US11171167B2
There is provided a imaging device including: an N-type region formed for each pixel and configured to perform photoelectric conversion; an inter-pixel light-shielding wall penetrating a semiconductor substrate in a depth direction and formed between N-type regions configured to perform the photoelectric conversion, the N-type regions each being formed for each of pixels adjacent to each other; a P-type layer formed between the N-type region configured to perform the photoelectric conversion and the inter-pixel light-shielding wall; and a P-type region adjacent to the P-type layer and formed between the N-type region and an interface on a side of a light incident surface of the semiconductor substrate.
US11171163B2
The present invention relates to a photosensitive pixel structure (10). The pixel structure (10) comprises a substrate (15) and at least one photosensitive diode (12, 12′, 12″), a stimulating electrode (14), and a resistor (16). The resistor (16) is electrically connecting the stimulating electrode (14) and a counter electrode (18). Further, the resistor (16) is at least partially covered by the stimulating electrode (14) and/or the resistor (16) is at least partially covered by the counter electrode (18).
US11171155B2
Provided are a semiconductor storage element, a semiconductor device, an electronic device, and a manufacturing method of a semiconductor storage element that enable higher-speed operations. The semiconductor storage element includes: a first semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type; a second semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type that is provided below the first semiconductor layer; a gate electrode provided on the first semiconductor layer; a gate insulator film provided between the first semiconductor layer and the gate electrode; a drain region of the second conductivity type that is provided in the first semiconductor layer on one side of the gate electrode; a source region of the second conductivity type that is provided in the first semiconductor layer on another side facing the one side across the gate electrode; and a bit line configured to electrically connect with both of the source region and the first semiconductor layer.
US11171145B2
Embodiments herein describe techniques for an integrated circuit (IC). The IC may include a capacitor. The capacitor may include a first electrode, a second electrode, and a paraelectric layer between the first electrode and the second electrode. A first interface with a first work function exists between the paraelectric layer and the first electrode. A second interface with a second work function exists between the paraelectric layer and the second electrode. The paraelectric layer may include a ferroelectric material or an anti-ferroelectric material. A built-in electric field associated with the first work function and the second work function may exist between the first electrode and the second electrode. The built-in electric field may be at a voltage value where the capacitor may operate at a center of a memory window of a polarization-voltage hysteresis loop of the capacitor. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US11171131B2
A diode and method of design the layout of the same having reduced parasitic capacitance is disclosed. In particular, the diode for providing fast response protection of an RF circuit from a high power noise event, such as an ESD, voltage spike, power surge or other noise is disclose. The parasitic capacitance in disclosed circuit is a greatly reduced compared to the prior art, thus significantly increasing the speed of the response to dissipate all high power noise events.
US11171122B2
The semiconductor device includes a substrate having a main surface, a plurality of conductive patterns provided on the main surface, a plurality of switching elements disposed on one of the conductive patterns, each switching element having a first electrode and a second electrode and being connected to the one of the conductive patterns through its first or second electrode, and at least one first wiring member each directly connecting the first electrodes of two switching elements that are respectively disposed on different conductive patterns and are electrically connected in parallel.
US11171121B2
Semiconductor devices having redistribution structures, and associated systems and methods, are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a semiconductor package includes a first semiconductor die including a first redistribution structure and a second semiconductor die including a second redistribution structure. The first and second semiconductor dies can be mounted on a package substrate such that the first and second redistribution structures are aligned with each other. In some embodiments, an interconnect structure can be positioned between the first and second semiconductor dies to electrically couple the first and second redistribution structures to each other. The first and second redistribution structures can be configured such that signal routing between the first and second semiconductor dies can be altered based on the location of the interconnect structure.
US11171117B2
Representative techniques and devices including process steps may be employed to form a common interconnection of a multi-die or multi-wafer stack. Each device of the stack includes a conductive pad disposed at a predetermined relative position on a surface of the device. The devices are stacked to vertically align the conductive pads. A through-silicon via is formed that electrically couples the conductive pads of each device of the stack.
US11171113B2
A semiconductor package structure includes a substrate having a first surface and second surface opposite thereto, a first semiconductor die disposed on the first surface of the substrate, a second semiconductor die disposed on the first surface, a molding material surrounding the first semiconductor die and the second semiconductor die, and an annular frame mounted on the first surface of the substrate. The first semiconductor die and the second semiconductor die are arranged in a side-by-side manner. The first semiconductor die is separated from the second semiconductor die by the molding material. The substrate includes a wiring structure. The first semiconductor die and the second semiconductor die are electrically coupled to the wiring structure. The annular frame surrounds the first semiconductor die and the second semiconductor die. The annular frame includes a retracted region at an outer corner of the annular frame.
US11171111B2
An integrated circuit device comprises: a resin film that is flexible; a plurality of traces bonded on a surface of the resin film and arrayed in a specific direction; an IC chip bonded on the surface of the resin film, located offset to the traces in a direction perpendicular to the specific direction, and connected to the traces; and a protection pattern formed on the surface of the resin film, located in the specific direction with respect to a disposition region in which the IC chip and/or the traces are disposed, and formed of the same material as that of the traces.
US11171108B2
A semiconductor package includes a first die having a first surface, a first conductive bump over the first surface and having first height and a first width, a second conductive bump over the first surface and having a second height and a second width. The first width is greater than the second width and the first height is substantially identical to the second height. A method for manufacturing the semiconductor package is also provided.
US11171106B2
A semiconductor package structure including a circuit substrate, at least one chip, an encapsulant, a plurality of conductive connectors, a redistribution layer, and a plurality of conductive terminals is provided. The circuit substrate has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The at least one chip has an active surface and a rear surface opposite to the active surface. The at least one chip is disposed on the circuit substrate with the rear surface. The encapsulant encapsulates the at least one chip. The plurality of conductive connectors surrounds the at least one chip. The redistribution layer is located on the encapsulant. The plurality of conductive terminals is located on the second surface. The at least one chip is electrically connected to the plurality of conductive terminals via the redistribution layer, the plurality of conductive connectors, and the circuit substrate. A manufacturing method of a semiconductor package structure is also provided.
US11171105B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor die having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, a plurality of first real conductive pillars in a first region on the first surface, and a plurality of supporters in a second region adjacent to the first region. An area density of the plurality of supporters in the second region is in a range of from about 50% to about 100% to an area density of the plurality of first real conductive pillars in the first region. A method for manufacturing a semiconductor package including the semiconductor device is also disclosed in the present disclosure.
US11171103B2
A solder ball assembly can include a first spring element having a first shape and formed from a first elastic electrically conductive material. The solder ball assembly can also include a second spring element having a second shape and formed from a second elastic electrically conductive material. The second spring element is mechanically attached to the first spring element to form a spring assembly. The solder ball can be configured to enclose the spring assembly.
US11171099B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor wafer. A plurality of pillar bumps is formed over the semiconductor wafer. A solder is deposited over the pillar bumps. The semiconductor wafer is singulated into a plurality of semiconductor die after forming the pillar bumps while the semiconductor wafer is on a carrier. An encapsulant is deposited around the semiconductor die and pillar bumps while the semiconductor die remains on the carrier. The encapsulant covers an active surface of the semiconductor die between the pillar bumps.
US11171097B2
A bonded assembly includes a first semiconductor die containing a first substrate, first semiconductor devices, and first bonding pads that are electrically connected to a respective node of the first semiconductor devices, a second semiconductor die containing a second substrate, second semiconductor devices, and second bonding pads that are electrically connected to a respective node of the second semiconductor devices and bonded to a respective one of the first bonding pads, and at least one metal-organic framework (MOF) dielectric layer that laterally surrounds at least one of the first bonding pads and the second bonding pads.
US11171096B2
A semiconductor package includes a main substrate, a resonator device disposed above the main substrate, a wiring portion connected to the resonator device, an electrical connection structure connected to the wiring portion and the main substrate, an encapsulant encapsulating the resonator device and the electrical connection structure, and a heat dissipation member bonded to and mounted on the resonator device. A cavity is provided in the resonator device, and is formed between the resonance portion and a resonator device substrate provided in the resonator device.
US11171095B1
The present disclosure relates to an active x-ray attack prevention structure for secure integrated circuits. In particular, the present disclosure relates to a structure including a functional circuit, and at least one latchup sensitive diode circuit configured to induce a latchup condition in the functional circuit, placed in proximity of the functional circuit.
US11171094B2
According to various embodiments, an article including a glass or glass-ceramic substrate having a first major surface and a second major surface, and a via extending through the substrate from the first major surface to the second major surface over an axial length, L, the via defining a first axial portion, a third axial portion, and a second axial portion disposed between the first and third axial portions. The article further includes a helium hermetic adhesion layer disposed on the interior surface in the first and/or third axial portions and a metal connector disposed within the via, the metal connector being adhered to the helium hermetic adhesion layer. The metal connector fully fills the via over the axial length, L, the via has a maximum diameter, Φmax, of less than or equal to 30 μm, and the axial length, L, and the maximum diameter, Φmax, satisfy an equation: L Φ max > 20 micron 1 / 2 .
US11171093B2
Semiconductor structures and fabrication methods are provided. An exemplary fabrication method includes providing a wafer having a functional region and a non-functional region surrounding the functional region; forming a first dielectric layer on the wafer; forming a first opening in the first dielectric layer in the non-functional region; and forming a first connection layer in the first opening. The first connection layer closes a top portion of the first opening, and a void is formed in the first connection layer in first opening.
US11171092B2
A component carrier includes a stack with at least one electrically insulating layer structure and/or at least one electrically conductive layer structure, and a component having one or more pads and at least one dielectric layer on at least one main surface of the component. The at least one dielectric layer does not extend beyond the main surface in a lateral direction. The dielectric layer at least partially covers one or more pads of the component. In addition, at least one electrically conductive contact extends through at least one opening in the dielectric layer up to at least one of the pads.
US11171084B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to fabrication methods and resulting interconnect structures having a conductive thin metal layer on a top via that promotes the selective growth of the next level interconnect lines (the line above). In a non-limiting embodiment of the invention, a first conductive line is formed in a dielectric layer. A via is formed on the first conductive line and a seed layer is formed on the via and the dielectric layer. A surface of the seed layer is exposed and a second conductive line is deposited onto the exposed surface of the seed layer. In a non-limiting embodiment of the invention, the second conductive line is selectively grown from the seed layer.
US11171080B2
A wiring substrate includes a first insulation layer, an electronic component including a first surface and a second surface which is an opposite surface to the first surface, the electronic component being mounted on the first insulation layer with the first surface facing toward the first insulation layer, and a second insulation layer including a first layer and a second layer. The first layer is formed on the first insulation layer and configured to cover the second surface of the electronic component, and the second layer is stacked on the first layer. The first layer includes therein fillers. At least one of the fillers is in direct contact with the second surface of the electronic component at one side, and is exposed from the first layer and is thus in direct contact with the second layer at the other side.
US11171079B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate including wiring at a surface thereof, a semiconductor element on a surface of the substrate, a first solder resist on the wiring, a bonding wire connecting the wiring and the semiconductor element, and a second solder resist. The first solder resist has an opening region at which a part of the wiring is non-covered by the first solder resist, and the bonding wire connects the wiring and the semiconductor element in the opening region. The second solder resist at least partially covers the non-covered part of the wiring in the opening region.
US11171075B2
An electronic-photonic integrated-circuit assembly comprises a carrier substrate (310) and one or more integrated-circuit dies (330, 340) bonded to one another so as to form a die stack with exterior surfaces corresponding to an outer surface of a first one of the integrated-circuit dies and to an outer surface of a second one of the integrated-circuit dies, where at least one of the integrated-circuit dies includes one or more integrated photonic devices. One or more channels or passages (320) are formed into the outer surface of the first one of the integrated-circuit dies, and a first surface of the carrier substrate (310) is bonded to the outer surface of the first one of the integrated-circuit dies, thereby enclosing the one or more channels or passages (320), The integrated-circuit dies are electrically connected to each other via electrically conductive through-wafer interconnects or electrically conductive through-wafer vias.
US11171069B1
A display module and a method of manufacturing the display module are provided. The display module comprises a display panel, a driving integrated circuit on the display panel, and a protective tape on the driving integrated circuit. The protective tape includes a second adhesive material on the driving integrated circuit, and an adhesive tape on the second adhesive material. The second adhesive material fills an area between the adhesive tape and the display panel.
US11171067B2
A module with a high degree of design flexibility and excellent radiation characteristics is provided. The module includes a multilayer wiring substrate, mounting components mounted on an upper surface of the multilayer wiring substrate, a sealing resin layer sealing the mounting components, a plurality of depressions in an upper surface of the sealing resin layer, and radiators set in the depressions. The mounting components are components whose amounts of heat generated are smaller than those of the mounting components. A gap between a bottom of each of the depressions arranged in a region overlapping each of the mounting components and the mounting component is shorter than a gap between the bottom of each of the depressions arranged in a region overlapping each of the mounting components and the mounting component as seen from a direction perpendicular to the upper surface of the multilayer wiring substrate.
US11171059B2
A semiconductor device includes a first plurality of stacked nanowire structures extending in a first direction disposed over a first region of a semiconductor substrate. Each nanowire structure of the first plurality of stacked nanowire structures includes a plurality of nanowires arranged in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction. A nanowire stack insulating layer is between the substrate and a nanowire closest to the substrate of each nanowire structure of the first plurality of stacked nanowire structures. At least one second stacked nanowire structure is disposed over a second region of the semiconductor substrate, and a shallow trench isolation layer is between the first region and the second region of the semiconductor substrate.
US11171057B2
Fin-based transistor structures, such as finFET and nanowire transistor structures, are disclosed. The fins have a morphology including a wave pattern and/or one or more ridges and/or nodules which effectively mitigate fin collapse, by limiting the inter-fin contact during a fin collapse condition. Thus, while the fins may temporarily collapse during wet processing, the morphology allows the collapsed fins to recover back to their uncollapsed state upon drying. The fin morphology may be, for example, an undulating pattern having peaks and troughs (e., sine, triangle, or ramp waves). In such cases, the undulating patterns of neighboring fins are out of phase, such that inter-fin contact during fin collapse is limited to peak/trough contact. In other embodiments, one or more ridges or nodules (short ridges), depending on the length of the fin, effectively limit the amount of inter-fin contact during fin collapse, such that only the ridges/nodules contact the neighboring fin.
US11171056B2
A cutting method includes: disposing a dicing tape on a back surface of a wafer; holding the wafer on a chuck table through the dicing tape; causing a cutting blade to cut into the wafer held on the chuck table until the tip of the cutting blade reaches the dicing tape to form cut grooves; imaging the cut groove from the front surface side of the wafer by a first imaging section to form a picked-up image of a front surface portion of the cut groove, and imaging the cut groove from the front surface side of the wafer by a second imaging section to form a picked-up image of a back surface portion of the cut groove, thereby checking the picked-up images of the front surface portion and the back surface portion of the cut groove.
US11171046B2
Methods and apparatus for forming an interconnect structure, the method including selectively depositing two or more capping layers atop a top surface of a via within a low-k dielectric layer, wherein the two or more capping layers include a first layer of ruthenium and a second layer of cobalt.
US11171045B2
Apparatuses and methods to provide electronic devices having metal films are provided. Some embodiments of the disclosure utilize a metallic tungsten layer as a liner that is filled with a metal film comprising cobalt. The metallic tungsten layer has good adhesion to the cobalt leading to enhanced cobalt gap-fill performance.
US11171043B2
Methods and architectures for IC interconnect trenches, and trench plugs that define separations between two adjacent trench ends. Plugs and trenches may be defined through a multiple patterning process. An upper grating pattern may be summed with a plug keep pattern into a pattern accumulation layer. The pattern accumulation layer may be employed to define plug masks. A lower grating pattern may then be summed with the plug masks to define a pattern in trench ILD material, which can then be backfilled with interconnect metallization. As such, a complex damascene interconnect structure can be fabricated at the scaled-down geometries achievable with pitch-splitting techniques. In some embodiments, the trenches are located at spaces between first spacer masks defined in a patterning process associated with the first grating pattern while the plug masks are located based on a tone-inversion of second spacer masks associated with the second grating pattern.
US11171039B2
A composite semiconductor substrate includes a semiconductor substrate, an oxygen-doped crystalline semiconductor layer and an insulative layer. The oxygen-doped crystalline semiconductor layer is over the semiconductor substrate, and the oxygen-doped crystalline semiconductor layer includes a crystalline semiconductor material and a plurality of oxygen dopants. The insulative layer is over the oxygen-doped crystalline semiconductor layer.
US11171038B2
A fabrication method of an integrated circuit semiconductor device includes: forming a plurality of low dielectric pattern apart from each other on a substrate, the plurality of low dielectric pattern having a lower dielectric constant than the substrate; after forming the low dielectric pattern, forming a flow layer to bury the low dielectric pattern on the substrate; forming an epitaxial layer on the flow layer; and forming a transistor in the substrate comprising the low dielectric pattern buried by the flow layer and in the epitaxial layer.
US11171036B2
A method and related structure provide a void-free dielectric over trench isolation region in an FDSOI substrate. The structure may include a first transistor including a first active gate over the substrate, a second transistor including a second active gate over the substrate, a first liner extending over the first transistor, and a second, different liner extending over the second transistor. A trench isolation region electrically isolates the first transistor from the second transistor. The trench isolation region includes a trench isolation extending into the FDSOI substrate and an inactive gate over the trench isolation. A dielectric extends over the inactive gate and in direct contact with an upper surface of the trench isolation region. The dielectric is void-free, and the liners do not extend over the trench isolation.
US11171023B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to apparatus and methods for semiconductor processing, more particularly, to a thermal process chamber. The thermal process chamber may include a substrate support, a first plurality of heating elements disposed over the substrate support, and one or more high-energy radiant source assemblies disposed over the first plurality of heating elements. The one or more high-energy radiant source assemblies are utilized to provide local heating of cold regions on a substrate disposed on the substrate support during processing. Localized heating of the substrate improves temperature profile, which in turn improves deposition uniformity.
US11171017B2
Describes are shutter disks comprising one or more of titanium (Ti), barium (Ba), or cerium (Ce) for physical vapor deposition (PVD) that allows pasting to minimize outgassing and control defects during etching of a substrate. The shutter disks incorporate getter materials that are highly selective to reactive gas molecules, including O2, CO, CO2, and water.
US11171012B1
A substrate processing apparatus performs a method of etching a substrate that includes etching the substrate to form a first portion of a recess in the substrate, the first portion of the recess including a bottom surface and a sidewall. The method also includes forming an ammonium fluorosilicate (AFS) layer in or on the sidewall, and then etching the bottom surface to form a second portion of the recess. The etching the bottom surface is performed while maintaining protection of the sidewall with the AFS layer.
US11171008B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a dual load lock chamber capable of processing a substrate. In one embodiment, the dual load lock chamber includes a chamber body defining a first chamber volume and a second chamber volume isolated from one another. Each of the lower and second chamber volumes is selectively connectable to two processing environments through two openings configured for substrate transferring. The dual load lock chamber also includes a heated substrate support assembly disposed in the second chamber volume. The heated substrate support assembly is configured to support and heat a substrate thereon. The dual load lock chamber also includes a remote plasma source connected to the second chamber volume for supplying a plasma to the second chamber volume.
US11171005B2
Included are forming, on a semiconductor substrate, an insulation film having an opening section where an opening is formed, forming a first resist on the insulation film while avoiding the opening section and the semiconductor substrate exposed via the opening section, forming a first metal on the opening section, the semiconductor substrate exposed via the opening section, and the first resist by a vapor deposition method or a sputtering method, removing, by a lift-off method, the first resist and the first metal on the first resist, forming, on the insulation film, a second resist allowing the first metal to be exposed, causing the first metal to grow a second metal by an electroless plating method, and removing the second resist, where these processings are included in the listed order.
US11170991B2
Disclosed is a plasma processing apparatus including: a first electrode to which a high frequency power is supplied; a second electrode that functions as a counter electrode with respect to the first electrode; a plurality of dielectric units arranged between plasma generated between the first electrode and the second electrode, and the second electrode; and a controller that controls an impedance between the plasma and the second electrode via each of the dielectric units by independently controlling a position or a dielectric constant of each of the dielectric units.
US11170983B2
The present embodiment relates to an electron multiplier having a structure configured to suppress and stabilize a variation of a resistance value in a wider temperature range. The electron multiplier includes a resistance layer sandwiched between a substrate and a secondary electron emitting layer and configured using a Pt layer two-dimensionally formed on a layer formation surface which is coincident with or substantially parallel to a channel formation surface of the substrate. The resistance layer has a temperature characteristic within a range in which a resistance value at −60° C. is 10 times or less, and a resistance value at +60° C. is 0.25 times or more, relative to a resistance value at a temperature of 20° C.
US11170982B2
Methods and apparatus for low angle, selective plasma deposition on a substrate. A plasma chamber uses a process chamber having an inner processing volume, a three dimensional (3D) magnetron with a sputtering target with a hollow inner area that overlaps at least a portion of sides of the sputtering target and moves in a linear motion over a length of the sputtering target, a housing surrounding the 3D magnetron and the sputtering target such that at least one side of the housing exposes the hollow inner area of the sputtering target, and a linear channel interposed between the housing and a wall of the process chamber.
US11170980B2
A method for treating a flexible plastic substrate is provided herein. The method includes establishing an atmospheric pressure plasma beam from an inert gas using a power of greater than about 90W, directing the plasma beam toward a surface of the flexible polymer substrate, and scanning the plasma beam across the surface of the polymer substrate to form a treated substrate surface.
US11170977B2
An antenna conductor is cooled to stably generate plasma, and unexpected fluctuation in the electrostatic capacity of a variable capacitor connected to the antenna conductor is suppressed while cooling the variable capacitor. A plasma processing device which generates plasma in a vacuum container and processes a substrate by using the plasma is provided. The plasma processing device includes: an antenna conductor through which a high-frequency current is caused to flow to generate plasma, and a variable capacitor which is electrically connected to the antenna conductor. The antenna conductor has a flow path in which a cooling liquid flows. A dielectric of the variable capacitor is constituted of the cooling liquid flowing through the antenna conductor.
US11170970B2
A method for examining a specimen surface with a probe of a scanning probe microscope, the specimen surface having an electrical potential distribution. The method includes (a) determining the electrical potential distribution of at least one first partial region of the specimen surface; and (b) modifying the electrical potential distribution in the at least one first partial region of the specimen surface and/or modifying an electrical potential of the probe of the scanning probe microscope before scanning at least one second partial region of the specimen surface.
US11170965B2
A system for generating X-ray beams from a liquid target includes a vacuum chamber, a diamond window assembly, an electron source, a target material flow system, and an X-ray detector/imager. An electron beam from the electron source travels through the diamond window assembly and into a dynamic target material of the flow system. Preferably, the dynamic target material is lead bismuth eutectic in a liquid state. Upon colliding with the dynamic target material, X-rays are generated. The generated X-rays exit through an X-ray exit window to be captured by the X-ray detector/imager. Since the dynamic target material is constantly in fluid motion within a pipeline of the flow system, the electron beam always has a new target area which is at a controlled operational temperature and thus, prevents overheating issues. By providing a small focus area for the electron beams, the overall imaging resolution of the X-rays is also improved.
US11170948B2
The present invention relates to a method for preparing an electrode comprising a metal substrate, vertically aligned carbon nanotubes and a metal oxide deposited over the entire length of said vertically aligned carbon nanotubes, said method comprising the following consecutive steps: (a) synthesizing, on a metal substrate, a mat of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes; and (b) depositing a metal oxide matrix over the entire height of said vertically aligned carbon nanotube mat via spontaneous reduction at a temperature not exceeding 40° C. The present invention also relates to said electrode and to the uses thereof.
US11170941B2
A solid electrolytic capacitor that includes a capacitor element laminate, a first external electrode, and a second external electrode. The capacitor element laminate includes capacitor elements, cathode lead-out layers, and a sealing body. At least one of the capacitor elements includes an anode foil, dielectric layers, and cathode layers. The first external electrode is connected to the anode foil exposed at the first end surface of the capacitor element laminate. The second external electrode is connected to the cathode lead-out layers exposed at the second end surface of the capacitor element laminate. The sealing body includes a first resin molded body and a second resin molded body. The first resin molded body and the second resin molded body are made of the same insulating material.
US11170936B2
A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a ceramic body including a dielectric layer, a plurality of internal electrodes disposed in the ceramic body, and a first side margin portion and a second side margin portion respectively arranged on end portions of the internal electrodes exposed from first and second surfaces. The first and second side margin portions respectively include a first region adjacent to an outer side surface of each of the side margin portions, and a second region adjacent to the internal electrodes exposed from the first and second surfaces. The number of pores per unit area in the second region is less than the number of pores per unit area in the first region.
US11170935B2
A manufacturing method for an electronic component includes: a step of forming an insulating layer on an outer electrode body so as to cover the outer electrode body, the outer electrode body being formed on a chip element which forms the electronic component; and a step of removing the insulating layer in a predetermined region of the outer electrode body by applying laser light to the insulating layer in the predetermined region so as to expose the predetermined region. The insulating layer has a higher absorption coefficient for the laser light than a material forming a surface of the outer electrode body.
US11170928B2
An automotive power converter includes a pair of series connected switches and an inductor including a core having a leg, a winding wound around the leg, and a terminal center tapping the switches. The leg includes a plurality of alternating frames and solid blocks arranged to define a continuous contact surface for the winding and to define internal cavities within the leg such that each of the frames surrounds one of the internal cavities.
US11170924B2
A computing device having an interface surface and one or more attachment features oriented on the interface surface is described. A removable support device with an interface surface and one or more attachment features oriented on the interface surface is described. A support system with a computing device and a removable support device is described. A method of using a support system is described.
US11170921B2
A marker coil includes a flexible substrate, a coil formed on the substrate by wiring, and a substrate holding part that is capable of being attached to a testee. A convex shape is formed in one of the substrate and the substrate holding part, and an engaging part for engaging the convex shape is formed in the other one of the substrate and the substrate holding part.
US11170920B2
A Fe-based nanocrystalline alloy powder having an alloy composition represented by the following Composition Formula (1) and having an alloy structure including nanocrystal particles: Fe100-a-b-c-d-e-f-gCuaSibBcModCreCfNbg Composition Formula (1), in which 100-a-b-c-d-e-f-g, a, b, c, d, e, f, and g each represent a percent (%) by atom of a relevant element, and a, b, c, d, e, f, and g satisfy 0.10≤a≤1.10, 13.00≤b≤16.00, 7.00≤c≤12.00, 0.50≤d≤5.00, 0.001≤e≤1.50, 0.05≤f≤0.40, and 0≤(g/(d+g))≤0.50, in Composition Formula (1).
US11170912B2
An example cable assembly includes: a plurality of conductors in a Litz cable arrangement, in which each of the plurality of conductors is electrically insulated from each other over at least a portion of a length of the Litz cable arrangement; a first layer of insulation over the Litz cable arrangement; an inner dielectric jacket over the first layer of insulation; and an outer jacket over the inner dielectric jacket.
US11170899B2
Apparatuses and methods detect a health condition of a user that may be assessed from a thermal sensor signal and/or radar sensor signal. One or more resultant biometric vectors may be generated from biometric vectors based on the thermal and radar signals, where the resultant biometric vectors contain resultant information about one or more biometric features for a user. Hazard information about the user is obtained from the one or more resultant biometric vectors, where the hazard information is indicative of a health event for the user. Consequently, an appropriate action on behalf of the user may be performed to ameliorate the health condition. The one or more resultant biometric vectors may include additional biometric features and/or a time sequence of the resultant biometric vectors to enhance hazard prediction. Moreover, the apparatuses and methods may support the user in different settings including a home, business, or vehicle.
US11170893B2
A system and method for managing use of medical devices. The system includes: an apparatus intended to be used in combination with one or more medical devices; one or more processing units; authorizing means, which may be associated to a medical device and including one identifier parameter able to uniquely identify said device. The processing unit includes: one reader module configured for acquiring the identifier parameter from the authorizing means; one enabling module configured to allow or inhibit use of the device with the apparatus on the basis of control parameters; and at least one calculation module configured for setting the number of uses of the device. The control parameters include the identifier parameter acquired and the number of uses calculated.
US11170888B2
Embodiments of the invention include systems and methods for capturing crowd wisdom to be tested for individualized treatment plans. These systems and methods include data mining crowd sourced health related information and unstructured medical narratives and storytelling to identify treatment plans and general techniques that individuals with chronic diseases/symptoms, including but not limited to IBD and other immune invisible neglected and stigmatized diseases, use to improve their general health and wellbeing. A system for testing the treatments effectiveness in a population and then in an individual is also disclosed.
US11170887B2
An integrated system for delivering weight loss guidance and activity tracking in a mobile format. The integrated system includes a weight loss program hosted on a mobile device. The weight loss program includes an energy intake prescription to guide a participant toward a target weight according to a weight loss prediction model that is visually depicted in a first application window. The mobile device can be paired with a weight sensor to provide weight updates at regular intervals. The mobile device can also be paired with a caloric expenditure measuring device, for example a step counter, to display activity levels for comparison with recommended activity goals in a second application window. The weight loss program extends over multiple phases that are structured to help individuals gradually achieve a sustainable weight loss while increasing daily activity levels over the duration of the program.
US11170884B2
Techniques for monitoring a pharmaceutical manufacturing process and making determinations regarding the release of radiopharmaceuticals to health care providers. A data processing system collects data across multiple batches of radiopharmaceuticals, across multiple entities, and/or across multiple stages of the manufacturing process, processes the data, and provides feedback to entities involved in the manufacturing process. In scenarios where quality assurance tests are conducted, data is collected from radiopharmaceutical products before they are shipped, and the data is analyzed to provide the recipients with an indication of whether the radiopharmaceutical products satisfy quality assurance standards. Techniques for analyzing information about a batch manufacturing process and, when a problem occurred during a manufacture of a batch, determining whether to continue to manufacture a next batch in time for delivering and administering to a patient. The detected problem may be investigated and remedied before or during the synthesis of the next batch.
US11170881B2
Various systems and devices are provided for facilitating communication in a healthcare setting. In one example, a system includes a display and a computing device operably coupled to the display. The computing device stores instructions executable to output, to the display, a patient-specific dashboard including medical information specific to the patient, the dashboard further including a displayed link to a patient-specific communication thread; and responsive to a user selecting the link, output to the display a portion of the communication thread, where the communication thread includes communication among one or more care providers monitoring the patient and one or more virtual healthcare assistants.
US11170880B2
Systems and methods for surfacing contextually relevant data into the workflow of a third party system are discussed herein. The system implements a near-real-time method of detecting activity corresponding to particular electronic health records associated with particular patients in third-party systems using specifically configured software systems. A cloud-based micro-services architecture is communicably coupled to the third-party systems and is operable to transmit contextually relevant data to the third-party system in response to particular detected activities, such as accessing a patient's electronic health record. The contextually-relevant data is identified by comparing electronic health record data from various third-party systems, each third-party system associated with the particular patient, to determine gaps in the records. The contextually relevant data is transmitted to the third-party system and visually integrated into the third-party system's pre-existing clinical workflow.
US11170862B2
A memory system includes a non-volatile memory device and a controller. The non-volatile memory device includes a plurality of memory regions, each memory region including a plurality of cells commonly coupled to a word line. The controller generates a plurality of candidate data sets based on source data, determines a number of vulnerable cells corresponding to each of the plurality of candidate data sets, and stores a candidate data set having a smallest number of vulnerable cells into a target memory region among the plurality of memory regions.
US11170853B2
Methods, systems, and devices for a modified write voltage for memory devices are described. In an example, the memory device may determine a first set of memory cells to be switched from a first logic state (e.g., a SET state) to a second logic state (e.g., a RESET state) based on a received write command. The memory device may perform a read operation to determine a subset of the first set of memory cells (e.g., a second set of memory cells) having a conductance threshold satisfying a criteria based on a predicted drift of the memory cells. The memory device may apply a RESET pulse to each of the memory cells within the first set of memory cells, where the RESET pulse applied to the second set of memory cells is modified to decrease voltage threshold drift in the RESET state.
US11170850B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus that support efficient utilization of die area for cross-point memory architecture are described. A memory array may include active memory cells overlying each portion of the substrate that includes certain types of support circuitry, such as decoders and sense amplifiers. Boundary tiles, which may be portions of an array having a different configuration from other portions of the array, may be positioned on one side of an array of memory tiles. The boundary tiles may include support components to access both memory cells of neighboring memory tiles and memory cells overlying the boundary tiles. Column lines and column line decoders may be integrated as part of a boundary tile. Access lines, such as row lines may be truncated or omitted at or near borders of the memory portion of the memory device.
US11170847B2
Apparatuses and methods for determining soft data for fractional digit memory cells are provided. One example apparatus can include a controller to determine states of memory cells of a group of memory cells operated as fractional digit memory cells, and determine soft data based, at least partially, on dimensions to which particular memory cells correspond with respect to the group of memory cells, determined states of the memory cells with respect to a state adjacent a state corresponding to a swapping shell, and whether a particular memory cell is a candidate for swapping.
US11170842B2
A stacked semiconductor device is disclosed that includes a plurality of semiconductor dies. Each die has oppositely disposed first and second surfaces, with pads formed on each of the surfaces. A plurality of through-vias connect respective pads on the first surface to respective pads on the second surface. The through-vias include a first group of through-vias coupled to respective I/O circuitry on the semiconductor die and a second group of through-vias not coupled to I/O circuitry on the semiconductor die. The plurality of semiconductor dies are stacked such that the first group of through-vias in a first one of the plurality of semiconductor dies are aligned with respective ones of at least a portion of the second group of through-vias in a second one of the plurality of semiconductor dies.
US11170840B1
An SRAM write assist device includes: a power circuit supplying power to an SRAM-cells column and then stopping supplying power to make the voltage of a power-receiving terminal of the SRAM-cells column floating; a write driving circuit coupling a bit line of the SRAM-cells column with a ground terminal according to a data signal in a write drive phase; a charge sharing circuit coupling the power-receiving terminal with the first terminal of a capacitor to lower this terminal's floating voltage by charge sharing in a charge sharing phase; a charging circuit including a switch turned on to charge the capacitor with an operating voltage in a charge phase; and a negative-voltage coupling circuit including the capacitor whose first and second terminals are coupled to a ground terminal and the bit line respectively to lower the voltage of the bit line by charge sharing in a negative-voltage generation phase.
US11170839B2
A system for programming memory devices in an array is provided. The system may include a plurality of memory cells that are organized into an array having two or more rows of memory cells arranged horizontally and two or more columns of memory cells arranged vertically. The system may also include a current-compliance circuit that is electrically coupled to one or more memory cells in the plurality of memory cells. The current-compliance circuit may be configured to limit an amount of current supplied to the one or more memory cells during a programming phase of the one or more memory cells.
US11170830B2
Systems and method are provided for a word line driver. A first supply branch is configured to provide a source voltage level for a word line. A second supply branch is configured to provide a boosted voltage for the word line. The word line driver is configured to apply the source voltage level to the word line based on a first selection signal, and the word line driver is configured to apply the boosted voltage to the word line based on a second selection signal, the second selection signal being delayed relative to the first selection signal.
US11170827B2
There are provided a data buffer and a memory system having the same. The data buffer includes first and second amplifiers configured to output output data by inverting input data, the first and second amplifiers having coupled output nodes to which the output data is output, wherein both of the first and second amplifiers are activated to output the output data when the input data has a first swing level, and wherein one of the first and second amplifiers is activated to output the output data when the input data has a second swing level narrower than the first swing level.
US11170819B2
Described herein is a mechanism for creating a dynamic video highlight from a plurality of video segments. A metadata collection agent collects metadata comprising attributes about a video, segments within the video where one or more events occur, attributes about the creator of the video and so forth. The metadata is collected and used to create highlight video definitions comprising a set of metadata attribute-value pairs. The highlight video definitions can be created in an interactive fashion by presenting a user interface allowing selection of a combination of attribute-value pairs to include/exclude segments from the definition and/or manual selection of custom segments. The highlight video definitions can be stored and/or shared among users. The video highlight definitions are utilized to instantiate one or more video players to play the video segments in an identified order without assembling the video segments into a separate video.
US11170814B1
The present disclosure relates to pretreating a magnetic recording head. For a HAMR head, a NFT is present. Current can be applied to the NFT to condition the NFT. The current is applied in one of three ways: slowly ramping up the current from a starting level below a level capable of writing data to the optical laser current over a predetermined period of time, applying the current at a fixed value below the optical laser current for the predetermined period of time, or slowly ramping up the current from a starting level below a level capable of writing data to the optical laser current over the predetermined period of time while also intermittently removing the current. By conditioning the NFT in such a manner, the HAMR head can avoid thermal shock and thermal fatigue and thus increase the lifetime of the magnetic media drive.
US11170813B2
A method of producing a magnetic powder includes performing heat treatment on first particles that contain ferrous oxide to prepare 5 second particles that contain ε-iron oxide.
US11170806B2
The present disclosure generally relates to a Wheatstone bridge array that has four resistors. Each resistor includes a plurality of TMR films. Each resistor has identical TMR films. The TMR films of two resistors have reference layers that have an antiparallel magnetic orientation relative to the TMR films of the other two resistors. To ensure the antiparallel magnetic orientation, the TMR films are all formed simultaneously and annealed in a magnetic field simultaneously. Thereafter, the TMR films of two resistors are annealed a second time in a magnetic field while the TMR films of the other two resistors are not annealed a second time.
US11170796B2
The present technology relates to an encoding apparatus, an encoding method, a decoding apparatus, a decoding method, and a program for obtaining sound of higher quality. An audio signal decoding section decodes encoded audio data to acquire an audio signal of each object. A metadata decoding section decodes encoded metadata to acquire a plurality of metadata about each object in each frame of the audio signal. A gain calculating section calculates VBAP gains of each object in the audio signal for each speaker based on the metadata. An audio signal generating section generates an audio signal to be fed to each speaker by having the audio signal of each object multiplied by the corresponding VBAP gain and by adding up the multiplied audio signals. The present technology may be applied to decoding apparatuses.
US11170793B2
Embodiments provide systems, methods, and computer storage media for secure audio watermarking and audio authenticity verification. An audio watermark detector may include a neural network trained to detect a particular audio watermark and embedding technique, which may indicate source software used in a workflow that generated an audio file under test. For example, the watermark may indicate an audio file was generated using voice manipulation software, so detecting the watermark can indicate manipulated audio such as deepfake audio and other attacked audio signals. In some embodiments, the audio watermark detector may be trained as part of a generative adversarial network in order to make the underlying audio watermark more robust to neural network-based attacks. Generally, the audio watermark detector may evaluate time domain samples from chunks of an audio clip under test to detect the presence of the audio watermark and generate a classification for the audio clip.
US11170787B2
Voice-based authentication can include methods, systems, devices, and computer program products for providing user-specific services or access based at least in part on an utterance. In one method, an audio clip having an utterance is obtained. The utterance has an activation trigger portion and a command portion. A first distance between a vector representation of the activation trigger portion and a registered activation trigger vector is determined; and a second distance between a vector representation of the command portion and a registered command vector is determined. Responsive to the first distance satisfying a first distance threshold, and the second distance satisfying a second distance threshold, access is provided to a service associated with a registered user.
US11170785B2
The techniques described herein improve methods to equip a computing device to conduct automatic speech recognition (“ASR”) in talker-independent multi-talker scenarios. In some examples, permutation invariant training of deep learning models can be used for talker-independent multi-talker scenarios. In some examples, the techniques can determine a permutation-considered assignment between a model's estimate of a source signal and the source signal. In some examples, the techniques can include training the model generating the estimate to minimize a deviation of the permutation-considered assignment. These techniques can be implemented into a neural network's structure itself, solving the label permutation problem that prevented making progress on deep learning based techniques for speech separation. The techniques discussed herein can also include source tracing to trace streams originating from a same source through the frames of a mixed signal.
US11170782B2
A real-time audio transcription, video conferencing, and online collaboration system system includes a microphone that records audio from a lecturer, a camera that captures video from the lecturer and/or users, and a user interface for viewing a transcription of the audio. The audio recording is transmitted to a storage device, such as a personal computer or mobile device, which transmits the audio to a voice-to-text application for transcription. The storage device may do so via a third-party cloud server, a web application, or a software application. The transcribed text is then transmitted to a user interface for viewing by hearing-impaired persons. The transcribed text is provided in real-time with the lecturer and audio-recording and presented word-for-word to the user during transcription and may be edited in real-time to improve accuracy of the automatic transcription.
US11170778B2
Provided are a conversational control system and method for registering an external device. The method performed by the conversational robot device, includes: receiving profile information from a plurality of external devices; selecting a service category of a service provided by the conversational robot device; selecting at least one external device related to the selected service category from among the plurality of external devices; generating a function tree including at least some functions of the selected at least one external device; and registering the function tree and the service category with a server.
US11170775B2
Disclosed are a display apparatus and a method for operating the display apparatus, the display apparatus being operated by executing an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm and/or a machine learning algorithm in a 5G environment connected for Internet of Things. The method for operating the display apparatus includes the acts of receiving utterance information of a user who is watching the display apparatus, selecting an utterance intention corresponding to the user's utterance information according to a predefined rule, switching operation of the display apparatus on the basis of the selected utterance intention, collecting reaction information of the user corresponding to the switched operation of the display apparatus, and reconstructing the predefined rule by using the user's utterance information, the selected utterance intention, and the user's reaction information. Since the user's utterance intention corresponding to the user's utterance information is accurately reflected when the operation of the display apparatus is switched, user satisfaction in using the display apparatus can be improved.
US11170774B2
A device includes a screen and one or more processors configured to provide, at the screen, a graphical user interface (GUI) configured to display data associated with multiple devices on the screen. The GUI is also configured to illustrate a label and at least one control input for each device of the multiple devices. The GUI is also configured to provide feedback to a user. The feedback indicates that a verbal command is not recognized with an action to be performed. The GUI is also configured to provide instructions for the user on how to teach the one or more processors which action is to be performed in response to receiving the verbal command.
US11170768B2
An electronic device includes a touchscreen display, a microphone, at least one speaker, a processor and a memory which stores instructions that cause the processor to receive a user utterance including a request for performing a task with the electronic device, to transmit data associated with the user utterance to an external server, to receive a response from the external server including sample utterances representative of an intent of the user utterance and the sample utterances being selected by the external server based on the user utterance, to display the sample utterances on the touchscreen display, to receive a user input to select one of the sample utterances, and to perform the task by causing the electronic device to follow a sequence of states associated with the selected one of the sample utterances.
US11170764B2
An electronic device and method for utilizing same are disclosed, the electronic device including a touch screen display disposed in the housing and exposed through a first portion of the housing; a microphone disposed in the housing and exposed through a second portion of the housing; at least one speaker disposed in the housing and exposed through a third portion of the housing; a communication circuit disposed in the housing; a processor disposed in the housing and electrically connected to the display, the microphone, the speaker, and the communication circuit; and a memory disposed in the housing, electrically connected to the processor, and configured to store application programs including a first application program, a second application program and a third application program, the second application program and the third application program include at least one common function.
US11170763B2
A voice interaction system performs a voice interaction with a user. The voice interaction system includes: ask-again detection means for detecting ask-again by the user; response-sentence generation means for generating, when the ask-again has been detected by the ask-again detection means, a response sentence for the ask-again in response to the ask-again based on a response sentence responding to the user before the ask-again; and storage means for storing a history of the voice interaction with the user. The response-sentence generation means generates, when the response sentence includes a word whose frequency of appearance in the history of the voice interaction in the storage means is equal to or smaller than a first predetermined value, a response sentence for the ask-again formed of only this word or a response sentence for the ask-again in which this word is emphasized in the response sentence.
US11170762B2
Methods, systems, apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for a user device to learn offline voice actions. In one aspect, the method includes actions of detecting, by the user device, an utterance at a first time when the user device is connected to a server by a network, providing, by the user device, the utterance to the server using the network, receiving, by the user device and from the server, an update to the grammar of the user device, detecting, by the user device, a subsequent utterance of the utterance at a second time when the user device is not connected to the server by a network, and in response to detecting, by the user device, the subsequent utterance of the utterance at the second time, identifying, by the user device, an operation to perform based on (i) the subsequent utterance, and (ii) the updated grammar.
US11170756B2
A speech processing device of an embodiment includes a spectrum parameter calculation unit, a phase spectrum calculation unit, a group delay spectrum calculation unit, a band group delay parameter calculation unit, and a band group delay compensation parameter calculation unit. The spectrum parameter calculation unit calculates a spectrum parameter. The phase spectrum calculation unit calculates a first phase spectrum. The group delay spectrum calculation unit calculates a group delay spectrum from the first phase spectrum based on a frequency component of the first phase spectrum. The band group delay parameter calculation unit calculates a band group delay parameter in a predetermined frequency band from a group delay spectrum. The band group delay compensation parameter calculation unit calculates a band group delay compensation parameter to compensate a difference between a second phase spectrum reconstructed from the band group delay parameter and the first phase spectrum.
US11170745B1
A quick-release clamp for releasably attaching an instrument, in particular a percussion instrument, to a stand includes a passage opening for the stand, at least one movable clamping jaw for changing a cross-section of the passage opening, an operating element for influencing a position of the clamping jaw, and a housing. In the rest position of the at least one clamping jaw there is a form-fit connection between the at least one clamping jaw, the operating element and the housing to prevent the movement of the clamping jaw.
US11170744B1
A pick for plucking a string of a stringed musical instrument is provided. The pick includes a planar body having front and rear sides, a distal end having a curved tip for plucking the string, a proximal end for gripping by a user; and a plurality of raised formations provided on at least one of the front and rear sides of the planar body at the distal end, the raised formations being structured and arranged at the distal end to strike the string more than once when the distal end plucks the string.
US11170742B2
A sostenuto mechanism linked to a sostenuto pedal and a sostenuto rod of a keyboard instrument, and the keyboard instrument are provided. The sostenuto mechanism includes a fixed member configured to be fixed to at least one of a middle beam or a key bed of the keyboard instrument, a movable member movably supported by the fixed member, and a movement transmission. The movement transmission is configured to be interposed between the sostenuto pedal and the movable member to transmit movement of the sostenuto pedal to the movable member. The moveable member is movable relative to the fixed member to turn the sostenuto rod in response to depression of the sostenuto pedal.
US11170739B2
A display optimization and display driving method and apparatus, display apparatus, and storage medium are disclosed. The display optimization method includes: selecting an irregular-shaped edge of a display panel, calculating an area ratio of an area of a display region of a pixel unit passed by the irregular-shaped edge and an area of the pixel unit; and determining a grayscale parameter of the pixel unit according to the area ratio.
US11170730B2
A driving device of a flat panel display configured to receive an image signal and a clock signal includes a driving circuit configured to convert the image signal into pixel data and output the pixel data, a timing controller configured to generate and output a vertical synchronization signal, a horizontal synchronization signal, a source change enable signal, and a display enable signal using the image signal and the clock signal, an output buffer including an input terminal configured to receive the pixel data and an output terminal connected to the flat panel display, and a buffer controller connected to the timing controller and the output buffer and configured to control a bias current, applied to the output buffer, to be decreased by a value during a period.
US11170721B2
A pixel circuit performs a threshold voltage correcting function. A sampling transistor becomes conductive in response to a control signal supplied from a scan line and samples a video signal supplied from a signal line to a pixel capacitor during a horizontal scanning period. The pixel capacitor applies an input voltage to a gate of a drive transistor in response to the sampled video signal. The drive transistor supplies an output current in accordance with the input voltage to a light-emitting device. A threshold voltage correcting period is provided to be part of the horizontal scanning period, to detect the threshold voltage of the drive transistor, and to write the threshold voltage in the pixel capacitor.
US11170719B1
An enhanced pixel circuit for a display device provides separate compensation and data programming phases to permit minimization of the programming time. Variations in voltage supplies are accounted for by isolating the drive transistor from such power supply by using a second drive transistor configured as source follower relative to the first drive transistor. An on bias stress transistor is incorporated that can electrically connect the first drive transistor to the power supply during an on bias stress operation. During such operation, a voltage stress is applied to eliminate hysteresis effects associated with the drive transistor. The on bias stress operation may be performed as part of a refresh operation during which a data voltage is programmed to the pixel circuit, or as part of a low frequency operation during which a previously programming data voltage is maintained which reduces power consumption.
US11170714B2
The present disclosure discloses a pixel circuit, a method for driving the same, a display panel and a display device. The pixel circuit includes: a first switching transistor, a second switching transistor, a first capacitor, a second capacitor, a driving transistor, and a light emitting device; where a gate electrode of the first switching transistor is connected with a scanning signal end, a first electrode of the first switching transistor is connected with a reference signal end, and a second electrode of the first switching transistor is connected with a gate electrode of the driving transistor; and a gate electrode of the second switching transistor is connected with a light emitting control signal end, a first electrode of the second switching transistor is connected with a first power supply end, and a second electrode of the second switching transistor is connected with a first electrode of the driving transistor.
US11170710B2
A display module including display pixels, driving circuit and first switches is provided. The display pixels are arranged in columns and rows in the display area, and every display pixel includes sub-pixels. The display pixels form pixel rows along the first direction, and the sub-pixels of the display pixels form sub-pixel columns along the second direction. The color of the light emitting from the sub-pixels of the same sub-pixel column are substantially the same. The first direction and the second direction are substantially perpendicular. The driving circuit includes signal connectors, and every signal connector connects one of the pixel rows. The first switch is connected between a power source and one of the pixel rows, transmitting driving signal. The first switch is controlled by the driving circuit. A display device and a driving method are also provided.
US11170698B2
Active discharge circuitry for fast discharging of charge on an LED display matrix includes a mechanism to effectuate circuit path switching so as to electrically connect a charged node to a discharge circuit for controlled discharging of unwanted charge until it reaches a desired (e.g., programmable) value. The active discharge circuitry includes a control circuit generating appropriate timing and digital control signals for starting and stopping (e.g., actuating a switch) the discharge activities. The disclosed techniques accommodate variations in channel-to-channel start times for mitigating ghosting effects that would otherwise be presented from the LED display matrix due to residual (i.e., unwanted) charges remaining electrically loaded on display elements via, for example, charged parasitic capacitance or other such transients, after a current driver of a specific channel has stopped driving.
US11170693B2
A display device including a display panel including a plurality of pixels, and a driver configured to drive the display panel. The driver includes a dither configured to perform a dithering operation on image data including a plurality of pixel data for the plurality of pixels to generate dithered image data including a plurality of dithered pixel data respectively corresponding to the plurality of pixel data, and a still image detector configured to receive the dithered image data, to detect dither-irrelevant pixel data that are not changed from the plurality of pixel data by the dithering operation among the plurality of dithered pixel data, and to determine whether the dithered image data represent a still image by using the dither-irrelevant pixel data.
US11170688B2
A method of driving a display panel including a plurality of pixels, each of which outputs different color lights corresponding to voltage ranges to which a driving voltage applied thereto belongs, includes dividing one image frame into first through third sub-frames, outputting a first color image displayed by a first color by applying a first driving voltage belonging to a first voltage range to the pixels in the first sub-frame, outputting a second color image displayed by a second color by applying a second driving voltage belonging to a second voltage range to the pixels in the second sub-frame, and outputting a third color image displayed by a third color by applying a third driving voltage belonging to a third voltage range to the pixels in the third sub-frame.
US11170685B2
A display device and a driving device thereof is disclosed. The driving device is coupled to a display panel. The driving device includes at least one first driver integrated circuit (IC) and at least one second driver integrated circuit (IC). The first driver integrated circuit is coupled to the display panel. The first driver integrated circuit drives the display panel and detects a first working temperature. The second driver integrated circuit is coupled to the display panel and the first driver IC. The second driver integrated circuit drives the display panel. The first driver IC stops driving the display panel and communicates with the second driver IC to stop driving the display panel when the first working temperature is substantially higher than a first given temperature.
US11170681B2
A gate driving circuit, a driving method thereof, a gate driver, a display panel and a display apparatus. In the gate driving circuit, a pull-up sub-circuit is configured to control the potential of a pull-up node according to signals inputted from first, second, third, fourth and fifth signal terminals and the potential of a pull-down node; a reset sub-circuit is configured to reset the potential of the pull-up node according to a signal inputted from a reset terminal; a pull-down sub-circuit is configured to control the potential of the pull-down node according to a signal inputted from the fourth signal terminal, a signal outputted from an output terminal and the potential of the pull-up node; and an output sub-circuit is configured to control a signal outputted from the output terminal according to a signal inputted from the third signal terminal, the potential of the pull-down node and the potential of the pull-up node.
US11170675B2
A method for performing hybrid over-current protection (OCP) detection in a display module and associated timing controller are provided. The method includes: during initialization of the display module, after a set of driving voltages have been established, performing first OCP detection in a built-in self-test (BIST) mode to generate a first OCP detection result; writing the first OCP detection result into a register bank, for being accessed by a host device, wherein the display module is applicable to displaying information for the host device; performing second OCP detection in a normal mode to generate a second OCP detection result; and writing the second OCP detection result into the register bank, for being accessed by the host device.
US11170664B2
Kit, method and apparatus for surgical simulation and/or fine motor skill training for surgical work
A method, apparatus and kit can be configured to facilitate improvements in fine motor skills of a user. The fine motor skills can be practiced in a way that also allows the user to better appreciate depth perception and other issues associated with manipulation of objects by use of hand operated tools while the user views an image of such activity via imaging provided by a camera sensor connected to a display device. In some embodiments, a case can be provided that is moveable from a closed position to an open and standing position to facilitate activities that allow a user to improve his or her fine motor skills and other related skills (e.g. depth perception appreciation). Such skill improvement can help a user improve their ability to perform surgical operational tasks or other fine motor related tasks.
US11170662B2
A system is disclosed that uses profiles of users, including monitored ketone levels of the users, to assess effectiveness levels of health programs (such as weight loss programs) assigned to the users, and to select health program modifications for the users. The system may use a machine learning (artificial intelligence) algorithm to adaptively learn how to classify users and to select messaging and behavioral modifications for the users. For example, in some embodiments the system classifies the users and provides associated health program recommendations using a computer model trained with expert-classified user data records. As another example, a set of rules may be used to generate the health program recommendations and related messaging, and the set of rules may automatically be modified over time based on feedback data reflective of health program effectiveness levels produced by such rules. In some embodiments the system includes a mobile application that runs on mobile devices of users and communicates wirelessly with breath analysis devices of the users. The mobile application may also communicate with a server-based system that generates the health program recommendations.
US11170632B2
The present systems and methods relate to a hand sanitizer system that includes a proximity detector, a dispensing system and an alarm feature, and is operative to identify potentially high risk hygiene situations corresponding to a person in proximity of the system failing to dispense antiseptic or other solution from the dispenser within a predetermined period of time after moving within a predetermined range of the detector.
US11170630B2
Aspects provide methods to discretely and intelligently make a user aware of a service or product offered by a subscriber without distracting the user with a full advertisement. More specifically, aspects provide methods and systems for selectively outputting an audio chime in response to a trigger event, wherein the audio chime provides an indication of a service or product offered by the subscriber. In response to a user's acceptance of the audio chime, a second chime, further engaging the user, is output.
US11170627B2
The present invention provides for a mobile process-interaction device for interacting with a process at a processing location, and a related method of interaction, the device having an input module for accepting data produced by the process, an output module for providing user-information, and wherein the process-interaction device comprises a mobile wearable electronic interaction device arranged for communication by way of a human machine interface at the processing location.
US11170625B2
A position sensing system comprises a position sensor having an accelerometer and a gyroscope, an alarm, and a controller configured to receive data from the position sensor and activate the alarm according to alarm management instructions stored in a memory. In some embodiments, the alarm instructions include a snooze option to allow the user/patient to temporarily deactivate the alarm. The controller is communicably linked to a remote display device configured to display the orientation of the user's body part.
US11170624B2
A system includes a medical device, a patient sensor, an output unit and a signal processing unit that receives measured values from patient sensors and generates signals by analyzing received measured values. The signal processing unit decides whether an alarm criterion, relating to the generated signal, is met and detects an alarm and an alarm time and actuates the output unit. The actuated output unit displays an overall alarm sequence (16) in an overall time period (T) and an alarm reference sequence in a reference section (26) time window (T1) temporally positioned relative to the overall alarm sequence. At least one of a signal curve display (10) and an alarm reference sequence (18) are displayed as a portion of the overall time period. Time scales for the signal curve display and the alarm reference sequence are finer than time scales for the overall alarm sequence and the alarm reference section.
US11170623B2
A portable hazard communicator device including a portable housing, a visual warning indicator, an audio warning indicator, a receiver, a first control unit, a second control unit and an attachment unit. The portable housing has an internal cavity for housing a plurality of light elements. The visual warning indicator is integrated within the housing for displaying a hazard message upon activation of the visual warning indicator. The audio warning indicator unit is integrated within the housing for emitting a hazard sound upon activation of the audio warning indicator. The receiver is configured to receive one or more signals from a companion device, and the one or more signals includes a power on signal. The first control unit is configured to activate and deactivate the visual warning indicator. The second control unit is configured to activate and deactivate the audio warning indicator. The attachment unit attaches the portable housing to a surface.
US11170620B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to a wireless identification tag for association with a product to enable product self-identification and system and methods for use thereof. In one implementation, the tag may include at least one antenna tuned to receive energy transmitted at one or more frequencies within certain frequency bands. The tag may also include at least one transmitter that may be configured to send at least one identification signal. The tag may also include at least one circuit. The at least one circuit may be configured to detect whether energy is received in a certain frequency band, and to cause the at least one transmitter to operate in a mode corresponding to the certain frequency band.
US11170617B2
A sensor assembly as part of a wireless alarm system for building entrances like windows and doors. An elongated sensor assembly for detecting a change of state comprising at least one sensor switch configured to detect a given state and a change of state between the given state and at least one other state, a microprocessor configured to detect the change of state of the at least one sensor switch, an antenna system, a wireless transmitter configured to receive a signal from the microprocessor identifying a change of the state of the at least one sensor switch and transmit the signal by means of the antenna system, and a power source for providing electric power, wherein the at least one sensor switch, the microprocessor, the antenna system, the wireless transmitter, and the power source are incorporated in the elongated sensor assembly having a maximum height of less than 5 mm.
US11170615B2
There is provided a mechanism capable of suppressing deterioration in user experience accompanied by feedback due to vibration. An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires vibration information for outputting intermittent vibration to an actuator; and a setting unit that sets an operation mode of a plurality of actuators capable of outputting vibration to the same user based on the vibration information as a first operation mode in which the same actuator continuously outputs each of the intermittent vibrations based on the vibration information or as a second operation mode in which the plurality of actuators share the intermittent vibrations while the same actuator discontinuously outputs each of the intermittent vibrations based on the vibration information.
US11170599B2
A vending machine includes two horizontal lead screws, a vertical lead screw, first and second motors, a shelf, a delivery cup, and a delivery area. The first and second motors drive the horizontal lead screws and the vertical lead screw, respectively. The vertical lead screw moves horizontally along the horizontal lead screws. The shelf contains a product and has a movable gate to hold the product on the shelf. The delivery cup moves vertically along the vertical lead screw and has a solenoid and a plunger. The solenoid activates the plunger, which opens the gate to dispense the product onto the delivery cup. An outer door of the delivery area isolates the delivery area from outside the vending machine when closed and provides access to the product from outside the vending machine when open. A mechanical interaction between the delivery cup and the delivery area opens the outer door.
US11170598B2
A vault defines a cavity wherein openings define the vault and are open into the cavity. A token box is disposed within the cavity of the vault. A cover feature has a shell and a base. The base is slidably coupled to the vault to transition between a first position and a second position. The shell is hingedly coupled to the base to hinge between a covering position and a servicing position when the base is in the second position.
US11170597B2
An intelligent lock, overlock, and lock system can be electrically controlled to open and close one or more locks. The lock, lock system, and method may function on a frequency selected to avoid cross talk, which permits numerous locks to function simultaneously on the same central system with little interruption or delay. A lock may be used as an overlock for an existing lock or be a primary lock and may include a pivoting engagement structure that engages a locking mechanism to provide added strength.
US11170596B2
A system for locating an object in a volume of space can include a communication device of the object disposed in the volume of space, where the communication device broadcasts a first communication signal into the volume of space, where the first communication signal includes a first identification of the object. The system can also include multiple integrated sensor devices disposed in the volume of space, where each integrated sensor device includes at least one sensor, at least one receiver, and at least one transmitter, where the at least one receiver of a subset of the integrated sensor devices receives the first communication signal, where each of the subset determines a signal strength of the first communication signal. The system can further include at least one access controller that receives at least one second communication signal sent by the subset.
US11170595B2
An access control system comprising a first detector, a second detector, and a processor. The first detector is operable to detect presence of a subject in proximity of the access control system. The second detector operable to detect an object identifier associated with an object carried by the subject in proximity of the access control system. The processor is operably connected with the first detector and the second detector. The processor is operable to receive, from the first detector, a first signal indicative of the detection of the presence of the subject, and receive, from the second detector, a second signal containing the detected object identifier. During operation, the processor is arranged to determine that an access event has occurred when it receives both the first signal and the second signal.
US11170591B2
Systems and methods for wireless unlocking a lock associated with an enclosed space within a vehicle
Systems and methods for wireless unlocking of lock systems on enclosures within a vehicle are provided. A lock system may be unlocked via a digital key communicated to the lock system via any suitable communication protocol, for example, a short range communication protocol. The digital key can be embedded or otherwise stored and accessed in an application accessible via a user interface device.
US11170587B1
Systems and methods of incentivizing the use of a safety device while operating a vehicle are provided. Data captured by sensors associated with a safety device may be analyzed to identify instances in which the safety device is used by an operator of a vehicle. Additionally, data captured by sensors associated with the vehicle may be analyzed to identify instances in which the vehicle is in motion. By comparing the instances in which the safety device is used by the operator of the vehicle to the instances in which the vehicle is in motion, instances in which the operator of the vehicle uses the safety device while operating the vehicle may be determined. Furthermore, a trend of the operator of the vehicle using the safety device while operating the vehicle may be identified. A notification related to the identified trend may be provided to the operator of the vehicle.
US11170585B2
A system and method of performing fault diagnosis and analysis for one or more vehicles. The method includes: obtaining design failure mode and effect analysis (DFMEA) data that specifies a plurality of failure modes; receiving diagnostic association data; receiving vehicle operation signals association data; generating augmented DFMEA data that indicates a causal relationship between the diagnostic data and the first set of failure modes, and that indicates a causal relationship between the vehicle operation signals data and the second set of failure modes, wherein the augmented DFMEA data is generated based on the DFMEA data, the diagnostic association data, and the vehicle operation signals association data; and performing fault diagnosis and analysis for the one or more vehicles using the augmented DFMEA data.
US11170584B2
An automatic fault isolation and diagnosis system includes a cloud-based data system having multiple machine-readable troubleshooting procedures stored therein. A vehicle fault code is generated by one of multiple vehicle control devices of a vehicle platform. The fault code defines an issue with at least one system or component of the vehicle platform. A data transfer device within the vehicle platform receives the fault code and forwards the fault code to the cloud-based data system. The fault code is received and analyzed in the cloud-based data system to initially determine if the fault code is directed to and can be automatically corrected by one of the stored machine-readable troubleshooting procedures.
US11170583B2
According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus used in a vehicle generates a first to fourth log of the vehicle for a first to fourth period, a first to fourth code used to validity of the first to fourth log, a fifth code used to collectively determine a validity of the first log and the second log, a sixth code used to collectively determine a validity of the third log and the fourth log, and a seventh code used to collectively determine a validity of the first to fourth logs, and transmits the first to seventh codes to a server, and transmits the first to fourth logs to the server after a transmission of the first to seventh codes.
US11170581B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training a feature extraction neural network to generate domain-invariant feature representations from domain-varying input images. In one aspect, the method includes obtaining a training dataset comprising a first set of target domain images and a second set of real domain images that each have pixel-wise level alignment with a corresponding target domain image, and training the feature extraction neural network on the training dataset based on optimizing an objective function that includes a term that depends on a similarity between respective feature representations generated by the network for a pair of target and source domain images.
US11170577B2
Generating and modifying representations of objects in an augmented-reality or virtual-reality scene
In one embodiment, a method for generating subframes may include accessing a rendered frame depicting a virtual scene from a first viewpoint of a user. The rendered frame may be generated based on at least one 3D model of an object in the virtual scene. A computing system may generate plurality of surfaces based on the rendered frame. Each surface may be positioned within a 3D space and comprises visual information. The system may determine a second viewpoint of the user in the 3D space and determine a visibility of the plurality of surfaces from the second viewpoint. The system may then render a subframe depicting the virtual scene from the second viewpoint based on the visual information and determined visibility of the plurality of surfaces.
US11170562B2
Method and system for generating a coded image format representing surface data of a 3-dimensional object is disclosed. The method includes superposing an imaginary spherical surface over the object based on a reference point within the object. The surface points of the front portion and back portion of the object are mapped to a first circular region and a second circular region. The distance information of the surface points of the front portion and the back portion from the reference point are encoded as greyscale values to obtain shape information. The color information of the surface points of the front portion and back portion of object are encoded as color values to obtain color information of the front portion and the back portion of the object. The encoded values are stored in pixels of raster graphics image. A coded image format is generated based on the raster graphics image.
US11170557B1
Presented here is a system and method to increase the speed of computation of a volumetric scattering render technique. The volumetric scattering can include path tracing which simulates interactions between a virtual ray of light and a volume. The interaction can include reflection of the virtual ray of light of a particle within the volume. The system can obtain a threshold number of interactions between a virtual ray of light and a three-dimensional object through which the virtual ray of light is traveling. As the system performs the simulation, the system can compare a number of the interactions to the threshold number. Upon determining that the number of interactions is equal to or exceeds the threshold number, the system can terminate the simulation and approximate interactions between the virtual ray of light and the volume using a second rendering technique that is computationally less expensive than simulating the interactions.
US11170552B2
Described herein are methods and systems for remote visualization of three-dimensional (3D) animation. A sensor of a mobile device captures scans of non-rigid objects in a scene, each scan comprising a depth map and a color image. A server receives a first set of scans from the mobile device and reconstructs an initial model of the non-rigid objects using the first set of scans. The server receives a second set of scans. For each scan in the second set of one or more scans, the server determines an initial alignment between the depth map and the initial model. The server converts the depth map into a coordinate system of the initial model, and determines a displacement between the depth map and the initial model. The server deforms the initial model to the depth map using the displacement, and applies a texture to at least a portion of the deformed model.
US11170549B2
In accordance with some embodiments, systems, methods and media for high dynamic range quanta burst imaging are provided. In some embodiments, the system comprises: an image sensor comprising single photon detectors in an array; a processor programmed to: generate a sequence of binary images representing a scene; divide the sequence of binary images into blocks; generate block-sum images from the blocks; determine alignments between the block-sum images and a reference block-sum image; warp the sequence of binary images based on the alignments; generate warped block-sum images using warped binary images; merge the warped block-sum images; display a final image of the scene based on the merged warped block-sum images.
US11170548B2
Computer program products, methods, systems, apparatus, and computing entities are provided for overcoming the technical problem of providing an augmented reality that displays an actual image of the item or a proportionally dimensioned representation of the item to a user. To overcome this challenge, two separate approaches can be used: a beacon/tag/sensor-based approach and a marker-based approach.
US11170546B2
Provided are an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and an image processing program capable of relatively easily creating text representing a description of an image. From a plurality of images selected from an image group, text describing the plurality of images is generated according to a text generation method. Generated text is displayed in a first text display region and a second text display region. In a case where text is corrected by a user, the text generation method is updated. More accurate text is generated.
US11170543B2
A method of magnetic resonance imaging acquires undersampled MRI data and generates by an adversarially trained generative neural network MRI data having higher quality without using any fully-sampled data as a ground truth. The generative neural network is adversarially trained using a discriminative neural network that distinguishes between undersampled MRI training data and candidate undersampled MRI training data produced by applying an MRI measurement function containing an undersampling mask to generated MRI training data produced by the generative neural network from the undersampled MRI training data.
US11170533B1
An image dataset is compressed by combining depth values from pixel depth arrays, wherein combining criteria are based on object data and/or depth variations of depth values in the first pixel image value array and generating a modified image dataset wherein a first pixel image value array represented in a received image dataset by the first number of image value array samples is in turn represented in the modified image dataset by a second number of compressed image value array samples with the second number being less than or equal to the first number.
US11170525B2
The present application provides autonomous vehicle based position detection method and apparatus, a device and a medium, where the method includes: identifying an obtained first visual perception image according to an underlying neural network layer in a slender convolution kernel neural network model to determine feature information of the target linear object image, and identifying the feature information of the target linear object image by using a high-level neural network layer in the slender convolution kernel neural network model to determine size information of the target linear object image; further, matching the size information of the target linear object image with preset coordinate system map information to determine a position of the autonomous vehicle. Embodiments of the present application can accurately determine the position of the autonomous vehicle.
US11170518B2
An imaging processing part 131 executes first imaging processing of causing a first illuminating part to emit structured light from a first direction to a measurement target, causing an imaging part 120 to generate image data, and causing a buffer memory 133 to store therein the generated image data. A computing processing part 132 executes first computing processing of generating, height data corresponding to the first direction. Concurrently with the first computing processing, the imaging processing part 131 executes second imaging processing of causing the second illuminating part to emit structured light from a second direction to the measurement target, causing the imaging part 120 to generate image data, and causing a buffer memory 134 to store therein the generated image data. The computing processing part 132 executes second computing processing of generating height data corresponding to the second direction.
US11170511B2
The present disclosure relates to an image processing device, an imaging device, and an image processing method to superimpose a complementary image in such a manner that an appearance becomes more natural. From an image acquired by imaging of an arbitrary subject, a removal region selecting unit selects a region, in which an intended object to be removed is included, as a removal region with reference to distance information that is acquired when the image is imaged and that indicates a distance to the subject. Based on the distance information, a complementary region specifying unit specifies a complementary region to complement the removal region from a region including a background of the object to be removed in the image. An image superimposition processing unit superimposes a complementary image generated from the complementary region on a place from which the removal region is deleted in the image.
US11170508B2
There is provided a computer implemented method of automatic segmentation of three dimensional (3D) anatomical region of interest(s) (ROI) that includes predefined anatomical structure(s) of a target individual, comprising: receiving 3D images of a target individual, each including the predefined anatomical structure(s), each 3D image is based on a different respective imaging modality. In one implementation, each respective 3D image is inputted into a respective processing component of a multi-modal neural network, wherein each processing component independently computes a respective intermediate, and the intermediate outputs are inputted into a common last convolutional layer(s) for computing the indication of segmented 3D ROI(s). In another implementation, each respective 3D image is inputted into a respective encoding-contracting component a multi-modal neural network, wherein each encoding-contracting component independently computes a respective intermediate output. The intermediate outputs are inputted into a single common decoding-expanding component for computing the indication of segmented 3D ROI(s).
US11170506B2
A method for constructing a sequencing template based on an image, a device, and a system. The image includes first, second, third and fourth images of one same field of view corresponding to base extensions of A, T/U, G, and C respectively; the first, second, third and fourth images respectively include images M1 and M2, images N1 and N2, images P1 and P2, and images Q1 and Q2; the method includes combining any two of the images M1, M2, N1, N2, P1, P2, Q1, and Q2to perform bright spot matching, and enabling such images to participate in the combination for at least one time to obtain a plurality of combined images including first coincident bright spots, and merging the first coincident bright spots on the plurality of combined images to obtain a bright spot set corresponding to the sequencing template.
US11170501B2
An image analysis device may include a memory storing learning data for executing image analysis, and may obtain cell image data representing a cell image including a plurality of cell objects, sequentially identify plural pieces of partial image data from the cell image data, sequentially execute a center determination process on each of the plural pieces of partial image data, classify at least one cell corresponding to at least one cell object among a plurality of cell objects by using results of the center determination process on the plural pieces of partial image data and classification data included in learning data, and output a classification result.
US11170500B1
A three-dimensional image quality indicator suitable for assessing the quality of a CT scan includes a pyramidal structure having a base, an apex, and a plurality of triangular faces extending from the base to the apex; at least two grooves in each triangular face, each groove tapering from a wide end at the base to a narrow end at the apex; and a land between each pair of adjacent grooves in each triangular face, each land tapering from the base to the apex. When a two-dimensional slice is taken in a plane parallel to the base of the pyramidal structure, the grooves are observable at the edges of the structure. The smallest observable groove width provides a measure of CT resolution.
US11170492B2
A method of performing a structure data operation includes providing input data including a processing structure and an input solid structure including a plurality of solid units, converting the input solid structure to an input boundary surface structure including attribute information on input boundary surfaces of the plurality of solid units, performing a structure data operation on the input boundary surface structure to generate an output boundary surface structure, and providing output data based on the output boundary surface structure. The structure data operation includes applying the processing structure to the input boundary surface structure.
US11170485B2
An approach is provided for determining quality assessment of cross view feature correspondence using bundle adjustment techniques. The approach, for example, involves retrieving a plurality of annotated images that are labeled with one or more feature correspondence labels. The approach also involves performing a bundle adjustment process on the plurality of annotated images to compute a three-dimensional (3D) location and a residual error of a feature corresponding to the one or more feature correspondence labels. The approach further involves flagging the one or more feature correspondence labels as potentially incorrect based on determining that the residual error is greater than an error threshold.
US11170472B2
A terminal for receiving streaming data may receive information of a plurality of different quality versions of an image content; request, based on the information, a server for a version of the image content from among the plurality of different quality versions of the image content; when the requested version of the image content and artificial intelligence (AI) data corresponding to the requested version of the image content are received, determines whether to perform AI upscaling on the received version of the image content, based on the AI data; and based on a result of the determining whether to perform AI upscaling, performs AI upscaling on the received version of the image content through a upscaling deep neural network (DNN) that is trained jointly with a downscaling DNN of the server.
US11170470B1
Techniques are described for content-adaptive downsampling of digital images and videos for computer vision operations, such as semantic segmentation. A computer vision system comprises a memory, one or more processors operably coupled to the memory and a downsampling module configured for execution by the one or more processors to perform, based on a non-uniform sampling model trained to predict content-aware sampling parameters, downsampling input image data to generate downsampled image data. A segmentation module is configured for execution by the one or more processors to perform segmentation on the downsampled image to produce a segmentation result, such as a feature map that assigns pixels of the downsampled image data to object classes. An upsampling module is configured for execution by the one or more processors to perform upsampling according to the segmentation result to produce upsampled image data.
US11170466B2
Determining three-dimensional structure in a road environment using a system mountable in a host vehicle including a camera connectible to a processor. Multiple image frames are captured in the field of view of the camera. In the image frames, a line is selected below which the road is imaged. The line separates between upper images essentially excluding images of the road and lower images essentially including images of the road. One or more of the lower images is warped, according to a road homography to produce at least one warped lower image. The three-dimensional structure may be provided from motion of a matching feature within the upper images or from motion of a matching feature within at least one of the lower images and at least one warped lower image.
US11170464B2
A lens distortion correction function operates by backmapping output images to the uncorrected, distorted input images. As a vision image processor completes processing on the image data lines needed for the lens distortion correction function to operate on a group of output, undistorted image lines, the lens distortion correction function begins processing the image data. This improves image processing pipeline delays by overlapping the operations. The vision image processor provides output image data to a circular buffer in SRAM, rather than providing it to DRAM. The lens distortion correction function operates from the image data in the circular buffer. By operating from the SRAM circular buffer, access to the DRAM for the highly fragmented backmapping image data read operations is removed, improving available DRAM bandwidth. By using a circular buffer, less space is needed in the SRAM. The improved memory operations further improve the image processing pipeline delays.
US11170463B2
Methods, systems, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to reduce memory latency when fetching pixel kernels are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a prefetch kernel retriever to generate a block tag based on a first request from a hardware accelerator, the first request including first coordinates of a first pixel disposed in a first image block, a memory interface engine to store the first image block including a plurality of pixels including the pixel in a cache storage based on the block tag, and a kernel retriever to access two or more memory devices included in the cache storage in parallel to transfer a plurality of image blocks including the first image block when a second request is received including second coordinates of a second pixel disposed in the first image block.
US11170452B1
A system of promoting a specific product or service by a person. The system includes a network and an e-commerce/customer social media and networking platform coupled to the network. The e-commerce/customer social media and networking platform includes a social networking platform providing social networking services to a plurality of users communicating with the e-commerce/customer social media and networking platform via the network and an e-commerce module for performing online purchase transactions of goods and services published on the e-commerce/customer social media and networking platform. The e-commerce module displays products or services for sale to the plurality of users and enacts purchase transactions of a product or service selected by a purchasing user. Endorsements received from the purchasing user may be published to a plurality of users following the purchasing user. In addition, the purchasing user may receive compensation based on sales of the endorsed product or service by other users following the purchasing user.
US11170451B2
An automated gift recommendation system of a personal social network may be subscribed to by a user who may invite friends and family to participate. The personal social network comprises a smart device and an administrative panel called Not So Forgetful (NSF). NSF is a gift system that is personal to the user and may run on the smart device for receiving personal user information and a cloud server connected to the smart devices for searching and receiving gift data. The smart device may be a mobile communications device, a smart home, a smart television, a smart watch, smart glasses and the like. Algorithms include a trending algorithm utilizing the NSF social network and externally received data to periodically develop, for example, a top ten most popular gift recommendation list for, for example, a sixteen-year-old female (exemplary demographics data). The automated periodic gift recommendation system may record gift purchases. Gift recommendations may expire with the date of a special event such as a birthday or may be deleted as a user suggested gift is already purchased or is identified by a user as a disliked item or becomes less popular, etc.
US11170449B2
Signals-based data syndication and collaboration is disclosed. A data store of insurance related data collected from a plurality of carriers is accessed. A pattern is identified based at least in part on data stored in the data store. The pattern is associated with a first set of insurance related data belonging to a first carrier and with a second set of insurance related data belonging to a second carrier. First and second users associated with the first and second carriers are notified, respectively, of the identified pattern. Consent from the first user to share at least a portion of the first set of insurance related data and consent from the second user to share at least a portion of the second set of insurance related data are obtained. At least a portion of the second set of insurance related data that the second user has consented to share is caused to be presented to the first user. At least a portion of the first set of insurance related data that the first user has consented to share is caused to be presented to the second user.
US11170448B2
Embodiments relate to system for automatically predicting payer response to claims. In an embodiment, the system receives claim data associated with a claim. The system identifies a set of claim features of the claim data, and generates an input vector with at least a portion of the set of claim features. The system applies the input vector to a trained model. A first portion of the neural network is configured to generate an embedding representing the input vector with a lower dimensionality than the input vector. A second portion of the neural network is configured to generate a prediction of whether the claim will be denied based on the embedding. The system provides the prediction for display on a user interface of a user device. The prediction may further include denial reason codes and a response date estimation to indicate if, when, and why a claim will be denied.
US11170440B2
Apparatus for stimulating trading in a limited-liquidity financial instrument are provided. One the method may include receiving a trade of liquidity for the limited-liquidity financial instrument. The receiving may include receiving a first order. The first order may correspond to a price and volume associated with a pre-determined bid-offer spread. The order may be executable only in conjunction with a counterorder that trades with the first order and includes a commitment to make a two-way market in the financial instrument at the predetermined bid-offer spread. In certain embodiments, when the first order is received from a first entity and the counterorder is received from a second entity, the method may also include receiving a bid price and an offer price from a second entity. The method may also include receiving an instruction from the first entity to select one of the bid and the offer and to execute a trade therewith. The execution of the trade may be for a size not less than the pre-determined size. If the system fails to receive a selection from the first entity within a pre-determined period of time, the method may further include executing a trade based on a pre-determined election by the second entity of a default trade direction.
US11170438B1
This disclosure describes, in part, techniques for enabling a merchant or other user to obtain needed capital by financing the cost of individual items after the merchant or other user has acquired the item(s) using a financial instrument, such as a credit card, debit card, or the like. For example, an example merchant may purchase, through the course of a month or other time period, multiple items for operation of their business using a credit card provided by a financial institution. Thereafter, a service provider may aggregate these purchases and enable the merchant to request to finance individual item(s). In response to receiving such a request, the service provider can solicit offers from an array of lenders.
US11170436B2
A credit scoring method and a server are provided. The method includes: determining at least one target user set in a plurality of user sets. The at least one target user set includes first behavior-unknown users whose predicted profit values are higher than second behavior-unknown users, the second behavior-unknown users are users other than the first behavior-unknown users on an application platform. The method also includes determining credit scores of first behavior-unknown users according to credit scores of behavior-known users in at least one determined target user set; obtaining first user samples from the first behavior-unknown users according to credit records of the first behavior-unknown users, the first user samples having profit values that satisfy a preset threshold; and performing credit scoring for a user according to a second scoring model obtained through training a first scoring model according to the first user samples and second user samples.
US11170432B2
A trend setting score that identifies a degree of trend setting exhibited by a user is generated for each of multiple users. This degree of trend setting exhibited by the user is an indication of how well the user identifies trends for items (e.g., consumes items) prior to the items becoming popular. The item consumption of users with high trend setting scores is then used to identify items that are expected to become popular after a lag in time. For a given user, another user with a high trend setting score (also referred to as a trendsetter) and having a high affinity with (e.g., similar item consumption behavior or characteristics) the given user is identified. Recommendations are provided to the given user based on items consumed by the trendsetter prior to the items becoming popular.
US11170428B2
A method for producing priority data for products for which information can be output. A first time, data are stored for at least one product with which a defined user or a defined user device has interacted. At least one subset of the products is assigned priority data for an output of information to the defined user or to the defined user device for the products on the basis of the stored data. At a second time, a request for an output of information for the products by the defined user or the defined user device is captured. The output of information for the products in response to the request is effected on the basis of the stored priority data. A method for operating a web page for E-Commerce and a computer program product having program code for performing the method for producing priority data.
US11170422B2
A processor-based system stores different card templates in a database. Each card template has a card feature that can have any color from among a first set of colors. The system also stores, in the database, for each stored card templates, a corresponding envelope template. Each envelope template has an envelope feature that can have any color from among a second set of colors. The system receives a user selection of a card template from among the card templates and a user selection of a color to be applied to the card feature. The system displays the card template, with the card feature having the user-selected color. The system also displays the corresponding envelope template that corresponds, in the database, to the selected card template. The envelope feature is displayed with the user-selected color based on the user-selected color having been selected for the card feature.
US11170415B2
A method for enhancing dialog systems is disclosed herein. The method may include maintaining an online marketplace that may have a plurality of dialog system extension elements. The plurality of dialog system extension elements may include at least one of a dialog system plugin, a dialog system add-on, a dialog system update, and a dialog system upgrade. The method may further include receiving a selection of one of the plurality of dialog system extension elements from an end user. The end user may be associated with a dialog system. The method may continue with associating the one of the plurality of dialog system extension elements with the dialog system of the end user.
US11170413B1
A digital ad-buying platform uses counterfactual-based incrementality measurement by implementing randomization and/or a correction for auction win bias to avoid the need to identify counterfactual winner types in the control group. This approach can estimate impact at the individual consumer level. Confidence levels can be determined using Gibbs sampling in the context of causal analysis in the presence of non-compliance.
US11170412B2
A computerized method of content verification comprising using a server for receiving a first data from a host monitoring code embedded in a webpage or an application loaded from a content server and executed by a client device, the host monitoring code is executed by the client device during an execution of the webpage or the application which further embeds nesting element(s) for loading nested content from nested content server(s), the first data is indicative of the execution, receiving a second data indicative of the execution from a guest monitoring code embedded in the nested content, combining the first data and second data for compliance verification of the execution with one or more rules associated with the nested content and initiating action(s) according to the verification. Wherein the first data is not available to the guest monitoring code and the second data is not available to the host monitoring code.
US11170408B2
An interface is processed for dynamically rendering an interactive geographical map. Custom-defined geographical boundaries are defined within the map. Customers currently geolocated within the geographical boundaries are identified. A custom-defined promotion is dynamically sent to devices operated by the customers and located within the geographical boundaries.
US11170405B2
Embodiments include systems and methods for cross-domain tracking of online wireless device activity to provide context aware mobile services. A request to access a first website can be received from a wireless device at a web server such that a first product or service is viewed, wherein code that comprises an identifier is stored on the wireless device. A request to access a second website can be received, wherein the wireless device is configured to access the second website in response to a notification from a wireless beacon associated with a physical storefront. The web server can then retrieve the identifier from the wireless device and retrieve an online activity history for the wireless device based on the identifier. Information associated with the storefront and first product or service can be transmitted to the wireless device.
US11170403B2
Various embodiments enable a user editing a document to tag product references in the document. These product references can then be recognizable when the document is published online, thereby enabling ad units (or other personalized units associated with the content) to be inserted either at a location associated with a particular product reference or within the document in a designated location. For example, when editing or drafting a document, a client-side tool could enable a user to tag particular words within the text to create a hyperlink to product pages of an electronic marketplace. In another example, a client-side tool could auto-insert a list of words associated with subject matter of the same. Accordingly, mentions of these words in content could be auto-converted into text-links or hyperlinks to a respective items page of the electronic marketplace.
US11170401B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for automated management of campaigns using scripted rules.
US11170397B2
The systems are generally configured to provide rewards. The systems are capable of syncing transaction accounts with one or more reward programs and one or more channels. Moreover, the systems are capable dynamically provisioning rewards in one or more subsets to a rewards program to distribute high, medium and low value rewards to a reward program throughout the duration of the program.
US11170393B1
A location based measurement system monitors user interactions with media items, and visitation data to physical locations, to calculate an engagement score of the media item, wherein the engagement score serves as an indication of a “lift” incited by the media item on a population of users exposed to the media item. The location based measurement system may be or include any instrumentality or aggregate of instrumentalities operable to compute, process, store, display, generate, communicate, or apply various forms of data for geo-fencing, control, or other purposes.
US11170387B2
Embodiments are directed towards collecting, aggregating and indexing unique and non-unique user data from a plurality of users. The result for a query of this indexed aggregation of user data is provided in a plurality of sub-sets of aggregated user data. Each subset of aggregated user data corresponds to a particular portion of the plurality of users. Also, each of these particular portions of the users is set at least large enough to provide general anonymity for the individual users. User data may be collected by one or more user data suppliers and provided to a user data aggregator. In some embodiments, user data may be collected as unique user data, non-unique user data, or any combination thereof. In some embodiments, user data may be aggregated by zip code, expanded zip code, and/or one or more attributes.
US11170384B2
A point of sale (POS) system that prevents return fraud is described. The POS system detects radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags associated with an item at a time of purchase and when the item is returned. If there is no discrepancy between the detected RFID tags, then the item can be quickly returned without further inspections. If there is a discrepancy, a quick identification of missing parts and the return condition is determined based on missing RFID tags.
US11170383B2
A method of delivering digital content for use on an electronic cutting machine. The method includes displaying at least one themed project in a rich internet application, where the themed project has at least one glyph of a glyph collection. The method further includes providing access to the rich internet application over a network and offering purchased access to the glyph collection. Any glyphs of the glyph collection can be added to the themed project. The themed project is cuttable on an electronic cutting machine in communication with the rich internet application.
US11170369B2
Systems and methods are provided for authorizing a user in connection with a transaction at a transaction terminal. The systems and methods described herein enable a series of operations whereby a user using a mobile device can capture a code that uniquely identifies a transaction terminal. In addition the mobile device can also capture a user's biometrics, generate a biometric identifier and biometrically verify the user's identity by comparing the biometric identifier to a previously generated biometric identifier. If the user is biometrically authenticated the mobile device can generate a transaction request including, a user identifier, a mobile device identifier, and the transaction terminal code and transmit the transaction request to a system server. Based on the transaction request, the system server can further authenticate the user and/or approve the requested transaction. If the user is authenticated, the system server can instruct the terminal to advance the financial transaction.
US11170368B2
One or more computing devices obtains service data of a user payment service. The one or more computing devices determines whether the service data of the user payment service falls within a service indicator range. In response to determining that the service data does not fall within the service indicator range, the one or more computing devices obtains location information of a target customer corresponding to the service data. The one or more computing devices obtains one or more local events corresponding to the location information. The one or more computing devices determines, based on the one or more local events, whether to output an alarm for the service data. In response to determining to output the alarm for the service data, the one or more computing devices outputs the alarm for the service data.
US11170362B2
The disclosed subject matter includes methods, systems, and networks for authentication based on physical characteristics of a mobile device. A computer-implemented method performed by a payment network includes receiving an image of a part of a mobile device from an image capturing device that communicates with the payment network, wherein the mobile device includes digital card data of a customer. The computer-implemented method may also include comparing a physical condition of the part of the mobile device shown in the received image to the physical condition of the part of the mobile device shown in a stored image. In addition, the computer-implemented method may include authenticating or declining a transaction involving the digital card data based on the comparison of the physical condition of the part of the mobile device in the received image and the stored.
US11170361B2
The present disclosure is related to a field of payment transactions using a card that discloses a computer-implemented method and a system for restricting a transaction while using a payment card. A card processing server may receive card details, a transaction amount, a flag, and signature data of the payment card from a remote terminal upon initiating a transaction using the payment card. Further, the card processing server validates the payment card based on the card details and the signature data of the payment card and thereafter determines a value associated with the flag upon successful validation. The value associated with the flag indicates one of two conditions, e.g., a true condition and a false condition. Based on the condition indicated by the flag, the card processing server performs one of a first action and a second action related to either processing or declining the transaction.
US11170353B2
An automatic billing enrollment (ABE) computing device and methods for automatically enrolling a merchant in a bill paying application are provided. The ABE computing device receives a payment transaction associated with a cardholder account, identifies a merchant associated with the payment transaction, and determines whether the merchant is enrolled with a bill pay application associated with the cardholder account by performing a database lookup of enrolled merchants. The ABE computing device then transmits a message to a user device associated with the cardholder account indicating that the identified merchant is not enrolled by the cardholder with the bill pay application and includes an option for the cardholder to enroll the merchant. To enroll the merchant, the ABE computing device determines merchant-associated data elements required by the bill pay application to enroll the merchant, retrieves the data elements, and inputs the data elements into the bill pay application.
US11170339B2
The subject disclosure relates to facilitating package drop off and pickup transactions by facilitating user devices to offer locations for storage, drop off and pickup of packages. In an aspect, a system is described comprising an intake component that receives a set of location data representing available locations for storing packages and a verification component that verifies the set of location data has been selected for use in storing packages.
US11170336B2
A ranking of customer service interactions sessions that may benefit from supervisor input is provided. The customer service interactions sessions involve a Customer Service Representative (CSR), engaged in a customer service interaction with a customer. First, customer service interaction sessions, at a contact center server, between the CSRs and the customers begin. Data streams from CSR computer(s) to customer computer(s) are sent. Other data streams from the customer computers are received. The data streams are analyzed by a supervisor recommendation engine. Based on the analysis, the supervisor recommendation engine generates a ranking of customer service interactions sessions that would benefit most from supervisor input.
US11170334B1
Systems and methods for assessing, tracking and improving security maturity of an organization are provided. Described is a system for assessing security maturity of an organization. The system receives a list of data sources located across multiple jurisdictions for the organization, collects data sources/data using custom rules from a plurality of data sources of the list of data sources, determine criticality score for each of the plurality of data sources, calculates data source coverage and asset collection coverage, determines use case coverage, and determines security maturity score using a maturity score model. The maturity score model is a logistic equation which is a function of the data source coverage, the asset collection coverage, the criticality score associated with each of the plurality of data sources, the use case coverage, asset coverage by each the plurality of data sources.
US11170331B2
A virtual management system comprises video cameras, and various other sensors that acquire event data indicative relating to the processing of stock. This data is passed to a local data collection device that aggregates the event data and passes it via a network to a number of remote data processing modules. The event data is allocated to each of the data processing modules based upon their assigned tasks by a virtual manager agent. A data processing module receives the aggregated event data from the local data collection device via a network and processes the event data according to a set of pre-defined rules. The data processing module generates an alert in response to the processing of the event data indicating that a predefined event has occurred, and transmits the alert to a remote device associated with an employee.
US11170329B1
The system and method described herein may be used to make a binary determination of whether to initiate an in-trip audit of self-scans in a self-checkout system. For example, the system may receive one or more audit parameters that are used to calculate an audit score. The audit score may be compared to a predefined audit threshold to determine, during a shopping trip, whether to initiate the in-trip audit. After or in combination with making the binary determination, the system may make a probabilistic determination of whether to initiate an audit based on historical audit points associated with the shopper. The audit points are incremented or decremented based on prior audits and other characteristics of the shopper.
US11170323B2
The disclosure herein describes generating, managing, and finalizing group reservations of travel resources (e.g., plane tickets, hotel and other lodging reservations, etc.) via a group reservation system. A group reservation request is received including group member data and travel resource reservation data. The reservation data is transmitted to group members based on the group member data. Reservation feedback is then received from the group members. The reservation feedback includes an acceptance message or a rejection message for participation with the travel resource(s). A quantity of acceptance messages received in the reservation feedback is compared to a reservation threshold and, based on the comparison, the group reservation is finalized, wherein the finalized group reservation is associated with group members from whom an acceptance message was received. The described system provides an automated management system for simultaneously organizing and managing reservations for multiple members of a group.
US11170318B2
A system for use with quantum system comprises a light source for generating a first light beam, wherein the first light beam is modulated by a data stream. Entanglement circuitry receives the first light beam from the light source and generates at least two second light beams responsive to the first light beam. The at least two second light beams are entangled. Multistate photon processing circuitry processes each of the at least two second light beams to apply n-states to photons within the at least two light beams and create hyperentangled qudits, where n is greater than 2.
US11170316B2
The system and method for determining fuzzy cause and effect relationships in an intelligent workload management system described herein may combine potential causes and effects captured from various different sources associated with an information technology infrastructure with substantially instantaneous feedback mechanisms and other knowledge sources. As such, fuzzy correlation logic may then be applied to the combined information to determine potential cause and effect relationships and thereby diagnose problems and otherwise manage interactions that occur in the infrastructure. For example, information describing potential causes and potential effects associated with an operational state of the infrastructure may be captured and combined, and any patterns among the information that describes the multiple potential causes and effects may then be identified. As such, fuzzy logic may the be applied to any such patterns to determine possible relationships among the potential causes and the potential effects associated with the infrastructure operational state.
US11170315B2
A system for providing dynamic constitutional guidance. The system includes a label generator module configured to receive a periodic longevity factor, retrieve a user periodic longevity factor training set, and generate a naïve Bayes classification algorithm utilizing the user periodic longevity factor training set. The system includes a clustering module configured to receive a user adherence factor, retrieve a user adherence factor training set, and generate a k-means clustering algorithm using the user adherence factor training set. The system includes a processing module the processing module configured to retrieve a user ameliorative plan, evaluate a user ameliorative plan, generate an updated user ameliorative plan, and display the updated user ameliorative plan on a graphical user interface.
US11170303B1
Systems and methods for quantifying temporal indeterminacy of timelines are provided. Systems and methods can rely on solving temporal constraint problems to extract timelines and can calculate the temporal relation loss during timeline transformation and then identify the temporal indeterminate sections of extracted timelines from both timelines and temporal graphs to measure the total temporal information loss.
US11170302B2
Methods and apparatus are provided that permit estimation of eigenphase or eigenvalue gaps in which random or pseudo-random unitaries are applied to a selected initial quantum state to produce a random quantum state. A target unitary is then applied to the random quantum state one or more times, or an evolution time is allowed to elapse after application of the target unitary. An inverse of the pseudo-random unitary used to produce the random quantum state is applied, and the resultant state is measured with respect to the initial quantum state. Measured values are used to produce Bayesian updates, and eigenvalue/eigenvector gaps are estimated. In some examples, the disclosed methods are used in amplitude estimate and control map determinations. Eigenvalue gaps for time-dependent Hamiltonians can be evaluated by adiabatic evolution of the Hamiltonian from an initial Hamiltonian to a final Hamiltonian.
US11170299B2
In various examples, a deep neural network (DNN) is trained—using image data alone—to accurately predict distances to objects, obstacles, and/or a detected free-space boundary. The DNN may be trained with ground truth data that is generated using sensor data representative of motion of an ego-vehicle and/or sensor data from any number of depth predicting sensors—such as, without limitation, RADAR sensors, LIDAR sensors, and/or SONAR sensors. The DNN may be trained using two or more loss functions each corresponding to a particular portion of the environment that depth is predicted for, such that—in deployment—more accurate depth estimates for objects, obstacles, and/or the detected free-space boundary are computed by the DNN. In some embodiments, a sampling algorithm may be used to sample depth values corresponding to an input resolution of the DNN from a predicted depth map of the DNN at an output resolution of the DNN.
US11170286B2
Implementations are directed to methods for providing an enhanced encounter via a holographic virtual assistant, including detecting, by one or more processors, an encounter request from a user, selecting a first encounter including a first holographic representation and a first dialog output, providing the first encounter for presentation to the user on the holographic virtual assistant, receiving, from the user, a first user reaction, the first user reaction including a first user dialog input and a first user engagement input, and training, using the first user reaction, a conversational goal model.
US11170282B1
A communication system ad methods that includes a RFID tag writer to assign a unique identification to RFID tags, a series of personal communication devices, that have an RFID tag, a processor, a signal receiver and a display, and processors provide instructions to the displays to provide different light sequences in response to signals received, and a central controller that includes a processor, a transceiver and a memory, where the memory stores information relating to the RFID tags, user accounts and has an input device that allows users to be segregated into defined groups and stored, and the controller receives signals from tag readers or communication devices and transmit signals to the personal communication devices to affect the displays.
US11170278B2
In an embodiment, a method of tartan encoding includes receiving first and second information elements for use in generating a tartan design. The method also includes generating a primary pattern for the tartan design using the first and second information elements, the primary pattern including a plurality of primary band counts that are each derived from a combination of the first and second information elements and a plurality of primary, colors. The method also includes generating a secondary pattern for the tartan design, the secondary pattern including a plurality of secondary band counts and a plurality of secondary colors. The method also includes generating a hand-level machine instruction set for the tartan design, the band-level machine instruction set representing the primary pattern and the secondary, pattern.
US11170276B2
A communication system includes an information processing apparatus and a printer. A controller of the information processing apparatus is configured to receive a layout instruction, generate image data representing a layout image including a first object and a second object, generate edit order data indicating an edit order of the first object and the second object, and send the image data and the edit order data to the printer. A controller of the printer is configured to edit the received image data in accordance with the received edit order data, and activate the printer engine to form the layout image based on the edited image data.
US11170270B2
Techniques for content generation are provided. A plurality of discriminative terms is determined based at least in part on a first plurality of documents that are related to a first concept, and a plurality of positive exemplars and a plurality of negative exemplars are identified using the plurality of discriminative terms. A first machine learning (ML) model is trained to classify images into concepts, based on the plurality of positive exemplars and the plurality of negative exemplars. A second concept related to the first concept is then determined, based on the first ML model. A second ML model is trained to generate images based on the second concept, and a first image is generated using the second ML model. The first image is then refined using a style transfer ML model that was trained using a plurality of style images.
US11170262B2
A training system comprises a training device, and a training data creation device. The training device trains a neural network. The training data creation device acquires any one of a positive evaluation indicating that content of the input data coincides with the label, a negative evaluation indicating that content of the input data does not coincide with the label, and an ignorable evaluation indicating exclusion from a training target label, for each label regarding the input data to create training data. In training the neural network for training, the training system adjusts the weight coefficient for the intermediate layer and makes the recognition score of the label with the ignorable evaluation not affect the adjustment of the weight coefficient for the intermediate layer.
US11170255B2
Methods and systems for training a machine learning model using synthetic defect images are provided. One system includes one or more components executed by one or more computer subsystems. The one or more components include a graphical user interface (GUI) configured for displaying one or more images for a specimen and image editing tools to a user and for receiving input from the user that includes one or more alterations to at least one of the images using one or more of the image editing tools. The component(s) also include an image processing module configured for applying the alteration(s) to the at least one image thereby generating at least one modified image and storing the at least one modified image in a training set. The computer subsystem(s) are configured for training a machine learning model with the training set in which the at least one modified image is stored.
US11170249B2
Mechanisms for identification of text fields in documents using neural networks are described. Identification of text fields includes obtaining a plurality of symbol sequences of a document having a plurality of text fields, determining a plurality of vectors representative of one of the plurality of symbol sequences, processing the plurality of vectors using a first neural network to obtain, based on values of the plurality of vectors, a plurality of recalculated vectors, determining an association between a first recalculated vector of the plurality of recalculated vectors and a first text field of the plurality of text fields, the first recalculated vector being representative of a first symbol sequence of the plurality of symbol sequences, and determining, based on the association between the first recalculated vector and the first text field, an association between the first symbol sequence and the first text field.
US11170247B2
Disclosed is a display apparatus. The display apparatus includes a communication interface that receives an image from an external electronic device, a display that displays the image, and a processor, wherein the processor generates a user interface (UI) mask including probability information that a plurality of areas included in the image correspond to a UI, by using a convolutional neural network (CNN) algorithm, identifies a UI area included in the image by using the UI mask, identifies a text area included in the UI area, and recognizes text included in the text area.
US11170245B2
A computer-implemented method and system for selecting one or more regions of interest (ROIs) in an image. The method comprises: identifying one or more objects of interest that have been segmented from the image; identifying predefined landmarks of the objects; determining reference morphometrics pertaining to the objects by performing morphometrics on the objects by reference to the landmarks; selecting one or more ROIs from the objects according to the reference morphometrics, comprises identifying the location of the ROIs relative to the reference morphometrics; and outputting the selected one or more ROIs.
US11170244B2
A device for analyzing a worker's work state, the analysis involving generation of determination data for determining whether worker's manual work is performed in a predetermined work order. This device includes imaging and setting units. The imaging unit images, a work video, a worker's manual working state in which the worker repeatedly performs predetermined work. This predetermined work is performed by repeating a plurality of fundamental work operations by hand. Based on a predetermined motion which is previously set for each of the fundamental work operations, the setting unit sets delimitation information to delimit the work video every fundamental work operation at a timing when the predetermined motion is detected. In the device, a generation unit generates determination data which includes both the imaged work video and the set delimitation information. Based on the determination data, the worker's manual work can be analyzed in various ways.
US11170239B2
Provided are a method for setting an owner of an object based on sensing information regarding an internal environment of a vehicle when the object comes apart from a passenger, and an electronic apparatus therefor. In the present disclosure, one or more of an electronic apparatus, a vehicle, a vehicular terminal, and the autonomous driving vehicle may be associated with an artificial intelligence module, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), a robot, an augmented reality (AR) device, a virtual reality (VR) device, a 5G service-related device, and the like.
US11170235B2
An image processing device includes: an extraction unit which extracts edge lines based on image data taken by an imaging device by shooting a neighborhood of a vehicle; a selection unit which selects, as a pair of edge lines, edge lines that satisfy a prescribed condition from the extracted edge lines; an exclusion unit which, in a case where a non-paint-out region exists between the pair of edge lines, excludes quasi-edge lines that form the non-paint-out region from the pair of edge lines; and a detection unit which detects a partition line that partitions a parking frame based on the pair of edge lines from which the quasi-edge lines are excluded.
US11170224B2
Described herein are methods and systems for keyframe-based object scanning and tracking. A sensor device captures images of objects in a scene. For each image, a computing device labels each of at least a plurality of pixels in the image, tracks at least one region of the labeled image to determine an estimate of a current pose of at least one object, validates the estimate of the current pose of the at least one object, selects the labeled image as a keyframe based upon validation of the estimate of the current pose, and updates a volumetric model comprising the at least one object using the keyframe. The computing device generates a final 3D model of the at least one object based upon the updated volumetric model.
US11170208B2
A method of authenticating physical activity in a monitored space, comprising: obtaining monitored space activity data from at least one activity detector deployed in the monitored space to capture simultaneously physical activity of a plurality of moving objects in said monitored space; analyzing said monitored space activity data to identify a plurality of spatiotemporal movement patterns in said monitored space; obtaining a plurality of inertial data patterns from each one of a plurality of applications executed in a plurality of mobile devices, each one of said inertial data patterns is recorded using an inertial sensing device installed in one of said plurality of mobile devices, each one of said plurality of mobile devices is associated with one of a plurality of persons; identifying at least one correlation between at least one of said plurality of inertial data patterns and at least one of said plurality of spatiotemporal movement patterns; authenticating said physical activity according to said at least one correlation.
US11170204B2
A method for data processing, an electronic device, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are provided. The method may include: receiving target information associated with a face; and determining an execution environment corresponding to the target information according to a security level of the target information, and performing a processing related to the face based on the target information under the execution environment.
US11170201B2
Provided are an artificial intelligence (AI) system that simulates functions of a human brain such as recognition and judgment by utilizing a machine learning algorithm such as deep learning, etc., and an application of the AI system. Provided are an AI system and a method of recognizing an object according to the application of the AI system, the method including: obtaining a plurality of pieces of sensor data about the object from a plurality of different types of sensors; converting at least some of the plurality of pieces of sensor data into two-dimensional (2D) sensor data; and recognizing the object by using a previously generated learning network model based on 2D image data obtained from an image sensor, which is one of the plurality of sensors, and the 2D sensor data.
US11170200B2
Methods are provided for the automated detection and/or counting of micro-objects in a microfluidic device. In addition, methods are provided for repositioning micro-objects in a microfluidic device. In addition, methods are provided for separating micro-objects in a spatial region of the microfluidic device.
US11170190B2
The disclosure features dendritic tags, and methods and systems for fabricating and using such tags. The methods can include obtaining at least one image of a dendritic tag attached to an article, analyzing the at least one image to identify a set of features associated with the dendritic tag, and comparing the set of features to stored information to identify the article.
US11170182B2
The present invention relates to a braille editing method using an error output function, a recording medium storing program for executing the same, and a computer program stored in a recoding medium for executing the same. More particularly, the present invention relates to a braille editing method using an error output function, a recording medium storing program for executing the same, and a computer program stored in a recoding medium for executing the same, that are capable of finding a location where a braille translation error has occurred by utilizing index information when detecting the error and thus facilitating correction.
US11170179B2
Systems and methods for natural language processing of structured documents. In another embodiment, in an information processing apparatus comprising at least one computer processor, a method for processing a structured document may include: (1) receiving a document; (2) parsing the document into a plurality of components using a statistical parser; (3) extracting a plurality of entities from each component; (4) identifying a potential relationship between two of the plurality of entities; (5) generating a numeric representation for the potential relationship; (6) confirming the potential relationship with a logical regression model; and (7) generating and storing a unified structured file for the document.
US11170178B2
A method, system and computer program product for suggesting a preferred manner in communicating with a user. Communications (e.g., electronic mail messages, instant messages, social media posts) with a user from a plurality of other users and responses thereto are monitored. A communication history is then created storing the monitored communications and responses thereto. The communication history is then analyzed to determine a preferred manner in communicating with the user based on various factors (e.g., the types of communications and responses thereto, the times of communications and responses thereto, the topics of communications and responses thereto). In one embodiment, such an analysis utilizes natural language processing and sentiment analysis. In this manner, the user will be contacted in the appropriate way thereby allowing the user to avoid potential interruptions and increase the user's productivity as well as to address matters (e.g., urgent matters) appropriately.
US11170175B1
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for generating a replacement sentence with the same or similar meaning but a different sentiment than an input sentence. The method generally includes receiving a request for a replacement sentence and iteratively determining a next word of the replacement sentence word-by-word based on an input sentence. Iteratively determining the next word generally includes evaluating a set of words of the input sentence using a language model configured to output candidate sentences and evaluating the candidate sentences using a sentiment model configured to output sentiment scores for the candidates sentences. Iteratively determining the next word further includes calculating convex combinations for the candidate sentences and selecting an ending word of one of the candidate sentences as the next word of the replacement sentence. The method further includes transmitting the replacement sentence in response to the request for the replacement sentence.
US11170174B2
A computer-executed conversational system utilizing adaptive dialogs to provide dynamic modification of a conversation structure. The adaptive dialogs facilitate an adaptive and dynamic way to model conversations. A conversational rule may be associated with a trigger received at an adaptive dialog. The conversational rule may populate a plan with steps to provide the conversational structure of the conversational system. Modifying triggers may be received that allow conversational rules to amend the plan including adding steps, removing steps, or modifying steps from the plan. The adaptive dialogs and/or components thereof may be provided as constructible elements in a platform for building a bot such as a developer Software Development Kit (SDK) or the like. In turn, sophisticated conversational modeling may be conveniently facilitated to provide features such as a dialog dispatcher, the ability to handle interruptions, and to build a pluggable, extensible conversational system.
US11170150B2
A method of making a semiconductor device includes determining a temperature profile for a first die of a three-dimensional integrated circuit (3DIC), wherein the first die comprises a plurality of sub-regions of the first die based on the determined temperature profile. The method further includes simulating operation of a circuit in a second die of the 3DIC based on the determined temperature profile and a corresponding sub-region of the plurality of sub-regions.
US11170142B2
In an approach for providing simulation results of an interaction between a transducer head and a magnetic medium, a computer identifies a first raster scan of a sample via a scanning probe microscope. The computer generates a topography image based on the first raster scan of the sample. The computer identifies one or more reference features within the created topography image. The computer calculates an average height based on the one or more reference features. The computer determines a lift distance associated with a probe of the scanning probe microscope. The computer defines a uniform plane based on the calculated average height and the determined lift distance. The computer performs a second raster scan of the sample based on the defined uniform plane. The computer generates a fly-height image based on the second raster scan. The computer provides simulation results based at least in part on the second raster scan.
US11170139B1
This disclosure relates to techniques for generating physically accurate auralization of sound propagation in complex environments, while accounting for important wave effects, such as sound absorption, sound scattering, and airborne sound insulation between rooms. According to some embodiments, techniques may be utilized to determine more accurate, e.g., “acoustically-effective” room volumes that account for open windows, open doors, acoustic dead space, and the like. According to other embodiments disclosed herein, techniques may be utilized to perform optimized hybrid acoustical ray tracing, including grouping coherent rays by processing core. According to other embodiments disclosed herein, techniques may be utilized to translate simulated ray tracing results into natural-sounding reverberations by deriving and resampling spatial-time-frequency energy probability density functions that more accurately account for the laws of physics and then converting this data into a spatial impulse response function, which may then be used for realistic 3D audio reproduction, e.g., via headphones or loudspeakers.
US11170125B2
Systems, methods, and devices for generating a secure join of database data are disclosed. A method includes creating a secure view of datapoints of a consumer account and processing, using a secure user defined function (UDF), the datapoints of the consumer account and datapoints of a provider account to generate a secure join key. The secure join key comprises a hash string of the datapoints of the provider account and the datapoints of the consumer account, and wherein the datapoints of the consumer account are processed via the secure view. The method further includes executing a consumer function to analyze the hash string of datapoints of the secure join key for common data points.
US11170123B2
A registration terminal registers a set of a key and a ciphertext in which an access range is set and in which the key K is encrypted in a key server, and registers a tag for searching generated from the key and a keyword for searching in a search server. A search terminal acquires a ciphertext in which an access range whose range for permitting access includes an attribute is set, and decrypts the ciphertext with a decryption key in which the attribute is set, so as to generate a key. The search terminal generates a trapdoor for searching from the key and a keyword for searching, and transmits the trapdoor to the search server to acquire data corresponding to the keyword.
US11170119B2
Providing an objective measure of trust in data provided by an Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) device and/or a plurality of IIoT devices at a particular location so as to provide an aggregated objective measure of trust in data provided by the particular location.
US11170103B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for recognizing files as malicious. One exemplary method comprises intercepting a file for analysis received at a computing device of a user, opening the file for analysis in an environment for safe execution, generating a log that stores a portion of information occurring during opening of the file for analysis in the environment for safe execution, analyzing the log to recognize a first set of security related events from the portion of information, tracking a second set of security related events when the file for analysis is opened on the computing device, comparing the second set of security related events and the first set of security related events to identify a discrepancy; and in response to identifying the discrepancy, recognizing the file under analysis as malicious.
US11170102B1
The innovation disclosed and claimed herein, in one or more aspects thereof, illustrates systems and methods for providing a technical control to a technically pervasive problem of inadvertent capture of items in a computing environment, returning control of what happens to such items in technical environments that have become widespread and intrusive. The innovation provides a system for users to control the types of items that pervasive computing environment elements may process without their express control with technical countermeasures in a relatively unobtrusive manner.
US11170101B2
Systems and methods observe and classify device events. A model containing a set of features to be observed can be determined based on machine learning and training methods. A client application can issue a transaction request to an operating system service. A determination can be made whether the operating system service, a method associated with the transaction request, and the client application are currently being observed. In response to determining that the operating system service, a method associated with the transaction request, and the client application are being observed, a behavioral vector associated with the client application can be modified to indicate that the feature represented by the method is associated with the client application. The behavioral vector can be used to determine if the client application is malware.
US11170095B2
In the present invention, a medical device authorization system is employed to associate software contained on a medical computing system/computer, such as an EP mapping and recording system, that pertains to a specific medical device, e.g., a transducer, connected to the computer such that the software is only utilized by the computer in conjunction with a catheter that is authorized for use with the computer. The authorization system utilizes an analog authorization waveform/signal that is mixed with the analog device/catheter measured signals transmitted to the computer. The authorization waveform distorts the measured signals in a manner that renders the signals able to be displayed by the system but unusable, unless the computer includes a signal filter operably connected to the device/transducer interface that is configured to remove the interfering authorization waveform from the measured signal.
US11170091B2
One embodiment provides a system and method for providing secure identity information. During operation, the system scans a graphic code associated with the service provider to obtain coded information; queries a registration platform based on the coded information to obtain an identifier of the service provider, an encryption key of the service provider, and a user-identity-information requirement associated with the service provider; obtains identity information of the user; obtains verified identity information from a verification source based on the identity information of the user; generates secure identity information for the user by encrypting, using the encryption key, at least the verified identity information, the secure identify information comprising the identifier of the service provider; and sends the secure identity information to the registration platform, thereby allowing the registration platform to forward the encrypted verified identity information to the service provider.
US11170081B2
A system for verifying control history of an unmanned aerial vehicle according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes an authentication unit for collecting personal information from a pilot who controls an unmanned aerial vehicle to authenticate the pilot, a storage unit storing control information regarding the pilot's control of the unmanned aerial vehicle, and an encryption unit for sealing and encrypting data of the personal information and the control information; and is capable of controlling and managing an indiscriminate use of the unmanned aerial vehicle and providing a control time, flight history, etc., to an organization which needs such information.
US11170076B2
Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented and can include for instance: crowdsourcing data from a plurality of users via a computer network, the data including feedback data regarding digital rights click through documents, wherein each of the users is a party to at least one of the digital rights click through documents; storing the data obtained by the crowdsourcing into a digital rights history repository; examining a digital rights click through document of a certain user, wherein the digital rights click through document controls access to a digital asset, wherein the examining includes using at least a portion of the feedback data of the digital rights history repository; and augmenting content of the digital rights click through document based on a result of the examining.
US11170059B2
A computer system selects a set of content for a user. The set of content has been selected from a larger set of content located on multiple sources on one or more networks. The selecting is performed based on a time constraint of the user, on a level of relevance to that user of each item of content in the larger set of content, and on an expected amount of time the user will spend consuming each item of content in the larger set of content. The sources of content were previously provided by the user and the level of relevance of the content and expected amount of time the user will spend consuming each item of content are estimated based on historical data for that user. The computer system sends the selected content toward a user device used by the user. Methods, apparatus, and computer program products are disclosed.
US11170058B2
In an example, one or more tokens in a freeform search query are identified, each token corresponding to a search term or combination of neighboring search terms in the freeform search query. A graph structure and flat data corresponding to the graph structure are obtained. A search for results relevant to the identified one or more tokens is performed using a first search process, the first search process using the graph structure and flat data to rank search results according to a first ranking order and populate a why found table. Pieces of data corresponding to the results relevant to the identified one or more tokens are joined using the why found table, forming a view and one or more patterns of operators and terms, in a pattern database, matching the one or more operators and one or more surrounding terms in the freeform search query are found.
US11170055B2
A document capture server receives a document image from a document capture client and processes the image into an electronic document containing textual content. During capture, the document capture server determines a graphical layout of the document, extracts keywords from the document, classifies the document accordingly, and calls an artificial intelligence (AI) platform to gain insights on the textual content. The AI platform analyzes the textual content and returns additional, insightful data such as a sentiment of the textual content. The document capture server can validate the additional data, integrate the additional data in a process or workflow, and/or provide the textual content and the additional data to a content repository or a computing facility operating in an enterprise computing environment. The document capture server can provide validated data to the AI platform to improve future analyses by the AI platform.
US11170052B2
Methods for identifying potentially sensitive information and protecting such potentially sensitive information include scanning systems that collect and/or disseminate such information. Without limitation, systems collect and/or disseminate personal identification numbers (e.g., personal identification numbers, tax identification numbers, etc.), such as merchant systems, bank systems, healthcare systems, and the like, that collect, use, or disseminate sensitive information may be scanned to identify sequences of data that are likely to be sensitive, and may take actions to protect such sequences of data. Scanning and protection systems are also disclosed.
US11170048B2
A system is disclosed for identifying and counting typed graphlets in a heterogeneous network. A methodology implementing techniques for the disclosed system according to an embodiment includes identifying typed k-node graphlets occurring between any two selected nodes of a heterogeneous network, wherein the nodes are connected by one or more edges. The identification is based on combinatorial relationships between (k−1)-node typed graphlets occurring between the two selected nodes of the heterogeneous network. Identification of 3-node typed graphlets is based on computation of typed triangles, typed 3-node stars, and typed 3-paths associated with each edge connecting the selected nodes. The method further includes maintaining a count of the identified k-node typed graphlets and storing those graphlets with non-zero counts. The identified graphlets are employed for applications including visitor stitching, user profiling, outlier detection, and link prediction.
US11170046B2
A distributed file system may store a plurality of entity attributes. A node consolidating system may identify similarities between entity attributes for different entities. The node consolidating system may generate an entity graph which displays relationships and similarities between entities in a graphical user interface.
US11170038B1
Narrative generation techniques can be used in connection with data visualization tools to automatically generate narratives that explain the information conveyed by a visualization of a data set. In example embodiments, new data structures and artificial intelligence (AI) logic can be used by narrative generation software to map different types of visualizations to different types of story configurations that will drive how narrative text is generated by the narrative generation software.
US11170035B2
A media curation system configured to perform operations that include, capturing an image at a client device, wherein the image includes a depiction of an object, identifying an object category of the object based on the depiction of the object within the image, accessing media content associated with the object category within a media repository, generating a presentation of the media content, and causing display of the presentation of the media content within the image at the client device.
US11170033B2
Processing inputs to electronic list systems. Receiving, from a user device, a user input. Parsing the received user input for at least one of {product genus, product subgenus, product name, brand name, price information, retailer name, manufacturer name}. Querying a history of user activity using the parsed input. Receiving at least one product description responsive to the query. Presenting, via the user device, each received at least one product description to the user.
US11170031B2
A method, computer system, and a computer program product for automatically extracting and normalizing at least one mutant gene entity from at least one set of unstructured text is provided. The present invention may include extracting the unstructured text describing first and second entities. The present invention may then include identifying a specific first entity and a specific second entity. The present invention may also include associating the specific first and the specific second entities. The present invention may further include creating the mutant gene entity. The present invention may then include identifying at least one semantic relationship between the created mutant gene entity and one or more third entities. The present invention may further include storing the at least one set of data associated with the specific first and specific second entity, the semantic relationship, and the created mutant gene entity in a database.
US11170027B2
A dataset's uniqueness level may be calculated by analyzing a dataset to determine a uniqueness level. In cases where the uniqueness level may be too low for a particular purpose, meaning when the dataset may not provide enough anonymity, the dataset may be adjusted by recomputing the dataset with different resolutions of spatial data, temporal data, content data, and relationship data. By adjusting the resolution or accuracy of the data elements, the uniqueness level may thereby be adjusted. An error calculation may be determined by comparing the adjusted dataset to the original data, and the error value may represent the consistency of the data to the original data. The uniqueness level may be used as an assurance level of anonymity, which may be advertised when a dataset is sold or transferred to a third party for analysis.
US11170021B2
A device may receive a request to add content relating to a technology development project that is managed by a content management system. The device may convert a document associated with the content from a first format to a second format. The device may generate document information for the document that includes: document section information, intra-document relationship information, and/or inter-document relationship information. The device may generate copies of the content that are in formats that are different than the first format. The copies may be associated with replicated section information that corresponds to the document section information for the document. The device may provide the content and the copies to publishing platforms to cause the publishing platforms to make the content and the copies available to other devices to allow the other devices to access the content and the set of copies via different publishing platforms and in different formats.
US11170020B2
Methods, computer systems, computer-storage media, and graphical user interfaces are provided for facilitating data transformations, according to embodiments of the present invention. In one embodiment, a plurality of remote sources is searched to identify candidate transformation tools relevant for performing data transformations. The candidate transformation tools are analyzed to identify tool examples corresponding with each of the candidate transformation tools. For each of the candidate transformation tools, the tool examples are stored in association with the corresponding candidate transformation tool. Based on a comparison of tool examples with example values, a transformation tool is identified as relevant to facilitate transforming example input values to the desired form in which to transform data.
US11170017B2
Approaches for facilitating queries of a topic-based-source-specific search system using entity mention filters and search tools relating to search strategies are disclosed. In certain implementations, an input relating to a query may be received. One or more predefined sources and information items may be determined based on the received input. In some implementations, the system may be configured to apply one or more user-selected entity mention filters to determine information items and sources that are associated with one or more predefined entities or their corresponding aliases. In some implementations, the system may be configured to retrieve information items with corresponding sources that relate to a predefined source set of a search tool.
US11170015B2
This document presents a system to identify patterns of life associated with the users of radio frequency emitting devices radiating within a monitored volume. These recurring commonalities in human activity can be derived from collected data and subsequent analytics that provide intelligence about those emitters and associated humans present within the monitored volume. The Freya system provides unique identifiers for detected emitters; insights into the current network relationships between emitters, past and current; human relational networks within the monitored volume; and can identify previous emitter locations prior to detection by the Freya system. These patterns of life provide a foundation for predicting interactions between humans associated with emitters active on the Internet of Things (IoT). This capability provides enhanced security capabilities as required by authorities for sensitive venues and events.
US11170014B2
Aspects of the disclosed technology include a method including receiving, from a user device, an identification of content; receiving, by a computing device, the identified content; accessing search engine processing logic; processing the received content using the subset of search engine processing logic, without indexing the received content to be accessed for responding to search queries from the search engine; generating a representation of a predicted search result of the received content based on the processing; and transmitting, to the user device, the representation of the predicted search result.
US11170011B2
A system for an event driven query includes an input interface and a processor. The input interface is configured to receive an indication from a client system. The processor is configured to determine a scanning query based at least in part on the indication; and perform the scanning query.
US11170004B2
Disclosed herein is an application enabling users to interface dynamically with live sports. Algorithmic generation of user-tailored editorial content that influences sports-bettor behavior, to increase engagement and manage risk. By showing bettors editorial content that could influence the side of the bet they might wish to take (for example, by pointing out that a certain player is playing particularly well or poorly), a sportsbook can influence the ratio of bets (or better, dollars wagered) on either side of a given event. On a more individual level, by showing users content that increases their engagement—such as content about a favorite player or local team, for example—the book can increase a user's propensity to bet in general, with a good sense for which types of bet the user is likely to favor.
US11170003B2
Techniques for sharing item images based on a similarity score are described. For example, a machine receives a description of an item from a user device. The machine accesses an existing image. The existing image is associated with one or more existing descriptions of the item. The machine selects, based on a description selection rule, the one or more existing descriptions corresponding to the existing image for comparison with the description received from the user device. The machine generates a similarity score for the existing image based on the comparison between the description received from the user device and the one or more existing descriptions corresponding to the existing image. The machine causes a display, in a user interface of the user device, of a number of existing images having corresponding similarity scores that exceed a threshold value.
US11169996B2
A method includes generating an instance on a host computing device in response to a request to host a web application on the host computing device, and determining a resource usage profile associated with the instance. The resource usage profile indicates one or more specific resources on the host computing device to be utilized to host the web application. The method further includes selecting one of a stored plurality of resource models based at least in part on the resource usage profile, and modifying the instance on the host computing device in accordance with the selected one of the stored plurality of resource models. The instance is modified to host the web application.
US11169985B2
Described herein are systems and methods for supporting SQL-based rich queries in a blockchain fabric. In accordance with an embodiment, the systems and methods provided herein provide the ability to execute SQL queries to allow for the creation of complex smart contracts much easier and more maintainable manner. Also, performance is improved both by pushing the data filtering back to the storage engine (rather than happening at the smart contract level), and by being able to rely on relational engines which support concurrent read and write data access. As well, the state of the world database can also provide for concurrent read/write access.
US11169979B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for database documentation propagation. Embodiments include scanning a log comprising a plurality of database queries to identify one or more database queries of the plurality of database queries, the one or more database queries being associated with generating a new table of a database based on information in an existing table of the database. Embodiments include generating, based on the one or more database queries identified during the scanning, a directed acyclic graph (DAG) comprising: a first vertex representing the existing table; a second vertex representing the new table; and a directed edge connecting the first vertex to the second vertex. Embodiments include obtaining documentation associated with the existing table. Embodiments include propagating, based on the DAG, at least a subset of the documentation associated with the existing table to the new table.
US11169968B2
Computer program products, as well as corresponding systems and methods are configured for performing deduplication in conjunction with random read and write operations, and include: computing a fingerprint of data included in a write request; determining whether a short term dictionary comprises an entry corresponding to the fingerprint; in response to determining the short term dictionary comprises the entry corresponding to the fingerprint, writing the data to a data store in a deduplicating manner; in response to determining the short term dictionary does not comprise the entry, determining whether a long term dictionary corresponding to the namespace comprises the entry; in response to determining the long term dictionary comprises the entry, writing the data to the data store in the deduplicating manner; and in response to determining the long term dictionary does not comprise the entry, writing the data to the data store in a non-deduplicating manner.
US11169965B2
At least one application data set stored in a data repository is obtained. The application data set is analyzed to generate at least one metadata node. The at least one metadata node is combined with at least one other related node to form a hierarchical data structure. One or more valuation algorithms are executed against the hierarchical data structure to calculate a value for the data set represented in the hierarchical data structure.
US11169963B2
Multi-policy interleaved snapshot lineage is described herein. A method can include assigning a virtual storage volume at a remote storage system to a local storage device according to first and second data retention policies for first and second storage groups, respectively, that comprise the local storage device; obtaining a first data snapshot of the local storage device at a first time according to the first data retention policy; in response to the obtaining the first data snapshot, transferring a first incremental representation of the first data snapshot to the virtual storage volume; obtaining a second data snapshot of the local storage device at a second time according to the second data retention policy; and in response to the obtaining the second data snapshot, transferring a second incremental representation of the second data snapshot to the virtual storage volume.
US11169958B2
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for using a repository having a full copy of source data and point-in-time information from point-in-time copies of the source data to restore the source data at different points-in-time. The source data is copied to a full copy in the repository. Point-in-time copies are initiated at different point-in-times of the source data. In response to completing each of the point-in-time copies, transmitting to the repository change information indicating changed data in the source data that changed between the point-in-time and the subsequent point-in-time and changed point-in-time data comprising data in the source data as of the point-in-time of the point-in-time copy. In response to a restore request having a restore time, applying the changed point-in-time data from at least one of the point-in-time copies to the data of the full copy to restore the full copy to the restore time.
US11169956B2
One aspect of the invention provides a computer comprising a plurality of interconnected processing nodes arranged in a ladder configuration comprising a plurality of facing pairs of processing nodes. The processing nodes of each pair are connected to each other by two links. A processing node in each pair is connected to a corresponding processing node in an adjacent pair by at least one link. The processing nodes are programmed to operate the ladder configuration to transmit data around two embedded one-dimensional rings formed by respective sets of processing nodes and links, each ring using all processing nodes in the ladder once only.
US11169947B2
A data transmission system includes a host, a universal serial bus (USB) interface adaptor, a first-in first-out (FIFO) interface adaptor, a plurality of functional circuits, and a bus bridge circuit. The host accesses data according to the communications protocols of USB. The USB interface adaptor accesses data through a first port according to the communications protocols of USB, and accesses data through a second port according to the communications protocols of FIFO. The FIFO interface adaptor accesses data through a third port coupled to the second port according to the communications protocols of FIFO, and accesses data through a fourth port according to the communications protocols of a specific type of bus. The bus bridge circuit transmits the data received from the fourth port to a functional circuit according to the communications protocols of the specific type of bus.
US11169945B1
A device includes a processor, an SBI, and a plurality of interfaces. The processor is configured to manage operations of the device. The SBI is coupled to the processor. The plurality of interfaces is associated with the SBI. The interfaces of the plurality of interfaces have different interface protocol from one another. The SBI is configured by the processor and the configuration of the SBI activates one interface of the plurality of interfaces at any given time. The active interface that is selected from the plurality of interfaces and a host have a same interface protocol. The active interface is configured to receive host data from the host. The SBI is configured to generate a flag for the processor in response to the active interface receiving the host data. The SBI is configured to transmit device data to the host.
US11169922B2
A computer implemented method for saving cache access power is suggested. The cache is provided with a set predictor logic for providing a generated set selection for selecting a set in the cache, and with a set predictor cache for pre-caching generated set indices of the cache. The method comprises further: receiving a part of a requested memory address; checking, in the set predictor cache, whether the requested memory address is already generated; in the case, that the requested memory address has already been generated: securing that the set predictor cache is switched off; issuing the pre-cached generated set index towards the cache; and securing that only that part of the cache is switched on that is associated with the pre-cached generated set index.
US11169921B2
A system and method for cache coherency within multiprocessor environments is provided. Each node controller of a plurality of nodes within a multiprocessor system receives a cache coherency protocol request from local processor sockets and other node controller(s). A ternary content addressable memory (TCAM) accelerator in the node controller determines if the cache coherency protocol request comprises a snoop request and, if it is determined to be a snoop request, searching the TCAM based on an address within the cache coherency protocol request. In response to detecting only one match between an entry of the TCAM and the received snoop request, sending a response to the requesting local processor a response without having to access a coherency directory.
US11169920B2
A system includes a first memory component of a first memory type, a second memory component of a second memory type with a higher access latency than the first memory component, and a third memory component of a third memory type with a higher access latency than the first and second memory components. The system further includes a processing device to identify a section of a data page stored in the first memory component, and access patterns associated with the data page and the section of the data page. The processing device determines to cache the data page at the second memory component based on the access patterns, copying the section of the data page stored in the first memory component to the second memory component. The processing device then copies additional sections of the data page stored at the third memory component to the second memory component.
US11169916B2
Example method includes: allocating, by a main processor of a wireless access point (WAP) comprising at least the main processor and a plurality of co-processors wherein the main processor and the plurality of co-processors both have access to a random-access memory (RAM) co-located within the WAP, a dedicated non-overlapping segment of the RAM to each of the plurality of the co-processors; receiving, by the main processor of the WAP, a notification from one of the plurality of co-processors indicating that an exception previously defined by the one of the plurality of co-processors has occurred; determining, by the main processor of the WAP, the dedicated non-overlapping segment of the RAM allocated to the one of the plurality of co-processors; and saving, by the main processor of the WAP, the dedicated non-overlapping segment of the RAM allocated to the one of the plurality of co-processors to a fast access memory.
US11169914B1
A system is provided for synchronization and provisioning of electronic testing data across applications. In particular, the system may continuously capture data from multiple different applications within the production environment and sanitize the data for use in the lower level testing environments. The testing data may be synchronized and/or standardized such that the testing data may be used across multiple disparate downstream test applications. In this way, the system may ensure that testing data is always available, synchronized, current, and sanitized for use by in the lower level testing environments.
US11169913B2
Systems of the present disclosure provide a versatile, reusable mock server to respond to Application-Programming-Interface (API) requests. The mock server receives an API request and a cookie associated with the API request. The API server identifies response instructions found in the cookie. The response instructions may include a static response value, a name of an API server for the mock server to imitate, or code for the mock server to execute in the process of generating a mock API response. The mock server generates a mock API response based on the response instructions and sends the mock API response in reply to the API request.
US11169907B2
A method for testing a web service is disclosed, the method including testing, by a testing application executing on a client computing system, a web service running at least partially on a server computing system. The testing includes directing a web browser of the client computing system to simulate user interaction with the web service to perform a particular operation that includes a particular set of sub-operations. The directing includes issuing one or more requests to perform the particular set of sub-operations. The testing also includes recording test information based on responses received from the web service in response to performing the particular set of sub-operations. The test information includes latency information for at least one of the sub-operations of the particular set. The method also includes presenting, by the client computing system, a user interface having a graphical element depicting an analysis of the recorded test information.
US11169902B2
Techniques are disclosed for enforcing build policies for a software development project of a software platform. Metrics are collected during a stage in a build process for the software development project. The metrics are collected via a build module for building a software development project. The build module is common to software development projects of the software platform. Each of the metrics is evaluated against a plurality of policies. Each policy specifies one or more rules for whether to allow the build process to proceed. Upon determining that one of the metrics does not comply with at least one of a plurality of policies, the build process is aborted at the stage.
US11169900B2
Techniques and mechanisms are disclosed that enable a data intake and query system to generate and cause display of circular timelines of timestamped event data. As used herein, a circular timeline generally refers to a graphical display of timestamped events stored by a data intake and query system, wherein the timestamped events may be displayed as arcs of one or more concentric circles and located in a circular timeline area according to a chronological ordering associated with the events. One or more display attributes of each arc may further depend on other data associated with the corresponding events. For example, each arc of a circular time may be displayed at a particular radial distance, with a particular thickness, using a particular shading and/or color, etc., depending on various data values associated with the one or more events represented by the arc.
US11169897B2
By monitoring requests to and from components of an application, an application analysis engine generates an inter-component graph for an application that identifies how the various components in the application are connected. When a performance issue is detected in association with the application, a traversal module traverses the inter-component graph to determine the possible execution paths that may have been the cause of the detected issue. The traversal module transmits requests to the correlation module to compare the metrics time series of the different components in the execution path with the detected issue. The correlation module compares metrics time series with the issue metric to identify correlations between execution patterns. The results of the correlation may be presented in a report that visually identify the root cause of the detected issues.
US11169887B2
Properties of one or more databases of nodes of a database system are automatically discovered. The automatically discovered properties for at least one of the databases include a database architecture and a corresponding failover role for each of at least some of the nodes. Based at least in part on the discovered properties, a corresponding one of the nodes as a corresponding backup source node is selected for each of the one or more databases. One or more database backups are allowed to be performed via the one or more selected backup source nodes.
US11169886B2
A temporary page is allocated in which pages are loaded into main memory and having associated physical disk storage. The temporary page is also flagged as being temporary. Subsequently, a savepoint is initiated for the database so that, during the savepoint, the temporary page can be modified without acquiring a consistent change while preventing other non-temporary pages from being modified. Later, the savepoint can be finalized to enable the database to be rolled back to a point in time corresponding to the savepoint as part of a recovery process.
US11169880B1
A storage system comprises a plurality of storage devices, and is configured to establish a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) arrangement comprising a plurality of stripes, with each of the plurality of stripes comprising a plurality of blocks, the blocks being distributed across multiple ones of the storage devices. In conjunction with establishment of the RAID arrangement, the storage system is further configured, for each of the plurality of stripes, to designate multiple ones of the storage devices as respective spare devices for that stripe, and for each of the storage devices, to determine numbers of the stripes for which that storage device is designated as a spare device for respective ones of the other storage devices in each of multiple spare levels and for each of multiple failure combinations. A particular number of spare blocks is reserved for each of the storage devices using the determined numbers.
US11169877B2
A method is disclosed for use in an electronic device having a non-volatile storage device and a volatile storage device, the method comprising: retrieving a first encoded data packet from a first address in the non-volatile storage device; decoding the first encoded data packet to obtain a first data item and a first error code corresponding to the first data item, the first encoded data packet being decoded by using a first coding key that is associated with the first address; detecting whether the first data item is corrupt based on the first error code and an error correction function, storing the first data item at a first address in the volatile storage device when the first data item is not corrupt, and transitioning the electronic device into a safe state when the first data item is corrupt.
US11169870B2
Techniques for migrating virtual machines (VMs) in the presence of uncorrectable memory errors are provided. According to one set of embodiments, a source host hypervisor of a source host system can determine, for each guest memory page of a VM to be migrated from the source host system to a destination host system, whether the guest memory page is impacted by an uncorrectable memory error in a byte-addressable memory of the source host system. If the source host hypervisor determines that the guest memory page is impacted, the source host hypervisor can transmit a data packet to a destination host hypervisor of the destination host system that includes error metadata identifying the guest memory page as being corrupted. Alternatively, if the source host hypervisor determines that the guest memory page is not impacted, the source host hypervisor can attempt to read the guest memory page from the byte-addressable memory in a memory exception-safe manner.
US11169861B2
In an example, a WebSocket is used as an abstraction layer on top of one or more triggers. These triggers may be defined by DevOps tools and may be called bidirectionally. Specifically, a web application can call a trigger located in a Function as a Service layer at an ABAP application server, while the ABAP application server can also push data via a push channel through the WebSocket to trigger functions in the Web App.
US11169859B2
A processor determines a priority for a user of a digital calendar system. The processor determines a link between the priority and a calendar entry in the digital calendar system. A change to the digital calendar system associated with the priority is determined. An effect on the priority based upon the change to the digital calendar system is determined. Data is generated describing a display of the effect on the priority for display in a user interface of the digital calendar system.
US11169846B2
A system for scheduling and dispatching workload items between tasks can include an aggregated file structure and a task scheduler. The aggregated file structure comprises at least one logical partition with each partition having a secondary operating system and address spaces and a plurality of tasks executable therein. The task scheduler is executable from the primary operating system and can receive a service request from a task requesting an action from at least one other task and writing the action, a first task identifier, and at least one other task identifier to at least one private memory address associated with the other task or tasks. The service request action can be a start service request, a stop service request, a suspend service request, a resume service request, change the order of execution service request, or a change priority of executing tasks service request.
US11169840B2
A method includes, with a Virtual Network Function (VNF) manager, managing a VNF that includes a plurality of VNF components running on a plurality of virtual machines, the virtual machines running on a plurality of physical computing machines, and with the VNF manager, causing a Network Function Virtualization Infrastructure (NFVI) to have a total number of virtual machines provisioned, the total number being equal to a number of virtual machines capable of providing for a current demand for VNF components plus an additional number of virtual machines equal to the highest number of virtual machines being provided by a single one of the plurality of physical computing machines.
US11169839B2
Specialized, service optimized virtual machines are assigned to handle specific types of Internet of Things (IoT) devices. An IoT context mapping policy engine within the context of a virtualized network function manages IoT context mapping policy functions in load balancers. The IoT context mapping policy functions select service optimized virtual machines based on IoT device IDs, and assign those virtual machines to handle the devices. The IoT context mapping policy functions provide load data to the IoT context mapping policy engine. Based on the load data, the IoT context mapping policy engine maintains appropriate scaling by creating or tearing down instances of the virtual machines.
US11169836B2
A method of organizing computer resources includes receiving a specification defining a plurality of quiescence groups of independent component instances for each of at least two services, and performing a first load balancing of the quiescence groups across a plurality of physical servers to define a plurality of supergroups while assigning each of the physical servers across the supergroups.
US11169834B2
Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that dynamically tunes platform features based on virtual machine runtime requirements. In one example, a first virtual machine and a second virtual machine of a cloud server platform may each be associated with one or more logical cores. The first virtual machine may have a first configuration to efficiently support a first feature setting arrangement on the associated logical cores. The second virtual machine may have a different second configuration to efficiently support a different second feature setting arrangement on the different associated logical cores. Feature settings that are specific to an application associated with a virtual machine may be determined based on application runtime requirements. Such determined feature settings may be stored as a bit mask in control fields of a virtual machine control and enforced on the logical cores associated with a given virtual machine.
US11169824B2
A system for generating a spectator controlled replay of a gameplay session. The system may include a session client having a processor and memory containing instructions that when executed by the processor may cause the session client to: initiate a gameplay session, receive gameplay inputs from a gameplay participant, extract gameplay session data, and record the gameplay session data. The system may also include a spectator client configured to: initiate a replay of the gameplay session based on the recorded gameplay session data, render the recorded gameplay session, receive camera data for rendering and recording the replay, and record camera data. The system may also include a shadow client configured to: receive the recorded gameplay session data, receive the recorded camera data from the spectator client, and render the recorded gameplay session data based on the recorded camera data.
US11169817B1
A system and method for efficiently starting up a plurality of solid-state storage devices. A computing system includes one or more storage devices storing data in multiple allocation units (AUs). In a boot region, a data storage controller maintains an AU management set that identifies a state of various AUs in the system. In various embodiments, the management set includes an identification of a subset of free AUs, transitional AU, unincorporated AUs, and speculative AUs. At various times, information corresponding to the AU management set is stored to non-volatile storage. During a boot sequence, the AU management set information is accessed and the identified AUs are searched to identify allocated AUs rather than performing a search of all of the AUs in the system.
US11169814B2
An information processing method executed by a computer, the method includes executing a target program to acquire number of executions for each of a plurality of program codes; selecting a combination of program codes related to a plurality of assignment statements from among program codes related to assignment statements having a higher number of executions based on the acquired number of executions; when the target program is changed, executing the changed target program to calculate an execution accuracy and an operation time so that parallel processing using an SIMD operation function is executed for each of the program codes related to the plurality of assignment statements included in the selected combination; and searching for the combination so that the calculated execution accuracy and operation time satisfy a predetermined condition.
US11169810B2
According to one general aspect, an apparatus may include an instruction fetch unit circuit configured to retrieve instructions from a memory. The apparatus may include an instruction decode unit configured to convert instructions into one or more micro-operations that are provided to an execution unit circuit. The apparatus may also include a micro-operation cache configured to store micro-operations. The apparatus may further include a branch prediction circuit configured to: determine when a kernel of instructions is repeating, store at least a portion of the kernel within the micro-operation cache, and provide the stored portion of the kernel to the execution unit circuit without the further aid of the instruction decode unit circuit.
US11169805B2
A processor including a logic unit configured to execute multiple instructions being one of a speculative instruction or an architectural instruction is provided. The processor also includes a split cache comprising multiple lines, each line including a data accessed by an instruction and copied into the split cache from a memory address, wherein a line is identified as a speculative line for the speculative instruction, and as an architectural line for the architectural instruction. The processor includes a cache manager configured to select a number of speculative lines allocated in the split cache. The cache manager prevents an architectural line from being replaced by a speculative line based on a number of speculative lines allotted in the split cache, and manages the number of speculative lines to be allocated in the split cache based on the number of speculative lines relative to a number of architectural lines.
US11169804B2
Techniques for maintaining d-heap property and speeding up retrieval operations, such as top or pop, by vectorizing the d-heap and utilizing horizontal aggregation SIMD instructions across the retrieval operations. A d-heap is vectorized by storing it in a contiguous memory array containing a beginning-most side and end-most side. Horizontal aggregation SIMD instructions are utilized to aggregate the values of the vectorized d-heap. Thus, the number of comparisons required in order to find the maximum or minimum key value within a single node of the d-heap is reduced resulting in faster retrieval operations.
US11169791B2
According to example configurations, an application wrapper resource receives an original installation package. The original installation package can be a factory-generated installation package that supports installation of a respective unwrapped application onto a computing device. The factory-generated installation package as described herein may be different than a typical installation package available from an application store. The application wrapper resource transforms the received original installation package into a (customized) wrapped application installation package for subsequent installation of the wrapped application on a respective computer device. The wrapped application installation package includes executable wrapper code supporting supplemental functionality with respect to the original unwrapped application. To wrap the original application using the executable wrapper code, the customization engine extracts one or more portions of application code from the original installation package and inserts the one or more portions of the application code into the wrapped application installation package.
US11169786B2
Implementations are described herein for generating embeddings of source code using both the language and graph domains, and leveraging combinations of these semantically-rich and structurally-informative embeddings for various purposes. In various implementations, tokens of a source code snippet may be applied as input across a sequence-processing machine learning model to generate a plurality of token embeddings. A graph may also be generated based on the source code snippet. A joint representation may be generated based on the graph and the incorporated token embeddings. The joint representation generated from the source code snippet may be compared to one or more other joint representations generated from one or more other source code snippets to make a determination about the source code snippet.
US11169776B2
Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that in response to an identification that one or more hardware units are to execute on a first type of data format, decomposes a first original floating point number to a plurality of first segmented floating point numbers that are to be equivalent to the first original floating point number. The technology may further in response to the identification, decompose a second original floating point number to a plurality of second segmented floating point numbers that are to be equivalent to the second original floating point number. The technology may further execute a multiplication operation on the first and second segmented floating point numbers to multiply the first segmented floating point numbers with the second segmented floating point numbers.
US11169772B2
Implementations of a mobile platform for image capture device control may use voice recognition. A user may use a mobile platform, such as a mobile application, on a mobile device to interpret and relay voice commands to an image capture device. Voice recognition services may be integrated into the mobile application, the mobile device operating system (OS), or both. The voice recognition services may be server-based.
US11169755B2
When providing a web page for receiving a setting to a mobile terminal, an image forming apparatus includes, in the web page, information storable as a custom setting in the terminal in a format such as a uniform resource locator (URL). The mobile terminal stores the provided information included in the web page as a custom setting so that the stored custom setting can be reused with ease.
US11169753B2
A policy-based printing system is implemented to allow access to a private domain to print using a public domain. The private domain includes private servers that store documents. The public domain includes servers and a printing device. A public policy server uses a domain list and a protocol connection with a private authentication server to validate a user and identify which private domain to access. The public policy server receives requests from the printing device to process a print job of a document in the private domain. The private server processes the requests using the policy and a ledger to determine whether to allow the print job to the printing device. If a parameter of the policy is exceeded, then the private server allows usage to be carried over or borrowed from previous and subsequent periods.
US11169742B2
According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a memory controller configured to send a first command set including arithmetic operation target data and an address that designates a memory cell to store weight data; and a nonvolatile semiconductor memory configured to receive the first command set from the memory controller, read the weight data from the memory cell designated by the address, perform an arithmetic operation based on the arithmetic operation target data and the weight data, and send arithmetic operation result data to the memory controller.
US11169739B2
A memory system may include: a nonvolatile memory device; a volatile memory device to which power is suspended in the sleep mode; and a controller configured to temporarily store internal data in the volatile memory device, the internal data being generated during processing of an operation of the nonvolatile memory device. When a sleep command is received by the memory system from a host, the controller may output the internal data stored in the volatile memory device to the host in response to the sleep command, and then may transfer an acknowledgement for an entry into the sleep mode to the host and enter the sleep mode.
US11169738B2
A system and method for providing erasure code data protection for an array of solid state drives. The solid state drives are connected to an Ethernet switch which includes a RAID control circuit, or a state machine, to process read or write commands that may be received from a remote host. The RAID control circuit, if present, uses a low-latency cache to execute write commands, and the state machine, if present, uses a local central processing unit, which in turn uses a memory as a low-latency cache, to similar effect.
US11169737B2
The present disclosure is related to performing speculation in, for example, a memory device or a computing system that includes a memory device. Speculation can be used to identify data that is accessed together or to predict data that will be accessed with greater frequency. The identified data can be organized to improve efficiency in providing access to the data.
US11169733B2
In some examples, during execution of an application as an application asset is called, an asset map that is stored in a persistent memory device is searched for an asset identifier associated with the application asset. Using this asset identifier, an application asset stored in the persistent memory device is located. The persistent memory device is directly accessed by a processor executing the application. The processor processes the application asset from its location in the persistent memory device.
US11169709B2
Systems and methods for adaptive fetch coalescing are disclosed. NVM Express (NVMe) implements a paired submission queue and completion queue mechanism, with host software on the host device placing commands into the submission queue. The host device notifies the memory device, via a doorbell update, of commands on the submission queue. Instead of fetching the command responsive to the doorbell update, the memory device may analyze one or more aspects in order to determine whether and how to coalesce fetching of the commands. In this way, the memory device may include the intelligence to coalesce fetching in order to more efficiently fetch the commands from the host device.
US11169708B1
Reducing buffer space that is reserved when a VM attempts to write to disk. A shared memory maintains stored information available to all VM's, allowing translation between accessible to RSD's, independent of how that VM's storage is divided into VSD's. When a guest OS writes to a VSD, an “extent”, designating a location in the shared memory and amount of data to be transferred, which can be passed directly from the guest OS, through each element involved in translating the operation into one or more operations on RSD's, keeping copying to a minimum. No substantial changes need be made to the guest OS.
US11169705B2
A method of controlling a display device including a touch screen is provided. The method includes setting an application execution space having one or more sub spaces in which windows executing applications are arranged, arranging windows corresponding to one or more applications which are being executed in the sub spaces of the set application execution space, displaying a first sub space corresponding to one of the one or more sub spaces on the touch screen, receiving a data sharing command for sharing data included in a first window arranged in the first sub space, and sharing the data to be shared by a second window arranged in a second sub space corresponding to one of the one or more sub spaces based on the data sharing command.
US11169703B2
A method for displaying a graphical user interface (GUI), which relate to the data processing field, includes determining whether a display screen of the mobile terminal is shielded, when the display screen is shielded, determining a shielded area and a display area of the display screen, where the display area is used to display a GUI, determining parameter information of the display area, and obtaining, according to the parameter information, a GUI that matches the display area, and displaying the GUI in the display area.
US11169702B2
A method for displaying information includes: first application information of a second application is acquired in a process of displaying a present interface of a first application; and a floating window of the second application is generated according to the first application information of the second application, the floating window of the second application being used to display the first application information of the second application. As such, coordinated work between applications may be achieved, a user does not needed to switch two types of applications and can always get running statuses of the applications.
US11169700B2
An electronic device and a control method thereof are provided. The control method of the electronic device includes displaying at least one page from among a plurality of pages, detecting a touch drag input while the at least one page is displayed, performing a scroll function with respect to the plurality of pages according to the touch drag input based on a start point of the touch drag input being positioned in a first area, and performing a drawing function according to the touch drag input based on the start point of the touch drag input being positioned in a second area.
US11169699B2
Systems and methods for control of application actions using a modification trigger to visually modify an electronic document are disclosed. A computing device, such as a mobile computing device having a touchscreen display, can display an electronic document having a first portion and a second portion. Initially upon displaying the electronic document, the computing device displays the first portion and the second portion may lie out of view, not displayed. A user can swipe along a scroll direction, causing the second portion to be displayed. The second portion can include or otherwise be associated with a modification trigger. Upon receiving a gesture on the second portion, the modification trigger performs actions, including, for example, subscribing to a series of electronic documents and minimizing the visual display of the electronic document.
US11169697B2
An electronic device and method are disclosed herein. The electronic device includes a touchscreen, at least one processor, and a memory. The processor implements the method, including: execute an application in response to receiving a first input, identify whether a display type of an application bar associated with the executed application is a first type or a second type, the first type capable of displaying information related to an application, and the second type capable of displaying a representation of the application, based on the display type of the application bar being the first type, obtain contextual information associated with the application, and after obtaining the contextual information, display the application bar on the touchscreen, the application bar including first display information based on the obtained contextual information.
US11169695B2
An electronic device includes a display, at least one processor, and a memory operatively connected to the at least one processor, wherein the memory stores instructions that cause, when executed, the at least one processor to display a dynamic image in a stopped state; receive a drag input onto an area in which the dynamic image is displayed in the stopped state; and display a path of the drag input superimposed on the dynamic image, which has been switched from the stopped state to a playback state, while the drag input remains in contact with the display.
US11169694B2
A user interface can display a rendering associated with an interactive layer corresponding to one or more rendered elements of the rendering. Based at least partly on receiving an indication of an interaction with the user interface, a new rendered element can be displayed on the user interface. Based at least in part on information associated with the one or more rendered elements, a position in the interactive layer closest to a position of the new rendered element on the user interface can be determined and a rendered marking can be displayed at or near the position in the interactive layer that is closest to the position of the new rendered element. Based at least in part on a determination that the new rendered element is to be positioned at or near the position in the interactive layer, the rendering can be updated.
US11169691B2
A portable multifunction device displays a first user interface object and a second user interface object on a touch screen display. Upon detecting a finger-down event at the first user interface object and one or more finger-dragging events on the touch screen display, the device moves the first user interface object on the touch screen display along a path determined by the finger-dragging events until the first user interface object at least in part overlaps the second user interface object. Upon detecting a finger-up event at the second user interface object, the device visually replaces the second user interface object with the first user interface object.
US11169686B2
An electronic device having a flexible display and method of providing the same are disclosed herein. A flexible display is disposed on at least a portion of an area of the electronic device and configured to egress or ingress from at least one housing of the electronic device to alter an exposed area of the flexible display. At least one processor operatively coupled to the flexible display is configured to detect the exposed area of the flexible display altered by egress or ingress of the flexible display from the housing, detect a setting mode based on the altered exposed area of the flexible display; and execute at least one of changing a resolution setting, changing an operation mode, and changing a user interface setting of the flexible display based on the detected setting mode.
US11169677B1
Systems and techniques for a future state graphical visualization generator are described herein. A graphical visualization of a current state of a user may be generated using electronic profile data of the user. The graphical visualization of the current state of the user may display objects associated with the user. The objects may be associated with a set of object parameters. A goal of the user may be obtained. A set of goal parameters may be generated based on the set of object parameters and the goal of the user. A graphical visualization of the future state of the user may be generated based on the set of goal parameters. A user response may be obtained to a display of the graphical visualization of the future state of the user. Guidance may be provided to the user for adjusting a gal parameter based on the user response.
US11169668B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for selecting an input mode are described. In one aspect, a method includes receiving request data specifying a request to launch a virtual assistant application from a lock screen of a mobile device. In response to receiving the request data, input signals are obtained. A selection of an input mode for the virtual assistant application is made, from candidate input modes, based on the input signals. Each candidate input mode is of an input type different from each other input type of each other candidate input mode. The input types include an image type and an audio type. The input mode of the image type receives pixel data for input to the virtual assistant application. The input mode of the audio type receives audio input for the virtual assistant application. The virtual assistant application presents content selected based on input signals received using the selected input mode.
US11169654B2
A shared work space application provides a work space that is commonly accessible across devices and applications so that a user can select and drop items into the shared work space and then pick them up again later using the same or different devices and applications. The shared work space application can use available inputs and data to surface contextually-relevant reminders to the user that there are items in the shared work space that he or she has not finished using. A task or project can be completed from within a variety of different applications and devices using the shared work space and items can be combined into a single object for sharing with one or more of the user's contacts. The shared work space application can also provide a convenient launch point into other communication applications and sharing experiences.
US11169649B2
A touch panel is manufactured by a method that decreases undesirable reflections of external light while improving the visibility of emitted light. The touch panel includes a base layer including an active region responsive to an external touch to generate an electronic signal and a peripheral region adjacent to the active region, and a first conductive pattern disposed on the active region and a second conductive pattern disposed on the peripheral region, each of the first conductive pattern and the second conductive pattern including a conductive layer having an external light reflectivity and a darkening layer disposed over the conductive layer. External light reflectivity of each of the first and second conductive patterns is lower than that of the conductive layer.
US11169646B2
A touch panel is provided. The touch panel includes a substrate, a metal mesh, and a touch electrode layer. The substrate includes at least two dielectric layers and a wiring layer disposed between the two dielectric layers. The wiring layer is provided with conductive lines, and the conductive lines are perpendicularly intersected with each other. The conductive lines are disposed below the metal mesh. The touch electrode layer is provided with touch electrodes arranged in an array. A bezel area of the touch panel is not provided with the conductive lines. The conductive lines located in the bezel area of the touch panel are disposed below the metal mesh. The conductive lines are rhombus-shaped. The conductive lines are arranged in an array, and the touch electrodes are electrically connected to the conductive lines through a plurality of first via holes.
US11169643B2
A touch panel device includes a touch panel and a controller for the touch panel. The touch panel includes a support substrate, a plurality of X electrodes disposed on the support substrate, a plurality of Y electrodes disposed on the support substrate in such a manner that each of the plurality of Y electrodes intersects the plurality of X electrodes and is isolated from the plurality of X electrodes, and an insulating layer covering the plurality of X electrodes and the plurality of Y electrodes. A mutual capacitance generated between an X electrode and a Y electrode decreases when a surface of the second insulating layer is touched by a pointer.
US11169633B2
A display apparatus includes a display panel and a touch sensing unit disposed on the display panel. The touch sensing unit includes a touch sensor and a first pressure sensor. The touch sensor includes a first touch electrode layer and a second touch electrode layer disposed on the first touch electrode layer. The first pressure sensor includes: a transmission pressure electrode, a sensing pressure electrode separated from the transmission pressure electrode, and a piezoresistive pattern contacting each of the transmission pressure electrode and the sensing pressure electrode. Each of the transmission pressure electrode and the sensing pressure electrode is disposed in a same layer as any one of the first touch electrode layer and the second touch electrode layer.
US11169632B2
An electronic device having a touch screen or display to reduce or eliminate visibility of structures in the device due to reflected light includes a base member and a touch member disposed on one surface of the base member and including first and second sensor parts spaced apart from each other with a boundary interposed therebetween. Each of the first and second sensor parts includes first and second areas disposed adjacent to each, a plurality of first patterns in the first area spaced apart from each other and a plurality of second patterns in the second area spaced apart from the first patterns. Each of the first patterns has a first shape, and each of the second patterns has a second shape different than the first shape. Various embodiments of patterns having shapes selected to reduce or eliminate visibility are disclosed.
US11169630B2
A touch panel having a visible area and a peripheral area includes a first substrate, a first metal nanowires layer, a first wiring component, and a first conductive adhesive layer. The first metal nanowires layer is formed on the surface of the first substrate and patterned to include a first sensing part corresponding to the visible area and a first connecting part corresponding to the peripheral area. The first wiring component includes a first carrier plate and a first peripheral trace. The first carrier plate is located corresponding to the peripheral area and has a hollow design corresponding to the visible area. The first peripheral trace is disposed on the surface of the first carrier plate adjacent to the side of the first metal nanowires layer. The first conductive adhesive layer, located corresponding to the peripheral area, is disposed between the first metal nanowires layer and the first wiring component.
US11169627B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display, an electronic pen, a slot in which the electronic pen can be inserted in or detached from, a pen sensing module configured to sense an insertion/detachment of the electronic pen, a pen input module configured to receive an input using the electronic pen, and a processor configured to activate the pen input module while the display maintains an OFF-state when the detachment of the electronic pen is sensed within the OFF-state of the display.
US11169622B2
A mouse device with zero gapped switching for resistance comprises a housing unit, at least one pressing unit, at least one switch unit, and at least one adjustment unit. The housing unit includes a housing that surrounds a housing space. The pressing unit is connected to the housing unit, and includes a pressing body and an extension body. The switch unit touches the pressing unit and includes a switch module. The adjustment unit includes an adjustment base and a first elastic body. The adjustment base is movable between a first position and a second position. When the adjustment base is located at the first position, the first elastic body applies a force in the direction toward the switch module on the extension body. When the adjustment base is located at the second position, the first elastic body applies a force opposite to the direction of the switch module on the extension body.
US11169615B2
This document describes techniques and systems that enable an input-mode notification for a multi-input mode. A radar field enables an electronic device to accurately determine the presence or absence of a user near the electronic device. Further, the electronic device can determine whether an application that can receive input through radar-based gestures is operating on the electronic device. Using these techniques, the electronic device can present an input-mode notification on a display of the electronic device when the user is near to alert the user that radar gesture input is available for interacting with the electronic device. This allows the device to provide the user with feedback that can educate the user about what the electronic device is capable of, and allows the user to take advantage of the additional functionality and features provided by the availability of the radar gestures.
US11169614B2
A gesture detection method, a gesture processing device, and a computer readable storage medium. The gesture detection method includes: performing a shrinking process and a background modeling on a first frame of original image, to generate a first frame of background image; determining a motion region of the first frame of background image based on the first frame of background image; determining a first gesture detection area in the first frame of original image according to the motion region of the first frame of background image; and performing a gesture detection within the first gesture detection area.
US11169611B2
A method, including receiving, by a computer, a two-dimensional image (2D) containing at least a physical surface and segmenting the physical surface into one or more physical regions. A functionality is assigned to each of the one or more physical regions, each of the functionalities corresponding to a tactile input device, and a sequence of three-dimensional (3D) maps is received, the sequence of 3D maps containing at least a hand of a user of the computer, the hand positioned on one of the physical regions. The 3D maps are analyzed to detect a gesture performed by the user, and based on the gesture, an input is simulated for the tactile input device corresponding to the one of the physical regions.
US11169607B1
An apparatus for creating haptic simulations is provided. The apparatus includes a body that defines an inner cavity, and a pair of connectors positioned adjacent to ends of the body. A wire electrically connects the connectors and is wound around a first portion of the body in a first direction and wound around a second portion of the body in an opposite direction. A ring magnet is secured to an outer surface of the body. An armature magnet is slidably positioned within the inner cavity aligned with the ring magnet due to its magnetic pull. When a current is driven through the wire, simultaneous push and pull forces are created, causing the armature magnet to oscillate within the inner cavity to create vibration. When a magnitude of the current driven exceeds a threshold, the armature magnet impacts a stop of the inner cavity to create a “click” stimulation.
US11169593B2
Various aspects are described herein. In some aspects, the disclosure provides selective coupling of portions of a memory structure to voltage supplies. Certain aspects provide a computing device. The computing device includes a memory comprising a plurality of portions that are individually power collapsible. The computing device further includes a first voltage rail supplying a first voltage. The computing device further includes a second voltage rail supplying a second voltage. The computing device further includes a plurality of switching circuits, each switching circuit configured to selectively couple a corresponding one of the plurality of portions with the first voltage rail or the second voltage rail. The computing device further includes a controller configured to control each of the plurality of switching circuits based on a current active mode of the memory, and a current operating mode of each of the plurality of portions.
US11169588B2
A method and apparatus for detecting a wearing state of a smart wearable device, which utilizes the characteristic that there is a difference in the reflection of infrared rays having different light intensities by different objects, acquires a first effective mean value of light intensities of reflection signals of a first infrared ray and a second effective mean value of light intensities of reflection signals of a second infrared ray, and judge the wearing state of the smart wearable device by the difference between the first and second effective mean values, thereby avoiding misjudgment caused by judging the wearing state by distance and misjudgment caused by judgment conditions such as temperature difference and capacitance difference which are greatly affected by the surrounding environment. The reflection signals of two infrared rays having different light intensities are used in comparing, which improves the accuracy of judgment.
US11169583B2
The present disclosure, in various aspects, describes technologies and techniques for a controller of a data storage device to mitigate temperature increases in the data storage device. In one example, the controller receives a command for a memory operation, analyzes the command to determine whether execution of the command with thermal throttling would have a negative impact on a user experience, and activates, if performing the thermal throttling would have the negative impact on the user experience, one or more thermoelectric cooler (TEC) devices while refraining from performing the thermal throttling. In another example, the controller monitors a temperature of one or more regions of the data storage device, determines whether the temperature exceeds a threshold temperature, activates one or more TEC devices to mitigate the temperature when the temperature exceeds the threshold temperature, and deactivates any activated TEC devices when the temperature no longer exceeds the threshold temperature.
US11169580B2
A display device includes: a folding region and a non-folding region; a display module corresponding to the folding region and the non-folding region; a module supporter corresponding to the non-folding region and in which the display module is received; and a hinge corresponding to the folding region and rotatably connected to the module supporter. The hinge includes: a first joint and a second joint, a first rotator which rotatably connects the module supporter to the first joint, and a second rotator which rotatably connects the first joint to the second joint. The display module includes a first plane facing the module supporter, and a distance between the second rotator and the first plane is greater than a distance between the first rotator and the first plane.
US11169578B2
The pivot shaft structure moving around virtual axis includes an assembly of a main body, a first operation board and a second operation board disposed on the main body. The first operation board has an arm section. The second operation board has an arm section. The arm sections of the first and second operation boards are respectively received in a first arched rail and a second arched rail of the main body. The first and second arched rails are arched and disposed around a virtual axis. When a user operates the first operation board or the second operation board to move, the first operation board or the arm section thereof and the second operation board or the arm section thereof respectively synchronously move around the virtual axis along the first and second arched rails toward each other to achieve opening/closing effect.
US11169576B2
In some embodiments, a support device includes an angled segment and a support segment. The angled segment is configured to be affixed to a bottom surface of a second device and rotatable relative to the bottom surface at an anchor axis. The support segment is connected to the angled segment along a support axis and rotatable relative to the angled segment around the support axis.
US11169570B2
A flexible display panel including: a flexible panel including a first region including a display region and oriented on a first plane and a second region including a non-display region and oriented on a second plane different from the first plane; and a flexible encapsulation member disposed on the flexible panel so as to encapsulate at least the display region.
US11169565B2
A display device includes a display module, first and second supporters disposed under the display module and arranged in a first direction, spacers disposed between the first and second supporters, third and fourth supporters respectively disposed under the first and second supporters, hinge parts connected to the third and fourth supporters, sliding parts disposed in openings defined in the third and fourth supporters and connected to the first and second supporters, and elastic parts disposed in guide grooves defined in the third and fourth supporters and extending in the first direction from the openings toward distal portions of the third and fourth supporters.
US11169563B2
A semiconductor circuit apparatus of the present disclosure includes a control circuit controlling a clock signal externally input, a drive circuit performing a switching operation according to a pulse signal provided by the control circuit, a series connection circuit including an inductor element, a switch element, and a capacitive element connected in series between a signal line and a fixed potential node, the series connection circuit forming an LC resonance circuit, and a level detection circuit having an input end connected to the signal line. An output from the level detection circuit is fed back to the control circuit.
US11169553B2
An isolation transformer boost system. The system including a power supply and an isolation transformer. The isolation transformer including a primary winding electrically connected to the power supply, a secondary winding, a first voltage tap, and a second voltage tap. The isolation transformer is configured to, in response to a command from an electronic processor, disconnect a connection from the first voltage tap and establish a second connection from the second voltage tap.
US11169550B2
An externally adjustable pressure regulator includes a body having a shoulder, a longitudinal axis and a high pressure inlet. The body has an opening along a side. A bonnet has a regulated pressure outlet and is engaged with the body. A piston is positioned in part in the body and the bonnet. The piston has a shoulder, a longitudinal bore and a transverse bore at about the end thereof in flow communication with the longitudinal bore. A spring is disposed on the piston. A wedging element is positioned in the opening in the body side and is in contact with the spring. An adjusting ring engages the wedging element to move it into the spring to increase compression of the spring and off of the spring to decrease compression. Increasing compression of the spring increases a spring force of the spring on the piston and decreasing compression of the spring decreases the spring force on the piston.
US11169547B2
Gas distribution apparatus to provide uniform flows of gases from a single source to multiple processing chambers are described. A regulator is positioned at an upstream end of a shared volume having a plurality of downstream ends. A flow controller is positioned at each downstream end of the shared volume, the flow controller comprising an orifice and a fast pulsing valve. Methods of using the gas distribution apparatus and calibrating the flow controllers are also described.
US11169544B2
The invention discloses a method for designing a three-dimensional trajectory of an unmanned aerial vehicle based on a wireless power transfer network. The method comprises the following steps: establishing a downlink channel model of the wireless power transfer network; establishing a mathematical model based on maximizing energy harvested by a user, comprising three-dimensional position deployment of an unmanned aerial vehicle, allocation of a charging time, and generation of an energy beam pattern; jointly optimizing on design and analysis of low-complexity iterative algorithms for three-dimensional position deployment of the unmanned aerial vehicle, the charging time and an energy beam; and using branch and bound method to design a three-dimensional flight trajectory of the unmanned aerial vehicle.
US11169538B2
A system includes at least partially autonomous vehicles, at least partially separated interconnected roadways, and a management system. Each of the vehicles is configured to cooperate with another vehicle or an area controller. The management system is configured to receive requests to transport, which may have respective start points and respective destinations. Additionally, the management system is configured, responsive to receiving the request, to assign a vehicle to fulfill the request. The assigned vehicle is configured to transport a person from the respective start point, at least in part via the interconnected roadways, to the respective destination.
US11169534B2
The disclosure relates to methods, systems, and apparatuses for autonomous driving vehicles or driving assistance systems and more particularly relates to vehicle radar perception and location. The vehicle driving system disclosed may include a storage media, a radar system, a location component and a driver controller. The storage media stores a map of roadways. The radar system is configured to generate perception information from a region near the vehicle. The location component is configured to determine a location of the vehicle on the map based on the radar perception information and other navigation related data. The drive controller is configured to control driving of the vehicle based on the map and the determined location.
US11169531B2
Techniques are discussed for determining predicted trajectories based on a top-down representation of an environment. Sensors of a first vehicle can capture sensor data of an environment, which may include agent(s) separate from the first vehicle, such as a second vehicle or a pedestrian. A multi-channel image representing a top-down view of the agent(s) and the environment and comprising semantic information can be generated based on the sensor data. Semantic information may include a bounding box and velocity information associated with the agent, map data, and other semantic information. Multiple images can be generated representing the environment over time. The image(s) can be input into a prediction system configured to output a heat map comprising prediction probabilities associated with possible locations of the agent in the future. A predicted trajectory can be generated based on the prediction probabilities and output to control an operation of the first vehicle.
US11169530B1
The present disclosure relates to an outdoor robotic work tool (1) adapted for a forward travelling direction (D) and comprising an environmental detection system (19) that comprises a set of outer detector transceivers (2a, 2b) and a set of inner detector transceivers (3a, 3b), where the inner detector transceivers (3a, 3b) are positioned between the outer detector transceivers (2a, 2b). Each detector transceiver (2a, 2b; 3a, 3b) is adapted to transmit signals (4a, 4b; 5a, 5b) and to receive reflected signals (6a, 6b, 9) that have been reflected by an object (10, 11). The outer detector transceivers (2a, 2b) are associated with outer coverage main directions (7a, 7b) that are directed at corresponding outer angles (αa, αb) to the forward travelling direction (D), and the inner detector transceivers (3a, 3b) are associated with inner coverage main directions (8a, 8b) that are directed at corresponding inner angles (βa, βb) to the forward travelling direction (D). The inner angles (βa, βb) have magnitudes that exceed the magnitudes of the outer angles (αa, αb), and the inner coverage main directions (8a, 8b) intersect in front of the outdoor robotic work tool (1) in the forward travelling direction (D).
US11169523B2
Provided are an apparatus and a method of controlling swimming for a robotic fish. The robotic fish, which is operated in a narrow space like an aquarium, often hits the outer wall during submerging or upwardly swimming. In order to solve this problem, the present invention provides an inclination adjusting means, which adjusts the inclination while generating the rotational propulsive force, it is possible to do smooth submergence and upwardly swimming in the narrow space.
US11169508B2
A computing system for receiving operational data including process parameters generated by sensors in a plant. An analysis engine uses the operational data to automatically provide a first listing of worst performing process parameters, that when a selected poor performing process parameter is chosen generates a ranked filtered view of equipment parameters for associated processing equipment that may be affected by the selected poor performing parameter and a filtered view of recommendations for recognizing action(s) to fix the associated processing equipment and/or the selected poor performing process parameter, and/or a second listing of worst performing processing equipment that when a selected poor performing processing equipment is chosen generates a ranked filtered view of suspected process parameters that may be affected by the selected poor performing processing equipment along with a filtered view of recommendations for recognizing action(s) to fix the selected poor performing processing equipment and the suspected process parameters.
US11169507B2
A scalable industrial data ingestion and analysis architecture integrates and collects data from multiple diverse sources at one or more industrial facilities. Data sources can include plant-level industrial devices and higher-level business systems. The data can be integrated and collected from multiple sources at an on-premise edge or gateway device, which sends the data to event queues on the cloud platform. The data queues orchestrate and store the data on cloud storage, and an analytics layer performs business analytics or other types of analysis on the stored data to produce various outcomes. Similar analytic platforms can also be implemented at the device level, and analytic functions can be scaled between the device level and higher levels in accordance with the scope of a given analytic function.
US11169498B2
A building management system including a local power system that delivers power to devices at a location, a data collector system coupled to the local power system, to monitor aggregate power used at a location, including at least one circuit based sensor configured to collect power usage data, each of the at least one sensors being clamped onto a circuit basis, and a data transmitter coupled to the at least one sensor and communicating the collected power usage data over a network to a cloud analyzer system, a tracker application configured to provide real-time reporting, alerts, and control via the network, and to be executed by a processor in an operating system (OS), in a native or virtual environment, wherein the tracker interacts with an analysis engine to map out energy use inside of a building on an individual circuit basis.
US11169492B2
This control system is provided with a plurality of slave devices and controllers. The controller is connected to one end of a field bus which includes the plurality of slave devices that is linearly connected, and the controller is connected to the other end of the field bus through a communication cable. The controllers are provided with a CPU and a transception part. One of the controllers generates a control frame with the CPU and transmits this from the transception part, and the other of the controllers performs a loop communication of the control frame by the transception part.
US11169488B2
A water-resistant watch case of a diving watch, includes at least one back mounted on a lower side of a middle part, and a crystal mounted with a fastening gasket on an upper side of the middle part. The back includes an annular bearing surface for coming into contact with an inner annular surface of the middle part of a shape complementary to the bearing surface during mounting of the back on the middle part. The annular bearing surface and the inner annular surface are inclined towards the inside of the watch case at a determined angle less than 90° relative to a central axis perpendicular to a plane of the watch case so as to distribute stresses between the back and the middle part due to the water pressure during a dive. The annular bearing surface and the inner annular surface are conical in shape.
US11169486B2
A calendar mechanism for a timepiece suitable for indicating a piece of information having a period that varies according to at least a first cycle and a second cycle is provided. The mechanism, inter alia, is a system for actuating a lever, in which the actuating system includes a first feeler-spindle intended to come into contact with the first cam and a second feeler-spindle intended to come into contact with the second cam the feeler-spindles being kinematically linked with each other and the actuating system being arranged to move the lever from the inactive position to the active position under the control of each of the cams.
US11169484B2
A cell visualization system includes a digital holographic microscopy (DHM) device, a training device, and a virtual staining device. The DHM device produces DHM images of cells and the virtual staining device colorizes the DHM images based on an algorithm generated by the training device using generative adversarial networks and unpaired training data. A computer-implemented method for producing a virtually stained DHM image includes acquiring an image conversion algorithm which was trained using the generative adversarial networks, receiving a DHM image with depictions of one or more cells and virtually staining the DHM image by processing the DHM image using the image conversion algorithm. The virtually stained DHM image includes digital colorization of the one or more cells to imitate the appearance of a corresponding actually stained cell.
US11169480B2
A holder includes first and second attachments to be attached to an attachment target part of an image formation apparatus. The first attachment is located on a reflection light source side relative to a sensor in a direction of a line connecting the sensor and a reflection light source of the image formation apparatus The second attachment is located on an opposite side to the reflection light source relative to the sensor in the line direction. A holder includes first, second, and third attachments to be attached to an attachment target part of an image formation apparatus. The three attachments are elastically deformable portions. The first and second attachments are provided on one end side of the holder. The third attachment is provided on other end side of the holder. The three attachments are provided as to clamp the attachment target part by using resilience associated with elastic deformation.
US11169478B2
An image forming apparatus may include: a sheet storage that may store a sheet; a first sheet sensor that may determine a sheet size of the sheet stored in the sheet storage; a feeder that may feed the sheet from the sheet storage to a transport path based on the sheet size determined by the first sheet sensor; an image former that may form an image on the sheet fed to the transport path; a second sheet sensor that may (i) be provided downstream of the image former on the transport path, (ii) read the sheet in the transport path, and (iii) adjust the sheet size of the sheet; and a hardware processor that may perform adjustment of image formation on the sheet based on the sheet size adjusted by the second sheet sensor.
US11169477B2
An information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to, if it is determined that a connecting process of connecting a continuous sheet and another continuous sheet to each other is to be executed when a trailing end of the continuous sheet transported by a printing unit is detected, prohibit the continuous sheet from being transported in response to a user's operation at a time when the trailing end of the continuous sheet is detected.
US11169471B2
A belt driving device includes: an endless belt; a stretch roller to engage the endless belt, the stretch roller including a rotary shaft; a steering roller spaced apart from the stretch roller within the endless belt; an adjustment member located along the rotary shaft of the stretch roller, the adjustment member movable along the rotary shaft; and linking mechanism to couple the adjustment member to the steering roller, the linking mechanism to engage a contact surface of the adjustment member. The contact surface includes contact points positioned at different distances from the rotary shaft to raise the linking mechanism during movement of the adjustment member, to cause the steering roller to tilt at an angle, and to maintain an alignment of the endless belt.
US11169467B2
A developer cartridge includes a housing, a developing roller, an agitator, a memory, and a cover. The housing is configured to store toner therein and has one end portion and the other end portion in a first direction. The developing roller is rotatable about a first axis extending in the first direction. The agitator is rotatable about a second axis extending in the first direction. The agitator is positioned spaced apart from the developing roller. The memory includes an electrical contact surface. The electrical contact surface is positioned at an outer surface of the housing and at the one end portion of the housing in the first direction, and is disposed between the developing roller and the agitator in a second direction from the first axis toward the second axis. The cover has an opening open in the second direction and covers the electrical contact surface.
US11169456B2
An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a cured outermost layer that includes a polymerized cured product including at least an inorganic filler and a phenol derivative. The inorganic filler is surface-modified with a surface modifier. The phenol derivative has a structure represented by Formula (1). In Formula (1), R1 and R3 each independently represent an alkyl group having three or more carbon atoms, R2 and R4 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, and L1 represents a linking group having at least 10 atoms with an atomic number of 12 or more.
US11169455B2
An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate, an undercoating layer, and a photosensitive layer. The undercoating layer that is provided on the conductive substrate and includes a binder resin and a charge transporting material. The binder resin includes a resin obtained by polymerizing a diallyl phthalate compound. The photosensitive layer that is provided on the undercoating layer.
US11169454B2
Provided an electrophotographic electro-conductive member that can stably suppress an occurrence of fogging in an electrophotographic image. The member comprises a support having an electro-conductive outer surface, and an electro-conductive layer on the outer surface of the support, the electro-conductive layer having a matrix including a cross-linked product of a first rubber, and domains dispersed in the matrix, the domains each includes a cross-linked product of a second rubber and an electro-conductive particle, at least some of the domains is exposed to the outer surface of the electro-conductive member to constitute protrusions on an outer surface of the member, the outer surface of the electro-conductive member is constituted by the matrix and the domains exposed to the outer surface of the electrophotographic electro-conductive member, the electrophotographic electro-conductive member has an impedance of 1.0×103Ω or more and 1.0×108Ω or less, and some of the domains satisfy two specific requirements.
US11169451B2
An image exposure device includes an image display device having pixels that emit light having a plurality of wavelengths; a photosensitive recording medium support portion that supports a photosensitive recording medium for recording an image of the image display device; a collimation portion that is disposed between the image display device and the photosensitive recording medium support portion and makes radiation light including the light having a plurality of wavelengths radiated from the pixels into first transmitted light radiated within a range of a first radiation angle narrower than a radiation angle of the radiation light; and a dichroic filter that is disposed between the collimation portion and the photosensitive recording medium support portion, and makes the first transmitted light including the light having a plurality of wavelengths into second transmitted light radiated within a range of a second radiation angle equal to or smaller than the first radiation angle.
US11169445B2
An optical system includes an illumination optical unit configured to guide illumination radiation along a path to an object plane. The illumination optical unit includes comprising a first facet mirror; a second facet mirror disposed downstream of the first facet mirror along the path; and a condenser mirror. The optical system also includes a projection optical unit configured to image a first article in the object plane onto a second article in an image plane. The image plane is a first distance from the object plane. The condenser mirror a second distance from the object plane. The second distance is greater than the first distance
US11169441B2
A resist underlayer film forming composition characterized by containing (A) a compound represented by formula (1) (in formula (1), independently, R1 represents a C1 to C30 divalent group; each of R2 to R7 represents a C1 to C10 linear, branched, or cyclic alkyl group, a C6 to C10 aryl group, a C2 to C10 alkenyl group, a thiol group, or a hydroxyl group; at least one R5 is a hydroxyl group or a thiol group; each of m2, m3, and m6 is an integer of 0 to 9; each of m4 and m7 is an integer of 0 to 8; m5 is an integer of 1 to 9; n is an integer of 0 to 4; and each of p2 to p7 is an integer of 0 to 2) and a cross-linkable compound represented by formula (2-1) or (2-2) (in formula (2), Q1 represents a single bond or an m12-valent organic group; each of R12 and R15 independently represents a C2 to C10 alkyl group or a C2 to C10 alkyl group having a C1 to C10 alkoxy group; each of R13 and R16 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; each of R14 and R17 represents a C1 to C10 alkyl group or a C6 to C40 aryl group; n12 is an integer of 1 to 3; n13 is an integer of 2 to 5; n14 is an integer of 0 to 3; n15 is an integer of 0 to 3, with these ns having a relationship of 3≤(n12+n13+n14+n15)≥6; n16 is an integer of 1 to 3; n17 is an integer of 1 to 4; n18 is an integer of 0 to 3; n19 is an integer of 0 to 3, with these ns having a relationship of 2≤(n16+n17+n18+n19)≤5; and m12 is an integer of 2 to 10).
US11169439B2
Provided are a coloring composition capable of producing a film with suppressed occurrence of striation, and a method for producing a film. The coloring composition includes a coloring agent A, a resin B, a polymerizable compound C, a photopolymerization initiator D, and an organic solvent E, in which the organic solvent E includes an ester-based solvent E1 having a surface tension at 25° C. of from 25 mN/m to 35 mN/m, an organic solvent E2 having a surface tension at 25° C. of less than 25 mN/m, a ratio of a mass of the ester-based solvent E1 to the mass of the organic solvent E2 is 80:20 to 30:70 in terms of the ratio of the mass of the ester-based solvent E1:the mass of the organic solvent E2, and the organic solvent E contains 50% by mass or more of a combination of the ester-based solvent E1 and the organic solvent E2 with respect to the total mass of the organic solvent E.
US11169438B2
A mask is provided. The mask includes a plurality of light blocking strips configured to block light and bounding spaces through which light is allowed to pass. The plurality of light blocking strips are arranged in a mesh shape, and include first light blocking strips located in at least one side edge of the mask, and second light blocking strips, and each of the first light blocking strips has a greater width than each of the second light blocking strips. An exposure method using the mask, and a touch display panel manufactured by the exposure method are also provided.
US11169435B2
The invention provides a light source module and a projection device. The projection device includes the light source module, an optical engine module, a heat dissipation module, and a projection lens. The light source module includes a light emitting unit, a carrier, and a noise reduction unit. The light emitting unit is configured for providing a lighting beam. The carrier is configured for fixing the light emitting unit and has an opening, and the light source of the light emitting unit is aligned with the opening. The noise reduction unit is configured to surround at least a part of the light emitting unit. The optical engine module includes a light valve located on a transmission path of the lighting beam and is configured for converting the lighting beam into an image beam. The light source module is located between the optical engine module and the heat dissipation module.
US11169434B2
An optical engine module includes a housing, an assembling element, a light valve and a first heat exchange assembly. The assembling element has an opening corresponding to an assembly hole of the housing and is assembled on the housing in a non-direct contact mode. The light valve includes a base and an imaging element. The base bears against the assembling element, and an imaging surface of the imaging element faces the opening. The housing, the assembling element and the light valve define a chamber. The first heat exchange assembly is disposed on the assembling element and includes at least one first heat conduction component and a first heat dissipation fin set. The first heat dissipation fin set is located outside the housing. The first heat conduction component extends from the assembling element to the outside of the housing and is connected with the first heat dissipation fin set.
US11169432B2
An LCD projector optical system includes: an LED light source, a transflective plate, a condensing device, a first focusing lens, a polarization modulation plate, a brightness-increasing polarizing plate, an LCD light valve, a field lens, a reflector, and a projection lens, which are all arranged sequentially along a light travel direction; wherein the transflective plate has a light-transmitting portion and a reflecting portion. Light from the LED light source enters the condensing device from the light-transmitting portion, and then transmitted light and reflected light in illumination light are separated by the brightness-increasing polarizing plate. A beam of polarized light useless for the LCD light valve is reflected back and condensed by the first focusing lens and the condensing device on the reflection portion and the light-transmitting portion of the transflective plate, and then reflected back to the brightness-increasing polarizing plate through the reflection portion and the light-transmitting portion.
US11169429B2
An optical system is provided, including a light path adjustment module, an optical element driving module and a light flux adjustment module, The light path adjustment module is used for receiving light traveling in a first direction and adjusting the path of the light. The optical element driving module is used for receiving light. The light flux adjustment module is used for adjusting the light flux of the light, wherein the light flux adjustment module is disposed between the light path adjustment module and the optical element driving module.
US11169426B2
A Liquid Crystal Waveguide (LCW) system can provide sub-aperture incoupling or outcoupling of light having an input wavelength and input beamsize defining an aperture characteristic of the system. A Liquid Crystal Waveguide (LCW) can include a generally planar LCW core to receive light via a light input zone for communication toward a light output zone. Sub-aperture interfacial light couplers can be planarly arranged in or parallel to the planar LCW core in the light input zone or the light output zone. Sub-aperture interfacial light couplers can include teeth, prisms, or facets, a photonic crystal metasurface, or a geometric-phased holograph (GPH)). Overall LCW thickness can be reduced, which can be helpful in space-limited applications or for reducing material costs.
US11169425B2
An example system includes a bulk steering crystal apparatus having a first lens face and a second concave face. The example bulk steering crystal apparatus further includes a number of steering portions interposed between the first lens face and the second concave face, where each of the steering portions includes a bulk substrate portion including an electro-optical material and a corresponding high-side electrode electrically coupled to the corresponding one of the number of steering portions.
US11169423B1
The invention provides a display panel and a display device. An array substrate of the display panel includes signal transmission circuits and a control signal circuit. The signal transmission circuits include a first signal transmission circuit and a second signal transmission circuit in the circuit region. The second signal transmission circuit and the control signal circuit are disposed at the same layer. Therefore, there is no need to provide a hole for electrical connection between second signal transmission circuit and control signal circuit in the circuit region. The density of the holes in the circuit region is reduced.
US11169421B2
A liquid crystal display and a driving method thereof are provided. The liquid crystal display includes a backlight source, a lower substrate at a light exit side of the backlight source, an upper substrate opposite to the lower substrate, and a liquid crystal layer between the two substrates. The backlight source includes a plurality of light sources, and light emitted from each light source is collimated light. The liquid crystal display further includes at least one first electrode and at least one second electrode between the lower substrate and the liquid crystal layer and a light shielding structure, orthographic projections of the light source and the light shielding structure on the lower substrate overlapping. The first and second electrodes are configured to receive different voltages to form an electric field, so that liquid crystal molecules within the electric field are deflected to form convex lens structures.
US11169419B2
A photo-alignment film of the present invention includes a polymer layer containing a photoreactive polymer and metal nanoparticles dispersed in the polymer layer at a concentration of 109 particles/(cm2×100 nm) or more and 1019 particles/(cm2×100 nm) or less. The metal nanoparticles have an absorption peak in a wavelength region of 420 nm or less. An absorbance A1 at the absorption peak of the metal nanoparticles and an absorbance A2 at an absorption peak of the polymer layer satisfy a relationship represented by the following formula 1: 0.2≤A1/A2≤25 (Formula 1).
US11169417B2
The present application relates to a method for manufacturing of a multi-layer liquid crystal film and a multi-layer liquid crystal film. The present application provides the method for manufacturing of the multi-layer liquid crystal film capable of improving coatability of liquid crystals, orientation of liquid crystals and adhesive force between liquid crystal films, as well as realizing thinning of a liquid crystal film, and a multi-layer liquid crystal film manufactured by the above method.
US11169412B2
The present disclosure provides a stacked display panel, a manufacturing method, and a display device. The stacked display panel includes a first display substrate, a second display substrate, and a third display substrate arranged in sequence. A color filter layer is on a side of the second display substrate facing the first display substrate, and a polarizing layer is on a side of the second display substrate facing the third display substrate. A first polarizer is on a side of the first display substrate facing away from the second display substrate, and a transmission axis direction of the first polarizer and a transmission axis direction of the polarizing layer are perpendicular to each other. A second polarizer is on a side of the third display substrate facing away from the second display substrate, and transmission axis directions of the second polarizer and the polarizing layer are perpendicular to each other.
US11169395B2
A frame includes: a pair of temples; a connecting bar connecting respective ends of the pair of temples; at least one hanging shaft located at a middle of the connecting bar; nose pads fixed to the hanging shaft; a slide attached to the hanging shaft for a sliding movement; a pair of lens-holding frames vertically slidable in front of the connecting bar, the lens-holding frames being each configured to hold vertically arranged upper and lower lenses; and a bridge coupling the lens-holding frames. The bridge is attached at a level lower than a center of the lower lens in each of the lens-holding frames, and the lens-holding frames are slidable for a distance at least corresponding to a distance between a center of the upper lens and the center of the lower lens.
US11169380B2
A head-mounted apparatus include an eyepiece that include a variable dimming assembly and a frame mounting the eyepiece so that a user side of the eyepiece faces a towards a user and a world side of the eyepiece opposite the first side faces away from the user. The dynamic dimming assembly selectively modulates an intensity of light transmitted parallel to an optical axis from the world side to the user side during operation. The dynamic dimming assembly includes a variable birefringence cell having multiple pixels each having an independently variable birefringence, a first linear polarizer arranged on the user side of the variable birefringence cell, the first linear polarizer being configured to transmit light propagating parallel to the optical axis linearly polarized along a pass axis of the first linear polarizer orthogonal to the optical axis, a quarter wave plate arranged between the variable birefringence cell and the first linear polarizer, a fast axis of the quarter wave plate being arranged relative to the pass axis of the first linear polarizer to transform linearly polarized light transmitted by the first linear polarizer into circularly polarized light, and a second linear polarizer on the world side of the variable birefringence cell.
US11169379B2
A waveguide display includes a waveguide transparent to visible light, a first volume Bragg grating (VBG) on the waveguide and characterized by a first refractive index modulation, and a second reflection VBG on the waveguide and including a plurality of regions characterized by different respective refractive index modulations. The first reflection VBG is configured to diffract display light in a first wavelength range and a first field of view (FOV) range such that the display light in the first wavelength range and the first FOV range propagates in the waveguide through total internal reflection to the plurality of regions of the second reflection VBG. The plurality of regions of the second reflection VBG are configured to diffract the display light in different respective wavelength ranges within the first wavelength range and the first FOV range.
US11169376B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a compact head-up display device. The head-up display device of the present invention includes an image forming unit that emits image light containing image information, and an eyepiece optical system that displays a virtual image by reflecting the image light, in which the eyepiece optical system includes a concave lens, a free curved surface lens, and a free curved surface concave mirror disposed in order from the image forming unit side along the emission direction of the image light.
US11169368B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for processing microscopy images to enable localisation analysis of high density raw data, and thereby achieve higher spatial resolution than would otherwise be the case. This is achieved by exploiting temporal redundancies in the image data resulting from close-to emitters that would otherwise be resolved as a single emitter were they to emit or fluoresce at the same time, but which, by virtue of emitting or fluorescing at slightly different (yet potentially overlapping) times, can be subject to temporal filtering by different filters of different temporal bandwidth to resolve the two emitters. Effectively, the different temporal filters have different time constants which work together to effectively highlight the different emission or fluorescence times of the two emitters, to thereby allow the two close-to emitters to be separately resolved.
US11169366B2
A compact microscope including an enclosure, a support element, a primary optical support element located within the enclosure and supported by the support element, at least one vibration isolating mount between the support element and the primary optical support element, an illumination section, an objective lens system, a sample stage mounted on the primary optical support element, an illumination optical system to direct an illumination light beam from the illumination section to the sample stage, and a return optical system to receive returned light from sample stage and transmit returned light to a detection apparatus, wherein the illumination optical system and return optical system are mounted on the primary optical support element.
US11169365B2
A rear attachment lens according to the aspect of the embodiments is configured to vary a focal length of a system by being attached to an image side of a master lens. The rear attachment lens includes a positive lens arranged closest to the image side in which a lens surface on the image side of the positive lens has a shape convex toward the image side. A focal length of the rear attachment lens, a magnification of the rear attachment lens when attached to the master lens, and a distance from the lens surface on the image side of the positive lens to a rear principal point position of the rear attachment lens when attached to the master lens are appropriately set.
US11169337B2
An optical module includes at least one optical sub-assembly; at least one control circuit configured to control the at least one optical sub-assembly; and a housing including a first case and a second case, wherein the optical module is configured to be plugged in and unplugged from an optical transmission equipment including a heat sink provided at a joining portion with the first case, wherein, through fitting of the first case and the second case, the housing accommodates the at least one optical sub-assembly and the at least one control circuit inside the housing, and wherein a material of the first case has a thermal conductivity higher than a material of the second case.
US11169331B2
A flexible optical circuit comprising: (a) a flexible substrate defining a perimeter; (b) an adhesive layer on at least a portion of said substrate; (c) a plurality of fibers laid out on said adhesive layer, wherein each end of each fiber of said plurality of fibers extends from said perimeter to define a plurality of fiber extensions, wherein at least a portion of said fiber extensions are discrete, single-fiber extensions; and (d) protective coatings around at least a portion of each of said fiber extensions, said protective coatings extending inwardly from said perimeter to provide strain relief for said each of said fiber extensions.
US11169330B2
An optical cable includes a single optical connector configured for insertion into an optical receptacle so as to receive optical signals at a plurality of different wavelengths from the optical receptacle, and multiple electrical connectors, configured for insertion into respective electrical receptacles. Each electrical connector includes a transceiver configured to convert the optical signals into electrical output signals for output to an electrical receptacle. The optical cable further includes a plurality of optical fibers, having respective first ends connected together to the single optical connector so as to receive the optical signals. Each of the optical fibers has a respective second end coupled to a respective one of the electrical connectors. Wavelength selection optics are associated with the optical fibers so that the transceiver in each of the electrical connectors receives the optical signals at a different, respective one of the wavelengths.
US11169328B2
A photonic structure is provided. The photonic structure includes a semiconductor substrate, a buried oxide layer over the semiconductor substrate, an optical coupling region over the buried oxide layer, and an oxide structure embedded in the semiconductor substrate. The optical coupling region is tapered toward a terminus of the optical coupling region located at an edge of the semiconductor substrate. The optical coupling region overlaps the oxide structure in a plan view.
US11169322B2
An optical fiber having an effective area that can be easily increased and bending loss characteristics that can be easily improved is provided. The optical fiber includes a glass fiber including a core and a cladding; a first resin coating layer that is in contact with the glass fiber and surrounds the glass fiber; and a second resin coating layer that surrounds the first resin coating layer and has a Young's modulus greater than a Young's modulus of the first resin coating layer. An effective area is greater than or equal to 110 μm2 and less than or equal to 180 μm2 at a wavelength of 1550 nm. A cable cut-off wavelength is less than or equal to 1530 nm. A uniformity of thickness of the first resin coating layer is greater than or equal to 60% and less than or equal to 80%.
US11169320B2
A light source member including a substrate, and a plurality of unit light source cells disposed on the substrate and arranged in a matrix, each of the unit light source cells including a light source driving electrode disposed on the substrate, a light source disposed on the substrate and electrically connected to the light source driving electrode, an organic layer disposed on the substrate and exposing the light source and at least a part of the light source driving electrode, the organic layer having an upper surface including a concavo-convex pattern, and a heat dissipation layer disposed on the organic layer and contacting the light source driving electrode.
US11169303B2
Provided is an optical layered body which is extremely high in the stability of the antistatic performance, and has a stable surface resistance even after a durability test. The optical layered body includes an antistatic layer on one face of a light-transmitting substrate, wherein the antistatic layer is formed using a composition for an antistatic layer containing conductive fine particles, a resin component, and a solvent, and the resin component has no reactive functional groups in a molecule, and is soluble in the solvent and compatible with the conductive fine particles.
US11169300B1
Disclosed embodiments include a gamma logging detector assembly that includes a detector support structure comprising one or more high density alloy materials and including a first cylindrical drill collar segment and a second cylindrical drill collar segment each having a radius of at least R1. A third cylindrical drill collar segment is disposed axially between the first and second cylindrical drill collar segments to form an annular channel over the third cylindrical drill collar segment and between the first and second cylindrical drill collar segments. The third cylindrical drill collar segment includes an inwardly defined open cavity and a radius, R2, that is less than R1. An annular pressure sleeve comprising one or more low density alloy materials is disposed within the annular channel.
US11169292B2
The present disclosure includes a method for combining controlled and uncontrolled seismic data. The method includes accessing one or more controlled signals, each controlled signal associated with a respective receiver of a plurality of receivers. The method also includes accessing one or more uncontrolled signals, each uncontrolled signal associated with a respective receiver of the plurality of receivers. The method also includes generating one or more reconstructed signals based on the one or more uncontrolled signals. The method also includes generating a composite image based at least on the one or more controlled signals and the one or more reconstructed signals. The present disclosure may also include associated systems and apparatuses.
US11169291B2
A system and method for interpolating seismic data collected by a set of geophones arranged in an irregularly spaced grid by: transforming the collected seismic data by a Radon transform; pre-computing a set of basis function correlation factors by geometrically scaling a spatial geometry of each temporal frequency slice of the transformed seismic data independently by its temporal frequency; computing, solely in the transformed domain, an anti-leakage Radon transform of the seismic data by computing each Radon coefficient independently for each temporal frequency slice using the pre-computed basis function correlation factors, until a relative error between the collected seismic data and an approximation of the collected seismic data based on the Radon coefficients is less than a predetermined convergence threshold; and simulating seismic data collected in a regularly spaced grid by interpolating the anti-leakage Radon transform of the collected seismic data in the irregularly spaced grid.
US11169288B1
Machine-learning methods and apparatus are disclosed to determine frictional state or other parameters in an earthquake zone or other failing medium, using acoustic emission, seismic waves, or other detectable indicators of microscopic processes. Predictions of future failures are demonstrated in different regimes. A classifier is trained using time series of acoustic emission data along with historic data of frictional state or failure events. In disclosed examples, random forests and gradient boost trees are used, and grid-search or EGO procedures are used for hyperparameter tuning. Once trained, the classifier can be applied to testing or live data in order to assess a frictional state, assess seismic hazard, or make predictions regarding a future failure event. The technology has been developed in a double direct shear apparatus, but can be widely applied to seismic faults, other terrestrial failures, or failures in man-made structures. Variations are disclosed.
US11169287B2
A method may include obtaining an initial velocity model regarding a subterranean formation of interest. The method may further include generating various seismic migration gathers with different cross-correlation lag values based on a migration-velocity analysis and the initial velocity model. The method may further include selecting a predetermined cross-correlation lag value automatically using the seismic migration gathers and based on a predetermined criterion. The method may further include determining various velocity boundaries within the initial velocity model using a trained model, wherein the trained model is trained by human-picked boundary data and augmented boundary data. The method may further include updating, by the computer processor, the initial velocity model using the velocity boundaries, the automatically-selected cross-correlation lag value, and the migration-velocity analysis to produce an updated velocity model. The method may further include generating an image of the subterranean formation of interest using the updated velocity model.
US11169284B2
The present invention provides a radiation imaging apparatus capable of maintaining the quality of an image obtained even when a dose incident on a radiation detector changes suddenly. The present invention is a radiation imaging apparatus including a radiation source, a radiation detector to detect radiation emitted from the radiation source, and a cooling unit to cool the radiation detector; and is characterized in that the radiation detector has a counting circuit to output a number of photons in radiation counted per unit time as a photon counting rate, and the cooling unit controls a coolability of the radiation detector in response to the photon counting rate.
US11169275B2
A signal acquiring unit (3) performs signal detection and initial synchronization on an output from a RF frontend (2) by performing circular convolution operation using a first code replica corresponding to a case where a ranging code does not change in polarity and a second code replica corresponding to a case where a ranging code changes in polarity. A signal tracking unit (4) performs synchronization tracking using a result of signal acquisition output from the signal acquiring unit (3) as an initial value.
US11169268B1
A system shines a series of light stripes across an area. A target object passes through the area and light is reflected to the system from the light stripes as it passes through. Based on the timing of the received light from each of the light stripes, the system calculates the position and velocity of the target object.
US11169258B2
Systems and methods according to one or more embodiments are provided for registration of synthetic aperture range profile data to aid in SAR-based navigation. In one example, a SAR-based navigation system includes a memory comprising a plurality of executable instructions. The SAR-based navigation system further includes a processor adapted to receive range profile data associated with observed views of a scene, compare the range profile data to a template range profile data of the scene, and estimate registration parameters associated with the range profile data relative to the template range profile data to determine a deviation from the template range profile data.
US11169257B2
A security inspection system and a security inspection method are disclosed. The system includes: at least one inspection sub-system configured to perform ray scanning on an object to be inspected; at least one on-site image processing computer communicatively connected to the at least one inspection sub-system, and configured to store and process a radiographic image in real time; and at least one remote image processing computer communicatively connected to the at least one on-site image processing computer via at least one of a public network and a dedicated network. The at least one remote image processing computer each is configured to log in one of the at least one on-site image processing computer through remote access to synchronize remote data on a screen of the on-site image processing computer to the remote image processing computer.
US11169222B2
A system is provided for detecting a radio frequency signal. The system includes a dielectric platform, a first SQUID array, a second array of SQUIDs and a processing component. The dielectric platform has a first planar surface and a second planar surface that is disposed at an angle relative to the first planar surface. The first array of SQUIDs is disposed on the first planar surface and can output a first detection signal based on the radio frequency signal. The second array of SQUIDs is disposed on the second planar surface and can output a second detection signal based on the radio frequency signal. The processing component can determine a first plane from which the radio frequency signal is transmitting based on the first detection signal and the second detection signal.
US11169212B2
The present invention discloses an external battery short-circuit testing device, configured to perform short-circuit test on a battery pack under test. The external battery short-circuit testing device comprises a plurality of fuses; a Hall current transducer, coupled to the plurality of fuses; a current meter, coupled to the Hall current transducer and the battery pack under test; a voltmeter, coupled to the battery pack under test; a variable resistor, coupled to the Hall current transducer; an electromagnetic switch, coupled to the variable resistor and the battery pack under test; and an operation unit, comprising a voltage measurement unit, a current measurement unit, a temperature measurement unit and a switch control unit.
US11169209B2
The invention relates to a circuit arrangement (100) for evaluating at least two switching states of an actuating element, having a moveable contact means (110) which is connectable to the actuating element, a first evaluation circuit (140a) with a first voltage divider, which has first node points (K1a, K2a, K3a, K4a, K5a) and a first tap (150a) for tapping off a first output signal (A1, A3, A5) of the first evaluation circuit (140a), at least one second evaluation circuit (140b) with a second voltage divider, which has second node points (K1b, K2b, K3b, K4b, K5b) and a second tap (150a) for tapping off a second output signal (A2, A4, A6) of the second evaluation circuit (140b), first contact surfaces (121a, 122a, 123a, 124a, 125a) which are each electrically connected to one of the first node points (K1a to K5a), and second contact surfaces (121b, 122b, 123b, 124b, 125b) which are each electrically connected to one of the second node points (K1b to k5b), wherein via the movable contact means (110), depending on the switching state of the actuating element at least one of the first contact surfaces (121a to 125a) and/or at least one of the second contact surfaces (121b and 125b) are electrically connectable to a predetermined reference potential (P). The invention also relates to a method for operating a circuit arrangement (100), and to a switching device having a circuit arrangement (100).
US11169208B2
A checking apparatus can test at least one first closed-loop control unit. The checking apparatus can include a first timing transmission unit which can generate a first periodic timing signal from a first time signal, and which can output the first periodic timing signal to a first PLL. The check device can further include a first oscillator which can generate a second periodic timing signal and which can output the second periodic timing signal to a second PLL. The checking device can additionally include a first clock, and can forward a first clock signal to a first input/output unit, and/or to a first computation unit. A first changeover signal can be used to control a first multiplexer such that depending on a state of the first changeover signal, the first multiplexer can forward either a first frequency-stabilized timing signal or a second frequency-stabilized timing signal to the first clock.
US11169202B2
A reflectometer for allowing a test of a device. The reflectometer comprises a source of pulsed radiation, a first photoconductive element configured to output a pulse in response to irradiation from the pulsed source, a second photoconductive element configured to receive a pulse, a transmission line arrangement configured to direct the pulse from the first photoconductive element to the device under test and to direct the pulse reflected from the device under test to the second photoconductive element, and a termination resistance provided for the transmission line configured to match the impedance of the transmission line.
US11169197B2
The invention concerns a device for monitoring the insulation and/or continuity of at least one electric cable including a plurality of electrical wires, wherein the device comprises a measuring circuit that can be connected to the electrical wires, wherein the measuring circuit comprises: a measuring stage comprising a voltage generator; a switching stage that can be connected to the measuring stage, suited to connect each electrical wire automatically and successively to the measuring circuit and/or suited to connect the measuring circuit to ground; a looping stage of the measuring circuit that can be connected, electrical wire to electrical wire, to the switching stage; wherein the looping stage is configured to operate automatically in at least one of two modes, insulating or resistive, respectively associated with the monitoring of the insulation or the monitoring of the continuity.
US11169194B2
Technologies for verifying a de-embedder for interconnect measurement include a verification compute device. The verification compute device is to measure a first signal transmitted through a single device under test and measure a second signal transmitted through a duplicated set of devices under test. Each device under test in the duplicated set is substantially identical to the single device under test. Additionally, the verification compute device is to apply a de-embedder to the measured first signal to remove an effect of test fixtures on the measured first signal, apply the de-embedder to the measured second signal to remove the effect of the test fixtures on the measured second signal, concatenate the de-embedded first signal with itself to generate a concatenated de-embedded first signal, and compare the concatenated de-embedded first signal with the de-embedded second signal to determine whether the concatenated de-embedded first signal matches the de-embedded second signal.
US11169186B2
A heat-resistance element includes: a heat-resistant substrate including a ceramic material; one or more power wires embedded in the heat-resistant substrate; and a coil structure that is configured by a coil wire extending between start and end points and includes coil segments. The coil segment includes or corresponds to one winding of the coil wire. The coil segment includes: a first conductor extending along the power wire; a second conductor arranged farther from the one or more power wires than the first conductor, the second conductor extending along the power wire; a first connection wire coupling the first and second conductors in the same coil segment; and a second connection wire coupling first and second conductors of adjacent coil segments in the circumferential direction, all of which are embedded in the heat-resistant substrate, and at least the first conductor and the second conductor are not exposed from the heat-resistant substrate.
US11169184B2
A method for measuring the intensity of a current, comprising the steps of obtaining a computation matrix M comprising a set of terms, proportional to a distance between a measuring point and a reference point, raised to a power higher than or equal to zero, forming a vector B including measurements of the value of the magnetic field in a direction at a measuring point, computing the components of a vector A, each component being a coefficient of a decomposition of the magnetic field into spatial harmonics proportional to the intensity of the current such that the matrix relation B=M×A is satisfied, and determining the intensity.
US11169181B2
A measuring system for measuring signals with multiple measurement probes comprises a multi probe measurement device comprising at least two probe interfaces that each couple the multi probe measurement device with at least one of the measurement probes, a data interface that couples the multi probe measurement device to a measurement data receiver, and a processing unit coupled to the at least two probe interfaces that records measurement values via the at least two probe interfaces from the measurement probes, wherein the processing unit is further coupled to the data interface and provides the recorded measurement values to the measurement data receiver, and a measurement data receiver comprising a data interface, wherein the data interface of the measurement data receiver is coupled to the data interface of the multi probe measurement device.
US11169167B2
A sample analysis substrate rotatable to transfer a liquid includes a substrate including a rotation shaft, a first holding chamber, a second holding chamber holding a first liquid discharged from the first holding chamber, a main chamber holding the first liquid discharged from the second holding chamber, a first flow path with the first holding chamber and the second holding chamber, and a second flow path having a third opening and a fourth opening respectively connected with the second holding chamber and the main chamber. The first holding chamber includes a portion farther from the rotation shaft than a position thereof connected with the first opening. The second holding chamber includes a portion farther from the rotation shaft than a position thereof connected with the second opening. In the second flow path, the third opening is closer to the rotation shaft than the fourth opening.
US11169155B2
In some embodiments, a mass spectrometry tag may comprise a linker region, a mass balance region, and a reporter region. The mass spectrometry tag may be configured to fragment in a mass spectrometer via an energy dependent process to produce multiple reporter molecules. For example, the reporter region of the tag may be configured to produce at least two reporter molecules via fragmentation. In some embodiments, one or more regions of the tag may comprise at least one heavy isotope. In some such embodiments, the ability to fragment into multiple reporter molecules as well as the placement and/or number of heavy isotope(s) allows the mass spectrometry tag to be distinguished from other similar mass spectrometry tags. In some such embodiments, the ability to distinguish between tags having the same or substantially similar total mass to charge ratio and reporter region mass may allow the system to have a greater multiplexing capacity than conventional systems.
US11169154B2
Methods and products are provided for determining if a subject having a tumor is at risk of metastasis of the tumor. Specifically, the methods comprise detecting phosphorylated cofilin, and both phosphorylated and non-phosphorylated cofilin; quantifying the phosphorylated cofilin, and the total of phosphorylated and nonphosphorylated cofilin; and determining if a subject having the tumor is likely to experience metastasis of the tumor, based on the ratio of the amount of detected phosphorylated cofilin:total amount of phosphorylated and non-phosphorylated cofilin detected. Further disclosed are the types of tumor metastases that can be determined using the methods provided.
US11169145B2
Among the various aspects of the present disclosure is the provision of a method of detection, treatment, and monitoring of cardiovascular disease or a foot wound by detection of a novel biomarker, Fatty Acid Synthase (FAS). Briefly, therefore, the present disclosure is directed to methods that allow for improved, noninvasive, and reliable diagnosis of these conditions, particularly in subjects suffering from Type 2 Diabetes (T2D).
US11169129B2
Methods and systems for calibrating inspection of a feature on a part are described. The method comprises acquiring, at a plurality of point cloud densities, measurement data from a reference part having a known defect associated with the feature; assessing the measurement data at the plurality of point cloud densities to detect the known defect; determining a lowest point cloud density from the plurality of point cloud densities at which the known defect is detectable; and setting an inspection point cloud density for inspection of the feature to the lowest point cloud density.
US11169111B2
A method for correcting nucleotide incorporation signals for fluid potential effects or disturbances arising in nucleic acid sequencing-by-synthesis includes: disposing a plurality of template polynucleotide strands in a plurality of defined spaces disposed on a sensor array, the template polynucleotide strands having a sequencing primer and a polymerase bound therewith; exposing the template polynucleotide strands to a series of flows of nucleotide species flowed through a fluid manifold, the fluid manifold comprising passages for flowing nucleotide species and a branch passage for flowing a solution, the branch passage comprising a reference electrode and a sensing electrode; obtaining a plurality of nucleotide incorporation signals corresponding to the plurality of defined spaces, the nucleotide incorporation signals having a signal intensity related to a number of nucleotide incorporations; and correcting at least some of the plurality of nucleotide incorporation signals for fluid potential effects or disturbances.
US11169110B2
Embodiments relate generally to systems, devices, and methods for depositing an electrode and an electrolyte on a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) electrochemical sensor. A method may comprise providing a blade on a surface of a substrate; providing a ridge along the perimeter of the substrate; pressing the electrode and the electrolyte onto the blade and the ridge; cutting the electrode into multiple electrodes; positioning the electrolyte to contact the surface, the blade, and the ridge; and positioning the multiple electrodes to contact the surface, the blade, and the ridge.
US11169107B2
An electronic impedance measurement device: a branch, called measurement branch, including an impedance to be measured (Zm), and; at least one branch, called reference branch, including an impedance (Zr), called reference impedance; electronics, called detection electronics, configured to provide an error signal (Vs) dependent on an algebraic sum of a current (Ir) flowing in the at least one reference branch (104) and of a current (Im) flowing in the measurement branch; and at least one adjustment structure, changing the current (Ir) in at least one of said reference branches in a manner inversely proportional to a control variable (k).
US11169095B2
A surface inspection system for inspecting the surface of sheet elements present in an inspection area: The system includes two light sources arranged adjacent each other on opposite sides of an illumination plane, and a camera for capturing line images of the inspection area along a viewing plane. The illumination plane and the viewing plane are arranged on opposite sides of a median plane perpendicular to an inspection plane. The angle between the illumination plane and the median plane is the same as the angle between the viewing plane and the median plane. In a method of using the system, the first light source illuminates the sheet element before the second light sources does. An image evaluation unit compares the captured line images with each other.
US11169092B2
A sample observation device includes an irradiation unit that irradiates a sample with planar light, a scanning unit that scans the sample in one direction with respect to an irradiation surface of the planar light, an image formation unit that forms images of fluorescent light and scattered light from the sample, an imaging unit that outputs first image data based on a light image of the fluorescent light and second image data based on a light image of the scattered light, an image processing unit that generates a fluorescent light image on the basis of a plurality of pieces of first image data and generates a scattered light image on the basis of a plurality of pieces of second image data, and an analysis unit that specifies an area in which there is the sample in the fluorescent light image on the basis of the scattered light image, and sets an analysis area in the fluorescent light image on the basis of the area in which there is the sample.
US11169085B2
Non-transitory computer-readable media, spectroradiometer systems, and methods for calibrating a spectroradiometer. In one embodiment, a non-transitory computer-readable medium includes instructions that, when executed by an electronic processor, cause the electronic processor to perform a set of operations. The set of operations includes receiving spectral data regarding an object-of-interest that is captured by a handheld spectroradiometer, detecting a characteristic of the object-of-interest by performing a spectral analysis on the spectral data that is received, and controlling a display to display the characteristic of the object-of-interest.
US11169083B2
A method of quantitatively measuring the adhesive strength of a cover sheet of an electronic component housing container including a main body having multiple housing recesses in a longitudinal direction and a cover sheet peelably adhered to the main body. The method includes mounting the housing container on a carrier plate by fitting the housing recesses in one or more housing holes of the carrier plate which includes a plate body having the one or more housing holes in the longitudinal direction and multiple sprocket holes spaced apart from the housing holes in a width direction and arranged at regular intervals in the longitudinal direction; engaging some tooth tips of a sprocket in the sprocket holes; and peeling the cover sheet from the main body by rotating the sprocket using the width direction as an axis to move the carrier plate in the longitudinal direction.
US11169076B2
In one embodiment, a flow cytometer is disclosed having a compact light detection module. The compact light detection module includes an image array with a transparent block, a plurality of micro-mirrors in a row coupled to a first side of the transparent block, and a plurality of filters in a row coupled to a second side of the transparent block opposite the first side. Each of the plurality of filters reflects light to one of the plurality of micro-mirrors and passes light of a differing wavelength range and each of the plurality of micro-mirrors reflects light to one of the plurality of filters, such that incident light into the image array zigzags back and forth between consecutive filters of the plurality of filters and consecutive micro-mirrors of the plurality of micro-mirrors. A radius of curvature of each of the plurality of micro-mirrors images the fiber aperture onto the odd filters and collimates the light beam on the even filters.
US11169071B2
In a method for analyzing samples involving the use of a device for analyzing samples, the device for analyzing samples includes at least a movement part through which a sample moves, and a measurement unit that is formed in a middle of the movement part and that measures a value of an ion current when the sample passes through the movement part. The analysis method includes at least a measurement step for measuring the value of the ion current when the sample passes through the movement part, and a determination step for determining a change over time in a quantity of ions from the value of the ion current measured in the measurement step. The quantity of ions includes a quantity of ions that have leaked from the sample during movement of the sample through the movement part.
US11169068B2
A particle size distribution measurement device contains a specific particle size light intensity calculation unit that calculates a light intensity generated by particles having a specific particle size that are contained in an object, a correlation data storage unit that stores particle number-light intensity correlation data, and a particle number calculation unit that calculates the number of particles having a specific particle size that are contained in the object being measured based on light intensities calculated by the specific particle size light intensity calculation unit, and on the particle number-light intensity correlation data.
US11169067B2
Methods and systems for forming 3D articles by vat photopolymerization processes in which resin viscosities are determined both prior to the commencement of the build process and, optionally, during the build process by measuring the torque required to raise and lower a build plate within the resin in the vat. The resin may be heated, and its viscosity thereby altered, by heating the resin in the vat using a light engine employed for fabricating the 3D articles.
US11169059B2
A chemical substance concentrator is configured to concentrate a chemical substance contained in a gaseous sample. The concentrator includes a flow passage having a hollow part allowing the gaseous sample flows through the hollow part, first and second electrodes disposed on an inner wall of the flow passage, an electrode wiring connected to the first and second electrodes, a material layer disposed on the electrode wiring, and an adsorbent disposed on the material layer. The adsorbent is configured to adsorb the chemical substance and to desorb the adsorbed chemical substance. The chemical substance concentrator is capable of efficiently desorbing the adsorbed chemical substances.
US11169049B2
Disclosed is a method for evaluating cosmetic defects of an optical device, including: a first step of acquiring a first set of cosmetic defects of the optical device; a second acquiring step during which a second set of cosmetic defects of the optical device is acquired, the second set of cosmetic defects being different from the first set of cosmetics defects and including at least one cosmetic defect corresponding to a cosmetic defect of the first set of cosmetic defects; a determining step, during which a subset of the first set of cosmetic defects of the optical device is determined based on the comparison of the cosmetic defects of the second set of cosmetic defects and the cosmetic defects of the first set of cosmetic defects; and a determining step, during which a quality factor of the optical device is determined based on the subset of cosmetic defects.
US11169047B2
A method of determining a noise or vibration response of a vehicle subassembly may include transmitting, via a controller, an input torque control signal to a first motor of a test apparatus. The first motor is mountable on a test fixture of the test apparatus and is configured to be coupled to the vehicle subassembly. The input torque control signal causes the first motor to provide an input torque characterized as a third derivative Gaussian function. The method further includes receiving a response of the vehicle subassembly to the input torque, and executing a control action with respect to the vehicle subassembly, via the controller, based on the response.
US11169044B1
Techniques for implementing and/or operating a system, which includes a pipe segment and a test head assembly. The test head includes an end container, in which an end of tubing of the pipe segment is disposed within the end container, an annulus seal implemented at least in part by solidifying fluid hardening material that is flowed into the end container to facilitate securing the test head assembly to the pipe segment and sealing an opening end of a tubing annulus of the pipe segment within the test head assembly, and a fluid port fluidly connected to a fluid conduit defined within the tubing annulus of the pipe segment to enable integrity of the tubing to be tested at least in part by flowing a test fluid into the fluid conduit defined in the tubing annulus, extracting fluid from the fluid conduit defined in the tubing annulus, or both.
US11169043B2
A balancing machine drive apparatus for driving rotational movement of a workpiece rotatably mounted about a rotational axis by a looping belt includes a frame at least partially surrounding, transaxially to the rotational axis, a workpiece mounting position and having an opening closable by an arch and through which the mounting position is accessible, the drive apparatus including guide devices on the frame and/or arch to guide the belt such that, when the arch is closed, the belt winds at least partially around a workpiece in the mounting position on a cylindrical circumferential workpiece region, and a drive device for the belt. The arch is held on the frame so as to be movable between open and closed positions. A balancing machine for balancing a workpiece includes a mounting apparatus in order to rotatably mount the workpiece about a rotational axis in a mounting position, and the drive apparatus.
US11169041B2
A differential pressure indicator includes a multi-polar driving magnets train clamped on a piston pin that moves in response to the changes in pressure conditions, thereby driving a multi-polar follower magnet carrying an indicating member, to move across a scale for a total angular range of 90° to 270°. The exact angular displacement of the follower magnet per unit linear displacement of the driving magnets train is decided by varying the relative magnetic strengths of the driving and follower magnets or by varying the spacing between adjacent magnets of the driving magnetic train. Further, magnetic flux of an auxiliary magnet fitted on the piston pin at a 90° orientation relative to the driving magnet train is utilized for actuating a magnetic switch in the switch assembly.
US11169040B2
A pressure measuring device configured as a multi-function device operable as a differential pressure switch (DPS); a differential pressure transducer (DPT); a pressure switch (PS); a pressure transducer (PT) providing readings of high and low pressure zones; a data recording logger; and a backwashing controller. The pressure measuring device may use at least two piezoelectric sensors operable to measure pressure attributes. The associated electronic hardware, processing unit, cables and pressure tubing are retrofittable and packaged in a molded case, with no moving parts with the electronic hardware fully coated to make the device reliable and resistant to extreme environmental conditions. The device is configured for remote access, enabling remote device configuration, maintenance and servicing. The device is further operable to communicate with various external devices: a tablet, a smartphone and the like as a user interface and further provides wired interface with a programmable logic controller (PLC) via RS-485 interface.
US11169027B2
An interferometer system includes a measurement arm comprising a measurement dispersive optical system, a reference arm comprising a bulk diffuser object and a reference dispersive optical system, and an output system. The measurement dispersive optical system is positioned to direct measurement chromatic light towards a target, receive diverging chromatic measurement light from the target, and direct detected measurement light from the received diverging chromatic measurement light towards the output system. The reference dispersive optical system is positioned to direct reference chromatic light towards the bulk diffuser object, receive diverging chromatic reference light from the bulk diffuser object, and direct detected reference light from the received diverging chromatic reference light towards the output system. The output system is configured to determine at least one measured property of the target from the detected measurement light and the detected reference light.
US11169026B2
A measurement system includes an optical probe that has a reflective prism structure, an input system, and an output system. The reflective prism structure comprises at least two mirrored surfaces on opposing sides of an axis which extends in a direction towards a target. The input system is positioned to receive and direct source light towards one of the mirrored surfaces which is positioned to reflect the source light towards the target. The output system is positioned to receive and output converging light from reflected light that comprises measurement data related to the target. The reflected light is the source light reflected from the target via the other one of the mirrored surfaces and is without substantial overlap with the source light.
US11169019B2
One example coherent optical time domain reflectometer device includes a coherent light source that produces coherent probe light pulses at an optical wavelength; an optical coupling unit coupled to f a fiber link under test to direct the coherent probe light pulses into the fiber link and to receive reflected probe light pulses from the fiber link; an optical detection unit to receive the reflected probe light pulses and structured to include an optical interferometer to process the reflected probe light pulses along two different optical paths to generate different optical output signals from the reflected probe light pulses along different optical paths, and optical detectors to receive the optical output signals from the optical interferometer; and a device controller coupled to the optical detection unit to extract information on spatial distribution of acoustic—or vibration—or strain-dependent characteristics as a function of distance along the fiber link under test.
US11169016B2
A system (600) and method (500) for a standards traceable verification of a vibratory meter (5) is provided. The system (600) includes a storage (610) having a baseline meter verification value of the vibratory meter and a processing system (620) in communication with the storage (610). The processing system (620) being configured to obtain the baseline meter verification value from the storage (610) and determine a relationship between the baseline meter verification value and a calibration value of the vibratory meter, said calibration value being traceable to a measurement standard. The method (500) provides a traceable verification of a vibratory meter by comparing (540) a physical property of the vibratory meter, which is determined from a first calibration value, to a reference value determined from a second calibration value, said calibration values being traceable to a measurement standard.
US11169010B2
An implant includes a processor, RF communication circuitry, optical communication circuitry, a power source and a memory, all of which being hermetically sealed within a housing having a transparent window. Sensor readings are transmitted by RF using the RF communication circuitry to a remote reader after receiving interrogation signals from the reader. During calibration of the sensor, corrective coefficients are calculated by comparing actual sensor pressure readings with known pressure readings. The corrective coefficients are transmitted to the memory of the control circuitry using optical communication wherein modulated light is transmitted through the transparent window of the housing to the photo-detector.
US11169008B2
An electronic position encoder includes a scale and detector. The detector includes a field generating coil (FGC) having elongated portion configurations (EPCs) bounding a generated field area (GFA) aligned with sensing elements in a sensing area, to provide position signals responsive to the scale interacting with the generated field. Sensing elements and EPCs are fabricated in “front” layers of the detector portion. The EPCs include end gradient arrangements (EGAs) configured to reduce field strength in the generated field area as a function of position along the x-axis direction for positions approaching the end of the GFA. A shielded transverse conductor portion (TCP) fabricated in a “rear” layer connects the EPCs and/or EGAs of the FGC via feedthroughs. A conductive shield region (CSR) configuration in a CSR layer between the front and rear layers intercepts at least a majority of a projection of the TCP toward the front layers.
US11169007B2
A novel multi-phase resolver topology and apparatus is provided for measuring a displacement of movement body more precisely and economically. In variable reluctance (VR) resolvers, N coil-poles are placed at N equally spaced positions over one turn of the stator, N being an odd number greater than or equal to 5. Each coil serves both as an excitation and a sensing coil, and all N coils are wound with the same number of turns at an identical electrical polarity. Depending on the installed rotor lobe shape, N sinusoidal or quasi-square waveform displacement signals are sensed on multi-phase resolver, and from which two-phase orthogonal displacement signals are optimally and differentially synthesized. The multi-phase resolver topology and differential synthesis method is also applied to other types of resolvers, such as wound-rotor, inductance, capacitive, and magnetic resolvers.
US11169006B2
A sensor including a circuit carrier, a number of measuring inductors on the circuit carrier, and a reference inductor that is coupled to the measuring inductors.
US11169000B2
A multi-turn measurement system includes a plurality of gears, a plurality of pinions engaging the plurality of gears, a plurality of magnets each disposed on one of the plurality of gears, and a plurality of magnetic field sensors. Rotation of the pinions about a center axis drives rotation of the plurality of gears. The magnets each have a magnetic field that changes based on an angular position of the one of the plurality of gears. The magnetic field sensors are each positioned to sense the magnetic field of one of the plurality of magnets.
US11168998B2
Disclosed are methods and systems for providing last mile navigation. In an example, the system may determine that a vehicle has arrived at or near the destination and store the destination in memory. The system may determine the vehicle is in a first parked state at a first location and store the first location as a parked position. The system may determine the vehicle is in a second parked state at a second location within a predetermined time period after the first park state and store the second location as the parked position. The system may determine the vehicle is parked at a parked location after the predetermined time period has ended. Once determined that the vehicle is at the parked location, the system may transmit last mile navigation information associated with the destination and the parked location to a mobile device.
US11168982B2
A laser-based rangefinding instrument for, inter alia, golfing or hunting activities having an unique ergonomic design and an external multi-function switch for controlling display brightness, selectable display of differing distance units and a slope selection switch for enabling display of line of sight distance or angle of slope and “Compensated Golf Distance” angle corrected distance to a target.
US11168979B2
Single-shot, adaptive metrology of rotationally variant optical surfaces, such as toroids, off-axis conies and freeform surfaces. An adaptive interferometric null test uses a high definition liquid crystal phase-only spatial light modulator (SLM) as the reconfigurable null element, on which a simulated nulling phase function is encoded, based on the specifications of the surface under test to generate a null interferogram. The power component of the surface sag is nulled by system design, not the SLM, enabling the SLM to fully compensate the residual departure without the need to tilt the optic or use a custom Offner-null. By wrapping the phase function at multiples of 2*pi radian, the upper limit in sag of the optic under test is theoretically removed.
US11168974B2
A dielectric elastomer sensor system A1 is provided with an oscillation circuit 1 including a dielectric elastomer sensor element 11 having a dielectric elastomer layer 111 and a pair of electrode layers 112 sandwiching the dielectric elastomer layer 111, and with a determination circuit 2 configured to determine a change in a capacitance of the dielectric elastomer sensor element 11, based on an output signal from the oscillation circuit 1. The dielectric elastomer sensor element 11 changes in capacitance due to deformation caused by external forces of at least two mutually different directions. Such a configuration enables provision of a multifunctional dielectric elastomer sensor system and dielectric elastomer sensor element.
US11168965B2
A system for cutting narrow workpieces having a track that extends a width between a cutting edge and a non-cutting edge. One or more measuring bodies are connected to a slot adjacent the non-cutting edge that include a measuring bar that extends forward from the front side of the measuring body and under the track as well as extends rearward from the rear side of the measuring body. The measuring bar slides within the measuring body to accommodate the desired workpiece thickness. The measuring bar includes measuring indicia and a measuring member that facilitates measurement of workpiece thickness. Measuring body includes a locking member that locks the measuring bar at a desired thickness. Measuring member may be adjusted to calibrate the measuring member to the track and saw using a locking member. Measuring body also includes a support leg and associated locking mechanism that levels the measuring body.
US11168964B2
Disclosed herein is a concealable handgun magazine pocket clip which consistently and reliably holds a handgun magazine in a pocket, such as a pants pocket, waistband, or other article of clothing or personal accessory for easy and quick access. The handgun magazine pocket clip includes a body, including a clip. The handgun magazine pocket clip further includes an elastic loop attached to the body.
US11168956B2
A sling apparatus that improves user comfort and weapon stabilization and that can be easily converted to and from single-point configuration, two-point configuration, and body armor configuration. The configuration flexibility and ease of conversion allows the user to tailor the sling apparatus to user preferences or environment. In any configuration, the sling improves the user's ability to stabilize the weapon, enhances the comfort of the user, secures the weapon more tightly to the user's body for increased weapon control, and provides an integrated source of paracord that can be utilized in emergency situations.
US11168945B2
A hot-press sintering method to prepare a loop heat pipe evaporator includes: putting a shell of the evaporator into a mould, uniformly and compactly filling corresponding positions in the mould with material powders of an evaporation core, a heat insulation core and a transmission core, applying a pressure high enough to tightly fit the evaporation core and the transmission core to the shell at corresponding sintering temperatures of powder materials for the evaporation core and the transmission core, carrying out hot-press sintering for molding, carrying out cooling after metallurgically bonding the powder materials of the evaporation core and the transmission core, and carrying out demolding to obtain the loop heat pipe evaporator, wherein the mould is provided with corresponding structures shaped like steam channels on positions where the evaporation core is provided with the steam channels.
US11168939B2
The present invention relates to a drying system, and according to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a drying system comprising a transfer conveyor for transporting particles, a particle dispersing device including a rotary member provided at one side of the transfer conveyor and having a rotation center, a drive part for rotating the rotary member and a particle supply part mounted on the rotary member having particles stored therein, and a heating part for drying the particles on the transfer conveyor in a transfer process, wherein the heating part comprises a heat exchanger and a blast fan, and is provided such that air discharged from the blast fan is supplied to the transfer conveyor after passing through the heat exchanger.
US11168937B2
Provided is a refrigerator in which a transparent display assembly and electric modules, which are disposed in a door to see through a storage space and output a screen, are easily connected to a control unit provided in a cabinet and guided through a narrow door hinge.
US11168927B2
A refrigeration cycle apparatus includes a plurality of outdoor units. Each of the plurality of outdoor units includes an outdoor heat exchanger, a compressor, and a sensor to detect the quantity of refrigeration oil in the outdoor unit. A controller has a first operation mode in which a part of the plurality of outdoor units is operated and another outdoor unit is stopped; and a second operation mode in which all of the plurality of outdoor units are operated. In the first operation mode, when the operating time of an operating outdoor unit exceeds a prescribed time and the quantity of refrigeration oil in the compressor of the operating outdoor unit is equal to or larger than a prescribed quantity, the controller stops the operating outdoor unit and makes a switch to bring a stopped outdoor unit of the plurality of outdoor units into operation.
US11168921B2
A removable protection member for brackets configured to support air conditioning units, wherein the support bracket includes at least two substantially “L”-shaped supports suited to be secured to a bearing wall and at least one cross member suited to be secured to the bearing wall and to connect the supports, said protection member including at least one pair of first covering members intended to cover the supports, each first covering member being substantially “L”-shaped; at least one second covering member suited to cover a corresponding cross member; quick connection members associated with the pair of first covering members and with the covering member, the quick connection members being suited to make it easier to maintain the pair of first covering members removably attached to the respective supports and the second covering member removably attached to the corresponding cross member through interference.
US11168912B2
The present disclosure discloses an air conditioner driving device, and the air conditioner driving device comprises a sensing unit and a processing unit, wherein the sensing unit at least comprises a microwave sensing module; the sensing unit is at least used for sensing whether any human activity exists within the action range based on microwave sensing according to a certain microwave sensing cycle, and periodically outputting a sensing signal to the processing unit; and the processing unit is used for processing the sensing signal, so that the driving device can adaptively control the turn-on and turn-off of the air conditioner and adaptively regulate the working power of the air conditioner. Based on this, a dynamic intelligent air conditioner driving device without a user's turn-on and turn-off action and based on environmental state sensing is realized.
US11168905B2
A method for conditioning air, the method comprising flowing a first air flow within a first ventilation system past a first cooling coil, which is connected to a cooling system with a cooling fluid and a cooler, characterised in that the temperature of the first air flow, when passing the first cooling coil, is lower than the temperature of the cooling fluid flowing through the first cooling coil and that the first air flow is heated and the cooling fluid flowing through the first cooling coil is cooled, when the first air flow passes through the first cooling coil.
US11168902B2
A wind baffle operable to control air movement to an air inlet of an air-conditioner, the wind baffle comprising: a frame defining an inlet side, an outdoor side opposite the inlet side, and a plurality of wall sections between the inlet side and the outdoor side; a back plate formed on the outdoor side; a first variable air vent formed on a first wall section and being configured to selectively pass or restrict a first air flow through the first variable air vent; a second variable air vent formed on a second wall section and being configured to selectively pass or restrict a second air flow through the second variable air vent; and a securing mechanism on the inlet side configured to attach the wind baffle to the air inlet such that the inlet side faces the air inlet, wherein the inlet side is unobstructed, allowing air to pass freely.
US11168896B2
A modular building with a structure having various constructional elements including columns joists and rafters each including a void to accommodate pipes that carry fluid at a certain temperature, the pipes extending at least below the floor of the building through the joists that are enclosed by a base to define a cavity affecting the temperature of the air in-between the floor and the base. Air vents are provided in the floor to allow for the air flow between the cavity and the inside of the modular building.
US11168895B2
A heating and hot-water supply apparatus performs a heating operation by heating a heating medium with a heater and circulating the heating medium through a heating terminal, a hot-water supply operation by circulating the common heating medium through a hot-water supply heat exchanger, heating service water through heat exchange with the heating medium, and supplying hot water, and a simultaneous operation of the heating operation and the hot-water supply operation, and controls a distribution ratio of the heating medium between the heating terminal and the hot-water supply heat exchanger. The apparatus determines whether the heating terminal proceeding in the heating operation is a suspendible terminal to suspend the heating operation or an unsuspendible terminal not to suspend the heating operation in response to a request for the hot-water supply operation.
US11168890B2
A cooking apparatus light including a carrier that forms an illuminant receiver wherein an illuminant configured as a circuit board including at least one LED is received in the illuminant receiver, wherein the carrier includes a receiving spout that is connected through an opening with the illuminant receiver; and a light conductor rod that is received in the receiving spout and fed light emitted by the illuminant through the opening between the receiving spout and the illuminant receiver, wherein the light conductor rod is fixed in the carrier in an axial direction of the light conductor rod by a form locking connection.
US11168887B2
Fuel spray nozzle for generating a spray of atomised liquid fuel in a combustor of a gas turbine engine. The nozzle includes a flow circuit that has in flow series: a gallery that receives fuel flow, plural circumferentially-spaced restrictor passages arranged in a row around the nozzle, plural conditioning passages configured to impart a circumferential component to their respective portions of the fuel flow, and an annular spin chamber which forms a swirling fuel flow which is discharged at an exit port. The restrictor passages form flow restrictions which in use produce a pressure differential between the gallery and the spin chamber to evenly circumferentially distribute the fuel flow between the restrictor passages. The conditioning passages have increased flow cross-sectional areas relative to the flow cross-sectional areas of the restrictor passages, such that the restrictor passages produce substantially all of the pressure differential between the gallery and the spin chamber.
US11168881B2
A lamp structure includes top case, a bottom case coupled to the top case, a lamp shade coupled to the bottom case, and an LED base board provided between the lamp shade and bottom case. The top case includes a hollow member formed on a top surface, a projecting member inside the hollow member such that a first tank is defined between the hollow member and the first projecting member, a first elastic ring inside the first projecting member, and a first latch member inserted in the first projecting member and configured to press the first elastic ring. The bottom case includes a second projecting member configured to cooperate with an interior surface of the bottom case to define a second tank, a second elastic ring inside the second projecting member, and a second latch member inserted in the second projecting member and configured to press the second elastic ring.
US11168877B2
A strip light has a strip lighting body and a lighting end cover fixedly arranged at both ends of the strip lighting body, the strip lighting has a connection mechanism fixedly disposed in the lighting end cover and one end of which electrically connected to the PCB board in the strip lighting body, and an installation module that is electrically connected to other end of the connection mechanism and detachably connected to the lighting end cover for easy replacement. Compared with the prior art, the strip lighting features a variety of installation methods of the lighting and the lighting angle can be adjusted 360 degrees, thereby improving the competitiveness and availability of the lighting.
US11168869B2
A lighting device comprises a light source defining a central axis and comprising at least two mutually independently operable lighting elements. The lighting device further comprises a rotatable deflective member rotatably mounted about said axis, and a fixed deflective member fixedly mounted on said axis and comprising at least two mutually differently deflective portions which each are associated with a respective lighting element. The lighting device of the invention enables various operation modes, like light beam rotation can rotate, jumping of the light beam from one location to another by a sequence of switching on and off one or more of the at least two lighting elements, or in that it can be dimmed or boosted, for example dimmable in steps by a sequence of one by one switching off the lighting elements.
US11168867B2
A lighting apparatus includes: a light source generating a first color component light; a separation element partially transmitting the first color component light, partially reflecting the first color component light, and transmitting a second color component light different from the first color component light at a certain moment; an illuminant excited by the first color component light transmitted through the separation element to generate the second color component light; and an optical system combining the first color component light made incident on the separation element from the light source and reflected by the separation element with the second color component light made incident on the separation element from the illuminant and transmitted through the separation element. The separation element is configured to have variable transmittance and reflectance with respect to the first color component light.
US11168858B2
A vehicular lamp includes a first light source that emits light forming a passing light distribution pattern; a second light source that is disposed forward of the first light source and emits light forming a traveling light distribution pattern; a reflector that reflects the light from the first and the second light sources; a first lens that projects the light reflected forward by the reflector; and a second lens that transmits the light from the second light source toward the reflector. The second light source and the first light source are disposed on the same plane. The reflector has first and second reflective surfaces. The first reflective surface reflects the light from the first light source to the first lens. The second reflective surface is disposed forward of the first reflective surface and reflects the light from the second light source through the second lens to the first lens.
US11168855B2
A lighting device has a power interface and a control circuit in communication with a program and the LEDs to simulate a flame. The program determines a first group of LED control integers to simulate a perpetual middle with a perpetual middle center and a perpetual middle range within which one or more of the LEDs are to be at least partially actuated. At least one LED is actuated based on the first group of LED control integers. A first target for simulating movement of the perpetual middle center toward the first target and a first acceleration value is defined. The program determines a second group of LED control integers based on the first target and the first acceleration value such that the perpetual middle center becomes closer to the first target. One or more of the LEDs is actuated based on the second group of LED control integers.
US11168853B2
A lamp includes a housing, a lighting device, a plurality of hanging members, a shaft, a plurality of returning members, a plurality of springs, and a power supply. The shaft extends through the housing and the hanging members, such that the hanging members are pivoted connected with the housing. In practice, when the hanging members are pivoted outward from the housing, the returning members are pushed by rotation of the hanging members, and the springs are compressed and contracted by the returning members. At this time, articles are hung on the hanging members, to support the hanging members, thereby preventing the hanging members from being moved back. After the articles are removed from the hanging members, the hanging members are driven and pivoted toward the housing by the returning members and the springs.
US11168841B2
A service device for a pressure vessel system of a motor vehicle includes a service-device-side refueling coupling part which is connectable to a motor-vehicle-side refueling coupling part of the motor vehicle and a controller for activating the pressure vessel system. A method for the service of the pressure vessel system includes producing a connection between the service device and the pressure vessel system and activating the pressure vessel system by the service device.
US11168839B2
A transport element support assembly comprises a front plate, a back plate, and a grommet. The front plate has a first opening and a first set of holes. The back plate has a second opening and a second set of holes. A chamber is formed by the first opening and the second opening and is configured to hold a transport element. The grommet is positioned within the chamber. The transport element support assembly formed by the front plate, the back plate, and the grommet is configured to provide electrical isolation between the transport element and an aircraft structure.
US11168838B2
A method for producing a high-pressure tank that can reduce the positional deviation of a wound fiber bundle. In the method for producing the high-pressure tank, the fiber bundle impregnated with an uncured thermosetting resin is wound around a liner for housing gas so as to form, on the liner, a reinforcing layer with a plurality of fiber-reinforced resin layers. The method for producing the high-pressure tank includes pressing an edge portion on at least one side along the longitudinal direction of the fiber bundle in the width direction of the fiber bundle to deform the edge portion so as to protrude in the thickness direction of the fiber bundle and thermally curing the thermosetting resin in the edge portion deformed so as to form a protruding portion in the edge portion, and forming the fiber-reinforced resin layers with the fiber bundle with the edge portion deformed.
US11168823B2
A connection device for a core drilling assembly connectible between a head assembly of a core drilling assembly and an inner tube of the core drilling assembly. The connection device has a first connection portion and a second connection portion, and has a connection mechanism arranged to facilitate engagement of the first and second connection portions with each other and disengagement of the first and second connection portions from each other.
US11168817B2
A connection assembly for a tube having a first pin attached to the tube, the first pin having a first sealing member; a second pin attached to a jumper tube, the second pin having a second sealing member; and a movable sleeve configured to sealingly engage the first sealing member and the second sealing member.
US11168804B2
An electronic expansion valve and a refrigeration system including the electronic expansion valve are provided. The electronic expansion valve includes a valve seat, a valve needle, a drive mechanism, a planetary gear deceleration mechanism. The drive mechanism serves as an input end of the planetary gear deceleration mechanism, the planetary gear deceleration mechanism has the output inner gear ring, the output inner gear ring is fixedly connected to a screw rod of the transmission mechanism to enable the screw rod to rotate, the screw rod is in threaded connection with a nut, to convert a rotation motion of the screw rod into a linear motion.
US11168800B2
[Problem] To provide a check-valve in which the occurrence of damage such as tearing, deformation, etc., can be suppressed. [Solution] A check-valve opens and closes an opening provided in a main body and prevents a backflow of a fluid passing through the opening; and the check-valve includes a base part 71 which is flexible, and a valve part 72 which opens and closes the opening, has a thickness thinner than a thickness of the base part 71, and is connected to the base part 71 in a state in which a periphery of the valve part 72 is surrounded with the base part 71. The valve part 72 seals the opening in a normal state of the valve part 72 being pre-urged toward the main body by an elasticity of the base part 71, and opens the opening when the fluid passes through the opening in one direction.
US11168770B2
A drive mechanism for adjusting a position of a vehicle closure, with respect to a vehicle body, is provided. The drive mechanism may include a linear drive and a telescoping arrangement. The linear drive may include a spindle and a spindle nut and the telescoping arrangement may be coupled to the spindle nut and include a pair of gears coupled to one another. As the spindle rotates, the pair of gears may rotate to extend and retract translating portions of the telescoping arrangement in a telescoping manner such that the position of the vehicle closure may be adjusted.
US11168758B2
A system for controlling vehicle motion is described. The system includes: a first set of sensors coupled with a vehicle, the first set of sensors configured for sensing the vehicle motion; and a vehicle suspension damper coupled with the first set of sensors, the vehicle suspension damper configured for adjusting a damping force therein, the vehicle suspension damper comprising: a primary valve; a pilot valve assembly coupled with the primary valve, the pilot valve assembly configured for metering a flow of fluid to the primary valve, in response to at least the sensing; and an orifice block coupled with the primary valve and comprising a control orifice there through, the control orifice configured for operating cooperatively with the pilot valve assembly in the metering the flow of fluid to the primary valve.
US11168755B2
The present invention is to provide a vehicle-mounted apparatus having a biasing structure using a coil spring capable of reducing a lateral force of a coil spring that is applied to a biasing target member. When N1, n1, N0, and n0 represent the number of effective turns when the relief valve spring 37 is set in a valve hole 34 of a spool 29 in a compressed state, a value of an integer of N1, the number of effective turns when a length of the relief valve spring 37 is a natural length, and a value of an integer of N0, respectively, the spring 37 satisfies an equation 1: 0≤N1−n1≤0.25 or an equation 2: 0.75≤N1−n1<1.
US11168750B2
A rotor assembly for a rotary mixer is disclosed. The rotor assembly includes a main drive configured to rotatably drive the rotor assembly, a main drive clutch enclosed in a drivetrain housing of the main drive, an actuation valve operably coupled to the main drive clutch, the actuation valve configured to actuate the main drive clutch between at least a first position and a second position, a rotor drum, a rotor drive gearbox having an input and an output, the gearbox output operably coupled to the rotor drum, a main drive belt rotatably coupled to the main drive clutch and the rotor drive gear box input such that a rotation of the main drive clutch imparts a rotation on the rotor drive gear box, and a speed sensor operably coupled to the rotor drum, the speed sensor measuring a rotational speed of the gearbox and generating a rotor speed signal, wherein based on when the rotor speed signal is below a predetermined rotor speed threshold the actuation valve is activated to rotate the main drive clutch a predetermined amount between the first position and the second position.
US11168747B2
A hydraulic gearbox actuator with a hydraulic pump which has a pump body wherein a rotor is arranged, wherein a drive motor is provided with which the rotor can be driven in opposite directions, wherein two working chambers which are separated from each other are formed in the pump body, the working chambers each having two openings, of which at least three openings are connected to a respective pressure supply circuit, the one side of which is connected to a reservoir and the other side of which is connected to one of three pressure outlets of the gearbox actuator.
US11168742B2
A twin plate separation system, comprising a pressure plate, an intermediate plate facing the pressure plate, and a spring separator assembly. The spring separator assembly comprises a mounting extending out from the intermediate plate towards the pressure plate. A spring surrounds the mounting, and the spring is biased to push the pressure plate and the intermediate plate apart. The mounting or another fixture can secure at least one drive strap to the intermediate plate. Alternatively, the mounting extends out of the pressure plate towards the intermediate plate, and the spring surrounds the mounting and is biased to push the pressure plate and the intermediate plate apart. In this alternative, the intermediate plate does not comprise a hole for receiving the mounting.
US11168741B2
A dog clutch for a vehicle includes gear-side meshing teeth provided on a shifting gear fitted so as to be rotatable relative to a shaft, and a dog ring disposed adjacent to the shifting gear in the axial direction of the shaft. The dog ring includes a first ring, a second ring, and springs interposed between the two rings. The first ring is provided with meshing teeth that can be meshed with the gear-side meshing teeth of the shifting gear. The second ring is provided with meshing teeth that can be meshed with the gear-side meshing teeth of the shifting gear. The springs are provided on the inner peripheral side of a circle that is centered on a rotational axis and that circumscribes a portion of the meshing teeth of the first ring and the second ring positioned on the outermost peripheral side.
US11168740B2
A boot includes a large-diameter tubular portion, a small-diameter tubular portion, and a bellows portion. The large-diameter tubular portion includes a fastening groove into which a fastening member is fitted, an opening end to which the bellows portion is coupled and into which an outer case is inserted, at least one seal lip having an annular shape and protruding from an inner circumferential surface of the large-diameter tubular portion at the position where the fastening groove is projected to the inside in the radial direction, so as to be continuous over the entire circumference, and a protrusion protruding from the inner circumferential surface on the opening end side with respect to the seal lip so as to be provided over the entire circumference. A height of the protrusion is set to be smaller than a height of the seal lip.
US11168735B2
A swivel ball head mount embodying the invention includes a swivel ball and a housing and a push button operated clamping mechanism coupled between the ball and the housing to control their relative movement. The clamping mechanism may include a gearing arrangement or a spring arrangement producing a mechanical advantage enabling the push button mechanism to operate the clamping mechanism using a single finger. Swivel ball head mount embodying the invention are adapted to have a camera mounted on the housing.
US11168726B2
A fastener includes: a shaft having longitudinal axis and a first and second threaded portions, the first and second threaded portions separated by a central portion having a reduced diameter between the first and second threaded portions, and at least one of the first or second threaded portions is chamfered to reduce friction on leading threads.
US11168724B2
A toggle includes a bearer plate which defines a surface for bearing, in use, against the confronting surface of a support structure and a pair of support plates secured to the bearer plate and spaced apart to pivotally support there between a barrel, the barrel being integral with or connectable to a connector whereby, in use, the connector may secure the toggle bearer plate against the confronting surface of a support structure, at least the bearer plate of the toggle being formed from mild steel. There is provided also an assembly of the toggle and a support member, with the connector extending through the support member to secure the bearer plate against a confronting surface of the support member.
US11168720B2
Connecting assembly providing a connecting piece made of composite material having a base and a main wall, the base having holes to accept second fixing elements, at least two bearers each pierced with a through orifice and each intended to be associated with one of the second fixing elements. The bearers being positioned one on each side of the main wall. The main wall and the base being connected by extensions of curved shape one on each side of the main wall. The extensions each defining a bearer receiving zone. The holes for accepting second fixing elements being formed in part through the curved extensions.
US11168717B2
A calibration system is disclosed. The calibration system may include a sensor configured to measure a fluid level in a fluid tank of a machine, an actuator that, when actuated, affects a level of the machine, and a controller. The controller may be configured to: command actuation of the actuator at a current; receive, from the sensor and after commanding actuation of the actuator, information identifying the fluid level in the fluid tank; determine, based on the information identifying the fluid level in the fluid tank, whether there is a change to the fluid level in the fluid tank; and set an initiation current for the actuator at the current based on determining whether there is the change to the fluid level in the fluid tank.
US11168716B2
One object is to calculate the position of a rod of a linear actuator with a high precision. The linear actuator includes a rod capable of moving in an axial direction relative to a housing. The rod is moved by rotation of an output shaft of a motor. A position sensor for sensing the relative position of the rod relative to a preset reference position is provided in the housing. A rotation sensor for sensing the rotation angle of the output shaft of the motor is provided in the vicinity of the motor. The linear actuator includes a position calculating unit for calculating the position of the rod based on a position sensing value of the position sensor and a rotation angle sensing value of the rotation sensor.
US11168700B2
Method for controlling a compressor comprising a last stage (40) and a compressor load controller (90), a set point outlet pressure corresponding to the consumer needed pressure, being given in the load controller (90) comprising the steps of: a—measuring the temperature at the inlet of the last stage (40), b—measuring the ratio between the outlet and inlet pressure of the last stage (40), c—computing a coefficient (Ψ) based on the value of the inlet temperature (Tin) and on the pressure ratio (Pout/Pin), d—if the coefficient (Ψ) is in a predetermined range, changing the set point outlet pressure by a new greater set point outlet pressure until the coefficient (Ψ) computed with the new set point outlet pressure goes out of the predetermined range, and e—adapting the pressure of the fluid coming out of the compressor in a pressure regulator (100) to the consumer needed pressure.
US11168697B2
In a vacuum pump, a portion of a lower end portion of a rotating cylindrical body is cut in an axial direction thereof to form an imbalance correction portion (removal portion). Preferably, the removal portion is formed so as to minimize an axial width of the rotating cylindrical body and set a circumferential width of the rotating cylindrical body to a value of not less than a thickness (width in a radial direction) of the rotating cylindrical body. Additionally, a corner formed in the removal portion is formed to have a large. With this configuration, in the rotating cylindrical body, the removal portion is formed to have a shape in which a removal width (depth) in the axial direction of the rotating cylindrical body is small and a removal width in the circumferential direction thereof is large.
US11168696B2
A fan comprises a fan housing which includes a shroud having an upstream end that defines an inlet of the fan housing, a motor which is connected to the fan housing, and an impeller which is connected to the motor. The impeller includes an impeller hub and a number of impeller blades which extend radially outwardly from the impeller hub. The shroud includes a cylindrical micro-perforated panel (“MPP”) liner which extends axially from proximate the inlet to proximate the impeller.
US11168694B2
The subject matter of the present invention is a variable-delivery pump device comprising a pump body (2), an impeller (5) and a shut-off element (8) capable of translational movement and adjustably covering at least part of the outer periphery of the impeller (5), as well as a cam element (9) which is rotationally driven and engages with said shut-off element (8) for effecting the translational movement thereof. The pump device (1) is characterized in that the shut-off element (8) and the cam element (9) have cylindrical walls (8′) and are arranged concentrically around the housing (7) that accepts the shaft (6) of the impeller (5), and in that the rotary cam element (9) is situated on the inside of the sliding shut-off element (8) and, on the external face of its wall, has at least one helical guideway (11) on which there runs at least one corresponding follower element (12) secured to the internal face of the wall (8′) of the shut-off element (8).
US11168687B2
A back pressure chamber forming portion forms a back pressure chamber configured to accumulate a high pressure refrigerant discharged from a working chamber and thereby generate a refrigerant pressure, which urges a movable scroll against a stationary scroll. A balancer is placed at an inside of the back pressure chamber and is configured to be rotated by a rotatable shaft. The back pressure chamber forming portion has a discharge hole that communicates between a radially outer side of the back pressure chamber, which is located radially outward in a radial direction of an axis of the rotatable shaft, and a suction chamber to discharge a liquid phase refrigerant from the back pressure chamber into the suction chamber when the liquid phase refrigerant flows from the working chamber into the back pressure chamber.
US11168685B2
Disclosed is a scroll compressor including stationary and movable scroll members engaged with each other. The stationary scroll member defines first and second air inlets and first and second air outlets. A first compression path is formed between the first air inlet outlet, and a second compression path is formed between the second air inlet outlet. The scroll compressor further includes a bypass passage for selectively communicating at least one of the first and second compression paths with a suction pressure area of the compressor. First and second back pressure cavities are formed on a side of the stationary scroll member facing away from the movable scroll member. The first back pressure cavity is in communication with the first compression path by means of a first back pressure passage. The second back pressure cavity is in communication with the second compression path by means of a second back pressure passage.
US11168681B2
A hydraulic fracturing pump includes a pinion assembly extending along a pinion axis and mounted in a crankcase, and having a first pinion shaft and a second pinion shaft coupled together by a keyless coupler. Each pinion shaft includes an input pinion gear mounted on one end of the pinion shaft. A crankshaft disposed along a crankshaft axis is mounted in the crankcase, and is parallel with but spaced apart from the pinion axis. The crankshaft includes a bull gear mounted on each end of the crankshaft with each bull gear interconnected to an input pinion gear by an intermediate gear assembly. Each intermediate gear assembly extends along an intermediate axis parallel with, but spaced apart from, the crankcase and pinion axii. Each intermediate assembly has an intermediate shaft with a first intermediate gear meshed with a pinion gear and a second intermediate gear meshed with the bull gear.
US11168678B2
An inflation pump including a body having a cylinder and a head integrally formed with the cylinder. The cylinder includes a pressurizing space. The head includes a through-hole extending along a longitudinal axis. An intercommunication passage is disposed between and intercommunicates with the through-hole and the pressurizing space. A pressurizing unit is slidably received in the pressurizing space and is reciprocally slidable relative to the body. A nozzle unit includes a pressing device disposed in the through-hole. The pressing device includes a push seat having a check ring. The check ring includes an inner side abutting against the push seat and an outer side abutting against a portion of an inner periphery of the through-hole. The portion of the inner periphery of the through-hole is located between the intercommunication passage and the coupling end. The check ring permits air to flow only from the intercommunication passage towards the coupling end.
US11168675B2
A motor vehicle pump arrangement has a first pump and a second pump, and an electric motor for driving the two pumps. The electric motor is drive-connected fixedly to the first pump and connected via a clutch arrangement to the second pump, in such a way that the first pump can be driven on its own and the first and second pump can be driven together. The first pump is configured as a reversible pump which can be operated in two rotational directions. A valve arrangement generates a uniformly directed fluid volumetric flow which is independent of the rotational direction being provided for the first pump in a fluid circuit. The clutch arrangement is configured as a freewheeling clutch, via which the electric motor is drive-connected to the second pump.
US11168673B2
A system method of geothermal energy recovery includes injecting carbon dioxide into a geothermal reservoir through an injection well, extracting a working fluid including previously injected carbon dioxide and hydrocarbons entrained in a flow of the carbon dioxide within the reservoir from an extraction well, separating components of the heated working fluid based on chemical composition, selectively mixing the separated components according to the current conditions of the extracted working fluid to produce an output modified working fluid that having a chemical composition that is optimized for energy recovery efficiency, and expanding the modified working fluid to generate mechanical or electrical energy.
US11168670B2
The present invention relates to a method, controller, wind turbine and wind farm that advantageously determines an ice throw risk zone (302) for a wind turbine (301), wherein the ice throw risk zone (302) defines an area surrounding the wind turbine (301) within which ice can be thrown from one or more blades of the wind turbine (301); determining whether the determined ice throw risk zone (302) impinges one or more exclusion zones; and if the determined ice throw risk zone (302) impinges one or more exclusion zones, determining an alteration to one or more operating parameters of the wind turbine (301) in order to alter the ice throw risk zone (302) such that the determined ice throw risk zone (302) does not impinge the one or more exclusion zones.
US11168669B2
A method for wind converter management, first and second data associated with a group of first measurements and a second measurement of the wind converter may be collected respectively. An association between the group of first measurements and the second measurement of the wind converter may be obtained. A condition of the wind converter may be determined based on a comparison of the collected first and second data and the obtained association. Also, the apparatuses, systems, computer readable media and IoT systems for wind converter management.
US11168666B1
A jack-up platform is described having a horizontal working deck that may be jacked up out of the water by moving its legs to a position wherein they take support on an underwater bottom. The jack-up platform further includes a higher level deck and a lower level deck that define a receiving space for a barge, optionally suitable for carrying parts for construction of a wind turbine, and further a deballasting system configured to bring the floating hull between a receiving position at which the hull is ballasted to a receiving draft in which the lower level deck is submerged underwater and the barge may be received in the receiving space through an opening in the hull, and an operational smaller draft where substantially no water can flow on either of the lower and higher level decks. The receiving space has a centralizing system configured to substantially centralize the received floating barge in the receiving space. A method for facilitating the offshore installation of a wind turbine using the jack-up platform is also described.
US11168660B2
A facility for generating electricity includes a hydroelectric generating apparatus including an elongate penstock in flow communication with a source of water and a hydro-turbine and a plurality of water refill pumps for supplying refill water to a plurality of horizontal pistons on a synchronized and coordinated basis to supply pressurized water to the penstock. A pressure regulator is provided for supplying pressurized air to a storage container for supplying air to the pistons and respective air exhaust/release valves release the pressurized air in the pistons to the atmosphere after use. Respective water inflow valves are provided for refilling the pistons after the air exhaust/release valves open.
US11168630B2
An improved method for performing a conditioning process for a particulate filter, preferably adapted for an aftertreatment system arranged downstream of an internal combustion engine. The proposed method provides for conditioning of a filter under controlled conditions such that the filter may reach a desired operation state in a more efficient and faster manner. Further, the proposed method also advantageously provides for maintaining the desired operation state, in which the filtration capacity may be at a usable level.
US11168627B2
Systems and methods are provided for determining and correcting air/fuel imbalance between cylinders of an internal combustion engine. A deactivation strategy is determined and implemented. An evaluation is made of whether the engine is operating with an air/fuel imbalance between cylinders. When an imbalance is identified, an alternate deactivation strategy is implemented. Based on outcomes of the alternate deactivation strategy, a source cylinder of the air/fuel imbalance is identified, and fuel flow to the source cylinder is corrected.
US11168625B2
Fuel management system for enhanced operation of a spark ignition gasoline engine. Injectors inject an anti-knock agent such as ethanol directly into a cylinder. It is preferred that the direct injection occur after the inlet valve is closed. It is also preferred that stoichiometric operation with a three way catalyst be used to minimize emissions. In addition, it is also preferred that the anti-knock agents have a heat of vaporization per unit of combustion energy that is at least three times that of gasoline.
