module may have a second interface mounted on the adapter module via a second mount. One of the interfaces has a protruding feature that aligns the interfaces when matingly engaged, while the other interface has a centering hole opposite the protruding feature. The first centering hole is enlarged with respect to an axis of an insertion-angle plane such that the protruding feature substantially clears the centering hole without causing either interface to exceed a limit of free-play between that interface and its respective mount.
US11128064B2
A connection device for connecting a shield conductor of an electrical cable to a grounding section includes: a housing surrounding a receiving space into which an electrical cable is insertable with a shield conductor along a longitudinal axis, the housing being attachable to the grounding section such that the grounding section extends at least partly in the receiving space; and a spring element which is adjustably disposed on the housing and which has a clamping leg and is movable from an open position to a clamped position relative to the housing such that when in the clamped position, the spring element acts with the clamping leg on the shield conductor of the electrical cable inserted in the receiving space, the clamping leg having an engagement portion for acting on the shield conductor, the engagement portion having an at least partially curved or angled engagement contour.
US11128056B2
A novel planar antenna array fed by an integrated waveguide and a method for producing same is presented. The antenna array is an aperture coupled array fed by an embedded microstrip line. The embedded microstrip line transitions to a stripline feed then back to a microstrip line such that the lower ground plane of the antenna array becomes the upper ground plane with the waveguide placed on the backside of the array. The microstrip feed then couples to the waveguide for signal transmission and reception. With the exception of the waveguide itself, the elements can be simultaneously fabricated on the same RF board, using subtractive (e.g., milling, etching) and additive (e.g., deposition, 3D printing) methods.
US11128051B2
Examples disclosed herein relate to a multi-frequency electromagnetic feed line. The multi-frequency electromagnetic feed line includes a waveguide that has a plurality of slots arranged laterally along a length of the waveguide that corresponds to a first axis, in which the plurality of slots are configured to radiate electromagnetic signaling from an input end of the waveguide to a terminal end of the waveguide. The waveguide also has a plurality of vias arranged proximate to the terminal end of the waveguide in a predetermined angle relative to a second axis orthogonal to the first axis, in which the plurality of vias are configured to terminate the plurality of slots for different frequencies of an operating frequency band. A first slot of the plurality of slots that is arranged closest to the terminal end has varying distances to different vias. Other examples disclosed herein relate a method of fabricating a waveguide.
US11128048B2
A manufacturing method of a coil component including the steps of: holding a plurality of semi-finished products, each of which includes a base and a coil before forming the coil component, with a jig having a holding portion; setting the plurality of semi-finished products held by the jig to the setting positions of the jig in a mold; and sealing at least a portion within the base and the coil with resin by filling the resin into a cavity of the mold.
US11128042B2
Embodiments of the present application provide an antenna adjustment apparatus. The antenna adjustment apparatus includes a first drive wheel, a first gear, a second drive wheel, a second gear, and multiple output gears. The first drive wheel is meshed with the first gear, the second drive wheel is meshed with the second gear, an axis of the second gear coincides with an axis of the first drive wheel, and the output gears are connected to the phase shifters. When the second drive wheel propels the second gear to rotate, the first gear revolves around the axis of the second gear, is selectively meshed with one of the output gears, and is driven by the first drive wheel to propel the output gear to rotate and drive the phase shifter connected to the output gear.
US11128039B2
A method for designing an antenna including defining an operating frequency of an antenna radiating element located within an antenna cavity structure; determining a non-loaded depth of the antenna cavity structure; determining a reduced depth of the antenna cavity structure; determining a reduction factor to reduce the non-loaded depth to the reduced depth; and selecting a dielectric material, at least partially forming a radome structure covering the antenna radiating element, to achieve the reduction factor.
US11128036B2
An integrated antenna unit includes an integrated radiating element; a reflect board beneath the integrated radiating element without a direct contact therebetween; and an RF component device for processing signal of interest for a radio unit. The RF component device is placed beneath the integrated radiating element and on the reflecting board, and serves a support of a fixture structure of the radiating element to the reflecting board; whereby a space between the radiating element and the reflecting board can be efficiently used for the RF component device.
US11128026B2
Provided, as a multi-divisional antenna, in the present disclosure, is a canister antenna having a plurality of divided antennas arranged so as to have an integrated appearance. The antennas are fixed to an adapter with strong tension by using a connection member such as a wire. The multi-divisional antenna according to the present disclosure is solid, low cost, and convenient with respect to manufacturing, installation, and maintenance.
US11128025B2
A signal transmission device is provided. The signal transmission device includes a heat dissipation member, a first antenna module and a positioning clamp. The first antenna module is disposed on the heat dissipation member and thermally connected to the heat dissipation member. The positioning clamp is disposed on the heat dissipation member. The first antenna module is sandwiched between the positioning clamp and the heat dissipation member. The positioning clamp is adapted to restrict the first antenna module. The positioning clamp includes a plurality of clamp openings and a plurality of spacing ribs. At least a few of the clamp openings correspond to the first antenna module, and the clamp openings are defined by the spacing ribs.
US11128019B2
One aspect of the present invention is directed to an energy storage device electrode including a conductive electrode substrate including a main body and at least one plate-shaped tab and an insulating layer coating a surface and a side surface of a base end of the tab.
US11128011B2
A rechargeable battery pack includes an external housing with a housing base and a housing hood, connected to the housing base and surrounding an interior space, and a rechargeable battery cell block arranged in the interior space. The battery pack has a water discharge structure for discharging water contained in the interior space and/or water entering the external housing from the outside. The water discharge structure has, on one side of the external housing, a double-labyrinth wall structure which is open to liquid. An outer labyrinth wall structure is formed by overlapping respectively of an outer side wall of the housing base and housing hood. An inner labyrinth wall structure, which is arranged offset in relation to the outer labyrinth wall structure in the direction of the interior space, is formed by overlapping respectively of an inner side wall of the housing base and housing hood.
US11128007B2
This disclosure relates to a battery arrangement for an electrified vehicle. In particular, the battery arrangement includes modules which are configured to move relative to one another in a transverse direction. For instance, an example battery arrangement includes a guide, and first and second battery modules. The guide is arranged at least partially between adjacent surfaces of the battery module housings and is configured to permit the first and second battery modules to slide relative to one another in a transverse direction of the electrified vehicle.
US11128003B2
According to one embodiment, in a secondary battery, a first container member has an accommodating space defined by a bottom wall and side walls, and includes a flange, defining an edge of the opening of the accommodating space, at a portion opposite to the bottom wall. The electrode group is accommodated in the accommodating space, and the second container member is arranged to face the flange. A welding part, provided on an outer side relative to the edge of the opening, hermetically welds the flange and the second container member to seal the accommodating space. A projection, provided on one of the flange and the second container member between the welding part and the edge of the opening, projects toward another of the flange and the second container member.
US11127995B2
An energy storage device and structure for energy storage cells is provided that includes a plurality of energy storage cells. Each of the energy storage cells has an upper side and a lower side. The plurality of energy storage cells are arranged in a pattern with each energy storage cell being spaced apart from one another. The upper sides of each of the energy storage cells are adjacent to one another. A phase change composition (PCC) material has through holes arranged in the pattern. A portion of each of the energy storage cells is positioned within a respective through hole. A lightweight material is adjacent to the PCC material and surrounds at least another portion of each of the energy storage cells. The PCC material is closer to the upper side of the energy storage cells than the lightweight material.
US11127994B2
The invention relates to an energy store (1), in particular a high-voltage energy store, for motor vehicles, comprising a cell stack, which has a plurality of cell units (3) stacked one on the other and which has a plurality of cell holders (15, 16) of plastic, each of which is arranged between two cell units (3) lying one on the other in order to hold and align the stacked cell units (3), and comprising at least one flat heat sink (10, 17). According to the invention, the at least one heat sink (17) is arranged within the cell stack (2) on at least one of the cell units (3).
US11127992B2
Cathode material from exhausted lithium ion batteries are dissolved in a solution for extracting the useful elements Co (cobalt), Ni (nickel), Al (Aluminum) and Mn (manganese) to produce active cathode materials for new batteries. The solution includes compounds of desirable materials such as cobalt, nickel, aluminum and manganese dissolved as compounds from the exhausted cathode material of spent cells. Depending on a desired proportion, or ratio, of the desired materials, raw materials are added to the solution to achieve the desired ratio of the commingled compounds for the recycled cathode material for new cells. The desired materials precipitate out of solution without extensive heating or separation of the desired materials into individual compounds or elements. The resulting active cathode material has the predetermined ratio for use in new cells, and avoids high heat typically required to separate the useful elements because the desired materials remain commingled in solution.
US11127991B2
A rapid charging method and a system for a mobile terminal are provided, which are capable of increasing charging current and dissipating heat. The method includes communicating a controller of the mobile terminal with the charging accessory through a Type-C interface after the mobile terminal detects that the charger is connected to an electric power supply; turning on a load switch by the controller, so that the microcontroller controls a first charging integrated circuit (IC) to start charging, and the controller controls a second charging IC of the mobile terminal to start charging; and stopping charging of the second charging IC of the mobile terminal, and charging the first charging IC of the charging accessory until power of the battery is full when a charging current gradually decreases to a threshold.
US11127980B2
Localized superconcentrated electrolytes (LSEs) for use in systems with silicon-based or carbon/silicon composite-based anodes are disclosed. The LSEs include an active salt, a nonaqueous solvent in which the active salt is soluble, and a diluent in which the active salt has a solubility at least 10 times less than solubility of the active salt in the nonaqueous solvent. Systems including the LSEs also are disclosed.
US11127978B2
An organic electrolytic solution, including a first lithium salt, an organic solvent, and a bicyclic sulfate-based compound represented by Formula 1 below: wherein, in Formula 1, each of A1, A2, A3, and A4 is independently a covalent bond, a substituted or unsubstituted C1-C5 alkylene group, a carbonyl group, or a sulfinyl group, wherein both A1 and A2 are not a covalent bond and both A3 and A4 are not a covalent bond.
US11127972B2
The present disclosure relates to a battery, a method for preparing the same, an application method and an electronic device. The battery includes: a battery panel, in which the battery panel is capable of being switched between a first state and a second state, in the first state, the cation-transporting subunit is in contact with the ion-receiving subunit and one of the two ion-supplying subunits, and the anion-transporting subunit is in contact with the ion-receiving subunit and the other of the two ion-supplying subunits; in the second state, the cation-transporting subunit is not in contact with the ion-receiving subunit and one of the two ion-supplying subunits, and the anion-transporting subunit is not in contact with the ion-receiving subunit and the other of the two ion-supplying subunits.
US11127971B2
A battery plate loading system includes a battery plate separator apparatus having a work surface for receiving a stack of battery plates, and a loading mechanism including an arm coupled to the work surface. The arm is pivotable to move the work surface between a substantially horizontal position and a substantially vertical position. A pallet has a surface arranged to receive a plurality of stacks of battery plates, each stack being arranged in at least a first or a second orientation; and, a robot head arrangement configured to transfer stacks of battery plates from the pallet to the battery plate separator apparatus. The robot head arrangement includes a sensor configured to detect the orientation of each stack. The pivotable arm is configured to move the work surface to the substantially horizontal position or to the substantially vertical position in response to the detected orientation of a selected stack.
US11127970B2
A method for producing an electrode stack for an energy store of a motor vehicle; as electrodes, cathodes and anodes being alternately stacked on top of one another with the interposition of a separator strip, the separator strip first having the cathodes and anodes laid thereon, thereby forming an electrode strip, and, subsequently thereto, the electrode strip being folded numerous times to stack the cathodes and the anodes on top of one another. It is provided that the electrode strip be oriented in a horizontal plane for the folding process, and, on that basis, be folded in sections or, as a whole, between the electrodes.
US11127966B2
A cathode can include: an electrode substrate; a porphyrin precursor attached to the substrate; and an enzyme coupled to the electrode substrate to be associated with the porphyrin precursor, the enzyme reduces oxygen. The cathode can include a conductive material associated with the porphyrin precursor and/or the enzyme. The cathode can include 1-pyrenebutanoic acid, succinimidyl ester (PBSE) associated with the porphyrin precursor and/or the enzyme and/or the conductive material. The cathode can include 2,5-dimethyl-1-phenyl-1H-pyrrole-3-carbaldehyde (DMY-Carb) associated with the 1-pyrenebutanoic acid, succinimidyl ester (PBSE) and/or the porphyrin precursor and/or the enzyme and/or the conductive material. The porphyrin precursor is attached to the substrate through covalent coupling. In some aspects, substrate is linked to the porphyrin precursor, the porphyrin precursor is linked to the conductive material, the conductive material is linked to the PBSE, the PBSE is linked to the DMY-carb, and the DMY-carb is linked to the enzyme.
US11127954B2
Provided by the present invention is a cathode material for a sodium-ion battery with a coating structure and a preparation method therefor. In the present invention, an Na3V2(PO4)3/C cathode material is prepared by means of a sol-gel method. Synthesized zwitterionic polymers may be used as chelating agents and as a carbon source; the process is simple, can quickly form a gel, and the reaction time is shortened contains a zwitterionic structure which may be well dissolved with the precursor of sodium vanadium phosphate to form a stable carbon coating layer. Compared to the prior art, the cathode material for a sodium-ion battery of the present invention enhances the electrical conductivity and cycle performance of the cathode material by means of the doping of nitrogen and sulfur on carbon. At the same time, the prepared cathode material for a sodium-ion battery has sodium vacancies and maintains a stable structure during the process of sodium-ion intercalation/deintercalation.
US11127941B2
This disclosure provides an electrochemical cell electrode including a film layer deposited on an electrically conductive substrate. The film layer includes a concentration of carbon aggregates formed from a plurality of few layer graphene sheets orthogonally fused together. A porous structure is defined by the plurality of few layer graphene sheets and is configured to any provide for electrical conduction between contact points between any two or more of the plurality of few layer graphene sheets or host an electroactive material. The electrochemical cell electrode can be an anode. The electroactive material can include an elemental lithium (Li) interspersed in a D-spacing between adjacent few layer graphene sheets in the anode. An additional film can be deposited on the film. The film can be configured to provide a first electrical conductivity and the additional film can be configured to provide a second electrical conductivity different from the first electrical conductivity.
US11127938B2
A method of fabricating a battery electrode includes forming a mixture including an electrode material and a binder; forming an electrode blank from the mixture; heating the electrode blank at a predetermined temperature for a predetermined time to form an annealed electrode blank; and laminating the annealed electrode blank to a current collector. The current collector may include a conductive carbon coating. In such event, the method may further include heating the current collector at a selected temperature for a selected time prior to laminating the annealed electrode blank to the current collector.
US11127933B2
An array substrate and a method for manufacturing the same, a method for repairing an array substrate, and a display apparatus are provided. The array substrate includes a base substrate and pixel units above the base substrate, each pixel unit includes a light emitting device, the light emitting device includes a first electrode and a second electrode, at least one pixel unit is provided with a repair structure, the repair structure includes a first part and a second part mutually insulated, the first part and the second part are electrically coupled after being repaired, the first part is electrically coupled to the first electrode of the light emitting device in the pixel unit where the repair structure is located, the second part is electrically coupled to the first electrode of the light emitting device in any pixel unit other than the pixel unit where the repair structure is located.
US11127931B2
A method for manufacturing a display panel includes forming a circuit element layer including a transistor on a plurality of cell areas of a first working substrate. Each of the cell areas includes a hole area on which at least one first sub-opening groove on which the circuit element layer is not formed is located. The method further includes forming a display element layer including a light emitting element on the plurality of cell areas, removing at least one inorganic layer of the display element layer formed in the first sub-opening groove by stamping to define a second sub-opening groove, coupling the first working substrate to a second working substrate to define a working panel, and cutting the working panel into portions corresponding to the plurality of cell areas.
US11127926B2
A method of manufacturing a display device having an organic EL device includes the steps of: forming an organic EL device over a substrate; and forming a protection film so as to cover the organic EL device. The protection film is made of a laminated film of a first insulating film containing Si, a second insulating film containing Al and a third insulating film containing Si. The step of forming the protection film includes the steps of: forming the first insulating film by a plasma CVD method so as to cover the organic EL device; forming the second insulating film over the first insulating film by an ALD method; and forming the third insulating film over the second insulating film by a plasma CVD method.
US11127925B2
The present invention provides an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display panel, the OLED display panel comprises a display region and a non-display region, and the OLED display panel comprises a flexible substrate, a thin film transistor (TFT) layer, an OLED light-emitting layer, and a thin film packaging layer. The thin film packaging layer comprises a first inorganic layer, an organic layer, and a second inorganic layer. Wherein the first inorganic layer and the second inorganic layer respectively extend from the display region to the non-display region, a portion of the first inorganic layer located in the non-display region comprises a porous array structure, and a portion of the second inorganic layer located in the non-display region covers the first inorganic layer and fills the porous array structure.
US11127918B2
A display device includes: an organic EL layer formed over a circuit section formed over a substrate, an insulating layer interposed between the circuit section and the organic EL layer; a cathode electrode formed over the organic EL layer in common for all pixels; and a contact electrode that is provided at an outer peripheral portion of an effective pixel region and that electrically connects the cathode electrode and the circuit section. In the display device, the cathode electrode is electrically connected to the contact electrode, on an inner side as compared to an end surface of a film formation area of the organic EL layer.
US11127916B2
An optically functional layer (160) is formed over a part of a second surface (100b) of a substrate (100). A first electrode (110) is formed over the optically functional layer (160), and a second electrode (130) is formed over the first electrode (110). An organic layer (120) is located between the first electrode (110) and the second electrode (130) and includes a light emitting layer. A plurality of the second electrodes (130) are formed. At least a part of a region between the plurality of second electrodes (130) has optical transparency. At least a part of an edge of the second electrode (130) is located outside the optically functional layer (160).
US11127910B2
An imaging device according to the disclosure includes: a semiconductor substrate including an effective pixel region in which a plurality of pixels are disposed, and a peripheral region provided around the effective pixel region; an organic photoelectric conversion layer provided on side of the semiconductor substrate on which a light receiving surface is disposed; a first sealing layer provided on the semiconductor substrate; a recess provided in the first sealing layer on the effective pixel region; and a light shielding film provided on the first sealing layer on the peripheral region.
US11127909B2
The present technology relates to a photoelectric conversion element, a measuring method of the same, a solid-state imaging device, an electronic device, and a solar cell capable of further improving a quantum efficiency in a photoelectric conversion element using a photoelectric conversion layer including an organic semiconductor material. The photoelectric conversion element includes two electrodes forming a positive electrode (11) and a negative electrode (14), at least one charge blocking layer (13, 15) arranged between the two electrodes, and a photoelectric conversion layer (12) arranged between the two electrodes. The at least one charge blocking layer is an electron blocking layer (13) or a hole blocking layer (15), and a potential of the charge blocking layer is bent. The present technology is applied to, for example, a solid-state imaging device, a solar cell, and the like having a photoelectric conversion element.
US11127908B2
Provided is a display device including a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel adjacent to the first sub-pixel. The first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel each include a semiconductor film, a gate electrode, a gate insulating film, an interlayer insulating film, and a leveling film and further possesses a light-emitting element located over the leveling film. The display device has a partition wall located between the first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel and a trench passing through the leveling film.
US11127896B2
The present disclosure is drawn to, among other things, a magnetoresistive memory. The magnetoresistive memory comprises a plurality of magnetoresistive memory devices, wherein each magnetoresistive memory device includes a fixed magnetic region, a free magnetic region, and an intermediate region disposed in between the fixed and free magnetic regions. The magnetoresistive memory further comprises a first conductor extending adjacent each magnetoresistive memory device of the plurality of magnetoresistive devices, wherein the first conductor is in electrical contact with the free magnetic region of each magnetoresistive memory device.
US11127895B2
According to one embodiment, a magnetic memory device includes a first insulating region, a first counter insulating region, a first conductive member, and a first magnetic element. The first conductive member is provided between the first insulating region and the first counter insulating region. The first conductive member extends in a first direction crossing a second direction. The second direction is from the first insulating region toward the first counter insulating region. The first magnetic element is provided between the first insulating region and the first counter insulating region. A third direction from the first conductive member toward the first magnetic element crosses a plane including the first and second directions. A portion of a first insulating side surface of the first insulating region opposes the first conductive member. A portion of a first counter insulating side surface of the first counter insulating region opposes the first conductive member.
US11127884B2
An optoelectronic device including an active area capable of supplying an electromagnetic radiation and sandwiched between first and second semiconductor layers, the first semiconductor layer delimiting a surface, the optoelectronic device further including a diffraction grating capable of extracting the electromagnetic radiation from the first semiconductor layer, the diffraction grating including holes extending in the first semiconductor layer from said surface, the width of the holes measured in a plane parallel to said surface increasing from a central portion of the diffraction grating to a peripheral portion of the diffraction grating.
US11127881B2
In one approach, an LED array uses a combination of a half cavity and straight reflective sidewalls to improve the power distribution so that more light falls within the collection angle of the projection optics. From the bottom upwards, the LEDs in the array include a reflector, a thinner p-layer and a thicker n-layer. An active region (such as quantum wells) between the p-layer and the p-layer generates light. Without additional structures, the generated light would have an isotropic distribution and not much of the light would fall within the collection angle of the projection optics. However, the bottom reflector and p-layer form a half cavity for the light emitted from the active region. This alters the angular power distribution. Straight reflective sidewalls extending from the active region upwards into the n-layer further reflect light from the altered power distribution into the collection angle of the projection optics.
US11127879B2
Disclosed herein is a light emitting diode (LED), which includes a first-type semiconductor unit, an active layer formed on the first-type semiconductor unit, and a second-type semiconductor unit formed on the active layer oppositely of the first-type semiconductor unit. The second-type semiconductor unit includes a hole storage structure that has a polarization field having a direction pointing toward the active layer.
US11127866B2
Approaches for the metallization of solar cells and the resulting solar cells are described. In an example, a method of fabricating a solar cell involves forming a barrier layer on a semiconductor region disposed in or above a substrate. The semiconductor region includes monocrystalline or polycrystalline silicon. The method also involves forming a conductive paste layer on the barrier layer. The method also involves forming a conductive layer from the conductive paste layer. The method also involves forming a contact structure for the semiconductor region of the solar cell, the contact structure including at least the conductive layer.
US11127863B2
This invention concerns a gate structure and a process for its manufacturing. In particular, the present invention concerns the gate structuring of a field effect transistor with reduced thermo-mechanical stress and increased reliability (lower electromigration or diffusion of the gate metal). The gate structure according to the invention comprises a substrate; an active layer disposed on the substrate; an intermediate layer disposed on the active layer, the intermediate layer-having a recess extending through the entire intermediate layer towards the active layer; and a contact element which is arranged within the recess, the contact element completely filling the recess and extending to above the intermediate layer, the contact element resting at least in sections directly on the intermediate layer; the contact element being made of a Schottky metal and the contact element having an interior cavity completely enclosed by the Schottky metal.
US11127855B2
A LDMOS transistor that may include (i) a first region that is a reduced surface field (RESURF) implant region of a first type; (ii) a second region that is a RESURF implant region of a second type, wherein the first type differs from the second type; (iii) a gate; (iv) a stepped oxide region and a gate oxide region that are positioned above the first region and below the gate. Each one of the first region and the second region has a substantially uniform thickness
US11127850B2
A semiconductor device includes a first conductivity type semiconductor layer including an active cell portion and an outer peripheral portion around the active cell portion, a second conductivity type body region selectively formed at a surface portion of the semiconductor layer in the active cell portion, a first conductivity type source region formed at an inner part of the body region, a gate electrode that faces a part of the body region through a gate insulating film, a second conductivity type column layer straddling a boundary between the active cell portion and the outer peripheral portion inside the semiconductor layer such that the column layer is disposed at a lower part of the body region in the active cell portion, a source electrode that is electrically connected to the source region, and an outer peripheral electrode that is electrically connected to the column layer in the outer peripheral portion.
US11127844B2
A semiconductor device includes: a drift layer; a mesa region that is interposed between adjacent trenches on the drift layer; a gate electrode buried in each trench through a gate insulating film; a base region of buried in the mesa region; a plurality of emitter regions that are periodically buried in a surface layer portion of the base region along a longer direction of the trench; and contact regions that are alternately buried in the longer direction together with the emitter regions such that each emitter region is interposed between the contact regions, are deeper than the emitter region, and extend immediately below the emitter region so as to be separated from each other, a contact-region contact-width in the longer direction defined in a surface of the contact region being less than an emitter-region contact-width in the longer direction defined in a surface of the emitter region.
US11127840B2
Disclosed is a method for manufacturing an isolation structure for LDMOS, the method comprising: forming a first groove on the surface of a wafer; filling the first groove with silicon oxide; removing part of the surface of the silicon oxide within the first groove by means of etching; forming a silicon oxide corner structure at the corner of the top of the first groove by means of thermal oxidation; depositing a nitrogen-containing compound on the surface of the wafer to cover the surface of the silicon oxide within the first groove and the surface of the silicon oxide corner structure; dry-etching the nitrogen-containing compound to remove the nitrogen-containing compound from the surface of the silicon oxide within the first groove, and thereby forming a nitrogen-containing compound side wall residue; with the nitrogen-containing compound side wall residue as a mask, continuing to etch downwards to form a second groove; forming a silicon oxide layer on the side wall and the bottom of the second groove; removing the nitrogen-containing compound side wall residue; and filling the first groove and the second groove with silicon oxide.
US11127839B2
Method of manufacturing a trench oxide in a trench for a gate structure in a semiconductor substrate
A method of manufacturing a trench oxide in a trench for a gate structure in a semiconductor substrate is described. The method includes: generating the trench in the semiconductor substrate; generating an oxide layer over opposing sidewalls of the trench; damaging at least a portion of the oxide layer by ion implantation; coating the oxide layer with an etching mask; generating at least one opening in the etching mask adjacent to one of the opposing sidewalls; and partly removing the oxide layer by etching the oxide layer beneath the etching mask down to an etching depth at the one of the opposing sidewalls by introducing an etching agent into the opening.
US11127832B2
A method for forming a semiconductor structure is provided. The method for forming the semiconductor structure includes alternately stacking first semiconductor layers and second semiconductor layers over a substrate, patterning the first semiconductor layers and the second semiconductor layers into a fin structure, removing the first semiconductor layers of the fin structure thereby forming gaps between the second semiconductor layers of the fin structure, forming a gate dielectric layer wrapping around the second semiconductor layers, forming a barrier material on the gate dielectric layer. At least a portion of the barrier material is oxidized to form a first barrier oxide. The method for forming the semiconductor structure also includes etching away the first barrier oxide, forming a work function layer to wrap around the second semiconductor layers, and forming a metal fill layer over the work function layer.
US11127815B2
A semiconductor device includes a fin structure having a circular cylindrical shape, and including a first recess formed on a first side of the fin structure and a second recess formed on a second side of the fin structure opposite the first side, an inner gate formed inside the fin structure, and an inner gate insulating layer formed between the inner gate and an inner surface of the fin structure.
US11127807B2
An manufacturing method of a display device may include the following steps: forming a transistor on a substrate; forming an insulating layer on the transistor; forming a conductive layer including silver on the insulating layer; forming a photosensitive member on the conductive layer; forming an electrode of a light-emitting element by etching the conductive layer; performing plasma treatment on a structure that comprises the electrode, the plasma treatment using a gas including a halogen; and removing a product that is resulted from the plasma treatment.
US11127797B2
A display device including: a sensor device; a display module to display an image and having a first through-hole in which the sensor device is positioned; and a bottom panel cover on one surface of the display module and having a second through-hole in which the sensor device is positioned. The first through-hole has breadth that increases from the one surface of the display module toward another surface of the display module opposite to the one surface of the display module.
US11127791B2
According to the embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, a first memory cell, a second memory cell, a third conductive layer, a first contact, a intermediate memory cell, a fourth conductive layer, a third memory cell, a fifth conductive layer, and a second contact. The third conductive layer is separated from the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer in a third direction crossing a first direction and crossing a second direction and extends in the second direction. The fifth conductive layer is separated from the second conductive layer in the third direction and extends in the second direction. A first length of the second conductive layer along the second direction is shorter than a second length of the fifth conductive layer along the second direction.
US11127789B2
A magnetic memory device includes a substrate including a cell region and a peripheral circuit region, lower contact plugs on the cell region, data storage structures on the lower contact plugs, and a peripheral interconnection structure on the peripheral circuit region. The peripheral interconnection structure includes a line portion extending in a direction parallel to a top surface of the substrate, and contact portions extending from the line portion toward the substrate. A height of each of the contact portions is less than a height of each of the lower contact plugs.
US11127765B2
A display device with high resolution is provided. A display device with high display quality is provided. A display device includes a display portion, a first terminal group, and a second terminal group. The display portion includes pixels, scan lines, and signal lines. The first terminal group and the second terminal group are apart from each other. The first terminal group includes first terminals and the second terminal group includes second terminals. The scan lines are each electrically connected to the pixels arranged in a row direction. The signal lines are each electrically connected to the pixels arranged in a column direction. The signal lines are each electrically connected to the first terminal or the second terminal. The display portion includes a first region where the signal lines electrically connected to the first terminals and the signal lines electrically connected to the second terminals are mixed.
US11127757B2
Embodiments of structure and methods for forming a three-dimensional (3D) memory device are provided. In an example, a 3D memory device includes a memory stack, a plurality of channel structures, and a source structure. The memory stack is over a substrate and includes interleaved a plurality of conductor layers and a plurality of insulating layers. The plurality of channel structures extend vertically in the memory stack. The source structure extend in the memory stack. The source structure includes a plurality of source contacts each in a respective insulating structure, and two adjacent ones of the plurality of source contacts are conductively connected to one another.
US11127747B2
A transistor comprises a 2D material structure and a gate structure. The 2D material structure conformally extends on and between surfaces of dielectric fin structures extending in parallel in a first horizontal direction, and comprises a source region, a drain region, and a channel region positioned between the source region and the drain region in the first horizontal direction. The gate structure overlies the channel region of the 2D material structure and extends in a second horizontal direction orthogonal to the first horizontal direction. The gate structure is within horizontal boundaries of the channel region of the 2D material structure in the first horizontal direction. Microelectronic devices, memory devices, and electronic systems are also described.
US11127744B2
Some embodiments include an assembly having first and second pillars. Each of the pillars has an inner edge and an outer edge. A first gate is proximate a channel region of the first pillar. A second gate is proximate a channel region of the second pillar. A shield line is between the first and second pillars. First and second bottom electrodes are over the first and second pillars, respectively; and are configured as first and second angle plates. An insulative material is over the first and second bottom electrodes. The insulative material may be ferroelectric or non-ferroelectric. A top electrode is over the insulative material. Some embodiments include methods of forming assemblies.
US11127739B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate and first and second gate electrodes on the substrate. The first gate electrode includes a first gate insulation film having a bottom portion on the substrate and sidewall portions extending from the bottom portion and away from the substrate defining a first trench having a first width and a first functional film filling the first trench. The second gate electrode includes a second gate insulation film having a bottom portion on the substrate and sidewall portions extending from the bottom portion defining a second trench having a second width different from the first width, a second functional film conforming to the second gate insulation film in the second trench and defining a third trench, and a metal region in the third trench. The first width may be less than the second width.
US11127737B2
A number of monolithic diode limiter semiconductor structures are described. The diode limiters can include a hybrid arrangement of diodes with different intrinsic regions, all formed over the same semiconductor substrate. In one example, two PIN diodes in a diode limiter semiconductor structure have different intrinsic region thicknesses. The first PIN diode has a thinner intrinsic region, and the second PIN diode has a thicker intrinsic region. This configuration allows for both the thin intrinsic region PIN diode and the thick intrinsic region PIN diode to be individually optimized. The thin intrinsic region PIN diode can be optimized for low level turn on and flat leakage, and the thick intrinsic region PIN diode can be optimized for low capacitance, good isolation, and high incident power levels. This configuration is not limited to two stage solutions, as additional stages can be used for higher incident power handling.
US11127728B2
A support die includes complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) devices, front support-die bonding pads electrically connected to a first subset of the peripheral circuitry, and backside bonding structures electrically connected to a second subset of the peripheral circuitry. A first memory die including a first three-dimensional array of memory elements is bonded to the support die. First memory-die bonding pads of the first memory die are bonded to the front support-die bonding pads. A second memory die including a second three-dimensional array of memory elements is bonded to the support die. Second memory-die bonding pads of the second memory die are bonded to the backside bonding structures.
US11127722B2
A stack package includes sub-packages vertically stacked. Each of the sub-packages includes a semiconductor chip having a power pad and a signal pad, a first interposer bridge having a signal through via and a second power through via, and a second interposer bridge having a first power through via. Each of the sub-packages further includes a signal redistributed layer pattern extending to electrically connect the signal pad to a signal connection part and a power redistributed layer pattern to electrically connect the power pad to the first and second power through vias. An upper sub-package of the sub-packages is rotated relative to a lower sub-package, and the rotated upper sub-package is stacked on a lower sub-package of the sub-packages.
US11127706B2
An electronic package and method includes a substrate including a plurality of pads on a major surface. An electronic component including a plurality of pads on a major surface facing the major surface of the substrate. A stud bump electrically couples one of the plurality of pads of the substrate to one of the plurality of pads of the electronic component.
US11127704B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate and at least one bump structure disposed over the substrate. The at least one bump structure includes a pillar formed of a metal having a lower solderability than copper or a copper alloy to a solder alloy disposed over the substrate. A solder alloy is formed directly over and in contact with an upper surface of the metal having the lower solderability than copper or a copper alloy. The pillar has a height of greater than 10 μm.
US11127700B1
An integrated circuit device includes a substrate and an integrated circuit area on the substrate. The integrated circuit area includes a dielectric stack. A cap layer is disposed on the dielectric stack. A seal ring is disposed in the dielectric stack and around a periphery of the integrated circuit area. A trench is formed around the seal ring to expose a sidewall of the dielectric stack. A MIM capacitor including a CTM layer and a CBM layer is disposed on the dielectric stack. A moisture blocking layer continuously covers the integrated circuit area and the MIM capacitor. The cap layer is interposed between the CTM layer and the CBM layer of the MIM capacitor and functions as a capacitor dielectric layer of the MIM capacitor. The moisture blocking layer extends to the sidewall of the dielectric stack, thereby sealing a boundary between two adjacent dielectric films in the dielectric stack.
US11127699B2
A chip package structure including a first chip, an encapsulant, a first redistribution layer, a second redistribution layer, a second chip, and a third chip is provided. The first chip has an active surface, a back side surface opposite to the active surface, a plurality of conductive vias, and a plurality of conductive connectors disposed on the back side surface. The encapsulant covers the active surface, the back side surface, and the conductive connectors. The encapsulant has a first encapsulating surface and a second encapsulating surface opposite to the first encapsulating surface. The first redistribution layer is disposed on the first encapsulating surface. The second redistribution layer is disposed on the second encapsulating surface. The second chip is disposed on the second redistribution layer. The third chip is disposed on the second redistribution layer. A manufacturing method of a chip package structure is also provided.
US11127694B2
A physical unclonable functions (PUF) device including a first copper electrode, a second electrode, and a silicon oxide layer positioned directly between the first copper electrode and the second electrode; a method of producing a PUF device; an array comprising a PUF device; and a method of generating a secure key with a plurality of PUF devices.
US11127690B2
A packaged radio-frequency device is disclosed, including a packaging substrate configured to receive one or more components, the packaging substrate including a first side and a second side. A shielded package may be implemented on the first side of the packaging substrate, the shielded package including a first circuit and a first overmold structure, the shielded package configured to provide radio-frequency shielding for at least a portion of the first circuit. A set of through-mold connections may be implemented on the second side of the packaging substrate, the set of through-mold connections defining a mounting volume on the second side of the packaging substrate. The device may include a component implemented within the mounting volume and a second overmold structure substantially encapsulating one or more of the component or the set of through-mold connections.
US11127682B2
Semiconductor packages having nonspherical filler particles are described. In an embodiment, a semiconductor package includes a package substrate having a dielectric layer over an electrical interconnect. The dielectric layer includes nonspherical filler particles in a resin matrix. The nonspherical filler particles have an aspect ratio greater than one.
US11127674B2
Disclosed are embodiments of a back end of the line (BEOL) metal structure that includes, within a metal level, a metal via, which has at least eight sides and all interior angles at 135° or more, and a metal wire thereon. The metal wire and via include respective portions of a continuous conformal metal layer. A passivation layer coats the top surface of the metal layer. The metal via and the metal wire thereon can be in an upper metal level and can be made of one metal (e.g., aluminum or an aluminum alloy). The upper metal level can be above a lower metal level that similarly includes a metal via and metal wire thereon, but the metal used can be different (e.g., copper) and/or the shape of the via can be different (e.g., four-sided). Also disclosed herein are method embodiments for forming the above-described BEOL metal structure.
US11127670B2
A component carrier includes a stack with at least one electrically insulating layer structure and/or at least one electrically conductive layer structure, a component which is embedded in the stack and a stabilizing structure arranged between a stack surface of the stack and a main surface of the component. The stabilizing structure provides an interface adhesion to the main surface of the component.
US11127668B2
A semiconductor device comprises a first semiconductor package including a conductive layer. A substrate including an interconnect structure is disposed over the conductive layer. The interconnect structure of the substrate with the conductive layer of the first semiconductor package are self-aligned. A plurality of openings is formed in the substrate. An adhesive is disposed between the substrate and the first semiconductor package and in the openings of the substrate. A redistribution layer (RDL) is formed over the first semiconductor package opposite the substrate. A pitch of the substrate is different from a pitch of the RDL. The adhesive extends to the interconnect structure of the substrate. A second semiconductor package is disposed over the substrate and the first semiconductor package.
US11127666B2
A semiconductor device has a semiconductor die mounted to a carrier. An encapsulant is deposited over the semiconductor die and carrier. The carrier is removed. A first insulating layer is formed over a portion of the encapsulant within an interconnect site outside a footprint of the semiconductor die. An opening is formed through the first insulating layer within the interconnect site to expose the encapsulant. The opening can be ring-shaped or vias around the interconnect site and within a central region of the interconnect site to expose the encapsulant. A first conductive layer is formed over the first insulating layer to follow a contour of the first insulating layer. A second conductive layer is formed over the first conductive layer and exposed encapsulant. A second insulating layer is formed over the second conductive layer. A bump is formed over the second conductive layer in the interconnect site.
US11127661B2
Semiconductor chip package device and semiconductor chip package method are provided. The semiconductor chip package device includes: a lead frame, chips, an encapsulating layer, and an electroplating layer. The lead frame includes a first surface, a second surface, first grooves, second grooves, and third grooves. The first grooves are connected to the second grooves to form through holes and the third grooves disposed at ends of the lead frame. The chips are electrically connected to the lead frame. The encapsulating layer is formed by using an encapsulating material to encapsulate the chips and at least a portion of the lead frame. The first grooves are filled with the encapsulating material. The electroplating layer is disposed on the second surface of the lead frame, and extends into the third grooves or into the third grooves and the second grooves.
US11127656B2
A semiconductor device comprises a semiconductor body and an electrically conductive via which extends through at least a part of the semiconductor body, where the via has a lateral size which is given in a first lateral direction that is perpendicular to a vertical direction given by the main axis of extension of the via and where the via has a top side and a bottom side that faces away from the top side. The semiconductor device further comprises an electrically conductive etch-stop layer arranged at the bottom side of the via in a plane which is parallel to the first lateral direction, and at least one electrically conductive contact layer at the bottom side of the via in a plane which is parallel to the first lateral direction. The lateral extent in the first lateral direction of the etch-stop layer is larger than the lateral size of the via and the lateral extent in the first lateral direction of the contact layer is smaller than the lateral size of the via. Furthermore, the etch-stop layer is arranged between the electrically conductive via and the contact layer in the vertical direction.
US11127650B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device package. The semiconductor device package includes a first die, a second die, and a thermal dissipation element. The first die has a first surface. The second die is disposed on the first surface. The thermal dissipation element is disposed on the first surface. The thermal dissipation element includes a first portion extending in a first direction substantially parallel to the first surface and partially covered by the second die and a second portion extending in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first surface to be adjacent to an edge of the second die.
US11127648B2
The present disclosure relates to a thermally enhanced package, which includes a carrier, a thinned die over the carrier, a mold compound, and a heat extractor. The thinned die includes a device layer over the carrier and a dielectric layer over the device layer. The mold compound resides over the carrier, surrounds the thinned die, and extends beyond a top surface of the thinned die to define an opening within the mold compound and over the thinned die. The top surface of the thinned die is at a bottom of the opening. At least a portion of the heat extractor is inserted into the opening and in thermal contact with the thinned die. Herein the heat extractor is formed of a metal or an alloy.
US11127638B2
Semiconductor devices and fabrication methods are provided. An exemplary fabrication method includes providing a semiconductor substrate; forming at least one gate structure having a gate dielectric layer on a surface of the semiconductor substrate; forming first sidewall spacers on a first sidewall surface region of the gate structure and covering sidewall surfaces of the gate dielectric layer; forming second sidewall spacers on a second sidewall surface region of the gate structure and top surfaces of the first sidewall spacers and made of a material different from a material of the first sidewall spacers; forming conductive plugs in the dielectric layer at both sides of the gate structure, the first sidewall spacers and the second sidewall spacers; and removing the second sidewall spacers to form air gap spacers above the first sidewall spacers and between the second sidewall surface region of the gate structure and the conductive plugs.
US11127637B2
The present disclosure relates generally to an epitaxy scheme for forming source/drain regions in a semiconductor device, such as an n-channel device. In an example, a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device is provided. The method generally includes forming a recess in a fin, the fin being on a substrate. The recess is proximate a gate structure over the fin. The method includes epitaxially growing a source/drain region in the recess using a remote plasma chemical vapor deposition (RPCVD) process. The RPCVD process includes using a silicon source precursor and a hydrogen carrier gas.
US11127631B2
A structure and a formation method of a semiconductor device are provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a first epitaxial structure and a second epitaxial structure over a semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor device structure also includes a first conductive via electrically connected to the first epitaxial structure through a conductive contact. The first conductive via is misaligned with the first epitaxial structure. The semiconductor device structure further includes a second conductive via electrically connected to the second epitaxial structure. The second conductive via is aligned with the second epitaxial structure.
US11127630B2
A method includes forming a metallic layer over a Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (MOS) device, forming reverse memory posts over the metallic layer, and etching the metallic layer using the reverse memory posts as an etching mask. The remaining portions of the metallic layer include a gate contact plug and a source/drain contact plug. The reverse memory posts are then removed. After the gate contact plug and the source/drain contact plug are formed, an Inter-Level Dielectric (ILD) is formed to surround the gate contact plug and the source/drain contact plug.
US11127628B1
The present application discloses a semiconductor device and a method for fabricating the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor structure, a first connecting structure, and a second semiconductor structure positioned on the first connecting structure. The first connecting structure includes a first connecting insulating layer positioned on the first semiconductor structure, two first conductive layers positioned in the first connecting insulating layer, and a first porous layer positioned between the two first conductive layers. The second semiconductor structure is positioned on the first connecting structure and includes two second conductive features positioned on the two first conductive layers. The first conductive layer has a first width, the second conductive feature has a second width greater than the first width, and the different width forms a step-shaped cross-sectional profile near an interface of the first conductive layer and the second conductive feature.
US11127624B2
A semiconductor on insulator type structure, which may be used for a front side type imager, successively comprises, from its rear side to its front side, a semiconductor support substrate, an electrically insulating layer and an active layer comprising a monocrystalline semiconductor material. The active layer is made of a semiconductor material having a state of mechanical stress with respect to the support substrate, and the support substrate comprises, on its rear side, a silicon oxide layer, the thickness of the oxide layer being chosen to compensate bow induced by the mechanical stress between the active layer and the support substrate during cooling of the structure after the formation by epitaxy of at least a part of the active layer on the support substrate.
US11127623B2
The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to single diffusion cut for gate structures and methods of manufacture. The structure includes a single diffusion break extending into a substrate between diffusion regions of adjacent gate structures, the single diffusion break filled with an insulator material and further comprising an undercut region lined with a liner material which is between the insulator material and the diffusion regions.
US11127619B2
A workpiece carrier suitable for high power processes is described. It may include a puck to carry the workpiece, a plate bonded to the puck by an adhesive, a mounting ring surrounding the puck and the cooling plate, and a gasket between the mounting ring and the plate, the gasket configured to protect the adhesive.
US11127603B2
A semiconductor chip (2) includes a surface electrode (3). A conductive bonding member (8) includes first and second bonding members (8a,8b) provided on the surface electrode (3). A lead electrode (9) is bonded to a part of the surface electrode (3) via the first bonding member (8a) and has no contact with the second bonding member (8b). A signal wire (11) is bonded to the surface electrode (3). The second bonding member (8b) is arranged between the first bonding member (8a) and the signal wire (11). A thickness of the first bonding member (8a) is larger than a thickness of the second bonding member (8b).
US11127595B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes providing a semiconductor substrate and bonding the semiconductor substrate to a carrier. The semiconductor substrate includes an inert material layer and a semiconductor layer on the inert material layer. The semiconductor substrate is bonded to the carrier such that the inert material layer is between the carrier and the semiconductor substrate. By including an inert material layer between the carrier and the semiconductor substrate, a barrier against diffusion for any bonding agents used to bond the semiconductor substrate to the carrier is formed, thereby preserving the integrity of the semiconductor layer and allowing for the easy removal of the semiconductor substrate from the carrier.
US11127592B2
A method includes forming a photoresist layer over a substrate, where the photoresist layer includes a polymer blended with a photo-acid generator (PAG), exposing the photoresist layer to a radiation source, and developing the photoresist layer, resulting in a patterned photoresist layer. The PAG is bonded to one or more polarity-enhancing group (PEG), which is configured to increase a dipole moment of the PAG. The exposing may separate the PAG into a cation and an anion, such that a PEG bonded to the cation and a PEG bonded to the anion each increases a polarity of the cation and the anion, respectively.
US11127590B2
A method for forming a high-k oxide includes forming a nanofog of Al2O3 nanoparticles and conducting subsequent ALD deposition of a dielectric on the nanofog. A nanofog oxide is adhered to an inert 2D or 3D surface, the nano oxide consisting essentially of sub 1 nm Al2O3 nanoparticles. Additional oxide layers can be formed on the nanofog. Examples are from the group of selected from the group consisting of ZrO2, HfZrO2, silicon or other doped HfO2 or ZrO2, ZrTiO2, HfTiO2, La2O3, Y2O3, Ga2O3, GdGaOx, and alloys thereof, including the ferroelectric phases of HfZrO2, silicon or other doped HfO2 or ZrO2.
US11127589B2
A method for forming a dielectric film containing a Si—O bond a trench formed in an upper surface of a substrate, includes: designing a topology of a final dielectric film containing a Si—O bond formed in the trench by preselecting a target portion to be selectively removed relative to a non-target portion of an initial dielectric film resulting in the final dielectric film; conformally depositing the initial dielectric film on the upper surface and in the trench; and relatively increasing an amount of impurities contained in the target portion of the initial dielectric film relative to an amount of impurities contained in the non-target portion of the initial dielectric film to obtain a treated dielectric film, thereby giving the target portion and the non-target portion different chemical resistance properties when subjected to etching.
US11127577B2
A laser desorption/ionization method includes a first process of preparing a sample support body. The sample support body includes a substrate, an ionization substrate, and a support that supports the ionization substrate with respect to the substrate such that a first surface of the ionization substrate is separated from the substrate. A plurality of through-holes are formed at least in measurement regions of the ionization substrate. A conductive layer is provided on peripheral edges of the through-holes at least on the second surface. Further, the laser desorption/ionization method includes a second process of dropping the sample on the measurement regions of the ionization substrate, and a third process of, after the sample has infiltrated into the ionization substrate, ionizing components of the sample by applying a laser beam to the second surface while applying a voltage to the conductive layer.
US11127555B1
A fuse includes a fuse element extending along an axis, the fuse element including two terminals and a melt portion arranged between the two terminals, a casing that accommodates the melt portion and an arc-extinguishing material, the casing including an outer circumferential surface and two end surfaces, the casing being an assembly of at least two segments, and a molded body made of plastic, the molded body including two covers that respectively cover the two end surfaces and including one or more coupling portions that couple the two covers to each other, the two covers and the one or more coupling portions being integrally molded. The casing includes one or more exposed portions on the outer circumferential surface, the one or more exposed portions being exposed without being covered by the coupling portions.
US11127552B2
A hybrid switch assembly for use in a circuit interrupter, the hybrid switch assembly including an input, an output, separable contacts electrically connected between the input and the output, a solid state switching circuit electrically connected between the input and the output and in parallel with the separable contacts, and a fuse electrically connected in series with the solid state switching circuit. The solid state switching circuit is structured to turn on and allow current to flow through it between the input and the output for a predetermined amount of time after the separable contacts separate.
US11127550B2
A contact arrangement for a Pre-Insertion Resistor (PIR) wherein a control rod is arranged to move a movable contact, against the force of a biasing member, into temporary connection with a PIR. The control rod comprises a tulip with a plurality of resilient fingers and having a first diameter where it is able to mechanically couple to a latching ring on the movable contact, and a second diameter where the tulip is deformed with the fingers deflected inwards, once the resistance to movement exceeds a predetermined value, wherein the latching ring is able to pass over the tulip to decouple the movable contact from the control rod. The contact arrangement is particularly suited for a PIR arranged for connection in parallel to the interrupter of a gas-insulated switchgear (GIS) circuit breaker.
US11127548B1
A keyboard and a method for assembling the keyboard are provided. The keyboard comprises a keyswitch module, a keyboard frame, and a plurality of connecting parts. The keyswitch module comprises a baseplate, a circuit board, and a plurality of keyswitch groups. The circuit board is disposed on the baseplate. The plurality of the keyswitch groups is disposed on the circuit board. The baseplate comprises a plurality of connecting holes. The circuit board comprises a plurality of through holes. The plurality of connecting holes respectively corresponds to the plurality of through holes. The keyboard frame is disposed on the keyswitch module, comprising a plurality of keyswitch holes. The plurality of the keyswitch groups is respectively disposed in the corresponding keyswitch holes. The connecting parts are respectively filled in the corresponding connecting holes, connecting to a surface of the keyboard frame close to the circuit board through the corresponding through holes.
US11127541B2
The disclosure relates to an electromagnetic switch, comprising: an armature; a slider configured to manually move to actuate the armature; and a deformable force transfer element positioned between the slider and the armature, wherein the slider is configured to be pressed against the deformable force transfer element to actuate the armature with a press force, and wherein the deformable force transfer element is configured to deform when a press force threshold value is exceeded to limit a transferable force from the slider onto the armature.
US11127536B2
In one aspect, nanostructured films are described herein comprising controlled architectures on multiple length scales (e.g. ≥3). As described further herein, the ability to control film properties on multiple length scales enables tailoring structures of the films to specific applications including, but not limited to, optoelectronic, catalytic and photoelectrochemical cell applications. In some embodiments, a nanostructured film comprises a porous inorganic scaffold comprising particles of an electrically insulating inorganic oxide. An electrically conductive metal oxide coating is adhered to the porous inorganic scaffold, wherein the conductive metal oxide coating binds adjacent particles of the insulating inorganic oxide.
US11127530B2
The present disclosure generally relates to metallic powders for use in multilayer ceramic capacitors, to multilayer ceramic capacitors containing same and to methods of manufacturing such powders and capacitors. The disclosure addresses the problem of having better controlled smaller particle size distribution, with minimal contaminant contents which can be implemented at an industrial scale.
US11127514B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide an MgB2 wire helping to achieve compatibility between the ease with which superconducting connection is effected and thermal stability. A superconducting wire according to the present invention includes: an elemental wire formed of MgB2; and a first metal not reacting with Mg. In a section orthogonal to the longitudinal direction of the superconducting wire, the region extending from the center of the superconducting wire to the installation position of the elemental wire is formed by the elemental wire and the first metal.
US11127511B2
A cable includes a cable core formed of an electrically conductive material and an insulation at least partially encasing the cable core. The cable core is exposed in a contact zone in which the cable contacts an electrical conductor. A surface of the contact zone is filled substantially flush with a cable surface of the insulation.
US11127510B2
An electroconductive composite comprises a matrix of nanocrystalline cellulose and graphene oxide. The matrix is, in at least a region thereof, unipolar by having, in that region, either p-type charge carrier conductivity or n-type charge carrier conductivity depending on the mass concentration of nanocrystalline cellulose in that portion of the matrix.
US11127507B2
A sensor system for a fuel rod including a fuel pellet stack, the sensor system including a wireless interrogator disposed outside the fuel rod and a passive sensor component disposed within the fuel rod. The passive sensor component includes a receiver structured to receive an interrogation signal and output an excitation signal in response to receiving the interrogation signal, a reference transmitter structured to output a reference signal to the reference receiver in response to the excitation signal, a sensing transmitter structured to output a sensing signal to the sensing receiver in response to the excitation signal, and a core at least partially disposed within the sensing transmitter and coupled to move in conjunction with expansion or contraction of the fuel pellet stack, to move based on changes in pressure within the fuel rod, or to change temperature based on temperature changes within the fuel rod.
US11127506B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for collecting monitoring data and predicting outcomes for communities. In some implementations, monitoring data is received, including location tracking data that indicates locations visited by individuals in a community. Community data for the community that describes characteristics of the community and a geographic region associated with the community is received. One or more predictive models are used to evaluate regions for potential for transmission of a disease based on behavior patterns of individuals in the community. The one or more predictive models can be models trained based on training data describing a plurality of different communities and behavior patterns and disease outcomes of individuals in the different communities over time.
US11127501B2
Behavioral intervention improves the efficacy of treatments designed to encourage healthy behaviors such as smoking cessation, adherence to food regimen after surgeries, and avoiding overeating. Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a health monitoring system that leverages wearable sensors, mobile devices (e.g. smartphones), and computer-based servers to monitor the health of a user and provide intervention at opportune moments to encourage healthy behavior. This system provides a scalable and cost-efficient way for health care providers to monitor the behavior of many users and encourage healthy behavior as appropriate.
US11127494B2
Methods and systems for using contextual information to generate reports for image studies. One method includes determining contextual information associated with an image study wherein at least one image included in the image study loaded in a reporting application. The method also includes automatically selecting, with an electronic processor, a vocabulary for a natural language processing engine based on the contextual information. In addition, the method includes receiving, from a microphone, audio data and processing the audio data with the natural language processing engine using the vocabulary to generate data for a report for the image study generated using the reporting application.
US11127485B2
Techniques for automated determination or correction of count bias are based on nucleic acid base content on a finer grained scale than a bin of interest in a target sequence. The techniques include obtaining a target sequence with bins where relative abundances indicate a condition and raw counts Hj of reads, from a subject, which start at each locus j. A partition indicates a fine-grained window at a position relative to a current locus and multiple strata indicating different base contents. Each locus is attributed to one stratum k(j). An expected count of each stratum, E(k), is determined based on Hj for j belonging to the stratum and a number of loci in the target belonging to the stratum. A copy number of a bin is based on a sum of E(k(j)) in the bin. Output data indicates condition of the subject based at least partly on the copy number.
US11127484B2
Developmental, stem cell and cancer biologists are interested in the molecular definition of cellular differentiation. Although single-cell RNA sequencing represents a transformational advance for global gene analyses, novel obstacles have emerged, including the computational management of dropout events, the reconstruction of biological pathways and the isolation of target cell populations. Provided herein is an algorithm named dpath that applies the concept of metagene entropy and allows the ranking of cells based on their differentiation potential. Also provided herein are self-organizing map (SOM) and random walk with restart (RWR) algorithms to separate the progenitors from the differentiated cells and reconstruct the lineage hierarchies in an unbiased manner. These algorithms were tested using single cells from Etv2-EYFP transgenic mouse embryos and reveal specific molecular pathways that direct differentiation programs involving the haemato-endothelial lineages. This software program quantitatively assesses the progenitor and committed states in single-cell RNA-seq data sets in a non-biased manner.
US11127478B2
A shift register unit, a gate driving circuit, a display device, and a driving method are disclosed. The shift register unit includes an input circuit, a first control circuit, and an output circuit. The input circuit is configured to receive an input signal and control a level of a first control node according to the input signal and in response to a first clock signal; the first control circuit is configured to control a level of a first node under control of the level of the first control node and the first clock signal; and the output circuit is configured to receive a first voltage of a first voltage terminal and output the first voltage to an output terminal under control of the level of the first node.
US11127460B2
Provided herein resistive random access memory matrix multiplication structures and methods. A non-volatile memory logic system can comprise a bit line and at a set of wordlines. Also included can be a set of resistive switching memory cells at respective intersections between the bit line and the set of wordlines. The set of resistive switching memory cells are programmed with a value of an input data bit of a first data matrix and receive respective currents on the set of wordlines. The respective currents comprise respective values of an activation data bit of a second data matrix. A resulting value based on a matrix multiplication corresponds to an output value of the bit line.
US11127455B2
A FinFET gain cell includes a write port, read port and storage node. The write port includes at least one write FinFET transistor and has write word-line (WWL) and write bit-line (WBL) inputs. The read port includes at least one FinFET read transistor and has a read word-line (RWL) input and a read bit-line (RBL) output. The storage node stores a data level written from said WBL. The storage nodes includes a single layer interconnect which connects the write port output diffusion connection to the read port input gate connection. The height of the single layer interconnect at the write port output diffusion connection is different from the height of the single layer interconnect at the read port input gate connection.
US11127450B2
Methods, systems, and devices for operating a memory cell or memory cells are described. Cells of a memory array may be pre-written, which may include writing the cells to one state while a sense component is isolated from digit lines of the array. Read or write operations may be executed at the sense component while the sense component is isolated, and the cell may be de-isolated (e.g., connected to the digit lines) when write operations are completed. The techniques may include techniques accessing a memory cell of a memory array, isolating a sense amplifier from a digit line of the memory array based at least in part on the accessing of the cell, firing the sense amplifier, and pre-writing the memory cell of the memory array to a second data state while the sense amplifier is isolated. In some examples, the memory cell may include a ferroelectric memory cell.
US11127449B2
Devices and methods for sensing a memory cell are described. The memory cell may include a ferroelectric memory cell. During a read operation, a first switching component may selectively couple a sense component with the memory cell based on a logic state stored on the memory cell to transfer a charge between the memory cell and the sense component. A second switching component, which may be coupled with the first switching component, may down convert a voltage associated with the charge to another voltage that is within an operation voltage of the sense component. The sense component may operate at a lower voltage than a voltage at which the memory cell operates to reduce power consumption in some cases.
US11127444B1
A first-in-first-out (FIFO) storage structure within an integrated-circuit component is loaded with qualification values corresponding to respective pairs of edges expected within a timing strobe signal transmitted to the integrated-circuit component. The qualification values are sequentially output from the FIFO storage structure during respective cycles of the timing strobe signal and a gate signal is either asserted or deasserted during the respective cycles of the timing strobe signal according to the qualification values output from the FIFO storage structure.
US11127440B2
A pseudo static random access memory including a plurality of memory chips and an information storing device is provided. The memory chips transmit a plurality of read/write data strobe signals to a memory controller by using a same bus. Regardless of whether a self refresh collision occurs in the memory chips, when the memory chips perform a read operation, read latency of the memory chips is set to be a fixed period that self refresh is allowed to be completed. The fixed period is greater than initial latency. The information storing device is configured to store information which defines the fixed period. The read/write data strobe signal indicates whether the self refresh collision occurs in the memory chips, and a level of the read/write data strobe signals is constant during the read latency. A method for operating a pseudo static random access memory is also provided.
US11127439B2
A semiconductor device including a FIFO circuit in which a data capacity can be increased while minimizing an increase in a circuit scale is provided. The semiconductor device includes a single-port type storage unit (11) which stores data, a flip-flop (12) which temporarily stores write data (FIFO input) or read data (FIFO output) of the storage unit (11), and a control unit (14, 40) which controls a write timing of a data signal, which is stored in the flip-flop (12), to the storage unit (11) or a read timing of the data signal from the storage unit to avoid an overlap between a write operation and a read operation in the storage unit (11).
US11127435B2
A wearable camera includes an imaging unit; a storage unit configured to store video data imaged by the imaging unit; a sound collection unit disposed on an upper surface of a casing of the wearable camera and configured to collect a sound of a user; and a control unit configured to extract a sound of the user related to an imaging situation included in the video data, and add attribute information to the video data based on the extracted sound.
US11127431B2
Various embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for low bandwidth consumption online content editing, where user-created content comprising high definition/quality content is created or modified at an online content editing server according to instructions from an online content editor client, and where a proxy version of the resulting user-created content is provided to online content editor client to facilitate review or further editing of the user-created content from the online content editor client. In some embodiments, the online content editing server utilizes proxy content during creation and modification operations on the user-created content, and replaces such proxy content with corresponding higher definition/quality content, possibly when the user-created content is published for consumption, or when the user has paid for the higher quality content.
US11127420B1
Certain embodiments are directed to a spin torque oscillator (STO) device in a microwave assisted magnetic recording (MAMR) device. The magnetic recording head includes a seed layer, a spin polarization layer over the seed layer, a spacer layer over the spin polarization layer, and a field generation layer is over the spacer layer. In one embodiment, the seed layer comprises a tantalum alloy layer. In another embodiment, the seed layer comprises a template layer and a damping reduction layer over the template layer. In yet another embodiment, the seed layer comprises a texture reset layer, a template layer on the texture reset layer, and a damping reduction layer on the template layer.
US11127409B2
A audio signal encoding method and apparatus includes: obtaining an audio signal comprising a plurality of sub-bands, wherein each sub-band has an index; obtaining a spectrum energy of each sub-band of at least a part of the plurality of sub-bands; obtaining a highest index of a sub-band to be allocated bits according to the spectrum energy and a ratio factor, wherein the ratio factor is greater than 0 and less than 1; allocating at least one bit for a sub-band having an index no greater than the highest index; and encoding a spectrum coefficient of the sub-band having the index no greater than the highest index with the allocated at least one bit. In this manner, the signal bandwidth is effectively coded and decoded by centralizing the bits.
US11127408B2
In methods and apparatus for performing temporal noise shaping, an apparatus may have a temporal noise shaping, TNS, tool for performing linear prediction, LP, filtering on an information signal including a plurality of frames; and a controller configured to control the TNS tool so that the TNS tool performs LP filtering with: a first filter whose impulse response has a higher energy; and a second filter whose impulse response has a lower energy than the first filter, wherein the second filter is not an identity filter, wherein the controller is configured to choose between filtering with the first filter, and filtering with the second filter on the basis of a frame metrics.
US11127403B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for detecting personally identifiable information, including: receiving a plurality of text strings, each text string of the plurality of text strings associated with a user support session; providing the plurality of text strings to one or more bidirectional long short-term memory (BiLSTM) neural network models; receiving output from the one or more BiLSTM neural network models, the output indicating one or more text data elements in the plurality of text strings comprising predicted personally identifiable information; redacting the one or more text data elements comprising the predicted personally identifiable information from the plurality of text strings to form redacted text strings; and providing, to a data repository, the redacted text strings.
US11127402B2
The present disclosure relates generally to a system and method for voice development frameworks. Certain cloud-based systems may be embodied in a multi-instance or multi-tenant framework, and may provide for certain computing systems and resources. For example, the cloud-based systems may provide for data repositories and the creation of executable objects, e.g., Flow Designer objects that include voice commands. In certain embodiments, visual development tools, including a Flow Designer system, may be used to create the executable objects, including voice command objects. For example, the Flow Designer system may enable the non-technical personnel to use natural language to more easily create and visualize objects and processes that automate certain tasks.
US11127401B2
This disclosure relates to attention shifting of a robot in a group conversation with two or more attendees, wherein at least one of them is a speaker. State of the art has dealt with several aspects of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) including responding to a source of sound at a time, addressing a fixed viewing area or determining who is the speaker based on eye gaze direction. However, attention shifting to make the conversation human-like is a challenge. The present disclosure uses audio-visual perception for speaker localization. Only qualified direction of arrivals (DOAs) are used for the audio perception. Further the audio perception is complimented by visual perception employing real time face detection and lip movement detection. Use of HRI rules, clustering of the DOAs, dynamic adjustment of rotation of the robot and a dynamically updated knowledge repository enriches the robot with intelligence to shift attention with minimum human intervention.
US11127399B2
Embodiments of a method and apparatus for pushing information are provided. The method can include: determining whether a current service recipient matches a current information service mode, in response to receiving a request for information acquisition; performing an information push operation as follows in response to determining that the current service recipient matches the current information service mode: acquiring candidate push information corresponding to the request for information acquisition; determining target push information corresponding to the current service recipient from the candidate push information; and pushing the target push information to the current service recipient. Some embodiments implement pushing information to a service recipient based on an information service mode matched with the service recipient, which can improve the user experience.
US11127398B2
The embodiment of the disclosure provides a method for voice controlling, a terminal device, a cloud server and a system. The method includes: receiving voice information that the user performs voice controlling on a terminal device; transmitting voice information to the cloud server, so that the cloud server determines, according to the voice information, a voice control and a control instruction that match the voice information in the current interface, and generates a corresponding voice control instruction; receiving the voice control instruction transmitted by the cloud server; and controlling, according to the voice control instruction, a corresponding voice control of the terminal device to perform an operation. The method of the embodiments of the present disclosure achieves controlling over the controls in the interface through the voice, which deepens the controlling degree of the voice over the terminal device, and improves the user experience.
US11127391B2
An active vibratory noise reduction system includes: a canceling vibratory sound generator; an error signal detector for detecting a canceling error between the canceling vibratory sound and a vibratory noise as an error signal; and an active vibratory noise controller for generating, based on the error signal, a control signal for controlling the canceling vibratory sound generator. The active vibratory noise controller is provided with a stability improving unit including: a correction value generation unit for generating an error signal correction value by multiplying a reaching control sound estimation value by a stabilization coefficient; an error signal correction unit for correcting the error signal by using the error signal correction value to generate a corrected error signal, and a stabilization coefficient updating unit for sequentially updating the stabilization coefficient based on the corrected error signal and the reaching control sound estimation value by using an adaptive algorithm.
US11127390B2
A feedforward ambient noise reduction arrangement includes, within a housing, a loudspeaker device for directing sound energy into an ear of a listener. Disposed externally of the housing, and positioned to sense ambient noise on its way to the listener's ear, are plural microphone devices capable of converting the sensed ambient noise into electrical signals for application to the loudspeaker to generate an acoustic signal opposing the ambient noise. Importantly, the overall arrangement is such that the acoustic signal is generated by said loudspeaker means in substantial time alignment with the arrival of said ambient noise at the listener's ear.
US11127386B2
The Plant Choir™ system comprises a software program and hardware that measures the electrodermal activity of a person, plant, or animal and translates those readings into music on a computing device. The EDA readings of the individual subjects are translated via the software into musical notes in real time. The creation of the notes is synchronized to a master tempo in order to allow the subjects to play together in a unified fashion similar to a choir. A riff mode allows the subjects to produce multiple notes per beat. The music is rendered using a software synthesis algorithm that employs the pre-recorded sounds of real instruments. The software can also utilize MIDI devices if the operating system has that capability. The software allows the user to load and save their settings so they can create and experiment with their own choir configurations and musical scales.
US11127380B2
A head-mounted device may include a processor configured to receive information from a sensor that is indicative of a position of the head-mounted device relative to a reference point on a face of a user; and adjust a rendering of an item of virtual content based on the position or a change in the position of the device relative to the face. The sensor may be distance sensor, and the processor may be configured to adjust the rendering of the item of virtual content based a measured distance or change of distance between the head-mounted device and the point of reference on the user's face. The point of reference on the user's face may be one or both of the user's eyes.
US11127375B2
The embodiments described herein provide devices and methods for image processing. Specifically, the embodiments described herein provide techniques for blending graphical layers together into an image for display. In general, these techniques utilize multiple display control units to blend together more layers than could be achieved using a single display control unit. This blending of additional layers can provide improved image quality compared to traditional techniques that use only the blending capability of a single display control unit.
US11127371B2
A display system for extending a brightness dimming range of a display substrate is disclosed. In embodiments, the display system includes a display device including a display substrate configured to display at least one image. In embodiments, the display system further includes a controller communicatively coupled to the display substrate, the controller including one or more processors configured to execute a set of program instructions stored in a memory. The one or more processors may be configured to acquire a video stream including a plurality of image frames; selectively modify one or more characteristics of one or more image frames of the plurality of image frames to generate a modified video stream; and generate one or more control signals configured to cause the display device to display the modified video stream via the display substrate.
US11127353B2
A display device and a signal inversion device are provided. A display device includes: a display panel including: sub-pixels, and scan lines respectively connected to each of the sub-pixels, and light emission control lines respectively connected to each of the sub-pixels, a scan driver circuit for outputting respective scan signals to the scan lines, and a light emission control driver circuit for outputting respective light emission control signals to the light emission control lines, the light emission control driver circuit including: a resistance device electrically connected between: a first voltage node for receiving a first voltage, and an output node electrically connected to the light emission control lines, and a transistor electrically connected between the output node and a second voltage node for receiving a second voltage that is different from the first voltage, wherein an on/off operation of the transistor is controlled according to an input signal.
US11127351B2
A display device and a method of driving the same. Overlap driving of overlapping subpixels, and fake data insertion driving of inserting a fake image, different from real images, into every line of a plurality of lines, are performed, thereby improving image quality.
US11127345B1
A display device includes a display divided into a plurality of blocks including pixels, a timing controller for calculating a frame load for an image frame of input image data, and for generating image data by scaling grayscale values of the input image data using a scale factor, a data driver for generating a data signal corresponding to the image data, and for supplying the data signal to the pixels, a current sensor for sensing a global current flowing in a first power source line connected to the pixels, and a scale factor provider for correcting a unit target current determined using a reference block among the blocks based on a deviation in light emitting characteristics between the blocks, for calculating a target current using the frame load and a corrected unit target current, and for comparing the target current with the global current to calculate the scale factor.
US11127344B2
A method for driving a display panel, a device for driving a display panel and a display device are provided. The method for driving a display panel includes: acquiring a GOA signal corresponding to a current frame of image, where the GOA signal includes a plurality of clock signals; determining a transmission channel corresponding to each of the plurality of clock signals, and generating a correspondence relationship between the clock signals and respective transmission channels, where the transmission channels are used to deliver the clock signals from a GOA control signal generator to a GOA circuit of the display panel, the current frame of image is different from at least one frame of image previous to the current frame of image with respect to the correspondence relationship between the clock signals and respective transmission channels; and transmitting the clock signals by using the determined transmission channels.
US11127342B2
The present disclosure provides a display device, a pixel circuit and its control method, the circuit including: a resetting and charging circuit, for resetting a capacitor connected between a gate electrode of the driving transistor of the pixel circuit and an anode of a LED, and then charging the capacitor; a writing circuit, for writing a data signal to the gate electrode of the driving transistor; a driving circuit including the driving transistor, for driving the LED to emit light when the driving transistor receives the data signal; wherein, the driving transistor for driving the LED to emit light is an oxide TFT, and the other transistors in the pixel circuit are low temperature polysilicon (LTPS) TFTs.
US11127337B2
The present embodiment relates to a device for driving pixels arranged on a display panel, and a data driving device according to the present embodiment can transmit image data to a plurality of channel groups by including two or more mapping units for mapping the image data to a channel link or by using one data mapping unit connected to a plurality of multiplexers.
US11127327B2
The present disclosure discloses a display driving device and a display device including the same, which are capable of restoring a communication abnormal state to a normal state when a communication abnormality occurs due to an unexpected variable during communication between a timing controller and a plurality of source drivers. The display device may include a timing controller configured to transmit a communication signal, a first source driver connected to the timing controller through a first communication link and configured to receive the communication signal, and a second source driver connected to the timing controller through a second communication link and configured to receive the communication signal. The first source driver and the second source driver may receive a restore command from the timing controller in a communication abnormal state and perform a configuration mode, in which options for restoring a communication state are set, according to configuration data received after the restore command.
US11127319B2
A flexible display panel, a method for manufacturing a flexible display panel and a flexible display apparatus are provided. The flexible display panel includes: a flexible substrate; a flexible display screen disposed on the flexible substrate; a protection film disposed at a side of the flexible display screen away from the flexible substrate; and a connection layer sandwiched between the flexible display screen and the protection film, and the connection layer includes at least one layer of hyperelasticity film.
US11127318B2
A holder for electronic shelf labels includes a channel having upper and lower ledges with upper and lower gripping flanges defining an engagement space into which a back of the electronic shelf label is mounted. A fin extends from a backplane of the channel, the fin having one side perpendicular to the backplane. The front of the upper and lower gripping flanges have inwardly-directed bevels. A breakaway guide is connected by a thinned portion to the backplane to engaging an edge of a mounting structure. The breakaway guide is removable following mounting of the channel.
US11127310B1
A penmanship device is provided to assist students learning to write consistently and evenly. The device comprises a body with a handle portion and an operational portion. The operational portion has at least two windows. A first window is used for alignment and a second window is used to write. A user writes a first letter of a first word within the confines of the second window. To write the next letter, the device is shifted so that an edge of the previous letter is aligned with a left lateral edge of the second window. This is repeated until the word is completed. To write the next word, the device is shifted so that an edge of a last letter of the previous word is aligned with a right lateral edge of the first window. In another embodiment, the device has three windows providing left-handed and right-handed support.
US11127293B2
A determination device determines a tendency of a driver who selects a parking space and includes an acquisition unit and a determination unit. The acquisition unit is configured to acquire information regarding an attribute of the parking space in a parking lot, information regarding behavior of a vehicle driven by the driver in the parking lot, and information regarding behavior of the driver when the driver is driving the vehicle in the parking lot. The determination unit is configured to determine the tendency of the driver when the driver selects the parking space, based on the information regarding the behavior of the vehicle or the information regarding the behavior of the driver and the information regarding the attribute of the parking space.
US11127282B2
Systems and methods for an emergency response system (ERS) to provide an augmented reality overlay on a real-world scene through the heads-up display (HUD) of an emergency responder. In addition to displaying information known to the ERS, an emergency responder terminal of the ERS can detect propagated signals from devices not registered with the ERS. The source and location of the propagated signal can be determined, and a generic display object can be generated representing the location of the propagated signal. The generic display object can be displayed on the HUD when the location of the source of the propagated signal falls within the field of view of a camera component of the emergency responder terminal.
US11127278B2
A hand hygiene monitoring system is provided. The system includes a wearable tag device coupled to a user, and a reader device communicably coupled to the wearable tag device. The reader device is configured to detect a presence of the wearable tag device by receiving a first frequency message comprising a user identifier from the wearable tag device. The reader device is further configured to transmit a second frequency message to the wearable tag device requesting event log data. The second frequency has a higher frequency than the first frequency. The reader device is further configured to receive an event log data message from the wearable tag device at the second frequency, and to determine whether the wearable tag device has logged a wash station encounter within a configurable time period based on the event log data message.
US11127277B2
In some examples, a system includes a plurality of articles of personal protected equipment (PPE) that are each assigned to a particular worker. The system may also include a data hub that detects an input that initiates a broadcast of diagnostic self-check messages; identifies, in response to the input, each article of PPE of the plurality of articles of PPE; broadcasts, based on identifying each article of PPE, the diagnostic self-check messages to the respective articles of PPE, wherein each article of PPE receives its respective self-check message at its communication component; in response to receiving a set of diagnostic acknowledgement messages from one or more of the plurality of articles of PPE that have performed a diagnostic self-check, determines whether the set of diagnostic acknowledge messages satisfy one or more self-check criteria; and performs one or more operations based on whether the self-check criteria are satisfied.
US11127267B2
A method for mitigating a potential security issue with one or more electric and gas cooking appliances equipped with a power interrupt circuit and capable of receiving a wireless signal operated in a monitored space includes conducting video and or audio surveillance of the cooking equipment and the surrounding monitored space using a surveillance device having wireless communications capability, where upon detection of anomaly characterized as motion, sound, or other interference that may be defined by the surveillance device as a security issue, conducting analysis of the data in comparison with archived data to disqualify or qualify the anomaly as a security issue, whereupon qualifying the anomaly detected and analyzed as a security threat, sending a wireless command to the power interrupt circuit to interrupt electric power flow to the one or more electric cooking appliances.
US11127264B2
A video slot machine has M reels, each displaying N symbols when stopped. Above the display of the reels is a set of generally valuable replacement symbols that have been independently selected at random independent from the reel display. Each reel is associated with a particular replacement symbol in the set. If a special symbol is displayed on a reel, the replacement symbol associated with that reel substitutes for the special symbol when determining the award. Examples of the replacement symbols include wild symbols, bonus symbols, and multiplier symbols. After each game, the replacement symbols are shifted, and used replacement symbols are randomly replaced to vary the possibilities for each game. The player is incentivized to play longer due to the possibility of using valuable replacement symbols in the symbol array and the possibility of very high awards being granted by multiple special symbols being displayed.
US11127263B1
Systems and methods of providing, hosting and playing a modified version of Blackjack in which a player, after placing a Blackjack wager, receives an initial game hand having an initial hand score according to the scoring rules of Blackjack, and responsive to either one of the initial hand score or final hand score being equal to twenty-one according to the Blackjack scoring rules, distributing or crediting an amount equal to a multiple, such as two times, the Blackjack wager to a player or player account, and further, responsive to a final player hand score and a final dealer hand score being the same but not being twenty-one or greater, distributing or crediting an amount equal to or less than the Blackjack wager to a player or player account.
US11127262B2
Gaming systems that provide an award in association with a play of a card game wherein a playing card is determined via a first determination of a suit of that playing card and a separate second determination of a rank of that playing card.
US11127255B2
A method includes receiving first customized rules for a first game of a game type to be played by a first player on a first gaming device, and receiving second customized rules for a second game of the game type to be played by a second player on a second gaming device. The method includes establishing, for the first and second games, a competitive gaming session between the first gaming device and the second gaming device. The method includes determining possible payouts for the gaming session based on the first and second customized rules. The method includes applying the first customized rules to play the first game on the first gaming device to generate first customized game play information, and applying the second customized rules to play the second game on the second gaming device to generate second customized game play information.
US11127254B2
A computer-implemented method of operating a computing device, comprising enabling a player to play a wager-based game, the wager-based game being configured to present a plurality of wagering opportunities on a display, each of which being configured such that a player interaction therewith via a player interface generates a wager whose outcome is determined by a random process. A first player interaction with a first wagering opportunity may be received and a first wager generated responsive to receiving the first player interaction. Responsive to the generation of the first wager, a first graphic may be generated that is representative of a first output of the random process, and such graphic may be rendered at a first location on the display. A second player interaction with a second wagering opportunity of the plurality of wagering opportunities may then be received and a second wager generated. Responsive to the generation of the second wager, a second graphic representative of a second output of the random process may be generated, the second graphic being rendered at a second location on the display that is away from the first location.
US11127251B1
An induction card managing device for a gaming machine includes a housing unit having a front housing, a connection seat, and a rear housing. The front housing includes a top side having a card slot. Two guiding plates extend forwards from the connection seat into the front housing and form a card passage therebetween. An induction card can be inserted downwards through the card slot into the card passage and is positioned by a bottom plate between the two guiding plates. The control device is mounted in the housing unit and includes a controller, a sensor, a display, and an inputting device. The display and the inputting device are received in a through-slot and openings in the front housing, respectively. The sensor is received in the rear chamber, is aligned with the card passage of the connection seat, and can proceed with reading/writing on the induction card.
US11127239B2
The invention provides a system to physically dispense an item, including tangible items and/or services or features, on-site from a dispenser whereby the item to be dispensed is selected by the system based on user-specific or item-specific information. In an embodiment, the system selects the dispensed item based on both user-specific and item-specific information. In another embodiment the invention comprises a system that activates gaming features in a gaming device based on user-specific information. In another embodiment, the invention comprises a system incorporated into an interactive amusement system to activate features of a playfield based on user-specific information.
US11127238B2
A depository operates to accept and make available deposit items to authorized users responsive at least in part to data read from data bearing records. The depository (10) includes a body (12) that bounds and interior area (14). The depository includes a door (18) that is controlled by a lock (24) so that only authorized users can access the interior area. The depository includes at least one input device (20) operative to receive data usable to identify users authorized to access the depository. At least one reading device (26) is operative to read indicia included on depository items so that depository items placed in or removed from the interior area can be tracked. The depository is in operative connection with a network (50) that enables the transport and tracking of deposit items.
US11127230B2
The present invention provides a service and supporting technology for backing up and restoring or replacing OEM vehicle keys. The system works by storing a copy of the data from an OEM key along with other information necessary to replace the OEM key in a key bank. The data collected is processed and stored such that a customer can order a universal replacement from the key bank programmed with the stored data to emulate the prior paired OEM key. No further pairing or programming is required by the customer.
US11127226B2
An onboard device to acquire data relating to motion and/or driving parameters of a vehicle is described, the device, comprising: at least one data source internal to the on-board device adapted to provide in output a first data signal containing data correlated to motion and/or driving parameters of the vehicle; a data processing unit to receive and process said first data signal; a long-range radio communication interface to allow a data transmission on a telecommunications network between the data processing unit and a remote processing centre; a first short-range Bluetooth radio communication interface to allow the on-board device to receive at least one data signal from an external device, the external device comprising a data source external to the on-board device and a second short-range Bluetooth radio communication interface.
US11127225B1
A method of fitting a three dimensional (3D) model to input data is described. Input data comprises a 3D scan and associated appearance information. The 3D scan depicts a composite object having elements from at least two classes. A texture model is available which, given an input vector, computes, for each of the classes, a texture and a mask. A joint optimization is computed to find values of the input vector and values of parameters of the 3D model, where the optimization enforces that the 3D model, instantiated by the values of the parameters, gives a simulated texture which agrees with the input data in a region specified by the mask associated with the 3D model; such that the 3D model is fitted to the input data.
US11127223B1
Various implementations or examples set forth a method for scanning a three-dimensional (3D) environment. The method includes generating, based on sensor data captured by a depth sensor on a device, a 3D mesh representing a physical space; dividing the 3D mesh into a plurality of sub-meshes, wherein each of the plurality of sub-meshes comprises a corresponding set of vertices and a corresponding set of faces comprising edges between pairs of vertices; determining that at least a portion of a first sub-mesh in the plurality of sub-meshes is in a current frame captured by an image sensor on the device; and updating the 3D mesh by texturing the at least a portion of the first sub-mesh with one or more pixels in the current frame onto which the first sub-mesh is projected.
US11127221B1
Disclosed herein are related to systems and methods for providing artificial reality. In one aspect, a console receives feedback information indicative of a first completion time from a head wearable display (HWD). The HWD may complete generating a first image frame at the first completion time. The HWD may display the first image frame. In one aspect, the console compares a display time, at which the first image frame is displayed by the HWD, and the first completion time. In one aspect, the console adjusts, according to the comparison, image processing, to adjust a second completion time, at which the console completes generating a second image frame. In one aspect, the console generates, via the adjusted image processing, the second image frame to provide to the HWD.
US11127219B2
Systems and methods are provided for displaying supplemental content for print media using augmented reality. A user profile for a user of an augmented reality device is determined. Content of the print media is searched to identify a first portion of the print media that matches the user profile and a second portion of the print media that does not match the user profile. Supplemental content is obtained based on content of the first portion of the print media. A display of the supplemental content is positioned over the second portion of the print media.
US11127215B1
An artificial reality system is described that includes a head mounted display (HMD) configured to output artificial reality content and image capture devices configured to capture image data of a peripheral device positioned within a physical environment, where the image data comprises a plurality of successive image frames and the image capture devices capture each image frame during an exposure window of a respective frame period. The artificial reality system further includes a waveform controller configured to program a pulse waveform for a plurality of emitters on a peripheral device, wherein the pulse waveform specifies a pattern by which the plurality of emitters emit light and a pulse emitter synchronizer configured to synchronize the emission of light by the plurality of emitters according to the pulse waveform with the exposure window over the successive image frames from the image capture devices.
US11127213B2
Embodiments of the present invention, as presented herein, relate to an augmented reality application-based service, which facilitates the sharing of a design request, by a first end-user, via a messaging application or social networking service. The design request may be included as part of a content posting published to a feed and shared with members of a social networking service, and enables the members to select and position products (e.g., images of household items) using a room design application, such that the selected and positioned products can be rendered in a live AR viewing session by the first end-user.
US11127210B2
A system for automatically displaying virtual objects within a mixed reality environment is described. In some embodiments, a see-through head-mounted display device (HMD) identifies a real object (e.g., a person or book) within a field of view of the HMD, detects one or more interactions associated with real object, and automatically displays virtual objects associated with the real object if the one or more interactions involve touching or satisfy one or more social rules stored in a social rules database. The one or more social rules may be used to infer a particular social relationship by considering the distance to another person, the type of environment (e.g., at home or work), and particular physical interactions (e.g., handshakes or hugs). The virtual objects displayed on the HMD may depend on the particular social relationship inferred (e.g., a friend or acquaintance).
US11127209B1
A system configured to facilitate virtual outfit fitting is described. The system includes a smart closet device having components including a display door and a plurality of image sensors. A first image sensor of the plurality of image sensors is configured to move across a horizontal axis and a vertical axis of enclosure of the smart closet device to capture a plurality of images of a first outfit hung on an outfit hanging column. The smart closet device also includes a computing unit to generate a three-dimensional (3D) model of the first outfit based on the plurality of images. The computing unit is further configured to update an outfit database by storing the generated 3D model of the first outfit in an outfit database. The computing unit generate an image of a user wearing the output in response to receiving a selection of the first output from the user.
US11127208B2
Disclosed are a method for providing a virtual reality image, and a program using the same. The method includes receiving virtual reality image data from a server and allocating the virtual reality image data to a first layer, generating a second layer containing control information of at least one controller, receiving movement information of the at least one controller, and determining a collision point between a predetermined object in the virtual reality image data and the control information based on the movement information, modifying the control information based on a normal vector at the collision point, and allocating combination data including the modified control information to the second layer, and synthesizing the first layer and the second layer with each other to generate a last image frame.
US11127207B2
A deformed mesh representing an object during a deformation process is calculated. A new mesh comprising a crack to be inserted into the deformed mesh is determined. The new mesh comprising the crack is inserted into the deformed mesh to obtain a deformed mesh having the inserted new mesh during the deformation process. This may allow for the simulation of a physical process that may not otherwise be simulated.
US11127205B2
Three-dimensional (3D) mesh segmentation techniques are described. In one example, a geometry segmentation system determines a vertex direction for each vertex in a 3D mesh. A segment generation module is then employed to generate segments (e.g., as developable geometries) from the 3D mesh. To do so, a vertex selection module selects an initial vertex having an associated vertex direction. A face identification module then identifies a face in the 3D mesh using that initial vertex and at least one other vertex. A segment determination module compares the vertex direction associated with the initial vertex with a normal determined for the face. If the vertex direction is orthogonal to the normal (e.g., within a threshold amount), the face is added to the segment, and sets another one of the vertices of the face as the initial vertex and the process repeats.
US11127199B2
A scene model constructing method includes the following steps. According to multiple position parameters in multiple scene materials, classifying the scene materials into multiple position groups. According to scene similarities between the scene materials, classifying the scene materials into multiple first similar image sub-groups and multiple second similar image sub-groups. Establishing a first similar image sub-model and a second similar image sub-model respectively according to the first similar image sub-group and the second similar image sub-group. Combining a first similar image sub-model to a first position model, and combining a second similar image sub-model to a second position model. Finally, combining the first position model and the second position model to a scene model.
US11127191B2
Rendering systems that can use combinations of rasterization rendering processes and ray tracing rendering processes are disclosed. In some implementations, these systems perform a rasterization pass to identify visible surfaces of pixels in an image. Some implementations may begin shading processes for visible surfaces, before the geometry is entirely processed, in which rays are emitted. Rays can be culled at various points during processing, based on determining whether the surface from which the ray was emitted is still visible. Rendering systems may implement rendering effects as disclosed.
US11127180B2
An object of an image processing apparatus, a method, and a non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing a program is to enable acquisition of a composite image in which an effect of a meniscus formed on a liquid surface of a liquid in a container is reduced. A plurality of captured images acquired by setting a part of adjacent observation regions to overlap with each other and imaging a container a plurality of times while changing a position of the observation region are acquired. An overlapping region selection unit 51 selects the captured image having a highest contrast in the overlapping region with at least one adjacent captured image in each captured image Gi as an image of the overlapping region. A composite image generation unit 52 generates a composite image Gs by linking the plurality of captured images in which the images of the overlapping regions are selected.
US11127171B2
A system for selectively rendering highlights in a working document. The system includes a user interface, a memory for storing executable program code, and one or more electronic processors. The electronic processors are functionally coupled to the memory and the user interface. The electronic processors are configured to receive a first highlight operation at a highlight manager associated with a first highlight via the user interface. The electronic processors are further configured to transmit the received first highlight operation to a highlight actor, update a document object model associated with the working document based on the received first highlight operation, and render the first highlight on the working document using a first color based on the received first highlight operation.
US11127169B2
A three-dimensional data encoding method includes: extracting, from first three-dimensional data, second three-dimensional data having an amount of a feature greater than or equal to a threshold; and encoding the second three-dimensional data to generate first encoded three-dimensional data. For example, the three-dimensional data encoding method may further include encoding the first three-dimensional data to generate the second encoded three-dimensional data.
US11127166B2
A method and apparatus for decoding a video stream encoded using video point cloud coding, the decoding including obtaining a geometry-reconstructed point cloud based on one or more patches; identifying a first boundary of a patch including a plurality of first boundary points; identifying a second boundary including a plurality of second boundary points inside the first boundary; performing smoothing on the first boundary points and the second boundary points; obtaining a smoothed geometry-reconstructed point cloud based on the smoothed first boundary points and the smoothed second boundary points; and reconstructing a dynamic point cloud using the smoothed geometry-reconstructed point cloud.
US11127161B2
In some implementations, a first electronic device including a first image sensor uses a processor to perform a method. The method involves obtaining a first set of keyframes based on images of a physical environment captured by the first image sensor. The method generates a mapping defining relative locations of keyframes of the first set of keyframes. The method receives a keyframe corresponding to an image of the physical environment captured at a second, different electronic device and localizes the received keyframe to the mapping. The method then receives an anchor from the second electronic device that defines a position of a virtual object relative to the keyframe. The method displays a CGR environment including the virtual object at a location based on the anchor and the mapping.
US11127159B2
Various embodiments for system and method of adaptive lighting for data-driven non-line-of-sight imaging are disclosed.
US11127153B2
A radiographic imaging apparatus acquires a plurality of two-dimensional pickup images taken at different angles and a three-dimensional image of a processing target imaged in advance. Two-dimensional calculated projection images are generated from the three-dimensional image, respectively, in association with the two-dimensional pickup images. A characteristic region indicates a treatment instrument represented in the two-dimensional pickup image. The two-dimensional pickup image is aligned with the calculated projection image. A deformation amount of the processing target in the two-dimensional pickup image is calculated by comparing the two-dimensional pickup image with the calculated projection image, and a position of the characteristic region is corrected. A three-dimensional position of the characteristic region is calculated and corrected on the basis of anatomical structure information of the processing target. A position mapping part then superimposes the corrected three-dimensional position of the characteristic region on the three-dimensional image to be displayed on a display unit.
US11127151B2
A method and device for acquiring a target object, and a robot are provided. The method includes: acquiring a plurality of frames of continuous images in video images, where each frame of image includes a first target object; acquiring, based on the continuous images including the first target object, a first target image from which a background has been removed; acquiring, based on a distance from a first center point of the first target image to a common boundary, a location of a second target object in the first target image, where the first center point is determined based on a color of the second target object, the common boundary is an overlapping boundary of the second target object and the first target object, and the second target object is included in the first target object; and extracting the second target object based on the location of the second target object in the first target image.
US11127149B2
The image analysis method may comprise the steps of: measuring a distance between a subject and an image analysis apparatus; outputting an image obtained by photographing the subject; selecting at least two feature points in the image of the photographed subject on the basis of information on the output feature points; calculating the relative size of the pre-stored original image of the subject on the basis of the measured distance; extracting feature points in the pre-stored original image of the subject, which correspond to the at least two selected feature points, on the basis of the calculated relative size; and comparing the image of the photographed subject with the original image on the basis of the selected feature points and the extracted feature points.
US11127144B2
A sensor may be configured to determine how many people that have entered or exited a space. The sensor may comprise a pyroelectric infrared (PIR) detection circuit capable of generating different output signal patterns in response to a person entering or exiting the space. The sensor may determine whether the person has entered or exited the space based on the output signal pattern. The sensor may include a thermopile array, a radar detection circuit, or a visible light sensing circuit. The thermopile array, radar detection circuit, or visible light sensing circuit may be capable of detecting a person's location and/or movements within an area monitored by the sensor and determining, based on the detected movements, whether the person has entered or left the space. An occupant count of the space may then be determined accordingly by the sensor or by a system controller.
US11127142B2
A system and method for predicting the near-term trajectory of a moving obstacle sensed by an autonomous driving vehicle (ADV) is disclosed. The method applies neural networks such as a LSTM model to learn dynamic features of the moving obstacle's motion based on its past trajectory up to its current position and a CNN model to learn the semantic map features of the driving environment in a portion of an image map. From the learned dynamic features of the moving obstacle and the learned semantic map features of the environment, the method applies a neural network to iteratively predict the moving obstacle's positions for successive time points of a prediction interval. To predict the moving obstacle's position at the next time point from the currently predicted position, the methods may update the learned dynamic features of the moving obstacle based on its past trajectory up to the currently predicted position.
US11127139B2
Enhanced methods and systems for the semantic segmentation of images are described. A refined segmentation mask for a specified object visually depicted in a source image is generated based on a coarse and/or raw segmentation mask. The refined segmentation mask is generated via a refinement process applied to the coarse segmentation mask. The refinement process correct at least a portion of both type I and type II errors, as well as refine boundaries of the specified object, associated with the coarse segmentation mask. Thus, the refined segmentation mask provides a more accurate segmentation of the object than the coarse segmentation mask. A segmentation refinement model is employed to generate the refined segmentation mask based on the coarse segmentation mask. That is, the segmentation model is employed to refine the coarse segmentation mask to generate more accurate segmentations of the object. The refinement process is an iterative refinement process carried out via a trained neural network.
US11127131B1
Systems and methods are described for measuring, using one or more cameras, anthropomorphic features of two or more individuals to classify and/or grade whether the two or more individuals possess physical abilities to collectively perform desired physical acts, actions or activities. The performance of such actions may involve objects with measured or known dimensions, and/or one or more assistive devices to compensate for differences in anthropomorphic features. Anthropomorphic features of the two or more individuals may also be projected into the future based on attributes such as ages, medical conditions, activity levels and predispositions. Classification schemes may use neural network-based approaches and/or statistical methods based on labelled datasets of abilities of two or more individuals with given anthropomorphic features to perform selected actions.
US11127125B2
The present invention provides an image processing circuit including a region type determination circuit and a filtering circuit. In the operations of the image processing circuit, the region type determination circuit receives pixel values of a plurality of pixels within a region of an image frame, and uses a high-pass filter to filter the pixel values many times to generate a plurality of filtered pixel values, and determines if the region is an edge region, a non-edge region or a mosquito noise region to generate a determination result. The filtering circuit generates a plurality of weights according to the determination result, and uses the plurality of weights to filter a center pixel of the plurality of pixels within the region to generate an adjusted pixel value.
US11127120B2
A coin identification apparatus includes: a line sensor that detects line image data of a coin being conveyed, the coin being subject to identification; an acquisition unit that acquires the line image data at predetermined sampling intervals; an estimation unit that calculates, for each of the acquired line image data items, a similarity between the acquired line image data and reference line data for each angle, the reference line data being a part of reference pattern image data indicating a coin having a reference pattern, the estimation unit estimating a rotary angle of the coin subject to identification based on the calculated similarity; a correction unit that corrects the line image data based on the estimated rotary angle; and an identification unit that identifies the coin subject to identification based on the corrected line image data.
US11127119B1
Method and systems for image deblurring in a vehicle. The methods and systems include determining a point spread function based on vehicle motion data and a depth map received from vehicle motion sensors and a depth sensor. A deblur matrix is calculated based on the point spread function. A blurred input image, received from an imaging device, is deblurred based on the deblur matrix to thereby provide a deblurred output image. A function of the vehicle is controlled based on the deblurred output image.
US11127105B2
Signal processing devices and methods obtain an estimate of a geometric transform of an image signal, use it to obtain a measure of signal confidence of a reference signal in a sub-block of the image signal, and weight message estimates based on the signal confidence. The geometric transform is used as an approximation of the geometric distortion of an image after digital data is encoded in it, and it is used to compensate for this distortion to facilitate extracting embedded digital messages from the image. Due to the errors in the approximation, the signal confidence metric is determined and used to weight message symbol estimates extracted from the image.
US11127101B2
In a taxi dispatch control system and method for taxi dispatching, the system comprising customer terminal, driver's terminal, and a management server owned by a taxi managing company. The customer terminal sends a dispatch request to the management server (S1), the management server creates a passenger information list not dispatching based on the dispatch request from the customer terminal (S2). The driver's terminal which the driver worker signed accession to the taxi dispatch service can browse the passenger information list not dispatching. After browse the passenger information list not dispatching, driver worker can send a notice of wish to pick up customer as a will indication from the driver's terminal (S9). The driver worker can work by receiving dispatch requests at their own convenient time and reduce the useless waiting time of driver worker.
US11127078B1
Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, systems, and computer-readable storage medium for providing personalized navigation control items of an application. In an embodiment, a method includes receiving, from a user, at least one identification element of the user on a page of the application via a mobile computing device. The method includes transmitting, to a financial institution system, the user's identification element. Upon authenticating the user by the financial institution system, the method further includes receiving, at the mobile computing device, information related to personalization of navigation control items associated with a plurality of service sections of the application. The personalization of the navigation control items are generated by applying business rules to user data by the financial institution system. The navigation control items that personalized for the user's convenience and need are displayed on a page of the application on the mobile computing device.
US11127076B2
An electronic trading method, system, apparatus and platform that facilitate dealer to client trading of financial instruments in a session-based format. In one embodiment, the electronic trading system establishes a trading session for a given financial instrument at a predetermined date and time. The electronic trading system presents a two-sided market and provides a guarantee of a minimum liquidity for the trading session. The electronic trading system then executes client orders based on time of order entry and allocation of available liquidity.
US11127072B1
A system and method according to which goods and services are provided during vehicular travel. In an exemplary embodiment, the vehicle is an airplane operated by a commercial airline.
US11127066B2
A computing system generates recommendations for users within the context of a network service. To account for objectives of various users associated with the network service, some of which may not reach optimality at the same time, the computing system generates values associated with each of the objectives separately. For example, for each objective, the system may train a computer model to produce a representative value. To generate a recommendation of an entity for a user, the system uses the generated objective values as inputs to an optimization algorithm. The optimization step may use linear programming or quadratic programming to generate a recommendation score, for example. This two-step process allows the system to account for multiple objectives and makes the system easily adaptable to change when the set of objectives is updated.
US11127065B2
Entities such as hotels, restaurants, resorts, houses, vehicles, and other places and things, are associated with images of each entity. The images are tagged using machine learning to identify what aspects of the associated entity are captured by each image. When a user is requested to select an entity from a set of entities, a user preference model is used to determine what tags the user is interested in. The tags are used to select images associated with the entities from the set of entities, and the selected images are displayed to the user. The user can then provide indicators that show which of the displayed images the user likes or dislikes. Based on the indicators, one or more entities from the set of entities is presented to the user. The model may also be updated based on the indicators.
US11127040B2
Location data of a large number of mobile devices and map data are used to derive a large number of commute routes in a geographical area, which are used to build a relational database including associations between a plurality of road segments and a plurality of information documents. Each of the plurality of information documents corresponds to a billboard in the geographical area and includes information displayed by the billboard. A respective road segment in the relational database has one or more associations with one or more information documents, each of the one or more information documents being associated with the respective road segment by a corresponding probability value indicating a degree of likelihood of a traveler on the respective road segment being exposed to information displayed on a billboard corresponding to the each of the one or more information documents. The relational database is used to select publicly displayed information for delivery to mobile devices detected to be on public roads.
US11127036B2
A computer-implemented method of using the Internet to promote goods and services and connect merchants with potential purchasers in chat groups who wish to obtain suitable sources of goods and services is provided, wherein a plurality of users each have a computer device provided with chat application software and software for accessing and interactively communicating via a computer network with a server provided with a search engine for searching the Internet. Users initiate a chat conversation among a group of users. One of the users invokes a search application using the search engine. The user conducts a search of the Internet for products or services, reviews the results of the search, selects a product or service located by the search, and shares the selected search result with the chat conversation. One of the users can order the selected product or service as part of the process.
US11127034B1
Technologies are provided for automated generation of directed content campaigns. The generated campaign can be optimized for performance. In some embodiments, a group of variations of attributes that define a directed content campaign can be generated and allocated traffic weights for respective impressions of the directed content campaign in a media outlet channel. The traffic weights can then be iteratively updated until a termination criterion is satisfied. At each iteration, the traffic weight can be updated by applying a machine-learning model to current performance metric values of respective impressions corresponding to the traffic weights. After termination of the updates to the traffic weights, a particular set of variations having traffic weights exceeding a threshold can be selected as directed content campaign having satisfactory performance. Those variations can be supplied to a requestor device for subsequent utilization.
US11127032B2
Approaches provide for or automatically optimizing sponsored content campaigns for a sponsored content provider for a particular consumption category across different content publisher networks. For example, performance data for sponsored content campaigns can be used to train a model for a consumption category to determine allocation scores that quantify a relationship between target audiences and the consumption category. In response to a content placement request to initiate a sponsored content campaign associated with the consumption category, allocation scores can be determined and used to dynamically determine an allocation of resources to appropriate audiences or segments based at least in part upon the trained optimization model. A campaign template can be generated that includes the target audience(s), sponsored content, and respective budget allocation, and any other information for the campaign. The campaign can proceed based at least in part on the campaign template, and performance of the campaign can be monitored and analyzed during the campaign to optimize the campaign dynamically.
US11127031B1
Systems and related methods of providing promotional offers to consumers are discussed herein. Some embodiments may provide for an apparatus including circuitry configured to provide promotional offers to consumers based on dimensions representing criteria by which promotions may be deemed relevant to a consumer. Some examples of dimensions may include location, time, environment, price, and/or consumer preference. Based on receiving signals from the consumer device, among other sources, indicating associated times, locations, and other characteristics of consumer activity, the apparatus may recognize patterns or trends in consumer behavior, and use such information to predict or influence future consumer behavior.
US11127021B1
Described herein are systems and methods to help the seller of collectible items develop and upload information about the collectible to e-commerce platforms.
US11127008B1
Systems and methods for processing checks using 2D barcodes are provided. A user submits a digital image of a check that includes a 2D barcode. The 2D barcode has embedded positional information of one or more check features which can be decoded. The 2D barcode can include one or more check parameters. These check parameters can be decoded and used for processing, verification, and/or fraud prevention. Examples of check parameters can include an account indicator if the check is drawn from a business account or a personal account, a maximum amount allowed on the check, account information, a government identifier, or an electronic watermark. The user can submit the digital image of the check to a check processing system.
US11126998B1
Systems and methods that facilitate performing multiple transactions at once using a vehicle-based wallet are disclosed herein. The vehicle-based wallet can link to a plurality of mobile wallets and perform singular transactions with ATMs and POS machines, the singular transactions being a group transaction associated with one or more of the mobile wallets. The vehicle-based wallet can collect intended transactions between the ATMs and the POS machines and the mobile wallets, and then gather them together and perform a single group transaction made up of the individual transactions for multiple people that are within the vehicle.
US11126990B1
A geographic location is received in which a payment recipient is to perform a task. A geolocation system determines that the recipient is at the geographic location based on information received from a mobile device of the recipient. Payment is electronically transferred to the recipient for completion of the task via a payment network. The payment is transferred responsive to determining that the recipient is at the geographic location.
US11126984B2
A kiosk provides a consumer-facing interface for interacting with a consumer to take an order at an enterprise location. A device identifier for a consumer-operated device and order details for the order are received through the consumer-facing interface and communicated to a remote order integration manager executing on a server external from the kiosk. The order integration manager interacts with an enterprise service system and provides updates on the order in real time to the consumer through the consumer-operated device using the device identifier.
US11126981B2
A resource transferring method and apparatus are provided. The method includes receiving a resource transferring request corresponding to a shared specified account sent by any client in multiple clients. The specified account is registered at the server as being associated with the multiple clients, and stores a preset resource. The method also includes determining rights of the multiple clients. The rights include an operation right and an ordinary right, and the operation right is capable of controlling a transfer of the preset resource. The method also includes respectively sending operation information to the multiple clients according to the rights of the multiple clients; and respectively receiving control instructions from at least two clients having the operation right. When a number of the received control instructions are greater than a preset value, the server transfers the preset resource, and returns transferring information of the preset resource to the multiple clients.
US11126979B2
An alias management and value transfer claim processing system is disclosed. A sending entity initiates value transfer identifying a recipient entity using an alias that is unregistered with the system. The value transfer is authorized, but not settled until the recipient entity registers with the system and claims the value transfer. The registered alias can be used for subsequent value transfers.
US11126978B1
An electronic computing device receives a request from a third party for status information for a financial transaction. The request includes an identifier for the third party and an identifier for the financial transaction. The third party is authenticated using the identifier for the third party. A data store is queried using the identifier for the financial transaction to determine the status information for the financial transaction. Any contingency information associated with the financial transaction is updated. The status information and contingency information are returned to the third party.
US11126972B2
An enhanced task management feature can provide enhanced task management capabilities including making the entering of new tasks in an electronic application easier for the user, such as having the user see suggestions of where to put the new task and, in some cases, providing suggestions for details associated with the task. The enhanced task management feature can receive task input associated with a task item from an application; use the task input and at least a user-specific model to identify at least one likely task list name for the task item; and provide a suggested task list name from the at least one likely task list name to the application for display. The enhanced task management feature can receive from user input a task list name and the task item and the task item can then be assigned to a task list associated with the task list name.
US11126971B1
Systems and methods for privacy-preserving enablement of connections within organizations are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method may include (1) receiving, at a server comprising a computer processor, an identification of a target to contact from a requester in an organization; (2) the computer processor identifying, in a connection database, at least one user within the organization having a connection with the target; (3) the computer processor communicating anonymized information representing the at least one user having the connection and a relationship-strength score for the connection; (4) the computer processor communicating a request for introduction assistance to the at least one user; (5) the computer processor receiving acceptance of the request for introductory assistance from the at least one user; and (6) the computer processor identifying the at least one that accepted the request to the requester.
US11126967B2
A product and/or service request administration system and methods related thereto define products and/or service requests using markup language documents that are dynamically interpreted by a computer-implemented engine to generate user interface screens for use in administering products and/or service requests.
US11126963B2
Disclosed is a compliance database and management system for auditing, assessing, and tracking the compliance of companies and their suppliers and method for performing the same. A method for performing supply chain compliance includes collecting supply chain data, such as information about one or more suppliers, compiling (e.g., building) the supply chain data (e.g., into a database) and providing the compiled supply chain data so that the data is accessible to a user. The compiled supply chain data can be analyzed, filtered by one or more parameters, organized by one or more parameters, or a combination thereof by a user.
US11126959B2
A method for purchasing a product at a brick-and-mortar retail establishment is provided. The method includes, but is not limited to, inputting identification information into a local device for a product sold by the brick-and-mortar retail establishment, transmitting the identification information to an order creation application, and upon receiving the identification information, selecting a dispense type for the product. The dispense type is selected from a group of dispense types including: “carry” for personally carrying the product out of the brick-and-mortar retail establishment, “load” for having the product loaded into the user's vehicle, “pickup” for having the product provided to the user at a predetermined location whereby the user will go to get that product, and “delivery” for delivering the product to the user at a predetermined location.
US11126957B2
Systems and methods are described for supply chain vulnerability forecasting using external event data is described. The method may include identifying historic data from each entity of a plurality of entities connected in a supply chain, aggregating temporal-based information relating to the entities and to relations among the entities into one or more time periods based on the historic data, training a cognitive prediction model using the aggregated temporal-based information, generating a vulnerability score for each entity, generating a recommendation for at least one entity if the vulnerability score for the at least one entity is above a preset threshold, retraining the cognitive prediction model using changed data of the at least one entity, and adjusting the vulnerability score based on the retraining.
US11126936B2
System and method for the automated generation of financial and resource forecasting data for events
A system and method for performing forecasting for an event. Information associated with an event is received from a user. Historical data associated with the event is automatically captured. Additional data for the event is captured from a digital resources. A forecast for the event is generated utilizing the information, the historical data, and the additional data.
US11126930B2
A code completion system predicts candidates to complete a method invocation in a source code program written in a dynamically-typed programming language. A pseudo type is generated for each variable in the source code program to approximate the runtime type of the variable. The pseudo type is then used to group a set of method invocations into a classification that can be modeled by an n-order Markov chain model. The n-order Markov chain model is used to predict candidate methods more likely to complete a method invocation in a dynamically-typed programming language.
US11126927B2
Techniques for auto-scaling hosted machine learning models for production inference are described. A machine learning model can be deployed in a hosted environment such that the infrastructure supporting the machine learning model scales dynamically with demand so that performance is not impacted. The model can be auto-scaled using reactive techniques or predictive techniques.
US11126914B2
The present approach relates to the training of a machine learning algorithm for image generation and use of such a trained algorithm for image generation. Training the machine learning algorithm may involve using multiple images produced from a single set of tomographic projection or image data (such as a simple reconstruction and a computationally intensive reconstruction), where one image is the target image that exhibits the desired characteristics for the final result. The trained machine learning algorithm may be used to generate a final image corresponding to a computationally intensive algorithm from an input image generated using a less computationally intensive algorithm.
US11126911B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for organizing trained and untrained neural networks. In one aspect, a neural network device includes a collection of node assemblies interconnected by between-assembly links, each node assembly itself comprising a network of nodes interconnected by a plurality of within-assembly links, wherein each of the between-assembly links and the within-assembly links have an associated weight, each weight embodying a strength of connection between the nodes joined by the associated link, the nodes within each assembly being more likely to be connected to other nodes within that assembly than to be connected to nodes within others of the node assemblies.
US11126907B2
A method of manufacturing an RFID tag assembly, the method comprising: providing a mounting base made of an electrically conductive material; providing a passive mount-on-metal RFID tag, the RFID tag comprising an IC chip and an antenna provided on one side; mounting the RFID tag on the mounting base with said one side of the RFID tag coupled to the mounting base, to form an RFID tag-mounting base sub-assembly; providing a mold tool comprising a mold cavity shaped to form a cover of the RFID tag assembly and locating the RFID tag-mounting base sub-assembly within the mold cavity; and delivering a substantially RF transparent material in a molten state into the void between the mold tool and the RFID tag-mounting base sub-assembly and allowing the material to cool into a solid state to form a cover over the RFID tag-mounting base sub-assembly, such that the mounting base and the cover together encapsulate the RFID tag. The substantially RF transparent material has a temperature in the molten state on delivery into the void that is higher than a maximum tolerable temperature of the IC chip and the molten material is delivered into the void at a position removed from IC chip. The IC chip position such that the temperature of the molten material does not exceed the maximum tolerable temperature of the IC chip when the substantially RF transparent material reaches the IC chip.
US11126898B2
Methods, storage media, and systems are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: provide an encoding derived from an image of an item; provide a set of networks; individually apply the encoding to each network in the set of networks; generate, in response to the applying, a set of classification probabilities; identify a specific network in the set of networks which generated the largest classification probability in the set of classification probabilities; and associate the item with a specific class from the set of classes.
US11126889B2
Systems and methods for predicting user interaction with vehicles. A computing device receives an image and a video segment of a road scene, the first at least one of an image and a video segment being taken from a perspective of a participant in the road scene and then generates stimulus data based on the image and the video segment. Stimulus data is transmitted to a user interface and response data is received, which includes at least one of an action and a likelihood of the action corresponding to another participant in the road scene. The computing device aggregates a subset of the plurality of response data to form statistical data and a model is created based on the statistical data. The model is applied to another image or video segment and a prediction of user behavior in the another image or video segment is generated.
US11126887B2
An enhanced graph transformation-based point cloud attribute compression method. For point cloud attribute information, a point cloud is first subjected to airspace division by using a K-dimension (KD) tree; a new graph transformation processing method in combination with spectral analysis is provided; the point cloud is then subjected to spectral clustering on graphs in coded blocks of the point cloud; expansion is performed on the basis of existing graph transformation to implement a local graph transformation scheme; enhanced graph transformation with two transformation modes is formed; the compression performance of graph transformation is improved. The method comprises: performing color space transformation of point cloud attributes; dividing the point cloud by using the KD tree to obtain the coded blocks; performing spectral clustering-based enhanced graph transformation; performing transformation mode decision; and performing uniform quantization and entropy coding. Provided is a new spectral analysis-based enhanced graph transformation scheme, wherein two transformation modes are comprised, and the optimal mode is selected by the mode decision; after the point cloud is divided with the tree, a graph is created in each coded block and the graph transformation is used as transformation mode I; on this basis, graph spectral clustering is implemented; the graph is divided into two local graphs and then local graph transformation is performed to serve as transformation mode II; in the enhanced graph transformation scheme supporting the two transformation modes, the optimal mode is selected by the mode decision to achieve the optimal performance of point cloud attribute compression.
US11126885B2
In an embodiment, a method for air-writing character recognition includes: determining a position of an object in a monitoring space using trilateration by using a plurality of millimeter-wave radars, where each millimeter-wave radar of the plurality of millimeter-wave radars has a field of view, and where an intersection of the fields of view of the plurality of millimeter-wave radars forms the monitoring space; tracking the position of the object in the monitoring space over time using the plurality of millimeter-wave radars; determining a character symbol depicted by the tracked position of the object over time using a neural network (NN); and providing a signal based on the determined character symbol.
US11126873B2
Techniques for determining lighting states of a tracked object, such as a vehicle, are discussed herein. An autonomous vehicle can include an image sensor to capture image data of an environment. Objects such can be identified in the image data as objects to be tracked. Frames of the image data representing the tracked object can be selected and input to a machine learning algorithm (e.g., a convolutional neural network, a recurrent neural network, etc.) that is trained to determine probabilities associated with one or more lighting states of the tracked object. Such lighting states include, but are not limited to, a blinker state(s), a brake state, a hazard state, etc. Based at least in part on the one or more probabilities associated with the one or more lighting states, the autonomous vehicle can determine a trajectory for the autonomous vehicle and/or can determine a predicted trajectory for the tracked object.
US11126871B2
Method and apparatus are disclosed for advanced warnings to drivers of vehicles for upcoming signs. An example vehicle includes a GPS receiver to determine a vehicle location. The example vehicle also includes a condition identifier to determine a familiarity level of a driver for the vehicle location and detect an upcoming sign. The example vehicle also includes a warning determiner to compare the familiarity level to a threshold level and provide, in response to the familiarity level being less than the threshold level, an advanced warning to the driver for the upcoming sign.
US11126865B2
Systems and methods use cameras to provide autonomous navigation features. In one implementation, a driver-assist system is provided for a vehicle. The system may include one or more image capture devices configured to acquire images of an area forward of the vehicle. The system may also include at least one processing device configured to receive, via one or more data interfaces, the images. The at least one processing device may be further configured to analyze the images acquired by the one or more image capture devices and cause at least one navigational response in the vehicle based on monocular and/or stereo image analysis of the images.
US11126862B2
The present disclosure provides a dense crowd counting method and an apparatus, including: acquiring an image to be detected, where the image to be detected includes images of people; feeding the image to be detected into a convolutional neural network model to obtain a crowd density map of the image to be detected; and determining the number of the images of people in the image to be detected according to the crowd density map. Feature information of an image to be detected may be fully extracted through the above mentioned process, thereby realizing a better performance of crowd counting and density estimation, providing great convenience for subsequent security monitoring, crowd control and other applications.
US11126858B2
According to various embodiments, a system for accessing video content is disclosed. The system includes one or processors on a video hosting platform for hosting the video content, where the processors are configured to generate an automated transcription of the video content and apply text clustering modules based on a trained neural network to segment the video content.
US11126856B2
A video editing application generates video-filled text based on context-sensitive video segments. For example, the video editing application receives a text selection including multiple characters. A text selection context that identifies a characteristic of the text selection is determined, the context including a category of the text selection and a tag identifying an entity associated with the text selection. Scores are computed for multiple video segments, each score indicating a match between an attribute of the respective video segment and the text selection context. Video segments with attributes that match the context are selected, based on a comparison of each score to a threshold. The video editing application generates a composite video that includes a combination of a selected video segment and a character from the text selection, the combination including an outline of the character and the selected video segment.
US11126848B2
An information processing device according to one embodiment includes a detection unit that detects an attention region corresponding to a user's sense of sight, an identification unit that identifies a first object overlapping the attention region from one or more objects existing in a space where the user is located, a request unit that makes a request for first object information related to the first object to another computer during a first time period where the first object overlaps the attention region, and a receiving unit that receives the first object information transmitted from the another computer in response to the request during the first time period.
US11126839B2
A scanner scans a group of documents. For example, the documents can be a group of invoices. The documents are received and processed. Objects (e.g., a text object, such as a word) and their locations are identified in each of the documents. Occurrences of similar objects in the identified locations between the documents are determined. A document sorting algorithm is applied to generate a score for each of the documents. The score for each of the documents is generated based on a number of occurrences of similar objects between the documents. The generated score of each of the documents is used to identify a template document. The template document is then used to cluster the documents.
US11126838B2
A computer implemented method includes receiving a document with line item textual entries and an attachment containing images of different objects characterizing different transactions. The images of the different objects are split into individual image objects. Attributes from the individual image objects are extracted. The line item textual entries are matched with the individual image objects to form matched image objects. The matched image objects include ambiguous matches with multiple individual image objects assigned to a single line item textual entry or a single individual image object assigned to multiple line item textual entries. An assignment model is applied to resolve the ambiguous matches. The assignment model defines priority constraints, assigns pairs of line item textual entries and individual image objects that meet highest priority constraints, removes highest priority constraints when ambiguous matches remain, and repeats these operations until no ambiguous matches remain. One-to-one matches of line item textual entries and individual image objects are returned.
US11126832B2
The present invention discloses an identification system which includes an image sensor, a storage unit and a comparing unit. The image sensor captures a plurality of images of the motion trajectory generated by a user at different timings. The storage unit has stored motion vector information of a group of users including or not including the user generating the motion trajectory. The comparing unit compares the plurality of images with the motion vector information to identify the user. The present invention also provides an identification method.
US11126824B2
The present disclosure provides a face image quality evaluating method as well as an apparatus and a computer-readable storage medium using the same. The method includes: obtaining a face image; determining a local bright area in the face image, wherein the local bright area is formed by an illumination source in the face image, and the brightness of the local bright area is greater than the brightness of a face area in the face image; removing the local bright area from the face image; and evaluating a quality of the face image based on the face image having removed the local bright area. In the above-mentioned manner, the present disclosure improves the accuracy of the quality evaluation of the face image.
US11126821B2
An information processing method, a device, a system, and a storage medium. The information processing method includes: an AI camera first obtains real-time data in a unmanned retail scenario and performs a front-end processing on the real-time data based on a neural network model, where the front-end processing includes any one or more of commodity identifying and human body monitoring, and then transmits a result of the front-end processing to a server, where the result of the front-end processing is used to trigger the server to perform face recognition and/or determine a flow direction of a commodity according to the result of the front-end processing. The cost of the entire unmanned retail distributed system and the pressure on data transmission bandwidth can be reduced, and system scalability as well as the performance of the solution to the unmanned retail can be improved effectively.
US11126818B2
The present application relates to a sheet comprising, in a single layer, a first light control part capable of providing light always totally reflected only in a specific interlayer laminate structure among sheet constructions; and a second light control part capable of providing light whose total reflection is determined according to a fingerprint pattern in contact with the surface layer of the sheet by changing a part of the light provided from the first light control part and totally reflected in the specific interlayer laminate structure at a predetermined angle and emitting it to reach the surface layer of the sheet without being totally reflected in the specific interlayer laminate structure, and a device thereof. The sheet has excellent user identification or authentication capability through a fingerprint and can be applied to a large area display device to recognize a plurality of fingerprint patterns without being influenced by each other.
US11126816B2
A display device and an operation method thereof are disclosed. The display device includes a display panel, a pressure sensor, a skin texture sensor, and a controller. The skin texture sensor and the pressure sensor are respectively coupled to the controller; the pressure sensor is configured to detect a pressing action on a display side of the display panel; the skin texture sensor is configured to detect a skin texture image of a user touching the display side of the display panel; and the controller is configured to awaken the skin texture sensor when the pressure sensor detects the pressing action. The display device reduces power consumption of the fingerprint detection.
US11126813B2
The invention provides a fingerprint sensing device. A control circuit controls a part of point light sources to irradiate a fingerprint of a user. Reflected light generated by using the plurality of point light sources to irradiate the fingerprint of the user forms a light-emitted pattern including a plurality of reflected light patterns on a sensing layer, wherein each of the reflected light patterns is provided by a corresponding point light source, and each of the sensing units senses the reflected light patterns corresponding to at least two point light sources.
US11126811B2
A package unit capturing arrangement includes a belt conveyor for transporting a package unit having an identification marking along a conveying direction and includes an optical sensor. The belt conveyor has, parallel to the conveying direction, a sideguard for preventing the packing unit from falling off a belt of the belt conveyor. The sideguard is designed to have a grate in a region. The sensor is arranged laterally with respect to the belt and behind the grate on a side of the sideguard facing away from the belt so that the belt and the grate lie in a field of view of the sensor. A depth of field region of the sensor is narrower than a width of the belt, with the result that the identification marking of the packing unit is optically capturable by the sensor.
US11126806B2
A commodity container includes a main body with a container space and a radio frequency reader with a communication range that covers an opening of the container space. The radio frequency reader outputs tag information based on a radio frequency signal from a wireless tag and outputs time variation information indicating a time variation of the radio frequency signal. A registration device is attached to the main body and includes a communication interface to receive the tag and time variation information, and a processor configured to determine a time variation in a positional relationship of the wireless tag and the radio frequency reader based on the time variation information and update a commodity registration list based on the determined time variation of the positional relationship.
US11126797B2
Methods, systems, and devices for language mapping are described. Some machine learning models may be trained to support multiple languages. However, word embedding alignments may be too general to accurately capture the meaning of certain words when mapping different languages into a single reference vector space. To improve the accuracy of vector mapping, a system may implement a supervised learning layer to refine the cross-lingual alignment of particular vectors corresponding to a vocabulary of interest (e.g., toxic language). This supervised learning layer may be trained using a dictionary of toxic words or phrases across the different supported languages in order to learn how to weight an initial vector alignment to more accurately map the meanings behind insults, threats, or other toxic words or phrases between languages. The vector output from this weighted mapping can be sent to supervised models, trained on the reference vector space, to determine toxicity scores.
US11126796B2
The techniques provided herein improve existing systems by automatically generating summaries of a document in response to a user input that defines selected segments of a document. The document can include any type of content such as, but not limited to, channel conversations, chat threads, transcripts, word processing documents, spreadsheets, etc. As the user indicates a selection of segments, a system can dynamically update a summary of the segments to inform a user of salient information that is shared in the selected segments. A summary can include a text description of the information having a threshold priority level. A system can analyze documents that are referenced within the selected segments and provide summaries of the documents. The techniques disclosed herein also provide a number of graphical elements that communicate additional context of each part of the summary.
US11126794B2
A method for providing targeted rewrites can include receiving a selection of text in a file; generating a set of target rewrites of the selection of text, the set of target rewrites comprising: at least one phrase or sentence having semantic similarity to a phrase or sentence of the selection of text; and a style that corresponds to a particular target style, wherein a target style is a representative style for a genre, profession, or environment; and providing for selection one or more of the target rewrites of the set of target rewrites.
US11126793B2
A methodology and system are presented for inducing user intent in a corpus and storing this intent in an intent library. To accurately detect intent, the corpus is first cleaned of nonsensical words and symbols and then syntactically analyzed to extract words and dependencies between them, which are then semantically analyzed to select keywords that are indicative of intent, and map the keywords to ordered broad semantic categories of the types of action, modifier and object. Keywords are then converted into embedding vectors whose dimensions are reduced and clustered according to category and order. Relations are calculated for the clusters across the semantic categories and intent is then calculated with the help of intent templates and word dictionaries.
US11126791B2
An electronic system and method of operating electronic software applications such as spreadsheets provides help with formulas and other software functions. The system provides the user with a list of model examples upon request, and responds to a user selection of a model by creating both a model formula or control and model data upon which the formula or control is calculated or may act. The model is editable by the user, so that they may better understand the function being illustrated and use it with their own data.
US11126789B2
Various embodiments described in this disclosure relate to methods and computer-based systems that implement those methods for converting tasks performed as part of a procedure into dynamic procedure tasks. Such dynamic procedure tasks may be used by computer-based procedure solutions to create highly dynamic computer-based procedures.
US11126781B2
An integrated circuit including standard cells, a method and a computing system for designing and fabricating the same are provided. A computer-implemented method involves placing, based on a standard cell library, standard cells of an integrated circuit to be fabricated, and routing the placed standard cells. A position of a first wiring of a placed cell among the placed standard cells may be adjusted based on a position of a second wiring used for the routing. The first wiring is provided from at least one standard cell, formed in a same layer as that of the second wiring, and spaced from the second wiring in a first direction. An integrated circuit layout having the adjusted position of the first wiring, is produced.
US11126770B2
A design method of a semiconductor integrated circuit according to embodiments includes: creating pseudo-cell information for cells included in cell library information, the pseudo-cell information reflecting the degree of difficulty of pin access that connects wires to pins set in the cells; and using cells with a low difficulty of pin access with reference to the pseudo-cell information in timing optimization.
US11126769B2
A complete, unified material-to-systems simulation, design, and verification method for semiconductor design and manufacturing may include evaluating effects of semiconductor material or process changes on software algorithms. The method may include translating the material or process change into a database of characteristics; generating primitive circuit structures using the database of characteristics; performing an electrical characterization of the primitive circuit structures; providing an output of the electrical characterization to a script to generate compact models; generating a lite version of standard cells; generating a digital system based on the lite version of the standard cells; and evaluating a performance of a software algorithm on the digital system to determine an effect of the material or process change for the semiconductor manufacturing process.
US11126759B2
The disclosed methods and systems allow adding constraints (“mates”) between components of the CAD model when in a graphics mode (i.e., when bodies of the CAD model are not loaded). Information regarding CAD model entities is accessed from a computer database, where the CAD model entities belong to one or more components of the subject CAD model. A graphical representation of the subject CAD model is presented to a user without loading bodies of the subject CAD model. The user is enabled to add a constraint between first and second entities of the subject CAD model, and information for the added constraint is stored with the subject CAD model in the computer database. Displaying the model in graphics mode saves time as well as memory usage, and the added constraints persistent after resolving the components from the graphics mode.
US11126758B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media are disclosed for automatically generating an improved aircraft wing by modifying quantitative design variables of one or more airfoils based on joint analysis of aerodynamic and structural performance. In particular, the disclosed systems determine cross-sectional aerodynamic and structural performance metrics for identified airfoils. Based on cross-sectional metrics, the disclosed systems iteratively determine wing aerodynamic performance and deformation metrics across a span of the wing until arriving at an equilibrium deformation and corresponding aerodynamic metric. The disclosed systems can repeatedly analyze the aero-structural metrics for different quantitative design variables to explore a design space and generate an improved wing design while improving aerodynamic and structural performance.
US11126757B2
A peripheral device, for use with a host, comprises one or more compute elements a security module and at least one encryption unit. The security module is configured to form a trusted execution environment on the peripheral device for processing sensitive data using sensitive code. The sensitive data and sensitive code are provided by a trusted computing entity which is in communication with the host computing device. The at least one encryption unit is configured to encrypt and decrypt data transferred between the trusted execution environment and the trusted computing entity via the host computing device. The security module is configured to compute and send an attestation to the trusted computing entity to attest that the sensitive code is in the trusted execution environment.
US11126751B2
A computer-implemented index creation method includes obtaining, by a server storing data in a blockchain ledger, an identifier, in which the identifier identifies an attribute value of a data record; determining location information of the data record in the blockchain ledger, in which the location information includes a block height of a data block in which the data record is located and an offset of the data record in the data block; and writing the location information into an index, in which the index stores a correspondence between the location information and the attribute value, the attribute value being used as a primary key in the index.
US11126749B2
Systems, related methods and other means for providing the securing of JavaScript and source code are provided herein. The system and methods may be configured to poll a client device and/or to otherwise determine whether a debugging console is active on a client device and deny access to the JavaScript and source code if the debugging console is active. Additionally or alternatively, the system and methods may receive a request to access the JavaScript and source code form a client device, and may determine whether the request is from a trusted referrer. When the request is from an untrusted referrer, the system and method can deny access to the JavaScript and source code. When the request is from a trusted referrer, the system and method can grant access to the JavaScript and source code.
US11126744B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for preserving privacy of data collected from a vehicle. In one embodiment, a method includes: receiving, by a processor, privacy preferences entered by a user of the vehicle; receiving, by the processor, the data collected from the vehicle; distorting, by the processor, the data; downsampling, by the processor, the distorted data based on the privacy preferences; and communicating, by the processor, the downsampled, distorted vehicle data to a third-party entity.
US11126742B2
A method for sharing read access to a document stored on memory hardware. The method includes receiving a shared read access command from a sharor sharing read access to a sharee for a document stored on memory hardware in communication with the data processing hardware, and receiving a shared read access request from the sharee. The shared read access command includes an encrypted value and a first cryptographic share value based on a write key, a read key, a document identifier, and a sharee identifier. The method also includes multiplying the first and second cryptographic share values to determine a cryptographic read access value. The cryptographic read access value authorizes read access to the sharee for the document. The method also includes storing a read access token for the sharee including the cryptographic read access value and the encrypted value in a user read set of the memory hardware.
US11126741B2
A computer-implemented method for propagating queries across a plurality of datasources that includes receiving user input via an administrative user interface. The input at least in part defines a plurality of asset paths within the datasources. A plurality of adapters corresponding to the datasources is automatically invoked and the input is automatically consolidated via the adapters for collective invocation in response to queries. A search query is received via an application user interface and the datasources are automatically queried at least in part by invoking the adapters and passing the input and the search query to the adapters. Responsive results for the search query from at least one of the datasources are automatically presented at an end user computing device.
US11126728B2
An electronic apparatus that is configured to detect tampering with predetermined software shifts to one of a power-off mode and a suspended mode based on a power-off instruction. The electronic apparatus performs detection of tampering with the predetermined software at activation of the electronic apparatus from the power-off mode and does not perform detection of tampering with the predetermined software at activation of the electronic apparatus from the suspended mode.
US11126724B2
Examples associated with firmware encryption are described. One example device firmware includes a base module. The base module controls a base function of the device. The device firmware also includes a first encrypted module that modifies a first function of the device. The first encrypted module is inactive until decrypted. A decryption module decrypts the first module using a first encryption key and controls activation of the first encrypted module.
US11126719B2
In one respect, there is provided a system for classifying malware. The system may include a data processor and a memory. The memory may include program code that provides operations when executed by the processor. The operations may include: providing, to a display, contextual information associated with a file to at least enable a classification of the file, when a malware classifier is unable to classify the file; receiving, in response to the providing of the contextual information, the classification of the file; and updating, based at least on the received classification of the file, the malware classifier to enable the malware classifier to classify the file. Methods and articles of manufacture, including computer program products, are also provided.
US11126717B2
A method and apparatus for identifying computer virus variants are disclosed to improve the accuracy of virus identification and removal, and may relate to the field of internet technology. The method includes running a virus sample to be tested and recording an API call sequence produced during running of the virus sample. The method further includes obtaining a characteristic API call sequence for each one of a plurality of virus families, matching the API call sequence produced during running of the virus sample to be tested with the characteristic API call sequences of the virus families, and obtaining a matching result. The method also includes determining the virus sample to be tested is a virus variant by extent of a match between the API call sequence produced by the virus sample and any characteristic API call sequence of any one of the virus families.
US11126713B2
A system for detecting directory reconnaissance in a directory service includes a sensor and a directory reconnaissance detector, each of which is executing on one or more computing devices. The sensor determines whether a query that is submitted to a directory server is a suspicious query and, if the query is determined to be a suspicious query, transmits the suspicious query to the directory reconnaissance detector. The director reconnaissance detector includes a receiver, a context obtainer, an alert determiner and an alert transmitter. The receiver receives the suspicious query from the sensor and the context obtainer obtains context information associated with the suspicious query. The alert determiner determines whether a security alert should be generated based at least on the suspicious query and the context information. The alert transmitter generates the security alert responsive to a determination that the security alert should be generated.
US11126710B2
A method for verifying the integrity of platform software of an electronic device is provided, the method comprising accessing a module of said platform software, obtaining a signature (S), obtaining a verification key (VK), said verification key (VK) corresponding to a signing key (SK), verifying if said signature (S) was derived by signing said platform software module with said signing key (SK), by using said verification key (VK), and establishing a positive verification of said platform software module if said verification is successful. The invention also provides a method for providing a platform software module to perform the aforementioned method, and a device on which the aforementioned method can be performed.
US11126709B2
A method for performing secure computations on records, comprising: receiving a request to apply a computation on a record; assigning a respective partial record of a plurality of partial records of the record to each of a plurality of computational processes; instructing each of the plurality of computational processes to perform a computation scheme comprising: applying a semi honest multiparty computation on the partial record; iteratively repeating a predetermined number of times: using a secure multiparty arithmetic computation to generate random terms; using the secure multiparty arithmetic computation to assign the random terms and an outcome of the application to at least one predetermined equation; verifying an integrity of the semi honest multiparty computation by comparison of the assignments to the at least one predetermined equation to at least one constant; and when the integrity is valid, combining the applications of the semi honest multiparty computations on the partial records.
US11126692B2
An analytics engine is provided for industrial automation applications. The engine may be modular, and may be instantiated upon receipt of a data structure, such as containing annotated data from or relating to a monitored and/or controlled machine or process. The module may be data-driven so that it is instantiated only as needed, upon receipt of the input data structure. The module then carries out analysis on the data, and outputs a data structure that can be used for further analysis, or directly by other modules for modeling, classification, optimization and/or control.
US11126691B1
An apparatus is provided that receives a scalar start value, an adjust amount and wrapping control information, and includes vector generating circuitry for generating a vector comprising a plurality of elements such that a value of a first element is dependent on the scalar start value, and values of the plurality of elements follow a regularly progressing sequence that is constrained to wrap as required to ensure that each value is within bounds determined from the wrapping control information. The adjust amount is used to determine a difference between values of adjacent elements in the regularly progressing sequence. The vector generating circuitry has first adder circuitry for generating a plurality of first candidate values for the plurality of elements, assuming absence of a wrapping condition, and second adder circuitry for generating a plurality of second candidate values for the plurality of elements, assume presence of a wrapping condition. Wrap detection circuitry determines an adjustment limit value that provides an indication of a total number of regularly progressing values differing by the adjust amount that are available within the bounds determined from the wrapping control information, and a current adjustment value that, taking into account the scalar start value, provides an indication of an initial number of regularly progressing values differing by the adjust amount that are available before the wrapping condition occurs. Result selection circuitry selects, for each element in the plurality of elements, one of the first candidate values and the second candidate values, in dependence on at least the adjustment limit value and the current adjustment value.
US11126689B1
Described is a system for identifying and communicating with polarized groups in social media platforms. The system generates a tripartite graph from online social network data. The tripartite graph incorporates user data, post data, and tag data obtained from the online social network data. Nonnegative matrix factorization is performed on a decomposed tripartite graph to obtain an optimization function. The optimization function is solved to identify polarized groups in the online social network. Based on the identified polarized groups, the system sends pre-determined communications to members of each group aimed at targeted escalation or de-escalation of polarization in an online social media platform.
US11126684B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for generating an overview panel that includes content received from data sources. An embodiment operates by a computer implemented method that includes determining the user, the user's role, and/or domains associated with the user in order to determine the content and/or data sources from which content should be received. The method further includes parsing the content from the data sources associated with the user, the user's role, and/or domains and generating cards to display the content from the data sources in a unified and cohesive manner.
US11126682B1
Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The method computer program products, and systems can include, for instance: identifying a certain timestamp hyperlink included within a text based comment entry associated to a published video file, wherein the published video file has been selected by a user, wherein the published video file is published on a video sharing system, and wherein the certain timestamp hyperlink is configured so that clicking on the certain timestamp hyperlink results in playback of the published video file jumping to a playback time specified by the certain timestamp hyperlink; subjecting the text based comment entry having the certain timestamp hyperlink to natural language processing; and injecting a notification for playback to the user with the published video file in dependence on a result of the natural language processing.
US11126667B2
Generating persistent multifaceted statistical distributions of event data associated with computing nodes is disclosed. From a data stream, events are identified that occur during a first time interval. Characteristics associated with the events are determined. Based on a primary characteristic, it is determined that an event corresponds to an event cluster. The event count for that cluster is incremented. It is determined that the characteristics correspond to an event descriptor of events in the cluster. Responsive to requests to view the event cluster, information about descriptors from the cluster are displayed indicating events having a particular event descriptor, or a summary of characteristics that distinguish the descriptor from other event descriptors.
US11126659B2
A system for providing a graph protocol for forming a decentralized and distributed graph database is disclosed. The system involves receiving, from a device, a bid request to generate a graph on a graph protocol network via the graph protocol. A plurality of masternodes in the system may transmit ask requests associated with providing storage and computation power to service the bid request. If the system determines that the requirements of the bid request match or correlate with the requirements of the ask request, the system may select any masternodes having matching or correlating ask requests to service the ask request. The system may then arrange the masternodes into a unique artificially-intelligent router of the graph protocol network. The system may then proceed to generate the graph on the graph protocol network by utilizing the masternodes of the router and may process any queries associated with the generated graph.
US11126658B1
System and methods are maintaining various versions of a graph (e.g., a geometric graph) by a graph management engine. A graph may be partitioned into a number of cells (e.g., utilizing a spatial projection formula). Each cell may be associated with graph data such as nodes and/or edges that are located within the area defined by the boundaries of a cell. The graph management engine may process modifications to the graph. Upon determining that a modification is to be made to a cell, the graph management engine may generate a new cell to contain the previous cell content as modified. The new cell may be assigned a new cell identifier, and a version map corresponding to current cell version identifiers may be maintained. Subsequent data requests for graph data may be processed utilizing the version map to ensure that current graph data is provided in response to the request.
US11126654B1
A multi-dimensional database and indexes and operations on the multi-dimensional database are described which include video search applications or other similar sequence or structure searches. Traversal indexes utilize highly discriminative information about images and video sequences or about object shapes. Global and local signatures around keypoints are used for compact and robust retrieval and discriminative information content of images or video sequences of interest. For other objects or structures relevant signature of pattern or structure are used for traversal indexes. Traversal indexes are stored in leaf nodes along with distance measures and occurrence of similar images in the database. During a sequence query, correlation scores are calculated for single frame, for frame sequence, and video clips, or for other objects or structures.
US11126650B2
The overall architecture and details of a scalable video fingerprinting and identification system that is robust with respect to many classes of video distortions is described. In this system, a fingerprint for a piece of multimedia content is composed of a number of compact signatures, along with traversal hash signatures and associated metadata. Numerical descriptors are generated for features found in a multimedia clip, signatures are generated from these descriptors, and a reference signature database is constructed from these signatures. Query signatures are also generated for a query multimedia clip. These query signatures are searched against the reference database using a fast similarity search procedure, to produce a candidate list of matching signatures. This candidate list is further analyzed to find the most likely reference matches. Signature correlation is performed between the likely reference matches and the query clip to improve detection accuracy.
US11126648B2
The following disclosure describes software components, such as add-ins, that are launched automatically, without being manually activated by a user. In some embodiments, the add-in may run silently, e.g. the add-in runs in the background, without displaying content in an ancillary pane. The add-in may be given access to document content, enabling pre-processing as well as decorating document content with metadata for future use. The add-in may determine that the document has met a criteria, and in response, display a visual cue directing the user to activate the add-in. When a user does manually activate the add-in by clicking on an icon or pressing a keyboard shortcut, the add-in may be pre-loaded, initialized, and have already accessed and processed document content. In this way, the add-in may display useful content in an ancillary pane in much less time, solving the technological problem of delay between manual activation and initialization of an add-in.
US11126646B2
A method, computer program product, and a system where a processor(s) monitors, via sensor(s) configured to monitor physical behaviors of a user engaged in reading document(s) on a user interface of a client, where the monitoring captures the physical behaviors and portions of the one or more processors being read during the physical behaviors. The processor(s) analyses the physical behaviors and the captured portions to generate implicit feedback indicating amounts of time the user engaged with each portion of the one or more documents during the monitoring. The processor(s) generates a model profile for the user including relative timing measures indicating ranked levels of engagement of the user with the portions and ranked levels of importance of each portion.
US11126643B2
An intelligent advertisement publishing system and method based on a double-sided printer distribution map. The method includes: generating a distribution map based on geographical location information of double-sided printers; displaying the distribution map of the double-sided printers, and after obtaining advertisement content input by a user and an advertisement publishing scope selected by the user on the distribution map, generating advertisement information; parsing to obtain the corresponding advertisement publishing scope and advertisement content, generating corresponding advertisement push information based on the advertisement content, and sending the advertisement push information to double-sided printers in the advertisement publishing scope; and enabling the double-sided printers to print the corresponding advertisement information at the back of cash register paper when printing cash registration information.
US11126642B2
Disclosed method for generating synthetic data for minority classes in a very large dataset comprises grouping samples stored on several devices, into different groups. A pivot is identified to be used as a reference for grouping the samples into bins. The samples are assigned to a bin, based on a closest pivot. The samples are regrouped into different groups, based on identities of the bins, and each of the groups is distributed to the several devices. Samples belonging to majority class and minority classes for which synthetic data is not being generated are removed from each of the different groups. Samples of each of these groups are arranged in different M-Trees to facilitate identification of K-nearest neighbours for each sample within each of the different groups to generate K pairs of nearest neighbours. Finally, synthetic samples are generated for the K pairs of nearest neighbours by creating random samples.
US11126634B2
An interactive database object representation may be created based on configuration instructions. The interactive database object representation may include a plurality of graphical elements that are each associated with a respective database object field. Each of the database object fields may be associated with a database object definition within a database. The interactive database object representation may be published to a storage medium for transmission upon request to a client machine via a network. The interactive database object representation may facilitate the display and editing of data associated with an instance of the database object.
US11126630B2
A client device receives search queries and displays via a user interface, search results representing a set of the records based on the search queries. The client device monitors implicit user interactions with search query terms and records displayed in response to various search queries, for example, implicit user interactions representing movements of cursor on the portion of user interface displaying a particular record. The client device receives a partial search query. Partial search results representing a set of the records based on the partial search query are determined for display via the user interface. The relevance score for each record is determined based on implicit user interactions associated with past search queries. The partial search results are ranked based on the relevance scores and displayed by the client device according to the ranked order.
US11126626B2
A system and method for processing a group and aggregate query on a relation are disclosed. A database system determines whether assistance of a heterogeneous system (HS) of compute nodes is beneficial in performing the query. Assuming that the relation has been partitioned and loaded into the HS, the database system determines, in a compile phase, whether the HS has the functional capabilities to assist, and whether the cost and benefit favor performing the operation with the assistance of the HS. If the cost and benefit favor using the assistance of the HS, then the system enters the execution phase. The database system starts, in the execution phase, an optimal number of parallel processes to produce and consume the results from the compute nodes of the HS. After any needed transaction consistency checks, the results of the query are returned by the database system.
US11126624B2
A method of searching a database that includes executing a trie search algorithm on a first portion of data in the database, returning a tag narrowing a location of the first portion of data to optimize the database, and performing a directed search of the optimized database by executing the trie search algorithm again on the optimized database, where the trie search algorithm is an information retrieval data structure using a M-ary tree where each node consists of a M-positional vector of pointers.
US11126623B1
A database system may receive a query and form a plan for executing the query using a hypothetical index selected based on columns referenced by the query. The database system may compare the hypothetical index to indexes on the computing nodes of the database system. Based on the comparison, the database system may form a new index, based on the hypothetical index, on one of the computing nodes. An additional computing node may be added to the database system for the purpose of maintaining the new index. Subsequent queries having commonality with the first query may be processed on a node maintaining the first index.
US11126622B1
Apparatus, methods, and computer-readable media facilitating efficiently scaling result caching are disclosed herein. An example method includes generating an index based on a plurality of source data objects in an object storage system. The generated index comprises a manifest, at least one symbol file, and at least one locality file. The example method also includes receiving a search query for the plurality of source data objects stored in the object storage system, and querying the generated index based on the search query and a manifest root file of the manifest. Additionally, the example method includes generating a materialized view of a result set of the search query based on the querying of the generated index. The example method also includes storing a cached manifest file at the generated index, the cached manifest file mapping the search query to a segment of the generated index based on the result set.
US11126620B2
Techniques are provided for automatic verification of query results obtained from data formatted different from row-major format. Techniques are also provided for automatic triage of query results obtained from data formatted different from row-major format. In an embodiment, the query results may be obtained from querying data formatted in column-major format. In an embodiment, when the query results are determined to be incorrect, a cause of the error in the query results can be automatically identified.
US11126615B2
Systems for prosecuting Internet messaging campaigns. Two or more data sources are determined where at least one of the data sources comprise demographic attributes corresponding to shared IDs such as recipient IDs. A first join operation is performed over matching instances of the shared IDs in the two or more data sources. The first join operation results in a personalization table comprising rows having at least recipient IDs, respective external addresses, and at least one of the demographic attributes. The personalization table is transformed into a key-value data structure that is published to a caching subsystem. The caching subsystem is used to select a first set of recipients determined without performing a second join operation. Personalized messages to at least some of the first and second set of recipients are formed using the message template and the key-value data structures.
US11126614B2
A series of graphical user interfaces allows a user to define rules for parsing unstructured and structured log data and generate an aggregate rule to identify events across multiple lines of one or more log files. A first graphical user interface allows a user to select a line from a log file under analysis, search for matching lines in the log file, define rules for parsing the log file, and tokenize attributes of the selected lines. A second user interface allows the user to aggregate defined rules so that messages may be correlated to identify events that occur across multiple lines.
US11126613B2
An Autonomous Exchange via Entrusted Ledger (AXEL) blockchain is discussed herein. The AXEL blockchain enables users to perform transactions in a private setting while enabling the transaction records thereof to be verified by other network users without publicly divulging the contents or details of the transaction records. The token identification system and method allows the tokens to carry an immutable identification to prevent negative blockchain occurrences such as double spending. A payment methodology allowing integration of external financial institutions with user owned and managed wallet. The AXEL blockchain can also interface with and utilize a distributed database to create an immutable record of each transaction while providing a complete backup of the transactions that occur within the system and on the AXEL blockchain.
US11126610B1
A technology is provided for conflict resolution in a data proxy for a mutation. A mutation may be received at a data proxy from an application, and the data proxy is in a service provider environment. The mutation may be sent to be processed by a data store via a data access resolver. A conflict message may be received at the data proxy via the data access resolver for a conflict mutation at the data store for the mutation. The conflict may be resolved at the data proxy using a conflict resolution function in the data proxy.
US11126607B1
A system and method matches data from a first set of data with that of an other set of data in a manner based on the size of a memory.
US11126603B2
Systems and techniques are disclosed relating to management of a database. A method may include maintaining, by a computer system, a multi-tenant database operable to store a plurality of objects. Each object may be capable of including up to a maximum potential number of definable fields. Each field may have an associated index number that has been assigned sequentially. The method may include receiving user-defined data values for a subset of the maximum potential number of fields of a particular object, and storing, for the particular object, a boundary value indicating a range of index values that have been defined for the particular object. The method may further include, in response to determining that the particular object has been accessed, selectively processing a number of fields of the particular object. The number of fields may be determined based on the stored boundary value for the particular object.
US11126599B2
A method for validating information includes accessing validation rules from a validation rule store and transferring a plurality of received data files and the validation rules to a validation storage space. The method also includes selecting each of the one or more data files defined in the validation configuration file. Each data file includes a plurality of records, each record having values associated with a plurality of attributes. For each data file, the method includes applying the plurality of validation rules to determine valid and invalid content within the data file; and generating a report that specifies the invalid content of each data file.
US11126598B1
Techniques for allowing a user to invoke lifecycle operations on a data store configured in accordance with a data management scheme, without knowledge of the data management scheme. Techniques include receiving user input from a user interface; identifying, in the received user input, an indication of a first lifecycle operation corresponding to a first entry in a template; based on information in the first entry, identifying in the received user input a first configuration value associated with the first lifecycle operation; formatting the first configuration value as at least a portion of at least one argument to a first command; and invoking, via the first command with the at least one argument, a first computer program configured to perform the first lifecycle operation on the data store.
US11126597B2
A database server may include a master table schema that defines a database table's configuration and an arrangement for corresponding shadow tables. The shadow tables contain data related to contiguous and non-overlapping time periods and writing to the shadow tables occurs in a rotational fashion so that only one active table is written to at any point. The server may upgrade the master table schema. The server then may determine that a rotation event has occurred where a first shadow table is active and a second shadow table is associated with an oldest of the contiguous and non-overlapping time periods. In response, the server may delete data in the second table, determine that the schema has been upgraded since the second table was most recently active, upgrade the second table's schema to match the schema, and set the second table to active enabling writing to the second table.
US11126594B2
Delta compression method, system and computer program product. Portions of source and target data files are hashed using a hashing function. A target data file is compared against the source data file to determine at least one delta difference between the files. A source data file hashing table is generated. The table includes hashed portions of the source and target data files stored in corresponding source file offset locations and corresponding target file offset locations, respectively. Portions of the source and target files are compared using corresponding source and target file offset locations. At least one common sequence of characters in the portions of the source and target files is determined based on the comparison. A patch file is generated based on the determined sequence of characters.
US11126590B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a data processing method, including: receiving an upload instruction for a target file; obtaining storage location information of the target file in response to the upload instruction; and uploading the target file to a corresponding target first storage device in K first storage devices and M second storage devices according to location information of the K first storage devices and location information of the M second storage devices, so that when determining that a preset condition is satisfied, a target second storage device in the M second storage devices generates M parity blocks according to a file stored in the target second storage device, respectively stores M−1 parity blocks in remaining M−1 second storage devices, deletes the file stored in the target second storage device, and instructs the remaining M−1 second storage devices to delete files stored in the remaining M−1 second storage devices. The embodiments of the present disclosure further disclose a data processing device. By implementing the embodiments of the present disclosure, network bandwidth overheads caused by cache writing can be effectively reduced.
US11126587B2
Representative apparatus, method, and system embodiments are disclosed for a self-scheduling processor which also provides additional functionality. Representative embodiments include a self-scheduling processor, comprising: a processor core adapted to execute a received instruction; and a core control circuit adapted to automatically schedule an instruction for execution by the processor core in response to a received work descriptor data packet. In another embodiment, the core control circuit is also adapted to schedule a fiber create instruction for execution by the processor core, to reserve a predetermined amount of memory space in a thread control memory to store return arguments, and to generate one or more work descriptor data packets to another processor or hybrid threading fabric circuit for execution of a corresponding plurality of execution threads. Event processing, data path management, system calls, memory requests, and other new instructions are also disclosed.
US11126586B2
Various additional and alternative aspects are described herein. In some aspects, the present disclosure provides a method of calibrating a component. The method includes receiving previous calibration parameters for an external component at a secondary SoC from a primary SoC, wherein the secondary SoC is coupled to the external component and configured to calibrate the external component. The method further includes determining validity of the previous calibration parameters by the secondary SoC. The method further includes operating the external component by the secondary SoC based on the determined validity of the previous calibration parameters.
US11126575B1
An interrupt recovery manager detects that a compute instance has exited a state in which interrupts from one or more interrupt sources were not processed at the compute instance. The recovery manager identifies a source from which interrupts may have been missed by the compute instance, and causes an indication of a potential missed interrupt from that source to be delivered to the compute instance.
US11126566B2
The presently disclosed method and apparatus for sharing security metadata memory space proposes a technique to allow metadata sharing two different encryption techniques. A section of memory encrypted using a first type of encryption and having first security metadata associated therewith is converted to a section of memory encrypted using a second type of encryption and having second security metadata associated therewith. At least a portion of said first security metadata shares a memory space with at least a portion of said second security metadata for a same section of memory.
US11126562B2
A memory system includes a memory device suitable for storing L2P map data including a logical address of an external device and a physical address of a memory device corresponding to the logical address, and a controller suitable for storing at least a portion of the L2P map data and state information of the L2P map data, and controlling data input/output of the memory device, wherein, when a write request, write data and a first physical address with a first logical address are received from an external device, the controller performs a write operation for the write request on a second physical address to which a logical address is not assigned, and invalidates the first physical address, and the controller transmits a first acknowledgement, which does not include the second physical address, to the external device, after completely performing the write operation.
US11126561B2
One embodiment provides a system for facilitating data placement. The system receives, by a computing device, data to be written to a non-volatile memory, wherein the data is associated with a first logical block address. The system performs, based on the first logical block address, a search in a mapping table for an entry which indicates a first physical block address associated with a first physical unit. A respective physical unit can comprise a plurality of blocks of data across a plurality of channels of the non-volatile memory. The system writes the data to a second physical block address in the first physical unit. The system updates the entry by replacing the first physical block address with the second physical block address.
US11126558B2
A high-performance data storage device is disclosed. A controller updates a sub mapping table on the temporary storage in response to a write command of the non-volatile memory issued by a host. The mapping sub-table corresponds to a logical group involved in the write command and is downloaded from the non-volatile memory. When the mapping sub-table has not been completely downloaded to the temporary storage memory, the controller pushes the write command to a waiting queue to avoid dragging the performance of the data storage device.
US11126548B1
An apparatus having a memory array. The memory array having a first section and a second section. The first section of the memory array including a first sub-array of memory cells made up of a first type of memory. The second section of the memory array including a second sub-array of memory cells made up of the first type of memory with a configuration to each memory cell of the second sub-array that is different from the configuration to each cell of the first sub-array. Alternatively, the section can include memory cells made up of a second type of memory that is different from the first type of memory. Either way, the second type of memory or the differently configured first type of memory has memory cells in the second sub-array having less memory latency than each memory cell of the first type of memory in the first sub-array.
US11126542B2
Systems and methods for programming a grow pod are provided herein. One embodiment of a grow pod includes a plurality of carts for growing plants, a plurality of pod environment affecters, and a pod computing device that, when executed by a processor, causes the grow pod to receive a recipe program. The recipe program may define a grow recipe for the grow pod and may cause actuation of at least a portion of the plurality of pod environment affecters to facilitate growth for the plurality of respective plants. The recipe program may be created via a scripting language that includes a plurality of commands for controlling the grow pod. In some embodiments, the plurality of commands are specific to the grow pod. Embodiments of the grow pod may additionally instantiate a plurality of instances of the recipe program that correspond with each of the plurality of carts.
US11126541B2
Managing resources used during a development pipeline. A method of the disclosure includes analyzing historical resource usage of an application development system during different stages of a development pipeline for an application. The application development system includes a set of computing resources. The method also includes determining a current resource usage for a current stage of the development pipeline for the application. The method further includes determining an estimated resource usage for a later stage of the development pipeline for the application based on one or more of the current resource usage or the historical resource usage. The method further includes configuring the set of computing resources of the application development system for the later stage of the development pipeline based on the estimated resource usage.
US11126537B2
A coprocessor stores at least part of an execution trace based on code execution at a primary processor. The coprocessor includes control logic that configures the coprocessor to listen to a bus that interconnects the primary processor and the coprocessor, and to receive one or more cache coherency protocol (CCP) messages from the bus (i.e., CCP message(s) sent on the bus by the primary processor, based on the primary processor having consumed data for a memory cell). Based on receiving the CCP message(s), the coprocessor initiates storing of the consumed data for the memory cell into an execution trace.
US11126536B2
Facilitating recording a trace of code execution using a processor cache. A method includes identifying an operation by a processing unit on a line of the cache. Based on identifying the operation, accounting bits for the cache line are set. Setting the accounting bits includes (i) setting the accounting bits to a reserved value when the operation is a write and tracing is disabled, (ii) setting the accounting bits to an index of the processing unit when the operation is a write and the accounting bits for the cache line are set to a value other than the index of the processing unit, or (iii) setting the accounting bits to the index of the processing unit when the operation is a read that is consumed by the processing unit and the accounting bits for the cache line are set to a value other than the index of the processing unit.
US11126534B2
Troubleshooting a model comprising a plurality of interrelated parameters defining a dynamic behavior of a simulated interactive object in an interactive computer simulation when inputs are provided on tangible instrument(s) of an interactive computer simulation station. An expected frequency response function is obtained between each of the parameters of the model and each of the instrument(s). The expected frequency response function comprises a tolerable variability function. A frequency sweep is performed of a revised model, defining a revised dynamic behavior of the simulated interactive object, providing an actual frequency response function for the instrument(s). The revised model is determined to be different from the model by identifying discrepancy measurement(s) between the expected and the actual frequency response functions, each discrepancy measurement being centered on at least one frequency. The revised model is identified as inadequate when one or more discrepancy measurements is outside of the tolerable variability function.
US11126532B1
Method and apparatus for a parallel, metadata-based trace analytics processor is disclosed. The trace analytics processor is able to asynchronously parallelize the processing operation and use metadata about each parallel operation intelligently. The result is the ability to get analytics results quickly, efficiently, and in real time.
US11126528B2
An embodiment of the present invention is directed to generating a branch health index. The innovative method is directed to generating a Branch Health Index (BHI) designed to provide a comprehensive measurement for ATM performance. According to an embodiment of the present invention, BHI takes into account ATM availability, service response/repair times and customer impacts to score every ATM on a predetermined scale. The method applies a weighted scoring algorithm designed to take into account a multitude of attributes. The score may then be used to determine graphical status, such as a red/amber/green status of the ATM.
US11126512B2
A failure resistant distributed computing system includes primary and secondary datacenters each comprising a plurality of computerized servers. A control center selects orchestrations from a predefined list and transmits the orchestrations to the datacenters. Transmitted orchestrations include less than all machine-readable actions necessary to execute the orchestrations. The datacenters execute each received orchestration by referencing a full set of actions corresponding to the received orchestration as previously stored or programmed into the computerized server and executing the referenced full set of actions. At least one of the orchestrations comprises a failover operation from the primary datacenter to the secondary datacenter. Failover shifts performance of task from a set of processing nodes of the primary datacenter to a set of processing nodes of the secondary datacenter, such tasks including managing storage accessible by one or more remote clients and running programs on behalf of remote clients.
US11126508B2
Example embodiments relate generally to systems and methods for continuous data protection (CDP) and more specifically to an input and output (I/O) filtering framework and log management system to seek a near-zero recovery point objective (RPO).
US11126506B2
Disclosed herein are systems and method for method for predictive data protection. In one aspect, an exemplary method comprises selecting data stored on a computing device for backing up, according to a predetermined schedule for performing a backup; collecting features associated with the computing device where the data for the backup is stored, the features comprising device information for the computing device, user information for a user of the data, and external information associated with a locale of the computing device; analyzing the features to determine a set of backup parameters for the backup, wherein the backup parameters comprise scheduling parameters and destination storage parameters; generating a backup plan based on the set of parameters for performing the backup; and performing the backup of the data according to the backup plan.
US11126499B2
The present invention relates to computerized (“smart”) mobile electronic devices and more particularly, to a system and methods of diagnosing and repairing malfunctions in smart mobile electronic devices, including a diagnostic process that utilizes decisions based on Big Data that holds information of multiple devices and offers a “disable components” (i.e., turn-off components) solution in order to overcome the problem without flashing a firmware or doing a factory-reset.
US11126489B2
Disclosed are data gathering and analysis systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media to facilitate an investigation process. The method includes accessing a data object representing an investigative issue as part of initiating an investigative session. The method further includes causing presentation, on a display of a device, of a user interface configured to receive user search queries and present search results for each received search query. The method further includes tracking user activity including one or more user actions performed during the investigative session. The method further includes creating a record of the user activity, and linking the record of the user activity with the data object representing the investigative issue.
US11126488B2
A vehicle control device includes a controller configured to control an actuator and generate state information representing a state of the actuator, a request arbitration unit configured to arbitrate requests from a plurality of application execution units, and a request generation unit configured to generate a drive request signal to the controller. The controller includes a detection unit configured to detect whether or not the request arbitration unit is abnormal, a first transmission unit configured to transmit the state information to the request arbitration unit, and a second transmission unit configured to, when the detection unit detects that the request arbitration unit is abnormal, transmit the state information to the application execution units such that the state information does not pass through the request arbitration unit.
US11126485B2
A risk assessment manager for run-time patches receives a run-time patch to update one or more portions of a memory space, determines a first portion of memory of the one or more portions of the memory space to be updated by the run-time patch, and monitors the first portion of the memory space to detect accesses of the first portion of memory. The risk assessment manager determines a risk assessment value for the run-time patch in view of a number of accesses of the first portion of the memory space, and executes a test process for the run-time patch in view of the risk assessment value.
US11126482B1
The present disclosure relates to devices and methods for remotely saving console output messages. The devices and methods may generate console output messages for an application running on the game device. The devices and method may redirect the console output messages from presenting on the console to a console message queue and generate a single console telemetry event in response to a trigger event. The console telemetry event may capture a plurality of the console output messages in the console message queue. The device and methods send the console telemetry event for remote storage. In addition, the devices and methods may use a remote program console to access or otherwise view the stored console telemetry events. The remote program console may be used to filter or search the stored console telemetry events.
US11126477B2
Methods and apparatus consistent with the invention provide the ability to organize and build understandings of machine data generated by a variety of information-processing environments. Machine data is a product of information-processing systems (e.g., activity logs, configuration files, messages, database records) and represents the evidence of particular events that have taken place and been recorded in raw data format. In one embodiment, machine data is turned into a machine data web by organizing machine data into events and then linking events together.
US11126476B2
Examples disclosed herein provide systems, methods, and software for attaching an application to a computing system. In one example, a method of attaching at least one application to the computing system includes identifying an application attach triggering event, and identifying at least one application based on the application attach triggering event. The method further includes attaching an application volume to the computing system that contains the at least one application, and filtering one or more applications from the application volume that are not the at least one application.
US11126474B1
Techniques for reducing the probability of spinlock and/or reducing the time that a virtual central processing unit (CPU) may hold a lock are provided. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes determining that an executing virtual CPU is holding a lock for exclusive use of a resource, and scheduling the executing virtual CPU to run for up to a specified time period before de-scheduling the executing virtual CPU. In one embodiment, the executing virtual CPU holding the lock writes a value to a register to indicate that the executing virtual CPU is holding the lock.
US11126469B2
A system for providing automatic resource resizing is provided. The system may be configured to maintain a plurality of virtual machine instances. The system may be further configured to receive a request to execute a program code and allocate computing resources for executing the program code on one of the virtual machine instances. The amount of resources allocated for executing the program code may be specified by the request and adjusted as needed.
US11126468B2
Described is a system and method that includes performing a static analysis on code in view of a first set of rulesets, each ruleset in the first set of rulesets defining criteria for validation of the code in a first development stage. In response to validation of the code in view of the first set of rulesets, configuration information for each of a second set of rulesets may be transmitted to a dynamic agent, each ruleset in the second set of rulesets defining criteria for validation of the code in a second development stage, wherein the dynamic agent is in a limited functionality state. The dynamic agent may be brought to a full functionality state in response to receiving the configuration information for each of the second set of rulesets and may perform a dynamic analysis on the code in view of the second set of rulesets.
US11126465B2
A system includes a processor and machine readable instructions stored on a tangible machine readable medium, which when executed by the processor, configure the processor to collect data regarding resource use within a computing system, the data being collected periodically, without running a diagnostic program, and before occurrence of a diagnosis worthy event; and provide the collected data to the diagnostic program executed after the occurrence of the diagnosis worthy event so that the diagnostic program has data from before the occurrence of the diagnosis worthy event to enable determination of a cause of the diagnosis worthy event.
US11126463B2
A system for providing a function as a service (FaaS) is provided. The system includes a communicator which receives a request for setting resources to execute the function, a memory which stores one or more instructions, and a processor. The processor executes the stored instructions. When the processor executes the instructions, it analyzes characteristics of the function and provides recommendation information related to the setting of the resources to execute the function based on a result of the analyzing.
US11126457B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for batch processing nginx network isolation spaces and an nginx server. The method includes: allocating unique identifiers to the respective network isolation spaces, and setting configuration files of the respective network isolation spaces (S1); receiving a control command transmitted by an nginx controller, herein the control command carries a plurality of unique identifiers pointing to the network isolation spaces (S3); and batch processing the network isolation spaces that the plurality of unique identifiers respectively point to and configuration files of the network isolation spaces pointed to according to the control command (S5). The technical solutions provided in the present disclosure may batch process the network isolation spaces in the nginx.
US11126443B2
A method and apparatus for modifying a user interface. The method comprises receiving user interface data at a client from a first server, receiving modification computer program code at said client, and executing said modification computer program code at said client to modify said user interface data to generate modified user interface data. The modification computer program code can be received from said first server or from a further server.
US11126435B2
A processor device capable of raising a hit rate of branch destination prediction is provided. Every time a load instruction to a data cache is generated, an equivalent value judgment circuit judges accord/disaccord of present load data and previous load data from a corresponding line. In an N bit region, as history records, a judgment history record circuit records judgment results of N times by the equivalent value judgment circuit before a conditional branch instruction is generated. When the conditional branch instruction is generated, based on the history records in the N bit region, a branch prediction circuit predicts the same branch destination as the previous branch destination obtained by a previous execution result of the conditional branch instruction or a branch destination different from the previous destination. Further, the branch prediction circuit issues an instruction fetch direction of the predicted branch destination to a processor main-body circuit.
US11126433B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods related to a block-based processor core composition register are disclosed. In one example of the disclosed technology, a processor can include a plurality of block-based processor cores for executing a program including a plurality of instruction blocks. A respective block-based processor core can include one or more sharable resources and a programmable composition control register. The programmable composition control register can be used to configure which resources of the one or more sharable resources are shared with other processor cores of the plurality of processor cores.
US11126430B2
A vector processor includes a grouping memory functional unit coupled to grouping memory having multiple bins. The vector processor also includes a bitformatting functional unit that performs bit-level data arrangements using any suitable technique or network, such as a Benes network. The vector processor receives and reads an input vector of data that includes portions (e.g., bits) of multiple data streams, and writes each portion corresponding to a respective data stream to a respective bin in parallel using the bitformatting functional unit to align the data. The vector processor also or alternatively receives and reads multiple outgoing data streams, writes portions of the data streams in respective bins of the grouping memory, and intersperses the portions in an outgoing vector of data in parallel, using the bitformatting functional unit to align the data.
US11126426B2
A software change system and method implements changes of a current active software version hosted one or more testing nodes of a cluster(s) to a different software version, while other nodes within the cluster(s) continue to employ the current active software version. To determine and resolve errors and incompatibilities introduced by the different software version, the at least one testing node is upgraded to the different software version and employed to query resources and data associated with the current active software version. Resolution data pertaining to the different software version is generated reflecting changes to the data employed by the different software version, or changes to the different software version, to resolve the errors and incompatibilities. The resolution data may be deployed to other nodes of the cluster(s) before, during, or after the nodes are upgraded on a rolling or other basis to the different software version.
US11126423B2
Examples described herein include systems and methods managing firmware versions of user devices that are enrolled in an enterprise mobility management system. The system can include a management server that sends profiles to enrolled devices, causing those devices to restrict further firmware updates and register with a firmware server. The management server can retrieve available firmware versions and display those in a console. An administrator can select target firmware versions in the console. The management server can the cause the enrolled devices to update to the target firmware versions. This can include sending a call from the management server to the firmware server, causing an automatic update. It can also include sending a command from the management server to an enrolled device, causing the enrolled device to prompt a user prior to requesting a firmware update. This can allow an administrator to prevent user devices from installing firmware updates that could expose the enterprise to security risks or negatively impact operation of enterprise applications.
US11126422B2
A program update system updating programs comprising: a first control device executing a program stored in the primary storage area thereof; a second control device executing a program stored in the primary storage area thereof; a program storage temporarily storing an acquired program; a program acquirer preferentially acquiring and storing into the program storage a first program to be stored in the first control device, and acquiring and storing into the program storage a second program to be stored in the second control device; and an update unit storing the first program stored in the program storage into the primary storage area of the first control device, storing the second program stored in the program storage into the primary storage area of the second control device, and switching the primary storage area and the secondary storage area of the first control device.
US11126418B2
Technologies for distribution of a shared image include determining results of a first hash operation applied to a plurality of elements of an image of a software installation, determining results of the first hash operation applied to the plurality of contents of a client, comparing results of the first hash operation applied to the plurality of elements of the image with the results of the first hash operation applied to the plurality of contents of the client, determining that one or more of the plurality of elements of the image are unavailable on the client based on the comparison of the results of the first hash operation applied to the plurality of elements of the image with the results of the first hash operation applied to the plurality of contents of the client, and causing the transmission of the elements to the client.
US11126417B2
A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to support a sandboxed application plug-in distribution framework. An installation package containing a monitoring plug-in, a display plug-in, and/or third part components is received by a first application running on a first computing device. The first application installs the display plug-in and saves the monitoring plug-in to a centralized database. The first application sends an instruction to a second application running on a second computing device to retrieve the monitoring plug-in from the database and install the monitoring plug-in on the second computing device. Upon receiving a user request, the display plug-in of the first application sends a query to the monitor plug-in of the second application. In response to the query, the monitoring plug-in sends the requested monitored data collected by the second application to the display plug-in, which then formats and presents the monitored data to the user.
US11126400B2
An electronic device can implement a zero-latency digital assistant by capturing audio input from a microphone and using a first processor to write audio data representing the captured audio input to a memory buffer. In response to detecting a user input while capturing the audio input, the device can determine whether the user input meets a predetermined criteria. If the user input meets the criteria, the device can use a second processor to identify and execute a task based on at least a portion of the contents of the memory buffer.
US11126399B2
A method for displaying sound volume, a device for displaying sound volume, terminal equipment and a storage medium are provided. The method for displaying sound volume includes acquiring a volume adjusting instruction on a video displaying interface and switching a playing progress bar on the video displaying interface to a volume line and displaying on the volume line a process of changing a length of the volume line in accordance with the volume adjusting instruction.
US11126395B2
An intercom system provides audio communication between multiple users wearing head-mounted devices (HMDs). In an embodiment, the intercom system determines a first location of a first HMD of a first user. The intercom system determines a second location of a second HMD of a second user. The intercom system receives audio of the first user from a microphone of the first HMD. The intercom system determines a volume level of the audio at the second location using at least the first location and the second location. The intercom system transmits the audio to the second HMD responsive to determining that the volume level is less than a threshold volume. The intercom system may also selectively transmit audio based on gaze direction of a user. Additionally, the intercom system may generate a transcript of audio input by users.
US11126390B2
A system and method for is disclosed for controlling coordination between medical devices, a medical workstation and a communication device. The system comprises: message transceiving units arranged corresponding to a plurality of medical detection display apparatuses respectively for forwarding, to a coordination message processing unit, interaction information acquired from an accessed external input device by the medical detection display apparatuses arranged corresponding to the message transceiving units themselves. The coordination message processing unit receives the interaction information from a message transceiving unit connected thereto, parses the interaction information to obtain an identifier corresponding to a medical detection display apparatus designated by a user, and converts the interaction information into a display message matching the designated medical detection display apparatus according to a display requirement corresponding to the identifier. By means of the present disclosure, the problem of the inconvenience in multi-screen operation control in the existing medical workstation is solved.
US11126388B2
A measurement instrument identification system is described for identifying one measurement instrument, wherein the identification system includes a sensor unit, a receiving unit for receiving a signal assigned to the measurement instrument, a processing unit, and an augmented reality unit for displaying at least a representative and/or a symbol assigned to the measurement instrument. The processing unit is further configured to select the one measurement instrument out of the plurality of measurement instruments based on the received signal assigned to the at least one measurement instrument and the signal received from the sensor unit. The processing unit is further configured to control the augmented reality unit to display a representative and/or a symbol assigned to the measurement instrument. Further, a method for finding a particular measurement instrument is described.
US11126384B2
A verifier and printer assembly are provided. The verifier and printer assembly include a verifier module and a printer. The verifier has a magnetic docking element and the printer includes a docking portion operable to dock the verifier module. The magnetic docking element and the docking portion interact with each other to removably couple the verifier module to the printer. A magnetic attachment system for the verifier module and methods for removably coupling the verifier module and the printer for verification of a printed machine-readable symbol are also provided.
US11126381B1
A virtualized copy-by-reference includes: receiving, from a first computer system, a request for reference information for source data within a source volume; providing, to the first computer system, the reference information, wherein the reference information corresponds to a metadata representation of the source data; receiving, from a second computer system, a request to write the source data to a target volume, and wherein the request to write the source data indicates the reference information; and copying, using the reference information, the metadata representation of the source data to the target volume.
US11126379B2
A memory system includes a memory device including a plurality of segments; a processor configured to generate a Read-Modify-Write (RMW) command on a target segment address corresponding to a target segment among the plurality of segments; a scheduler configured to receive the RMW command from the processor and schedule the RMW command; and a RMW unit configured to execute the RMW command on the memory device according to control of the scheduler, wherein the scheduler compares, when a plurality of RMW commands received from the processor are pending, target segment addresses of the plurality of RMW commands to re-order the plurality of RMW commands.
US11126369B1
The present disclosure generally relates to efficiently reading data during a suspend resume operation. Once writing is suspended, and prior to reading the data, a determination is made regarding whether there are multiple reads of the same page type. If there are multiple reads of the same page type, those reads are paired up so that the two reads of the same page type can occur from two planes in parallel. If two different pages types are read in parallel on the two planes, the slowest page type will determine the duration of the read. By grouping reads of the same page type and proceeding with the read, the disruption during suspend resume operations is minimized.
US11126354B2
A transaction manager for use with memory is described. The transaction manager can include a write data buffer to store outstanding write requests, a read data multiplexer to select between data read from the memory and the write data buffer, a command queue and a priority queue to store requests for the memory, and a transaction table to track outstanding write requests, each write request associated with a state that is Invalid, Modified, or Forwarded.
US11126348B2
An electronic device displays a messaging user interface of a message application, including a conversation transcript of a messaging session between a user of the electronic device and a plurality of other users, a message-input area, and a plurality of avatars corresponding to the plurality of other users. The plurality of avatars are displayed as a stack of avatars, with a first avatar of avatars displayed on the top of the stack of avatars. In response to detecting an input by a first contact on the touch-sensitive surface while a focus selector is at a first location in the messaging user interface that corresponds to the first avatar, if the input meets menu-activation-criteria, a menu that contains activatable menu items associated with the first avatar overlaid on the messaging user interface is displayed, and if the input meets avatar-spreading-criteria the plurality of avatars are displayed in an array.
US11126343B2
Provided is an information processing apparatus including an operation detection unit configured to detect a user's operation, and a display control unit configured to display content in a part including a middle of a display screen and display thumbnails corresponding to content belonging to one category in one direction along one side of the display screen in a region located separately from the middle of the display screen. The display control unit moves the displayed thumbnails in a vertical direction with respect to the one direction according to an operation which is detected by the operation detection unit and is an operation of switching the one category to which the content corresponding to the displayed thumbnails belongs.
US11126342B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device is configured to display a 3-dimension (3D) image using the display, to receive a scroll input on the 3D image, to determine a scroll angular speed based at least on a scroll speed corresponding to the scroll input and a depth of the 3D image, to control the display to display the 3D image based on a first method based on the determined scroll angular speed being less than a specified angular speed, and control the display to display the 3D image based on a second method different from the first method based on the determined scroll angular speed being greater than or equal to the specified angular speed.
US11126340B2
Methods and a computer system for dynamically generating an embedded payment interface are described herein. The method includes obtaining rules that define a desired configuration of the embedded payment interface. The method also includes storing rules, storing a default interface template having a default configuration, and receiving an access message indicating that the webpage is accessed at a remote computing device, the access message including a plurality of data elements associated with the webpage and the access of the webpage by the remote computing device. The method also includes accessing the default interface template, generating customization commands that define an output configuration of the embedded payment interface by applying the rules to data elements, applying the customization commands to the default interface template to produce a payment interface having the output configuration corresponding to the desired configuration, and embedding the payment interface in the accessed webpage.
US11126335B2
In some aspects, a method of authoring an interactive presentation includes defining a sequence of two or more primary content items within a presentation, and associating a link to additional content with a primary content item of the sequence in a non-transitory computer-readable medium. In additional aspects, a method of delivering an interactive presentation includes accessing the sequence of two or more primary content items, delivering the primary content items to a presentation device, and delivering, to applications operating on mobile devices of audience members, the primary content items with the additional content and/or one or more links thereto. In further aspects, a method of interacting with an interactive presentation includes receiving, by a mobile device of an audience member, a sequence of primary content items with additional content and/or one or more links thereto, and displaying the received primary content items and the additional content.
US11126332B2
Composable events to provide a dynamic user interface are disclosed. In various embodiments, a definition of a custom user interface event is received. The definition includes an identification of a data value to be associated with the event, a scope of the event within which the event will be consumed, and an event trigger in response to which an instance of the custom user interface event is to be published. Application user interface code configured to provide one or more application user interface elements configured to publish or subscribe to the custom user interface event is generated programmatically, based at least in part on the definition.
US11126327B2
The various embodiments described herein include methods and devices for interactive data visualization. In one aspect, a method is performed at a device with a touch-sensitive surface and a display. The method includes displaying a first chart with one or more visual marks corresponding to a first dimension and a first measure. The method further includes determining whether a detected touch input is in a first region corresponding to the first dimension or in a second region corresponding to the first measure. If the touch input is in the first region, the method displays a plurality of dimension options, and, in response to selection of a respective dimension option, adds a second dimension through an animated transition to display a second chart. At least one visual mark in the first chart is split into a plurality of visual marks in the second chart through the animated transition.
US11126325B2
A node of a collaboration system is provided to establish communication with other nodes, store data identifying graphical targets having locations in a virtual workspace and including locations in the virtual workspace of the identified graphical targets, and compute a mapping of a local client viewport to a local client screen space. The node is configured to render on the local client screen space graphical targets having locations within the local client viewport, provide a user interface to display a list of viewport markers representing viewports, where each viewport defines an area in the workspace, and respond to an input indicating a selected viewport marker from the list of viewport markers, update the local client viewport to match the location and dimensions of the viewport represented by the selected viewport marker, and render on the local client screen space graphical targets having locations within the updated local client viewport.
US11126315B2
A touch electrode layer and a touch display device are provided. By setting first and second electrodes of a touch electrode unit to a trunk and a branch structure, respectively. First electrode branches are electrically connected to first electrode trunks. Second electrode branches are electrically connected to second electrode trunks. The first electrode branches and the second electrode branches form “a homocentric squares pattern” of a limit coupling shape, which can increase rate of change of a basic mutual capacitance value when a finger touches it. In addition, third electrodes having “a homocentric squares pattern” are disposed between the first branch electrodes having a homocentric squares pattern and the second branch electrodes having a homocentric squares pattern and are not connected to the first branch electrodes and the second branch electrodes. This effectively reduces a basic mutual capacitance value Cm and can effectively reduce parasitic capacitance to ground.
US11126305B2
The present disclosure relates to an optical sensor for use in an image recognition device, such as a fingerprint detector. The presently disclosed optical sensor has improved light transmittance in a compact and cost-efficient structure. In particular the presently disclosed optical sensor can be placed under a display panel of an electronic device, such as a smartphone. One embodiment relates to an optical sensor system for placement under a display panel for detecting/imaging light returned from a fingerprint on top of the display panel, the optical sensor comprising a microlens structure having a front side with an array of light focusing elements and an opaque back side with an array of optically transparent apertures aligned with the focusing elements, and a sensor array of optical detectors facing the back side of the microlens structure. The optical sensor system is preferably configured such that light returned from the object can be focused by the microlens structure onto the sensor array through the transparent apertures.
US11126304B2
A capacitance sensor includes N electrode groups arranged in a detection area, each of which includes at least one electrode, a capacitance detection unit configured to detect capacitance of capacitors formed between an object and the electrode for individual electrodes, a sum calculation unit configured to add detection values of the capacitance obtained for individual electrodes based on a result of the detection performed by the capacitance detection unit for individual electrode groups so as to calculate sum totals of the detection values for individual N electrode groups, and a determination unit configured to determine whether a detection result of the capacitance detection unit is affected by noise based on the N sum totals calculated for the N electrode groups.
US11126302B2
A touch device can include a plurality of touch electrodes including a first touch electrode and a second touch electrode; and a touch sensing circuit configured to supply a touch driving signal to at least one of the plurality of touch electrodes in a touch period, the touch period including a first touch period and a second touch period, in which the touch driving signal includes a first touch driving signal or a second touch driving signal; and the touch sensing circuit can supply the first touch driving signal having a first frequency to the first touch electrode for sensing a touch in the first touch period, supply a first load-free driving signal having the first frequency to the second touch electrode in the first touch period, supply the second touch driving signal having a second frequency to the second touch electrode for sensing a touch in the second touch period, and supply a second load-free driving signal having the second frequency to the first touch electrode in the second touch period.
US11126301B2
A power adapter control method is provided. The method includes: obtaining a scanning frequency of the TP and a strength of common mode noise generated by a power adapter at the scanning frequency of the TP; determining whether the strength of the common mode noise is greater than or equal to a preset threshold; and when the strength of the common mode noise is greater than or equal to the preset threshold, adjusting a working frequency of a control IC of the power adapter, so that a strength of common mode noise newly generated by the power adapter at the scanning frequency of the TP is less than the preset threshold. The embodiments of the present invention are used for a process of reducing interference of the common mode noise to the TP.
US11126296B2
An operation input device includes a knob disposed in a display region of a touch display, and a conductor column provided in the knob that can be detected as a touch point irrespective of whether or not the knob is in a state of being touched with a user's finger. The operation input device detects a plurality of touch points including the touch point corresponding to the conductor column and outputs touch information related to the plurality of detected touch points, determines the touch point corresponding to the conductor column among the detected plurality of touch points, calculates a touch strength value at the touch point corresponding to the conductor column, and determines whether or not the knob is in a state of being touched with the user's finger based on the touch strength value.
US11126294B2
An input apparatus includes a display device, a touch panel, and a control device. The control device includes a processor, and as a result of executing a control program by the processor, functions as a controller. When a position on the screen of the display device is specified by touch operation performed on the touch panel, the controller determines the position on the screen of the display device specified by the touch operation based on detection output of the touch panel, withholds reception of the determined position until passage of a predefined fixed period in a state in which the determined position is at a same position, and receives the determined position upon passage of the fixed period.
US11126291B2
The present disclosure provides a touch display panel and a display device. The touch display panel includes: a base substrate, including a surface; the surface includes a display area and a non-display area, and the non-display area surrounds the display area; the display area includes a plurality of first touch electrodes extending along a first direction; the non-display area includes a plurality of first touch wires correspondingly electrically connected to the plurality of first touch electrodes, and wire lengths of the plurality of first touch wires are different; and at least one of following ways is adopted to make resistance of the respective first touch wires consistent: the different first touch wires have different numbers of first via holes; and the different first touch wires have different wire widths.
US11126290B2
A pixel array substrate including first and second scan lines, first and second pixels, an auxiliary line and sensing units is provided. The first pixel and the second pixel are arranged between the first scan line and the second scan line in a first direction. Each of the first pixel and the second pixel has a pixel electrode. The first pixel and the second pixel are respectively electrically connected to the first scan line and the second scan line. The auxiliary line is disposed between the first pixel and the second pixel. Each sensing unit has a first electrode and a second electrode. A first sensing unit of the sensing units is overlapped with the auxiliary line, the pixel electrode of the first pixel and the pixel electrode of the second pixel. The auxiliary line is electrically connected to at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode.
US11126289B2
The present disclosure provides a display device, including elastic support columns formed on a foldable region of a touch control sensing layer and an adhesive filled around the elastic support columns; the height of the elastic support columns varies with the magnitude of the stress, and the thickness of the adhesive is controlled by adjusting the height and the density of the elastic support columns to ensure the best folding results. It is possible to maintain the product appearance without apparent changes before and after folding to avoid the adhesive deformation which is not recoverable due to the much thick adhesive and a repeated folding, and realize a flexible foldable touch control display.
US11126281B2
A device such as a computer stylus may have a color sensor. The color sensor may have a plurality of photodetectors each of which measures light for a different respective color channel. The color sensor may also have one or more light-emitting devices. Control circuitry may use the light-emitting devices to illuminate an external object while using the photodetectors to measure reflected light to determine the color of the external object. The electronic device may have a housing with an elongated shaft. The shaft may have a tip and an opposing end. The tip may be configured to emit electromagnetic signals that are detected by a touch sensor in a touch sensitive display. The color sensor may be located at the end opposite the tip, may be located at the tip, or may be optically coupled to the tip using a light guide.
US11126279B2
A stylus pen that includes a tip electrode, a power supply circuit, a signal detector, and a drive circuit where an output signal is transmitted to and an input signal is received from a touch panel via the tip electrode. The power supply circuit of the stylus pen selectively supplies a first supply voltage or a second supply voltage. The signal detector of the stylus pen detects an enable signal from the input signal and the signal detector of the stylus pen controls the power supply circuit to supply the first supply voltage in response to presence of the enable signal. The drive circuit operates at the first supply voltage to generate the output signal.
US11126275B2
An apparatus for presenting a panoramic photo in a mobile terminal receives a trigger instruction that is used to instruct the mobile terminal to enter an immersive browsing mode, where the immersive browsing mode is a browsing mode in which a panoramic photo moves as the mobile terminal rotates; and if the trigger instruction is detected, a rotation angle of the mobile terminal is detected and determined, and a panoramic photo that is presented in a normal mode in the mobile terminal is moved and presented according to the determined rotation angle.
US11126266B1
Systems and methods are provided that relate to vibrational input elements configured to provide inputs to control an application executed by a mobile computing device. The vibrational input elements may produce distinct vibration patterns that are detectable by a sensor of the mobile computing device. The respective vibration patterns may correspond to one or more actions that may be performed in relation to the application.
US11126263B2
One embodiment of the present disclosure sets forth a technique for generating an interface on a resonance surface. The technique includes determining a resonance pattern corresponding to a set of interface elements. The technique further includes configuring one or more haptic output devices to generate haptic output that creates the resonance pattern on the resonance surface.
US11126260B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a control method and apparatus of an intelligent device, and a storage medium. The control method includes: determining a state of a target function to acquire target function state information; detecting an operation of a user gazing at a local screen to acquire gazing operation information; and controlling the state of the target function to switch according to the gazing operation information and the target function state information.
US11126253B2
An electronic device includes a main circuit including a processor, a sub circuit that transits between a first state and a second state, and a power supply circuit that supplies electric power to the main circuit and the sub circuit. An electrical distance between the main circuit and the power supply circuit is shorter than an electrical distance between the main circuit and the sub circuit. When the processor determines to cause the sub circuit to transit from the second state to the first state, the processor increases electric power supplied from the power supply circuit to the sub circuit. The sub circuit transits from the second state to the first state in response to increase of the electric power supplied from the power supply circuit.
US11126247B2
A method for updating a power mode parameter combination, includes identifying a current hardware combination of a client host; loading and executing a current application program; loading a default profile according to the current application program to update a current power mode parameter combination of the current hardware combination; receiving a user-defined parameter combination to update the current power mode parameter combination of the current hardware combination; correlating the current application program, the current hardware combination and the updated current power mode parameter combination to generate a current profile as an updated default profile; and transmitting the current profile to a server as a candidate profile.
US11126241B2
A wireless mobile device in a public communication network receives network-initiated signaling or messaging, while operating in a battery-conserving mode, or modes that, keep(s) minimal baseband processing functions awake. The baseband processing functions process incoming signaling or data in a received message to determine whether to act further on information in the incoming message by enabling additional processing capability in the mobile device. The mobile device may have permanent template criteria values, either coded in firmware or implemented in hardware, or temporary template criteria values, stored in RAM or processor registers, that are compared to values of an incoming message or datagram from the mobile network to determine whether to perform additional actions, such as awakening an application processor. Multiple templates may co-exist to allow different incoming datagrams to cause the device to take some additional action, respond, or even ignore information in an incoming datagram or message.
US11126239B2
Systems and methods for network port monitoring using low energy wireless communications are provided. In one embodiment, a device comprises: at least one port module, the at least one port module comprising one or more connector ports each configured to receive a connector of a network data cable; and a port state sensor that includes a port sensing circuit coupled to a sensor controller, wherein the port sensing circuit is configured to sense a port state for the one or more connector ports; wherein the sensor controller is configured to input the port state from the port sensing circuit, wherein in response to detecting a change in the port state from the port sensing circuit, the sensor controller wirelessly transmits port state information to a port state monitor.
US11126229B2
A display panel has a display area, a first wiring area, and a second wiring area, in which the display area is adjacent to the first and second wiring areas. The display panel includes a plurality of pixels, a first loop pattern, and a second loop pattern. The pixels are arranged within the display area. The first loop pattern is arranged within the display area and is located above the pixels. The first loop pattern includes a first wiring. The second loop pattern is arranged within the first wiring area and is located outside the second wiring area. The second loop pattern is electrically connected to the first loop pattern and includes a second wiring, in which the wiring width of the first wiring is smaller than the wiring width of the second wiring.
US11126226B2
A display panel and a display apparatus. The display panel includes at least one first region, at least two second regions, and a detection layer. The first region and the second region are adjacently arranged along a first direction, and the first region is located between adjacent second regions. The first region is bent, and the second region is not bent, in a case that the display panel is bent. The detection layer includes at least one detection unit, the detection unit is located in the second region, the detection unit does not overlap with the first region, and the detection unit is configured to detect bending of the first region. The display panel has high detection accuracy and strong detection capability.
US11126222B2
A display device includes a display panel that has a display region in which an image is displayed, a first adhesive layer disposed below the display panel, a translucent protective film disposed below the first adhesive layer, a fingerprint sensor disposed below the protective film and that overlaps the display region, the first adhesive layer, and the protective film when viewed in a plane, and a cover layer disposed below the protective film and in which an opening for accommodating the fingerprint sensor is formed.
US11126221B2
A transparent display device includes a pixel region, a first transparent region and a second transparent region. The pixel region includes at least three sub-pixels arranged along a direction. The first transparent region and the second transparent region are disposed along the direction and the pixel region is disposed between the first transparent region and the second transparent region. The first transparent region has a first width in maximum along the direction. One of the at least three sub-pixels has a second width in maximum along the direction, and the first width is different from the second width.
US11126217B1
An integrated circuit includes a first stage and a second stage. The first stage receives a previous stage output data and a clock signal and generates a first output data. The second stage receives the first output data and the clock signal. The first stage includes a first flip-flop circuit, a first static combinational circuit, a dynamic combinational circuit and a multi-phase generator. The first flip-flop circuit receives the previous output data and the clock signal and generates an input data. The first static combinational circuit receives the input data and generates an intermediate data. The multi-phase generator receives the clock signal and generates a delayed clock signal. The dynamic combinational circuit receives the intermediate data and the delayed clock signal and generates the first output data.
US11126216B2
A signal driver includes a first driver, a second driver, an on-timing control circuit, and an off-timing control circuit. The first driver is configured to generate a first driving pulse signal by inverting and driving an input pulse signal. The second driver is configured to generate a second driving pulse signal by inverting and driving the first driving pulse signal. The on-timing control circuit is configured to pull-up drive or pull-down drive the first driving pulse signal based on a first on-timing control signal, a second on-timing control signal, and the input pulse signal. The off-timing control circuit is configured to pull-up drive or pull-down drive the second driving pulse signal based on a first off-timing control signal, a second off-timing control signal, and the first driving pulse signal.
US11126213B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for managing power supplied over an electric power grid from at least one power supply source. A coordinator manages communications between at least one server and the at least one power supply source, wherein the server is operable to initiate power commands, wherein the communications comprise an actual amount of power supply available for the electric power grid from the at least one power supply source, and wherein the at least one power supply source is operable to provide power supply to the electric power grid based on the power commands.
US11126203B2
An aerial imaging aircraft operable to transition between thrust-borne lift in a VTOL orientation and wing-borne lift in a biplane orientation. The aircraft includes an airframe having first and second wings with first and second pylons coupled therebetween. A two-dimensional distributed thrust array is coupled to the airframe. The thrust array includes a plurality of propulsion assemblies each operable for variable speed and omnidirectional thrust vectoring. A payload is coupled to the airframe and includes an aerial imaging module. A flight control system is operable to independently control the speed and thrust vector of each of the propulsion assemblies such that in an inclined flight attitude, the flight control system is operable to maintain the orientation of the aerial imaging module toward a target while translating the aircraft, changing aircraft altitude and/or circling the target.
US11126199B2
A learning based speed planner for autonomous driving vehicles (ADV) is disclosed. An ADV is set into human-driving mode. Driving control elements are under control of a human driver, and other ADV logic is enabled. The ADV plans a route path on a segment of the route having an obstacle. ADV logic generates a station-time graph for the path of the segment, and a grid of cells to encompass the path and obstacle. A feature vector is generated from the grid. Human driving behavior is recorded as the ADV is navigated along the path. Recorded driving data for a large plurality of paths, obstacles and ADVs is transmitted to a server to generate a speed model. The speed model is downloaded to one or more ADVs for use in autonomous driving mode, to determine an initial speed to use in similar driving situations.
US11126196B2
The described positional awareness techniques employing sensory data gathering and analysis hardware with reference to specific example implementations implement improvements in the use of sensors, techniques and hardware design that can enable specific embodiments to provide positional awareness to machines with improved speed and accuracy. The sensory data are gathered from an operational camera and one or more auxiliary sensors.
US11126192B2
A system and method include scanning a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) device through a range of orientations corresponding to a scanning zone while emitting light pulses from the LIDAR device. The method also includes receiving returning light pulses corresponding to the light pulses emitted from the LIDAR device and determining initial point cloud data based on time delays between emitting the light pulses and receiving the corresponding returning light pulses and the orientations of the LIDAR device. The initial point cloud data has an initial angular resolution. The method includes identifying, based on the initial point cloud data, a reflective feature in the scanning zone and determining an enhancement region and an enhanced angular resolution for a subsequent scan to provide a higher spatial resolution in at least a portion of subsequent point cloud data from the subsequent scan corresponding to the reflective feature.
US11126191B2
Various embodiments for controlling a state of an autonomous vehicle that is to meet a user are provided. A receiver receives location information indicating a current location of the user. A memory stores a plurality of states of the autonomous vehicle. Each of the states at least one of visually or audibly distinguishes the autonomous vehicle. A sensor senses an environment of the autonomous vehicle to obtain environment information. A distance from a place of meeting the user to the current location of the user is calculated based on the location information. A first state is selected in accordance with the environment information. The autonomous vehicle is caused to change from a second state to the first state when the distance from the place of meeting the user to the current location of the user becomes smaller than or equal to a predetermined distance.
US11126188B2
A method includes receiving a worksite plan to be executed by a machine at a worksite, and determining first travel parameters of the machine. Such first travel parameters include a first travel path along a work surface, and first work tool positions. The method also includes controlling the machine to traverse at least part of the first travel path, receiving sensor information associated with the work surface, and identifying an imperfection of the work surface located along the first travel path. The method further includes determining second travel parameters of the machine. Such second travel parameters including a second travel path along the work surface, and second work tool positions. The method also includes controlling the machine to traverse at least part of the second travel path while positioning the work tool according to at least one of the second work tool positions.
US11126187B2
Systems and methods described herein relate to controlling the operation of a vehicle. One embodiment generates predicted trajectories of the vehicle using first trajectory predictors based, at least in part, on first inputs; generates predicted trajectories of a road agent that is external to the vehicle using second trajectory predictors based, at least in part, on second inputs; integrates the predicted trajectories of the road agent into the first inputs to iteratively update the predicted trajectories of the vehicle and integrates the predicted trajectories of the vehicle into the second inputs to iteratively update the predicted trajectories of the road agent; and controls operation of the vehicle based, at least in part, on at least one of (1) the iteratively updated predicted trajectories of the vehicle and (2) the iteratively updated predicted trajectories of the road agent.
US11126184B1
Methods and systems autonomously parking and retrieving vehicles are disclosed. Available parking spaces or parking facilities may be identified, and the vehicle may be navigated to an available space from a drop-off location without passengers. Special-purpose sensors, GPS data, or wireless signal triangulation may be used to identify vehicles and available parking spots. Upon a user request or a prediction of upcoming user demand, the vehicle may be retrieved autonomously from a parking space. Other vehicles may be autonomously moved to facilitate parking or retrieval.
US11126182B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) configured to autonomously navigate a physical environment while capturing images of the physical environment. In some embodiments, the motion of the UAV and a subject in the physical environment may be estimated based in part on images of the physical environment captured by the UAV. In response to estimating the motions, image capture by the UAV may be dynamically adjusted to satisfy a specified criterion related to a quality of the image capture.
US11126179B2
Techniques for determining and/or predicting a trajectory of an object by using the appearance of the object, as captured in an image, are discussed herein. Image data, sensor data, and/or a predicted trajectory of the object (e.g., a pedestrian, animal, and the like) may be used to train a machine learning model that can subsequently be provided to, and used by, an autonomous vehicle for operation and navigation. In some implementations, predicted trajectories may be compared to actual trajectories and such comparisons are used as training data for machine learning.
US11126176B2
A vehicle control apparatus can continue a control function against abnormality in operation of an arithmetic processor and in the power supply voltage, and capable of improving reliability. Where there is no abnormality, the autonomous travel control unit and an auxiliary control unit calculate control instruction values for automatic driving control, and validate a CAN communication circuit of autonomous travel control units while invalidating a CAN communication circuit of the auxiliary control unit. Where an abnormality occurs in the autonomous travel control unit and not the auxiliary control unit, the CAN communication circuit of the autonomous travel control unit is invalidated and the CAN communication circuit of the auxiliary control unit is validated. Where the auxiliary control unit has no abnormality when the autonomous travel control unit has an abnormality during automatic driving control thereof, seamless automatic driving control with substantially no time lag continues.
US11126171B2
Systems and methods for data collection in an industrial environment are disclosed. A system may include a data collector to collect data from a subset of a plurality of input channels based on a selected data collection routine, and a data acquisition and analysis circuit for receiving the collected data and analyzing the collected data using an expert system analysis circuit to determine an occurrence of an anomalous condition for a machine component based on an analysis. The expert system analysis circuit may utilize a neural network. The data analysis circuit may determine an aggregate rate of data being collected and, if the aggregate rate exceeds a current bandwidth allocation rate associated with the network infrastructure, request an increase to the current bandwidth allocation rate from the network infrastructure.
US11126167B2
An industrial automation system may include an automation device and a control system. The control system may be communicatively coupled to the automation device and may include a first module that may receive a request for information regarding the automation device. The first module may then determine information related to the request for information based on one or more datasets locally available to the first module, alter the information based on a signal configured to obscure the information, and send encrypted information to a second module of the plurality of modules.
US11126157B1
Various examples are disclosed for hybrid alert and action solution in Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks. A multi-edge alert definition specifies a plurality of IoT devices that communicate through a plurality of edge devices. The multi-edge alert definition is registered in a fog evaluation service for evaluation. Data corresponding to the IoT devices is received by the fog evaluation service from the plurality of edge devices. An alert is triggered based on a condition specified in the multi-edge alert definition.
US11126149B2
To provide an adjusting device and an adjusting method for appropriately controlling the machine learning reduced in cost with respect to calculation load and learning period of time in the case where an evaluation program for machine learning is used separately from a machining program and the like. The present invention includes a feedback information acquiring part configured to acquire, from a control device, feedback information obtained when an evaluation program including various types of learning elements is executed in the control device, a determination part configured to determine which learning element the acquired feedback information corresponds to among the various types of learning elements, a feedback information transmitting part configured to transmit the acquired feedback information to a machine learning part corresponding to the learning element, a parameter setting information acquiring part configured to acquire control parameter setting information obtained through machine learning by use of the feedback information, and a parameter setting information transmitting part configured to transmit the acquired control parameter setting information to the control device.
US11126144B2
A clock generator includes a hermetically sealed cavity and clock generation circuitry. A dipolar molecule that exhibits a quantum rotational state transition at a fixed frequency is disposed in the cavity. The clock generation circuitry is configured to generate an output clock signal based on the fixed frequency of the dipolar molecule. The clock generation circuitry includes a detector circuit, a multiplier, and reference oscillator control circuitry. The detector circuit is coupled to the cavity, and is configured to generate a detection signal representative of an amplitude of a signal at an output of the cavity. The multiplier is coupled to the detector circuit, and is configured to multiply the detection signal with a mixing signal to produce a derivative of the detection signal. The reference oscillator control circuitry is configured to set a frequency of a reference oscillator based on the derivative of the detection signal.
US11126137B2
An image forming apparatus includes a casing, a first photosensitive drum, a second photosensitive drum, a first developing unit, a second developing unit, a first pressing mechanism configured to press the first developing unit, and a second pressing mechanism configured to press the second developing unit. In addition, the image forming apparatus includes a first stay to which the first pressing mechanism is attached, and which is supported by the casing, and a second stay to which the second pressing mechanism is attached, and which is supported by the casing.
US11126132B2
A developing device includes a case, a developer holder, a suction duct and a carrier catcher. The case accommodates a developer containing a toner and a carrier. The developer holder is disposed so as to face an image holder disposed outside the case and supplies the developer to the image holder. The suction duct sucks and collects a scattered toner floating in a space around the developer holder. The carrier catcher is formed in a vertical direction and disposed on a lower surface of a path of the suction duct.
US11126126B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet; a detection unit configured to detect a characteristic value of the sheet; a reading unit configured to optically read the sheet; and a control unit configured to perform determination processing for determining whether or not an image failure has occurred, by comparing a determination value acquired by causing the reading unit to read a non-image area of the sheet after an image has been formed on the sheet, with a reference determination value that is based on the characteristic value detected by the detection unit.
US11126125B1
It is an object of the present invention to diagnose image quality of a print image without using an open communication network and output the print image, a diagnosis result of image quality, and information of the print parameters while avoiding disclosure of confidential information to users. A test print control portion causes a print device to execute a test print process to form a test image on a sheet. An image quality diagnosis portion diagnoses image quality of the test image included in the image read by an image reading device. A code image generating portion generates a code image that represents information of print parameters adopted in the test print process. An output control portion causes an output device to output a diagnosis image that includes an image representing a diagnosis result of image quality of the test image, and the code image.
US11126123B2
An image forming apparatus includes a storage and an access unit, the storage being managed by using a plurality of partitions, and the access unit is configured to access a file stored in a predetermined partition. The image forming apparatus includes: an execution unit configured to execute repair processing in which, out of data and management information for managing the data included in the file, the management information is repaired; and an error detecting unit configured to detect an access error that has occurred as a result of the access unit accessing the file. In response to detection of the access error by the error detecting unit, the execution unit executes the repair processing.
US11126119B2
A fixing device includes a fixing belt, a pressure member, a first holding member, and a second holding member. The fixing belt is endless and includes a first rim and a second rim. The pressure member presses the fixing belt by being in contact with an outer circumferential surface of the fixing belt and rotates about a rotation axis of the pressure member. The first holding member is attached to the fixing belt and holds the first rim of the fixing belt. The second holding member is attached to the fixing belt and holds the second rim of the fixing belt. The second holding member includes a base portion, a main portion, and a protrusion. The main portion protrudes from the base portion. The protrusion protrudes from the main portion in a direction away from the base portion.
US11126116B2
In accordance with an embodiment, a fixing device for fixing a toner image formed on a medium to the medium comprises a heating rotating member that is rotatably supported; a heater configured to heat the heating rotating member; a pressing member arranged at the inside of the heating rotating member and configured to abut against an inner peripheral surface of the heating rotating member; a pressing rotating member configured to be pressed against the pressing member across the heating rotating member to form a nip through which the medium passes; a support member configured to movably support the pressing member in a direction orthogonal to a rotation axis of the pressing rotating member; and a lubricant supply member arranged between the support member and the pressing member and impregnated with a lubricant.
US11126112B2
A toner container according to one example embodiment includes a housing having a reservoir for storing toner. A rotatable developer roll is mounted on the housing. A doctor blade has a distal end in contact with the outer surface of the developer roll along a length of the developer roll for metering toner on the outer surface of the developer roll. The doctor blade has a proximate end positioned against a portion of the housing. A toner agitator in the reservoir has a shaft. A support in the reservoir is positioned in close proximity to the shaft to limit bending of the shaft. A first end of the support contacts an inner surface of the portion of the housing that the proximate end of the doctor blade is positioned against. The support stiffens the portion of the housing that the proximate end of the doctor blade is positioned against.
US11126108B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device and a control device. The image forming device forms an image on a recording medium. The control device controls an image forming process. The control device includes circuitry. The circuitry changes a plurality of partial images in a target image into a certain state. The target image is to be formed on the recording medium. The plurality of partial images are to be formed peripheral to a plurality of pattern images. Each of the plurality of pattern images is to be formed at a certain position on the recording medium. The circuitry further controls the image forming device to form the target image including the changed plurality of partial images and the plurality of pattern images on the recording medium, and corrects a position of the target image based on a detection result of the formed plurality of pattern images.
US11126107B2
A digital printing system having a linear printhead includes corrections for cross-track position errors. A data processing system implements a method for determining a cross-track position function which includes printing a test target including a plurality of alignment marks, automatically analyzing a captured image of the printed test target to determine a measured position for each of the alignment marks, comparing the measured positions for the alignment marks to reference positions to determine measured cross-track position errors, and determining a cross-track position correction function responsive to the measured position errors. The cross-track position correction function specifies cross-track position corrections to be applied as a function of cross-track position. A corrected digital image is determined by resampling the image lines of a digital image responsive to the cross-track position correction function.
US11126106B1
A charging device includes a first charging unit that charges a target unit, which is to be charged, by coming into contact with the target unit and a second charging unit that charges the target unit by coming into contact with the target unit and in which distribution of a contact region in contact with the target unit is different from distribution of a contact region in the first charging unit.
US11126104B2
Image forming apparatus and optical sensor with multiple light-receiving and light-emitting elements
An image forming apparatus includes an optical sensor configured to detect an image formed on an intermediate transfer belt. The optical sensor includes a first light emitting diode (LED), a second LED, a first photodiode (PD), and a second PD on a substrate. The first PD is arranged at a position at which specularly reflected light of light emitted from the first LED can be received, and scattered reflected light of light emitted from the second LED can be received. The second PD is arranged at a position at which scattered reflected light of light emitted from the second LED can be received. A light receiving surface of the first PD and a light receiving surface of the second PD are formed at different angles. The light receiving surface of the first PD has an area that is smaller than an area of the light receiving surface of the second PD.
US11126103B2
A polymeric composition including a copolymer comprising a first monomer having a high carbon to oxygen ratio of from about 3 to about 8; a second monomer comprising two or more vinyl groups, wherein the second monomer is present in the copolymer in an amount of from greater than about 8 percent by weight to about 40 percent by weight, based on the weight of the copolymer; and optionally, a third monomer comprising an amine, wherein the third monomer is present in an amount of from about 0.1 percent by weight to about 1.5 percent by weight, based on the weight of the copolymer; and a surfactant, wherein the surfactant has a minimum surface tension at critical micelle concentration of less than about 30 mN/m. A toner including the copolymer as a toner surface additive. An emulsion aggregation toner process including the copolymer as a toner surface additive.
US11126102B2
A toner for developing an electrostatic charge image contains toner particles, layered-compound particles, and inorganic particles. The percentage Fa of layered-compound particles free from the toner particles is 5% by volume or more and 20% by volume or less.
US11126072B2
A phosphor wheel of exemplary embodiment in the present disclosure includes a substrate, a phosphor region circularly provided on one surface of the substrate, a light processing region circularly provided on an other surface of the substrate and entered by incident light, a light processing body provided in the light processing region, a light-transmissive region provided in the substrate, and a drive device rotating the substrate.
US11126060B2
A tunable light projector including a light source, a fixed optical phase modulator, a tunable liquid crystal panel, and a driver is provided. The light source is configured to emit a light beam. The fixed optical phase modulator is disposed on a path of the light beam and configured to modulate phases of the light beam. The tunable liquid crystal panel is disposed on the path of the light beam from the fixed optical phase modulator and configured to switch the light beam between a structured light and a flood light. The driver is electrically connected to a first electrode layer and a second electrode layer of the tunable liquid crystal panel and configured to change a voltage difference between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer, so as to switch the light beam between the structured light and the flood light.
US11126059B2
An optical device includes: a waveguide array including a plurality of waveguides; and a pulse generator. The waveguides are arranged in a first direction and extend in a second direction intersecting the first direction. The pulse generator inputs, as an input light beam, a light pulse of light to each of the waveguides. The light has a frequency spectrum in air with a maximum peak at a frequency corresponding to a wavelength λ, and the full width at half maximum of the maximum peak is Δν. The waveguides propagate the input light beams in the second direction and emit part of the input light beams as emission light. The pulse generator adjusts the difference in phase between input light beams to be inputted to two adjacent waveguides of the plurality of waveguides to thereby change a first direction component of an emission direction of the emission light.
US11126057B2
A method of controlling tint of a tintable window to account for occupant comfort in a room of a building. The tintable window is between the interior and exterior of the building. The method predicts a tint level for the tintable window at a future time based on a penetration depth of direct sunlight through the tintable window into the room at the future time and space type in the room. The method also provides instructions over a network to transition tint of the tintable window to the tint level.
US11126055B2
An apparatus comprising a liquid crystal material and a controller are described herein. The liquid crystal material is disposed between a first electrode and a second electrode opposite the first electrode. Molecules of the liquid crystal material assume a first orientation during a first state of the liquid crystal material and a second orientation during a second state of the liquid crystal material. The first orientation is different from the second orientation. The controller is coupled to the first electrode and the second electrode to perform operations. The operations include applying a first periodic waveform to the first electrode and a second periodic waveform to the second electrode to generate a drive waveform applied across the liquid crystal material. The operations further include changing a duty cycle of the drive waveform over a first time period to transition the liquid crystal material between the first state and the second state.
US11126052B2
According to an aspect, an array substrate includes: a substrate; a light-shielding layer; a first gate electrode; a semiconductor layer; a signal line; and an electrode. A first surface of the substrate is provided with, in sequence, the light-shielding layer, the first gate electrode, the semiconductor layer, the signal line, and the electrode. The semiconductor layer includes a first impurity region electrically coupled to the electrode, a first channel region overlapping the first gate electrode, a second impurity region opposite to the first impurity region with respect to the first channel region, and a first lightly doped drain region between the first impurity region and the first channel region. The light-shielding layer has a first end and a second end opposite to each other. The first end overlaps the first channel region. The light-shielding layer overlaps a boundary between the first channel region and the first lightly doped drain region.
US11126049B2
The display apparatus includes a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of vertical gate lines orthogonal to the gate lines, and a plurality of connection parts, each of which connects one of the gate lines and corresponding one of the vertical gate lines. The plurality of vertical gate lines extend from a first side in the display region. At least the gate line disposed closest to the first side is connected to the corresponding vertical gate line by a plurality of connection parts disposed at two or more locations.
US11126045B2
A curved display panel and a display device. The curved display panel (400) includes a substrate; the substrate includes a pixel region, an integrated circuit region, and a fan-out region located between the pixel region and the integrated circuit region. The pixel region includes signal lines. The integrated circuit region includes an integrated circuit driver. A driving chip is provided in the integrated circuit driver. The fan-out region includes a fan-out line. The wiring parameters of the fan-out line and the signal line change along with the change of a target curvature of the substrate where the fan-out line and the signal line are located.
US11126036B2
The present disclosure provides a backlight module assembly, structural adjustment method thereof and display device. The backlight module assembly includes a plastic frame, a film and an adjustment sheet. The plastic frame is presented in a box shape with an opening on the top, and has side walls and a bottom wall, and a space enclosed by the side walls and the bottom wall being a mounting groove. The film is arranged on the bottom wall and received within the mounting groove. The adjustment sheet is arranged on an inner side of the side wall of the mounting groove.
US11126033B2
A display device is disclosed that includes a backlight comprising light-emitting diodes. The disclosed display device includes a liquid crystal panel configured to control transmission of light from the backlight to a viewer. The display device also includes one or more optical films that incorporate one or more light conversion or light absorbing materials. The optical films can be positioned between the layers of the disclosed display device and give enhanced blue-light absorption to the display device.
US11126028B2
A photoluminescent liquid crystal display includes: a liquid crystal panel including a lower substrate, an upper substrate, a liquid crystal layer interposed between the upper and lower substrates, and a photoluminescent color filter layer disposed between the upper substrate and the liquid crystal layer; an optical device disposed on the upper substrate; a polarizing plate disposed under the lower substrate; and a backlight unit disposed under the polarizing plate and which emits blue light, where the photoluminescent color filter layer includes a first color filter which emits polarized red light, a second color filter which emits polarized green light, and a third color filter which emits polarized blue light, and the first color filter and the second color filter include a semiconductor nanocrystal-polymer composite.
US11126015B2
A method for determining a parameter of an optical equipment including an optical equipment positioning step, during which an optical equipment comprising a pair of optical lenses mounted on a spectacle frame is positioned in a first position, a portable electronic device positioning step, during which a portable electronic device comprising an image acquisition module is positioned in a second position determined and/or known relatively to the first position so as to acquire an image of a distant element seen through at least part of the optical lenses of the optical equipment in the first position, a parameter determining step, during which at least one optical parameter of the optical equipment is determined based on the image of a distant element seen through at least part of the optical lenses of the optical equipment in the first position.
US11126014B2
Embodiments according to the present disclosure are directed to, for example, head mounted eyewear (e.g., similar in form to traditional eye glasses) that includes low light vision enhancing and/or additional vision enhancing capabilities (e.g., near-vision enhancing capabilities). For example, in some embodiments, a head mounted housing arrangement is provided that includes an eyepiece adjacent to a wearer's eye, one or more imaging devices (e.g., one or more solid state or other imagers sensitive to light, including low light levels), one or more image generator(s) operatively coupled to the imager(s) (e.g., optically coupled, in electrical communication with, or wirelessly coupled) to receive an output from the imaging device(s), and/or one or more optical elements (e.g., a combination of mirror(s) and/or lenses). The one or more optical elements may place an output of the image generator(s) into a position that is visible to the wearer's eye.
US11126011B2
Ophthalmic lenses for correcting refractive error of an eye are disclosed. Ophthalmic lenses include a deformable inner portion and a deformable peripheral portion. When disposed over the optical region of an eye, the inner portion is configured so that engagement of the posterior surface against the eye deforms the posterior surface so that the posterior surface has a shape diverging form the refractive shape of the epithelium when viewing with the eye through the ophthalmic lens. The rigidity of the inner portion is greater than the rigidity of the peripheral portion and the ophthalmic lenses are configured to allow movement relative to the eye upon blinking of the eye and to be substantially centered on the optical region of the cornea following the blinking of the eye. Methods of correcting refractive errors of an eye such as astigmatism or spherical aberration using the ophthalmic lenses are also disclosed.
US11126008B2
A three-dimensional (3D) image display apparatus, a 3D image display method, and a 3D image generating and displaying system are provided. The 3D image display apparatus includes a display displaying a plurality of element images, an exit pupil array controlling directions of rays that exit from the plurality of element images, an active shutter configured to transmit or block rays through each of the exit pupils, and a processor configured to generate the plurality of element images from a multi-viewpoint image group, arrange each of the plurality of element images on an expanded region including a first region corresponding to a first exit pupil for rays transmitted by the active shutter and a second region corresponding to a second exit pupil for rays blocked by the active shutter, and synchronously display the plurality of element images on the display while transmitting or blocking of the rays.
US11126004B2
A head-mounted device may have a display with first and second pixel arrays that display content for a user. A head-mounted support structure in the device supports the pixel arrays on the head of the user. A left positioner may be used to position a left lens module that includes a left lens and the first pixel array. A right positioner may be used to position a right lens module that includes a right lens and the second pixel array. Sensing circuitry such as proximity sensing circuitry may be used to detect relative positions between the left and right lens modules and facing surfaces of a user's nose while the user is wearing the head-mounted support structure. Control circuitry may adjust the positions of the left and right lens modules using interpupillary distance information for the user and using information from the sensing circuitry.
US11125993B2
Optical hyperfocal reflective systems and methods are provided. One such optical hyperfocal reflective system has an optical substrate; an optical input coupling portion configured to input couple a collimated display image to the optical substrate; and an optical hyperfocal output coupling portion integrated with said optical substrate. The optical output coupling portion includes at least one hyperfocal reflective view port formed from a discrete optical hyperfocal reflector spot integrated with the optical substrate. The discrete optical hyperfocal reflector spot is sized to form a reflected discrete optical spot beam with a diameter at a target area such that a view of a discrete virtual display image portion, as seen by a lens-detector system locatable at the target area, is hyperfocused.
US11125982B2
An optical imaging lens including a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element and a fifth lens element having refracting power arranged in sequence from an object side to an image side is provided. Twice of an Abbe number of the fourth lens element is greater than a sum of an Abbe number of the second lens element, an Abbe number of the third lens element, and an Abbe number of the fifth lens element. Other optical imaging lenses are also provided.
US11125975B2
The presently disclosed subject matter includes a mobile electronic comprising an integrated camera, comprising a Wide camera unit comprising a Wide lens unit, and a Telephoto camera unit comprising a telephoto lens unit, the telephoto lens unit and the wide lens unit having respectively TTL/EFL ratios smaller and larger than 1 and defining separate telephoto and wide optical paths.
US11125961B2
An optical fiber distribution system may include a housing that includes an end cap unit, a main cabinet unit, and a fiber termination unit. The main cabinet unit may have a door that opens to provide access to the interior of the main cabinet unit, which may include a plurality of cassettes in a stacked arrangement within the main cabinet unit. The cassettes may be rotatably coupled to a cassette support so that, when the door is open, the cassettes may be individually rotated at least partially out of the main cabinet unit to provide access to the cassettes for maintenance. The fiber distribution system may be mountable to a strand so that the system hangs in a suspended state, and a plurality of the main cabinet units may be coupled to one another in a cascading fashion to provide increased cassette capacity.
US11125960B2
A port sealing device includes a body configured to switch between an open configuration and a closed configuration. The body defines a cable pass-through channel extending along an axial direction when the body is in the closed configuration. The port sealing device includes sealing arrays arranged in the cable pass-through channel, where each of the sealing arrays is arranged in the cable pass-through channel along an annular direction around the axial direction. Each of the sealing arrays is spaced apart from an adjacent one of the sealing arrays along the axial direction. Each of the sealing arrays includes sealing elements mutually spaced apart along the annular direction, where the sealing elements of one of the sealing arrays is arranged in the cable pass-through channel with a pattern different from the pattern of the sealing elements of an adjacent one of the sealing arrays. The port sealing device is configured to receive an optical cable when passing through a peripheral wall of a termination box.
US11125957B2
An optical module includes an eyelet having a first surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface, and a penetration hole penetrating from the second surface to the first surface; a lead pin in the penetration hole, for transmitting electric signals; a pedestal protruding from the first surface in an extension direction of the lead pin; and a relay board on the pedestal, the relay board having a transmission line for electrically connecting an optical element and the lead pin. The lead pin is in no contact with an inner surface of the penetration hole. The lead pin has a flat surface which is at least a part of a surface bonded to the transmission line.
US11125952B2
A cable arrangement device adapted to use with an optical fiber cable includes two detachably connected positioning halves defining an axial groove unit that permits the optical fiber cable to extend therethrough, and two auxiliary grooves that are diametrically opposite to each other with respect to the main groove, and two sleeves disposed detachably between the positioning halves. When the sleeves are mounted between the positioning halves, the device is suitable for a three-core fiber. When the sleeves are detached from the positioning halves, the device is suitable for a single-core fiber.
US11125945B2
An optical fiber sensor extends coaxially with a controllable heater to provide high-resolution axial measurement of thermal properties such as thermal convection of the surrounding, Heat removal by either conduction or convection may be used to deduce material height in a tank, or velocity of flow when coupled with localized heating, or other aspects of the material based on thermal conductivity.
US11125931B2
The present disclosure relates to a display apparatus including a display panel, a light guide panel disposed in the rear of the display panel, a light source disposed adjacent to a side surface of the light guide panel, a quantum dot conversion member disposed to be inclined with respect to the light source, including quantum dot particles, and configured to convert properties of light emitted from the light source, and a transparent member including a first surface facing the light source, a second surface facing the quantum dot conversion member, and a third surface disposed adjacent to the side surface of the light guide panel, wherein the transparent member is configured to transmit at least one part of the light incident on the third surface to the side surface of the light guide panel and reflect the other part of the light to the inside thereof.
US11125930B2
A lighting device includes a plurality of first lighting units emitting a first light. Each of the first lighting units includes a light source, a light adjusting structure and a light converting structure. The first light is provided by the light source, adjusted by the light adjusting structure, and converted by the light converting structure. The first light has a sub peak between 400 nm and 500 nm and a main peak between 590 nm and 780 nm, and a normal intensity of the sub peak is greater than a tilt intensity of the sub peak.
US11125927B2
Specific management of configuration of overlap of facets reduces non-uniformity in an image outcoupled toward a nominal point of observation. A waveguide including at least two parallel surfaces, first, middle, and last partially reflecting facets are configured such that in a geometrical projection of the facets onto one of the surfaces the facets overlap, preferably with adjacent facets overlapping and non-adjacent facets starts and ends coinciding along at least a portion of the waveguide.
US11125913B2
A system and method is provided for restoring a 3D tomographic model of the Earth's subsurface geology from the present-day to a past restoration time. Whereas at the present time all faults represent active discontinuities, at a past restoration time some faults have not yet formed. Accordingly, the restored model divides the fault network into τ-active faults (discontinuous surfaces for faults that intersect the layer deposited at the past restoration time) and τ-inactive faults (continuous surfaces for faults that do not intersect the layer deposited at the past restoration time). A new 3D restoration transformation is also provided that uses linear geological constraints to process the restoration model in less time and generate more accurate geological images.
US11125912B2
A method includes receiving information that defines a three-dimensional subterranean structure; splitting the three-dimensional subterranean structure into portions; generating convex hulls for the portions; and generating a discrete fracture network based at least in part on the convex hulls.
US11125907B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for improved occupancy sensing. The methods and systems can deploy various signal threshold adjustments and/or signal analysis algorithms in response to sensed signals having a given quality, such as exceeding a threshold. In some cases, signal thresholds are lowered following an initial generated signal exceeding a first, higher threshold. In some cases, time-dependent signals are monitored using algorithms that analyze the signals for variations that are characteristic of human usage. Methods are disclosed for determining if two motion sensors are observing the same or overlapping spaces. Systems and methods for calibrating motion sensing systems are also disclosed.
US11125902B2
A logging tool includes a mandrel having a tool axis, a first loop antenna including first windings wrapped about the mandrel, a second loop antenna co-located with the first loop antenna and including second windings wrapped about the mandrel, and a shield secured to the mandrel. The first loop antenna is in a first orientation and the first windings are wrapped at a first angle. The second loop antenna is in a second orientation opposite the first orientation and the second windings are wrapped at a second angle. The shield includes first slots overlapping and along the first loop antenna and second slots overlapping and along the second loop antenna. The first slots define a first trace angle with respect to the tool axis and different from the first angle. The second slots defines a second trace angle with respect to the tool axis and different from the first angle.
US11125900B2
Estimating an earth response can include deconvolving a multi-dimensional source wavefield from near-continuously recorded seismic data recorded at a receiver position. The deconvolving can include spreading the near-continuously recorded seismic data across a plurality of possible source emission angles. The result of the deconvolution can be the earth response estimate.
US11125899B2
A method including: obtaining geophysical data for a subsurface region; generating, with a computer, at least two subsurface property models of the subsurface region for at least two subsurface properties by performing an inversion that minimizes a misfit between the geophysical data and forward simulated data subject to one or more constraints, the inversion including generating updates to the at least two subsurface property models for at least two different scenarios that both fit the geophysical data with a same likelihood but have different values for model materiality, with the model materiality being posed as an equality constraint in the inversion, wherein the model materiality is a functional of model parameters that characterize hydrocarbon potential of the subsurface region; analyzing a geophysical data misfit curve or geophysical data misfit likelihood curve, over a predetermined range of values of the model materiality to identify the at least two subsurface property models that correspond to a high-side and low-side, respectively, for each of the at least two subsurface properties, with the high-side and low-side quantifying uncertainties in the subsurface properties; and prospecting for hydrocarbons in the subsurface region with the at least two models that correspond to the high-side and the low-side for each of the at least two subsurface properties.
US11125894B2
A ray detector includes a base substrate including a plurality of pixel regions arranged in an array. Each pixel region includes a thin film transistor including a source and a drain, and a photoelectric sensor on the thin film transistor. The photoelectric sensor includes a first electrode and a second electrode spaced apart from each other, a dielectric layer on the first electrode and the second electrode and covering the first electrode and the second electrode, and a first semiconductor layer on the dielectric layer. The first electrode is electrically connected to the drain. A distance between a surface of the first electrode away from the base substrate and the base substrate is a first distance. A distance between a surface of the second electrode away from the base substrate and the base substrate is a second distance. The first distance is substantially equal to the second distance.
US11125889B2
The present invention discloses methods of accuracy improving for code measurements in GLONASS GNSS receivers. One component of error budget in code measurements of GLONASS receivers is caused by a difference in signal delays arising in the receiver analog Front End and antenna filter on different channel frequencies specific to GLONASS satellites. Methods to compensate for differences in delays for different GLONASS channel frequencies have been proposed using data collected from a GLONASS signals simulator.
US11125880B2
A method of controlling pixels (134) of at least one spatial light modulator (114) is disclosed. The spatial light modulator (114) has a matrix of pixels (132). Each pixel (134) is individually controllable. The method comprises the following steps: receiving at least one image (331), (342); defining at least one image segment (333) within the image (331),(344); assigning at least one gray scale value to each image segment (333),(348); assigning at least one pixel (134) of the matrix of pixels (132) to each image segment (333),(350); assigning a unique modulation frequency to each gray scale value assigned to the at least one image segment (333),(352); controlling the at least one pixel (134) of the matrix of pixels (132) assigned to the at least one image segment (333) with the unique modulation frequency assigned to the respective image segment (333),(354).
US11125873B1
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are described using radar systems to avoid vehicle collisions. An example radar system can include antennas mounted on an aircraft, where each antenna has a different orientation facing a different direction away from the aircraft. The radar system can include one or more processing devices and a computer-readable storage medium storing instructions which, when executed by the one or more processing devices, cause the radar system to coordinate digital beam steering and digital beam forming with the antennas to produce a radar coverage area that includes a portion of an airspace around the aircraft; detect, based a signal transmitted by the antennas using the digital beam steering and digital beam forming, an object within the radar coverage area; and generate collision avoidance information including an indication of the object detected within the radar coverage area and/or an instruction for avoiding a collision with the object.
US11125868B2
A method and device for processing an echo signal received from an acoustic sensor. The echo signal is detected over a measurement time interval. A minimum value is ascertained, which describes a minimum amplitude of the echo signal within the measurement interval. An amplitude value is ascertained, which describes an amplitude of the echo signal within a measurement window. The measurement window is a predefined time interval within the measurement interval. A difference is ascertained between the minimum value and the amplitude value. A determination is made whether the echo signal comprises an interference signal of the first type or an interference signal of the second type, based on the ascertained difference.
US11125867B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for performing ultrasound imaging. Channel domain data can be received from an ultrasound transducer to form one or more channel domain data sets. A first ultrasound processing operation can be applied to the channel domain data to generate a first subset of one or more images from the one or more channel domain data sets. A second ultrasound processing operation can be applied to the channel domain data to generate a second subset of one or more images from the one or more channel domain data sets. Image characteristics of the first subset of one or more images and the second subset of one or more images can be regionally analyzed to identify regional image characteristics of the first and second subsets of one or more images. The first subset of one or more images can be blended with the second subset of one or more images based on the regional image characteristics to generate one or more composite images.
US11125866B2
A measurement and imaging instrument capable of beamforming with high speed and high accuracy without approximate calculation. The instrument includes a reception unit which receives a wave arriving from a measurement object to generate a reception signal; and an instrument main body which performs a lateral modulation while superposing two waves in a two-dimensional case and three or four waves in a three-dimensional case in beamforming processing of the reception signal in which at least one wave arriving from the measurement object is processed as being transmitted or received in the axial direction or directions symmetric with respect to the axial direction to generate a multi-dimensional reception signal, performs Hilbert transform with respect to the multi-dimensional reception signal, and performs partial derivative processing or one-dimensional Fourier transform to generate analytic signals of the multi-dimensional reception signals of the two waves or the three or four waves.
US11125864B2
The present disclosure provides a multi-beam LiDAR system. The multi-beam LiDAR system includes a transmitter having an array of laser emitters. Each laser emitter is configured to emit a laser beam. The multi-beam LiDAR system also includes a receiver having an array of photodetectors. Each photodetector is configured to receive at least one return beam that is reflected by an object from one of the laser beams. The laser emitter array includes a plurality of laser emitter boards perpendicular to a horizontal plane. Each laser emitter board has a plurality of laser emitters. The plurality of laser emitters in the laser emitter array are staggered along a vertical direction. The photodetector array includes a plurality of columns of photodetectors. One of the laser emitter boards corresponds to one column of photodetectors.
US11125863B2
A correction device including a photon number counting unit that counts a photon number on the basis of an output signal output from a light receiving unit, a correction value acquiring unit that acquires a correction value corresponding to the photon number, and a correction unit that performs correction based on the correction value.
US11125849B2
Embodiments of this application disclose a method, an apparatus, and a system for positioning a terminal device. Location measurement data for a to-be-positioned terminal device is obtained by a terminal-side measurement function entity and/or an access-side measurement function entity, where the location measurement data includes a channel estimation and/or a channel impulse response that are/is obtained based on a corresponding downlink/uplink reference signal. The terminal-side measurement function entity and/or the access-side measurement function entity report/reports the location measurement data to a positioning service function entity in a network, so that the positioning function entity can estimate a location of the terminal device based on the location measurement data, thereby positioning the terminal device and improving positioning accuracy. This technical solution can be applied to both a single-base-station-based positioning environment and a multi-base-station-based positioning environment, to position the terminal device.
US11125844B2
A method for magnetic resonance imaging reconstructs images that have reduced under-sampling artifacts from highly accelerated multi-spectral imaging acquisitions. The method includes performing by a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) apparatus an accelerated multi-spectral imaging (MSI) acquisition within a field of view of the MRI apparatus, where the sampling trajectories of different spectral bins in the acquisition are different; and reconstructing bin images using neural network priors learned from training data as regularization to reduce under-sampling artifacts.
US11125836B2
A magnetic sensor comprising a first shield and a second shield and a sensor stack between the first and the second shield, the sensor stack having a plurality of layers wherein at least one layer is annealed using in-situ rapid thermal annealing. In one implementation of the magnetic sensor a seed layer is annealed using in-situ rapid thermal annealing. Alternatively, one of a barrier layer, an antiferromagnetic (AFM) layer, and a cap layer is annealed using in-situ rapid thermal annealing.
US11125834B2
A method and system for diagnosing the squib leakage resistance through a restraint control module is disclosed in the present application. The newly proposed system and method provides a highly accurate measurement by minimizing/eliminating the effect of the unknown source voltage effects. The concept utilizes the squib leakage resistance diagnostic resources with a multi-step measurement approach, for example utilizing measurements of two currents and/or two voltages.
US11125833B1
The invention relates to a method for testing a disconnection point (12) of a photovoltaic inverter (1) and to a photovoltaic inverter (1) of this type. According to the invention, in a testing mode, an auxiliary voltage (U_Lx) is applied between the input (E_Lx) of each line (Lx) of the disconnection point (12) and an intermediate circuit potential (M), in each case, the first switching contacts (SW_Lx,1) are closed and the second switching contacts (SW_Lx,2) are opened alternately and vice versa, according to a switching pattern, and, for each switching pattern, the voltages (U_Lx,GD; U_MN) between the output (A_Lx) of each line (Lx) of the disconnection point (12) and the intermediate circuit potential (M) are measured, and the functionality of each switching contact (SW_Lx,j) is derived from the measured voltages (U_Lx,GD; U_MN).
US11125830B2
A motor driving device capable of reliably detecting a malfunction in the performance of a heatsink. The motor driving device includes a heat generating element, a heatsink, an electric power detecting part for detecting a consumed power of the heat generating element, a temperature detecting part for detecting a temperature of the motor driving device, a temperature change calculating part for calculating, as a detected valuation, an amount of change in the temperature within a predetermined time, a reference determination part for determining a reference amount of change in the temperature based on the temperature and the consumed power, and a temperature change judging part for comparing the reference amount of change with the detected amount of change, and judges whether the detected change is different from the reference change.
US11125829B2
In a management device that manages a power storage module, a voltage measuring unit measures n pieces of voltages across respective n power storage blocks. A ranking unit assigns ranks to the voltages measured across the n power storage blocks in descending order from high to low or in ascending order from low to high. A frequency distribution data generator compiles ranks assigned to voltages measured across the respective n power storage blocks during a set period and generates data about frequency distribution of the ranks for the measured voltages. An abnormality determiner detects an abnormality when information about the ranks differs from information about ranks for the power storage blocks in a normal state.
US11125826B2
An electronic device can include a battery, a battery charger configured to receive power from an external power source and supply at least one of a charging current or a charging voltage to the battery, and a battery charger controller coupled to charger and configured to control the battery charger. More specifically, the battery charger controller may be configured to control the charger to supply a first AC signal as at least a part of the charging current or charging voltage supplied to the battery, measure a second AC signal associated with the first AC signal, and determine an impedance of the battery at a frequency of interest from the first and second AC signals. The electronic device can also or alternatively include a variable load that may be controlled to supply a first AC signal as at least part of the discharging current or discharging voltage of the battery.
US11125820B2
An apparatus includes a safety fault interrupter circuit. The safety fault interrupter circuit includes a safety fault monitor coupled to a first bias node and configured to selectively assert a fault interrupter signal based at least in part on a first bias voltage and a first power consumption. The safety fault interrupter circuit also includes a power fault monitor for the safety fault monitor, wherein the power fault monitor is coupled to a second bias node and is configured to selectively assert the fault interrupter signal based at least in part on a second bias voltage and a second power consumption that is less than the first power consumption.
US11125813B2
A prober includes: a stage that places a substrate formed with a plurality of chips thereon in a matrix; a contact that sequentially contacts with electrode pads of the plurality of chips thereby performing an inspection on electrical characteristic of the plurality of chips; a plurality of LED units provided on a side opposite to a placing surface of the stage so as to independently heat a plurality of areas where the plurality of chips are located, respectively, and each including one or a plurality of LEDs; and a controller that outputs a control signal to drive, among the plurality of LED units, at least an LED unit corresponding to an area of a chip to be inspected, among the area of the chip to be inspected and peripheral areas of the corresponding area.
US11125805B2
A device is provided for electrically measuring surface characteristics of a sample. The device comprises at least one group of three electrodes: a first and second electrode spaced apart from each other and configured to be placed onto the surface of the sample, and a third electrode between the first two but isolated from these two electrodes by a one or more first insulators, wherein a second insulator further isolates the central electrode from the sample when the device is placed thereon. The three electrodes and the insulators are attached to a single or to multiple holders with conductors incorporated therein for allowing the coupling of the electrodes to power sources or measurement tools. The placement of the device onto a semiconductor sample creates a transistor with the sample surface acting as the channel. The device thereby allows the determination of the transistor characteristics of the sample in a straightforward way.
US11125802B2
A method measures partial discharge pulses of a shielded cable, which has a core and a sheath. The method includes: connecting a coupling capacitor with a first connecting point of the core; providing a first, second, and third coupling unit, each having an input and a signal output; connecting the input of the first coupling unit with the coupling capacitor; connecting the input of the second coupling unit with a first connecting point of the sheath; connecting the input of the third coupling unit with a second connecting point of the sheath; providing a test voltage at the first connecting point of the core; acquiring respective measurement signals of the coupling units at their signal outputs; and determining at least one characteristic value for an apparent charge of a partial discharge pulse of the cable in dependence on the measurement signals.
US11125800B1
A power outage detection system may include a device processor; and a non-transitory computer readable medium including instructions executable by the device processor to perform the following steps: receiving information indicative of the status of electrical power at a plurality of locations within a geographic region; determining the status of electrical power in the geographic region based on the status of electrical power at the plurality of locations; and sending information regarding the status of electrical power to a plurality of users of the system.
US11125798B2
A power distribution network monitoring system detects abnormalities that occur in a power distribution network using measuring instruments installed in the power distribution network. The power distribution network monitoring system includes a plurality of measuring instruments that are installed at predetermined positions on power lines on an upstream side of the downmost-stream power demander, among the power lines constituting the power distribution network and configured to perform electrical measurement of the power lines; and an abnormality detector configured to determine whether or not data related to the measurement result measured by the measuring instrument has been received a predetermined number of times within a predetermined length of time, and detect the abnormality.
US11125797B2
A measurement system according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: an analyzer; a first expansion module for transmitting a first electromagnetic wave signal to a first antenna under control of the analyzer; a second expansion module for receiving a second electromagnetic wave signal through a second antenna; a first signal generator for generating a first local oscillation signal under control of the analyzer, and detecting a reference characteristic of the first electromagnetic wave signal and a first test characteristic of the first antenna by using the first local oscillation signal; and a second signal generator for generating a second local oscillation signal under control of the analyzer, and detecting a second test characteristic of the second antenna by using the second local oscillation signal, wherein the first signal generator comprises a controller for converting instructions transmitted from the analyzer into internal instructions, and a local oscillation signal generator for generating the first local oscillation signal according to the internal instructions.
US11125791B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for detecting node outages in a mesh network. A tracking node in the mesh network detects a set of signals originating from a tracked node in the mesh network. The set of signals includes beacons and communication messages transmitted by the tracked node. The tracking node determines that a threshold number of the alive beacon intervals have passed since receiving a most recent signal from the tracked node. The tracking node then outputs a ping to the tracked node requesting a response to the ping. When the response to the ping is not received from the tracked node, the tracking node transmits an outage alarm message to a next topologically higher layer of the mesh network, the outage alarm message comprising an identification of the tracked node.
US11125790B2
In an embodiment a method for operating a power consumption metering system includes measuring, by a sensor deployed at a monitored site, power consumption values over time to obtain a high speed value pattern of a power consumption with a resolution of more than 1000 values per second, measuring, by the sensor, low speed power consumption values over time to obtain a low speed value pattern of the power consumption with a resolution of less than 100 values per second, identifying a status of a power consumer of the monitored site dependent on the high speed value pattern and counting an operation time of the power consumer dependent on the low speed value pattern and on the identified status.
US11125789B1
A mathematical model of load flow equations for an electrical grid having a chain of busses is embedded in a holomorphic embedding using a first embedding parameter s. The holomorphic embedding is transcribed into software for use in a computer processor. Voltages for each bus are calculated as an algebraic curve parameterized by the first embedding parameter. A second embedding parameter z is defined wherein the first embedding parameter s is a function of the second embedding parameter z. The holomorphic embedding is re-parameterized using the second embedding parameter z, such that the re-parameterized embedding provides an elimination polynomial equation relating parameters s and z. The roots of the elimination polynomial equation are determined by solving the for zero, which roots are used to compute bus voltages for each bus of the chain of busses. The bus voltages are displayed as the solution to the load flow equations.
US11125787B2
A semiconductor device is provided and includes: a voltage sensing circuit configured to output first and second sensing voltages based on a target voltage applied thereto; and a comparing circuit configured to generate a monitoring output signal based on levels of the first and second sensing voltages, wherein the voltage sensing circuit includes: a first transistor including a gate to receive a reference bias voltage, a source connected to an input node, and a drain connected to one end of a first resistive element; a second transistor provided in a current mirror structure with the first transistor, and including a drain connected to a third resistive element; and a second resistive element connected to another end of the first resistive element, the first sensing voltage being provided to both ends of the second resistive element, and the second sensing voltage being provided to both ends of the third resistive element.
US11125786B2
A method for detecting an internal short circuit in a first electrical energy storage unit of an electrical energy storage device is described, wherein the electrical energy storage device comprises at least two electrical energy storage units including a first electrical energy storage unit and a second electrical energy storage unit electrically connected in parallel in the electrical energy storage device, the method including recording an electric current flowing into or out of the first electrical energy storage unit, recording an electric current flowing into or out of the second electrical energy storage unit, determining a short-circuit current in the first electrical energy storage unit based on the at least two recorded electric currents, and detecting an internal short circuit when the magnitude of the short-circuit current exceeding a predefined short-circuit current threshold.
US11125785B2
A sensor is provided with a magnetic detection element that can output an output voltage within a predetermined voltage range according to a magnetic field intensity, an output voltage fixing part that can fix a voltage value of the output voltage to a voltage value outside the voltage range, and a drive voltage output part that can output a drive voltage for driving the output voltage fixing part. The drive voltage fixing part outputs the drive voltage to the output voltage fixing part when the ambient temperature of the drive voltage output part exceeds a predetermined threshold, and when triggered by input of the drive voltage, the output voltage fixing part fixes the voltage value of the output voltage to a voltage value outside the voltage range.
US11125774B2
Systems and methods for manufacturing multiple integrated tip probes for scanning probe microscopy. According to an embodiment is a microscope probe configured to analyze a sample, the microscope probe including: a movable probe tip including a terminal probe end; a first actuator configured to displace the movable probe tip along a first axis; and a detection component configured to detect motion of the movable probe tip in response to an applied signal; where the moveable probe tip comprises a metal layer affixed to a supporting layer, at least a portion of the metal layer at the terminal probe end extending past the supporting layer.
US11125761B2
Methods and devices for rapid assessment of the severity of injury not due to a natural disease based upon measurement of neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) are provided.
US11125756B2
Compositions and methods are provided for the identification of peptide sequences that are ligands for a T cell receptor (TCR) of interest, in a given MHC context.
US11125754B2
The invention discloses a detergent-compatible protein assay method, composition and kit based on bio-conjugation reaction between protein and Meldrum's acid activated furfural. The method includes adding MAF in dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) to a protein sample solution. The amine functionalities present on the amino acid residues reacts with the MAF instantaneously at room temperature to yield deep purple colored solutions of the corresponding conjugated proteins. The reagent composition added to protein may be in the range of 90-450 mM. The intensities of purple colored solutions were proportional to the protein concentration captured by spectrophotometric measurements. The assay is sensitive in the range of 0.125-15 mg/mL, is compatible with commonly used detergents and reducing agents in protein solutions and may be employed for estimation of protein samples in the presence of detergents and reducing agents.
US11125746B2
A two-sided flow-through immunoassay testing device is provided. The device comprises a well having therein a plurality of orifices, the plurality of orifices serving to channel biologic material deposited into the well onto different immunoassay pods, wherein the immunoassay pods may contain immunoassay test layers stacked to create an immunoassay test. The device further includes a results window. Inside the device, and between the window and the pods, there are open sections below each pod to allow a user to view the results of the tests as presented on the reaction layers of the pods through the window.
US11125743B2
Provided herein are methods and systems for low-cost, low-equipment detection of pathogens in biological sample. In particular, provided herein is a low-cost method for detecting norovirus that provides reliable, visible test with femtomolar, attomolar, and zeptomolar detection limits and that uses materials suitable for deployment of the methods in the field.
US11125741B2
The invention relates generally to compositions and methods for the detection of zinc. In particular, compositions and methods are provided to detect changes in cellular zinc concentration and to correlate them to cellular phenomena.
US11125738B2
A system includes an optical measurement unit that measures an optical property of a whole blood sample deposited on a surface of a substrate, an ion source that causes ions derived from the whole blood sample, including ions formed from an analyte of interest present in the whole blood sample, to be emitted from the substrate, a mass analyzer that receives the ions emitted from the substrate and measures an abundance of at least one ion species corresponding to the analyte of interest, and at least one computing device that determines, based on the measured optical property, a hematocrit of the whole blood sample, and determines, based on the determined hematocrit of the whole blood sample and the measured abundance of the at least one ion species, a concentration of the analyte of interest per unit volume of blood plasma.
US11125729B2
In various aspects provided are purification media and containers for dispensing a purified liquid are provided herein where a high surface area-to-volume chemically interactive purification media positioned at the outlet of a container that purifies the liquid as it is dispensed and/or extracted.
US11125727B2
A sensor or receiver array includes first and second pyroelectrically active electrodes formed of polyvinylidene difluoride and separated by a spacer layer that acts to electrically separate the pyroelectric layers while keeping them close enough such that they see effectively the same vibration or background acoustic excitation while maintaining sufficient separation to ensure that they generate significant differences in their pyroelectric responses. The structure provides two distinct signals (at separate timestamps), the difference between which provides a more accurate signal. An ultrasound detection system includes the tri-laminar sensor, disposed within a detection zone in which a test element can be positioned. The apparatus includes a processing unit, which comprises a detector unit coupled to the first and second pyroelectric elements and configured to derive a differential signal from the first and second pyroelectric elements. A processor is coupled to the detector unit and is configured to generate an electrical output waveform on the basis of the data extracted from first and second pyroelectric elements.
US11125711B2
The present disclosure relates to a reference electrode including an electrical conductor, an electrically conductive salt bridge provided for contact with a measuring fluid, and a medium electrically conductively connecting the electrical conductor and the salt bridge to each other, wherein the medium and the electrical conductor are completely isolated with respect to the measuring fluid. The salt bridge comprises a polymer matrix and a conducting salt, the conducting salt is formed from a cation and an anion, and the cation and/or the anion are at least partially kept from leaching in the polymer matrix. The present disclosure further relates to an electrochemical sensor, a method for producing the reference electrode and a method for regenerating and/or conditioning the reference electrode.
US11125703B2
The radiation detection device according to the present invention comprises: a sample holding unit; an irradiation unit configured to irradiate a sample held by the sample holding unit with radioactive rays; a detection unit configured to detect radioactive rays generated from the sample; a distance calculation unit configured to calculate a distance from a predetermined base point to an irradiated part, which is to be irradiated with radioactive rays, of the sample held by the sample holding unit; a size specification unit configured to specify a size of the irradiated part on the sample based on the calculated distance; and a display unit configured to display the specified size of the irradiated part.
US11125702B2
An image processing apparatus that processes an image obtained from an imaging sensor having a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix pattern, the pixels including a first pixel group for obtaining a pixel value corresponding to a radiation dose and a second pixel group for obtaining an offset value even with irradiation with radiation, performs offset correction of a radiation image obtained from the plurality of pixels by an imaging operation with irradiation with radiation based on a dark image obtained from the plurality of pixels by an imaging operation without irradiation with radiation, calculates a statistic value of pixel values obtained from the second pixel group of the corrected radiation image, and corrects pixel values obtained from the first pixel group, which have been offset-corrected, based on a temporal variation in the statistic value.
US11125696B2
A colorimetric analyzer includes a reaction chamber configured to receive a sample and at least one reagent. A measurement cell is operably coupled to the reaction chamber. The measurement cell has an illumination source and an illumination detector spaced from the illumination source such that illumination from the illumination source passes through the reacted sample to the illumination detector. A controller is coupled to the illumination source and the illumination detector. The controller is configured to generate an analytic output based on a signal from the illumination detector. A fill conduit is operably interposed between the reaction chamber and the measurement cell. The fill conduit is configured to reduce bubbles.
US11125693B2
A surface enhanced infrared absorption stage may include a substrate, a static island extending from the substrate and a movable nano finger extending from the substrate. The static island may have a plasmonically active island cap and a dimension parallel to the substrate of at least one micrometer. The movable nano finger may be aligned with the dimension. The movable nano finger may have a plasmonically active finger cap closable to less than or equal to 5 nm of the island cap.
US11125692B2
In a method of determining the type of each cell contained in a sample, one Raman spectrum is acquired from one undetermined cell, a plurality of degrees of matching of a Raman spectrum of the undetermined cell with respect to spectra of a plurality of principal components obtained by principal component analysis of a plurality of Raman spectra that are obtained one by one from each of a plurality of known types of cells are calculated, and a type of the undetermined cell is determined by classifying the plurality of degrees of matching based on a result obtained by classifying a plurality of principal component scores corresponding to each of the plurality of known types of cells obtained by the principal component analysis depending on the type of cells by a learning model using supervised learning.
US11125690B2
Corrosion inhibitor and kinetic hydrate inhibitor formulations, and methods of using each are provided. Each formulation optionally includes a fluorophore, which can be used to fluorometrically control dosage of each formulation into an aqueous liquid utilized in a downhole application, thereby providing improved precision of dosage into aqueous liquids having relatively high turbidity, and consequently relatively high light absorbance.
