US11146000B2
An electrical connector is used to mate with an electronic component having a conductor. The electrical connector includes an insulating body having an accommodating hole, and a terminal accommodated in the accommodating hole. A protruding portion protrudes from a first wall of the accommodating hole. An elastic arm of the terminal has a main body portion. A pre-pressurized portion and a contact portion of the elastic arm respectively have a first contact end and a second contact end. The second contact end is located closer to the main body portion than the first contact end. Prior to the first contact end abutting the protruding portion, a horizontal projection of the first contact end along an insertion direction at least partially overlaps with a horizontal projection of the protruding portion along the insertion direction and passes beyond a horizontal projection of the second contact end along the insertion direction.
US11145999B2
A connector for holding a linear conductor by a first contact portion and a second contact portion is provided. The linear conductor is inserted through an insertion portion. The first contact portion is formed in a pressing portion configured to be deformed elastically to press the linear conductor against the second contact portion. The second contact portion is formed in a fixed portion which is not deformed elastically and the second contact portion has at least one edge portion.
US11145993B2
An antenna module and a terminal applying the antenna module are disclosed. The antenna module includes an antenna array configured with a plurality of antenna units and a radio-frequency phase shifting system. The antenna array and the radio-frequency phase shifting system are integrated on a circuit substrate to form an independent module. Further, the antenna unit of the antenna module may adopt a solution of a microstrip patch antenna structure loading a short-circuit pillar to generate multiple resonances, thereby expanding the bandwidth of the antenna unit. After the antenna array is formed, the antenna modules may be further arranged perpendicular to each other to expand and achieve large-angle scanning and polarization diversity functions. The disclosed antenna module has a simplified structure and may be applied to 5G communication. It has the advantages of easy system integration, low-profile miniaturization, wide radiation bandwidth, and large-angle scanning.
US11145990B2
An antenna structure includes a substrate, a first radiating element, a second radiating element, a first inductor, a ground element, a first conducting element and a feeding element. The first radiating element is disposed on the substrate. The second radiating element is disposed on the substrate. The second radiating element includes a feed receiving portion. The first inductor is coupled between the first radiating element and the second radiating element. The first conducting element is coupled between the feed receiving portion and the ground element. The feeding element is coupled between the feed receiving portion and the ground element and for feeding in a signal.
US11145987B2
Provided in the present invention is an ultralight artificial medium multilayer cylindrical lens, comprising n concentric layers of different dielectric constants. The center cylindrical layer is expressed as layer 1 and is a solid cylinder. Layers 2 to n are in a sequentially outward nested arrangement surrounding the center cylindrical layer and respectively are n-1 concentric rings. The n concentric layers are assembled into a multilayer cylinder and are characterized in that the dielectric constants of the n concentric layers gradually decrease from layer 1 to layer n and vary specifically between 2.05 to 1.05. The n concentric layers are made of a base material of low dielectric constant added with a material of high dielectric constant and low specific gravity. The lens so manufactured has a total apparent density of 0.08-0.095 g/cm3.
US11145971B1
An antenna has a rotating magnetic dipole and a rotating electric dipole having parallel axes of rotation, but orthogonal magnetic and electric vectors. The rotational frequency defines the RF carrier to create the electric and magnetic fields necessary to generate the Poynting vector in the immediate vicinity of the antenna. Because there is no energy required to maintain the fields of a permanent magnet or electret, the only power input is that overcoming mechanical friction, and eddy current and hysteretic losses in adjacent conducting structures.
US11145969B2
An antenna structure as an example of a structure including a transparent conductor includes: an antenna as an example of the transparent conductor; a film transmitting a visible light; a positioning structure configured to position the film from an invisible side of a ceiling as an example of a facility; and a flange transmitting the visible light and configured to position the film from a visible side of the ceiling and including a lens part at a position facing the positioning structure.
US11145953B2
According to various embodiments, an electronic device comprises a housing comprising: a front surface plate; a rear surface plate spaced apart from the front surface plate opposite thereto; and a side surface member surrounding a space between the front surface plate and the rear surface plate, wherein at least a portion of the side surface member comprises at least one conductive portion disposed between a first nonconductive portion and a second nonconductive portion; at least one wireless communication circuit electrically connected to the conductive portion; a conductive plate disposed in the space, and comprising a slot having a longitudinal direction perpendicular to the conductive portion; a conductor disposed on the conductive plate; and at least one conductive member dividing the slot into a plurality of portions.
US11145947B2
RF and microwave radiation directing or controlling components are provided that may be monolithic, that may be formed from a plurality of electrodeposition operations and/or from a plurality of deposited layers of material, that may include switches, inductors, antennae, transmission lines, filters, hybrid couplers, antenna arrays and/or other active or passive components. Components may include non-radiation-entry and non-radiation-exit channels that are useful in separating sacrificial materials from structural materials. Preferred formation processes use electrochemical fabrication techniques (e.g. including selective depositions, bulk depositions, etching operations and planarization operations) and post-deposition processes (e.g. selective etching operations and/or back filling operations).
US11145938B2
According to the present invention, a positive electrode is provided with: a positive electrode current collector; a positive electrode active material layer which contains a positive electrode active material that is configured from a lithium transition metal oxide; a protective layer which is arranged between the positive electrode current collector and the positive electrode active material layer; and a positive electrode tab which is bonded with the positive electrode current collector at a positive electrode tab bonding part where the positive electrode active material layer and the protective layer are not formed so that the positive electrode current collector is exposed. An end edge of the positive electrode active material layer facing the positive electrode tab and an end edge of the protective layer facing the positive electrode tab are arranged in different positions in the longitudinal direction of the positive electrode.
US11145930B2
An inflation pump box with a detachable power supply comprising a box housing and a battery pack connected to a surface of the box housing, wherein the surface of the box housing is provided with a cavity which is internally provided with a connection block connected to the box housing, a snap-in plate is detachably connected above the connection block, the center of the snap-in plate is provided with a battery chamber for installing the battery pack, slideways for enabling the battery pack to slide are provided on two sides of the battery chamber, a lock bar for fixing the battery pack is provided in front of the battery chamber, a lock block is provided in the center of the battery chamber, and the lock block is internally connected to a contact sheet which is detachably fitted and connected to the battery pack. The box is convenient for the user.
US11145925B2
The disclosed technology relates to an electrical feedthrough for a cylindrical battery cell. The electrical feedthrough may include an annular channel having an outer sidewall, an inner sidewall, and a base; an insulator formed of glass having an overmold portion; and a pin extending through the insulator and configured to form an external battery terminal. The insulator is bonded to the inner sidewall of the annular channel and a portion of the base of the annular channel. The overmold portion prevents electrical contact between a set of electrodes and the electrode feedthrough.
US11145924B2
A battery structure is disclosed. The battery structure includes a first current collector layer, a first active material layer, a spacer layer, a first plastic frame, a second active material layer and a second current collector layer. The first active material layer is disposed on the first current collector layer. The spacer layer is disposed on the first active material and completely covers the top surface of the first active material layer. The first plastic frame is disposed on the side wall of the spacer layer and the top of the first plastic frame has a protruding part which extends to the top surface of the spacer. The second active material layer is disposed on the spacer layer and the protruding part. The second active material is isolated from the first active material via the space layer and the protruding part. The second current collector layer is disposed on the second active material layer.
US11145921B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus related to a vapor phase photo-electrochemical cell. In one aspect, a device includes a photovoltaic cell, a cathode disposed on the photovoltaic cell, an ionomer membrane disposed on the cathode, and an anode disposed on the ionomer membrane. The cathode includes a cathode catalyst. The ionomer membrane is in contact with the cathode catalyst. The anode includes an anode catalyst. The anode catalyst is in contact with the ionomer membrane. The anode, the ionomer membrane, and the cathode are transmissive to the solar radiation spectrum.
US11145919B2
The present disclosure includes a cooling device with a cooling plate for an energy storage unit to be cooled that is arranged or capable of being arranged thereupon and that is in thermal contact with the cooling plate, wherein a thermally conductive foil and a thermally conductive filler layer are arranged between the energy storage unit and the cooling plate.
US11145913B2
A contact function-equipped multichannel charge/discharge power supply has: first and second charge/discharge probes respectively connected to positive and negative electrodes of secondary batteries and first and second voltage-measurement probes, respectively connected to the positive and negative electrodes of the batteries; and charge/discharge means each provided for each of the batteries and each connected to a pair of the first and second charge/discharge probes. The power supply includes: trays each having a right-angled-quadrilateral shape in plan view, in which the batteries are arranged longitudinally and laterally at predetermined intervals; and substrates each having the charge/discharge means provided along the batteries arranged in each line in one direction, wherein the substrates are each provided with the first and/or second charge/discharge probes corresponding to the batteries arranged in each line in the one direction.
US11145910B2
Rechargeable, non-aqueous lithium batteries which contain, as active anode material, either lithium metal or a lithium alloy, an active cathode material with a redox potential in the range of between 1.5 and 3.4 V vs Li/Li+ and lithium rhodanide (LiSCN) as electrolyte component. One or more related methods for providing overcharge protection are also described herein.
US11145899B2
A battery comprising: an anode comprising a first electrochemically active material: a cathode comprising both a second electrochemically active material and a first electrolyte; and a second electrolyte interposed between the anode and the cathode; wherein at least one of the first electrolyte and second electrolyte comprises a solid polymer electrolyte; wherein the solid polymer electrolyte has a glassy state, and comprises both at least one cationic diffusing ion and at least one anionic diffusing ion; wherein at least one of the at least one cationic diffusing ions comprises lithium; wherein at least one of the at least cationic diffusing ion and the at least one of the anionic diffusing ion is mobile in the glassy state; and wherein the first electrochemically active material comprises a lithium metal.
US11145895B2
The present invention relates to a multilayer electrolyte cell, a secondary battery including the multilayer electrolyte cell, and a manufacturing method thereof, and more particularly, to a multilayer electrolyte cell, in which electrolytes are configured in multiple layers by stacking polymer coating layers containing ceramic solid electrolytes and liquid electrolytes including an ionic liquid in a porous structure base, a secondary battery including the multilayer electrolyte cell, and a manufacturing method thereof.
US11145882B2
A fuel cell system includes: a fuel cell unit; first and second supply systems; a switching device; a switching control unit; an open circuit voltage obtaining unit; and a supply system control unit.
US11145866B2
Provided is a binder composition for an all-solid-state battery with which an all-solid-state battery having excellent capacity characteristics can be obtained. The binder composition contains: a copolymer including an alkylene structural unit and a nitrile group-containing monomer unit; and an organic solvent having a boiling point of 100° C. or higher. The copolymer includes the nitrile group-containing monomer unit with a percentage content of at least 10 mass % and not more than 30 mass % and has an iodine value of at least 40 mg/100 mg and not more than 130 mg/100 mg.
US11145865B2
A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a first electrode plate including a core plate and an active material layer including an active material and a binder, and disposed on a surface of the core plate; a second electrode plate; and a nonaqueous electrolyte. When the surface of the active material layer in contact with the core plate is taken as zero point, the amount of the binder in a 0%-10% thickness region X is 8.5 to 9.5 mass % of the total amount of the binder in the active material layer, the amount of the binder in a 90%-100% thickness region Y is 9.5 to 11.5 mass % of the total amount of the binder in the active material layer, and a binder-richest portion across the thickness of the active material layer resides in a 55%-100% thickness region across the thickness of the active material layer.
US11145851B2
A lithium battery includes a cathode, a composite lithium metal anode, and an electrolyte in contact with the cathode and the composite lithium metal anode. The composite lithium metal anode includes a porous matrix and lithium metal disposed within the porous matrix.
US11145849B2
The invention relates to methods for producing Si/C composite particles, characterised in that mixtures containing silicon particles, one or more oxygen-free polymers, one or more carbon additives based on a carbon modification and one or more liquid dispersing agents are dried by spray drying and the pre-composite particles thus obtained are thermally treated.
US11145848B2
A method of producing a secondary battery disclosed here includes forming a positive electrode active material layer containing a lithium- and manganese-containing composite oxide on a positive electrode current collector to produce a positive electrode; measuring a peel strength between the positive electrode active material layer and the positive electrode current collector; producing a secondary battery assembly including the positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a nonaqueous electrolyte using the positive electrode; and initially charging the secondary battery assembly. When the secondary battery assembly is initially charged, a restraining pressure is determined based on the measured peel strength, and in a predetermined peel strength range, a higher restraining pressure is set for a secondary battery assembly including a positive electrode having a low peel strength than for a secondary battery assembly including a positive electrode having a large peel strength.
US11145845B2
A method for producing an organic device includes a first forming step and a second forming step, and wherein an upper limit value of an integrated illuminance of light in an environment until formation of a second electrode layer (15) starts after formation of a light emitting layer (11) starts is set, and an organic functional layer is formed so that the integrated illuminance is the upper limit value or less, and wherein the upper limit value of the integrated illuminance at which a product lifespan is a predetermined time or longer is set on the basis of a relationship of the integrated illuminance with relative lifespan and relative current luminous efficiency so that the product lifespan of an organic device (1) set based on the relative lifespan and the relative current luminous efficiency caused by the integrated illuminance is the predetermined time or longer.
US11145844B2
A method of manufacturing an electroluminescent device includes the following steps. A substrate including a first sub-pixel region and a second sub-pixel region is provided. A first light-emitting layer is formed over the substrate through a shadow mask to cover the first sub-pixel region and at least a portion of the second sub-pixel region. A sacrificial layer is formed over the substrate, wherein the sacrificial layer includes an opening exposing a portion of the first light-emitting layer that is over the second sub-pixel region. The portion of the first light-emitting layer that is over the second sub-pixel region is removed. A second light-emitting layer is formed over the sacrificial layer and on the second sub-pixel region through the opening of the sacrificial layer. The sacrificial layer is removed simultaneously with a portion of the second light-emitting layer that is over the sacrificial layer.
US11145843B2
The described technology relates to an organic light emitting diode including: a first electrode; a second electrode overlapping the first electrode; an organic emission layer between the first electrode and the second electrode; and a capping layer on the second electrode, wherein the capping layer has an absorption rate of 0.25 or more for light having a wavelength of 405 nm, thereby preventing degradation of the organic emission layer by blocking the light of the harmful wavelength region and providing the organic light emitting diode in which a blue emission efficiency is not deteriorated.
US11145841B2
Organic electroluminescence display device having an inorganic layer including a conductive material
An organic electroluminescence display device includes: a lower electrode that is made of a conductive inorganic material and formed in each of pixels arranged in a matrix in a display area; a light-emitting organic layer that is in contact with the lower electrode and made of a plurality of different organic material layers including a light-emitting layer emitting light; an upper electrode that is in contact with the light-emitting organic layer, formed so as to cover the whole of the display area, and made of a conductive inorganic material; and a conductive organic layer that is in contact with the upper electrode, formed so as to cover the whole of the display area, and made of a conductive organic material.
US11145837B2
The present invention relates to OLED devices and stacks for OLED devices that include a symmetric emissive-layer architecture. In one embodiment, the present invention relates to an emissive stack having three layers, wherein the top and bottom layers emit light in the same or similar color region while the middle layer emits light in a different color region than the other two layers. In such an embodiment, the three layers are in contact with each other with no other layers in between. The symmetric emissive-layer architecture of the present invention can be used to improve the color stability of OLED devices.
US11145833B2
A stretchable display according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: a hybrid stretchable substrate divided into a low stretchable region and a high stretchable region having a modulus lower than that of the low stretchable region; a driving element layer including a driving element on the low stretchable region so as to control a light emitting layer, and wiring on the high stretchable region so as to be electrically connected to a part of the driving element to apply an electrical signal; and the light emitting layer provided on the driving element layer, and electrically connected to the driving element layer to emit light, wherein, between the driving element and the wiring, the wiring can overlap a stretchable mask pattern having a shape corresponding to either the low stretchable region or high stretchable region.
US11145830B2
Tridentate platinum, palladium, and gold complexes of Formulas A-I and A-II and tridentate iridium and rhodium compounds of Formulas B-I, B-II, and B-III suitable for delayed fluorescent and phosphorescent or phosphorescent emitters in display and lighting applications.
US11145826B2
The present invention relates to a compound of an acridine derivate as well as of an organic semiconductor material an organic semiconductor layer, an electronic device comprising the acridine derivative, a device comprising an organic light-emitting diode comprising the acridine derivative, a display device thereof and a method of manufacturing the same. (I) wherein L is selected from phenylene, naphthylene and biphenylene; R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 are independently selected from unsubstituted or substituted C6 to C18 aryl and unsubstituted or substituted pyridyl; and the substituents are selected from deuterium, C1 to C12 alkyl and C1 to C12 alkoxy; a, b, c, d and e are independently selected from 0 or 1 and 2≤a+b+c+d+e≤5.
US11145818B2
A luminescent material, a method for manufacturing the luminescent material and a luminescent device are provided. The method includes reacting 2,7-dibromofluorene and bromine hexyl to generate a first intermediate product, reacting the first intermediate product and a bis(pinacolato)diboron reagent to generate a second intermediate product, reacting 1, 4-dibromo-phenodiphene and the organic thermal activation delayed fluorescent material to generate a third intermediate product, and reacting the first intermediate product, the second intermediate product and the third intermediate product to generate the electroluminescent material.
US11145817B2
The invention relates to an Organic light emitting diode comprising an anode electrode, a cathode electrode, at least one emission layer and an organic semiconductor layer, wherein the organic semiconductor layer is arranged between the anode electrode and the cathode electrode and the organic semiconductor layer comprises an alkali organic complex and a compound of formula 1 wherein X is selected from O, S or Se; and R1 and R2 are independently selected from the group consisting of C6 to C18 aryl group and C5 to C18 heteroaryl group, wherein each of R1 and R2 may independently be unsubstituted or substituted with at least one C1 to C12 alkyl group or C1 to C12 alkoxy group, preferably C1 to C4 alkyl group or C1 to C4 alkoxy group; and each R3, R4, R5, and R6 are independently selected from the group consisting of H, C1 to C12 alkyl group or C1 to C12 alkoxy group, preferably H, C1 to C4 alkyl group or C1 to C4 alkoxy group; a method for preparing the same and the compound of Formula 1 comprised therein.
US11145814B2
Methods and structures for fabricating a semiconductor device that includes a reduced programming current phase change memory (PCM) are provided. The method includes forming a bottom electrode. The method further includes forming a PCM and forming a conductive bridge filament in a dielectric to serve as a heater for the PCM. The method also includes forming a top electrode.
US11145800B2
A multilayer pyroelectric element includes: a laminate body constituted by multiple pyroelectric body layers laminated in their thickness direction; internal electrode layers which are provided between the pyroelectric body layers, and one ends of which extend to the outer peripheries of the adjoining pyroelectric body layers; and external electrodes that connect the alternate internal electrode layers together at the one ends, wherein “x1>x3 AND x2>x3” are satisfied wherein x1 is a distance between a pair of first faces crossing at right angles with the laminating direction of the pyroelectric body layers, x2 is a distance between a pair of second faces crossing at right angles with the first faces and running parallel with the laminating direction of the pyroelectric body layers, and x3 a is a distance between a pair of third faces crossing at right angles with the first faces and also with the second faces.
US11145797B1
Embodiments relate to forming an elastomeric interface layer (elayer) with a flap over multiple light emitting diode (LED) dies by forming materials across multiple LED dies and removing the materials between the LED dies. The formed flap of the elayer provides a large surface area for adhesion between each LED and a pick-up surface. For example, the flap may have a surface area that is larger than the light emitting surface of the LED die, or larger than the surface area of an elastomeric interface layer without the flap. As such, the elayer allows each LED to be picked up by a pick-up surface and placed onto a display substrate including control circuits for sub-pixels of an electronic display. In some embodiments, the LED dies are micro-LED (μLED) dies.
US11145796B2
Various optoelectronic modules are described and include one or more optoelectronic devices. Each optoelectronic module includes one or more optoelectronic devices. Sidewalls laterally surround each optoelectronic device and can be in direct contact with sides of the optoelectronic device or, in some cases, with an overmold surrounding the optoelectronic device. The sidewalls can be composed, for example, of a vacuum injected material that is non-transparent to light emitted by or detectable by the optoelectronic device. The module also includes a passive optical element. Depending on the implementation, the passive optical element can be on a cover for the module, directly on a top surface of the optoelectronic device, or on an overmold surrounding the optoelectronic device. Methods of fabricating such modules are described as well, and can facilitate manufacturing the modules using wafer-level processes.
US11145793B2
This specification discloses lighting device the includes a combination of a royal-blue and blue pump LEDs with a mixture of phosphors to provide light with a high melanopic content and maximize an m/p ratio while maintaining high color fidelity, and a tunable lighting system including the lighting device.
US11145783B2
An optoelectronic semiconductor component is specified which comprises a semiconductor layer sequence having a first and a second semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type, an active layer designed for generating electromagnetic radiation, a first electrical terminal layer and a second electrical terminal layer laterally spaced therefrom which electrically contacts the second semiconductor layer, and a first contact zone of a second conductivity type which adjoins the first electrical terminal layer and is electrically conductively connected to the first electrical terminal layer. And at least one functional region formed between the first and second terminal layers, in which a second contact zone of a second conductivity type and at least one shielding zone of a second conductivity type is formed. Furthermore, a method for producing the optoelectronic semiconductor component is specified.
US11145778B2
An optical system may include a substrate and a plurality of silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) monolithically integrated with the substrate. Each SiPM may include a plurality of single photon avalanche diodes (SPADs). The optical system also includes an aperture array having a plurality of apertures. The plurality of SiPMs and the aperture array are aligned so as to define a plurality of receiver channels. Each receiver channel includes a respective SiPM of the plurality of SiPMs optically coupled to a respective aperture of the plurality of apertures.
US11145777B2
An optical sensor module includes a first frame set, a second frame set and a housing which partially covers the first frame set and the second frame set. The first frame set has a first chip-mounting frame and a first wiring frame. The first chip-mounting frame has a first chip-mounting section, and a first conductive lead. At least one first indentation is formed on the first chip-mounting section. The second frame set has a second chip-mounting frame and a second wiring frame. The second chip-mounting frame has a second chip-mounting section and a second conductive lead. At least one second indentation is formed on the second chip-mounting section.
US11145765B2
Semiconductor device and the manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. An exemplary semiconductor device comprises a fin substrate having a first dopant concentration; an anti-punch through (APT) layer disposed over the fin substrate, wherein the APT layer has a second dopant concentration that is greater than the first dopant concentration; a nanostructure including semiconductor layers disposed over the APT layer; a gate structure disposed over the nanostructure and wrapping each of the semiconductor layers, wherein the gate structure includes a gate dielectric and a gate electrode; a first epitaxial source/drain (S/D) feature and a second epitaxial S/D feature disposed over the APT layer, wherein the gate structure is disposed between the first epitaxial S/D feature and the second epitaxial S/D feature; and an isolation layer disposed between the APT layer and the fin substrate, wherein a material of the isolation layer is the same as a material of the gate dielectric.
US11145756B2
A semiconductor structure and a method for forming a semiconductor structure are disclosed. A forming method may include: providing a base, including a first region used to form a well region and a second region used to form a drift region, where the first region is adjacent to the second region; and patterning the base, to form a substrate and fins protruding out of the substrate, where the fins include first fins located at a junction of the first region and the second region and second fins located on the second region, where the quantity of the second fins is greater than the quantity of the first fins. In some implementations of the present disclosure, the quantity of the second fins is increased to correspondingly increase the length of a flow path in which a current flows from a drain region to a source region, thereby reducing a voltage drop in the current flow path, and further improving a breakdown voltage of an LDMOS, to improve the device performance of the LDMOS.
US11145754B2
The methods of gate extraction and injection FET and channel carrier quantity control related to microelectronics technology and semiconductor technology. The gate extraction and injection FET of the invention is provided with a source, a drain, a gate and a channel semiconductor area on the insulating layer. A gate dielectric layer is arranged between the gate and the channel semiconductor region, wherein, the gate dielectric layer is a thin film material with resistance values of 103-1016Ω and the channel semiconductor region is a two-dimensional semiconductor or a three-dimensional semiconductor with two-dimensional semiconductor material characteristics (1-10 cellular crystal layers). The advantages of the invention are that the power consumptions of the devices and the integrated circuits can be greatly reduced by a few orders of magnitude.
US11145750B2
A semiconductor device comprises a fin structure disposed over a substrate; a gate structure disposed over part of the fin structure; a source/drain structure, which includes part of the fin structure not covered by the gate structure; an interlayer dielectric layer formed over the fin structure, the gate structure, and the source/drain structure; a contact hole formed in the interlayer dielectric layer; and a contact material disposed in the contact hole. The fin structure extends in a first direction and includes an upper layer, wherein a part of the upper layer is exposed from an isolation insulating layer. The gate structure extends in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The contact material includes a silicon phosphide layer and a metal layer.
US11145746B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a first semiconductor layer over a substrate, forming a second semiconductor layer over the first semiconductor layer, and forming a sacrificial film over the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer. The sacrificial film fills an area between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer. The method further includes forming a space in the sacrificial film between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer and removing the sacrificial film.
US11145739B2
FETs including a gated oxide semiconductor spacer interfacing with a channel semiconductor. Transistors may incorporate a non-oxide channel semiconductor, and one or more oxide semiconductors disposed proximal to the transistor gate electrode and the source/drain semiconductor, or source/drain contact metal. In advantageous embodiments, the oxide semiconductor is to be gated by a voltage applied to the gate electrode (i.e., gate voltage) so as to switch the oxide semiconductor between insulating and semiconducting states in conjunction with gating the transistor's non-oxide channel semiconductor between on and off states.
US11145738B2
Semiconductor devices are provided. A semiconductor device includes a first active pattern on a first region of a substrate, a pair of first source/drain patterns on the first active pattern, a first channel pattern between the pair of first source/drain patterns, and a gate electrode that extends across the first channel pattern. The gate electrode is on an uppermost surface and at least one sidewall of the first channel pattern. The gate electrode includes a first metal pattern including a p-type work function metal, a second metal pattern on the first metal pattern and including an n-type work function metal, a first barrier pattern on the second metal pattern and including an amorphous metal layer that includes tungsten (W), carbon (C), and nitrogen (N), and a second barrier pattern on the first barrier pattern. The second barrier pattern includes the p-type work function metal.
US11145730B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first gate structure, a plurality of first gate spacers, a second gate structure, and a plurality of second gate spacers. The substrate has a first fin structure and a second fin structure. The first gate structure is over the first fin structure, in which the first gate structure includes a first high dielectric constant material and a first metal. A bottom surface of the first high dielectric constant material is higher than bottom surfaces of the first gate spacers. The second gate structure is narrower than the first gate structure and over the second fin structure, in which the second gate structure includes a second high dielectric constant material and a second metal. A bottom surface of the second high dielectric constant material is lower than bottom surfaces of the second gate spacers.
US11145719B2
A semiconductor device includes a first and a second gate stacks disposed over a substrate, having spacers along sidewalls, respectively. The device also includes a source/drain (S/D) feature, a capping layer disposed along upper portions of the spacers, respectively and a dielectric layer along lower portions of the spacers, respectively. The dielectric layer physically contacts the capping layer and a top surface of the dielectric layer is above a top surface of the S/D feature. The device also includes a contact disposed over the S/D feature interfacing the capping layer and dielectric layer.
US11145716B1
A structure comprises a substrate and a first gate structure and a second gate structure in a dielectric layer over the substrate. The first and second gate structures having a width, the width of the first gate structure is shorter than the width of the second gate structure. The first gate structure comprises a first gate conductor layer and the second gate structure comprises a second gate conductor layer. The first gate conductor layer is made of a different metal from the second gate conductor layer.
US11145713B2
Various embodiments of the present application are directed towards an integrated circuit (IC) in which a high voltage metal-oxide-semiconductor (HVMOS) device is integrated with a high voltage junction termination (HVJT) device. In some embodiments, a first drift well and a second drift well are in a substrate. The first and second drift wells border in a ring-shaped pattern and have a first doping type. A peripheral well is in the substrate and has a second doping type opposite the first doping type. The peripheral well surrounds and separates the first and second drift wells. A body well is in the substrate and has the second doping type. Further, the body well overlies the first drift well and is spaced from the peripheral well by the first drift well. A gate electrode overlies a junction between the first drift well and the body well.
US11145708B2
A display device includes a display region and a non-display region. First lines are between the substrate and the first insulating layer in the non-display region. Second lines are on a first insulating layer in the non-display region and are alternately disposed with the first lines. A second insulating layer is over the second lines and has a surface unevenness formed by the first and second lines. Third lines are over the second insulating layer and intersect the first lines and the second lines. First insulating patterns are on the second insulating layer and serve to planarize the surface unevenness. The first insulating patterns are between at least adjacent third lines in a plan view.
US11145689B2
Solid-state lighting devices including light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and more particularly LED chips and related methods are disclosed. LED chips are provided that include an indicia arranged between a primary light-emitting face and a mounting face of the LED chip. The indicia may include at least one of a logo, one or more alphanumeric characters, or a symbol, among others that are configured to convey information. Arrangements of at least one of an n-contact, a p-contact, or a reflector layer of the LED chip may form the indicia. LED chips are also provided where at least a portion of an indicia is arranged on a mounting face of the LED chip. Indicia are provided that may be visible through primary light-emitting faces when LED chips are electrically activated or electrically deactivated. In this regard, the indicia may be embedded within LED chips while still being able to convey information.
US11145678B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes following operations. A substrate including an active area is received. A plurality of source/drain regions of a plurality of transistor devices are formed in the active area. An isolation region is inserted between two adjacent source/drain regions of two adjacent transistor devices. The isolation region and the two adjacent source/drain regions cooperatively form two diode devices electrically connected in a back to back manner.
US11145673B2
Apparatus and methods are disclosed, including an apparatus that includes a number of tiers of a first semiconductor material, each tier including at least one access line of at least one memory cell and at least one source, channel and/or drain of at least one peripheral transistor, such as one used in an access line decoder circuit or a data line multiplexing circuit. The apparatus can also include a number of pillars of a second semiconductor material extending through the tiers of the first semiconductor material, each pillar including either a source, channel and/or drain of at least one of the memory cells, or a gate of at least one of the peripheral transistors. Methods of forming such apparatus are also described, along with other embodiments.
US11145671B2
A three-dimensional semiconductor memory device is provided. The memory device includes a substrate with a cell array region and a connection region adjacent to the cell array region, the connection region including a first pad region and a second pad region; an electrode structure including electrodes stacked on the substrate, the electrode structure including an upper portion forming an upper staircase structure; a first dummy structure laterally spaced apart from the upper portion of the electrode structure and provided on the first pad region; and a second dummy structure laterally spaced apart from the upper portion of the electrode structure and provided on the second pad region. Each of the first dummy structure and the second dummy structure includes a dummy staircase structure, and the first dummy structure is located at higher level than the second dummy structure.
US11145668B2
Semiconductor device, memory arrays, and methods of forming a memory cell include or utilize one or more memory cells. The memory cell(s) include a first nanosheet transistor connected to a first terminal, a second nanosheet transistor located on top of the first nanosheet transistor and connected in parallel to the first nanosheet transistor and connected to a second terminal, where the first and second nanosheet transistors share a common floating gate and a common output terminal, and an access transistor connected in series to the common output terminal and a low voltage terminal, the access transistor configured to trigger hot-carrier injection to the common floating gate to change a voltage of the common floating gate.
US11145665B2
The energy density of capacitors can be increased by using a material with differential negative capacitance (NC), which was recently observed in FE materials. Described is a more general pathway towards improved electrostatic energy storage densities by engineering the capacitance non-linearity of electrostatic devices. The disadvantages of regular polarizable materials are overcome by using the NC effect, which ideally has no hysteresis losses, leading to a theoretical efficiency of 100%. By storing the energy mostly in an amorphous DE layer, the break-down field strength is much higher compared to pure FE or AFE storage capacitors. In addition, leakage current losses can be reduced by improving the morphology of the insulating materials used.
US11145650B2
Integrated circuit devices and methods of forming the same are provided. An integrated circuit device in an embodiment includes a first multi-gate active region over a substrate, a second multi-gate active region over the substrate, a first gate structure over the first multi-gate active region, a second gate structure over the second multi-gate active region, and a dielectric feature disposed between the first gate structure and the second gate structure. The dielectric feature includes an oxygen-free layer in contact with the first gate structure and the second gate structure, a silicon oxide layer over the oxygen-free layer, and a transition layer disposed between the oxygen-free layer and the silicon oxide layer. An oxygen content of the transition layer is smaller than an oxygen content of the silicon oxide layer.
US11145644B2
A power device includes a substrate including a drift layer and having a first region and a second region, the drift layer having impurities of a first type; a switch formed in the first region; a diode formed in the second region; a metal structure formed over a surface of the substrate, the metal structure having a first thickness over the first region of the substrate and a second thickness over the second region of the substrate, the first thickness and second thickness having at least 3 um in thickness difference; and a zone provided in the drift layer in the second region of the substrate, the zone having impurities of a second type that is different from the first type.
US11145639B2
A semiconductor package and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The semiconductor package includes a first semiconductor device, at least one second semiconductor device, at least one dummy die, an encapsulant and a redistribution structure. The first semiconductor device, the at least one second semiconductor device and at least one dummy die are laterally separated from one another, and laterally encapsulated by the encapsulant. A Young's modulus of the at least one dummy die is greater than a Young's modulus of the encapsulant. A sidewall of the at least one dummy die is substantially coplanar with a sidewall of the encapsulant. The redistribution structure is disposed over the encapsulant, and electrically connected to the first semiconductor device and the at least one second semiconductor device.
US11145637B2
A semiconductor package may include a package substrate, a first interposer substrate mounted on the package substrate, and a first semiconductor chip disposed on the first interposer substrate. The first interposer substrate may include a first base layer, a second base layer disposed on the first base layer, circuit patterns provided in each of the first base layer and the second base layer, and an integrated device embedded in the first base layer and connected to at least one of the circuit patterns. A top surface of the first base layer may contact a bottom surface of the second base layer.
US11145631B1
A display device includes a display panel having a first emission region and a second emission region that is distinct from and mutually exclusive to the first emission region and surrounds the first emission region. The display device includes a first plurality of light emitters arranged in the first emission region, a plurality of activation lines for the first emission region, a second plurality of light emitters arranged in the second emission region, and a plurality of activation lines for the second emission region. A single activation line of the plurality of activation lines for the first emission region is electrically coupled with a first number of light emitters in the first emission region and a single activation line of the plurality of activation lines for the second emission region is electrically coupled with a second number, distinct from the first number, of light emitters in the second emission region.
US11145610B2
A chip package structure includes at least one chip, at least one thermally conductive element, a molding compound, and a redistribution layer. The respective chip has an active surface and a back surface opposite to each other and a plurality of electrodes disposed on the active surface. The thermally conductive element is disposed on the back surface of the respective chip. The molding compound encapsulates the chip and the thermally conductive element and has an upper surface and a lower surface opposite to each other. A bottom surface of each of the electrodes of the respective chip is aligned with the lower surface of the molding compound. The molding compound exposes a top surface of the respective thermally conductive element. The redistribution layer is disposed on the lower surface of the molding compound and electrically connected to the electrodes of the respective chip.
US11145608B2
Various embodiments include integrated approaches to detecting attempts to breach system-level or chip-level security using photo-generated currents induced by lasers or other radiation sources. Various embodiments integrate photo-detection circuits with a secure processor or other circuit in such a manner that the response to a security attack is fast enough to prevent loss of secure or private information are described. Various embodiments include circuits capable of providing a permanent record of photocurrent detection.
US11145599B2
Provided is a memory device including an array of memory cells. A first bit-line coupled to memory cells of a first column of the array of memory cells. The first bit-line is disposed on a first metal layer. A second bit-line is coupled to the first bit-line. The second bit-line is disposed on a second metal layer and coupled to the first bit-line by at least one via. A word line is coupled to a row of the array of memory cells.
US11145597B2
A semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor chip on which a first circuit is formed and a second semiconductor chip on which two circuits are formed. In the first semiconductor chip, a first inductor on the transmitting side electrically connected with the first circuit and a second inductor on the receiving side electrically connected with the second circuit via the bonding wire are formed. In plan view, the first inductor and the second inductor are disposed so as not to overlap each other, and are arranged along each other.
US11145595B2
An integrated fan-out (InFO) package includes a first redistribution structure, a die, an encapsulant, a plurality of first through interlayer vias (TIV), a second redistribution structure, an insulating layer, a supporting layer, and a plurality of conductive patches. The die is disposed on the first redistribution structure. The encapsulant encapsulates the die. The first TIVs are embedded in the encapsulant. The second redistribution structure is disposed on the die, the first TIVs, and the encapsulant. The first redistribution structure is electrically connected to the second redistribution structure through the first TIVs. The insulating layer is disposed on the first redistribution structure opposite to the die and includes a plurality of air gaps. The supporting layer is over the insulating layer. The conductive patches are over the supporting layer. Locations of the conductive patches correspond to locations of the air gaps of the insulating layer.
US11145594B2
The present technology relates to a semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the same. The semiconductor device includes a first stack including first interlayer insulating layers and first conductive patterns which are alternately stacked with one another, a second stack including second interlayer insulating layers and second conductive patterns which are alternately stacked with one another on the first stack, a plurality of channel plugs vertically formed through the first stack and the second stack, and at least one dummy plug vertically formed through the second without passing through the first stack.
US11145592B2
Semiconductor devices and methods of forming the same are provided. A method according to an embodiment includes receiving a substrate including a lower contact feature, depositing a first dielectric layer over a substrate, forming a metal-insulator-metal (MIM) structure over the first dielectric layer, depositing a second dielectric layer over the MIM structure, performing a first etch process to form an opening that extends through the second dielectric layer to expose the MIM structure, performing a second etch process to extend the opening through the MIM structure to expose the first dielectric layer; and performing a third etch process to further extend the opening through the first dielectric layer to expose the lower contact feature. Etchants of the first etch process and the third etch process include fluorine while the etchant of the second etch process is free of fluorine.
US11145589B2
A semiconductor module bonding structure includes: a semiconductor module including a semiconductor element and a positive terminal which is a plate-shaped power terminal electrically connected to the semiconductor element; and a main P bus bar which is a bus bar including a plate-shaped bonding part bonded to the positive terminal of the semiconductor module. The positive terminal of the semiconductor module which is one of the positive terminal and the bonding part of the main P bus bar that has a relatively small thickness is configures to be wider than the bonding part which is the other having a relatively large thickness, and the positive terminal and the bonding part are bonded together by fusion welding in the state of being arranged so that the respective thickness directions of the positive terminal and the bonding part are orthogonal to each other.
US11145587B2
An electronic component mounting substrate includes: an insulating substrate having a recess that opens in a main surface of the insulating substrate, the recess for mounting an electronic component; a metal layer located on a bottom surface of the recess; an external electrode located on the other main surface of the insulating substrate, the other main surface opposite to the main surface; a connection wiring located between the metal layer and the external electrode in a thickness direction of the insulating substrate; a plurality of first vias that connects the metal layer and the connection wiring and that is located along a side wall of the recess in a perspective plan view; and a plurality of second vias that connects the connection wiring and the external electrode and that is located in a strip shape in the perspective plan view.
US11145570B2
A closed loop liquid cooler and an electronic device using the same. The closed loop liquid cooler includes: a first liquid cooling module and a second liquid cooling module, where a cooling reflux at an output end of the first liquid cooling module is outputted to a cooling liquid input end of the second liquid cooling module; and a cooling reflux at an output end of the second liquid cooling module is outputted to a cooling liquid input end of the first liquid cooling module.
US11145561B2
The present disclosure provides a display panel and a method for manufacturing the same. The method includes providing a substrate including a display area and a non-display area. A chip on film (COF) and a testing structure are disposed in the non-display area. A testing circuit includes a signal trace including a non-metal trace and a metal trace connecting to each other. A cutting line is disposed on the signal trace. The method further includes testing the display area of the substrate by the testing structure, and removing a test pad.
US11145558B2
A manufacturing method of a semiconductor module including a trimming resistance element and a plurality of transistor chips connected mutually in parallel, in which gate electrodes are connected to one end of the trimming resistance element, including: measuring elapsed time and a gate-source voltage value when a predetermined gate current is injected into the gate electrodes and a predetermined drain current flow; calculating a gate-source capacity on the basis of the gate-source voltage value; determining a compensation gate resistance value on the basis of the gate-source voltage value and the gate-source capacity; and changing a resistance value of the trimming resistance element such that the resistance value of the trimming resistance element is conformed to the compensation gate resistance value.
US11145538B2
A multilayer structure is provided, the multilayer structure comprising a semiconductor on insulator structure comprises an insulating layer that enhances the stability of the underlying charge trapping layer.
US11145537B2
A silicon-on-insulator substrate includes: (1) a high-resistivity base layer including silicon and a trap-rich region including arsenic diffused within a first side of the high-resistivity base layer, wherein the trap-rich region has a thickness that is in a range of 1 to 10 microns and a trap density that is in a range of 0.8*1010 cm2 eV−1 to 1.2*1010 cm2 eV−1, wherein the high-resistivity base layer has resistivity in a range of 50 to 100 ohm-meters and a thickness in a range of 500 to 700 microns; (2) a silicon dioxide layer positioned on the first side of the high-resistivity base layer and having a thickness that is in a range of 1000 to 5000 angstroms; and (3) a transfer layer positioned on the silicon dioxide layer, wherein the transfer layer comprises a silicon wafer having a thickness that is a range of 500 to 5000 angstroms.
US11145535B2
A chuck is provided. The chuck comprises a plurality of lands protruding from a surface of the chuck, the lands defining a series of zones; and a trenched recessed from the surface of the chuck in at least one of the zones.
US11145533B2
A method of expanding a sheet includes the steps of gripping the sheet with a first gripping unit and a second griping unit and gripping the sheet with a third gripping unit and a fourth gripping unit, and expanding the sheet by moving the first gripping unit and the second griping unit away from each other in first directions relatively and moving the third gripping unit and the fourth gripping unit away from each other in second directions relatively. In the step of expanding the sheet, the states of the sheet that is under tension are detected, and movement of the first gripping unit, the second griping unit, the third gripping unit, and the fourth gripping unit is controlled based on the detected states of the sheet.
US11145530B2
The integrated circuit assembly can include: a semiconductor and a substrate (e.g., PCB). The integrated circuit assembly can optionally include: a compliant connector, a thermal management, and a securing element. The semiconductor 210 can include a first alignment feature. (e.g., orifice). The substrate can include a second alignment feature (e.g., alignment target) and conductive pads. The substrate can optionally include a cavity.
US11145528B2
A load port apparatus includes a mount member, a purge nozzle, and a plurality of pins. The mount member mounts a container. The nozzle introduces a cleaning gas into the container mounted on the mount member via a purge port disposed on a bottom of the container. The pins support the container from below by each contacting with a predetermined position of the bottom of the container. The pins are relatively vertically movable to the mount member between a first position and a second position where an upper tip of each of the pins is located lower than that at the first position. The upper tip of each of the pins at the first position contacts with the predetermined position of the container. The upper tip of each of the pins at the second position contacts with the predetermined position of the container.
US11145526B2
A method of monitoring or analyzing a manufacturing of a semiconductor structure includes providing a semiconductor structure; providing a camera disposed around the semiconductor structure; disposing a liquid substance over the semiconductor structure; removing a portion of the semiconductor structure; removing the liquid substance from the semiconductor structure; capturing a plurality of first images of the semiconductor structure by the camera; analyzing the plurality of first images; identifying a region of the semiconductor structure where a residue of the liquid substance is disposed based on the analysis of the plurality of first images; and performing a response based on the identification of the region of the semiconductor structure.
US11145522B2
A method of forming a boron-based film includes forming the boron-based film mainly containing boron on a substrate by plasma CVD using plasma of a processing gas including a boron-containing gas; and controlling film stress of the formed boron-based film by adjusting a process parameter.
US11145515B2
In a manufacturing method of a semiconductor device including a substrate having a front surface and a rear surface, and a film attached to the rear surface, the film is attached on the rear surface, a rear surface side groove is provided by half-cutting the substrate from the rear surface together with the film, a protective member is attached to the film after the rear surface side groove is provided, and a front surface side groove connected to the rear surface side groove is provided by dicing the substrate from the front surface after the protective member is attached.
US11145509B2
In an embodiment, a method for forming features for semiconductor processing. A first mandrel and a second mandrel are formed on a substrate. A first spacer is formed along a first sidewall of the first mandrel, and a second spacer is formed along a second sidewall of the second mandrel. A gap is defined between the first spacer and the second spacer. The gap is filled by a gap-filling material. In some examples, the gap-filling material includes a doped silicon material. In some examples, the first spacer and the second spacer each include a doped silicon material.
US11145507B2
A method of forming a GaN film includes following steps. A silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate is provided. The SOI substrate includes a substrate, an insulator layer and a silicon layer. The insulator layer is disposed on the substrate and the silicon layer is disposed on the insulator layer. The silicon layer is pattered into a patterned silicon layer including a plurality of recessed features. Each recessed feature has a sidewall. A plurality of GaN structures are epitaxially grown from the sidewalls, and the GaN structures are separated from each other. The GaN structures are continuously epitaxially grown vertically and horizontally to merge the GaN structures over top of the patterned silicon layer to form a GaN layer.
US11145506B2
Methods for selective deposition are provided. Material is selectively deposited on a first surface of a substrate relative to a second surface of a different material composition. An inhibitor, such as a polyimide layer, is selectively formed from vapor phase reactants on the first surface relative to the second surface. A layer of interest is selectively deposited from vapor phase reactants on the second surface relative to the first surface. The first surface can be metallic while the second surface is dielectric. Accordingly, material, such as a dielectric transition metal oxides and nitrides, can be selectively deposited on metallic surfaces relative dielectric surfaces using techniques described herein.
US11145499B2
The invention relates to the preparation of samples for mass spectrometric analyses with matrix-assisted ionization (e.g. MALDI), particularly using the matrix material 2,5-dihydroxyacetophenone (DHAP), and comprises sample preparation in microvessels with the addition of beads or other solid bodies. In this way, particularly thorough mixing can be achieved by shaking (“vortexing”) the microvessels, on the one hand, while crystallization of the matrix material can be initiated in the liquid, on the other hand. It is sufficient to have around 5 to 15 glass beads, 0.5 millimeters in diameter, which scrape against each other and against the vessel wall, and thus cause a DHAP solution to start becoming turbid after one to two minutes by forming tiny crystal nuclei. This allows simultaneous, fully automated preparation of, in particular, a large number of samples, including pipetting onto sample support plates by means of a pipetting and shaking robot.
US11145497B2
A method of analysing a target is disclosed comprising ablating a portion of a target so as to cause an aerosol plume to be produced and light or other electromagnetic radiation to be emitted. The aerosol plume is analysed using mass spectrometry and/or ion mobility spectrometry and the emitted light or other electromagnetic radiation is analysed using optical spectroscopy in order to determine one or more regions of interest of the target and/or one or more margins or bounds of a region of interest of the target.
US11145496B2
A fastening system for attaching two components with a spring force is disclosed. The fastening system utilizes O-rings to provide the spring force, eliminating the need for any metal components. The O-ring may be disposed in an O-ring holder that has a plurality of spokes. When compressed, indentations are created in the O-ring by the spokes. The number of spokes and their size and shape determine the spring force of the fastening system. In another embodiment, vertically oriented O-rings are utilized. The fastening system may be used to fasten various components of an ion source.
US11145489B2
Provided is a multi-charged-particle beam writing apparatus including: an emitter emitting a charged particle beam; a first shaping aperture array substrate having a plurality of first apertures and forming first multiple beams by passing a part of the charged particle beam through the first apertures, respectively; a second shaping aperture array substrate having second apertures formed at positions corresponding to the respective first apertures and forming second multiple beams by passing at least a part of each of the first multiple beams through corresponding the second apertures, respectively; a blanking aperture array having third apertures formed at positions corresponding to the respective second apertures and including blankers disposed in the respective third apertures to perform blanking deflection on the respective beams of the corresponding second multiple beams; a movable mechanism moving at least one of the first shaping aperture array substrate and the second shaping aperture array substrate; and a controller controlling the movable mechanism.
US11145486B2
A beam profile determination method and ion implantation apparatus implanting the same is provided. The method includes measuring a beam profile of an ion beam in a direction orthogonal to a scanning direction of a substrate and a traveling direction of the ion beam; computing, based on the measured beam profile, a uniformity of a dose distribution of a part of the ion beam with which a surface of the substrate is irradiated when the substrate is scanned; and comparing the computed uniformity of the dose distribution with a first reference value to determine an adequacy of the beam profile of the ion beam.
US11145485B2
A multiple electron beam irradiation apparatus includes a shaping aperture array substrate to form multiple primary electron beams, a plurality of electrode array substrates stacked each to dispose thereon a plurality of electrodes each arranged at a passage position of each of the multiple primary electron beams, each of the multiple primary electron beams surrounded by an electrode of the plurality of electrodes when each of the multiple primary electron beams passes through the passage position, the first wiring and the second wiring applied with one of different electric potentials, and a stage to mount thereon a target object to be irradiated with the multiple primary electron beams having passed through the plurality of electrode array substrates, wherein, in each of the plurality of electrode array substrates, each of the plurality of electrodes is electrically connected to either one of the first wiring and the second wiring.
US11145479B2
An electrical switchgear includes: a housing; at least one first contact mounted in the housing; at least one second contact translationally movable within the housing in a translational movement direction; a switchgear control mechanism having a first rotary element having a first rotation axis and a second rotary element having a second rotation axis; and a link element pivoted on one end thereof to the first rotary element and on an other end thereof to the at least one second contact. The first and the second rotation axes are arranged substantially perpendicular to each other. The second rotation axis is arranged essentially in parallel to the translational movement direction of the at least one second contact. The first and the second rotary elements engage such that a rotation of the second rotary element is transmitted to the first rotary element.
US11145476B2
Embodiments of the disclosure include systems and methods for providing an electric high-voltage circuit breaker. In one embodiment, a circuit breaker includes a primary chamber; and a compression chamber, wherein the circuit breaker further includes a valve configured to control a fluid flow between the primary chamber and the compression chamber, wherein the valve includes a valve body, a first valve plate that is arranged axially movable with respect to the valve body, and a second valve plate that is arranged between and movable with respect to the valve body and the first valve plate, wherein said first valve plate includes at least one opening enabling the fluid flow through the first valve plate, wherein a first surface of the valve body forms a valve seat for the first valve plate, and wherein a first surface of the first valve plate forms a valve seat for the second valve plate.
US11145465B2
Dielectric patterns may be additionally disposed in margin portions, and thicknesses of the dielectric patterns may be controlled to improve the reliability of a capacitor component.
US11145462B2
A capacitor component includes a body including a dielectric layer, a layering portion in which first and second internal electrodes opposing each other are layered in a first direction, and first and second connecting portions disposed on both surfaces of the layering portion taken in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and connected to the first and second internal electrodes, respectively; and first and second external electrodes disposed on the first and second connecting portions, respectively, and the first and second external electrodes include metal powder particles, a surface of each of which is coated with at least one of graphene and carbon nanotubes.
US11145452B2
An inductor includes a body including a support member, a coil, and an encapsulant, and external electrodes on external surfaces of the body. The coil in the body may be formed so that a plurality of coil patterns are continuously formed, wherein the coil pattern includes first and second coil layers, and the encapsulant extends downward between adjacent coil patterns to be between first coil layers of adjacent coil patterns.
US11145445B2
A method of preparing a permanent magnet nanocomposite. The method includes melting a precursor alloy having a hard magnetic phase and a magnetically soft phase. The hard magnetic phase has less than a stoichiometric amount of rare earth metal or noble metal. The melted precursor is cast into flakes and milled into a powder. The powder may then be pressure crystalized.
US11145441B2
An electrical isolator includes comprising: a first fluid-carrying member a second fluid-carrying member spaced apart from the first fluid-carrying member to form a gap; a resistive, semi-conductive or non-conductive component extending across the gap and bonded to the first and second fluid-carrying members so as to provide a fluid tight seal between the first fluid-carrying member and the resistive, semi-conductive or non-conductive component and between the second fluid-carrying member and the resistive, semi-conductive or non-conductive component. The isolator also includes a reinforcing composite encircling the first fluid-carrying member, the second fluid-carrying member and the resistive, semi-conductive or non-conductive component.
US11145440B2
Methods of testing and installing fire-resistant coaxial cables are described. The dielectric between the coax cable's central conductor and outer coaxial conductor ceramify under high heat, such as those specified by common fire test standards (e.g., 1850° F./1010° C. for two hours). The dielectric can be composed of ceramifiable silicone rubber, such as that having a polysiloxane matrix with inorganic flux and refractory particles. Because thick layers of uncured ceramifiable silicone rubber deform under their own weight when curing, multiple thinner layers are coated and serially cured in order to build up the required thickness. A sacrificial sheath mold is used to hold each layer of uncured ceramifiable silicone rubber in place around the central conductor while curing. The outer conductor can be a metal foil, metal braid, and/or corrugated metal. Another layer of extruded ceramifiable silicone dielectric or an outer wrap of ceramic fiber yarn surrounds the outer conductor and continues to insulate it from the outside if a low smoke zero halogen jacket burns away.
US11145421B2
Method and system for remote medical information exchanging are disclosed. The system for remote medical information exchanging comprises a computer application program and a data storage server. The computer application program is electrically coupled with a data storage server via communication network, comprising an end user end, configured to capture video stream of face of the end user; and a doctor end, configured to show the video stream of the face of end user and one or more physiological inference in accordance with the video stream. The data storage server, configured to store a scalable video server module, one or more artificial intelligence modules, a poly-omics uni-matrix pipeline, and a combined inference module.
US11145405B2
Method and system for grading a medical image. For example, a system for grading a medical image comprising a grading network configured to provide a grading result corresponding to the medical image based on at least the medical image and/or a list of lesion candidates generated by a lesion identification network.
US11145404B1
A cloud computing system is described that communicates with a virtual machine to reattach the face of a patient to brain imaging data before the brain imaging data is transmitted for display on a brain navigation system.
US11145401B1
A system for generating a sustenance plan for managing genetic disorders is disclosed. The system includes a computing device. The computing device is configured to receive an input which may include genetics test data. The computing device is configured to identify a plurality of biological indices of a disease state as a function of the genetics test data. The plurality of biological indices comprises at least one biological index related to a genetic disease state. The computing device is configured to generate a genetic disorder classifier. The computing device is configured to generate a sustenance plan as a function of the positive result. A method for generating a sustenance plan for managing genetic disorders is disclosed.
US11145400B1
A system and method for generating a pulmonary dysfunction nourishment program, comprises a computing device configured to receive at least a respiratory volume collection relating to a user, generate at least a respiratory parameter of a plurality of respiratory parameter as a function of the respiratory volume collection, determine a pulmonary bundle element as a function of the at least respiratory parameter, identify at least an edible as a function of the pulmonary bundle element, wherein identifying comprises, obtaining a nourishment composition from an edible directory, determining a nourishment deficiency as a function of the pulmonary bundle element, and identifying the at least edible as a function of the nourishment composition, the nourishment deficiency, and an edible machine-learning model, and output a nourishment program as a function of the at least edible.
US11145399B2
A method for displaying archived exercise classes comprising displaying information about archived exercise classes that can be accessed by a first user via a computer network on a display screen at a first location, wherein the first user can select among a plurality of archived classes, outputting digital video and audio content comprising the selected archived class, detecting a performance parameter for the first user at a particular point in the selected class, displaying the performance parameter on the display screen, and displaying performance parameters from a second user at a second location on the display screen such that at least one of the performance parameters from the first user and at least one of the performance parameters from the second user at the same point in the class are presented for comparison.
US11145386B2
A chip testing method, device, electronic apparatus, and computer readable medium are provided, relating to the field of chip testing. The method includes: determining a language rule of a chip to be tested; determining product and timing specifications of the chip to be tested; selecting a test pattern from a test pattern library according to the language rule and the product and timing specifications; generating a test code according to the product and timing specifications and the test pattern; and automatically testing the chip to be tested by using the test code. The chip testing method, device, electronic apparatus and computer readable medium can automatically generate a big-data test code for complex memories, and rapidly generate, in a standardized way, test codes for DDR4 memories of different specifications, thereby improving the efficiency of chip product verification analysis.
US11145374B2
A memory system includes a nonvolatile memory configured to execute one of a plurality of read operations, including a first read operation and a second read operation, and a memory controller configured to issue a read command to the nonvolatile memory to cause the nonvolatile memory to execute one of the plurality of read operations. The memory controller is configured to receive a read request, estimate a reliability level of a result of a read operation to be executed by the nonvolatile memory to read data from a physical address specified in the read request, select one of the first and second read operations to be executed first in a read sequence corresponding to the read request by the nonvolatile memory based on the estimated reliability level, and instruct the nonvolatile memory to execute the selected read operation.
US11145372B2
The present invention provides a decoding method, a memory controlling circuit unit, and a memory storage device. The decoding method includes: receiving a plurality of commands; reading a first physical programming unit to obtain a plurality of first data respectively by using a plurality of first reading voltage groups of a plurality of reading voltage groups based on a first read command of the plurality of commands and executing a first decoding operation in each of the plurality of first data, wherein a number of the plurality of first reading voltage groups is less than a number of the plurality of reading voltage groups; and executing other commands being different from the first read command of the plurality of commands when unsuccessfully executing the first decoding operation for each of the plurality of first data.
US11145370B2
Apparatuses and methods for segmented SGS lines are described. An example apparatus includes a plurality of memory subblocks, a plurality of first select gate control lines, each first select gate control line of the plurality of first select gate control lines configured to couple a memory subblock of the plurality of memory subblocks to a signal line, and a second select gate control line configured to couple the plurality of memory subblocks to a source line.
US11145369B2
According to one embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes a memory array having a plurality of memory cells. The apparatus further includes memory access circuits coupled to the memory array and configured to perform write operations responsive to control signals. The apparatus further includes control logic coupled to the memory access circuits and configured to apply a set of write parameters based, at least in part, on a number of write operations performed by the memory access circuits and further configured to provide control signals to the memory access circuits to perform write operations on the plurality of memory cells according to the set of write parameters.
US11145352B2
Memory devices and systems with adjustable through-silicon via (TSV) delay, and associated methods, are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a plurality of memory dies and a TSV configured to transmit signals to or receive signals from the plurality of memory dies. The apparatus further includes circuitry coupled to the TSV and configured to introduce propagation delay onto signals transmitted to or received from the TSV. In some embodiments, the apparatus includes additional circuitry configured to activate, deactivate, adjust at least a portion of the circuitry, or any combination thereof, to alter the propagation delay. In this manner, the apparatus can align internal timings of memory dies of the plurality of memory dies.
US11145351B2
A semiconductor device includes an error check and scrub (ECS) command generation circuit and an ECS control circuit. The ECS command generation circuit is configured to generate an ECS command by controlling a speed of a first counting operation that is performed based on a refresh command or a bank refresh command, according to a temperature and a refresh mode of the semiconductor device, or is configured to generate the ECS command by performing a second counting operation based on a periodic signal. The ECS control circuit is configured to sequentially generate an ECS active command, an ECS read command, an ECS write command, an ECS pre-charge command, and an end signal based on the ECS command. The refresh mode includes a fine granularity refresh (FGR) mode, and the temperature includes a high temperature that is a temperature above a certain temperature.
US11145333B2
Systems and methods provide for capturing and presenting content creation tools of an application used in a video. Application data from the application for the duration of the video is received. The application data includes data identifiers and time markers corresponding to user interaction with an application in a video. The application data is processed to detect tool identifiers identifying tools used in the video based on the data identifiers. For each a tool identifier, a tool label and a corresponding time in the timeline is determined. A tool record storing the tool labels and the corresponding times in association with the video is generated. When a viewer requests to watch the video, the tool record is presented to the viewer in conjunction with the video.
US11145329B2
A recording medium cartridge according to an embodiment of the present technology includes: an information recording medium; a first cartridge memory; and a second cartridge memory. The first cartridge memory is capable of storing first information relating to the information recording medium, and includes a non-contact communication medium capable of reading/writing the first information via a first communication device disposed in a drive device. The second cartridge memory is capable of storing second information relating to the information recording medium, and is configured to be capable of reading the second information via a second communication device.
US11145320B2
Personal audio systems and methods are disclosed. A personal audio system includes a processor to generate a personal audio stream by processing an ambient audio stream in accordance with an active processing parameter set, a circular buffer memory to store a most recent snippet of the ambient audio stream, and an event detector to detect a trigger event. In response to detection of the trigger event, a controller may extract audio feature data from the most recent snippet of the ambient audio stream and transmit the audio feature data and associated metadata to a knowledgebase remote from the personal audio system.
US11145319B2
A personal audio device configured to be worn on the head or body of a user and including a plurality of microphones configured to provide a plurality of separate microphone signals capturing audio from an environment external to the personal audio device, and a processor configured to process a first subset of the plurality of separate microphone signals using a first array processing technique to provide a first array signal, compare the first array signal to a microphone signal from the plurality of separate microphone signals, and select the first array signal or the microphone signal based on the comparison.
US11145318B2
There is provided methods and apparatuses for decoding and encoding of audio signals. In particular, a method for decoding includes receiving a waveform-coded signal having a spectral content corresponding to a subset of the frequency range above a cross-over frequency. The waveform-coded signal is interleaved with a parametric high frequency reconstruction of the audio signal above the cross-over frequency. In this way an improved reconstruction of the high frequency bands of the audio signal is achieved.
US11145315B2
An electronic device includes an audio capture device receiving audio input. The electronic device includes one or more processors, operable with the audio capture device, and configured to execute a control operation in response to a device command preceded by a trigger phrase identified in the audio input when in a first mode of operation. The one or more processors transition from the first mode of operation to a second mode of operation in response to detecting a predefined operating condition of the electronic device. In the second mode of operation, the one or more processors execute the control operation without requiring the trigger phrase to precede the device command.
US11145313B2
A system and method for assisting communication through predictive speech is provided. A database includes commonly used words, phrases, and images, each associated with at least one context cue. A processor is configured to determine the user's context and display a number of possible initial words, phrases, or images associated with the determined context. A text field is updated with selected words, phrases, or images. The words, phrases, or literal equivalents of the images are audibly transmitted.
US11145311B2
An information processing apparatus includes: a speech obtainer which obtains speech of a user; a first controller which, when the first controller recognizes that the speech obtained by the speech obtainer is a first activation word, outputs a speech signal corresponding to a second activation word different from the first activation word; and a second controller which performs an activation process for starting transmission of the speech signal of the speech obtained by the speech obtainer to a VPA cloud server when the second controller recognizes that the speech signal output by the first controller indicates the second activation word.
US11145304B2
According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a hardware processor. The processor receives voice data acquired by collecting speech of a user from a wearable device wearable by the user. The processor sends first mode information indicative of a first mode to one or more application programs being executed on the electronic device when the first mode is set as a recognition mode. A first recognition process to recognize one of first commands from the voice data is performed in the first mode. The processor sends second mode information indicative of a second mode to the one or more application programs when the second mode is set as the recognition mode. A second recognition process to recognize one of second commands from the voice data is repeatedly performed in the second mode.
US11145293B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer-readable media, for performing speech recognition using sequence-to-sequence models. An automated speech recognition (ASR) system receives audio data for an utterance and provides features indicative of acoustic characteristics of the utterance as input to an encoder. The system processes an output of the encoder using an attender to generate a context vector and generates speech recognition scores using the context vector and a decoder trained using a training process that selects at least one input to the decoder with a predetermined probability. An input to the decoder during training is selected between input data based on a known value for an element in a training example, and input data based on an output of the decoder for the element in the training example. A transcription is generated for the utterance using word elements selected based on the speech recognition scores. The transcription is provided as an output of the ASR system.
US11145289B1
A system and method for providing an audible explanation of documents upon request is disclosed. The system and method use an intelligent voice assistant that can receive audible requests for document explanations. The intelligent voice assistant can retrieve document summary information and provide an audible response explaining key points of the document.
US11145280B2
An electric guitar includes a body, a neck, and a tremolo device. A tremolo cavity for accommodating a tremolo spring is formed on the back of the body. A metal cover is attached to the tremolo cavity so as to cover the tremolo spring from the outside. A magnetic force generating portion that generates a magnetic force for fixing the metal cover to the body is provided in the vicinity of the tremolo cavity.
US11145270B2
Described herein are systems and methods that reduce power consumption for an electronics device including a display. The systems and methods alter video information in a display area and reduce power for a display device when a graphics item is enlarged and the enlargement threatens to increase perceived luminance for the graphics item or increase aggregate luminance for the display area. Altering the video information reduces the luminance of video information in at least the graphics item when enlarged. This may offset perceived luminance gained by human visual processing when an item increases in size. If the graphics item is smaller than the display area after enlargement, then other video information in the display area may also be altered to conserve power.
US11145266B2
A method and a circuit for viewing-angle image compensation applied to a flat panel display are provided. A viewing-angle image compensation scheme is applied to an input image for improving a problem of color shift caused by a large viewing angle. The method further solves the blur effect in high frequency regions and color bleeding in low saturation regions of the input image after viewing-angle image compensation. In the method, a frequency distribution of the input image is detected and decremental frequency weights are assigned to the regions having high to low frequencies. A saturation distribution of the input image is detected and incremental saturation weights are assigned to the regions having high to low saturations. The weights assigned to the regions are used to designate degrees of the viewing-angle image compensation. The method can effectively reduce the effect of the viewing-angle image compensation on the image.
US11145263B2
Disclosed is a display apparatus. The display apparatus includes a liquid crystal panel including a plurality of subpixels, a backlight unit including a white light source and a blue light source, and a processor configured to adjust the blue light source to emit light and to adjust an aperture ratio of at least one of the plurality of subpixels based on a color temperature of the white light source and a target color temperature.
US11145262B2
An apparatus for driving an electro-optic display may comprise spaced first and second device layers, and a first and second rows of display pixels, each row may include a plurality of display pixels, each display pixel having a pixel electrode positioned on the first device layer for driving the display pixel, a conduction line positioned on the second device layer and overlapping with a portion of the plurality of display pixels' pixel electrodes, and at least one conductive path connecting the conduction line of the first row to a conduction line of the second row of display pixels.
US11145260B2
Aspects of the subject technology relate to an electronic device with a display. The display includes an array of light-emitting diodes. The array includes a plurality of subarrays of the light-emitting diodes. At least one driver circuit is coupled to the array of light-emitting diodes. The at least one driver circuit is configured to generate an adaptive pulse-width modulated (PWM) signal to control at least one subarray of the plurality of subarrays of the light-emitting diodes. The adaptive PWM signal is designed with each pulse of a group having a pulse width W, each pulse width being reduced until reaching a threshold pulse width, and one pulse being removed from the group of pulses.
US11145256B1
This document describes systems and techniques for dynamic control of scan signals in active-matrix organic light-emitting diode (AMOLED) displays. Displays in portable electronic devices, such as smartphones, include tens of thousands of pixels. Scan signals in the display control the brightness and color of individual pixels. A leading source of power consumption in AMOLED displays, however, is the parasitic capacitance in the scan lines that carry the scan signals. As the frame rate of AMOLED displays has increased, the frequency of scan signals and the associated parasitic capacitance has also increased. The described AMOLED display can dynamically control the number of pulses in scan signals to reduce power consumption without degrading image quality.
US11145255B1
Embodiments of pixel circuits for light emitting elements are disclosed herein. In one example, a pixel circuit includes a pixel driver configured to receive a data signal and drive a light emitting element based on the data signal, a first power signal coupled to an anode of the light emitting element through the pixel driver, and a second power signal coupled to a cathode of the light emitting element. In some embodiments, the second power signal is configured to vary based on the data signal. In some embodiments, in a first period of the data signal, a value of the second power signal is configured to be lower than a value of first power signal, and in a second period of the data signal, the value of the second power signal is configured to be higher than the value of the first power signal.
US11145247B2
A display module Gamma correction method includes: obtaining corrected Gamma register values corresponding to binding points of a grayscale by correcting register values of s binding points selected from a set of m binding points of the grayscale based on a group of initial Gamma register values that correspond to the m binding points and a target Gamma curve; selecting, from x sets of alternate Gamma register values wherein each set corresponds to m binding points and the initial Gamma register values, a set of Gamma register values used for Gamma correction of the display module(s) as reference register values; and; and correcting register values of remaining m−s binding points based on the reference Gamma register values and the target Gamma curve to obtain a set of target Gamma register values corresponding to the m binding points, wherein s, m and x are all integers greater than one.
US11145243B2
A digital-analog conversion circuit includes an arithmetic circuit, a voltage output unit, decoders, and output lines. The arithmetic circuit receives a digital signal of multiple bits, divides the multiple bits into groups of two or more bits, and outputs a logical operation result of each group. The voltage output unit outputs voltages having different values. The decoders receive each voltage and the logical operation result, and outputs an analog signal corresponding to the digital signal. The output lines correspond to the decoders. Each decoder includes switches and selection units. The switches correspond to the voltages. Each switch alternates between output, of a corresponding voltage, to a corresponding output line and non-output, of a corresponding voltage, to a corresponding output line. The selection units correspond to the switches. The selection units receive the logical operation result, and each selection unit controls a corresponding switch based on the logical operation result.
US11145236B2
A display device includes: a display unit including a plurality of pixels to display an image according to a driving voltage; a data driver to provide data signals to the plurality of pixels; a gamma voltage generator to provide a plurality of grayscale voltages to the data driver; and a reference voltage generator to provide a first reference voltage and a second reference voltage to the gamma voltage generator. The gamma voltage generator is to generate the plurality of grayscale voltages by dividing the first reference voltage and the second reference voltage, and the reference voltage generator is to generate a sensing driving voltage by measuring the driving voltage from the display unit, and to generate the first reference voltage and the second reference voltage by utilizing the sensing driving voltage and a reference driving voltage.
US11145234B2
The present application discloses a screen projecting method, an apparatus, a device and a storage medium. A specific implementation is: receiving a request for screen projecting from a terminal device, where the request for screen projecting includes indication information of content to be screen-projected; acquiring the content to be screen-projected according to the request for screen projecting; receiving a first initiating message of at least one screen projecting source from a target projecting device, and determining a target screen projecting source from the at least one screen projecting source; and sending the content to be screen-projected and an identifier of the target screen projecting source to the target projecting device, where the identifier of the target screen projecting source indicates to the target projecting device to display the content to be screen-projected through the target screen projecting source.
US11145230B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and a device for detecting a threshold voltage drift of a transistor in a pixel circuit, which are used for detecting the threshold voltage drift of the transistor to be detected in the pixel circuit. The transistor to be detected is at least one of the driving transistor and the detection transistor. The detection method comprises: inputting, during an inputting stage, a first turning-on voltage to the second scanning terminal, so as to turn on the detection transistor, enabling writing a first voltage into the second node through the detection signal terminal; inputting, during a detection stage, a first turning-off voltage to the second scanning terminal, so as to turn off the detection transistor, thereby detecting an actual voltage at the second node; and determining a state of the threshold voltage drift of the transistor to be detected according to the actual voltage and the first voltage.
US11145227B2
This disclosure describes a sign having a reconfigurable display face. In one example, the sign includes a sign body having a first display face and an opposed face, and a rotatable display member connected to the sign body and having a second display face. The reconfigurable display face includes the first display face and the second display face, and the display member is reconfigurable between a plurality of display orientations by rotation about a rotation axis.
US11145225B2
An optical element includes a rectangular light guide plate, a light source setting portion, a parallel light lens group, and a total reflection lens group, disposed between the parallel light lens group and the first side surface, a part of the parallel light from the parallel light lens group is subjected to total reflection at least once to form a first parallel light parallel to the front surface, and the first parallel light enters the first side surface to make the second side surface emit light; another part of the parallel light from the parallel light lens group is totally reflected at least twice to form a second parallel light oblique to the front surface, and the second parallel light enters the first side surface to make the front surface emit light.
US11145215B1
Methods and systems are described for detecting movement of a portable electronic device; receiving video data, for a first object, captured by a video capture device during the movement; and utilizing the video data, presenting a video by a display device of the portable electronic device that is viewable to a user for directing an attention of the user in connection with the first object.
US11145214B2
Devices, systems, and methods for determining aircraft orientation are described herein. One device includes instructions executable to determine a subsection of a rendering of a portion of an airport, wherein the subsection is associated with a particular stand of the airport, and wherein the subsection includes a plurality of ground travel pathways, determine a first subset of the plurality of pathways, a second subset of the plurality of pathways, and a third subset of the plurality of pathways, track a location of an outbound aircraft within the subsection of the rendering, determine an orientation of the aircraft according to a first set of rules responsive to a determination that the location of the aircraft is within the first or second subset of the plurality of pathways, and determine the orientation of the aircraft according to a second set of rules responsive to a determination that the location of the aircraft is within the third subset of the plurality of pathways.
US11145209B2
Provided is a method and system that includes an imaging device disposed within a parking area, and configured to capture one or more images of a parked vehicle, and monitor a location of the parked vehicle a remote computing device in wireless communication with the image device. The remote computing device is configured to transmit and receive parking data from the image device. Also included is a software module accessible via a user device for controlling and displaying the one or more images of the parked vehicle to a user. The user selects the parked vehicle to be monitored, and the imaging device monitors the parked vehicle to determine whether the parked vehicle has been moved or is parked illegally and wirelessly transmits a notification to the user.
US11145195B2
An Intelligent Transportation System, ITS, service station is disclosed. The ITS service station has: a receiver having an area of radio coverage and configured to receive a first Collective Perception Message, CPM, from a first ITS station at a first position within the coverage area, the first CPM including first sensor data on at least one first free space area perceived by the first ITS station; an aggregator configured to aggregate said first sensor data with at least one second sensor data on at least one second free space area into a third sensor data, which second sensor data is received via the receiver in a second CPM from a second ITS station at a second position within the coverage area or is determined by a sensor of the ITS service station; and a transmitter configured to broadcast said third sensor data in a third CPM.
US11145191B2
A flash light module (1) can include a housing (30) carrying at least a visible flash light emitter (10) to emit a flash light beam along an optical axis (OA) and at least one additional emitter (20) emitting non-visible light arranged at a second distance (D2) perpendicular to the optical axis (OA), where position and orientation of the additional emitter (20) and at least the second distances (D2) are suitably adapted as well as the housing (30) is suitably shaped in order to enable the additional emitter (20) to emit non-visible light (22) along a non-visible light emitting direction (IRD), wherein the additional emitter (20) is adapted to emit the non-visible light (22) to the environment suitable to remote communicate to, preferably to remote control, external electronic devices (5) comprising corresponding receivers for the non-visible light (22). A mobile device (100) can include the flash light module (1) and a method to operate the mobile device (100).
US11145190B2
A trainable transceiver for controlling a remote device includes a transceiver circuit configured, based on training information, to control the remote device, a communications device configured to communicate with a mobile communications device, an output device, and a control circuit coupled to the transceiver circuit, coupled to the communications device, and coupled to the output device. The control circuit is configured to receive notification information from the mobile communications device via the communications device, and wherein the control circuit is configured to generate an output using the output device based on the notification information.
US11145189B2
In response to a detected presence of an intended target appliance within a logical topography of controllable appliances identity information associated with the intended target appliance is used to automatically add to a graphical user interface of a controlling device an icon representative of the intended target appliance and to create at a Universal Control Engine a listing of communication methods for use in controlling corresponding functional operations of the intended target appliance. When the icon is later activated, the controlling device is placed into an operating state appropriate for controlling functional operations of the intended target appliance while the Universal Control Engine uses at least one of the communication methods to transmit at least one command to place the intended target appliance into a predetermined operating state.
US11145188B2
Various embodiments are generally directed to an apparatus, method and other techniques for detecting, by one or more sensor components, at least one sensor input, and executing, by logic, at least one instruction to cause an event on a wearable wireless device, the event comprising at least one of a change in a physical parameter on the wearable wireless device and a wireless communication with a computing device via a transceiver.
US11145183B2
In a tracking device 10, a crescent-shaped PCB 12 partially encircles a battery 15 to minimize thickness of the device 10. A speaker 23 and an LED 24 emit alerts upon command of a control apparatus 37 or in response to motion or temperature sensed by sensor 25. A local network 40 has one hub 41 to tracking devices 33 and a wider area network 45 has multiple hubs for more detailed tracking of devices 33. A wide area network 50 tracks devices anywhere and stores data of each tracking device including its last known position and its sensor data. An apparatus and methods for finding and tracking a plurality of radiotag/objects designated as a group 303 by a user.
US11145171B2
An electronic doorbell system can be configured to enable remote audio communications between a visitor at the doorbell and a user of a mobile computing device by exchanging speech-to-text and/or text-to-speech messages in real time. Audio captured by the visitor can be transcribed into text messages and sent to the user of the mobile device using a speech-to-text service. The user of the mobile device can send text messages to the doorbell for playback to the visitor by using a text-to-speech service. The system can also use artificial intelligence to detect the language spoken by the visitor for translating between a predetermined language of the user and the language of the visitor. The system can also include a camera for capturing video of the visitor for display to the mobile device simultaneous with exchanging text messages between the visitor and the user, such as during a live Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) communication.
US11145164B2
A gaming machine platform includes a front display that is controllable to be opaque and display symbols during a first mode of operation, and controllable to be transparent to reveal a set of stepper motor driven reels during a second mode of operation. The front display may be part of larger display screen that displays peripheral reels that surround the front display. In one type of game, the front display displays a randomly selected array of symbols, and the peripheral reels display scatter symbols that are combinable with the front display symbols in a primary game to generate awards and possibly trigger a bonus game. When the bonus game is triggered, the front display becomes transparent to reveal the stepper driven reels for a bonus game. The bonus game may or may not use the peripheral reels.
US11145161B2
Gaming system and method for providing incentives for transferring funds to and from a mobile device
The present disclosure relates generally to gaming systems and methods for providing one or more incentives to a player in association with a mobile device facilitated transfer of funds to an electronic gaming machine and/or from the electronic gaming machine.
US11145160B2
VR game integrated machine comprise a main box, illuminating elements, a support column assembly, a display assembly, a main display and a transmission device mounted inside the main display mounting frame, the transmission device including a driving structure. The main box, located between the support columns, is movably connected to the support columns. One or more VR handles, which include a data line, is connected to a computer in the main box body via the data line. The game device head display can be automatically stored and lowered and the game controller provides for easy unattended operation so that operation is simpler, more efficient, lower in cost, and the device loss rate can be greatly reduced. Also set forth is a method for using the VR game integrated machine; the method includes the steps of starting the device, scanning the code to recharge, locking the screen, and ending the game.
US11145157B2
A gaming system is disclosed which comprises a game controller arranged to implement a game, at least one game meter arranged to obtain game related information, and an interface device arranged to facilitate transfer of at least some of the obtained game related information to a portable data storage device in response to a transfer instruction. A corresponding method of monitoring a gaming device is also disclosed.
US11145152B2
A bill-loading machine for receptacles (e.g., cash cassettes or cash cartridges for cash cassettes) for cash-dispensing machines. The bill-loading machine has receptacle ports, currency bins, and bill dispensers. Each receptacle port receives a receptacle that (i) stores bills and (ii) is configurable to the cash-dispensing machines for dispensing the bills. Each currency bin stores a bills, and each bill dispenser loads a receptacle located at a corresponding receptacle port with bills from a corresponding currency bin. In some embodiments, the bill-loading machine includes a bill sorter that receives an input supply of bills of varied denominations, automatically sorts the bills into multiple flows of paper currency of specific denominations for storage in multiple currency bins, and automatically loads each currency bin with the bills of a corresponding denomination.
US11145150B2
A smart storage locker can be used to store an individual's mobile device while the individual is at work, school or another location where mobile devices should be restricted. The smart storage locker will therefore prevent the individual from carrying his or her mobile device while in such restricted environments. In addition to storing mobile devices, the smart storage locker can also be configured to automatically detect an individual's identity when the individual's mobile device is secured within the smart storage locker. This detection can then be employed to track when the individual is present at a particular location while not having access to, and therefore not using, his or her mobile device.
US11145149B2
An electronic lock includes an electric locking unit, a touch panel, and a control module. The control module stores a plurality of touch condition sets which are related to human contact. The control module executes an input scan operation on each touch switch of the touch panel, charges a self capacitor with a scan signal, and charges a mutual capacitor with a driving signal. The control module determines whether an electric change conforms with any one of the touch conditions. Through a structural design of the touch panel and a scan function design of the control module, the electronic lock can more accurately determine whether the touch panel is operated by human touch and can also normally operate in a humid environment.
US11145148B2
System and techniques for a secure wireless lock-actuation exchange are described herein. After receiving a request to actuate a lock from a device, a controller can calculate a challenge counter and then perform verification iterations until an end condition is met—which is a failure of a verification iterations or the number of iterations reaches the challenge count. If the verification iterations reach the challenge count (e.g., there are no failed iterations), then the controller actuates the lock. Each iteration includes an exchange between the device and the controller that the device validates by signing a message with a private key shared by the device and the controller. The exchange also includes a freshness value integrated into the device validation to prevent replay attacks.
US11145147B2
Location-aware beacon scanning and authentication for secure lock control and other IoT applications
Systems and methods for location-aware scanning of an IoT beacon by a mobile device, and the authentication of the mobile device, are disclosed herein. The system detects when the mobile device is within a geofenced region associated with the IoT beacon and enables the scanning by the mobile device for signals from the beacon. Using the beacon signals received by the mobile device, the system detects when the mobile device and IoT beacon are sufficiently near one another. Once the mobile device and IoT beacon are sufficiently near each other, the system authenticates control of the mobile device over the IoT beacon by verifying an authentication key transmitted to a server.
US11145146B2
This application discloses a computing system to self-diagnosis of faults for an assisted or automated driving system of a vehicle. The computing system can populate measurement data collected by sensors mounted in the vehicle into an environmental model, and detect an object proximate to the vehicle based on the measurement data in the environmental model. The computing system can identify a fault in at least one of the sensors by performing one or more safety cross-checks including one or more of comparing the environmental modal against one or more data models populated with sensor measurements or objects detected by different sensors, analyzing estimated motion of the vehicle or the object for aberrant movement, identifying missing measurement data, identifying divergent object classifications, or identifying operational sensor characteristics. A control system for the vehicle can configured to control operation of the vehicle based, at least in part, on the identified fault.
US11145145B2
An information processing method includes: obtaining, from vehicles, sensor data obtained from sensors of the vehicles; performing object detection processes each using a different one of the sensor data; determining a style of a presentation for monitoring or controlling the vehicles, using results of the object detection processes; and controlling the presentation made by a presentation device according to the style determined.
US11145137B1
Augmented Reality is having numerous applications in the field of beverage industry. For example, in preparing cocktails. Conventional methods fail to provide an interactive AR based cocktail preparation, enabling the user to prepare cocktail. The present disclosure analyzes an image of a shelf to obtain a plurality of beverage types. A plurality of potential cocktails are generated based on the analysis and displayed to the user using 3D Augmented Reality (AR). A procedure for preparing a cocktail, requested by the user, is displayed near a located glassware kept by the user using 3D AR. A volume of the glassware is computed and a quantity of each beverage to be added is computed based on the volume. Further, a quantity of each beverage added by the user is dynamically measured by using 3D AR techniques and recommendations are provided to the user if there is any deviation.
US11145128B2
An extended reality (XR) device and a method for controlling the same are disclosed. The XR device is applicable to 5G communication technology, robot technology, autonomous driving technology, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology, and a method for controlling the same.
US11145127B2
A computer implemented method for updating a point map on a system having first and second communicatively coupled hardware components includes the first component performing a first process on the point map in a first state to generate a first change. The method also includes the second component performing a second process on the point map in the first state to generate a second change. The method further includes the second component applying the second change to the point map in the first state to generate a first updated point map in a second state. Moreover, the method includes the first component sending the first change to the second component. In addition, the method includes the second component applying the first change to the first updated point map in the second state to generate a second updated point map in a third state.
US11145124B2
A Virtual Reality (VR) computer system and method including a VR headset to be worn by at least one user; one or more pupil sensors located in the VR headset configured and operative to capture and track pupil movement of the at least one user wearing the VR headset; and at least one camera device operative to capture video image of at least one user wearing the VR headset. A computer processor is instructed to generate a two-dimensional (2D) image of the least one user such that an image of the VR headset is virtually removed from the image of the at least one user wearing the VR headset.
US11145116B2
A system and method for scanning an environment and generating an annotated 2D map is provided. The system includes a 2D scanner having a light source, an image sensor and a first controller. The first controller determines a distance value to at least one of the object points. The system further includes a 360° camera having a movable platform, and a second controller that merges the images acquired by the cameras to generate an image having a 360° view in a horizontal plane. The system also includes processors coupled to the 2D scanner and the 360° camera. The processors are responsive to generate a 2D map of the environment based at least in part on a signal from an operator and the distance value. The processors being further responsive for acquiring a 360° image and integrating it at a location on the 2D map.
US11145114B2
An apparatus for representing a three-dimensional (3D) object, the apparatus includes a memory storing instructions, and a processor configured to execute the instructions to transmit a two-dimensional (2D) image to an external device, based on the 2D image being transmitted, receive, from the external device, mapping function parameters that are obtained using a first neural network, set a mapping function of a second neural network, based on the received mapping function parameters, and based on 3D samples, obtain the 3D object corresponding to the 2D image, using the second neural network of which the mapping function is set.
US11145113B1
A system, method or compute program product for generating stereoscopic images. One of the methods includes identifying, in a first three-dimensional coordinate system of a first three-dimensional virtual environment, a location and orientation of a first virtual object that is a virtual stereoscopic display object; identifying an eyepoint pair in the first virtual environment; identifying, in a second three-dimensional coordinate system of a second three-dimensional virtual environment, a location and orientation of a second virtual object that is in the second virtual environment; for each eyepoint of the eyepoint pair, rendering an inferior image of the second virtual object; for each eyepoint of the eyepoint pair, render a superior image of the first virtual environment, comprising rendering, in the superior image for each eyepoint, the corresponding inferior image onto the virtual stereoscopic display object; and display, on a physical stereoscopic display, the first virtual environment.
US11145100B2
Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing three-dimensional facial modeling and visual speech synthesis. In various embodiments, a computing system might determine an orientation, size, and location of a face in a received input image; retrieve a three-dimensional model template comprising a face and head; project the input image onto the model template to generate a three-dimensional model; define, on the model, a polygon mesh in a region of facial feature corresponding to feature in the input image; adjust parameters on the model; and display the model. The computing system might parse a text string into allophonic units; encode each allophonic unit into a point(s) in linguistic space corresponding to mouth movements; retrieve, from a codebook, indexed images/morphs corresponding to encoded points in the linguistic space; render the indexed images/morphs into an animation of the three-dimensional model; synchronize, for output, the animation with audio representations of the text string.
US11145092B2
Rich color diffusion techniques applied to text as part of digital content creation by a graphics rendering application of a computing device are described. The graphics rendering application is configured to receive color location data and color identification data with respect to a graphical element, diffuse colors within the boundary of the graphical element based on the color location data, color identification data, and a mesh generation algorithm, and automatically replicate the diffused color pattern onto subsequently selected graphical elements. Techniques are also described that facilitate storing a plurality of graphical element properties associated each of the graphical elements and changing one or more of the stored properties before, during, and after color diffusion of the graphical elements.
US11145089B2
Disclosed is a method for measuring an antenna downtilt based on a multi-scale detection algorithm, including: capturing an image of an antenna using an unmanned aerial vehicle, and returning data to a server in real time; obtaining a ground truth box where the antenna is located by performing the multi-scale detection algorithm of a server; segmenting the ground truth box based on an antenna target segmentation algorithm of the server; and obtaining an antenna downtilt angle based on an antenna downtilt measurement algorithm of the server and determining whether the antenna properly functions. This method avoids the danger of tower worker climbing, is fast and accurate, saves labor costs and time, and ensures the measurement of an antenna downtilt to be smoother.
US11145086B2
The present disclosure provides a control method, a control apparatus, and an electronic device. The method is for controlling an electronic device based on scene data collected by an imaging apparatus of the electronic device. The scene data includes a cached main image. The control method includes: processing the scene data to acquire depth information of the cached main image; acquiring a foreground portion of the cached main image based on the depth information; and controlling the electronic device based on the foreground portion.
US11145081B2
A voice prompting method includes steps of: providing a wearable electronic device, obtaining an image and performing an image processing on the image, detecting and identifying a plurality of objects in the image, classifying and judging danger levels of the objects to generate a judgment result, generating a safety warning message corresponding to each of the objects presently having the danger level higher than a specific danger level according to the judgment result, and transforming the safety warning message into a voice form and prompting with the voice form of the safety warning message. Therefore, it can help a user avoid danger and effectively enhance the safety of walking of the user.
US11145071B2
An image processing method, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, and an electronic apparatus are disclosed. The method includes: acquiring a first initial image by a first camera at a first frame rate during an exposure period, and acquiring at least two second initial images by a second camera at a second frame rate during the exposure period; and stitching the at least two second initial images into one second target image; wherein the second target image is a depth image. The first frame rate is less than the second frame rate, and each second initial image is an image comprising depth information.
US11145064B2
Systems and methods for detecting crop marks depicted in digital images are disclosed. According to certain aspects, an electronic device may, in conjunction with enabling a user to customize a product design, facilitate a set of digital image processing functionalities to detect a set of crop marks depicted in a digital image associated with the product design. In particular, the systems and methods may detect a first set of lines depicted in a processed digital image indicative of content of interest extracted from the digital image, and detect a second set of lines depicted in a subtracted digital resulting from subtracting a set of contours from the processed digital image. The systems and methods may determine the set of crop marks from the first and second sets of lines.
US11145063B2
An image processing apparatus includes an edge detector and a sidewall information calculator. The edge detector detects outlines extending from lower left toward upper right with respect to objects located on left side of a vehicle, and detects outlines extending from lower right toward upper left with respect to objects located on right side of the vehicle, on the basis of a luminance value of an image out of a pair of images captured by a stereo camera. The sidewall information calculator recognizes, on the basis of three-dimensional positional information of the objects having the outlines detected by the edge detector, whichever of the objects having the outlines detected by the edge detector is located at a predetermined height or greater from a road surface and has a predetermined length or greater in a front-rear direction of the vehicle, as a sidewall.
US11145059B2
A multi-label generating system is configured to: store a first plurality of medical scans with corresponding global labels and a second plurality of medical scans with corresponding region labels, wherein the global labels each correspond to one of a set of abnormality classes and wherein each of the region labels correspond to one of the set of abnormality classes; generate a computer vision model by training on the first plurality of medical scans with the corresponding global labels and the second plurality of medical scans with the corresponding region labels; receive a new medical scan; generate global probability data based on the computer vision model, wherein the global probability data indicates a set of global probability values corresponding to the set of abnormality classes, and wherein each of the set of global probability values indicates a probability that a corresponding one of the set of abnormality classes is present in the new medical scan; and transmit the global probability data to a client device for display via a display device.
US11145058B2
Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing digital microscopy imaging using deep learning-based segmentation via multiple regression layers, implementing instance segmentation based on partial annotations, and/or implementing user interface configured to facilitate user annotation for instance segmentation. In various embodiments, a computing system might generate a user interface configured to collect training data for predicting instance segmentation within biological samples, and might display, within a display portion of the user interface, the first image comprising a field of view of a biological sample. The computing system might receive, from a user via the user interface, first user input indicating a centroid for each of a first plurality of objects of interest and second user input indicating a border around each of the first plurality of objects of interest. The computing system might train an AI system to predict instance segmentation of objects of interest in images of biological samples.
US11145057B2
Systems and methods are provided for assessing collateral circulation of a patient. Patient data of a patient is received. A collateral circulation score is computed based on the patient data using a trained machine learning network. The collateral circulation score represents functioning of collateral circulation of the patient. The collateral circulation score is output.
US11145053B2
An image processing apparatus have a processor configured to: receive a plurality of images of a tissue including a lesion portion, the plurality of images being received from an endoscope; judge, based on a signal from the endoscope, whether or not to engage a differentiation classification operation; in response to judging that the differentiation classification operation is engaged, process the plurality of images to specify the lesion portion within one or more of the plurality of images; and perform differentiation classification on the one or more images to classify the lesion portion into at least one class of a plurality of classes; and in response to judging that the differentiation classification operation is not engaged, not process the plurality of images to specify the lesion portion within the one or more of the plurality of images.
US11145043B2
The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to inspect autonomous vehicles. An autonomous vehicle carries a UAV (or “drone”) in a protected area, for example, in a glove compartment, trunk, etc. Between rides, the UAV can be deployed to inspect the autonomous vehicle. Images from the UAV can be sent to other components for image analysis. When an inspection is completed, the UAV can return to the protected area. The UAV can inspect both the interior and exterior of an autonomous vehicle. When an inspection is passed, the autonomous vehicle can begin a new ride. When an inspection is failed, the autonomous vehicle can report for repairs or summon a tow vehicle.
US11145035B2
The present invention proposes a method for rapidly dehazing an underground pipeline image based on dark channel prior (DCP). The method includes: preprocessing a hazy underground pipeline image to obtain a dark channel image corresponding to the hazy image; average-filtering the obtained dark channel image to estimate an image transmittance; compensating an offset value for an average filtering result to obtain a rough estimate of the transmittance; using a pixel value of the original image and an average-filtered image to estimate a global atmospheric light value; and using a physical restoration model to restore a dehazed image. The method of the present invention realizes the timeliness of the algorithm while ensuring the dehazing effect, and is suitable for scientific fields such as video monitoring of underground pipeline environment and identification of underground pipeline defects.
US11145030B2
Methods and systems for encoding display data by performing at least a part of a first predetermined transform algorithm on at least a first part of a first frame of display data to generate a first set of transform coefficients, and analysing information relating to at least the first set of transform coefficients to determine whether a different transform algorithm would be more suitable for encoding a second part of the first frame and/or a subsequent frame of the display data. If a different transform algorithm would be more suitable for encoding, the second part of the first frame and/or subsequent frame is encoded using the different transform algorithm to generate an encoded first frame and/or subsequent frame. If a different transform algorithm would not be more suitable, the second part of the first frame and/or subsequent frame of the display data is encoded using the first predetermined transform algorithm.
US11145006B2
In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a social graph maintained by an online social network, the social graph including nodes and edges connecting the nodes, each edge representing a relationship between two of the nodes. The method also includes receiving an indication that a first user of the online social network has interacted with a content object posted by a second user of the online social network, wherein the content object is associated with a first entity. The method also includes accessing user data associated with the first user and entity data associated with the first entity. In response to receiving the indication, the method identifies one or more prompts based on the user data and the entity data. Finally, at least one of the prompts is sent to a client device of the first user for display.
US11145002B1
A system for reconstructing a vehicular crash (i) receives sensor data of a vehicular crash from at least one mobile device associated with a user; (ii) generates a scenario model of the vehicular crash based upon the received sensor data; (iii) transmits the scenario model to a user computer device associated with the user; (iv) receives a confirmation of the scenario model from the user computer device; (v) stores the scenario model; and (vi) may generate at least one insurance claim form based upon the scenario model. As a result, the speed and accuracy of the claim processing is increased. The system may also utilize vehicle occupant positional data, and internal and external sensor data to detect potential imminent vehicle collisions, take corrective actions, automatically engage autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle features, and/or generate virtual reconstructions of the vehicle collision.
US11145001B1
Methods, systems, apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable media are disclosed for providing a web-based application that allows a customer to submit relevant information for obtaining insurance policy products that may require medical underwriting. Various aspects allow a customer to use the web-based application for a variety of insurance products, which may include term, full, and/or universal life insurance policies. The web-based application simplifies the application process by filtering questions and/or prompts presented to the customer based upon a customer's specific needs, previous answers, and/or other information. Various aspects also include determining whether a customer qualifies for temporary or permanent life insurance coverage based upon a customer's information and/or answers to one or more knockout questions, and if so, providing the customer with a binding receipt of temporary insurance coverage upon payment for a period of time in which the underwriting may be completed.
US11145000B1
A system and method for automatically detecting if a vehicle safety system is being used by a driver is disclosed. The system and method use data gathered from one or more sensors in the vehicle. The data is analyzed to determine if the safety system is being used or disabled. The system can send reminders to a driver to use the safety system. The system and method can also automatically update a policy holder's insurance policy to reflect whether or not a safety system is being used.
US11144992B1
Various embodiments are directed to a trading system and method for indicating trading interests. A wrapped liquidity notice may be provided to a user, in which the wrapped liquidity notice provides first information about a trading interest of at least one other user. The user may request to unwrap the liquidity notice. Responsive to the request, the liquidity notice may be at least partially unwrapped to provide to the user second information about the trading interest. The liquidity notice may be unwrapped additional times to reveal additional information about the trading interest. Exemplary information that may be unwrapped for the user comprises information about the buy/sell side, trading product, price, and quantity of the trading interest.
US11144988B1
The technology described includes an adaptive probability matrix that creates a notification schedule. The schedule can be used to send reminders to users to press a physical, connected device/button, that when pressed or clicked, causes money to be transferred according to a set of rules (i.e., a “one-click” transfer of funds).
US11144986B2
A computer-implemented method and system may include identifying, by a recommendation engine, a first plurality of images in a first theme that includes a first layout characteristic, determining a first plurality of vector representations of the first plurality of images using an image processing model that includes a layered matrix of nodes with weighted interconnections, identifying at least a second plurality of images in a second theme that includes a second layout characteristic that is different from the first layout characteristic, determining a second plurality of vector representations of the second plurality of images, computing a vector difference between the first plurality of vector representations and the second plurality of vector representations; determining and communicating a recommendation based on the computed vector difference, and mapping received feedback to the weightings of the interconnections to improve a future recommendation.
US11144970B2
An information processing device performs: storing second advertisement information simpler than first advertisement information regarding an advertisement object, third advertisement information simpler than the first advertisement information and more detailed than the second advertisement information, permittee recognition information for allowing the user to recognize a permittee, a URL of a first webpage including a program for establishing a session with an information processing terminal together with content data, and a URL of a second webpage including the first advertisement information; transmitting the second advertisement information to the information processing terminal by push notification together with the permittee recognition information and the URL of the first webpage; and transmitting the third advertisement information together with the URL of the second webpage to the information processing terminal via the session with the information processing terminal established by executing the program on the information processing terminal that has downloaded the first webpage.
US11144961B1
A system for processing a digital promotion may include user devices and a geolocation beacon at a redemption location. The system may also include a digital promotion server to detect presence of a given user device at the redemption location based upon communication with the geolocation beacon. The digital promotion server may also operate a messenger bot to collect information and communicate a digital promotion for a product to the given user device based upon the collected information and the detection of presence of the given user device at the redemption location, and obtain an amount due from the redemption location and associated with the given user device. The digital promotion server may also communicate to the redemption location authorization for payment of the amount due based upon the detection of presence of the given user device at the redemption location and based upon the collected information.
US11144959B2
Methods, systems, and media for presenting advertisements relevant to nearby users on a public display device are provided. In some implementations, a method for presenting content on a public display device, the method comprising: receiving location information associated with mobile devices that is indicative of a position of the mobile device relative to a display device associated with a retail outlet; receiving interests associated with the mobile devices; identifying a plurality of advertising sources associated with the display device, including a retailer associated with the retail outlet; determining a topic based on the received interests and the location information associated with the mobile devices; determining that the topic is related an advertisement associated with the retailer; causing the advertisement associated with the retailer to be selected based on the topic; and causing the selected advertisement to be presented by the display device.
US11144939B2
An analytics server receives data characterizing consumer interactions that are observed by a cross-section of data providers, which may include, for example, website administrators, campaign managers, application developers, and the like. Such observational data includes device and login identifiers for a particular interaction, and optionally, timestamp information indicating when the interaction occurred. A statistical device graph model is generated based on this observational data. The statistical device graph model allows inferences to be drawn with respect to whether a given device is a private device, a shared device, or a public device. This, in turn, allows private devices which are “owned” by a single consumer to be identified. Depending on the type of observational data collected by the data providers, a wide range of additional insights can be drawn from the statistical device graph model, including for example, device usage patterns and confidence levels.
US11144938B2
A method, computer system, and computer program product that aggregates data regarding a plurality of factors correlated with demographic parameters; performs iterative analysis on the data using machine learning to construct a predictive model of purchasing propensity; populates, using the predictive model, a database with predicted values of spending propensity for selected demographic parameters; converts the predicted values of spending propensity in the database into percentages of observed values of spending propensity for a selected group of people within the selected demographic parameters over a specified time period to create indices of spending propensity; and rank orders the people within the selected group according to their indices of spending propensity.
US11144937B2
A marketplace diagnostics framework for analyzing and managing online marketplaces.
US11144933B2
A method is disclosed. The method includes a relationship server receiving a discovery service request from a client computer, the relationship server comparing metadata provided in the discovery service request against a database and a crawler retrieving updated metadata from a commerce server for if the metadata provided in the discovery service request does not match the metadata stored in the database column.
US11144926B2
One or more embodiments of the application provide a method and apparatus for blockchain-based recordkeeping, which are applicable to a self-service vending terminal. The self-service vending terminal is a node of a blockchain. The method includes: obtaining first record information, wherein the first record information is generated based on identification information of a target buyer; receiving second record information, wherein the second record information is generated based on purchase live stream data associated with the target buyer; generating a target transaction based on the first record information and the second record information; and sending the target transaction to a distributed database of a blockchain, for the target transaction to be recorded in the distributed database of the blockchain in response to the target transaction being verified by nodes of the blockchain based on a consensus.
US11144915B2
Example embodiments of systems and methods for data transmission system between transmitting and receiving devices are provided. In an embodiment, each of the transmitting and receiving devices can contain a master key. The transmitting device can generate a diversified key using the master key, protect a counter value and encrypt data prior to transmitting to the receiving device, which can generate the diversified key based on the master key and can decrypt the data and validate the protected counter value using the diversified key. Example embodiments of systems and methods can be used to provide further authentication and added levels of security for transactions.
US11144910B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for inserting payment information into payment forms without user interaction. A system can identify that a user has navigated to a web page operated by a merchant computer system for a merchant and identify a payment form within the web page. The system can then execute a payment request API which generates a query for saved payment credentials for the user from the merchant computer system. When the merchant computer system indicates it does not have the saved payment credentials for the user, the system can identify browser-saved payment credentials stored in the Internet browser, then generate a virtual payment information associated with the browser-saved payment credentials. The virtual payment information can then be inserted into corresponding fields of the payment form without the user entering any additional information.
US11144896B1
An image appliance vehicle toll transaction system for electronic toll collection and image appliance vehicle toll transaction methods for identifying a vehicle at an electronic toll for electronic toll collection are disclosed. The image appliance vehicle toll transaction system allows toll agencies to store, in a cloud database, images of vehicle toll transactions and violations for the time required by the law and their data associated image metadata. The image appliance vehicle toll transaction system may use third party services to automatically determine, using AI, the license plate number and state of the vehicle. For each received image, and its metadata, the system returns a unique identifier or image token. This reduces the need for human manual image review by using AI and reduces operation costs while increasing accuracy and quality.
US11144892B2
Systems and methods for facilitating a disbursement of funds to a payee are provided. The methods include receiving a payment request from a payor; generating a code, such as barcode, a Quick Response (QR) code, a Near Field Communication (NFC) code, or a textual string, that corresponds to the received payment request; transmitting the generated code to the payee; validating the code when the code is entered into a payment disbursement machine, such as an automated teller machine; and disbursing at least one of the funds and a payment voucher via the payment disbursement machine.
US11144891B1
A closed-loop system for the utilization of recycled woven and/or non-woven polyester fabric products in a plurality of high occupancy facilities includes at least one manufacturing facility to produce a plurality of recycled polyester fabric products from a recycled polyester fabric feedstock. A distribution network transports the plurality of recycled polyester fabric products to each of the plurality of high occupancy facilities, and a housekeeping network distributes and arranges recycled polyester fabric products in a plurality of rooms in a corresponding high occupancy facility. A collection network transports a plurality of compacted polyester fabric products from each of the plurality of high occupancy facilities back to the manufacturing facility. A corresponding closed-loop method for implementing the aforementioned closed-loop system is also disclosed.
US11144879B2
An exploration-based career guidance system is disclosed. The career guidance system receives an assessment regarding a candidate and identifies a first set of roles for the candidate based on the assessment. The system receives a selection of a role from among the first set of roles and provides a simulated experience of the selected role and receives a set of interaction data from the simulated experience. The system adjusts the assessment regarding the candidate based on the set of interaction data and identifies a second, different set of roles for the candidate based on the adjusted assessment.
US11144878B1
A computerized system and method for controlling sale of a company comprising identifying a target company sale value on a dashboard, identifying a current company value on the dashboard based on an Earnings Before Interest Taxes Depreciation and Amortization (EBITDA) analysis, assigning tasks for reducing a difference between the target company sale value and the current company value, displaying on the dashboard a reduction between the target company sale value and the current company value, and authorizing sale of the company when the target company sale value equals a current company value. An adjusted company value can be calculated based on additions and deductions. A current company value can be calculated as a product of the adjusted company value and a multiplier. A difference between the target company sale value and the current company value can be reduced by completing tasks contained within a plurality of checklists.
US11144863B2
A method and apparatus for identifying manufactured items in containers, where each container is suitable for containing two or more units, and where the method comprises the steps of: associating each unit with a unique unit identifier, uniquely identifying each unit, allocating two or more units to be contained in each container, uniquely identifying each container, for each container, determining one or more ranges of unit identifiers of the two or more units allocated to the container, and storing, in a database, a container identifier for each container, each container identifier being coupled, in the database, to the one or more ranges of unit identifiers of the two or more units allocated to the container. There is also provided methods and apparatus for authenticating, tracking and tracing the units.
US11144860B2
A system for generating a dashboard comprising: a database comprising: an activity type table comprising pre-configured activity types; a user activity table comprising at least one activity each being associated with a respective pre-configured activity type; a badge table comprising at least one badge each associated with an activity; a library comprising a dashboard template and at least one graphical element each associated with a respective badge, each dashboard template comprising a plurality of predefined location at which a respective graphical element is insertable and being associated with a respective pre-configured activity type; and a processor configured for each badge associated, retrieving a corresponding graphical element from the library and inserting the retrieved graphical element at the predefined location associated with the pre-configured activity type associated with the badge to obtain a completed dashboard, and outputting the completed dashboard.
US11144858B2
The present disclosure is directed to machine learning of electrical power system behavior, and related systems, apparatuses, and methods. A controller of an electrical power system includes a data storage device configured to store model data indicating a model load power consumed by loads of the electrical power system. The controller also includes a processor configured to determine current data including current load power consumed by the loads, modify the model data by aggregating the model data with the current data, and determine a set of control values for a set of control variables to effectuate a change to operation of the electrical power system based, at least in part, on the model data.
US11144851B2
An example communications routing system includes a prediction engine to, for each user account, generate a predicted cost of communications events using a gamma-gamma cost model, generate a predicted revenue of presented advertisements using a gamma-gamma revenue model, generate a margin based on the predicted cost and the predicted revenue, and, when the margin for a given user account is below a margin threshold, restrict a status associated with the given user account.
US11144848B2
One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for parking space routing. For example, parking data for a parking region, such as a parking lot, may be obtained from one or more data sources (e.g., vehicle sensor data, a parking lot camera, parking meter transaction data, etc.). Routes from a current location of a vehicle to available parking spaces within the parking region may be computed. The routes may be ranked based upon various criteria, such as convenience, congestion, travel time, travel distance, a parking space fill order, etc. A route, having a rank above a threshold (e.g., a highest ranked route), may be provided to a driver of the vehicle, such as through a vehicle navigation unit, a mobile device, a wearable device, etc. The route may be provided to autonomous driving functionality of the vehicle for automatic routing and navigation of the vehicle to the parking space.
US11144847B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for training an action selection system used to select actions to be performed by an agent interacting with a target environment to perform a task in the target environment. In one aspect, a method comprises: obtaining a target environment model of the target environment; modifying the target environment model of the target environment to generate an obfuscated environment model of an obfuscated environment that represents an obfuscation of the target environment; obtaining, from each of a plurality of users, one or more obfuscated environment trajectories that represent interaction of the user with the obfuscated environment through the corresponding obfuscated environment simulation; mapping each of the obfuscated environment trajectories to a corresponding target environment trajectory; and training the action selection system on the target environment trajectories.
US11144841B2
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating an action selection policy of an execution device for completing a task in an environment. The method includes computing a hybrid sampling policy at a state of the execution device based on a sampling policy and an exploration policy, wherein the exploration policy specifies a respective exploration probability corresponding to each of multiple possible actions in the state, wherein the exploration probability is negatively correlated with a number of times that the each of the multiple possible actions in the state has been sampled; sampling an action among the multiple possible actions in the state according to a sampling probability of the action specified in the hybrid sampling policy; and updating an action selection policy in the state by performing Monte Carlo counterfactual regret minimization based on the action.
US11144835B2
A system and method for outage prediction for electrical distribution utilities using high-resolution weather forecasts, geographic data (e.g., land use and vegetation around overhead-lines) and utility infrastructure data (e.g., transformer fuses, etc.) to predict distributed outage occurrences (e.g., number of outages over a 2-km gridded map) in advance of a storm.
US11144827B1
A supervised learning processing (SLP) system and non-transitory, computer program product provides cooperative operation of a network of supervised learning processors to concurrently distribute supervised learning processor training, generate predictions, and provide prediction driven responses to input objects, such as NL statements. The SLP system includes SLP stages that are distributed across multiple SLP subsystems. Concurrently training SLP's provides accurate predictions of input objects and responses thereto, the SLP system and non-transitory, computer program product enhance the network by providing high quality value predictions and responses and avoiding potential training and operational delays. The SLP system can enhance the network of SLP subsystems by providing flexibility to incorporate multiple SLP models into the network and train at least a proper subset of the SLP models while concurrently using the SLP system and non-transitory, computer program product in commercial operation.
US11144818B2
System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to estimating ego-motion. In one embodiment, a method for estimating ego-motion based on a plurality of input images in a self-supervised system includes receiving a source image and a target image, determining a depth estimation Dt based on the target image, determining a depth estimation Ds based on a source image, and determining an ego-motion estimation in a form of a six degrees-of-freedom (6 DOF) transformation between the target image and the source image by inputting the depth estimations (Dt, Ds), the target image, and the source image into a two-stream network architecture trained to output the 6 DOF transformation based at least in part on the depth estimations (Dt, Ds), the target image, and the source image.
US11144813B1
Embodiments described herein disclose methods and systems for using more than one Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) to analyze a user input and to predict a request being made by the user as the user is inputting the request. In an embodiment, a first RNN and a second RNN can simultaneously or near simultaneously process the user requested information by separating and analyzing the characters and words in the user's request. A third RNN can process the output vectors generated by the first and second RNNs to identify one or more solutions that predict the user's request.
US11144801B2
A method of generating control data for a printing system includes receiving image data comprising an image to be printed by the printing system, determining a presence of a control mark in the image data, and generating control data for the printing system based on the control mark, the control data including at least an indication of the presence of the control mark.
US11144799B2
An image classification method, a computer device, and a medium are disclosed. The method includes: acquiring a middle-level semantic feature of an image to be classified through a visual dictionary; and classifying the image to be classified according to the middle-level semantic feature of the image to be classified using a classification model based on middle-level semantic features.
US11144797B2
An image processing apparatus comprises a detection circuit that, by referencing dictionary data acquired by machine learning corresponding to a target photographic subject to be detected in an obtained image, detects the target photographic subject; a selection unit that selects one of a plurality of dictionary data items corresponding to the target photographic subject; and a control circuit that, in a case where a detection evaluation value in a case where the photographic subject is detected by using the dictionary data selected by the selection unit is lower than a predetermined value, controls the detection circuit to detect the target photographic subject by using the selected dictionary data and dictionary data different to the selected dictionary data.
US11144795B2
A system for aerial image detection and classification is provided herein. The system comprising an aerial image database storing one or more aerial images electronically received from one or more image providers, and an object detection pre-processing engine in electronic communication with the aerial image database, the object detection pre-processing engine detecting and classifying objects using a disparity mapping generation sub-process to automatically process the one or more aerial images to generate a disparity map providing elevation information, a segmentation sub-process to automatically apply a pre-defined elevation threshold to the disparity map, the pre-defined elevation threshold adjustable by a user, and a classification sub-process to automatically detect and classify objects in the one or more stereoscopic pairs of aerial images by applying one or more automated detectors based on classification parameters and the pre-defined elevation threshold.
US11144794B2
Data processing systems (e.g. image processing systems) and methods are provided for processing a stream of data values (e.g. pixel values). In each of a plurality of iterations, a respective particular data value of the stream is processed by operating on a respective particular subset of data values of the stream. In each iteration: group indication data for at least one group is retrieved and used to define a set of groups into which data values within the particular subset can be grouped; each of the data values within the particular subset is grouped into one of the groups of the set of groups; the particular data value is processed using one or more of the data values of the particular subset in dependence on the classification of the data values into the groups; and group indication data is stored for a group, for use in a subsequent iteration.
US11144793B2
Incremental clustering of a data stream via an orthogonal transform based indexing is disclosed. One example is a system including an indexing module that retrieves a ranked neighbor list for a data object in a data stream, where the ranked list is based on an orthogonal transform based indexing of an incrementally updated nearest neighbor graph. A reverse neighbor determination module identifies a reverse neighbor list for the data object, the reverse neighbor list comprising previously received data objects that include the data object in their respective ranked lists. An evaluator determines a hub measure for the data object, where the hub measure is a size of the reverse neighbor list. A hub identification module determines, based on the hub measure, if the data object is a hub, where the hub is representative of a cluster of similar data objects.
US11144784B2
Text-to-visual machine learning embedding techniques are described that overcome the challenges of conventional techniques in a variety of ways. These techniques include use of query-based training data which may expand availability and types of training data usable to train a model. Generation of negative digital image samples is also described that may increase accuracy in training the model using machine learning. A loss function is also described that also supports increased accuracy and computational efficiency by losses separately, e.g., between positive or negative sample embeddings a text embedding.
US11144764B1
Systems, methods, and storage media for selecting video portions for a video synopsis of streaming video content are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: extract at least a portion of an audio track from a live stream of video content over time to create an audio file; convert the audio file from a time domain to a frequency domain; generate a visual representation of the spectrum of frequencies of the audio signal as it varies with time; apply a classification algorithm to the visual representation to generate interest probability scores for portions of the audio signal; select portions of the audio signal that meet or exceed a threshold probability score; correlate the selected portions of the audio signal to corresponding segments of the video content that has been streamed; and select the corresponding segments of the video content for inclusion in the synopsis.
US11144763B2
An information processing apparatus includes detecting a predetermined object from a captured image, identifying an attribute of the detected object, determining a presentation method of presented information representing the attribute based on a detection state of the detected object, displaying the presented information and the captured image based on the determined presentation method.
US11144762B2
There is provided with an image processing apparatus. A target image including an object, for a predetermined imaging range, is obtained. A background image, which is obtained from a selected image selected from a captured image for the predetermined imaging range based on brightness of the target image, is obtained. A region of the object in the target image based on the background image is obtained.
US11144760B2
A computer-implemented system and method provide for a tagging user (TU) device that determines a first location of the TU device and receives, in the first location, a selection of a real-world object from a TU who views the object through the TU device. The TU device receives, from a TU, tagging information to attach to the object, and captures descriptive attributes of the object. The descriptive attributes and the tagging information associated with the first location are stored in a tagged object database.
US11144758B2
A method for detecting objects of a specified class in an aerial image of an area, including manipulating first and second features related to each element of the image according to image metadata and pre-configured rules, selecting a first group of elements complying with a first condition related to the first feature, the first condition based on the image metadata and the pre-configured rules, selecting a second group of elements complying with a second condition related to the second feature, the second condition based on the image metadata and the pre-configured rules, and creating a representation of the area from elements common to the first group and the second group, the representation including elements belonging to the objects of the specified class.
US11144754B2
Apparatuses, systems, and techniques are described to determine locations of objects using images including digital representations of those objects. In at least one embodiment, a gaze of one or more occupants of a vehicle is determined independently of a location of one or more sensors used to detect those occupants.
US11144752B1
A method for verifying authenticity of a physical document includes receiving an image of a physical document to be authenticated including the physical document and a background. A pre-processed image is produced that includes the physical document separated from the background. The producing includes separating the physical document from the background by semantic segmentation utilizing an artificial neural network trained using an augmented dataset generated by applying geometric transformations over different backgrounds. Features of the pre-processed image are extracted to determine a document type. In response to determining the document type of the physical document, the method includes verifying, utilizing a machine learning classifier, whether the physical document is authentic based on the extracted features relative to expected features for the corresponding document type. An indication of whether the physical document is authentic based on the verifying is generated.
US11144751B2
An information processing apparatus is used in contact with a user, and includes a screen, a communication interface, an image sensor, and a processing circuit. The communication interface receives an object image of an object as an operation object that is present in a real space. The image sensor captures and detects motion of the user, the motion being performed to operate the object and the motion being performed in the real space without contacting the object. The processing circuit displays the object image on the screen, determines an operation of the object corresponding to the detected motion of the user according to the object image and the captured image, and instructs the object to execute the operation.
US11144744B2
Provided are a backlight module, an under-screen fingerprint identification method, apparatus and an electronic device. The under-screen fingerprint identification apparatus is applied to an electronic device having a backlight module, and includes: a fingerprint identification module disposed under the backlight module and configured to receive an infrared light signal passing through the backlight module that is emitted by an infrared light source and illuminates a human finger, where the infrared light signal is used to detect fingerprint information of the finger; where a haze of the infrared light signal passes through the backlight module is less than a haze of visible light for displaying an image passes through the backlight module. The under-screen fingerprint identification apparatus of embodiments of the present application could effectively implement under-screen fingerprint identification of a passive light-emitting display screen.
US11144738B2
A DC energy storage module has a plurality of DC energy storage devices electrically connected in series; and a passive or active radio frequency identification tag, or near field communication device located within the energy storage module; wherein the tag or device is configured to be activated from an inactive mode to an active mode in response to an electromagnetic field generated by a transmitter within range of the tag or device; and wherein the tag or device is configured to receive a location dependent identifier from the transmitter.
US11144736B2
A method of redeploying waste containers in a waste collection system with an active or passive signal means requires a user to aim an optical character recognition reader at a waste container comprising a unique optical waste container identifier. The optical character recognition reader reads unique waste container optical identifier. The unique waste container optical identifier is converted to a unique electronically formatted waste container identifier. A unique radio frequency signal identifier is stored on a radio frequency emitting tag and associated with the unique electronically formatted waste container identifier. The radio frequency emitting tag is attached to the waste container.
US11144735B2
A system includes a memory having instructions stored therein. The system also includes at least one processor in communication with the memory. The at least one processor is configured to execute the instructions to receive an input question in a source language, generate a first similarity score based at least in part on a source-language operand, generate a target-language operand based at least in part on the source-language operand, generate a second similarity score based at least in part on the target-language operand, generate a semantic concept score based at least in part on the first similarity score and the second similarity score, generate a set of ranked answers to the input question (“ranked answer set”) based at least in part on the semantic concept score, and output the ranked answer set.
US11144733B2
Task-oriented messages are presented to a user in an interactive format for disposition. Natural language processing techniques parse task-oriented messages for individual tasks, such as assignments, information requests, and requests for approval or authorization. A user interface provides a recipient of a task-oriented message with selectable tasks for individual, or group, disposition, such as respond, defer, delegate, mark answered, and ignore. Recipients are notified if an incomplete response is generated, such as when an identified task is not dispositioned.
US11144730B2
A dialogue intent analyzer uses a conversation between a user and agent, and intents in the conversation to predict a set of answers that better respond to pending user question. The dialogue intent analyzer understands the context surrounding the pending question by capturing and modeling prior conversation and intents within the conversation. Dialogue intent analyzer also reduces genericness in predicted answers by weighting previously used answers based on their frequency and length. Dialogue intent analyzer also increases diversity of predicted answers by using a diverse beam search.
US11144729B2
A computer-implemented summary generation method includes obtaining input text; generating an initial lattice including serially coupled nodes corresponding to words within the input text; generating a node corresponding to an expression within the initial lattice; adding the generated node to the initial lattice to provide an extended lattice corresponding to the input text; calculating a generation probability of each word within the input text using a dictionary and a machine learning model (model); calculating a generation probability for each node included in the extended lattice based on a hidden state output by a cell corresponding to the node among cells in an encoder of the model and a hidden state updated by a cell in a decoder of the model; and generating an element of a summary of the input text based on the generation probability of each word and the generation probability of each node of the extended lattice.
US11144728B2
Provided is a computer-implemented method for inter-sententially determining a semantic relationship between a first entity and a second entity in a natural language document, comprising at least the steps of: generating a first dependency parse tree, DPT, for a first origin sentence of the document which comprises the first entity, wherein each DPT comprises at least a root node; generating a second DPT for a second origin sentence of the document which mentions the second entity; linking the root nodes of the first DPT and the second DPT so as to create a chain of words, COW; determining for each word in the COW a subtree; generating for each word in the COW a subtree embedding vector cw which is based at least on word embedding vectors xw of the words of the subtree; generating a representation vector pw for each word in the COW; and classifying, using a recurrent neural network, the semantic relationship between the first entity and the second entity, based on the input representation vectors pw.
US11144721B2
A system and method for transforming unstructured text into structured form is disclosed. The system and method include converting an input word sequence (e.g., sentence) into tagged output which can be then easily be converted into a structured format. The system may include a bidirectional recurrent neural network that can generate multiple labels of individual words or phrases. In some embodiments, a customized learning loss equation involving set similarity is used to generate the multiple labels.
US11144719B2
A system for identifying in a corpus of documents at least one argument relevant to an identified topic, comprising at least one hardware processor adapted to: producing a plurality of topic-related sentences relevant to the identified topic, each extracted from a document of the corpus of documents; producing a plurality of synthetic documents, each created by appending to a sentence of the plurality of topic-related sentences an identified amount of other sentences extracted from the respective document the topic-related sentence was extracted therefrom; identifying at least one argument relevant to the identified topic by inputting each of the plurality of synthetic documents to at least one machine learning model trained to identify an argument in response to a document; and outputting the at least one argument.
US11144716B2
Methods and systems are presented for dynamically generating programming code for implementing input data fields that automatically verifies formatting of input data based on platform agnostic formatting rules. A user interface page is obtained for display on a user device, wherein the user interface page is configured to obtain data from a user. Based on first programming code associated with the interface page, formatting rules are retrieved from a remote server. Second programming code that implements one or more input data fields on the user interface page is generated based on the formatting rules. The user interface page with the one or more input data fields is rendered on the user device for obtaining user data. Based on the second programming code, the user data inserted into the one or more input data fields is automatically formatted.
US11144714B2
Methods, computer systems, and computer storage media are provided for providing real-time analysis and annotation of clinical documents in a distributed system. A clinical transformation session is opened at a clinical transformation server maintaining sessions for one or more editors and agents operating on a clinical document. Sequences of operations on the clinical document are stored at a memory accessible by the server. At least a portion of the clinical document is analyzed in real-time to provide annotations and other document modifications to each of the one or more editors having a session at the server. Parallel annotations or modifications are resolved and a synchronized view of the clinical document is maintained based on operational transformation.
US11144703B1
A computerized system is disclosed. The computerized system may include one or more processors configured to perform the operations stored in a memory. The operations may include creating a plurality of library (lib) cells for a directional routing layer, and determining a lib cell of the plurality of lib cells for placement of at least one repeater for the directional routing layer. The operations may also include determining a route touch region corresponding to a pin region of the lib cell through which a route is going through and inserting the at least one repeater at the route touch region. The operations may also include swapping the at least one inserted repeater to at least one target lib cell of the plurality of lib cells.
US11144695B2
A wafer characteristic prediction method and an electronic device are provided. The method includes: receiving a process parameter of a wafer during a mass production; inputting the process parameter to a prediction model to obtain a wafer characteristic of the wafer being mass produced; and outputting the wafer characteristic.
US11144687B1
Disclosed approaches monitor states of a plurality of sets of a plurality of handshake signals. Each set of handshake signals is associated with a respective one sub-circuit of a plurality of sub-circuits. For each sub-circuit, a beginning of an iteration by the sub-circuit is detected based on states of the plurality of handshake signals of the set associated with the sub-circuit. A graphics object is generated in response to detecting the beginning of the iteration. The graphics object is displayed on a display device and overlaid on a timeline associated with the sub-circuit. The graphics object has a bound that corresponds to the beginning of the iteration. The end of the iteration is detected based on the states of the associated set of handshake signals, and the graphics object is bounded on the timeline to indicate the end of the iteration.
US11144682B2
A data processing system and method for assembling components in a computer-aided design (CAD) environment is disclosed. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method of assembling components in a CAD environment includes determining, using a data processing system, a source component and a target component in the CAD environment. The source component and the target component represent different parts of a real-world object. The method includes determining geometric feature(s) of the source component and geometric feature(s) of the target component, and comparing the geometric features of the source component with the geometric features of the target component. The method includes generating constraints between the geometric features of the source component and the geometric features of the target component based on the outcome of the comparison. The method also includes outputting a geometric model of the assembled source component and target component on a graphical user interface.
US11144680B2
Example systems and methods for virtual visualization of a three-dimensional (3D) model of an object in a two-dimensional (2D) environment. The method may include capturing the 2D environment and adding scale and perspective to the 2D environment. Further, a user may select intersection points on a ground plane of the 2D environment to form walls, thereby converting the 2D environment into a 3D space. The user may further add 3D models of objects on the wall plane such that the objects may remain flush with the wall plane.
US11144676B1
A security object management system may include a management module including a device processor and a non-transitory computer readable medium including instructions stored thereon, and executable by the processor, for performing the following steps: accessing a database having stored therein data regarding a plurality of security objects, wherein the data includes ownership data regarding the assignment of rights associated with the security objects; and receiving user input to change the reassignment of rights of at least one of the security objects from one user to another user of the system.
US11144657B2
A system and method of providing a secure inter-domain data management platform based on blockchain technology allows a user to access files of one or more organizations based on the credentials of the user. The system includes at least one remote server and a network of computing nodes. The remote server is used to manage at least one group. The at least one group may be one or more intelligence or government organizations. The at least one group includes a plurality of member accounts. Each member account includes a member access level. The network of computing nodes is used to manage a blockchain system and to store a plurality of files. Each file includes a file access level. A user with a member account can access a file in accordance to the member access level of the member account and the file access level of the file.
US11144656B1
The disclosed computer-implemented method for protection of storage systems using decoy data may include identifying an original file comprising sensitive content to be protected against malicious access and protecting the sensitive content. Protecting the sensitive content may include (i) processing the original file to identify a structure of the original file and the sensitive content of the original file, (ii) generating a decoy file using the structure of the original file and using substitute content in a location corresponding to the sensitive content of the original file, and (iii) storing the decoy file with the original file. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US11144655B2
Control viewing access to documents in collaborative scenarios using facial recognition from webcams
A computing device includes a face detection module coupled to a webcam. The face detection module detects faces of viewers within a field of view of the webcam, provides images of the detected faces to a face identification service, and receives user IDs on the detected faces that have been identified. A document viewer module retrieves a document for display, with the document being retrieved based on a link to the document. A policy enforcement module receives the user IDs on the detected faces that have been identified, uses the link to the document to query metadata associated with the document to determine an access control list for the document, and compares the user IDs of the detected faces that have been identified to user IDs on the access control list to determine authorized viewers of the document. The policy enforcement module obscures display of the document if one of the identified faces is not authorized to view the document.
US11144654B2
A system includes an environment-aware storage drive comprising one or more storage medium with a location-based service wherein the environment-aware storage drive generates a signal containing information about a location of the storage drive relative to a geo-fenced area and updates a ledger unit of an event happening to the storage drive based on the signal, wherein the event is related to the current environment of the storage drive. The ledger unit keeps track of a number of events and/or data received from the environment-aware storage drive. A policy unit determines an expandable set of security policies for the storage drive triggered by the event and/or data, wherein the security policies specify access restrictions to the environment-aware storage drive based on its current environment. The policy unit transmits and enforces the set of security policies on the environment-aware storage drive to prevent data from being theft from the storage drive.
US11144650B2
A semiconductor device for provisioning secure information of a demander includes a device key storage configured to store a device key provisioned by a supplier of the semiconductor device, a master key generator configured to generate, based on the device key and demander data provisioned by the demander, a master key of the demander by using a first operation shared with the supplier and a second operation shared with the demander, and a cryptographic engine configured to perform a cryptographic operation based on the master key.
US11144649B2
A method for exporting sensitive information an integrated circuit, the method comprising: fabricating an integrated circuit, the integrated circuit having a register-transfer level “RTL” key fabricated in the integrated circuit, wherein the RTL key is a pre-determined cryptographic key; signing the sensitive information using the RTL key using a signature; and exporting the signed sensitive information and the signature for validation.
US11144647B2
Various embodiments of methods and systems for a power and performance-optimized secure image load boot flow in a specialty metering device (“SMD”) are disclosed. An exemplary method includes a CPU that transitions into an idle state, such as a WFI state, for durations of time during a boot sequence that coincide with processing by a DMA engine. That is, the CPU may “sleep” while the DMA engine processes workloads in response to instructions it received from the CPU.
US11144637B1
The disclosed computer-implemented method for executing decision trees may include (i) executing a security classification decision tree that classifies an input data item, (ii) gathering, simultaneously using a gather instruction, values for both a current threshold at a parent node of the security classification decision tree and a subsequent threshold at a child node of the parent node, (iii) gathering, simultaneously using the gather instruction, values for both a current measurement at the parent node and a subsequent measurement at the child node, (iv) comparing, simultaneously using a comparison instruction, the current threshold at the parent node with the current measurement at the parent node and the subsequent threshold at the child node with the subsequent measurement at the child node, and (v) performing a security action to protect the computing device. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US11144635B2
An embodiment of restricted command set management permits a storage controller to execute commands of a restricted command set if authorized. A command determined to be within the restricted command set is encrypted by a host prior to sending the encrypted command to a storage controller for execution. The command may be encrypted using a key shared between the host and the storage controller. The shared key may be generated by the host and encrypted by the host using a public key of a public-private key maintained by the storage controller. The encrypted shared key may be decrypted by the storage controller using the private key of the public-private key maintained by the storage controller. Execution of commands of the restricted command set is prevented absent proper decryption of the commands sent by the host. Other features and aspects may be realized, depending upon the particular application.
US11144631B2
Embodiments described herein enable the interoperability between processes configured for pointer authentication and processes that are not configured for pointer authentication. Enabling the interoperability between such processes enables essential libraries, such as system libraries, to be compiled with pointer authentication, while enabling those libraries to still be used by processes that have not yet been compiled or configured to use pointer authentication.
US11144630B2
An image capture device for a secure industrial control system is disclosed. In an embodiment, the image capture device includes: an image sensor; a signal processor coupled to the image sensor; and a controller for managing the signal processor and transmitting data associated with processed image signals to at least one of an input/output module or a communications/control module via a communications interface that couples the controller to the at least one of the input/output module or the communications/control module, wherein the controller is configured to establish an encrypted tunnel between the controller and the at least one of the input/output module or the communications/control module based upon at least one respective security credential of the image capture device and at least one respective security credential of the at least one of the input/output module or the communications/control module.
US11144628B2
The invention relates to a system for controlling access to a device protected by at least one pre-configured authentication factor, comprising an access control unit comprising a short-range wireless communication device, a module for receiving keys, a module for verifying authentication factors, at least one access path, and at least one controllable switch, configured to open or close the path for accessing the protected device in case of receiving an access authorisation coming from the verification module. The system further comprises an administration unit, adapted to allow to pre-configure each authentication factor and a user unit, configured to transmit at least one key to the module for receiving keys.
US11144621B2
A system and method for authentication are described herein. An authentication request is received at a combiner proxy (350). The combiner proxy (350), is arranged to receive a user authentication request, receive one or more share values from one or more communications devices (330A, . . . , 330N) where each of the communications devices (330A, . . . 330N) stores at least one share value of a set of share values and determine if one or more share values that have been received from the communications devices (330A, . . . , 330N) meet a quantitative criteria. The combiner proxy (350) is arranged to authenticate the user if the received share values meet the quantitative criteria.
US11144619B2
A method for remotely verifying a non-resident alien's identity, includes: receiving a request to establish a communication session from a user device; analyzing the request to determine whether the user device is compromised; in response to determining that the user device is not compromised, providing a page flow to the user device to solicit information from the non-resident alien, the information including identity information associated with a local foreign government identification document (ID), and other information not shown on the local foreign government ID; querying one or more foreign governmental data stores to identify foreign data associated with the non-resident alien based on a unique identifier associated with the local foreign government ID; comparing the information with the foreign data; and verifying an identity of the non-resident alien based on the comparing, wherein the verifying includes determining that at least one of the other information matches the foreign data.
US11144609B2
A method and an apparatus for obtaining data, based on location information, are provided. The method includes receiving, from a user terminal, a first query request that is used to obtain object information, the first query request carrying location information of the user terminal, and querying, in response to a cache area being not empty, the cache area for hotspot data in an area range in which the location information of the user terminal is located, the hotspot data being information of an object included in the area range, and the hotspot data being cached in response to a frequency of query access occurring in the area range exceeding a predetermined threshold. The method further includes sending, to the user terminal, the hotspot data in the area range.
US11144601B2
Methods, systems and computer program products implementing data aggregation using distributed Web scraping are disclosed. A mobile device can scrape one or more target sites to collect data from accounts of a particular user. The scraping can occur under scraping conditions as specified by the user. The scraping conditions can include conditions based on time, power, bandwidth, usage, or any combination of the above. The scraping conditions can ensure that the scraping occurs at time that is most convenient to the user, e.g., when sufficient bandwidth is available to the mobile device or the mobile device is not performing other tasks. The mobile device can upload the scraped data to a data aggregation server under submission conditions as specified by the user. The data aggregation server can aggregate the scraped data, enrich the aggregated data, and provide the enriched data to the user through Web access.
US11144599B2
There is provided a method and a system for generating clusters of documents using a combined metric parameter. A first document and a second document are received, and for a potential cluster including the first document and the second document: a first metric parameter indicative of a degree of complementariness of document content in the potential cluster is determined, a second metric parameter indicative of a degree of dilution of the document content in the potential cluster is determined. The combined metric parameter is determined based on the first metric parameter and the second metric parameter. A cluster is generated based on the combined metric parameter, where the cluster includes the first and second documents. Other document(s) or clusters may be added to the cluster by determining an updated combined metric parameter for a potential cluster and comparing the updated combined metric parameter with the combined metric parameter.
US11144598B2
The described technology is generally directed towards quasi-listing table entries that facilitate the efficient return of an object list in response to a query for relevant objects in a data storage system. A quasi-listing table entry is created when an object is created, and subsequently converted to a normal listing table entry. A normal listing table entry is converted to a quasi-listing table entry when an object is deleted, with the quasi-listing table entry subsequently deleted. When an object list request is received, a normal listing table entry can be used directly to add to the object list; only if a quasi-listing table entry is encountered (before it can be converted or deleted) does the object table need to be accessed to determine if the object actually exists. This eliminates most object table accesses, including those in remote geographic zones, thereby making object listing significantly more efficient.
US11144595B2
First and second data catalogs each indicate sensing data attributes. The first and second data catalogs each include a first word indicating an observation object of a sensor that generated sensing data and a second word indicating an observation characteristic of the sensor. A score calculation unit includes a first weight determination part, a second weight determination part, and a score calculation part. The first weight determination part determines a first weight value relating to the observation object, based on the relationship between the first words included in the first and second data catalogs. The second weight determination part determines a second weight value relating to the observation characteristic, based on the relationship between the second words included in the first and second data catalogs. The score calculation part calculates a score relating to the coincidence of the first and second data catalogs, using the first and second weight values.
US11144594B2
A search method includes: determining at least one first search policy matching a to-be-searched query text, where each first search policy corresponds to at least one first text index field and a search weight matching the first text index field; performing a search operation for the query text based on each first text index field corresponding to each first search policy and a search weight matching the first text index field; and merging and outputting search results of all the search operations.
US11144591B2
A method of managing a media file storage relocation and/or editing process that comprises receiving location data indicative a user geographical location of users during a monitored period and a capturing/uploading geographical location and time of each media file, using the file capturing/uploading geographical location and time to identify a spatiotemporal proximity of a group from the users to respective the media file capturing/uploading geographical location of one or more of the media files during a respective the media file capturing/uploading time, detecting member(s) of the group which is imaged in the one or more media files using a recognition function, such as a face and/or voice recognition functions and in response to the detecting, initiating a media file storage relocation process and/or an editing process.
US11144588B2
Implementations are described for determining, based on a user-assembled collection of electronic content items, at least one actual purpose for the assembled collection. Those implementations are further directed to selecting an additional electronic content item based on the at least one actual purpose being assigned to the additional electronic content item in an electronic database. Those implementations are yet further directed to, responsive to the selecting, causing a suggestion for the additional electronic content item to be rendered at a client device associated with a user account that is assigned to the user-assembled collection.
US11144582B2
A computer-implemented method and a system parse and aggregate unstructured data objects. The method includes obtaining the unstructured data objects from description fields of records in a database comprising client tickets that are created for application maintenance, transforming the obtained unstructured data objects to create transformed data objects, identifying a number of criteria attributes of the client tickets, where the number of criteria attributes are determined according to at least part of the transformed data objects, word importance, word sentiment, a user input, or client ticket priorities, or any combinations, and generating a plurality of ticket reports by aggregating the client tickets according to ranking orders of numbers of tickets for the client tickets and the identified criteria attributes.
US11144580B1
Data storage for unstructured data such as JSON data stored as collections of documents transforms the JSON data into a columnar form of storing unstructured data by grouping similar fields together for facilitating retrieval of the individual fields from a range of documents. Groups of fields are stored in individual files for each field. Compound data such as arrays and subdocuments are also broken down into files for each atomic field. In other words, a compound document structure that defines a hierarchy or “tree” of fields is flattened such that each “leaf” of the tree is stored in a separate file.
US11144561B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for providing for display an estimated breadth indicator and/or search terms proximity for a result set of documents are disclosed. A method includes receiving a natural language search query including a plurality of search concepts, determining the plurality of search concepts from the natural language query, searching a database using the natural language search query to identify the result set of documents, where the result set of documents are identified based on the plurality of search concepts, calculating a breadth of the result set of documents, where the breadth is calculated from an estimated relevance score that is indicative of a degree to which the result set of documents are relevant to the search query, and providing for display, the breadth as a feedback meter element. The feedback meter element provides a visual indication of the breadth of the natural language search query.
US11144559B2
A search engine provides customized search results in response to a search query using a group search ranker. The customized search results may be determined for a user based on the user's association with a user group having common preferences. Preferences for users may be learned through historical user information that includes interactions by users with websites on the Internet. Users may be grouped based on these preferences, and the user group may have an associated group search ranker. When the user enters a search query at a search engine, the search engine may identify a user group and retrieve the group search ranker. The group search ranker may be used to rank relevant search results identified based on the search query. The ranked search results may be provided for presentation to a user at a user computing device.
US11144556B2
Instead of processing a query as-is, the query is chunked or broken down into a sequence of smaller chunked queries and the chunked results of those smaller queries are streamed back to the requester. Chunking the query and streaming the chunked results can substantially decrease the user's time to value when running a query by returning some immediate results for display which are refined and eventually converge on the full results as each chunked query runs.
US11144555B2
A keyword reporting system for mobile applications is disclosed that generates keyword reports for a subject mobile application. The reports include a set of most relevant keywords for the subject mobile application with their associated ranking and result value. The ranking of a keyword is the subject mobile application's position in a search result for the keyword. A result value is determined for each keyword as well, where the result value is the number of mobile applications found in a search result for the keyword. Based on the ranking and result value of each keyword, a weight value is determined for each keyword. The weight value indicates the relevance of the keyword for the subject mobile application. A set of keywords are sorted and selected based on the weight value and a keyword report is generated that includes the set of keywords along with their rankings.
US11144554B2
A system, method, server, and computer readable medium for tracking goal progression. Input establishing accounts for providers serving a client is received. The client is an individual receiving treatment or assistance. The accounts are stored in a server available through one or more networks. The client is assigned to one or more of the providers in response to selections from an administrator. Goals and a plan of action are established for the client in response to treatments and assistance required. Data associated with the client received from the providers is compiled. A determination is made whether thresholds associated with the goals are being met based on the compiled data.
US11144553B2
In one general embodiment, a computer-implemented method is provided. The computer-implemented method includes receiving data comprising at least one data stream. Each data stream of the at least one data stream includes a plurality of points. The computer-implemented method also includes producing a result by remapping the at least one data stream in a point-by-point manner, and outputting the result.
US11144549B2
A process for mining existing views to generate join statements is provided herein. A request to generate a join statement may be received, which may include a database object identifier to be part of the join statement. One or more views in the database may be identified, which may include the database object identifier. One or more edges in the one or more views may be identified, which may include the database object identifier. Scores for the one or more edges may be calculated. The edges may be filtered based on their scores according to one or more filtering rules. The filtered edges may be provided. A selected edge may be received, which may be selected from the provided filtered edges. The join statement may be generated in a query language. The join statement may be based on the selected edge. The generated join statement may be provided.
US11144538B2
Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The method computer program products, and systems can include, for instance: examining data of breaches of a geofence by client computer devices to determine respective positions of the breaches; receiving by a database system transaction data from client computer devices, the transaction data defined by insert query data; changing a structure of an index of a certain table of the database system in response to the receiving; generating logging data in response to the receiving of the transaction data; providing using the logging data prediction specifying data, the prediction specifying data specifying one or more change predicted to occur with respect to the index; and modifying the index in dependence on the prediction specifying data.
US11144525B2
In an aspect, provided is a method comprising receiving an expression involving one or more dimensions, determining one or more indexlets associated with the one or more dimensions, querying each of the one or more indexlets with the expression, receiving a result from each of the one or more indexlets, and aggregating the results.
US11144522B2
The systems and methods described here can reduce the storage space required (memory and/or disk) to store certain types of data, provide efficient (fast) creation, modification and retrieval of such data, and support such data within the framework of a multi-version database. In some embodiments, the systems and methods can store each field of a set of records as a vector of values, e.g., a data vector. A set of records can be represented using a vector hash vector, or “vhash” vector, wherein each element of the vhash vector contains a unique identifier of a data vector, based on a cryptographic hash of the data vector. A header table can store associations between labels and “vhash” vectors that pertain to those labels. Identical data vectors can be re-used between different record sets or vhash vectors needing that vector, thus saving space.
US11144518B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for detecting data redundancy within a database and optimizing data access operations. The embodiments identify a candidate column to determine the relationship between the candidate column against the remaining columns. The system calculates the vector angles of rows based on candidate column pairs and determines the difference in the angle between the candidate column and the corresponding rows of data in the comparison columns. If the candidate column has a greater angle than the compared column, then the compared column is identified as redundant and is marked for the decluttering process.
US11144513B1
A processing device determines that a parameter in a data store is associated with a parameter policy, wherein the parameter comprises a key-value pair and the parameter policy comprises metadata that affects a behavioral characteristic of the parameter. The processing device determines that a criterion included in the parameter policy is satisfied. The processing device determines one or more operations specified in the parameter policy and performs the one or more operations.
US11144495B2
An authentication and information system for use in a surgical stapling system includes a microprocessor configured to demultiplex data from a plurality of components in the surgical system. The authentication and information system can include one wire chips and a coupling assembly with a communication connection.
US11144494B1
A method is provided for remote control. Peripheral component interconnect express (PCI-E) is used for controlling with universal serial bus (USB) type-C (USB-C). A controlling terminal inputs a control signal of switching through a user interface. The controlling terminal transfers the control signal to a PCI-E connector of an image capture unit through a first port. After being handled and transformed by a processing device, the control signal is transferred with a USB-C connector of the image capture unit to at least one controlled terminal through a second port. Thus, the image capture unit is expanded in function to obtain keyboard-video-mouse switch (KVM Switch) among the category of image capturing cards. In summary, with a remote connection, a controlling terminal remotely controls a controlled terminal while simple flow, enhanced speed, and effective cost-down are achieved.
US11144491B1
An interface control circuit includes an interface wrapper, a logic circuit, a multiplexer and a command decoder. The interface wrapper transceives a plurality of first signals in a first interface, converts the first signals to a plurality of second signals in a second interface, and generates at least one first command signal according to the first signals. The logic circuit receives the second signals, and generates a second command signal according to the second signals. The multiplexer receives the first command signal and the second command signal, and generates a third command signal according to the first command signal and the second command signal. The command decoder receives the third command signal and generates the decoded command according to the third command signal.
US11144487B1
A computer system includes a host processor including a hardware interrupt pin. The computer system also includes host firmware including an interrupt handler. The interrupt handler includes a plurality of sets of instructions that are executable by the host processor. The computer system also includes a baseboard management controller (BMC) that is connected to the hardware interrupt pin. The BMC is configured to generate an interrupt signal on the hardware interrupt pin in response to occurrence of a triggering event. The BMC is also configured to provide the host processor with context information that identifies a set of instructions in the host firmware that should be executed in response to the interrupt signal.
US11144485B1
An interface for a semiconductor device includes a master device and a plurality of slave devices. The interface includes a master interface and a slave interface. The master interface is implemented in the master device and includes a master bond pattern of master bonds arranged as a first array. The slave interface is implemented each slave device and includes a slave bond pattern of slave bonds arranged as a second array. The first array of the master bonds includes a first central row and first data rows in two parts being symmetric to the first central row. The second array of the slave bonds includes a second central row and second data rows in two parts being symmetric to the second central row. The first central row and the second central row are aligned in connection, and the first data rows are connected to the second data rows.
US11144480B2
The invention relates to a method for updating a variable shared between multiple processor cores. The following steps are implemented during execution in one of the cores of a local scope atomic read-modify-write instruction (AFA), having a memory address (a1) of the shared variable as a parameter: performing operations of the atomic instruction in a cache line (L(a1)) allocated to the memory address; and locally locking the cache line (LCK) while authorizing access to the shared variable by cores connected to another cache memory of same level during execution of the local scope atomic instruction.
US11144470B2
Method for managing a cache memory comprising: the transformation of a received set address in order to find a word in the cache memory, into a transformed set address by means of a bijective transformation function, the selection of one or more line tags stored in the cache memory at the transformed set address. in which: the transformation function is parameterized by a parameter q such that the transformed set address obtained depends both on the received set address and on the value of this parameter q, and for all the non-zero values of the parameter q, the transformation function permutes at least 50% of the set addresses, and during the same execution of the process, a new value of the parameter q is repeatedly generated for modifying the transformation function.
US11144450B2
Methods, systems, and devices for maintaining sequentiality for media management of a memory sub-system are described. A plurality of read commands in connection with a set of media management operations for a plurality of transfer units are issued according to a read sequence. A plurality of entries associated with the set of media management operations are stored. A plurality of write commands in connection with the set of media management operations are issued based on the plurality of entries of the read sequence.
US11144437B2
A method is provided for categorizing a problem report in a repository of a problem reporting system as an enhancement request or as a defect. Based on the problem report being the defect and having a high severity level, determining a score indicating a probability that a text portion of the problem report includes problem reproduction steps. In response to the score indicating the probability of problem reproduction steps, flagging the problem report to automate. For each problem report to automate, copying the text portion of the problem report to an automated test script, whereby the test script runs in a continuous pipeline.
US11144426B2
An apparatus includes a memory and processing circuitry. The memory stores a log for a user account. The log includes a first action performed by a user and a first date on which the first action was performed, a second action performed by the user and a second date on which the second action was performed. The processing circuitry receives a confirmation that a login occurred for the user account, determines a time of the login and first and second scores for the first and second actions. The prediction tool predicts that the first action is more likely to be performed than the second action. The prediction tool presents, on a display, a first link that when activated, causes the first action to be performed.
US11144422B2
Provided is a terminal for controlling an external device, not equipped with its own memory or controller, connected to the terminal. The portable terminal, when being connected to at least one external device, changes its setting with an extracted setting data matching the connected external device. Accordingly, the connected external device in a connection state to the portable terminal performs corresponding operations under control of the portable terminal.
US11144418B2
A computer-implemented method includes generating one or more process trees based on one or more processes associated with one or more change events within a cluster computing system, performing mutation event detection by comparing a root of each of the one or more process trees with one or more external commands, and generating a mutation event report based on the comparison.
US11144412B2
A synchronization process for virtual-machine images (and other segmented files) provides for generating a “delta” bitmap indicating which segments (e.g., clusters) of a first virtual-machine image were changed to obtain a second (e.g., updated) virtual-machine image on a source node. The delta bitmap can be applied to the second-virtual-machine image to generate a delta file. The delta file can be sent along with the delta bitmap to a target node that already has a copy of the first virtual-machine image. The transferred delta bitmap and delta file can then be used on the target node to generate a replica of the second virtual-machine image, thereby effecting synchronization. In variations, different bitmaps and delta files can be transferred to optimize the synchronization process.
US11144408B2
A method, computer program product, and computer system for receiving, by a master controller, a request to create a read-only snapshot for an asynchronous source volume, wherein the master controller may be assigned ownership of the read-only snapshot. A peer controller may be assigned as a secondary owner of the read-only snapshot. Ownership of the peer controller as the secondary owner of the read-only snapshot may be revoked based upon a change in metadata of the read-only snapshot. The read-only snapshot may be replicated, asynchronously, from a replication source to a replication destination.
US11144402B2
Rather than relying on pre-defined scheduling of secondary copy operations such as backup jobs, the illustrative opportunistic approach initiates secondary copy operations based on changing operational conditions in a storage management system. An adaptive backup readiness score is based on a number of backup-readiness operational factors. An illustrative enhanced data agent which is associated with the target database application (or other executable component) may monitor the operational factors and determine the backup readiness score based on weights assigned to the respective operational factors. The enhanced data agent may evaluate recent backup jobs to determine which of the operational factors that contributed to the backup readiness score may have been most relevant. Based on the most-relevant analysis, the enhanced data agent may adapt the weights assigned to the monitored operational factors, so that the backup readiness score may be more suitable and responsive to ongoing operational conditions in the system.
US11144400B2
A computer program product, according to one embodiment, is for managing point in time copies of data in object storage. The computer program product includes a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith. Moreover, the program instructions executable by a processor to cause the processor to: create, by the processor, point in time copies of data, and send, by the processor, the point in time copies of the data to an object storage system. A directive for manipulating the point in time copies of the data is also sent by the processor to the object storage system.
US11144393B2
A memory controller for controlling a memory operation of a memory device includes: an error correction code (ECC) circuit configured to detect an error of first read data read from the memory device and correct the error; an error type detection logic configured to write first write data to the memory device, compare second read data with the first write data, detect an error bit of the second read data based on a result of the comparing, and output information about an error type identified by the error bit; and a data patterning logic configured to change a bit pattern of input data to reduce an error of the second read data based on the information about the error type.
US11144392B1
A method performed by a controller of a solid state drive (SSD) comprising receiving from a host a write request to store write data in a nonvolatile semiconductor storage device of the SSD. The method also comprises identifying a first codeword and a second codeword stored in the nonvolatile storage device, the first codeword and the second codeword configured to store write data corresponding to the write request. Responsive to the write request, the method comprises writing a first portion of the write data to the first codeword and writing a second portion of the write data to the second codeword, and sending a message to the host once the write data has been written to the nonvolatile semiconductor storage device. The first and second codewords are adjacently stored, and the write data has a length that is greater than the length of the first and second codewords.
US11144382B2
A computing device and method for profiling and diagnostics in an Internet of Things (IoT) system, including matching an observed solution characteristic of the IoT system to an anomaly in an anomaly database.
US11144381B2
Method and system are provided for event relationship analysis in fault management. The method includes: providing a history of a plurality of event instances relating to multiple events identified by event identifiers, where an event instance has one or more event occurrences referencing an event identifier, the history including the event occurrences and resolution event information; analyzing the event occurrences relating to each event identifier to identify a first occurrence(s) of an event instance; analyzing the resolution event information relating to each event identifier to identify any event resolution time for an event instance; comparing two event identifiers to obtain a relationship score between the two event identifiers, wherein the comparing is based on a combination of first occurrences of event instances relating to the two event identifiers and resolution times of the event instances; and creating a group of events that are related based on the relationship scores.
US11144377B2
A computer program file or a sequence of processing steps from an authoring environment of a data processing system is used to generate a graph including nodes representing the processing steps is generated. Unique identifiers (tags) are assigned to the nodes. One or more processing steps are optionally modified while preserving the original identifiers. If an error occurs during execution, error information is saved including the processing step that failed and data records that triggered the failure. The identifier of the failed processing step is attached to the error information. The error information is collected and processed. The collected error information is used to correlate the error to the failed processing step and to data records triggering the error using the identifier of the failed processing step recorded with the error information. The correlated error information indicates cause and location of the error.
US11144373B2
A method, a system, and a computer product for connecting computing components are disclosed. One or more data input and output properties of a data processing component in a plurality of data processing components are determined. At least one of the data input properties and data output properties of the data processing component are configured for connection of the data processing component to another data processing component in the plurality of data processing components in the data processing pipeline using a predetermined data pipeline connection topology. Using the predetermined data pipeline connection topology, the data processing component and another data processing component are dynamically connected using the configured properties.
US11144370B2
The present disclosure provides a communication method for virtual machines, an electronic device, and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium. The communication method for virtual machines suitable for a virtual machine architecture comprises the steps of: transmitting, through a shared link, an interrupt instruction to a second virtual machine by a first virtual machine; reading, in a shared configuration database, an instruction data corresponding to the interrupt instruction by the second virtual machine; and executing the instruction data and transmitting a result data through a virtual control plane to the first virtual machine by the second virtual machine, to exchange the data between the first virtual machine and the second virtual machine through the virtual control plane.
US11144366B2
A computing node processor resource optimization method, a computing node, and a server cluster are provided. A standard processor computing power is used as a reference to acquire a relative computing power of a processor in the computing node. Based on the relative computing power, a relative computing resource of the computing node is determined. The relative computing resource of the processor in each computing node is acquired based on a uniform reference. The computing power in the computing nodes having the same number of the processor cores multiplied by the number of the threads per processor core may be distinguished, such that the task load distributed to each computing node can match the computing power of the computing node. Thus, the computing resource of the processor in each computing node may be fully utilized, thereby improving the computing efficiency of the big data computing platform.
US11144365B1
The techniques disclosed herein enable systems to utilize the network effect of end-user viral adoption of collaborative services and applications hosted by multi-tenant computing systems. A system can achieve this by automatically clustering users who independently send requests to generate new tenants. A number of factors can enable a system to cluster users into a single tenant including characteristics of requests to generate new tenants and/or member identities received in association with requests to generate new tenants. Examples of request characteristics can include network addresses indicating a source of each request, a domain name or entity names received in association with a request, a rate in which requests are received, and/or heuristic techniques that utilize various combinations of these and other factors. The automatic selection of users for specific tenants allows a system to allow viral user adoption without a centralized IT manager.
US11144360B2
The invention is directed to systems and methods for scheduling interactive database queries from multiple tenants onto distributed query processing clusters with service level agreements (SLAs). SLAs may be provided through a combination of estimation of resources per query followed by scheduling of that query onto a cluster if enough resources are available or triggering proactive autoscaling to spawn new clusters if they are not. In some embodiments systems may include a workflow manager; a resource estimator cluster; one or more execution clusters; and one or more metastores. A workflow manager may include an active node and a passive node configured to send a query to the resource estimator cluster and receive a resource estimate. A resource estimator cluster may be in communication with the workflow manager. One or more execution clusters may be scaled by the workflow manager as part of a schedule or autoscale based on workload.
US11144359B1
Systems and methods are described for managing reuse of sandboxed computing environments in a network-based on-demand code execution system. Users may generate tasks on the system by submitting code to a frontend, which may interact with multiple worker managers that manage task execution in sandboxed computing environments such as containers or virtual machine instances. A sandbox may be reusable once provisioned, but the resources required to definitively locate an idle sandbox may be significant relative to the cost of provisioning a new sandbox. The system may therefore manage reuse by randomly or semi-randomly selecting a worker manager and requesting that it provide an existing sandbox if one is available. If not, then the system may select a different worker manager and repeat the request, or after consuming a threshold amount of resources may request that the next worker manager provision a new sandbox if an existing one is not available.
US11144356B2
Embodiments of the present systems and methods may provide techniques to provide simple and accurate estimate of memory requirements for application invocation in a serverless environment. For example, a method may comprise selecting sample invocations of functions as a service from a larger plurality of invocations, submitting for execution the plurality of sample invocations and, for each sample invocation, submitting a specification of a memory size to be used for execution of each sample invocation, determining, whether the specification of the memory size to be used for execution of each sample invocation results in unsuccessful execution of at least some of the sample invocations due to insufficient memory and, if so, adjusting the specification of the memory size for at least some of the sample invocations, and submitting for execution at least those invocations in the larger plurality of invocations that were not included in the plurality of sample invocations.
US11144354B2
Techniques are disclosed for reallocating host resources in a virtualized computing environment when certain criteria have been met. In some embodiments, a system identifies a host disabling event. In view of the disabling event, the system identifies a resource for reallocation from a first host to a second host. Based on the identification, the computer system disassociates the identified resource's virtual identifier from the first host device and associates the virtual identifier with the second host device. Thus, the techniques disclosed significantly reduce a system's planned and unplanned downtime.
US11144353B2
Techniques for use in a microprocessor core for soft watermarking in thread shared resources implemented through thread mediation. A thread is removed from a thread mediation decision involving multiple threads competing or requesting to use a shared resource at a current clock cycle based on a number of entries in the shared resource that the thread is estimated to have allocated to it at the current clock cycle. By removing the thread from the thread mediation decision, the thread is stalled from allocating additional entries in the shared resource.
US11144352B2
Embodiments identify heap-hoarding stack traces to optimize memory efficiency. Some embodiments can determine a length of time when heap usage by processes exceeds a threshold. Some embodiments may then determine heap information of the processes for the length of time, where the heap information comprise heap usage information for each interval in the length of time. Next, some embodiments can determine thread information of the one or more processes for the length of time, wherein determining the thread information comprises determining classes of threads and wherein the thread information comprises, for each of the classes of threads, thread intensity information for each of the intervals. Some embodiments may then correlate the heap information with the thread information to identify code that correspond to the heap usage exceeding the threshold. Some embodiments may then initiate actions associated with the code.
US11144348B2
A heterogeneous computing system and computer-implemented method are disclosed. In one example, the method includes initializing a first processing unit of a heterogeneous computing system with a first compute kernel and a second processing unit of the heterogeneous computing system with a second compute kernel. Both the first compute kernel and the second compute kernel are configured to perform a numerical operation derived from a program segment. In one example, the method includes one of executing the first compute kernel on the first processing unit to perform a numerical operation on the runtime instance if the first expected costs are lower than or equal to the second expected costs, and executing the second compute kernel on the second processing unit to perform a numerical operation on the runtime instance if the first expected costs are higher than the second expected costs.
US11144344B2
Techniques for behavioral pairing in a task assignment system are disclosed. In one particular embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for behavioral pairing in a task assignment system comprising determining, by at least one computer processor communicatively coupled to and configured to operate in the task assignment system, availability of at least one task in a queue; querying, based on at least one variable pertaining to the at least one task, at least one data source for information associated with the at least one task; receiving, from the at least one data source, the information associated with the at least one task; and pairing, based at least in part on the information associated with the at least one task, the at least one task to an agent in the task assignment system.
US11144340B2
In an embodiment, a method comprises, in response to receiving a packet that is associated with initiating a client-server session, transmitting a workload request to a workload orchestrator; the workload orchestrator selecting a selected server, from among a plurality of available geographically or logically distributed servers in network edge computing nodes, to process the client-server session; the workload orchestrator transmitting a request to the selected server to create a workload to process the client-server session; receiving, from the workload orchestrator, data identifying the selected server; forwarding one or more other packets associated with the same client-server session to the selected server; wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.
US11144337B2
A method, system and computer program product are provided for implementing an interface for rapid ground truth binning. A set of documents are received wherein each document has at least one entity in a set of entities. A user interface is provided for each received document allowing a user to view passages and select options related to confirming or denying an equivalence between the entity in the received document and an output document entity bin including the entity. Responsive to the user utilizing the user interface and confirming the equivalence, combining the received document with the output document entity bin with reference to the entity.
US11144332B2
Techniques for generating plug-in application recipe (PIAR) extensions are disclosed. A PIAR management application discovers a particular data type within one or more data values for a particular field of a plug-in application, where the particular data type is (a) different from a data type of the particular field as reported by the plug-in application and (b) narrower than the data type of the particular field while complying with the data type of the particular field. The PIAR management application identifies one or more mappings between (a) the particular data type and (b) one or more data types for fields accepted by actions of plug-in applications. The PIAR management application presents a user interface including one or more candidate PIAR extensions based on the mapping(s). Based on a user selection of a candidate PAIR extension, the PIAR management application executes a PIAR that includes the selected PIAR extension.
US11144331B1
A method may include receiving a request to transfer a personal virtual assistant to a computing device, the personal virtual assistant including response preferences of a user; accessing a virtual assistant transfer protocol associated with the user, the virtual assistant transfer protocol including a sensitivity preference; applying the sensitivity preference to data associated with the personal virtual assistant to generate a virtual assistant transfer package; and transmitting the virtual assistant transfer package to the computing device.
US11144329B2
A processing unit employs microcode wherein the jump table associated with the microcode is embedded in the microcode itself. When the microcode is compiled based on a set of programmer instructions, the compiler prepares the jump table for the microcode and stores the jump table in the same file or other storage unit as the microcode. When the processing unit is initialized to execute a program, such as an operating system, the processing unit retrieves the microcode corresponding to the program from memory, stores the microcode in a cache or other memory module for execution, and automatically loads the embedded jump table from the microcode to a specified set of jump table registers, thereby preparing the processing unit to process received packets.
US11144321B2
Examples of techniques for store hit multiple load side register for operand store compare are described herein. An aspect includes, based on detecting a store hit multiple load condition in the processor, updating a register of the processor to hold information corresponding to a first store instruction that triggered the detected store hit multiple load condition. Another aspect includes, based on issuing a second store instruction in the processor, determining whether the second store instruction corresponds to the information in the register. Another aspect includes, based on determining that the second store instruction corresponds to the information in the register, tagging the second store instruction with an operand store compare mark.
US11144320B2
Processing of an instruction fetch from an instruction cache is provided, which includes: determining whether the next instruction fetch is in a same cache line of the instruction cache as a last instruction fetch; and based, at least in part, on determining that the next instruction fetch is in the same cache line, suppressing for the next instruction fetch one or more instruction cache-related directory accesses, and forcing for the next instruction an address match signal for the same cache line. The suppressing may include generating a known-to-hit signal where the next fetch is in the same cache line, and the last fetch is not a branch instruction, and issuing an instruction cache hit where a cache line segment of the same cache line having the next instruction has a valid validity bit, the valid validity bit having been retrieved and maintained based on a most-recent, instruction cache-directory-accessed fetch.
US11144314B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and computer readable medium for automatically managing API documentation and code generation. The disclosure provides an IDE plug-in that may import a machine readable reference documentation file from a documentation database, and create automatically generated code from the machine readable reference documentation file. Generally, the IDE plug-in may then allow a developer to validate their project back against the machine readable reference documentation file to ensure that all expected code is present in the project. This may allow the developer to ensure that the project properly meets the functional objectives intended for the API, before their implementation is deployed.
US11144310B2
A method and system for comparing at least two structured data files. A computer polls at least one network device for data files. The computer determines a structural difference between a first data file and a second data file and creates at least one patch file based on the structural difference. The computer extracts at least one span from the at least one patch file, wherein the at least one span is defined by a starting point byte and a length measured in bytes and creates an ordered listing. The computer performs a lexer operation using the at least one span as a limiting criterion to limit an output of the lexer to statements that include the at least one span. The computer outputs the statements indicating changes in a configuration between said first and second data files.
US11144298B2
A computer implemented method for updating a host application with an individual feature includes operations for pinging a server via an installer associated with the host application on a client device to obtain information regarding one or more available features, downloading a feature from one or more available features from the server to the client device, and updating, via the installer, the host application with the feature.
US11144296B2
In a computer implemented approach for securely updating vehicle software the computer monitors data associated with a vehicle, determines that a software update is necessary, requests validation of a software update, receives validation of the software update from the network, updates the vehicle software with the received software update, receives an updated blockchain ledger entry associated with the vehicle, and utilizes the updated vehicle software to control the vehicle.
US11144293B2
An apparatus includes at least one processor to retrieve a job flow definition defining a job flow as a set of tasks and dependencies thereamong, store a job performance request message to perform the job flow within a job queue, and in response to the storage of the job performance request message, execute instructions of a performance routine within a storage container to: based on the dependencies, derive an order of performance of the set of tasks that specifies a first task to perform; store, within a task queue, a first task routine execution request message requesting execution of a first task routine; and provide, to a resource allocation routine, an indication of a need for a first task container in which to execute the first task routine to perform the first task, wherein execution of the resource allocation routine causes dynamic allocation of containers based on availability of resources.
US11144275B1
Systems and methods relate to sharing content and data across users and devices. A shared folios include media primitives and tools as its constituents. The use of shared folios addresses an issue of reliably and efficiently transfer user activities with data. The use addresses scenarios of both single-user work utilizing multiple devices and collaborative work among users utilizing multiple devices. The media primitive includes content in various data types. The tool include data and access to the data by devices and applications. A data distributor manages automatic synchronization of the folios across devices using centralized and distributed transaction logs The folios are synchronized with resiliency against failure in client devices. The folio and its constituents are interactively accessible through top-level, semi-transparent user interface. The media primitive and the tools may programmatically access local applications to automatically transfer user activities among users and devices.
US11144263B2
A computer, which executes a color machine driver for outputting print data generated by an application program for generating the print data to a color image forming apparatus, accepts an interlocking setting, which is a setting for whether a color setting which is a setting for causing the color image forming apparatus to execute color printing or monochrome printing is interlocked with the application program. In case that the color setting is set not to be interlocked with the application program in the interlocking setting, when the color setting in the color machine driver is a color setting that causes the color image forming apparatus to execute the monochrome printing, the computer causes the application program to generate print data for the color image, and executes a monochrome image forming process for converting the color image into a monochrome image.
US11144262B2
A policy-based printing system is implemented to allow access to a private domain to print using a public domain. The private domain includes private servers that store documents. The public domain includes servers and a printing device. A public policy server uses a domain list and a protocol connection with a private authentication server to validate a user and identify which private domain to access. The public policy server receives requests from the printing device to process a print job of a document in the private domain. The public server may associate a public personal identification number (PIN) with a corporate PIN for the printing operations and a graphical code, such as a QR code, at a printing device. In the event of split printing, the public server generates another public PIN for use with another printing device having another graphical code.
US11144255B2
An information processing apparatus includes an editing unit that edits properties included in a printing job ticket so as to include at least a property used by an equipment and to save a property not used by the equipment, before the printing job ticket is transmitted to the equipment, in a process included in a printing workflow using the printing job ticket, and a transmission unit that transmits a printing job ticket from which the saved property is excluded, to the equipment, in which the editing unit performs editing for including the saved property in the printing job ticket, on the equipment that uses the saved property.
US11144254B2
Provided is an information processing apparatus including an operation device, a key activation setter that sets whether to enable or disable a predetermined input operation, a function executer that executes a function selected by the operation device, and a storage that stores immediately preceding setting information containing setting values of setting items of a function executed immediately before. The operation device includes re-operation instruction keys that instruct an operation for the function executed immediately before. After the function selected is executed, setting values of setting items used during the execution are stored as the immediately preceding setting information, and the key activation setter enables an input operation with a re-operation instruction key for a fixed time period. If, within a time period during which the input operation with the re-operation instruction key is enabled, the input operation therewith is performed, a process for the re-operation instruction key is executed.
US11144252B2
Techniques for optimizing write IO bandwidth and latency in an active-active clustered system using storage object affinity to a single node. The active-active clustered system can include at least a primary storage node and a secondary storage node that maintain their own journals. The respective journals are directly accessible to both storage nodes. The journals are synchronized for each page or entity of a storage object when a storage IO request is issued to a storage node to which the storage object does not have affinity. Such synchronization is performed in the framework of acquiring a lock on the entity of the storage object during internode communications. To facilitate recovery from a disaster, data loss, and/or data corruption, transaction IDs associated with storage IO operations are employed to facilitate identification of the most up-to-date reference or description information for a given data or metadata page of a storage object.
US11144251B2
Provided are techniques for providing a global unique identifier for a storage volume. Under control of a storage initiator, a Global Universally Unique Identifier (GUUID) is identified for a storage volume of a storage device in a cloud system storing a plurality of storage devices, wherein the GUUID is generated for use with an ATA over Ethernet (AoE) protocol. The GUUID is stored in bytes of a packet header structure. Metadata is stored in remaining portions of the packet header structure. A request with the packet header structure is sent to a storage target.
US11144244B2
A command transmitting method, a memory control circuit unit and a memory storage device are provided. The method includes: transmitting a plurality of command sequences and a state read command sequence to a memory interface coupled to a rewritable non-volatile memory module; and storing the plurality of command sequences by the memory interface, and transmitting the state read command sequence to the rewritable non-volatile memory module.
US11144238B1
An apparatus for executing a software program, comprising at least one hardware processor configured for: identifying in a plurality of computer instructions at least one remote memory access instruction and a following instruction following the at least one remote memory access instruction; executing after the at least one remote memory access instruction a sequence of other instructions, where the sequence of other instructions comprises a return instruction to execute the following instruction; and executing the following instruction; wherein executing the sequence of other instructions comprises executing an updated plurality of computer instructions produced by at least one of: inserting into the plurality of computer instructions the sequence of other instructions or at least one flow-control instruction to execute the sequence of other instructions; and replacing the at least one remote memory access instruction with at least one non-blocking memory access instruction.
US11144231B2
An approach is disclosed that relocates a named data element. A request to move a name corresponding to the named data element is received from a first storage area in a Coordination Namespace to a second storage area in the Coordination Namespace. The first storage area has a first level of persistence, and the second storage area has a second level of persistence. The named data element exists in a Coordination Namespace that is allocated in a memory distributed amongst a plurality of nodes that include the local node and one or more remote nodes. The approach then creates a copy of the named data element in the second storage area.
US11144230B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide a computer-implemented method for data replication from a first storage to a second storage. In the method, data replication control blocks for data blocks stored in the first storage and needed to be transmitted may be generated. The data replication control blocks may be sorted in an ascending order of probabilities of expected overwrites of the respective data blocks. The data blocks may be transmitted from the first storage to the second storage according to the sorted data replication control blocks.
US11144223B2
A flash memory initialization method executed by a flash memory initialization device to initialize a flash memory device having a flash memory and a flash memory controller includes: determining an acceptable maximum number N of candidate addresses; determining a number M of different capacity sizes; classifying the candidate addresses into M portions; determining a difference value between two address values of any two adjacent addresses among the m-th portion of candidate addresses; determining multiple address values of the m-th portion of candidate addresses according to the difference value; and determining actual addresses of the m-th portion of candidate addresses according to the multiple address values; and controlling the flash memory controller to write the boot up information into at least one storage location corresponding to at least one of the m-th portion of candidate addresses according to the actual addresses.
US11144219B2
Techniques for ensuring sufficient available storage capacity for data resynchronization or data reconstruction in a cluster of a hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) deployment are provided. In one set of embodiments, a computer system can receive a request to provision or reconfigure an object on the cluster. The computer system can further calculate one or more storage capacity reservations for one or more host systems in the cluster, where the one or more storage capacity reservations indicate one or more amounts of local storage capacity to reserve on the one or more host systems respectively in order to ensure successful data resynchronization or data reconstruction in the case of a host system failure or maintenance event. If placement of the object on the cluster will result in a conflict with the one or more storage capacity reservations, the computer system can deny the request to provision or reconfigure the object.
US11144212B2
A plurality of storage nodes in a single chassis is provided. The plurality of storage nodes includes a first plurality of storage nodes configured to communicate together as a first storage cluster and a second plurality of storage nodes configured to communicate together as a second storage cluster. Each of the first and second pluralities of storage nodes has nonvolatile solid-state memory for user data storage and each of the first and second pluralities of storage nodes is configured to distribute user data and metadata associated with the user data throughout a respective plurality of storage nodes such that a respective storage cluster maintains ability to read the user data, using erasure coding, despite a loss of one or more of the respective plurality of storage nodes.
US11144211B2
One or more techniques and/or computing devices are provided for resynchronization. For example, a request may be received to create pseudo snapshots of a first consistency group, hosted by a first storage controller, and a second consistency group, hosted by a second storage controller, having a synchronous replication relationship with the first consistency group. Incoming client write requests are logged within an intercept tracking log at the first storage controller. After a first drain without hold of incoming write requests is performed, a first pseudo common snapshot of the second consistency group is created. After a second drain without hold of incoming write operations is performed, a second pseudo common snapshot of the first consistency group and the intercept tracking log is created. The pseudo snapshots and the intercept tracking log (e.g., indicating a delta between the pseudo snapshots) are used to resynchronize the first and second consistency groups.
US11144208B2
In some embodiments, a memory controller in a processor includes a base value cache, a compressor, and a metadata cache. The compressor is coupled to the base value cache and the metadata cache. The compressor compresses a data block using at least a base value and delta values. The compressor determines whether the size of the data block exceeds a data block threshold value. Based on the determination of whether the size of the compressed data block generated by the compressor exceeds the data block threshold value, the memory controller transfers only a set of the compressed delta values to memory for storage. A decompressor located in the lower level cache of the processor decompresses the compressed data block using the base value stored in the base value cache, metadata stored in the metadata cache and the delta values stored in memory.
US11144205B2
An audio playback device operation method is provided. First audio playback device information corresponding to a first transmission bus format is selected to respond to a host according to a status descriptor request thereof. Whether an audio class-specific request command is received from the host is determined. When the audio class-specific request command is received, the response to the status descriptor request from the host is maintained. When the audio control feature unit descriptor request command is not received, the host is determined to not support the first transmission bus format. Second audio playback device information corresponding to a second audio bus transmission format is selected to response to the host according to the status descriptor request of the host such that when the audio class-specific request command is received, the response to the status descriptor request from the host is maintained.
US11144203B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods related to a selectively operable memory device are described. An example method corresponding to a selectively operable memory device can include receiving, by a resistance variable memory device, a command to operate the resistance variable memory device in a first mode or a second mode and operating the resistance variable memory device in the first mode or the second mode based, at least in part, on the received command to perform, in the first mode, a read operation or a write operation, or both, or, in the second mode, a compute operation. The method can further include performing, using a processing unit resident on the resistance variable memory device, the compute operation, the testing operation, or both based, at least in part, on a determination that the resistance variable memory device is operating in the second mode.
US11144191B2
Method and apparatus for activating application function based on inputs on an application interface
A method for activating an application function, including obtaining an activation instruction sent by a user within a blank space accessible to the user on an application interface and activating at least one application function according to the activation instruction, is provided. The method allows a user to send an activation instruction from within a blank space accessible to the user on an application interface, and activate a corresponding application function, without the need of operating a preset function button as existing technologies do, thus facilitating a convenient and rapid activation of a corresponding function and improving the convenience for a user to use application functions.
US11144188B1
Electronic messages, such as emails, often ask questions, ask that a task be done, or assign a task. The responsive messages often forget to answer the questions and the responders often forget to calendar tasks. Advances in natural language processing provide computers the ability to notice the questions and task requests/assignments. Automated analysis of the messages can detect and highlight questions, can provide for draft responses addressing every question, and can provide for getting tasks calendared.
US11144187B2
An example of a computer of an information processing apparatus causes a display device to display, in a scrollable manner, a part of an item group image which includes a plurality of items arranged in an order. The computer causes the display device to display a scrollbar including a knob that indicates the part, of the item group image, which is displayed on the display device, and a track area in which the knob is movable. The computer causes a marker to be displayed in association with the scrollbar.
US11144183B2
Provided herein are systems, methods, and software for previewing a dashboard report comprising displaying a graphical object on a dashboard design canvas of a design graphical user interface (GUI), receiving a user input to display a preview GUI of the dashboard design canvas, and displaying a preview of the dashboard design canvas on the preview GUI according to a preview mode. The preview mode is user-selectable and includes a monitor device preview mode that causes the preview GUI to display the preview of the dashboard design canvas as the dashboard design canvas would appear when viewed on a monitor device having a screen resolution greater than a monitor threshold and an alternate device preview mode causes the preview GUI to display the preview of the dashboard design canvas as the dashboard design canvas would appear when viewed on a preview device having a screen resolution less than the monitor threshold.
US11144182B1
A social networking system identifies a user's relative preference for objects maintained by the social networking system, such as pages associated with movies, restaurants, businesses, or other content. To obtain the user's preferences, the system provides pairs, or groups, of objects to a user and prompts the user to indicate a preference between the objects in each pair. This obtained information about the user's relative preferences is stored in conjunction with the user's profile, which can then be used to select content subsequently presented to the user.
US11144179B2
In some embodiments, a method receives a set of interactions regarding interactions with an application and generates a plurality of sequences from the set of interactions. Each sequence includes multiple interactions. A plurality of results are generated for the plurality of sequences where a result in the plurality of results is a result for a sequence in the plurality of sequences. The method then trains a prediction network using the plurality of sequences and the plurality of results. The prediction network is usable to predict a next user interaction on the application when being used on a user interface.
US11144177B2
Disclosed is a method for executing at least one application by a display device having a touch screen. An application execution method according to the present invention may include the steps of: displaying a window for executing an application in each of a plurality of areas arranged on a touch screen; displaying a button on at least one boundary line dividing the plurality of areas; receiving an input for selecting the button; and displaying, in a predetermined area, on the basis of the received input, a list of at least one application executed in the predetermined area among the plurality of areas.
US11144174B1
A system may provide, via a user interface, information identifying two or more of trending search-related information, trending video-related information, trending image-related information, or trending news-related information. The two or more of the trending search-related information, the trending video-related information, the trending image-related information, or the trending news-related information are visually presented as graphical items. Each graphical item, of the graphical items, is visually identified as corresponding to the trending search-related information, the trending video-related information, the trending image-related information, or the trending news-related information. The user interface presents multiple graphical items simultaneously. The system may further receive information identifying a topic, and provide, based on receiving the information identifying the topic, a subsequent group of graphical items, on the user interface. The subsequent group of graphical items relates to the topic.
US11144169B2
An electromagnetic induction type coordinate positioning apparatus includes a first induction coil, a second induction coil, a first signal processing circuit, a second signal processing circuit, and a control circuit. The first induction coil and the second induction coil respectively generate a first induction signal and a second induction signal when a pointer device comes close. The first signal processing circuit performs a first signal processing procedure on one of the first induction signal and the second induction signal. The second signal processing circuit performs a second signal processing procedure on the other one of the first induction signal and the second induction signal. The control circuit calculates position information of the pointer device according to the first induction signal and the second induction signal that have been respectively processed by the first signal processing procedure and the second signal processing procedure.
US11144165B2
A proximity sensor is arranged with a first electrode input with a first signal, a second electrode input with a second signal different from the first signal, a third electrode arranged closer to the first electrode than the second electrode, and the second signal has a reverse phase of the first signal.
US11144163B2
A capacitance detection method of a touch display panel, a capacitance detection circuit, and an electronic device are provided. The method includes: receiving a real-time sync signal sent from a display panel, and generating a trigger signal in a period in which a display driving noise is avoided based on the real-time sync signal (S1); generating a sync driving signal in the period in which the display driving noise is avoided based on the received trigger signal, to drive a driving electrode of the touch display panel (S2); and detecting a signal value of a capacitance sensor in the touch display panel in the period in which the display driving noise is avoided based on the received trigger signal (S3). This method is little affected by the display driving operation, and improves the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of a finally detected effective signal, thus greatly improving the touch sensitivity.
US11144162B1
A method for testing a sensor electrode is provided. The method includes acquiring a first resulting signal from a sensor electrode. The method further includes determining an in-phase response and a quadrature-phase response through a quadrature demodulation based on the first resulting signal. The method further includes detecting a defect of the sensor electrode based on the in-phase response and the quadrature-phase response.
US11144158B2
Acoustic touch and/or force sensing system architectures and methods for acoustic touch and/or force sensing can be used to detect a position of an object touching a surface and an amount of force applied to the surface by the object. The position and/or an applied force can be determined using time-of-flight (TOF) techniques, for example. Acoustic touch sensing can utilize transducers (e.g., piezoelectric) to simultaneously transmit ultrasonic waves along a surface and through a thickness of a deformable material. The location of the object and the applied force can be determined based on the amount of time elapsing between the transmission of the waves and receipt of the reflected waves. In some examples, an acoustic touch sensing system can be insensitive to water contact on the device surface, and thus acoustic touch sensing can be used for touch sensing in devices that may become wet or fully submerged in water.
US11144147B2
Provided are a display device and a data driver. The disp lay device comprises a display panel in which a plurality of data lines and a plurality of gate lines are disposed and a plurality of subpixels are arrayed; a data driver supplying a video data signal including a first signal segment and a second signal segment maintaining a predetermined voltage difference to each of the plurality of data lines and outputting readout data in response to signal sensing through each of the plurality of data lines to which the video data signal is supplied; and a touch controller detecting a touch or determining touch coordinates in accordance with the readout data. In the present invention, both display driving and touch sensing are performed without a dedicated touch sensor structure. It is possible to simultaneously perform the display driving and the touch sensing.
US11144142B2
A flexible touch screen, a manufacturing method thereof and a display device are provided. The manufacturing method includes: attaching a first protecting layer to a surface of a flexible substrate; attaching a surface of the flexible substrate away from the first protecting layer to a base substrate; removing the first protecting layer; forming a touch electrode layer on a side of the flexible substrate away from the base substrate; attaching a second protecting layer to the surface of the touch electrode layer; separating the flexible substrate from the base substrate; and removing the second protecting layer.
US11144138B2
A touch pen, a driving method thereof, and a touch system are provided. The touch pen includes: a capacitance circuit having different capacitance values when the touch pen is at different tilt angles; a detection circuit configured to detect a capacitance value of the capacitance circuit and generate capacitance information corresponding to the capacitance value; and a signal generating circuit configured to generate a corresponding driving signal according to the capacitance information.
US11144137B2
A manually operable pointing device for use with a computer, adapted for use with a prosthetic hook, includes a shell, a bearing surface, a receptacle, and first and second actuating levers. The shell has a first end and a second end positioned distal thereto. The bearing surface is positioned at the first end of the shell for supporting a portion of the hook. The receptacle is positioned proximate to the second end of the shell and is adapted to receive a tip of the hook. The first actuating lever extends from the first end to the second end and is movable relative to the shell. The second actuating lever extends from the first end to the second end, is movable relative to the shell, and positioned adjacent to the first actuating lever.
US11144135B2
A computer mouse is provided to make the mouse button easily reachable without being susceptible to misclick. The computer mouse may include an electronic circuit configured to implement operations of the computer mouse. The computer mouse may include a housing enclosing the electronic circuit. The housing may include an opening on one side of the housing and a switch on the side of the housing. The computer mouse may include a magnetically active lever attached to the housing through the opening on the side of the housing. The magnetically active lever may be configured to actuate the switch on the side of the housing to interact with the electronic circuit to provide input to a computing device. The magnetically active lever may be removable from the housing and replaced with a magnetically active lever of a different size or shape.
US11144130B2
There is provided an information processing apparatus including: a process execution unit configured to execute a process relating to a user's gesture recognized on a basis of information from a sensor. The process execution unit determines, during a period after the gesture has been recognized, whether or not there is an input of operation information based on a user's operation, and the process execution unit refrains from executing the process relating to the recognized gesture when there is an input of the operation information during the period.
US11144129B2
Methods and systems are provided for a hand tracking device. The hand tracking device includes a first infrared camera for capturing a plurality of images of a user hand indicating a first gesture for requesting a first action associated with operating a display device. The hand tracking device utilizes the plurality of images to generate a three-dimensional image of the user hand; and detects the first gesture from the three-dimensional image using a trained model that stores a plurality of input gestures corresponding to three-dimensional images of user hands. A first operation is executed in response to the detected first gesture. The hand tracking device continuously monitors the user hand to detect a second gesture from the trained model for executing a second operation.
US11144128B2
A device may include a memory storing instructions and processor configured to execute the instructions to receive a video image stream of a scene. The device may be further configured to perform person detection on the received video image stream to identify a plurality of persons; perform gesture detection on the received video image stream to identify a gesture; select a person from the plurality of persons to associate with the identified gesture; and use the identified gesture to enable the selected person to control an object or area displayed on a video screen associated with the scene.
US11144118B2
A computing system includes a web server to provide first and second variants of a web application for A/B testing, and at least one client computing device operated by at least one user. The at least one client computing device includes a web browser and a camera. The web browser is for accessing the first variant of the web application, and for accessing the second variant of the web application. The camera is to record eye movements of the at least one user when viewing the displayed web page from the first variant of the web application, and to record eye movements of the at least one user when viewing the displayed web page from the second variant of the web application. The web server includes an eye movement analyzer to compare the recorded eye movements of the at least one user to determine a distraction factor.
US11144103B2
An electronic device and method are disclosed herein. The electronic device includes a processor, a temperature sensor, a main board on which the processor and the temperature sensor are mounted, a main body including a first surface and a second surface, an input device disposed on the first surface and the main board disposed on the second surface, wherein the first surface and second surface define a hollow in which the main board is disposed, a display, height adjuster disposed between the first and second surfaces and including a connection terminal connected to the processor, an extendable bar connected to the connection terminal, and a spacer connected to the extension bar. The processor implements the method, including in response to receiving a detection signal from the temperature sensor, control actuation of the height adjuster to cause expansion or contraction of the hollow by movement of the first and second surfaces.
US11144094B2
A display device includes a lower substrate that includes a side surface having a first inclined surface. An upper substrate is disposed on the lower substrate and includes a side surface having a second inclined surface. A first electrode is disposed on a surface of at least one of the lower substrate or the upper substrate. An auxiliary electrode is disposed on the first inclined surface of the lower substrate and the second inclined surface of the upper substrate. The auxiliary electrode includes a first portion corresponding to the first inclined surface, a second portion corresponding to the second inclined surface, and a bent portion bent at a predetermined angle with respect to the first and second inclined surfaces. The first electrode may be in contact with the bent portion on the first exposed surface to electrically connect to the auxiliary electrode.
US11144085B2
An apparatus system is provided which comprises: a first component and a second component; a first circuitry to assign the first component to a first group of components, and to assign the second component to a second group of components; and a second circuitry to assign a first maximum frequency limit to the first group of components, and to assign a second maximum frequency limit to the second group of components, wherein the first component and the second component are to respectively operate in accordance with the first maximum frequency limit and the second maximum frequency limit.
US11144084B2
A joystick has a related control method to provide displayed object control function. The joystick includes a body, an image sensor and a processor. The body has a deformable bottom surface whereon a pattern is disposed. The image sensor is disposed under the body and adapted to capture a frame about the pattern. The processor is electrically connected with the image sensor and adapted to generate a displayed object control signal according to pattern variation within the frame.
US11144075B2
A mass flow control apparatus having a monolithic base. The monolithic base has a gas inlet, a gas outlet, a first flow component mounting region, a second flow component mounting region, and a third flow component mounting region. The first flow component mounting region has a first inlet port and a first outlet port, the first inlet port being fluidly coupled to the gas inlet of the monolithic base. The third flow component mounting region has a first sensing port fluidly coupled to the gas outlet of the monolithic base.
US11144066B1
Included is a refuse bag replacement method including: detecting, by one or more sensors of the robotic refuse container, a refuse bag fill level; instructing, by a processor of the robotic refuse container, the robotic refuse container to navigate to a refuse collection site upon detecting a predetermined refuse bag fill level; and instructing, by the processor of the robotic refuse container, the robotic refuse container to discard a refuse bag housed within the robotic refuse container at the refuse collection site.
US11144062B2
Disclosed are a method and device for selecting a to-be-cleaned area. The method includes: obtaining to-be-cleaned secondary selectable area; controlling a floor-cleaning robot to move by one-unit length in first direction and determining whether the current location of floor-cleaning robot is to-be-cleaned secondary selectable area; if no, controlling the floor-cleaning robot to move by one-unit length in second direction and determining whether the current location of floor-cleaning robot is to-be-cleaned secondary selectable area; if no, controlling the floor-cleaning robot to move by two-unit lengths in third direction and determining whether the current location of floor-cleaning robot is to-be-cleaned secondary selectable area; if no, controlling the floor-cleaning robot to move by two-unit lengths in fourth direction and determining whether the current location of floor-cleaning robot is to-be-cleaned secondary selectable area; and executing cleaning operation in to-be-cleaned secondary selectable area if the current location of floor-cleaning robot is the same.
US11144054B2
Method and apparatus for ensuring safety controls for a network-connected autonomous vehicle. The method and apparatus monitor a respective state of each of one or more data communication connections one or more data communication networks. One of a plurality of operational modes for the autonomous vehicle is selected based on the monitored states. Each of the plurality of operational modes defines a respective level of autonomous control for the autonomous vehicle. The method and apparatus transition operation of the autonomous vehicle to the selected operational mode.
US11144051B2
A system for remote viewing and control of self-driving vehicles includes: an execution subsystem for deployment at an execution location containing a self-driving vehicle. The execution subsystem includes: a capture assembly to capture multimedia data depicting the execution location, and a server to receive the multimedia data and transmit the multimedia data for presentation at an operator location remote from the execution location. The server relays operational commands and operational status data between the self-driving vehicle and the operator location. The system includes an operator subsystem for deployment at the operator location, including: a display assembly, and a computing device to: (a) establish a connection with the server; (b) receive the multimedia data from the server and control the display assembly to present the multimedia data; and (c) receive control commands and transmit the control commands to the server for execution by the self-driving vehicle.
US11144049B2
Management of available energy among multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is provided by identifying tasks to be completed by the multiple UAVs, and determining energy requirements of one or more UAVs of the multiple UAVs to facilitate completing one or more tasks of the tasks to be completed by the multiple UAVs. Further, the approach includes identifying an energy sharing approach for completion of the task(s) by the UAV(s) where one or more other UAVs of the multiple UAVs transfer energy in operation to the unmanned aerial vehicle(s) to facilitate completion of the task(s). In operation, the multiple UAVs may be detachably coupled, and the approach may include implementing the energy sharing approach by transferring energy from the other UAV(s) to the UAV(s) to facilitate completion of the task(s), for instance, prior to decoupling of the other UAV(s) from the UAV(s).
US11144039B2
A system may include a data delivery pipeline communicatively coupled to one or more microservices that receive a dataset transmitted through the data delivery pipeline. The system may also include a first microservice that receives a first dataset corresponding to operation technology (OT) data or information technology (IT) data and determines a second dataset based on the first dataset. The system may also include a second microservice that receives the second dataset from the first microservice via the data delivery pipeline, determines an action to perform in an industrial automation component of an industrial automation system based on an analysis of the second dataset, and transmits the action to the industrial automation component via the data delivery pipeline.
US11144038B2
A graphical user interface (GUI) for designing and monitoring an industrial automation system presents an alert based on a condition of an object corresponding to a respective industrial automation device displayed on the GUI. The GUI generates one or more suggestions for resolving the alert, including referencing a historical data set, parsing the historical data set to identify one or more previous instances in which the condition of the object occurred and was successfully resolved, and identifying one or more respective remedial actions taken in each of the one or more identified previous instances to resolve the condition. The GUI presents the one or more remedial actions as the one or more suggestions for resolving the alert, receives an input selecting one of the one or more remedial actions, and implements the selected remedial action.
US11144037B2
Systems and methods provide for the determination and correction of tooling deviation by comparing two different three-dimensional surface scans of a composite panel after curing. Such methods and systems may allow for less accurate post-cure fixturing (e.g., holding the panel in a less constrained state, as compared to prior art techniques), while still maintaining a sufficient amount of precision for predictive shimming and shimless techniques. Methods include performing a first three-dimensional surface scan, performing a second three-dimensional surface scan, and comparing the two to determine a deformation function corresponding to tooling deviation. In some systems, a header structure is used to hold the composite panel in a nominal configuration for the second three-dimensional surface scan. In some systems, scanning devices perform mirrored scanning on either side of the composite panel, using a common reference frame.
US11144035B2
A method of additive manufacturing machine (AMM) build process control includes obtaining AMM machine and process parameter settings, accessing sensor data for monitored physical conditions in the AMM, calculating a difference between expected AMM physical conditions and elements of the monitored conditions, providing the machine and process parameter settings, monitored conditions, and differences to one or more material property prediction models, computing a predicted value or range for the monitored conditions, comparing the predicted value or range to a predetermined target range, based on a determination that predicted value(s) are within the predetermined range, maintaining the machine and process parameter settings, or based on a determination that one or more of the predicted value(s) is outside the predetermined range, generating commands to compensate the machine and process parameter settings, and repeating the closed feedback loop at intervals of time during the build process. A system and a non-transitory medium are also disclosed.
US11144034B2
An additive manufacturing system may include a controller operably coupled to a vision system and an additive manufacturing machine. The controller may be configured to determine in a library-CAD model, a nominal model-interface traversing a nominal model corresponding to a workpiece, to compare the nominal model-interface of the library-CAD model to a digital representation of a workpiece-interface of the workpiece, where the digital representation has been obtained using the vision system, and to generate a model of an extension segment based at least in part on the nominal model-interface, with the model of the extension segment being configured to be additively printed on the workpiece-interface of the workpiece.
US11144032B2
A life prediction apparatus is configured to accurately predict a life of a cable wired at a joint part of a robot. The life prediction apparatus includes a fatigue-level estimation unit for estimating a fatigue level of the cable based on encoder information of an actuator which moves the joint part of the robot, and a life prediction unit for predicting the life of the cable based on a fatigue level of the cable estimated by the fatigue-level estimation unit and an allowable value of the cable.
US11144023B1
A data recovery method framework is described, in which the data is classified as either ambient or disturbance data, and recovered by different methods to achieve good performance efficiently. An approach based on decision tree is described for identifying ambient and disturbance data. Then, an improved cubic spline interpolation based on the priority allocation strategy is described for ambient data loss, which can quickly and accurately recover ambient data. Simultaneously, a disturbance data recovery method based on singular value decomposition is described. It can achieve disturbance data recovery accurately by a single channel of measurement.
US11144021B2
The present disclosure provides a computer-implemented method for recommending one or more control schemes for controlling peak loading conditions and abrupt changes in energy pricing of one or more built environments associated with renewable energy sources. The computer-implemented method includes collection of a first set of statistical data, fetching of a second set of statistical data, accumulation of a third set of statistical data, reception of a fourth set of statistical data and gathering of fifth set of statistical data. Further, the computer-implemented method includes analysis of the first set of statistical data, the second set of statistical data, the third set of statistical data, the fourth set of statistical data and the fifth set of statistical data. In addition, the computer-implemented method includes recommendation of one or more control schemes to a plurality of energy consuming devices and a plurality of energy storage and supply means.
US11144011B2
A component of a winding device, in particular an automatic winding device, of a timepiece movement, wherein it is made of austenitic stainless steel and wherein it comprises at least one friction surface hardened by carbon or nitrogen type atoms introduced into the austenitic stainless steel over a predetermined depth.
US11144004B2
An image forming apparatus includes: a drawer movable between an inner position and an outer position and supporting a first cartridge including a first photosensitive drum and a first discharge part and a second cartridge including a second photosensitive drum and a second discharge part; and a waste toner box including a first coupling part coupled with the first discharge part and a second coupling part coupled with the second discharge part, in a state where the first cartridge and the second cartridge are supported by the drawer at an inner position and the waste toner box is mounted to the apparatus main body, the waste toner box being movable between a first/second position where the first coupling part and the first discharge part are coupled/decoupled and the second coupling part and the second discharge part are coupled/decoupled.
US11144002B2
The image forming apparatus includes a transfer section that transfers an image to a sheet; a sheet conveying member that is provided on an upstream side of the transfer section in a conveying direction of the sheet and that conveys the sheet; and a hardware processor that controls displacement of the sheet conveying member such that the sheet is displaced in a width direction of the sheet. The hardware processor causes a detector that detects an edge of the sheet in the width direction to detect the edge of the sheet after displacement of the sheet conveying member has been started, and causes the displacement to be terminated on the basis of the detected result such that the edge of the sheet reaches a target position.
US11144001B2
In an image forming apparatus, a first photosensitive drum is disposed upstream of a second photosensitive drum in a conveyance direction. Each of first and second developing rollers is movable between a contact position contacting a corresponding photosensitive drum and a separated position separated from the corresponding photosensitive drum. In a first case where a color print process is executed, a first moving mechanism starts moving the first developing roller toward the contact position, a manual feed roller starts picking up the sheet on a manual feed tray, and a second moving mechanism starts moving the second developing roller toward the contact position. In a second case where the monochrome print process is executed, the manual feed roller starts picking up the sheet on the manual feed tray, and the second moving mechanism starts moving the second developing roller toward the contact position.
US11143998B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, a first peel-off unit whose end portion is in contact with the image carrier and that peels off a recording medium from the image carrier, and a second peel-off unit whose end portion is not in contact with the image carrier and that peels off a recording medium from the image carrier. The second peel-off unit is disposed in such a way that the end portion thereof is located at a position that is the same as or upstream of a position of the end portion of the first peel-off unit in a rotation direction of the image carrier, and the second peel-off unit is movable so that the end portion thereof moves away from the image carrier.
US11143993B2
An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus according to an example includes a print engine including a fuser, a power supply apparatus to selectively provide AC power to the fuser, and a processor to control the power supply apparatus to selectively provide AC power to the fuser, wherein the processor, based on an operation mode of the image forming apparatus being a print mode, performs waveform number control of the AC power provided to the fuser, and, based on the operation mode of the image forming apparatus being an operation mode except for the print mode, performs phase control of the AC power provided to the fuser.
US11143991B2
An image forming apparatus includes a cooler and a heater, which includes a heat generation part including resistive heat generators, a first electrode, a second electrode, a first conductor, a second conductor, and a branch channel. The first conductor connects the resistive heat generators and the first electrode. The second conductor extends from the resistive heat generators to a side in a first longitudinal direction of the heater to be connected to the second electrode. The branch channel branches from the second conductor and extends to a side in a second longitudinal direction opposite the first longitudinal direction to be connected to either the second conductor or the second electrode without passing through the first conductor. A cooling ability of the cooler to an end side of the heater in the second longitudinal direction is greater than that to an end side of the heater in the first longitudinal direction.
US11143988B2
A belt driving device to drive an endless belt, includes a drive roller and a suspension roller which extend in a first direction and face each other in a second direction. The belt driving device includes a steering roller located between the drive roller and the suspension roller in a tiltable manner. A pulley (or wheel) is located at an end portion of the steering roller. The belt driving device includes a link mechanism which presses the end portion of the steering roller to tilt the steering roller with the movement of the pulley (or wheel).
US11143984B2
A toner conveying device conveys toner supplied from outside. The toner conveying device includes a housing, a plurality of toner acceptors, a plurality of legs, a bracket, and a vibration generator. The housing has a toner conveyance path inside. The toner acceptors are provided on the housing to accept toner supplied from outside and guide the toner to the toner conveyance path. The legs are fixed near the toner acceptors on the housing, respectively, and protrude outward from a side surface of the housing. The bracket is supported by each of the legs. The vibration generator is attached to the bracket.
US11143980B2
An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of image forming units, a developing voltage power supply, a density detection device, a current detection unit, and a control unit. The plurality of image forming units form an image and substantially same development conditions are set to evenly divide an image density among the image forming units. The control unit detects whether there is an anomaly in a developing device, based on a toner charge amount calculated based on a DC component of developing current when a reference image is formed on an image carrier by each of the developing devices and a density of the reference image. When an anomaly is detected in any of the developing devices, the control unit inhibits use of the image forming unit including the developing device, and resets the development conditions to evenly divide the image density among the usable image forming units.
US11143978B2
A device includes a charge roller and a control portion. The charge roller is removably insertable to be in charge-transferring relation to, and spaced apart by a first air gap from, a photoconductive imaging portion of an electrophotographic printer. The control portion is to determine a size of the first air gap based on determination of a charging threshold voltage associated with the charge roller.
US11143977B2
Herein is described a method of producing a printed label. The method may comprise: a. providing a label substrate having a first surface and a second surface, wherein the first and second surfaces form opposing surfaces of the label substrate; b. applying a primer comprising a cross-linkable primer resin onto the first surface of a label substrate to form a primer layer; c. electrophotographically printing onto the primer layer an electrostatic ink composition comprising a cross-linkable thermoplastic resin to form a printed layer; d. applying a cross-linking composition comprising a cross-linking agent to the printed layer, wherein the cross-linking agent penetrates into the electrostatic ink composition and the primer layer; and e. activating the cross-linking agent wherein an adhesive is present on the second surface of the label substrate in step a or applied to the second surface of the label substrate at any point in the method after step a. Printed labels are also described herein.
US11143973B2
A method for designing a photomask includes calculating an open ratio of an initial photomask to determine whether the open ratio of the initial photomask is less than 25%, and then changing a design of the initial photomask in response to determining the open ratio is less than 25%, such that a changed photomask has a reverse tone to the design of the initial photomask, and an open ratio of the changed photomask is 75% or more. The method can solve the issue caused by thermal expansion of the photomask.
US11143971B2
A method for determining adjustment to a patterning process. The method includes obtaining a probability density function of a parameter related to a feature of a substrate subject to the patterning process based on measurements of the parameter, determining an asymmetry of the probability density function, and determining an adjustment to the patterning process based on the asymmetry of the probability density function of the parameter so as to reduce a probability of the feature having a parameter value that falls outside a range between threshold values of the parameter.
US11143968B2
A fluid handling structure for a lithographic apparatus is disclosed. The fluid handling structure has a plurality of openings arranged in plan, in a line. The fluid handling structure is configured such that the openings are directed, in use, towards a facing surface, the facing surface being a substrate and/or a substrate table. The substrate table is configured to support the substrate. Outward of the line of openings is a damper. The damper may have a width that varies along the line of openings. The damper width is defined between the line of openings and an opposing damper edge.
US11143964B2
A substrate treating method for performing a heat treatment of a substrate that has a treated film formed thereon in a heat treating space of a heat treating chamber. The method includes an exhaust step of exhausting gas within the heat treating space formed by a cover enclosing surroundings of a heat treating plate; an inert gas supply step of supplying inert gas from an upper portion of the heat treating space into the heat treating space and supplying inert gas into a gap between an outer peripheral surface of the heat treating plate and an inner wall of the cover; and a heat treating step of performing the heat treatment of the substrate in the heat treating space. The heat treating step is performed after the exhaust step and the inert gas supply step.
US11143959B2
A method for making three dimensional structures using photolithography and an adhesively bondable material is disclosed. A thiol-ene-epoxy (OSTE(−)) material undergoes a first reaction upon partial irradiation in a pattern to become a partially cross-linked polymer network. Non-cross-linked parts are dissolved in a solvent and removed. An initiator is added to activate the cross-linked polymer network so that it becomes adhesive and can then be covalently bound to another object to form an article. The method can be utilized to manufacture an article with a complicated three dimensional shape in an easy way.
US11143957B2
An apparatus is described for separation of a nanoimprint template from a solidified patterned layer on a substrate that minimize separation defects, including last point of separation (LPOS) defects. The apparatus is configured to move the template and substrate relative to one another and determining an amount of pressure to apply to the backsides of the template and the substrate.
US11143956B2
Provided is an ejection device and an imprint apparatus which can suppress ejection failures and breakage of a mold. To achieve this, a circulation mechanism including a degassing unit is provided in an ejection head.
US11143948B2
A polarization conversion system (PCS) is located in the output light path of a projector. The PCS may include a polarizing beam splitter, a polarization rotating element, a reflecting element, and a polarization switch. Typically, a projector outputs randomly-polarized light. This light is input to the PCS, in which the PCS separates p-polarized light and s-polarized light at the polarizing beam splitter. P-polarized light is directed toward the polarization switch on a first path. The s-polarized light is passed on a second path through the polarization rotating element (e.g., a half-wave plate), thereby transforming it to p-polarized light. A reflecting element directs the transformed polarized light (now p-polarized) along the second path toward the polarization switch. The first and second light paths are ultimately directed toward a projection screen to collectively form a brighter screen image in cinematic applications utilizing polarized light for three-dimensional viewing.
US11143947B2
A screen comprises the following layers sequentially stacked from an incident side of projected light rays: a micro-lens layer, a transparent matrix layer, a total internal reflection layer, and a light-absorbing layer. The light-absorbing layer absorbs light passing through the micro-lens layer, the transparent matrix layer and the total internal reflection layer. The micro-lens layer comprises a plurality of micro-lens units. The total internal reflection layer comprises a plurality of microstructure units. The microstructure unit has a lower first flat surface and an upper second flat surface. The first flat surface intersects the second flat surface The micro-lens units and the microstructure units are at least partially arranged in an alternating manner. The projected light rays converged toward the first flat surface exit after being totally reflected by the first flat surface and the second flat surface sequentially.
US11143941B2
A projection device including a housing and a display module is provided. The display module is configured in the housing and may include a frame, an optical engine assembly, and at least one first electronic component. The frame may include a first assembling portion and at least one second assembling portion. The optical engine assembly is assembled to the first assembling portion in a first direction. The at least one first electronic component is assembled to the at least one second assembling portion in a second direction different from the first direction. In the projection device provided, interior space may be effectively utilized and the projection device may have advantages in a smaller volume.
US11143937B2
Examples of shutter assembly are described herein. In an example, the shutter assembly includes an opening having a magnetic rubber-based shutter disposed in the opening. The magnetic rubber-based shutter is slidable along a length of the opening to selectively cover and expose the camera.
US11143934B2
The present application discloses a portable electronic device. The device includes a case; a camera lens fixed to the case; a sound generator attached to the case for producing sounds; and a central process unit and a circuit system for providing controlling current to the camera lens. The camera lens includes a side wall and a lens holder moveable relative to the side wall. The lens holder is driven to a predetermined position farther away from the case than an initial position, when the sound generator is producing sounds. The present application further provides a method for eliminating noise by applying controlling current to the lens holder to move the lens holder to a position farther away from the case for avoiding collision between the case and the lens holder.
US11143932B2
In various embodiments, a beam-parameter adjustment system and focusing system alters a spatial power distribution of a radiation beam, via thermo-optic effects, before the beam is coupled into an optical fiber or delivered to a workpiece.
US11143926B2
The present disclosure illustrates an active matrix substrate includes pixel electrodes forming the pixels; first gate lines respectively disposed between the pixel electrodes extended in parallel to each other; first source line respectively disposed between the pixel electrodes and extended in a direction crossing the first gate lines; capacitor lines respectively disposed between the first gate lines and extended in nonparallel to from one another; switch devices respectively disposed on the pixel electrodes; second source lines respectively disposed between the pixel electrodes and extended in parallel to the first source lines; second gate lines respectively disposed between the pixel electrode and extended in parallel to the first gate lines. The first gate lines, capacitor lines, first source lines, second gate lines, capacitor lines and second source lines are not in electrical connection with each other.
US11143923B2
In an example, a display device comprises a substrate with pixels arranged in a display portion, a signal line control circuit connected to signal lines, a plurality of thin film transistors inputting a pixel signal to a corresponding one of the pixels from the corresponding one of the signal lines, a common electrode overlapping the entire display portion, an insulating film disposed on the common electrode, a common line connected to the common electrode through contact holes in the insulating film, where the common line is disposed between the substrate and the insulating film, and outside the display portion along four sides of the display portion, a plurality of gate lines electrically connected to the thin film transistors, and a gate line control circuit connected to and configured to provide a gate signal to each of the gate lines, and disposed between the display portion and the common line.
US11143915B2
A lighting device includes light sources arranged in a row in an arrangement direction, alight guide plate disposed to cover the light sources and including a plate surface facing the light sources and an opposite plate surface opposite from the plate surface, and a light diffusion portion. A portion of the plate surface is a light entering surface and the opposite plate surface is a light exit surface. The light diffusion portion extends in the arrangement direction of the light sources and on the light exit surface such that a portion of the light diffusion portion overlaps the light sources. The light diffusion portion applies a diffusion effect to light that is within the light guide plate so as to travel in a direction crossing the arrangement direction and to be away from the light sources seen from a normal direction of the light exit surface.
US11143912B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a backlight unit comprising at least one light emitting unit emitting light in a first wavelength band, a phosphor film exciting the light in the first wavelength band emitted from the light emitting unit to emit the light in the first to a third wavelength bands, a first reflective film disposed in a position corresponding to a rim of the phosphor film and causing to reflect the light in the first wavelength band, a second reflective film disposed adjacent to the first reflective film and causing to reflect the light in the second and third wavelength bands, and a dam disposed around the light emitting unit. A display device using the backlight unit is also provided.
US11143904B2
A display device includes: a display module including elemental pixel groups, each of the elemental pixel groups being configured to display an elemental image for displaying a reproduced image; an elemental lens array including elemental lenses, the elemental lenses being provided in front of the elemental pixel groups in one-to-one correspondence; a diopter adjustment element array including diopter adjustment elements, the diopter adjustment elements being provided in front of the plurality of elemental lenses in one-to-one correspondence; and a controller. The controller is configured to: control a part of the diopter adjustment elements in accordance with visual acuity of one eye of a user; and control the other part of the diopter adjustment elements in accordance with visual acuity of the other eye of the user.
US11143902B2
A total-reflection infrared reflection device and a preparation method thereof. The device includes two light-transmitting conductive substrates disposed oppositely, the two light-transmitting conductive substrates are packaged to form a seal cavity, in the seal cavity, opposite surfaces of the two light-transmitting conductive substrates are respectively coated with a first liquid crystal layer capable of reflecting left-handed polarized light and a second liquid crystal layer capable of reflecting right-handed polarized light, the first liquid crystal layer includes a polymer network and a cholesteric liquid crystal with a left-handed spiral structure, the second liquid crystal layer includes a polymer network and a cholesteric liquid crystal with a right-handed spiral structure, the cholesteric liquid crystal with the left-handed spiral structure can reflect left-handed polarized light, and the cholesteric liquid crystal with the right-handed spiral structure can reflect right-handed polarized light.
US11143893B2
A display device is provided, including a first flexible substrate, a second flexible substrate, a TFT circuit, and a liquid-crystal layer. The TFT circuit is formed on the first flexible substrate. The liquid-crystal layer is sealed between the first flexible substrate and the second flexible substrate. The first flexible substrate has a first light transmission chromaticity coordinates (x1, y1), and the second flexible substrate has a second light transmission chromaticity coordinates (x2, y2), wherein x1-x2≥0.002 or y1-y2≥0.002.
US11143888B2
According to an aspect, a substrate for a display apparatus includes: a first substrate; a translucent coloring layer that includes a plurality of color regions and that overlaps with the first substrate; a first translucent resin layer that overlaps with the first substrate at boundaries of the color regions; and a light shielding layer that overlaps with the first translucent resin layer on an opposite side to the first substrate side. A width of the light shielding layer in a direction parallel with the first substrate is equal to or smaller than a width of the first translucent resin layer in the parallel direction on a cross section vertical to the first substrate.
US11143887B2
A meniscus shaped lens module comprises one or more structures that decrease an amount of pressure or force to move one or more surfaces of the lens module and increase a separation distance of anterior and posterior surfaces of the module in order to provide an increase in optical power. A lens structure of the module comprises one or more of a pattern of a surface of a central chamber, a meniscus, a reduced diameter or a soft material in order to provide increased amounts of curvature of an outer contact lens surface with decreased amounts of pressure. The pattern can be formed in one or more of many ways, and may comprise one or more of folds, patterning, bellows or concertinaed surface of an optically transmissive material having a substantially uniform thickness such as a sheet of a membrane material.
US11143886B2
A method for optimizing an optical aid by way of automatic measurement of the subjective visual performance, a method for producing a correspondingly optimized optical aid, an apparatus for producing optical aids, a computer program having a program code for carrying out the optimization method, which program can be run on a processor, and a non-transitory storage medium comprising the computer program stored thereon are disclosed. The method for optimizing the optical aid includes the automatic determination of subjective visual acuity using machine learning.
US11143883B2
Spectacles with interchangeable eyeglass lenses (2), where the spectacles comprise a spectacles frame (1) and eyeglass lenses (2), where the eyeglass lenses comprise a mount (3) which is secured to an outer edge of the eyeglass lenses, and where at least one of the mount and the spectacles frame comprises a coupling element (8), which can couple together the mount (3) and the spectacles frame (1), thereby producing a spectacles frame in which the eyeglass lenses can be replaced as desired. Furthermore, the mount or the spectacles frame comprises an oblong recess (5) designed to receive a partial section (7) of the spectacles frame or a bulge on the mount. Said spectacles are suitable for use at work, bicycling in blustery weather, or skiing in harsh sunlight.
US11143882B2
The present disclosure provides a liquid crystal lens and a display apparatus. The liquid crystal lens includes a first substrate and a second substrate arranged to be opposite to each other, a common electrode being provided on the second substrate; a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first and second substrates and including liquid crystal molecules; liquid crystal lens units, each of which includes a first group of strip-shaped electrodes and a second group of strip-shaped electrodes parallel to each other and spaced apart thereon, upon applying a voltage among the first and second groups, and the common electrode, a planoconvex lens is formed within the liquid crystal molecules between them, wherein each of the first and second groups includes layers of sub-electrodes insulated from each other, the sub-electrodes of the first and second groups are applied with a voltage, so as to adjust symmetry of the planoconvex lens.
US11143865B1
This disclosure describes a novel lens system having an entrance pupil at a location matching, or nearly matching, the eye's optical system entrance pupil. The described lens system is significantly thinner than a single-aperture lens with matched entrance pupil and is achieved by using an array of camera elements. Each camera element contains camera optics called “lenslets” and a sensor (e.g., an image or depth sensor), where a lenslet can include one or more lens elements (e.g., a compound lens). Individual camera elements can be arranged such that THEIR optical axes intersect at, or near, the eye's entrance pupil location. In addition, each camera element's field-of-view (FOV) corresponds to a small sector of a large FOV. The FOVs of adjacent camera elements can be non- or slightly-overlapping so that a wide-angle image can be formed by concatenation of the individual camera element images.
US11143852B2
To attain the above-described objective, a zoom lens according to the present invention includes sequentially from an object side, a front group which includes at least three lens groups and has positive refractive power as a whole, and a lens group disposed on an image side of the front group, a magnification is changed by a change of a distance on an optical axis between adjacent lens groups, the lens group includes sequentially from an image side, a lens component, a lens component, and a lens component, the lens group is moved to an object side at a time of changing a magnification from a wide-angle end to a telephoto end, focusing is obtained by movement of a part of lens groups in the front group along an optical axis, and a predetermined condition expression is satisfied.
US11143850B2
Provided is a zoom lens including, in order from object side: a positive first unit configured not to be moved for zooming; one or two negative second units configured to be moved for zooming; a stop configured to reduce an outer part of an off-axis light; two or three third units configured to be moved for zooming; and a fourth unit, in which focal lengths of the first unit and the second units, a distance on an optical axis from the stop to a vertex of a surface closest to the object side in the third units under a zoom state in which F-drop starts, and a distance on the optical axis from a vertex of a surface closest to the image side in the second units to the vertex of the surface closest to the object side in the third units under the zoom state are appropriately set.
US11143845B2
An optical imaging lens assembly includes seven lens elements which are, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element and a seventh lens element. Each of the seven lens elements of the optical imaging lens assembly has an object-side surface facing toward the object side and an image-side surface facing toward the image side. At least one lens element of the optical imaging lens assembly has at least one aspheric lens surface having at least one inflection point. The object-side surface of the seventh lens element is concave in a paraxial region thereof.
US11143833B2
An adapter assembly includes a single-piece or two-piece multi-fiber adapter defining a recess at which a contact assembly is disposed. The adapter assemblies can be disposed within adapter block assemblies or cassettes, which can be mounted to moveable trays. Both ports of the adapters disposed within adapter block assemblies are accessible. Only one port of each adapter disposed within the cassettes are accessible. Circuit boards can be mounted within the block assemblies or cassettes to provide communication between the contact assemblies and a data network.
US11143822B1
An optical filter system, preferably including an optical input, one or more sets of filters, and/or a control module. A method for optical filter operation, preferably including operating an optical filter system in a normal mode, assessing filter alignment, and/or shifting filter assignments.
US11143814B2
Disclosed is a luminaire structure, comprising at least one light guide segment having opposed surface regions and defining a dimension therebetween. At least one edge region with at least one LED array configured to form an edge-lit optical coupling with the edge region. The light guide segment further includes a first sensor passage extending between the opposed surface regions to receive a sensor. At least one of the light guide segment, the first sensor passage and/or the sensor is configured so that light delivered to the light guide segment through the edge-lit optical coupling illuminates the light guide segment with reduced optical disruption by the presence of the sensor in the first sensor passage, when compared with a non edge-lit optical coupling configuration.
US11143807B2
A method of manufacturing a light emitting module according to the present disclosure includes: preparing a light guide plate that comprises a first main surface serving as a light-emitting surface and a second main surface opposite to the first main surface; respectively providing light emitting elements on the second main surface so as to correspond to each of a plurality of optically functional portions provided on the first main surface of the light guide plate; and forming wires electrically connecting the plurality of light emitting elements.
US11143806B1
An electronic device with a display may be provided with an array of pixels each of which includes subpixels formed from organic light-emitting diodes. The electronic device may have support structures such as a head-mountable frame or other head-mountable support structure. Optical structures such as lenses may be provided through which the array of pixels is viewable by a user. The array of pixels and the lenses or other optical structures may be supported by the head-mounted support structure. Light spreading structures may overlap the array of pixels to enhance the fill factor of the pixels. The light spreading structures may be formed from a fiber bundle layer, an array of microlenses, or other optical structures that laterally spread light that has been emitted by the organic light-emitting diodes and thereby enhances the fill factor of the pixels.
US11143805B2
To provide a polarizing plate capable of improving durability of a polarizing plate and productivity of an optical apparatus, a polarizing plate manufacturing method, and an optical apparatus. Provided is a polarizing plate with a wire grid structure, including: a transparent substrate; and a grid-shaped convex portion arranged on the transparent substrate on one surface side of the polarizing plate at a pitch shorter than a wavelength of light of a use band and extending in a predetermined direction, wherein one surface of the polarizing plate is provided with a water-repellent layer covering a surface of the grid-shaped convex portion, and wherein a side surface of the polarizing plate is not provided with the water-repellent layer.
US11143801B2
A diffractive optical element includes at least two diffractive structures situated next to one another, having differing functionalities, and being configured to, responsive to being irradiated independently of one another with incoherent laser light from beams of their respectively coupled laser sources, generate respective diffraction patterns that do not interfere with one another and that combine as an overall diffraction pattern in a far field. A method is provided for manufacturing such a diffractive optical element.
US11143797B2
A display device is provided. The display device includes a display screen and an optical film structure arranged on a light exiting side of the display screen. The optical film structure includes a substrate layer and a first micro-lens array layer, where the substrate layer has a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other; the first micro-lens array layer is provided on at least one of the first surface and the second surface, and includes multiple micro-lenses arranged in sequence, each of the multiple micro-lenses has a size smaller than that of a sub-pixel, and edges of adjacent micro-lenses abut on each other.
US11143796B2
The present invention relates to a resin composition for a polarizer protective film, and, more specifically, to a resin composition for a polarizer protective film exhibiting high hardness and excellent properties.
US11143792B2
The formation of dynamic, micro-climate groups consisting of passive and active weather collecting devices is provided. Such devices may collect weather information in real-time. The collected information may be distributed weather information and or forecasts to individuals in a particular geographical area or to other subscribers.
US11143791B2
A mesoscale modeling system and method that enables meteorologists to adjust forecasts to account for known biases of weather forecasting models and outputs high-resolution images consistent with the adjusted forecasts. The mesoscale modeling system and method may also use a weather forecasting model to forecast future weather events based on one or more adjustments provided by the meteorologists.
US11143790B2
To model hydrocarbon reservoirs more accurately, models of a geological volume using a three dimensional grid of cells populated with data from seismic studies are augmented by providing fine-grained stochastic models of the distribution of relays in fault zones and modelling the flow of hydrocarbons taking account the modelled relays.
US11143789B2
Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods for developing a reservoir. In one implementation, observed data points in a volume along a well trajectory and well logs corresponding to observed data points are received at a neural network. Feature vectors are generated using the neural network. The feature vectors are defined based on a distance between each of the observed data points and randomly generated points in the volume. A 3D populated log is generated by propagating well log values of the feature vectors across the volume. Uncertainty is quantified by generating a plurality of realizations including the 3D populated log. Each of the realizations is different and equally probable. core values are generated from the realizations, and a static model of the reservoir is generated by clustering the volume into one or more clusters of rock types based on the core values.
US11143784B1
Systems for landing and facilitating power flow or data transfer between an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and a charging mat using a boom are described. The system includes a mat with a conductive mesh on the top and a conductive surface on the other bottom of the mat. The conductive mesh and bottom conductive surface are separated (electrically isolated) by an isolation core. The outer portion of the boom contacts part of the conductive mesh of the mat to create an electrical pathway. An inner portion of the boom penetrates through the top layer conductive mesh, through the isolating core, and contacts the bottom conductive surface of the mat to create another electrical pathway.
US11143783B2
The present invention provides a four-sided scanning system for vehicles that uses a combination of backscatter and transmission based X-ray imaging to achieve material discrimination. In one embodiment, the system is designed as a mobile, drive-through system, which can be folded and stowed in a truck and can be conveniently deployed at any place when required.
US11143782B2
An apparatus for performing a downhole nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiment on a subsurface material in a volume of interest includes: a carrier configured to be conveyed through a borehole penetrating the subsurface material; an NMR sensor assembly disposed on the carrier and comprising a static magnetic field source configured to polarize nuclei of the subsurface material in the volume of interest and an antenna configured to receive NMR signals; and a receiver circuit disposed on the NMR sensor assembly and configured to process received NMR signals to perform the downhole NMR experiment; wherein (i) the receiver circuit is disposed in a pressure-excluding enclosure and (ii) the antenna, the static magnetic field source, and the pressure-excluding enclosure are disposed in a pressure-balancing fluid that is at least partially enclosed by an enclosure of non-metallic material.
US11143781B2
An electromagnet model or models are created to generate the static and radio frequency magnetic fields of an NMR downhole logging tool. The magnetic field distributions are then used in spin dynamics (SD) simulations to model the impacts of various effects on NMR logging data, effects that cannot be accurately describe by theoretical formulation alone. The accuracy of the electromagnetic model and the SD simulation may be verified against experimental observations or trial logging runs. Simulation of electronic circuit, molecular diffusion, tool motion can all be incorporated in the SD simulation. The NMR data inversion process can be modified according to echoes obtained from SD simulation to obtain more accurate petrophysical parameters.
US11143770B1
Providing real-time prediction and mitigation of seismically-induced effects comprises receiving measured seismic data; pre-processing to transform to a uniform format; inputting the preprocessed data into a predictive model; training the predictive model to learn hidden patterns in recorded seismic data, and extract underlying relations between the received measured seismic data and a predicted response at a location of interest at further time instance, as described by the equation: uIpred(t+τ)=model(uI(t), uM1(t), uM2(t), . . . , uMN (t)), where t is current time instance, τ is lead time, uMi(t) represents digital signal recorded by the ith seismic sensor, and N is overall number of sensors in a sensor array that provided the measured seismic data; receiving new real-time seismic data and pre-processing the received new real-time seismic data into the uniform format; inputting the data into the predictive model; and predicting future response at the location of interest in lead time of τ ahead: uIpred(t+τ).
US11143763B2
A method for sending correction data and for determining a highly accurate position of a mobile unit includes receiving a reference region that includes the mobile unit, the reference region being determined as a function of a rough position of the mobile unit; determining the correction data as a function of the reference region, the correction data describing a deviation of the rough position from the highly accurate position of the mobile unit; ascertaining a deviation of the correction data from reference correction data, the reference correction data being assigned to the reference region; and sending the correction data to the mobile unit in order to determine the highly accurate position of the mobile unit as a function of the deviation.
US11143756B2
A weather radar with a transmission antenna array that outputs a high aspect ratio FMCW transmission beam that illuminates an area in the field of regard in elevation and may be electronically scanned in azimuth. The weather radar includes a receive array and receive electronics that may receive the reflected return radar signals and electronically form a plurality of receive beams that may be used to determine characteristics of the area in the field of regard. The receive beams may be used to determine reflectivity of weather systems and provide a coherent weather picture. The weather radar may simultaneously process the receive signals into monopulse beams that may be used for accurate navigation as well as detection and tracking of objects, such as birds, aircraft, UAVs and the like.
US11143755B2
A radar apparatus detects objects in a vicinity of a host vehicle on which the radar apparatus is mounted. The radar apparatus includes a microcomputer configured to operate as a prediction processor that calculates a prediction position of a previously detected target in a current detection cycle and an extrapolation processor that executes an extrapolation to determine that a same target as the previously detected target exists in the prediction position for the current detection cycle. The extrapolation processor executes the extrapolation when the prediction position is outside a detection range of the radar apparatus and a speed of the host vehicle is lower than a predetermined value.
US11143733B2
An object orientation system, an object orientation method and an electronic apparatus are provided. A signal transmitter includes a directional antenna and emits a first wireless signal. A plurality of signal receivers are respectively disposed in a plurality of orientations. The signal receivers receive the first wireless signal and measure a plurality of first received signal strength indicators of the first wireless signal. The electronic apparatus is coupled to the signal receivers, estimates a plurality of strength variation data of the first received signal strength indicators measured by the signal receivers, and obtains orientation information of the signal transmitter according to the strength variation data corresponding to the signal receivers.
US11143731B2
A marker detection device which detects a magnetic marker laid in a road by using a sensor unit in which a plurality of combinations of a magnetic sensor and a magnetic-field generation coil are arranged includes a storage part which stores characteristic information of each magnetic-field generation coil, an estimation part which estimates a magnetic differential value acting on the magnetic sensor due to a current differential value acting on the magnetic-field generation coil by referring to the characteristic information of each magnetic-field generation coil, and a calibration part which calibrates each magnetic sensor so as to enhance uniformity in sensitivity, which is a ratio between an output differential value of the magnetic sensor in accordance with a change of a current by the current differential value acting on the magnetic-field generation coil and the estimated magnetic differential value.
US11143729B2
The present invention improves the quality of the magnitude and phase images produced in medical imaging, in particular in the case of multi-antenna MRI. The invention proposes to generate (28) such an image (I) by summing the complex image data (pj,{tilde over (p)}j) obtained from different antennas by weighting these data using only the diagonal elements (Rj,j) of an antenna noise covariance matrix or its inverse or pseudo-inverse matrix (Rj,j−1). A reference antenna (Ref) may be determined (24), so as to be able to replace (26), in each of these datum, a phase component specific to the acquisition antenna by a reference phase component. The reference antenna is preferably a virtual antenna formed by linear combination of the antennas of the MRI system. If significant improvements are obtained in the phase image resulting from the summation, a very clear gain is also surprisingly obtained in the magnitude image.
US11143726B2
A cable for operating a gradient coil of a magnetic resonance apparatus, a magnetic resonance apparatus, and a method for manufacturing a cable for operating a gradient coil of a magnetic resonance apparatus are provided. The cable includes at least one electric conductor and a stabilizing sheathing that surrounds the at least one electric conductor at least partially.
US11143725B2
A sensor for a nuclear magnetic resonance device includes a magnetic field generation apparatus with a planar magnet arrangement for generating a static magnetic field in a useful volume. The planar magnet arrangement has a plurality of magnetic poles on a front side facing the useful volume, which are arranged adjacent to each other along an extension direction of the planar magnet arrangement with alternating orientation, and a measuring apparatus for measuring a signal based on nuclear magnetic resonance of a material sample arranged in the useful volume. The measuring apparatus includes an electrical coil having a winding for generating an alternating magnetic field in the useful volume, the winding arranged between two directly adjacent magnetic poles of the planar magnet arrangement such that the alternating magnetic field of the electrical coil is superposed with the static magnetic field of the planar magnet arrangement orthogonally in the entire useful volume.
US11143715B2
Disclosed herein are systems for determining a broken conductor condition in a multiple-phase electric power delivery system. It has been observed that broken conductors pose a safety concern when occurring in the presence of people or vulnerable environmental conditions. Broken conductor conditions disclosed herein may be used to detect and trip the phase with the broken conductor, thus reducing or even eliminating the safety risk. Further, a distance to the opening may be determined.
US11143709B2
A method for estimating a state of health of an electrochemical cell for storing electrical energy includes applying at least one current strength peak to the cell, the current peak passing through the cell, measuring a variation, as a function of a time t elapsed after the application of the current peak, of voltage U at the terminals of the cell, and calculating at least one coefficient αI1 and at least one coefficient U0,I1 such that the function √{square root over (t)}→αI1×√{square root over (t)}+U0,I1 is a linear approximation of the variation of the voltage U as a function of √{square root over (t)} for √{square root over (t)}≥C, where C>0. The method is used in electrical or hybrid vehicles.
US11143706B2
A battery capacity estimation method includes a first step and a second step. The first step is a step of obtaining image data of a Nyquist diagram drawn by a predetermined method, based on a Nyquist plot obtained by a predetermined AC-IR measurement. The second step is a step of obtaining a battery capacity estimate value of a battery to be measured by inputting the image data of the Nyquist diagram obtained in the first step into an input layer of a pre-trained neural network model.
US11143704B2
A method for testing a power generation system includes measuring current generated by a generator comprising a field winding operable to control current generated by the generator by controlling current applied to the field winding. Voltage output by the generator is measured. The measured current and the measured voltage are conducted to a processor connected to the generator. The processor to varies at least one of the measured current and the measured voltage. A field output of the processor is coupled to the field winding of the generator. A response of the power generation system to the varied measured current or measured voltage is determined.
US11143701B2
A method for managing a product includes: placing an integrated circuit in a bootstrap mode with debugging prohibition in response to each reset or power-up of the integrated circuit and in an absence of a reception, on a test access port of the product, of a first command; and placing the integrated circuit in an analysis mode with debugging authorization in response to reception, on the test access port, of the first command following the reset or the power-up of the integrated circuit. Placing the integrated circuit in the analysis mode is maintained at least as long as a second command has not been received on the test access port. Placing the integrated circuit in the bootstrap mode and placing the integrated circuit in the analysis mode are performed in response to a determination that the integrated circuit has never before been placed in the analysis mode with debugging authorization.
US11143697B2
A system for performing tests using automated test equipment (ATE) is disclosed. The system comprises a robot comprising an end effector operable to pick up and transfer a DUT in-and-out of a test slot in a primitive. The system further comprises a system controller comprising a memory and a processor for controlling the robot. Also, the system comprises a test rack comprising a plurality of primitives, wherein the primitive is a modular device comprising a plurality of slots for testing a plurality of DUTs, and wherein the robot is configured to access slots in the plurality of primitives within the test rack using the end effector.
US11143695B2
An inspection device is provided, which is capable of detecting a short circuit failure even when a connector is provided on a wiring board. The inspection device is configured to inspect a short circuit failure generated at any connected part of a plurality of pins 153 to a wiring board via solder. The plurality of pins 153 is included in a connector provided on the wiring board. The inspection device includes: a wiring 11 connected to certain pins 153 of the plurality of pins 153; a second wiring 12 connected to remaining pins 153 of the plurality of pins 153; and a tester unit connected to the first wiring 11 and to the second wiring 12 so as to inspect insulation between the certain pins 153 and the remaining pins 153.
US11143686B2
Power distribution network early failure detection method comprising: a waveform is decomposed into an approximation part and detail parts by wavelet transform, wherein the approximation part is referred to as an approximate shape primitive, and the detail parts are referred to as distortion primitives; the distortion primitives are divided into three primitives including harmonics, pulses and other distortions based on extreme points; characteristics of the primitives and time relationships between the primitives are extracted; probability distribution of the waveform is constructed according to the characteristics of the primitives and the time relationships between the primitives; and a judgment result of the waveform is obtained according to probability distribution of waveforms of different types.
US11143684B2
A diagnostic system for a vehicle electrical system is provided. The diagnostic system includes a microcontroller having microcontroller core components. A first diagnostic handler application sends a first index value to the microcontroller core component diagnostic safety application. The microcontroller core component diagnostic safety application accesses a microcontroller core component diagnostic flag in a first table in the RAM if the first index value is equal to a valid index value in a first table. The microcontroller core component diagnostic safety application sends the microcontroller core component diagnostic flag to the first diagnostic handler application.
US11143680B2
The present invention provides methods and systems to estimate energy losses due to partial equipment failure in photovoltaic (PV) systems based on measured power and energy data, weather data, PV system configuration information, and modeled power and energy generation data.
US11143677B2
A DC metering device includes: two current transducers comprising hall sensors for measuring direct currents; two electrical switches; and a control device. Each one current transducer and one switch are connected in series by series connections. The series connections of the current transducers and switches are connected in parallel. The control device switches off in a repeating sequence alternately one of the switches and to continuously calculate a sum of continuously measured direct currents subtracted by measured zero offset currents of the two current transducers. The zero offset currents are measured when no current goes through the current transducers.
US11143675B2
An insulator applied in a probe base including a probe mounting hole, the insulator is a sheet structure having plural through holes, and the probe mounting hole is formed at the center of the insulator, and the probe mounting hole and the through hole penetrate from a first surface to a second surface of the insulator, and the regions of the first and second surfaces without the probe mounting hole and the through hole are coplanar. The probe base has a base body and at least a composite assembly, and the base body has at least a testing zone, and the composite assembly is installed in the testing zone and has at least a probe hole for installing a probe, and the insulator is installed into the probe hole.
US11143662B2
Methods, compositions and kits useful in the diagnosis, prognosis and/or assessment of brain injuries and risk for brain injuries, such as hemorrhage, are based upon detection of certain biomarkers.
US11143658B2
The present invention relates to methods and compositions for monitoring, diagnosis, prognosis, and determination of treatment regimens in subjects suffering from or suspected of having a renal injury. In particular, the invention relates to using assays that detect one or more of Insulin-like growth factor-binding protein 2, Insulin-like growth factor-binding protein 3, Insulinlike growth factor-binding protein 4, and Insulin like growth factor-binding protein 6 as diagnostic and prognostic biomarker assays in renal injuries.
US11143655B1
Methods for obtaining a sample from a subject include providing a sample collection room within a retail store; and obtaining a sample from a subject at a retail location. Sample collection rooms may house a sample analysis device or system. Samples may be small, e.g., a finger-stick capillary blood sample.
US11143654B2
Methods and kits are provided for determining of immunoglobulin isotypes and subclasses in a subject. In general the subject is a human who is a transplant candidate recipient or recipient, has allergies, or has an autoimmune disease. The method involves analyzing a sample of a body fluid of a transplant candidate or recipient, allergy patient or autoimmune disease sufferer and correlating the relative amounts of each immunoglobulin isotype and subtype, such that the distribution of isotypes and subtypes is an indication of success of the transplant in the candidate and recipient or the prognosis of the autoimmune disease.
US11143648B2
Disclosed herein are novel chromogenic conjugates, the conjugates comprising at least two detectable moieties.
US11143647B2
The present invention provides devices and systems for use at the point of care. The methods devices of the invention are directed toward automatic detection of analytes in a bodily fluid. The components of the device are modular to allow for flexibility and robustness of use with the disclosed methods for a variety of medical applications.
US11143639B2
A system and method for separating the functions of a liquid chromatography (LC) system into physically separate systems that allow for a more versatile LC system, wherein an LC device provides column 50 a liquid solvent, a sample, and a pump and injector that pushes the sample in the solvent to an output port, and providing an attachable module containing a module input port, a column, a heater for the column, and at least one detector for on-column detection, then attaching the module to the LC device using a press-fit connection that enables the sample in the solvent to be pumped through the column to the at least one detector in order to separate, identify and quantify substances in the sample and transmit results from the at least one detector to the LC system for collection and analysis.
US11143634B2
Methodologies, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for controlling the mass flow rate within a CO2 based chromatography system. The pressure within a CO2 pump is measured and received at a computing system, and the computing system retrieves a target temperature value corresponding to the new pressure measurement within the CO2 pump. The computing system then generates a temperature control command that controls a CO2 pump heater or cooler in order to achieve the target temperature value at the CO2 pump. Thus, a target mass flow rate of CO2 from the CO2 pump is achieved by adjusting the temperature of the CO2 pump in response to changes in pressure.
US11143628B2
A joint inspection system and methods of inspecting a joint in a structure are presented. In a method, an ion beam is sent, by an ion beam source, into a first surface of the structure to form an acoustic pulse source in the structure at a depth corresponding to a Bragg peak of the ion beam, wherein acoustic pulse source is adjacent to the joint. A travel time and a magnitude of an acoustic pulse generated by the acoustic pulse source is sensed, by an acoustic sensor positioned at a second surface of the structure, to thereby form a response, wherein the joint is between the acoustic pulse source and the second surface.
US11143622B2
Vibrating structure, bubble removing structure, and ultrasonic liquid concentration detecting device
Provided is an ultrasonic liquid concentration detecting device including a vibrating structure, a bubble removing structure, and an ultrasonic detecting main body. The vibrating structure is disposed at the bottom of the ultrasonic detecting main body and is configured to buffer a shock received by the ultrasonic detecting main body. The bubble removing structure is disposed on the ultrasonic detecting main body and is configured to accelerate the flow rate of a liquid. The ultrasonic detecting main body is configured to detect a concentration of the liquid. Further provided are a bubble removing device and a vibrating structure for an ultrasonic liquid concentration detecting device.
US11143618B2
Embodiments of the present technology may allow for improved and more reliable tunneling junctions and methods of fabricating the tunneling junctions. Electrical shorting issues may be reduced by depositing electrodes without a sharp sidewall and corner but instead with a sloping or curved sidewall. Layers deposited on top of the electrode layer may then be able to adequately cover the underlying electrode layer and therefore reduce or prevent shorting. Additionally, two insulating materials may be used as the dielectric layer may reduce the possibility of incomplete coverage and the possibility of flaking. Furthermore, the electrodes may be tapered from the contact area to the junction area to provide a thin electrode where the hole is to be patterned, while the thicker contact area reduces sheet resistance. The electrode may also be patterned to be wider at the contact area and narrower at the junction area.
US11143614B2
Disclosed is a gas sensor for detecting a measurement target gas in a measurement gas atmosphere, including first and second sensor elements respectively installed in first and second inner spaces of first and second installation parts. The first and second sensor elements have respective heating resistors connected in series and each has a resistance value that varies with change in temperature thereof so that the concentration of the measurement target gas can be calculated according to a potential between the heating resistors of the first and second sensor elements with the application of a constant voltage. The first and second installation parts are located at such positions that allow a maximum temperature difference of 0.4° C. or less between the first and second inner spaces during change in atmosphere temperature from 0° C. to 80° C.
US11143613B2
A sensor can include a conductive region in electrical communication with at least two electrodes, the conductive region can include a mixture of a square-planar metal complex and a carbon nanotube.
US11143611B2
A fluid process application bag includes a flexible film body having an opening, a port plate sealed around the opening of the flexible film body, a sensor fitting and a sensor contained within the sensor fitting. The port plate has a receptacle defining a passage in fluid communication with an interior of the flexible film body and the sensor fitting has a body portion seated within the passage of the receptacle and is coupled to the receptacle. The sensor has at least one probe communicating with the interior of the flexible film body.
US11143597B2
An electronic device and a method for predicting water ingress employ a water damage indicator including a water-dispersible coating layer which includes a water-dispersible, radiation-cured polymer. Electronic components of the device, which may be susceptible to water damage, are disposed within a casing. The water damage indicator may contact the casing of the electronic device and/or the electronic components. When water enters the casing, the water dispersible coating layer is at least partially removed, revealing the surface beneath, thereby providing an indication of potential water damage to the electronic components. The water damage indicator is not readily replaceable after manufacture, making it more difficult for a customer to disguise potential water damage to the device.
US11143592B2
A fluorescent nanocomposite which includes a thallium doped gadolinium chalcogenide having formula TlxGd1-xY, wherein x is 0.01 to 0.1, and Y is selected from the group consisting of S, Se, or Te, and a benzothiazolium salt bound to a surface of the thallium doped gadolinium chalcogenide. A method of detecting antimony ions in a fluid sample whereby the fluid sample is contacted with the fluorescent nanocomposite to form a mixture, and a fluorescence emission profile of the mixture is measured to determine a presence or absence of antimony ions in the fluid sample, wherein a reduction in intensity of a fluorescence emissions peak associated with the fluorescent nanocomposite indicates the presence of antimony ions in the fluid sample.
US11143586B2
Methods and apparatus for improving signal-to-noise ratio in a Fountain Flow cytometer by reducing the background light intensity. One approach includes constraining an interrogated volume of the sample (e.g., by adding a light absorbing reagent to the sample or introducing a bend into a flow cell through which the sample flows). Another approach includes minimizing Raman scattering from the sample by choosing an excitation filter and an emission filter configured to narrowly encompass light at wavelengths within system excitation and emission peaks.
US11143584B2
A structure for sensing a molecule in a solution is provided. The structure includes a transducer, a sensing surface and a heating element. With the sensing surface immersed in a first solution, a heating of the sensing surface by the heating element disassembles first self-assembled molecules from the sensing surface. With the sensing surface immersed in a second solution, second molecules self-assemble onto the sensing surface. The transducer is configured to cooperatively monitor molecular disassembly and self-assembly in the first and second solutions, respectively, with respect to the sensing surface.
US11143581B2
An apparatus and method of analysis including at least one microscope means operable to characterize the surface of a sample in use, at least a first conduit to convey one or more solvents to the sample and a further conduit to convey at least part of the solution from the sample. At least one pump means delivers solvent to the sample and/or removes solution from the same.
US11143575B2
A diagnostic system and method that (a) that uses models indicative of both successful firing and skips to determine if cylinders of a skip fire controlled internal combustion engine have successfully fired or successfully skipped and (b) uses filtered exhaust gas pressure readings for detecting faults associated with EGR systems and/or turbocharger systems.
US11143574B2
Provided is a screening apparatus or the like of an optical fiber that can suppress or prevent occurrence of a fiber-strike on the side of a feeding bobbin regardless of the weight of the feeding bobbin. An embodiment has a feeding bobbin 12 that feeds out an optical fiber 10; a screening unit 16 that applies a tension to the optical fiber 10 fed out from the feeding bobbin 12; a first capstan 14 that feeds the optical fiber 10 into the screening unit 16; a winding bobbin 20 that winds the optical fiber 10 to which the tension is applied by the screening unit 16; and a control unit 70 that, when disconnection of the optical fiber 10 occurs due to the tension applied by the screening unit 16, controls the feeding bobbin 12 and the first capstan 14 so as to stop rotation of the feeding bobbin 12 and rotation of the first capstan 14 and sets a deceleration rate of the first capstan 14 in accordance with a deceleration rate of the feeding bobbin 12.
US11143573B2
The present application discloses a vibration table, comprising a magnetic circuit device for generating a magnetic field; a moving coil skeleton, disposed in the magnetic circuit device, moving up and down in the magnetic field and having a placement groove; an adapter, disposed in the placement groove; an excitation coil, radially winding along an outer peripheral wall of the moving coil skeleton and located in the magnetic field generated by the magnetic circuit device; wherein, the moving coil skeleton is provided with a cut-off groove. The vibration table provided in the present application uses a metal beryllium as a material for a moving coil skeleton and an accelerometer adapter. The large specific stiffness of the metal beryllium is used to increase the axial natural frequency of the moving coil skeleton, thereby increasing the effective working frequency range of the vibration table.
US11143554B2
The invention relates to a multispectral imaging device including: a photosensitive detector DET made up of a matrix of pixels; an array of microlenses ML1, ML2, ML3 reproducing the matrix of pixels; and a filter module MF formed by a matrix of individual filters λ1, λ2, λ3 reproducing the matrix of pixels. The device is remarkable in that the array of microlenses is arranged directly in contact with the detector DET, and the filter module MF is made on a substrate SS that is put into contact with the array of microlenses.
US11143552B2
The disclosure provides a circuit to mitigate ripple. The circuit includes a controller that generates a PWM (pulse width modulated) clock signal. A DC/DC converter receives the PWM clock signal, and generates an output signal. A light source is coupled to the DC/DC converter, and receives the output signal. The light source transmits light pulses during an integration time. A time integral of the output signal during the integration time is constant during a plurality of quad time periods.
US11143550B2
The optical sensor package comprises an optical sensor device with a sensor element arranged inside a housing comprising a cap. A diffuser is arranged in an aperture of the cap opposite the sensor element and prolongs the cap in the aperture or closes the aperture. The method comprises forming a cap with an aperture, arranging a diffusing material in the aperture, thus forming a diffuser, and after forming the diffuser, arranging an optical sensor device with a sensor element inside a housing that includes the cap, such that the sensor element is opposite the diffuser.
US11143542B2
A strip scale suitable for use in connection with high speed, in motion weighing applications. The scale has a base, a load cell, a compliant member, and a platform. Also disclosed are load cells for use with the scale, and systems and methods for using the scales.
US11143530B2
Herein a metallic tube portion is disclosed. The metallic tube portion comprises a connection element. The connection element comprises a protruding portion of a metallic outer tube of the metallic tube portion and a housing member. The housing member is welded to the protruding portion and at least a further portion of the metallic outer tube and/or a portion of a metallic inner tube. A signal line extends at least partially through the connection element.
US11143528B2
An optical fiber sensor irradiates light pulses into an optical fiber cable and analyses backscattered light thereof. The optical fiber sensor comprises: a determination part that determines a timing at which measurement of an environmental change starts and a timing at which measurement of the environmental change ends, based on the backscattered light; and an occurrence region estimation part that estimates an occurrence region of the environmental change in a longitudinal direction of the optical fiber cable, based on the timing at which measurement of the environmental change starts; the timing at which measurement of the environmental change ends; and a pulse width of the light pulses.
US11143518B2
To estimate a more useful destination for users. A destination estimation apparatus 1 comprises a travel route history registration unit 13 storing a positional information history as a history of positional information of a user, a positional information acquisition unit 10 acquiring the positional information of the user, and a destination estimation unit 15 estimating a destination of the user by taking a location indicated by the acquired positional information as a start point based on the stored positional information history. The destination estimation unit 15 calculates a reaching level as a degree the user is reaching the estimated destination based on the stored positional information history, and re-estimates a new destination by taking the estimated destination as a start point when the calculated reaching level is equal to or more than a prescribed threshold value.
US11143511B2
Provided is an on-vehicle processing device that can estimate the position of a vehicle with higher accuracy. A storage unit stores a parking lot point group including a plurality of coordinates of points of a part of an object in a parking lot coordinate system. A sensor input unit acquires peripheral information from a camera. A movement information acquisition unit acquires movement information. A local peripheral information creation unit generates local peripheral information expressing second point group data including a position of the vehicle in a local coordinate system and a plurality of coordinates of points of a part of the object in the local coordinate system on the basis of the peripheral information and the movement information. A position estimation unit estimates a correlation between the parking lot coordinate system and the local coordinate system on the basis of the parking lot point group and the local peripheral information, and estimates the position of the vehicle in the parking lot coordinate system from the position of the vehicle in the local coordinate system and the correlation.
