US11134662B2
The present disclosure provides systems for heat source, e.g., data center, cooling and aquaculture. In certain aspects, the systems include a heat source, e.g., data center, having a water cooling subsystem configured to receive cool water and output warm water and an aquaculture center co-located with the heat source, e.g., data center, and configured to receive the warm water. Aspects of the invention also include methods for cooling a heat source, e.g., data center, using a water cooling subsystem and cultivating aquatic organisms with an aquaculture center that is co-located with the heat source, e.g., data center.
US11134658B2
A wearable animal feeder, and methods of making and using such a wearable animal feeder, whereby the wearable animal feeder includes a face shield having opposing face shield upper and lower portions, and opposing face shield front and rear faces; and a reservoir having a reservoir outlet coupled to the face shield lower portion, whereby the reservoir outlet outwardly extends from the face shield front face.
US11134655B2
An automatic blow-drying device for pets includes a pet cage and a drying unit, wherein the drying unit is arranged on one side of the pet cage and comprises an air source, air supply passages are respectively arranged on two sides of the air source and are provided with heating elements, the pet cage is provided with openings which are matched with the air supply passages to form stationary air ports, the air supply passages on the two sides are matched with the corresponding stationary air ports to allow an air flow to enter the pet cage to form a surrounding drying area, and the drying unit is connected with an adjustable air port used for blowing air into areas, except for the surrounding drying area, in the pet cage. According to the domestic automatic blow-drying device for pets, a pet can be directly placed in the device to be blow-dried after being bathed, so that the situation where water and pet hair spread all around in a house after the pet is bathed is prevented.
US11134651B2
An auger assembly (1) for receiving and conveying cheese curd downstream along a cheese processing line (32) includes an auger housing (2), a first auger (3) having a first shaft (5) extending through the auger housing (2), a second auger (4) having a second shaft (6) extending through the auger housing (2) and arranged colinearly with the first shaft (5), a first bearing (9) mounted to the auger housing (2) and arranged at the end (7) of the first shaft (5), and a second bearing (10) mounted to the auger housing (2) and arranged at the end (8) of the second shaft (6). The first bearing (9) and second bearing (10) are colinear and facing each other. At least one slotted groove (11, 12) is formed the bearings (9, 10) to enable a cleaning fluid to contact a surface (13, 14) of the respective bearing (9, 10).
US11134637B1
A novel soybean variety, designated 5PRBU75 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety 5PRBU75, cells from soybean variety 5PRBU75, plants of soybean 5PRBU75, and plant parts of soybean variety 5PRBU75. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety 5PRBU75 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety 5PRBU75, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety 5PRBU75, and methods of characterizing soybean variety 5PRBU75. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety 5PRBU75 are further provided.
US11134631B2
Novel lettuce, such as lettuce designated CABALLERO is disclosed. In some embodiments, the invention relates to the seeds of lettuce CABALLERO, to the plants and plant parts of lettuce CABALLERO, and to methods for producing a lettuce plant by crossing the lettuce CABALLERO with itself or another lettuce plant. The invention further relates to methods for producing a lettuce plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic plants produced by that method and to methods for producing other lettuce plants derived from the lettuce CABALLERO.
US11134624B2
A method of inserting a tree tap into a tree, the tree tap including a blade in which a passageway is defined. The method includes abutting a distal end of the blade against an outer surface of the tree, followed by impacting the tree tap to drive the blade in to the tree. Afterwards, a cavity is drilled in the tree adjacent the blade distal end through the passageway. Also, a tree tap usable to perform the method.
US11134620B2
The present invention relates to a slurry comprising water, bentonite, and a compound selected from fertilizer, a plant growth regulator, a fungicide and an insecticide. The present invention also relates to an agricultural product comprising a slurry comprising water and bentonite, and a plant propagative material. Methods of using the bentonite to enhance a growth-related trait, such as drought tolerance, in a plant are also described.
US11134613B2
A concave separator or concave separation grate assembly and configuration for separating operations of a combine harvester is disclosed having integrated, interchangeable, and removable finger-like like configurations and assortments that can allow full separation of crop material from chaff, straw, vines and the like, thereby increasing grain separating capacity in a combine, improved breaking up the chaff-grain material, among other advantages. The separator grate assembly can include a bracket or grate member, and a plurality of first protruding members secured to the bracket member and having a first configuration, the first protruding member having a proximal end and a distal end. The first protruding members can include an elevation or angle relative to a horizontal plane when secured to the bracket member, and wherein each of the plurality of first protruding members can be equally spaced apart from each other when secured the bracket member.
US11134611B2
An agricultural machine is with skids equipped with interchangeable liners. The agricultural machine is a disk mower, a swather or similar machine, resting at least partly in braced manner on the soil during its use and provided with a working element and with skids designed to slide on the soil. These skids are formed in a lower wall of the working element or are integral with this lower wall, and each skid is provided with a liner having at least one frontal end and a frontal rim on each side of this frontal end. At least one of the frontal rims of the liner of each skid has a relief, at least one part of which penetrates into an indentation formed in the corresponding skid.
US11134609B2
A robotic work tool comprising a work tool (160), a tool damage detector (162) and a controller (110) for controlling the operation of the robotic work tool (100), the robotic work tool (100) being configured to detect that the work tool (100) is damaged or lost by detecting an irregularity utilizing the tool damage detector (162) and thereby determining that the work tool (160) is damaged or lost.
US11134607B2
A seed conduit defining a first end and a second end. The first end couples to a storage container and the second end to a planter shoe. The seed conduit includes a first flange coupled to and extending away from the second end of the seed conduit. The first flange extends into a gap defined by the planter shoe to deliver product from the storage container to a trench. The seed conduit includes a first support rib coupled to the first flange.
US11134605B1
Seed meter for planting different seed varieties including back cover, disk and front cover. Back cover includes seed separation device providing first seed pool area and second seed pool area with help of the back cover. First seed pool area receives first type seeds, and second seed pool area receives second type seeds from first seed chamber and second seed chamber, respectively of a seed hopper. Disk includes at least two rows of apertures disposed in alignment with first seed pool area and second seed pool area. Disk rotates with vacuum pressure and entrains the first type seeds and the second type seeds over the apertures until apertures rotate past an area where vacuum pressure is cut off from the apertures. First type seeds and second type seeds free-fall from the disk through a discharge chute in the back cover into a seed tube for depositing into a seed furrow.
US11140799B2
According to one embodiment, an InRow liquid cooling module for a database center includes a main fluid distribution manifold and a mounting section. The manifold has a main supply line that is configured to receive coolant from a coolant source and a main return line that is configured to return warmed coolant to the coolant source. The mounting section is configured to receive cooling modules, each module is configured to 1) couple to the main supply line and the main return line to circulate the coolant through the module and 2) couple to a piece of IT equipment in an electronic rack to create a heat-transfer loop that transfers thermal energy away from the equipment and into the coolant that circulates through the module. In one embodiment, the InRow concept may be deployed as part of a data center infrastructure or combined as part of an electronic IT rack.
US11140784B2
A printed wiring board includes a base film having insulation properties and a conductive pattern including multiple wiring portions laminated so as to run on at least one surface of the base film, wherein each wiring portion includes a first conductive portion and a second conductive portion coating an outer surface of the first conductive portion, wherein an average width of each wiring portion is 10 μm or greater to 50 μm or smaller, and an average thickness of the second conductive portion is 1 μm or greater to smaller than 8.5 μm. A method for manufacturing a printed wiring board includes a first conductive portion forming step of forming a first conductive portion forming each wiring portion by plating an opening of the resist pattern on the conductive foundation layer, a conductive foundation layer removing step, and a second conductive portion coating step.
US11140781B2
An electronic device includes chip components, a terminal connection body, conductive terminals, and a support member. Each of the chip components has a pair of end surfaces on which terminal electrodes are formed. The terminal connection body connects the terminal electrodes on one side of the chip components arranged next to each other in a parallel direction to the end surfaces. Each of the conductive terminals includes a connection part and a mount part. The connection part is connected with the terminal electrode of either of the chip components located on both ends of the chip components connected in series via the terminal connection body. The mount part faces the connection part and is connected with a mount board. The support member is disposed between the connection parts and the mount parts. The chip components are arranged so that the end surfaces face the mount board.
US11140775B2
To provide a circuit board in which a curvature of a display surface can be controlled, or to provide a highly portable circuit board. A circuit board includes a substrate with flexibility and a curvature control mechanism. The curvature control mechanism includes a first electromagnet and a second electromagnet provided over a first surface of the substrate, an insulating film provided over the first and second electromagnets, and wirings electrically connected to the first and second electromagnets.
US11140771B2
Provided is a method for compensating a stress-sensitive parameter, and the method is applied to an electronic devices. The method includes: calculating (51) a deformation value of a first panel according to a pressure borne by the first panel; calculating (52) according to the deformation value of the first panel a deformation value of a second panel that is deformed due to the deformation of the first panel; calculating (53) according to the deformation value of the second panel a change in a stress-sensitive parameter of a stress-sensitive element on the second panel; and compensating (54) the stress-sensitive parameter according to the change in the stress-sensitive parameter. The quality of the parameters of corresponding electronic elements and electronic modules are thereby improved, ultimately enhancing the performance of electronic device.
US11140766B2
A plasma control system comprises: a high frequency power source; a first antenna connected at one end to the high frequency power source; a second antenna connected at one end to another end of the first antenna; a first variable reactance element provided between the first antenna and the second antenna; a first drive part for the first variable reactance element; a second variable reactance element connected to another end of the second antenna; a second drive part for the second variable reactance element; a first current detection part detecting the current in the one end of the first antenna; a second current detection part detecting the current between the first antenna and the second antenna; a third current detection part detecting the current in the other end of the second antenna; and a control device controlling the first drive part and the second drive part.
US11140764B2
A power supply for an x-ray emitter is disclosed. A voltage source of the power supply is configured to provide an acceleration voltage or a heating voltage between a first internal contact and a second internal contact to, in a first operating mode, supply the x-ray emitter with power. The power supply includes a control device configured, in a second operating mode, to detect a voltage between the first and the second internal contact and/or to detect a current via the first and/or second internal contact. As a function of the detected voltage and/or of the detected current, the control device is configured to activate a warning device for giving a warning and/or to transmit a warning signal. A method is further disclosed.
US11140762B2
A method 600 of selecting a lighting device from a plurality of lighting devices 120, 122, 124 in a physical space 160 is disclosed. The method 600 comprises: obtaining 602 positions of the plurality of lighting devices 120, 122, 124 in the physical space 160, obtaining 604 a position of a user 130, receiving 606 a first user input from the user 130 indicative of a first direction originating from the position of the user 130, selecting 608 a first lighting device of the plurality of lighting devices 120, 122, 124 that is located in the first direction relative to the position of the user 130, providing 610 a notification to the user 130 that the first lighting device has been selected, receiving 612 a second user input from the user 130 indicative of a second direction originating from the position of the user 130, mapping 614 the second direction onto the selected first lighting device such that it originates from the position of the selected first lighting device, and selecting 616 a second lighting device of the plurality of lighting devices 120, 122, 124 that is located in the mapped second direction relative to the position of the selected first lighting device.
US11140759B2
Method of controlling an LED fixture comprising a plurality of LEDs, the plurality of LED comprising at least four LEDs, configured to emit light of different colors, the method comprising: receiving a set point representing a desired color and intensity for the light to be generated by the LED fixture; determining, based on available color characteristics of the plurality of LEDs, at least two different subsets of the plurality of LEDs and a set of intensity set points for each of the at least two different subsets, wherein each set of intensity set points results in obtaining or approximating the desired color and intensity by the LED fixture; selecting the subsets of the plurality of LEDs with the corresponding sets of intensity set points which meet a predetermined criterion; use a selected subset to drive the plurality of LEDs with the corresponding set of intensity set points.
US11140742B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for cell DTX (Discontinuous Transmission) scheduling. A Base Station (BS) determines an operational schedule for the BS including at least one ON period and at least one OFF period, wherein the BS provides a reduced level of service during the at least one OFF period relative to the at least one ON period. The BS transmits the determined operational schedule. A User Equipment (UE) receives the BS's operational schedule and determines, based on the BS's operational schedule and its own operational schedule also including ON and OFF periods, whether to perform at least one service associated with the BS.
US11140739B2
A system (1) is disclosed in which a network entity determines whether a radio bearer should be maintained or released for a communications device (2). The communications device (2) establishes the radio bearer via a base station (5) of the communications system (1) and communicates data using the established radio bearer. The communications device (2) determines whether any further data is to be sent or received and/or whether a user-plane connection is required. The communications device (2) then provides information to the network entity identifying a result of said determination for use in determining whether the radio bearer should be maintained or released.
US11140734B2
A method for controlling an electronic device is provided. The method includes acquiring access point (AP) information to connect to an AP, scanning for a first external device that is to be connected to the AP, scanning for a second external device that is to be connected to the AP; transmitting, to a first external device that is identified from the scanning, the AP information and control information for causing the first external device to transmit the AP information to the second external device.
US11140730B2
In one embodiment, a device of a tractor unit determines that the tractor unit is connected to a trailer via physical cabling. The device sends, via the physical cabling, a powerline communication (PLC) message to the trailer that includes a service set identifier (SSID) and password for a Wi-Fi transceiver of the tractor unit. The Wi-Fi transceiver of the tractor unit receives an association request sent wirelessly from a Wi-Fi transceiver of the trailer that is based on the sent SSID and password. The device establishes the Wi-Fi transceiver of trailer as a Wi-Fi client of the Wi-Fi transceiver of the tractor unit.
US11140722B2
A wireless device activates at least two downlink bandwidth parts (BWPs) of a cell. A random-access procedure for the cell is initiated. For the random-access procedure, an uplink carrier is selected among a plurality of uplink carriers of the cell based on: a measured quality of each downlink BWP of the at least two downlink BWPs, and a carrier threshold. A random-access preamble for the random-access procedure is transmitted via the selected uplink carrier.
US11140717B2
A communication method and system for converging a fifth generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a fourth generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of things (IoT) are provided. The communication method and system may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method of a terminal for performing a random access procedure in a wireless communication system is provided. In addition, a method by a terminal for system information (SI) request is provided. A method includes receiving, from a base station, information on resources for SI request including information on a start index of at least one random access preamble for the SI request; receiving, from the base station, at least one synchronization signal block (SSB); selecting an SSB among the at least one SSB; determining a preamble for the SI request corresponding to the selected SSB based on the information on the start index; and transmitting, to the base station, the determined preamble based on a physical random access channel (PRACH) occasion corresponding to the selected SSB.
US11140712B2
Techniques for transmission of a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) or enhanced PDCCH (EPDCCH) within a partial subframe of a license assisted access (LAA) burst are discussed. One example apparatus comprises a processor configured to generate a LAA burst; generate one or more downlink control channel messages that comprise at least one of PDCCH messages or EPDCCH messages; generate a physical layer encoding of the LAA burst comprising a first partial subframe, wherein the first partial subframe comprises a physical layer encoding of the one or more downlink control channel messages; and output the first partial subframe comprising the physical layer encoding of the one or more control channel messages to transmitter circuitry for subsequent transmission via an unlicensed carrier.
US11140705B2
Technology for a user equipment (UE) operable to decode grant less downlink control information (G-D 5 CI) received from a Next Generation NodeB (gNB) is disclosed. The UE can decode the G-DCI received from the gNB in a MulteFire system. The UE can identify grant less uplink DCI components included in the G-DCI. The UE can perform a grant less uplink transmission with the gNB based on the grant less uplink DCI components in the G-DCI received from the gNB.
US11140704B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, apparatus and a system for uplink information transmission relating to the field of communications. The method includes: transmitting, by a first access network device, first configuration information to a second access network device, where the first configuration information is used to indicate a resource in a target carrier, and the second access network device is configured to receive, in the resource, second uplink information transmitted by a terminal device; transmitting on a first carrier, by the first access network device, first downlink information to the terminal device based on a first communication protocol; receiving on the target carrier, by the first access network device, first uplink information transmitted by the terminal device.
US11140703B2
The present specification proposes a method for transmitting and receiving a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) in a wireless communication system and a device supporting the same. More specifically, the method performed by a user equipment includes receiving, from a base station, a higher layer signal including first information about a configuration of an operation related to a PDSCH repetition, receiving, from the base station, second information related to a number of symbols of a control region, receiving, from the base station, downlink control information (DCI) including information related to a PDSCH repetition number based on the second information, and repeatedly receiving, from the base station, the PDSCH based on the DCI, wherein when the control region is configured with a specific number of symbols, a transmission time unit related to the control region is not included in transmission time units for a PDSCH repetition reception.
US11140698B2
Disclosed in the present application are a data transmission method and terminal, the data transmission method comprising: a first terminal selects from a time frequency resource set of scheduling allocation SA information the time frequency resources of a first type of SA information; the first terminal sends the first type of SA information on the time frequency resources of the first type of SA information according to a first physical layer format and, on the basis of an indication of the first type of SA information, sends data associated with the first type of SA information according to a second physical layer format; the first SA information comprises time frequency resource indication information of the data associated with the first type of SA information.
US11140697B2
A technique for transmitting and receiving data (602) using a sidelink, SL, radio communication (604) between a first radio device (100) and a second radio device (200) is described. As to one method aspect of the technique, a scheduling assignment, SA (601), announcing a transmission of the data (602) for the second radio device (200) is broadcasted. The data is transmitted according to the SA (601) from the first radio device (100) in a unicast mode to the second radio device (200). Responsive to the data transmission, a control feedback (608) is received from the second radio device (200) in a unicast mode at the first radio device (100), wherein the control feedback (608) is received on a feedback radio resource (708) determined by at least one of the first radio device (100) and the second radio device (200).
US11140689B2
A method for operating a network infrastructure-side network unit of a cell-based wireless communication network is provided. The method includes: receiving a scheduling request message for a sidelink channel in an unlicensed frequency range on an uplink channel by a roadside network unit, the scheduling request message indicating a size of the data available for transmission on the sidelink channel at the roadside network unit; ascertaining a scheduling grant message as a function of the size, the scheduling grant message including an assignment of a number of sidelink resources of the sidelink channel to the roadside network unit, and the assigned number of sidelink resources being sufficient to transmit the available data and additional data of other roadside network units; and transmitting the scheduling grant message to the roadside network unit on a downlink channel.
US11140688B2
Embodiments can include a method in which a transmission duration for data frames to a plurality of different receiving devices is determined by a transmitting device. The transmission duration can include at least interframe spacings that separate the data frames from one another. The transmitting device can transmit a control message over a medium to reserve the medium for the transmission duration. The data frames can then be sequentially transmitted by the transmitting device to the plurality of receiving devices during the transmission duration. The transmitting device can operate according to a contention based protocol. Related devices and systems are also disclosed.
US11140686B2
A role of sharing broker can be activated on a first mobile device, the role of sharing broker brokering sharing of network resources of at least a first network among a plurality of other mobile devices. Data usage by the first mobile device on at least the first network can be monitored. Responsive to the data usage by the first mobile device on at least the first network exceeding a threshold value, an amount of data usage on at least the first network being shared by the first mobile device among the plurality of other mobile devices can be adjusted.
US11140685B2
Provided are a communication method, a network device and a User Equipment (UE), which can improve communication performance. The method includes that: a UE generates processing time information, the processing time information indicating a UE processing time supported by the UE; and the UE transmits the processing time information to a network device.
US11140676B2
This application provides a data transmission method. The method includes: sending, by a terminal device, a first indication to an access network device, wherein the first indication is used to indicate early data transmission; and performing, by the terminal device, the early data transmission between the terminal device and the access network device.
US11140673B2
The present specification provides a transmission and reception method for reporting channel state information (CSI) in a wireless communication system, and an apparatus therefor. Particularly, the method for reporting the CSI in the wireless communication system comprises the steps of, receiving, from a base station, configuration information for control channel-based CSI reporting, receiving, from the base station, downlink control information including information for indicating a CSI reporting time at which the control channel-based CSI reporting is performed, and reporting the CSI, which is measured by a CSI-reference signal (CSI-RS) received from the base station, through the control channel at the CSI reporting time, wherein the configuration information can include information for indicating one or more control channel resources allocated for the control channel-based CSI reporting.
US11140671B2
The present disclosure relates to signaling transmission methods. In one example method, a base station receives an uplink reference signal sent by user equipment (UE). The base station determines a quantity of antenna ports, where the quantity of antenna ports is a quantity of antenna ports used by the UE to send the uplink reference signal. The base station determines frequency domain resource information based on the quantity of antenna ports, where the frequency domain resource information indicates at least one of a quantity of sub-bands or a sub-band bandwidth. The base station determines a precoding matrix indicator (PMI) of each sub-band based on the frequency domain resource information. The base station sends the PMI of the sub-band to the UE.
US11140668B2
A base station device can transmit data via multiple data channels to a single user equipment device. Each of the multiple data channels can be configured and scheduled via respective downlink control channels to the user equipment device. In an embodiment, the first data channel can be mapped to multiple layers, with a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) assigned based on the average channel quality indicator (CQI) of the layers. One or more of the layers can have a higher CQI however, capable of supporting an additional transmission. The base station device can then facilitate establishing a second data channel to the layer with the higher CQI. The MCS assigned to the second data traffic channel can be based on the CQI of the layer, or based on a difference between the average CQI of the layers and the CQI of the layer.
US11140667B2
Techniques are described for wireless communication. In one method, a user equipment (UE) receives a timing synchronization signal (TSS) and a physical broadcast channel (PBCH), with the TSS based at least in part on a timing of the TSS within a broadcast channel transmission time interval (BCH TTI); determines the timing of the TSS within the BCH TTI; and demodulates the PBCH based at least in part on the TSS. In another method, a base station allocates resources for a TSS and a PBCH within a BCH TTI; determines the TSS based at least in part on a timing of the TSS within the BCH TTI; and transmits, on the resources allocated for the TSS and the PBCH, the TSS and the PBCH, with the TSS transmitted as a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) for the PBCH on at least one port used to transmit the TSS and the PBCH.
US11140665B2
This application discloses an application instance address translation method, including: sending, by a control plane device, a collaboration request to a mobile edge cloud MEC control device, where the collaboration request includes location information of a terminal and information about an application service; receiving, by the control plane device, response information from the MEC control device, where the response information includes an address of a target instance; and sending, by the control plane device based on the address of the target instance, the address of the target instance to a first user plane device corresponding to the target instance, and instructing the first user plane device to set, as the address of the target instance, a forwarding address of an uplink packet sent by the terminal to obtain the application service.
US11140663B2
Provided are a device to device (D2D) operation method of a terminal in a wireless communication system, and a terminal using the method. In the method, the terminal receives, from another terminal which is the object of a D2D operation, first information and performs the D2D operation on the basis of the first information, wherein the first information indicates a specific resource in which the other terminal cannot receive a signal transmitted from the terminal, and the terminal performs the D2D operation within the remaining resources excluding the specific resource.
US11140662B2
An infrastructure equipment that transmits a radio network identifier to a communications device for identifying the communications device when allocating communications resources of the wireless access interface for transmitting downlink data to the communications device. After the communications device has entered an inactive connected state, the infrastructure equipment transmits control signals including the radio network identifier for allocating communications resources of the wireless access interface for the communications device to receive downlink data, determine whether the communications device is still within a radio coverage area of the infrastructure equipment, and if the communications device has left the coverage area, transmit an indication to the one or more other infrastructure equipment via the inter-connecting interface to trigger a process for transmitting downlink data to the communications device from the one or more other infrastructure equipment.
US11140656B2
There is provided mechanisms for paging at least one client node in a group communications system. A method is performed by a control node of the group communications system. The method comprises obtaining a need for paging the at least one client node in the group communications system. The method comprises transmitting a paging message for the at least one client node on a multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) bearer to the at least one client node. There is also provided a control node configured to perform such a method. There is also provided mechanisms for receiving paging in a group communications system.
US11140652B2
A data processing method includes obtaining positioning data collected during positioning, obtaining a fingerprint set from a location database based on the positioning data, where the fingerprint set includes at least one fingerprint, and each fingerprint in the fingerprint set includes at least one positioning media access control (MAC) address, determining, for each fingerprint in the fingerprint set, a matching degree between the fingerprint and the positioning data based on a second signal strength and a first signal strength of each positioning MAC address in the fingerprint, and determining that an access point (AP) included in the positioning data moves when each of matching degrees of all fingerprints in the fingerprint set is less than a first threshold.
US11140651B2
A method, a system, and a computer program product for determining a location of a communication device. Data corresponding to a detected transmission of a data packet between a tag device and one or more communication devices is received on one or more communication channels. At least one of a channel state information and a signal strength associated with the detected transmission for each frequency band in a plurality of frequency bands are determined. Based on the determined channel state information, one or more lengths of signal paths corresponding to the detected transmission of the data packet are determined. A shortest length in across one or more communication devices is selected to determine a location of the tag device.
US11140648B2
Apparatus and methods for identifying a wireless signal-emitting device are disclosed. The apparatus is configured to sense and measure wireless communication signals from signal-emitting devices in a spectrum. The apparatus is operable to automatically detect a signal of interest from the wireless signal-emitting device and create a signal profile of the signal of interest; compare the signal profile with stored device signal profiles for identification of the wireless signal-emitting device; and calculate signal degradation data for the signal of interest based on information associated with the signal of interest in a static database including noise figure parameters of a wireless signal-emitting device outputting the signal of interest. The signal profile of the signal of interest, profile comparison result, and signal degradation data are stored in the apparatus.
US11140639B1
A method and system for controlling application of MU-MIMO. The disclosure provides for considering a device's power class as a basis to decide whether to provide the device with MU-MIMO service. For instance, a base station could determine which of the base station's served devices that are threshold distant from the base station are each a high power device rather than a lower power device. And on at least that basis, the base station could select each such device to receive MU-MIMO service. Or faced with a choice between devices to receive MU-MIMO service, the base station could compare the devices' power classes and could select the devices that have higher power class to receive MU-MIMO service.
US11140638B2
The embodiments of the present application provide a wireless communication method and device, capable of performing appropriate power control of a sounding reference signal (SRS). The method includes: according to a first uplink signal, a first downlink signal, a first beam or a first beam pair corresponding to an SRS resource group, determining a target path loss value for an SRS resource of the SRS resource group; according to the target path loss value, determining a target transmission power for the SRS resource of the SRS resource group; and according to the target transmission power, transmitting an SRS to a network device on the SRS resource of the SRS resource group.
US11140617B2
A method in a user equipment (UE) (110) is disclosed. The method comprises obtaining (1301) a primary barring configuration (906) for access control in a wireless communications network. The method comprises obtaining (1302) a secondary barring configuration (912) for access control in the wireless communications network. The method comprises determining (1303), based on the primary barring configuration and the secondary barring configuration, whether an access attempt by the UE in the wireless communications network is barred.
US11140613B2
The disclosure provides a network access method and a user equipment (UE) using the same method in an environment of a 5G communication system. In an exemplary embodiment in accordance with the disclosure, the disclosure is directed to a network access method for a UE. The method would include not limited to: receiving a Synchronization Signal/physical broadcast channel Block (SSB) which comprises at least one of a physical broadcast channel (PBCH), a primary synchronization signal (PSS), a secondary synchronization signal (SSS) or mapping information; and determining from the SSB at least one of a SSB candidate number, a SSB index or a SSB pattern.
US11140608B2
Methods and apparatuses for millimeter wave (mmW) beam acquisition are disclosed. An apparatus may include a processor and a transceiver configured to receive configuration information from a first network node using a first radio access technology (RAT). The configuration information may include an index associated with a beam of a second network node and timing information corresponding to the first RAT. The second network node may use a second RAT. The apparatus may be further configured to transmit a measurement report to the first network node that includes a measurement of the beam and index associated with the beam of the second network node.
US11140604B2
A system that determines a cell density and cell type in an area corresponding to a location of a user equipment; determines a mobility state of the user equipment based on the determined cell density and the determined cell type; and controls cell reselection for the user equipment based on the determined mobility state of the user equipment.
US11140603B2
Methods and apparatuses are presented for balancing non-uniformly distributed network traffic in a wireless communications system having a plurality of digital remote units (DRUs). In some embodiments, a method comprises partitioning the plurality of DRUs into a plurality of DRU sectors, and dynamically repartitioning the plurality of DRU sectors depending on traffic conditions in at least one of the DRU sectors, such that the repartitioning satisfies at least one of a soft capacity constraint or a hard capacity constraint. The dynamic repartitioning may be based on at least one optimization algorithm.
US11140592B2
This application relates to the field of wireless communications technologies, and provides a method for selecting a radio access network device. The method includes: obtaining, by a first RAN device, capability information of a second RAN device, where the capability information is used to indicate an LADN supported by the second RAN device; and sending, by the first RAN device, a handover request message to the second RAN device.
US11140587B2
Example embodiments presented herein are directed towards a wireless terminal and base station, and corresponding methods therein, for providing a handover for a subset of bearers associated with the wireless terminal. The subset of bearers is less than a total number of bearers associated with the wireless terminal. Thus, upon the completion of the handover procedure, at least one bearer will stay connected with a source base station.
US11140581B2
Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for negotiating Radio Access Network (RAN)-level capabilities toward improving end-to-end quality of Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) communication sessions, such as Voice over Long-Term Evolution (VoLTE) calls. Disclosed embodiments include Session Description Protocol-based mechanisms to signal the RAN-level capabilities. The RAN-level capabilities may include, for example, delay budget information signaling, Transmission Time Interval bundling, RAN frame aggregation, RAN-assisted codec adaptation or access network bitrate recommendation, and/or other like capabilities. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US11140577B2
Facilitating energy-efficient wireless communications for advanced networks (e.g., 4G, 5G, and beyond) with low-resolution digital-to-analog converters is provided herein. Operations of a system can comprise determining first values. Respective values of the first values can be digital samples of transmission and reception chains determined based on symbols transformed from bits. The operations can also comprise facilitating a quantization of the first values resulting in second values. Facilitating the quantization can be based on a cost function associated with processing the first values. Further, the operations can comprise outputting the second values as a continuous time signal over antennas of a base station device. The second values can comprise fewer values than the first values.
US11140576B2
Avoiding media access control padding of trigger-based physical layer convergence protocol data unit
A wireless station (STA) in a wireless local area network (WLAN) performs a method to avoid media access control (MAC) padding of a physical layer convergence protocol data unit (PPDU) (e.g., a trigger-based (TB) PPDU, etc.). The method can reduce current or power consumption by the STA, which can in turn optimize the STA and, in certain instances, the WLAN as whole. In one example, the method includes the STA receiving a trigger frame from an access point (AP). The trigger frame specifies a length of a PPDU. The method further includes the STA generating a TB PPDU based on the specifications in the trigger frame. In particular, the STA generates a PPDU that has a length that is less than the length specified by the trigger frame. The method also includes the STA transmitting the generated PPDU to the AP.
US11140560B2
An overlay of millimeter wave (mmWave)-capable cells are added to a citizens broadband radio service (CBRS) network to provide coverage in a next generation fixed wireless (NGFW) network. The availability of mmWave spectrum, with limited reach, can be utilized as a wireless backhaul for subsequent hops. In one aspect, integrated access front-haul nodes (IAFHNs) that are utilized for mmWave transmissions at a second (and/or subsequent) hop can be deployed with self-aligning receivers. Further, the IAFHNs can facilitate adaptive resource allocation scheduling in an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) chain. In addition, an interface between macro access points can be enhanced to enable the adaptive resource allocation on the IAB chain. In one aspect, a fixed user equipment (UE) can be configured with dual connectivity (DC) and a network operator can offer different tiers of services based on a location of the UE.
US11140559B2
Devices and methods for inter-network access management in an shared spectrum wireless communication systems. A method for a method for operating a network entity in a wireless communication system of shared spectrum resources includes transmitting, to a set of neighbor network entities in the wireless communication system, a coordination request message indicating an intended transmission power for a data transmission by the network entity; and receiving, from at least one of the set of neighbor network entities, a coordination response message in response to the coordination request message. The method further includes determining resources of the shared spectrum resources to use for the data transmission based on the intended transmission power and the coordination response message; and transmitting, to at least one terminal in a cell of the network entity, the data transmission based on the determined resources.
US11140548B2
A system and method to support identity theft protection and, in particular, to a system and method for supporting identity theft protection as part of a distributed service oriented ecosystem in Internet protocol (IP) multimedia subsystem (IMS) and non-IMS networks. The system includes an identity session initiation protocol (SIP) application server configured to act as a security assertion markup language (SAML) bridge, which allows an SIP enabled device or a non-SIP enabled device to attach to a telecommunications service provider network. A user may accept or reject an authorization request using the SIP enabled device or non-SIP enabled device.
US11140547B2
A method for securely controlling a smart home, and a terminal device are provided, to resolve a prior-art problem that an intelligent terminal device is counterfeited. The method includes: displaying, by an intelligent terminal device, at least one operation indication for a smart home device when the intelligent terminal device receives an operation instruction entered by a user to add the smart home device, where the operation indication is used to instruct the user to perform function control on the smart home device; and generating, by the intelligent terminal device when determining an operation indication selected by the user from the at least one operation indication, a first key based on the selected operation indication, where the first key is used by the intelligent terminal device to encrypt information to be sent to the smart home device.
US11140541B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for controlling a session of an application executed by a User Equipment (UE), using an Edge Computing (EC) management entity configured to manage EC servers comprising computer resources. The EC management entity obtains server information including mobility information related to a first movable EC server. A connection between the UE and the first movable EC server is managed based on the received mobility information.
US11140539B2
A wireless communication apparatus which can perform communication in a system for performing communication during a predetermined period which repeatedly starts in a predetermined cycle and during which a beacon is transmitted or received receives signals during the predetermined period, and transmits information about the number of transmission sources of the received signal.
US11140537B2
A method for a public information system, adapted for broadcasting a message in a first wireless access network. The first wireless access network is arranged to, at least partly, overlap one or more further wireless access networks. The method comprises initiating a modified support announcement by the first wireless access network. The modified support announcement configured to announce support for the further wireless access networks by comprising network identifiers associated with the further wireless access networks, whereby a wireless device associated with a further wireless access network is prompted to connect to the first wireless access network, and initiating broadcasting of the message over the first wireless access network, whereby said wireless device may receive the message over the first wireless access network.
US11140533B2
A registration procedure may allow one active and multiple inactive SL registrations to be created at different service layer entities for an application entity without adding significant overhead and burden to an application entity.
US11140523B2
A method for mobile originated (MO) non-Internet protocol data delivery (NIDD) to plural application servers (ASs) includes creating an AS group NIDD context record at an exposure function node for an AS group including a plurality of ASs to receive MO NIDD communications from a same UE. The method further includes receiving, at the exposure function node, a request for creating a single packet data network (PDN) connection with the exposure function node on behalf of the UE. The method further includes updating the AS group NIDD context record to include PDN connection information for the single PDN connection. The method further includes receiving, at the exposure function node and over the single PDN connection, MO NIDD data from the UE. The method further includes distributing, from the exposure function node and using the AS group NIDD context record, the MO NIDD data to each of the plural ASs identified as members of the group in the AS group NIDD context record.
US11140520B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for a computer-implemented method for displaying a heat map are provided. One of the methods includes: receiving heat data from a server, wherein the heat data comprises a color value associated with each of a plurality of regions and one or more geographic locations respectively corresponding to one or more boundary points of each of one or more heat regions among the plurality of regions; generating a first heat map comprising a plurality of pixels; obtaining a second heat map by adjusting the color value of each pixel in the first heat map; and providing the second heat map for display, wherein the second heat is superimposed on a digital map. This method addresses the issue of conventional techniques that service request information may be misrepresented due to abrupt changes in color values across neighboring heat regions.
US11140513B2
A device can receive location data associated with an object. The device can determine a bounding area that encompasses a geographic area and determine a partitioning of the bounding area into a plurality of cells. The device can classify a cell of the plurality of cells as a first type that is entirely within the geographic area or a second type that is partially within the geographic area. The device can determine a rounded value of a latitude and a longitude included in the location data to identify a proximate location. The device can determine whether the proximate location matches a reference location associated with a vertex of the cell and identify the location as within the cell. The device, based on identifying the location as within the cell, can selectively determine whether the location of the object is within the geographic area and perform one or more actions.
US11140512B1
Managing merchant coverage areas is complex. Different merchants may have different coverage areas, with some products only available in some regions, and so forth. When a user is searching for an available product, the user expects search results quickly. These search results may take into consideration which merchants offer which products at a user's physical location, or other location-dependent considerations. A system provides customizable region sets arranged in a hierarchy, where individual regions are indicative of a geographic area. The customized regions are usable by merchants to identify products or services available in different regions. The customized regions are also used to describe a user's physical location. The system may use the hierarchy of regions to quickly and efficiently determine which products or services are available to a user.
US11140510B2
Systems and methods of providing map data to a user are provided. For instance, a plurality of points of interest associated with a geographic area to be displayed in a viewport associated with a digital mapping application can be identified. An adjusted position can be determined for an orientation point of interest. The adjusted position is a position that does not align with a position of the orientation point of interest in the physical world. A map topology associated with map data defining a visual representation of the geographic area can be adjusted based at least in part on the adjusted position. The orientation POI can be provided for display at the adjusted position associated with the map data within the mapping application.
US11140498B2
A guard for a space access device is configured to output air flow through a distal end portion thereof. The guard includes q housing having a proximal end opening, a distal end opening, and a filter portion positioned between the proximal and distal end openings. The filter includes a first plate having a first opening therethrough and a second plate having a second opening therethrough. When the first plate is overlaid in contact with the second plate, this forms an aperture that extends through both the first and second plates.
US11140494B2
A hearing system comprises a hearing device worn on the head, or fully or partially implanted in the head, of a user, and external audio transmitters. The hearing system allows wireless communication to be established between the hearing device and the audio transmitters. The hearing device comprises microphones providing respective electric input signals; a beamformer filter providing a beamformed signal from the electric input signals; and an output unit. The hearing system further comprises a selector/mixer for selecting and possibly mixing one or more of the electric input signals or the beamformed signal and external electric signals from the audio transmitters, and providing a current input sound signal based thereon for presentation to the user. The selector/mixer is controlled by a source selection processor, which determines the source selection control signal based on a comparison of the beamformed signal and the external electric sound signals or processed versions thereof.
US11140493B2
An interface circuit comprises a signal path including a front-end charge amplifier coupling an input of the interface circuit to an output of the interface circuit, and a DC control loop separate from the signal path. In some implementations, the interface circuit is part of a MEMS sensor that includes a MEMS transducer having an output coupled to the input of the interface circuit. The interface circuit can, in some cases, allow faster settling of the circuit to its steady-state operating point.
US11140492B2
A display apparatus includes a display panel including configured to display an image and a sound generating device on a rear surface of the display panel, the sound generating device being configured to vibrate the display panel to generate sound. The sound generating device includes a first structure and a second structure over or under the first structure, the second structure including a first part having a piezoelectric characteristic and a second part between adjacent first parts to have flexibility.
US11140490B2
The present application discloses a speaker having a vibrating system and a flexible circuit board. The vibrating system has a lower vibrating diaphragm with a first fastening portion, a second fastening portion, and a vibrating portion having a first connecting portion and a second connecting portion and a middle portion. A vertical distance between a tangent line along a vibrating direction at first end of the first connecting portion and another tangent line along the vibrating direction at the second end of the first connecting portion is a first distance; another vertical distance between a tangent line along the vibrating direction at third end and another tangent line along the vibrating direction at the fourth end is a second distance. The first distance is shorter than the second distance. The acoustic quality of speaker can be improved.
US11140489B2
A speaker includes a frame; a magnetic circuit system in the frame; and a vibrating system in the frame. The vibrating system includes a suspension ring fixed on the frame, a number of domes fixed at a center of the suspension ring and a voice coil connected below the domes. The domes includes a first dome and a second dome stacked with each other. The second dome has a body part and a number of convex parts extending from the body part to the magnetic circuit system; a number of intervals each formed between every two contiguous convex parts. The convex part includes a bottom surface close to the magnetic circuit system. The voice coil buts the bottom surface and forms leakage passages with the second dome at the interval positions.
US11140487B2
Disclosed herein is a nano membrane. The nano membrane includes an insulating layer having a thickness corresponding to a diameter of each of metal nanowires and configured to contain the metal nanowires therein, and the metal nanowires arranged to cross and having portions of side surfaces which protrude from one surface of the insulating layer.
US11140486B2
An audio output device is provided. The audio output device determines a similarity between a first external subject and a second external subject based on first biometric information about the first external object associated with the audio output device and second biometric information about the second external object associated with an external audio output device, and controls the audio output device and the external audio output device to operation in coordination or independently based on the similarity.
US11140482B2
Provided are an actuator fixing device and a panel vibration type sound-generating display device including the same. A display device includes: a display panel configured to display an image, a cover bottom configured to cover the display panel, and a plurality of sound-generating actuators supported by the cover bottom, the sound-generating actuators being configured to vibrate the display panel to generate sound, at least two of the sound-generating actuators being adjacent to each other.
US11140481B2
A wireless speaker assembly for broadcasting audio and charging an electronic device includes a housing that defines an interior space. A first battery, a microprocessor, and a transceiver are coupled to the housing and are positioned in the interior space. The microprocessor is operationally coupled to the first battery and the transceiver. A speaker and a plurality of connectors are coupled to the housing and are operationally coupled to the microprocessor. The transceiver is configured to receive an audio signal from the electronic device, positioning the microprocessor to command the speaker to broadcast the audio signal. A respective connector is configured to couple to a charging cord of the electronic device to charge a second battery that is positioned in the electronic device.
US11140480B2
A system includes a CS playback device that establishes a secure communication channel with a media source device on a wireless medium, wherein the CS playback device receives and decodes a media stream transmitted from the media source device on the secure communication channel, thereby providing a decoded media stream. The CS playback device generates playback clock messages based on the decoded media stream, and transmits these playback clock messages on a wireless communication channel. One or more SPS playback devices are provided, each storing information enabling the SPS playback device to receive and decode the media stream transmitted from the media source device on the secure communication channel, whereby each SPS playback device extracts audio playback messages from the media stream. Each SPS playback device includes circuitry for receiving the playback clock messages from the wireless communication channel, and circuitry for processing the audio playback messages in response to the received playback clock messages.
US11140476B1
In an example, a circuit includes: an AC piezoelectric audio transducer configured to receive an audio output signal of a source; a step-up transformer having a primary winding to receive the audio output signal of the source; a bridge rectifier having an input connected to a secondary winding of the step-up transformer; and a DC piezoelectric audio transducer connected to an output of the bridge rectifier. The AC piezoelectric audio transducer, the step-up transformer, the bridge rectifier, and the DC piezoelectric audio transducer are configured to produce an audible alarm signal based on the audio output signal of the source without powered amplification, which includes an audible sound from the AC piezoelectric audio transducer and another audible sound from the DC piezoelectric audio transducer.
US11140474B1
An active and passive radiator configuration and method is disclosed which provides surrounds overlapped on active moving elements of the acoustic radiators avoiding interference between the surround elements and adjacent pieces during acoustic radiator, active element motion, in operation. Single and dual suspension arrangements are described.
US11140473B2
Embodiments of apparatus are disclosed for affecting working fluid flow in a system that delivers material between two locations by carrying the material in the working fluid. For example, embodiments of the disclosed apparatus may be used in an internal combustion engines to carry fuel droplets to a combustion area using air as the working fluid. The apparatus may include a passage including a funnel portion and tumble area that direct working fluid into a stratified stream. The stratified stream may include an outer boundary flow having a toroidal and/or helical flow characteristic and an inner flow carrying injected material that is bound by the outer flow.
US11140457B1
Devices and methods are provided for determining and establishing network path for a streaming video device. The device may receive video from a remote digital video recorder (DVR) through a first access point (AP) wirelessly connected to second AP of the remote DVR, wherein the streaming video device, the first AP, and the remote DVR share a network, wherein the remote DVR includes a third AP. The device may determine a first connection quality associated with a first frequency band between the streaming video device and the first AP. The device may determine a second connection quality associated with a second frequency band between the streaming video device and the second AP. The device may determine that the second connection quality exceeds the first connection quality. The device may establish a direct connection between the streaming video device and the second AP using second frequency band. The device may receive DVR video over the second frequency band.
US11140437B2
A content moving device which enables providing content stored on a first user device, such as a DVR, in a first format and resolution to be provided to a second user device, such as a portable media player (PMP) in a second format and resolution. The content moving device identifies content on the first user device as candidate content which may be desired by the PMP and receives the candidate content from the DVR. The content moving device transcodes the candidate content at times independent of a request from the PMP for the content. The content moving device may provide a list of available transcoded content to the PMP for selection, and provide selected content to the PMP. The content moving device may also provide information relating to any protection schemes of the content provided to the PMP, such as DRM rights and decryption keys. The content moving device performs the often computationally intense and time consuming transcoding of user content to enable the user to move content between different user devices in a convenient manner.
US11140435B2
The disclosure provides a method for determining viewer data from interactive overlays. The method includes receiving media content from a content feed. The media device includes a unique identifier (UID). The method also includes determining a media program associated with the received media content based on a fingerprint of the received media content. The method further includes overlaying interactive overlay content onto the media program of the media content in an overlay area. The overlay area corresponds to a spatial position within at least one frame of the media content. The method also includes receiving a feedback response from a viewer based on the interactive overlay content. The method further includes determining viewer information from the feedback response of the viewer. The method further includes associating the viewer information of the feedback response with the UID of the media device.
US11140432B2
Apparatus and methods to manage recording of streaming packetized content (such as for example live IP packetized content) for access, retrieval and delivering thereof to one or more users. In one embodiment, the foregoing is accomplished via communication between a recording manager and a receiver/decoder device. The recording manager manages and schedules recording of content on behalf of the receiver/decoder device (and/or mobile devices) disposed at a user's premises. The recording manager runs one or more computer programs designed to receive requests to record packetized content from one or more consumer devices, and use metadata contained within the requests to cause a cloud storage entity or premises storage device to record the content at its scheduled date/time (either via the receiver/decoder device itself, or another network entity). In this manner, the recording manager provides digital video recording (DVR) functionality to devices that would be otherwise incapable of scheduling a recording and/or recording such content.
US11140426B2
A method for communicating from one device to a plurality of receiving devices using a media multiplexer with a media proxy is described. A request for a call by the one device is received at the media multiplexer. Communication channels are allocated on the media proxy by the media multiplexer. A communication channel is allocated for each of the plurality of receiving devices. Media from the one device is received by the media multiplexer. The received media is sent to each of the plurality of receiving devices using the allocated communication channels.
US11140423B2
A system and method is provided for minimizing delay time for controlling media content capture during live video broadcast production. The system includes a video production receiver that receives media content streams from one or more cameras that includes live media content captured by the cameras and encoded in a first encoding format. Moreover, a multi-view interface displays the media content and a video production controller generates control instructions based on inputs to the interface to change operation of the cameras capturing the respective media content. A camera controller is included that transmits the generated control instructions to the cameras to change the operation for capturing the respective media content. Moreover, the video production controls production of a live video stream for video broadcast production using media content that is captured from the cameras and that is encoded in a second encoding format different than the first encoding format.
US11140418B2
A video decoder can be configured to set each block-level syntax element of a plurality of block-level syntax elements to a value indicating that an adaptive loop filter is enabled for an associated component of the video data in response to determining that a slice-level syntax element is set to a value indicating that values for the plurality of block-level syntax elements are inferred.
US11140416B1
Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for video processing. In some examples, an apparatus for video processing includes processing circuitry. For example, processing circuitry determines a frame interval for a current block in a current frame within a sequence of frames. The frame interval indicates a group of frames in the sequence of frames with collocated blocks of the current block that satisfy an error metric requirement comparing to the current block. Further, the processing circuitry determines a replacement block based on the collocated blocks in the group of frames, and replaces the current block in the current frame with the replacement block.
US11140410B2
A method for processing a video signal using an affine motion prediction is disclosed. The method includes checking that a current block is encoded by the affine motion prediction, obtaining motion vectors for a plurality of control points of the current block, determining a motion vector for each of a plurality of subblocks included in the current block based on the motion vectors for the plurality of control points, and performing a prediction for the current block from the motion vector for each of the plurality of subblocks, wherein each of the plurality of subblocks is configured to have a pre-defined width and a pre-defined height.
US11140403B2
A method and apparatus for video decoding includes decoding a binary coded syntax element carrying an identification of a picture segment in a high level syntax structure comprising fixed length codewords and reconstructing the picture segment.
US11140402B2
A method of decoding an encoded video bitstream using at least one processor, including obtaining a first flag indicating whether a constant picture size is used in a coded video sequence including a current picture; based on the first flag indicating that the constant picture size is used, decoding the current picture without performing reference picture resampling; based on the first flag indicating that the constant picture size is not used, obtaining a second flag indicating whether a conformance window size is signaled; based on the second flag indicating that the conformance window size is signaled: obtaining the conformance window size, determining a resampling ratio between the current picture and a reference picture based on the conformance window size, and performing the reference picture resampling on the current picture using the resampling ratio.
US11140401B2
Techniques for coding and deriving (e.g., determining) one or more coded-block-flags associated with video content are described herein. A coded-block-flag of a last node may be determined when coded-block-flags of preceding nodes are determined to be a particular value and when a predetermined condition is satisfied. In some instances, the predetermined condition may be satisfied when log2(size of current transform unit) is less than log2(size of maximum transform unit) or log2(size of current coding unit) is less than or equal to log2(size of maximum transform unit)+1. The preceding nodes may be nodes that precede the last node on a particular level in a residual tree.
US11140390B2
Provided is an image decoding method including: determining a first coding block and a second coding block corresponding to the first coding block; when a size of the first coding block is equal to or smaller than a preset size, obtaining first split shape mode information and second split shape mode information from a bitstream; determining a split mode of the first coding block, based on the first split shape mode information, and determining a split mode of the second coding block, based on the second split shape mode information; and decoding a coding block of a first color component which is determined based on the split mode of the first coding block and a coding block of a second color component which is determined based on the split mode of the second coding block.
US11140387B2
A method for decoding a video according to the present invention may comprise: determining a first prediction mode for a first sub-block in a current block and a second intra prediction mode for a second sub-block, performing a first prediction for the first sub-block based on the first intra prediction mode, performing a second prediction for the second sub-block based on the second intra prediction mode, and obtaining a prediction sample of the current block according to a result of the first prediction and the second prediction.
US11140386B2
Devices, systems and methods for digital video coding, which include sub-block based inter prediction methods, are described. An exemplary method for video processing includes determining, for a conversion between a current block of video and a bitstream representation of the video, a maximum number of candidates in a sub-block based merge candidate list and/or whether to add sub-block based temporal motion vector prediction (SbTMVP) candidates to the sub-block based merge candidate list based on whether temporal motion vector prediction (TMVP) is enabled for use during the conversion or whether a current picture referencing (CPR) coding mode is used for the conversion, and performing, based on the determining, the conversion.
US11140381B1
A method of operating a VR or AR head mounted display (HMD) system includes obtaining a video performance parameter for a video signal, selecting a clock frequency for video data transfer within the HMD system based on the video performance parameter, detecting one or more available frequency bands for a wireless data connection between a host device and the HMD system, and selecting a frequency band from the one or more available frequency bands for the wireless data connection, based on a predetermined connection suitability parameter for the one or more available frequency bands and based on the selected clock frequency for video data transfer within the HMD system. The method further includes establishing a wireless connection between the host device and the HMD system over the selected frequency band.
US11140378B2
The present invention relates to a 360-degree video data processing method performed by a 360-degree video reception apparatus, the method comprising: receiving 360-degree video data, obtaining information on an encoded picture and metadata from the 360-degree video data, decoding at least a part of a picture based on the information on the encoded picture and rendering at least a part of the decoded picture based on the metadata, and the decoded picture is a composition picture and the metadata includes indication information related to whether the composition picture is identical to a projected picture.
US11140352B1
A readout circuit for use in an image sensor includes a first sample and hold (SH) circuit coupled to a bitline that is coupled to a pixel array. A second SH circuit is coupled to the bitline. A bypass switch is coupled to the bitline, the first SH circuit, and the second SH circuit. An analog to digital converter (ADC) is coupled to the bypass switch. The bypass switch is configured to provide an image charge value from the pixel array to the ADC through the bitline, or through one of the first SH circuit or the second SH circuit in response to a switch select signal.
US11140348B2
Provided is an analog-to-digital (AD) conversion device including: a comparator configured to compare an input analog signal and a reference signal; a plurality of first bit-memories configured to hold a digital signal including a plurality of bits generated based on a result of comparison performed by the comparator, each of the plurality of first bit-memories holding a bit signal of a corresponding one bit among the plurality of bits of the digital signal; an output circuit to which the bit signal output from each of the plurality of first bit-memories is commonly input; a transmission line configured to transmit the bit signal output from the output circuit; and a first scanning circuit configured to sequentially select, from the plurality of first bit-memories, a first bit-memory that outputs the bit signal to the output circuit.
US11140344B2
An image sensor having rows and columns of image pixels may include row control circuitry that controls voltages that are sent to each row of the image pixels. The row control circuitry may include booster circuitry that converts a positive power supply voltage (such as 2.8V) to voltages that are negative or otherwise less than the positive power supply voltage and/or greater than the positive power supply voltage. The booster circuitry may have a plurality of switches that control an input to an amplifier, thereby allowing the circuitry to produce any desired voltage in a given range. The booster circuitry output may be shared between multiple rows of the image pixels, and the produced boosted circuitry may be fed to any desired one or more of the rows of image pixels.
US11140339B2
A video image processing method, an apparatus, and a terminal are provided. The method includes: displaying a captured video image on a screen; detecting operating points of a user on the screen, and converting screen coordinates of the operating points into target canvas coordinates in a target canvas; mapping the screen coordinates of the operating points to a virtual canvas, to obtain virtual canvas coordinates of the operating points; mapping the virtual canvas coordinates of the operating points to the target canvas, to obtain target canvas coordinates of the operating points in the target canvas; drawing a graphic image on the target canvas according to the target canvas coordinates of the operating points; and overlaying the target canvas onto the video image.
US11140338B2
An image or a video may include a spherical capture of a scene. A punchout of the image or the video may provide a panoramic view of the scene.
US11140330B2
A method of operating a digital image stabilization apparatus including acquiring motion information by a first camera for capturing an image of a first field of view, controlling a prism of a second camera using the motion information, acquiring a main image and a peripheral image by a second camera for capturing an image of a second field of view, the second field of view being narrower than the first field of view, and generating a stabilized frame image related to the main image using the motion information and the peripheral image may be provided.
US11140326B2
A method of determining geo-reference data for a portion of a measurement area includes providing a monitoring assembly comprising a ground station, providing an imaging assembly comprising an imaging device with a lens operably coupled to an aerial device, hovering the aerial device over a measurement area, capturing at least one image of the measurement area within the imaging device, transmitting the at least one image to the ground station using a data transmitting assembly, and scaling the at least one image to determine the geo-reference data for the portion of the measurement area by calculating a size of a field-of-view (FOV) of the lens based on a distance between the imaging device and the measurement area.
US11140323B2
A viewfinder comprising a display device which comprises a surface including a display portion and a peripheral portion, a lens and a housing is provided. In an orthogonal projection with respect to the surface, the housing comprises an overlap portion and a shielding portion that overlap at least a part of the peripheral portion, respectively. A distance between the peripheral portion and the shielding portion is larger than a distance between the peripheral portion and the overlap portion. A light beam emitted from an end of the display portion which has an angle less than a predetermined angle from a normal of the surface enters the lens, and a light beam emitted from the end which has an angle not less than the predetermined angle from the normal of the surface and is reflected by the overlap portion enters the shielding portion.
US11140321B2
Increases to the sensitivity of a probe magnet sensor are implemented for a camera lens. Probe magnet sensors may be located on carrier of a surface of an actuator coil to reduce the distance between the probe magnet sensor and a probe magnet mounted on an optics component that includes the camera lens. A probe magnet may be located within the camera so that the flux region of the probe magnet does not overlap with a flux region of a drive magnet for an actuator of the camera.
US11140318B2
The present invention is provided with an imaging unit (10) that has an imaging head (11) to be inserted into the digestive tract (112) and images a living body by applying a laser to the digestive tract (112) via the imaging head (11); a control unit (50) for controlling the imaging head (11) to move inside the digestive tract (112); and an image processing unit (70) for processing an image captured by the imaging unit (10). The imaging unit (10) captures a plurality of imaging regions (P) to be imaged along with the movement of the imaging head (11) such that a portion of adjacent imaging regions (P1, P2) overlap, and the image processing unit (70) overlaps regions (Pa) in which the plurality of imaging regions (P1, P2) are overlapped to generate a composite image.
US11140317B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display and a processor electrically connected with the display and a memory and configured to use a first content in a 3-dimensional (3D) space in response to executing the first content, render an area corresponding to a field of view (FOV), and store information relating to the FOV in the memory as metadata of the first content in response to a specified event.
US11140312B2
The invention relates to a long-range optical device comprising at least one sight channel and an image capturing channel with a camera module, wherein the sight channel and the image capturing channel are coupled to one another by means of an adjusting mechanism such that a first image detail observed in the sight channel essentially corresponds to a second image detail captured by the camera module; at least one interface module for establishing a connection with an electronic terminal; a processing unit; at least one memory unit, wherein the memory unit is formed for storing parameters and/or functions, wherein an electronic operating button is provided for retrieving a preselected parameter and carrying out a function. The invention moreover relates to an observation and image capturing system and a method for the retrieval of parameters and/or the execution of functions with an observation and image capturing system.
US11140308B2
A life-logging system is configured to register a plurality of cameras and a plurality of users to a life-logging network. The life-logging system receives a plurality of camera profiles associated with the plurality of cameras and a user profile associated with a user. The life-logging system determines location information associated with the user and identifies a camera of the plurality of cameras for capturing an image of the user based on the plurality of camera profiles, the user preferences, and the location information. The life-logging system arranges for the image of the user captured by the camera to be delivered to a client device.
US11140305B2
An imaging device having an imaging field of view, the imaging device including at least one illumination port configured to output light for illuminating a target; an imaging sensor to detect light traveling along an optical path to the imaging sensor; and a first movable window positioned upstream of the sensor with respect to a direction of travel of light along the optical path, wherein the first movable window is configured to move into the optical path in a deployed position for modifying light received from the target.
US11140288B2
An information processing apparatus which is capable of reliably switching display languages in response to depression of a language switching button. A display language on a display unit is switched to a language selected by a user from a list of languages displayed on the display unit. In response to selection of a language switching button by the user, the display language on the display unit is switched to one of a plurality of languages associated with the language switching button. Currently-displayed language information indicating a language currently displayed on the display unit is obtained when the language switching button is selected by the user. When the language switching button is selected by the user, the display language on the display unit is switched to one of the plurality of languages associated with the language switching button and different from a language currently displayed on the display unit.
US11140278B2
Embodiments of the invention involve an integrated thermal printer with a scale that is connected to a computer. The computer is connected to a web server that is authorized by a government postal agency, e.g. the USPS, to issue postage.
US11140275B2
A PC presents, to a user, a difference between an actual speed and an ideal speed, the actual speed being a moving speed of a colorimeter when the user moves the colorimeter with respect to a color chart, the ideal speed being a moving speed of the colorimeter ideal for color measurement on the color chart.
US11140268B1
Techniques are described for generating metric(s) that predict survey score(s) for a service session. Model(s) may be trained, through supervised or unsupervised machine learning, using training data such as communications from previous service sessions between service representative(s) and individual(s), and survey scores provided by the serviced individual to rate the session on one or more criteria (e.g., survey questions). The model(s) may be trained to output, based on an input session record, metric(s) that each correspond to a survey score that would have been provided by the individual had they completed the survey. The model may be a concatenated model that combines a language model output from a language classifier recurrent neural network, and an acoustic model output from an acoustic feature layer convolutional neural network. Individuals can be clustered according to the metric(s) and/or other factors, and the cluster(s) can be employed for routing incoming service requests.
US11140267B1
A computer-implemented method for providing an objective evaluation to a customer service representative regarding his performance during an interaction with a customer may include receiving a digitized data stream corresponding to a spoken conversation between a customer and a representative; converting the data stream to a text stream; generating a representative transcript that includes the words from the text stream that are spoken by the representative; comparing the representative transcript with a plurality of positive words and a plurality of negative words; and generating a score that varies according to the occurrence of each word spoken by the representative that matches one of the positive words, and/or the occurrence of each word spoken by the representative that matches one of the negative words. Tone of voice, as well as response time, during the interaction may also be monitored and analyzed to adjust the score, or generate a separate score.
US11140264B1
A method may include obtaining a first audio signal including first speech originating at a remote device during a communication session between the remote device and a communication device and obtaining a second audio signal including second speech originating at the communication device during the communication session between the remote device and the communication device. The method may also include obtaining a characteristic of the communication session from one or more of: the first audio signal, the second audio signal, and settings of the communication device and determining a hearing level of a user of the communication device using the characteristic of the communication session.
US11140256B1
Disclosed is a device having a processor, a sensor and a computer-readable storage device storing instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations including receiving an interaction with the device indicating an intent of a user of the device to initiate a function, sensing, via the sensor, a condition associated with the device, and determining, based on the condition, a probability of whether the user intended to initiate the function using the device to yield a determination. When the determination indicates that the condition causes a sufficient probability to exist at a threshold that the user did not intend to initiate the function, the instructions prevent the device from initiating the function. When the determination indicates that the condition does cause a sufficient probability to exist at the threshold that the user did intend to initiate the function, the instructions initiate the function on the device.
US11140247B2
The disclosure relates to a user equipment (UE) and a method and apparatus for identifying a handprint. The user equipment includes a housing including a front housing, a rear housing, and a middle frame located between the front housing and the rear housing; at least one ultrasound handprint sensor located on an inner wall of the middle frame, and configured to emit an ultrasound capable of passing through the middle frame, receive an ultrasound reflected by a hand of a user, and generate an electric signal of handprint information based on the ultrasound reflected by the hand of the user; and a controller located inside the housing, electrically connected to the at least one ultrasound handprint sensor, and configured to control the at least one ultrasound handprint sensor, and convert the electric signal of the handprint information collected by the at least one ultrasound handprint sensor into a handprint image.
US11140245B2
A packet processing method and apparatus are presented. The method includes: generating, by a first node, a first packet based on first data of the first node, where the packet header of the first packet includes a service type, a final destination address, and residual times to aggregation (RTA); when the RTA of the first packet is not 0, determining, by the first node, a remaining capacity in a first cache corresponding to the service type and the final destination address; and when a data length of the first packet is not greater than the remaining capacity, aggregating, by the first node, the first packet and the second packet into a third packet, where the RTA of the third packet is a minimum value in the RTA of the second packet and a value obtained after 1 is subtracted from the RTA of the first packet.
US11140242B2
A monitoring system presents metrics or event data by monitoring state information of a computing system. In an embodiment, the monitoring system includes one or more processors that receive state information from an agent executing on the computing system. The state information describes a component of the computing system. In response to receiving the state information, the monitoring system generates aggregate state information based on the state information and prior state information previously received from the agent. The state information and prior state information may correspond to the same time period. The monitoring system generates subscribed state information from the aggregate state information. The subscribed state information is a subset of the aggregate state information selected using instructions of a client. The monitoring system sends the subscribed state information to the client to cause an update in a user interface presented by the client.
US11140238B1
Systems and methods for effectively managing exit nodes are provided. The exemplary systems and methods use a Supernode to examine an Exit Node through sending and receiving a request to a Target. Information about the exit node is then stored into the Supernode. According to the information provided from the Supernode, the Exit Nodes Database systemizes the proxies according to availability and provides available exit nodes to a User Device.
US11140234B2
Various embodiments describe controlling usages of channels of a user experience ecosystem. A computer system provides a user interface to a computing device, generates data entries based on user interactions with the user interface, and stores the data entries in a data store. The data entries identify the channels and specify dependencies between the usages of the channels. The computer system adds, to the data store, identifiers of storage locations of content. The computer system provides, to channel systems, access to the data entries and the identifiers of the storage locations in the data store. A usage of a channel by a channel system includes a content publication based on the data entries and the identifiers of the storage locations. The usage of this channel is coordinated with a usage of a different channel by a different channel system based on the dependencies specified in the data entries.
US11140232B2
In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a location history of a user of a social-networking system. The social-networking system includes a social graph that includes multiple nodes and edges connecting the nodes. At least node corresponds to the user. The method includes accessing a data set from a third-party source independent of the social-networking system. The data set references one or more locations. The method includes comparing the location history of the user with the locations referenced by the data set to determine an overlap between the location history and the data set and determining based on the comparison one or more labels to assign to the user or to one or more locations where the location history and the data set overlap.
US11140227B2
A media server is for enabling codeless pairing between a mobile device and a particular one of a plurality of media devices. The media server is communicatively coupled to the mobile device and the media devices via a computer network. The media server receives a request by a first media device to enter a codeless pairing mode, queries a database to determine whether any other of the media devices is currently in the codeless pairing mode—and, when yes, the media server transmits a busy message to the first media device, and, when no, the media server detects a media session initiated by the mobile device. Upon detecting the media session, the media server pairs the mobile device with the first media device and causes the first media device to play media content associated with the media session.
US11140216B2
A computer streaming system includes a remote user device and a host streaming unit. The host streaming unit determines input methods suitable for the remote user device to interact with content streamed to the remote user using a selected application. The host streaming unit detects whether a user interface of the selected application is supported by the remote user device and dynamically institutes emulated native input support for the remote user device when the host streaming unit detects the user interface of the selected application is not supported by the remote user device. Additionally, the host streaming unit dynamically dismisses emulated native input support for the remote user device when the host streaming unit detects the user interface of the selected application is supported by the remote user device, causing the remote user device to return to native input control. Also provided is a method of streaming a computer application.
US11140210B2
System and techniques for information centric network (ICN) implemented content data networks (CDNs) are described herein. A directive to initiate a cache operation for content may be received at a gateway of an ICN. An interest packet may be constructed based on the directive. The interest packet may be transmitted on the ICN and a response to the interest packet received. Here, the response has a payload that corresponds to the content. The payload then may be cached at a local repository of the gateway.
US11140209B2
Methods, apparatus and systems for load balancing Session Initiation Protocol session transactions among a self-organized cluster of SIP processing devices. An exemplary method embodiment includes the steps of dynamically forming a load balancing cluster of SIP processing devices from a plurality of SIP processing devices, said cluster of SIP processing devices being self-organized; dynamically building a communications network, by said cluster of SIP processing devices, for distributing session transaction load state information among the SIP processing devices in the cluster; and each of the SIP processing devices of the cluster asynchronously determining session transaction load state information on a recurring basis reflecting its current session transaction load state. In some embodiments, the SIP processing devices are session border controllers.
US11140207B2
A method performed at an electronic device includes: executing an application; establishing a session between the executing application, a remote server associated with the application, and a media device that transmits output from the session to an output device, wherein the output from the session includes output from the executing application; and presenting to users of one or more second electronic devices on which the application is not executing and/or installed a session identifier associated with the session, wherein the session identifier facilitates joining of the session by the second electronic devices and identifies a controller configuration implementable on each of the one or more second electronic devices for enabling the users of the one or more second electronic devices to interact with the session.
US11140205B2
In examples of the present invention, delivery of a segment of content is done using an initial congestion window, preferably chosen to give a delivery rate that ensures timely delivery of that segment. However, under high levels of packet loss, the delivery rate may not be sufficient. Hence, at any stage during delivery of a segment, the actual delivery rate is measured, and used, together with the previous congestion window size, the amount of content segment data still to be delivered, and the time left for delivery, to calculate an updated congestion window. The remainder of the segment is then delivered using this revised congestion window.
US11140202B2
A method and communication system are disclosed for conducting a conference among conference participants connected by a communication system. This system has at least one conference server and at least one image reproduction unit at each conference environment. The method involves collecting context data concerning at least one of the conference participants at multiple timed intervals; calculating a relationship value from the context data at the timed intervals; determining a relationship status, wherein the relationship status is expressed using one of several categories defined by a threshold value, depending on the calculated relationship value; and displaying the relationship status on at least one image reproduction unit during the conference. The method may be performed at the beginning of the conference and/or when a new participant joins the conference.
US11140190B2
A method, system and computer-usable medium for automating the assessment of security vulnerabilities associated with a user module via a user module assessment operation. The user assessment operation includes receiving a request from a user module via an edge device; determining whether the request includes a persistent session cookie; determining whether the user module should be assessed to detect security vulnerabilities; resetting information contained in the persistent session cookie when the user module should be accessed to detect security vulnerabilities; redirecting the user module for assessment; and, performing an assessment of the user module to detect possible security vulnerabilities.
US11140187B2
In one embodiment, a device in a network receives traffic records indicative of network traffic between different sets of host address pairs. The device identifies one or more address grouping constraints for the sets of host address pairs. The device determines address groups for the host addresses in the sets of host address pairs based on the one or more address grouping constraints. The device provides an indication of the address groups to an anomaly detector.
US11140179B1
Example apparatus disclosed herein to perform a cybersecurity investigation include a graph generator to iteratively generate an information graph based on investigative data in response to detection of a threat alert in a monitored network, the investigative data accessed from information sources based on a set of information seeker tools, the information graph generated based on a graph schema specifying possible relationships between the information seeker tools. Example apparatus also include a pattern recognizer to traverse the information graph to identify a path in the information graph matching a pattern from the graph schema associated with a cybersecurity threat. Example apparatus further include a user interface to output the path identified in the information graph and the cybersecurity threat to an output device.
US11140177B2
An electronic device of a content producer generates a chunk of data, associates a location-independent name with the chunk of data, generates a signature for the chunk of data, attaches the signature to the chunk of data, and transmits the chunk of data, with the signature attached, to one or more user devices in response to respective requests. The signature is generated based on the data in the chunk, using a private key of the electronic device. The electronic device also stores information, including a specification of a public key associated with the private key, in a first ledger entry of a blockchain, to provide the one or more user devices with access to the public key. A user device may obtain the public key and use it to verify the chunk of data.
US11140168B2
To provide validation information to web publishers indicative of the presence of operational malicious software protection systems on user computing devices, an evaluation system resident on a web publisher server can cause web content, including validation request data, to be transmitted from the publisher server to a computing device. A submission system resident on the computing device can analyze the web content for the validation request data, and can cause the validation information to be transmitted from the computing device to the evaluation system based on the analysis. Upon receiving the validation information, the evaluation system can analyze it to determine the likelihood that content delivered to the computing device will be viewed by a real user (and not by automated computer programs).
US11140166B2
A method for multi-tenant authorization includes receiving, from a user account of a multi-tenant computer system, a request for a resource of the multi-tenant computer system. The method further includes determining whether the resource corresponds to a local resource that is local to the user account or to a nonlocal resource that is not local to the user account. The method further includes identifying, by a processing device, a local access control policy of the user account, corresponding to the local resource, or a visiting access control policy of the user account, corresponding to the nonlocal resource. The method further includes determining that the identified access control policy of the user account comprises an access permission corresponding to the resource. The method further includes controlling access to the resource of the multi-tenant computer system based on the access permission.
US11140163B2
Data processing systems and methods for authenticating users are disclosed. In one embodiment a data processing system for authenticating a user of a device comprises: a computer processor and a data storage device, the data storage device storing instructions operative by the processor to: determine authentication capabilities of the device, the authentication capabilities of the device comprising one or more authentication methods; determine a set of authentication options using the authentication capabilities of the device; send an indication of the set of authentication options to the device; receive an indication of a user selected authentication method from the device; generate an authentication data request corresponding to the user selected authentication method; send the authentication data request to the device; receive an authentication response from the device; and authenticate the user using the authentication response.
US11140159B2
One embodiment of the invention is directed to a computer-implemented method comprising, receiving a first request that includes a token associated with a first computing device to utilize a shared resource implemented by a federated network of computing devices. The method further comprises identifying that the first computing device is an unknown entity based in part on the token and one or more signature used to sign the token. The method further comprises transmitting, to a trust management system, a second request to authenticate the first computing device using the token. The method further comprises, receiving an authentication message that verifies the first computing device within an open trust network. The authentication message may be generated in response to the trust management system communicating with a plurality of registrar computers in the open trust network about the signatures associated with the token.
US11140154B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to token-based authentication mechanism. A user token device may receive a first token from an authentication platform. The user token device may store the first token in a personal token chain corresponding to a user. The user token device may receive a token request, where the token request comprises an indication of a source. The user token device may retrieve, from memory, one or more second tokens that are assigned to the source and transmit the one or more second tokens to the authentication platform. The authentication platform may authenticate the user based on the received one or more second tokens.
US11140147B2
Improving a security configuration may include receiving a request to assign a single sign-on configuration for a user profile, present a user interface comprising input fields for configuration characteristics, receiving an indication from the user interface that an administrator is requesting the assign the configuration characteristics, in response to receiving the indication, performing a test connection using the configuration profile, and in response to determining that the test connection succeeded, prompting the administrator to activate the single sign-on communication for the user profile.
US11140134B2
Verification system and methods are provided for allowing database server responses to be verified. A proxy device may maintain a data structure (e.g., a Merkle B+-tree) within a secure memory space (e.g., an Intel SGX enclave) associated with a protected application. In some embodiments, the data structure may comprise hashed values representing hashed versions of the data managed by the database server. The proxy may intercept client requests submitted from a client device and forward such requests to the database server. Responses from the database server may be verified using the data structure (e.g., the hashes contained in the Merkle B+-tree). If the data is verified by the proxy device, the response may be transmitted to the client device.
US11140126B2
A communication apparatus is connected to a communication line by using a dynamically-set global Internet-Protocol address and includes a detector and a transmitting unit. The detector detects a change in the global Internet-Protocol address. The transmitting unit transmits the changed global Internet-Protocol address to a mail server when the detector detects the change in the global Internet-Protocol address, so that the changed global Internet-Protocol address is registered in an Internet-Protocol-address limiting function of the mail server.
US11140107B2
Various messaging systems and methods are disclosed for meeting invitation management. In one aspect, a method of messaging is provided that includes generating a message to invite one or more invitees to a meeting. The message includes an assertion to suppress an auto-responder of the one or more invitees. The message is sent to the one or more invitees. The assertion suppresses the auto-responder of the one or more invitees.
US11140104B2
The invention relates to a method for communicating by means of messaging service messages between at least one sender (4) and at least one recipient (5, 6) via at least one messaging service (11, 12, 13, 15), wherein the messaging service (11, 12, 13, 15) is or will be communicatively connected with an integration platform (1) and a message is sent from the sender (4) by means of the messaging service (11, 12, 13) using a sender-specific sender messaging service identity and a recipient-specific sender messaging service identity to the integration platform (19[sic:1)], a stored sender-specific or recipient-specific platform identity is assigned in the integration platform (1) to the sender-specific sender messaging service identity and to the recipient-specific sender messaging service identity respectively, a recipient-specific recipient identity associated with the recipient specific platform identity is identified, and the message is passed from the integration platform to the recipient-specific recipient identity. The invention additionally relates to a system for carrying out the method according to the invention.
US11140102B1
Systems and methods for initiating communication between users of a user group based on machine learning techniques. The disclosed systems and methods provide a novel framework for automating communication scheduling and communication initiation based on user communication objectives and machine learning techniques. The disclosed framework operates by leveraging available user provided communication parameters, user provided objectives, and various real-time data associated with the users, and using the aforementioned data as inputs for machine learning models, in order to schedule communication between the users, automatically initiate communication between the users, or transmit communication notifications to the users.
US11140099B2
Systems and processes for providing response suggestions are provided. In one example process, a textual representation of a message is received. Based on the textual representation of the message, one or more response categories and a predetermined number of suggested inputs corresponding to each of the one of more response categories are obtained. Based on the predetermined number of suggested inputs corresponding to each of the one of more response categories, one or more suggested inputs for each of the one or more response categories are determined. The one or more suggested inputs are provided as response suggestions to the message.
US11140098B2
A network device includes a first network processor that forwards packets based on a first forwarding information table; a second network processor that forwards packets based on a second forwarding information table; a first group of ports operably connected to the first network processor; and a second group of ports operably connected to the second network processor. The first forwarding information table specifies that packets, received by the first network processor, that specify a destination device reachable by the first group of ports and the second group of ports are forwarded by a port of the first group of ports. The second forwarding information table specifies that packets, received by the second network processor, that specify the destination device reachable by the first group of ports and the second group of ports are forwarded by a port of the second group of ports.
US11140094B2
Systems and techniques are provided for a resource stabilization in a distributed network. A computing device in a distributed network may check the median value of a transactional resource in relation to a specified external resource. The computing device in the distributed network may compare the median value of the transactional resource to a threshold value for the transactional resource to determine whether the median value of the transactional resource is above the threshold value or below the threshold value. The supply of the transactional resource in the distributed network may be increased in response to determining that the transactional resource is above the threshold value or may be in response to determining that the transactional resource is below the threshold value.
US11140085B2
This application relates to the field of communications technologies, and discloses a service forwarding method and a network device that performs such method. The method includes: forwarding, by a first network device, a data packet of a first service to a second network device in a period (T1); and if the data volume of the forwarded first service reaches a threshold, forwarding, by the first network device, a data packet of a second service to the second network device. The first service is a low-latency service, and the second service is a non-low-latency service. In addition, the period (T1) is determined based on a delay allowed by a device for forwarding the data packet of the first service, and the threshold is a value determined based on a maximum transmission rate of the first service.
US11140082B2
This application provides a data transmission method. The method includes: calculating a first duration based on at least one to-be-sent data flow and a first time interval, where the first time interval is a preset value, and different data flows in the at least one to-be-sent data flow have different 5-tuples; and sending a first data flow, where the first data flow belongs to the at least one to-be-sent data flow; where a first set of packets of the first data flow are sent in a first time period, a second set of packets of the first data flow are sent in a second time period following a second time interval, a duration of the first time period and a duration of the second time period are equal to the first duration, and the second time interval is greater than or equal to the first time interval.
US11140078B1
Approaches, techniques, and mechanisms are disclosed for maintaining efficient representations of prefix tables for utilization by network switches and other devices. In an embodiment, the performance of a network device is greatly enhanced using a working representation of a prefix table that includes multiple stages of prefix entries. Higher-stage prefixes are stored in slotted pools. Mapping logic, such as a hash function, determines the slots in which a given higher-stage prefix may be stored. When trying to find a longest-matching higher-stage prefix for an input key, only the slots that map to that input key need be read. Higher-stage prefixes may further point to arrays of lower-stage prefixes. Hence, once a longest-matching higher-stage prefix is found for an input key, the longest prefix match in the table may be found simply by comparing the input key to lower-stage prefixes in the array that the longest-matching higher-stage prefix points to.
US11140071B2
A multipath data transmission method and device are provided, where a multipath proxy client and a multipath proxy gateway establish at least two multipath data subflows based on a first internet protocol (IP) address, and perform multipath data subflow data transmission. Based on the first IP address for establishing the at least two multipath data subflows between the multipath proxy client and the multipath proxy gateway, the multipath proxy gateway establishes a TCP connection to and performs TCP-based data transmission with an application server to be accessed by the multipath proxy client. MPTCP-based multipath data transmission based on IP address information of the multipath proxy client is implemented through proxy of the multipath proxy client and the multipath proxy gateway.
US11140064B2
A network device may receive, from client devices, route information for one or more sets of routes. The network device may provide, based on receiving the route information, a request for route distribution instructions, which may cause a server device to provide the network device with the route distribution instructions. The network device may process the route distribution instructions to identify the one or more subsets of the route information that are to be distributed amongst network devices that are configured with route reflection capabilities. The network device may provide, using route reflection capabilities, the one or more subsets of the route information to the network devices based on the route distribution instructions. The network devices may use the one or more subsets of the route information and route copy instructions to generate route copy information for the one or more subsets of route information.
US11140062B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user may select a cable modem (CM) at a graphical user interface (GUI) of a network device for testing. The network device may receive the indication of a selected query from GUI and transmit the selected query to the CM. The network device may receive a response message from the CM and compare the response message to an expected response message. The network device may generate a report indicating a status of the CM based on the comparing. The status of the CM may relate to a compliance of the CM to a standard. Additionally or alternatively, the status of the CM may indicate a performance level of the CM.
US11140061B1
Techniques are described that determine whether applications and/or services operating in a network environment adhere to risk reduction policies. An example system includes one or more processors, a first agent, a second agent, a third agent, and a compliance analyzer. The first agent analyzes source code in a source code repository associated with an application executing in a network environment according to a first set of policies. The second agent analyzes artifacts of deployed assets on a target deployment environment associated with the application according to a second set of policies. The third agent analyzes access logs to the application according to a third set of policies. The compliance analyzer determines a risk of the application based on the analysis by the first, second, and third agents.
US11140058B2
A method implemented by a network device to reduce bandwidth and compute resources needed by a controller of a software defined networking (SDN) network by distributing monitoring of nodes connected to data plane nodes (DPNs) in an SDN network. The method determines whether a received response message from a node indicates proper operation, inserts parameters of the received response message into a template for a stateful request message, and sends the stateful request message to the node.
US11140054B2
Facilitating measurements and radio link monitoring in a wireless communications system is provided herein. A method can comprise determining, by a network device of a communications network and comprising a processor, a first resource configuration related to first measurement resources of a first radio link between a mobile device and a first distributed unit of distributed units of the communications network. The method can also comprise determining, by the network device, a second resource configuration related to a second measurement resources of a second radio link between the mobile device and a second distributed unit of the distributed units. Further, the method can comprise facilitating, by the network device, a transmission of a report that comprises the first resource configuration and the second resource configuration.
US11140045B2
Technologies are described herein for changelog transformation and correlation in a multi-tenant cloud service. Components within the multi-tenant cloud service generate changelogs that describe changes made to hardware or software components within the multi-tenant cloud service. The changelogs are received and transformed from different schemas into a common schema. A central change management service (“CCMS”) exposes a network service application programming interface (“API”), or other type of interface, through which other network services can obtain the changelogs that have been transformed into the common schema. For example, services can obtain changelogs in order to correlate changes to anomalies or other events taking place in the multi-tenant cloud service, to identify upstream or downstream components that might be impacted by a change, to provide a user interface for viewing the changelogs, the correlation, or the potential impact of a change, and/or to perform other types of functions.
US11140041B2
An arrangement with operator servers and operator clients, wherein process image modules associated with process objects and having tags are stored in the operator servers, where the operator server functions as a local server and the other operator server functions as a remote server, the local server receives the tags stored in the remote servers, where each operator client registers with one of the operator servers to establish a client-server connection, and is also configured to display a system image with block symbols associated with the process objects, and where the local server transmits the process data of the local and the process data of the remote server to the registered operator client via the client-server connection in order to update the block symbols of the system image such that, within the scope of updating a system image, an operator is referred to the communication load between the operator servers.
US11140039B2
The present invention addresses the need for improved virtualized cloud infrastructure policy implementation and management in order allow real-time monitoring and optimization of virtualized resources. It provides systems and methods for real-time cloud infrastructure policy implementation and management that include a plurality of host devices, a plurality of real-time probe agents associated with the plurality of host devices operating on each of the plurality of host devices, and a policy engine communicatively coupled to the plurality of host devices and containing a policy associated with an application program deployed in at least one of the plurality of host devices. The policy engine is programmed to monitor in real time changes in deployment of the application program across the plurality of host devices and to push the policy to the real-time probe agent operating on each host device on which the application program is deployed.
US11140038B2
Systems and methods for managing network devices include performing clustering operations for network devices based on attributes of the network devices. By comparing the results of subsequent clustering operations, changes in network device attributes can be readily identified and any network devices for which attributes have changed may be subject to further investigation or remedial action (e.g., blocking traffic to/from the network device). Clustering may also be used to conduct an inventory of network devices by identifying groups of network devices that have similar attributes.
US11140036B2
Methods and systems for identifying groups of related nodes in an integration flow are disclosed. A method includes: receiving, by a computing device, an integration flow document including information indicative of: (i) a plurality of nodes, with each node representing a processing step in an integration flow, (ii) a plurality of input parameters, and (iii) a plurality of input sources; determining, by the computing device, a plurality of mappings, with each mapping representing an association between an input parameter and an input source; determining, by the computing device, a plurality of grouped nodes of the plurality of nodes based upon the plurality of mappings; receiving, by the computing device, a request to perform a first operation on a first target node of the plurality of nodes; determining, by the computing device, that the first target node is included in the plurality of grouped nodes; and in response to determining that the first target node is included in the plurality of grouped nodes, performing, by the computing device, the first operation on each grouped node of the plurality of grouped nodes.
US11140032B2
Embodiments provide a system and method for building idempotent configuration management modules for cloud infrastructure services. Idempotency of a configuration management (CM) task in a CM plan is one of the mechanisms used to achieve repeatable and reliable automations of configuration management tasks. This helps DevOps and operations personnel reliably apply and maintain configuration of their systems.
US11140030B2
Virtual machines, virtualization servers, and other physical resources in a cloud computing environment may be dynamically configured based on the resource usage data for the virtual machines and resource capacity data for the physical resources in the cloud system. Based on an analysis of the virtual machine resource usage data and the resource capacity data of the virtualization servers and other physical resources in the cloud computing environment, each virtual machine may be matched to one of a plurality of virtualization servers, and the resources of the virtualization servers and other physical resources in the cloud may be reallocated and reconfigured to provide additional usage capacity to the virtual machines.
US11140011B2
In embodiments of the presently described subject matter, two efficient PAPR reduction methods for OFDM signals based upon the principle of tone reservation and building upon the clipping noise analysis presented in “Analysis of clipping noise and tone reservation algorithms for peak reduction in OFDM systems,” L. Wang and C. Tellambura, IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., vol. 57, pp. 1675-1694, May 2008 are provided, each comprising two stages. The first stage is performed offline to prepare a set of cancellation signals based on the settings of the OFDM system. In particular, these cancellation signals are constructed to cancel signals at different levels of maximum instantaneous power that are above a predefined threshold. The second stage is performed online and in an iterative manner to reduce the peaks of OFDM symbols by using the cancellation signals constructed in the first stage.
US11140010B2
A power transmitter includes: a first switch coupled between a first node and a reference voltage node; a second switch configured to be coupled between a power supply and the first node; a coil and a capacitor coupled in series between the first node and the reference voltage node; a first sample-and-hold (S&H) circuit having an input coupled to the first node; and a timing control circuit configured to generate a first control signal, a second control signal, and a third control signal that have a same frequency, where the first control signal is configured to turn ON and OFF the first switch alternately, the second control signal is configured to turn ON and OFF the second switch alternately, and where the third control signal determines a sampling time of the first S&H circuit and has a first pre-determined delay from a first edge of the first control signal.
US11140005B2
A communication system includes a master node and a slave node connected to the master node via a bus. The master node transmits a header including identification information assigned to a designated function in accordance with a schedule preset individually for the designated function. The slave node has a plurality of functions for each of which a response different from each other is transmitted. The slave node returns the response related to the designated function upon receipt of the header when the designated function assigned with the identification information included in the header is one of the plurality of functions of the slave node.
US11139997B2
Embodiments of the invention provide a system for adapting a pool pump for wireless communication. In some embodiments, a system for adapting a pool pump with a serial communication port for communication with a user via a remote server, an internet connection, and internet enabled device is provided, the system comprising: a wireless gateway device connected to a router; and a wireless adapter connected to the serial communication port, comprising: a gateway node; a transceiver; and a processor programmed to: establish a wireless connection with the wireless gateway; receive a first message from the pool pump; cause the gateway node to modify the first message; cause the first modified message to be transmitted to the remote server via the wireless gateway; receive a second message from the remote server; modify the second message for output to the pool pump; and transmit the second modified message to the pool pump.
US11139991B2
Various approaches for coordinating edge computing transactions are described, based on the generation and verification of fine-grained timestamp values among distributed computing entities in an edge computing system. In an edge computing system, an edge computing device performs operations to obtain transaction data, a timestamp, and a timestamp signature for a transaction, with the timestamp generated from a secure (and attestable) timestamp procedure that is coordinated with another entity (including via a network-coordinated timestamp synchronization). This timestamp is verified by the device based on the timestamp signature and the transaction data for the transaction, and the transaction is conducted (e.g., using a value of the timestamp) at the device or elsewhere in the system based on successful verification. In further examples, the coordinated timestamp enables multi-version concurrency control (MVCC) database transactions, verification of blockchain transactions, or other uses and verifications of timestamp values.
US11139978B2
A distributed data storage layer supports biometric identification systems. The biometric identity system includes hardware and software improvements for capturing, retrieving, and verifying identity based on securely stored biometric data in the distributed data storage layer. As a result, the biometric identity system provides increased individual security and reliable identification.
US11139977B2
A Proof of View verification system is disclosed. The Proof of View verification system has a Proof of View verification module, comprising computer-executable code stored in non-volatile memory, and a processor. The Proof of View verification module and the processor are configured to receive a request for a content view to view a piece of content, record a content view data in a database chunk, hash the database chunk into a hashed database chunk, append the hashed database chunk to a block on a blockchain of the Proof of View verification system, and compare the content view data with the block on the blockchain. The blockchain is publicly available.
US11139976B2
This patent describes a platform built on Blockchain/Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) utilizing validated Self-Sovereign Identity. Identity information stored securely on a mobile device and information usable by the requestor to verify the identity and the identity presenter are delivered at the request of the identity owner. The patent claims describe the use, sharing and verification of personal and financial identity data with the identity owner's permission. The Identity owner retain complete control over distribution of their information. Technologies derived from this patent will protect technology users from theft of physical credentials that represent identity. The patent claims describe verification of identity information stored on a smart device in mobile credential form, and also verification that the presenter of the identity is the person to whom those credentials belong. Evidence of identity authentication stored using DLT ensures the authenticity of both identity and validations in a manner resistant to digital tampering.
US11139974B2
A control apparatus includes a first interface for communicating with a first device over a local area network and a second interface for communicating with a second device over a wide area network. A processor is configured to perform an authentication operation on first device after connection to the first interface. The processor receives a first data transmission addressed to the second device from the first device, and then controls the second interface to permit the first data transmission to be transmitted to the second device over the wide area network when the first device has been authenticated. The second interface is controlled to prevent the first data transmission from being transmitted to the second device when the first device has not been authenticated.
US11139972B2
The blockchain generation apparatus 1 includes: a parameter calculator 122 that identifies a parameter type to be used for linkage of the new block, based on block approval method data 114, and calculates a value for the identified parameter type based on transaction datasets which are related to an identifier of a generating party; a block generation condition checker 125 that determines whether the generating party is qualified to generate the new blockchain data, based on the value calculated by the parameter calculator 122; and a blockchain generator 126 that tries to generate the new blockchain by referring to the shared data when the block generation condition checker 125 determines that the generating party is qualified. An identifier of the blend pattern included in the block approval method data 114 specifies a combination of the plurality of parameter types that conflict with each other.
US11139968B2
As disclosed herein a computer system for secure database backup and recovery in a secure database network has N distributed data nodes. The computer system includes program instructions that include instructions to receive a database backup file, fragment the file using a fragment engine, and associate each fragment with one node, where the fragment is not stored on the associated node. The program instructions further include instructions to encrypt each fragment using a first encryption key, and store, randomly, encrypted fragments on the distributed data nodes. The program instructions further include instructions to retrieve the encrypted fragments, decrypt the encrypted fragments using the first encryption key, re-encrypt the decrypted fragments using a different encryption key, and store, randomly, the re-encrypted fragments on the distributed data nodes. A computer program product and method corresponding to the above computer system are also disclosed herein.
US11139961B2
Techniques regarding privacy preservation in a federated learning environment are provided. For example, one or more embodiments described herein can comprise a system, which can comprise a memory that can store computer executable components. The system can also comprise a processor, operably coupled to the memory, and that can execute the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can comprise a plurality of machine learning components that can execute a machine learning algorithm to generate a plurality of model parameters. The computer executable components can also comprise an aggregator component that can synthesize a machine learning model based on an aggregate of the plurality of model parameters. The aggregator component can communicate with the plurality of machine learning components via a data privacy scheme that comprises a privacy process and a homomorphic encryption process in a federated learning environment.
US11139949B2
A system for controlling equalization applied to a received signal comprising an equalizer configured to equalize on a received signal to generate an equalized signal, and a clock recovery module configured to recover a clock signal from the equalized signal or the received signal. A clock adjustment system is configured to receive the clock signal, and at least one control signal, to create a sampling clock signal. A filter is configured to filter the equalized signal to create a filtered signal. A sampling unit samples the filtered signal or the equalized signal such that the output of the sampling unit is provided to a controller. The controller is configured to receive and process the output of the sampling unit to generate a boost signal, and the controller is further configured to provide the boost signal to the equalizer to control the amount of equalization performed by the equalizer.
US11139947B2
A method for the time-synchronized processing of data of a field device of process automation, in which the data and/or data changes are saved together with an internal time stamp of an internal timer of the field device in a memory of the field device; during the reading process of the data from the field device, a path difference being detected of the internal timer of the field device and a timer of the control unit by which the data is read, the internal time stamps are corrected by the path difference, and are saved as corrected time stamps together with the data.
US11139942B2
A user terminal communicates by using a plurality of cells, including at least a given cell to use a first TTI and a second TTI having a shorter TTI length than the first TTI, and this user terminal has a receiving section that receives, in the given cell, first downlink control information that is transmitted by using the first TTI and/or second downlink control information that is transmitted by using the second TTI, and a control section that controls receipt of a downlink shared channel that is transmitted in another cell and/or transmission of an uplink shared channel, based on the first downlink control information and/or the second downlink control information.
US11139941B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to a scheduled entity that obtains a resource allocation for transmission of an acknowledgment (ACK)/negative acknowledgment (NACK) payload using implicit resource mapping based on at least one of a scrambling identifier or one of a plurality of control resource sets (CORESETs) and transmits the ACK/NACK payload based on the obtained resource allocation. In an aspect, a scheduled entity obtains a resource allocation for transmitting different types of uplink control information (UCI), wherein the resource allocation is based on a combination of the different types of UCI and transmits the different types of UCI based on the obtained resource allocation. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described.
US11139938B2
The present invention is designed to achieve the advantages of dynamic subframe utilization even when frequency division duplex (FDD) is used in future radio communication systems. According to the present invention, a user terminal has a receiving section that receives a downlink (DL) signal, a transmission section that transmits an uplink (UL) signal, and a control section that controls the receipt of the DL signal and/or the transmission of the UL signal in frequency division duplex (FDD), which use different frequencies, to the same timing as the receipt of the DL signal and/or the transmission of the UL signal in time division duplex (TDD), which use the same frequency.
US11139923B2
A transmit radio node is configured to transmit one or more code blocks, CBs, of a transport block to a receive radio node. The transmit radio node is also configured to receive feedback from the receive radio node that positively or negatively acknowledges each of one or more first code block groups, CBGs, into which the one or more transmitted CBs are allocated according to a first CB-to-CBG allocation. The transmit radio node is further configured to re-transmit to the receive radio node any CBs that the first CB-to-CBG allocation allocates to one or more first CBGs which the feedback negatively acknowledged. Moreover, the transmit radio node is configured to receive feedback from the receive radio node that positively or negatively acknowledges each of one or more second CBGs into which the re-transmitted CBs are allocated according to a second CB-to-CBG allocation. The first and second CB-to-CBG allocations are different.
US11139921B2
A method is provided in a receiving node for handling status information of data units transmitted from a sending node to the receiving node over a radio link. The receiving node establishes that a number of data units that has been transmitted by the sending node are missing. The receiving node sends a reduced status message to the sending node over the radio link, which message is reduced such that it comprises the negative acknowledgement for a first part of missing data units and omits negative acknowledgements for the rest of the missing data units. The omitted negative acknowledgement for the rest of the missing data units will not erroneously be interpreted as correctly received data units by the sending node.
US11139915B2
The application relates to the adaption of the length of the cyclic redundancy check (CRC) code in the context of 3GPP NR. In 3GPP NR, the length of the uplink and downlink control information (UCI, DCI) significantly varies. Therefore, it is necessary to select a CRC code of appropriate size or length. Accordingly, a method (200) for use in a wireless transmitter comprises: determining an amount of data to transmit (212), determining a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) polynomial length based on the amount of data to transmit (214); encoding the data using a CRC of the determined polynomial length (216); and transmitting the encoded data (216). The data to transmit may not only comprise control channel data but also user data and may be encoded with a Polar code or a low-density parity check (LDPC) code.
US11139909B2
According to certain embodiments, a user equipment (UE) (110), comprises an interface (710) configured to receive one or more symbols at the start of a first transmission time interval (TTI) of a channel. The UE further comprises processing circuitry (720) operably coupled to the interface (710). The processing circuitry (720) configured to obtain a signal quality estimate based on at least one of the one or more symbols; compare the signal quality estimate to a signal quality threshold; and determine, based on the comparison, whether to process the channel in the first TTI.
US11139908B2
The invention discloses a beam domain optical wireless communication method and system. A base station is equipped with an array of optical transceiver ports or transmitter/receiver ports and a lens, each optical transceiver port forms a beam with centralized energy through the lens, and the base station generates beams in different directions by using the optical transceiver port array and the lens, thereby realizing multi-beam coverage or large-scale beam coverage in a communication region. The base station transmits/receives signals of multiple or a large number of user terminals by using channel state information of each user terminal, and different optical transceiver ports transmit/receive signals in different directions, thereby realizing simultaneous communication and bidirectional communication between the base station and different user terminals.
US11139902B2
An outdoor satellite receiving unit (ODU) receives several independent satellite signals, selects two signals with a switch matrix, downconverts the two signals to a bandstacked signal with a high and a low band signal, and outputs the bandstacked signal on the same cable to receiver units. Several satellite signals can be selected in groups of two or more and output to independent receiver units. Signal selecting is performed at the received radio frequency (RF) and bandstacking is performed with a single downconversion step to an intermediate frequency (IF). Channel stacking on the same cable of more than two channels from several satellites can be achieved by using frequency agile downconverters and bandpass filters prior to combining at the IF output. A slow transitioning switch minimizes signal disturbances when switching and maintains input impedance at a constant value.
US11139885B2
The invention concerns a network creation process for the provision of internet and/or television type data signals across the complete land surface, Linking through a digital wireless link at least one aircraft (300) with the earth station (200) on one hand, and on the other hand, with at least one means of emission and receipt, whether fixed or borne by at least one user (400), moving to an altitude lower than or equal to ten kilometers above the global land surface, and being equipped with one or several payloads powered by the energy of the aircraft (300) in such a way as to use emission and receipt relays for the provision of at least one type of signal on the global land surface. The said process is remarkable in that the power of signals (radiation) emitted by the payload is modulated to vary according to the altitude of the aircraft (300) and can thus vary from 0% on earth to 100% during cruising. The invention also concerns the payload and the aircraft that enable implementing the said process.
US11139873B2
There is provided mechanisms for beam width adjustment. A method is performed by a radio transceiver device. The method comprises communicating, using a current beam, with another radio transceiver device. The method comprises obtaining a signal strength indicator and a transmission rank of the current beam. The method comprises determining an adjustment indicator for adjusting beam width of the current beam for continued communications with said another radio transceiver device. The adjustment indicator is based on the signal strength indicator and the 0 transmission rank. The method comprises initiating adjustment of the beam width according to the adjustment indicator.
US11139872B2
A network node signals to a wireless communication device which precoders in a codebook are restricted from being used. The network node in this regard generates codebook subset restriction signaling that, for each of one or more groups of precoders, jointly restricts the precoders in the group by restricting a certain component (e.g., a certain beam precoder) that the precoders in the group have in common. This signaling may be for instance rank-agnostic signaling that jointly restricts the precoders in a group without regard to the precoders' transmission rank. Regardless, the network node sends the generated signaling to the wireless communication device.
US11139868B2
The disclosure presents a method and system for enabling the monitoring of more than one propagation link (PL) between two transceivers, such as a fifth-generation (5G) broadband cellular base station (gNB) and user equipment (UE). The PL can represent a radiation pattern emitted by a MIMO antenna port. The monitoring can capture and record PL quality parameters and associate them to a PL index (PLI). The process can periodically cycle through the set of available PLs and select a best fit PLI configuration. The best fit PLI can be one that satisfies a link quality threshold and PL efficiency thresholds. The selected PLI can be communicated to both transceivers using parameter containers added to conventional control signals. Data messages communicated between the transceivers can utilize the selected best fit PLI configuration.
US11139865B2
A method is provided for localizing a plurality of wireless terminal devices of a communication network, wherein the method comprises: providing reception signals (s; s_AP1, s_AP2, s_AP3) which respectively comprise superposed radio signals which were wirelessly received by a respective one of a plurality of receivers which are arranged spatially separated from one another, wherein the plurality of superposed radio signals originates from different ones of the wireless terminal devices; reconstructing the radio signals in the form of reconstructed radio signals (rs; rs1, rs2), as a function of the respective reception signal (s; s_AP1, s_AP2, s_AP3); and estimating the spatial positions (pos; pos_UE1, pos_UE2) of the wireless terminal devices as a function of the reconstructed radio signals (rs; rs1, rs2).
US11139864B2
There is provided mechanisms for transmission of reference signals. A method is performed by a terminal device. The terminal device comprises at least two physical antenna ports. The method comprises creating a virtual antenna port for, and applied over, at least two of the physical antenna ports. The method comprises transmitting, in the virtual antenna port, as many uplink reference signals as there are physical antenna ports.
US11139845B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for wireless communication are described. Input data for in-phase branch/quadrature branch (I/Q) imbalance or mismatch may be compensated for or non-linear power amplifier noise may be used to generate compensated input data. In some examples, a transmitter may be configured to transmit communications signaling via a first antenna, the transmitter including a filter configured for digital mismatch correction; a receiver may be configured to receive communications signaling via a second antenna; and a switch may be configured to selectively activate a first switch path to couple the transmitter and the first antenna and a second switch path to couple the receiver and the transmitter to provide communications signaling received via the transmitter as feedback for the filter through the receiver.
US11139842B2
A method and related apparatus for outputting an analog signal are disclosed. A plurality of transmit levels corresponding to respective predetermined equalization levels is provided. A stream of digital signals carrying data is provided. A transmit level from among the plurality of transmit levels based on the digital signals carrying data is selected. The selected transmit level is received, the selected transmit level is converted to an analog signal of the selected transmit level, and the analog signal of the selected transmit level is output over a signal interface.
US11139841B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as long-term evolution (LTE). According to various embodiments of the present disclosure, an apparatus of a transmitter in a wireless communication system may include an oscillating circuit for providing an oscillating signal, and a radio frequency (RF) circuit for converting a frequency of a transmit signal using the oscillating signal, and transmitting the transmit signal. The oscillating circuit may generate a base oscillating signal of a differential signal form, by multiplying a first signal and a second signal which constitute the different signal, generate a first signal set from the first signal and a second signal set from the second signal, and generate a signal in which at least one harmonic component adjacent to an intended frequency component is suppressed using the first signal set and the second signal set.
US11139839B1
The disclosed structures and methods are directed to polar code decoders and methods for polar code decoding. A polar code decoder comprises an input logarithmic likelihood ratio (LLR) distributor, a master polar decoder module (PDM), at least one slave PDM, an intermediate LLR result combiner, and a decoded bit aggregator configured to generate a decoded codeword bit sequence. For each codeword node, each PDM partially decodes one or more sets of LLR subsets, which are sent to the intermediate LLR result combiner to generate an intermediate LLR result sequence. A first node decoding pipeline of the master PDM is configured to decode an intermediate LLR result sequence to generate at least one decoded node bit sequence. A polar code decoder with slave PDMs each having a second node decoding pipeline is also disclosed. A method for polar code decoding is also disclosed.
US11139833B2
Systems, devices, and methods are presented that allow a data channel to adaptively vary a change in a reference voltage used to read data from a solid state memory. The change in the reference voltage may be determined based on a measured error statistic of the solid state memory. A hard decision low density parity check (HLDPC) decoder may be utilized in conjunction with a soft decision low density parity check (SLDPC).
US11139832B1
An operating method of a low density parity check (LDPC) decoder, the operating method includes: initially updating codewords to variable nodes; determining an update order in which a plurality of variable node groups are updated, which is determined based on reliability of each of the variable node groups; executing local iterations including update of check nodes associated with a select variable node group among the variable node groups and update of the select variable node group based on the updated check nodes until all the variable node groups are updated based on the update order; performing syndrome check to determine whether LDPC decoding is successful, based on an operation of the updated variable nodes and a parity check matrix.
US11139829B1
Partition information associated with partition(s) in a sliding window and an uncompressed value associated with a repeated sequence in the sliding window are received. A compressed value is generated using the uncompressed value, including by: generating the set indicator based at least in part on the partition information and the uncompressed value; determining, based at least in part on the partition information and the uncompressed value, whether the uncompressed value includes an extraneous bit; and generating the intra-set information, including by: in the event it is determined that the uncompressed value includes the extraneous bit, excluding the extraneous bit in the uncompressed value from the intra-set information. The compressed value is output.
US11139828B2
Methods and systems for encoding of integers are discussed. For example, various methods and systems may utilize Huffman coding, Tunstall coding, Arithmetic Coding, LZ77 coding, LZ78 coding, LW coding, or Shannon Fano Elias coding to encode the integers.
US11139816B2
A clock and data recovery circuit is disclosed. The clock and data recovery circuit includes a phase detection circuit, a first voting circuit, a low-pass filtering circuit and a phase interpolation circuit. The phase detection circuit is configured to receive a first signal and a clock signal and generate a phase signal. The first voting circuit is configured to charge at least one capacitance component according to the phase signal and generate a first voting signal according to a charging result. The low-pass filtering circuit is configured to generate a phase control signal according to the first voting signal. The phase interpolation circuit is configured to generate the clock signal according to the phase control signal.
US11139813B1
An RF switch includes serially coupled RF cells coupled between a first switch node and a second switch node, wherein each of the serially coupled RF cells include at least one transistor; and a varactor circuit coupled to at least one node of a transistor in an RF cell, and coupled between the RF cell and an adjacent RF cell, wherein the varactor circuit is configured for equalizing a voltage of the RF cell and a voltage of the adjacent RF cell during an off mode of the RF switch.
US11139805B1
A two-way adaptive clock circuit supporting a wide frequency range is composed of a phase clock generating module, a phase clock selecting module, an adaptive clock stretching or compressing amount regulating circuit module and a control module. The adaptive clock stretching or compressing amount regulating circuit module can monitor delay information of a critical path in a chip in real time and feed the information back into the control module. After receiving a clock stretching or compressing enable signal and a stretching or compressing scale signal, the control module selects a target phase clock from clocks generated by the phase clock generating module to rapidly regulate an adaptive clock in a current cycle. The present invention is applied to an adaptive voltage frequency regulating circuit based on on-line time sequence monitoring.
US11139804B2
A circuit includes a flip-flop included in a multi-stage shift register and a control element. The flip-flop includes an output field-effect transistor, a first field-effect transistor configured to operate to supply one of a high potential and a low potential to the gate of the output field-effect transistor, and a second field-effect transistor configured to operate to supply the other one of the high potential and the low potential to the gate of the output field-effect transistor. The control element is configured to operate to make an electric current flow between the gate and a power supply in the opposite direction of an off-leakage current from at least either one of the first field-effect transistor and the second field-effect transistor in a period where the first field-effect transistor and the second field-effect transistor are off.
US11139803B1
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for implementing low-power flip-flops with balanced clock-to-Q delay are described. A flip-flop includes a primary latch, an upper secondary latch, and a lower secondary latch. The primary latch transmits a data value from an input port to a first node when transparent. The upper secondary latch pulls up a second node when transparent and when the first node is equal to a first value. The second node is a prebuffered data output of the flip-flop. The lower secondary latch pulls down the second node when transparent and when the first node is equal to a second value different from the first value. To ensure the flip-flop has a balanced clock-to-Q delay, a first set of clock signals coupled to transistor gates of the primary latch are delayed with respect to a second set of clock signals coupled to transistor gates of the upper secondary latch.
US11139796B2
A crystal vibration element that includes a crystal piece that has a prescribed crystal orientation, and a first direction and a second direction in a plan view thereof; and excitation electrodes that are respectively provided on front and rear surfaces of the crystal piece in order to excite a thickness shear vibration in the crystal piece upon application of an alternating electric field. A vibration distribution of the crystal piece has a vibration region that extends in a band-like shape in the second direction of the crystal piece and non-vibration regions that are adjacent to opposed sides of the vibration region in the first direction of the crystal piece.
US11139795B2
An electronic component includes a piezoelectric substrate, a first functional element, a first wiring, insulating films, a first conductive film, and a first external connection terminal. The first functional element is disposed on the piezoelectric substrate. The first wiring is disposed on the piezoelectric substrate, and is electrically connected to the first functional element. The insulating films are disposed on the piezoelectric substrate, and define a first hollow portion in which the first functional element is included. The first conductive film is disposed on the insulating films, and has a portion that passes through the insulating films and is electrically connected to the first wiring. The first external connection terminal is provided on the first conductive film, and is disposed at a position overlapping at least a portion of the first functional element in a plan view as viewed in the thickness direction of the piezoelectric substrate.
US11139791B2
An integrated circuit device is provided. In some examples, the integrated circuit device includes an amplifier stage that receives an input signal and a control signal and provides an amplified signal in response. A main path is coupled to the amplifier stage that receives the amplified signal and provides a first feedback signal corresponding to a signal strength of a data-bearing portion of the input signal. A control path also receives the amplified signal and provides a second feedback signal corresponding to a signal strength of the data-bearing portion and an interference component. A gain control circuit is coupled to the main path and the control path that receives the first and second feedback signals and provides the control signal in response to the feedback signals. In some such examples, the control path and main path include separate mixer stages with different performance characteristics.
US11139788B2
A measuring current generation circuit coupled to a setting resistor is disclosed. The generation circuit includes a first measuring terminal, a second measuring terminal, a first transconductance amplifier, a second transconductance amplifier and an output circuit. The first transconductance amplifier has a first input terminal and a second input terminal. The first input terminal is coupled to one terminal of the setting resistor. The second input terminal is coupled to another terminal of the setting resistor and coupled to the first measuring terminal. The second transconductance amplifier has a third input terminal and a fourth input terminal. The output circuit is coupled to output terminals of the first transconductance amplifier and the second transconductance amplifier respectively and has a first output terminal and a second output terminal. The first output terminal is coupled to the first input terminal. The second output terminal is coupled to the second measuring terminal.
US11139785B2
An LNA circuit includes: paths provided between an input and an output terminals, an LNA provided in at least one path, and a selector selecting one path. The LNA includes: a MOS transistor coupled between a first and a second power supplies, a first inductor coupled to a source of the MOS transistor, a capacitor formed between a gate and the source of the MOS transistor, a second inductor coupled between the gate of the MOS transistor and the input terminal, and a changeover switch coupled parallelly with at least one of the capacitor, and the first and the second inductors. The selector switches between a first state that one path is selected and the changeover switch is on, and a second state that another path is selected and the changeover switch is off. Alternatively, the one path and the another path are respectively provided without and with the LNA.
US11139784B2
An example audio play circuit includes a power supply module, a power amplifier, a coupling capacitor, a load, and a plosive suppression circuit. An output terminal of the power amplifier is connected to a first terminal of the coupling capacitor and an output terminal of the plosive suppression circuit, a second terminal of the coupling capacitor is connected to the load, and an output terminal of the power supply module is connected to a power supply terminal of the power amplifier and a power supply terminal of the plosive suppression circuit. The power supply module is configured to provide a direct current power supply voltage for the power amplifier and the plosive suppression circuit. When the direct current power supply voltage rises to the first voltage threshold, the plosive suppression circuit connects the first terminal of the coupling capacitor to the ground terminal.
US11139776B2
A photovoltaic panel having a photovoltaic module supported by a distributed support frame is described. The distributed support frame may include a support member extending over a back surface of the photovoltaic module. For example, one or more support members may extend laterally from a support hub mounted on the back surface. The distributed support frame may reduce a span length of the photovoltaic module between support locations, and thus, may reduce a likelihood that a module laminate will crack under a design load.
US11139774B2
A roof mounting system for the attachment of an article to a roof, the system comprising a plurality of PV modules each having at least one corner and a frame member, a flashing member having a top surface; an upstanding sleeve attached to the top surface of the flashing member; an elevated water seal having a borehole formed therethrough, the elevated water seal further comprising at least one screw for providing a waterproof seal between the article and the roof structure; and whereby the plurality of PV modules are interlocked in a way to provide a corner-to-corner coupling arrangement supported above the roof through the frame members of the plurality of PV modules.
US11139772B2
Actuator apparatus for generating a physical effect, at least one attribute of which corresponds to at least one characteristic of a digital input signal sampled periodically in accordance with a sampling clock, the apparatus comprising at least one actuator device, each actuator device including an array of moving elements, wherein each individual moving element is operative to be constrained to travel alternately back and forth along a respective axis responsive to an individual first electrostatic force operative thereupon, wherein each moving element has an at-rest position and is driven away from its at rest position solely by the first electrostatic force; and at least one electrode operative to apply a controlled temporal sequence of potential differences with at least one individual moving element from among the array of moving elements thereby to selectably generate the first electrostatic force; and a controller operative to receive the digital input signal and to control at least one of the at least one electrode and the individual moving element to apply the sequence of potential differences.
US11139770B2
A gate driving circuit applied to motor inverter includes first power switch circuit, first and second bootstrap fast charging circuits, and first, second and third capacitors. The first power switch circuit includes first and second power switches. The first bootstrap fast charging circuit is electrically connected to the first power switch. The second bootstrap fast charging circuit is electrically connected to the second power switch. The first capacitor is electrically connected to the first power switch. The second capacitor is electrically connected to the first bootstrap fast charging circuit and first insulated switch. The third capacitor is electrically connected to the second bootstrap fast charging circuit and second insulated switch. When the first power switch is disabled and the second power switch is enabled, an independent power supply enables the second bootstrap fast charging circuit to charge the third capacitor to enable the second insulated switch.
US11139747B2
A busbar power supply apparatus comprising at a rear side of its housing an AC interface with electrical contacts configured to establish an electrical connection with AC busbars of a busbar system to receive AC mains voltages converted by an integrated AC/DC power conversion unit into a DC power supply voltage applied to at least one DC interface of said busbar power supply apparatus.
US11139743B2
An AC-DC converter with synchronous rectifier (SR) architecture and method for operating the same are described. Generally, a secondary side integrated circuit (IC) controller of the AC-DC converter includes a SR-SNS pin, a VBUS_IN pin, a first voltage-to-current converter, a sample-and-hold (S/H) circuit, a second voltage-to-current converter, and a signal generation circuit. The first voltage-to-current converter is coupled to remove a component of the output bus voltage sensed on the VBUS_IN pin from the voltage sensed on the SR-SNS pin. The S/H circuit is coupled to sample the voltage sensed on the SR-SNS pin and to provide a sampled voltage. The second voltage-to-current converter is coupled to convert the sampled voltage to a feed-forward current. The signal generation circuit is coupled to receive the feed-forward current and to generate feed-forward signals used to control operation of a primary side of the AC-DC converter.
US11139741B2
Power converters are provided. A capacitor is coupled to a primary winding of a transformer forming part of an LC resonator. The capacitor is coupled with a supply voltage input (Vcc) of a controller to supply at least part of the controller with power.
US11139728B2
A rail maintenance vehicle includes a frame, a workhead, and a vibrating unit. The frame includes wheels that travel along rails. The vibrating unit is coupled to the workhead and includes a rotor, a stator, a first rotor coil coupled to the rotor and a first stator coil coupled to the stator.
US11139707B2
An electric machine has a stator having an array of electromagnetic elements. A rotor is mounted on bearings and has an array of rotor posts. The rotor posts each have a length defining opposed ends and the array of rotor posts extends along the rotor in a direction perpendicular to the length of each of the rotor posts. The rotor has electromagnetic elements defining magnetic poles placed between the plurality of rotor posts. An airgap is formed between the rotor and the stator when they are in an operational position. A plurality of rotor flux restrictors are formed on the rotor, and each lies adjacent to one of the opposed ends of the rotor posts.
US11139706B2
An electric motor and a rotor thereof are provided. The rotor includes a shaft and at least one rotating body fixed to the shaft. The rotating body includes a rotor core and a plurality of permanent magnets. An outer periphery of the rotor core has a plurality of spaced slots, each of which extends along an axial direction of the rotor. The rotating body further includes a plurality of axial arms molded to the corresponding slots and configured to fix the permanent magnets. Every two adjacent axial arms form an accommodation therebetween, and each permanent magnet is fixed to a corresponding accommodation.
US11139701B2
Embodiments relating to systems, methods, and devices for wireless charging are disclosed. In some embodiments, methods for establishing a communication link between a power transmitting unit (PTU) and a power receiving unit (PRU) through a low energy wireless communication interface are described.
US11139699B2
A wireless power transmitting system includes a power amplifier comprising a plurality of measurement points and a power amplifier controller integrated circuit (IC). In some embodiments, the power amplifier controller IC performs synchronization of the various components of the power amplifier, conducts impedance and temperature measurements at the measurements points, determines if a foreign object is within the transmission range of the wireless power transmitter, and decides if a shutdown of the power amplifier is needed. In some embodiments, the power amplifier controller IC determines through a transmitter controller IC, the presence of a foreign object within the transmission range and adjusts the power transmission to one or more receivers.
US11139687B2
An electronic device according to various embodiments of the present invention comprises: a housing including a first surface; a coil located close to the first surface within the housing and having conductivity; a battery located within the housing and being rechargeable; a first circuit located within the housing and providing, via the coil, power received wirelessly from the outside of the housing to a power management circuit; a second circuit located within the housing and providing wirelessly, via the coil, power of the battery to the outside of the housing; and a third circuit configured to establish selectively a first electrical connection between the first circuit and a first feed point of the coil or a second electrical connection between the second circuit and a second feed point of the coil, wherein the first feed point and the second feed point may be different. Other various embodiments are possible.
US11139682B2
A control device of a power supply system is configured to control inputting of electric power from a power system connected to a power distribution device to a plurality of strings connected to the power distribution device and outputting of electric power from the plurality of strings to the power system and to execute a process of stopping control for switching the at least one switching element between connection and disconnection on a string in which inputting of electric power and outputting of electric power are stopped out of the plurality of strings.
US11139678B1
A power supply system for automatic transfer switch applications comprises two first switch apparatuses, two second switch apparatuses, and a control unit. Each first switch apparatus comprises a first relay switch and a first switch assembly. The first switch assembly comprises a first bypass switch, a first semi-controllable switch, and a first fully-controllable switch. Each second switch apparatus comprises a second relay switch and a second switch assembly. The second switch assembly comprises a second bypass switch, a second semi-controllable switch, and a second fully-controllable switch. The control unit controls the two first switch apparatuses and the two switch apparatuses to uninterruptedly supply power to a load.
US11139677B1
Unsafe restoration of normal lighting is prevented using a reset control communicating with an emergency condition detector and emergency lighting controller in a lighting system. The reset control can be integrated into other system components, like the emergency condition detector, or retrofit into an existing lighting system and configured to work with different types of emergency condition detectors and lighting controllers.
US11139662B2
A balance circuit for a set of battery cells includes a set of switch circuits and control circuitry coupled to the switch circuits. Each switch circuit of the switch circuits is coupled to a corresponding battery cell of the battery cells, and enables a bypass current to flow out a positive terminal of the corresponding battery cell if the switch circuit is turned on. The switch circuit includes a first switch having a first diode and a second switch having a second diode reversely coupled to the first diode. The second switch disables the bypass current if the second switch is turned off. The control circuitry balances the battery cells by controlling the switch circuits.
US11139660B2
A method for managing a battery includes exchanging battery data between the battery and an onboard battery management system (BMS) of a mobile platform and between the battery and a charger BMS of a battery charger, and managing the battery based on the battery data.
US11139655B2
A system for powering a device is disclosed. The system includes at least one internal battery located in a device, at least one external battery connected to the device, and a master controller configured to connect either the at least one internal battery or the at least one external battery to a power bus to power the device.
US11139635B2
Quantum well designs for tunable VCSELs are disclosed that are tolerant of the wavelength shift. Specifically, the active region has even number of substantially uniformly spaced (¼ of the center wavelength in the semiconducting material) quantum wells.
US11139632B2
An optical module comprising a first optical fiber corresponding to an incidence side for laser light a second optical fiber corresponding to an emission side for the laser light; and a connection protecting portion that is provided and located so as to cover a connection site for optically connecting the first optical fiber and the second optical fiber, wherein the second optical fiber has a larger core diameter than the first optical fiber, the connection site is a site where a core portion of the first optical fiber and a core portion of the second optical fiber are connected to each other in a discontinuous shape, and the connection protecting portion is formed of a thermally conductive protective material and/or a photorefractive protective material includes refractive index that is equal to or higher than that of a clad portion of the first optical fiber.
US11139630B2
An enclosure and a method of making the enclosure is provided that includes mixing stainless steel, rubber, and polycarbonate to produce a material mixture that is electrically conductive. Carbon black powder and polyethylene are blended to produce an electrically resistive additive for dissipating static electricity. At least one injection mold for the enclosure is positioned in fluid communication with an exit end of a heating barrel. The weatherproof material mixture is injected into an entry end of the heating barrel to produce a melted weatherproof material mixture. The electrically resistive additive is introduced through a lateral port of the heating barrel proximate to the exit end to partially mix with the melted weatherproof material mixture to produce an injection mixture. The injection mixture into the at least one injection mold to produce the enclosure that is weatherproof, electrically conductive, and electrically resistive.
US11139627B2
A cable processing apparatus has a crimping device loadable with an exchangeable crimping cassette, the cable processing apparatus including a crimping cassette exchanging device. The crimping cassette exchanging device includes carriages, each carriage having a crimping cassette holding device adapted to attach to and to detach from a crimping cassette; a horizontal carriage guide for providing a substantially horizontal guided movement of the carriages; a vertical carriage guide for providing a substantially vertical guided movement of a carriage from an initial vertical position to the crimping device or vice-versa, wherein the vertical carriage guide is arranged relative to the horizontal carriage guide such that one of the carriages is vertically movable at a time; a carriage shifting device adapted to controllably perform the horizontal guided movement; and a carriage lifting device adapted to controllably perform the vertical guided movement.
US11139625B2
A discharge device for discharging electric currents from a rotor part of a machine, in particular a rotor part with a shaft, into a stator part, the discharge device having a contact element, a support and a spring mechanism, the support being connectable to a stator part in an electrically conductive manner, the contact element being predominantly made of carbon, the contact element being accommodated on the support in an axially movable manner and connected to it in an electrically conductive manner, a contact force applicable to the contact element by the spring mechanism so as to establish an electrically conductive sliding contact between a sliding contact surface of the contact element to establish the sliding contact, and an axial shaft contact surface of the shaft, wherein the contact element is disk-shaped, the sliding contact surface being at least annular and disposable coaxially relative to the shaft contact surface.
US11139622B2
A hybrid busbar (1) for a busbar system, said hybrid busbar (1) comprising a current carrying rail profile (2) adapted to carry an electrical current with a predefined high current amplitude and at least one contact receiving rail profile (3) having a plurality of equally spaced contact openings (4) configured to receive protruding electrical contacts (6) of electrical devices (ED-A) to be connected to said busbar system, wherein the current carrying rail profile (2) and the contact receiving rail profile (3) are connected with each other to form said hybrid busbar (1) providing at least one bounding geometry with a rectangular cross section (CS), wherein the hybrid busbar (1) can be engaged from behind by hook-shaped mounting latches (7) of electrical devices (ED-B) to be connected to said busbar system.
US11139621B2
A retention assembly is provided that is configured to retain a plug end of an electrical cord in electrical engagement with an accessory outlet. The retention assembly includes a housing have an interior sized to receive the plug end and, optionally, an adapter therein. In one version, the housing can include a front opening with an assembly portion and a retention portion where the retention portion has at least one dimension that is smaller than the corresponding dimension of the plug end so that the plug end cannot pass therethrough. In another version, the retention assembly includes an insert having a slot opening to receive the wire portion of the electrical cord therethrough. The insert can then be disposed within the housing such that a sidewall of the insert extends between a front wall of the housing and the adapter to restrict movement of the first end and the adapter.
US11139611B2
An electrical power outlet is suitable for mounting face-up in locations that may be susceptible to liquid spills. The outlet includes a housing body defining an interior chamber, with an intermediate wall positioned therein. The intermediate wall defines contact openings that are open to contact passageways in which electrical contacts are mounted. A pair of drainage passageways extend through the housing body. A pair of drainage channels extend along the intermediate wall to the respective drainage passageways, so that liquid along the intermediate wall is directed along the drainage channels to the drainage passageways. Drain openings formed in a bottom wall of the housing body are in fluid communication with the respective drainage channels for draining liquid out of the housing body.
US11139608B2
A connector is provided with a body cover and a lid cover for covering a wire. A tightening member is to be wound along a surface of the body cover. A first part and a second part are provided on the surface of the body cover while being spaced apart in a circumferential direction. A recess is provided between the first and second parts in the body cover, and a pressing portion is stretched from the first part toward the second part in the tightening member. A coupling is to be received into the recess in the lid cover, and a pressed portion is arranged outwardly of a virtual straight line connecting the first and second parts in the coupling. The pressing portion presses the pressed portion toward an inner surface of the recess.
US11139607B2
A connector (1) is provided with an inner housing (20) to be fit to an inner periphery of a mating housing (M) and an outer housing (30) fittable to an outer periphery of the mating housing (M). The outer housing (30) is held on the inner housing (20) by first locks (50) before connection to the mating housing (M), is held connected to the mating housing (M) by a second lock (60) at the time of connection to the mating housing M, and is separated from the inner housing (20) and held connected to the mating housing (M) by releasing the first locks (50) at the time of separation from the mating housing (M).
US11139606B2
A connector includes a nut accommodation portion into which a nut is press-fitted and accommodated in a press-fitting direction. The nut accommodation portion includes an accommodation hole, which extends through a connector housing in the press-fitting direction of the nut, and an upper surface of a terminal connection portion of a connection terminal, which is exposed from the accommodation hole. The accommodation hole includes a through hole, which has a tetragonal shape as viewed in the press-fitting direction of the nut, and a recessed portion, which is formed in each of four corners of the through hole. The recessed portions are recessed toward an outer side of the through hole to locally expand a contour of the through hole.
US11139600B1
A contact element for providing high current capabilities between an electrical contact and a mating contact. The contact element has multiple first resilient contact arms and multiple second resilient contact arms. The first resilient contact arms extend from a first contact strip to a second contact strip. The second resilient contact arms extend from the second contact strip and are formed to extend toward the first contact strip. The second resilient contact arms are offset from the first resilient contact arms, wherein free ends of the second resilient contact arms positioned proximate the first contact strip. The first resilient contact arms and the second resilient contact arms provide contact sections which allow for the passage of a high amperage current with low resistance and low temperature.
US11139578B1
The present invent discloses an electrically-controlled switching multi-polarization horn antenna, which relates to the technical field of communication antennas. The horn antenna includes a horn antenna body, a polarization controller and a polarization switching apparatus. The horn antenna's control module controls a linear polarization control generation module, a circular polarization control generation module and a polarization selection module to cause the horn antenna to operate in a horizontal polarization mode, a vertical polarization mode, a left-hand circular polarization mode or a right-hand circular polarization mode. The antenna can realize a quick switch between different polarization modes, and the switch is electrically controlled rather than performed by manually replacing the antenna. Using the antenna of the present invent can effectively shorten test time, reduce the number of times replacing antennas by a tester, and more accurately measure characteristics of a device under test in various polarization modes.
US11139577B2
A wireless electronic device includes a ground plane, a first antenna element, a first extension element, a first switching element and a plurality of impedance elements. The ground plane includes a first edge and a second edge opposite to each other. The first antenna element is adjacent to the first edge. The first extension element is adjacent to the second edge. The first switching element is electrically connected to the first extension element. The plurality of impedance elements are electrically connected between the first switching element and a ground. The first switching element connects the first extension element to one of the plurality of impedance elements in response to an operation frequency band of the first antenna element.
US11139572B2
This application provides a feed apparatus, a dual-band microwave antenna, and a dual-band antenna device. The feed apparatus includes a low-frequency feed and a high-frequency feed. The high-frequency feed is embedded into the low-frequency feed. The low-frequency feed includes a plurality of low-frequency array elements arranged in an array. The high-frequency feed includes a plurality of high-frequency array elements arranged in an array. At least one high-frequency array element is embedded into the low-frequency array element, and the low-frequency array element and each high-frequency array element embedded into the low-frequency array element have a common waveguide wall.
US11139568B2
Techniques are disclosed for providing isolation between a pair of partially overlapping antennas. An example electronic device includes a first antenna coupled to a first transceiver through a first signal path comprising a first feed, and a second antenna coupled to a second transceiver through a second signal path comprising a second feed. The first antenna and second antenna partially overlap. The example electronic device also includes compensation circuitry coupled to the first signal path and the second signal path and configured to generate a compensation signal that provides analog cancellation of an interference signal received at the second antenna from the first antenna.
US11139567B2
A compact dual-band MIMO antenna and a mobile terminal are provided, and the antenna includes a system ground unit, a radiation arm having an open-circuit end and a short-circuit end, a first antenna formed at the open-circuit end and a second antenna formed at the short-circuit end. The first antenna includes a grounding arm connecting the radiation arm with the system ground unit, and a first feeding arm located between the grounding arm and the open-circuit end. The second antenna includes a second feeding arm located between the short-circuit end and the grounding arm. Compared with the related art, the present invention has following beneficial effects: the antenna has compact structure and high isolation; it has dual-band, and it has excellent performance in the dual bands; it has a simple structure, a small volume and a light weight, and it is convenient to manufacture and thus for mass production.
US11139565B2
An electronic device is disclosed. An electronic device according to various embodiments includes: a housing having a front plate facing a first direction, a rear plate facing a second direction opposite the first direction, and a side housing surrounding a space between the front plate and the rear plate; a conductive member comprising a conductive material disposed between the front plate and the rear plate; a display viewable through the front plate; at least one antenna module including a plurality of antenna elements configured to form a beam in a third direction facing the conductive member, and disposed to be spaced apart from the conductive member in the space; and a wireless communication circuit electrically coupled to the antenna module and configured to transmit and/or receive at least one signal having a frequency in a range of 3 GHz to 100 GHz, wherein the conductive member has a first surface forming a first acute angle with a virtual line crossing centers of the antenna elements and facing in the third direction, and a second surface forming a second acute angle with the virtual line, wherein a joint of the first surface and the second surface is positioned on the virtual line.
US11139561B2
An antenna assembly includes: a wearable antenna including a conductive signal layer having a radiating surface; a feed conductive layer; and an insulating layer in between the conductive signal layer and the feed conductive layer, and wherein the conductive signal layer, the feed conductive layer, and the insulating layer are fabric-based, wherein the wearable antenna is shaped and sized to be embedded in a subject's clothing with sufficient flexibility to be stretched and bent as the subject implanted with a passive implantable stimulator device maintains routine daily activities, and wherein the wearable antenna is electrically tuned and configured to have the radiating surface of the conductive signal layer facing the subject's skin and a feed point of the feed conductive layer connecting to a controller such that the wearable antenna is non-inductively coupled to the implanted passive stimulator device to supply power the passive implantable stimulator device wirelessly and non-inductively.
US11139559B2
A mobile device includes a metal mechanism element, a ground plane, a first parasitic radiation element, a second parasitic radiation element, a feeding radiation element, and a dielectric substrate. The metal mechanism element has a slot. The first parasitic radiation element and the second parasitic radiation element are both coupled to the metal mechanism element. The first parasitic radiation element and the second parasitic radiation element both extend across the slot. The feeding radiation element is disposed between the first parasitic radiation element and the second parasitic radiation element. An antenna structure is formed by the feeding radiation element, the first parasitic radiation element, the second parasitic radiation element, and the slot of the metal mechanism element. The antenna structure covers at least a first frequency band. The length of the slot is shorter than 0.48 wavelength of the first frequency band.
US11139543B2
A bus bar capable of effectively securing safety of a battery module when an overcurrent is generated includes: a main body portion that includes a first metal, has a stepped structure, in which an outer surface of the main body portion in an outward direction of the battery module is recessed in an inward direction, formed in one region, and is configured to be electrically connected to at least one secondary battery; a current breaking portion that is inserted into a space formed by the stepped structure and includes a second metal having a melting point relatively lower than a melting point of the first metal; and a covering member configured to surround at least a part of an outer surface of the current breaking portion. A battery module including the bus bar is also provided.
US11139542B2
A separator for a secondary cell includes a porous polymer substrate having a first surface, a second surface opposing the first surface, and a plurality of pores connecting the first surface to the second surface; and heat-resistant coating layers formed on at least one of the first surface and the second surface of the porous polymer substrate and on internal surfaces of the pores using an atomic layer deposition process (ALD). Pores having a non-coated region are present in the internal surfaces of the pores.
US11139535B2
Erroneous identification of parts is prevented. A connection module disclosed in the present specification is a connection module that is to be attached to an electricity storage element group in which a plurality of electricity storage elements each including positive and negative electrode terminals are arranged. The connection module includes: a plurality of busbars configured to connect the electrode terminals of the adjacent electricity storage elements to each other; and an insulating protector configured to be fixed to the electricity storage element group in a state in which the insulating protector holds the plurality of busbars, wherein the insulating protector is formed by a first protector and a second protector that is separate from the first protector, the first protector is provided with a first identifier, and the second protector is provided with a second identifier that is different from the first identifier.
US11139528B2
The present disclosure provides a battery module and a battery pack. The battery pack comprises a box and a battery module, the battery module is accommodated in the box. The battery module comprises batteries sequentially arranged in a first direction. The battery comprises an electrode assembly, a case and a cap assembly, the electrode assembly is received in the case, and the cap assembly is connected with the case. The case comprises two first side walls, and the two first side walls are respectively positioned at two sides of the electrode assembly in the first direction. The first side walls of two adjacent batteries face each other. An area of the first side wall is defined as S1, a distance between the electrode assemblies of two adjacent batteries in the first direction is defined as D, S1 and D satisfying a relationship: 1.2×10−5 mm−1≤D/S1≤500×10−5 mm−1.
US11139522B1
An automotive battery assembly comprising a housing having a period correct appearance for a classic battery. The housing encloses a modern power storage configuration providing power to terminals assembled to the housing. The housing includes four sides, a top panel and a base panel, collectively defining an interior volume. The top panel can be fixed, openable, or removable. A series of water fill caps can be assembled to the top panel. One or more electrical support components can be integrated within the housing, thus being concealed from view. The electrical support components can include a battery disconnect, a charging circuit, a transformer, a fuse, a monitoring system (charging status, battery condition, etc.), a location tracking system, a booster pack, etc. Access to the electrical support components can be provided through the water fill caps or the moveable top panel.
US11139519B2
A sealed cell includes a bottomed cylindrical outer casing can. The outer casing can is formed by nickel-plated iron, and a lead connected to one of a positive electrode and a negative electrode, and the outer casing can, are welded by a welding part formed from the outside surface of the outer casing can toward the lead. The welding part is formed by molten traces and has a first layer and a second layer having a higher nickel concentration than the first layer. The first layer is formed from the lead through to the inside of the outer casing can, the second layer is formed so as to adjoin the first layer on the outside surface side of the outer casing can, and the whole of the first layer is covered with the second layer when the welding part is viewed from the outside of the outer casing can.
US11139515B2
A battery module includes: a plurality of cylindrical battery cells each having electrode terminals respectively at an upper portion and a lower portion thereof; a module housing including an accommodation portion having hollow structures in which the cylindrical battery cells are inserted and accommodated; a current collecting plate on an outer surface of the module housing and including welding holes through which the electrode terminals of the cylindrical battery cells are exposed to the outside; a bus bar in contact with each of the electrode terminals and the current collecting plate to electrically connect the electrode terminals to the current collecting plate; and a heat conduction pad disposed outside the current collecting plate and including a contact protrusion portion protruding and extending in a direction in which the electrode terminals are disposed to be in contact with a contact connection portion between the electrode terminals and the bus bar.
US11139509B2
A method, and associated batteries and battery charging units, that involve inducing electric and/or magnetic fields (field-induced current) across an electrode of a electrochemical cell, such as an anode of a battery. The field and current across the electrode may be referred to herein as a transverse current as this current is typically transverse to the ionic charge current that may be applied when charging a battery. The field and current may be induced from connecting AC energy, e.g., AC current, across the electrode or at a discrete point or points of the electrode. The induced field and current may suppress dendrite growth, experienced in conventional batteries without AC energy, among other advantages.
US11139508B2
A lithium salt mixture comprising: from 85% to 99.9 mol % of lithium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imidide; and from 0.1% to 15 mol % of lithium 2-trifluoromethyl-4,5-dicyano-imidazolate. Also, an electrolyte composition containing same and to the uses thereof. Also, an electrochemical cell including a negative electrode, a positive electrode and the electrolyte composition interposed between the negative electrode and the positive electrode. Also, a battery containing at least one electrochemical cell with the electrolyte composition.
US11139506B2
The present invention relates to a non-aqueous electrolyte solution for a lithium secondary battery and a lithium secondary battery including the same, and particularly, to a non-aqueous electrolyte solution for a lithium secondary battery which includes a fluorine-containing compound capable of forming a stable film on the surface of an electrode as an additive, and a lithium secondary battery including the same.
US11139505B2
A method of producing a solid electrolyte having a high ionic conductivity, which adopts a liquid-phase method and suppresses the generation of hydrogen sulfide, wherein a raw material inclusion containing a lithium element, a sulfur element, a phosphorus element, and a halogen element is mixed with a complexing agent containing a compound having at least two tertiary amino groups; and an electrolyte precursor constituted of a lithium element, a sulfur element, a phosphorus element, a halogen element, and a complexing agent containing a compound having at least two tertiary amino groups.
US11139503B2
Set forth herein are garnet material compositions, e.g., lithium-stuffed garnets and lithium-stuffed garnets doped with alumina, which are suitable for use as electrolytes and catholytes in solid state battery applications. Also set forth herein are lithium-stuffed garnet thin films having fine grains therein. Disclosed herein are novel and inventive methods of making and using lithium-stuffed garnets as catholytes, electrolytes and/or anolytes for all solid state lithium rechargeable batteries. Also disclosed herein are novel electrochemical devices which incorporate these garnet catholytes, electrolytes and/or anolytes. Also set forth herein are methods for preparing novel structures, including dense thin (<50 um) free standing membranes of an ionically conducting material for use as a catholyte, electrolyte, and, or, anolyte, in an electrochemical device, a battery component (positive or negative electrode materials), or a complete solid state electrochemical energy storage device. Also, the methods set forth herein disclose novel sintering techniques, e.g., for heating and/or field assisted (FAST) sintering, for solid state energy storage devices and the components thereof.
US11139499B2
Disclosed are an apparatus for manufacturing a membrane electrode assembly to provide excellent mass transfer characteristics and durability and a manufacturing method using the same. A porosity gradient may be continuously imparted to electrodes of the membrane electrode assembly in a thickness direction thereby improving reactivity with external gas and transfer of internal ions.
US11139492B2
A fuel cell system comprises a fuel cell, a fuel gas supply pipe connected to a fuel gas inlet of the fuel cell, a circulation pipe connecting a fuel off gas outlet of the fuel cell and the fuel gas supply pipe, a hydrogen pump disposed on the circulation pipe, a water pump configured to deliver coolant discharged from the fuel cell to the hydrogen pump, an acquisition unit configured to obtain at least one parameter corresponding to temperature of fuel gas exhausted from the hydrogen pump, and a controller configured to switch between ON and OFF states of the water pump according to the parameter obtained by the acquisition unit.
US11139483B2
Novel pulsed aluminum batteries (PAlBs), including power output regulated systems, have been developed. PAlBs comprise an aluminum anode, a cathode, and a complex electrolyte containing bases, facilitating and stabilizing agents, and may contain internal oxidizers. The aluminum anode comprises technical grade or recycled aluminum. The cathode may comprise copper, nickel, or platinum. Bases may comprise sodium or potassium hydroxide. Facilitating and stabilizing agents may comprise sodium and lithium chlorides or sulfates. Internal oxidizers may comprise sodium hypochlorite. Frequency of electric pulses in novel PAlBs can be controlled by electric or chemical means. PAlBs can be used as components of backup power systems, in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and in autonomous self-powered electrochemical computing systems and sensors.
US11139482B2
An electrocatalyst material comprising: (i) a support material comprising a plurality of individual support particles or aggregates; (ii) first particles comprising a first metal and an alloying metal; and (iii) second particles consisting of a second metal or a second metal oxide, wherein the second metal is platinum or iridium; wherein each individual support particle or aggregate has dispersed thereon first particles and second particles, characterised in that the mean average particle size of the second particles is smaller than the mean average particle size of the first particles is disclosed. The electrocatalyst material has particular use in an electrode, such as the cathode, of an electrochemical cell, such as a fuel cell.
US11139478B2
Provided is a laminate for a non-aqueous secondary battery including a substrate and a functional layer that is well adhered thereto. The laminate includes a substrate and a functional layer at one or both sides of the substrate. The functional layer contains non-conductive particles and a binder including a polymer A that includes a fluorine-containing monomer unit. The amount of polymer A in a region up to 20% of thickness of the functional layer from a substrate-side surface thereof is more than 20% and not more than 40% of the total amount of polymer A in the functional layer, and the amount of polymer A in a region up to 20% of thickness of the functional layer from an opposite surface thereof relative to the substrate-side surface is more than 20% and not more than 40% of the total amount of polymer A in the functional layer.
US11139471B2
The present disclosure provides a lithium ion battery including a positive electrode plate, a negative electrode plate, a separator, and an electrolyte. The positive electrode plate includes a positive electrode current collector, and a positive electrode film disposed on a surface of the positive electrode current collector and containing a positive electrode active material. The positive electrode active material includes a matrix, a first coating layer on the matrix in form of discrete islands, and a second coating layer on the first coating layer and the matrix as a continuous layer. The electrolyte includes an additive A and an additive B. The additive A is selected from a group consisting of cyclic sulfate compounds represented by Formula 1 and Formula 2, and combinations thereof, and the additive B is one or two selected from lithium difluorobisoxalate phosphate and lithium tetrafluorooxalate phosphate.
US11139468B2
Disclosed is a cathode active material that can lower sintering temperature, the cathode active mated al including a particle of a lithium containing composite oxide having a layered rock-salt crystalline phase, wherein the layered rock-salt crystalline phase is partially deficient in lithium, a percentage of deficient lithium in the layered rock-salt crystalline phase in a surface portion of the particle is higher than that in the layered rock-salt crystalline phase inside the particle, and the particle includes two phases that are different in lattice constant as the layered rock-salt crystalline phase.
US11139464B2
A first silicon oxide material and a second silicon oxide material are prepared. A dispersion is prepared by dispersing the first silicon oxide material in an aqueous carboxymethylcellulose solution. A negative electrode composite material slurry is prepared by dispersing the second silicon oxide material and a binder in the dispersion. A negative electrode is produced by applying the negative electrode composite material slurry to a surface of a negative electrode current collector and then performing drying. The binder includes no carboxymethylcellulose. The first silicon oxide material has not been pre-doped with lithium. The second silicon oxide material has been pre-doped with lithium.
US11139462B2
An electrode for solid-state batteries, comprising a PTC resistor layer, and a solid-state battery comprising the electrode. The electrode may be an electrode for solid-state batteries, wherein the electrode comprises an electrode active material layer, a current collector and a PTC resistor layer which is disposed between the electrode active material layer and the current collector and which is in contact with the electrode active material layer; wherein the PTC resistor layer contains an electroconductive material, an insulating inorganic substance and a polymer; and wherein a surface roughness Ra of an electrode active material layer-contacting surface of the PTC resistor layer, is 1.1 μm or less.
US11139458B2
An organic EL display device is provided in which a change in tint is reduced in a bent portion. This organic EL display device is an organic electroluminescent display device including, from a viewing side, a circularly polarizing plate, a first adhesion layer, and a bendable organic electroluminescent display panel, in which the circularly polarizing plate includes, from the viewing side, a linear polarizer, a second adhesion layer, and a phase difference layer functioning as a λ/4 plate, a complex modulus of elasticity of the first adhesion layer is 2.50×105 Pa or less, the first adhesion layer is thicker than the second adhesion layer, and an absorption axis of the linear polarizer is positioned at an angle of 0°±30° or 90°±30° with respect to an extension direction of a ridge line formed in a case where the organic electroluminescent display device is bent.
US11139449B2
A resin composition for sealing an organic electronic device element, containing a polyisobutylene resin (A), a hydrogenated cyclic olefin resin (B), and a polymer (C) obtained by any one of radical polymerization, anionic polymerization or coordination polymerization and exhibiting rubber elasticity, a resin sheet using the same, organic electroluminescent element, and image display apparatus.
US11139448B2
A display device comprises a light emitting base layer, a transporting layer, a metal layer and a packaging layer that are sequentially stacked; the transporting layer comprising a conductive lead wire and a test pin; the metal layer comprising a plurality of metal blocks arranged in an array, each of the metal blocks being electrically connected to the test pin through the conductive lead wire; and the packaging layer being used for blocking outside moisture from contacting the metal layer, by testing the electric resistance of the metal block electrically connected to the test pin, determining the moisture blocking effect of the area of the packaging layer corresponding to the metal block. The moisture blocking effect of the area of packaging layer corresponding to the metal block can be determined, and the area where the moisture blocking effect of the packaging layer is poor can be accurately determined.
US11139442B2
Embodiments of the disclosed subject matter provide an emissive layer, a first electrode layer, a plurality of nanoparticles and a material disposed between the first electrode layer and the plurality of nanoparticles. In some embodiments, the device may include a second electrode layer and a substrate, where the second electrode layer is disposed on the substrate, and the emissive layer is disposed on the second electrode layer. In some embodiments, a second electrode layer may be disposed on the substrate, the emissive layer may be disposed on the second electrode layer, the first electrode layer may be disposed on the emissive layer, a first dielectric layer of the material may be disposed on the first electrode layer, the plurality of nanoparticles may be disposed on the first dielectric layer, and a second dielectric layer may be disposed on the plurality of nanoparticles and the first dielectric layer.
US11139427B2
A bonded body includes a piezoelectric single crystal substrate; a supporting substrate composed of a polycrystalline ceramic material or a single crystal material; a bonding layer provided on the piezoelectric single crystal substrate and having a composition of Si(1-x)Ox (0.008≤x≤0.408); and an amorphous layer provided between the supporting substrate and bonding layer, the amorphous layer containing oxygen atoms and argon atoms. A concentration of the oxygen atoms at a central part of the amorphous layer is higher than a concentration of the oxygen atoms at a peripheral part of the amorphous layer.
US11139426B2
An active matrix array of electroactive polymer actuators is provided, each electroactive polymer actuator having a switching arrangement. The switching arrangement comprises a first circuit (90) connected to a first terminal of the electroactive polymer actuator, for selectively driving the first terminal of the electroactive polymer actuator to ground or connecting it to an open circuit. A second circuit (92) is connected to a second terminal of the electroactive polymer actuator, for selectively driving the second terminal of the electroactive polymer actuator to ground or connecting it to an open circuit. Furthermore, a pull-up component (50) is permanently connected between a drive voltage and the first terminal of the electroactive polymer generator. By controlling both terminals of the electroactive polymer actuator, it is possible to reduce static power consumption, at least when no voltage is to be stored across the electroactive polymer actuator.
US11139422B2
A thermoelectric conversion material contains a matrix composed of a semiconductor and nanoparticles disposed in the matrix, and the nanoparticles have a lattice constant distribution Δd/d of 0.0055 or more.
US11139421B2
A thermoelectric device is disclosed. The thermoelectric device comprises: a body part comprising a hollow in which a semiconductor device is disposed; a plurality of connecting parts protruding on the lateral sides of the body part and comprising connecting holes; and a plurality of electrode parts connected to the semiconductor device and extending to the connecting holes of the connecting parts.
US11139419B2
A method for producing a sealed optical semiconductor device makes it possible to seal an optical semiconductor element using a sealing film. The method includes: placing a sealing film on an optical semiconductor element substrate on which an optical semiconductor element is placed within a pressure reduction chamber, and the pressure within the chamber is reduced; heating the film where at least the periphery of the film is thermally fused to the surface of the optical semiconductor element placement substrate; and a step in which the reduction of pressure within the chamber is released and the optical semiconductor element placement substrate is sealed by the film. The temperature T2 of the optical semiconductor element placement substrate when the reduction of pressure within the chamber is released is a temperature at which the film exhibits a tensile strength of 0.02-0.15 MPa and an elongation at break of 150-450%.
US11139408B2
Hybrid solar panel including a photovoltaic module having a front face and a rear face, a heat exchanger having a lower face and an upper face, said upper face being arranged facing the rear face of the photovoltaic module, a rigid frame surrounding the photovoltaic module and the heat exchanger, at least one elastic element adapted to exert a compression force against the lower face of the exchanger in such a way that the exchanger is thrust against the rear face of the photovoltaic module, the elastic element bears against at least one bearing element, and the bearing element being in connection with the frame in such a way that at least one portion of the compression force exerted by the elastic element on the bearing element is taken up by the frame.
US11139407B2
A method for forming a solar cell including steps of (1) providing a semiconductor wafer having an upper surface; (2) applying an electrical contact material to the upper surface, the electrical contact material forming an electrically conductive grid that includes grid lines extending from a bus bar; (3) forming an isolation channel in the semiconductor wafer to define a solar cell portion and a wing portion, wherein the wing portion is electrically isolated from the solar cell portion, and wherein the wing portion is substantially free of the electrical contact material; (4) submerging the semiconductor wafer in a solvent, wherein formation of metal dendrites on the grid lines of the electrically conductive grid is inhibited; and (5) separating the solar cell portion from the wing portion.
US11139385B2
A method of providing contact surfaces that includes forming a first mask having an opening to a perimeter of a gate electrode, the first mask having a first protecting portion centrally positioned over the gate electrode within the perimeter, and a second protecting portion of the mask is positioned over metal semiconductor alloy surfaces of source and drain contact surfaces; and recessing exposed portions of metal semiconductor alloy and the gate electrode with an etch. In a following step, the method continues with filling the openings provided by recessing the gate perimeter of the gate electrode, recessing the metal semiconductor alloy adjacent to the gate structure, and the recessed gate electrode adjacent to the metal semiconductor alloy surface of the source and drain contact surfaces with a protecting dielectric material.
US11139378B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer, a charge storage layer provided on the surface of the semiconductor layer via a first insulating film, and an electrode layer provided on the surface of the charge storage layer via a second insulating film. The first insulating film includes a first region where the compositional ratio of nitrogen to silicon, oxygen and nitrogen varies from a first value to a second value, which is lower than the first value, along a first direction from the semiconductor layer toward the charge storage layer.
US11139363B2
A display device comprises a substrate having through holes; a driving circuit board disposed at a lower surface of the substrate; signal pads disposed in the through holes; and conductive connectors each connected to the driving circuit board and a corresponding one of the signal pads, wherein the conductive connectors are surrounded by the corresponding signal pad in a corresponding one of the through holes to achieve reliability in a manufacturing process and a reduction in manufacturing costs by remove the bending area that can cause cracks caused by bending stress.
US11139361B2
An array substrate, a method of manufacturing the same, and a display panel are provided to raise the wiring space of the metal trace in the longitudinal direction, to extend the length of the metal traces, to prevent the metal traces from being broken during the bending and stretching process, to improve the reliability of the metal traces during the bending and stretching process of the array substrate, and to improve the bending and tensile properties of the array substrate.
US11139359B2
A display device includes a pixel portion in which a pixel is arranged in a matrix, the pixel including an inverted staggered thin film transistor having a combination of at least two kinds of oxide semiconductor layers with different amounts of oxygen and having a channel protective layer over a semiconductor layer to be a channel formation region overlapping a gate electrode layer and a pixel electrode layer electrically connected to the inverted staggered thin film transistor. In the periphery of the pixel portion in this display device, a pad portion including a conductive layer made of the same material as the pixel electrode layer is provided. In addition, the conductive layer is electrically connected to a common electrode layer formed on a counter substrate.
US11139354B2
A display apparatus includes a first substrate including an active area, a circuit area extending outwardly from the active area, and a cell seal area extending outwardly from the circuit area, a second substrate covering the first substrate, a sealing portion between the first substrate and the second substrate, the sealing portion covering at least a portion of the circuit area, a circuit line in the circuit area of the first substrate and electrically connected to a device in the active area of the first substrate, at least a portion of the sealing portion being on the circuit line, and a pixel definition layer between the sealing portion and the circuit line.
US11139353B2
The present disclosure provides a display panel, a display device, and a method for manufacturing the display panel. The display panel comprises an array substrate and a pixel-defining layer disposed on the array substrate. The pixel-defining layer has a plurality of pixel regions and defines a plurality of recesses non-overlapped with the plurality of pixel regions.
US11139352B1
An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device is provided. The OLED display device comprises a substrate, a buffer layer, an active layer, a first gate insulating layer, a gate metal layer, a second gate insulating layer, a source/drain metal layer, a passivation layer, a planarization layer, an organic photoresist layer, an anode metal layer, a pixel defining layer, an OLED pixel layer, and a thin film encapsulation layer. The organic photoresist layer is disposed on a surface of the planarization layer. The organic photoresist layer is provided as a protruding structure.
US11139351B2
An organic light emitting diode display comprises a substrate comprising a major surface; first, second, third and fourth electrodes positioned over the substrate; a pixel defining layer positioned over the plurality of electrodes and comprising first, second, third and fourth openings; and a spacer positioned over the pixel defining layer. The first, second, third and fourth openings overlap the first, second, third and fourth electrodes, respectively, when viewed in a viewing direction perpendicular to the major surface. The first, second, third and fourth openings comprise first, second, third and fourth corners, respectively, wherein the first, second, third and fourth corners neighbor one another when viewed in the viewing direction. When viewed in the viewing direction, the spacer comprises at least a portion placed within an imaginary polygon defined by the first, second, third and fourth corners.
US11139348B2
A display device is provided. The display device includes a substrate; a light-emitting layer providing first light having a first wavelength; and a light converter disposed on the light-emitting layer, wherein the plurality of pixels include first, second, third, and fourth pixels which includes first and second subpixels, the light converter includes a first wavelength conversion layer and a second wavelength conversion layer disposed in the first pixel and the second pixel, respectively, a light-transmitting layer disposed in the third pixel, and a third wavelength conversion layer disposed in the first subpixel, the first wavelength conversion layer and the second wave length conversion layer include a first wavelength conversion material and a second wavelength conversion material which convert the first light into light having different wavelength, respectively, the third wavelength conversion layer includes the first and second wavelength conversion materials.
US11139346B2
A display device includes an organic emission layer in which a first pixel area, a second pixel area and a third pixel area are defined, a color filter layer disposed on the organic emission layer and including first to third color filters overlapping the first to third pixel areas, respectively, where the first to third color filters emit first light to third light, respectively, a first optical filter layer disposed on the color filter layer and which transmits at least one of the first light and the second light and reflects or absorbs the third light, and a light-focusing layer disposed between the color filter layer and the organic emission layer and including first to third light-focusing parts overlapping the first to third pixel areas, respectively, where at least one of the first to third color filters includes quantum dots.
US11139345B2
The present application discloses a display panel having a display area and an array of a plurality of subpixels in the display area. The display panel includes a base substrate and a light diffusion layer on the base substrate. The light diffusion layer includes a plurality of light diffusers separated from each other. Each of the plurality of light diffusers is configured to diffuse light emitted from the one of the plurality of subpixels nearest to an edge of the display area. A portion of diffused light emits out of the each of the plurality of light diffusers outside a region corresponding to the one of the plurality of subpixels nearest to the edge of the display area.
US11139343B2
A display device includes a substrate provided with a first subpixel and a second subpixel; a first electrode provided on the substrate, including a first sub electrode provided on the first subpixel and a second sub electrode provided on the second subpixel; a transparent electrode including a first transparent electrode provided to cover the first sub electrode and a second transparent electrode provided to cover the second sub electrode; an organic light emitting layer including a first organic light emitting layer arranged on the first transparent electrode and a second organic light emitting layer arranged on the second transparent electrode; a second electrode arranged on the organic light emitting layer; a first bank provided between the first transparent electrode and the second transparent electrode to partition the first subpixel and the second subpixel from each other; and a first color filter arranged to correspond to the first subpixel.
US11139339B2
An array substrate including a base substrate; a thin film transistor disposed on the base substrate, the thin film transistor including a gate electrode connected to a gate line; an active layer; a gate insulating layer insulating the gate electrode from the active layer; a first electrode connected to a data line; and a second electrode spaced apart from the first electrode; a micro light emitting diode disposed on a side of the gate insulating layer away from the base substrate, the micro light emitting diode including a first electrode, a light emitting layer and a second electrode; and a common electrode. The second electrode of the thin film transistor is connected to one of the first and second electrodes of the micro light emitting diode. The other of the first and second electrodes of the micro light emitting diode is connected to the common electrode.
US11139337B2
The present disclosure relates to a solid-state image pickup device, a manufacturing method, and an electronic apparatus, which can obtain high charge transfer efficiency from a photoelectric conversion unit to a floating diffusion layer. The floating diffusion layer is arranged in a rectangular shape so as to surround a gate electrode of a vertical transistor whose groove portion is rectangular. A reset drain is formed so as to be adjacent to the floating diffusion layer through a reset gate. A potential of the floating diffusion layer is reset to the same potential as that of the reset drain by applying a predetermined voltage to the reset gate. It is possible to apply the present disclosure to, for example, a CMOS solid-state image pickup device used in an image pickup device such as a camera.
US11139336B1
A method for fabricating a throughput-scalable sensing system is disclosed. The method includes receiving a first semiconductor wafer and a second semiconductor wafer. The first semiconductor wafer includes a semiconductor substrate and a plurality of sensors disposed in the semiconductor substrate. Each sensor of the plurality of sensors is disposed in a separate semiconductor die of the first semiconductor wafer. The method further includes bonding the first semiconductor wafer to the second semiconductor wafer and preparing the bonded first semiconductor wafer and the second semiconductor wafer for conductive path redistribution. The method further includes forming one or more redistribution paths and dicing an array of semiconductor dies as a group from the plurality of semiconductor dies. The array of semiconductor dies includes a group of sensors associated with the throughput-scalable sensing system.
US11139323B2
Provided is a digital circuit (30) that comprises: a switching circuit (31) having first transistors (32, 33) supplied with power supply potentials (VDD, VSS); correcting circuits (34, 36) connected between an input terminal (IN) inputted with an input signal and control terminals (gates) of the first transistors; capacitors (C2, C3) connected between the control terminals and the input terminal; diode-connected second transistors (35, 37) that are provided between nodes (N5, N6) between the capacitors and the control terminals and the power supply potentials and have the substantially sanle threshold voltage as the first transistors; and switches (SW2, SW3) connected in series with the second transistors.
US11139318B2
An embodiment of the present disclosure provides an array substrate, a display panel, and a display device, relating to the field of display technology. The array substrate includes a plurality of sub-pixel regions. The sub-pixel regions include at least one white sub-pixel region and a sub-pixel region adjacent to the white sub-pixel region. A signal line is disposed between the white sub-pixel region and the sub-pixel region adjacent thereto. At most a first data line is disposed between the white sub-pixel region and the adjacent sub-pixel region. The first data line is used to provide a data signal to a sub-pixel electrode in the white sub-pixel region. The signal line transmits a signal of a different type than the data signal.
US11139309B2
Integrated circuitry comprises a plurality of features horizontally arrayed in a two-dimensional (2D) lattice. The 2D lattice comprises a parallelogram unit cell having four lattice points and four straight-line sides between pairs of the four lattice points. The parallelogram unit cell has a straight-line diagonal there-across between two diagonally-opposed of the four lattice points. The straight-line diagonal is longer than each of the four straight-line sides. Individual of the features are at one of the four lattice points and occupy a maximum horizontal area that is horizontally elongated along a direction that is horizontally angled relative to each of the four straight-line sides. Other embodiments, including methods, are disclosed.
US11139300B2
A three-dimensional memory array may include a first memory array and a second memory array, stacked above the first. Some memory cells of the first array may be coupled to a first layer selector transistor, while some memory cells of the second array may be coupled to a second layer selector transistor. The first and second layer selector transistor may be coupled to one another and to a peripheral circuit that controls operation of the first and/or second memory arrays. A different layer selector transistor may be used for each row of memory cells of a given memory array and/or for each column of memory cells of a given memory array. Such designs may allow increasing density of memory cells in a memory array having a given footprint area, or, conversely, reducing the footprint area of the memory array with a given memory cell density.
US11139299B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide improved methods and structures for fabrication of capacitor-less DRAM devices, sometimes referred to as ZRAM devices. A channel is formed in a fin-type field effect transistor (finFET) that is comprised of a finned channel portion and a convex channel portion. The finned channel portion may be comprised of a first semiconductor material and the convex channel portion may be comprised of a second, different semiconductor material. In embodiments, a metal gate is disposed around the elongated surface of the channel region, but is not disposed on the short surface of the channel region. A first spacer is disposed adjacent to the gate and in direct physical contact with the short surface of the channel region, and a second spacer is disposed adjacent to the first spacer.
US11139288B2
A silicon-controlled-rectifier electrostatic protection structure and a fabrication method are provided. The structure includes: a substrate of P-type; a first N-type well; a second N-type well; a third N-type well; an anode P-type doped region in the first N-type well; second N-type doped regions at sides of the first N-type well; first P-type doped regions at sides of the first N-type well; third N-type doped regions at sides of the first N-type well; gate structures and fourth N-type doped regions at the sides of the first N-type well; and fifth N-type doped regions at the sides of the first N-type well. The fourth N-type doped regions and the third N-type doped regions are disposed at sides of each of the gate structures along a first direction respectively.
US11139285B2
A semiconductor package includes a first package component include a first side, a second side opposite to the first side, and a plurality of recessed corners over the first side. The semiconductor package further includes a plurality of first stress buffer structures disposed at the recessed corners, and each of the first stress buffer structures has a curved surface. The semiconductor package further includes a second package component connected to the first package component and a plurality of connectors disposed between the first package component and the second package component. The connectors are electrically coupled the first package component and the second package component. The semiconductor package further includes an underfill material between the first package component and the second package component, and at least a portion of the curved surface of the first stress buffer structures is in contact with and embedded in the underfill material.
US11139281B2
Presented herein are a package-on-package device having a molded underfill and a method for forming the same, the method comprising applying a package mount mounting a die to the first side of a carrier package. A molded underfill may be applied first side of the carrier package, and be in contact with a portion of the package mount a portion of a sidewall of the die. A top package having at least one land may be mounted to the first side of the carrier package above the die, and, optionally separated from the top of the die. The package mount may be coined prior to, during or after applying the molded underfill to optionally be level with the underfill surface. The underfill region contacting the package mount may be below or above the surface of the underfill region contacting the die sidewall.
US11139276B2
A fractured semiconductor die is disclosed, together with a semiconductor device including the fractured semiconductor die. During fabrication of the semiconductor dies in a wafer, the wafer may be scored in a series of parallel scribe lines through portions of each row of semiconductor dies. The scribe lines then propagate through the full thickness of the wafer to fracture off a portion of each of the semiconductor dies. It may happen that electrical traces such as bit lines in the memory cell arrays short together during the die fracture process. These electrical shorts may be cleared by running a current through each of the electrical traces.
US11139275B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a wiring board having a first surface. A first element is disposed on the first surface of the wiring board. A first resin layer covers the first element. A second element is larger than the first element and disposed on the first resin layer. The second element is superposed above the first element. A reinforcement member is disposed at a peripheral portion of the first resin layer and includes an edge disposed inside of the first resin layer. The reinforcement member has an upper surface above the first surface of the wiring board. The reinforcement member has a coefficient of linear expansion lower than the first resin layer. An encapsulating resin material, over the first surface of the wiring board, covers the first element, the second element, the first resin layer, and the reinforcement member.
US11139270B2
Described is a packaging technology to improve performance of an AI processing system. An IC package is provided which comprises: a substrate; a first die on the substrate, and a second die stacked over the first die. The first die includes memory and the second die includes computational logic. The first die comprises a ferroelectric RAM (FeRAM) having bit-cells. Each bit-cell comprises an access transistor and a capacitor including ferroelectric material. The access transistor is coupled to the ferroelectric material. The FeRAM can be FeDRAM or FeSRAM. The memory of the first die may store input data and weight factors. The computational logic of the second die is coupled to the memory of the first die. The second die is an inference die that applies fixed weights for a trained model to an input data to generate an output. In one example, the second die is a training die that enables learning of the weights.
US11139264B2
Examples relate to a die interconnect substrate comprising a bridge die comprising at least one bridge interconnect connecting a first bridge die pad of the bridge die to a second bridge die pad of the bridge die. The die interconnect substrate further comprises a substrate structure comprising a substrate interconnect electrically insulated from the bridge die, wherein the bridge die is embedded in the substrate structure. The die interconnect substrate further comprises a first interface structure for attaching a semiconductor die to the substrate structure, wherein the first interface structure is connected to the first bridge die pad. The die interconnect substrate further comprises a second interface structure for attaching a semiconductor die to the substrate structure, wherein the second interface structure is connected to the substrate interconnect. A surface of the first interface structure and a surface of the second interface structure are at the same height.
US11139259B1
A display driving system includes a first chip and a second chip that are vertically docked; the first chip includes a first substrate and a first silicon wafer provided on a side of the first chip away from the first substrate; the second chip includes a second substrate and a second silicon wafer provided on a side of the second chip away from the second substrate; the first chip is docked with the second chip through docking of the first silicon wafer and the second silicon wafer; wherein, the first chip is configured to provide driving data, and the second chip is configured to process image data.
US11139254B2
A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor substrate; a first metal ring which is provided outside a periphery of a circuit region including a signal pad on one surface side of the semiconductor substrate and is interrupted by one or a plurality of openings; a second metal ring provided outside a periphery of the first metal ring; and a resistance layer that connects ends of the first metal ring interrupted by the one or the plurality of openings to each other, wherein the first metal ring includes a first wall portion and a second wall portion that sandwich the circuit region, and a third wall portion and a fourth wall portion that sandwich the circuit region and are connected to the first wall portion and the second wall portion, and the one or the plurality of openings is arranged in the first wall portion close to the signal pad.
US11139252B2
A semiconductor package includes a semiconductor die, a plurality of conductive bumps, a shielding layer, an encapsulant and a redistribution layer. The semiconductor die has an active surface, a backside surface and a lateral surface. The conductive bumps are disposed on the active surface of the semiconductor die. The shielding layer is disposed on the lateral surface of the semiconductor die. The encapsulant covers the shielding layer, and has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The redistribution layer is disposed on the first surface of the encapsulant and electrically connected to the semiconductor die through the conductive bumps. The shielding layer is electrically connected to the redistribution layer.
US11139245B1
In one embodiment, an integrated circuit includes a first pattern metal layer, a second pattern metal layer formed over the first pattern metal layer, wherein the second pattern metal layer comprises a second plurality of metal tracks extending in a first direction and less than 9, a third pattern metal layer disposed between the first pattern metal layer and the second pattern metal layer, the third pattern metal layer including, a first metal track segment, a second metal track segment shifted in a second direction from the first metal track segment, and a third metal track segment shifted in the second direction from the second metal track segment, wherein the second plurality of metal tracks, and at least a portion of each of the first metal track segment, the second metal track segment, and the third metal track segment are within a double cell height in the second direction.
US11139244B2
Disclosed is a semiconductor device comprising a substrate, a first dielectric layer on the substrate, a first lower conductive line in the first dielectric layer, an etch stop layer on the first dielectric layer, a via-structure that penetrates the etch stop layer and connects to the first lower conductive line, a second dielectric layer on the etch stop layer, and an upper conductive line that penetrates the second dielectric layer and connects to the via-structure. The first dielectric layer includes a dielectric pattern at a level higher than a top surface of the first lower conductive line. The upper conductive line is in contact with a top surface of the etch stop layer. The etch stop layer has at an upper portion a rounded surface in contact with the via-structure.
US11139242B2
Integrated chips and methods for forming vias in the same include forming a multi-layer isolation structure on an underlying layer. The multi-layer isolation structure includes a first isolation layer around a second isolation layer. Conductive material is formed around the multi-layer isolation structure. The first isolation layer is etched back to expose at least a portion of a sidewall of the conductive material. A conductive via is formed to contact a top surface and the exposed portion of the sidewall of the conductive material.
US11139239B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards an integrated circuit (IC) including an interconnect structure overlying a substrate. The interconnect structure has a plurality of metal layers overlying over the substrate. A first dielectric layer overlies an uppermost surface of the interconnect structure. The first dielectric layer has opposing sidewalls defining a trench. A first magnetic layer is disposed within the trench and conformally extends along the opposing sidewalls. Conductive wires are disposed within the trench and overlie the first magnetic layer. A second magnetic layer overlies the first magnetic layer and the conductive wires. The second magnetic layer laterally extends from over a first sidewall of the opposing sidewalls to a second sidewall of the opposing sidewalls.
US11139238B2
A three-dimensional (3-D) inductor is incorporated in a substrate. The 3-D inductor has a first connector plate, a second connector plate, a third connector plate, a first terminal plate, and a second terminal plate. Four multi-via walls connect the various plates, wherein each multi-via wall includes a first group of at least three individual via columns, each of which connects two plates together.
US11139237B2
A method of forming a three-dimensional memory device includes forming a vertically alternating sequence of insulating layers and spacer material layers over a substrate, where the spacer material layers are formed as, or are subsequently replaced with, electrically conductive layers, forming multiple sets of stepped surfaces in terrace regions of the vertically alternating sequence, forming memory stack structures through memory array regions of the vertically alternating sequence, and forming a metal interconnect structure which electrically connects a portion of a topmost electrically conductive layer in the first memory array region and a portion of a topmost electrically conductive layer in the second memory array region, and which extends above a horizontal plane of the topmost electrically conductive layer in the first memory array region and a portion of a topmost electrically conductive layer in the second memory array region.
US11139235B2
A semiconductor device has a semiconductor substrate, a first insulating film formed on a surface of the semiconductor substrate, a first recess formed in the first insulating film, a first barrier film formed on an inner surface of the first insulating film except a top peripheral region of the first trench, a first conductive film formed in the first trench, and a covering film formed on an upper surface and a top peripheral region of the first conductive film and an upper surface of the first barrier film. The first conductive film includes copper.
US11139234B1
A package carrier includes a substrate, at least one interposer disposed in at least one opening of the substrate, a conductive structure layer, a first build-up structure, and a second build-up structure. The interposer includes a glass substrate, at least one conductive via, at least one first pad, and at least one second pad. The conductive via passes through the glass substrate, and the first and the second pads are disposed respectively on an upper surface and a lower surface of the glass substrate opposite to each other and are connected to opposite ends of the conductive via. The conductive structure layer is disposed on the substrate and is structurally and electrically connected to the first and the second pads. The first and the second build-up structures are disposed respectively on the first and the second surfaces of the substrate and are electrically connected to the conductive structure layer.
US11139231B2
A radio frequency module includes: a multilayer substrate that includes a plurality of insulator layers; an amplifying circuit that is provided on the multilayer substrate and amplifies a radio frequency signal; a power supply circuit that is provided on the multilayer substrate and supplies power to the amplifying circuit; a ground conductor that is a first conductor pattern having a ground potential and used in the amplifying circuit; and a ground conductor that is a second conductor pattern having a ground potential and used in the power supply circuit. The ground conductors are physically separated from each other and provided in internal layers of the multilayer substrate.
US11139229B2
Package-on-package systems for packaging semiconductor devices. In one embodiment, a package-on-package system comprises a first semiconductor package device and a second semiconductor package device. The first package device includes a base substrate including a first side having a die-attach region and a peripheral region, a first semiconductor die attached to the base substrate at the die-attach region, wherein the first semiconductor die has a front side facing the first side of the base substrate and a backside spaced apart from the first side of the base substrate by a first distance, and a high density interconnect array in the perimeter region of the base substrate outside of the die-attach region. The interconnect array has a plurality of interconnects that extend from the first side of the base substrate by a second distance greater than the first distance. The second semiconductor device package is electrically coupled corresponding individual interconnects.
US11139226B2
A semiconductor package structure includes a vapor chamber, a plurality of electrical contacts, a semiconductor die and an encapsulant. The vapor chamber defines an enclosed chamber for accommodating a working liquid. The electrical contacts surround the vapor chamber. The semiconductor die is disposed on the vapor chamber, and electrically connected to the electrical contacts through a plurality of bonding wires. The encapsulant covers a portion of the vapor chamber, portions of the electrical contacts, the semiconductor die and the bonding wires.
US11139195B2
Provided is a substrate supporting unit. The substrate supporting unit includes a susceptor supporting the substrate and having a pin hole vertically formed therein, a lift pin provided to move up and down along the pin hole, a support plate supporting the lift pin, and a driving unit vertically moving the support plate. The lift pin has a first magnetic substance formed at a lower end thereof. The support plate has a second magnetic substance provided thereon and having an opposite polarity to a polarity of the first magnetic substance.
US11139189B2
A substrate processing apparatus includes: a processing block in which a substrate is sequentially transferred and processed; a carry-in/out transfer mechanism that carrys-in/out the substrate with respect to modules; a carry-out module configured to place the substrate therein after the substrate is processed; a multi-module configured by a plurality of modules having a same order in which the substrate is transferred in the processing block; a main transfer mechanism that moves around in a transfer path provided in the processing block to deliver the substrate among the modules; and a controller that sets a first transfer schedule including determination of a number of modules to become transfer destinations of the substrate in the multi-module, and determination of a number of stay cycles which is a number of times that the main transfer mechanism moves around after the substrate is carried into the multi-module until the substrate is carried out.
US11139186B2
Techniques for creating a high aspect feature and testing the efficacy of a gas-phase deposition process are provided. An example of a method for thin film deposition in a high aspect ratio feature includes preparing a first substrate for a material deposition process, depositing a plurality of spacers on a top surface of the first substrate, disposing a bottom surface of a second substrate on the plurality of spacers, and performing a gas-phase material deposition on the first substrate and the second substrate.
US11139180B2
In parallel with a substrate heating step, a liquid surface sensor is used to monitor the raising of an IPA liquid film. An organic solvent removing step is started in response to the raising of the IPA liquid film over the upper surface of the substrate. At the end of the organic solvent removing step, a visual sensor is used to determine whether or not IPA droplets remain on the upper surface of the substrate.
US11139174B2
A method includes forming a mask layer over a target layer. A first etching process is performed on the mask layer to form a first opening and a second opening in the mask layer. A second etching process is performed on the mask layer to reduce an end-to-end spacing between the first opening and the second opening. The first etching process and the second etching process have different anisotropy properties. A pattern of the mask layer is transferred to the target layer.
US11139173B2
A production method of a semiconductor device includes introducing a reduction gas for reducing metal to a space containing a target to be used as the semiconductor device. The method also includes introducing a material gas and a first gas simultaneously to the space on a basis of a predetermined partial pressure ratio after introducing the reduction gas, to form a film that contains the metal, on the target. The material gas etches the metal when only the material gas is flowed. The first gas is different from the material gas. The predetermined partial pressure ratio is a ratio of the material gas and the first gas.
US11139169B2
An etching method and an etching apparatus improve the shape of a mask deformed by an etching process. The etching method for etching a film with plasma includes a step of providing a substrate, an etching step, and a correction step. In the step of providing a substrate, a substrate having a mask formed on a first film is provided. In the etching step, the first film is etched with plasma generated from a first gas containing Xe, Kr, or Rn so that an aspect ratio of a hole or a groove formed in the first film is 30 or more. In the correction step, the shape of the mask is corrected with plasma generated from a second gas.
US11139160B2
An apparatus and a method which can perform different processes, such as polishing and cleaning, on a surface of a substrate, such as a wafer, with a single processing head, and can process the surface of the substrate efficiently are disclosed. The apparatus includes: a substrate holder configured to hold a substrate and rotate the substrate; and a processing head configured to bring scrubbing tapes into contact with a first surface of the substrate to process the first surface. The processing head includes: pressing members arranged to press the scrubbing tapes against the first surface of the substrate; position switching devices configured to be able to switch positions of the pressing members between processing positions and retreat positions; tape feeding reels configured to feed the scrubbing tapes, respectively; and tape take-up reels configured to take up the scrubbing tapes, respectively.
US11139155B2
A laser desorption/ionization method, includes: a first step of preparing a sample support body including a substrate on which a plurality of through holes opening to a first surface and a second surface facing each other are formed, and a conductive layer provided on at least the first surface; a second step of introducing a sample and a solvent having refractoriness in a vacuum into the plurality of through holes; and a third step of ionizing a component of the sample by irradiating the first surface with laser beam while applying a voltage to the conductive layer.
US11139153B2
The MCP assembly of this embodiment is formed at least of a conductive upper support member, an MCP unit, an output electrode, a flexible sheet electrode, and a conductive lower support member as a structure for improving handleability of a flexible sheet electrode having a mesh area. The flexible sheet electrode includes the mesh area provided with plural openings. The flexible sheet electrode and the lower support member are physically and electrically connected to each other, and the flexible sheet electrode is sandwiched between the upper support member and the lower support member. As a result, even if the flexible sheet electrode becomes thin as an opening ratio of the mesh area increases, potential is set while the flexible sheet electrode is firmly held in the MCP assembly.
US11139150B2
A gas injection system includes (a) a side gas plenum, (b) a plurality of N gas inlets coupled to said side gas plenum, (c) plural side gas outlets extending radially inwardly from said plenum, (d) an N-way gas flow ratio controller having N outputs coupled to said N gas inlets respectively, and (e) an M-way gas flow ratio controller having M outputs, respective ones of said M outputs coupled to said tunable gas nozzle and a gas input of said N-way gas flow ratio controller.
US11139145B2
A system and method for ion implantation is described, which includes a gas or gas mixture including at least one ionizable gas used to generate ionic species and an arc chamber that includes two or more different arc chamber materials. Using the system ionic species are generated in the arc chamber with liner combination, and one or more desired ionic species display a higher beam current among the ionic species generated, which is facilitated by use of the different materials. In turn improved implantation of the desired ionic species into a substrate can be achieved. Further, the system can minimize formation of metal deposits during system operation, thereby extending source life and promoting improved system performance.
US11139140B2
A particle beam apparatus includes a first aperture unit having an adjustable aperture opening. The particle beam apparatus may include a first condenser lens having a first pole shoe and a second pole shoe. Both the first pole shoe and the second pole shoe may be adjustable relative to a second aperture unit independently of each other. The second aperture unit may be designed as a pressure stage aperture separating a first area having a vacuum at a first pressure, and a second area having a vacuum at a second pressure. Additionally, a method for adjusting a beam current in a particle beam apparatus is provided.
US11139135B2
An attachment structure includes a housing and a plate-shaped cover attached to the housing. The cover has a locking portion to fix the cover to the housing. The housing has a locked portion engaged with the locking portion to regulate a movement of the cover in a direction separating from the housing. The attachment structure is configured to engage the locking portion and the locked portion at an engagement place while the cover and the housing are pressed each other in directions separating from each other at a pressing place distant from the engagement place, and to form a space between the cover and the housing in a region between the pressing place and the engagement place, when the cover is attached to the housing.
US11139134B2
Unwanted or parasitic capacitances may occur in MEMS switches. To reduce or eliminate the impact of the unwanted or parasitic capacitance, an extra device, such as a second MEMS switch, may be coupled to a first MEMS switch to divert the unwanted or parasitic capacitance to ground.
US11139132B2
A component group of a relay comprises a separation component formed from an electrically insulating material and having a receptacle receiving an armature of the relay and a plurality of receiving connection elements adapted to plugged together with a switching bridge carrier of the relay. A switching bridge of the relay is arranged on the switching bridge carrier. The separation component galvanically separates the armature and the switching bridge.
US11139128B2
The invention relates to a remote control (1, 48) comprising: a first data read-in device (24, 78) and a second data read-in device (24, 78) which are each designed to read in data in a pressure direction (20, 61) on the basis of a pressure exerted by a user, a first pressure take-up element (30) assigned to the first data read-in device (24, 78) and a second pressure take-up element (30, 85) assigned to the second data read-in device (24, 78), which elements each have a pressure take-up side (35, 89) for taking up the pressure applied by the user, and a pressure output side for outputting the pressure, which was taken up, to the respective data read-in device (24, 78); and a flexible printed circuit board (31, 86, 97) which connects the pressure take-up sides (35, 89) of the pressure take-up elements (30, 85) to each other and on which at least one capacitive measurement transducer (38, 39, 93, 94) is formed whose capacitance is dependent on the position of a finger of the user on the flexible printed circuit board (31, 86, 97).
US11139114B2
A multilayer capacitor includes a body including a stack structure of a plurality of dielectric layers, and a plurality of internal electrodes stacked with the dielectric layers interposed therebetween. A stress alleviation portion is disposed on at least one surface among surfaces of the body, and an external electrode is disposed on an external portion of the body and connected to the internal electrodes. The stress alleviation portion includes a first resin layer adjacent to the body, and a second resin layer covering the first resin layer and including a filler dispersed in a resin of the second resin layer.
US11139112B2
An electronic component includes an element provided with a first recess, and a mounting conductor including a first conductor portion disposed in the first recess. The first conductor portion has a first face opposed to a bottom face of the first recess, a second face opposed to the first face, and a third face connecting the first face and the second face. The third face has a region overlapping with the second face as viewed from an opposing direction of the bottom face of the first recess and the first face.
US11139107B2
A reactor includes a coil having a pair of wound portions that are arranged side-by-side; a magnetic core having inner core portions that are disposed inside the wound portions and outer core portions that are exposed from the wound portions; and gap portions each constituted by a portion of respective insulating members that are disposed between the coil and the magnetic core, the gap portions dividing the outer core portions in a direction in which the wound portions are arranged side-by-side.
US11139103B2
The invention comprises an inductor, such as used in processing transmission of a 3-phase power system. The inductor comprises a flat/rectangular winding with a narrow edge of the flat winding wound around a core, where the width of the winding exceeds three times the height of the inductor facing edge of the winding. The inductor optionally comprises a distributed gap particle core and/or is wound in parallel with multiple windings. Optionally, the inductor is used as part of an equal coupling common mode electrical system for processing the 3-phase transmission and/or a high frequency inverter comprising a switching device, such as a silicon carbide metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor.
US11139102B2
A DC-DC converter includes an insulating substrate; a magnetic core embedded in the insulating substrate, the magnetic core having non-zero x, y and z dimensions of less than or equal to about 5.4 mm by about 5.4 mm by about 1.8 mm; separate primary and secondary transformer windings surrounding first and second regions of the magnetic core; and a control circuit including: an oscillator; a drive circuit coupled to the oscillator; and one or more switches coupled to the drive circuit; the drive circuit providing a switching signal to the one or more switches and energizing the one or more switches to provide a drive voltage to the primary transformer winding. The one or more switches are Field Effect Transistors implemented in a Silicon-on-Insulator configuration or as a Silicon-on-Sapphire configuration.
US11139096B2
A common mode choke coil comprising a core; a first wire and a second wire wound around the core; a first electrode part and a second electrode part disposed on the core and connected to the first wire; and a third electrode part and a fourth electrode part disposed on the core and connected to the second wire. The common mode choke coil has a self-resonance frequency of 700 MHz or more, and a common mode inductance of 300 nH or less, in a frequency band of 1 MHz or less.
US11139095B2
A multilayer coil component including: a magnetic part that contains Fe, Zn, V, and Ni and optionally contains Mn and/or Cu; and a conductor part that contains copper. In the magnetic part, Fe is in an amount of 34.0 to 48.5 mol % expressed as Fe2O3 equivalent, Zn is in an amount of 6.0 to 45.0 mol % expressed as ZnO equivalent, Mn is in an amount of 0 to 7.5 mol % expressed as Mn2O3 equivalent, Cu is in an amount of 0 to 5.0 mol % expressed as CuO equivalent, and V is in an amount of 0.5 to 5.0 mol % expressed as V2O5 equivalent, with respect to the total amount of Fe expressed as Fe2O3 equivalent, Zn expressed as ZnO equivalent, V expressed as V2O5 equivalent, and Ni expressed as NiO equivalent, and optionally present Cu expressed as CuO equivalent and optionally present Mn expressed as Mn2O3 equivalent.
US11139091B2
A resistor component includes an insulating substrate, a resistor layer disposed on one surface of the insulating substrate and having one end and the other end opposing each other in a first direction, and first and second terminals disposed on the insulating substrate and spaced apart from each other to oppose each other in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and connected to the resistor layer. A slit in the resistor layer extends in the first direction, and a ratio of a length of the slit in the first direction to a length of the resistor layer in the first direction is greater than 0.7 and equal to or lower than 0.9.
US11139090B1
An electrical cable having a plurality of conductors including a grounding conductor and at least one power-carrying conductor. The plurality of conductors disposed approximately in parallel within an outer jacket such that the electrical cable has a substantially elongated horizontal cross-section.
US11139087B2
A method and apparatus of limiting power of a boiling water nuclear reactor system includes a reactor pressure vessel, a reactor core disposed in the reactor pressure vessel, a core shroud surrounding the reactor core, a downcomer region disposed between an inner surface of the reactor pressure vessel and the core shroud, a steam line connected to an upper end of the reactor pressure vessel and a condenser system that receives steam from the reactor pressure vessel. A portion of the condenser system condensate is returned to the reactor pressure vessel of the boiling water reactor inside the core barrel above the core rather than into the downcomer. Returning the condensate in this way increases the effectiveness of an isolation condenser system or if the condensate is a portion of the feedwater from the main condenser it provides an effective means to regulate core flow and core power.
US11139082B2
A method is for classifying a risk for thrombus formation in an organ, in particular during an atrial fibrillation. In an embodiment, the method includes providing a medical image data set via a medical imaging device; calculating a flow parameter based on the medical image data set; assigning a risk parameter based on the flow parameter calculated; and—providing the risk parameter.
US11139074B2
A cell processing system includes a processor to receive a biological fluid to be processed, a controller coupled to the processor, the controller configured to operate the processor according to at least one modifiable process parameter, and at least one input coupled to the controller, the at least one input configured to receive an identifier and at least one process parameter control associated with the at least one process parameter that limits modification of the at least one process parameter if applied. The controller is configured to determine if the identifier is associated with an administrator authorization and to apply the at least one processor parameter control to the at least one process parameter if the identifier is associated with an administrator authorization.
US11139071B2
Systems and methods for employing virtual environmental augmentation in clinical care environments to enhance a clinician's in-the-moment knowledge, leverage past experiences of the clinician and others, and improve the quality of patient care are provided. Such virtual environmental augmentation may align with prior-established, evidence-based clinical processes and enhance the clinician's in-the-moment knowledge by extracting relevant data from one or more clinical sources and presenting a virtual representation of at least a portion of the extracted data (or a summary, exemplification, or interpretation thereof) in the clinician's field-of-view while the clinician is present in a clinical care environment and is utilizing an environmental augmentation device. Such environmental augmentation additionally may facilitate real-time documentation enabling more complete clinical records and ultimately improving the quality of patient care.
US11139065B1
The current document is directed to a relationship-analysis system. The currently disclosed relationship-analysis system collects objective and subjective observations of participants, and their relationship, in an interaction or transaction. The objective and subjective observations are combined to generate an observation data set that is processed by a computational relationship-analysis system. The analysis produces a variety of different types of results, including trust metrics, and stores the results in memory and/or mass-storage for control of downstream analysis, reporting, and actions. Trust metrics provide a basis for carrying out numerous types of downstream actions and for generating recommendations and evaluations by various types of relationship-evaluation and relationship-management systems that employ the relationship-analysis system.
US11139051B2
A method for enrolling patient candidates in a clinical trial includes generating first prediction data indicating predicted progression of a condition for a first group of patients that participated in a first clinical trial using a predictive model and clinical data associated with the first group of patients; grouping clinical trial data into subsets based on the first prediction data; analyzing each subset of clinical trial data to generate a measure of efficacy of the treatment; establishing screening criteria for a second clinical trial by identifying at least one subset that has a measure of efficacy that is higher than a measure of efficacy of the treatment for the full first group of patients; receiving clinical data of a candidate for the second clinical trial; generating second prediction data for the candidate; and enrolling the candidate in the second clinical trial when the second prediction data satisfies the screening criteria.
US11139048B2
A facility providing systems and methods for discovering novel features to use in machine learning techniques. The facility receives, for a number of subjects, one or more sets of data representative of some output or condition of the subject over a period of time or capturing some physical aspect of the subject. The facility then extracts or computes values from the data and applies one or more feature generators to the extracted values. Based on the outputs of the feature generators, the facility identifies novel feature generators for use in at least one machine learning process and further mutates the novel feature generators, which can then be applied to the received data to identify additional novel feature generators.
US11139045B2
Methods, apparatuses and systems related to managing access to a memory device are described. A memory device includes fuses and latches for storing a repair segment locator and a repair address for each repair of one or more defective memory cells. A segment-address determination circuit generate an active segment address based on the repair address according to the repair segment locator and an address for a read or a write operation. A comparator circuitry is configured to determine whether the active segment address matches the address for the read or the write operation for replacing the one or more defective memory cells with the plurality of redundant cells when the address for the read/write operation corresponds to the one or more defective memory cells.
US11139044B2
A memory testing method and a memory testing system. The memory testing system includes a host system and a testing device. The host system includes a processor. The testing device is coupled to the host system and a rewritable non-volatile memory module. A first memory controlling circuit unit corresponding to a first type memory storage device in the testing device tests the rewritable non-volatile memory module to obtain first test information. A second memory controlling circuit unit corresponding to a second type memory storage device in the testing device tests the rewritable non-volatile memory module to obtain second test information according to the first test information. The processor determines that whether the rewritable non-volatile memory module is applicable to the second type memory storage device or not according to the first test information and the second test information.
US11139042B2
Methods, systems, and devices for a capacitor health check are described. A health check manager may detect a trigger for a capacitor health check for a memory sub-system. The health check manager may determine a number of write commands in a set of one or more pending commands for a memory die of the memory sub-system and set a start time for the capacitor health check based on the number of write commands in the set of one or more pending commands. In some cases, the health check manager may perform the capacitor health check in accordance with the start time.
US11139039B2
According to one embodiment, a memory device includes a memory cell, a word line connected to the memory cell, a word line driver which generates a selection signal for the word line, a first transistor including a gate to which the selection signal generated by the word line driver is input, and a drain which supplies a signal based on the selection signal to the word line, and a detection circuit which detects a value based on a current flowing through the first transistor during a verification period after writing data to the memory cell.
US11139035B2
A memory device may include memory cells configured to establish multiple levels of charge distributions; and a memory controller configured to perform operations on the memory cells. The operations may include recording a bit count number for a highest level of charge distributions within a set of memory cells, recording a bit count number for a lowest level of charge distributions within the set of memory cells, counting bits for the highest level of charge distributions within the set of memory cells, counting bits in the lowest level of charge distributions within the set of memory cells, comparing the counted bits for the highest level to the recorded bit count number for the highest level, and comparing the counted bits for the lowest level to the recorded bit count number for the lowest level.
US11139028B2
A nonvolatile memory apparatus may include a write circuit and a sense amplifier. The write circuit may perform a preselection operation on a selected memory cell. When the selected memory cell was snapped back, the write circuit may selectively perform a reset write operation and a set write operation on the selected memory cell according to write data. When the selected memory cell is not snapped back, the write circuit may apply no voltage and no current to the selected memory cell. The sense amplifier may sense whether the selected memory cell was snapped back.
US11139024B2
In order to eliminate an increase in the source potential of a transistor selected during writing or reading, this semiconductor device is equipped with: a variable-resistance type first switch having a first terminal and a second terminal; a variable-resistance type second switch having a third terminal and a fourth terminal, the third terminal being connected to the second terminal to form an intermediate node; first wiring connected to the first terminal; second wiring connected to the fourth terminal and, in a planar view, extending in a direction crossing the first wiring; a first selection transistor connected to the first wiring; a second selection transistor connected to the second wiring; a first well terminal connection line to which a well terminal of the first selection transistor is connected; and a second well terminal connection line to which a well terminal of the second selection transistor is connected.
US11139019B1
Apparatuses and methods for correcting a code used for delay adjustment are disclosed. An example method includes providing a bit of a thermometer code responsive, at least, to a shift direction signal; and adjusting an amount of a delay responsive to the thermometer code. Providing the bit comprises correcting the bit using one or more adjacent bits on one side of the bit in the thermometer code and one or more adjacent bits on another side of the bit in the thermometer code.
US11139017B2
An integrated circuit device is provided. The integrated circuit device includes: a functional device including a selection device; and a bias generator circuit coupled to the selection device and configured to detect a leakage current of the functional device and generate a bias voltage based on the detected leakage current. The bias voltage is provided to the selection device to control the selection device.
US11138998B2
The magnetic recording medium includes: a non-magnetic support; and a magnetic layer including a ferromagnetic powder and a binding agent on the non-magnetic support, in which the magnetic layer further includes a compound including a polyalkyleneimine chain and a vinyl polymer chain. The composition for a magnetic recording medium includes: ferromagnetic powder; and a compound including a polyalkyleneimine chain and a vinyl polymer chain.
US11138996B1
A data storage device is disclosed comprising at least one head configured to access a magnetic tape comprising a plurality of data tracks, wherein each data track comprises a plurality of data segments and a plurality of servo sectors. The head is used to read one of the servo sectors to generate a first read signal. The first read signal is processed to generate a position error signal (PES) of the head relative to the magnetic tape, wherein the head is positioned relative to the magnetic tape based on the PES. The head is used to read one of the data segments to generate a second read signal, wherein the second read signal is processed to detect user data recorded in the data segment.
US11138992B2
This application discloses a voice activity detection method. The method includes receiving speech data, the speech data including a multi-frame speech signal; determining energy and spectral entropy of a frame of speech signal; calculating a square root of the energy of the speech signal and/or calculating a square root of the spectral entropy of the frame of the speech signal; determining a spectral entropy-energy square root of the frame of the speech signal based on at least one of the square root of the energy and the square root of the spectral entropy; and determining that the frame of the speech signal is an unvoiced frame if the spectral entropy-energy square root of the speech signal is less than a first threshold, or that it is a voiced frame if the spectral entropy-energy square root of the speech signal is greater than or equal to the first threshold.
US11138991B2
[Object] To more flexibly control the affinity of a spoken utterance for a background sound in accordance with the importance degree of an information notification. [Solution] There is provided an information processing apparatus including an utterance control unit that controls an output of a spoken utterance corresponding to notification information. The utterance control unit controls an output mode of the spoken utterance on the basis of an importance degree of the notification information and affinity for a background sound. In addition, there is provided an information processing method including controlling, by a processor, an output of a spoken utterance corresponding to notification information. The controlling further includes controlling an output mode of the spoken utterance on the basis of an importance degree of the notification information and affinity for a background sound.
US11138989B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer storage media for sound quality prediction and real-time feedback about sound quality, such as room acoustics quality and background noise. Audio data can be sampled from a live sound source and stored in an audio buffer. The audio data in the buffer is analyzed to calculate a stream of values of one or more sound quality measures, such as speech transmission index and signal-to-noise ratio. Speech transmission index can be calculated using a convolution neural network configured to predict speech transmission index from reverberant speech. The stream of values can be used to provide real-time feedback about sound quality of the audio data. For example, a visual indicator on a graphical user interface can be updated based on consistency of the values over time. The real-time feedback about sound quality can help users optimize their recording setup.
US11138988B2
Video contents having language information including spoken voices in a plurality of languages can be efficiently played to support language learning. After removing line-free parts from the video contents, the video contents are divided into divided scenes each corresponding to one or two consecutive displays of subtitles. Each of selected scenes of the divided scenes selected by a user is played (i) a first predetermined number of times selected by the user, in one of first and second languages selected beforehand by the user, together with images; and (ii) then a second predetermined number of times selected by the user, in the other of the first and second languages, together with the images.
US11138984B2
Provided is an information processing apparatus including a file generation unit that generates a file including speech waveform data and vibration waveform data. The file generation unit cuts out waveform data in a to-be-synthesized band from first speech data, synthesizes waveform data extracted from a synthesizing band of vibration data with the to-be-synthesized band to generate second speech data, and encodes the second speech data to generate the file.
US11138970B1
The present disclosure relates to a system, method, and computer program for creating a complete transcription of an audio recording from separately transcribed redacted and unredacted words. The system receives an original audio recording and redacts a plurality of words from the original audio recording to obtain a modified audio recording. The modified audio recording is outputted to a first transcription service. Audio clips of the redacted words from the original audio recording are extracted using word-level timestamps for the redacted words. The extracted audio clips are outputted to a second transcription service. The system receives a transcription of the modified audio recording from the first transcription service and transcriptions of the extracted audio clips from the second transcription service. The transcriptions of the extracted audio clips are combined with the transcription of the modified audio recording to obtain a complete transcription of the original audio recording using word-level timestamps.
US11138963B2
A processor-implemented text-to-speech method includes determining, using a sub-encoder, a first feature vector indicating an utterance characteristic of a speaker from feature vectors of a plurality of frames extracted from a partial section of a first speech signal of the speaker, and determining, using an autoregressive decoder, into which the first feature vector is input as an initial value, from context information of the text, a second feature vector of a second speech signal in which a text is uttered according to the utterance characteristic.
US11138959B2
A fine tuner for a string musical instrument, comprising a main body having an underside, a top side, a first abutment region and having a second abutment region for a string, wherein the second abutment region is spaced apart from the first abutment region, a gripping element for gripping a string portion that is located between the first abutment region and the second abutment region, and an adjusting device, which sits on the main body and acts on the gripping element, wherein a position of the gripping element relative to the main body is adjustable in a fixable manner using the adjusting device and the position of the gripping element determines a deflected position of the string at the fine tuner, and wherein the gripping element entrains the string portion counter to a direction that extends in a direction from the top side to the underside.
US11138955B2
An electronic device includes flexible display; at least one sensor; at least one processor connected to the flexible display and the at least one sensor; and a memory connected to the at least one processor, wherein the memory stores instructions which, when executed, cause the at least one processor to identify wearing state information of the electronic device and/or bending state information of the electronic device by using the at least one sensor; display first object information on a first display area of the flexible display, based on at least the identified wearing state information and/or bending state information; identify a situation change of the electronic device by the at least one sensor; in response to identifying the situation change, acquire situation information of the electronic device or posture information of the electronic device by using the at least one sensor; and display second object information on a second display area including at least a partial area of the first display area of the flexible display, based on at least the acquired situation information and/or posture information.
US11138950B1
Efficiently transmitting image data to an electronic display may be provided by skipping regions of the electronic display that display a default value. The electronic display may include a number of pixels, a row driver, and a data driver. The row driver may activate a first subset of the pixels for programming. The data driver may program a default pixel value to respective pixels of the first subset of the pixels for which image data has not been received and may program image data to respective pixels of the first subset of the pixels for which image data has been received.
US11138935B2
The present application discloses a method for compensating data voltages in a display apparatus. The method for individually compensating a data voltage to be applied to one of the multiple pixel circuits in the display apparatus. The method includes obtaining a threshold voltage of the driving transistor in the one of the multiple pixel circuits. Additionally, the method includes applying a testing voltage to a gate electrode of the driving transistor for charging the sense line up to a first time period to determine a first monitoring voltage associated with the sense line. The testing voltage is set to be a sum of the threshold voltage and a first setting voltage. Moreover, the method includes compensating a data voltage to be applied to the one of the multiple pixel circuits based on the first monitoring voltage and the threshold voltage.
US11138934B2
A display device includes a pixel. The pixel includes a light emitting unit and a driving circuit for driving the light emitting unit. When the light emitting unit is driven in a pulse width modulation (PWM) mode with a PWM period, the PWM period includes a plurality of pulse controllable periods.
US11138931B2
A display device includes: a display region in which first light-emitting elements by together with pixel circuits constitute pixels and are arranged in a matrix shape; and control circuits having electrical control function to the display region, wherein a determination circuit connected to a control line or to a node provided in the control circuit, and a second light-emitting element and a third light-emitting element connected to the determination circuit and configured to emit different colors from each other are provided in the frame region, and the determination circuit alternately cause only one of the second light-emitting element and the third light-emitting element to emit light.
US11138925B1
A driving circuit includes a first power signal terminal, a second power signal terminal, a first driving transistor, a light-emitting element, a first storage module, a first boost module, a first light-emitting control module, and a data write module. The driving circuit includes a data write stage, a boost stage, and a light-emitting stage in a same frame. At the data write stage, the data write module transmits a first data signal to the first boost node. At the boost stage, the boost signal terminal transmits a boost signal to the first boost module to increase a potential of the first boost node. At the light-emitting stage, the first light-emitting control module is in conduction, and a signal of the first boost node is transmitted to the first node.
US11138921B2
A display device provides for row based brightness uniformity compensation. The display device includes a display panel and a row driver connected to the display panel. The display panel includes a first pixel row and a second pixel row. The row driver provides first signals to the first pixel row to drive the first pixel row using a first time interval for a first subframe of a first pulse width modulation (PWM) frame of the first pixel row. The row driver provides second signals to the second pixel row to drive the second pixel row using a second time interval for a second subframe of a second PWM frame of the second pixel row. The first time interval may be different from the second timer interval, such as to provide for uniform brightness of light emission across the first and second pixel rows.
US11138920B2
A display device provides pulse width modulation (PWM) control of pixels using comparator circuits within each pixel. The display device includes a display panel and a row driver connected to the display panel. The row driver includes a counter configured to generate count bit values for subframes of a pulse width modulation (PWM) frame. The display panel includes pixels, each pixel including a comparator circuit and a light emitting diode. The comparator circuit includes a dynamic comparison node. The comparator circuit is configured to generate comparison results at the dynamic comparison node by comparing the count bit values of the subframes and data bit values of a control word defining a brightness level of the pixel for the PWM frame. The LED is configured to turn on or off responsive to the comparison results at the dynamic comparison node.
US11138918B2
Methods and apparatuses relating to controlling an emission of a display panel. In one embodiment, a display driver hardware circuit includes row selection logic to select a number of rows in an emission group of a display panel, wherein the number of rows is adjustable from a single row to a full panel of the display panel, column selection logic to select a number of columns in the emission group of the display panel, wherein the number of columns is adjustable from a single column to the full panel of the display panel, and emission logic to select a number of pulses per data frame to be displayed, wherein the number of pulses per data frame is adjustable from one to a plurality and a pulse length is adjustable from a continuous duty cycle to a non-continuous duty cycle.
US11138905B2
An AED trainer is implemented using a special purpose hardware platform and a state machine, implemented in software, which together replicate or simulate operations of a target AED device. The state machine operates the AED trainer in an efficient and effective manner to train students to correctly perform rescue procedures on patients suffering from Sudden Cardiac Arrest.
US11138904B2
Embodiments of a resettable injection training device are provided herein. The resettable injection training device includes a body and a retractable shield, extendable and retractable relative to the body of the device, in an embodiment. In another embodiment, the resettable injection training device may include an injection simulation member. The retractable shield may be lockable in an extended position, and may be unlocked to retract the shield for a subsequent use of the device in one non-limiting embodiment. In another non-limiting embodiment, a resetting component may be used to retract the shield to reset the device.
US11138901B1
Systems and methods for item recognition and analysis are disclosed. One or more items are recognized utilizing, for example, image data, and a quantity of the one or more items is determined based at least in part on data representing a weight of the items. Nutritional information associated with the items is determined and utilized for one or more purposes, including, for example, nutrition tracking, meal apportionment, label generation, and recipe creation and modification.
US11138896B2
According to one embodiment, there is provided an information display apparatus including a processor, the processor being configured to: designate at least one keyword in a text displayed in a display unit in accordance with a user operation; cause the display unit to display an image associated with the designated keyword register the designated keyword and information of the image in a memory as data in which the designated keyword and the information of the image are associated with each other; output a problem based on the registered keyword and the image corresponding to the registered information.
US11138893B2
Provided are flight conflict resolution method and apparatus based on ultimatum game theory. The method includes: obtaining a first priority of a first aircraft and a second priority of a second aircraft when it is determined that a minimum distance between the first aircraft and the second aircraft within a preset time period is less than a preset distance; determining a first angle and a second angle of the first aircraft and a fourth angle and a fifth angle of the second aircraft according to the first priority, the second priority, and a preset limiting deflection angle; determining a third angle of the first aircraft and a sixth angle of the second aircraft; determining a first deflection angle of the first aircraft and a second deflection angle of the second aircraft according to the first and second priorities, the first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth angles.
US11138885B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods are provided for interfacing a roadway obstacle and navigation system with an obstacle identification and route determination system to identify roadway obstacles based on vehicular data. The roadway obstacle and navigation system may receive vehicular data through sensor utilization and communications with electronic devices. The vehicular data may be analyzed by the roadway obstacle and navigation system in conjunction with the obstacle identification and route determination system to identify roadway obstacles. The roadway obstacle and navigation system may use the roadway obstacles to provide safety alerts to drivers.
US11138880B2
In some examples, a computing device includes one or more computer processors, a communication device, and a memory comprising instructions that cause the one or more computer processors to: receive, using the communication device and from a set of vehicles, different sets of infrastructure data for a particular infrastructure article that is proximate to each respective vehicle of the set of vehicles, wherein each respective vehicle in the set of vehicles comprises at least one infrastructure sensor that generates infrastructure data descriptive of infrastructure articles that are proximate to the respective vehicle; determine, based at least in part on the different sets of infrastructure data for the particular infrastructure article from each respective vehicle of the set of vehicles, a quality metric for the infrastructure article; and perform at least one operation based at least in part on the quality metric for the infrastructure article.
US11138860B2
Various technologies for monitoring operation of an air contaminant mitigation system, such as a vapor intrusion and/or radon gas mitigation system, are disclosed. For example, in one embodiment, a monitoring system includes an air contaminant mitigation system to exhaust vapors from a contaminated area to a designated area and a sensor module coupled to the air contaminant mitigation system to generate sensor signals indicative of a sensor condition of the air contaminant mitigation system. The system may also include a sensor controller to receive the sensor signals from the sensor module and generate sensor data indicative of the sensor signals. Additionally, the system may include a data server to receive the sensor data from the sensor controller, store the sensor data in a local database, and transmit information based on the sensor data to a remote computing device.
US11138858B1
Systems and methods for event-detection confirmation are disclosed. For example, a sensing device may generate sensor data, such as from radar, and the sensor data may be utilized to determine if a predefined event as occurred. Event-confirmation operations may then be performed, such as by utilizing acoustic-event detection techniques and/or natural language understanding techniques. When occurrence of an event is confirmed, such as to a certain confidence level, one or more actions may be taken, such as sending a notification to another device and/or establishing a communication channel with another device, such as a device associated with emergency services, family members, friends, and/or neighbors.
US11138856B1
The invention relates to a system and method for detecting high risk sleeping position of an infant relating to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). The invention utilizes a deep learning model for detecting sleeping position of the infant, alerting the caregiver and further refining the deep leaning model based on the caregiver's feedback for future infant sleeping positions. The system retrains the deep learning model based on the captured feedback from the caregiver to reduce false negatives and permit false positives. The invention thereby proposes a new non-intrusive but failsafe mechanism to monitor the babies in the crib and uses commonly available hardware to achieve the same. The system can leverage multiple channels of communication to ensure that latency in any channel do not defeat the purpose of the system.
US11138847B2
A mesh network environmental data capture system and method for providing communication between a base system having at least one wireless input capture device ICD(s) and other ICD(s), wherein the ICD(s) are capable of smart cross-communication with each other and remote access to their inputs via a server computer, including the steps of providing this base system; at least one user accessing the ICDs and inputs remotely via a user interface through a remote server computer and/or electronic device communicating with it, for providing a secure surveillance system with extended inputs range and wireless smart cross-communication for monitoring a target environment.
US11138840B2
Systems, methods, and articles of manufacture provide for associating game symbols. For example, scatter symbols and/or other reel symbols in a slot-style game may be related such that they become connected in relation to one or more results and/or outcomes of a game session.
US11138839B1
A peer-to-peer wager facilitation system comprising a processor communicatively coupled to a storage comprising a gambler library with a plurality of gambler profiles. The processor is configured to receive a wager offer from a first gambler through a network, verify that the first gambler has the first amount of money, and reject the wager offer if the first gambler does not have the first amount of money. The processor is also configured to receive a wager acceptance from a second gambler through the network agreeing to the wager with the first gambler, verify that the second gambler has the second amount of money, and reject the wager acceptance if the second gambler does not have the second amount of money. The processor is configured to transfer the funds into a neutral third-party account, verify the outcome of the wager, and pay the funds to the winning party of the wager.
US11138837B2
Systems, methods, and articles of manufacture provide for community video slot-style gaming such as slot-style games that include a community gaming field and that permit individual players or groups of players to initiate gameplay based on selections of one or more subsets of the community gaming field.
US11138833B2
Gaming systems and methods that provides zero, one or more social media benefits to a player in addition to any awards provided to that player in association with a play of a game.
US11138826B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to distributed systems that include networked master and slave circuits that are each connected to a plurality of electronic gaming machines on a casino floor. Each circuit receives data from a data port on an electronic gaming machine to which it is connected and also transmits commands, such as TITO commands, to the electronic gaming machine via the data port. If a master circuit fails, the system automatically selects one of the slave circuits to be the new master circuit.
US11138821B2
Hybrid model electronic voting system and method for enabling individual voters to remotely cast a ballot electronically via inputs to a receiver where a user controls a mechanical system that produces a physical, readable ballot. The voting system comprises a voter interface device communicatively coupled to a data network, the voter interface device including a screen, the voter interface device configured to generate an input command containing a ballot selection; a portal server including a database containing an eligibility list, the portal server communicatively coupled to the data network and configured to connect to the voter interface device over the data network to validate an eligibility of a voter operating the voter interface device by comparing the voter to the eligibility list; a voting machine including a physical marking device and a camera, the voting machine communicatively coupled to the data network.
US11138819B1
A mobile device covering device, including a main body to receive a mobile device therein, and a key unit disposed on at least a portion of the main body to facilitate access to a vehicle and receive input to operate functions of the vehicle.
US11138817B2
A method for determining a vehicle system prognosis includes detecting a predetermined characteristic of a vehicle with one or more sensors, receiving a plurality of sensor signals from the one or more sensors and determining an input time series of data based on the sensor signals, clustering a matrix of time series data, generated from the input time series of data, into a predetermined number of hyperplanes, extracting extracted features that are indicative of an operation of a vehicle system from a sparse temporal matrix based on data point behavior with respect to two or more hyperplanes within the sparse temporal matrix and determining an operational status of the vehicle system based on the extracted features, the sparse temporal matrix being based on the predetermined number of hyperplanes; and communicating the operational status of the vehicle system to an operator or crew member of the vehicle.
US11138816B1
A system for determining a remaining useful life of a component is provided that includes an onboard control unit including a processor, a plurality of sensors to detect a plurality of signals from the component, and a data bus connecting the sensors to the onboard control unit. The processor receives data from the plurality of sensors and determines a plurality of condition indicators for the component, a health indicator from the plurality of condition indicators, and a remaining useful life for the component. An alert or warning may be given if the remaining useful life reaches a certain value provided that certain automated reporting conditions are also met.
US11138815B2
A vehicle management system includes: a vehicle including a control unit and a communication control unit; and a communication terminal configured to communicate with the vehicle. The communication terminal includes: an arithmetic processing unit configured to output an activation signal for activating the control unit when the communication terminal is turned on or when an application stored in the communication terminal is started; a communication unit configured to transmit the activation signal output by the arithmetic processing unit to the communication control unit; and a notification unit configured to notify a vehicle information output from the control unit activated in response to the activation signal.
US11138814B1
Systems and methods relate to, inter alia, receiving a set of sensor data from a set of sensors communicatively coupled to the electronic mobile device. The systems and methods may further include determining automatically from the set of sensor data that the collision event occurred during the operation of the automotive device. The systems and methods may further include initiating, in response to determining that the collision event occurred, a reverse communication session between the electronic mobile device and a collision management server. The electronic mobile device, via the initiated reverse communication session, may be configured to receive a first offer from a first service provider and a second offer from a second service provider. The first offer and the second offer are for servicing the automotive device by the first service provider and the second service provider, respectively.
US11138808B2
A method of processor-aided design of a workholding frame for a manufacturing process includes using a processor to perform operations including receiving, by a processor, first data representing a first three-dimensional (3D) model of an object to be manufactured. The operations further include obtaining, by the processor, second data describing a second 3D model. The second 3D model represents a bounding box having one or more sides adjoining a surface of the object within the first 3D model. The operations further include automatically generating, by the processor and based on the first data and the bounding box, third data indicating one or more parameters of the workholding frame. The workholding frame and the object are to be formed based on the one or more parameters and as a single workpiece from a blank material during a machining process associated with the object.
US11138804B2
Methods and apparatuses are described for intelligent smoothing of 3D alternative reality applications for secondary 2D viewing. A computing device receives a first data set corresponding to a first position of an alternative reality viewing device. The computing device generates a 3D virtual environment for display on the alternative reality viewing device using the first data set, and a 2D rendering of the virtual environment for display on a display device using the first data set. The computing device receives a second data set corresponding to a second position of the alternative reality viewing device after movement of the alternative reality viewing device. The computing device determines whether a difference between the first data set and the second data set is above a threshold. The computing device updates the 2D rendering of the virtual environment on the display device using the second data set, when the difference is above the threshold value.
US11138802B1
Systems and methods include a computer-implemented method for annotating an augmented reality display. An indication that a user is present at a digital stop in a geographical region is received by an augmented reality (AR) device. 3D annotation information associated with a 3D location of the AR device in a 3D reconstructed map of the real world is received. A virtual reality display that overlays, in real-time, the 3D annotation information onto real-world objects in the geographical region is provided. A location of the AR device is determined and tracked using a six degrees-of-freedom localization system. A visual view of the AR device is associated with a pre-acquired 3D point-based model. Features of real-world objects are annotated. Simultaneous localization and mapping of the AR device and the visual view are performed to annotate 3D features during movement of the AR device. Features of the real-world objects are annotated.
US11138787B2
A system in a mobile platform creates a three-dimensional world model from sets of volume elements organized into sets of volume elements of increasing size and converted into an octree data structure. The system receives a request for a map of a specific, limited region and at a specific, limited level of detail and produces a reduced three-dimensional world model to conform to the limited region and level of detail. The reduced map is transmitted to the requesting platform and periodically updated. The map may be reduced by categorizing the lowest level of volume elements according to the worst case of any constituent volume elements. Alternatively, the system may indicate in the lowest level of volume elements whether the receiving platform would benefit from an increased level of detail.
US11138785B2
A method and a system for generating a 3D image of a character through steps of: receiving an identifier of a template and a two-dimensional (2D) image of the character generated based on the template corresponding to a type of the character; acquiring template information of the template from a template library by using the identifier, and extracting an effective parameter for machine learning to be performed to generate the 3D image based on the template information and the 2D image; and generating the 3D image of the character by performing the machine learning based on the effective parameter and the template information are provided.
US11138776B2
Various methods and systems are provided for image-management operations that includes generating adaptive image armatures based on an alignment between composition lines of a reference armature and a position of an object in an image. In operation, a reference armature for an image is accessed. The reference armature includes a plurality of composition lines that define a frame of reference for image composition. An alignment map is determined using the reference armature. The alignment map includes alignment information that indicates alignment between the composition lines of the reference armature and the position of the object in the image. Based on the alignment map, an adaptive image armature is determined. The adaptive image armature includes a subset of the composition lines of the reference armature. The adaptive image armature is displayed.
US11138774B2
Techniques are disclosed for analyzing a graph image in a disconnected mode, e.g., when a graph is rendered as .jpeg, .gif, .png, and so on, and identifying a portion of the graph image associated with a plot/curve of interest. The identified portion of the graph image may then be utilized to generate an adjusted image. The adjusted image may therefore dynamically increase visibility of the plot/curve of interest relative to other plots/curves, and thus the present disclosures provides additional graph functionalities without access to the data originally used to generate the graph. The disconnected graph functionalities disclosed herein may be implemented within an Internet browser or other “app” that may present images depicting graphs to a user.
US11138765B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for non-linear color correction. The method including receiving an input image from an image sensor, converting the input image from a red, green, blue (RGB) color space format to an alternate color space format, determining localized hue correction parameters for a selected color in the alternate color space, determining localized saturation correction parameters for a selected hue in the alternate color space, applying the localized hue correction parameters and the localized saturation correction parameters to the input image to generate an output image and storing, displaying, or transmitting the output image based on at least the localized hue correction parameters and the localized saturation correction parameters.
US11138763B2
Provided is an artificial intelligence (AI) decoding apparatus includes: a memory storing one or more instructions; and a processor configured to execute the one or more instructions stored in the memory, the processor is configured to: obtain AI data related to AI down-scaling an original image to a first image; obtain image data corresponding to an encoding result on the first image; obtain a second image corresponding to the first image by performing a decoding on the image data; obtain deep neural network (DNN) setting information among a plurality of DNN setting information from the AI data; and obtain, by an up-scaling DNN, a third image by performing the AI up-scaling on the second image, the up-scaling DNN being configured with the obtained DNN setting information, wherein the plurality of DNN setting information comprises a parameter used in the up-scaling DNN, the parameter being obtained through joint training of the up-scaling DNN and a down-scaling DNN, and wherein the down-scaling DNN is used to obtain the first image from the original image.
US11138762B2
A decoding device, an encoding device and a method for point cloud decoding is disclosed. The method includes generating, for a 3D point cloud, a first 2D frame representing a first attribute and a second 2D frame representing a second attribute. The first 2D frame and the second 2D frame include respective clusters of projected points from the 3D point cloud. The method includes detecting missed points of the 3D point cloud and generating first and second additional points patches representing the first attribute and the second attribute, respectively, based on at least a subset of the missed points. The method includes including the first and second additional points patch in the first and second 2D frame, respectively. The method includes encoding the first 2D frame and the second 2D frame to generate a compressed bitstream and transmitting the compressed bitstream.
US11138760B2
A display system and method for correcting drifts in camera poses. Images are captured via camera, and camera poses are determined in global coordinate system. First features are extracted from first image. Relative pose of first feature with respect to camera is determined. Pose of first feature in global coordinate system is determined, based on its relative pose and first camera pose. Second features are extracted from second image. Relative pose of second feature with respect to camera is determined. Pose of second feature in global coordinate system is determined, based on its relative pose and second camera pose. Matching features are identified between first features and second features. Difference is determined between pose of feature based on first camera pose and pose of feature based on second camera pose. Matching features that satisfy first predefined criterion based on difference are selected. Correction transform that, when applied to second camera pose, yields corrected second camera pose is generated, such that corrected differences between poses of matching features based on corrected second camera pose and corresponding poses of matching features based on first camera pose satisfy second predefined criterion. Correction transform is applied to second camera pose. Second image is processed, based on corrected second camera pose, to generate extended-reality image.
US11138759B2
A processor detects feature lines from an image of an object and generates projection lines by projecting line segments in shape information of the object on the image. The processor generates combinations each including a feature line and a projection line and generates plural sets each including a specific number of combinations. The processor uses each set to estimate a position and an orientation of an imaging device that has captured the image, and evaluates a result of the estimation for each set. When there is a change in a relative position or orientation between the object on the image and a shape represented by the shape information, the processor repeats generation of the plural sets, estimation of the position and the orientation of the imaging device and evaluation of the estimation result. The processor determines the position and the orientation of the imaging device based on the repeated evaluation.
US11138758B2
The present disclosure relates to an image processing method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The method includes: acquiring a first image and a first attention map of a first target object in the first image, where the first attention map indicates the position of the first target object in the first image; acquiring a second image and a second mask image of the second image, where pixel values of pixels in the second mask image are equal; and obtaining, according to first input information and second input information, a first prediction result that indicates the position of the first target object in the second image, where the first input information is determined according to the first image and the first attention map, and the second input information is determined according to the second image and the second mask image.
US11138750B2
A distance estimating method and apparatus are provided. The method includes acquiring a real target length corresponding to target points of an object, calculating, from an input image, an image target length corresponding to the real target length, and estimating a distance from a distance estimating apparatus to the object, based on the real target length, the image target length, and a focal length thereof.
US11138749B2
The method of determination of a depth map of a scene comprises generation of a distance map of the scene obtained by time of flight measurements, acquisition of two images of the scene from two different viewpoints, and stereoscopic processing of the two images taking into account the distance map. The generation of the distance map includes generation of distance histograms acquisition zone by acquisition zone of the scene, and the stereoscopic processing includes, for each region of the depth map corresponding to an acquisition zone, elementary processing taking into account the corresponding histogram.
US11138748B2
A method for classifying depth scan data at a computing device includes: obtaining, at the computing device, a set of depth measurements and a graphical representation of the depth measurements; automatically selecting, at the computing device, a subset of the depth measurements indicating a region of interest; rendering, on a display of the computing device, an image including (i) the graphical representation of the depth measurements and (ii) a graphical indication of the region of interest overlaid on the graphical representation of the depth measurements; receiving, via an input device, a selection associated with the image; and generating a region of interest indicator based on the subset of the depth measurements and the selection.
US11138747B1
In one embodiment, a method includes, by a computing system, determining a sample point within a texture. The sample point corresponds to a specified output position in a display system. The method includes accessing texels in the texture that are used for determining properties of the sample point. Each identified texel includes a color and a transparency level. The method includes determining an interpolation optimization by comparing the colors and transparency levels of the identified texels. The method includes determining, according to the determined interpolation optimization, a pixel color and a pixel transparency level for the sample point using the identified texels. At least one of the pixel color or the pixel transparency level is determined by copying the colors or transparency levels of the texels, respectively, without performing interpolation. The method includes providing the determined pixel color and the determined pixel transparency level for the sample point for display.
US11138742B2
A method for implementing a soft data association modeled with probabilities is provided. The association probabilities are computed in an intertwined expectation maximization (EM) scheme with an optical flow computation that maximizes the expectation (marginalization) over all associations. In addition, longer tracks can be enabled by computing the affine deformation with respect to the initial point and using the resulting residual as a measure of persistence. The computed optical flow enables a varying temporal integration that is different for every feature and sized inversely proportional to the length of the optical flow. The results can be seen in egomotion and very fast vehicle sequences.
US11138731B2
A method is for generating synthetic training data and for training deep learning algorithms for tumor lesion characterization. In an embodiment, the method for generating synthetic training data for training a deep learning algorithm includes training a Generative Adversarial Network to generate synthetic image data, the Generative Adversarial Network including a generator and a discriminator; and using the generator of the Generative Adversarial Network to generate synthetic image data as the synthetic training data.
US11138722B2
Methods and systems for enhanced defect detection based on images collected by at least two imaging detectors at different times are described. In some embodiments, the time between image measurements is at least 100 microseconds and no more than 10 milliseconds. In one aspect, one or more defects of interest are identified based on a composite image of a measured area generated based on a difference between collected images. In a further aspect, measurement conditions associated with the each imaged location are adjusted to be different for measurements performed by at least two imaging detectors at different times. In some embodiments, the measurement conditions are adjusted during the time between measurements by different imaging detectors. Exemplary changes of measurement conditions include environmental changes at the wafer under measurement and changes made to the optical configuration of the inspection system.
US11138717B2
An electronic apparatus includes a memory configured to store a plurality of images; and a processor configured to identify qualities of the plurality of images, process the plurality of images using at least one artificial intelligence model corresponding to the identified qualities, and obtain a graphic image including the processed plurality of images, and the at least one artificial intelligence model is trained to increase a quality of an input image.
US11138702B2
The information processing apparatus has an image correction unit. The image correction unit has a correction parameter determination unit configured to determine a correction parameter for correcting an image capturing characteristic of image data corresponding to a target viewpoint among a plurality of pieces of image data acquired by capturing an object from a plurality of viewpoints based on an image capturing characteristic of image data of another viewpoint different from the target viewpoint and a pixel value correction unit configured to correct a pixel value of the image data corresponding to the target viewpoint based on the correction parameter. Moreover, the information processing apparatus further has an image composition unit configured to generate composed image data based on the image data whose pixel value has been corrected.
US11138693B2
Techniques of adjusting the salience of an image include generating values of photographic development parameters for a foreground and background of an image to adjust the salience of the image in the foreground. These parameters are global in nature over the image rather than local. Moreover, the optimization of the salience over such sets of global parameters is provided through two sets of these parameters by an encoder: one set corresponding to the foreground, in which the salience is to be either increased or decreased, and the other set corresponding to the background. Once the set of development parameters corresponding to the foreground region and the set of development parameters corresponding to the background region have been determined, a decoder generates an adjusted image with an increased salience based on these sets of development parameters.
US11138690B1
A multi-image brick mosaic depicting a plurality of images each from a different viewing angle and systems and methods for building it. The multi-image brick mosaic includes a plurality of interlocking bricks assembled on baseplate(s) where the interlocking bricks are divided to multiple brick sets each associated with a respective one of multiple images. The top facet of the interlocking bricks of each group are aligned to a respective one of multiple angles. Instructions are computed for selecting the color of the top facet of each interlocking brick based on color analysis of a respective pixel group of a respective image mapped by the respective interlocking brick. Further instructions are computed for assembly of the interlocking bricks on the baseplates(s) to form the multi-image brick mosaic depicting multiple pixelated versions of the images, each pixelated image is clearly viewable from a respective one of the angles.
US11138689B2
The present invention provides a method for non-linearly stretching a cropped image, including: obtaining an FOV difference table of a panoramic lens; calculating a polynomial of an approximated curve represented by the values of the FOV difference table; shooting a circular wide-angle image using the panoramic lens; cropping the circular wide-angle image to preserve the remaining circular wide-angle image under a specific viewing angle; under the specific viewing angle, resampling a plurality of points by the polynomial to obtain the corresponding spacing distance of the points; and while maintaining the ratio of the spacing distance between the plurality of points, stretching the remaining circular wide-angle image to the size of the original circular wide-angle image.
US11138687B1
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for generating protocol-based composited graphics. An embodiment operates by receiving a first set of commands configured to instruct a first application programming interface (API) to render a first graphics element. The embodiment further operates by receiving a second set of commands configured to instruct a second API to render a second graphics element. The embodiment further operates by generating a serialized set of commands comprising the first set of commands and the second set of commands. Subsequently, the embodiment operates by receiving a request to generate a frame and, in response to receiving the request to generate the frame, generating the frame based on the serialized set of commands, wherein the frame comprises the first graphics element and the second graphics element.
US11138684B2
An image processing apparatus includes a two-dimensional image storage unit configured to store a plurality of two-dimensional image data captured by photographing an identical imaging target object under different exposure conditions; a distance image storage unit configured to store distance image data including a pixel array of a known relationship to a pixel array of the two-dimensional image data; a pixel extraction unit configured to extract, among pixels in each of the two-dimensional image data, a first pixel at which a difference in brightness between identical pixels is less than a predetermined value; and a distance image adjusting unit configured to specify a second pixel of the distance image data at a position corresponding to the first pixel in the pixel array, and to set the second pixel as a non-imaging pixel in the distance image data.
US11138676B2
A computer-implemented method for collecting tax data for an electronic tax return preparation program includes a tax logic agent reading a user data profile indexed to a user ID for a user to identify an identifier of a missing datum. The method also includes a match system identifying a data source corresponding to the identifier of the missing datum. The method further includes the match system generating a partition for the user data profile. Moreover, the method includes a dispatch system generating a target queue for the data source using the partition. The target queue includes the identifier of the missing datum. In addition, the method includes a data collector querying the data source based on the target queue to collect data corresponding to the identifier of the missing datum. The method also includes an importer generating a modified user data profile using the collected data.
US11138662B2
A trade order may be submitted to an electronic exchange and updated, according to pay-up parameter values, in an attempt to receive a complete fill within a period of time. The trade order may comprise an order price and an order quantity when submitted to the electronic exchange. The pay-up parameters may include a pay-up interval, a pay-up amount, a pay-up counter, or a combination thereof. The price of the trade order may continue to be updated after the expiration of pay-up interval in an attempt to receive a complete fill of the trade order. The price of the trade order may be increased or decreased by the pay-up amount. The trade order may continue to be updated until a complete fill is received, the pay-up counter expires, and/or an ending time expires for which the pay-up parameters may be implemented.
US11138657B1
A distributed system includes a lending device that is configured to receive, from a user device, a real-time request for a loan associated with a service, where the request specifies at least an identifier of the user device and a specific amount of funds; determine, based at least on the specific amount of funds for the loan and on the identifier of the user device, to provide the loan to the user device; generate a digital token associated with the loan, where the digital token specifies usage restrictions that are associated with (i) an approved amount of funds, (ii) a duration of the loan, and (iii) a payee associated with a service device; and provide, the user device and/or the service device, the digital token associated with the loan, where the digital token is redeemable by the payee associated with the service device for the approved amount of funds.
US11138655B2
There are provided an information processing device, an information processing method, an information processing program, and a recording medium having the information program recorded therein which can present, to a seller, information which enables a setting of, for example, adequate putting-up conditions according to a putting-up purpose of an item. The information processing device acquires transaction history information of an item related to item information of an item specified by a seller for putting-up, from a database which stores transaction history information of items put up in the past. Further, the information processing device extracts transaction history information of other items which suit to a putting-up purpose of the item by the seller, as suited transaction history information, from the extracted transaction history information. Furthermore, the information processing device generates presentation information which indicates a sample of input content of setting items set in an input form by the seller for putting-up, based on the extracted suited transaction history information, and transmits the presentation information to the terminal device.
US11138646B2
A computing resource of a cloud computing environment receives, from customers in a customer population, requests to enroll in group-based subscriptions provided by third-party providers. The requests include customer preferences associated with the customers. The computing resource determines customer account attributes for customer accounts, and determines, using a customer matching model, scores for the customers based on the customer preferences and the customer account attributes. The scores predict a successful matching among the customers in the customer population. The computing resource assigns a first subset of the customers in the customer population to a first group of customers based on the scores, enrolls the first group of customers in a first account for a first group-based subscription provided by a first third-party provider, and allocates a payment for the first group-based subscription among a first group of customer accounts associated with customers in the first group of customers.
US11138643B2
Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for item level data aggregation. A method includes identifying a transaction made with a third party within a set of transactions. A method includes using electronic credentials for a user to login to an account of the user at a third party. A method includes downloading item-level data from a third party that corresponds to an identified transaction in response to logging into a user's account at a third party. Item-level data identifies one or more items within an identified transaction. A method includes displaying a set of transactions to a user. A method includes displaying item-level data for one or more items within an identified transaction to a user in response to receiving input from the user relative to the identified transaction in a displayed set of transactions.
US11138635B2
A mobile media projector system is provided with a chassis, configured for attachment to a mobile platform, having a screen deployment mechanism. A viewing screen is selectively deployable when the mobile platform is parked in a stationary geographic location. An imaging projector subsystem projects an image onto the deployed viewing screen. Typically, the chassis is configured for attachment to an automotive vehicle with a roof, and the viewing screen is deployed over an exterior surface of the automotive vehicle. The system may include a WLAN and/or WPAN access point. A targeting application may select the geographic location from a group of stationary geographic locations, each having a weighted value. A second mobile media projector system includes a chassis configured for attachment to a roof of an automobile having a side mirror. An image projected onto the side mirror is reflected onto a surface such as the automobile door.
US11138633B2
Systems and methods for placing personalized content on one or more specified non-personal displays at a public or semi-public location using a personal digital device associated with a first user via a networked placement platform system include computer-implemented processes and associated computer components that receive, from the personal digital device associated with the first user, a request to place personalized content on one or more non-personal displays, filter the personalized content based on at least one of format and content, generate a rendering of the personalized content, and send instructions to a selected one or more non-personal displays for display of the approved personalized content in real-time or in accordance with a predetermined time schedule.
US11138629B2
A method, apparatus, and computer program product are disclosed to improve the process of generating promotions. The method includes identifying a promotion structure for approval, the promotion structure defining a promotion to be displayed via a promotion and marketing service and determining whether the promotion structure satisfies automatic approval requirements, the automatic approval requirements including one or more parameters relating to the promotion structure. The method further includes in an instance in which the promotion structure satisfies the automatic approval requirements, automatically approving the promotion structure for display via the promotion and marketing service, and in an instance in which the promotion structure does not satisfy the automatic approval requirements, indicating that the promotion structure cannot be automatically approved. A corresponding apparatus and computer program product are also provided.
US11138627B2
A method, system and computer program for enabling a loyalty system to be linked to one or more card issuers, cardholders, merchants, and thereby their cardholders. A system operable to create, implement and manage one or more loyalty programs that provide benefits to members of the loyalty programs in connection with transactions between the members and one or more merchants associated with the loyalty system. The method includes registering on the loyalty system one or more card issuers; one or more merchant acquirers associated with the one or more card issuers; a plurality of cardholders as members of the loyalty program. Establishing and applying rules for accrual and processing of benefits from the merchants to cardholders associated with the one or more card issuers in connection with transactions between the cardholders and the merchants with the loyalty system. Defining a rule based survey utility operable to issue surveys to members of the loyalty system on a transaction and non-transaction basis.
US11138619B2
Techniques are disclosed for implementing digital traffic data for analysis. In some examples, a telecommunications network determines an identity of a user associated with a user device that communicates with the telecommunications network. The telecommunications network identifies a physical location of the user device based on the user device communicating with a first transceiver of the telecommunications network. Then, the telecommunications network determines that the physical location of the user device corresponds to a first commercial location, and stores an indication that the user has visited the first commercial location.
US11138618B1
Technologies are disclosed herein for optimizing in-application purchase (IAP) items to achieve a developer-specified success metric. Application developers can define customer segments and a success metric for each segment. In-application purchase items (IAP) for an application can be tuned for each customer segment in an attempt to achieve the defined success metric. The disclosed techniques can automatically determine the most compelling combination of attributes for an IAP item, such as item price, behavior, definition, and timing. Based on contextual information received from a number of resources, such as an application store, an e-commerce system, and a user device, an optimization service can modify attributes of the IAP items for users in the customer segment to achieve the developer-specified success metrics.
US11138616B2
A system, method, and computer program product for a model-based data analysis system is disclosed. The method includes the steps of receiving information from one or more respondents that includes at least one response to a question included in a first survey, updating a model based on the received information, and generating a second survey based on the updated model. The method may be implemented by a server application communicating with a client application via a network.
US11138604B2
A computer-implemented method includes authorizing a transaction received from a third party device that is associated with a customer account stored in a customer database, and generating a transaction identifier associated with the transaction and a temporary email address. The method also includes mapping the temporary email address to a customer email address in the customer database, communicating the temporary email address to the third party device, and receiving transaction data via the temporary email address. Additionally, the method includes initiating an automatic transfer of funds, automatically forwarding the transaction data to the customer email address, and monitoring a certain amount of time that the transaction identifier is valid after the transaction is completed. The method further includes determining that the certain amount of time has passed and that the transaction identifier has expired, recycling the expired transaction identifier, and using the recycled transaction identifier at a later time.
US11138603B2
Technologies for managing payment authorization request messaging for payment transactions include a transaction management controller. The transaction management controller receives a transaction amount for a payment transaction from a business management engine and a payment transaction type from a point of interaction device. The transaction management controller initializes a transaction processing module that corresponds to the received payment transaction type. The transaction processing module defines payment processing parameters for processing payment transactions of the payment transaction type. One or more of the payment processing parameters are modified based on configuration data received from a remote configuration device. The transaction management controller processes the payment transaction as a function of the payment processing parameters. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11138594B2
An electronic transaction verification system for use with transaction tokens such as checks, credit cards, debit cards, and smart cards that gathers and transmits information about the transaction token and biometric data. Customers can be enrolled in the system by receiving customer information that includes at least a biometric datum, associating the received customer information with a transaction instrument issued to the customers and storing the received customer information and the issued transaction instrument information in a database for future reference.
US11138589B2
System and methods for supporting legacy and tokenized transactions are disclosed. According to one embodiment, in an information processing device comprising at least one computer processor, a method for selecting an electronic payment credential to communicate to a merchant, may include (1) an electronic wallet backend receiving a plurality of payment credentials associated with a payment account; (2) the electronic wallet backend receiving a credential capability for a merchant; (3) the electronic wallet backend selecting one of the payment credentials for a transaction with the merchant based on the credential capability; and (4) the electronic wallet backend communicating the selected payment credential to a point of transaction device for the merchant.
US11138586B1
The present invention provides a system as a computer server platform and application programming software installed in primary devices of users for exchanging and trading digital asset securely and anonymously between two users of the system where said digital asset is registered under a device account of a primary device of a user with the system using a unique device account name. The present invention respects “privacy by design” in GDPR by using device account based-on anonymized data instead of personal account based-on personal data of prior art to ensure the system does not collect, store and process users' personal data in the course of device accounts' set-up and transactions of digital assets.
US11138585B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing enhanced mobile transactions and payments are disclosed. A computer-implemented method may include receiving a request to provide an enhanced merchant experience available for a merchant to one or more consumers participating in mobile transactions with the merchant, receiving a merchant identifier from a system involved in processing a mobile transaction for the merchant, determining whether to provide the enhanced merchant experience to a user involved in the mobile transaction with the merchant, determining when to provide the enhanced merchant experience to the user involved in the mobile transaction with the merchant, and providing the enhanced merchant experience to the user involved in the mobile transaction with the merchant during the transaction, at completion of the transaction, or after completion of the transaction.
US11138568B2
Generally discussed herein are devices, systems, and methods for resource retrieval. A method may include determining that a calendar event is scheduled to occur in a specified period of time, responsive to the determination, extracting content of a calendar event on a calendar of the messaging interface, generating a list of resources accessible by the user and related to the extracted content of the calendar event, ranking the resources by a comparison of the extracted content of the calendar event and the content of resources of the list of resources, and causing respective summaries of a specified number of the respective resources with higher respective ranks to be output on the display.
US11138560B1
Systems, devices, and methods for monitoring and managing inventory of electronic devices having wireless communication capabilities are presented. Such electronic devices may include vaporization devices configured to communicate wirelessly with external devices for authorization. To monitor and manage inventory of the electronic devices, the electronic devices are configured to send device status messages via wireless communication to wireless connection devices, which in turn send inventory messages to a remote server via a communication network. Based upon such inventory messages, the remote server identifies and provides updates to the electronic devices while in inventory by communication via the wireless connection devices.
US11138557B2
In some embodiments, methods and systems of enabling consumers to purchase substitute products when the products ordered by the consumers are out of stock include processing an internet order for a product received from a consumer in a geographic location and in response to receiving an electronic notification indicating that the product ordered by the consumer is out of stock at a retail sales facility associated with the geographic location of the consumer, generating an electronic message including an indication that the product ordered by the consumer is out of stock at the retail sales facility, and including a selection option of at least one substitute product for the product ordered by the consumer. The methods and system further include transmitting the electronic message from the electronic inventory management device at the retail sales facility to an electronic computing device of the consumer.
US11138548B2
Examples of techniques for delivery platform verification and management are described herein. An aspect includes receiving a unit mailing address and first global positioning system (GPS) coordinates, the unit mailing address and the first GPS coordinates being associated with a delivery platform, from a computing device. Another aspect includes, based on receiving the unit mailing address and first GPS coordinates, dispatching a first inspection drone to the delivery platform based on the first GPS coordinates. Another aspect includes receiving second GPS coordinates associated with the delivery platform from the first inspection drone. Another aspect includes associating the second GPS coordinates with the unit mailing address in an entry corresponding to the delivery platform in a platform information database.
US11138539B2
A process automation platform and method for automating business processes are disclosed. The method can include defining a business process in metadata, and, based on that metadata, selecting microbots to perform micro-operations included in the business process. An event engine initiates execution of the business process using the microbots and manages data dependencies of the microbots within the process. Each of the plurality of microbots includes microbot metadata defining a micro-operation performed by the microbot, and execution of each of the plurality of microbots is initiated independently of the others of the plurality of microbots.
US11138525B2
A system and method for distributing market data in response to price level transitions is disclosed. The system and method provide a mechanism for detecting when a price level transition has occurred. Detection of a price level transition results in the distribution of market data and may include displaying the results.
US11138523B2
A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for reducing labeled data imbalances when training an active learning system. The ratio of instances having positive labels or negative labels in a collection of labeled instances associated with an input category used for learning is determined. A first instance for annotation is selected from a collection of unlabeled instances if a first threshold for negative instances, and a first threshold confidence level of being a positive instance of the input category, have been met. A second instance for annotation is selected if a second threshold for positive instances, and a second threshold confidence level of being a negative instance of the input category, have been met. The first and second instances are respectively annotated with a positive and negative label and added to the collection of labeled instances, which are then used for training.
US11138514B2
An apparatus and method are provided for review-based machine learning. Included are a non-transitory memory storing instructions and one or more processors in communication with the non-transitory memory. The one or more processors execute the instructions to receive first data, generate a plurality of first features based on the first data, and identify a first set of labels for the first data. A first model is trained using the first features and the first set of labels. The first model is reviewed to generate a second model, by receiving a second set of labels for the first data, and reusing the first features with the second set of labels in connection with training the second model.
US11138504B2
A system and method of executing a deep neural network (DNN) in a local area network (LAN) may include executing a partitioned deep neural network in multiple computational nodes (CPs) in devices operating on the LAN. An image frame may be captured by a device. The image frame may be processed by a first layer of the partitioned neural network by a CP operating on the device. In response to the device that captured the image frame determining to request processing assistance from another CP, a request using a peer-to-peer protocol to other CPs on the LAN may be performed. A feature map may be communicated to another CP selected using the peer-to-peer protocol to process the feature map by a next layer of the DNN.
US11138503B2
Continuously learning and optimizing artificial intelligence (AI) adaptive neural network (ANN) computer modeling methods and systems, designated human affect computer modeling (HACM) or affective neuron (AN), and, more particularly, to AI methods, systems and devices that can recognize, interpret, process and simulate human reactions and affects such as emotional responses to internal and external sensory stimuli, that provides real-time reinforcement learning modeling that reproduces human affects and/or reactions, wherein the human affect modeling (HACM) can be used singularly or collectively to modeling and predict complex human reactions and affects.
US11138500B1
A computer processor includes an on-chip network and a plurality of tiles. Each tile includes an input circuit to receive a voltage signal from the network, and a crossbar array, including at least one neuron. The neuron includes first and second bit lines, a programmable resistor connecting the voltage signal to the first bit line, and a comparator to receive inputs from the two bit lines and to output a voltage, when a bypass condition is not active. Each tile includes a programming circuit to set a resistance value of the resistor, a pass-through circuit to provide the voltage signal to an input circuit of a first additional tile, when a pass-through condition is active, a bypass circuit to provide values of the bit lines to a second additional tile, when the bypass condition is active; and at least one output circuit to provide an output signal to the network.
US11138499B2
An apparatus is described. The apparatus includes a compute-in-memory (CIM) circuit for implementing a neural network disposed on a semiconductor chip. The CIM circuit includes a mathematical computation circuit coupled to a memory array. The memory array includes an embedded dynamic random access memory (eDRAM) memory array. Another apparatus is described. The apparatus includes a compute-in-memory (CIM) circuit for implementing a neural network disposed on a semiconductor chip. The CIM circuit includes a mathematical computation circuit coupled to a memory array. The mathematical computation circuit includes a switched capacitor circuit. The switched capacitor circuit includes a back-end-of-line (BEOL) capacitor coupled to a thin film transistor within the metal/dielectric layers of the semiconductor chip. Another apparatus is described. The apparatus includes a compute-in-memory (CIM) circuit for implementing a neural network disposed on a semiconductor chip. The CIM circuit includes a mathematical computation circuit coupled to a memory array. The mathematical computation circuit includes an accumulation circuit. The accumulation circuit includes a ferroelectric BEOL capacitor to store a value to be accumulated with other values stored by other ferroelectric BEOL capacitors.
US11138490B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products for creating a monitoring network are described. A server associates a master wireless node with a package in a first set of associated packages. The server and the master wireless node communicate with one another over first type of wireless communications interface. The server also associates a peripheral wireless node with another package in the set and with the master node. The peripheral wireless node and the master wireless node communicate with one another over a second type of wireless communications interface. The peripheral node includes a sensor operative to generate sensor data by sensing an environmental condition. The master wireless node processes the sensor data to generate one or more package-level statistics of the processed sensor data.
US11138485B2
A Usage, Condition and Location System (UCLS) tag is provided, which is an active RFID tag that, in addition to location, is configured to determine the usage state and operating condition of a device. The UCLS tag includes sensors that measure physical activity of the associated equipment (vibration, magnetic activity, temperature, etc.). Algorithms may use the information obtained from the UCLS tags to map the measured sensor data to a contextual usage state and operating condition of the device.
US11138482B2
A digital printing system having a linear printhead includes corrections for in-track position errors. A data processing system implements a method for determining an in-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 in-track position for each of the alignment marks, comparing the measured in-track positions for the alignment marks to reference in-track positions to determine measured in-track position errors, and determining an in-track position correction function responsive to the measured in-track position errors. The in-track position correction function specifies in-track position corrections to be applied as a function of cross-track position. A corrected digital image is determined by resampling an input digital image responsive to the in-track position correction function.
US11138481B2
A control method of a card issue device may include a card direction determination step including taking the card into the card reader before the card is issued and determining a direction of the card; and a card issue step comprising issuing the card is executed based on the card direction determined in the card direction determination step.
US11138468B2
A method for generating an output signal of a system based on input data received by the system includes receiving training data and training a neural network for generating the output signal by optimizing a primary cost function and an auxiliary cost function and modulating the auxiliary cost function with a gradient-based attention mask during the training.
US11138461B2
An example method for segmenting an object contained in an image includes receiving an image including a plurality of pixels, transforming a plurality of characteristics of a pixel into respective neutrosophic set domains, calculating a neutrosophic similarity score for the pixel based on the respective neutrosophic set domains for the characteristics of the pixel, segmenting an object from background of the image using a region growing algorithm based on the neutrosophic similarity score for the pixel, and receiving a margin adjustment related to the object segmented from the background of the image.
US11138460B2
An image processing method and apparatus. The image processing method includes: obtaining encoded data of a first region and a neighboring region neighboring to the first region in a two-dimensional planar image, where the two-dimensional planar image is an image obtained by mapping a spherical panorama image, and the first region and the neighboring region have an overlapping region; determining a pixel value of a pixel in an image of the first region; determining a pixel value of a pixel in an image of the neighboring region; and determining a target pixel value of a pixel in the overlapping region based on the pixel value of the pixel of the first region in the overlapping region and the pixel value of the pixel of the neighboring region in the overlapping region.
US11138456B2
A method and system are provided for ensuring creation of authentic online profiles. The method includes providing an option to a user for enabling capturing of digital media depicting the user's appearance. Further, digital media using a camera associated with a user device is captured, if the user chooses to allow the capturing of digital media. Furthermore, at least one instruction is communicated to the user for performing one or more actions. Subsequently, the captured digital media is transmitted for verification, without allowing the user to modify the captured digital media. Thereafter, the captured digital media is verified by analyzing the captured digital media for approving or rejecting the captured digital media.
US11138446B2
An apparatus for detecting an object of a vehicle is provided. The apparatus includes a camera that acquires an image from front of a vehicle and a controller that generates feature pyramid images based on a plurality of feature images extracted from the image. The controller also generates feature aggregation images by filtering the feature pyramid images, detects a pedestrian area from the feature aggregation images, and detects face regions from the feature pyramid images. At least one of the face regions that overlaps the pedestrian area is then determined as a face of a pedestrian.
US11138437B2
Provided are an image processing apparatus and method. The image processing apparatus includes a decoder configured to decode image frames of an image; an image quality controller configured to obtain a genre recognition confidence of a previous image frame and a genre recognition confidence of a current image frame, and identify image quality control factor value, based on the genre recognition confidence of the previous image frame and the genre recognition confidence of the current image frame; and an image quality processor configured to image-quality process at least one of the decoded image frames by using the image quality control factor value, and output the processed at least one of the decoded image frames.
US11138428B2
According to the invention, an image sensor is disclosed. The image sensor may include a plurality of pixels. Each pixel of a first portion of the plurality of pixels may include a near-infrared filter configured to block red, green, and blue light; and pass near-infrared light. Each pixel of a second portion of the plurality of pixels may be configured to receive at least one of red, green, or blue light; and receive near-infrared light.
US11138413B2
An exemplary embodiment relates to the field of Automatic Face Recognition (AFR) systems. More specifically one exemplary embodiment relates at least to a method and a system capable of recognizing the face of a person using a device equipped with a camera of any kind and an associated computer, such as an embedded computer. The system is alternatively suitable to be implemented as an embedded system with minimal processing hardware capabilities, consuming very low power.
US11138410B1
A system and method for recognizing objects in an image is described. The system can receive an image from a sensor and detect one or more objects in the image. The system can further detect one or more components of each detected object. Subsequently, the system can create a segmentation map based on the components detected for each detected object and determine whether the segmentation map matches a plurality of 3-D models (or projections thereof). Additionally, the system can display a notification through a user interface indicating whether the segmentation map matches at least one of the plurality of 3-D models.
US11138400B2
Authenticating a mark having a marker that emits light under illumination, involving an obtaining of a light spectrum from the mark, the light spectrum having values, each value indicating a light intensity of the light emitted from the mark for a corresponding wavelength, an applying of a set of rules onto the values of the light spectrum to obtain a first result indicating whether the mark is authentic or not, an applying of statistical processing onto the values of the light spectrum to obtain a second result indicating whether the mark is authentic or not, and a generating of an output result indicating whether the mark is authentic or not from the first result and the second result.
US11138396B2
This invention is for tracking at least one plant. A method of this invention comprises: putting at least one seed or at least one stem in a corresponding at least one pot; positioning a corresponding at least one RFID tag with respect to the seed or stem in a manner, wherein the RFID tag comprises a strap; packaging a harvested material into a packaged product and attaching the RFID tag from the potted plant, or a product RFID tag that is associated with the plurality of tags to the packaged product; confirming a request for authorization by a RFID buy card; and after confirming ID information, transferring at least one product.
US11138395B2
Example embodiments of systems, methods, and devices for transaction card alignment are provided. In one example embodiment, a mobile device may include a first component and a second component foldable with respect to one another between a first configuration and a second configuration. The mobile device may further include a screen interface on an interior side of the first component, and an alignment feature along the interior side, the alignment feature providing alignment for a contactless card with respect to the screen interface, wherein the contactless card is uncovered by the second component in the first configuration and covered by the second component in the second configuration.
US11138390B2
An improved translation experience is provided using an auxiliary device, such as a pair of earbuds, and a wirelessly coupled mobile device. Microphones on both the auxiliary device and the mobile device simultaneously capture input from, respectively, a primary user (e.g., wearing the auxiliary device) and a secondary user (e.g., a foreign language speaker providing speech that the primary user desires to translate). Both microphones continually listen, rather than alternating between the mobile device and the auxiliary device. Each device may determine when to endpoint and send a block of speech for translation, for example based on pauses in the speech. Each device may accordingly send the received speech for translation and output, such that it is provided in a natural flow of communication.
US11138385B2
A method and an apparatus for determining a semantic matching degree, where the method includes acquiring a first sentence and a second sentence, dividing the first sentence and the second sentence into x and y sentence fragments, respectively, performing a convolution operation on word vectors in each sentence fragment of the first sentence and word vectors in each sentence fragment of the second sentence to obtain a three-dimensional tensor, performing integration or screening on adjacent vectors in the one-dimensional vectors of x rows and y columns, until the three-dimensional tensor is combined into a one-dimensional target vector, and determining a semantic matching degree between the first sentence and the second sentence according to the target vector.
US11138376B2
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media for information ranking and retrieval are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus may include a processor and a memory storing instructions which when executed by the processor cause the processor to access an ingested document, generate a converted document from the ingested document based on a conversion configuration, the converted document comprising at least one paragraph, and generate an index based on the converted document and an index configuration. Other embodiments are described.
US11138375B2
Systems and methods that access an online networked resource using a locator are disclosed. A first item of content on the networked resource is identified. A trigger rule comprising keywords and a sentiment classifier is accessed. A neural network, including input, hidden, and output layers, is used to assign a sentiment classification to the first item of content. The trigger rule, the sentiment classification, and identified keywords, are used to determine whether response content is to be posted to the online networked resource. In response to determining, using the trigger rule, the assigned sentiment classification, and keywords identified in the first item of content, that response content is to be posted to the online networked resource, the sentiment classification and identified keywords are used to select and/or generate a second item of content, and the second item of content is enabled to be posted to the online networked resource.
US11138374B1
Techniques for building slot types and slot type artifacts are described. For example, in some implementations, a natural language understanding (NLU) service is implemented by instructions that upon execution are to cause: receiving a request to build a slot type, the request including an indication of one or more locations storing information need to build a slot type, a slot type being a list of one or more values used to train a machine learning model to recognize a value for a slot; retrieving a slot type definition bundle associated with the request, the slot type definition bundle at least including a slot type definition defining resolution activities for the slot type; building the slot type using the retrieved slot type definition bundle; and storing into the storage slot type artifacts produced from building the slot type to be used during an analysis of an utterance.
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A system and method for reporting based on a first electronic document and at least one second electronic document. The method includes analyzing the first electronic document to determine at least one transaction parameter for each of at least one expense item, the first electronic document indicating the at least one expense item, wherein the first electronic document includes at least partially unstructured data; creating at least one template for the first electronic document, wherein each first electronic document template is a structured dataset including the determined at least one transaction parameter; retrieving, based on the at least one first electronic document template, the at least one second electronic document; and generating a report when the at least one second electronic document matches the at least one expense item, wherein the report indicates the at least one expense item and includes the at least one second electronic document.
US11138368B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus for increasing comment visibility are described. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a comment request for a comment to be included in a comments field of a content page, determining that the comment will be hidden from users when online content is presented to the users based on a number of other comments presented in the comments field exceeding a threshold number, and modifying a position of the comment in relation to positions of the other comments presented in the comments field to increase visibility of the comment to the users, including modifying the position of the comment from a first position that is hidden from the users to a second position that is visible to the users.
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A method of updating a boundary space configuration of an IC layout cell includes identifying a pin in the IC layout cell as a boundary pin, determining that a boundary spacing of the boundary pin is capable of being increased, and based on the determination that the boundary spacing of the boundary pin is capable of being increased, modifying the IC layout cell by increasing the boundary spacing of the boundary pin. At least one of the identifying, determining, or modifying is executed by a processor of a computer.
