US11153242B2
A computer implemented method of pre-emptively blocking an electronic communication is provided. The computer implemented method includes inputting an electronic communication history, wherein the electronic communication history includes a plurality of electronic communications and a set of corresponding recipients for each of the plurality of electronic communications. The computer implemented method further includes normalizing the plurality of electronic communications, and extracting a topic from each of the plurality of electronic communications. The computer implemented method further includes clustering the plurality of electronic communications according to the extracted topics, and digesting the plurality of electronic communication to form a positive learning data set and a negative learning data set to train a neural network. The computer implemented method further includes training the neural network on the positive learning data set and the negative learning data set, and preparing a positive neutral network model and a negative neural network model.
US11153234B2
The present disclosure provides method and apparatus for providing news recommendation in automated chatting. A first message may be obtained in a chat flow. Recommended news may be determined based at least on the first message, a user preference list including sentiment labels, and a news dataset including sentiment labels. At least one of title, summarization and content of the recommended news may be provided based on the first message.
US11153233B2
A network packet receiving device that includes packet queues, a credit allocation circuit and a credit management circuit is provided. Each of the packet queues corresponds to a packet transmission channel and receives packets. The credit allocation circuit calculates packet amount of each of the packet queues to control the descriptor credit of each of the packet queues within a credit range. The credit management circuit points each of public entries of a public link list to one of descriptors in a single descriptor buffer. The credit management circuit further receives a credit requesting command from the packet queues to assign the descriptors to the packet queues through the public entries under the condition that the descriptor credit is within a credit range such that a DMA circuit performs a DMA operation on the packets according to the descriptors.
US11153230B2
Some embodiments provide a novel method for deploying different virtual networks over several public cloud datacenters for different entities. For each entity, the method (1) identifies a set of public cloud datacenters of one or more public cloud providers to connect a set of machines of the entity, (2) deploys managed forwarding nodes (MFNs) for the entity in the identified set of public cloud datacenters, and then (3) configures the MFNs to implement a virtual network that connects the entity's set of machines across its identified set of public cloud datacenters. In some embodiments, the method identifies the set of public cloud datacenters for an entity by receiving input from the entity's network administrator. In some embodiments, this input specifies the public cloud providers to use and/or the public cloud regions in which the virtual network should be defined. Conjunctively, or alternatively, this input in some embodiments specifies actual public cloud datacenters to use.
US11153225B2
The various embodiments include methods, computers and communication systems that enable decomposing abstract service requests into resources rules, which may include receiving an abstract service request (e.g., a request specifying a functional requirement) via an exposed public interface, generating domain-specific resource rules based on the received abstract service request, identifying relevant components in a telecommunications domain for enforcing the generated domain-specific resource rules, and send the domain-specific resource rules to the identified components (e.g., online charging server, policy management server, etc.) for enforcement. Generating domain-specific resource rules based on the received abstract service request may include generating the rules consistent with the existing resource rules of the domain.
US11153223B2
Server resources in a data center are disaggregated into shared server resource pools. Servers are constructed dynamically, on-demand and based on workload requirements, by allocating from these resource pools. A disaggregated compute system of this type keeps track of resources that are available in the shared server resource pools, and it manages those resources based on that information. Each server entity built is assigned with a unique server ID, and each resource that comprises a component thereof is tagged with the identifier. As a workload is processed by the server entity, its composition may change, e.g. by allocating more resources to the server entity, or by de-allocating resources from the server entity. Workload requests are associated with the unique server ID for the server entity. When a workload request is received at a resource, it matches its unique server ID to that of the request before servicing the request.
US11153220B2
The techniques disclosed herein determine a location independent network delay via a network monitoring device. Such techniques particularly include determining various delays such as a zero window delay, an advertised window delay, and a congestion window delay (including slow start delays).
US11153212B2
In an approach to managing transmission frequency for a plurality of edge devices of an interconnected distributed network, one or more computer processors determine a maximum writing frequency, MWF, for the interconnected distributed network; iteratively process values of data flow writing frequency, DFWF, for a plurality of edge devices of an interconnected distributed network in accordance with an optimization algorithm based on the MWF to identify a convergence in the values of DFWF, wherein each iteration of processing values comprises, at each edge device in the plurality of edge devices, determine a value of DFWF based on an associated utility function of the respective edge device, wherein the utility function is a measure of utility of the device as a function of DFWF; responsive to identifying convergence, determine the converged values of DFWF to be optimal values of DFWF for the plurality of edge devices.
US11153211B2
There is included in one example a switch, including: an ingress port to receive data from a source host; a first egress port to send data to a destination host; a second egress port to send data to the source host; and a congestion notification generator (CNG) including: a congestion detector to compute bandwidth consumption of a flow associated with a packet received on the ingress port and assigned to the first egress port, and determine based on the computed bandwidth consumption that the flow is congested; a flow extractor to extract a flow identifier of the flow from the packet; a throttle calculator to calculate a quantitative flow throttle value for the flow; and a header builder to build a congestion notification packet to instruct the source host to throttle the flow.
US11153207B2
A method includes: a first network device generates a data link layer-based autonomic control plane (L2 ACP) packet, wherein the first network device is an autonomic device in the autonomic network; encapsulates, based on a frame at a data link layer, the L2 ACP packet, wherein the frame at the data link layer comprises a source data link layer address and a destination data link layer address, and the source data link layer address is a data link layer address of the first network device; and sends, according to the destination data link layer address, the L2 ACP packet encapsulated based on the frame at the data link layer to a second network device, wherein the second network device is also an autonomic device in the autonomic network, and the second network device is a neighboring device of the first network device.
US11153196B2
An autonomous controller for SDN, virtual, and/or physical networks can be used to optimize a network automatically and determine new optimizations as a network scales. The controller trains models that can determine in real-time the optimal path for the flow of data from node A to B in an arbitrary network. The controller processes a network topology to determine relative importance of nodes in the network. The controller reduces a search space for a machine learning model by selecting pivotal nodes based on the determined relative importance. When a demand to transfer traffic between two hosts is detected, the controller utilizes an AI model to determine one or more of the pivotal nodes to be used in routing the traffic between the two hosts. The controller determines a path between the two hosts which comprises the selected pivotal nodes and deploys a routing configuration for the path to the network.
US11153185B2
Network device snapshots may capture the overall device state of a network device. Individual snapshots or groups of related snapshots (e.g., from different network devices obtained at a common time period) may be used to diagnose, troubleshoot, or correct anomalies or errors within a computer network. The “device state” of a network device may change over time and therefore obfuscate information desired for trouble shooting (e.g., diagnoses) of network errors (or degraded performance periods). Device state may include logical and physical device characteristics at a given instant in time. Network device snapshots may be stored locally on a network device or may be transmitted to external storage on-demand or periodically to accommodate possible limitations of resources on the network device. Network device snapshots may be “re-loaded” onto devices, for example in a lab or clean-room type environment, for comprehensive analysis. Different types of interfaces into network device snapshots are disclosed.
US11153182B2
Policies can be applied to, and enforced for, specific resources by applying a corresponding tag to those resources. An entity, such as a customer of a resource provider, can generate one or more policies to be applied to a set of resources, where those policies can relate to data retention, backup, lifecycle events, and other such aspects. Each policy can be associated with a particular tag, which may comprise a key-value pair to be applied to various resources. A policy enforcement manager can determine the tagged resources and ensure that the relevant policies are applied. The policies can include logic or intelligence for performing a variety of tasks with respect to resources, groups of resources, or types of resources, as identified using the tags.
US11153178B2
In one embodiment, a device identifies one or more telemetry data variables for use to predict failure of a tunnel in a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN). The device sends a Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)-based telemetry request towards a tail-end router of the tunnel that requests the one or more telemetry data variables. The device receives the requested one or more telemetry data variables. The device uses the received one or more telemetry data variables as input to a machine learning-based model, to predict a failure of the tunnel.
US11153165B2
A system for distributing firmware, comprising a group controller operating on a processor and configured to perform an algorithmic process of sending an update task with a download host to one of two or more group members. A group member operating on a processor and configured to perform an algorithmic process of receiving the update task with the download host and to request a payload file from the download host.
US11153162B2
A multi-function communications network includes a front-end communications network in signal communication with a plurality of communication nodes. Each communication node includes a plurality of discrete network elements. One or more network element adapters are in signal communication with a respective network element among the plurality of discrete network elements. A network management system is in signal communication with the network element adapters. The network management system is configured to generate reconfiguration parameters in response to an operating disruption of at least one affected node among the plurality of communication nodes. At least one of the network elements included in the affected node is reconfigured based at least in part on the reconfiguration parameters.
US11153159B2
Systems, methods, and devices, including computer-readable media, for managing operation of devices in complex systems and changing environments. In some implementations, a server system stores data indicating management plans for each of a plurality of different devices, each management plan indicating a device-specific set of program states for programs in a predetermined set of programs. The server system alters the management plans and enforces interdependence of the programs, and the server system generates a customized instruction that alters operation of the device according to the device-specific set of program states assigned in the altered management plan for the device. The server system causes each device to perform one or more operations of the device determined according to the device-specific set of program states assigned in the altered management plan for the device.
US11153156B2
Systems, methods, and devices, including computer-readable media, for managing operation of devices in complex systems and changing environments. In some implementations, a server system stores data indicating management plans for each of a plurality of different devices, each management plan indicating a device-specific set of program states for programs in a predetermined set of programs. The server system alters the management plans and enforces interdependence of the programs, and the server system generates a customized instruction that alters operation of the device according to the device-specific set of program states assigned in the altered management plan for the device. The server system causes each device to perform one or more operations of the device determined according to the device-specific set of program states assigned in the altered management plan for the device.
US11153150B2
Dynamically identifying and utilizing an opportunistic device by performing at least the following within a discovery offloading module: receive an offloading alert message from a service device, wherein the offloading alert message indicates the service device is unable to provide one or more services to the client device, receive a discovery message from a candidate device, wherein the discovery message indicates the candidate device is capable of performing the services provided to the client device, select, using the dedicated execution environment, an opportunistic service device based on the discovery message from the candidate device; and trigger the restart of host execution instruction within the client device by obtaining the one or more services from the opportunistic service device, wherein the discovery offloading module operates independently from the host execution instructions within the client device.
US11153135B1
Methods and systems of adaptive equalization to compensate channel loss are disclosed. A method includes detecting a peak amplitude of an equalizer output signal and selecting a set of reference voltage levels from M sets based on the peak amplitude of the equalizer output signal, each of the M sets having N reference voltage levels. The method includes continuing to increase an equalization level in predetermined steps to a next higher equalization level if the applied equalization level does not correspond to the over-equalization level and evaluating the distribution of the resulting hit counts for each increase to the next higher equalization level until the applied equalization level corresponds to the over-equalization level. The method includes decreasing to the previously applied lower equalization level if the applied equalization level corresponds to the over-equalization level.
US11153132B2
A device including an equalizer that includes a first input configured to receive an input signal, a second input configured to receive a reference signal, and a third input configured to receive an adjustment signal. The equalizer also includes a first output configured to transmit a corrected signal, wherein the corrected signal is generated based on data outputs controlled via the input signal, the reference signal, and a clock signal, wherein the data outputs are modified based on the first adjustment signal, wherein corrected signal offsets inter-symbol interference on the input signal based on a data bit received at the first input prior to reception of the input signal.
US11153131B2
Increase the effective data rate of high-speed data communication. It has a memory unit, a reception signal line, and a transmission signal line capable of communicating with an external device via a control circuit and an equalizer, controllers for controlling transmission and reception of signals to and from the external device, and a correction coefficient associated with an identification information and the identification information of the external device. The control circuit sets the correction coefficient associated with the identification information to the equalizer.
US11153125B2
A transmission apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a plurality of user modulated signal generators. A user #k modulated signal generator (104_k) (where k=1 to n) generates a modulated signal including reference signals for phase noise estimation (PT-RS: Reference Signal for Phase Tracking), for a plurality of reception apparatuses. A wireless unit (109_A, 109_B) transmits the generated modulated signal. A correction coefficient of transmission power for the reference signals is associated with a pattern of a sequence used as the reference signals, on a one-to-one basis.
US11153119B2
A network controller can register WAN edge routers and WAN optimizers distributed across a WAN. The controller can receive a request to establish a WAN optimized connection between first and second hosts. The controller can identify a first WAN optimizer to perform first services (e.g., de-duplication, compression, application acceleration, caching, etc.) for first traffic from the first host to the second host and first complementary services for second traffic from the second host to the first host, and a second WAN optimizer for the second traffic and second complementary services for the first traffic. The controller can establish the optimized connection comprising a first path including the first host, WAN optimizer, and router; a second path including the first router and a second router, and a third path including the second router, WAN optimizer, and host. The controller can route the first and second traffic through the optimized connection.
US11153112B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes memory configured to store instructions, at least one communication circuitry, at least one display, and at least one processor, wherein at least one processor is configured to, when executing instructions, reproduce multimedia content in electronic device, identify, through at least one communication circuitry, whether electronic device is connectable with external electronic device interlocked with electronic device, before first time elapses from a time of initiating the reproduction of the multimedia content, and superimpose and display, on a screen which is being displayed through the at least one display, a visual object indicating that the external electronic device is capable of continuously reproducing the multimedia content from a time at which reproduction of the multimedia content has been progressed in the electronic device, based on identifying whether the electronic device is connectable with the external electronic device interlocked with the electronic device.
US11153092B2
This disclosure describes dynamic access control using capabilities (via dynamic access control interface (150)) on a blockchain system (180). The blockchain data structure is a time-stamped list of blocks, chained together cryptographically. In this disclosure, capabilities can be recorded on a blockchain system (via capabilities storage (170)) and thus access propagation is known. This makes revocation of access achievable by recording a new transaction, which in effect removes the previous authorization. There will be no change to transaction history and instead a new transaction records (170) the current status of the capability. An example implementation on a blockchain system (180) is given in Ethereum, which allows programs called “smart contracts” to run as transactions.
US11153074B1
A computing system receives encrypted data that can be decrypted by a first secret to obtain data, wherein the first secret is securely stored by the system, determines that the data encodes a second secret and executable code usable to perform cryptographic operations, and run the executable code to perform the cryptographic operations. The first secret may be a one-time pad.
US11153072B2
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing blockchain data under a trusted execution environment (TEE). One of the methods includes receiving, by a blockchain node, a request to execute one or more software instructions in a TEE executing on the blockchain node; determining, by a virtual machine in the TEE, data associated with one or more blockchain accounts to execute the one or more software instructions based on the request; traversing, by the virtual machine, a global state of a blockchain stored in the TEE to locate the data; and executing, by the virtual machine, the one or more software instructions based on the data.
US11153060B2
Uplink resources for semi-persistent channel state information (SP-CSI) reports and other uplink transport block transmissions may be managed. If resources allocated to the SP-CSI reports overlap, in time, with resources allocated to the uplink transport block transmissions, a determination of whether to drop an SP-CSI report may be made. Various selection criteria may be used to make this determination.
US11153053B2
The embodiments of the present application provide a data transmission method and a terminal device, being able to improve the uplink transmission rate The method comprises: receiving at least two DMRS port groups configured by a network device; determining a target reference signal resource corresponding to each of the at least two DMRS port groups; determining, according to the target reference signal resource, transmission parameters for transmitting data on the DMRS port group corresponding to the target reference signal resource; and when the transmission parameters for transmitting data on each DMRS port group are determined, performing data transmission on the at least two DMRS port groups.
US11153051B2
A user terminal (20) is provided with: a reception unit (202) which receives a downlink signal containing a demodulation reference signal; a control unit (203) which separates the demodulation reference signal from the downlink signal; and a channel estimation unit (204) which calculates a channel estimation value using the demodulation reference signal. The demodulation reference signal is mapped to a resource element defined for a transmission pattern for a user terminal, and the transmission pattern for a user terminal is selected from among a plurality of transmission patterns for user terminals, so as to be different among the user terminals, and the demodulation reference signals to be mapped to the respective resource elements defined for the plurality of user terminal transmission patterns are configured to be mutually orthogonal to one another among the different user terminal transmission patterns.
US11153043B2
Embodiments described herein generally relate to measuring and evaluating a test signal generated by a device under test (DUT). In particular, the test signal generated by the DUT may be compared to a reference signal and scored based on the comparison. For example, a method may include: capturing a test signal from a device under test; splicing the test signal into a plurality of test audio files based on a plurality of frequency bins; at each frequency bin, comparing each of the plurality of test audio files to a corresponding reference audio file from among a plurality of reference audio files, the plurality of reference audio files being associated with a reference signal; and calculating a performance score of the device under test based on the comparisons.
US11153042B2
Reducing control signaling is an effective technique for increasing resource efficiency when supporting a massive number of connections in an Internet of Things framework. In the presence of sporadic and small data packets, the use of control signaling must be optimized to not overwhelm network resources. In some embodiments, a bit map in a control signaling packet may indicate if certain information elements that correspond to configuration parameters are present or absent. When they are absent, predetermined values for the corresponding configuration parameters may be used, whereas when they are present, predefined values from a set of predefined values may be used. In other embodiments, the predetermined values may be periodically updated.
US11153033B2
A method and apparatus for transmitting signals on a PUSCH in a wireless communication system are provided. Specifically, a method performed by a terminal includes receiving resource information for transmitting uplink data and channel state information (CSI) on a PUSCH from a base station; receiving first downlink control information (DCI) including control information on slot timing related to the uplink data transmission from the base station; comparing a first time related to computation of the uplink data and CSI and a second time related to computation of only the CSI; and transmitting, if a value of the slot timing is greater than the second time and smaller than the first time, only the CSI on the PUSCH to the base station.
US11153026B2
Apparatuses that provide for secure wireless communications between wireless devices under cover of one or more jamming signals. Each such apparatus includes at least one data antenna and at least one jamming antenna. During secure-communications operations, the apparatus transmits a data signal containing desired data via the at least one data antenna while also at least partially simultaneously transmitting a jamming signal via the at least one jamming antenna. When a target antenna of a target device is in close proximity to the data antenna and is closer to the data antenna than to the jamming antenna, the target device can successfully receive the desired data contained in the data signal because the data signal is sufficiently stronger than the jamming signal within a finite secure-communications envelope due to the Inverse Square Law of signal propagation. Various related methods and machine-executable instructions are also disclosed.
US11153025B2
Various embodiments are described that relate to random noise addition to a communication. A first secure network can employ a first encryption scheme and a second secure network can employ a second encryption scheme. In order to communicate between the first secure network and the second secure network such that the schemes are not decipherable, random noise can be added to a communication designated to transfer from the first secure network to the second secure network.
US11153022B2
A transmitting apparatus is provided. The transmitting apparatus includes: a frame generator configured to generate a frame including a plurality of orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols; and a guard interval (GI) inserter configured to insert GIs into the generated frame, wherein the plurality of OFDM symbols are divided into a bootstrap, a preamble, and a payload, and the GI inserter inserts first GIs having a size corresponding to a fast Fourier transform (FFT) size of each of OFDM symbols configuring the payload into front ends of each of the OFDM symbols, inserts second GIs having a size corresponding to a quotient obtained by dividing an extra region of the payload calculated based on the FFT size of the OFDM symbols configuring the payload, the number of OFDM symbols, and the size of the first GIs by the number of OFDM symbols into front ends of each of the first GIs, and inserts a cyclic postfix (CP) having a size corresponding to the remainder remaining after dividing the extra region of the payload by the number of OFDM symbols into a rear end of a final OFDM symbol configuring the payload.
US11153018B2
An electronic device is disclosed. The disclosed electronic device comprises: a communication circuit; a display; a processor; and a memory electrically connected to the processor, wherein the memory may store commands set so that the processor controls the display to display, on a narrow and long area extending along at least one edge area formed on the display, a user interface comprising location information of an external device to and from which a signal is transmitted and received via the communication circuit. Other various embodiments are possible.
US11153015B2
A spread spectrum receiving method receives a spread spectrum signal. An optical signal frequency comb is generated. Modes of the optical signal frequency comb are modulated with a received spread spectrum signal. An optical local oscillator comb is generated that is mutually coherent with the signal frequency comb. A code word is applied to the local oscillator comb. The combs are combined and the received spread spectrum signal is detected from the combined combs.
US11153008B1
Examples described herein relate to method for measuring a disconnect response time. The method includes discontinuing, in response to a determining that a disconnect response metric test is to be initiated, transmission of a test optical signal by a test device to a DUT coupled to the test device, wherein the DUT is to discontinue transmission of a response optical signal to the test device upon detection of a loss of the test optical signal. Further, a loss of the response optical signal by may be detected by the test device. Furthermore, a disconnect response metric of the DUT may be determined by the test device based on a time of discontinuation of the transmission of the test optical signal and a time of detection of the loss of the response optical signal.
US11152997B2
Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, an apparatus of a user equipment (UE) comprising circuitry to receive a Beamforming Reference Signal (BRS) transmission from an evolved NodeB (eNB) via one or more transmission beams, divide the one or more transmission beams into one or more transmission beam sets, wherein a transmission beam set comprises a number of consecutive orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols, scan consecutive receiving beams for corresponding transmission beam sets to obtain channel measurements to select a transmission beam and a receiving beam based at least in part on the channel measurements, and receive transmissions from the eNB using the selected transmission beam and the selected receiving beam.
US11152992B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described in which measurements of a number of beams that are transmitted from a first device, measured at a second device are provided in a beam switch metric report from the second device. The beam switch metric report may provide the first device with information that is otherwise unavailable to the first device and that may be used for setting beam management parameters.
US11152990B1
A traffic collision avoidance system (TCAS), configured to transmit a wide transmit beam of approximately 180 degrees. The wide transmit beam may be, for example at the interrogation frequency or a transponder response frequency. The TCAS of this disclosure includes a directional antenna system with two signal input ports and two or more antenna elements. In some examples, the direction of the 180 degree beam may be controlled by the phase relationship between the signals input to the two port antenna. In other examples, the direction of the transmit beam from the antenna system is predefined to be in two complementary directions (e.g., forward and aft).
US11152983B2
The present disclosure provides a data transmission control method, a network side device and a terminal side device. The data transmission control method includes: mapping, by a network side device, a codeword to at least one data layer; mapping, by the network side device, the at least one data layer to at least one QCL group, the QCL group being an antenna port group established in accordance with a QCL relationship among antenna ports; and performing, by the network side device, data transmission in accordance with the QCL group. According to the present disclosure, it is able to perform the data transmission through multi-array antennae.
US11152969B2
Methods and systems for satellite payloads are provided. A first system is based on using a focal plane array tiles with a reflector. A second system uses active lens tiles, focal plane array tiles and the reflector. A third system includes active reflector tiles, focal plane array tiles and the reflector. Yet another system enables beam power sharing by selectively providing power to solid state power amplifiers used in satellite payloads. Another system uses multiple micro-satellites for providing satellite coverage for an area.
US11152968B2
A radio-frequency module includes a first terminal configured to receive a signal from an antenna, a substrate, a first filter element on the substrate, a first switch including a first switch terminal and a second switch terminal connectable to the first switch terminal, and connected between the first terminal and the first filter element, and a second switch including a third switch terminal. The first filter element is connected between the second switch terminal and the third switch terminal, the first switch and the second switch are included in a semiconductor chip, and the semiconductor chip is on the substrate.
US11152967B2
There is provided systems and methods for mitigating interference from an interference signal. In one implementation the system comprises cancellation circuitry configured to: receive a first signal from a first antenna, the first signal comprising an interference component deriving from the interference signal and a desired component deriving from a desired signal; and receive a second signal comprising an interference component deriving from the interference signal and received at one or more of a different antenna or a different frequency to the first signal. The interference component in the second signal is stronger than that the interference component in the first signal. The cancellation circuitry is further configured to derive a cancellation signal from the second signal; generate an output signal by subtracting the cancellation signal from the input signal to substantially remove the interference component from the first signal; and output the output signal.
US11152966B1
Technologies directed to digital active interference cancellation (d-AIC) for full duplex transmit-receive (TX-RX) concurrency. An integrated circuit can include first and second analog front-ends (AFE) and digital front-end (DFE) circuits and a digital AIC circuit that generates a scaled and delayed replica of a first quadrature (IQ) sample corresponding to first data transmitted by the first AFE circuit which is being coupled into the receiver as aggressor. The digital AIC circuit receives a second IQ sample from the second AFE circuit, the second IQ sample corresponding to second data being received by the second AFE circuit. The digital AIC circuit subtracts the scaled and delayed replica of the first IQ sample from the second IQ sample to obtain a third IQ sample and sends the third IQ sample to the second DFE circuit. Third IQ sample is the desired signal when d-AIC cancels the self-interference.
US11152965B2
A pair of programmable state machines may be included in a transmitter integrated circuit of a scanner (e.g. a body scanner) to control the sub-circuits of the transmitter integrated circuit. The first programmable state machine may be used to control the signal processor of the transmitter that facilitates generation of a signal to be transmitted at a target, such as a user to be scanned. The second programmable state machine may be used to control the transmitter's selection of a transmission channel for transmitting the signal in which provides the signal to be transmitted to an antenna. Further, the receiver integrated circuit of the scanner may include a similar pair of programmable state machines for controlling the receive signal processor and receiver of the receiver integrated circuit. The inclusion of the state machines can reduce both the scan time and the circuit complexity of the scanner.
US11152963B2
A method of determining CCA (clear channel assessment) policy, applied in a communication system including multiple devices, is provided. The method includes the following steps: the devices broadcasting multiple policy indications, in which the devices include a coordinating device, multiple neighboring devices and multiple local client devices, the local client devices associate with the coordinating device to form a network, and the neighboring devices operate within at least one neighboring network; the coordinating device obtaining multiple neighboring policy indications from multiple neighboring frames transmitted by the neighboring devices; and the coordinating device determining whether to change a coordinating policy indication corresponding to the coordinating device according to the neighboring policy indications. A policy indication of a device indicates a policy among multiple CCA policies. The CCA policies include a first policy and a second policy, and the first policy is less sensitive to a sensed signal than the second policy.
US11152924B2
A level shifter including an input block that receives an input voltage swinging between a first ground voltage and a first power supply voltage and that connects one node of a first node and a second node to a first ground node, in response to the input voltage, a shifting block that mutually exchanges the voltage levels of third and fourth nodes in response to a current flowing through the one node, a pulse generator that generates a first pulse and a second pulse in response to the input voltage, a first transistor that directly connects the third node to the first ground node in response to the first pulse, and a second transistor that directly connects the fourth node to the first ground node in response to the second pulse.
US11152920B2
Aspects of the invention relate to an apparatus having a transmission gate coupled to a delay element and including a first transistor and a second transistor. A first node is coupled to a first gate of the first transistor, a first current source, and a first resistive element, an opposite end of the first resistive element being coupled to a ground potential. A second node is coupled to a second gate of the second transistor, a second current source, and a second resistive element, an opposite end of the second resistive element being coupled to a power supply.
US11152910B2
A crystal oscillator includes: a crystal resonator plate having a first excitation electrode and a second excitation electrode. A first sealing member covers the first excitation electrode of the crystal resonator plate. A second sealing member covers the second excitation electrode of the crystal resonator plate. An internal space is formed by bonding the first sealing member to the crystal resonator plate and the second sealing member to the crystal resonator plate, and seals a vibrating part of the crystal resonator plate. First and second shield electrodes are connected to a fixed potential (e.g. GND potential) in the internal space.
US11152908B2
A method for manufacturing a piezoelectric vibration element that includes preparing a piezoelectric substrate; providing a first electrode layer on a first main surface of the piezoelectric substrate; arranging a mask on a side of the first main surface of the piezoelectric substrate, the mask including a center region and a peripheral region located along a periphery of the center region; and irradiating a radiation beam through the mask toward the first main surface of the piezoelectric substrate such that a larger amount of the radiation beam passes through the peripheral region than the center region of the mask so as to remove a part of the first electrode layer to form a first excitation electrode that decreases in thickness from the center region to the peripheral region of the mask on the first main surface of the piezoelectric substrate.
US11152907B2
An LNA having a plurality of paths, each of which can be controlled independently to achieve a gain mode. Each path includes at least an input FET and an output FET coupled in series. A gate of the output FET is controlled to set the gain of the LNA. Signals to be amplified are applied to the gate of the input FET. Additional stacked FETs are provided in series between the input FET and the output FET.
US11152905B2
An amplifier includes a first coil coupled to at least one input node. The amplifier further includes second and third coils. A first terminal of the second coil is coupled to a source terminal of a first transistor, while a second terminal of the second coil is coupled to a source terminal of a second transistor. A third coil includes first and second terminals coupled to gate terminals of the first and second transistors, respectively. Responsive to receiving an input signal, the first coil electromagnetically conveys the signal to the second and third coils.
US11152903B2
In accordance with one embodiment, an apparatus includes a first amplifier having a noninverting input, an inverting input and an output. The noninverting input is coupled to a first ground reference. The inverting input is coupled to an output of an external sensor. The apparatus also includes a second amplifier having a noninverting input, an inverting input and an output. The noninverting input is coupled to the first ground reference. The inverting input is coupled to the power supply through a first variable capacitor and to the second ground reference through a second variable capacitor. The output is coupled to the inverting input of the first amplifier. The external sensor is coupled to a third ground reference, and the first amplifier and second amplifier are coupled to the second ground reference.
US11152900B2
A multistage amplifier includes: N amplifiers (N≥2), a (k+1)th amplifier cascaded to a kth amplifier (1≤k≤N−1), and each amplifier being configured to amplify a multicarrier signal; and an extraction circuit including an input and an output, the input being connected to an output of a jth amplifier (1≤j≤N−1), and the output providing a compensation signal to an input of a (j+1)th amplifier or an output of the (j+1)th amplifier. The extraction circuit includes a filter circuit connected to the output of the jth amplifier that extracts a distortion frequency component of n times a differential frequency f2−f1 (n≥1), a phase shifter cascaded to the filter circuit that shifts a phase of the component, and a gain adjustment circuit cascaded to the phase shifter that adjusts an amplitude of the component and generates the compensation signal.
US11152899B2
A multi-stage amplifier including a pre-driver stage, and method of operating the same. In one example, the amplifier includes an output stage with a first output transistor coupled to an oppositely doped second output transistor and to an output terminal. The pre-driver stage includes with a first driver transistor coupled to the first output transistor, and a second driver transistor coupled to the second output transistor. The pre-driver stage also includes a first current mirror and a second current mirror coupled to the first driver transistor and the second driver transistor. The pre-driver stage also includes a first translinear loop having a first translinear loop transistor and a second translinear loop having a second translinear loop transistor coupled to the first output transistor and the second output transistor.
US11152894B2
Methods for operating amplifiers and related devices. In some embodiments, a method for amplifying a signal can include partially amplifying a signal with a common amplification stage. The method can further include providing a bias signal to a selected one of a plurality of dedicated amplification stages each coupled to the common amplification stage and including an output node, such that the selected dedicated amplification stage further amplifies the partially amplified signal and provides the further amplified signal at the respective output node.
US11152892B2
A method and a system of calibrating a DC offset voltage on a resistor load are provided. The system may include a first operational amplifier, a second operational amplifier, a comparator, a digital signal processor, and a digital to analog convertor. At a calibration mode, under control of the digital signal processor, the system may utilize open-loop high gain characteristics of the first operational amplifier and the comparator to automatically detect and calibrate the DC offset voltage. At an operation mode, the system may automatically compensate the DC offset voltage based on the calibration of the DC offset voltage. In this way, the system and the method can automatically detect, calibrate, and compensate the DC offset voltage with reduced cost and technical complexity.
US11152890B2
A voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) circuit employing digital amplitude control of the output oscillating signal and method of operation. The digital control is provided by an analog to digital converter (ADC) element that is shared among many other operating blocks in a system. In a configuration, the oscillator current is obtained by implementing transistors in a linear region and controlling them digitally. The optimum amplitude detection is performed by measuring the DC voltage at the common mode nodes in the oscillator, and is realized using reduced time compared to an extensive frequency measurement over a long time window. The digital control is implemented using an on-chip regulator, and employs digital controls for adjusting the current consumption which leads to low on-chip area overhead, low cost, and a scalable implementation. In an implementation, a one-time code can be obtained for optimum phase noise operation when providing the digital amplitude control.
US11152889B1
Chemical flashings for track assemblies and mount assemblies employed in solar power installations are disclosed. In some embodiments, a track assembly having a base, a pair of rails, a sealant receiving cavity and a round groove extending into the base from the bottom of the base, and a compressible round seal disposed within the base extending past the bottom is disclosed. In some embodiments, a mount assembly having a vertical structure, a sealant receiving cavity and a round groove extending into the base from the bottom of the base, a compressible round seal disposed within the base extending past the bottom, and an excess sealant cavity is disclosed.
US11152888B2
Embodiments of the invention generally relates to photovoltaic, thermophotovoltaic, and laser power beaming devices which convert solar light, thermal radiation, or laser radiation into electric power. Said devices have a reflective interference “greenhouse” filter placed in front of a semiconductor cell and a reflective mirror on the back of the cell. The front filter is transparent for high energy (short wavelength) photons, but traps low energy (long wavelength) photons emitted by photocarriers accumulated near the semiconductor bandgap. In the optimized PV device, the chemical potential of photoelectrons near semiconductor bandgap exceeds the chemical potential of photoelectrons above the photonic bandgap established by the filter (i.e., the device is in chemical nonequilibrium). The greenhouse filter reduces the emission losses, decreases the semiconductor cell thickness, and provides PV conversion with reduced nonradiative losses. Said device converts radiative energy into electricity in a more efficient way than conventional cells.
US11152877B2
A method for determining an error in the angular position measurement of a timepiece motor having one or more phases, including: detecting (3) each instant (14) when the value of one of the back electromotive forces is zero, storing (4) a time corresponding to each detected instant, measuring (5) several time intervals between two instants (14) detected in the same revolution of the motor, comparing (6) the measured time intervals to reference time intervals to deduce the reference intervals to which they correspond, and determining (7) an angular position measurement error if the measured intervals do not correspond to the expected reference intervals. The invention also relates to a method for correcting the angular position measurement. Also, a determination and correction system for implementing the methods and a timepiece including such a system.
US11152876B2
A system includes a position sensor configured to detect positions of a rotor of a starter motor relative to the position sensor and to output signals indicating the detected positions and a controller configured to rotate the rotor to a plurality of predetermined positions relative to a stator of the starter motor, determine sensed positions of the rotor based on the signals output by the position sensor, and calculate an initial detected position of the rotor based on relationships between the determined sensed positions of the rotor and an expected angular distance between adjacent ones of the predetermined positions.
US11152867B2
Synchronous rectification in active clamp flyback power converters. At least some example embodiments are methods including: sensing a first slope of voltage on a secondary winding of the transformer, the first slope indicative of the power converter entering a charge mode of the transformer; modifying, responsive the sensing, an operational state of a secondary rectifier (SR), driver coupled to a secondary rectifier; making the secondary rectifier conductive by the SR driver during a discharge mode of the transformer; sensing a second slope of voltage on the secondary of the transformer, the second slope indicative of ending of the discharge mode of the power converter; and then returning, responsive to sensing the second slope, the SR driver to an original operational state.
US11152865B2
The instant disclosure concerns a power converter including: a primary stage (110) including at least one first cut-off switch (S11, S12, S13, S14); a control circuit (112) capable of applying a first control signal to said at least ore first switch; a secondary stage (130) including at least one second cut-off switch (S21, S22, S23, S24); a control circuit (132) capable of applying a second control signal to said at least one second switch; a power transmission stage (120) coupling the primary stage (110) to the secondary stage (130), wherein the control circuit (132) of the secondary stage is electrically isolated from the control circuit (112) of the primary stage.
US11152854B2
The present disclosure provides methods and circuits of a hybrid converter family that allows using a combination of a switched multiple capacitor network and a number of inductors in order to a power conversion from an input to an output that may require a large conversion ratio, high output current, low output voltage, and/or high input voltage. The disclosed circuits and methods can be applied to today's switching regulators and allow them to provide the same power conversion function with less number of power conversion stages, smaller passive components, and less number of active components, and therefore, reduce the implementation space to save cost as well as improve efficiency. Sample applications include, but are not limited to, point-of-load power converters for data centers, telecommunication systems and other high-performance electronic systems.
US11152847B2
In this invention we introduce the concept of energy injection in a resonant circuit with initial conditions which is part of almost all of the present topologies. The patent will present in details several methods of energy injection in a resonant circuit with initial conditions and how it is applies to different topologies. The patent presents also a simple and economical method of driving the clamp switch in a flyback topology operating in discontinuous mode and a bias circuit in a flyback topology wherein the output voltage varies over a large range.
US11152841B2
A driving device includes a motor and a control unit for controlling of the motor. The motor includes a motor body and an end cap assembly disposed at one end of the motor body. The motor body comprises a stator, a rotor rotatable relative to the stator, and a motor shaft fixed to and rotated with the rotor. The end cap assembly is provided with two brushes. The control unit includes two connectors for connecting with an external power source. The two brushes are respectively electrically connected to the connectors through the control unit. Lengths of connecting routes of the two brushes to the corresponding connectors are substantially equal to each other.
US11152835B2
An electric actuator includes a motor portion, a circuit board, a speed reduction mechanism, a busbar holder that holds a busbar, and a housing. The housing has a motor case and a compartmental wall. The compartmental wall has a through-hole which penetrates the compartmental wall in an axial direction. The busbar holder has a base portion and a projecting portion which projects from the base portion in the axial direction and is disposed in the through-hole. An end portion of the busbar at one side projects from the busbar holder toward one side in the axial direction and is connected to the circuit board, and an end portion of the busbar at the other side projects into the through-hole from a side surface of the projecting portion of the busbar holder and is connected to a coil of a stator.
US11152833B2
An electrical device with a conductor assembly having a conductor member and a nut. The conductor member has a wire cradle, a conductor body and a plurality of tab members. The wire cradle has a wire support portion and at least one crimp member extending from the wire support portion. The conductor body defines a terminal with a terminal face having a first hole formed therethrough. The wire cradle and the terminal face are disposed on opposite ends of the conductor body. Each of the tab members has a first portion, which is fixedly coupled to the conductor body, and a second portion that is coupled to the first portion and being spaced apart from the terminal. The tab members and the terminal form a cage. The nut is received in the cage and has a threaded aperture that is aligned to the first hole in the terminal face.
US11152817B2
A device operative to transfer power wirelessly includes a drive-sense circuit (DSC), memory that stores operational instructions, and processing module(s). The DSC generates a drive signal based on a reference signal and provides the drive signal to a first coil via a single line and via a resonating capacitor, and simultaneously senses the drive signal via the single line, to facilitate electromagnetic coupling to a second coil to transfer power wirelessly to another device. The DSC also detects electrical characteristic(s) of the drive signal. The processing module(s) generates the reference signal and processes the digital signal to determine the electrical characteristic(s) of the drive signal. In some examples, the processing module(s) adapts the reference signal based on detection of the other device (e.g., based on interpreting the electrical characteristic(s) of the drive signal).
US11152810B2
Smart battery charging solutions are disclosed. The smart charging solutions of the disclosure enable a user to configure a mobile device with individualized battery charging settings. The user specific settings may be combined with system settings to generate rules on battery charging. Context awareness is achieved through various sensors and through information sharing within and among the systems of the mobile device. The battery charging rules and the context awareness information are used together in controlling the charging of a battery.
US11152803B2
A battery charger detection system is provided. The battery charger detection system includes a battery charger, an indicator, and a controller. The controller detects an initial electrical coupling of the battery charger to a battery and measures a first voltage of the battery upon the electrical coupling. The controller further measures a second voltage of the battery and actuates the indicator in response to both a continued electrical coupling between the battery charger and the battery and the second voltage being less than or equal to the first voltage after a predetermined length of time.
US11152800B2
A device may cause constant voltage pulse charging of a battery by a battery charger. The device may determine a first voltage value associated with the battery and may cause, based on the first voltage value satisfying a voltage value threshold, the constant voltage pulse charging of the battery to pause for a first period of time. The device may determine, after the first period of time, a second voltage value associated with the battery and may cause, based on the second voltage value satisfying the voltage value threshold, the constant voltage pulse charging of the battery to pause for a second period of time. The device may determine, after the second period of time, a third voltage value associated with the battery and may cause, based on the third voltage value satisfying the voltage value threshold, the constant voltage pulse charging of the battery to cease.
US11152799B2
Methods and apparatus to charge electric vehicles are disclosed. An example method includes monitoring, via a processor, a battery charge level of an electric vehicle receiving a battery charge from a mobile charging unit. The example method includes determining, via the processor, a remaining trip distance of the electric vehicle from a location of the battery charge to a trip destination. The example method further includes determining, via the processor, a target charge level for the battery charge. The target charge level corresponds to when the battery charge level provides a first probability that the electric vehicle will reach the trip destination without an additional battery charge. The example method also includes generating, via the processor, a signal to stop the battery charge when the battery charge level reaches the target charge level.
US11152798B2
The present invention provides a battery charger that enables efficient operation of the battery. According to the present invention, provided is a battery charger, wherein the battery charge is configured to be connectable to an AC power source and multiple batteries, and comprises a changeover switch, control switches, and a terminal for outputting a DC voltage, wherein the control switches are configured to be capable of individually switching between a charge mode and an output mode for the batteries, respectively, the charge mode being a mode for charging the batteries using the AC power source as a power source and the output mode being a mode for outputting the DC voltage from the terminal using the batteries as a power source, the changeover switch is configured to be capable of switching between outputting the DC voltage from the terminal using the AC power source as a power source and outputting the DC voltage from the terminal using the batteries as a power source.
US11152796B2
A method and system for generating inverted electrical signals includes a first string of batteries connected in series, each battery having a half-bridge circuit connected in parallel and each having upper switch and lower switches. A first H-bridge circuit is connected in parallel with the first string of batteries, and a triangle wave generator generates a plurality of triangle wave signals at a given amplitude and carrier frequency. The plurality of triangle wave signals have individual triangle wave signals phase-shifted from one another. A modulation wave generator generates a modulation signal at a modulation amplitude and at twice a fundamental frequency that is less than the carrier frequency. A controller compares an instantaneous magnitude of the individual triangle wave signals to an instantaneous magnitude of the modulation signal, and outputs commands to the upper switch of a respective half-bridge circuit based on the comparison.
US11152792B2
A method is disclosed for controlling the operating of a consumption appliance by way of a selector switch controlled by an energy saving device connected to a management center. The consumption appliance is kept in its default power mode, until receiving, by the energy saving device, an authentic secured control message sent by the management center. This message includes a command onto the mode in which the consumption appliance has to be switched. A counter is initialized with an initialization value before to be triggered. The consumption appliance is switched in the mode indicated by the command, either until the counter has reached a threshold value, or until receiving another authentic control message. If the counter has reached the threshold value, then the consumption appliance is switched in its default power mode. If another authentic secured control message has been received, then returning to the step of initializing the counter.
US11152784B2
A device is electrically connected to first and second terminals of an energy collector and provided with first and second electrical contacts intended to be placed in contact, for the electrical supply of the energy collector, respectively with first and second conjugated electrical contacts of a supply device on the ground, in turn electrically connected to an electrical power source. The device has a mesh connecting the second electrical contact and an output terminal connected to the second terminal of the energy collector, the mesh having a diode inserted between the second electrical contact and the second terminal of the energy collector so as to avoid the circulation of a current toward the second terminal of the energy collector.
US11152780B2
A power conversion circuit having a solid-state circuit breaker integrated therein is disclosed. With a disconnect switch between a utility source and the power conversion apparatus described for meeting UL489, the power conversion circuit includes an input connectable to an AC source, a rectifier circuit connected to the input to convert an AC power input to a DC power, and a DC link coupled to the rectifier circuit to receive the DC power therefrom. The rectifier circuit comprises a plurality of phase legs each including thereon an upper switching unit and a lower switching unit, wherein at least one of the upper and lower switching units on each phase leg comprises a bi-directional switching unit that selectively controls current and withstands voltage in both directions, so as to provide a circuit breaking capability that selectively interrupts current flow through the rectifier circuit, while maintaining original power conversion functionalities.
US11152777B2
The invention relates to a medium voltage switching apparatus. The medium voltage switching apparatus includes one or more electric poles, each electrically coupleable with a corresponding electric line; for each electric pole, a fixed contact and a movable contact, the movable contact being reversibly movable between a decoupled position from the fixed contact and a coupled position with the fixed contact, the movable contact moving from the decoupled position to the coupled position during an closing manoeuvre of the switching apparatus and moving from the coupled position to the decoupled position during an opening manoeuvre of the switching apparatus; and actuating means adapted to actuate the movable contacts of the one or more electric poles. A control unit is adapted to select and carry out a selectable control routine in response to receiving an input signal at an input arrangement corresponding to the selectable routine.
US11152774B2
In a connector of an electrical junction box, a protruding portion protrudes away from a tubular portion from a bottom wall of the tubular portion whose one end face is open. In a housing box, a tubular first cover portion protrudes outward from a circumferential edge portion of an insertion port, and a second cover portion protrudes from a portion of a front end face of the first cover portion. A portion of the protruding portion of the connector is inserted into the insertion port. The first cover portion covers the protruding portion, and the second cover portion covers the protruding portion with a space interposed between the second cover portion and the protruding portion 22. An adhering member is between the protruding portion of the connector and the first cover portion of the housing box and adheres to the protruding portion and the first cover portion.
US11152772B2
A cut-away cutting tool has two slit forming blade portions and a peeling blade portion interposed between the two slit forming blade portions. The two slit forming blade portions respectively form slits on an insulating coating of a flat conductor wire. On the other hand, the peeling blade portion peels off a portion of the insulating coating between the slits formed by the two slit forming blade portions.
US11152764B1
An optical device is provided that includes a waveguide layer and at least one grating structure. A coupling coefficient of the at least one grating structure to a fundamental optical mode supported by the waveguide layer is greater than a coupling coefficient of the at least one grating structure to at least one higher order transverse optical mode supported by the waveguide layer.
US11152763B2
An InP-based monolithic integrated chaotic semiconductor laser chip capable of feeding back randomly diffused light, being composed of six regions: a left DFB semiconductor laser, a bidirectional SOA, a left passive optical waveguide region, a doped passive optical waveguide region, a right passive optical waveguide region, and a right DFB semiconductor laser, specifically including: an N+ electrode layer, an N-type substrate, an InGaAsP lower confinement layer, an undoped InGaAsP multiple quantum well active region layer, doped particles, distributed feedback Bragg gratings, an InGaAsP upper confinement layer, a P-type heavily doped InP cover layer, a P-type heavily doped InGaAs contact layer, a P+ electrode layer, a light-emitting region, and isolation grooves. It effectively solves problems of bulky volume of the existing chaotic laser source, the time-delay signature of chaotic laser, narrow bandwidth, and low coupling efficiency of the light and the optical waveguide.
US11152760B2
A light emitter device (100) comprises a substrate (10) and a photonic crystal (20), which is arranged on the substrate (10) and comprises pillar- and/or wall-shaped semiconductor elements (21), which are arranged periodically standing out from the substrate (10), wherein the photonic crystal (20) forms a resonator, in which the semiconductor elements (21) are arranged in a first resonator section (22) with a first period (d1), in a second resonator section (23) with a second period (d2) and in a third resonator section (24) with a third period (d3), wherein on the substrate (10) the second resonator section (23) and the third resonator section (24) are arranged on two mutually opposing sides of the first resonator section (22) and the second period (d2) and the third period (d3) differ from the first period (d1), the first resonator section (22) forms a light-emitting medium and the third resonator section (24) forms a coupling-out region, through which a part of the light field in the first resonator section (22) can be coupled out of the resonator in a light outcoupling direction parallel to a substrate surface (11) of the substrate (10). Methods for operating and producing the light emitter device (100) are also described.
US11152759B2
A heatable element is configured to apply sufficient energy density to contaminants in an internal ambient atmosphere with in a sealable housing to drive a reaction that inactivates the contaminants.
US11152725B2
An electrical connector comprises an insulative housing and a terminal module. The insulative housing has a mating portion and a main portion, the mating portion defines a mating cavity, the main portion has a receiving space. The terminal module includes a first terminal module and a second terminal module, the first terminal module defines a plurality of first contacting portions and the second terminal module defines a plurality of second contacting portions. The main portion has a pair of lateral walls, and the mating portion defines a pair of side walls. The main portion further has a plurality of ribs and a plurality of positioning slots, the ribs are attached on the exterior side faces of the relative side walls. The electrical connector further comprises a shielding member provided with a pair of side plates engaged with the positioning slots.
US11152723B2
An electrically conductive contact pin for press-fitting into a PCB in a Z-direction. The contact pin includes a press-fit zone with a central crosspiece area, and two wing areas adjacent to the crosspiece area, each crosspiece area having two ear areas. The crosspiece area is confined by a crosspiece rectangle and the ear regions are confined by ear rectangles. Corner points of the ear rectangles facing a center of the cross-sectional area coincide with corner points of the crosspiece rectangle. The crosspiece rectangle has a crosspiece width in an X direction of 9-29% of a starting thickness of the contact pin and a crosspiece thickness in a Y direction of 35-55% of the starting thickness. The ear rectangles have an ear width in the X-direction of 40-60% of the starting thickness and an ear thickness in the Y-direction of 15-35% of the starting thickness.
US11152716B2
An electronic device including an antenna and a conductive pattern formed around the antenna is provided. The electronic device includes a housing including a first plate, a second plate facing away from the first plate, and a side member surrounding a space between the first plate and the second plate, connected to the second plate or integrally formed with the second plate, and including a conductive material, an injection-molding material disposed in the space between the first plate and the second plate in the housing and formed of a non-conductive material, an antenna module including conductive radiators and supported by the injection-molding material, and a conductive pattern disposed on a first surface adjacent to the second plate of the injection-molding material or disposed inside the injection-molding material and disposed adjacent to a part of an edge of the antenna module corresponding to a boundary between the antenna module and the injection-molding material when viewed from the second plate in a direction of the first plate. A partial conductive radiator of the conductive radiators may be disposed to transmit and/or receive a signal through the second plate.
US11152711B2
An electromagnetic wave absorbing sheet is provided that can adequately absorb electromagnetic waves at high frequencies in and above the millimeter wave band, can have excellent flexibility, and can easily be placed in any desired portion. The electromagnetic wave absorbing sheet includes an electromagnetic wave absorbing layer 1 containing a magnetic iron oxide 1a that magnetically resonates at frequencies in and above the millimeter wave band and a resin binder 1b. The electromagnetic wave absorbing sheet absorbs radiated electromagnetic waves by magnetic resonance of the magnetic iron oxide. The electromagnetic wave absorbing sheet has a flexibility evaluation value F (g/mm2) of more than 0 and 6 or less, which is determined by measuring an applied weight (g) that is required to bend a ribbon-like electromagnetic wave absorbing sheet in the elastic deformation region so that a distance d between the inner surfaces of the ribbon-like sheet at a position L spaced 10 mm from the bent portion of the ribbon-like sheet is 10 mm, and dividing the applied weight (g) by a cross-sectional area D (mm2) of the ribbon-like sheet.
US11152701B2
Examples disclosed herein relate to a multi-layer, multi-steering (“MLMS”) antenna array for millimeter wavelength applications. The MLMS antenna array includes a superelement antenna array layer comprising a plurality of superelement subarrays. In some aspects, each superelement subarray of the plurality of superelement subarrays includes a plurality of phase compensated slots for radiating a transmission signal. The MLMS antenna array also includes a power division layer configured to serve as a feed to the superelement antenna array layer. The MLMS antenna array also includes a top layer disposed on the superelement antenna array layer. The top layer may include a superstrate or a metamaterial antenna array. Other examples disclosed herein include a radar system for use in an autonomous driving vehicle.
US11152699B2
Method, apparatus and arrangement for linearizing of a transmitter array having a plurality of non-linear branches for transmitting into a predetermined direction, wherein the non-linear branches may purposively be made different to obtain varying responses of the non-linear branches over the transmitter array. A combined array response is determined via a feedback structure that models an array response to the predetermined direction and predistortion coefficients are determined based on the measured array response. A feedback circuit with a plurality of feedback branches can be used for feeding back individual response signals at the outputs of the non-linear branches through phase shift and attenuation units of the feedback branches, and for combining the response signals at the outputs of the feedback branches, wherein phase shift and attenuation of each feedback branch is controlled to model a transmission channel of the individual response signals to a receiver in a predetermined direction.
US11152698B2
Present invention is a wireless device comprising a Van Atta array, said Van Atta array comprising a plurality of antenna pairs, each of said antenna pairs comprising two antenna elements electrically coupled by a signal path of pre-determined length. The wireless device further comprises a measurement unit, said measurement unit is adapted to perform electrical measurements between two measurement points. One of said two measurement points is located at a first pre-determined location on the signal path of one of the antenna pairs, and the other of said two measurement points is located on a second pre-determined location on the signal path of one of the other antenna pairs. The present invention is also a method for retro-reflection of an incident wave using a plurality of antenna pairs.
US11152694B2
An antenna device is provided. The antenna device includes a first substrate, a first conductive layer, a second substrate, a liquid-crystal layer, a buffer layer, and an alignment layer. The first conductive layer is disposed on the first substrate, and the first conductive layer has an opening. The second substrate is disposed opposite to the first substrate. The second conductive layer is disposed on the second substrate. The liquid-crystal layer is disposed between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer. The buffer layer is disposed in the opening and adjacent to an overlapping region of the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer. The alignment layer is disposed between the first conductive layer and the liquid-crystal layer.
US11152693B2
An antenna device includes an antenna board in which a conductor pattern is provided on each of both surfaces of a dielectric substrate. A linear element is provided on a first surface of the dielectric substrate. A slit antenna is provided on a second surface of the dielectric substrate opposite to the first surface. When the first surface and the second surface are superimposed on each other, the linear element and a slit of the slit antenna overlap with each other.
US11152688B2
A mount for an antenna includes: a base panel; a plurality of first spokes extending radially outwardly from the base panel, each of the first spokes being cantilevered and including a first slot; and a plurality of second spokes, each of the second spokes including a vertical member and a flange that is generally parallel with the base panel and generally perpendicular to the vertical member, each of the second spokes including a second slot, and each of the flanges including a third slot.
US11152681B2
One feature pertains to an apparatus that includes apparatus that includes an evanescent field coupler having a first surface that evanescently couples light between the evanescent field coupler and an open dielectric resonator. The apparatus also includes a thin film coating covering at least a portion of the first surface of the evanescent field coupler. The thin film coating is specifically designed so that the thin film coating reflects light of a first wavelength.
US11152677B2
Integration of self-biased magnetic circulators with microwave devices is disclosed herein. In microwave and other high-frequency radio frequency (RF) applications, a magnetic circulator can be implemented with a smaller permanent magnet. Aspects disclosed herein include a process flow for producing a self-biased circulator in an integrated circuit chip. In this regard, a magnetic circulator junction can be fabricated on an active layer of a semiconductor wafer. A deep pocket or cavity is formed in an insulating substrate under the active layer. This cavity is then filled with a ferromagnetic material such that the circulator junction is self-biased within the integrated circuit chip, eliminating the need for an external magnet. The self-biased circulator provides high isolation between ports in a smaller integrated circuit.
US11152676B2
A tunable band-pass filter (10) according to the present disclosure includes: a waveguide (11); a plurality of resonators (121) configured to be accommodated in the waveguide (11) and aligned in a longitudinal direction of the waveguide (11); a dielectric plate (13) configured to extend in the longitudinal direction of the waveguide (11) so to be arranged adjacent to the plurality of resonators (121); and a metal pattern (15) for coupling adjustment formed on the dielectric plate (13) at a position corresponding to an interstage of the resonators (121), in which a distance between the dielectric plate (13) and the resonators (121) is variable.
US11152671B2
A battery module includes a battery cell stack having a plurality of stacked battery cells and a plurality of bus bars respectively coupled to electrode leads provided at the plurality of battery cells. Each bus bar includes a frame on which the electrode lead of the battery cell is placed and a conductive member coupled to the frame and electrically coupled to the electrode lead.
US11152663B2
A mobile device and methods that support performing a warm swap of a battery of a mobile device are provided herein. A processor of the mobile device may initiate a warm swap procedure in response to receiving a request from a user operating the mobile device. The processor generate a first notification signal to indicate to the user to wait before removing the battery from the mobile device. In response to execution of the warm swap procedure, the processor generates a second notification signal to indicate to the user that the battery of the mobile device is safe to be warm swapped with a charged battery.
US11152662B2
Provided is a battery pack capable of preventing an ignition or explosion of a battery cell by including a pack housing having the inside that is in a negative pressure state. The battery pack includes: at least one battery module including a plurality of battery cells and a module case having an accommodating space to accommodate the plurality of battery cells therein; and a pack housing including an upper case that has an internal structure to cover a top portion of the at least one battery module and includes a cover portion having an external structure having a curved surface entirely from one end to the other end, and a lower case that has an internal structure to surround a bottom portion of the at least one battery module and includes a mounting portion having an external structure having a curved surface entirely from one end to the other end, wherein the upper case and the lower case are combined with each other and sealed to maintain an inside of the pack housing in a negative pressure state.
US11152653B2
A system and method for managing thermal energy of a vehicle having a battery and an electric propulsion system are provided. The system monitors a current battery temperature, calculates an actual average battery temperature, and compares the calculated actual average battery temperature to a target lifetime battery temperature. If the actual average battery temperature is greater than the target lifetime battery temperature, and the current battery temperature is greater than the target lifetime battery temperature, the system cools the battery to below the current battery temperature. However, if the actual average battery temperature is less than the target lifetime battery temperature, and the current battery temperature is greater than the target lifetime battery temperature, the system delays cooling the battery. Therefore, the system may avoid expending energy to cool the battery in certain conditions.
US11152648B2
A positive electrode composition is described, containing granules of at least one electroactive metal, at least one alkali metal halide and carbon black. An energy storage device and an uninterruptable power supply device are also described. Related methods for the preparation of a positive electrode and an energy storage device are also disclosed.
US11152645B2
A lithium ion secondary battery includes at least a positive electrode, a separator, a first intermediate layer, a second intermediate layer, and a negative electrode. The separator is arranged between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The first intermediate layer is arranged between the separator and the negative electrode. The second intermediate layer is arranged between the first intermediate layer and the negative electrode. The first intermediate layer and the second intermediate layer are each a porous layer. The first intermediate layer contains at least a metal organic framework. The second intermediate layer is electrically insulating.
US11152641B2
Provided is a sulfide solid electrolyte material which has a composition that does not contain Ge, while having a smaller Li content than conventional sulfide solid electrolyte materials, and which has both lithium ion conductivity and chemical stability at the same time. A sulfide solid electrolyte which has a crystal structure represented by composition formula (Li3.45+β−4αSnα)(Si0.36Sn0.09)(P0.55−βSiβ)S4 (wherein α≤0.67, β≤0.33 and 0.43<α+β (provided that 0.23<α≤0.4 when β=0.2 and 0.13<α≤0.4 when β=0.3 may be excluded)), or a crystal structure represented by composition formula Li7+γSiγP1−γS6 (wherein 0.1≤γ<0.3).
US11152640B2
Solid-state lithium ion electrolytes of lithium potassium bismuth oxide based compounds are provided which contain an anionic framework capable of conducting lithium ions. Materials of specific formulae are provided and methods to alter the materials with inclusion of aliovalent ions shown. Lithium batteries containing the composite lithium ion electrolytes are provided. Electrodes containing the lithium borate based materials coated on the active material and batteries containing the electrodes are also provided.
US11152637B2
A fuel cell including a plurality of elementary modules stacked on each other, at least one of the elementary modules including an oxidation unit generating electrons by oxidation of a fuel with an oxidant, an anode block including a fuel transporter support, for transporting an anode feed flow containing the fuel to an anode chamber, onto which is attached an anode electron collector, a cathode block including an oxidant transporter support, for transporting a cathode feed flow containing the oxidant to a cathode chamber, onto which is attached a cathode electron collector, the elementary module defining the anode chamber, respectively, the cathode chamber between the oxidation unit and the fuel transporter support, respectively, the oxidant transporter support, and being such that, prior to the assembly of the elementary module in said plurality, the anode block, respectively, the cathode block and the oxidation unit are attached to each other.
US11152636B2
An electrochemical reaction unit including a unit cell including an electrolyte layer, and a cathode and an anode that face each other in a first direction with the electrolyte layer intervening therebetween; and a felt member containing a ceramic material or a metal and a silica component. The felt member has an Si content of 0.9 mass % to 13.2 mass %. Also disclosed is an electrochemical reaction cell stack including a plurality of electrochemical reaction units, at least one of the units being the above-described electrochemical reaction unit.
US11152622B2
A power storage device with high capacity or high energy density is provided. A highly reliable power storage device is provided. A long-life power storage device is provided. An electrode includes an active material, a first binder, and a second binder. The specific surface area of the active material is S [m2/g]. The weight of the active material, the weight of the first binder, and the weight of the second binder are a, b, and c, respectively. The solution of {(b+c)/(a+b+c)}×100÷S is 0.3 or more. The electrode includes a first film in contact with the active material. The first film preferably includes a region in contact with the active material. The first film preferably includes a region with a thickness of 2 nm or more and 20 nm or less. The first film contains a water-soluble polymer.
US11152619B2
An electrode and an energy storage device including the electrode, the electrode including: an active material including a material structure of metal sulfides; a conductive polymer including an ionic liquid disposed on the active material; wherein the combination of the conductive polymer and the ionic liquid is arranged to maintain integrity of the material structure and facilitate ion transportation across the material structure during an operation of charging and discharging cycle of the energy storage device.
US11152616B2
To provide a hydroxide precursor having a high density, a method for producing a lithium transition metal composite oxide using the precursor, a positive active material having a large discharge capacity per unit volume, which uses the composite oxide, an electrode for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, and a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery. A method for producing a transition metal hydroxide precursor for use in production of a lithium transition metal composite oxide, including adding a solution containing a transition metal (Me) into a reaction tank in which a water solvent of dissolution of a complexing agent and a reducing agent has been charged in advance to coprecipitate a transition metal hydroxide that includes Mn and Ni, or Mn, Ni and Co, and has a mole ratio Mn/Me of larger than 0.5 and a mole ratio Co/Me of 0.15 or less. Further, a lithium transition metal composite oxide having an α-NaFeO2-type crystal structure, in which a mole ratio Li/Me is larger than 1, the mole ratios of Mn and Co are as described above, and which has an X-ray diffraction pattern attributable to R3-m, a ratio (FWHM (003)/FWHM (114)) of a full width at half maximum of a diffraction peak of a (003) plane to a full width at half maximum of a diffraction peak of a (104) plane of 0.72 or less, and a peak differential pore volume of 0.50 mm3/(g·nm) or less as determined by a BJH method from an adsorption isotherm using a nitrogen gas adsorption method.
US11152614B2
An electric vehicle includes an electric drive component; a lithium titanate oxide battery pack comprising LTO battery cells; and a range extender. The range extender has a first state to deliver power to the electric drive component, a second state to charge the LTO battery pack, a third state to deliver power to the electric drive component and charge the LTO battery pack, and a fourth state in which it does not deliver power outward. The electric drive component has a first state to receive power delivered from the LTO battery pack, a second state to receive power delivered from the range extender, a third state to receiver power delivered from the LTO battery pack and the range extender, a fourth state to recover braking energy to charge the LTO battery pack, and a fifth state in which it does not receive power and does not recover the braking energy.
US11152613B2
Although silicon-oxide based particles have stable capacity and high cycling efficiency as anode active material, they are known to suffer significant capacity loss during the first battery cycles. The addition of lithium silicate may help to mitigate the initial capacity loss, but it has been difficult to produce such anodes. During battery manufacture cell components are exposed to water, and lithium silicate is water soluble. As lithium silicate dissolves, the pH of the water increases, which can etch silicon, degrading the anode active material. Such degradation can be mitigated by doping lithium silicate with multivalent elements or by converting some silicon to metal silicide before water processing. Doping of lithium silicate makes it less soluble in water. And metal silicide is not as easily etched as silicon. While retaining the excellent capacity and stability of silicon-oxide based material, these methods and the structures they produce have been shown to increase the effective energy density of batteries that employ such structures by offsetting capacity loss in the first cycles.
US11152610B2
Provided are a cathode active material for a lithium secondary battery, a method of preparing the same, and a lithium secondary battery including a cathode including the cathode active material. The cathode active material includes: a secondary particle of a nickel-based active material, wherein the secondary particle including a plurality of primary particles, wherein the secondary particle includes a radial arrangement structure and an irregular porous structure, the radial arrangement structure is located closer to a surface of the secondary particle than the irregular porous structure, and a lithium fluoride-based compound is present on a surface of the nickel-based active material.
US11152605B2
Method for producing a positive electrode for a solid-state lithium microbattery comprising the following successive steps: supplying of a substrate made of ceramic, glass or silicon, locally covered with a metal layer, depositing of a cathodic layer made of a positive electrode material, for example made of mixed lithium oxide, the cathodic layer having a thickness greater than 1 μm, a first portion of the cathodic layer covering the substrate and a second portion of the cathodic layer covering the metal layer, intended to form the positive electrode, carrying out of a heat treatment at a temperature greater than or equal to 400° C., on the cathodic layer, in such a way as to crystallise the second portion of the cathodic layer in order to form a positive electrode, and in such a way as to delaminate the first portion of the cathodic layer.
US11152604B2
Methods of forming a composite material film can include providing a layer comprising a carbon precursor and silicon particles on a sacrificial substrate. The methods can also include pyrolysing the carbon precursor to convert the precursor into one or more types of carbon phases to form the composite material film, whereby the sacrificial substrate has a char yield of about 10% or less.
US11152602B2
Methods and systems are provided for estimating and extending the expected cell cycling lifetime for produced lithium ion cells. Methods comprise monitoring charging and/or discharging peak(s) during formation cycles of the cells, which are defined with respect to dQ/dV measurements during the formation cycles, and ending the formation process once the charging and/or discharging peaks disappear, optionally deriving the expected cell cycling lifetime by comparing the monitored peaks to specified thresholds that are correlated to the lifetime. The methods may be implemented by controller(s) at the battery, device and/or factory levels, which may be operated in combination. Formation processes and/or cell operation schemes may be adjusted accordingly, to avoid excessive dQ/dV rates and increase thereby the cell cycling lifetime.
US11152601B2
A method for manufacturing a lithium electrode, more particularly, a method for manufacturing a lithium electrode having a thin and uniform thickness by, when manufacturing the lithium electrode, first forming a protective layer capable of protecting lithium metal on the surface treated substrate with a plasma and corona process, and depositing lithium metal on the protective layer and then transferring the deposited lithium metal layer to a current collector. The energy density of the lithium secondary battery manufactured using the lithium electrode thus manufactured can be improved.
US11152598B2
An electroluminescent display device includes a thin film transistor disposed on a substrate; a passivation layer disposed on the thin film transistor; a plurality of metallic patterns disposed to be spaced apart from each other on the passivation layer; a reflective electrode disposed conforming to the shapes of the plurality of metallic patterns and a top surface of the passivation layer and including a plurality of protruding portions; an overcoat layer disposed on the passivation layer and the reflective electrode and including an opening configured to expose a top surface of each of the plurality of protruding portions; a first electrode disposed on the reflective electrode and the overcoat layer and electrically connected to the reflective electrode; an light-emitting layer disposed on the first electrode; and a second electrode disposed on the light-emitting layer.
US11152592B2
A display area drilling and packaging structure includes a back plate assembly, an emitting layer having a drilling area, and a hot melted adhesive layer. The emitting layer is disposed on the back plate assembly, and an annular cutting groove surrounding the drilling is disposed on the emitting layer. The hot melted adhesive layer at least covers an edge of a mouth of the annular cutting groove away from a center. A packaging layer is disposed on the back plate assembly, the hot melted adhesive layer, and the emitting layer.
US11152580B2
Provided is a flexible display device in which an average thickness of a layered body, a touch panel, and a polarizing plate in a bending region is thinner than an average thickness of the layered body, the touch panel, and the polarizing plate in a region other than the bending region.
US11152576B2
Provided is an organic light emitting device including an anode; a cathode; and a light emitting layer provided between the anode and the cathode, the device further including an electron control layer provided between the light emitting layer and the cathode and including a compound of Chemical Formula 1: and an electron transfer layer provided between the electron control layer and the cathode and including a compound of Chemical Formula 3:
US11152575B2
According to one embodiment, a photoelectric conversion element includes a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, and an intermediate layer provided between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer. The intermediate layer includes a first semiconductor region and a second semiconductor region. The first semiconductor region is of an n-type, and the second semiconductor region is of a p-type. The first semiconductor region includes at least one selected from the group consisting of fullerene and a fullerene derivative. The second semiconductor region includes at least one selected from the group consisting of quinacridone and a quinacridone derivative. A ratio of a weight of the second semiconductor region per unit volume to a weight of the first semiconductor region per unit volume in the intermediate layer is greater than 5.
US11152574B2
A compound of formula (9) is provided. wherein, B1 and B2 are a methyl group, Z1 and Z2 are a hydrogen atom, X1 is an N-carbazolyl group, X2 is a —NAr21′Ar22′ group, Ar21′ is a 2-phenylphenyl group, a 3-phenylphenyl group, or a 4-phenylphenyl group, and Ar22′ is a 1-naphthyl group, a 2-naphthyl group, a 2-phenylphenyl group, a 3-phenylphenyl group, a 4-phenylphenyl group, a 2-fluorenyl group, a 9,9-dimethyl-2-fluorenyl group or a phenanthryl group. Also provided is an organic electroluminescent device comprising a compound of formula (9).
US11152572B2
This invention relates to a formulation comprising p-type and n-type organic semiconductors and a solvent mixture comprising an aromatic hydrocarbon substituted with one or more substituents selected from alkyl and alkoxy groups and a unsubstituted or substituted benzothiazole, for example 2-methylbenzothiazole. The formulation may be used to form the photoactive layer (3) of a photosensitive organic electronic device, for example an organic photodetector, comprising an anode (2) a cathode (4) and the photoactive layer between the anode and the cathode.
US11152568B2
Various embodiments of the present application are directed towards a resistive random-access memory (RRAM) cell including a top-electrode barrier layer configured to block the movement of nitrogen or some other suitable non-metal element from a top electrode of the RRAM cell to an active metal layer of the RRAM cell. Blocking the movement of non-metal element may be prevent formation of an undesired switching layer between the active metal layer and the top electrode. The undesired switching layer would increase parasitic resistance of the RRAM cell, such that top-electrode barrier layer may reduce parasitic resistance by preventing formation of the undesired switching layer.
US11152567B2
A phase change memory structure (100) can include a memory cell, a dielectric material (130) adjacent to the memory cell, and a bit line. The memory cell can include a phase change material layer (110) and a top electrode layer (120) above the phase change material layer. The dielectric material can have a top surface (135) that is higher than a top surface (125) of the top electrode layer. The bit line (140) can have a non-flat bottom surface that contacts the top surface of the dielectric material and protrudes down from the top surface of the dielectric material to a top surface of the memory cell.
US11152565B2
A memory device includes a conductive wire, a first 2-D material layer, a phase change element, and a top electrode. The first 2-D material layer is over the conductive wire. The phase change element extends along a surface of the first 2-D material layer distal to the conductive layer. The top electrode is over the phase change element.
US11152563B2
A dielectric material structure is formed laterally adjacent to a bottom portion of a bottom electrode metal-containing portion that extends upward from an electrically conductive structure that is embedded in an interconnect dielectric material layer. The physically exposed top portion of the bottom electrode metal-containing portion is then trimmed to provide a bottom electrode of unitary construction (i.e., a single piece) that has a lower portion having a first diameter and an upper portion that has a second diameter that is greater than the first diameter. The presence of the dielectric material structure prevents tilting and/or bowing of the resultant bottom electrode. Thus, a stable bottom electrode is provided.
US11152561B2
A magnetic memory device includes a lower contact plug on a substrate, a magnetic tunnel junction pattern on the lower contact plug, a bottom electrode, which is between the lower contact plug and the magnetic tunnel junction pattern and is in contact with a bottom surface of the magnetic tunnel junction pattern, and a top electrode on a top surface of the magnetic tunnel junction pattern. Each of the bottom electrode, the magnetic tunnel junction pattern, and the top electrode has a thickness in a first direction, which is perpendicular to a top surface of the substrate. A first thickness of the bottom electrode is about 0.6 to 1.1 times a second thickness of the magnetic tunnel junction pattern.
US11152557B2
A thermoelectric module assembly for thermally conditioning a component is includes first and second heat spreaders spaced apart from one another and at least one thermoelectric sub-assembly between and in thermal communication with the first and second heat spreaders. The at least one thermoelectric sub-assembly includes a plurality of thermoelectric devices and a printed circuit board having a plurality of electrical conduits. Each of the thermoelectric devices has a first end portion and a second end portion, the second end portion opposite from the first end portion, the first end portion mechanically coupled to the printed circuit board and in electrical communication with the plurality of electrical conduits, and the second end portion spaced from the printed circuit board.
US11152556B2
The invention relates to the field of thermoelectric compositions and devices. Thermoelectric compositions comprise thermoelectric material in a flexible membrane that comprises structural material and voids. Thermoelectric subassemblies comprise thermoelectric material and electrical contact material along and on and surrounding structural material of the flexible membrane. Thermoelectric subassemblies can comprise thermoelectric elements positioned end-to-end in a flexible membrane that can be bent and positioned in a housing that can be adapted to accommodate various types of thermoelectric devices. Methods for making and using thermoelectric compositions, subassemblies, and devices are described.
US11152555B2
An underwater energy harvesting drone has a primary hull to be submersibly received in ocean water and a plurality of thermoelectric modules, each module of said plurality of thermoelectric modules having a first operational interface in thermal contact with the primary hull. A thermal transfer element is in contact with a second operational interface on the plurality of thermoelectric modules and an electrical power storage device is connected to the plurality of thermoelectric modules. Positioning of the submersible primary hull to create a thermal gradient between the primary hull and the thermal transfer element induces electrical power generation by the thermoelectric modules thereby charging the electrical power storage device.
US11152552B2
A light emitting device includes a substrate, a light emitting element, and a frame. The substrate has a base and a wiring component. The frame surrounds the light emitting element on the substrate and has an inner edge and an outer edge. The wiring component has a first wiring layer constituting at least a part of an outermost surface of the wiring component inside of the outer edge of the frame, and connected to the light emitting element, and a second wiring layer constituting at least a part of the outermost surface of the wiring component outside of the inner edge of the frame, and made from a different material from the first wiring layer. A boundary between the first wiring layer and the second wiring layer on the outermost surface of the wiring component is disposed inside the outer edge of the frame.
US11152548B2
A display module is provided. The display module includes a plurality of substrates; a plurality of light-emitting devices mounted on each of the plurality of substrates; a plurality of transparent resins that surrounds the plurality of light-emitting devices; and an opaque molding layer that is disposed on the plurality of substrates between the plurality of transparent resins and covers partial surfaces of the plurality of transparent resins.
US11152546B2
A light-emitting device includes a plurality of light-emitting elements, a plurality of light-transmissive members, and a covering member. The light-emitting elements each has a light-extracting surface. The light-emitting elements each includes a layered structure including a semiconductor layer, and a plurality of electrodes connected to the layered structure. The light-transmissive members each has a lower surface facing the light-extracting surface of at least one of the light-emitting elements, and an upper surface opposite to the lower surface and having an area smaller than an area of the lower surface. The upper surface of each of the light transmissive members collectively constitutes a light-emitting part having an outermost periphery with a square shape or a circular shape. The covering member integrally covers lateral surfaces of the light-emitting elements and lateral surfaces of the light-transmissive members.
US11152543B2
The nitride semiconductor light-emitting element comprises a light-emitting element structure portion having a plurality of nitride semiconductor layers including at least an n-type layer, an active layer and a p-type layer. The active layer has a quantum well structure comprising at least one well layer composed of a GaN-based semiconductor. In the well layer, the shortest distance between a first surface on the n-type layer side and a second surface on the p-type layer side varies in an orthogonal plane to the layering direction of the nitride semiconductor layers, and the peak emission wavelength of light emitted from the light-emitting element structure portion is shorter than 354 nm.
US11152540B2
A light emitting diode structure includes a semiconductor stack and a supporting breakpoint. The semiconductor stack includes a first semiconductor layer, a light emitting layer, and a second semiconductor layer. The first semiconductor layer has a light emitting surface exposed outside and the light emitting surface has a rough texture. The light emitting layer is disposed on the first semiconductor layer. The second semiconductor layer is disposed on the light emitting layer, and the second semiconductor layer has a type that is different from the first semiconductor layer. The supporting breakpoint is on the light emitting surface. The light emitting diode structure can be applied in wide color gamut (WCG) backlight module or ultra-thin backlight module.
US11152536B2
The present disclosure describes one or more embodiment of a method for creating a patterned quantum dot layer. The method includes bringing a patterning stamp in contact with a layer of quantum dots disposed on a substrate, the patterning stamp comprising a patterned photoresist layer disposed on an elastomer layer, such that a portion of the quantum dots in contact with the patterned photoresist layer adheres to the patterning stamp, the portion of the quantum dots being adhered quantum dots. The method also includes peeling the patterning stamp from the substrate with a peeling speed larger than a pre-determined peeling speed to remove the adhered quantum dots from the substrate. A remaining portion of the quantum dots forms a patterned quantum dot layer on the substrate.
US11152535B2
This document describes a device that is monolithic and capable of emitting quantum light without using previous configurations known in the art that require certain elements which yield certain disadvantages, which may be solved by implementing the device of the invention described herein. In this way the use of a transmitter which controls the state of charge or the wavelength of quantum light emitters independently of current in the device is implemented and does function properly when quantum light emitters are embedded in photonic structures, like microcavities or photonic crystals (PC); this is achieved by stacking semiconductor layers with different composition and doping types. A quantum light emitter circuit, which is a quantum optical circuit comprising at least two of said devices, is also an as aspect of the invention disclosed herein.
US11152534B2
The present invention relates to a transfer head and a method of manufacturing a micro LED display using the same. In particular, the present invention relates to a transfer head and a method of manufacturing a micro LED display using the same, the transfer head mounting normal micro LEDs on a display substrate without performing a complicated process of sorting out defective micro LEDs from the micro LEDs mounted on the display substrate and replacing the defective micro LEDs with normal micro LEDs.
US11152532B2
One of embodiments is a method of manufacturing driven element chips by dividing a semiconductor wafer into the driven element chips. The method includes preparing a semiconductor wafer which includes chip substrate portions arrayed in an array direction, and a clearance between the chip substrate portions adjacent to each other in the array direction. Each chip substrate portion includes: a conductive layer provided inside the chip substrate portion and including interconnect portions; and a dummy conductor provided in a part of the conductive layer where the interconnect portions are not provided.
US11152531B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: providing a first member comprising: a first substrate, a semiconductor layer disposed on the first substrate and defining a first recess, and a first metal layer disposed above at least a portion other than the first recess, the first member defining a second recess in a region of a surface of the first member including a region directly above the first recess; providing a second member comprising: a second substrate, a second metal layer on or above the second substrate, a third metal layer on the second metal layer, and a fourth metal layer on the third metal layer; and bonding the first member and the second member together by heating the first metal layer and the fourth metal layer while facing each other. The third metal layer impedes interdiffusion between the second metal layer and the fourth metal layer.
US11152530B2
An assembly method and a combined and bivalent workstation for automatically assembling photovoltaic panels, with printing of ECA on cell portions and progressive arrangement with a partial superimposition on the contacts, pre-forming shingled strings in a continuous cycle, which are ready for loading on a backsheet, without dry-curing. The method provides a macro-phase of lay-up entirely made in the station, with simultaneous and coordinated sub-phases: picking of portions with a first handler and control, oriented loading on a vacuum belt, control of positioning on the belt, printing of ECA, control of printing and positioning, progressive superimpositions on a shuttle-tray with bidirectional translation coordinated with a second handler with chocked vacuum, picking of the shingled string with a third handler, control of string alignment, loading and pre-fixing. Vision systems are integrated for the execution of said sub-phases.
US11152522B2
Disclosed is a semiconductor radiation detector assembly including a detector chip having a front side for receiving radiation and a back side; and a flexible substrate including a center portion having its front side attached to the back side of the detector chip and a plurality of strips extending from the center portion and bent to protrude away from the detector chip, wherein the flexible substrate includes a plurality of conductive tracks that extend on a surface of the strips from the center portion towards lateral ends of the strips for electrical coupling and mechanical attachment to one of a plurality of contact pins, and wherein the detector chip is electrically coupled to at least one of the conductive tracks.
US11152520B1
A photodetector includes a photodetecting region in a semiconductor substrate, and a reflector extending at least partially along a sidewall of the photodetecting region in the semiconductor substrate. The reflector includes an air gap defined in the semiconductor substrate. The reflector allows use of thinner germanium for the photodetecting region. The air gap may have a variety of internal features to direct electromagnetic radiation towards the photodetecting region.
US11152512B2
A semiconductor device with favorable electrical characteristics, a semiconductor device with stable electrical characteristics, or a highly reliable semiconductor device or display device is provided. A first insulating layer and a first conductive layer are stacked over a first region of a first metal oxide layer. A first layer is formed in contact with a second metal oxide layer and a second region of the first metal oxide layer that is not overlapped by the first insulating layer. Heat treatment is performed to lower the resistance of the second region and the second metal oxide layer. A second insulating layer is formed. A second conductive layer electrically connected to the second region is formed over the second insulating layer. Here, the first layer is formed to contain at least one of aluminum, titanium, tantalum, and tungsten.
US11152508B2
A semiconductor device including a 2D material layer disposed between a gate electrode and a substrate and a method of forming the same are disclosed. In an embodiment, a device includes a ferroelectric dielectric layer disposed over and in contact with a semiconductor substrate, the ferroelectric dielectric layer including a 2D material; a gate electrode disposed over the ferroelectric dielectric layer; and source/drain regions disposed on opposite sides of the gate electrode.
US11152506B1
A semiconductor device includes an extended drain finFET. The drain drift region of the finFET extends between a drain contact region and a body of the finFET. The drain drift region includes an enhanced portion of the drain drift region between the drain contact region and the body. The drain drift region also includes a first charge balance region and a second charge balance region laterally adjacent to, and on opposite sides of, the enhanced portion of the drain drift region. The enhanced portion of the drain drift region and the drain contact region have a first conductivity type; the body, the first charge balance region, and the second charge balance region have a second, opposite, conductivity type. The drain drift region is wider than the body.
US11152502B2
The nitride semiconductor device includes: a nitride semiconductor layer; a first conductivity type source region provided on a surface of the nitride semiconductor layer; a second conductivity type well region provided in the nitride semiconductor layer and adjacent to the source region in a first direction parallel to the surface and in a second direction intersecting with the first direction; a trench located on the opposite side of the source region with the well region sandwiched therebetween in the first direction; a first conductivity type impurity region located between the well region and the trench; an insulating film provided on a bottom surface of the trench; a gate insulating film provided on the well region; and a gate electrode provided from on the insulating film to on the gate insulating film. A thickness of the insulating film is larger than a thickness of the gate insulating film.
US11152497B2
A semiconductor transistor device includes a GaN transistor including a drain, a gate, and a source, the GaN transistor having a driving voltage applied across the gate and the source and configured to switch between an on-voltage associated with an on-state of the GaN transistor and an off-voltage associated with an off-state of the GaN transistor. The semiconductor transistor device further includes a variable gate-source resistor connected between the gate and the source and having a variable resistance that varies in response to changes in the driving voltage when switching between the on-state and the off-state of the GaN transistor.
US11152492B2
Semiconductor devices and fabrication methods are provided. An exemplary fabrication method includes providing a semiconductor substrate having a logic region and a peripheral region; forming initial fins on the semiconductor substrate; forming a protective layer on the sidewall surfaces of the initial fin in the peripheral region; removing the initial fin in the peripheral region to form a trench with a bottom surface lower than a top surface of the isolation structure; forming a modified fin made of a single material in the trench; removing the protective layer; forming a first gate structure having a first gate dielectric layer and surrounding the first fin layers in the logic region across the initial fin in the logic region; and forming a second gate structure having a second gate dielectric layer with a thickness greater than a thickness of the first gate dielectric layer across the modified fins.
US11152486B2
Semiconductor devices and methods of forming the same are provided. A semiconductor device according to one embodiment includes a first gate stack, a second gate stack, a first source/drain feature disposed between the first and second gate stacks, and a source/drain contact over and electrically coupled to the first source/drain feature. The source/drain contact is spaced apart from each of the first and second gate stacks by an inner spacer disposed on sidewalls of the source/drain contact, a first air gap, a first gate spacer, and a second air gap separated from the first air gap by the first gate spacer.
US11152475B2
A method includes providing a structure having a substrate, a gate, a gate spacer, a dielectric gate cap, a source/drain (S/D) feature, a contact etch stop layer (CESL) covering a sidewall of the gate spacer and a top surface of the S/D feature, and an inter-level dielectric (ILD) layer. The method includes etching a contact hole through the ILD layer and through a portion of the CESL, the contact hole exposing the CESL covering the sidewalls of the gate spacer and exposing a top portion of the S/D feature. The method includes forming a silicide feature on the S/D feature and selectively depositing an inhibitor on the silicide feature. The inhibitor is not deposited on surfaces of the CESL other than at a corner area where the CESL and the silicide feature meet.
US11152473B2
A device includes a phosphide-containing structure, a dopant source layer and a conductive contact. The phosphide-containing structure has a first chemical element in a compound with phosphorus. The dopant source layer is over the phosphide-containing structure and has a second chemical element the same as the first chemical element. The conductive contact is over the dopant source layer.
US11152472B2
A crystalline oxide semiconductor with excellent crystalline qualities that is useful for semiconductors requiring heat dissipation is provided. A crystalline oxide semiconductor including a first crystal axis, a second crystal axis, a first side, and a second side that is shorter than the first side, a linear thermal expansion coefficient of the first crystal axis is smaller than a linear thermal expansion coefficient of the second crystal axis, a direction of the first side is parallel and/or substantially parallel to a direction of the first crystal axis, and a direction of the second side is parallel and/or substantially parallel to a direction of the second crystal axis.
US11152467B2
A device structure for a bipolar junction transistor includes a base layer made of a semiconductor material. An emitter is disposed on a first portion of the base layer. A dopant-containing layer is disposed on a second portion of the base layer. A hardmask is disposed on the base layer. The hardmask includes a window aligned with the second portion of the base layer. Deposits of the dopant-containing layer are limited to exposed surfaces of: the first portion that is disposed on a top surface of the base layer inside of the window.
US11152465B2
A semiconductor device includes an n-type base substrate; a p-type first region; a p-type surface region having a plurality of second corner portions and a plurality of second side portions surrounding the first region. The p-type surface region has a dopant concentration lower than a dopant concentration of the first region. The semiconductor device further includes a field plate in a region overlapping with the surface region in a plan view by way of an insulation film. The field plate has a plurality of field plate corner portions and a plurality of field plate side portions. A relationship of L1>L2 is established at least at a portion of the surface region or a relationship of FP1>FP2 is established at least at a portion of the field plate is satisfied. A withstand voltage of the second side portion is lower than a withstand voltage of the second corner portion.
US11152459B2
An integrated circuit containing an extended drain MOS transistor which has a drift layer, an upper RESURF layer over and contacting an upper surface of the drift layer, and a buried drain extension below the drift layer which is electrically connected to the drift layer at the drain end and separated from the drift layer at the channel end. A lower RESURF layer may be formed between the drift layer and the buried drain extension at the channel end. Any of the upper RESURF layer, the drift layer, the lower RESURF layer and the buried drain extension may have a graded doping density from the drain end to the channel end. A process of forming an integrated circuit containing an extended drain MOS transistor which has the drift layer, the upper RESURF layer, and the buried drain extension.
US11152452B2
An organic lighting apparatus can include a substrate; and a plurality of light-emitting portions disposed in a central area of the substrate, each of the plurality of light-emitting portions has a structure including: a first electrode, an organic light-emitting layer, a second electrode, a non-light-emitting area, a light-emitting area, and an electric current injection line disposed in the non-light emitting area, in which the electric current injection lines of at least two light-emitting portions have different lengths.
US11152450B2
A display device including: a first data line arranged in a display area of a substrate and extending in a first direction; a second data line arranged in the display area and extending in the first direction; a connecting line arranged in the display area and including a first portion parallel to the first data line, a third portion parallel to the second data line, and a second portion between the first portion and the third portion, wherein the connecting line is electrically connected to the second data line; and an auxiliary line overlapping the first data line or the second data line.
US11152449B2
A display panel may include the following elements: a substrate including an opening area, a display area surrounding the opening area, and a first non-display area between the opening area and the display area; a data line positioned at a first side relative to the opening area; a first scan line; a second scan line; a first pixel connected to the data line and the first scan line; a second pixel connected to the data line and the second scan line; a first emission control line connected to the first pixel; a connecting section positioned on the first non-display area; a second emission control line connected to the second pixel and connected through the connecting section to the first emission control line; and an emission control driver configured to simultaneously provide emission control signals to the first emission control line and the second emission control line.
US11152447B2
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a pixel area including pixels each including at least one thin film transistor includes a semiconductor layer and a gate electrode, a first terminal area including a first wiring line disposed thereon connected to the at least one thin film transistor, a first protective film provided on the semiconductor layer, the gate electrode and the first wiring line, a first insulating film provided on the first protective film, a second protective film provided on the first insulating film, a second insulating film provided on the second protective film, a first opening formed in the first terminal area, and partially exposing the first wiring line, and a second opening formed to correspond to the first opening.
US11152443B2
A display panel and a method of fabricating the same are provided. The display panel has an array substrate having a substrate, a thin film transistor unit and a storage capacitor disposed on the substrate; a light emitting device layer disposed on the array substrate. An orthographic projection of the storage capacitor projected on the light emitting device layer is located within the light emitting device layer.
US11152442B2
By using an a-Si layer with low electron mobility in a TFT for driving an organic EL display device, the present invention solves problems stemming from uneven laser irradiation and suppresses the occurrence of non-uniform color and luminance. In the present invention, a first conductor film (26a) forming a drain electrode and a second conductor film (25a) forming a source electrode are disposed such that respective portions (26a1 . . . , 25a1 . . . ) of the first conductor film (26a) and the second conductor film (25a) are arranged in an alternating manner along a prescribed direction.
US11152440B2
A display apparatus is provided, including a panel including a substrate including a display area where pixels are disposed, and a pad area where a terminal portion connected to the display area is disposed, and an insulating layer disposed over a same layer as in the display area and the pad area. A thickness of the insulating layer in the display area and a thickness of the insulating layer in the pad area are of different thicknesses.
US11152439B2
A transparent display substrate, a transparent display device, and a method of manufacturing a transparent display device, the substrate including a base substrate including a pixel area and a transmission area; a pixel circuit on the pixel area of the base substrate; an insulation layer covering the pixel circuit on the base substrate; a pixel electrode selectively disposed on the pixel area of the base substrate, the pixel electrode being electrically connected to the pixel circuit at least partially through the insulation layer; and a transmitting layer structure selectively disposed on the transmission area of the base substrate, the transmitting layer structure including at least an inorganic material, the inorganic material consisting essentially of silicon oxynitride.
US11152431B2
An electronic device includes a semiconductor memory. The semiconductor memory comprises a first variable resistance element coupled between a first wiring and a second wiring, the first variable resistance element including a first variable resistance layer having a first width at a first distance from the first wiring; and a second variable resistance element coupled between the second wiring and a third wiring, the second variable resistance element including a second variable resistance layer having a second width at the first distance from the second wiring. The first width is greater than the second width.
US11152430B2
The disclosure relates to integrated circuits and methods including one or more rows of transistors. In an embodiment, an integrated circuit includes a row of bipolar transistors including a plurality of first conduction regions, a second conduction region, and a common base between the first conduction regions and the second conduction region. An insulating trench is in contact with each bipolar transistor of the row of bipolar transistors. A conductive layer is on the insulating trench and the common base between the first conduction regions. A spacer layer is between the conductive layer and the first conduction regions.
US11152428B2
There is provided a selection device that includes a first electrode, a second electrode opposed to the first electrode, a semiconductor layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode, and including at least one kind of chalcogen element selected from tellurium (Te), selenium (Se), and sulfur (S), and at least one kind of first element selected from boron (B), aluminum (Al), gallium (Ga), phosphorus (P), arsenic (As), carbon (C), germanium (Ge), and silicon (Si), and a first heat bypass layer provided at least in a portion around the semiconductor layer between the first electrode and the second electrode and having higher thermal conductivity than the semiconductor layer.
US11152422B2
A method for forming a semiconductor device is provided. The method includes providing a substrate having a scribe line, forming a sensing pixel array in the substrate, forming a plurality of transparent pillars over the substrate, and forming a light shielding layer over the substrate and the transparent pillars. The sensing pixel array has a plurality of sensing pixels, and each of the transparent pillars is correspondingly disposed on one of the sensing pixels of the sensing pixel array. The method further includes performing a first cutting process to form an opening directly above the scribe line, while leaving the remaining material covering the scribe line, and performing an etching process along the opening to remove the remaining material until the scribe line is exposed.
US11152421B2
Image sensor includes a first semiconductor material and a plurality of first doped regions disposed in the semiconductor material. The plurality of first doped regions is part of a plurality of photodiodes to receive light and convert the light into image charge. A second semiconductor material is disposed on the first semiconductor material, and a plurality of second doped regions is disposed in the second semiconductor. The plurality of second doped regions is electrically coupled to the plurality of first doped regions, and the plurality of second doped regions is part of the plurality of photodiodes.
US11152412B2
An image sensor including a plurality of pixels, each including: a semiconductor photodetection region; a metal region arranged on a first surface of the semiconductor region; a band-pass or band elimination interference filter arranged on a second surface of the semiconductor region opposite to the first surface; and between the semiconductor region and the metal region, a portion of the absorbing layer made of a material different from that of the semiconductor region, the absorbing layer being capable of absorbing, in a single passage, more than 30% of an incident radiation at the central wavelength of the pass band or of the stop band of the interference filter.
US11152410B2
An image sensor pixel comprises a semiconductor substrate and a gate having a dielectric layer with a first section and a second section over the semiconductor substrate. The first section of the dielectric layer is thinner than the second section. A photodiode is disposed substantially beneath the gate. A gate well region is disposed beneath the gate and overlying the photodiode. A first doped semiconductor region separates the gate well region from a second doped semiconductor region. The second doped semiconductor region is in the semiconductor substrate and is adjacent to the gate.
US11152409B2
A display panel includes a display pixel configured to irradiate light, an image sensor pixel included together with the display pixel in one unit pixel, including a thin film transistor (TFT) photodetector including an active layer formed of amorphous silicon or polycrystalline silicon on an amorphous transparent material, and configured to collect light reflected from a body located on the transparent material, and a processor configured to process biometrics along with positioning of the body according to the light reflected from the body.
US11152408B2
An image sensing device is provided to include a pixel region and a peripheral region located outside of the pixel region. The peripheral region includes logic circuits located to receive a pixel signals from the pixel region and configured to process the pixel signals and a capacitor located adjacent to the logic circuits. The capacitor includes an active region, a recessed structure, and a first junction. The active region includes a first impurity region and a second impurity region formed over the first impurity region. The recessed structure is at least partly disposed in the active region and including a first portion disposed in the active region and including a conductive material and a second portion surrounding the first portion and including an insulation material. The first junction is formed in the active region and spaced apart from the recessed structure by a predetermined distance.
US11152405B2
A solid-state image pickup device includes a plurality of pixels, a pixel connection section, and a pixel reset section. The plurality of pixels each include a photoelectric conversion section that generates a charge according to irradiated light, a charge holding section that holds the generated charge, and a signal generation section that generates as an image signal a signal according to the held charge. The pixel connection section conducts between charge holding sections of the plurality of pixels and thereby allows each of the charge holding sections of the plurality of pixels to hold the charge that has been generated by the photoelectric conversion section of one pixel of the plurality of pixels. The pixel reset section discharges and resets the charge of the respective charge holding sections of the plurality of pixels when the pixel connection section conducts between the respective charge holding sections of the plurality of pixels.
US11152399B2
A display device in which a display area and a non-display area are defined, the display device including a wiring substrate, the wiring substrate including: a base substrate; a first thin film transistor disposed on the base substrate, located in the non-display area, and including a first gate pattern, a first semiconductor pattern disposed on the first gate pattern, a first source pattern disposed on the first semiconductor pattern, and a first drain pattern disposed on the first semiconductor pattern and spaced apart from the first source pattern; and a second thin film transistor disposed on the base substrate and located in the display area. A first channel width of the first thin film transistor is greater than a first overlap length of the first gate pattern, the first semiconductor pattern, and the first drain pattern.
US11152394B1
A structure includes a semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) substrate including a semiconductor substrate, a buried insulator layer over the semiconductor substrate, and an SOI layer over the buried insulator layer. The structure also includes a first active device and a second active device. At least one polycrystalline active region fill shape is in the SOI layer. A polycrystalline isolation region is in the semiconductor substrate under the buried insulator layer. The polycrystalline isolation region is under the first active device, but not under the second active device. The polycrystalline isolation region extends to different depths into the semiconductor substrate. The first and second active devices may include monocrystalline active regions, and a third polycrystalline active region may also be in the SOI layer over the polycrystalline isolation region.
US11152392B2
An integrated circuit includes a standard cell. The standard cell may include a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of first wirings. The plurality of first wirings may include a clubfoot structure conductive pattern that includes a first conductive pattern and a second conductive pattern spaced apart from each other. Each of the first conductive pattern and the second conductive pattern may include a first line pattern extending in a first direction and a second line pattern protruding from one end of the first line pattern in a direction perpendicular to the first direction. The plurality of gate lines may be spaced apart from each other by a first pitch in the first direction, and the plurality of second wirings may be spaced apart from each other by a second pitch in the first direction. The first pitch may be greater than the second pitch.
US11152389B2
A method for reducing an epitaxial growth loading effect in a patterned device includes forming a first trench and a second trench in a substrate and in a first insulating layer over the substrate to form a low pattern density region and a high pattern density region. The first trench has a larger cross-sectional area than the second trench. The method further includes isolating the first trench from the second trench by using a first mask. The method further include disposing a second insulating layer in the first trench. The method further includes removing a portion of the first mask in order to expose the second trench. The method further includes growing an epitaxial layer in the second trench.
US11152384B2
An integrated circuits device includes a semiconductor substrate having a logic region and a memory region separated by an isolation region having an isolation structure of dielectric material. A memory device is formed on the memory region and includes a gate electrode over a gate dielectric. A dummy gate structure is formed on the isolation structure. The dummy gate structure has a dummy gate electrode layer corresponding to the gate electrode and a dummy gate dielectric layer corresponding to the gate dielectric. A tapered sidewall structure is formed on a logic region-facing side of the dummy gate structure. The tapered sidewall structure is spaced above the isolation structure and either adjacent to or contiguous with the dummy gate electrode layer.
US11152376B2
The present disclosure is directed to a circuit layout of a dual port static random-access-memory (SRAM) cell. The memory cell includes active regions in a substrate, with polysilicon gate electrodes on the active regions to define transistors of the memory cell. The eight transistor (8T) memory cell layout includes a reduced aspect ratio and non-polysilicon bit line discharge path routing by positioning an active region for the first port opposite an active region for the second port and consolidating power line nodes at a central portion of the memory cell.
US11152375B2
Methods, apparatuses, and systems related to patterning a material over a sense line contact are described. An example method includes forming a sense line contact pattern at an angle to a sense line direction over semiconductor structures on a substrate, wherein the angle to the sense line direction is formed along a path between a sense line contact in a first sense line column and a sense line contact in a second sense line column. The example method further includes removing a portion of a mask material corresponding to the sense line contact pattern to form sense line contacts.
US11152374B2
A semiconductor device includes a bit line structure on a substrate, a spacer structure including a first spacer directly contacting a sidewall of the bit line structure, a second spacer directly contacting a portion of an outer sidewall of the first spacer, the second spacer including air, and a third spacer directly contacting an upper portion of the first spacer and covering an outer sidewall and an upper surface of the second spacer, and a contact plug structure extending in a vertical direction substantially perpendicular to an upper surface of the substrate and directly contacting an outer sidewall of the third spacer at least at a height between respective heights of a bottom and a top surface of the second spacer.
US11152372B2
A method used in forming integrated circuitry comprises forming conductive line structures having conductive vias laterally between and spaced longitudinally along immediately-adjacent of the conductive line structures. First insulating material is formed laterally between immediately-adjacent of the conductive vias, Second insulating material is formed directly above the first insulating material and directly above the conductive vias. The second insulating material comprises silicon, carbon, nitrogen, and hydrogen. A third material is formed directly above the second insulating material. The third material and the second insulating material comprise different compositions relative one another. The third material is removed from being directly above the second insulating material and the thickness of the second insulating material is reduced thereafter. A fourth insulating material is formed directly above the second insulating material of reduced thickness. A plurality of electronic components is formed above the fourth insulating material and that individually are directly electrically coupled to individual of the conductive vias through the fourth and second insulating materials. Other embodiments, including structure, are disclosed.
US11152369B2
An integrated circuit device may include a support pattern over a substrate, a lower electrode pattern and a dielectric structure over the substrate, and an upper electrode structure on the dielectric structure. The support pattern may include a first support structure extending in a vertical direction. The lower electrode pattern may be between the support pattern and the dielectric structure. The lower electrode pattern may include a first group of N (e.g., an integer of 4 or more) lower electrodes that are spaced apart from each other and may extend in the vertical direction to a first level above the substrate. The dielectric structure may include a first dielectric protrusion that extends in the vertical direction and surrounds the first support structure and the first group of N lower electrodes. The upper electrode structure may include a first upper electrode protrusion that surrounds the first dielectric protrusion.
US11152363B2
The present disclosure relates to a bulk complementary-metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) device including a device substrate, a thinned device die with a device region over the device substrate, a first mold compound, and a second mold compound. The device region includes a back-end-of-line (BEOL) portion and a front-end-of-line (FEOL) portion over the BEOL portion. The first mold compound resides over the device substrate, surrounds the thinned device die, and extends vertically beyond the thinned device die to define an opening over the thinned device die and within the first mold compound. The second mold compound fills the opening and directly connects the thinned device die. Herein, a silicon material with a resistivity between 5 Ohm-cm and 30000 Ohm-cm does not exist between the second mold compound and the thinned device die.
US11152356B2
In an embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a resistor that overlies a doped region of the semiconductor device. The resistor is formed as an elongated element that is formed into a pattern of a spiral. An embodiment of the pattern of the resistor includes a plurality of revolutions from the starting point to an ending point. The resistor material has one of a separation distance between adjacent revolutions that increases with distance along a periphery of the resistor material or a width of the resistor material that increases with distance along the periphery of the resistor material.
US11152354B2
A bipolar junction transistor, a BiCMOS device including same, and a method of manufacturing the BiCMOS device are disclosed. To fabricate the BiCMOS device, a bipolar region and a CMOS region are on a lightly doped substrate to enhance isolation between devices. First-conductivity-type deep well regions are in the bipolar region and/or the CMOS region to prevent well-to-substrate diffusion.
US11152346B2
A capacitive element using VNW FETs is provided. First and second components each constituting a transistor are arranged in an X direction. From the first component, a first gate interconnect extends away from the second component, and a first top interconnect and a first bottom interconnect extend toward the second component. From the second component, a second gate interconnect extends toward the first component, and a second top interconnect and a second bottom interconnect extend away from the first component. The first top interconnect, the first bottom interconnect, and the second gate interconnect are connected.
US11152341B2
In some examples, an integrated circuit includes a plurality of power modules formed on a substrate, including a first power module located between second and third power modules. The first power module is configured to conduct a load current, and includes a power transistor and first and second sense transistors. The first sense transistor is disposed at a first position between the second power module and a central axis of the first power module, and the second sense transistor is disposed at a second position between the third power module and the central axis. The first sense transistor is configured to conduct a first sense current; and the second sense transistor is configured to conduct a second sense current. The first and second sense transistors are configured to direct the first and second sense currents toward a measurement circuit that is configured to determine a derived sense current indicative of the load current.
US11152334B2
In one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a first chip that includes a first interconnect layer, a first insulator provided on the first interconnect layer, a first metal portion provided on the first interconnect layer and provided in the first insulator and including at least one of palladium, platinum and gold, and a second interconnect layer provided on the first metal portion and provided in the first insulator. The device further includes a second chip that includes a second insulator provided on the first insulator, and a third interconnect layer provided in the second insulator and provided on the second interconnect layer.
US11152330B2
A method for forming a semiconductor package structure includes stacking chips to form a chip stack over an interposer. The method also includes disposing a semiconductor die over the interposer. The method also includes filling a first encapsulating layer between the chips and surrounding the chip stack and the semiconductor die. The method also includes forming a second encapsulating layer covering the chip stack and the semiconductor die. The first encapsulating layer fills the gap between the chip stack and the semiconductor die.
US11152329B2
A method of an embodiment separates a bonded substrate including first and second substrates. The bonded substrate includes a carbon film on a first surface of the first substrate, a memory cell on the carbon film, a first connection terminal on the memory cell, a transistor on a first surface of the second substrate, and a second connection terminal on the transistor. In opposing direction of the first surfaces of the first and second substrates, a side of the first substrate on which the memory cell is located and a side of the second substrate on which the transistor is located are joined together, and the first and second connection terminals are mutually connected. The method includes removing the carbon film, and separating the bonded substrate into the first substrate with the first surface exposed and the second substrate on which the memory cell and the transistor are located.
US11152328B2
A uniform pressure gang bonding device and fabrication method are presented using an expandable upper chamber with an elastic surface. Typically, the elastic surface is an elastomer material having a Young's modulus in a range of 40 to 1000 kilo-Pascal (kPA). After depositing a plurality of components overlying a substrate top surface, the substrate is positioned over the lower plate, with the top surface underlying and adjacent (in close proximity) to the elastic surface. The method creates a positive upper chamber medium pressure differential in the expandable upper chamber, causing the elastic surface to deform. For example, the positive upper chamber medium pressure differential may be in the range of 0.05 atmospheres (atm) and 10 atm. Typically, the elastic surface deforms between 0.5 millimeters (mm) and 20 mm, in response to the positive upper chamber medium pressure differential.
US11152317B2
A semiconductor device and a semiconductor package, the device including a pad interconnection structure that penetrates a first buffer dielectric layer and a second buffer dielectric layer, wherein the pad interconnection structure includes copper and tin, the pad interconnection structure includes a central part, a first intermediate part surrounding the central part; a second intermediate part surrounding the first intermediate part, and an outer part surrounding the second intermediate part, a grain size of the outer part is less than a grain size of the second intermediate part, the grain size of the second intermediate part is less than a grain size of the first intermediate part, and the grain size of the first intermediate part is less than a grain size of the central part.
US11152314B2
An integrated circuit having a plurality of field-effect transistors, wherein at least a proportion of the field-effect transistors implement a plurality of logic cells, a substrate, a well which is arranged in the substrate, and a supply circuit which is designed to connect the well to a supply potential, wherein the supply circuit is constituted by one or more field-effect transistors of the plurality of field-effect transistors.
US11152310B2
A microwave device includes: a multilayer resin substrate being a first multilayer resin substrate; an IC being a radio frequency circuit provided on the multilayer resin substrate and electrically connected to the multilayer resin substrate; a heat spreader provided on a side opposite to the multilayer resin substrate across the IC, and in contact with the IC; a mold resin covering the periphery of the IC and the heat spreader; and a conductive film covering the mold resin and the heat spreader, where an inner side of the conductive film is in contact with the heat spreader, and the conductive film is electrically connected to a ground via hole of the multilayer resin substrate.
US11152309B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor package may include forming a lower redistribution layer, forming a stack on a portion of the lower redistribution layer, and stacking a semiconductor chip on a top surface of the lower redistribution layer. The forming of the stack may include coating a photo imagable dielectric material to form a first insulating layer on the top surface of the lower redistribution layer, forming a first via to penetrate the first insulating layer, coating a photo imagable dielectric material to form a second insulating layer on a top surface of the first insulating layer, and forming a second via to penetrate the second insulating layer.
US11152300B2
An electrical fuse device is disclosed. A circuit apparatus can include the fuse device, a first circuit element and a second circuit element. The fuse includes a first contact that has a first electromigration resistance, a second contact that has a second electromigration resistance and a metal line, which is coupled to the first contact and to the second contact, that has a third electromigration resistance that is lower than the second electromigration resistance. The first circuit element is coupled to the first contact and the second circuit element coupled to the second contact. The fuse is configured to conduct a programming current from the first contact to the second contact through the metal line. Further, the programming current causes the metal line to electromigrate away from the second contact to electrically isolate the second circuit element from the first circuit element.
US11152298B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming first and second interconnect levels on a substrate with the first and second interconnect levels having respective first and second dielectric layers and first and second patterned metal conductors and where each of the first and second patterned metal conductors includes a first metallic material, depositing a third dielectric layer onto the second first interconnect layer, forming a via opening extending through the third dielectric layer and the second dielectric layer and connecting with the first patterned metal conductor of the first interconnect level and depositing a second metallic material different from the first metallic material into the via opening to form a via The via electrically couples with the patterned metal layer of the first interconnect level.
US11152295B2
A semiconductor package structure includes a first package including a bonding region and a periphery region surrounding the bonding region, at least one insulating structure disposed in the bonding region of the first package, a second package disposed over the first package and the insulating structure in the bonding region, and a plurality of connectors disposed between the first package and the second package. The plurality of connectors provide electrical connection between the first package and the second package. Further, the insulating structure penetrates the first package and is spaced apart from the plurality of connectors.
US11152281B2
Method of manufacturing a cooling circuit on an integrated circuit chip using a sacrificial material
A method for manufacturing a cooling circuit on at least one integrated circuit chip includes producing a cooling circuit on a first face of the chip. Producing the cooling circuit includes forming a definition pattern of the cooling circuit on the first face of the chip, the pattern having at least one layer of a sacrificial material; coating the pattern with at least one resin layer; and at least partially removing the sacrificial material from the pattern so as to open the cooling circuit.
US11152276B2
The present disclosure, in some embodiments, relates to a method of forming an integrated chip structure. The method may be performed by forming a plurality of interconnect layers within a first interconnect structure disposed over an upper surface of a first semiconductor substrate. An edge trimming process is performed to remove parts of the first interconnect structure and the first semiconductor substrate along a perimeter of the first semiconductor substrate. The edge trimming process results in the first semiconductor substrate having a recessed surface coupled to the upper surface by way of an interior sidewall disposed directly over the first semiconductor substrate. A dielectric protection layer is formed onto a sidewall of the first interconnect structure after performing the edge trimming process.
US11152274B2
A semiconductor device package includes a semiconductor device, a conductive bump, a first encapsulant and a second encapsulant. The semiconductor device has a first surface, a second surface and a lateral surface. The second surface is opposite to the first surface. The lateral surface extends between the first surface and the second surface. The semiconductor device comprises a conductive pad adjacent to the first surface of the semiconductor device. The conductive bump is electrically connected to the conductive pad. The first encapsulant covers the first surface of the semiconductor device and a first portion of the lateral surface of the semiconductor device, and surrounds the conductive bump. The second encapsulant covers the second surface of the semiconductor device and a second portion of the lateral surface of the semiconductor device.
US11152272B2
Certain aspects provide a three-dimensional integrated circuit (3DIC) and techniques for fabricating a 3DIC. For example, certain aspects provide a semiconductor device that generally includes one or more first integrated circuits (ICs), a first plurality of pads coupled to components of the one or more first ICs, one or more second ICs, forming glass (FG) material disposed adjacent to the one or more second ICs, and a second plurality of pads, wherein at least one of the second plurality of pads is coupled to components of the one or more second ICs, and wherein at least a portion of the first plurality of pads is bonded to at least a portion of the second plurality of pads.
US11152269B2
Provided is a plasma processing apparatus including: a plurality of gas supply nozzles which are provided on a wall surface of a processing container and supply process gas toward the inside of the processing container in a radial direction; N microwave introducing modules of which the number disposed in a circumferential direction of a ceiling plate of the processing container so as to introduce microwaves for generating plasma into the processing container, in which N≥2; and M sensors provided on the wall surface of the processing container so as to monitor at least any one of electron density Ne and electron temperature Te of the plasma generated in the processing container, in which M equals to N or a multiple of N.
US11152267B2
A method includes forming a gate stack, which includes a gate dielectric and a metal gate electrode over the gate dielectric. An inter-layer dielectric is formed on opposite sides of the gate stack. The gate stack and the inter-layer dielectric are planarized. The method further includes forming an inhibitor film on the gate stack, with at least a portion of the inter-layer dielectric exposed, selectively depositing a dielectric hard mask on the inter-layer dielectric, with the inhibitor film preventing the dielectric hard mask from being formed thereon, and etching to remove a portion of the gate stack, with the dielectric hard mask acting as a portion of a corresponding etching mask.
US11152250B2
Gate cutting techniques for integrated circuit devices, particularly for fin-like field effect transistor devices, are disclosed herein. An exemplary method includes receiving an integrated circuit device that includes a gate structure and performing a gate cut process to separate the gate structure into a first gate structure and a second gate structure. The gate cut process includes selectively removing a portion of the gate structure, such that a residual gate dielectric layer extends between the first gate structure and the second gate structure. In some implementations, the residual gate dielectric includes a high-k dielectric material. The method further includes forming a gate isolation region between the first gate structure and the second gate structure.
US11152243B2
A device for aligning and optically inspecting a semiconductor component arranged on a receiving tool that is arranged on a turning mechanism. The device aligns the semiconductor component in relation to a center of the receiving tool in at least one axis direction and/or a direction of rotation. The turning mechanism is designed to rotate about a turning axis and to move the semiconductor component out of a receiving position into an offset position, with two slides that can be moved towards and away from each other and comprise slide sections, the two slide sections coming to rest on two lateral surfaces of the semiconductor component, at least in sections, in order to align the semiconductor component arranged on the receiving tool, the slide being defined such that it slides and/or rotates the semiconductor component into an inspection position, while the receiving tool holds the semiconductor component.
US11152231B2
A heating apparatus, a method and a system for producing semiconductor chips in a wafer assembly are disclosed. In an embodiment a heating device includes a heating plane configured to be arranged parallel to a plane of the semiconductor chips in the wafer composite and a first heating unit extending substantially in a radial direction with respect to a reference point in the heating plane, wherein the first heating unit includes a plurality of inductive heating elements arranged adjacent to each other in a substantially radial direction, each inductive heating element having a predetermined distance from the reference point, and wherein the inductive heating elements are formed as electromagnets or permanent magnets configured to generate eddy currents in a carrier of the wafer composite.
US11152228B2
A wafer cleaning apparatus may include a cleaning tank, a support part and a cleaning unit installed to be capable of moving upward or downward into the cleaning tank, and configured to inject a cleaning solution onto an inner wall of the cleaning tank. The cleaning unit may include an injection pipe disposed adjacent to the inner wall of the cleaning tank and having a plurality of injection holes, and an injection nozzle coupled to the injection pipe and formed to be inclined such that a diameter of the injection hole decreases in a direction from the injection pipe toward the cleaning tank.
US11152227B2
A method includes encapsulating structures disposed on or over a surface of a substrate in an encapsulant. The method also includes separating the encapsulant from the substrate. An apparatus includes a composite film having structures embedded in an encapsulant. The composite film has a surface with a surface roughness of less than one nm. An apparatus includes an encapsulant film having a surface with indentations formed therein. The surface has a surface roughness apart from the indentations of less than one nm.
US11152222B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate. A gate dielectric is disposed over the semiconductor substrate. A first source/drain region and a second source/drain region are disposed in the semiconductor substrate and on opposite sides of the gate dielectric. A gate electrode is disposed over the gate dielectric. A first dishing prevention structure is embedded in the gate electrode, where a perimeter of the first dishing prevention structure is disposed within a perimeter of the gate electrode.
US11152220B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of semiconductor device etching process, and specifically discloses an etching method and a semiconductor device. The etching method comprises: providing a substrate on which a film layer to be etched is formed; forming a mask layer structure on the film layer to be etched, wherein the mask layer structure includes a dielectric layer formed on an upper surface of the film layer to be etched and an APF layer formed on an upper surface of the dielectric layer; patterning the APF layer; performing a first etching process on the dielectric layer and the film layer to be etched by using the patterned APF layer as a mask to pattern the dielectric layer and partially etch the film layer to be etched; removing the patterned APF layer.
US11152217B2
A method for selective etching of silicon oxide relative to silicon nitride includes exposing a substrate to a first gas that forms a first layer on the silicon oxide film and a second layer on the silicon nitride film, where the first gas contains boron, aluminum, or both boron and aluminum, exposing the substrate to a nitrogen-containing gas that reacts with the first layer to form a first nitride layer on the silicon oxide film and reacts with the second layer to form a second nitride layer on the silicon nitride film, where a thickness of the second nitride layer is greater than a thickness of the first nitride layer. The method further includes exposing the substrate to an etching gas that etches the first nitride layer and silicon oxide film, where the second nitride layer protects the silicon nitride film from etching by the etching gas.
US11152209B2
The current disclosure describes semiconductor devices, e.g., transistors, include a substrate, a semiconductor region including, at the surface, MoS2 and/or other monolayer material over the substrate, and a terminal structure at least partially over the semiconductor region, which includes a different monolayer material grown directly over the semiconductor region.
US11152208B2
A semiconductor film containing silicon that is evenly doped in the semiconductor film with an enhanced semiconductor property and a method of the semiconductor film using a dopant material containing a complex compound that contains at least silicon and a halogen. The complex compound further contains a hydrocarbon group that is optionally substituted or heterocyclic group that is optionally substituted. A semiconductor film containing Si doped into the semiconductor film as a dopant to a depth that is at least 0.3 μm or deeper from a surface of the semiconductor film is obtained by forming the semiconductor film in that the dopant material is doped, the semiconductor film is 100 μm or less in film thickness with carrier density that is 1×1020/cm3 or less and electron mobility that is 1 cm2/Vs or more.
US11152206B2
A composition and method for using the composition in the fabrication of an electronic device are disclosed. Compounds, compositions and methods for depositing a low dielectric constant (<4.0) and high oxygen ash resistance silicon-containing film such as, without limitation, a carbon doped silicon oxide, are disclosed.
US11152203B2
An EUV cleaner system and process for cleaning a EUV carrier. The euv cleaner system comprises separate dirty and cleaned environments, separate cleaning chambers for different components of the double container carrier, gripper arms for picking and placing different components using a same robot handler, gripper arms for holding different components at different locations, horizontal spin cleaning and drying for outer container, hot water and hot air (70C) cleaning process, vertical nozzles and rasterizing megasonic nozzles for cleaning inner container with hot air nozzles for drying, separate vacuum decontamination chambers for outgassing different components, for example, one for inner and one for outer container with high vacuum (e.g., <10−6 Torr) with purge gas, heaters and RGA sensors inside the vacuum chamber, purge gas assembling station, and purge gas loading and unloading station.
US11152202B2
A transfer electrode unit (240) is configured by coaxially arranging a plurality of loop electrodes (241A, 241B, 241C), and guides ions to an orthogonal acceleration region (242C) by allowing the ions to pass through an inner side of the plurality of electrodes (241A, 241B, 241C) each of which is applied with a voltage. A voltage having a higher absolute value than the voltage applied to the plurality of electrodes (241A, 241B, 241C) is applied to a flight tube (246), and the ions accelerated in the orthogonal acceleration region (242C) are introduced to a flight space formed in the flight tube (246). A shield portion (241F) is provided between the transfer electrode unit (240) and the flight tube (246), and suppresses that an electric field derived from the voltage applied to the flight tube (246) enters the transfer electrode unit (240).
US11152196B2
Provided is a substrate processing apparatus including a chamber; a placing table provided inside the chamber and configured to place a processing target substrate thereon; a pedestal configured to support the placing table from a lower side thereof; an exhaust port disposed below the pedestal; and a collecting member configured to collect a deposition in the chamber. The collecting member is provided on a lower surface of the pedestal.
US11152190B2
A volume interrogation system can use an accelerated beam of charged particles to interrogate objects using charged-particle attenuation and scattering tomography to screen items such as electronic devices, packages, baggage, industrial products, or food products for the presence of materials of interest inside. The apparatus, systems, and methods in this patent document can be employed in checkpoint applications to scan items. Such checkpoint applications can include border crossings, mass transit terminals (subways, buses, railways, ferries, etc.), and government and private-sector facilities.
US11152185B2
An electron source capable of suppressing consumption of an electron emission material is provide. The present invention provides an electron source including: an electron emission material; and, an electron emission-suppressing material covering a side surface of the electron emission material, wherein a work function of the electron emission-suppressing material is higher than that of the electron emission material, and a thermal emissivity of the electron emission-suppressing material is lower than that of the electron emission material.
US11152181B2
A method includes performing by a processor: estimating a total cathode space current for a thermionic vacuum tube having at least one grid and a plate, such that at least one amplification factor associated with the at least one grid is determined by a polynomial based on a variable that represents at plurality of voltages associated with the at least one grid and the plate, the variable being heuristically determine. Transitions between positive and negative grid operation may experience a step change in estimated current value caused by the inclusion or elimination of grid current. A part of the grid current may be added back into the plate current during transition. This small contribution to plate current may gradually diminish as tube operation moves farther away from the transition boundary.
US11152178B2
Disconnect switches include a housing, a fixed main contact in the housing, a movable main contact in the housing in cooperating alignment with the fixed main contact, a first actuator coupled to the movable main contact, and a second actuator coupled to the housing. The second actuator is configured to apply a motive force to the housing that is in a direction opposing a motive force applied by the first actuator to the movable main contact.
US11152166B2
A keyboard device includes a substrate and keycaps disposed on the substrate. The substrate includes a long slit and an elastic bridge member. The long slit divides the substrate into a first plate having a first side edge and a second plate having a second side edge opposite to the first side edge. A gap is between the first side edge and the second side edge. The elastic bridge member is connected between the first side edge and the second side edge. The first plate is movable relative to the second plate. The first side edge includes a first bridge seat. The second side edge includes a second bridge seat. The elastic bridge member is connected between the first bridge seat and the second bridge seat. The elastic bridge member includes a wedge portion connected to an inner corner between the elastic bridge member and the first bridge seat.
US11152156B2
A label and related method of manufacture that includes a fabric made of yarn, in either cut individual singles or continuous ribbon format in any length. The yarn includes a fiber that has been recycled, that is recyclable, that is organic, that is biodegradable, and/or that can be derived from a material that is known to be environmentally friendly. The yarn, in one embodiment, may include a fiber defined as “high filament count” material, above the current industry standard of 24 filaments, being in the range of 72 to 96 to 144 filaments or higher per individual yarn, in any denier range of 30 denier to 150 denier thickness, in natural raw white, optical dyed white, or dyed colors. These yarns can be independent of each other.
US11152152B2
The present disclosure relates to a fabrication process for a current transformer. For example, the process may include wrapping first windings around a first core half of a magnetic core of a current transformer. The process may include wrapping second windings around a second core half of the magnetic core. The magnetic core may be inserted into an overmold tool. The process may include overmolding a first overmold over the first core half of the magnetic core and a second overmold over the second core half of the magnetic core. After overmolding, the magnetic core may be cut in half.
US11152148B2
A coil component includes an element body, a coil provided in the element body, and an outer electrode provided in the element body and electrically connected to the coil. The outer electrode is embedded in one surface of the element body such that a protruding portion, which is a portion of the outer electrode, protrudes from the one surface of the element body. Also, a thickness of an embedded portion, which is a portion of the outer electrode and is embedded in the one surface of the element body, is larger than a thickness of the protruding portion of the outer electrode protruding from the one surface of the element body in thickness in a direction perpendicular to the one surface of the element body.
US11152144B2
Present disclosure relates to magnetic materials, chips having magnetic materials, and methods of forming magnetic materials. In certain embodiments, magnetic materials may include a seed layer, and a cobalt-based alloy formed on seed layer. The seed layer may include copper, cobalt, nickel, platinum, palladium, ruthenium, iron, nickel alloy, cobalt-iron-boron alloy, nickel-iron alloy, and any combination of these materials. In certain embodiments, the chip may include one or more on-chip magnetic structures. Each on-chip magnetic structure may include a seed layer, and a cobalt-based alloy formed on seed layer. In certain embodiments, method may include: placing a seed layer in an aqueous electroless plating bath to form a cobalt-based alloy on seed layer. In certain embodiments, the aqueous electroless plating bath may include sodium tetraborate, an alkali metal tartrate, ammonium sulfate, cobalt sulfate, ferric ammonium sulfate and sodium borohydride and has a pH between about 9 to about 13.
US11152142B2
An R-T-B based permanent magnet excellent in magnetic properties relatively reduces the amount of a heavy rare earth element used. An R-T-B based permanent magnet, wherein R represents a rare earth element, T an iron group element and B boron, includes main phase grains including an R2T14B crystal phase and grain boundaries formed between main phase grains. Grain boundaries include R—O—C—N concentrated parts where concentrations of R, O, C and N are all higher than those in main phase grains. C/R(S)>C/R(C) is satisfied in which C/R(S) represents a C/R ratio (atomic ratio) in R—O—C—N concentrated parts present in a surface of a R-T-B based permanent magnet and C/R(C) represents a C/R ratio (atomic ratio) in the R—O—C—N concentrated parts present in the center of a R-T-B based permanent magnet, and a heavy rare earth element RH is included in the R-T-B based permanent magnet.
US11152115B2
Portable or ambulatory infusion devices and systems capable of remotely updating an ambulatory fluid delivery device include safety protocols that verify the status of the ambulatory fluid delivery device before and after a field update of software. Methods of accomplishing the same field update of software are also described.
US11152112B2
The present disclosure includes methods, devices and systems for establishing a connection between a medical device and a remote computing device, receiving an upgrade command at the medical device, storing a current version of persistent data and a current version of executable code in a first storage area of the medical device, transmitting at least the current version of the persistent data to the remote computing device, receiving a second format of the current version of the persistent data and an upgraded version of executable code at the medical device, storing the second format of the current version of the persistent data and the upgraded version of the executable code in a second storage area of the medical device, and executing the upgraded version of the executable code with the second format of the current version of the persistent data.
US11152097B2
A portable medical device for injecting a medicament into a patient. The device includes a control circuit with a memory, the control circuit automatically storing in the memory an ejection event including an amount of the medicament that is ejected from the portable medical device during the ejection event; and a proximity sensor configured to sense proximity of a solid object located in an ejection direction of the portable medical device without making contact with the solid object. The control circuit is configured to tag the ejection event as an injection event if the ejection takes place in proximity of the solid object and to tag the ejection event as a priming ejection if the ejection does not take place in proximity of the solid object.
US11152095B2
The present invention relates to systems, methods, and apparatuses for the management, distribution, dispensing, and administration of consumer products, including over-the-counter and prescription medications through use of a product container labeling system and an optional integrated computer-based or online management system. In certain aspects, the invention relates to a product container comprising a hollow body, a child-resistant cap, and a specialized information label affixed to the hollow body.
US11152084B2
Techniques for coding a medical report include identifying an acronym or abbreviation in the medical report, and a plurality of phrases not explicitly included in the medical report that are possible expanded forms of the acronym or abbreviation in the medical report. From the plurality of phrases, a most likely expanded form of the acronym or abbreviation may be selected by applying to the medical report a statistical acronym/abbreviation expansion model trained on a corpus of medical reports. By applying to the medical report with the expanded acronym or abbreviation one or more statistical fact extraction models, a clinical fact may be extracted from the medical report based at least in part on the most likely expanded form of the acronym or abbreviation in the medical report, and a corresponding medical taxonomy code may be assigned to the extracted clinical fact from the medical report.
US11152076B2
An apparatus and method are provided for executing debug instructions. The apparatus has processing circuitry for executing instructions fetched from memory, and a debug interface. The processing circuitry is responsive to a halt event to enter a halted mode where the processing circuitry stops executing the instructions fetched from memory, and instead is arranged to execute debug instructions received from a debugger via the debug interface. The processing circuitry is responsive to detection of a trigger condition when executing a given debug instruction to exit the halted mode transparently to the debugger, and to take an exception in order to execute exception handler code comprising a sequence of instructions fetched from memory. On return from the exception, the processing circuitry then re-enters the halted mode and performs any additional processing required to complete execution of the given debug instruction. This provides a mechanism for allowing an apparatus to perform operations required by debug instructions in situations where the processing circuitry hardware is not able to natively perform those operations in response to the specified debug instruction.
US11152072B2
A memory device includes a memory cell array including a plurality of memory cells, a plurality of first even page buffers suitable for reading data from first even-numbered memory cells among the plurality of memory cells, and storing the read data, a plurality of first odd page buffers suitable for reading data from first odd-numbered memory cells among the plurality of memory cells, and storing the read data, and a plurality of first cache buffers corresponding to the first even page buffers, suitable for storing data received through a first common node from the first even page buffers, and a plurality of second cache buffers corresponding to the first odd page buffers, and suitable for storing data received through the first common node from the first odd page buffers.
US11152071B1
Aspects of a storage device including a controller are provided which recovers misidentified bad blocks that fail to erase due to charge leakage from a previously programmed open block. The controller programs an open block, and attempts to erase a plurality of closed blocks following the programming of the open block. When the closed blocks fail to erase, the controller marks the closed blocks as bad blocks. The controller then determines whether a number of consecutive erase failures after programming the open block meets a threshold, in response to which the controller resets a die including the closed blocks and reattempts to erase the closed blocks. The controller then unmarks as bad blocks the closed blocks which successfully erased in response to the re-attempt.
US11152060B2
Some embodiments include apparatuses having non-volatile memory cells, each of the non-volatile memory cells to store more than one bit of information; data lines, at most one of the data lines electrically coupled to each of the non-volatile memory cells; a circuit including transistors coupled to the data lines, the transistors including gates coupled to each other; and an encoder including input nodes and output nodes, the input nodes to receive input information from the data lines through the transistors, and the output nodes to provide output information having a value based on a value of the input information.
US11152057B2
A static random access memory (SRAM) circuit can group the column bit lines in a memory array into subsets of bit lines, and a y-address signal input is provided for each subset of bit lines. Additionally or alternatively, each row in the array of memory cells is operably connected to multiple word lines.
US11152050B2
Apparatuses and methods for generating multiple row hammer address refresh sequences. An example apparatus may include an address scrambler and a refresh control circuit. The address scrambler may receive a first address, output a second address in response to a first control signal, and output a third address in response to a second control signal. The second address may physically adjacent to the first address and the third address may physically adjacent to the second address. The refresh control circuit may perform a refresh operation on the second address when the first control signal is active and perform the refresh operation on the third address when the second control signal is active.
US11152046B1
A memory array that provides an internal retention voltage without a voltage regulator is disclosed. The memory array includes a first group of bit cells coupled between the power supply rail and a ground switch and a second group of bit cells coupled to a retention select circuit. The retention select circuit is coupled to the ground for the first group of bit cells and the power supply rail. The ground switch and the retention select circuit may be operated to switch the bit cells between a nominal operating voltage and a retention voltage. The retention voltage is provided during inactive periods of the memory array to maintain data in the bit cells during the inactive periods.
US11152042B2
An inversion signal generation circuit may include a transition detection signal generation circuit suitable for generating first to fourth transition detection signals, a first XOR gate suitable for receiving a fourth inversion signal and the first transition detection signal, and generating a first pre-inversion signal, a second XOR gate suitable for receiving the first pre-inversion signal and the second transition detection signal, and generating a second pre-inversion signal, a third XOR gate suitable for receiving the second transition detection signal and the third transition detection signal, a fourth XOR gate suitable for receiving the first pre-inversion signal and an output signal of the third XOR gate, and generating a third pre-inversion signal, a fifth XOR gate suitable for receiving the third pre-inversion signal and the fourth transition detection signal, and generating a fourth pre-inversion signal, and a first alignment circuit suitable for generating first to fourth inversion signals.
US11152039B2
Methods, systems, and devices for input/output line sharing for memory subarrays are described. I/O lines may be shared across subarrays, which may correspond to separate memory tiles. The sharing of I/O lines may allow an I/O line to carry data from one subarray in response to access commands associated with one address range, and to carry data from another subarray in response to access commands associated with another address range. In some cases, sense amplifiers and other components may also be shared across subarrays, including across subarrays in different banks. The sharing of I/O lines may, in some cases, support activating only a subset of subarrays in a bank when accessing data stored in the bank, which may provide power savings.
US11152037B2
A semiconductor memory device includes first and second wirings extending in a first direction and spaced apart from each other in the first direction, third wirings above the first and second wirings and extending in a second direction, fourth and fifth wirings above the third wirings, extending in the first direction, and spaced apart from each other in the second direction, a plurality of memory cells between each third wiring and each of first, second, fourth, and fifth wirings, voltage application circuits, connection conductors between the voltage application circuits and the wirings, and connection wirings that electrically connect the fourth and fifth wirings to the voltage application circuits. The voltage application circuits are arranged so that a non-selected voltage application circuit is under a space between the first and second wirings, and a selected voltage application circuit is under the first wiring.
US11152033B2
Methods and systems for compressing video content are presented. The methods and systems include analyzing a sequence of media frames stored in the memory device and calculating a displacement level of each of the media frames. The displacement level indicates how different each of the media frames is to a previous media frame. The sequence of media frames is divided into a plurality of cuts where each cut ends at a media frame having a substantially high displacement level. Frames to be removed from the sequence of media frames are identified in each cut based upon the frame's displacement level. The identified frames are then removed.
US11152032B2
The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods for tracking objects in videos. For example, one or more embodiments described herein utilize various tracking methods in combination with an image search index made up of still video frames indexed from a video. One or more embodiments described herein utilize a backward and forward tracking method that is anchored by one or more key frames in order to accurately track an object through the frames of a video, even when the video is long and may include challenging conditions.
US11152028B2
The present invention relates to the technical field of holographic multiplexing storage, and in particular, to a multiplexing method for increasing storage capacity in a disc-type holographic storage medium. According to the method disclosed by the present invention, holograms with different grating vector directions can be overwritten and recorded in the same storage medium according to Bragg selection characteristics of volume holographic records, and the obtained holograms do not affect each other. According to the method disclosed by the present invention, on the premise of ensuring low crosstalk between data pages, the multiplexing number of shift multiplexing storage is increased by using a cross-shift multiplexing method, and the storage density is improved.
US11152026B2
A substrate for a magnetic disk includes a substrate main body having two main surfaces, and a film that is provided on the main surfaces and is made of a material having a loss factor of 0.01 or more. The substrate for a magnetic disk including the film has a thickness T of 0.700 mm or less, and a thickness D [mm] of the film provided on the main surfaces and the thickness T [mm] of the substrate for a magnetic disk including the film satisfy a relationship D≥0.0082/T−0.0015.
US11152023B2
A manufacturing method of a disc device suspension includes forming a load beam blank including the load beam and a first frame continuous to the load beam, forming a flexure blank including the flexure and a second frame continuous to the flexure, forming a convex portion in the first frame, forming an opening in the second frame in a position corresponding to the convex portion to receive the convex portion, overlapping the load beam blank with the flexure blank to insert the convex portion into the opening, fixing the flexure to the load beam, and separating the load beam from the first frame and the flexure from the second frame after the fixing.
US11152022B2
A correction method includes a correction process for correcting warping of a plate-like workpiece including a frame portion and a plurality of flexure elements formed within the frame portion. The correction process includes arranging a first clean sheet on an elastic mat having a flat upper surface, supplying the plate-like workpiece on the first clean sheet, overlaying a second clean sheet from above the first clean sheet and the plate-like workpiece, lowering a pressure roller toward the elastic mat from above the second clean sheet, sandwiching the plate-like workpiece between the elastic mat and the pressure roller, moving the pressure roller along an upper surface of the elastic mat while having the plate-like workpiece sandwiched between the elastic mat and the pressure roller, and taking out the plate-like workpiece from the first clean sheet.
US11152021B1
A perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) writer is disclosed wherein an insulation layer is formed between a top yoke (TY) and an uppermost (PP3) trailing shield to electrically isolate the main pole (MP) from a trailing loop for magnetic flux return. One or both of a first non-magnetic (NM) metal layer and a second NM metal layer are formed between the MP tip and a hot seed layer and side shields, respectively, to form an electrical path that is in parallel to that of a dynamic fly height (DFH) heater circuit. MP tip protrusion is enhanced and writability is improved especially for track widths <40 nm, and is tunable by the volume of the first and second NM layer, and the composition of the NM metals. Existing writer pad layouts may be employed and there is no additional cost to PMR backend processes.
US11152015B2
A voice signal processing method includes acquiring a near-end noise signal and a near-end voice signal by using at least one microphone, acquiring a far-end voice signal according to an incoming call, determining a noise control parameter and a voice signal change parameter based on at least one of information about the near-end voice signal, information about the near-end noise signal, or information about the far-end voice signal, generating an anti-phase signal of the near-end noise signal based on the noise control parameter, changing the far-end voice signal to improve articulation of the far-end voice signal based on information related to at least one of the voice signal change parameter, the near-end noise signal, or the anti-phase signal, and outputting the anti-phase signal and the changed far-end voice signal.
US11152009B1
In a voice controlled system, multiple applications are configured to respond to various commands. The voice controlled system includes client devices and servers. The correct application to receive a natural language command is identified based on how well the command matches functions of the application. A target application to receive the command may additionally be selected based on which application is most likely to receive a command. Likelihood of an application receiving a command may be determined by considering context. The command may be a voice input to a client device that is analyzed by speech recognition technology to determine word strings representing possible commands. Thus, the selection of a target application to receive the command may be based on word strings from the natural language input, a closeness of fit between the command and an application, and/or the likelihood an application is the target for the next incoming command.
US11152008B2
An electronic apparatus includes a memory configured to store a preset password, and a processor configured to provide information with respect to a password modification method and to perform an authentication process for an input password using the preset password and the password modification method.
US11152001B2
A method and apparatus for voice search. A voice search system for a voice-enabled device captures one or more images of a scene, detects a user in the one or more images, determines whether the position of the user satisfies an attention-based trigger condition for initiating a voice search operation, and selectively transmits a voice query to a network resource based at least in part on the determination. The voice query may include audio recorded from the scene and/or the one or more images captured of the scene. The voice search system may further determine whether the trigger condition is satisfied as a result of a false trigger and disable the voice-enabled device from transmitting the voice query to the network resource based at least in part on the trigger condition being satisfied as the result of a false trigger.
US11151994B2
Embodiments for managing voice commands by one or more processors are described. The receiving of a voice command from an individual is detected. An action associated with the voice command is caused to be at least temporarily prevented from being executed based on at least one data source associated with the individual.
US11151988B1
Techniques for implementing multiple wakeword detectors on a single device are described. A digital signal processor (DSP) of the device may implement a wakeword detection component to detect when captured speech includes a wakeword. A companion application installed on the device may implement a wakeword detection component trained using speech of a user of the device. If the DSP's wakeword detection component detects a wakeword in speech, the companion application's wakeword detection component may be used to determine whether the wakeword was spoken by the user of the device. If the companion application's wakeword detection component determines the user spoke the wakeword, audio data representing the speech may be sent to at least one server(s) for processing.
US11151983B2
One or more non-transitory computer readable media contain program instructions that, when executed, cause one or more processors to: receive first raw data including one or more first data points generated by a first object of a plurality of objects associated with one or more buildings; generate first input timeseries according to the one or more data points; access a database of interconnected smart entities, the smart entities including object entities representing each of the plurality of objects and data entities representing stored data, the smart entities being interconnected by relational objects indicating relationships between the smart entities; identify a first object entity representing the first object from a first identifier in the first input timeseries; identify a first data entity from a first relational object indicating a relationship between the first object entity and the first data entity; and store the first input timeseries in the first data entity.
US11151982B2
Provided is a method including obtaining a corpus and an associated set of domain indicators. The method includes learning a set of vectors in an embedding space based on n-grams of the corpus. The method includes updating ontology graphs comprising a set of vertices and edges associating the set of vertices with each other. The method also includes determining a vector cluster using hierarchical clustering based on distances of the set of vectors with respect to each other in the embedding space and determining a hierarchy of the ontology graphs based on a set of domain indicators of a respective set of vertices corresponding to vectors of the vector cluster. The method also includes updating an index based on the ontology graphs.
US11151978B1
A fan noise cancellation device comprises a base with a resonant ring formed with a plurality of resonance channels and a cover coupled to the base. Each resonance channel comprises an inner channel and an outer channel. Each inner channel has an opening to the resonant ring and has a length corresponding to a frequency. A baffle positioned in each inner channel determines an effective length of the inner channel. The inner channel baffles are coupled to the cover, wherein rotation of the cover relative to the resonance ring changes the position of the inner channel baffles to change the effective lengths of the inner channels to adjust the fan noise cancellation waveform frequency. Vanes on the cover are positioned in an airflow such that the airflow rotates the cover, and a spring in each resonance channel counteracts the rotation to adjust the inner channels.
US11151971B2
An acoustic panel for attenuating sound and a method of making the acoustic panel. A septum structure is created comprising a layer of chopped fibers between layers of uncured epoxy. The structure is forced onto the open ends of the cells so that the edges of the cell walls cut the structure into pieces, with each piece having the same cross-sectional size and shape as one of the cells, and the pieces are pushed further into the cells to a specific position. The epoxy layers are cured, and holes are created in the cured epoxy layers to expose the chopped fibers and create septum layers within the cells. The chopped fibers may be sufficiently long and/or strong to provide structural support across each cell but sufficiently short and/or weak to be cut by the edge of the cell wall, and may melt at a higher temperature than the epoxy cures.
US11151969B2
A pitch changer system for a string musical instrument, including a lever assembly, a rotating saddle assembly, a swing plate, and a lever tensioning assembly. Applying force to move the lever in a first direction forces a bell crank matingly coupled to the lever into rotation such that a coupling system of the lever tensioning assembly causes the swing plate to force a rotating saddle of the rotating saddle assembly into rotation to elongate and thereby temporarily change the pitch of a string coupled to the rotating saddle.
US11151963B1
Provided are a residual image detection method and apparatus of a display panel, and a display device. The method includes: controlling a display panel to display a chessboard picture for a preset duration, controlling the display panel to display a pure color picture having a third grayscale, the pure color picture includes multiple pure color sub-pictures, and each of pure color sub-picture includes a middle area and multiple edge areas surrounding the middle area; detecting a luminance of each of the multiple edge areas in the pure color picture; and calculating the residual image quantization value of each of the multiple edge areas according to the luminance of each of the multiple edge areas and a formula, and determining a residual image quantization value of the display panel according to residual image quantization values of the multiple edge areas.
US11151958B2
A driving method and a driving apparatus of a display panel and a display apparatus are provided. The display panel includes adjacently disposed several first pixel units and several second pixel units. The driving method includes: dividing multiple pixel units of the display panel into multiple pixel unit groups each including adjacent two rows of pixel units; using driving voltages of different voltage levels to drive each sub-pixel of a first pixel unit and each sub-pixel of a second pixel unit; using driving voltages of opposite polarities to drive sub-pixels arranged in a same column in each adjacent two of the pixel unit groups; and using driving voltages with a same polarity distribution to drive adjacent two columns of pixel units of each successively arranged three columns of pixel units in a same pixel unit group.
US11151957B2
This display device is provided with: a gate driver that drives a display panel; and a control circuit that controls driving of the gate driver. The control circuit is provided with: a Voltage supply circuit that supplies a Voltage to the gate driver; and a current detection circuit that detects a current to be supplied to the gate driver. The display device reduces, in stages, the voltage to be supplied to the gate driver, and detects the current to be supplied to the gate driver, and in the cases where the detected current is equal to or lower than a predetermined value or a current increase is detected, the display device acquires a first voltage being supplied to the gate driver, and sets a second voltage as a drive voltage for driving the gate driver, said second voltage being obtained by adding a predetermined voltage to the acquired first voltage.
US11151950B2
A light-emitting device and display equipment are disclosed. The light-emitting device includes a light-emitting unit. The light-emitting unit includes a driving transistor and a light-emitting diode. The driving transistor includes a first terminal, a second terminal and a gate terminal. The first terminal is used to receive an operation voltage. The light-emitting diode is coupled to the second terminal and used to receive a driving current. The operation voltage is variable.
US11151948B2
An organic light emitting display device includes: a pixel unit including a plurality of pixels; a scan driver for sequentially supplying a scan signal to the pixels through scan lines, wherein the scan signal includes k (k is a natural number) bias pulses for applying a bias voltage and one write pulse for applying a data voltage; a data corrector for correcting a first grayscale value that is a grayscale value of a (j, i) pixel (i and j are natural numbers) among the pixels, based on a difference between the first grayscale value and a second grayscale value that is a grayscale value of a (j+2k, i) pixel among the pixels; and a data driver for supplying a data voltage corresponding to each of the grayscale values to the pixel unit through a plurality of data lines.
US11151944B2
A driving circuit, a display apparatus and a driving method thereof are provided. The display panel is divided into a plurality of regions including a first region having a rectangular form and a second region having a free form. The driving circuit generates a plurality of control clocks having a first duty cycle during a first period and a second duty cycle different from the first duty cycle during a second period, or having a first phase shift during the first period and a second phase shift different from the first phase shift during the second period, or having a first driving capability during the first period and a second driving capability different from the first driving capability during the second period. Wherein, the control clocks are configured to be transmitted to a gate driving circuit disposed on the display panel for generating a first plurality of scan signals controlling the first region and a second plurality of scan signals controlling the second region according to the control clocks, so as to reduce a luminance difference between the first region and the second region.
US11151935B2
An image display apparatus is disclosed. The image display apparatus includes a display including an organic light emitting diode panel and a controller configured to control the display, wherein the controller is configured to display a first input image, in the case in which a second image having higher luminance than the first image is input after the first image, increase the luminance of the second image during a first period, and decrease the luminance of the second image after the first period. Consequently, it is possible to prevent glare while preventing luminance decrease at the time of scene change of an input image.
US11151923B2
The present application discloses a driving method for a display panel, a driving device thereof and a display device. The driving method includes: performing square wave conversion on drive data received by each channel to obtain data line signals, where square wave signals generated by the conversion of different gray scales in the corresponding drive data have an identical high level, and the time of low level output is different.
US11151918B2
The present disclosure discloses a shift register, a gate line driving method, an array substrate, and a display apparatus, and belongs to the field of displays. The shift register comprises a plurality of shift register units each connected to a group of gate lines on an array substrate, wherein different shift register units are connected to different groups of gate lines, and each group of gate lines comprises at least two gate lines; and a control unit configured to control turn-on and turn-off of the gate lines, wherein the control unit is further configured to control various gate lines in a high resolution region to be turned on and turned off line by line, and control at least two adjacent gate lines in a low resolution region to be turned on and turned off synchronously.
US11151917B1
Disclosed is an electronic device having a variable screen size and in which a degradation boundary may be set based on a total accumulated value. The display having the variable screen size may be partitioned into a plurality of virtual regions, based on the set degradation boundary. Accordingly, the degradation may be compensated with respect to each of the virtual regions.
US11151915B2
An electro-optical device includes a first video line and a second video line adjacent to each other, a first high potential line electrically coupled to the first video line via a first diode, a first low potential line electrically coupled to the first video line via a second diode, a second high potential line electrically coupled to the second video line via a third diode, and a second low potential line electrically coupled to the second video line via a fourth diode. The first diode has an anode electrically coupled to the first video line, the second diode has a cathode electrically coupled to the first video line, the third diode has an anode electrically coupled to the second video line, and the fourth diode has a cathode electrically coupled to the second video line.
US11151913B2
Some embodiments of the present disclosure provide an array substrate, a display panel and a display device. The array substrate includes a test circuit located in a non-display area, wherein the test circuit includes at least one stage of subcircuit, and the subcircuit includes at least one demux; except the first stage of subcircuit, the input ends of the demuxes in the subcircuit are connected with corresponding output ends of the demuxes in the previous stage of subcircuit; except the last stage of subcircuit, the output ends of the demuxes in the subcircuit are connected with corresponding input ends of the demuxes in the next stage of subcircuit; and the input end of the demux in the first stage of subcircuit is connected with a test terminal, and the output ends of the demuxes in the last stage of subcircuit are connected with signal lines in a display area.
US11151903B2
An imaging method for a catheter having a heart model, the heart model being installed in a container in a state of having the container filled with a liquid, and being provided with coronary arteries and an aorta. The imaging method includes causing a chemical reaction between an injection agent injected into the coronary arteries through a catheter, and the liquid in the container, and changing the color of the injection agent to the same color as that of the liquid.
US11151901B2
A training manikin for practising cardiopulmonary resuscitation, said manikin including a torso part, the torso part including: a base board, a lung plate arranged at a distance to said base board, a chest board, a retaining member, a resilient member positioned between said base board and said lung plate, the resilient member having a first end and a second end opposed to said first end, each first end being connected to the base board and each second end being connected to the lung plate, the resiliency of each resilient member being adapted to simulate the resistance encountered in compressing a human chest, a lung bag positioned between said chest board and said lung plate, wherein the retaining member is adapted to retain the torso part in the storage position.
US11151900B2
A method and apparatus for generating voice guidance in a race vehicle while the race vehicle is racing on a race track, comprises receiving, at a voice guidance system (VGS) from a data system (DS) of the race vehicle, status information regarding the race vehicle. Based on the status information, a guidance data for the race vehicle is determined at the VGS, and a voice data of the guidance data is communicated from the VGS to an audio actuator located in the race vehicle. The voice actuator annunciates a voice prompt based on the voice data in the race vehicle.
US11151899B2
The method includes receiving, from a user, a first speech input spoken in a first language; inferring a user intent based on at least the first speech input in the first language; based on the inferred user intent, generating one or more alternative expressions of the first speech input in the first language; and providing feedback to the user introducing the alternative expressions as a more preferred input to express the inferred user intent than the first speech input provided by the user.
US11151890B2
Provided is a 5G interactive distance dedicated teaching system based on holographic terminal and a working method thereof. The distance dedicated teaching system includes a data acquisition module, a data transmission module, a 5G cloud rendering module, a natural interaction module, a holographic display module and a teaching service module.
US11151879B2
A communication device including a mobile radio module for data communication via a mobile radio network and/or an internet access module for data communication via the internet, and a radio module for direct vehicle-to-X communication. The communication device is configured to receive status information and/or environment information of a road user from a processing device for operation of an internet service by the mobile radio module and/or internet access module and to re-emit the status information and/or environment information via the radio module by direct vehicle-to-X communication. A corresponding method to be carried out by a communication device and a method for improving the road safety of a road user are also disclosed.
US11151877B2
A cooperative intelligent traffic system is provided for use between bicycles, motorcycles, and other vehicles. Sensor data from mobile devices and other sensor devices associated with the vehicle can be sent to an edge network computing device (e.g., a multi-access edge computing device) and be processed at the edge network to identify threats and hazards, and then transmit the threat assessment data to other bicycles, motorcycles, and vehicles nearby. The threat assessment data can be used by the operators of the other vehicles to warn them of upcoming threats, hazards, road conditions, and other pertinent conditions.
US11151874B2
A vehicle flow monitoring system for detecting both a car count and direction of movement of vehicles passing a point of interest. The vehicle flow monitoring system generally includes a car counter which may include a microcontroller and a pair of distance sensors. Each of the distance sensors is oriented toward a unique point of interest. Each of the distance sensors includes a threshold distance reading which is used to detect whether a vehicle has passed underneath the car counter. The system may determine direction of travel of the vehicle based on which of the distance sensors is passed by the vehicle first. The microcontroller may assign an Event ID to each time a vehicle passes each of the sensors, with the Event ID being used to identify when and if the vehicle should be counted, or whether a non-vehicle object has passed the car counter.
US11151872B2
A controller comprises processing circuitry to collect traffic information in a geographic region and generate traffic statistics for the region using the traffic information and a communication interface to forward the traffic statistics to an optical transmitter assembly. Other examples may be described and claimed.
US11151867B2
The invention discloses a traffic condition system for Internet of vehicles based on image recognition, comprising a plurality of in-vehicle devices and a backend platform; using edge computing to carry out the traffic condition identification in the image by each in-vehicle device. Each in-vehicle device captures images and analyzes the images to obtain the traffic condition information on the road. The information is divided into static easily-detectable information, dynamic easily-detectable information and static not-easily-detectable information and filed to the backend platform via wireless transmission. The backend platform is to verify the validity of the traffic condition information by means of cross-validation mechanism and supplemented by the dynamic prediction mechanism, to establish a traffic condition map and transmit the traffic condition information to each in-vehicle device according to the position of each driver for the attention, so as to form a low-bandwidth, automated traffic condition system for Internet of vehicles.
US11151862B2
Systems, methods, and software for monitoring and controlling a security system for a structure are provided herein. An exemplary method may include receiving sensor data from at least one first peripheral, the sensor data associated with at least one of activity inside and activity outside of a structure; determining a critical event based in part on the sensor data; creating an alert based in part on the critical event; getting user preferences associated with at least one of a user and a base unit; determining a response based in part on the alert and user preferences; and activating at least one of a second peripheral and a service based in part on the response.
US11151860B2
A hand protection method is provided that detects hand self-motion information and relative motion information between the hand and surrounding objects. The method also contemplates evaluating a risk level of the hand injured by surrounding objects according to the detected self-motion information and the detected relative motion information. An alarm is sounded if the risk rises above a predetermined risk level.
US11151859B1
A method for detecting an event occurring during operation of a vehicle includes receiving indications of a plurality of variables from an installed device communicatively coupled to the mobile device via an internal communication link. The method further includes analyzing the received indications of the plurality of variables to detect the event occurring during the operation of the vehicle. Still further, the method includes, upon detecting the event, initiating: (i) a first communication session between the mobile device and an entity outside of the vehicle, and (ii) a second communication session between the mobile device and the installed device, wherein the mobile device forwards content communicated via the first communication session to the installed device via the second communication session such that the installed device presents the content to the vehicle operator. In one aspect, air pressure wave sensor and accelerometer data may trigger automatic crash notifications to emergency responders.
US11151857B2
Systems and methods of determining an ergonomic assessment for a user are provided. For instance, sensor data can be received from one or more sensors implemented with an ergonomic assessment garment worn by a user. Corporeal data associated with at least one body segment of the user can be determined based at least in part on the sensor data. The corporeal data is associated with a bend angle associated with the at least one body segment. An ergonomic assessment associated with the user can be determined based at least in part on the corporeal data. The ergonomic assessment can include an indication of one or more ergonomic zones associated with the user, the one or more ergonomic zones being determined based at least in part on the bend angle associated with the at least one body segment.
US11151856B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products for securing a device or an asset attached thereto. The positions of a plurality of devices are monitored, and based on the positions, a determination is made as to whether a threshold condition has been violated. If the threshold condition has been violated, a notification signal is transmitted from a monitored device to one or more of the other devices to alert a responder that the monitored device is at risk of being lost. In response to the threshold condition being violated, the monitored device may also record and/or transmit data for display to the responder to help prevent the loss, or facilitate the recovery of the monitored device and/or an asset attached to the monitored device.
US11151851B1
A heat detection system for a fire alarm, the heat detection system including: a heat detection device including at least one heat sensor and an alarm system for triggering an alert when the heat sensor indicates a temperature exceeding a threshold; and a self-regulating heater operable to maintain the heat detection device at a predefined application temperature during use.
US11151846B1
A computer-implemented method is disclosed. The method includes: detecting, by an automated teller machine, a trigger event; in response to detecting the trigger event, determining a current configuration of at least one cassette loaded into the automated teller machine; automatically configuring one or more user interface settings of the automated teller machine based on the current configuration of the at least one cassette; and presenting a user interface based on the one or more user interface settings.
US11151840B2
Described herein is a gaming machine and, a method of gaming thereon, comprising: a symbol selector for selecting a plurality of symbols from a set of symbols during play of a game, the set of symbols including a plurality of function symbols; a display having at least a game area, the selected symbols being displayed in said game area; an outcome evaluator for determining that at least one predefined triggering criterion is satisfied; and a game area expander for expanding said game area in response to said at least one predefined triggering criterion being satisfied, such that at least one additional symbol of the set of symbols is displayed in an expanded game area.
US11151818B2
A method according to one embodiment includes determining, by an access control device that controls access to a passageway, a location of a mobile device relative to the access control device based on a signal distance traveled and an angle of arrival of a signal received by the access control device from the mobile device, determining whether the location of the mobile device relative to the access control device is a location that indicates an intent of the user of the mobile device to access the passageway, and unlocking a lock mechanism of the access control device in response to a determination that the location of the mobile device relative to the access control device indicates that the user intends to access the passageway.
US11151814B2
A system and method for defeating a Relay Station Attack on a hands-free anti-theft system of a vehicle. The hands-free anti-theft system includes a vehicle-mounted transceiver which transmits an authentication request and a hands-free key transceiver paired therewith which receives the authentication request and responds thereto by transmitting a reply signal causing the vehicle to unlock and/or start. A detector is provided having a receiver operating on the frequency at which the authentication request is transmitted, and a memory in which a known characteristic of the authentication request signal is stored. The key transceiver and the detector are located beyond an activation range of the authentication request. When the detector receives a signal, it compares a characteristic of a received signal with the known characteristic, and triggers an alarm signal if there is a match.
US11151813B2
A method for characterizing a user associated with a vehicle including collecting a movement dataset sampled at least at one of a location sensor and a motion sensor associated with the vehicle, during a time period associated with movement of the vehicle; extracting a set of movement features associated with movement of at least one of the user and the vehicle during the time period; and determining one or more user characteristics describing the user based on the set of movement features, wherein the one or more user characteristics include a classification of the user as at least one of a passenger and a driver for the time period associated with movement of the vehicle.
US11151811B2
An information processing device includes: a communication unit configured to communicate with a vehicle used by a user; and a control unit configured to receive user information on the user via the communication unit, determine a usage mode of the vehicle according to a use purpose of the vehicle, the use purpose being estimated based on the user information, and send usage mode information on the usage mode to the vehicle via the communication unit.
US11151809B2
An apparatus for ensuring a fail-safe function of an autonomous traveling system may include: a dead reckoning (DR) information input unit configured to receive plural pieces of sensing information outputted from a plurality of sensors mounted in a vehicle as DR information; an identification value calculation unit configured to calculate an identification value for determining whether the respective pieces of sensing information inputted through the DR information input unit are fails; a fail determination unit configured to determine whether the plural pieces of sensing information inputted through the DR information input unit are fails, using the identification value calculated through the identification value calculation unit; and a determination result output unit configured to combine fail determination results for the plural pieces of sensing information, obtained through the fail determination unit, and output the combined result as a final determination result.
US11151804B2
There is provided an information processing device for rotating an object relative to a viewpoint position of a user in further accordance with the user's desire, the information processing device including: a rotation center determination unit that determines a center of rotation based on a position of an object in a three-dimensional space and an instruction direction of a user in the three-dimensional space; and a rotation control unit that rotates the object relative to a viewpoint position of the user on the basis of the center of rotation.
US11151798B1
Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that create additional depth frames in the circumstance wherein a depth camera runs at a lower frame rate than a light intensity camera. Rather than upconverting the depth frames by simply repeating a previous depth camera frame, additional depth frames are created by adjusting some of the depth values of a prior frame based on the RGB camera data (e.g., by “dragging” depths from their positions in the prior depth frame to new positions for a new frame). Specifically, a contour image (e.g., identifying interior and exterior outlines of a hand with respect to a virtual cube that the hand occludes) is generated based on a mask (e.g., occlusions masks identifying where the hand occludes the virtual cube). Changes in the contour image are used to determine how to adjust (e.g., drag) the depth values for the additional depth frames.
US11151797B2
An electronic device (1) is configured to obtain an image captured with a camera, determine a location for a sensor, determine a detection zone of the sensor in relation to the image based on the location determined for the sensor, and display the image, a virtual representation (54) of the sensor and a virtual representation (55) of the detection zone superimposed over the image. The electronic device is configured to allow a user to specify or adapt at least one property for the sensor (17). This at least one property includes the location for the sensor and may further include the orientation and/or the settings of the sensor.
US11151763B2
An information presentation device includes a plot unit, a histogram generation unit, and a visual information generation unit. The plot unit plots a plurality of values included in each of a plurality of pieces of multidimensional data on a plurality of axes in a parallel coordinate plot coordinate system. The histogram generation unit divides each of the plurality of axes into a plurality of sections, and generates a plurality of histogram bars each of which corresponds to the number of values plotted in each section in the plurality of sections. When one or more values are selected as selected values, the visual information generation unit generates visual information with which the ratio of the number of selected values to the total number of values contained in any one histogram bar out of the respective histogram bars generated by the histogram generation unit can be identified.
US11151754B1
Graphic arts software has evolved to provide users with a variety of mark making tools to simulate different brushes, papers, and applied media such as ink, chalk, watercolour, spray paint and oils. However, in many instances the marks rendered appear unnatural and artificial despite the software's goal being to simulate as realistically. Accordingly, it would be beneficial to provide either users or the software application with a mechanism to remove or reduce artifacts indicative of artificial generation, e.g. rapid transitions. Further, in many instances the graphic images generated and/or manipulated refer to imagined environments or have elements that are physical in nature. Accordingly, it would be beneficial to provide users with a range of mark making tools that represent marks made by mark making tools comprising multiple elements following physical laws.
US11151748B2
There is provided a method of decoding point cloud data, the method comprising: decoding a bitstream to obtain attribute information of point cloud data, acquiring attributes of the point cloud data using the decoded attribute information and reconstructing the point cloud data using the obtained attributes, wherein the attribute information contains bit depth information of each attribute of the point cloud data.
US11151735B1
A deformation processing support system acquires target shape data of a work having a reference line; acquires intermediate shape data from the work in an intermediate shape having a reference line marked thereon; and overlaps the two data on each other by aligning the reference lines relative to each other, to calculate a necessary deformation amount of the work based on a difference between the two data overlapped on each other. To align the reference lines with each other, first and second alignment axes with the same length calculated for the respective reference lines are superimposed on each other. Subsequently, the intermediate shape data is relatively rotated with respect to the target shape data around the first alignment axis.
US11151731B2
A method includes receiving a reference image and a non-reference image; dividing the reference image into a plurality of tiles; determining, using an electronic device, a motion vector map using coarse-to-fine based motion vector estimation; and generating an output frame using the motion vector map with the reference image and the non-reference image.
US11151728B2
The present invention discloses a structure monitoring system comprising a plurality of marking units disposed on a structural object, a monitoring device monitoring the plurality of marking units remotely, and a data processing device connected to the monitoring device. The aforementioned data processing device further comprises a data receiving module and a data processing module. The data receiving module receives a data detected by the monitoring device, and the data processing module calculates and analyzes the information. In addition, a structural monitoring method has also been provided.
US11151724B2
An automatic detecting method and an automatic detecting apparatus using the same are provided. The automatic detecting apparatus includes an inputting unit, a dividing unit, a contouring unit, a range analyzing unit, a boundary analyzing unit, an edge detecting unit, an expanding unit and an overlapping unit. The dividing unit is used for dividing an overlooking image into four clusters via a clustering algorithm. The contouring unit is used for obtaining a contour. The range analyzing unit is used for obtaining a detecting range. The boundary analyzing unit is used for obtaining a circular boundary in the detecting range. The edge detecting unit is used for obtaining a plurality of edges in the circular boundary. The expanding unit is used for expanding the edges to obtain a plurality of expanded edges. The overlapping unit is used for overlapping the expanded edges and the contour to obtain a defect pattern.
US11151722B2
A computer-implemented method, an apparatus, and a system for estimating synthetic values of quantitative metrics are provided. They involve calculating new, more accurate boundaries using a classifier based on local intensity and spatial estimators, for the segmentation mask provided by a non-local means patch-based segmentation in a test image, and estimating for the pixels of interest at least one synthetic value of a quantitative metric using a given value of the quantitative metric assigned to the reference images and the boundaries. The method, apparatus, and system provide the advantage of generating synthetic values directly comparable against known values for given subjects or against predetermined scales for diagnostic or prognostic purposes. In the specific case of Alzheimer's disease, the invention stretches the predictive range up to two full decades, which constitutes a significant advance in the field of medical diagnostics.
US11151720B2
The present invention provides a physiological information detection method for calculating a physiological value by using changes of a dynamic image. The detection method includes: acquiring detection data from a gray-scale value of the dynamic image, and transforming the detection data into frequency data. The detection method further includes: determining whether the frequency data meet a preset condition, and using a transformation model of a corresponding transformation combination accordingly to transform the frequency data into a physiological value. The present invention further provides a physiological information detection device applying the detection method.
US11151712B2
A method for detecting image defects is described, which includes obtaining an image to be detected, down-sampling the image to be detected to obtain a down-sampled image, de-cluttering the down-sampled image to obtain a de-cluttered image, restoring the de-cluttered image into a restored image having the same resolution as the image to be detected so as to be used as a background image, and comparing the image to be detected with the background image to determine defects in the image to be detected. An apparatus for detecting image defects, a computing device and a storage medium are also described.
US11151706B2
A system, method and computer readable medium for classifying defects, the method comprising: receiving classified first defects, and potential defects, each first and potential defect having values for attributes; processing the first and potential defects to select a subset of the attributes that differentiates the first defects from the potential defects; obtaining first and second functions based on the first defects and potential defects, respectively; obtaining a first threshold for the first function, and a second threshold for a combination of the first and second functions; applying the first function and the second function to each potential defect to obtain first and second scores, respectively; and determining a combined score of the first and second scores; and indicating as a defect of a potentially new type a potential defect when the first score is lower than the first threshold or the combined score exceeds the second threshold.
US11151702B1
Electronic devices, methods, and program storage devices for leveraging machine learning to perform improved image fusion and/or noise reduction are disclosed. An incoming image stream may be obtained from an image capture device, wherein the incoming image stream comprises a variety of differently-exposed captures, e.g., EV0 images, EV− images, EV+ images, long exposure images, EV0/EV− image pairs, etc., which are received according to a particular pattern. When a capture request is received, two or more intermediate assets may be generated based on determined combinations of images from the incoming image stream, and the intermediate assets may then be fed into a neural network that has been trained to determine one or more sets of parameters to optimally fuse and/or noise reduce the intermediate assets. In some embodiments, the network may be trained to operate on levels of pyramidal decompositions of the intermediate assets independently, for increased efficiency and memory utilization.
US11151701B2
An image grid line removing method is used for removing grid lines of an image and includes a Fourier transform step, a Gaussian-like masking step and an inverse Fourier transform step. The Fourier transform step is for providing a Fourier transform to process the image to generate a frequency domain image. The Gaussian-like masking step is for providing a Gaussian-like masking model to process the frequency domain image to generate a frequency domain masked image. The inverse Fourier transform step is for providing an inverse Fourier transform to process the frequency domain masked image to generate a grid line removing image.
US11151689B2
The present disclosure provides an image processing method applied to a displaying terminal. The method includes: receiving a to-be-processed layer image delivered by the displaying terminal; querying a high resolution layer image matched with the to-be-processed layer image in a preset database based on the to-be-processed layer image; and delivering the high resolution layer image to the displaying terminal, thereby the displaying terminal processes the to-be-processed layer image based on the high resolution layer image. The present disclosure further discloses an image processing device, system and computer readable storage medium. According to the disclosure, an image resolution is improved.
US11151682B2
Systems and methods provide a provisioning framework for a distributed graphics processing unit (GPU) service. A network device in a network receives, from an application, a service request for multi-access edge compute (MEC)-based virtual graphic processing unit (vGPU) services. The network device receives real-time utilization data from multiple MEC clusters in different MEC network locations and generates a utilization view of the multiple MEC clusters in the different MEC network locations. The network device selects, based on the real-time utilization view, one of the different MEC network locations to provide the vGPU services and instructs a of the multiple MEC clusters in the one of the different MEC network locations to perform container provisioning and service provisioning for the vGPU services.
US11151670B2
An energy saving support system according to an embodiment is configured to provide a consumer, who has an electric load to which electric energy is supplied from an electric power supply system within a house, with energy consumption-related information through a photo frame or the like. The information providing apparatus is configured to acquire an acceptability level, which stepwise indicates a degree of interest of the consumer in the energy consumption-related information, and to determine the energy consumption-related information to be newly provided to the consumer based on the acceptability level.
US11151663B2
A document-oriented search can be executed to generate a set of document results, at least one of the documents associated with at least one potential expert. The document results can be analyzed to produce a list of potential experts. An expertise score for at least one of the potential experts can be calculated based on a content score and a metadata score for the at least one of the potential experts. A confidence score for the potential expert can be calculated based on a diversity-constrained content score and a diversity-constrained metadata score for the at least one of the potential experts, the diversity-constrained content score and the diversity-constrained metadata score calculated using an evidence diversity score for the at least one of the potential experts. A list of experts with associated confidence scores that are above a confidence score threshold can be sent to a client device.
US11151661B2
A plurality of potential feed objects and corresponding identifications of actors who performed a user interface action that caused a corresponding potential feed object to be generated are obtained. The plurality of potential feed objects and corresponding actor identifications are then fed into a machine learned feed object ranking model, with the machine learned feed object ranking model having been trained via a machine learning algorithm to calculate a score for each of the potential feed objects. The score is based on a combination of a likelihood that the user will perform an interaction, via the user interface, on the potential feed object, likelihood that the user's interaction will cause one or more downstream events by other users, and likelihood that a response from a viewer will cause the actor corresponding to the potential feed object to perform an additional user interface action to generate another potential feed object.
US11151659B2
The disclosed systems and methods facilitate identifying beneficiaries of matured insurance policies. In a preferred embodiment, the systems and methods leverage one or more websites, such as social media websites, to allow customers, family members, and other beneficiaries to search for and receive information about unclaimed matured policy proceeds. Optionally, users may also search for and receive information related to in-force policies. In cases where the insured is living, the systems and methods can update address and social security number records, enabling more effective policy administration and customer service going forward. The systems and methods may further distribute the matured policy proceeds to the identified beneficiary.
US11151643B1
A multi-user shopping experience that allows users to converse and exchange ideas in a group setting while shopping. Through a browser or an application (e.g., on a mobile device), users are able converse with other shoppers, exchange ideas, select items, view items selected by other users, and make purchases. Additionally, each user is notified of other users' activities (e.g., viewing a collective shopping bin or browsing web pages in an on-line marketplace). Furthermore, incentives (such as discounts or free gifts) are provided to users in the group.
US11151638B2
A system and related method for change management at login. The method includes constructing an administratively prescribed target data store as a function of received administrative input prescribing a target feature and target feature-state, and related messages to push to a user upon occurrences of target feature mismatches and matches. Login information, including a username identifier, service provider identifier, and current use time-stamp are received for a user. A historical data store is queried to obtain a user status that associates the username identifier and the service provider identifier with a previously used feature, feature-state and a previous use time-stamp. The target data store is queried for the service provider. Determinations are made as to whether previous feature use matches target feature use. Messages are displayed responsive thereto.
US11151635B2
A system includes a plurality of servers that are configured to execute a distributed matching system for the trading of one or more items.
US11151633B1
According to certain aspects of the disclosure, a computer-implemented method may be used for providing vehicle recommendations based on traffic camera data. The method may include acquiring traffic data from a plurality of traffic cameras and determining vehicle information based on the traffic data. Additionally, calculating average idling time of vehicles based on the traffic data from the plurality of traffic cameras. Additionally, determining accident information based on the traffic data from the plurality of traffic cameras and selecting at least one available vehicle for purchase, wherein the at least one available vehicle matches one or more predetermined requirements based on the determined vehicle information, average idling time, and the determined accident information. Additionally, transmitting a recommendation based on the selected at least one available vehicle for purchase.
US11151623B2
A computer-implemented method and system is disclosed in which a network-based interaction environment includes a plurality of peer-to-peer nodes being able to communicate directly with each other using a peer-to-peer protocol and a peer-to-peer client application, and a first peer-to-peer client application to maintain persistent item information on at least one peer-to-peer node of the plurality of peer-to-peer nodes, the persistent information being related to an item being offered by a first user of the first peer-to-peer client application.
US11151620B2
The present invention relates to a method for the payment of a service and/or a product with respect to a vehicle and a parking location, wherein said vehicle is managed by a user, wherein said vehicle comprises a vehicle device, wherein said method comprises amongst other things the following steps: the arrival of said vehicle at said parking location; the transmission of a session request comprising a coordinate to a back-end infrastructure by said vehicle device; the receipt of an availability and/or a price indication of said parking location by said vehicle device of said back-end infrastructure; if said parking location is available, the initiation of a parking session belonging to said service and/or said product.
US11151608B1
Techniques are provided for determining that an item should be provided for presentation to a user based on an item concept relatedness score. For example, a computer system may partition a plurality of items into a plurality of item concepts, whereby each item is assigned to one and only one item concept. The computer system may receive a list of co-selected items, whereby each item of the list is assigned to an item concept. Based at least in part on this list, the system may determine an item concept relatedness score between a first item concept and a second item concept of the plurality of item concepts. The computer system may then receive a selection of a first item assigned to a first item concept. Based at least in part on the item concept relatedness score, the system may provide the second item for presentation to a user.
US11151600B2
An image captured at a first moment in time is received. A user is identified by comparing at least one facial feature extracted from the image with user information stored in a database. It is determined whether the user observed a visual display by determining whether the visual display was within the visual field of the user. Upon determining that the user observed the visual display, the image is processed with a sentiment analysis module to determine a sentiment of the user. Further, it is determined, based on a record stored in a transaction database, that the user purchased the first product at a second moment in time, and an engagement index is generated for the visual display based on processing the determined sentiment of the user and a period of elapsed time between the second moment in time and the first moment in time.
US11151596B2
A method and system for communication protocol pass reduction amongst recipient nodes capable of receiving broadcast messages, the recipient nodes functioning as different decisions points for determination of a passing joint set of nodes for squadron communication therebetween. The method and system provide squadron communication between different ones of the recipient nodes, wherein one of the recipient nodes becomes a squadron leader node upon a selection of a specific broadcast message for distribution to other recipient nodes for acceptance. The squadron leader node and the other recipient nodes upon acceptance form the passing joint set of nodes for squadron communication therebetween.
US11151592B2
An energy-saving promotion achievement-evaluating device is provided in which: a population-constituting user identification information-obtaining unit comprises a population-constituting group identification information-obtaining means for obtaining population-constituting group identification information for obtaining, as comparison targets, a plurality of groups identified by group identification information for identifying a group constituted by a plurality of pieces of user identification information as the comparison target; and an energy-saving promotion achievement evaluation result-obtaining unit comprises a group-energy-saving promotion achievement evaluation result-obtaining means for obtaining energy consumption achievement data of the group identified by the population-constituting group identification information obtained by the population-constituting group identification information-obtaining means as an energy-saving promotion achievement evaluation result in association with the group identification information on the basis of the held energy-saving evaluation rule.
US11151569B2
A method and system for detecting fraudulent network events in a payment card network are provided. A plurality of scored payment card transaction authorization requests are received, originating from a plurality of merchants, and at least one data structure is generated. The data structure sorts the scored authorization requests into fraud score range stripes. The data structure is parsed over a plurality of time periods, and at least one cumulative metric is calculated for each of the time periods in each fraud score range stripe. A plurality of ratio striping values is determined, and a set of feature inputs is generated using the ratio striping values. A second fraud detection model is applied to the scored authorization requests. Parameters of the second fraud detection model are configured to change based on the generated set of feature inputs.
US11151566B2
A method including receiving an inquiry from a provider to authenticate a provisioning of an account to a mobile wallet. The method also can include determining device ownership information for a mobile device that operates the mobile wallet, account ownership information for the account, device risk information associated with the mobile device, and account risk information associated with the account. The method additionally can include determining an ownership correlation between the device ownership information and the account ownership information. The method further can include generating a fraud risk level by applying business rules and one or more statistical modeling techniques. The method additionally can include providing a response to the provider based on the fraud risk level. Other embodiments are provided.
US11151556B2
A method for distributing controlled tokens to a secondary mobile device includes: storing account profiles, each including an account identifier, set of token credentials, and an associated mobile device identifier; receiving a token distribution request from a first mobile device including a first mobile device identifier, recipient mobile device identifier, specific account identifier, and account controls; identifying a specific account profile including the specific account identifier and first mobile device identifier; generating a single use identification value and reservation identifier; transmitting the single use identification value to the first mobile device; transmitting the reservation identifier to a second mobile device associated with the recipient mobile device identifier; receiving the reservation identifier and the single use identification value from the second mobile device; verifying the reservation identifier and single use identification value received from the second mobile device; and transmitting a new set of token credentials to the second mobile device.
US11151552B2
A method and system provided for a single-action with which the customer places an order and receives goods by the single action of connecting an electrical vehicle (EV) to a charging station according to the business terms associated with this invention, the affiliated organizations that purchase or support the operation of the invention participate in a business “franchise” operation whereby all affiliated organizations increase their revenues as the volume of EV charging events increases.
US11151549B2
A system and method for bootstrapping a cryptographic ledger based on stake in a fiat currency. Stake can be verified using proof of cash systems involving anti-spoofing, anti-counterfeiting, and remote verification and transaction functionality. Stake can further or otherwise be verified using proof of balance systems involving verification of one or more balances using a service of a financial institution or data provider. These systems, together or separately, can be utilized to implement a cryptographic currency and application platform enabling financial transaction and general computing capabilities, in accordance with various embodiments of the invention.
US11151548B2
In response to detecting a request from a first device associated with a first user to utilize a digital wallet associated with a second user, a computer system determines if the first user is authorized to utilize the digital wallet associated with the second user. Further, in response to determining that the first user is authorized to utilize the digital wallet associated with the second user, the computer system allows the first device restricted access to the digital wallet.
US11151543B2
The present invention relates to a method for a secure transaction utilizing a portable radio communication device (10), wherein both parts in the secure transaction are protected against fraudulent actions, among other things by use of a common transaction identity on a predefined transaction server.
US11151542B2
A wearable device receives authentication information from a user. In response to verifying the authentication information, the wearable device provides the user with access to one or more payment capabilities of the wearable device. In response to determining that the wearable device has been switched into an open state, the wearable device removes access to the one or more payment capabilities of the wearable device.
US11151541B1
A method for peer-to-peer prepaid card accounts can create a prepaid card that can receive donations through a QR code disposed on the physical card. Restrictions can also be placed on the card to control where or how the funds may be used. The method can, in response to receiving a request at a card management service to create an account, obtain account information, wherein the account information comprises a user name, an account number, a QR code image, and optionally a biometric data. The account information can be stored as a card account for the user, which is funded by receiving a payment from a second party using the QR code. Then, when a card holder uses the card for a transaction, the card management service can function as an issuer to authorize its use.
US11151536B2
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and computer-readable media related to providing a point of sale platform. In some embodiment, a point of sale (POS) device may receive information associated with an order and payment information associated with the order. The POS device may generate a first object based at least in part on the information associated with the order and a second object based at least in part on the payment information. The POS device may store the first object and the second object in a queue. The POS device may transmit the first object and the second object to a remote server.
US11151533B2
A computer-implemented method of communicating with a point of sale terminal. The method includes establishing wireless communication with a point of sale terminal using a first communication channel, and establishing communication with the point of sale terminal using a second communication channel. The method also includes transmitting a first section of communication data via the first communication channel; and transmitting a second section of the communication data using the second communication channel.
US11151529B1
Methods and systems for retaining credit card usage through systematic recognition of recurring payments are described. In some embodiments, a method includes receiving user transaction data relating to a payment instrument issued to a user. The user transaction data may include payees and a schedule of payments to the payees. The method may further include identifying recurring payees based on a category of each of the payees. In response to a triggering event requiring an account update of the payment instrument, a report identifying the recurring payees may be generated for the user.
US11151525B2
Systems and methods for performing consolidation of several cryptocurrency payments by using a non-custodial cryptocurrency platform. A consolidation address is generated at the non-custodial platform in response to a withdrawal request. The consolidation address is under direct ownership of a user. At least one unsigned consolidation transaction is generated that identifies at least one selected payment representation as input, and the generated consolidation address as an output. An unsigned destination transaction is also generated. The unsigned destination transaction identifies the generated consolidation address as an input and the withdrawal destination as an output. A signed version of each consolidation transaction and a signed version of the destination transaction are received from a signing enclave. The signing enclave is included in a client device of the user.
US11151522B2
A method being implemented via execution of computing instructions configured to run at one or more processors and stored at one or more non-transitory computer-readable media. The method can include receiving a transaction amount and a preauthorization code from a first entity. The preauthorization code can include a preauthorization amount, an expiration time, and a digital signature. The transaction amount is for a transaction authorized by a user of a mobile device at a point-of-sale terminal of the first entity. The transaction amount is less than or equal to the preauthorization amount. The mobile device received the preauthorization code and stored the preauthorization code in the mobile device while the mobile device was in data communication with a mobile wallet provider. The mobile device provided a transaction code to the point-of-sale terminal while the mobile device was unable to communicate with the mobile wallet provider. The transaction code includes the preauthorization code, a transaction identifier for the transaction, and the transaction amount. The method also can include verifying the preauthorization code using the digital signature of the preauthorization code. The method additionally can include sending an approval for the transaction to the first entity in real-time while the user remains at the point-of-sale terminal of the first entity. Other embodiments are described.
US11151510B2
Computer program products, methods, systems, apparatus, and computing entities for tracking an item delivery are provided. In one embodiment, an item is associated with a vehicle (e.g., manned or unmanned terrestrial vehicle, nautical vehicle, and/or aerial vehicle) by updating item data in a database. An item tracking session is then generated based on the item data. Upon the determination that session availability trigger has occurred, access to the item tracking session is provided to a user. Data representing an updated location of the delivery vehicle is then used to update the item data to indicate the current location of the item as the updated location of the vehicle.
US11151509B1
Images that depict delivery locations associated with a customer may be captured or obtained. One or more classifiers may be utilized to detect and/or identify scene attributes that are depicted in the images and that are associated with the delivery location. One or more correlations between the scene attributes and delivery attributes associated with the delivery location may be determined and used to generate one or more scores for the delivery location. The correlation(s) and/or the score(s) may be utilized to determine delivery instructions that facilitate the delivery of items and/or packages to the delivery location.
US11151507B2
Methods and systems for automatic package tracking and prioritized reordering include receiving, through a network interface, information relating to an order, a first package identifier associated with a first package, and event data associated with a plurality of package identifiers that include the first package identifier, the order comprising a first group of items, where the first package is configured to hold the first group of items and is to be delivered to a first recipient within a first predetermined period of time through one or more existing routes; parsing the event data based on the first package identifier; determining whether the first package exists based on the information; and transmitting a signal to a computer system to deliver the first package or to reorder the first package based on the determinations.
US11151500B2
A system and method for identifying a probability of disease affecting a crop based on data received over a network is described herein, and may be implemented using computers for providing improvements in plant pathology, plant pest control, agriculture, or agricultural management. In an embodiment, a server computer receives environmental risk data, crop data, and crop management data relating to one or more crops on a field. Agricultural intelligence computer system 130 computes one or more crop risk factors based, at least in part, the crop data, one or more environmental risk factors based, at least in part, the environmental data, and one or more crop management risk factors based, at least in part, on the crop management data. Using a digital model of disease probability, agricultural intelligence computer system 130 computes a probability of onset of a particular disease for the one or more crops on the field based, at least in part, on the one or more crop risk factors, the one or more environmental risk factors, and the one or more crop management factors.
US11151496B2
A lead time calculation system includes a configured lead time generator and a measured lead time generator. The configured lead time generator calculates a lead time estimate to move products between a first node in a supply chain and a second node in the supply chain based on expected travel times, expected warehouse times, expected sourcing times, delivery schedules, unloading schedules, and product-node relationship data. A measured lead time generator receives electronic data interchange (EDI) events, receipts, and purchase order data and calculates an actual lead time for the first node and second node. The actual lead time can be compared with the configured lead time to evaluate performance of different aspects of the supply chain. Lead time estimates can be adjusted based on actual lead times that are measured by the measured lead time generator.
US11151492B2
Multiple POS checkout system efficiency factors, based in part upon actual contents of shopping containers and time sequences of images of facial expressions of individual shoppers, are iteratively calculated using computer-based analytics responsive to randomized individual shopper arrivals at a set of point of sale (POS) checkout systems within a store. At least one of a change to a different queue or a change to a different position within a queue of at least one shopping container associated with an individual shopper is identified that results in a more consistent distribution of the calculated multiple POS checkout system efficiency factors across the set of POS checkout systems. At least one shopping container is directed to the different queue or the different position within the queue to improve overall POS checkout system efficiency across the set of POS checkout systems.
US11151488B2
A first feature is displayed within a first view of a user interface. A first selection of the first feature is configured to display a first set of identifiers corresponding to one or more tasks. A second feature is displayed within the first view of the user interface. A second selection of the second feature is configured to display a second set of identifiers corresponding to a set of workers. Each worker of the set of workers is associated with the one or more tasks and a first time that the one or more tasks are scheduled to be completed by. A set of status indicators are displayed. Each status indicator of the set of status indicators indicates whether the one or more tasks have been completed by the first time for the each worker of the set of workers based at least in part on the associating.
US11151480B1
A visualization is presented while tuning a machine learning model. A model tuning process writes tuning data to a history table. The model tuning process is repeatedly training and scoring a model type with different sets of values of hyperparameters defined based on the model type. An objective function value is computed for each set of values of the hyperparameters. Data stored in the history table is accessed and used to identify the hyperparameters. (A) A page template is selected from page templates that describe graphical objects presented in the display. (B) The page template is updated with the accessed data. (C) The display is updated using the updated page template. (D) At the end of a refresh time period, new data stored in the history table by the model tuning process is accessed. (E) (B) through (D) are repeated with the accessed data replaced with the accessed new data.
US11151471B2
An approach is provided for providing predictive classification of actionable network alerts. The approach includes receiving the plurality of alerts. Each alert of the plurality of alerts indicates an alarm condition occurring at a monitored network system, and is a data record comprising one or more data fields describing the alarm condition. The approach also includes classifying said each alert using a predictive machine learning model. The predictive machine learning model is trained to classify said each alert as actionable or non-actionable using the one or more data fields of said each alert as one or more respective classification features, and to calculate a respective probability that said each alert is actionable or non-actionable. The approach further includes presenting the plurality of alerts in a network monitoring user interface based on the respective probability of said each alert.
US11151469B2
The present disclosure relates generally to mechanisms for the estimation of location privacy risk, comprising: building one or more trajectory models from auxiliary information (e.g., one or more maps, one or more routes); capturing common behavioral patterns (e.g., shortest route(s),/fastest route(s)); identifying, given unlinked trajectories for a plurality of users, most likely linkages using the trajectory model(s); eliminating one or more unlikely linkages based on deviation from the shortest route(s) and/or the fastest route(s); measuring privacy as the percentage of linkages correctly identified; and outputting the measured privacy.
US11151467B1
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for generating intelligent automated adaptive decisions. In operation, a system receives a request to generate a prediction associated with a business problem for a customer. The system identifies a customer segment from a plurality of customer segments to which the new customer is most closely associated. Additionally, the system identifies a statistical model associated with the customer segment. Moreover, the system selects a best prediction from a competing set of machine learning models and the statistical model, utilizing a multi arm bandit arbitrator applying a multi arm bandit technique to solve the business problem.
US11151461B2
A system includes a processor configured to wirelessly receive data indicating vehicle-feature usage for an individual vehicle. The processor is also configured to aggregate received data to form a feature-usage customer profile defining feature preferences. The processor is further configured to select vehicles associated with a customer-classification, including predefined feature-usage characteristics, the customer-classification determined based on a correlation between the predefined feature-usage characteristics and the aggregated data in the feature-usage profile defining feature preferences. The processor is also configured to compare the aggregated data to the selected vehicles to determine a vehicle having features preferred by a customer as indicated by the aggregated data in the feature-usage profile and recommend the determined vehicle to the customer.
US11151456B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for predicted brain data of a patient. One of the methods includes receiving montage configuration data for a specified montage; receiving raw EEG data captured using the specified montage from a brain of a particular subject; generating, using the montage configuration data and the raw EEG data, EEG connectivity data for the specified montage; using a generative neural network to map the EEG connectivity data to predicted fMRI connectivity data, the generative neural network having been trained using training EEG-fMRI connectivity data pairs, each pair comprising EEG connectivity data of a subject and fMRI connectivity data of the same subject; and taking an action based on the predicted fMRI connectivity data.
US11151450B2
Systems and methods that use a neural network architecture for extracting interpretable relationships among predictive input variables. This leads to neural network models that are interpretable and explainable. More importantly, these systems and methods lead to discovering new interpretable variables that are functions of predictive input variables, which in turn can be extracted as new features and utilized in other types of interpretable models, like scorecards (fraud score, etc.), but with higher predictive power than conventional systems and methods.
US11151437B2
A transaction card includes at least one metal layer having one or more apertures therein. A light guide is disposed beneath the metal layer. The light guide has a light output and a light input. The light output is positioned to transmit light through at least the one or more apertures of the metal layer. At least one LED is positioned to transmit light into the light guide light input.
US11151435B2
A first element and a second element of a same device communicate with each other. The first element sends the second element a first piece of information representative of energy supplied by an electromagnetic field supplying power the device. The second element adapts its operating frequency as a function of the first piece of information.
US11151433B2
A server is used to receive a barcode generation request sent by an end-user device. The server is used to generate, based on the barcode generation request, at least two pieces of barcode information by using at least two code systems, respectively. The server is used to transmit a barcode generation response to the end-user device, where the barcode generation response includes the at least two pieces of barcode information, where the barcode generation response causes an application running on the end-user device to display on the end-user device, alternately, a respective barcode image corresponding to each piece of the at least two pieces of barcode information.
US11151430B2
An image forming apparatus that prevents, when reducing variation in thickness of thin lines, the legibility of the thin lines from being adversely affected thereby. When print data is acquired, in a rendering process for printing based on the acquired print data, the rendering process including a line width adjustment process is executed. In a case where the line width adjustment process is executed on the print data, not only the line width adjustment process but also a process for thickening thin lines is executed.
US11151429B2
A printing device includes: a conveying part configured to convey a printing medium in a conveying direction; a printing part configured to print on the printing medium at a print timing; a cutting part provided downstream of the printing part in the conveying direction and configured to cut the printing medium, which has been conveyed by the conveying part, at a cut timing after the printing part prints on the printing medium; and the controller configured to print, by controlling the printing part, a first scale and a second scale on the printing medium. At least a portion of the printed first scale and at least a portion of the printed second scale are arranged at the same position in the conveying direction. The printed first scale and the printed second scale are arranged at different positions in an orthogonal direction orthogonal to the conveying direction.
US11151427B2
A method for checkout based on an image identification technique of convolutional neural network includes acquiring N pictures of M items to be classified placed on a checkout counter, N shooting angles corresponding to the N pictures have at least one shooting angle for taking pictures downwards from just above, performing object detection in the pictures acquired downwards from just above to obtain first rectangular area images, then respectively performing the object detection in remaining pictures according to the number of the pictures to obtain remaining rectangular area images, obtaining preliminary classification results according to the first rectangular area images, the remaining rectangular area images and a pre-trained first-level classification model, and obtaining first-level classification results according to the preliminary classification results and a pre-trained first-level linear regression model, using the first-level classification results as first classification results and performing checkout according to the first classification results.
US11151421B2
Method for treating a surface includes: automatically evaluating at least one digital image which includes the target surface; determining the nature of the target surface according to the evaluation of the at least one digital image; determining at least one available treatment implement according to the evaluation of the at least one image; determining the nature of the surface treatment according to the evaluation of the at least one image; automatically determining a use of the determined treatment implement in the determined treatment of the determined surface; and providing information analogous to the determined use of the treatment implement.
US11151417B2
A method and a system for generating training images for training an instance segmentation machine learning algorithm (MLA). A set of image-level labelled images are received, where a given image is labelled with a label indicative of a presence of an object having an object class in the image. A classification MLA detects the object having the object class in each image. A class activation map (CAM) indicative of discriminative regions used by the classification MLA for detecting the object in each image is generated. A region proposal MLA is used to generate region proposals for each image. A pseudo mask of the respective object is generated based on the region proposals and the CAM, where a pseudo mask is indicative of pixels corresponding to the respective object class. The pseudo masks are used as a label with the image-level labelled images for training the instance segmentation MLA.
US11151415B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods, and computer program products for a parameter archival storage system for image processing models. The system is configured for read-optimized compression storage of machine-learning neural-network based image processing models with reduced storage by separately storing weight filter bits. The system is configured to construct weigh parameter objects associated with the plurality of neural network layers of an image processing model, such that the image processing model can be reconstructed from the weigh parameter objects. The system may discard the hierarchical linked architecture of the second image processing model and store the second image processing model at the at least one hosted model versioning system repository by storing only the weigh parameter objects.
US11151408B2
An occlusion detection system to perform operations that include: capturing image data that depicts an environment at a client device, the environment including a target object at a position within the environment; causing display of a presentation of the environment at the client device, the presentation of the environment including a display of the target object at the position within the environment; detecting a first attribute of the display of the target object at the client device; performing a comparison of the first attribute of the display of the target object and a second attribute associated with the target object; and detecting an occlusion based on the comparison.
US11151403B2
The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for segmenting a sky area, and a convolutional neural network. The method includes: acquiring, by the image input layer, an original image; extracting, by the first convolutional neural network, a plurality of sky feature images with different scales from the original image; processing, by the plurality of cascaded second convolutional neural networks, the plurality of sky feature images to output a target feature image; up-sampling, by the up-sampling layer, the target feature image to obtain an up-sampled feature image; determining, by the sky area determining layer, a pixel area of which a gray value is greater than or equal to a preset gray value in the up-sampled feature image as a sky area.
US11151401B2
A method for consistently mounting a removable sensor to a machine is provided. The method includes recording, by camera, an image including a sensor placed on a target. The sensor includes a first plane marked with a first color that is perpendicular to a first sensor axis representing a positive axis direction. The method also includes determining, by accelerometer, an image orientation concurrently with the recording. The method further includes identifying the sensor within the image. The method additionally includes determining, using the identified first color, a sensor orientation within the image relative to the image orientation. The sensor orientation includes the positive axis direction. The method also includes comparing the sensor orientation to a reference orientation. The method further includes determining the sensor orientation matches the reference orientation and recording a target measurement in response. The method also includes outputting, by GUI, confirmation of that the measurement was recorded.
US11151397B2
A user recognition method and apparatus, the user recognition method including performing a liveness test by extracting a first feature of a first image acquired by capturing a user, and recognizing the user by extracting a second feature of the first image based on a result of the liveness test, is provided.
US11151396B2
Real time vehicle occupant emergency health data systems and methods that link a vehicle subsystem, a cloud subsystem, and a public health profile subsystem such that, in a triggering vehicle emergency event or the like, the health status of a previously-identified or unidentified vehicle occupant is captured in real time by an on-board camera and/or other sensor. This vehicle occupant identification and health status information are variously transmitted to the cloud, where the vehicle occupant identification is coupled with available public health profile information, in the case of a previously-identified vehicle occupant. Subsequently, the health status information and public health profile information are transmitted to an emergency responder or the like, thereby aiding in rendering medical assistance to an injured or sick vehicle occupant. The systems and methods of the present disclosure may also provide data analytics information that may be used later to improve vehicle safety.
US11151387B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for a detection system. The detection system includes a first camera configured to capture a first image data of a surrounding environment. The first image data includes multiple objects. The detection system includes a memory configured to store image data. The detection system includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to obtain the first image data. The electronic control unit is configured to recognize the multiple objects. The electronic control unit is configured to determine that an object among the multiple objects within the surrounding environment is different than a baseline of the surrounding environment. The electronic control unit is configured to record and capture, in the memory and using the camera, the first image data for a time period before and after the determination that the object is different than the baseline.
US11151377B2
A cloud detection method based on Landsat 8 snow-containing image, including the following steps: Step 1, selecting any Landsat 8 image as a current image; Step 2, obtaining a cloud threshold for delineating a cloud range from the current image; and Step 3, removing false anomalies in the cloud range delineated by the cloud threshold from the current image so as to obtain a cloud image from which the false anomalies have been removed. The present disclosure can effectively solve the problem of confusion of cloud and snow present in conventional cloud detection methods, and is applicable to regions of different latitudes, without limitations by the amount of cloud.
US11151366B2
System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to addressing occluding potential miscommunication from an occupant of an autonomously operated vehicle. A method of occluding communication from an occupant of an autonomously operated vehicle includes generating sensor data indicating one or more aspects of an environment around the vehicle, analyzing the sensor data to identify a presence of an individual outside of the vehicle determining a position of the individual relative to an occupant inside the vehicle, and occluding at least a portion of at least one window between the individual and the occupant.
US11151365B2
A people detection system with feature space enhancement is provided. The system includes a memory having computer-readable instructions stored therein. The system includes a processor configured to access a plurality of video frames captured using one or more overhead video cameras installed in a space and to extract one or more raw images of the space from the plurality of video frames. The processor is further configured to process the one or more raw images to generate a plurality of positive image samples and a plurality of negative image samples. The positive image samples include images having one or more persons present within the space and the negative image samples comprise images without the persons. The processor is configured to apply at least one of a crop factor and a resize factor to the positive and the negative image samples to generate curated positive and negative image samples and to detect one or more persons present in the space using a detection model trained by the curated positive and negative image samples.
US11151363B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an expression recognition method, apparatus, electronic device and storage medium. An expression recognition model includes a convolutional neural network model, a fully connected network model and a bilinear network model. During an expression recognition process, after an image to be recognized is pre-processed to obtain a facial image and a key point coordinate vector, the facial image is computed by the convolutional neural network model to output a first feature vector, the key point coordinate vector is computed by the fully connected network model to output a second feature vector, the first feature vector and the second feature vector are computed by the bilinear network model to obtain second-order information, and an expression recognition result in turn is obtained according to the second-order information. During this process, robustness of gestures and illuminations is better, and accuracy of expression recognition is improved.
US11151361B2
An apparatus for dynamic emotion recognition in unconstrained scenarios is described herein. The apparatus comprises a controller to pre-process image data and a phase-convolution mechanism to build lower levels of a CNN such that the filters form pairs in phase. The apparatus also comprises a phase-residual mechanism configured to build middle layers of the CNN via plurality of residual functions and an inception-residual mechanism to build top layers of the CNN by introducing multi-scale feature extraction. Further, the apparatus comprises a fully connected mechanism to classify extracted features.
US11151354B2
A fingerprint identification module and an electronic device are provided. The electronic device includes a screen assembly provided with a glass substrate. The fingerprint identification module includes: a color filter coating applied onto the glass substrate; an optical collimator arranged at a side of the color filter coating away from the glass substrate; and an image sensor arranged at a side of the optical collimator away from the color filter coating.
US11151349B2
A fingerprint sensor may include first and second electrodes, a light absorption layer isolated from direct contact with the first and second electrodes, and an insulation layer between the first electrode and the light absorption layer and further between the second electrode and the light absorption layer. A reflective layer may be between the light absorption layer and the first electrode. The insulation layer may include a first insulation layer between the first electrode and the light absorption layer, and a second insulation layer between the second electrode and the light absorption layer. A fingerprint sensor array including a plurality of fingerprint sensors may at least partially expose a plurality of sub-pixels of a display panel on which the fingerprint sensor array is located.
US11151347B1
A touch-fingerprint complex sensor includes a fingerprint substrate provided in a fingerprint area and a touch area, common electrodes provided above the fingerprint substrate in a direction that is normal to an upper surface of the fingerprint substrate, fingerprint electrodes provided between the fingerprint substrate and the common electrodes in the direction, and touch electrodes provided below the common electrodes and the fingerprint substrate in the direction, wherein a first subset of the common electrodes, and the fingerprint electrodes are provided in the fingerprint area, and a second subset of the common electrodes, and the touch electrodes are provided in the touch area.
US11151340B2
An RFID tag includes an RFID device and a controller. The RFID device includes a storage into which data is writable from a writing apparatus through wireless communication. The controller reads object information of output stored in the storage and causes an output device to output the read object information. In response to the object information being written into the storage, the controller reads the object information after an elapse of a set waiting time. The storage includes a storage region into which setting data of the waiting time is writable from the writing apparatus.
US11151335B2
A machine translation method includes using an encoder of a source language to determine a feature vector from a source sentence expressed in the source language, using an attention model of a target language to determine context information of the source sentence from the determined feature vector, and using a decoder of the target language to determine a target sentence expressed in the target language from the determined context information.
US11151329B2
A natural language understanding server includes grammars specified in a modified extended Backus-Naur form (MEBNF) that includes an agglutination metasymbol not supported by conventional EBNF grammar parsers, as well as an agglutination preprocessor. The agglutination preprocessor applies one or more sets of agglutination rewrite rules to the MEBNF grammars, transforming them to EBNF grammars that can be processed by conventional EBNF grammar parsers. Permitting grammars to be specified in MEBNF form greatly simplifies the authoring and maintenance of grammars supporting inflected forms of words in the languages described by the grammars.
US11151328B2
An artificial neural network (ANN) determines a conversation snippet sentiment score based on content of the conversation snippet and contextual attributes associated with the conversation snippet. Contextual attributes may include, for example, a role within an organizational hierarchy of a user participating in the conversation snippet. Information representing the content is input into a hidden layer sequence of the ANN; information representing the contextual attributes is input into another hidden layer sequence of the ANN. Additionally or alternatively, a weighing engine determines a topical sentiment score by aggregating weighted conversation snippet sentiment scores. Weights to be applied to the conversation snippet sentiment scores may be determined based on, for example, a proportion of conversation snippets associated with the same topic that are conducted on a particular conversation channel as compared with other conversation channels, and respective roles of users participating in the conversation snippets conducted on the particular conversation channel.
US11151315B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for automatically defined groups for document distribution are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of accessing document data for a document having content that is adjustable based on geographic locations of objects. The actions further include determining multiple object types specified by the document data, the multiple object types indicating types of objects that are discoverable using the document. The actions further include obtaining object location data indicating locations associated with objects. The actions further include identifying objects having the determined object types that are associated with locations in a particular geographical area. The actions further include obtaining attributes of the identified objects from one or more databases. The actions further include generating a view of the document based on the document data, the identified objects, and the obtained attributes.
US11151299B2
A system includes at least one Input/Output (I/O) interface and a processor. The processor is coupled to the at least one I/O interface. The processor is configured to perform, according to a file or a rule inputted from the at least one I/O interface, operations below. When the at least one condition is present in a signal to be received or transmitted by a terminal of a cell, a plurality of conductive segments is assigned to the terminal of the cell, to transmit the signal to the terminal of the cell. When the at least one condition one is not present in the signal, a single route is assigned to the terminal of the cell, to transmit the signal to the terminal of the cell. The single route and each of the conductive segments are configured to have the same width.
US11151292B2
Various embodiments described herein provide a method of making an object from a three-dimensional geometry file and a light polymerizable resin on a light-transmissive window by projection of light through the window in a bottom-up stereolithography process. The method may comprise: slicing the file into a series of sequential images. Temperature fluctuations in the resin may be calculated for at least some of the sequential images upon light polymerization thereof based on sequential exposure of the resin to light, the light corresponding to the series of sequential images. During producing of the object, the production may be modified based on the calculated temperature fluctuations by: (i) reducing production speed during at least a portion of the production; (ii) activating a window cooler during at least a portion of the production; or (iii) increasing production speed during at least a portion of the production.
US11151287B2
An asynchronous pipeline circuit includes: a first processing stage including a first data latch configured to generate a request signal; a second processing stage downstream the first processing stage and including a second data latch; and a programmable delay line coupled between the first data latch and the second processing stage. The programmable delay line is configured to receive the request signal from the first data latch and to generate a delayed request signal by randomly delaying the request signal on each data transfer from the first data latch to the second data latch.
US11151284B2
The present disclosure is directed to a novel system for active and passive management of location-based copy data. The system may intake user data from various data sources into a rules engine, which contains the decision logic to format the incoming data according to location-dependent rules. The system may continuously index the incoming data as well as metadata (e.g., data source, data storage location, rules associated with the data, or the like). Based on the output of the rules engine and/or index engine, an action engine may execute various processing steps to condition the data for storage in a particular system. Furthermore, the system may use passive and continuous rule updates with the process as described herein to automatically update the stored user data to conform to the new rules.
US11151282B2
A method of providing material based on a user-initiated request utilizing an electronic database includes receiving search keywords to conduct a search and accessing a first database having previously stored contact information for the particular user in an initial table record. The method includes transforming data in the fields of the record for the particular user in the initial table to generate a record in a sanitized table, accessing a second electronic database having previously stored data structures corresponding to businesses, where each data structure maps selected keyword combinations to corresponding icons, and to particular material corresponding to each keyword combination, and displaying icons associated with search results having corresponding selected keywords near associated result items on an electronic display. The method includes initiating sending of particular material corresponding to the request based on the selected icon and contact data for the user obtained from the sanitized table.
US11151277B1
A method for recovering encrypted content from structured files is provided. During an encryption process, a known pattern of metadata may be inserted into each of a set of headers of the encrypted content and each of a set of footers of the encrypted content. The processing logic may insert the encrypted content into a structured file and subsequently (e.g., during an attempt to access the content) detect that a structure of the structured file has been damaged. The encrypted content may be identified by identifying one or more of the set of headers and one or more of the set of footers of the encrypted content. In this way, the method allows for partial recovery of encrypted content and prevents total loss of the content in situations where the structure of the file including the encrypted content is damaged.
US11151270B2
A system for providing a multi-tenant data protection application includes a server shared by all tenants for access to the provided multi-tenant data protection application. The system further includes business logic for managing tenants of the multi-tenant data protection application, tenant resource allocation and isolation of tenant operating environments. The system additionally includes a database server for creating, managing and maintaining databases, including a master database used to store configuration and monitoring data which is used for tenant management and monitoring, and a plurality of private tenant databases, each used to store tenant-specific configuration, tenant-specific data and associated tenant resources. The system includes one or more data protection engines configured to store a copy of protected data at tenant redundant data stores.
US11151265B2
Aspects of the present invention disclose a method for securely storing data. The method includes one or more computer processors receiving, by one or more computer processors, a request to store data, wherein the data includes a plurality of elements. The method further includes generating a plurality of elements of encoded data by on applying one or more encoding algorithms to the data, wherein a quantity of the plurality of elements of the encoded data is equal to a quantity of the plurality of elements of the data. The method further includes distributing the plurality of elements of the encoded data into two or more subsets of the encoded data, without duplication. The method further includes transmitting the two or more subsets of the encoded data to a corresponding quantity of two or more storage systems.
US11151260B2
A method for providing and checking the validity of a virtual document on a first computer system is disclosed. The virtual document is provided by means of a mobile second computer system for a first computer system. The method includes receiving a password-protected storage address of a first database at which the virtual document can be read, reading the virtual document, displaying the virtual document on a display of the first computer system, receiving a unique second identifier of the mobile second computer system, calculating a third identifier using the received second identifier and a hash value of the virtual document, identifying the database entry of the second database in which a first identifier of a first pairing consisting of the mobile second computer system and the first virtual document is stored, comparing the calculated third identifier with the first identifier stored in the identifier database entry.
US11151258B2
A system and method of security assessment of a network is described. The system may include one or more security assessment computers controlled by a security assessor, and connected to a network, and first executable program code for acting as an agent on a first end device on the network. The first executable program code is configured to be executed by a browser application of the first end device, and is configured to collect software information, hardware information, and/or vulnerability information of the first end device and transmit the same to a first security assessment computer of the one or more security assessment computers. The information may be transmitted as part of a domain name server (DNS) request. The DNS request may include information identifying the first end device to thus allow modification of the first end device in response to analysis of the collected information.
US11151251B2
A malicious code detection module identifies potentially malicious instructions in volatile memory of a computing device before the instructions are executed. The malicious code detection module identifies an executable file, including an .exe file, in memory, validates one or more components of the executable file against the same file stored in non-volatile storage, and issues an alert if the validation fails.
US11151242B2
A server includes a controller performs determining whether a first local area network and a second local area network match; determining, in a case where the first login request is received and in a case where the first registration request is received, whether the first function execution device satisfies the first registration condition; and registering by: controlling, in a case where the first local area network and the second local area network match and the first function execution device satisfies the first registration condition, to register the first identification information; wherein, in a case where the first local area network and the second local area network do not match, the first identification information is not registered; and wherein, in a case where the first function execution device does not satisfy the first registration condition, the first identification information is not registered.
US11151240B2
A method of monitoring access requests to one or more access controls of an access control system is provided. The method comprising: receiving a first access request from a key card to a first access control, the key card being encoded with a credential and an access code; determining that the credential is not authorized to access the first access control; checking a first value of the access code; and rewriting the first value of the access code to a second value of the access code if the first value of the access code does not equal a desired value of failed access request attempts.
US11151233B2
Data processing systems and methods, according to various embodiments, are adapted for automatically assessing the level of security and/or privacy risk associated with doing business with a particular vendor or other entity and for generating training material for such vendors. In various embodiments, the systems may automatically obtain and use any suitable information to assess such risk levels including, for example: (1) any security and/or privacy certifications held by the vendor; (2) the terms of one or more contracts between a particular entity and the vendor; (3) the results of one or more privacy impact assessments for the vendor; and/or (4) any other suitable data. The system may be configured to automatically approve or reject a particular vendor based on the assessed risk level associated with the vendor and this information may be automatically communicated to an entity considering doing business with the vendor and/or the vendor itself.
US11151214B2
Examples described herein include systems and methods for dynamically determining a server for enrollment with a management system. An example method can include receiving user input at an application executing on a user device, such as a portal application that provides access to and authentication for other applications through a catalogue of application icons. If the user input includes a first URL but that URL produces an error when used in conjunction with extensions associated with a management server, the application can automatically use extensions associated with an application-support server. The application can then retrieve a second URL from the application-support server and use it for performing enrollment steps at the management server. The enrollment steps can include authenticating the user at an identity service and determining the user's group ID for enrollment, for example.
US11151210B2
A search method comprises: determining a location designated by a target search request; determining a grid corresponding to the location in a gridded location area; and determining the grid's corresponding optimal search radius from correspondence relationships between grids and optimal search radiuses, and using the optimal search radius to perform a search corresponding to the target search request.
US11151205B2
It is presented a method for managing communication data. The method is performed by a connection manager server (20) and comprising the step of: causing store (41) of historical communication data, for a communication session between a user and one or more contacts, into a database (13), wherein the historical communication data comprises communication data, a session identifier, a communication type, a communication context, and a user identifier for each contact having participated in the communication session. Methods for indexing communication data, and for recommending a communication type, are also presented. Corresponding connection manager servers (20), computer programs (64, 65) and a computer program product (62, 63) are also presented.
US11151198B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving data that represents actions taken by a particular user with respect to entities of a plurality of entity types, disambiguating the data by identifying entities specified in the data using a machine learning based annotator that is trained to recognize entities and annotating the data, receiving a query specific from the particular user, querying the data that represents actions taken by the particular user, generating an answer to the query from the data representing the actions taken by the particular user, and providing the answer to the query.
US11151196B2
Validating revisions of digital content managed by a content management system can include determining a quality metric value, the value indicating coverage of the digital content by a set of training data used to train a ranking model for ranking responses to search queries of the digital content. Additionally, content validation can include invoking a ranking editor in response to the quality metric value deviating from a predetermined threshold by more than a predetermined amount. Content validation can further include extending the set of training data using the interactive ranking editor.
US11151191B2
A method for video content searching is provided. The method accesses video content and segments the video content into a plurality of frames. The method identifies one or more characteristics for at least a portion of frames of the plurality of frames and determines time frames for each characteristic of the one or more characteristics within the portion of the frames. The method generates frame keywords for the plurality of frames based on the one or more characteristics. The method assigns at least one frame keyword to each time frame within the portion of the frames and generates an index store for the video content. The index store is generated based on the frame keywords and assigning the at least one frame keyword to each frame. The index store includes the frame keywords and time frames assigned to the frame keywords.
US11151175B2
One embodiment provides a method for on-demand relation extraction from unstructured text that includes obtaining a text corpus of domain related unstructured text. Representations of the unstructured text that capture entity-specific syntactic knowledge are created. Initial user seeds of informative examples containing relations are received. Extraction models in a neural network are trained using the initial user seeds. Performance information and a confidence score are provided for each prediction for each extraction model. A next batch of informative examples are identified for annotation from the text corpus based on training a neural network classifier on a pool of labeled informative examples. Stopping criteria is determined based on differences of the performance information and the confidence score in relation to parameters for each extraction model. Based on the stopping criteria, it is determined whether to retrain a particular extraction model after the informative examples have been labeled.
US11151174B2
A method of checking a link in a body of text comprises receiving the text and detecting a link to an external source within the received text. At least a portion of the received text is selected for analysis and one or more important keywords within the selected portion of the received text are determined. Text is obtained from the external source by accessing the link. At least a portion of the obtained text is selected for analysis and one or more important keywords within the selected portion of the obtained text are determined. The more important keywords within the selected portion of the original received text are compared with the important keywords within the selected portion of the obtained text from the link, and an output is provided depending upon the result of the comparison of the one or more important keywords within the selected portion of the received text with the one or more important keywords within the selected portion of the obtained text.
US11151172B2
Methods, systems and computer readable media are provided for accessing faceted information using ontologies. Information for an initial entity, including different ontologies to which the initial entity belongs, is retrieved. Entities within different ontologies are determined. The determined entities and different ontologies are displayed on a user interface to enable traversal of the different ontologies for viewing of the determined entities. Accordingly, a user may search for an initial entity. Different ontologies, linked to the initial entity may be returned. A user may select an ontology, and ontologies in which the initial entity belongs are displayed. The user may select any of the displayed ontologies to access other entities in the selected ontology.
US11151170B2
A system and method for the creation of household links (HHLs) associates each household with particular consumers associated with a consumer link (CL) and an address link (AL). The system and method utilize a feedback loop system to maintain persistence of HHLs over time and more accurately resolve HHLs. Top-down and bottom-up clustering methods are applied to the data, and the best results are taken to generate the final association of HHLs with particular ALs and CLs. By more accurately identifying the households associated with particular consumer data, the invention significantly reduces the storage requirements and time required for processing very large consumer data sets.
US11151169B2
Motion abstraction includes ontologies having taxonomies for classification of various types of vessels (entities) and their movements based on inputted raw data. Kinematic-data abstraction, activity identification, entity classification, and entity identification, can be performed such that kinematic data is decomposed using an ontology describing motion, activities are decomposed using an ontology describing activities, and entity classes are decomposed using an ontology describing entity classes having unique-entity instances.
US11151166B2
Context-based multi-granularity intent discovery, in relation to determining the intent of a user-problem associated with one of a plurality of products, includes identifying each of the plurality of products in a base intent level of a hierarchical intent data structure, creating a first granularity level below the base intent level, and creating a subsequent granularity level. The first granularity level includes groupings of the plurality of user-problems created according to a first common intent feature; the common intent feature is related to a respective one of the plurality of products. The subsequent granularity level includes sub-groupings of the user-problems of a respective grouping with each sub-grouping created according to a second common intent feature. The second common intent feature of each sub-grouping is determined without consideration of the first common intent feature.
US11151155B2
In a method of memory use in a distributed index and query system, a processing thread serializes a list of documents into a first memory object exclusively borrowed from a memory object pool of a memory to achieve a first segment comprising a serialized data array of the documents, an offset index, and a document count. The serialized data array is compressed by the processing thread into a second memory object exclusively borrowed from the memory object pool to achieve a second segment comprising a compressed serialized data array, the offset index, and the document count. Subsequent to the compression, the first memory object is release back to the memory object pool. The second segment is written to a data storage device, and subsequent to the writing, the second memory object is released back to the memory object pool.
US11151144B2
A method for sorting a data table is provided. The method may include providing a plurality of attribute value information for each data block of the data table. The method may also include receiving a query requiring a sorting on the first attribute of the data table. The method may further include determining a plurality of sequences of a plurality of data blocks having disjoint value ranges of the first attribute based on the provided plurality of attribute value information. The method may also include, for each determined sequence of the plurality of data blocks, reading a plurality of data, sorting the read plurality of data from each data block, and concatenating the sorted plurality of data from the plurality of data blocks within the determined sequence, thereby providing a sorted plurality of sequences. The method may further include merging the sorted plurality of sequences.
US11151137B2
In an environment where multiple datasets are to be combined, systems and methods are disclosed for allocating a group of data entries from at least one dataset into multiple partitions. For a particular partition, the subgroup in the partition can be combined with data entries from the other dataset. In some cases, groups of data entries from each dataset are assigned to different partitions. For a particular partition, a subgroup is duplicated, some of the data entries of the subgroup are reassigned to other partitions, the subgroup is reformed to include data entries from other partitions, and the reformed subgroup is combined with the subgroup from the other dataset(s).
US11151128B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for providing data partitioning and transferring operations. An embodiment operates by determining a partition size and a number of partitions for an initial data set to be transferred from a first location to a second location. A uniqueness factor for at least a subset of the columns of the dataset is determined, and a set of unique columns is identified from the initial data set based on the uniqueness factor. Based on the partition size, a set of values from the row records from the set of unique columns is identified. Based on the identified set of values, the initial data set is partitioned into the number of partitions. One of transmitting or receiving at least one of the partitions is performed.
US11151121B2
Method and systems for generating an adjacency matrix A and a directional relation graph representing a relationship between one or more diagnostics. The adjacency matrix with all zero's is initialized. One or more entries in the adjacency matrix A are revised by, for each source diagnostic s, decreasing a corresponding count A(s,d) in the adjacency matrix A to decrease a corresponding directional relation in response to the diagnostic s failing and one or more other diagnostics d passing; increasing the corresponding count A(s,d) in the adjacency matrix A to increase the corresponding directional relation in response to the diagnostic s failing and one or more other diagnostics d failing; and maintaining a current value of the corresponding count A(s,d) in the adjacency matrix A in response to the diagnostic s passing or having no corresponding data. The directional relation graph is generated based on the adjacency matrix A.
US11151120B2
There are provided systems and methods for determining data validity during data processing for multiple processing stacks. During processing requests with a service provider, each request may go through a data flow that invokes multiple processing stacks, where the data is transmitted over a network to different data processing nodes. For example, a distributed computing architecture may invoke multiple disparate nodes to process data, which may become corrupted during data transmission and processing. To ensure data validity, a framework may be provided that provided data translators for each processing stack to covert data handled in a processing format for that stack into a base data format utilized by the framework. The framework may utilize checksums or other hash values of the data in the base data format to determine if the data has been altered at different processing nodes or stacks.
US11151119B2
Systems and methods for assessing the veracity of content are described. The method may include determining a truth rating for each of a plurality of factual claims in a document, generating a veracity score for the document based on the truth rating for each of the identified plurality of factual claims, generating a meta-data score for the document based on metadata of the document, and generating a content structure score for the document. The method may then include generating a reliability index for the document based on the veracity score and the meta-data score and presenting the scores and the overall reliability index to a user via a user application.
US11151116B2
A distributed data management method performed by a distributed data management apparatus for holding a plurality of indexes which specify storage positions of data to be distributed in a network system, the method includes steps of: in a case where any one of the held indexes is deleted, adding an identifier of the deleted index to a first invalid list held by the distributed data management apparatus; and in a case where it is determined that an index requested from an information processing apparatus is not held, transmitting the first invalid list to the information processing apparatus.
US11151086B2
The present technology pertains to a details pane that is displayed in coordination with a file explorer interface. The details pane can display details including activities, comments, and previews for content items displayed in the details pane. In some embodiments, the content items displayed in the file explorer interface can be stored in and accessed from different services, and the details in the details pane can also be populated from diverse sources. In some embodiments, edits or navigations can be performed within a preview of the content item. In some embodiments, comments can be shown along with previews that show the comment located within the content item.
US11151081B1
A tiering service that supports cold tier indexing includes a warm tier and a cold tier and a resource manager that automatically relocates data items between the warm tier and the cold tier or removes data items from the cold tier in accordance with a tiering policy. The tiering service also includes a client interface configured to receive a request specifying index criteria for a cold tier index to be created. The tiering service generates a cold tier index based on data items stored in cold tier flat files satisfying the index criteria included in the request to create a cold tier index. Also, the tiering service automatically updates the cold tier index after it is stored in the cold tier as data items are relocated between the warm tier and the cold tier or removed from the cold tier in accordance with the tiering policy. In some embodiments, the tiering service also provides a common interface for accessing the cold tier index and a warm tier index.
US11151078B2
Structured data archival with reduced downtime is disclosed. One example is a system including a deployer that manages an active table (AT), and a non-active table (NAT), and creates an intermediate table (IT) to record, during data archival, changes to the data to be archived. The deployer creates triggers on the AT and the NAT to facilitate the record, by the IT, of the changes to the data to be archived. An archiver initiates the data archival by archiving the copy of the data to be archived from the NAT, merges the recorded data from the IT to the NAT upon receiving an indication that the client access to the AT is not enabled, and switches the client access from the AT to the NAT by changing a table synonym, where the client access to the NAT is enabled upon completion of the data archival.
US11151072B2
A low voltage drive circuit includes a transmit digital to analog circuit that converts transmit digital data into analog outbound data by: generating a DC component; generating a first oscillation at a first frequency; generating a second oscillation at the first frequency; and outputting the first oscillation or the second oscillation on a bit-by-bit basis in accordance with the transmit digital data to produce an oscillating component, wherein the DC component is combined with the oscillating component to produce the analog outbound data, and wherein the oscillating component and the DC component are combined to produce the analog outbound data. A drive sense circuit drives an analog transmit signal onto a bus, wherein the analog outbound data is represented within the analog transmit signal as variances in loading of the bus at the first frequency and wherein analog inbound data is represented within an analog receive signal as variances in loading of the bus at a second frequency.
US11151066B2
Differing widths of retimers are developed using differing numbers of individual retimer elements combined together. To maintain synchronous operation, various signals are provided between the individual retimer elements to allow synchronization of the various operations. A first signal is a wired-OR signal that is used for event and operation synchronization. A second set of signals form a serial bus used to transfer proper state information and operation correction data from a master retimer element to slave timer elements. The combination of the wired-OR signal and the serial bus allow the various state machines and operations inside each retimer element to be synchronized, so that the entire width of the link is properly synchronized.
US11151061B1
A keyboard includes a communication module configured to communicatively couple the keyboard to a host computer. The keyboard includes a plurality of keys that are configured to be physically actuated by a user. The plurality of keys can be remapped such that a signal transmitted to the host for a specific key can be changed to a different signal corresponding to a different key. The keyboard can also include an administrative mode that can be accessed in response to the user depressing a series of predetermined keys. While in the administrative mode the user can reconfigure keyboard settings, access debug functions of the keyboard and/or reset memory locations.
US11151058B2
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for staging data from storage to a fast cache tier of a multi-tier cache in a non-adaptive sector caching mode in which data staged in response to a read request is limited to track sectors required to satisfy the read request. Data is also staged from storage to a slow cache tier of the multi-tier cache in a selected adaptive caching mode of a plurality of adaptive caching modes available for staging data of tracks. Adaptive caching modes are selected for the slow cache tier as a function of historical access ratios. Prestage requests for the slow cache tier are enqueued in one of a plurality of prestage request queues of various priority levels as a function of the selected adaptive caching mode and historical access ratios. Other aspects and advantages are provided, depending upon the particular application.
US11151055B2
Systems and methods of tracking page state changes are provided. An input/output is communicatively coupled to a host having a memory. The I/O device receives a command from the host to monitor page state changes in a region of the memory allocated to a process. The I/O device, bypassing a CPU of the host, modifies data stored in the region based on a request, for example, received from a client device via a computer network. The I/O device records the modification to a bitmap by setting a bit in the bitmap that corresponds to a location of the data in the memory. The I/O device transfers contents of the bitmap to the CPU, wherein the CPU completes the live migration by copying sections of the first region indicated by the bitmap to a second region of memory. In some implementations, the process can be a virtual machine, a user space application, or a container.
US11151054B2
A central processing unit (CPU) sets a cache lookup operation to a first mode in which the CPU searches a cache and only performs an address translation in response to a cache miss. The CPU performs the cache lookup operation while in the first mode using an address that results in a cache miss. Responsive to the CPU detecting the cache miss, the CPU sets the cache lookup operation from the first mode to a second mode in which the CPU concurrently searches the cache and performs an address translation. The CPU performs a cache lookup operation while in the second mode using a second address that results in a cache hit. Responsive to detecting the cache hit, the CPU sets the cache lookup operation from the second mode to the first mode. This process repeats in cycles upon detection of cache hits and misses.
US11151041B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods related to tokens to indicate completion of data storage to memory are described. An example method may include storing a number of data values by a first page in a first row of an array of memory cells responsive to receipt of a first command from a host, where the first command is associated with an open transaction token, and receiving a second command from the host to store a number of data values by a second page in the first row. The method may further include sending a safety token to the host to indicate completion of storing the number of data values by the second page in the first row.
US11151033B1
A processor includes a plurality of cache memories, and a plurality of processor cores, each associated with one of the cache memories. Each of at least some of the cache memories is associated with information indicating whether data stored in the cache memory is shared among multiple processor cores.
US11151016B2
A control-program-development supporting apparatus (10) comprises an editing unit (11) and a display unit (14). The editing unit (11) executes editing of a control program and debugging of the control program. The display unit (14) displays the contents of the editing and the contents of the debugging. In addition, when the same processing is designated a plurality of times for a program construct or a variable to be debugged contained in the control program during executing debugging, the editing unit (11) causes the display unit (14) to display debugging supplementary information including at least one of past edited contents concerning the program construct or the variable to be debugged, changed contents of the control program, and related error information.
US11151014B2
Techniques are provided for system operational analytics using additional features over time-series counters for health score computation. An exemplary method comprises: obtaining log data from data sources of a monitored system; applying a counting function to the log data to obtain time-series counters for a plurality of distinct features within the log data; applying an additional function to the time-series counters for the plurality of distinct features; and processing an output of the additional function using a machine learning model to obtain a health score for the monitored system based on the output of the additional function. The additional function comprises, for example, an entropy function representing a load balancing of a plurality of devices in the monitored system; one or more clustered counts for a plurality of entities in the monitored system; a number of unique values; and/or one or more modeled operations based on correlations between a plurality of different operations in the monitored system.
US11151006B2
According to one general aspect, an apparatus may include a plurality of stacked integrated circuit dies that include a memory cell die and a logic die. The memory cell die may be configured to store data at a memory address. The logic die may include an interface to the stacked integrated circuit dies and configured to communicate memory accesses between the memory cell die and at least one external device. The logic die may include a reliability circuit configured to ameliorate data errors within the memory cell die. The reliability circuit may include a spare memory configured to store data, and an address table configured to map a memory address associated with an error to the spare memory. The reliability circuit may be configured to determine if the memory access is associated with an error, and if so completing the memory access with the spare memory.
US11150995B1
Data replication groups may be used to store data in a distributed computing environment. A data replication group may include a set of nodes executing a consensus protocol to maintain data durably. In order to increase efficiency and performance of the data replication group a placement system may be used to determine the placement of node of the data replication groups. The nodes may be executed by a set of host computer systems within a distributed computing environment. The placement system may determine the placement of the nodes within the set of host computer systems based at least in part on one or more constraints. A selection algorithm may be used to determine a set of node for a data replication group satisfying the one or more constraints.
US11150989B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide method, device and computer program product for managing a storage system. The storage system includes a disk having a plurality of extents. The method comprises obtaining metadata associated with an RAID stripe in a first RAID of a first type, the first RAID including at least a part of extents from the plurality of extents. The method also comprises allocating an additional extent to the RAID stripe. The method further comprises converting, based on the allocated additional extent and by modifying the metadata, the first RAID of the first type into a second RAID of a second type in a degraded mode. Additionally, the method comprises initiating, based on the modified metadata, a rebuilding process for the second RAID, so as to convert the second RAID from the degraded mode to a normal mode.
US11150982B2
Systems and methods are provided for detecting and correcting address errors in a memory system. In the memory system, a memory device generates an error-detection code based on an address transmitted via an address bus and transmits the error-detection code to a memory controller. The memory controller transmits an error indication to the memory device in response to the error-detection code. The error indication causes the memory device to remove the received address and prevent a memory operation.
US11150971B1
Pattern recognition is used to proactively treat defects of repeating circuit topologies. A component of a computing environment is monitored for failures. The component includes one or more repeating circuit topologies. A determination is made as to whether a new failure within a repeating circuit topology of the one or more repeating circuit topologies has occurred within a predefined amount of time from a previous failure matching a selected pattern, in which the selected pattern indicates a non-contiguous growing defect. Based on determining the new failure has occurred within the predefined amount of time from the previous failure matching the selected pattern, corrective action for the component is proactively taken.
US11150966B1
Toast notifications can be managed via a toast adapter and plugins. A toast adapter can function as an intermediary between a service and an application that interfaces with the Windows toast framework. The service can employ plugins that are configured to send toast requests to the toast adapter. The toast requests can include metadata from which the toast adapter can construct toast content. The toast adapter can then interface with the application to submit the toast content to the Windows toast framework to cause the toast notifications to be displayed. When a user interacts with a toast notification, the arguments that the Windows toast framework provides can be relayed by the application to the toast adapter. The toast adapter may then identify which plugin was the source of the toast notification and provide an indication of the user's interaction with the toast notification to the plugin.
US11150954B2
Various approaches are described to manage the execution of operations. Such operations may be performed without human intervention and may help maintain functionality of a cloud platform or client instances. In one aspect of the present approach, the number and/or type of automations starting in a given time frame may be limited to maintain an even or consistent distribution of resource usage. In a further aspect, the number and/or type of concurrent automations may be limited to a defined threshold to maintain an even or consistent distribution of resource usage.
US11150947B2
An information processing device includes a processor. The processor is configured to decide a deletion deadline of a second environment based on a predetermined condition relating to an application having a first environment that is a production environment and the second environment that is a staging environment, and delete the second environment when the decided deletion deadline arrives.
US11150933B2
Techniques for optimizing CPU usage in a host system based on VM guest OS power and performance management are provided. In one embodiment, a hypervisor of the host system can capture information from a VM guest OS that pertains to a target power or performance state set by the guest OS for a vCPU of the VM. The hypervisor can then perform, based on the captured information, one or more actions that align usage of host CPU resources by the vCPU with the target power or performance state.
US11150915B2
During verification of a bytecode, when a second class remains to be loaded for verification in an MRE, a verifier in the MRE is prevented from loading the second class, where the bytecode includes a relationship between a first class and the second class. The relationship is recorded and the verifier is caused to omit a loading operation on the second class. An execution is started of an application encoded in the bytecode. The second class is caused to be loaded and verified prior to a use of the second class during the execution.
US11150908B2
A fusion opportunity is detected for a sequence of instructions. The sequence of instructions include an indication of an affiliated location and an indication of an affiliated derived location. Based on the detecting, a value to be stored in the affiliated derived location is generated. The value is a predicted value. The value is stored in the affiliated derived location, and the affiliated derived location is accessed to use the value by one or more instructions executing within the computing environment.
US11150893B2
According to one or more embodiments of the present invention, a computer-implemented method includes uploading, by a first instance of an integrated development environment (IDE), a first source-code change to a change log of a version control system. A second instance of the IDE is used to upload a second source-code change to the change log of the version control system. A determination is made that the second source-code change conflicts with the first source-code change. Based on the determination that the second source-code change conflicts with the first source-code change, generating a notification of the second source-code change is generated in the first instance of the IDE.
US11150892B2
A computing system includes a logic subsystem and memory storing instructions executable by the logic subsystem. The instructions are executable by the logic subsystem to store, in the memory, a plurality of software models that each describe aspects of a network connected device or a software service, the plurality of software models comprising a first version of a selected software model. The logic subsystem is configured to receive a second version of the selected software model and validate the second version of the selected software model via validation logic by applying one or more versioning rules to the second version of the selected software model. Based on the application of the one or more versioning rules, the logic subsystem is configured to execute a versioning action on the selected software model.
US11150887B2
According to one example, a method performed by a computing system, the method includes, with a privileged component of the computing system, loading patching code to a region of memory. The method further includes, in relation to executing the patching code, switching from a first set of page tables to a second set of page tables, wherein the second set of pages tables is configured such that only the patching code is executable and privileged memory is writable. The method further includes, executing the patching code to update code stored in memory subject to a predefined set of constraints.
US11150878B2
A technique is described including taking a research paper of interest (target paper) and identifying concepts within it based on topic analysis among bibliometric clusters; identifying descriptions of each concept across bibliometric clusters wherein the descriptions will be of varying levels of granularity and will use different terms to describe the same concept or phenomena; using the various descriptions of a concept to create search terms to be used in a repository of annotated, searchable source code snippets; and constructing implementation of target paper's methodologies using source code snippets.
US11150873B2
An arithmetic apparatus according to an embodiment outputs a multiplicative value obtained by multiplying a weight value and an input value. The arithmetic apparatus includes a memristor, a logarithmic transform circuit, and a current-voltage converter circuit. The memristor is a device capable of changing voltage-current characteristic, and the memristor is preset to voltage-current characteristic according to the weight value. The logarithmic transform circuit applies an intermediate voltage, to the memristor, that is obtained by logarithmically transforming an input voltage according to the input value in accordance with a logarithmic transform function obtained by multiplying a natural logarithm function by a preset coefficient. The current-voltage converter circuit outputs an output voltage obtained by performing current-voltage conversion of current flowing through the memristor according to a preset linear function, as a multiplicative value.
US11150870B2
An embodiment of the present invention comprises a touch screen display, a communication circuit, a microphone, a speaker, a processor, and a memory. Wherein: the memory stores a first application program that includes a first user interface, and an intelligent application program that includes a second user interface; and the memory can cause the processor to display the first user interface at the time of execution and to receive a first user input for displaying the second user interface while displaying the first user interface.
US11150868B2
The systems and methods described relate to the concept that smart devices can be used to: sense various types of phenomena like sound, blue light exposure, RF and microwave radiation, and, in real-time, analyze, report and/or control outputs (e.g., displays or speakers). The systems are configurable and use standard computing devices, such as wearable electronics (e.g., smart glasses), tablet computers, and mobile phones to measure various frequency bands across multiple points, allowing a single user to visualize and/or adjust environmental conditions.
US11150863B2
A vehicle sound output device including: an acquiring section configured to acquire wakefulness level information that indicates a degree of a wakefulness state of a driver of a vehicle; and a control section configured to, in a case in which the degree of the wakefulness state indicates a decreased level of wakefulness, control a sound output section to output a sound based on at least one of a predetermined frequency, a predetermined tone, or a predetermined content that stimulates a sympathetic nerve of the driver.
US11150850B1
A system includes a spool directory accessible by a mobile computing device and an imaging device. A user selects for imaging on the imaging device a file accessible by the mobile computing device. The mobile computing device saves the file on the spool directory with a unique name. Upon the user accessing the imaging device for imaging, the imaging device generates a unique quick response code. The user captures the code with a camera of the mobile computing device and the code is used by the mobile computing device to rename the file on the spool directory. That the imaging device knows the quick response code, the imaging device accesses and prints the file on media for the user.
US11150844B2
Disclosed is a memory device and method of operating the same. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising generating compressed data by compressing raw data for storage in a memory device, pre-programming a first region of the memory device with the compressed data, and, in response to detecting that the memory device has powered on, decompressing the compressed data, obtaining the raw data, and transferring the raw data to a second region of the memory device.
US11150837B2
A method of writing data in a storage device including sequentially receiving a plurality of data write commands, sequentially assigning a plurality of write data corresponding to the plurality of data write commands to a plurality of buffer groups by determining continuity of logical addresses of the plurality of write data such that each of the plurality of buffer groups temporarily stores some of the plurality of write data included in a respective single stream and having consecutive logical addresses, assigning a plurality of serial numbers to the plurality of write data, respectively, based on an order in which the plurality of write data are assigned to the plurality of buffer groups, programming the plurality of write data temporarily stored in the plurality of buffer groups into a plurality of memory blocks, and updating a logical-to-physical mapping table based on the plurality of serial numbers may be provided.
US11150835B2
According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a nonvolatile memory and a controller. The controller acquires, from a host, write data having the same first size as a data write unit of the nonvolatile memory and obtained by dividing write data associated with one write command having a first identifier indicating a first write destination block in a plurality of write destination blocks into a plurality of write data or combining write data associated with two or more write commands having the first identifier. The controller writes the acquired write data having the first size to the first write destination block by a first write operation.
US11150828B2
Devices, systems and methods for reconfigurable and/or updatable lightweight embedded devices or systems are disclosed. Via use of such a device, system, or method, various capabilities for a user are provided, simplified, secured, and/or made more convenient. The system may interact with various other devices or systems, including those that are cloud-based or communicate through the cloud, and may utilize various local sensors, in order to provide one or more of improved access, monitoring, diagnostics, and so forth.
US11150827B2
When the hash of the divided data is not duplicate with the hash registered in an in-memory hash table, the hash of the divided data is registered in the in-memory non-duplication data list. When the hash registered in the in-memory non-duplication data list is duplicated with the hash registered in an on-disk hash table, a duplicate count of the duplicate hash registered in the on-disk hash table is increased by 1 and an update time of the hash is updated to the latest value. When the duplication count of the hash registered in the on-disk hash table exceeds a threshold, the hash which is registered in the on-disk hash table and in which the duplication count has exceeded the threshold is moved from the on-disk hash table to the in-memory hash table.
US11150817B2
A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment includes identifying a communication channel associated with a user-level stack within a user space of a system, establishing a user space communications path with the user-level stack, utilizing the communication channel and shared memory within the user space of the system, and redirecting one or more calls within the user space of the system to the user-level stack, utilizing the user space communications path.
US11150816B2
A cloud service provider supports immutable data on its servers and the immutable data is movable across multiple access tiers, in which each access tier affects access performance and cost. In typical implementations, the immutable data may be blobs of unstructured data such as text or binary data, multimedia, among other data types, which are organized into containers that provide a directory for user interaction with the data. Policies are applied at the container-level which regulates user interactions with the containers and the container's blobs. A policy can, for example, prohibit modification and deletion of blobs within a container until a policy's set retention period expires. After expiration of the retention period, the container and that container's blobs may be deleted, but blob modification may still be prohibited. A user interface is configured to enable a user to move containers to other access tiers while the container maintains its policy.
US11150814B2
There is a method and a corresponding system for performing partial write operations to memory. This method and corresponding system utilizes an XOR operation to generate error checking bits. Once the error checking bits are generated, they are then used for error checking a set of data bits so that these data bits can be written to memory.
US11150809B2
A memory controller and a storage device including the same are provided. The memory controller includes a memory channel controller configured to perform erase/program, read, and erase/program suspend operations for a flash memory, a flash translation layer configured to control an operation of the memory channel controller by receiving a write/read command, and transmit a completion for the write/read command, a host interface configured to receive the write/read command from a host, transmit the write/read command to the flash translation layer, receive the completion from the flash translation layer, and calculate a write/read latency for the write/read command based on the completion, and a suspend-limit changer configured to dynamically change an erase/program suspend-limit based on the calculated write/read latency, the erase/program suspend-limit being a maximum allowed number of erase/program suspend operations.
US11150792B2
A method and device for executing an object on a display. The method of executing an object includes receiving a user input to an object displayed on a display; gradually enlarging and displaying the object; and executing the application corresponding to the object as the object is enlarged.
US11150791B1
A browser-based, user interface served by a manager application providing for a unified ecosystem experience empowering healthcare users with seamless control over a plurality of different applications and/or websites in a maximized, consolidated and synchronized manner. The manager application includes a user interface with common toolbar controlling a plurality of panels built upon underlying frame data for displaying various applications and/or websites in a consolidated view. The display layout of various applications and/or websites can be controlled by the user or even triggered by an event, such as event-based triggers to optimally align to a healthcare workflow. Therefore, a uniform user experience with consistent look-and-feel is provided despite using separate applications and/or websites.
US11150775B2
A background image is displayed on a touch screen of an electronic device. Overlapped with the background image, a semitransparent layer is displayed. When a touch and drag action is detected from the semitransparent layer, the transparency of a touch and drag region is changed. Transparency of the semitransparent layer may be changed according to temperature or humidity.
US11150774B2
A computer program product for adapting user interfaces includes code that monitors a plurality of user interactions with one or more resources within a user interface of an electronic device or software application, analyzes the plurality of user interactions to determine and store one or more usage patterns, determines whether a user interaction with a resource accessible within the user interface corresponds to a stored usage pattern, and adapts the user interface in response to determining that the user interaction corresponds to a stored usage pattern, where adapting the user interface includes displaying the resource within the user interface with the corresponding physical aspect of the resource in the stored usage pattern.
US11150772B2
A display device includes a display panel having a display portion. A window is disposed above the display portion. The window includes a display area, on which a screen is displayed by the display portion, and a non-display area, disposed around the display area. The non-display area of the window includes a sensing portion and a non-sensing portion. The non-display area of the window includes a first light shielding member. The sensing portion includes a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer stacked on the first conductive layer with the first light shielding member interposed therebetween.
US11150770B2
Disclosed is an input device. The input device includes a communicator configured to communicate with an electronic device, a pen tip provided at one end of the input device, a first electrode portion including a plurality of first sub-electrodes spaced apart from each other by a predetermined distance from the pen tip, a second electrode portion including a plurality of second sub-electrodes spaced apart from each other to correspond to each of the plurality of first sub-electrodes at a position spaced apart from the first electrode portion by a predetermined distance, a processor to provide a driving signal to the first electrode portion and the second electrode portion, generate tilt information of the input device on the basis of a plurality of capacitances formed between the plurality of first sub-electrodes and the plurality of second sub-electrodes, and transmit the tilt information to the electronic device.
US11150768B2
A projector includes an imaging section configured to generate imaging data obtained by taking an image of first infrared light with a first wavelength emitted by a first pointing member, second infrared light with a second wavelength emitted by a second pointing member, and a target range, and a position detection section for detecting a first position and a second position with respect to the target range based on the imaging data so as to be distinguished from each other, and the imaging section includes a sensor configured to output detection values of first colored light, second colored light, and third colored light to generate the imaging data including the detection values obtained by detecting the first infrared light and the second infrared light with the sensor.
US11150760B2
A touch analog front-end circuit includes a current conveyor and an accumulator. The current conveyor receives a first voltage as an operation voltage, and generates a current signal according to a touch sensing signal received from a touch display panel. The accumulator is coupled to the current conveyor, receives a second voltage as an operation voltage, and generates an accumulating result according to the current signal and a reference voltage. The first voltage is higher than the second voltage.
US11150749B2
An electronic device has a sensor panel and a display upon which content is rendered in use. A control module controlling the sensor panel enters a whiteboard-style erase mode when specified conditions are met. The control module is configured to, in the whiteboard-style erase mode detect a first position on the sensor panel of a first point on a stylus; detect a second position on the sensor panel of a second point on the stylus, the second point being spaced from the first point; compute the location of the longitudinal axis of the stylus on the sensor panel from at least the detected first and second positions; and trigger an update of the rendered content at a location on the display related to the location of the longitudinal axis of the stylus on the sensor panel.
US11150745B2
A device can include a processor; memory operatively coupled to the processor; a planar display operatively coupled to the processor where the planar display includes an axis normal to the planar display; media circuitry operatively coupled to the processor; motion sensing circuitry operatively coupled to the processor; and processor-executable instructions to instruct the device to, responsive to sensed rotational motion of the device about the axis that corresponds to a rotational reference frame, render video media to the display in a stationary reference frame.
US11150744B2
The present inventive concept relates to a smart controller which wirelessly communicates with a portable terminal so as to control the portable terminal, the smart controller comprising: a main button unit including a direction button for generating a first signal by being pressed laterally and a selection button, disposed at the central portion one side of the direction button, for generating a second signal by being pressed downward; and an auxiliary button unit including at least one button provided to change an operation mode of the main button unit or perform a particular function of the portable terminal.
US11150742B2
An operating method of a flexible display device including a display unit expandable or reducible in at least one direction; a sensing unit configured to detect an expansion or reduction of a screen of the display unit; and a control unit configured to: expand the screen of the display unit according to detecting the expansion of the screen, and display a content on the expanded screen, wherein the control unit is further configured to display a ratio indicator providing information on an enlargement ratio or a reduction ratio of the displayed content in the expansion screen, wherein the ratio indicator comprises: an enlargement/reduction guide bar representing what degree of a ratio the displayed content can be enlarged or reduced.
US11150741B1
An input device comprises a depressible element with two switches including a first switch configured to generate a first signal when the depressible element is depressed by a threshold distance and a second switch configured to generate a second signal indicating when the depressible element is depressed by the threshold distance and the second switch is in an active state. One or more processors may be configured to receive the first signal from the first switch; configure the second switch to change from an inactive state to an active state in response to receiving the first signal; receive the second signal from the second switch in the active state; determine whether the second signal indicates that the depressible element is depressed by the threshold distance; and generate event data confirming that the depressible element is depressed by the threshold distance in response to receiving the second signal.
US11150733B2
Embodiments described herein relate to methods and apparatuses for providing a haptic output signal to a haptic actuator. A controller comprises an input configured to receive a force sensor signal from at least one force sensor; and a haptic output module configured to generate a haptic output signal for output to a haptic actuator; wherein the haptic output module is configured to: responsive to determining that the force sensor signal indicates that a force level applied to the at least one force sensor exceeds a first threshold, trigger output of the haptic output signal; and during output of the haptic output signal, adjust the haptic output signal based on the force sensor signal.
US11150731B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media provide multiple modes of haptic feedback for an electronic device using a single haptic actuator. Adjusting a parameter (e.g., frequency) of an actuator waveform generated by the single haptic actuator may affect how a mechanical coupling between the haptic actuator and a portion of the electronic device produces a device waveform at that device portion from the actuator waveform. A first mechanical coupling with a first response characteristic (e.g., stiffness or resonance frequency) may be provided between the haptic actuator and a first portion of the electronic device (e.g., a user input component of the electronic device), while a second mechanical coupling with a different second response characteristic may be provided between the haptic actuator and a second portion of the electronic device (e.g., the device housing of the electronic device) to selectively provide localized haptic feedback at the first portion of the electronic device.
US11150730B1
The disclosed human computer interface (HCI) system may include (1) at least one processor, (2) a plurality of sensors that detect one or more neuromuscular signals from a forearm or wrist of a user, and (3) memory that stores (A) one or more trained inferential models that determine an amount of force associated with the one or more neuromuscular signals and (B) computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to (I) identify the amount of force determined by the one or more trained inferential models, (II) determine that the amount of force satisfies a threshold force value, and in accordance with the determination that the amount of force satisfies the threshold force value, (III) generate a first input command for the HCI system. Various other devices, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
US11150726B2
Systems and methods for obscuring glares that are present on a windshield, mirror other surface of a vehicle are presented. The systems and methods comprise first and second sets of CCD cameras, where the first set is used to provide information about a source of a glare and the second set is used to provide information about eyes of a driver, for example. Based on the information gathered, locations of the source of the glare and the driver's eyes can be triangulated, and a position where light from the source of the glare is incident on the windshield or other surface can be determined. A translucent spot can be generated at that position to obscure the glare (light) from reaching the driver's eyes.
US11150721B2
A system and method are described for providing hints to a processing unit that subsequent operations are likely. Responsively, the processing unit takes steps to prepare for the likely subsequent operations. Where the hints are more likely than not to be correct, the processing unit operates more efficiently. For example, in an embodiment, the processing unit consumes less power. In another embodiment, subsequent operations are performed more quickly because the processing unit is prepared to efficiently handle the subsequent operations.
US11150716B2
Various embodiments are provided for providing optimized margins of processors in a computing environment. Margins of voltage, frequency, or a combination thereof may be dynamically monitored and adjusted for a executing a processor based a workload scheduled during an event.
US11150715B2
A parallel processor includes one or a plurality of digital signal processing (DSP) arithmetic unit(s) and one or a plurality of DSP appropriateness checking unit(s) corresponding to the DSP arithmetic unit(s). The DSP appropriateness checking unit includes a register and a determining unit. The register repeatedly receives an arithmetic result from the DSP arithmetic unit. The determining unit determines, when an arithmetic result has the same calculation value, that an arithmetic operation performed by the DSP arithmetic unit is completed and outputs the calculation value as a determinate arithmetic result.
US11150713B2
An information processing device includes: a state determination unit that determines a change in a state of connection between the information processing device and an external device or a power supply; a cause selection unit that selects from a plurality of choices, a cause of the determined change in the state of connection; and a processing unit that performs a process in accordance with the selected choice.
US11150704B2
The display panel and the electronic apparatus include: a substrate, wherein the substrate includes a first portion and a bent portion connected to the first portion; wherein the bent portion includes at least a first sub-bent portion and a second sub-bent portion connected to each other, and the first sub-bent portion extends from the first portion, and a bent angle of the first sub-bent portion is less than 180 degrees.
US11150698B2
A docking station according to embodiments provides power to an Information Handling System (IHS) coupled to the docking station. The docking station includes a first power circuit supporting a first power output according to a power delivery protocol limited to a first power level. The docking station also includes a second power circuit supporting a second power output for providing the input power of the docking station to the IHS. A controller of the docking station determines whether the IHS requires power using the power delivery protocol and selects the operation of the first or second power circuit. The docking station may support dual of such selectable power pathways using a docking cable joined from two individual cables, where each cable provides a separate power and/or data coupling. The docking station thus supports powering devices according to a power delivery protocol or using the input power to the docking station.
US11150687B1
A low-latency signaling link retimer generates an output signal transmission synchronously with respect to a core clock signal alternately selected from two or more plesiochronous or mesochronous clock sources with switchover between or among the core-clock sources executed without shrinking, extending or otherwise disrupting the edge-to-edge core clock period or clock duty cycle.
US11150683B2
A radio-control transmitter is provided which includes a trigger which has a throttle lever and a brake lever, wherein the throttle lever is capable of freely rocking with respect to a rotation shaft along an imaginary plane orthogonal to the rotation shaft and has a longitudinal direction parallel to the imaginary plane, and wherein the brake lever is integrated with the throttle lever and extends in a direction intersecting the imaginary plane.
US11150674B2
The disclosure is related to a head-mounted display device and an adjusting method thereof. The head-mounted display device is adapted to be worn on a human face and includes a main body, a contact part and at least one airbag. The contact part is disposed on the main body, and the contact part includes a frame and a nose contact portion connected to each other. The airbag is disposed on the nose contact portion of the contact part, and the airbag is inflatable in order to decrease a gap between the nose contact portion and the human face.
US11150670B2
Apparatus and methods for training a machine learning algorithm (MLA) to control a first aircraft in an environment that comprises the first aircraft and a second aircraft are described. Training of the MLA can include: the MLA determining a first-aircraft action for the first aircraft to take within the environment; sending the first-aircraft action from the MLA; after sending the first-aircraft action, receiving an observation of the environment and a reward signal at the MLA, the observation including information about the environment after the first aircraft has taken the first-aircraft action and the second aircraft has taken a second-aircraft action, the reward signal indicating a score of performance of the first-aircraft action based on dynamic and kinematic properties of the second aircraft; and updating the MLA based on the observation of the environment and the reward signal.
US11150669B2
Provided herein is a system and method for regulating a sensor enclosure of a vehicle. The system comprises an enclosure comprising a vent at a base of the enclosure, one or more sensors configured to determine a parameter of the vehicle or the enclosure, a fan configured to regulate an internal temperature of the enclosure, and a controller configured to regulate a rotation speed of the fan based on the parameter of the vehicle or the enclosure. The regulating system further comprises a deflector connected to the enclosure and configured to direct an airflow into the vent based on the parameter.
US11150662B2
The planned route creating unit 3 creates a planned route of the self-driving vehicle 10. The non-traveling area plan creating unit 4 creates a plan of the non-traveling area, which is an area where the self-driving vehicle 10 can travel and which is an area set as an area where the self-driving vehicle 10 does not travel. The non-traveling area plan creating unit 4 creates a plan of the non-traveling area at a frequency lower than the frequency at which the planned route creating unit 3 creates a planned route. The transmission unit 6 transmits the plan of the non-traveling area to the other vehicle each time the plan of the non-traveling area is created.
US11150661B2
The present disclosure provides a scooter. The scooter includes a scooter body and a photographing portion; the photographing portion is mounted on the scooter body; and the scooter body is provided with an avoidance space for avoiding a photographing view angle of the photographing portion, so that the photographing portion photographs a road condition around the scooter body.
