US11183747B2
An electronic device includes a housing that includes a front plate facing a first direction, a back plate facing a second direction opposite to the first direction, and a side member surrounding a space between the front plate and the back plate and at least a portion of which is formed of a metal material. A display is viewable through the front plate, and an antenna module is positioned in the space and includes a first surface facing a third direction different from the first direction and the second direction, a second surface facing a fourth direction different from the third direction, and at least one conductive element extended in a fifth direction, which is perpendicular to the third direction and the fourth direction and faces a first portion of the side member, adjacent to the side member, and between the first surface and the second surface.
US11183741B2
A battery pack assembly includes a battery pack having a plurality of battery cells and an elongated terminal connector. Each battery cell having at least one terminal. The elongated terminal connector having at least one keyed slot corresponding to each of the at least one terminal. Each keyed slot having a first opening and a second opening. A first width of the first opening is greater than a second width of the second opening. The elongated terminal connector is configured to move between an engaged position and a disengaged position. In the engaged position each terminal of the at least one terminal is positioned within the second opening to engage each terminal with the elongated terminal connector. In the disengaged position each terminal of the at least one terminal is positioned within the first opening to disengaged each terminal from the elongated terminal connector.
US11183732B2
A non-sealed apparatus for batteries with a containment structure for gasses that includes a battery enclosure with an upper portion and a lower portion. The apparatus further includes a plurality of batteries disposed in a lower portion of the battery enclosure. The apparatus has at least one battery containment structure disposed in an upper portion of the battery enclosure, which is configured to move downward thereby sealing the plurality of batteries upon a condition. Further, a transfer channel assembly is provided within the battery enclosure and configured to transfer and/or contain gases emitted by the plurality of batteries upon the condition. The apparatus also has at least one fan configured to circulate the air in and out of the battery enclosure through the first perforated opening and the second perforated opening.
US11183719B2
An energy store has a plurality of electrical energy storage cells, which are connected electrically in series or parallel and are combined to form an energy storage module. Cooling plates are arranged between the energy storage cells and into which coolant or refrigerant can be introduced. A plurality of emergency switching devices are provided, each of which is associated with an energy storage cell and one or two cooling plates. The emergency switching devices allow the coolant or refrigerant to flow into the associated cooling plates only if a temperature of the associated energy storage cell exceeds a defined limit temperature.
US11183712B2
An energy storage device comprising a first electrode and a second electrode, a separator between the first electrode and the second electrode, and an electrolyte in contact with the first electrode, the second electrode, and the separator, wherein the electrolyte comprises at least one of a fluorine-containing cyclic carbonate, a fluorine-containing linear carbonate, and a fluoroether. The electrolyte may be substantially free of non-fluorine containing cyclic carbonates.
US11183708B2
Provided are a method for producing a sulfide solid electrolyte having a high Li ion conductivity, in which the production time can be greatly reduced, and a sulfur-based material that can be used in the production method for a sulfide solid electrolyte. The invention relates to a method for producing a sulfide solid electrolyte containing a lithium element, a sulfur element, a phosphorus element, an iodine element and a bromine element, which includes mixing and grinding lithium sulfide and lithium bromide followed by adding phosphorus sulfide and lithium iodide thereto and reacting them, and relates to a sulfur-based material.
US11183707B2
An anode material used for a lithium-ion battery utilizing a greater part of the storage capacity includes particles in outer dense layer, then inner layer, and then particle core. The outer dense layer is evenly enriched with an M element and an A element, the enrichment decreasing from the outside towards the core. The particle core does include the M element and the A element at a concentration greater than zero and having an average distribution. The M element includes Al, or Al and at least one of Mg, Ti, Zr, Mn. The A element includes F, or F and at least one of B, P, and N. A method for manufacturing the anode material and a lithium-ion battery are also disclosed.
US11183704B2
A fuel cell module includes a plurality of power generation cells. The plurality of power generation cells are stacked together in a circle, and a tightening load is applied to the plurality of power generation cells in a circumferential direction. Each of the plurality of power generation cells includes a V-shaped electrically conductive base plate. A first reactant gas flow field is provided between power generation cells that are adjacent to each other. A ridge protruding outward is provided in the base plate to provide the first reactant gas flow field by the ridge, and insulating material is provided on the ridge.
US11183701B2
The flow battery comprises a first semi-cell (2), wherein a first electrolyte is fed through a first electrode (21); a second semi-cell (3), wherein a second electrolyte is fed through a second electrode (31); a partition membrane (4) disposed between the first electrode (21) and second electrode (31) in order to prevent them from reciprocally contacting with each other, and suitable to enable ions to permeate; and at least one porous barrier material layer (5) disposed between the first electrode (21) and second electrode (31), and suitable to block an undesired flow of ions of one or both the electrolytes through the partition membrane (4), the barrier material layer (5) having zones with different selectivities towards the ions whose flow is undesired.
US11183691B2
Provided are a metal element-doped positive electrode active material for a high voltage and a preparation method thereof. The positive electrode active material may include a lithium cobalt oxide having a layered crystal structure; and a metal element (M) incorporated into the lithium cobalt oxide in an amount of 0.2 parts by weight to 1 part by weight with respect to 100 parts by weight of the lithium cobalt oxide, wherein the metal element (M) does not form a chemical bond with the elements of the lithium cobalt oxide, and wherein the layered crystal structure in maintained at a positive electrode potential of more than 4.5 V (based on Li potential) when fully charged.
US11183686B2
The electrolyte according to the present disclosure is an electrolyte that conducts alkali metal ions and is used for producing an energy storage device. The electrolyte includes an organic crystal layer including a layered structure, the layered structure including an organic skeletal layer including aromatic dicarboxylic acid anions having an aromatic ring structure and an alkali metal element layer including an alkali metal element to which oxygen included in carboxylic acid anions of the organic skeletal layer are coordinated to form a skeleton, and an organic solvent charged in the organic crystal layer.
US11183685B2
The present invention provides a method of preparing a positive electrode active material precursor for a lithium secondary battery, a method of preparing a positive electrode active material for a lithium secondary battery in which the positive electrode active material precursor prepared by using the above method is used, and a positive electrode for a lithium secondary battery and a lithium secondary battery which include the positive electrode active material.
US11183673B2
A display device including: a display panel; a polarization film disposed on the display panel; and a reflective layer disposed on the polarization film, wherein the reflective layer is disposed between a first hole and a first groove, wherein the first hole passes through the display panel and the polarization film, and the first groove is provided in the display panel around the first hole.
US11183666B2
The invention relates to an optoelectronic semiconductor component (10) comprising a substrate (1), a first insulator layer (2), and a second insulator layer (3). Furthermore, the semiconductor component (10) comprises an organic semiconductor layer sequence (4) having an active area (4a) which, during operation, generates or receives light, a first electrode (5) and a second electrode (6), and encapsulation (7) which covers the organic semiconductor layer sequence (4) and the first insulator layer (2) completely and covers the second insulator layer (3) and the first electrode (5) or the second electrode (6) partially. Here, the first electrode (5) is arranged between the organic semiconductor layer sequence (4) and the first insulator layer (2), and the second electrode (6) is arranged on the organic semiconductor layer sequence (4), wherein the first electrode (5) and/or the second electrode (6) is/are at least partly arranged on the second insulator layer (3).
US11183661B2
The present disclosure discloses an OLED package structure, a display panel and a method for preparing a package structure. The OLED package structure includes a substrate, an OLED disposed on the substrate, and a reinforcement hole disposed on at least one of the substrate and the OLED and extending along a side of the OLED towards the substrate; and an encapsulation layer covering the OLED, and at least a portion of the encapsulation layer extending into the reinforcement hole. Therefore, the reliability of the package structure can be increased, the adhesive strength of the package layer can be increased, peeling or package failure can be prevented, and the service life of the package structure can be improved.
US11183658B2
A method of manufacturing an organic light emitting diode (OLED) substrate and an OLED substrate includes covering a top surface of the OLED substrate with a slope material layer, then adding an additive to the slope material layer, wherein ratios of the additive added in the slope material layer on surfaces of different regions of the OLED substrate are different, and finally curing the slope material layer until the slope material layer is stably solidified and forming a slope structure on the top surface of the OLED substrate. A top surface area of the OLED substrate formed by the slope material layer is greater than a top surface area of an original OLED substrate.
US11183650B2
A display substrate includes a first conductive layer on a base substrate, a first insulation layer on the first conductive layer, a second conductive layer on the first insulation layer, a second insulation layer on the second conductive layer, and a third conductive layer on the second insulation layer. The third conductive layer is connected to the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer through a contact hole passing through the first insulation layer, the second conductive layer, and the second insulation layer. A sidewall of the contact hole has a stepped shape.
US11183643B2
The present disclosure relates to a nitrogen heterocycle fused ring-indene compound having a structure represented by the Formula (I), in which Ar1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic fused ring group containing at least one nitrogen heteroaryl; Ar2 represents a chemical group acting as an electron donor; R1 and R2 are independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, substituted or unsubstituted C1-C20 alkyl, substituted or unsubstituted C3-C20 cycloalkyl, substituted or unsubstituted C1-C20 alkoxy, substituted or unsubstituted C3-C20 heterocyclyl, substituted or unsubstituted C6-C40 aryl, and substituted or unsubstituted C5-C40 heteroaryl. The compounds according to the present disclosure have high glass transition temperature and thermal stability, and are easy to form a high-quality amorphous film, so that a driving voltage can be lowered, the luminous efficiency and lifetime of the device are improved.
US11183640B2
The present disclosure relates to an organic electroluminescent device comprising a first electrode, a second electrode facing the first electrode, a light-emitting layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, and an electron transport layer and an electron buffer layer between the light-emitting layer and the second electrode. An organic electroluminescent device having low driving voltage, high luminous efficiency and/or long lifespan can be provided by comprising the compound of the present disclosure in an electron buffer layer and an electron transport layer.
US11183637B2
The invention relates to an organic photodetector (OPD) comprising a photoactive layer that contains an electron acceptor and an electron donor, the acceptor being an n-type semiconductor which is a small molecule that does not contain a fullerene moiety, and the electron donor being a p-type semiconductor which is a conjugated copolymer comprising donor and acceptor units.
US11183636B2
Techniques for forming RRAM cells with increased density are provided. In one aspect, a method of forming a RRAM device includes: providing an underlayer disposed on a substrate; patterning trenches in the underlayer; forming bottom electrodes at two different levels of the underlayer that includes first bottom electrodes at bottoms of the trenches and second bottom electrodes along a top surface of the underlayer in between the trenches; depositing an insulating layer on the first/second bottom electrodes; and forming top electrodes on the insulating layer, wherein the top electrodes include word lines, wherein the first and second bottom electrodes include bit lines that are orthogonal to the word lines. A RRAM device is also provided.
US11183630B2
A magnetoresistance effect element is provided in which a MR ratio is not likely to decrease even at a high bias voltage. A magnetoresistance effect element according to an aspect of the present invention includes: a first ferromagnetic metal layer; a second ferromagnetic metal layer; a tunnel barrier layer that is provided between the first ferromagnetic metal layer and the second ferromagnetic metal layer, in which the tunnel barrier layer is formed of a non-magnetic oxide having a cubic crystal structure represented by a compositional formula A1-xA′xO, where A represents a divalent cation, and A′ represents a trivalent cation, and the number of A ions is more than the number of A′ ions in a primitive lattice of the crystal structure.
US11183624B2
Electronic assemblies for thermoelectric generation are disclosed. In one embodiment, an electronic assembly includes a substrate having a first surface and a second surface, and a conductive plane and a plurality of thermal guide traces position on the first surface of the substrate. The conductive plane includes a plurality of arms radially extending from a central region. The plurality of thermal guide traces surrounds the conductive plane, and is shaped and positioned to guide heat flux present on or within the substrate toward the central region of the conductive plane. The electronic assembly may also include a thermoelectric generator device thermally coupled to the central region of the conductive plane, and a plurality of heat generating devices coupled to the second surface of the substrate.
US11183623B2
As the pixel density of optoelectronic devices becomes higher, and the size of the optoelectronic devices becomes smaller, the problem of isolating the individual micro devices becomes more difficult. A method of fabricating an optoelectronic device, which includes an array of micro devices, comprises: forming a device layer structure including a monolithic active layer on a substrate; forming an array of first contacts on the device layer structure defining the array of micro devices; mounting the array of first contacts to a backplane comprising a driving circuit which controls the current flowing into the array of micro devices; removing the substrate; and forming an array of second contacts corresponding to the array of first contacts with a barrier between each second contact.
US11183612B2
The invention relates to a method for producing at least one optoelectronic component (100) comprising the steps A) providing an auxiliary carrier (1), B) epitaxially applying a sacrificial layer (2) on the auxiliary carrier (1), wherein the sacrificial layer (2) comprises germanium, C) epitaxially applying a semiconductor layer sequence (3) on the sacrificial layer (2), D) removing the sacrificial layer (2) by means of dry etching (9), such that the auxiliary carrier (1) is removed from the semiconductor layer sequence (3).
US11183611B2
A photovoltaic device includes an absorber layer having a back contact formed on the absorber layer, the back contact having an exposed surface free from a substrate. It further includes a top contact formed in contact with a transparent conductive layer opposite the back contact and a stressor layer forming a superstrate on the absorber layer opposite the back contact.
US11183608B2
A photodetecting device includes a semiconductor photodetecting element including a plurality of pixels distributed two-dimensionally and a mount substrate including a plurality of signal processing units arranged to process output signals from the corresponding pixels. The semiconductor photodetecting element includes, for each of the pixels, a plurality of avalanche photodiodes arranged to operate in Geiger mode, a plurality of quenching resistors each electrically connected in series with a respective avalanche photodiodes, and a through-electrode electrically connected to the plurality of quenching resistors. Each of the signal processing units includes a current mirror circuit electrically connected to the plurality of avalanche photodiodes via the corresponding through-electrode and arranged to output a signal corresponding to output signals from the plurality of avalanche photodiodes. The number of signal processing units included on the mount substrate is more than the number of light receiving regions in each of the pixels.
US11183602B2
An embodiment of the present application relates to a trench capacitor and a method for manufacturing the same. The method for manufacturing the capacitor includes: fabricating a trench reaching a depth of a middle insulating layer on a semiconductor layer of an SOI substrate; and further growing an epitaxial layer of the semiconductor layer on a sidewall of the trench by selective epitaxial growth technology so as to further reduce a width of the trench; filling the trench with an electrically insulating material; and finally, fabricating two electrodes of the capacitor separately through a surface electrode. According to a trench capacitor and a method for manufacturing the same provided in an embodiment of the present application, a process flow is simple, and the capacitor manufactured has two advantages of high capacitance density and high breakdown voltage.
US11183600B2
A semiconductor device with high on-state current is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first oxide; a second oxide over the first oxide; a third oxide over the second oxide; a first insulator over the third oxide; a conductor over the first insulator; a second insulator that is in contact with a part of a top surface of the second oxide, a part of a side surface of the second oxide, and a part of a side surface of the third oxide; a third insulator that is in contact with a top surface of the second insulator and the other side surface of the third oxide; a fourth insulator over the third insulator; and a fifth insulator that is in contact with a top surface of the third oxide, a top surface of the first insulator, a top surface of the conductor, and a top surface of the third insulator, where the second oxide includes a first region, a second region, a third region, a fourth region positioned between the first region and the third region, and a fifth region positioned between the second region and the third region, where the conductor is provided above the third region to overlap with the third region, and where the second insulator is in contact with the first region and the second region.
US11183592B2
A FET including a hybrid gate spacer separating a gate electrode from at least one of a source, a drain, or source/drain contact metallization. The hybrid spacer may include a low-k dielectric material for a reduction in parasitic capacitance. The hybrid spacer may further include one or more other dielectric materials of greater relative permittivity that may protect one or more surfaces of the low-k dielectric material from damage by subsequent transistor fabrication operations. The hybrid spacer may include a low-k dielectric material separating a lower portion of a gate electrode sidewall from the source/drain terminal, and a dielectric spacer cap separating to an upper portion of the gate electrode sidewall from the source/drain terminal. The hybrid spacer may have a lower total capacitance than conventional spacers while still remaining robust to downstream fabrication processes. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US11183591B2
A fin-shaped field-effect transistor (finFET) device is provided. The finFET device includes a substrate material with a first surface and a bottom surface. The finFET device also includes a well region formed in the substrate material. The well region may include a first type of dopant. The finFET device also includes a fin structure disposed on the first surface of the substrate material. A portion of the fin structure may include the first type of dopant. The finFET device also includes an oxide material disposed on the first surface of the substrate material and adjacent to the portion of the fin structure. The finFET device also includes a first epitaxial material disposed over a portion of the fin structure. The first epitaxial material may include a second type of dopant.
US11183576B2
Apparatuses with a gate electrode in a semiconductor device are described. An example apparatus includes an active region surrounded by an isolation region, and a gate electrode extending in a first direction to pass over the active region. The gate electrode includes a body gate portion over the active region, the body gate portion having a first gate length in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, a lead-out portion over the isolation region, the lead-out portion having a second gate length in the second direction, the second gate length being greater than the first gate length, and a hammer-head portion having a first end in contact with the body gate portion and a second end opposite to the first end in contact with the hammer-head portion.
US11183575B1
Memory device includes a bottom-select-gate (BSG) structure. Cut slits are formed vertically through the BSG structure, on a substrate. A cell-layers structure is formed on the BSG structure. Gate-line slits are formed vertically through the cell-layers structure and the BSG structure, into the substrate and arranged along a first lateral direction to distinguish finger regions. The gate-line slits include a first gate-line slit between first and second finger regions, the first gate-line slit including gate-line sub-slits. The cut slits include a first cut-slit, formed in the second finger region and connecting to a gate-line sub-slit to define a BSG in a first portion of the second finger region. The BSG in the first portion of the second finger region is electrically connected to cell strings in the first finger region through an inter portion between the one gate-line sub-slit and an adjacent gate-line sub-slit.
US11183574B2
The embodiments described herein are directed to a method for the fabrication of transistors with aluminum-free n-type work function layers as opposed to aluminum-based n-type work function layers. The method includes forming a channel portion disposed between spaced apart source/drain epitaxial layers and forming a gate stack on the channel portion, where forming the gate stack includes depositing a high-k dielectric layer on the channel portion and depositing a p-type work function layer on the dielectric layer. After depositing the p-type work function layer, forming without a vacuum break, an aluminum-free n-type work function layer on the p-type work function layer and depositing a metal on the aluminum-free n-type work function layer. The method further includes depositing an insulating layer to surround the spaced apart source/drain epitaxial layers and the gate stack.
US11183563B2
A substrate structure and a method for fabricating a semiconductor structure including the substrate structure are provided. The substrate structure includes a substrate, a bow adjustment layer, and a silicon layer. The bow adjustment layer is on the top surface of the substrate. The silicon layer is on the bow adjustment layer. The substrate structure has a total bow value, and the total vow value is from −20 μm to −40 μm.
US11183561B2
A method includes forming a stacked nanosheet structure on a semiconductor substrate. The stacked nanosheet structure includes a plurality of alternating sacrificial nanosheets and channel nanosheets. The method further includes forming a dummy gate structure about the stacked nanosheet structure. The method also includes removing outer surface regions of the sacrificial nanosheets to define an at least partial recess at each outer surface region and forming an inner spacer within each of the at least partial recesses. The method also includes forming an isolation layer adjacent at least outer surface regions of at least the channel nanosheets. The method further includes forming a source region and a drain region about the stacked nanosheet structure. The method also includes removing the sacrificial nanosheets through an etching process whereby the isolation layer and the inner spacers isolates the source and drain regions from the etching process.
US11183552B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a display panel, a method for manufacturing a display panel, and a display device. The display panel includes: a display substrate; an encapsulation layer covering the display substrate; a plurality of first electrodes on the encapsulation layer; a black matrix disposed on the encapsulation layer and covering the plurality of first electrodes; a plurality of color resist units disposed on the encapsulation layer and located in opening areas of the black matrix; and a plurality of second electrodes on the black matrix.
US11183537B2
A light-emitting module includes a substrate, a plurality of light-emitting assembles and a signal controller. The substrate includes a plurality of control circuits. Each light-emitting assembly includes a plurality of LED structures disposed on the substrate, and the LED structures are respectively electrically connected to the control circuits. The signal controller is disposed on the substrate. The LED structures are arranged as a pixel matrix. The substrate includes a plurality of signal pads that are respectively electrically connected to the light-emitting assembles, and that are electrically connected to the signal controller. The substrate has two first lateral regions opposite to each other and two second lateral regions opposite to each other, and the signal pads are disposed on the first lateral region and not disposed on the two second lateral regions, or disposed on the second lateral regions and not disposed on the two first lateral regions.
US11183533B2
A method of manufacturing a curved-surface detector includes: slimming a sensor substrate having photoelectric devices arranged therein to a predetermined thickness; seating the sensor substrate slimmed to the predetermined thickness on a jig curved so as to have a curved-surface shape such that the sensor substrate is curved so as to have a curved-surface shape; and joining a flexible scintillator substrate configured to emit light when being struck by radiation to an upper surface of the sensor substrate such that curvature of the sensor substrate curved so as to have a curved-surface shape by the jig is maintained.
US11183531B2
Provided are a display screen, a display module, and a terminal. The display screen includes a display layer. The display layer has a fingerprint recognition area. The fingerprint recognition area is provided with an array of transparent thin film transistors and a transparent medium among the transparent thin film transistors. The terminal includes the display screen described above, and further includes an optical fingerprint module and a frame. The display screen and the optical fingerprint module are fixed on the frame. The optical fingerprint module is on one side of the display screen away from a user of the display screen for display and located in a position corresponding to the fingerprint recognition area, so as to allow lights transmitted and received to pass through the fingerprint recognition area.
US11183525B2
An image sensor includes a substrate including a plurality of unit pixels, a stack structure on the substrate, and a grid pattern between ones of the plurality of unit pixels on the stack structure. The grid pattern includes a lower grid pattern and an upper grid pattern on the lower grid pattern, the lower grid pattern including lanthanum oxide (LaO), amorphous silicon (a-Si), or polysilicon (poly-Si) and the upper grid pattern including a conductive material.
US11183524B2
An imaging device including a semiconductor substrate; pixels arranged on the semiconductor substrate in a first direction; and a signal line extending in the first direction. Each of the pixels includes a photoelectric converter generating signal charge by photoelectric conversion, a charge accumulation region that accumulates the signal charge output from the photoelectric converter, a first transistor that outputs a signal to the signal line according to an amount of the signal charge accumulated in the charge accumulation region, a capacity circuit that is coupled to a gate of the first transistor and that includes a first capacitive element, the first capacitive element including a first electrode, a second electrode and an insulating layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode containing a metal. The first capacitive element is closer to the semiconductor substrate than the signal line.
US11183519B2
A method of manufacturing a TFT substrate and a manufacturing apparatus of a TFT substrate are provided. The method of manufacturing a TFT substrate comprises: forming active switches on a substrate; forming transparent electrode layer on the active switches; and forming a pixel layer on the transparent electrode layer. The step of forming the active switches on the substrate comprises: forming a metal layer on the substrate; bombarding the metal layer with hydrogen ions; and forming a protection layer on the metal layer.
US11183514B2
The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to vertically stacked field effect transistors and methods of manufacture. The structure includes: at least one lower gate structure on a bottom of a trench formed in substrate material; insulator material partially filling trench and over the at least one lower gate structure; an epitaxial material on the insulator material and isolated from sidewalls of the trench; and at least one upper gate structure stacked vertically above the at least one lower gate structure and located on the epitaxial material.
US11183513B1
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a stacked structure disposed on the substrate, and dummy memory string structures. The stacked structure includes alternately stacked insulating layers and conductive layers. The dummy memory string structures disposed in a staircase region of the semiconductor device penetrate the stacked structure along a first direction. The staircase region includes a body portion including a first region and a second region adjacent to the first region. In the first region, an amount of conductive layers corresponding to the dummy memory string structures is between 1 and 10; in the second region, an amount of conductive layers corresponding to the dummy memory string structures is greater than 10. An area of the dummy memory string structures in the first region is greater than an area of the dummy memory string structures in the second area under an identical unit area in a top view.
US11183506B2
A method of forming a semiconductor device where memory cells and some logic devices are formed on bulk silicon while other logic devices are formed on a thin silicon layer over insulation over the bulk silicon of the same substrate. The memory cell stacks, select gate poly, and source regions for the memory devices are formed in the memory area before the logic devices are formed in the logic areas. The various oxide, nitride and poly layers used to form the gate stacks in the memory area are formed in the logic areas as well. Only after the memory cell stacks and select gate poly are formed, and the memory area protected by one or more protective layers, are the oxide, nitride and poly layers used to form the memory cell stacks removed from the logic areas, and the logic devices are then formed.
US11183504B2
A ferroelectric device structure includes an array of ferroelectric capacitors overlying a substrate, first metal interconnect structures electrically connecting each of first electrodes of the array of ferroelectric capacitors to a first metal pad embedded in a dielectric material layer, and second metal interconnect structures electrically connecting each of the second electrodes of the array of ferroelectric capacitors to a second metal pad embedded in the dielectric material layer. The second metal pad may be vertically spaced from the substrate by a same vertical separation distance as the first metal pad is from the substrate. First metal lines laterally extending along a first horizontal direction may electrically connect the first electrodes to the first metal pad, and second metal lines laterally extending along the first horizontal direction may electrically connect each of the second electrodes to the second metal pad.
US11183501B2
A semiconductor device including a substrate having a cell region and a peripheral region; a cell gate structure disposed on the cell region; a first impurity region and a second impurity region, arranged on first and second sides of the cell gate structure in the cell region; a bit line structure disposed on the cell gate structure and connected to the first impurity region; a peripheral gate structure disposed on the peripheral region; a peripheral capping layer disposed on the peripheral region, covering the peripheral gate structure, and having an upper surface at substantially the same level as an upper end of the bit line structure; and a cell contact structure disposed on the second impurity region, and having a conductive barrier and a contact material layer on the conductive barrier, wherein the conductive barrier covers the upper end of the bit line structure.
US11183494B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit including a power switch element, a control circuit connected to the power switch element, an electrostatic discharge protection device connected to an input terminal to which an input voltage is applied, for protecting the power switch element and the control circuit from being damaged by an electrostatic discharge, and a short-to-supply fault protection circuit connected to the electrostatic discharge protection device, for protecting the power switch element and the control circuit from being damaged by a high voltage. The short-to-supply fault protection circuit includes a first step-down circuit disposed between the input terminal and the control circuit, and a second step-down circuit disposed between the input terminal and a gate of the power switch element. Each of the first and second step-down circuits, upon detecting the high voltage, steps down the high voltage for the control circuit or the power switch element.
US11183493B2
Provided are a semiconductor device using, for example, an epoxy molding compound (EMC) wafer support system and a fabricating method thereof, which can, for example, adjust a thickness of the overall package in a final stage of completing the device while shortening a fabricating process and considerably reducing the fabrication cost. An example semiconductor device may comprise a first semiconductor die that comprises a bond pad and a through silicon via (TSV) connected to the bond pad; an interposer comprising a redistribution layer connected to the bond pad or the TSV and formed on the first semiconductor die, a second semiconductor die connected to the redistribution layer of the interposer and positioned on the interposer; an encapsulation unit encapsulating the second semiconductor die, and a solder ball connected to the bond pad or the TSV of the first semiconductor die.
US11183490B2
Various embodiments of energy storage elements for use in power converters are described. In one example embodiment, briefly, an integrated circuit (IC) for use with a power converter may comprise a first layer comprising a first set of devices disposed on a device face thereof; a second layer comprising a second set of devices disposed on a device face thereof; a first interconnect structure to be disposed between the first layer and an electrical interface, the first interconnect structure to electrically couple the first set of devices to one or more thru vias; and a second interconnect structure to be disposed between the first layer and the second layer, the second interconnect structure to electrically couple the second set of devices to the one or more thru vias. Likewise, in some instances, one or more thru vias may extend through at least one of the following: the first layer; the second layer; or any combination thereof.
US11183489B2
A power electronics module includes a substrate with a substrate metallization layer, which is separated into conducting areas for providing conducting paths for the power electronics module; a semiconductor switch chip bonded with a first power electrode to a first conducting area of the substrate metallization layer; a conductor plate bonded to a second power electrode of the semiconductor switch chip opposite to the first power electrode.
US11183486B2
Solid-state transducer (“SST”) dies and SST arrays having electrical cross-connections are disclosed herein. An array of SST dies in accordance with a particular embodiment can include a first terminal, a second terminal and a plurality of SST dies coupled between the first and second terminals with at least a pair of the SST dies being coupled in parallel. The plurality of SST dies can individually include a plurality of junctions coupled in series with an interconnection between each individual junction. Additionally, the individual SST dies can have a cross-connection contact coupled to the interconnection. In one embodiment, the array can further include a cross-connection between the cross-connection contacts on the pair of the SST dies.
US11183485B2
A semiconductor module 1 according to one embodiment includes a first circuit board, circuit units and a first plate member; the circuit units include a second plate member, a vertical type transistor and a second circuit board; n first circuit unit of N circuit units electrically connect a back surface side conductive region to the first input interconnection pattern of the first circuit board; (N−n) second circuit unit of the N circuit units electrically connect the third conductive pattern and the fourth conductive pattern of the second circuit board to the first control interconnection pattern and the second input interconnection pattern of the first circuit board; the first plate member electrically connects the fourth conductive pattern of the first circuit units to the second plate member of the second circuit units; and the gate electrode pad of the vertical type transistor contained in the first circuit unit is electrically connected to the first control interconnection pattern of the first circuit board.
US11183479B2
In a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, a plurality of first provisional fixing portions are supplied on a front surface of a substrate such that the plurality of first provisional fixing portions are spaced from each other and thus dispersed. A first solder layer processed into a plate to be a first soldering portion is disposed in contact with the plurality of first provisional fixing portions. A semiconductor chip is disposed on the first solder layer. In addition a conductive member in the form of a flat plate is disposed thereon via a second provisional fixing portion and a second solder layer. A reflow process is performed to solder the substrate, the semiconductor chip and the conductive member together.
US11183474B2
An electronic device package includes a circuit layer, a first semiconductor die, a second semiconductor die, a plurality of first conductive structures and a second conductive structure. The first semiconductor die is disposed on the circuit layer. The second semiconductor die is disposed on the first semiconductor die, and has an active surface toward the circuit layer. The first conductive structures are disposed between a first region of the second semiconductor die and the first semiconductor die, and electrically connecting the first semiconductor die to the second semiconductor die. The second conductive structure is disposed between a second region of the second semiconductor die and the circuit layer, and electrically connecting the circuit layer to the second semiconductor die.
US11183473B2
An embodiment is a structure comprising a substrate, a first die, and a second die. The substrate has a first surface. The first die is attached to the first surface of the substrate by first electrical connectors. The second die is attached to the first surface of the substrate by second electrical connectors. A size of one of the second electrical connectors is smaller than a size of one of the first electrical connectors.
US11183469B2
A semiconductor device according to the present embedment includes a substrate having a first region provided with a semiconductor element and a second region provided from the first region to an end. A material film is provided above the first and second regions. A first metal film is provided on the material film in the second region or on the material film between the first region and the second region. A trench, which caves in toward the substrate from a surface of the material film in the first region and from a surface of the material film under the first metal film, is provided in the material film between the first metal film and the first region.
US11183467B2
A flexible circuit board, a display device and a method for mounting a flexible circuit board are disclosed. The flexible circuit board includes: a bendable portion, the flexible circuit board being bendable at the bendable portion to go into a bent state so as to be connected to a workpiece; and at least one opening in the bendable portion. In response to the bent state, a gap is formed between the bendable portion and the workpiece, and the at least one opening is in communication with the gap.
US11183463B2
Chip package method and chip package structure are provided. The chip package method includes: providing a transparent substrate including a first side and a second side; coating the first side of the transparent substrate with an organic polymer material layer; depositing a protective layer on the organic polymer material layer; forming alignment parts on the protective layer; attaching a plurality of chips including metal pins; forming an encapsulating layer on the protective layer; polishing the encapsulating layer to expose the metal pins; forming a first insulating layer; forming first through holes in the first insulating layer; forming metal parts extending along sidewalls of the first through holes; and irradiating the second side of the transparent substrate by a laser to lift off the transparent substrate. The metal parts are insulated from each other and electrically connected to the metal pins.
US11183457B2
There is provided a semiconductor device including an insulating substrate provided with a circuit surface, and an external terminal bonded to the circuit surface. The circuit surface has an upper surface that is in contact with and bonded to a part of a lower surface of the external terminal. In at least a part of a portion where the upper surface of the circuit surface and the lower surface of the external terminal are in contact with each other, a melted portion of the circuit surface and the external terminal is formed. A gap between the upper surface of the circuit surface and the lower surface of the external terminal has a size of 20 μm or less. The circuit surface and the external terminal are each made of copper or copper alloy.
US11183453B2
A method of manufacturing an electronic-component-embedded substrate includes forming a power-supplying metal layer on a base, forming through electrodes that are to be connected to the power-supplying metal layer on the power-supplying metal layer by an electrolytic plating method, forming a first wiring line by patterning the power-supplying metal layer, forming an interlayer insulating layer such that the interlayer insulating layer covers a portion of the first wiring line, and forming a second wiring line on at least a portion of the first wiring line and a portion of the interlayer insulating layer such that the second wiring line crosses, on the interlayer insulating layer, a portion of the first wiring line.
US11183450B2
An electronic device (e.g., integrated circuit) and method of making the electronic device is provided that reduces a strength of an electric field generated outside a package of the electronic device proximate to the low voltage lead pins. The electronic device includes a low voltage side and a high voltage side. The low voltage side includes a low voltage die attached to a low voltage die attach pad. Similarly, the high voltage side includes a high voltage die attached to a high voltage die attach pad. Lead pins are attached to each of the low and high voltage attach pads and extend out from a package of the electronic device in an inverted direction.
US11183449B1
Cryogenic integrated circuits are provided. A cryogenic integrated circuit includes a thermally conductive base, a data processor, a storage device, a buffer device, a thermally conductive shield and a cooling pipe. The data processor is located on the thermally conductive base. The storage device is located on the thermally conductive base and disposed aside and electrically connected to the data processor. The buffer device is disposed on the data processor. The thermally conductive shield covers the data processor, the storage device and the buffer device. The cooling pipe is located in physical contact with the thermally conductive base and disposed at least corresponding to the data processor.
US11183419B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to fabrication methods and resulting semiconductor structures having a bulb-shaped buried interconnect positioned below a shallow trench isolation region. In a non-limiting embodiment of the invention, a cavity is formed below a surface of a substrate. The cavity extends under a portion of a semiconductor fin. The cavity is filled with a sacrificial material and a shallow trench isolation region is formed on the sacrificial material in the cavity. A portion of the shallow trench isolation region is removed to expose a surface of the sacrificial material in the cavity. The sacrificial material is removed from the cavity and replaced with a buried interconnect.
US11183414B2
In semiconductor packaging technologies, a secondary packaging method of a TSV chip and a secondary package of a TSV chip are provided. The TSV chip has a forward surface and a counter surface that are opposite to each other, a BGA solder ball is disposed on the counter surface, and the secondary packaging method includes: placing at least one TSV chip on a base on which a stress relief film layer is laid; cladding the TSV chip via a softened molding compound; removing the base after the molding compound is cured, to obtain a secondary package of the TSV chip; and processing a surface of the secondary package to expose the BGA solder ball.
US11183413B2
A method for preparing a stencil to receive a plurality of IC units, the method comprising the steps of: providing a metal substrate having an array of apertures; applying an adhesive surface to said substrate; removing portions of said adhesive surface corresponding to the apertures in the metal substrate.
US11183411B2
A method includes aligning and positioning a carrier in a predetermined orientation and location within a first front opening pod (FOUP) of a cluster tool, transferring the carrier to a charging station of the cluster tool, transferring a substrate from a second front opening pod (FOUP) of the cluster tool to the charging station and chucking the substrate onto the carrier, transferring the carrier having the substrate thereon from the charging station to a factory interface of the cluster tool, aligning the carrier having the substrate thereon in the factory interface of the cluster tool such that during substrate processing within a processing platform of the cluster tool the carrier is properly oriented and positioned relative to components of the processing platform, where the processing platform comprises one or more processing chambers, transferring the aligned carrier having the substrate thereon from the factory interface to the processing platform of the cluster tool for substrate processing, and transferring the aligned carrier having the processed substrate thereon from the processing platform to the factory interface.
US11183410B2
A pellicle removal tool including a stage that holds a photomask and an associated pellicle, two or more arms positioned around the stage and configured to engage pellicle side wells of the pellicle, and two or more actuators each configured to adjust at least a vertical position of a corresponding one of the two or more arms so as to apply a lifting force to the pellicle for removal of the pellicle from the photomask.
US11183405B2
A semiconductor manufacturing apparatus includes an air distributor inside a chamber. The air distributor includes a first annular plate and a second annular plate disposed in an interior volume of the chamber, and an inner surface of the first annular plate and an inner surface of the second annular plate are connected to each other. A hollow region is defined by the first annular plate and the second annular plate. A gas through hole is extended from an outer surface of the first annular plate to the inner surface of the first annular plate. A plurality of ditches are between the inner surface of the first annular plate and the inner surface of the second annular plate, wherein the ditches are connected with the gas through hole and extended from the gas through hole to the hollow region to blow gas toward the hollow region.
US11183400B2
A heater control system for heating components of a substrate processing system includes N heater zones, where N is an integer greater than zero. Each of the N heater zones heats a component of the substrate processing system and includes a resistive heater and a temperature sensor to sense a local temperature in a corresponding one of the N heater zones. A controller is configured to determine an average temperature of each of the N heater zones based on a resistance of the resistive heater in each of the N heater zones. The controller controls the resistive heater based on the average temperature and the local temperature in each of the N heater zones.
US11183399B2
An interposer substrate is manufactured with a scribe line between adjacent regions. In an embodiment a separate exposure reticle is utilized to pattern the scribe line. The exposure reticle to pattern the scribe line will create an exposure region which overlaps and overhangs the exposure regions utilized to form adjacent regions.
US11183398B2
A process is provided in which a hard mask material comprising ruthenium is used. Ruthenium provides a hard mask material that is etch resistant to many of the plasma chemistries typically used for processing substrate patterning layers, including layers such as, for example, nitrides, oxides, anti-reflective coating (ARC) materials, etc. Further, ruthenium may be removed by plasma chemistries that do not remove nitrides, oxides, ARC materials, etc. For example, ruthenium may be easily removed through the use of an oxygen (O2) plasma. Further, ruthenium may be deposited as a thin planar 10 nm order film over oxides and nitrides and may be deposited as a planar layer.
US11183389B2
A method of forming adjacent fin field effect transistor devices is provided. The method includes forming at least two vertical fins in a column on a substrate, depositing a gate dielectric layer on the vertical fins, and depositing a work function material layer on the gate dielectric layer. The method further includes depositing a protective liner on the work function material layer, and forming a fill layer on the protective liner. The method further includes removing a portion of the fill layer to form an opening between an adjacent pair of two vertical fins, where the opening exposes a portion of the protective liner. The method further includes depositing an etch-stop layer on the exposed surfaces of the fill layer and protective liner, forming a gauge layer in the opening to a predetermined height, and removing the exposed portion of the etch-stop layer to form an etch-stop segment.
US11183387B2
A semiconductor device according to the present disclosure includes a semiconductor substrate having an effective region and an ineffective region, an upper surface electrode layer provided on an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate and a rear surface electrode layer provided on a rear surface of the semiconductor substrate, wherein the semiconductor substrate includes a lifetime control layer that is provided in the effective region, a measurement layer provided at an upper surface side of the ineffective region and a crystal defect layer that is provided in the ineffective region, the upper surface electrode layer includes a plurality of measurement electrodes provided on the measurement layer, the measurement layer includes a conducting layer at least at a portion where the plurality of measurement electrodes are provided, and the crystal defect layer is provided between the plurality of measurement electrodes.
US11183374B2
There is provision of a plasma processing apparatus including a chamber; a gas inlet for supplying a first gas containing fluorine and supplying a second gas into the chamber; a plasma generator configured to generate a plasma from the first gas and the second gas supplied into the chamber; an optical emission spectrometer (OES) configured to measure light emission intensities of first radicals and second radicals in the plasma, the first radicals originating from the first gas, the second radicals originating from the second gas; an expendable part disposed in the chamber; and a processor configured to determine a wastage rate of the expendable part based on the measured light emission intensities of the first radicals and the second radicals.
US11183371B2
A plasma processing apparatus includes a processing vessel; a placing table, serving as a lower electrode, disposed within the processing vessel; an upper electrode serving as a facing electrode of the placing table; a plasma processor configured to form a gas within the processing vessel into plasma by supplying a high frequency power and to process a processing target object on the placing table with the plasma; a cover member configured to cover the upper electrode from thereabove; a cooler provided within the cover member and configured to cool the upper electrode with a coolant having a temperature lower than a dew point temperature of exterior air outside the processing vessel; and a gas supply configured to supply a low-dew point gas having a dew point temperature lower than the dew point temperature of the exterior air into a space surrounded by the cover member and the upper electrode.
US11183361B1
A charged particle beam device for imaging and/or inspecting a sample is described. The charged particle beam device includes a beam emitter for emitting a primary charged particle beam, the charged particle beam device adapted for guiding the primary charged particle beam along an optical axis to the sample for releasing signal particles; a retarding field device for retarding the primary charged particle beam before impinging on the sample, the retarding field device including an objective lens and a proxy electrode, wherein the proxy electrode includes an opening allowing a passage of the primary charged particle beam and of the signal particles; a first detector for off-axial backscattered particles between the proxy electrode and the objective lens; and a pre-amplifier for amplifying a signal of the first detector, wherein the pre-amplifier is at least one of (i) integrated with the first detector, (ii) arranged adjacent to the first detector inside a vacuum housing of the charged particle beam device, and (iii) fixedly mounted in a vacuum chamber of the charged particle beam device. Further, a method for imaging and/or inspecting a sample with a charged particle beam device is described.
US11183357B2
A MBFEX tube (1) for an x-ray device comprises, in a vacuum tube (20), an anode (30) designed as a cooling finger and securely arranged in the vacuum tube, and a plurality of securely arranged cathodes (40, 41, 42), wherein the vacuum tube (20) comprises a plurality of cathode feed lines (50) and no more than two high-voltage bushings (51, 52), in a high-voltage bushing (52) a coolant pipe (31) is passed through by an internal coolant inner pipe (32), the coolant pipe (31) and the coolant inner pipe (32) are provided for cooling the anode (30) with a liquid coolant, the cathodes (40, 41, 42) are provided for field emission of electrons and are arranged on the anode (30) for generating x-ray sources (Q).
US11183354B2
The present disclosure provides a drawer-type carrying device for an accelerator and an cabin structure for the accelerator, the drawer-type carrying device for the accelerator includes a frame mechanism and a drawing mechanism. The frame mechanism is used for installing the accelerator; the drawing mechanism is connected with the frame mechanism and the frame mechanism is movable relative to the drawing mechanism. The cabin structure for the accelerator includes a cabin, a shielding mechanism and a drawer-type carrying device for the accelerator. The cabin has a working area and a maintenance area. The shielding mechanism is disposed in the working area and has a side opening door facing towards the maintenance area. The frame mechanism is capable of drawn from the shielding mechanism into the maintenance area when the side opening door is opened.
US11183352B2
Disclosed is an air circuit breaker including a safety cover. According to embodiments disclosed herein, a setting unit of an overcurrent trip relay exposed to the outside through an opening is covered by the safety cover, and thus manipulation of the setting unit is not allowed before opening the safety cover. Accordingly, an accident due to malfunction or manipulation of the overcurrent trip relay by an unauthorized person may be prevented.
US11183345B2
The present disclosure discloses a keyswitch with supporting mechanism. The keyswitch comprising a supporting mechanism disposed between the keycap and the baseplate, wherein the keycap is able to move up and down relative to the baseplate, wherein the supporting mechanism comprises a first supporting element, on which two opposite first side surfaces respectively comprise a first connecting part; and a second supporting element, on which two opposite second side surfaces respectively comprise a second connecting part, the first connecting parts are pivotally connected to the corresponding second connecting parts, wherein two protrusions are respectively disposed on each of the two first side surfaces of the first supporting element, two smooth surfaces are respectively formed on each of the two protrusions, and the first connecting parts are respectively disposed on each of the two protrusions.
US11183339B2
A capacitor comprising a solid electrolytic capacitor element that contains a sintered porous anode body, a dielectric film that is formed by sequential vapor deposition and overlies the anode body, and a solid electrolyte that overlies the dielectric film is provided. A method for forming a solid electrolytic capacitor element is also provided.
US11183328B2
A coupled inductor for low electromagnetic interference includes a plurality of windings and a composite magnetic core including a coupling magnetic structure formed of a first magnetic material and a leakage magnetic structure formed of a second magnetic material having a distributed gap. The coupling magnetic structure magnetically couples together the plurality of windings, and the leakage magnetic structure provides leakage magnetic flux paths for the plurality of windings.
US11183326B2
The present disclosure discloses a coil structure for a dry-type transformer and a winding method therefor. The coil structure for a dry-type transformer comprises multiple coil layers and a supporting framework, which is provided with multiple supporting layers. The spacer blocks of each intermediate supporting layer comprise a rising spacer block for rising and supporting spacer blocks in addition to the rising spacer block, a thickness of the rising spacer block being greater than a thickness of the supporting spacer block, and the rising spacer blocks of several intermediate supporting layers being staggered along the circumferential direction. The present disclosure decreases the height of the entire coil efficiently, meanwhile abates the problem that the wire is centralized in a single area, inhibits the temperature rise phenomenon of transformers efficiently, and prolongs the lifetime of transformers.
US11183324B2
An inductor array includes a body including at least three coils and external electrodes arranged on external surfaces of the body. The at least three coils are arranged to be spaced apart from each other by a predetermined distance in one direction of the body, and here, the at least three coils have the same characteristic value. A minimum distance between mutually adjacent coils among the at least three coils is changed according to the number of turns of a coil pattern included in an area formed between the centers of cores of mutually adjacent coils.
US11183318B2
Wraps that provide heat and flame resistant properties to a portable radio, a remote speaker microphone (RSM), and a cord therebetween have an elongate body having a head and a tail, opposing first and second major surfaces that each have first and second elongate edges, and first and second elongate sides. The elongate body is made of flame and heat resistant fabric and has first fasteners positioned as a releasably mateable pair when the first and second elongate sides meet or overlap in a wrapped positioned. The head defines an opening therethrough positioned for alignment with a voice amplifier of a RSM when the wrap is in a wrapped position around the RSM. A wrap may be and independent article or it may be sewn to a firefighter turnout coat on a front boy section proximate a neck section of the coat.
US11183314B2
Disclosed are methods for minimizing x-ray scattering artifacts, the method comprising: contacting an object with an x-ray scattering mitigation material. The contacting can comprise coating the x-ray scattering material on the object, including spraying a solution of suspension of an x-ray scattering mitigation material onto the object or dry powder coating the object with a x-ray scattering mitigation material. Alternatively, the contacting can comprise immersing the object in a fluid comprising the x-ray scattering material. The fluid can be a gas, a liquid, or a gel. The disclosed x-ray scattering mitigation material can be optimized for mitigating Compton radiation scattering or for mitigating Rayleigh radiation scattering. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present disclosure.
US11183308B2
A mechanism is provided in a data processing system comprising at least one processor and at least one memory, the at least one memory comprising instructions executed by the at least one processor to cause the at least one processor to implement a drug response estimation engine. The drug response estimation engine receives real-world evidence for a plurality of patients. A patient similarity network builder component executing within the drug response estimation engine builds a patient similarity network. A regression analysis component executing within the drug response estimation engine builds a network localized regression analysis approach. A patient clustering component executing within the drug response estimation engine groups patients based on demographics and comorbidities to form a plurality of patient clusters. The drug response estimation engine estimates drug responses for a given patient based on the patient similarity network, the network localized regression analysis approach, and the plurality of patient clusters. The drug response estimation engine outputs the drug responses for the given patient.
US11183294B2
Methods and systems are provided for managing identifying information for an entity. The identifying information of the entity embedded in or associated with a digital image is detected, wherein the identifying information is selected from the group consisting of: text information and image information corresponding to one or more features of an entity. The text information may be removed from the digital image. The image information may be replaced with one or more computer generated synthetic images, wherein the computer generated synthetic images are based on a natural appearance of the digital image. The synthetic content, which may be generated by a GAN, is based on a natural appearance of the image. The medical image may also contain PHI in text-based fields associated with private tags/fields, which are automatically identified and removed using the systems and methods provided herein.
US11183292B2
The invention provides, in some aspects, a system for implementing a rule derived basis to display anonymized image sets. In various embodiments of the invention, users with the appropriate permission can launch a function inside a system in order to anonymize and export the currently loaded study or studies, or one or more studies identified by a search criteria. The data from the studies that were identified is then anonymized on the system using predefined rules. In an embodiment of the present invention, the data from selected studies is anonymized on a server, and only then transmitted to another network device thus minimizing the risk that protected health information can be inadvertently disclosed. In an alternative embodiment of the present invention, the data from selected studies is anonymized on a server, and only the anonymized data is stored to the hard disk or other media of a user viewing the study.
US11183291B2
Techniques are disclosed herein for generating personalized nutritional recommendations using predicted values of target biomarkers. Using the technologies described herein, a programmatic analysis is performed on different data to predict values of target biomarkers that are associated with an individual. Personalized nutritional recommendations are then generated, using the predicted values, and provided to the individual. The predictions are based on data that is associated with the individual, such as microbiome data, ketone data, glucose data, nutritional data, questionnaire data, and the like. A prediction service can utilize a machine learning mechanism to generate the predicted value of the target biomarkers. A nutrition service utilizes the predicted value of the target biomarkers when generating the personalized nutritional recommendations.
US11183287B2
A method, system and computer-readable medium are provided for determining compliance with patient care protocols, comprising an infusion pump providing infusion information pertaining to one or more drugs administered to a patient, the one or more drugs including sedatives and analgesics, and a processor communicably coupled to the infusion pump and configured to determine information regarding the one or more drugs being administered to the patient based on the infusion information by determining a baseline threshold for the one or more drugs being administered to the patient according to the actual dosage of the one or more drugs administered to the patient prior to a current time, determining a dosage amount of the one or more drugs currently being administered to the patient and comparing the dosage amount of the one or more drugs currently being administered to the baseline threshold to determine a deviation from the baseline threshold.
US11183285B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, a computer program product, and a computer system for medication decision support. A computer generates one or more patient profiles detailing one or more patient health conditions and one or more medication profiles detailing one or more medication side effects. The computer then determines an association between the one or more patient health conditions and one or more medication side effects and quantifies the association as a conflict score. In addition, the computer determines whether the conflict score exceeds a threshold and, if so, the computer identifies and recommends an alternative medication having a lower conflict score.
US11183277B2
Intelligence and analytics may be improved by combining sets of disparate data records and matching records between entities. The matched records may then be analyzed by identifying relevant entities and providing information to a user containing the combined sets of secure data records and the analysis. The information may be customized for the user after identifying the user accessing the interface. Additionally, rules may be applied to the analyzed data to enhance the data when viewed by the user.
US11183275B1
A patient case may be evaluated whenever new information is received or as scheduled. Evaluation may include resolving a Diagnosis-Related Group (DRG) code and determining a CDI scoring approach based at least in part on a result from the resolving. Resolving a DRG code may include determining whether a DRG code is associated with the patient case. If no DRG code is found, the system may search for an International Classification of Diseases code or ask a user to select or assign a DRG code. Using the determined CDI scoring approach, a first score may be generated and adjusted by at least one of length of stay, documentation accuracy, payer, patient location, documentation novelty, review timing, case size, or documentation sufficiency. The adjusted score may be normalized and presented to a CDI specialist, perhaps with multiple CDI scores in a sorted order.
US11183274B2
The present invention provides a method for analyzing answers to questions in an electronic document. The method comprises reading, into a memory, the user's answers to the questions and a user's answer history information from the user's answers, wherein the user's answer history information is collected at the time the questions are answered. The method further comprises inputting, into a machine learning model, the user's answers to the questions and the user's answer history information from the user's answers to output an analysis result, wherein the machine learning model is trained, in advance, using one or more sets of training data, each set of training data comprising one or more answers to one or more questions and answer history information from the one or more answers, and a correct result which is obtained by manually judging the one or more answers to the one or more questions.
US11183272B2
Methods for preparing a personalized cancer vaccine and a method to train a machine-learning HLA-peptide presentation prediction model.
US11183271B2
We describe a system and a method that ascertains the strengths of links between pairs of biological sequence variants, by determining numerical link distances that measure the similarity of the molecular phenotypes of the variants. The link distances may be used to associate knowledge about labeled variants to other variants and to prioritize the other variants for subsequent analysis or interpretation. The molecular phenotypes are determined using a neural network, called a molecular phenotype neural network, and may include numerical or descriptive attributes, such as those describing protein-DNA interactions, protein-RNA interactions, protein-protein interactions, splicing patterns, polyadenylation patterns, and microRNA-RNA interactions. Linked genetic variants may be used to ascertain pathogenicity in genetic testing, to identify drug targets, to identify patients that respond similarly to a drug, to ascertain health risks, or to connect patients that have similar molecular phenotypes.
US11183270B2
A system and machine-implemented method for sorting Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) reads in O(n) time and space complexity that makes use low sparsity and nearly uniform distribution of the input array. The genome position field in the input array is used to determine the target position of the output array. Duplicate target positions due to n-fold coverage are handled by assigning either overflow buckets to each position or anterior assigning multiple target slots in the output array for each genome position depending on the distribution of reads over the genome and the resulting probability of hitting an already occupied slot. Once every tuple in the input array has been written to the output array, the output array in read through ascending order and each tuple is appended to the end of a final result array.
US11183269B2
Systems and methods of genomic analysis are presented that provide a framework to determine a tumor's clonality, the number and proportion of all major clones, and the variants that distinguish them. Contemplated systems and methods also allow phasing mutations to parental alleles to so time their emergence within the population of tumor cells, and provide an accurate estimate of the amount of contaminating normal tissue that was present in the tumor biopsy.
US11183268B2
A genomic update system can generate a user interface from network pages based on user variant data and network services associated with the network pages. A trait data structure tracks network services for different trait categories. A given network page of a given category can be used to identify a different category and different network services and content for display to a user. Content in the trait data structure can be included in a user interface with additional contextual visualizations that allow the user to interact with the links and content via a user device, such as a handheld mobile device.
US11183256B2
According to a certain embodiment, the semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array, a control circuit, and a data register storing an erase verify fail flag. An erase target block is divided into word line groups. The control circuit includes: a counter configured to count the number of the erase verify fail flags to be output as a count value for each group; a plurality of counter registers configured to store the count value for each group; an arithmetic circuit configured to take a difference of the plurality of count values respectively stored in the plurality of counter registers and to output a result of the difference as a number of second fail flags; and a comparator configured to compare the number of criteria of the erase verify fail flag and the number of the second fail flags to be output as a memory state detected result.
US11183253B2
A master-slave system and a data transmission method thereof are provided. The master-slave system includes a slave device and a master device. The master device is coupled to the slave device via a power line. The master device outputs a voltage signal to the slave device via the power line. In a first period, the master device outputs the voltage signal subject to a first voltage level change to the slave device based on first data via the power line, so that the slave device obtains the first data based on the first voltage level change. In a second period, the slave device changes load of the power line based on second data, so that the voltage signal on the power line is subject to a second voltage level change. The master device obtains the second data based on the second voltage level change.
US11183247B2
Methods of operating a memory include boosting a channel voltage of a memory cell selected for programming to a particular voltage level for a particular programming pulse, boosting the channel voltage of the memory cell selected for programming to a second voltage level, greater than the particular voltage level, for a subsequent programming pulse, and boosting the channel voltage of the memory cell selected for programming to a third voltage level, greater than the second voltage level, for a next subsequent programming pulse.
US11183239B2
An operation method of a resistive memory device includes receiving write data and an address; determining whether the write data is in a first state or in a second state; applying a first pulse to a target memory cell corresponding to the address, among a plurality of memory cells, when the write data is in the first state; and selectively applying, when the write data is in the second state, a second pulse to the target memory cell according to a comparison result of the write data and pre-read data which is pre-stored data read from the target memory cell.
US11183237B2
A timing control circuit in an integrated circuit memory device. The circuit has an input line, a first output line and a second output line. The input line configured to receive a control signal for the timing control circuit to generate, a first selection input on the first output line and a second selection input on the second output line. In response to the control signal transitioning from a first state to a second state, the first selection input completes a first transition before the second selection input starts a second transition (e.g., for selection between 0V and −4.5V); and in response to the control signal transitioning from the second state to the first state, the second selection input completes a third transition before the first selection input starts fourth transition (e.g., for selection between 5V and 1.2V). The sequential transitions avoid simultaneous selection of 5V and −4.5V.
US11183228B2
A memory circuit device includes multiple memory cells that are each constituted of a resistive memory element; a write circuit unit that is configured to write data to any one of the memory cells which is designated by cell designating information, and a read circuit unit that is configured to read out, from the memory cell designated by the cell designating information, data written in the memory cell. The memory circuit device has a configuration including a selection circuit unit that is shared by both of the write circuit unit and the read circuit unit and configured to select a memory cell to be activated from the multiple memory cells based on cell designating information, and a control circuit unit that is configured to selectively enable any one of writing of data by the write circuit unit and reading of data by the read circuit unit with respect to the memory cell selected by the selection circuit unit.
US11183225B2
Memories and methods for performing an atomic memory operation are disclosed, including a memory having a memory store, operation logic, and a command decoder. Operation logic can be configured to receive data and perform operations thereon in accordance with internal control signals. A command decoder can be configured to receive command packets having at least a memory command portion in which a memory command is provided and data configuration portion in which configuration information related to data associated with a command packet is provided. The command decoder is further configured to generate a command control signal based at least in part on the memory command and further configured to generate control signal based at least in part on the configuration information.
US11183221B2
In certain embodiments, a video file may be obtained based on one or more predetermined criteria. Information associated with a user (to which dynamic content derived from at least a video portion of the video file is to be presented) may be obtained. The video file may be processed based on the information associated with the user to determine reference points within the video file. The dynamic content may be generated based on the reference points such that the dynamic content comprises a first video portion of the video file (that corresponds to at least one of the reference points) and additional content related to the first video portion. The dynamic content may be provided for presentation to the user.
US11183218B2
A vinyl record storage device features separate pockets for isolated storage of the vinyl record and its associated outer jacket. The jacket-holding pocket features a selectively openable and recloseable closure normally kept in a closed position, even during insertion and removal of the record to and from the other pocket, to maintain the jacket in pristine condition.
US11183217B1
A recording system for a heat assisted magnetic recording hard disc drive (HDD) includes a head suspension pair including a first head/slider facing a first direction, and a second head/slider facing an opposite direction from the first head/slider. A number of near field transducers (NFTs) are disposed on each of the first head/slider and the second head/slider.
US11183209B2
A magnetic recording medium in a shape of a tape that is long in a longitudinal direction and is short in a width direction is provided, the medium including: a base material; and a magnetic layer, in which the magnetic layer includes a data band long in the longitudinal direction in which a data signal is to be written, and a servo band long in the longitudinal direction in which a servo signal is written, and in the magnetic layer, a degree of vertical orientation is greater than or equal to 65%, a half width of a solitary waveform in a reproduction waveform of the servo signal is less than or equal to 195 nm, a thickness of the magnetic layer is less than or equal to 90 nm, and a thickness of the base material is less than or equal to 4.2 μm.
US11183208B2
A recording device, a control device, a recording method, a recording tape cartridge, and a data recording and reproducing system capable of accurately positioning a data recording and reproducing head are obtained. A recording device includes a recording unit that records information on linearity of a servo signal recorded on a magnetic tape included in a recording tape cartridge on an RFID tag included in the recording tape cartridge.
US11183206B2
A magnetic tape cartridge including: a magnetic tape; and a recording medium including a predetermined area for recording defect information, which is information regarding a defect of the magnetic tape detected in a production process of the magnetic tape. A recording device, a recording method, a data recording and reproducing system, and a data recording and reproducing method are also provided.
US11183205B1
A method for generating an acoustic stimulus for use in an ear biometric process on a user, the method comprising: receiving an indication of stimulation frequencies for use in the ear biometric process; grouping the stimulation frequencies into bands of a psychoacoustic scale; generating the acoustic stimulus, the acoustic stimulus comprising a masked bandpass component within each band of the psychoacoustic scale that comprises one or more of the stimulation frequencies.
US11183204B2
A voice recognition system includes a computing device and at least one mobile terminal communicatively coupled to the computing device through a network. The computing device obtains an original sound from the at least one mobile terminal and converts the original sound into a digitized time-frequency map, performs compression segmentation on the time-frequency map to obtain a sound image corresponding to the time-frequency map, and uses an image recognition method to recognize the sound image, obtain an enhanced sound image, and search a preset database for sound information corresponding to the enhanced sound image.
US11183196B2
A downmixer for downmixing at least two channels of a multichannel signal having the two or more channels includes: a processor for calculating a partial downmix signal from the at least two channels; a complementary signal calculator for calculating a complementary signal from the multichannel signal, the complementary signal being different from the partial downmix signal; and an adder for adding the partial downmix signal and the complementary signal to obtain a downmix signal of the multichannel signal.
US11183189B2
An information processing apparatus including an output control unit that controls display of a user interface related to a recognition application. The output control unit causes a visual effect to be output to an input field to which a recognition result is input, the visual effect indicating a state related to recognition. Also provided is an information processing method including controlling, by a processor, display of a user interface related to a recognition application. Controlling of the display further includes causing a visual effect to be output to an input field to which a recognition result is input, the visual effect indicating a state related to recognition.
US11183184B2
A method of configuring a laundry course based on speech recognition using artificial intelligence and a device for implementing the same. A washing machine of configuring the laundry course based on the speech recognition includes a speech input unit that receives a speech included with a StainWord or a ClothWord to produce speech data, a communication unit that transmits identification information of speech data and a washing machine to a server and receive course configuring information corresponding to the StainWord or the ClothWord from the server, and a speech guidance unit that outputs a speech guide message that guides a laundry course corresponding to course configuring information, and a control unit that controls a speech input unit, a communication unit, and a speech guidance unit.
US11183172B2
Detecting fricatives in a noisy speech signal having a clean speech signal and a noise signal, includes bandpass filtering of the noisy speech signal with a first transfer function having a first passband range to provide a first filtered noisy speech signal, and bandpass filtering of the noisy speech signal with a second transfer function having a second passband range, the second passband being different from the first passband to provide a second filtered noisy speech signal. Detecting fricatives further includes applying a maximum operation to the first filtered noisy speech signal and the second filtered noisy speech signal to provide a maximum spectrum that is representative of a frequency range of maximum fricative energy, and deciding, based on the maximum spectrum, whether a fricative is contained in the noisy speech signal. A decision signal is output that is representative of the decision.
US11183168B2
A method, computer program, and computer system is provided for converting a singing first singing voice associated with a first speaker to a second singing voice associated with a second speaker. A context associated with one or more phonemes corresponding to the first singing voice is encoded, and the one or more phonemes are aligned to one or more target acoustic frames based on the encoded context. One or more mel-spectrogram features are recursively generated from the aligned phonemes and target acoustic frames, and a sample corresponding to the first singing voice is converted to a sample corresponding to the second singing voice using the generated mel-spectrogram features.
US11183160B1
A system and method to identify a digital representation of a first musical composition including a set of musical blocks. A set of parameters associated with source content are identified. In accordance with one or more rules, one or more of the set of musical blocks of the first musical composition are modified based on the set of parameters to generate a derivative musical composition. An audio file including the derivative musical composition is generated.
US11183155B2
Systems and methods for improving perceived image quality with reduced implementation associated cost and/or improved operational efficiency. A display pipeline includes an input buffer that stores input image data corresponding with an image pixel window, in which the input image data has a first bit-depth and includes image data corresponding with an image pixel in the image pixel window. The display pipeline includes bit-depth adjustment circuitry, which includes a neural network that operates based on a set of bit-depth adjustment parameters to process the input image data to determine whether banding greater than a perceivability threshold is expected to result when the image is displayed directly using the input image data with the first bit-depth and to process the image data corresponding with the image pixel to expand the image data from the first bit-depth to a second bit-depth when the banding visual artifact is greater than the perceivability threshold.
US11183154B2
An image display system includes a plurality of terminals each having a first screen and a display control device that controls a display device including a second screen. The plurality of terminals each transmit to the display control device an image of an active window on the first screen and image supplemental information including image position information indicating a position of the image on the first screen. The display control device receives the image and the image supplemental information, determines a position of the image on the second screen based on the image supplemental information, and causes the image to be displayed at the position determined on the second screen.
US11183153B1
The present disclosure relates to an image display method and device, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The method includes: when a layer mirroring operation for layer-based mirroring of a display image is detected, a layer mirroring instruction including identification information of a layer to be mirrored is generated; responsive to the layer mirroring instruction, a layer transmission interface is created for the layer to be mirrored; the layer mirroring instruction and information of the layer transmission interface are sent to a graphics composition thread; the graphics composition thread is triggered to send layer data of the layer to be mirrored to a multimedia module based on the identification information of the layer to be mirrored through the layer transmission interface, and the multimedia module renders and merges the layer data of the layer to be mirrored into image video data; and the image video data is output.
US11183152B2
A method for compensating for a brightness of an abnormal pixel of a display device is provided. The display device includes a plurality of normal pixels. The method includes: enhancing a brightness of at least one of the normal pixels to compensate for the brightness of the abnormal pixel. The at least one of the normal pixels has a same color as the abnormal pixel, and is adjacent to the abnormal pixel.
US11183147B2
Various aspects of a video processing device and method for display control includes detection, from a sequence of image frames received from a video source, a transition from one or more frames associated with a first metadata to one or more other frames associated with a second metadata. First visual properties of the one or more frames are determined based on the first metadata. Second visual properties of the one or more other frames are determined based on the second metadata. The determined second visual properties of the one or more other frames are controlled in accordance with the determined first visual properties of the one or more frames to enable a smooth transition.
US11183134B2
A display device includes: a switching element connected to a gate line and a data line; a liquid crystal capacitor including a pixel electrode that is connected to the switching element and a common electrode to which a common voltage is applied; and a storage capacitor including a first electrode that is connected to the switching element and a second electrode to which a storage voltage is applied. The display device is operable at a variable frame frequency between a maximum frame frequency and a minimum frame frequency. Capacitance of the storage capacitor is set according to a difference between the maximum frame frequency and the minimum frame frequency, and the storage voltage is greater than the common voltage by more than a predetermined level.
US11183130B2
A display panel, a display device and a driving method are provided. In the display panel, subpixels input with a first voltage data signal and subpixels input with a second voltage data signal are alternately arranged, and among the subpixels with a same color in a same row, the number of the subpixels input with the first voltage data signal with a positive polarity is equal to the number of the subpixels input with the first voltage data signal with a negative polarity; polarities of data signals of the subpixels in a same column are identical.
US11183127B2
A method for driving a display, a display device, and a source driver. The method includes receiving and storing data obtained by dividing and compressing an image frame, decompressing the data, scanning the decompressed data, storing a result of the scanning, and displaying an image corresponding to the scan result.
US11183126B2
A display driver comprises a first memory configured to store mura correction data image processing circuitry configured to perform mura correction on image data to be displayed on a display panel based on the mura correction data received from the first memory, and control circuitry configured to detect a first error in the mura correction data received from the first memory. The control circuitry is further configured to control a communication with a second memory storing the mura correction data based on the detection of the first error.
US11183124B2
A scan driver for a display device includes a plurality of stages outputting scan signals. A first stage of the plurality of stages includes first to sixth transistors connected to a first carry clock line, a carry line, a previous carry line, and a second carry clock line. In a first frame period, the second carry clock line is configured to receive a second carry clock signal having at least one pulse with substantially the same phase as at least one of first pulses of a first carry clock signal to be applied to the first carry clock line.
US11183121B2
A voltage drop compensation system and method for a power supply inside a display panel, to solve technical problems of poor uniformity of screen brightness and high power consumption of the whole screen due to voltage drop of the power supply inside the display panel. The voltage drop compensation system includes a voltage detection circuit and a voltage compensation circuit, where the voltage detection circuit is configured to detect an ELVDD voltage of pixel units in each row; and the voltage compensation circuit is configured to compensate a data voltage of pixel units in each row based on a detected ELVDD voltage.
US11183120B2
Disclosed are a pixel array substrate and a driving method thereof, a display panel, and a display device. The pixel array substrate includes a plurality of pixel units arranged in a plurality of pixel rows, and common electrodes distributed in the plurality of pixel rows. Each of the plurality of pixel units includes a light emitting element, first electrodes of light emitting elements of a plurality of pixel units in each of the plurality of pixel rows are electrically connected with each other to form a common electrode in the each of the plurality of pixel rows, and the common electrodes in the plurality of pixel rows are insulated from each other.
US11183112B2
A display device includes a substrate including a first pixel region and a second pixel region having a smaller area than the first pixel region. The second pixel region is connected to the first pixel region. A first pixel is provided in the first pixel region and a second pixel is provided in the second pixel region. A first line is connected to the first pixel and a second line is connected to the second pixel. A dummy unit overlaps at least one of the first line and the second line, and compensates for a difference in load values between the first and second lines.
US11183107B2
A display device including: a first pixel region including first pixels connected to a data line and first scan lines; a second pixel region in contact with the first pixel region at a first boundary and including second pixels connected to the data line and second scan lines; and a third pixel region in contact with the second pixel region at a second boundary and including third pixels connected to the data line and third scan lines, wherein the display device is configured to scale an image displayed in the second pixel region one or more times based on the second pixel region maintaining a folded state.
US11183104B2
A method for processing data for display on a screen involves encoding, using a first colour space, a first portion of image data intended to be displayed on a first area of the screen and encoding, using a second colour space, a second portion of image data intended to be displayed on a second area of the screen. The encoded first and second portions of the image data are compressed, and transmitted over a link for display on the screen. By using different colour spaces to encode image data that is displayed in different parts of a screen, differences in a user's vision and/or aberrations caused by display equipment may be accounted for and so provide an improved user experience. Using different colour spaces for different screen areas may also reduce the amount of data that needs to be transmitted, for example by encoding image data more effectively and/or allowing more efficient compression of data.
US11183101B2
A display driver comprises: digital gamma circuitry configured to generate a voltage data based on an image data for a pixel of interest; compensating circuitry configured to calculate a total current of the display panel; and correction circuitry. The correction circuitry is configured to correct the voltage data, based on the calculated total current.
US11183099B1
Systems and methods for a six-primary color system for display. A six-primary color system increases the number of primary colors available in a color system and color system equipment. Increasing the number of primary colors reduces metameric errors from viewer to viewer. The six-primary color system includes Red, Green, Blue, Cyan, Yellow, and Magenta primaries. The systems of the present invention maintain compatibility with existing color systems and equipment and provide systems for backwards compatibility with older color systems.
US11183095B2
Methods, systems, and devices that support a dynamic screen refresh rate are described. An electronic device may dynamically (e.g., autonomously, while operating) adjust the rate at which a screen is refreshed, such as to balance considerations such as user experience and power consumption by the electronic device. For example, the electronic device may use an increased refresh rate when executing applications for which user experience is enhanced by a higher refresh rate and may use a decreased refresh rate when executing other applications. As another example, the electronic device may use different refresh rates while executing different portions of the same application, as some aspects of an application (e.g., more intense portions of a video game) may benefit more than others from a higher refresh rate. The electronic device may also account of rother factors, such as battery level, when setting or adjusting the refresh rate of the screen.
US11183093B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a pixel arrangement structure, a display panel, and a display device. The pixel arrangement structure includes at least one repeating pixel group, wherein each of the at least one repeating pixel group includes a first pixel unit, a second pixel unit, a third pixel unit, and a fourth pixel unit. Two sub-pixels of the first pixel unit are adjacent to two sub-pixels of the second pixel unit, and two sub-pixels of the third pixel unit are adjacent to two sub-pixels of the fourth pixel unit, thereby achieving pixel multiplexing.
US11183082B2
Systems and methods of sharing driver coaching data are provided. Driver coaching systems learn the characteristics of a deceleration or acceleration event. Driver coaching data may be determined with the goal of increasing operating efficiency, such as recouping energy while operating a vehicle that can recapture energy. Coaching cues are provided to the driver so that the vehicle can be operated in a way that achieves the goal of increasing recouped energy. Driver coaching data can also be shared. For example, an estimated operating efficiency that is associated with previously operating a first vehicle based on previous coaching data can be compared to a measured operating efficiency associated with currently operation a second vehicle. Based on the comparison, coaching cues may be presented to the drive of the second vehicle without the second vehicle having to perform its own learning process for the driver coaching function.
US11183076B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products for cognitive content mapping and collating are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes identifying resources relevant to an existing course; partitioning, based on pre-determined partitioning parameters, (i) the existing course into multiple portions and (ii) the resources into multiple portions; detecting content coverage gaps in the existing course by semantically comparing (i) the multiple portions of the existing course with (ii) the multiple portions of the resources; retrieving, based on the detected content coverage gaps, at least one of the multiple portions of the resources; and generating an updated version of the existing course by incorporating the at least one retrieved portion of the resources into the existing course.
US11183066B2
Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for analyzing a driving tendency and a system for controlling a vehicle. The apparatus includes: an image sensor disposed in a vehicle so as to have a field of view exterior of the vehicle, the image sensor configured to capture image data; and a controller comprising at least one processor configured to process the image data captured by the image sensor, wherein the controller is configured to: identify a plurality of objects present in the field of view, responsive at least in part to processing of the image data; determine whether an event is generated, based on at least one of a processing result of the image data and pre-stored driving information of the vehicle; analyze a driving tendency of a driver, based on the driving information and the processing result of the image data, when it is determined that the event is generated; and set a driving level corresponding to the driving tendency of the driver.
US11183062B2
A method and a system for providing a parking recommendation are disclosed herein. The method may include obtaining a route destination location from a user equipment, obtaining parking data for a pre-determined time period, wherein the parking data comprises a plurality of parked locations and a plurality of destination locations, and providing the parking recommendation based on a last mile model, wherein the last mile model is based on the route destination location and the obtained parking data, wherein the last mile model comprises a time-dependent distance threshold.
US11183060B2
A parking management system and a parking management method are disclosed. The parking management system includes a control device and a parking space boundary indicating device. The control device is configured to acquire size information of a vehicle to be parked and information of the vacant area where no vehicle is parked in a parking lot, determine parking area information of the vehicle to be parked according to the size information and the information of the vacant area, and send the parking area information to the parking space boundary indicating device; the parking space boundary indicating device is configured to form parking space boundary lines by shedding light on a parking area according to the parking area information.
US11183059B2
According to one embodiment, in response to a request to park an ADV into a parking lot, a remote server is accessed over a network (e.g., a VX2 link) to obtain a list of parking spaces that appear to be available in the parking lot. Based on the list of available parking spaces and the map associated with the parking lot, a route is generated to navigate through at least the available parking spaces. The ADV is driven according to the route to locate at least one of the available parking spaces and to park the ADV into the located available parking space. The centralized server is configured to periodically receive signals from a number of parking lots indicating which of the parking spaces of the parking lots are apparently available.
US11183054B1
In an information processing device, a determination unit determines whether a first distance from a position of a vehicle within a predetermined range of an intersection having a stop line to a road link of the intersection is shorter than a second distance from the position of the vehicle to a road link other than the road link of the intersection, based on vehicle information including information indicating the position of the vehicle and map information. An identification unit identifies whether the vehicle has stopped at the stop line, based on the vehicle information, when the first distance is determined to be shorter than the second distance.
US11183051B2
Methods and software utilizing artificial neural networks (ANNs) to estimate density and/or flow (speed) of objects in one or more scenes each captured in one or more images. In some embodiments, the ANNs and their training configured to provide reliable estimates despite one or more challenges that include but are not limited to, low-resolution images, low framerate image acquisition, high rates of object occlusions, large camera perspective, widely varying lighting conditions, and widely varying weather conditions. In some embodiments, fully convolutional networks (FCNs) are used in the ANNs. In some embodiments, a long short-term memory network (LSTM) is used with an FCN. In such embodiments, the LSTM can be connected to the FCN in a residual learning manner or in a direct connected manner. Also disclosed are methods of generating training images for training an ANN-based estimating algorithm that make training of the estimating algorithm less costly.
US11183049B1
Monitoring and instigating shifts in visual focus by monitoring a first duration associated with a first focus point distance, determining that the first focus point distance satisfies a first distance threshold and that the first duration satisfies a first temporal threshold, instigating a change in the first focus point distance, yielding a second focus point distance, wherein the second focus point distance exceeds a second distance threshold, monitoring a second duration associated with the second focus point distance, determining that the second duration satisfies a second temporal threshold, and providing an output indicating satisfaction of the second distance threshold and second temporal threshold.
US11183047B2
Embodiments of the present invention describe identifying and containing contaminants using, IoT devices. Embodiments describe, identifying objects and user activity in a designated area through a plurality of internet of things (IoT) devices and a plurality of IoT sensors, determining a contamination risk in the designated area, and generating an augmented reality contamination path for the contamination risk based on the identified objects and user activity in the designated area. Additionally, embodiments describe, displaying an augmented reality contamination path to a user on an augmented reality device, and activating an IoT containment device to contain the contamination risk.
US11183042B2
A thermographic detector device for a fire alarm control system is described herein. In some examples, one or more embodiments include a thermography camera configured to capture a thermal image within a field of view of the thermographic detector device, a memory and a processor to execute instructions stored in the memory to detect a fault associated with the thermographic detector device, wherein the fault includes at least one of a field of view fault, an operating parameter fault, and an internal fault, generate a fault signal upon detecting the fault, and provide a notification of the fault using the fault signal.
US11183041B2
Embodiments of a sensor device, method and system employ a multiplicity of environmental sensors as a single monitoring and alerting mechanism, operable to provide a profile of any contaminant in terms of various gases and particles in the atmosphere, quantified in terms of relative concentrations. In various embodiments, the sensor device can comprise hardware and firmware elements, including an electronic control system, a case, a shield and a cover. The environmental sensors can be secured as part of the electronic control system and the shield can be formed so as to facilitate proper channeling of air and sound for effective operation.
US11183036B2
A device designed to validate and transport paper currency in a protected fashion. While being transported, the device monitors for tampering or break-in attempts and subsequently generates warning notifications, or sounds an alarm depending on configuration and the type of tampering detected. The transport case provides end-to-end cash accountability from a location where a bill is inserted into the case, to the bank or cash destination, where the transport case is delivered. Additionally, a docking station accessory is described in which the transport case can be securely fixed while at a point of sale.
US11183033B2
A processor of a gaming machine displays a game outcome on a display device and accumulates, among symbol meters displayed by the display device, bonus symbols awarded based on the game outcome. After accumulating the bonus symbols, the processor creates, based on input from a player interface, a request to substitute a first set of bonus symbols accumulated among the symbol meters for a second set of bonus symbols accumulated by another gaming machine, and sends the request to the another gaming machine. In response to receiving an acceptance of the request from the another gaming machine, the processor removes the first set of bonus symbols from the symbol meters of the gaming machine, and adds the second set of bonus symbols to the symbol meters of the gaming machine. The processor triggers an event in response to the symbol meters accumulating a winning set of bonus symbols.
US11183030B2
Methods and apparatus for game play using virtual players, sometimes referred to herein as vBots, where they may have images including those of real world personalities, such as sports personalities, is disclosed. In one aspect, a method for game play involves the use of the system electronic system environment described herein, wherein one or more virtual players are displayed to the player of the game, preferably, the virtual players have differing play characteristics, receiving from the user association with a selection of a virtual player, displaying a simulated game using the virtual players, identifying a subset of the virtual players as being winners of the simulated game, and awarding a win to the lottery user if the selected virtual player is in the subset of virtual players. In one aspect, a team may be formed in which real life sports personalities images are utilized.
US11183028B2
In some embodiments, a broker pools funds from multiple clients and uses the funds to place bets in casinos.
US11183026B2
The gaming system of the present disclosure provides a Class II bingo game with a corresponding Class III game outcome presentation. For a play of the Class II bingo game and for a player, the gaming system simulates the game play and appearance of a traditional Class III game by displaying a Class III game outcome presentation associated with the outcome of the bingo card. If the matched spots on the player's bingo card form one of multiple winning patterns, the gaming system displays one of multiple winning Class III game outcome presentations. If the matched spots on the bingo card almost form one of the winning patterns without forming any of the winning patterns, the gaming system displays an anticipatory losing Class III game outcome presentation that almost forms one of the winning Class III game outcome presentations without forming any of the winning Class III game outcome presentations.
US11183024B2
A method is described for running a feature on a gaming system comprising a plurality of gaming consoles linked by a communication network. The method comprises running at least one elimination round of the feature. A set of participating gaming consoles are determined for the elimination round and a group of options is displayed on the participating gaming consoles. Selections of options from the group are entered by players at the participating gaming consoles and a winning option is displayed from the group of options. Consoles are eliminated from the set of participating consoles unless the winning option was selected at the respective console; and further elimination rounds are commenced unless termination criteria are met. A flashing sequence of lights and sounds may be exhibited to reveal the winning option.
US11183022B2
A game server is configured to implement a multiplayer online computer-implemented game that provides an inflationary economy system which allows for growth in a player's in-game virtual currency with an increase in game level or experience, while attenuating the in-game purchasing power by concomitantly inflating virtual currency value of predefined inflationary features. The inflationary features include rewards or winnings available by the player pursuant to gameplay success. Players at different inflationary levels can compete in-game for a common reward or jackpot, but a virtual currency value of the reward is denominated differently at different inflation levels.
US11183021B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to an apparatus, system, computer readable storage media, and/or method that involve or otherwise facilitate a card game or secondary card game played on a gaming device. The card game may be structured to use similar rules to a blackjack-styled card game. The card game may be played against an opponent, such as a computer, dealer, or another player. Alternatively, the card game may include the display of one or more cards and a process to determine if a total value of the cards meets a predefined criterion. A win against an opponent or satisfaction of the predefined criterion may progress the card game to another round of play. These rounds of play may continue until an opponent wins, or until the predefined criterion is not satisfied.
US11183008B2
The present invention discloses a device, a system and a method for providing a remote live wager-based gaming environment through playing on real/physical casino tables and using real casino chips/tokens that the player can touch and feel with his/her hands as well as opening and revealing bendable display devices that stimulates the playing cards to give the feeling of touching and feeling real cards in hand. A computing device is in communication with an online casino and works as an intermediate between the gaming device and the online casino. Gaming devices are in communication with the computing device and configured to enable a player to perform at least one gaming activity at a gaming field. The gaming devices comprises at least one display device, casino chips/tokens. A detector device is configured to detect and identify a gaming data of the at least one gaming activity.
US11183006B2
A detection system according to the present invention includes a control device that detects fraud conducted on a game table by using the image analysis result obtained by an image analysis device. In addition, each game token used in this detection system has a multilayer structure having plastic layers with a plurality of different colors stacked on each other, with a colored layer being provided at least intermediately, and white layers or light-colored layers (not illustrated, but may be any layers lighter in color than the colored layer) being stacked on two sides of the intermediate colored layer. As described above, this game token has a multi-layer structure including the colored layer, with the white layers or light-colored layers (not illustrated, but may be any layers lighter in color than the colored layer) being stacked on the two sides of the intermediate colored layer.
US11183005B2
A gaming signage system may include one or more movable displays. One or more movable displays may present first visual effects while the one or more moveable displays are in a first configuration in which at least one game feature presentation device is not viewable. In response to a trigger event indication (which may correspond to a base game event), the movable display(s) may move to a second configuration and reveal the game feature presentation device. The game feature presentation device may be used to present a bonus feature and/or to present a different aspect of the base game. Alternatively, at least a portion of a movable display may be hidden when in a first configuration. At least the portion of the movable display(s) may present a bonus feature and/or a different aspect of the base game when in the second configuration.
US11183001B2
An electric vehicle charging station network includes multiple electric vehicle charging stations belonging to multiple charging station hosts. Each host controls one or more charging stations. A charging station network server provides an interface that allows each of the hosts to define one or more pricing specifications for charging electric vehicles on one or more of their electric vehicle charging stations belonging to that host. The pricing specifications are applied to the charging stations such that a cost of charging electric vehicles using those charging stations is calculated according to the pricing specifications.
US11183000B2
An automatic vending machine includes a product housing rack including a plurality of product housing shelves that are disposed in an up-down direction, a plurality of product housing paths corresponding to the plurality of product housing shelves, each product housing path being defined in the corresponding product housing shelf and configured to house products, a plurality of product discharge devices corresponding to the plurality of product housing shelves and the plurality of product housing paths, each product discharge device being configured to separate and discharge, one by one, the products that are housed in the corresponding product housing path. The product housing shelf includes a front side shelf member and a back side shelf member that are divided in the front-back direction, supported by support members, and detachably coupled with each other so that the front side shelf member is sandwiched by the back side shelf member.
US11182996B2
Disclosed are a belt type barricade and an automatic control system capable of improving operation efficiency of the belt type barricade. The barricade includes a belt roll module configured to have an electromagnet belt automatically fastened to or detached from an adjacent barricade, a driving wheel module configured to support autonomous driving and movement by controlling a plurality of driving wheels, and a barricade control module configured to control the fastening and detachment operation of the electromagnet belt of the belt roll module and driving of the driving wheel module based on arrangement structure design information or waiting mode switching information that is received in real time. The barricade autonomously performs a movement for forming a waiting guide line, a movement for automatic charging, belt fastening, awaiter sensing, waiting information indication, and wireless communication functions. Accordingly, the time required and manpower for constructing a waiting line can be reduced.
US11182993B2
A System, method, or device may include delivery device comprising a receptacle for receiving a load, a coupler for closing an access opening of the receptacle, and an access sensor for detecting an access event at the coupler or access opening. The delivery device may include one or more of a content sensor (e.g., to detect a weight of the load), an environment sensor, and a delivery assistance system. A remote server may receive a delivery request from a recipient device indicating a pick-up location and a drop-off location associated with the recipient device and, in response, store an association of the delivery device with the delivery personnel. Upon detecting the occurrence of the access event, the system may determine whether the access event comprises an authorized event or a tamper event, and send a notification indicating whether the access event comprises the authorized event or the tamper event.
US11182983B2
Provided is a same vehicle detection device, including: a first license plate information acquisition unit configured to store, in a first recording unit, first license plate information acquired from an onboard unit installed in a vehicle; a second license plate information acquisition unit configured to store, in a second recording unit, second license plate information of the vehicle read in, based on an image captured by shooting a predetermined region including the license plate of the vehicle; and a same vehicle determination unit configured to determine whether the first license plate information stored in the first recording device relates to the same vehicle as the second license plate information stored in the second recording device.
US11182975B2
Example systems and methods for virtual visualization of a three-dimensional (3D) model of an object in a two-dimensional (2D) environment. The method may include projecting a ray from a user device to a ground plane and determining an angle at which the projected ray touches the ground plane. The method further helps determine a level for the ground plane for positioning the 3D model of the object in the 2D environment.
US11182970B1
A system may include an augmented reality (AR) aircraft window. The AR aircraft window may include a transparent emissive display layer, a camera, and a processor communicatively coupled to the transparent emissive display layer and the camera. The processor may be configured to: receive, from an avionics computing device, aircraft data including information of a location, an altitude, a heading, and a bank angle of an aircraft; receive video from the camera; perform head tracking operations to determine a position of at least one of eyes or a head of a user based at least on the video from the camera; generate graphical AR content aligned with the user's view through the AR aircraft window based at least on the aircraft data and performance of the head tracking operations; and output, to the transparent emissive display layer, the graphical AR content when at least one window shader element is transparent.
US11182961B2
A method and system of representing a virtual object in a view of a real environment is provided which includes providing image information of a first image of at least part of a human face captured by a camera, providing at least one human face specific characteristic, determining an image area of the face in the first image as a face region, determining at least one first light falling on the face according to the face region and the at least one human face specific characteristic, and blending in the virtual object on a display device in the view of the real environment according to at least one first light. The method further includes providing a plurality of face sample positions, providing for each of the plurality of face sample positions a radiance transfer function, determining image positions of the face sample positions in the first image, and determining a first light according to intensity information associated with the image positions of the face sample positions in the first image and the radiance transfer functions associated with the face sample positions in the first image.
US11182958B2
In various embodiments, computerized methods and systems for rendering near-field objects as perceivable far-field objects within a virtual environment are provided. A determination is made that a near-field object to be rendered is configured for far-field perception within the virtual environment. The virtual environment is operable to include one or more virtualized near-field objects that are stereoscopically rendered utilizing one or more stereoscopic projection transforms generated based at least in part on a position and orientation of a head-mounted display. A harmonize transform is generated for the configured near-field object based at least in part on one of the stereoscopic projection transforms. Based on the determination that the near-field object is configured for far-field perception, the generated harmonize transform is employed to stereoscopically render the configured near-field object as a perceivable far-field object within the virtual environment.
US11182952B2
A method and system is provided for culling hidden objects in a tile-based graphics system before they are indicated in a display list for a tile. A rendering space is divided into a plurality of regions which may for example be a plurality of tiles or a plurality of areas into which one or more tiles are divided. Depth thresholds for the regions, which are used to identify hidden objects for culling, are updated when an object entirely covers a region and in dependence on a comparison between a depth value for the object and the depth threshold for the region. For example, if the depth threshold is a maximum depth threshold, the depth threshold may be updated if an object entirely covers the tile and the maximum depth value of the object is less than the maximum depth threshold.
US11182948B2
Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that receives, at a topology shader in a graphics pipeline, an object description and generates, at the topology shader, a set of polygons based on the object description. Additionally, the set of polygons may be sent to a vertex shader.
US11182947B1
In one embodiment, a system may access a codec that encodes an appearance associated with a subject and comprise codec portions that respectively correspond to body parts of the subject. The system may generate a training codec that comprises a first subset of the codec portions (a first set of body parts) and a modified second subset of the codec portions (muted body parts). The system may decode the training codec using a machine-learning model to generate a mesh of the subject. The system may transform the mesh of the subject based on a predetermined pose. The system may update the machine-learning model based on a comparison between the transformed mesh and a target mesh of the subject having the predetermined pose. The system in the present application can train a machine-learning model to render an avatar with a pose using uncorrelated codec portions corresponding to different body parts.
US11182946B2
Techniques for providing real-time feedback in performing certain sporting activities are described. According to one aspect of the present invention, instructions are provided based on motions performed by a user in reference to motions performed by a chosen instructor. Various attributes about the motions by the user are analyzed, derived and compared with stored parameters per the motions performed by a chosen instructor. An animation based on the user or an avatar representing the user is rendered per the motion attributes of the user. Various techniques or algorithms are designed to provide different perspective views of the motions by the user and the instructor and compare the motions or poses by the user and the instructor.
US11182941B2
An object is coupled to a glyph in a text segment, while maintaining the text segment as editable. The text segment includes glyphs, which are graphical representations of characters. Each glyph is defined internally in the form of path information, which includes one or more points corresponding to the outline of the glyph. The path information for the text segment is determined and utilized in order to facilitate the coupling of an object with the text segment. The text segment remains editable as text subsequent to such coupling.
US11182937B1
The technology described herein is directed to a Bezier manipulation tool that facilitates a handle-movement paradigm for cohesive manipulation of a selected group of Bezier handles. In some implementations, the Bezier manipulation tool manipulates a selected group of Bezier handles by collectively selecting and synchronously (or concurrently) manipulating multiple handles. For example, when the Bezier manipulation tool detects a user-initiated manipulation of a reference handle of a selected group of Bezier handles, angular and radial length movements of the reference handle occurring as a result of the user-initiated manipulation are calculated relative to an anchor point associated with the reference handle. The Bezier manipulation tool cohesively manipulates other Bezier handles of the selected group of Bezier handles in accordance with the angular and radial length movements of the reference handle, e.g. {delta-theta, delta-r}, concurrent with the user-initiated manipulation of the reference handle.
US11182928B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, apparatus for determining a rotation angle of an engineering mechanical device, an electronic device and a computer readable medium. The method may include: acquiring a depth image sequence acquired by a binocular camera disposed at a rotating portion of the engineering mechanical device during rotation of the rotating portion of the engineering mechanical device; converting the depth image sequence into a three-dimensional point cloud sequence; and determining a matching point between three-dimensional point cloud frames in the three-dimensional point cloud sequence, determining a rotation angle of the binocular camera during the rotation of the rotating portion of the engineering mechanical device based on the matching point between the three-dimensional point cloud frames as the rotation angle of the engineering mechanical device.
US11182926B2
A system for recognizing collision positions of a plurality of moving objects in a screen includes an infrared camera configured to obtain an image frame when a plurality of moving objects move toward a screen, a memory configured to store a program for calculating a collision position in the screen on the basis of the image frame, and a processor configured to execute the program stored in the memory. By executing the program, the processor detects all of the plurality of moving objects from the image frame to generate a graph where moving objects included in a successive image frame are connected to one another, and calculates a collision position of the moving object included in the image frame and a collision position of the moving object in the screen on the basis of the graph.
US11182920B2
Automated determination of muscle mass from images can be carried by performing a thresholding process to an image file to generate a contrasted image, and segmenting pixels of the contrasted image into bone and not bone. The system can distinguish muscle from organ for the pixels segmented as not bone by determining a location of a rib cage of the patient using the pixels segmented as bone, and removing pixels segmented as not bone that are located within the location of the rib cage. The system can calculate a volume of muscle based on remaining pixels segmented as not bone; calculate a total muscle mass based on the volume of muscle; and provide the total muscle mass of the patient. The total muscle mass of the patient can then be used for applications including calculating a glomerular filtration rate.
US11182912B2
A method of registering images by adjusting a distribution of spatial frequencies of correlation between spatial frequency functions of images, a number of images being N, where N being an integer equal to or larger than two, and determining at least one shift between the images using the frequency distribution adjusted correlation.
US11182907B2
Systems and methods for managing motions of an anatomical region of interest of a patient during image-guided radiotherapy are disclosed. An exemplary system may include an image acquisition device, a radiotherapy device, and a processor device. The processor device may be configured to control the image acquisition device to acquire at least one 2D image. Each 2D image may include a cross-sectional image of the anatomical region of interest. The processor device may also be configured to perform automatic contouring in each 2D image to extract a set of contour elements segmenting the cross-sectional image of the anatomical region of interest in that 2D image. The processor device may be further configured to match the set of contour elements to a 3D surface image of the anatomical region of interest to determine a motion of the anatomical region of interest and to control radiation delivery based on the determined motion.
US11182906B2
Technology for performing object tracking of an object in a video image using both object detection algorithm and an object tracking algorithm. Because object detection algorithms are generally slower, but accurate, than object tracking algorithms, only certain sampled video frames are subject to the object detection algorithm. The non-sampled frames locate the object using the object tracking algorithm, using the most recent previous object detected frame as a starting frame. In this way, the object detection algorithm is used to periodically, effectively calibrate the object tracking algorithm by using a lagging detection result to hide latency introduced by the object detection algorithm.
US11182905B2
Introduced here are computer programs and associated computer-implemented techniques for finding the correspondence between sets of graphical elements that share a similar structure. In contrast to conventional approaches, this approach can leverage the similar structure to discover how two sets of graphical elements are related to one another without the relationship needing to be explicitly specified. To accomplish this, a graphics editing platform can employ one or more algorithms designed to encode the structure of graphical elements using a directed graph and then compute element-to-element correspondence between different sets of graphical elements that share a similar structure.
US11182904B2
The present disclosure may provide a method for segmenting an image. The method may include obtaining an image and related information. The image may include a tumor region. The method may also include determining a region of interest in the image. The region of interest may include the tumor region. The method may also include performing a first segmentation of the region of interest to obtain a first segmentation result. The first segmentation may include: determining tumor morphology relating to the tumor region; performing a second segmentation of the region of interest to obtain a second segmentation result; and optimizing, based on the tumor morphology, the second segmentation result to obtain the first segmentation result.
US11182900B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for receiving digital images of a pathology specimen from a patient, the pathology specimen comprising tumor tissue, the one or more digital images being associated with data about a plurality of biomarkers in the tumor tissue and data about a surrounding invasive margin around the tumor tissue; identifying the tumor tissue and the surrounding invasive margin region to be analyzed for each of the one or more digital images; generating, using a machine learning model on the one or more digital images, at least one inference of a presence of the plurality of biomarkers in the tumor tissue and the surrounding invasive margin region; determining a spatial relationship of each of the plurality of biomarkers identified in the tumor tissue and the surrounding invasive margin region to themselves and to other cell types; and determining a prediction for a treatment outcome and/or at least one treatment recommendation for the patient.
US11182898B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for image reconstruction. The systems may perform the methods to obtain image data, at least a portion of the image data relating to a region of interest (ROI); determine local information of the image data, the local information relating to orientation information of the image data; determine a regularization item based on the local information; and modify the image data based on the regularization item.
US11182897B2
A medical image processing device includes circuitry configured to: calculate relative information including relative positional relation of a pathologically diagnosed position in a subject with respect to an observation image of the subject captured by an imager, by using data on the observation image and pathological diagnosis information on the subject; and generate, based on the relative information, data on a displayed observation image resulting from addition of the pathological diagnosis information to the data on the observation image.
US11182893B2
A method of pretreating a sample including biological particles, the method including a step of acquiring a fraction (1b) which passes through a sieve (A) having meshes of 250 to 1000 μm and does not pass through a sieve (B) having meshes of 32 to 63 μm by sieving a sample including biological particles as a detection target, and a step of adding a colloidal solution having a density of 1.10 to 2.45 g/cm3 to the fraction (1b), subjecting the resultant solution to centrifugation, and acquiring a supernatant fraction (S0) after the centrifugation.
US11182892B2
A misregistration metrology system and method useful in the manufacture of semiconductor devices, the multilayered semiconductor devices including a first periodic structure having a first pitch along a first axis, the first periodic structure being formed together with a first layer of the multilayered semiconductor device, a second periodic structure having a second pitch along a second axis, the second axis not being parallel to the first axis, the second periodic structure being formed together with the first layer of the multilayered semiconductor device and a third periodic structure having a third pitch along a third axis, the third axis not being parallel to the first axis and the third axis not being parallel to the second axis, the third periodic structure being formed together with a second layer of the multilayered semiconductor device, the third periodic structure and the first and second periodic structures overlying one another, the misregistration metrology system and method including generating a single image of the first periodic structure, the second periodic structure and third periodic structure, thereby providing an aggregate signal, extracting a first component from the aggregate signal, the first component being due to the first periodic structure, extracting a second component from the aggregate signal, the second component being due to the second periodic structure, extracting a third component from the aggregate signal, the third component being due to the third periodic structure and analyzing the first component, the second component and the third component, thereby to ascertain misregistration between the first layer and the second layer.
US11182884B2
The various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards methods for tone mapping High-Dynamic-Range (HDR) image data, as well as controlling the brightness of the image encoded by HDR the image data and/or the tone-mapped image data. HDR image is captured. A tone mapping function for the HDR image data is generated. To generate the tone mapping function, control points are dynamically determined based on an analysis of the HDR image data. The tone mapping function is fit to the control points. The tone mapping function is a non-linear function, and is described by a curve in a plane. The shape of the curve is constrained by a line generated from a portion of the control points. The tone mapping function is applied to the HDR image data. A color-compression is applied to the tone mapped image data to generate Standard Dynamic Range or Low Dynamic Range image data.
US11182879B1
A video system for creating a display in a video conference. The video system includes a web camera to capture an image of a user at a first distance from the web camera and a background that extends away from the camera at a second distance greater than the first distance. The video system also has a distance measuring system to measure the first distance between the user and the web camera. The video system establishes an artificial focal length at least as great as the first distance and less than the second distance to artificially blur the background while maintaining the user in focus. The display thus shows the user in focus and a blurred background. The purposefully-blurred background is known as synthetic bokeh.
US11182868B1
The present disclosure generally relates to generating an automated police report after an accident. For example, a police officer may scan in an insurance card barcode, a VIN barcode, a driver's license number, etc., to populate fields of the automated police report. The automated police report may also include telematics data from an associated vehicle to determine an impact of a collision, a time and location of the collision, etc. A scene of the accident may also be reconstructed using satellite images and/or video taken at the time of the accident. For example, the scene may be reconstructed based on image sensors on the vehicle, weather data at the time of the collision, data communicated vehicle-to-vehicle from another vehicle, telematics data, etc. Images of the reconstructed scene and/or images of the actual scene from the satellite video may be included in the automated police report.
US11182860B2
Methods and systems for facilitating photo-based estimation are described. In an aspect, a server is configured to send via a communications module to a remote computing device a first signal comprising a chat interface. The server may receive, via the communications module and from the remote computing device, a second signal representing input received at the remote computing device through the chat interface. The server may identify an account associated with the remote computing device and retrieve policy data associated with the identified account from the data store. The server may automatically evaluate the input and policy data against predetermined criteria to determine whether a claim has a low risk level and, when the claim is determined to have a low risk level, engage a photo-based estimation module.
US11182837B2
A computer-implemented method for creating a photo product design with minimal user inputs includes generating a first portion of a photo product design by a product design module in response to user input, determining one or more layout parameters from the user input to the first portion of the photo product design by a user design learning module, automatically creating a second portion of the photo product design by an intelligent product creation engine at least in part in response to the one or more layout parameters, and automatically making a physical photo product based on at least the first portion and the second portion of the photo product design.
US11182832B2
Methods and systems for enabling multi-merchant coupon campaigns within an online publication system are described. In an example, a method can include generating an item listing, receiving information specifying a set of coupon criteria, detecting an event within a multi-merchant publication system, and present a coupon in response to detecting the event. The generating an item listing can be based on information received from a merchant-computer. If the set of coupon criteria is detected it can result in presenting a coupon for the item listing. The event can satisfy a particular coupon criteria from the set of coupon criteria.
US11182819B2
Systems and methods for digital coin exchange. A digital coin platform receives a distribution request from an entity server comprising digital multimedia content associated with an entity. Digital coins are created responsive to the request. Each digital coin comprises a first coin associated with the entity and a second coin associated with consumers. The first and second coins are linked via linking information. The first coins are transferred to the entity server. A consumption request including the digital multimedia content is transmitted to a consumer device. Responsive to an indication that the content is at least partially consumed via the consumer device, one or more second coins are transferred to the consumer device. The digital coins and the transferred first and second coins are recorded. The transferred second coins permit the consumer device to perform transactions associated with the entity.
US11182818B1
A reward card platform includes a database storing funding accounts, reward card purchase transactions, and aberrant activity rules. A first user interface enables purchasing reward cards, including controls to specify reward card parameters. A second user interface enables specifying rules to detect aberrant activity. The second user interface includes user interface controls to specify the rule parameters, including: specifying a moving window of time; specifying an aggregation type; specifying filtering; specifying aggregation grouping; and specifying a threshold value for triggering an alert. The platform includes a rules execution engine that runs periodically to evaluate each of the rules. For each rule, the engine identifies transactions whose timestamps fall within the moving window of time relative to a current time and satisfies the filters, then computes an aggregation of the transactions according to the aggregation type and aggregation grouping. When the aggregation exceeds the threshold value, the platform raises an alert.
US11182814B1
A system for processing a digital promotion may include mobile wireless communications devices and a digital promotion server. The digital promotion server may be configured to operate a messenger bot to collect information and communicate a first digital promotion for a first product to at least one mobile wireless communications device based upon the collected information. The digital promotion server may also be configured to determine an underperforming redemption location for the first digital promotion for the first product having underperforming sales of the first product relative to other redemption locations and obtain an identification of a second product also included with the first product from transaction receipts. The digital promotion server may also be configured to generate a second digital promotion associated with the second product for redemption at the underperforming redemption location and communicate the second digital promotion to the mobile wireless communications devices.
US11182801B2
A computer-implemented method of authenticating a product comprises receiving, from a scanner terminal, a query message including a hapto-signature of the product to be authenticated, the hapto-signature including at least one haptic characteristic of the product as scanned by a touch-sensitive surface of the scanner terminal. The method comprises comparing the received hapto-signature against a hapto-signature database comprising a plurality of reference hapto-signatures, each reference hapto-signature having an associated product, to determine whether or not the received hapto-signature matches at least one of the reference hapto-signatures, wherein a determination that the received hapto-signature matches at least one of the reference hapto-signatures indicates that the product is authentic. The method comprises generating and sending a response message indicative of whether or not the received hapto-signature matches at least one of the reference hapto-signature.
US11182795B2
Methods and systems are presented for classifying a particular user account as a fraudulent user account by analyzing links between the user account and two or more known fraudulent user accounts collectively. Attributes of the particular user account are compared against attributes of a plurality of known fraudulent accounts to determine that the particular user account has shared attributes with a first known fraudulent account and a second known fraudulent account. The shared attributes with the first known fraudulent account and the second known fraudulent account are analyzed collectively to determine a risk level for the particular user account. The risk level may indicate a likelihood that the particular user account corresponds to a fraudulent account.
US11182779B2
A method for generation of an application cryptogram for use in a payment transaction includes: storing, in a first memory, a single use key associated with a transaction account; electronically transmitting the single use key to a processing server; receiving an encrypted session key and a server encryption key from the processing server; executing a first query to store the encrypted session key in the first memory and a second query to store the server encryption key in a second memory; decrypting the encrypted session key using the server encryption key; generating an application cryptogram based on the decrypted session key; and electronically transmitting the generated application cryptogram for use in a payment transaction.
US11182769B2
An electronic device and method of processing a payment at the electronic device are provided. The electronic device includes a security memory configured to store payment information of a near field communication (NFC) method, payment information of a magnetic security transmit (MST) method, and fingerprint information, and a processor configured to control a multiple payment operation of the NFC method and the MST method when fingerprint information obtained through fingerprint detection is valid. The processor is further configured to control a signal processing information according to the NFC method operation and a signal processing information according to the MST method operation to be outputted as one screen interface.
US11182763B1
In an example, the present invention provides a local area network system for a micro-market application. The system has a world wide network of computers, which comprising the Internet. In an example, the system has a micro market server device coupled to the world wide network of computers. In an example, the micro market server device has a library comprising a listing of a plurality of products, a field configured with the association information, e.g., an identifier for the server device. In an example, the product information is associated with the plurality of products is provided in a product catalog file. The device has a plurality of fields associated with a plurality of micromarket identification information. The micromarket identification information is a unique identifier for the particular micromarket.
US11182752B2
Systems methods and computer programs are disclosed that enable generating transaction messages. In one embodiment, the method comprises: generating a transaction message using a first computing device, the transaction message comprising: compensation information comprising instructions indicating a transaction to be executed in order to undo a previously executed transaction; and a transaction identification that identifies an executing program within the first computing device to execute the transaction; and sending the transaction message over an input/output device connected to the first computing device for processing on a second computing device.
US11182749B2
Methods and systems pertaining to generating a set of appointments for a vehicle shop schedule are described. A method can comprise outputting a first vehicle shop schedule for displaying on a display. The first vehicle shop schedule comprises a first set of appointments. The method further comprises receiving a first new appointment that comprises first temporal data and first customer data. Furthermore, the method comprises generating a second set of appointments by aggregating the first new appointment with the first set of appointments and outputting a second vehicle shop schedule for displaying on the display instead of displaying the first vehicle shop schedule. The second vehicle shop schedule comprises the second set of appointments. One or more appointments can include technician data and shop resource data, such as a vehicle bay or scan tool identifier, for providing schedule views based on technicians or shop resources.
US11182747B2
The present disclosure generally relates to interview training and providing interview feedback. An exemplary method comprises: at an electronic device that is in communication with a display and one or more input devices: receiving, via the one or more input devices, media data corresponding to a user's responses to a plurality of prompts; analyzing the media data; and while displaying, on the display, a media representation of the media data, displaying a plurality of analysis representations overlaid on the media representation, wherein each of the plurality of analysis representations is associated with an analysis of content located at a given time in the media representation and is displayed in coordination with the given time in the media representation.
US11182744B2
Systems herein include a managed content application that can place markers for conversations within secure documents. A separate social application can serve as the platform for the conversations, allowing for efficient conversations that can occur in real time. The markers can be stored with the documents and identify the conversation, allowing users to retrieve historical conversations that occurred on the social application from within the document. This can allow users to quickly come up to speed without having to rehash the conversations with the original participants. Document security can also be maintained without sacrificing conversation efficiency of the social application.
US11182740B2
A recommended SKU number calculation unit 81 calculates a recommended number of SKUs on the basis of a number of SKUs recommended in the past. A recommended SKU number transmission unit 82 transmits the calculated recommended number of SKUs to a store terminal. In addition, in the case where an adopted number of SKUs sent back from a store in response to the transmitted recommended number of SKUs changes continuously and in a consistent trend, the recommended SKU number calculation unit 81 changes the recommended number of SKUs for the store, in accordance with the trend.
US11182723B2
A system for monitoring core body movement comprises a sensor device for collecting a data set representing a plurality of core body movements over time from a monitoring device; a processor for determining a plurality of risk scores from the data set; and an output device for indicating the risk scores.
US11182718B2
Methods and systems assist data center customer to plan virtual data center (“VDC”) configurations, create purchase recommendations to achieve either an expansion or contraction of a VDC, and optimize the data center cost. Methods generate recommendations on lower cost combinations of virtual machine (“VM”) guest OS licenses, server computer hardware and VM software to optimize the costs are generated, generate data center customer plans for additional VMs with guest OS for a projected period of time, provide recommendations on lower cost combination of guest OS licenses, server hardware, and VM software to optimize the cost. Methods also report any underutilized licensed servers and provide recommendations for cost savings when volume licenses can be replaced by instance based software licenses. Methods may generate VM placement recommendations to data center customers while the customers attempt to manually migrate VMs to different server computers.
US11182708B2
A method, system and computer program product for improving collaboration among participants in a collaboration system. In one embodiment of the present invention, a system, referred to herein as the “integration system,” connected to a collaboration system monitors for comments or updates pertaining to a work item involving a customer problem to be resolved by different participants of the collaboration system. These comments or updates for completing the work item are analyzed. After analyzing the comments or updates, strategies are derived for completing the work item based on the analysis of the comments or updates as well as based on stored data of previously resolved work items. The derived strategies are then presented to the appropriate participant(s) to resolve the work item, such as based on the roles of the participant(s) that would most effectively and efficiently perform the strategy.
US11182707B2
A multi-dimensional human resource allocation adviser integrates with one or more employee skill set data sources and processes and aggregates both initial/static and dynamic skill set data from those sources. Machine learning algorithms are then used to normalize and rank the aggregated employee skills with respect to the skill set and requirements associated with a given task, project, or case. The set of employees determined to have employee skill sets that most closely match the skill set and other requirements associated with the given project, task, or case are then filtered based on rules and constraints determined by the requirements of the business and/or the client. The best employee match, or matches, remaining after the rules and constraints filtering are then recommended for assignment/allocation to the given task, project, or case.
US11182706B2
A method, system and computer program product for improving collaboration among participants in a collaboration system. In one embodiment of the present invention, a system, referred to herein as the “integration system,” connected to a collaboration system monitors for comments or updates pertaining to a work item involving a customer problem to be resolved by different participants of the collaboration system. These comments or updates for completing the work item are analyzed. After analyzing the comments or updates, strategies are derived for completing the work item based on the analysis of the comments or updates as well as based on stored data of previously resolved work items. The derived strategies are then presented to the appropriate participant(s) to resolve the work item, such as based on the roles of the participant(s) that would most effectively and efficiently perform the strategy.
US11182703B1
A transaction processing system includes an engine to process transactions in accordance with rules and data. Changes can be made to the rules and data, transactions, and other parameters that have retroactive affects. The transaction processing system includes a reprocessing system to submit reprocessing requests that prompt a transaction processing engine to efficiently reprocess data to generate accurate output data. In addition to helping ensure accurate output results, the reprocessing operation selectively reprocesses information to avoid unnecessarily reprocessing every transaction. Additionally, embodiment of the compensation system allow parallel processing of current transactions and reprocessing operations using batch processing mechanisms. The transaction processing system can be implemented to perform a variety of transaction processing operations, such as processing of compensation related data.
US11182698B2
An apparatus is described for training a behavior of an agent in a physical or digital environment. The apparatus comprises a memory storing the location of at least one reward token in the environment. The location has been specified by a user. At least one processor executes the agent in the environment according to a behavior policy. The processor is configured to observe values of variables comprising: an observation of the agent, an action of the agent and any reward resulting from the reward token. The processor is configured to update the behavior policy using reinforcement learning according to the observed values.
US11182694B2
A system and method for machine learning. The system includes a GPU with a GPU memory, and a key value storage device connected to the GPU memory. The method includes, writing, by the GPU, a key value request to a key value request queue in a input-output region of the GPU memory, the key value request including a key. The method further includes reading, by the key value storage device, the key value request from the key value request queue, and writing, by the key value storage device, in response to the key value request, a value to the input-output region of the GPU memory, the value corresponding to the key of the key value request.
US11182691B1
A determination is made at a machine learning service that a training data set comprising a majority category of observation records and one or more minority categories of observation records meets a criterion for automated sampling. A sampling ratio to be used for a particular category of the majority category and the one or more minority categories is identified. A selected sampling methodology is applied to the particular category to obtain a sample in accordance with the sampling ratio. A particular machine learning model is trained using a result of applying at least the selected sampling methodology on the particular category.
US11182690B1
A qubit controller includes an in-phase path and a quadrature path. A first combiner is configured to combine an output of the in-phase path with an output of the quadrature path to create a single sideband. There is a splitter configured to divide the single sideband into N portions, provide a first portion of the N portions to a qubit corresponding to the qubit controller, and provide each of the remaining N−1 portions to adjacent qubit controllers of a qubit cluster that includes the qubit corresponding to the qubit controller. A second combiner is configured to combine the first portion and N feedback signals received from the adjacent qubit controllers of the qubit cluster.
US11182684B2
A system includes a user model module that generates a plurality of topic-specific user knowledge models for each user of a plurality of users, each topic-specific user knowledge model representing a level of knowledge possessed by a respective user on a single topic from a set of globally defined topics shared among the plurality of users, a expertise model building module that generates a plurality of topic-specific expert knowledge models, each topic-specific expert knowledge model representing an aggregate level of knowledge possessed by a plurality of expert users on a single topic from a set of globally defined topics shared among the plurality of users, and a processor of a computer that executes instructions for comparing the topic-specific user knowledge model of the first user with the topic-specific expert knowledge model for a respective topic to determine a distance between a user knowledge level and an aggregate expert knowledge level for the topic.
US11182667B2
The performance of a neural network (NN) and/or deep neural network (DNN) can be limited by the number of operations being performed as well as management of data among the various memory components of the NN/DNN. By inserting a selected padding in the input data to align the input data in memory, data read/writes can be optimized for processing by the NN/DNN thereby enhancing the overall performance of a NN/DNN. Operatively, an operations controller/iterator can generate one or more instructions that inserts the selected padding into the data. The data padding can be calculated using various characteristics of the input data as well as the NN/DNN as well as characteristics of the cooperating memory components. Padding on the output data can be utilized to support the data alignment at the memory components and the cooperating processing units of the NN/DNN.
US11182666B1
In one example, an integrated circuit includes a first circuit, a second circuit, a third circuit, and a fourth circuit. The first circuit is configured to receive an input value and generate a first intermediate value based on a first probability density distribution associated with the input value. The second circuit comprises a set of multiplexer circuits configured to select, from a first set of candidate values and based on the first intermediate value, a first product of the first intermediate value and a weight value. The third circuit is configured to generate a second intermediate value based on a sum of the first product and a second product received from another circuit. The fourth circuit is configured to generate an output value based on the second intermediate value and a second probability density distribution associated with the second intermediate value.
US11182663B1
A chip card such as a credit card or a debit card that incorporates a protective layer that precludes unauthorized access to the chip in the chip card. The protective layer is a highly conductive layer that shields the chip and prevents electromagnetic waves that may be emitted by an illicit device from accessing the chip. This protective layer thus prevents any unauthorized persons from obtaining confidential information from the chip card that may then be used to consummate fraudulent transactions or conduct other illicit activities.
US11182651B2
A fast object detection method and a fast object detection apparatus using an artificial neural network. The fast object detection method includes obtaining an input image; inputting the obtained input image into an object detection neural network using a plurality of preset bounding boxes; and detecting an object included in the input image by acquiring output data of the object detection neural network.
US11182648B2
The present disclosure provides an end-to-end model training method and apparatus, which relates to a field of artificial intelligence technologies. The method includes: obtaining training data containing a plurality of training samples, in which the plurality of training samples include an original sequence, a target sequence and a corresponding tag list, the tag list includes importance tags in the target sequence and avoidance tags corresponding to the importance tags, and the avoidance tags are irrelevant tags corresponding to the importance tags; and adopting the training data to train a preset end-to-end model until a value of a preset optimization target function is smaller than a preset threshold.
US11182647B2
In one embodiment, a method for tracking includes capturing a first frame of the environment using a first camera, identifying, in the first frame, a first patch that corresponds to the first feature, accessing a first local memory of the first camera that stores reference patches identified in one or more previous frames captured by the first camera, and determining that none of the reference patches stored in the first local memory corresponds to the first feature. The method further includes receiving, from a second camera through a data link connecting the second camera with the first camera, a reference patch corresponding to the first feature. The reference patch is identified in a previous frame captured by the second camera and of the second camera. The method may then determine correspondence data between the first patch and the reference patch, and tracks the first feature in the environment based on the determined correspondence data.
US11182644B2
The present application provides a method and apparatus for pose planar constraining on the basis of planar feature extraction, wherein the method includes: inputting the acquired RGB color image and point cloud image into spatial transformation network to obtain two-dimensional and three-dimensional affine transformation matrixes; extracting the planar features of the transformed two-dimensional affine transformation matrix and three-dimensional affine transformation matrix; inputting the acquired planar features into the decoder and obtain the pixel classification of the planar features; clustering the vectors corresponding to the planar pixels to obtain the segmentation result of the planar sample; using planar fitted by the segmentation result to make planar constraint to the pose calculated by vision algorithm. The application combines RGB-D information to perform plane extraction, and designs a new spatial transformation network to transform two-dimensional color image and three-dimensional point cloud image.
US11182640B2
Methods, apparatuses, and embodiments related to analyzing the content of digital images. A computer extracts multiple sets of visual features, which can be keypoints, based on an image of a selected object. Each of the multiple sets of visual features is extracted by a different visual feature extractor. The computer further extracts a visual word count vector based on the image of the selected object. An image query is executed based on the extracted visual features and the extracted visual word count vector to identify one or more candidate template objects of which the selected object may be an instance. When multiple candidate template objects are identified, a matching algorithm compares the selected object with the candidate template objects to determine a particular candidate template of which the selected object is an instance.
US11182639B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can provide at least one frame of a content item to a saliency prediction model, the saliency prediction model being trained to identify salient points of interest that appear in content items. Information describing at least a first salient point of interest that appears in the at least one frame can be obtained from the saliency prediction model. The first salient point of interest can be predicted to be of interest to users accessing the content item. A view-based projection can be applied to a region corresponding to the first salient point of interest, wherein the view-based projection enhances a quality in which the region is presented.
US11182637B2
Information on an area specified as having an article is acquired, synthesis is performed with X-ray transmission amounts acquired by a plurality of sensors in the same area (for example, the same background and the same luggage), and material information is estimated from the X-ray transmission amount synthesized again to generate a color image. As a synthesis target, for example, combination information of articles accumulated during operation is used, and articles having many combinations are used as combination of articles included in the same luggage. A color image generated by synthesis is used as learning data.
US11182635B2
A personal information separation unit separates a document image containing personal information into a personal information image containing the personal information and a general information image that does not contain the personal information on the basis of the document image, and transmits the general information image to a cloud server. A recognition result integration unit receives a general recognition result that is the recognition result of the character recognition processing for the general information image from the cloud server, and acquires a target recognition result that is the recognition result of the character recognition processing for the document image in accordance with the general recognition result and the information based on the personal information image.
US11182624B2
A method and system for constructing a transverse topological relationship and a memory are provided. In the method, lane group data in a high-definition map is acquired; for each lane group, a shared boundary line group of two adjacent lanes is sequentially extracted, and the number of parallel boundary line elements is determined; if the number is 1, a transverse topological relationship between the two adjacent lanes is not generated, otherwise the number and types of boundary line units on the parallel boundary line elements are determined; and if the number of the boundary line units is 1, the transverse topological relationship between the two adjacent lanes is generated, otherwise segmentation processing is performed on the lane group along a lane direction, and the transverse topological relationship between two adjacent lanes in each of segments, which are obtained by the segmentation processing on the lane group, is sequentially generated.
US11182621B2
Methods are provided for automatically analyzing and understanding activities and interactions. One method comprises receiving at least location information for one or more individual objects in a scene at a given time; applying at least one machine learning or artificial intelligence technique to automatically learn an informative representation of location trajectory data for each object; and identifying and analyzing individual and group activities in the scene based on the trajectory data. Another method comprises receiving at least location information for one or more individual objects in a scene at a given time; receiving visual information about the scene and at least one individual object in the scene; applying at least one machine learning or artificial intelligence technique to automatically learn an informative representation of location trajectory data, and to automatically learn an informative representation of visual appearance data; and combining the location trajectory and visual appearance data.
US11182618B2
The present invention discloses a new method for analyzing, modifying, and distributing digital images and video in a quick, efficient, practical and/or cost-effective way. The method of processing video can take a different region or object and replace the pixels in the frames of the scenes that comprise the features and characteristics of the identified region or object with a different set of pixels. The replacement or other customizations of the frames and scenes lead to a naturally integrated video or image which is indistinguishable by the human eye or other visual system. In one embodiment, this invention can be used to provide different advertising elements into an image or set of images for different viewers, or to enable a viewer to control elements within a video and add their own preference or other elements.
US11182617B2
A method for generating a heat map from a video may include: detecting objects in the video; determining retention times of each of the objects in divided areas of the video; normalizing the retention times of each of the objects according to the sum of the retention times of the corresponding object in the divided areas; and generating a heat map based on the normalized retention times.
US11182614B2
An apparatus configured to be worn on a head of a user, includes: a screen configured to present graphics to the user; a camera system configured to view an environment in which the user is located; and a processing unit configured to determine a map based at least in part on output(s) from the camera system, wherein the map is configured for use by the processing unit to localize the user with respect to the environment; wherein the processing unit of the apparatus is also configured to obtain a metric indicating a likelihood of success to localize the user using the map, and wherein the processing unit is configured to obtain the metric by computing the metric or by receiving the metric.
US11182613B2
In one embodiment, a method includes a system accessing an image, which may comprise covered and uncovered portions, and an overlay image comprising opaque pixels. The covered portion may be configured to be covered by the opaque pixels of the overlay image. The system may generate a data structure comprising data elements associated with pixels of the image. Each of the data elements associated with a covered pixel in the covered portion of the image may be configured to identify an uncovered pixel in the uncovered portion of the image that is closest to the covered pixel. Each covered pixel in the covered portion of the image may be modified by accessing the data element associated with the covered pixel, determining a distance between the covered pixel and an associated closest uncovered pixel using the accessed data element, and modifying a color of the covered pixel based on the distance.
US11182612B2
Various aspects of a systems and method for place recognition based on a 3D point cloud are disclosed herein. A computer-implemented method for place recognition based on a 3D point cloud, comprising: capturing a 3D point cloud of an area in which the mobile agent is traveling; extracting local features of each point in the captured 3D point cloud; generating a global descriptor of each point of the 3D point cloud using a deep neural network, based on the extracted local features; constructing a place descriptor map of the area based on the generated global descriptors; and recognizing the area by using the generated place descriptor map.
US11182610B2
Event recognition systems include a camera and a controller. The controller is communicatively connectable to the camera, and includes a processor and logic that, when executed by the processor, causes the event recognition system to perform operations including: recognizing an event involving an equipment object based upon image data captured by the camera, executing an event procedure based upon the event, the event procedure including controlling the equipment object, and transmitting the image data to a network-based client based upon the event.
US11182606B2
Embodiments are disclosed for generating tables from charts. The techniques include determining a chart type of a selected chart. The techniques include determining a plurality of chart elements of the selected chart. Further, the techniques include determining a plurality of measurements of a plurality of data representations of the selected chart. Additionally, the techniques include determining a plurality of corresponding numeric values for the measurements based on the chart elements. Also, the techniques include generating a data table comprising the chart elements and the corresponding numeric values.
US11182605B2
A search device identifies names of POI from a document group having not been determined. A storage unit that stores a POI presence/absence learning model having learned contexts relating to presence/absence of POI, a POI state learning model having learned contexts relating to states of POI, and a POI name learning model having learned features relating to names of POI, an acceptance unit that accepts a first document group that is a determination target, first and second determination units and an identifying unit that identifies a name of a POI using the POI name learning model from each document of a third document group for which information relating to states of POI is determined by the second determination unit in a second document group are included.
US11182599B2
A motion state evaluation system is provided with a motion analyzer obtains a value representing a motion state of the subject based on a ratio, to a reference length, of a distance between predetermined joints estimated on an image; a reference storage stores a height of a subject as the reference length; a motion analyzer obtains, as a value for use in evaluation of motion of the subject, the value representing the motion state of the subject from a feature point distance on the image of a plurality of anatomical feature points based on a ratio, to the height, of a distance on the image that is determined from the plurality of anatomical feature points and corresponds to the height of the subject; and an evaluation processor evaluates the motion of the subject based on the value representing the motion state.
US11182588B2
A biometric identification apparatus, an unlocking method of biometric identification, and a terminal device are provided. The biometric identification apparatus includes: a fingerprint receiving module, configured to sense approaching of a finger to generate a triggering instruction and collect a fingerprint pattern of a user based on the triggering instruction; and a pulse receiving module, coupled with the fingerprint receiving module and configured to receive the triggering instruction and collect pulse information of the user based on the triggering instruction.
US11182586B2
A background subtraction method includes: obtaining a first background image corresponding to a first object, wherein the first object has a first reflectivity; obtaining a second background image corresponding to a second object, wherein the second object has a second reflectivity, and the first reflectivity is different from the second reflectivity; calculating a plurality of relative values of the first background image relative to the second background image so as to obtain a mask image; obtaining a target image; subtracting the second background image from the target image so as to obtain a first background-removed image; and calculating and outputting a second background-removed image according to the first background image, the second background image, the first background-removed image and the mask image.
US11182585B2
The present application relates to the field of biometric identification technologies, and provides an under-screen optical fingerprint identification device and an electronic apparatus with the under-screen optical fingerprint identification device. The under-screen optical fingerprint identification device comprises a reflecting component, a lens and a fingerprint sensor; the reflecting component, the lens and the fingerprint sensor are provided on a fingerprint detection light path of the under-screen optical fingerprint identification device; the lens is provided on a reflection path of the reflecting component, and is configured to converge fingerprint light reflected by the reflecting component to the fingerprint sensor; an incident angle of the fingerprint light on the display screen is greater than or equal to a preset angle, the fingerprint light being reflected by a finger to the display screen and entering the fingerprint sensor through the fingerprint detection light path.
US11182577B1
A plurality of image frames is received. A line of text comprising a nutritional ingredient and a corresponding frame-specific quantity is recognized in each of at least a subset of the image frames. A reported quantity for the nutritional ingredient is determined based at least in part on the respective corresponding frame-specific quantities.
US11182571B2
A card reader for processing an inserted magnetic card may be equipped with a front sensor arranged in the vicinity of an insertion opening for a magnetic card to detect the insertion of the magnetic card, a rear sensor for detecting the magnetic card when the magnetic card is fully inserted, a magnetic field generating unit for generating a magnetic field in the vicinity of the insertion opening for a magnetic card, and a control unit for controlling a magnetic field to be generated by said magnetic field generating unit at a first strength or at a second strength weaker than the first strength. The control unit may control the strength of the magnetic field to be generated by the magnetic field generating unit at the second strength while the first time period elapses after the rear sensor has detected the magnetic card and then has stopped sensing it.
US11182553B2
A correction candidate presentation method performed by a computer for a voice input system is disclosed. The method includes: displaying, on a display screen, a plurality of word blocks generated by using morphological analysis from a character string obtained by speech recognition and keys each assigned to a corresponding one of the plurality of word blocks; accepting input of a first key of the keys that are displayed; identifying a first word block corresponding to the first key whose input has been accepted; and presenting, on the display screen, correction candidates of at least one word block among the identified first word block and a second word block including the first word block and a word block that is adjacent to the first word block.
US11182549B2
Systems for identifying, tagging, modifying and reconciling information contained in a document are the subjects of the present disclosure. In one embodiment, the document may be linked to one or more source data formats, which are maintained as the document is modified by one or more users over time. The modifications are tracked and associated source data is updated to reflect those modifications. Clauses, terms and conditions may be revised and templates created based on revisions, and accessed by a user for subsequent use. Methods for selecting, modifying, reconciling and tracking a document, as well as presenting suggestions for a document are also disclosed.
US11182548B2
The disclosed technology includes multi-way triggering of automatic replication elements selectively within and across documents, cellular atomization of spreadsheet cells and charts while retaining their desired formula, function and content properties, combining the selective multi-way replication with the cellular atomization, and employing a library capability to easily reuse automatically coordinating elements and atomized spreadsheet or tabular cells and charts.
US11182544B2
Media and method for presenting a user interface for verifying automatically recognized information from forms. Embodiments of the invention may import an image of a form and break the form down into a series of bounding boxes, each including the value of a form item and a description and/or label for the form item. When making use of a particular value from the form image, embodiments of the invention may present the bounding box containing that value to the user, together with enough context for the user to verify that the correct item has been identified and that the automatically recognized value is correct.
US11182534B2
Example embodiments involve remote creation of a playback queue for an event. An example implementation involves a computing device receiving, via a control interface, input data representing a request to create a playlist for an event at a particular future time and date and a designation of multiple invitees to the event and sending, via a network interface to a cloud computing system, instructions representing the request. The instructions cause the cloud server(s) to send, to multiple second mobile devices corresponding to the multiple invitees, one or more respective invitations to the event. Each invitation indicates: (i) a future time and date for the event and (ii) a link to a web interface including user interface controls to add audio tracks to the playlist for the event. During the event, the computing device causes the playlist to be queued in a queue of a media playback system for playback.
US11182528B2
The present disclosure relates to a method of performing electromigration sign-off. The method includes determining a change in temperature due to joule heating from an RMS current of a first interconnect. The change in temperature due to joule heating is added to a change in temperature due to device self-heating to determine a first change in real temperature. A first average current limit is determined for the first interconnect using the first change in real temperature. A first average current on the first interconnect is compared to the first average current limit to determine if a first electromigration violation is present on the first interconnect. A second average current is determined for a second interconnect using a second change in real temperature. The second average current is compared to a second average current limit to determine if a second electromigration violation is present on the second interconnect.
US11182527B2
The present disclosure describes an example method for cell placement in an integrated circuit (IC) layout design. The method includes partitioning a layout area into one or more contiguous units, where each unit includes a plurality of placement sites. The method also includes mapping a first set of pin locations and a second set of pin locations to each of the one or more contiguous units. The method further includes placing a cell in the one or more contiguous units, where the cell is retrieved from a cell library that includes a plurality of pin locations for the cell. The placement of the cell is based on an allocation of one or more pins associated with the cell to at least one of a pin track from the first plurality of pin locations, a pin track from second plurality of pin locations, or a combination thereof.
US11182526B2
Systems and methods for engineering integrated circuit design and development are described. A requester posts a request for an integrated circuit chip design using the systems and methods. Moreover, using design tools of the systems and methods, one or more designers generate one or more designs. The designers use computer software that is provided by the systems and methods to test the one or more designs. Moreover, the designs are independently verified by a design engineering entity or by other designers. The one or more designs are provided to a fab via the systems and methods to fabricate a prototype of an integrated circuit chip. The prototype is tested on a printed circuit board by using a test software, which is provided by the systems and methods.
US11182519B2
An optimization method based on feature extraction and machine learning is provided. At least one input parameter is received. Multiple first historical mold data are retrieved. A similarity calculation is performed according to the input parameter and the first historical mold data. Multiple candidate mold data are selected according to the similarity calculation. The mold design parameters of the candidate mold data corresponding to each input parameter are replaced by the input parameter, and multiple first representative mold data for performing a first simulation analysis are generated. Multiple key feature parameters are found, and multiple second historical mold data are retrieved according to the multiple key feature parameters. An expected data is found, and the mold design parameters of the expected data are filtered and optimized to find multiple second representative mold data for performing a second simulation analysis. At least one set of mold production parameters is generated.
US11182497B2
Techniques and architectures to manage personal data. Permissions are maintained information for one or more portions of the electronic personal record. Connection information for the one or more portions of the electronic personal record are maintained. At least one of the one or more portions of the electronic personal record information from a static document provided by the user and dynamic information obtained via an integration with an external data source. The one or more processors further to evaluate claims on portions of the electronic record from providers utilizing attribute-based security mechanisms. The corresponding portions of the electronic personal record are selectively provided in response to results of the evaluation.
US11182496B1
A proxy server acts as an intermediary between a database client and a database server. The proxy server establishes and maintains a set of logical connections to the database server. The proxy server receives a request from the database client, and generates a set of database commands that, when performed by the database server, are capable of fulfilling the request. The proxy server selects a particular logical connection from the set of logical connections based at least in part on a characteristic of the request, and submits the set of database commands to the database server via the selected particular logical connection. In various examples, the particular logical connection is selected so that various performance, efficiency, and security objectives are achieved.
US11182493B2
The subject disclosure relates to systems and methods for providing privacy for information. In one non-limiting embodiment, a system includes an environment monitoring component configured to monitor an aspect of an environment; and a privacy component configured to: determine whether factors associated with the environment are triggered; and obscure access or provide access to data or a program associated with the factors based on determining that the factors are triggered. Factors can be based on the time and the location or network connectivity of a device associated with the system, the detected presence or absence of an authorized person other than the user logged into the device or the privacy state of the user logged into the device. Motion detectors, cameras, biometric sensors and other devices can be employed in the determination of whether to provide or obscure access to the information.
US11182490B2
Systems, methods, and software for data obfuscation frameworks for user applications are provided herein. An exemplary method includes providing user content to a classification service configured to process the user content to classify portions of the user content as comprising sensitive content, and receiving from the classification service indications of the user content that contains the sensitive content. The method includes presenting graphical indications in a user interface to the user application that annotate the user content as containing the sensitive content, and presenting obfuscation options in the user interface for masking the sensitive content within at least a selected portion among the user content. Responsive to a user selection of at least one of the obfuscation options, the method includes replacing associated user content with obfuscated content that maintains a data scheme of the associated user content.
US11182486B2
A security driver loads early in the boot process for a compute instance and detects processes that are subsequently launched. The detected processes can be recorded, and then scanned with any suitable malware scanning tool(s) once a user mode is available on the compute instance. After the operating system is installed and a user mode is available, other scanning tools may also be deployed (e.g., in the user mode) to augment security of the compute instance.
US11182478B2
A security client can be configured to operate on the one or more computing systems and record all events occurring on the one or more computing systems. The security client can operate as a “security camera” for the computing systems by identifying and retaining data and information that describes and details different events that occur on the computing systems. The security client can be configured to generate event records for the events that are uniquely associated with the process that requested or performed event. Likewise, the security client can be configured to uniquely associate the event records with the specific computing system associated with the event.
US11182476B2
Examples disclosed herein relate to providing enhanced threat intelligence on a security information sharing platform. Some examples may enable correlating a first set of items of threat information from the security information sharing platform. Some examples may enable, responsive to determining that the correlated first set of items of threat information indicate a first malicious action type, creating a new security indicator comprising information from the correlated first set of items of threat information and associating the new security indicator with the first malicious action type. Some examples may enable determining whether a first threat pattern exists based on the new security indicator.
US11182470B2
The present disclosure provides a new and innovative system, method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for securely recovering access to an online service account. Secret splitting is utilized to require multiple recovery mechanisms in order to recover access to an online service account, thus decreasing the likelihood that a malicious attacker will compromise all of the recovery mechanisms to gain access to the online service account. The secret is split into a quantity of tokens via a secret sharing function that can reconstruct the secret with a predetermined threshold quantity of the tokens. The level of security provided by the system is flexible by adjusting the quantity of recovery mechanisms and the predetermined threshold quantity of tokens required to reconstruct the secret.
US11182467B1
Disclosed herein is novel system and method for connecting an NFT digital asset collection for secure display on a feature-rich video display system commensurate with the quality and value of the NFT assets. An exemplary embodiment comprises a system involving a software application that registers one or more secure video displays, accesses by way of owner authorization an NFT digital asset collection or archive, and facilitates displaying the assets on a feature-rich high quality display system.
US11182464B2
A system and method are described for performing authentication on a computing device using a mobile device connected over an audio channel to the computing device, in scenarios where smart card authentication may have been traditionally used. An application executing on the computing device receives a request from a user, which request requires authentication of the user before being allowed by the application. An audio transmission containing encoded data including information authenticating the user is received at the computing device from the user's mobile device via a microphone. The audio transmission is decoded and the information authenticating the user is extracted. The information authenticating the user is verified and the request is allowed in the application.
US11182463B2
The present invention relates to a method to create, by a service provider, a trusted pool of security devices adapted to perform cryptographic operations in a secure service, comprising the steps of: for a service provider, setting up a secure service by allocating a first device in the service, setting the first security device's clock to a reliable time source, creating an internal secure-service-object defining at least a service clock-instance and service-specific cryptographic keys and certificates used to protect communication between a resource owner's security application and a security device part of the secure service, said secure-service-object being maintained by the security device internally preventing any service provider from arbitrarily changing it, when additional security devices are required, for the service provider, adding additional security devices to the service through ensuring the two security devices' clocks are synchronized by setting the target security device's clock to an accurate time value and defining, in the secure-service-object, a max-delta-time and a max-daily-correction per day values limiting the drift between two devices of the pool.
US11182457B2
Matrix factorization based gradient compression may be applied to an allreduce operation to improve efficiency including the elimination of unnecessary meta data while maintaining accuracy in training of deep learning (DL) of Artificial Intelligence. This compression may include generating a predetermined matrix and a degree of data compression k as a dimension of the predetermined matrix for a plurality of computing nodes. Each computing node may receive a corresponding matrix of matrices to be allreduced, and each corresponding matrix may be decomposed into a plurality of non-fixed matrices and the predetermined matrix. The plurality of non-fixed matrices may be summed to provide an optimized matrix, which may be multiplied by the predetermined matrix to provide a result matrix. The optimized matrix may be designated as a predetermined matrix. These operations may be repeated until all of the matrices received by the computing nodes have been allreduced.
US11182456B2
Described herein are systems and methods for providing a user interface for dynamic site compilation in a cloud-based content hub environment. In accordance with an embodiment, embodiments provide a user interface that allows a non-technical user, as well as technical users, such as website developers, to “mark”, or flag, various components of a website or page. One category of such marks or flags can indicate that such items marked or flagged with this category of are to be dynamically loaded upon website access (e.g., fetched from a source and then loaded into a website for viewing), while another category of mark or flag can indicate items so marked to be fixed at compile time (e.g., static cache, that is the content is compiled within the published website).
US11182455B2
Taxonomy driven multi-system networking and content delivery systems and methods are provided herein. An example systems includes a website authoring platform generating a taxonomy structure for a webpage, the taxonomy structure indicating assets to be included in the webpage a layout for the assets, a technical documentation authoring system for creating technical documents related to the assets, and a metadata binder providing the technical documentation authoring system with access to the taxonomy structure of the website authoring platform so that technical document authors are provided with the taxonomy structure to guide creation and structuring of the technical documents so that the technical documents comprise data that corresponds to the assets.
US11182450B2
Embodiments of the inventive concept enable a user to define exactly what and/or where they would like to set a digital pinpoint bookmark within digital content, and at a later time, engage the use of the digital pinpoint bookmark so that they can jump back to the very spot within the digital content where they left off. The pinpoint bookmark is a visual mark that overlays the digital content and that points directly to the spot (i.e., directly to a punctuation mark, letter, word, paragraph, image, video clip, audio clip, or the like) so that it is easy and quick for the user to get back to the exact position within the digital content. The pinpoint bookmark can be cleared using a button. Multiple pinpoint bookmarks across various different personal computing devices associated with a single user can be centrally stored and managed using a remote pinpoint bookmark database.
US11182447B2
Methods, systems and computer program products for providing a customized display of social media content that is automatically filtered based on emotional content are provided. Aspects include receiving a plurality of social media posts that have been published for display by a social media service. Aspects also include receiving an emotional profile including social media post filtering preferences that are based on emotional content of social media posts. In response to performing an emotional content analysis of each of the plurality of social media posts, aspects include identifying a set of emotionally acceptable social media posts and a set of emotionally unacceptable social media. Aspects also include causing the set of emotionally acceptable social media posts to be displayed in a primary news feed window of the social media service in association with an account of the user of the social media service.
US11182446B2
Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods that provide a pipeline to generate personalized queries that are associated with and based on a user's interests determined from a user's past searches, on an Internet search engine, and/or the content the user viewed from the past searches. The suggested queries can be shown in a user interface component associated with the user interface of the search engine and before the user enters anything, such as a new Internet search. This pre-population of searches associated with a user's interests gives an opportunity to the user to try these queries without manually entering in a search string.
US11182445B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method, an apparatus, a server, and a storage medium for recalling for a search. The method for recalling for a search includes: acquiring a search term inputted by a user; calculating a semantic vector of the search term using a pre-trained neural network model; and recalling, according to a pre-established index, target documents related to the semantic vector of the search term from candidate documents, the index being established based on the semantic vectors of the candidate documents, and the semantic vectors of the candidate documents being calculated using the pre-trained neural network model. The embodiments of the present disclosure may solve a problem in the existing method for recalling that the recalling accuracy is affected by failing to generalize semantics, to improve the accuracy of recalling for a search.
US11182442B1
The disclosed embodiments provide a system that improves usage of an application. During operation, the system identifies, in a set of social media posts, a question related to use of the application. Next, the system responds to the set of social media posts with a set of answers to the question on one or more social media platforms and tracks social media responses to the set of answers. The system then calculates a set of relevance scores for the answers based on the tracked social media responses, wherein each relevance score represents a relevance of one of the answers to the question. Upon identifying the question in a subsequent social media post, the system selects an answer from the set of answers based on a relevance score of the answer and posts the answer in response to the subsequent social media post.
US11182441B2
Methods, products and apparatus are provided for hypotheses generation using searchable unstructured data corpus. In one method, a query is generated based on at least one attribute of at least one instance in a dataset. The query is provided to a search engine searching in an unstructured data corpus. An hypothesis for the database is based on a new attribute whose value is defined based on the one or more results. Another method comprises obtaining a set of keywords from a plurality of hypotheses extracted from a database. A query is generated based on an attribute of an instance in the dataset, where the attribute corresponds to an hypothesis. A search engine executes the query to provide results which are used to augment an instance with a new attribute, where a value of the new attribute is computed based on the one or more results.
US11182438B2
Aspects of the invention are configured to perform an operation comprising receiving a query specifying an AND condition and an OR condition, determining, based on an AND index structure, a set of documents, of a plurality of documents in a corpus, satisfying the AND condition of the query, computing a query similarity score for a first document in the set of documents, wherein the query similarity score is based on a first hash value computed for the OR condition of the query, a weight value for the OR condition, and a second hash value for the first document specified in an OR index, and returning an indication of the first document and the query similarity score as responsive to the query.
US11182435B2
Taking as input a group of text pairs for learning in which each pair is constituted with a first text for learning and a second text for learning that serves as an answer when a question is made with the first text for learning, a query expansion model is learned so as to generate a text serving as an expanded query for a text serving as a query.
US11182427B2
In embodiments, the present invention provides a method and system for managing playback of content delivered to a mobile device with a pause and resume functionality. The method and system including receiving delivered content on a mobile device, initiating playback of the delivered content, pausing playback of the content being delivered to the mobile device in response to an action and resuming delivery of the content upon a request.
US11182417B1
A method and system for facilitating content conversion is disclosed. A user request generated from a user device of a user to facilitate at least one output content based on one or more user preferences is received. At least one input content is received from at least one content source based on the one or more user preferences. Thereafter, the at least one output content is generated from the at least one input content based on one or more content characteristics. The one or more content characteristics are accessed from a plurality of content based library files for conversion of the at least one input content into the at least one output content. The at least one output content is facilitated on a content output device.
US11182415B2
Embodiments of the invention include method, systems and computer program products for document vectorization. Aspects include receiving, by a processor, a plurality of documents each having a plurality of word. The processor utilizing a vector embeddings engine generates a vector to represent each of the plurality of words in the plurality of documents. An image representation for each document in the plurality of documents is created and a word probability for each of the plurality of words in the plurality of documents is generated. A position for each word probability is determined in the image based on the vector associated with each word and a compression operation on the images is performed to produce a compact representation for the plurality of documents.
US11182408B2
A computer-implemented technique is described herein for using a machine-trained model to identify individual objects within images. The technique then creates a relational index for the identified objects. That is, each index entry in the relational index is associated with a given object, and includes a set of attributes pertaining to the given object. One such attribute identifies at least one latent semantic vector associated with the given object. Each attribute provides a way of linking the given object to one or more other objects in the relational index. In one application of this technique, a user may submit a query that specifies a query object. The technique consults the relational index to find one or more objects that are related to the query object. In some cases, the query object and each of the other objects have a complementary relationship.
US11182405B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for providing a lock-free parallel log replay and synchronization scheme to support asynchronous table replication. By synchronizing a replica table with the server-side data and conducting subsequent updates using transaction logs via a replayer, locking of tables may be avoided. A consistent transactional state may be maintained by employing a replayer to mark the table as enabled instead of a synchronizer. The replayer may also deduce transitive closures among transactions and replay the transactions in parallel based on the deduced transitive closures to optimize playback. These techniques provide enhanced data availability and minimize database blocking and deadlocking while improving query performance.
US11182401B1
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for generating higher level summary tablature based on lower level tablature are disclosed. The systems and methods may involve at least one processor configured to: receive a selection of at least one item contained on both a first board and a second board; detect a first type of information; detect a second type of information; detect a third type of information; detect a fourth type of information; analyze characteristics to ascertain that the first type of information is aggregable with the third type of information, and that the second type of information is aggregable with the fourth type of information; present the at least one item on a third board; and aggregate on the third board, the first type of information with the third type of information, and the second type of information with the fourth type of information.
US11182390B2
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for selecting content items for presentation via client devices are provided. A content event associated with a content item performed by a client device may be detected. The content item may be associated with an entity. A conversion event, associated with the entity, performed by the client device may be detected. A duration of time between the content event and the conversion event may be determined. An attribution score may be determined based upon the duration of time. A plurality of attribution scores, comprising the attribution score, may be stored in an attribution data structure associated with the content item. Responsive to receiving a request for content associated with a second client device, the content item may be selected from a plurality of content items for presentation via the second client device based upon the attribution data structure.
US11182385B2
A method includes receiving, by a first computing entity of a database system, data that is organized in rows and columns. The method further includes determining, by the first computing entity, one or more key columns from the columns based on a desired sort criteria for the data. The method further includes sorting, by the first computing entity, other columns of the columns based on the one or more key columns to produce sorted other columns. The method further includes sending, by the first computing entity, the one or more key columns to a second computing entity of the database system for storage in a first storage location associated with the second computing entity. The method further includes sending, by the first computing entity, the sorted other columns to the second computing entity for storage in a second storage location associated with the second computing entity.
US11182382B2
A system and method are described to create and use an Integrated Object Environment (IOE) running in a graph database environment. Uses include storing, revealing and maintaining value and risk of information assets, such as the topology of an analytical infrastructure in query-driven, graph database. A graphical user interface is described to permit importation, viewing, modification and querying in the IOE.
US11182379B2
Described herein are systems and methods for a DAG based transaction processing system and method in a distributed ledger. In accordance with an embodiment, a DAG based transaction processing system and method in a distributed ledger can be introduced. The model can help achieve improved throughput performance. With additional weight mechanism, the final performance can be adjusted based on various business requirements. This is different from existing work that uses linear structure and can achieve better performance.
US11182378B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for processing database requests on a database hosted on a stateless, non-persistent computing environment are provided. A server stores database requests to insert update or delete data in a unit of work set identified by a unique code. The database requests are performed on the database upon receiving an instruction to commit the database requests to the database. If an instruction is sent to rollback a unit of work set the database remains unchanged. This allows a client to handle requests in logical groups.
US11182377B2
A system may include (i) a database disposed within a computational instance of a remote network management platform that manages a managed network and (ii) server device(s) associated with the computational instance. The database is configured to store records related to issues with configuration items of the managed network, each record assigned to one of a plurality of states including: a first state for newly-opened records, a second state for records undergoing assessment, a third state for records undergoing root cause analysis, a fourth state for records with a fix in progress, a fifth state for resolved records, and a sixth state for closed records. Additionally, the server device(s) are configured to generate and provide graphical user interface panes to a client device associated with the managed network, each of the graphical user interface panes corresponding to one of the plurality of states for a particular record.
US11182366B2
Aspects described herein relate to methods and systems for comparing data stored in disparate parallel systems using hash sums. A database having a parallel system architecture may comprise a plurality of nodes each storing a plurality of records. A central node may initiate parallel calculation of a set of node hash sums for each individual node. Calculating a node hash sum for an individual node may comprise calculating, by the individual node, a set of hash values for each individual record of the plurality of records stored by the individual node and combining each hash value of the set of hash values to generate the node hash sum for the individual node. The central processor may combine each node hash sum to generate a database hash sum. The central processor may store the generated database hash sum and/or utilize it in comparisons with database hash sums for other databases.
US11182364B2
Series data in a table form and which includes a plurality of records each having a value of a response variable, response variable series identification information, a value of an explanatory variable, and explanatory variable series identification information identifying series of the explanatory variable associated with one another is stored. An analytical record that is any of the records and that contains the value of the response variable or the value of the explanatory variable possibly influencing the response variable at a time of analyzing the response variable is identified; and an additional record having the value of the response variable or the value of the explanatory variable in the identified analytical record associated with the value of the response variable in a predetermined record that is any of the records is generated, and analytical series data obtained by adding the generated additional record to the series data is generated.
US11182363B2
A method for validating data in a copy repository is disclosed. In one embodiment, such a method includes establishing a template that designates valid fields within a data set, as well as valid values and types of data within the fields. The method further establishes a timeframe over which to validate versions of the data set residing in a copy repository. Starting at a first end of the timeframe and proceeding to a second end, the method validates each version of the data set residing in the copy repository. To accomplish this, the method configures a computing system to a state that existed when the version was created in the copy repository. The method then opens the version on the computing system and validates the version against the template. A corresponding system and computer program product are also disclosed.
US11182361B2
Techniques facilitating iterative widening search for designing chemical compounds are provided. A computer-implemented method can comprise receiving, by a system operatively coupled to a processor, an indication of a constrained structure portion of a chemical compound and a first unconstrained structure portion of the chemical compound. The method can also comprise determining, by the system, a second unconstrained structure portion for the chemical compound based on a determination that the second unconstrained structure portion satisfies a defined condition related to a difference between the first unconstrained structure portion and the second unconstrained structure portion.
US11182358B2
A controller-implemented method includes reading, by a controller, a scrub unit containing a read unit and, in response to determining that the scrub unit is not marked as being scrubbed in a current scrub cycle, storing, by the controller, the scrub unit to a memory. The method also includes marking, by the controller, another scrub unit associated with the stored scrub unit as a scrub-pending scrub unit and reading, by the controller, the scrub-pending scrub unit in response to determining that a subsequent read matches predefined criteria. The method includes performing, by the controller, a scrub using the stored scrub unit and the scrub-pending scrub unit. A system includes a processor and logic integrated with the processor, executable by the processor, or integrated with and executable by the processor. The logic is configured to perform the foregoing method.
US11182356B2
According to one or more embodiments of the present invention, a computer-implemented method includes creating a hybrid index for a multi-zone data storage system in which a first zone has data that is organized for transaction processing, and a second zone that has data organized for analytic processing. Each index entry in the hybrid index includes an index key including an equality column, a begin-timestamp column, and a tuple-sequence-number column. The method further includes building an index run to be included in the hybrid index, the index run includes multiple index entries. An index run is created by selecting columns by scanning data blocks from the first zone, computing tuple-sequence-number values for the index entries to be included in the hybrid index, and sorting the index entries according to a predetermined order using the columns to be included in the index run.
US11182354B1
A system formats and normalizes data stored in received files. A data processing engine identifies a filetype and format of the file based on samples of the file contents. The system detects a schema of the file to determine the datatypes and locations of data within the file. The schema detection process may depend on the identified filetype of the file. Once a filetype and schema have been determined, the system can reformat data stored within different sections of the file in view of the datatypes. The formatted file is stored in a data lake with other files received by the system. The formatting process can involve normalization of certain datatypes, which facilitates access of the data later by a user querying the data stored in files at the data lake.
US11182353B2
A method includes receiving an execution request, where the execution request is used to request to execute a task including at least two stored procedures, requesting at least two threads, and dispatching each stored procedure in the task to one of the at least two threads for execution, receiving Structured Query Language (SQL) statements sent by the at least two threads when the at least two threads execute the stored procedures included in the task, and grouping and caching the received SQL statements based on a same access characteristic, and for an SQL statement cache group that satisfies a preset trigger condition, calling an SQL statement execution engine to execute an SQL statement in the SQL statement cache group.
US11182349B2
The subject technology may be implemented by a device that includes at least one processor configured to encrypt a data object based at least in part on an encryption key. The at least one processor may be further configured to sign the encrypted data object with a private key and transmit the signed encrypted data object to a server for retrieval by another device. The at least one processor may be further configured to generate a sharing object corresponding to the data object, wherein the sharing object includes an encryption key and a public key that corresponds to the private key. The at least one processor may be further configured to encrypt the sharing object using a key of the other device and transmit, over a secure channel, the encrypted sharing object to the other device for subsequent retrieval and verification of the signed data object from the server.
US11182346B2
An approach is provided in which an information handling system creates a set of first containers from a container image that each includes a set of shareable files. The information handling system creates a second container from the container image that is devoid of the set of shared files and includes a pointer that points to a selected one of the first containers. In turn, the second container mounts to the first container and utilizes the shared files included the first container.
US11182345B2
A method, a system, and a computer program product for performing a backup of data are disclosed. A grid server in a plurality of grid servers is selected for deduplicating a segment of data in a plurality of segments of data contained within a data stream. The segment of data is forwarded to the selected grid server for deduplication. A zone contained within the forwarded segment of data is deduplicated using the selected server. The deduplication is performed based on a listing of a plurality of zone stamps. Each zone stamp in the plurality of zone stamps represents a zone in a plurality of zones deduplicated by at least one server in the plurality of grid servers.
US11182341B2
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium recording an indexed data generation program causing a computer to execute processing of generating ledger sheet output format data from ledger sheet data including a ledger sheet having a plurality of columns; generating index information for words, characters, or numerical values, the index information including positional information capable of specifying attributes of the plurality of columns and a positional relationship in the ledger sheet data between pieces of data corresponding to the plurality of columns included in the ledger sheet output format data; and outputting an output file including the index information and the ledger sheet output format data.
US11182338B1
A case management system and method of managing and organizing documents within the case portfolio for efficient review includes data that is dynamically updated to result in a final report that includes real-time updated data. The system collects and displays the data on a secure portal for interactivity with a professional stakeholder reviewing the data. The data is automatically transformed into different formats when received, including a standard text-and-image file, a text-only file, and an image-only file, thereby allowing the reviewing stakeholder to interact with the data in multiple ways. As the system translates the document into different viewable formats, the system automatically scans the data within the document for important information, such as dates, times, names, locations, and other important pieces of information. The system then assigns date-and-time associations with each document, and automatically organizes the documents in a chronological order on a display.
US11182334B2
Processors, systems and methods are provided for thread level parallel processing. A processor may comprise a plurality of processing elements (PEs) each having a plurality of arithmetic logic units (ALUs) that are configured to execute a same instruction in parallel threads and a plurality of memory ports (MPs) for the plurality of PEs to access a memory unit. Each of the plurality of MPs may comprise an address calculation unit configured to generate respective memory addresses for each thread to access a common area in the memory unit.
US11182330B2
In embodiments, an apparatus for serial communication includes a transceiver, to receive a precoding request from a downlink receiver across a serial communication link, and to transmit data bits to the downlink receiver over the serial communication link. In embodiments, the apparatus further includes a precoder, coupled to the transceiver, to: receive scrambled data bits of a subset of the data bits to be transmitted, from a coupled scrambler, and, in response to the request from the downlink receiver, precode the scrambled data bits, and output the precoded scrambled data bits to the transceiver, for transmission to the downlink receiver across the serial communication link together with other unscrambled data bits.
US11182328B2
A storage device includes at least one nonvolatile memory device configured to store self-diagnosis firmware and a storage controller configured to communicate with an external device through a sideband interface. The storage controller is configured to perform self-diagnosis of the storage device using the self-diagnosis firmware according to the control of the external device. The storage controller is configured to transmit a result of the self-diagnosis to the external device through the sideband interface.
US11182324B2
Mechanisms for Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) chaining and unified FPGA views to a composed system hosts and associated methods, apparatus, systems and software A rack is populated with pooled system drawers including pooled compute drawers and pooled FPGA drawers communicatively coupled via input-output (IO) cables. The FPGA resources in the pooled system drawers are enumerated, identifying a location of type of each FPGA and whether it is a chainable FPGA. Intra-drawer chaining mechanisms are identified for the chainable FPGAs in each pooled compute and pooled FPGA drawer. Inter-drawer chaining mechanism are also identified for chaining FPGAs in separate pooled system drawers. The enumerated FPGA and chaining mechanism data is aggregated to generate a unified system view of the FPGA resources and their chaining mechanisms. Based on available compute nodes and FPGAs in the unified system view, new compute nodes are composed using chained FPGAs. The chained FPGAs are exposed to a hypervisor or operating system virtualization layer, or to an operating system hosted by the composed compute node as a virtual monolithic FPGA or multiple local FPGAs.
US11182318B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an interrupt controller in a processor, comprising: an interrupt sampling circuitry configured to receive one or more interrupts from one or more interrupt sources that are communicatively coupled to the interrupt controller; and an arbitration circuitry configured to select a to-be-responded interrupt from the received one or more interrupts, the arbitration circuitry comprising: a selection circuitry configured to select from the one or more interrupts a highest-priority interrupt that has a highest priority among the one or more interrupts; and a threshold comparison circuitry communicatively coupled to the selection circuitry, the threshold comparison circuitry configured to compare the priority of the highest-priority interrupt with a preset priority threshold, wherein the arbitration circuitry is configured to select the highest-priority interrupt as the to-be-responded interrupt in response to the threshold comparison circuitry determining that the priority of the highest-priority interrupt is higher than the preset priority threshold.
US11182309B2
Fabric Attached Memory (FAM) provides a pool of memory that can be accessed by one or more processors, such as a graphics processing unit(s) (GPU)(s), over a network fabric. In one instance, a technique is disclosed for using imperfect processors as memory controllers to allow memory, which is local to the imperfect processors, to be accessed by other processors as fabric attached memory. In another instance, memory address compaction is used within the fabric elements to fully utilize the available memory space.
US11182304B2
An example memory array page table walk can include using an array of memory cells configured to store a page table. The page table walk can include using sensing circuitry coupled to the array. The page table walk can include using a controller coupled to the array. The controller can be configured to operate the sensing circuitry to determine a physical address of a portion of data by accessing the page table in the array of memory cells. The controller can be configured to operate the sensing circuitry to cause storing of the portion of data in a buffer.
US11182302B2
A memory device, an electronic device, and associated read method are provided. The electronic device includes the memory device and a host device, which are electrically connected to each other. The memory device includes a NAND flash memory and a control logic. The NAND flash memory includes a first physical page, and the first physical page includes a plurality of first acquisition-units. The control logic is electrically connected to the NAND flash memory. The control logic receives a first-page address corresponding to the first physical page from a host device during a first page-read duration. Data stored at the plurality of first acquisition-units are respectively transferred to the host device during a second page-read duration.
US11182282B2
A method for detecting and localizing a fault in a system under test (SUT) includes generating an initial set of test vectors that provides complete n-wise coverage of the reduced test space. The method further includes generating and executing an initial set of test cases to obtain a first set of execution results. The method further includes determining, based at least in part on the first set of execution results, that one or more test cases failed execution. The method further includes generating a set of new test cases from a selected failing test case. The method further includes executing the set of new test cases to obtain a second set of execution results. The method further includes detecting and localizing the fault based at least in part on the second set of execution results.
US11182276B2
Development-time awareness of production environment dependency injection configuration in a software development or test environment. In a software development or test environment, metadata is retrieved relating to configuration data of injection sources and target injection sites in applications of a configured target production server or a representation of a configured target production server. A configuration data structure is formed that cross-references target injection sites and injectable sources determined from the configuration data, the configuration data structure being associated with the production server and available to the software development or test environment. The configuration data structure is referenced to carry out dependency injection related features.
US11182274B2
A test apparatus for performing a test on a device under test includes a data storage unit being configured to store sets of input data applied to the device under test during the test and to store the respective output data of the device under test, the output data being obtained from the device under test as a response to the input data including values of setting variables related to settings of the device under test and values of input variables including further information, each set of input data representing one test case; and a data processor configured to process the data stored in the data storage unit such that a best combination of setting variables of the device under test is determined for one or more combinations of the input variables to obtain an optimized setting of the device under test for the one or more combinations of the input variables.
US11182258B2
Example peer storage systems, storage devices, and methods provide data rebuild across a peer communication channel using dynamic work allocation. A rebuild coordinator among the peer storage devices identifies peer storage devices including data units for the rebuild operation. The rebuild coordinator determines work profiles for the peer storage devices and uses the work profiles to determine the rebuild queue for the data units. The data is rebuilt according to the rebuild queue using the data units from the peer storage devices.
US11182247B2
The present disclosure is based on erasure coding, information dispersal, secret sharing and ramp schemes to assure reliability and security. More precisely, the present disclosure combines ramp threshold secret sharing and systematic erasure coding.
US11182246B1
Systems, methods, and circuitries are disclosed for protecting data throughout read and write operations. In one example a method includes receiving a plurality of data bits; dividing the plurality of data bits into at least two data blocks; generating respective sets of block check bits for each respective data block using a respective first error code; combining the sets of block check bits to generate a set of signature bits for the plurality of data bits; generating a set of cumulative check bits for the plurality of data bits and the set of signature bits using a second error code; and storing, in a memory location, the plurality of data bits, the set of signature bits, and the set of cumulative check bits.
US11182245B2
An operating method of a memory controller to update metadata using journaling data in a short time during a booting operation, and to maintain reliability of the updated metadata. The operating method of a memory controller includes loading metadata into sub-regions of a buffer memory, updating the metadata using journaling data in a state that error correction code (ECC) functions of memory controller for the sub-regions are disabled, generating a first parity data of data stored in the first sub-region, and enabling the ECC function of the first sub-region, after the first parity data is generated.
US11182242B2
Technologies for preserving error correction capability in compute-in-memory operations in a memory include memory media and a media access circuitry coupled with the memory media. The media access circuitry is to detect an error code adjustment state indicative of a failure in the initiated error correction. The media access circuitry is to adjust a voltage to the memory media to eliminate the error code correction adjustment state. Once eliminated, the media access circuitry is to perform the error correction on the read data.
US11182237B1
A processing device, operatively coupled with the memory device, is configured to perform an operation on a page of a plurality of pages of a data unit of the memory device to modify data on the page. The processing device also determines a first operation execution time of the page upon performing the operation on the page of the data unit. The processing device further determines whether the first operation execution time satisfies a condition that is based on a predetermined second operation execution time, the predetermined second operation execution time is indicative of lack of defect in at least one other data unit. Lastly, responsive to determining that the first operation execution time satisfies the condition, the processing device performs a scan operation of at least a subset of the plurality of pages of the data unit to decide whether the data unit has a defect.
US11182234B2
A system for tracking events of interest can include at least one volatile counter; a nonvolatile storage coupled to the at least one volatile counter, the nonvolatile storage storing a bit for each top volatile count number of events identified by the at least one volatile counter; a backup power source coupled to the at least one volatile counter; and readout circuitry and control logic coupled to the one or more of the at least one volatile counter and to the nonvolatile storage, the readout circuitry and control logic being configured to control operations of the at least one volatile counter during an error event and determine a total number of events.
US11182232B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and computer readable media for identifying and responding to a panic condition on a storage system on a computing node. For example, systems disclosed herein may include establishing recovery instructions between a host system and a storage system in responding to a future instance of a panic condition. The storage system may provide an indication of a self-detected panic condition in a variety of ways. In response to identifying the panic condition, the host system may perform one or more recovery actions in accordance with recovery instructions accessible to the host system. This may include performing resets of specific components and reinitializing communication between the host system and storage system in less invasive ways than slower and more expensive conventional approaches for responding to panic conditions on computing nodes.
US11182230B2
Methods for reducing errors in calibrated devices comprise detecting outliers, self-checking consistency of measurements, tuning device controls to target values, and absolutely calibrating devices via a first standard and cross-checking the results via a second standard. The first standard may be a calibrated current and the second calibration standard may be a calibrated frequency. A calibrated frequency may be a microwave signal applied to the body of a qubit. Qubit annealing controls can quickly lower and raise the tunnel barrier to measures the oscillation frequency of the qubit between two potential wells.
US11182226B1
A data processing system may include a plurality of host servers, each host server including a device processor and a non-transitory computer readable medium including instructions stored thereon and executable by the processor. The computer readable medium of each server includes instructions for running one or more application. The system further includes a system controller including a device processor and a non-transitory computer readable medium including instructions stored thereon and executable by the processor, wherein the computer readable medium of the system controller includes instructions for performing the following steps: receiving commands to run two or more applications on the plurality of host servers; making a determination as to which of the two or more applications communicate with one another during operation; and based on the determination, providing instructions to the plurality of host servers to run running applications determined to communicate with one another on the same host server.
US11182222B2
Apparatus and methods related to software architectures in a multiprocessor-based access device used in a content delivery and/or service provider network. In one embodiment, a software architecture is provided for a cable modem using a first type of digital processor (e.g., RISC core or similar), and a second type of digital processor (e.g., multi-core CPU). In one variant, the RISC processor is used as a cable modem stack processor, and the CPU processor is used as an application processor. A Linux (e.g., OpenWrt)-based software architecture is used wherein software components placed on both processors can communicate to effectuate, e.g., configuration changes to the device (including the cable modem stack). A mechanism to establish communications between the two different processor domains and retrieve the requested information based on existing (e.g., RPC) protocols is also disclosed.
US11182221B1
The technology disclosed relates to buffer-based inter-node streaming of configuration data over a network fabric. In particular, the technology disclosed relates to a runtime processor configured to load and execute a first subset of configuration files in a set of configuration files on a first reconfigurable processor operatively coupled to a first processing node, load and execute a second subset of configuration files in the set of configuration files on a second reconfigurable processor operatively coupled to a second processing node, and use a first plurality of buffers operatively coupled to the first processing node, and a second plurality of buffers operatively coupled to the second processing node to stream data between the first reconfigurable processor and the second reconfigurable processor to load and execute the first subset of configuration files and the second subset of configuration files.
US11182213B2
Managing applications in light of user use habits is disclosed. An indication that an application has been switched from a foreground environment to a background environment is detected. User historical use information associated with the application is accessed. Based at least in part on the user historical use information, it is determined that the application is not likely to be switched to the foreground environment. In response to the determination that the application is not likely to be switched to the foreground environment, one or more resources associated with the application are recycled.
US11182211B2
The present application discloses a task allocation method and task allocation apparatus for distributed data computing. The task allocation method includes: receiving storage parameters for target data to be computed in distributed data; mapping data slices of the target data to a resilient distributed dataset based on the storage parameters, each data slice corresponding respectively to a partition in the resilient distributed dataset; assigning each partition to a storage node to generate a computing task and perform the computing tasks. By using data storage information in a distributed database to allocate computing tasks to storage nodes corresponding to the data, Only data in local memories need to be called during the computing process, IO redundancy and time consumed due to repeated data forwarding are reduced.
US11182210B2
A method for resource allocation and a terminal device are provided. The method includes the following operations. A management module of an operating system receives a scenario data package from a target application that is currently running, where the scenario data package contains a scenario associated information of the target application. A strategy module of the operating system determines a performance improvement strategy for the target application according to the scenario data package. The operating system adjusts allocation of system resources for the target application according to the performance improvement strategy.
US11182209B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request to perform a job from a second computing device, where the job includes one or more steps to be completed in a period, and where the request includes a job description for the job, storing the job description into a data store, retrieving a step description corresponding to one of the steps of the job to be performed from the data store, where each of the steps is performed by a corresponding worker system, sending the commands to the communication endpoint for the corresponding worker system, receiving a status update comprising results for the commands from the corresponding worker system, and storing the status update to the data store.
US11182204B2
A batching module that prepares a plurality of blocked expressions for batch evaluation. The plurality of blocked expressions comprises a plurality of expressions in a blocked state. The batching module divides the plurality of blocked expressions into one or more partitions. For each particular partition of the one or more partitions, a single batch processing call is dispatched to an application server to perform a batch evaluation.
US11182200B2
A streaming engine employed in a digital data processor specifies a fixed read only data stream recalled memory. Streams are started by one of two types of stream start instructions. A stream start ordinary instruction specifies a register storing a stream start address and a register of storing a stream definition template which specifies stream parameters. A stream start short-cut instruction specifies a register storing a stream start address and an implied stream definition template. A functional unit is responsive to a stream operand instruction to receive at least one operand from a stream head register. The stream template supports plural nested loops with short-cut start instructions limited to a single loop. The stream template supports data element promotion to larger data element size with sign extension or zero extension. A set of allowed stream short-cut start instructions includes various data sizes and promotion factors.
US11182199B2
A signal processor includes a memory storing instructions and a processor that implements the stored instructions to execute a plurality of tasks, the tasks including a first input task configured to obtain a first audio signal of a first channel, a second input task configured to obtain a second audio signal of a second channel, a first signal processing task configured to perform a first signal processing on the input first audio signal, a second signal processing task configured to perform a second signal processing on the input second audio signal, and a control task configured to, when the second input task does not obtain the second audio signal, cause the second signal processing task to perform the second signal processing on the input first audio signal having undergone the first signal processing by the first signal processing task.
US11182198B2
A method, system, and computer program product are provided for prioritizing transactions. A processor in a computing environment initiates the execution of a transaction. The processor includes a transactional core, and the execution of the transaction is performed by the transactional core. The processor obtains concurrent with the execution of the transaction by the transactional core, an indication of a conflict between the transaction and at least one other transaction being executed by an additional core in the computing environment. The processor determines if the transactional core includes an indicator and based on determining that the transactional core includes an indicator, the processor ignores the conflict and utilizing the transactional core to complete executing the transaction.
US11182197B2
Systems and methods for implementing guest-initiated announcement of virtual machine migration. An example method may comprise: receiving, by an origin hypervisor running on an origin computer system, a migration announcement of a virtual machine; copying at least a part of a state of the virtual machine to a destination computer system; and responsive to stopping the virtual machine on the origin computer system, causing a destination hypervisor running on the destination computer system to broadcast the migration announcement over a network associated with the destination computer system.
US11182179B2
A computing system includes a server. The server is communicatively coupled to a data repository and is configured to perform operations comprising creating, via a visual information flow creation tool, at least one information flow object. The server is additionally configured to perform operations comprising creating a simple object access protocol (SOAP) interface for the at least one information flow object, and executing the at least one information flow object to communicate with an external system via the SOAP interface.
US11182176B2
Disclosed herein are computer-implemented method, system, and computer-program product (computer-readable storage medium) embodiments for contextual deep expansion in user-interface trees. An embodiment includes configuring at least one computer processor to perform operations that include accessing, in a hierarchical data structure, a first-level data structure including a first group of one or more first-level elements, and a second-level data structure including second group of one or more second-level elements, and a third-level data structure including third group of one or more third-level elements. An embodiment may further include operations of presenting, via an interface, a handle corresponding to at least the third group and the given second-level element, in response to a first input event configured to expand the first-level data structure, and deeply expanding a presentation of the hierarchical data structure, in response to the second input, to show at least some elements of the first, second, and third groups.
US11182172B2
Technologies for transitioning between operating systems include a computing device having a main memory and a data storage device. The computing device executes a first operating system and monitors for an operating system toggle event. The toggle event may be a software command, a hardware buttonpress, or other user command. In response to the toggle event, the computing device copies state data of the first operating system to a reserved memory area. After copying the state data, the computing device executes a second operating system. While the second operating system is executing, the computing device copies the state data of the first operating system from the reserved memory area to the data storage device. The computing device monitors for operating system toggle events during execution of the second operating system and may similarly toggle execution back to the first operating system. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11182167B2
A method to determine an oldest instruction in an instruction queue of a processor with multiple instruction threads, wherein each of the multiple instruction threads have a unique thread identifier. The method includes tagging each instruction thread, of the multiple instruction threads, in the instruction queue with a unique tag number according to a round-robin scheme, wherein the unique tag number includes the unique thread identifier for each instruction thread and a round number in the round-robin scheme. The method further includes selecting, for each instruction thread, of the multiple instruction threads, the instruction thread with a lowest tag number from the multiple instruction threads in the instruction queue that are tagged with an oldest round number from the round-robin scheme.
US11182162B2
Techniques are described for metadata processing that can be used to encode an arbitrary number of security policies for code running on a processor. Metadata may be added to every word in the system and a metadata processing unit may be used that works in parallel with data flow to enforce an arbitrary set of policies. In one aspect, the metadata may be characterized as unbounded and software programmable to be applicable to a wide range of metadata processing policies. Techniques and policies have a wide range of uses including, for example, safety, security, and synchronization. Additionally, described are aspects and techniques in connection with metadata processing in an embodiment based on the RISC-V architecture.
US11182157B2
To efficiently search for a ground state of an Ising model and efficiently solve a combinatorial optimization problem. An information processing device represents an interaction relation of an Ising model as a complete bipartite graph in which N spins of a first spin group and N spins of a second spin group are connected to each other, stores an energy function in which an interaction between an i-th spin of the first spin group and a j (=i)-th spin of the second spin group is set such that the i-th spin of the first spin group and the j-th spin of the second spin group have the same value and searches for a ground state of the Ising model based on the energy function. The information processing device searches for the ground state by applying an algorithm of a simulated annealing method to the above-described energy function.
US11182156B2
An information processing apparatus includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: perform an arithmetic operation using an arithmetic operation target; repeat the arithmetic operation by using a calculated arithmetic operation result; obtain a ratio of, in a first number of elements which are included in the arithmetic operation result, a second number of elements in an expressible range as a predetermined-bit fixed point; and perform the arithmetic operation by using the predetermined-bit fixed point based on the ratio.
US11182144B2
A method for processing database package connections and updates has been developed. First, an execution request for a database package is received. A connection context is then established which can execute the execution request. The database package is determined whether or not it is valid with proper package updates prior to establishing the connection. If the database package is determined to not be valid, change packages are retrieved for the database package. The valid change packages are then compiled for the database package and the connection request is executed for the updated database package with the connection context.
US11182133B2
A method includes receiving a depiction with one or more elements, each element having a location within the depiction. The depiction is analyzed to identify at least one of a first type of element. The depiction is further analyzed to identify at least one of a second type of element. The location of the first and second types of elements is also identified. The method next includes creating an output comprising code to be used in a CI/CD job based on the elements in the analyzed received depiction and their location.
US11182131B2
A service cooperation support system transmits a creation request concerning an external service to a service management system having a creation function concerning the external service, when a flow on a flow editing screen includes a service using node, and a user request for connecting the external service to the service using node is detected, and the system acquires, from the service management system, connection information (information created by the service management system) for connection to the external service created by the service management system in response to the creation request. The service cooperation support system sets the acquired connection information in the property of the service using node.
US11182128B2
A multiply-accumulate calculation device, a multiply-accumulate calculation method, and a system for efficiently performing a multiply-accumulate calculation are provided. The multiply-accumulate operation device includes a plurality of memory blocks that store a plurality of multiplied elements and performs a multiply-accumulate operation on input data. Each of memory blocks includes stores one bit value of the same bit digit of a plurality of multiplied elements. An input data generation unit generates input data by extracting data of a same bit digit from the plurality of multiplication elements. A control unit that accumulates and adds value of the multiply-accumulate operation result, and a data memory that stores the accumulated addition value as a multiplication element of the next multiply-accumulate operation.
US11182124B1
A method including: receiving, by a computing device from an AR device worn by a user, a definition of a region of inclusion that includes included controllable devices and excludes excluded controllable devices, the included controllable devices being ones of a plurality of controllable devices that are inside the region of inclusion, and the excluded controllable devices being ones of the controllable devices that are outside of the region of inclusion; receiving, by the computing device from the AR device, an indication of the user to adjust the region of inclusion; adjusting, by the computing device, the region of inclusion based on the indication of the user; sending, by the computing device, a definition of the adjusted region of inclusion to the AR device; and instructing, by the computing device, the AR device to display to the user the adjusted region of inclusion projected over the included controllable devices.
US11182118B2
The image forming apparatus operations include setting a setting value for communication with a server based on a user operation and receiving an event notification in either one of a server push method and a pull method based on the setting value. In the server push method, the event notification is received from the server via a communication session established and being kept between the image forming apparatus and the server, and in the pull method an event acquisition request is transmitted from the image forming apparatus to the server and the event notification is received as a response to the event acquisition request. In a case where the event notification indicating the occurrence of a print job is received, the print job is acquired, and in a case where the server push method is rejected by the server, the event notification is received in the pull method.
US11182117B2
An information processing apparatus includes a reception unit that receives a group printing job constituted by plural printing jobs, and a transmission unit that transmits the group printing job received by the reception unit to the image forming apparatus, in accordance with performance related to the group printing job of the image forming apparatus.
US11182114B2
One embodiment provides a system for facilitating device discovery. During operation, the system detects, by a computing device, a first message which is broadcast from a source device based on a network communication protocol. The system determines a classification which is a type for the source device based on a MAC address of the source device extracted from the first message. The system generates a second message which indicates the MAC address, an IP address of the source device obtained based on the first message, and the classification. The system sends the second message to a device management system, which causes the device management system to add the source device as a managed device. The system enhances device discovery by eliminating a direct scan of all devices on a sub-network by the device management system for devices of a same type as the type for the source device.
US11182108B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a memory system, a memory controller, and an operation method. The present disclosure may divide user data and map data corresponding to the user data into data segments, may input the data segments in N virtual die queues, and may program the same in a memory device, wherein a user data segment input in the virtual die queue is programmed according to two program schemes, thereby quickly programming the user data and the map data in the memory device and quickly updating the map data in a map cache.
US11182103B1
A dedicated input/output (I/O) cache can be used for I/O-to-processor communications. Data received from an I/O device can be written to the I/O cache and also written to a device memory that is accessible to the processor. The processor can then access the data in the fast, dedicated I/O cache if available. Otherwise, the processor can read the data from the memory into a conventional processor cache for processing. Writes to the cache can be full or partial, with partial writes utilizing padding in some embodiments. The data can be written sequentially in a circular manner. Data processed by the processor can be invalidated, and invalidated data can be overwritten on a subsequent write. Phase bits can also be used to indicate the pass during which various writes were performed.
US11182092B1
The present disclosure provides a new and innovative system, methods and apparatus for PRI overhead reduction for virtual machine migration. In an example, a system includes a memory and a hypervisor. The memory includes a plurality of memory addresses on a source host. The hypervisor is configured to generate a migration page table associated with the memory. The hypervisor is also configured to receive a migration command to copy data from a portion of the memory to a destination host. A first range of memory addresses includes data copied from the portion of the memory and a second range of memory addresses includes data that is not copied. The hypervisor is also configured to modify the migration page table to include a page table entry associated with the first range of memory addresses being migrated from the source host to the destination host.
US11182089B2
A computer-implemented method, according to one embodiment, includes: determining whether a number of blocks included in a first ready-to-use (RTU) queue is in a first range of the first RTU queue. In response to determining that the number of blocks included in the first RTU queue is in the first range, a determination is made as to whether a number of blocks included in a second RTU queue is in a second range of the second RTU queue. Moreover, in response to determining that the number of blocks included in the second RTU queue is not in the second range, valid data is relocated from one of the blocks in a first pool which corresponds to the first RTU queue. The block in the first pool is erased, and transferred from the first pool to the second RTU queue which corresponds to a second pool.
US11182061B2
A display control method is provided on a terminal of a user belonging to a group to transmit and receive a content with a terminal of another user belonging to the group via an information processing apparatus. The display control method includes displaying on a screen, in response to receiving from the user a selection of a part of users belonging to the group, a content having the part of the users as a sender in a displaying aspect different from a displaying aspect of other contents; transmitting to the information processing apparatus, in response to receiving a command from the user, a request for activating an individual process of individually transmitting and receiving the content with a terminal of the part of the users; and executing the individual process in response to receiving a response indicating that the individual process has been activated.
US11182053B2
A method for generating a plurality of graphical menu items for user selection, each graphical menu item having one or more sibling menu items, the one or more sibling menu items being on a first hierarchical level, at least one of the sibling menu items having one or more children menu items, the one or more children menu items being on a second hierarchical level different from the first hierarchical level; receiving user input selecting one or more graphical, sibling, or children menu items, wherein receiving user input includes receiving user input selecting one or more graphical, sibling, or children menu items in a sequence, and includes receiving user input selecting a graphical menu item followed by a sibling menu item and subsequently a children menu item; and constructing a graphical user interface that includes one or more selectable links arranged in accordance with the sequence, wherein constructing a selectable link for the graphical menu item followed by a selectable link for the sibling menu item and subsequently a selectable link for the children menu item, each selectable link corresponding to a selected graphical, sibling, or children menu item and configured to: provide, in the graphical user interface, the one or more sibling menu items within the first hierarchical level or the one or more children menu items within the second hierarchical level.
US11182052B2
A mobile terminal includes a wireless communication unit configured to communicate with a beverage-making apparatus; a display unit; an input unit configured to receive a recipe input request for inputting information about a recipe of a beverage for the beverage-making apparatus; and at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to: in response to the recipe input request, display a recipe input interface for inputting the information about the recipe of the beverage; and based on displaying the recipe input interface, receive recipe information for the beverage through the displayed recipe input interface.
US11182045B2
In one example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a computer-implemented method includes, in response to receiving usage information for each application in a set of applications associated with a mobile device, identifying the usage information per application within predetermined time intervals. The method further includes determining a relative order of each application within each of a plurality of application categories using predetermined ranges of the predetermined time intervals that a respective application was used. The method further includes, in response to determining a particular time of day, modifying a size of icons for display relative to other icons for applications within the application category to highlight applications within the application category according to the relative order. The method further includes displaying, on a display, icons of the set of applications within the application category using a modified size.
US11182035B2
Disclosed is a capacitive hover touch sensor, a touch device adopting the capacitive hover touch sensor and an electronic equipment adopting the touch device. The capacitive hover touch sensor comprises an electrode pattern layer where a touch region is formed; the touch region is divided into P sub-regions, P being a natural number greater than 1; each of the sub-regions is provided with a plurality of first strip electrodes in a one-dimensional array and a plurality of second strip electrodes in a one-dimensional array; the plurality of first strip electrodes are interdigitated with the plurality of second strip electrodes; and the plurality of first strip electrodes and the plurality of second strip electrodes in each of the sub-regions are respectively connected to a touch controller by wires.
US11182031B2
Disclosed is a display device which facilitates to prevent a remaining film for a process of forming a metal pattern, wherein the display device may include a substrate including a display area having pixels, and a non-display area having pads to surround the display area, a dam between the display area and the pads, an encapsulation film for covering the dam and the pixels in the display area, a first metal pattern disposed in the non-display area and patterned on the encapsulation film, an insulating layer provided on the first metal pattern, and a second metal pattern disposed in the non-display area and patterned on the insulating layer, wherein the first metal pattern is not provided in a dam area with the dam, and the second metal pattern is provided on the dam area while being in contact with the first metal pattern via a contact hole penetrating through the insulating layer.
US11182028B2
A switching operation sensing device to be applied to an electronic device including a touch operation unit having a first touch member integrated with a housing, the switching operation sensing device including a sensing coil component including a first inductor unit disposed on an inner surface of the first touch member, and an oscillator circuit connected to the sensing coil component and configured to generate an oscillation signal having a resonant frequency that changes when a touch operation is input through the touch operation unit, wherein the first inductor unit includes a first sensing area opposing the first touch member, a first sensing wiring disposed in the first sensing area, and a first sensing coil connected between the first sensing wiring and a first resonant circuit of the oscillator circuit.
US11182022B2
A coordinate detection system includes a camera configured to capture an image of a face opposite to a display face of a transmissive display panel including a plurality of luminous parts and to thereby produce video information, and a video processor configured to detect coordinates instructed on the display face of the transmissive display panel based on the luminance or chromaticity of reflected light, which occurs when reflecting light emitted from each luminous part of the transmissive display panel, according to the captured video information.
US11182021B2
A mobile device includes a housing, a display unit having a display panel installed in the housing to display an image and to receive a touch input and having a first portion and a second portion with a transparent condition, a sensing unit having a camera installed in the housing, disposed at a bottom of the display panel, and corresponding to the second portion of the display panel, and a controller disposed in the housing to control the camera to photograph the object through the second portion of the display panel and to control the display panel to display the photographed object, and to determine a sensed image of the photographed object as a user input to perform a function of the mobile device.
US11182008B2
This disclosure provides a liquid crystal display panel. The liquid crystal display panel comprises: a first substrate and a second substrate arranged oppositely, a plurality of main spacers located between the first substrate and the second substrate for supporting cell gap of the liquid crystal display panel, a plurality of auxiliary spacers located between the first substrate and the second substrate, and a plurality of pressure sensing electrodes in one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of auxiliary spacers; wherein a height of the auxiliary spacer is smaller than a height of the main spacer; a material of the auxiliary spacer is a piezoelectric material. This disclosure also discloses a manufacturing method of the liquid crystal display panel and a display device comprising the liquid crystal display panel.
US11182000B2
In one embodiment, a touch input device capable of detecting a pressure of a touch on a touch surface is disclosed. The touch input device includes a substrate and a display module. A common voltage electrode is disposed within the display module. The touch input device further comprises an electrode which is disposed at a position where a distance between the electrode and the common voltage electrode changes according to the touch on the touch surface. The distance changes according to a magnitude of the pressure of the touch. Further, an electric signal depending on the distance is outputted from the electrode.
US11181997B2
A display device is disclosed. The display device comprises: a signal reception unit; a communication unit for communicating with a remote control device; a storage unit for storing sound data; a speaker; and a processor for playing a sound and outputting the same through the speaker when a specific remote control signal transmitted from the remote control device is received through the signal reception unit, wherein the processor receives, from the remote control device and through the communication unit, recording data in which the point in time, at which the sound is received by the remote control device, is recorded, thereby enabling the distance between the display device and the remote control device to be calculated on the basis of the recording data.
US11181994B2
The present application provides a transmitter including a first sensor and a processing module electrically coupled to the first sensor. The processing module is configured to transmit a first electric signal during a first time period. The first electric signal represents at least one part of a digital sensing value of the first sensor.
US11181989B2
A method performed by a system is provided, wherein the system includes a touch IC executing touch detection and an external processor, which is different from the touch IC and which may include a touch IC support firmware. The system includes a sensor electrode group connected to the touch IC; and a first bus connecting the touch IC with the external processor. The touch IC generates frame data indicative of a detection level of each of two-dimensional positions in the sensor electrode group, and supplies the frame data to the external processor via the first bus. The external processor feeds determination data resulting from performing predetermined processing on the frame data back to the touch IC, and the touch IC performs an operation based on the determination data. Thus, the touch IC can utilize the processing results of the external processor.
US11181968B2
A method includes: receiving, in a standby state, application entry information entered by a user; obtaining, according to the application entry information, an identifier of an application program that needs to be run; waking an operating system and keeping, still in a dormant state, a dormant application program in application programs except the application program that needs to be run; and running, by using the operating system and according to the identifier of the application program that needs to be run, the application program that needs to be run. An apparatus includes: a receiving module, an obtaining module, a wake-up module, and a running module. In the present invention, only the application program that needs to be run is run, while the dormant application program in the application programs except the application program that needs to be run is still kept in the dormant state.
US11181958B2
An electronic device includes an interface unit having a first terminal and a second terminal, a determination unit that determines a power supply capability of an external device in accordance with a voltage of the second terminal, a power switching unit that determines a current in response to the voltage of the second terminal and a power supply capability of the external device, and a control unit that enables power supply from the external device to be performed with the determined current.
US11181942B1
A foldable display device is provided, which includes a first rear housing and a second rear housing, a connection member, four slider members fixedly connected inside the first rear housing and the second rear housing, a support plate including a first support plate and a second support plate which are arranged inside the first rear housing and the second rear housing and fixedly connected to the corresponding slider members, and a front frame; wherein when in a folded state, a non-bending region of a flexible display screen is inclined at an angle relative to a housing of the display device.
US11181940B2
An electronic circuit includes a clock signal generator configured to deliver a clock signal. A propagation circuit is configured to propagate the clock signal on a plurality of propagation branches. A number of timers are coupled to at least some of the branches. The timers are clocked by corresponding replicas of the clock signal and configured to generate a pulse signal every N pulses of the corresponding replica of the clock signal. A comparator is configured to generate an alarm signal having a first state when two of the pulse signals are phase-offset with respect to one another.
US11181914B2
Methods and systems for the use of detected objects for image processing are described. A computing device autonomously controlling a vehicle may receive images of the environment surrounding the vehicle from an image-capture device coupled to the vehicle. In order to process the images, the computing device may receive information indicating characteristics of objects in the images from one or more sources coupled to the vehicle. Examples of sources may include RADAR, LIDAR, a map, sensors, a global positioning system (GPS), or other cameras. The computing device may use the information indicating characteristics of the objects to process received images, including determining the approximate locations of objects within the images. Further, while processing the image, the computing device may use information from sources to determine portions of the image to focus upon that may allow the computing device to determine a control strategy based on portions of the image.
US11181912B2
A travel route determination system including: a route generating unit generating planned travel routes including work routes along which a work vehicle performs autonomous travel; a control unit capable of causing the work vehicle to perform autonomous travel along the planned travel routes; an information obtaining unit obtaining position information and orientation information on the work vehicle; and a determination unit determining an autonomous travel candidate route at which the work vehicle can start autonomous travel, before the work vehicle starts autonomous travel. The determination unit sets a candidate determination region based on the position information and orientation information on the work vehicle, and the determination unit determines, among the work routes, a work route in the candidate determination region as the autonomous travel candidate route.
US11181911B2
A method for detecting obstacles, the method may include receiving, from a plurality of vehicles, and by an I/O module of a computerized system, visual information acquired during executions of vehicle maneuvers that are suspected as being obstacle avoidance maneuvers; determining, based at least on the visual information, at least one visual obstacle identifier for visually identifying at least one obstacle; and transmitting to one or more of the plurality of vehicles, the at least one visual obstacle identifier.
US11181908B2
An example non-transitory computer-readable medium includes instructions. The instructions, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to determine access rights of a telepresence robot to a physical location based on access rights of a user that is to control the telepresence robot. The instructions, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to assign the determined access rights to the telepresence robot.
US11181886B2
A robot system is configured to fabricate three-dimensional (3D) objects using closed-loop, computer vision-based control. The robot system initiates fabrication based on a set of fabrication paths along which material is to be deposited. During deposition of material, the robot system captures video data and processes that data to determine the specific locations where the material is deposited. Based on these locations, the robot system adjusts future deposition locations to compensate for deviations from the fabrication paths. Additionally, because the robot system includes a 6-axis robotic arm, the robot system can deposit material at any locations, along any pathway, or across any surface. Accordingly, the robot system is capable of fabricating a 3D object with multiple non-parallel, non-horizontal, and/or non-planar layers.
US11181879B2
A system and method that remotely monitors and controls proppant usage in a fracturing operation. The system and method allow operators to wirelessly monitor and control proppant storage units from inside a datavan through sensors and control mechanisms that interface with fracturing software to schedule the flow of the proppant. A sensor monitors the weight, container level, or volume of the proppant being used to keep the induced hydraulic fracture open. A serial to Ethernet converter converts this information and sends it wirelessly to a datavan. A user at the datavan controls the proppant usage through a display in the datavan of the storage units with the appropriate weight. The container monitoring software links with the fracturing software, providing real-time information about proppant usage so that the user can properly schedule proppant flow to the well through valves, conveyor belts, and other control mechanisms.
US11181864B2
In a timepiece, moments of inertia of a first pointer and a second pointer that are for displaying first information and second information, respectively and that have a same rotation axis are the same. As a result, parts having identical specifications may be used in a drive mechanism of the first pointer and a drive mechanism of the second pointer. Further, color schemes of the first pointer and second pointer differ. As a result, a user may easily distinguish the first pointer and the second pointer.
US11181863B2
An electronic device, such as a watch, has a crown assembly having a shaft and a user-rotatable crown. The user-rotatable crown may include a conductive cap that is mechanically and electrically coupled to the shaft and functions as an electrode. The conductive cap may be coupled to the shaft using solder or another conductive attachment mechanism. The shaft may electrically couple the conductive cap to a processing unit of the electronic device. One or more additional electrodes may be positioned on the exterior surface of the electronic device. The conductive cap is operable to be contacted by a finger of a user of the electronic device while another electrode is positioned against skin of the user. The processing unit of the electronic device is operable to determine a biological parameter, such as an electrocardiogram, of the user based on voltages at the electrodes.
US11181857B2
An image forming apparatus includes: a first developing roller movable between a first contact position and a first separated position; a second developing roller movable between a second contact position and a second separated position; and a controller. When a sheet interval is shorter than a first interval and is longer than or equal to a second interval, the controller maintains the first developing roller at the first contact position even after the completion of its development for a preceding sheet, controls the first developing roller to start development for a subsequent sheet, moves the second developing roller to the second separated position after the completion of its development for the preceding sheet, moves the second developing roller again to the second contact position, and controls the second developing roller to start development for the subsequent sheet after the second developing roller is moved again to the second contact position.
US11181854B2
An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of temperature-influence members, a first-point temperature acquisition unit, a second-point temperature estimation unit, and a controller. The plurality of temperature-influence members have influence on a temperature of a recording medium on which an image is formed. The first-point temperature acquisition unit is configured to detect or estimate a temperature of the recording medium at a first point. The second-point temperature estimation unit is configured to estimate a temperature of the recording medium at a second point, based on a detection result of at least one of a temperature of the recording medium at a point different from the second point and a temperature of a member or atmosphere. The controller is configured to control the plurality of temperature-influence members, based on an acquisition result from the first-point temperature acquisition unit and an estimation result from the second-point temperature estimation unit.
US11181848B2
A liquid developer containing a liquid carrier and a toner particle that is insoluble in the liquid carrier, wherein a particular substructure is bonded through a covalent bond to a surface of the toner particle, and a method of producing a liquid developer containing a liquid carrier and a toner particle that is insoluble in the liquid carrier, the method comprising a step (I) of covalently bonding, to a surface of the toner particle, a compound having a particular substructure.
US11181846B2
A toner including a toner particle including a binder resin and a crystalline material, wherein in powder dynamic viscoelasticity measurement of the toner, where an onset temperature of a storage elastic modulus E′ obtained when a temperature is raised at 20° C./min is denoted by T(A)° C., and an onset temperature of a storage elastic modulus E′ obtained when a temperature is raised at 5° C./min is denoted by T(B)° C., T(A)−T(B) is 3.0° C. or less, in DSC of the toner, a peak temperature of a maximum endothermic peak is from 50.0° C. to 90.0° C., and an amount of a tetrahydrofuran-insoluble component in the binder resin is from 15% by mass to 60% by mass.
US11181841B2
A toner for electrostatic image development includes: toner particles; Si-doped strontium titanate particles; and silica particles. The particle diameter D of at least one peak in a number-based particle size distribution of primary particles of the silica particles is larger than the number-based median diameter D50 of primary particles of the Si-doped strontium titanate particles.
US11181833B2
Support arrangement for supporting a radiation projection system in a substrate processing apparatus, the support arrangement comprising: a support body for supporting the radiation projection system; electrical wiring for supplying voltages to components within the radiation projection system and/or for supplying control data for modulation of radiation to be projected onto a target surface by the radiation projection system; optical fibers, for supplying control data for modulation of radiation to be projected onto a target surface by the radiation projection system, and a cooling arrangement comprising one or more fluid conduits for cooling the radiation projection system; the electrical wiring, the optical fibers, and the cooling arrangement being at least partly accommodated in and/or supported by the support body.
US11181830B2
A Lithographic apparatus and method of controlling a lithographic process. A substrate is provided and a photosensitive layer is provided on a main surface of the substrate. The substrate includes a base section and a mesa section. In the base section the main surface is in a base plane. The mesa section protrudes from the base plane. A radiation beam scans the photosensitive layer. A local dose applied to a partial area of the photosensitive layer by the radiation beam includes a base dose component and a correction dose component. The correction dose component is a function of a distance between the partial area and a transition between the base section and the mesa section and at least partly compensates an effect of a defocus, which results from a height difference between the mesa section and the base section, on a critical dimension in the partial area.
US11181829B2
A method for determining a control parameter for an apparatus used in a semiconductor manufacturing process, the method including: obtaining performance data associated with a substrate subject to the semiconductor manufacturing process; obtaining die specification data including values of an expected yield of one or more dies on the substrate based on the performance data and/or a specification for the performance data; and determining the control parameter in dependence on the performance data and the die specification data. Advantageously, the efficiency and/or accuracy of processes is improved by determining how to perform the processes in dependence on dies within specification.
US11181825B2
The present invention provides an exposure apparatus that performs an exposure process to transfer a pattern of a mask to a substrate, including a projection optical system configured to project the pattern of the mask onto the substrate, a measurement pattern arranged on an object plane of the projection optical system and including a plurality of pattern elements having different positions in an optical axis direction of the projection optical system, a first detection unit configured to detect light from the measurement pattern via the projection optical system, and a control unit configured to control a relative position between the mask and the substrate in the optical axis direction when the exposure process is performed.
US11181823B2
A resist composition comprising a base polymer and a quencher containing a sulfonium salt having an iodized benzene ring offers a high sensitivity, minimal LWR and improved CDU independent of whether it is of positive or negative tone.
US11181822B2
A resist composition including a compound represented by formula (bd1), a total amount of the acid-generator component and the basic component being 20 to 70 parts by weight, relative to 100 parts by weight of the base material component. In the formula, Rx1 to Rx4 represents a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group, or two or more of Rx1 to Rx4 may be mutually bonded to form a ring structure; Ry1 and Ry2 represents a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group, or Ry1 and Ry2 may be mutually bonded to form a ring structure; Rz1 to Rz4 represents a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group, or two or more of Rz1 to Rz4 may be mutually bonded to form a ring structure; provided that at least one of Rx1 to Rx4, Ry1, Ry2 and Rz1 to Rz4 has an anionic group; and Mm+ represents an m-valent organic cation).
US11181811B2
A lens driving device is describes that includes a stator and a mover, with a lens support for supporting the lens and for moving in an optical axis direction of the lens with respect to the stator. Any one of the stator and the mover has protruding portions and any other one of the stator and the mover has recessed portions into which the protruding portions are inserted. The protruding portions and the recessed portions each have opposing surfaces where the protruding portions and the recessed portions are opposed to each other, and a resin with viscoelasticity is provided to contact the opposing surfaces of the protruding portions and the opposing surfaces of the recessed portions.
US11181809B2
A focusing method includes determining a present position of a lens, determining an initial search direction based on a relationship between the present position of the lens and a reference position, and controlling the lens to perform a focusing process in the initial search direction.
US11181804B2
A system for frequency conversion, comprises a laser source and a harmonic generation crystal. The laser source is configured to produce optical pulse energy of less than 100 μJ. The harmonic generation crystal comprises a structure characterized by a nonlinear susceptibility, and a crystal grating period which adiabatically varies along the longitudinal direction in a manner that the crystal grating period is inversely proportional to a crystal grating function of a coordinate z measured along the longitudinal direction.
US11181799B2
Provided herein is an electro-optic display having a layer of electrophoretic material, a first conductive layer, and a piezoelectric material positioned between the layer of electrophoretic material and the first conductive layer, the piezoelectric material overlaps with a portion of the layer of electrophoretic material, and a portion of the first conductive layer overlaps with the rest of the electrophoretic material.
US11181798B2
A system and method for color correction in an electrochromic device includes applying a stepped voltage profile to the electrochromic device in a high-transmission state to achieve a desired low-transmission state. Each step of the stepped voltage profile is at a step difference of about 0.01 volts to about 0.5 volts from an adjacent step with each successive step being at a varying voltage level and each of the steps is held for a time period from about 0.1 seconds to about 10 seconds. At the desired low-transmission state, the system and method include applying a reverse bias voltage from about 0.01 volts to about 0.5 volts for about 0.01 seconds to about 10 seconds to color correct the low-transmission state.
US11181785B2
An electro-optical device includes a first substrate including a first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode, a second substrate including a common electrode, and an electro-optical layer disposed between the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode, and the common electrode, the electro-optical layer having optical characteristics varying in accordance with an electric field, wherein the first substrate is provided with a spacer containing an inorganic material, the spacer defining a distance between the first substrate and the second substrate, and the spacer overlaps the first pixel electrode when viewed in a thickness direction of the first substrate.
US11181782B2
A liquid crystal panel P according to the present invention includes: a liquid crystal layer LC; and a pair of first and second substrates 100 and 200 disposed with the liquid crystal layer LC interposed therebetween and including an alignment film M formed on a surface of each of the first and second substrates facing the liquid crystal layer, or a surface of any one of the first and second substrates facing the liquid crystal layer. The alignment film M contains a carboxyl group-containing polymer containing a carboxyl group. The liquid crystal compound constituting the liquid crystal layer LC contains at least one selected from the group consisting of a cyano group, a heterocyclic ring, —OCF2—, a carbon-carbon triple bond and a trifluoromethyl group, contains an aliphatic alkyl group at a terminal thereof, and does not contain an isothiocyanate group. Antenna units are arranged.
US11181777B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provides with a backlight unit and a display device with the backlight unit including a plurality of light emitting elements disposed on a substrate, a first reflector disposed on the substrate and including a plurality of holes, one of the plurality of light emitting elements being disposed in each hole, a light conversion sheet disposed on the substrate and having a light conversion pattern disposed at a position overlapping the light emitting element, and a phosphor sheet having a first phosphor disposed on the substrate, wherein a size of first light emitting elements disposed on the edge of the substrate among the plurality of light emitting elements is larger than size of second light emitting elements disposed in the center of the substrate.
US11181774B2
An optical film and a display device including the same are disclosed, in which an image of the display device is prevented from being irradiated to an unwanted place and luminance is prevented from being deteriorated. The optical film includes a first base film; a second base film spaced apart from the first base film to face the first base film; an optical pattern arranged between the first base film and the second base film, having an inclined surface inclined at a certain angle; and a reflective member arranged at one side of the optical pattern.
US11181772B2
A light-emitting module includes a light-guiding plate having a light-extracting surface, a plurality of first light-emitting elements and a plurality of second light-emitting elements having a light-emission characteristic different from a light-emission characteristic of the first light-emitting elements, the first light-emitting elements and the second light-emitting elements being alternately mounted on a surface of the light-guiding plate opposite to the light-extracting surface, with electrodes facing a direction opposite to the light-extracting surface of the light-guiding plate, a light-reflective member covering each of the first light-emitting elements and each of the second light-emitting elements to expose electrodes of each of the first light-emitting elements and electrodes of each of the second light-emitting elements from a first surface, first wiring formed on the first surface to connect the electrodes of the first light-emitting elements, and second wiring formed on the first surface to connect the electrodes of the second light-emitting elements.
US11181765B2
An inexpensive system for maintaining an LCD display above an operative temperature includes ultraviolet (UV) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) incorporated into a backlight structure. The UV LEDs operate in a frequency range sufficiently removed from the visible band to not interfere with the user. A temperature sensor continuously or periodically monitors the temperature of the LCD and activates the UV LEDs to maintain the LCD in a predetermined temperature range for a desired response time.
US11181730B2
An endoscope leak test connector includes: a rotating body configured to cause a ventilation member to project from a leak test pipe sleeve by rotating in a positive direction and cause the ventilation member to be buried into the leak test pipe sleeve by rotating in a negative direction; a gas inlet configured to be connected with a gas supply source; a facing member configured to face the ventilation member projecting from the leak test pipe sleeve; a gas outlet that is open on the facing member; and a seal portion configured to seal the gas outlet and the ventilation member so that the gas outlet and the ventilation member liquid-tightly communicate with each other.
US11181728B2
Disclosed herein are systems for imaging of samples using an array of micro optical elements and methods of their use. In some embodiments, an optical chip comprising an array of micro optical elements moves relative to an imaging window and a detector in order to scan over a sample to produce an image. A focal plane can reside within a sample or on its surface during imaging. Detecting optics are used to detect back-emitted light collected by an array of micro optical elements that is generated by an illumination beam impinging on a sample. In some embodiments, an imaging system has a large field of view and a large optical chip such that an entire surface of a sample can be imaged quickly. In some embodiments, a sample is accessible by a user during imaging due to the sample being exposed while disposed on or over an imaging window.
US11181727B2
One aspect of the present disclosure relates to systems and methods that can be used for super-sensitivity multiphoton frequency-domain fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (MPM-FD-FLIM). One or more laser light sources can deliver excitation light with an intensity modulated by a periodic function to a sample, which includes a fluorophore concentration. A receiver can receive a fluorescence signal emitted from the fluorophore concentration over a time period. A computing device can transform the fluorescence signal to the frequency domain and measure a fluorescence lifetime associated with the sample in the frequency domain based on a DC component and at least one higher harmonic component generated by non-linear optical mixing of the modulated excitation light. Using the DC component and the at least one higher harmonic component can increase the sensitivity of an image created by the MPM-FD-FLIM system.
US11181718B2
The present disclosure discloses an imaging lens assembly, the imaging lens assembly having a total effective focal length f and comprising sequentially, along an optical axis from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens and a seventh lens. Each of the first lens and the fifth lens has a negative focal power; each of the second lens, the fourth lens, the sixth lens and the seventh lens has a positive focal power or a negative focal power; and the third lens has a positive focal power, and an effective focal length f3 of the third lens and the total effective focal length f satisfy: 1
US11181715B2
A lens barrel includes: a first lens; a first tube that holds the first lens and moves along an optical axis; a focusing lens; an actuator that drives the focusing lens; and a second tube that holds the focusing lens and the actuator and moves along the optical axis.
US11181714B2
A focus mechanism includes an inner barrel and an outer barrel that holds the inner barrel to allow the inner barrel to move along an optical axis. An inner peripheral surface of the outer barrel includes a medium-diameter portion having an inner diameter and a small-diameter portion having an inner diameter. The small-diameter portion is continuous to the medium-diameter portion, is positioned on a back side of the medium-diameter portion in an insertion direction ID where the inner barrel is inserted into the outer barrel. The small-diameter portion has an inner diameter that allows an X-ring absorbing the rattling of the inner barrel to be in pressure contact with the small-diameter portion in a case where the inner barrel is inserted into the outer barrel in a state where the X-ring is fitted to a groove. A boundary portion between the medium-diameter portion and the small-diameter portion is disposed at a position closer to a back side than an opening edge, which is close to the back side, of a pin-movement opening.
US11181709B2
Provided is a manufacturing method of an optical fiber ribbon for manufacturing an intermittent-connection-type optical fiber ribbon including a connection part and a non-connection part. The manufacturing method includes: a release agent applying process of intermittently applying a release agent for preventing optical fibers from being bonded to each other with a connection resin in a longitudinal direction of the optical fibers in a state where the optical fibers are arranged in parallel; and a connection resin applying process of allowing the optical fibers in the state of being arranged in parallel to pass through a die for applying the connection resin around the optical fibers after the release agent applying process, and of curing the connection resin.
US11181706B2
An optical fiber cable includes: a first aggregate layer including first optical fiber units that are helically twisted together in a first direction without strand-back. Each of the first optical fiber units includes optical fibers twisted together in a second direction. The first direction is different from the second direction.
US11181703B2
An object is, in a pluggable optical module, to compactly house an optical fiber used for connecting optical components in a housing in which a plurality of optical components are mounted. The pluggable optical module (100) includes: a plurality of optical components, a printed circuit board (51); one or more optical fibers; and optical fiber housing means (14). All or a part of the plurality of optical components are mounted on the printed circuit board (51). One or more optical fibers connect between the plurality of optical components. The optical fiber housing means (14) includes a guide that is disposed on a plate-like member and can wind the one or more optical fibers, and mounted to be stacked with the printed circuit board (51) on which the optical components are mounted and all or a part of optical components other than the optical components mounted on the printed circuit board (51).
US11181694B2
An electro-wetting optical device includes an optical switch that uses a coupling region proximate a waveguide in a substrate. The device uses two optical liquids, providing first and second refractive indices respectively. At least one of the optical liquids is deuterated. Under a first switching configuration the first optical liquid is positioned at the coupling region so as to provide a first effective refractive index for light propagating along the first waveguide and under a second switching configuration the second optical liquid is positioned at the coupling region so as to provide a second effective refractive index for light propagating along the first waveguide.
US11181693B1
Structures for a directional coupler and methods of fabricating a structure for a directional coupler. A first waveguide core has a first section, a second waveguide core has a second section laterally adjacent to the first section, a third waveguide core has a first taper, a second taper, and a third section longitudinally positioned between the first taper and the second taper, and a fourth waveguide core has a first taper, a second taper, and a fourth section longitudinally positioned between the first taper and the second taper. The fourth section is laterally adjacent to the third section, and the third section and the fourth section are positioned either over or under the first section and the second section.
US11181688B2
A composite device for splitting photonic functionality across two or more materials comprises a platform, a chip, and a bond securing the chip to the platform. The platform comprises a base layer and a device layer. The device layer comprises silicon and has an opening exposing a portion of the base layer. The chip, a material, comprises an active region (e.g., gain medium for a laser). The chip is bonded to the portion of the base layer exposed by the opening such that the active region of the chip is aligned with the device layer of the platform. A coating hermetically seals the chip in the platform.
US11181680B1
A luminaire includes a housing, light-emitting diodes and a light guide. A lateral direction from a top side to a bottom side of the housing is a preferred direction. A front side of the housing forms an aperture. The light guide substantially spans the aperture. In operation, the LEDs emit light toward the preferred direction, which light enters a light coupling surface of the light guide, where it propagates and is substantially retained by total internal reflection. The light guide includes light extraction features to redirect a portion of the light out of total internal reflection, so that some of the light exits the housing through the aperture. The light extraction features redirect some of the light so that more of the light exits the aperture between a normal direction of the light guide and the preferred direction, than between the normal direction and the non-preferred direction.
US11181671B2
An image sensor includes: a plurality of filter units, transmission wavelengths of which can be adjusted; a plurality of photoelectric conversion units that receive light transmitted through the filter unit; and a control unit that alters a size of a first region containing a first filter unit, among the plurality of filter units, through which light at a first wavelength is transmitted before entering a photoelectric conversion unit.
US11181660B2
A system includes a neutron source positionable within a wellbore to emit one or more neutrons toward a formation surrounding the wellbore. The system also includes a gamma ray detector positionable within the wellbore to detect gamma rays. Further, the system includes a gamma ray analyzer that can perform operations. The operations can include receiving data indicating detected gamma rays from the gamma ray detector. Additionally, the operations include determining, from the data indicating the detected gamma rays, an amount of activated tracer material present within the wellbore originating from non-radioactive tracer material of drill-in fluid. The operations also include determining, from the amount of activated tracer material, an amount of filtercake buildup in a wellbore, a depth of fluid-loss filtrate into the formation surrounding the wellbore, or a combination thereof.
US11181643B2
A microservice node can receive a request for information identifying a corrected physical location of a client device. The request can include raw satellite data associated with the client device. The microservice node can convert the raw satellite data to a Radio Technical Commission for Maritime Services (RTCM) format. The microservice node can determine, based on converting the raw satellite data to the RTCM format, an estimated physical location of the client device. The microservice node can receive, based on transmitting a request to a network real-time kinematics (RTK) device, corrections data associated with the estimated physical location of the client device. The microservice node can determine, using a cloud RTK engine, the corrected physical location of the client device based on the estimated physical location and corrections data. The microservice node can transmit, to the client device, the information identifying the corrected physical location of the client device.
US11181641B2
An apparatus is provided that includes a LIDAR system with a waveguide array arranged in a first plane. The waveguide array is configured to generate a plurality of beams where each beam is transmitted from a respective waveguide in the array. The apparatus also includes a collimator configured to shape the plurality of beams into a fan of collimated beams having an angular spread in the first plane. Additionally, the apparatus includes a polygon scanner configured to adjust a direction of the fan in a second plane that is different than the first plane. A method is also provided employing the apparatus.
US11181630B2
A high-throughput communications channel is encoded using transmit waveforms which satisfy a variety of technical constraints deemed desirable for effective radar operations and signal processing. This enables new cooperative spectrum sharing modalities for radar and communications systems.
US11181627B2
An ultrasonic sensor includes an ultrasonic element and an element accommodation case. A side wall portion of the element accommodation case has a tubular shape surrounding a directional central axis. A bottom wall portion and a top wall portion of the element accommodation case cover ends of the side wall portion in a direction along the directional central axis. The top wall portion has a diaphragm portion. The bottom wall portion supports the ultrasonic element. For example, the ultrasonic element is opposed to the diaphragm portion across a gap defining an interval corresponding to an integral multiple of half of a wavelength of ultrasonic vibration. Alternatively, the diaphragm portion is formed of a material having an acoustic impedance of 50×105 Pa·s/m or more and 5000×105 Pa·s/m or less, and has a thickness of 1 mm or less.
US11181620B2
A radar sensor for a vehicle may include: a cover configured to transmit electromagnetic waves; a measurement unit disposed at a position facing the cover, and configured to generate the electromagnetic waves to sense an object; a housing having an internal space in which the measurement unit is disposed, and including an open entrance at which the cover is installed; a shield case coupled to the measurement unit, and configured to block the electromagnetic waves generated by the measurement unit such that the electromagnetic waves are discharged to the entrance; and one or more heat conductors disposed between the measurement unit and the shield case and between the shield case and the housing, and configured to conduct heat, generated by the measurement unit, from the shield case to the housing such that the heat is discharged to the outside of the housing.
US11181614B2
Systems and methods to identify an object using a radar system involve arranging an array of antenna elements into two or more subarrays with a tilt angle relative to each other. Each of the two or more subarrays includes two or more antenna elements among the array of antenna elements. A method includes receiving reflected signals at each of the two or more subarrays resulting respectively from transmitting transmit signals from the two or more subarrays, and processing the reflected signals at each of the two or more subarrays to obtain an amplitude associated with each azimuth angle in a range of azimuth angles. A location of the object is determined as the azimuth angle in the range of azimuth angles at which the amplitude exceeds a threshold value.
US11181613B2
A communication system is disclosed. The system may include an antenna unit having a port. The system may also include a communication chip communicably coupled to the antenna unit and having an antenna configured to transmit electromagnetic signals into the port. In addition, the system may include a slotted structure configured for receiving the electromagnetic signals from the antenna and coupling the electromagnetic signals from the antenna into the port.
US11181612B2
A prevention section generates a prevention signal by performing an interference removal process of preventing an influence of radio wave interference with respect to a non-prevention signal acquired by an acquisition section from a radar sensor for each processing cycle. An analysis section performs a frequency analysis process by using the prevention signal when an operation mode is an interference mode and by using the non-prevention signal when the operation mode is a normal mode. A determination section determines, based on an analysis result obtained by the analysis section, whether radio wave interference is present. When the operation mode is the normal mode and the interference is determined to be present, a switching section switches the operation mode to the interference mode, maintains the interference mode during a certain number of processing cycles, and then switches the operation mode to the normal mode.
US11181607B2
In a geolocation system, ancillary parameter values, i.e., those produced during the geolocation process but not directly related to the calculation of the geolocation, are recorded and stored. These “ancillary” parameter values include signal characterization data and secondary measurements produced in the calculation of the geolocation. These parameter values are processed, in one approach, with respect to a weighted matrix in order to determine a confidence or fidelity value of the determined geolocation. Confidence is an indication of the likelihood that the geolocation result produced is in fact the desired target and that the identified location has a reasonable degree of quality so as to be practical or accurate.
US11181605B2
The invention relates to a method and a device for estimating an angle of arrival of an incident radio signal in relation to a predetermined reference direction by using a set of N receiving paths comprising at least one directional antenna pointing in N different receiving directions, wherein only one sub-set of at least two receiving paths with adjacent antenna directions in said set of antennas delivers a measured power at reception. The device comprises modules suitable for: determining a number of receiving paths delivering a measured power forming said sub-set, and a reference index corresponding to a first receiving path in a direction in which extends the set of antenna directions of said sub-set; selecting the measured powers and obtaining a value to attribute to the non-measured powers to form a completed power signal; by applying a discrete Fourier transform (DFT) to said completed power signal, calculating at least one transformed value among the transformed values corresponding to a first, second, and third frequency line of the DFT; and, using the transformed value(s), applying an estimator of the angle of arrival, depending on the reference index.
US11181596B2
A storage medium, a magnetic resonance apparatus, and a method for obtaining an operating parameter of a magnetic resonance apparatus are disclosed herein. The method includes generating of at least one echo train, wherein the generation of an echo train includes: setting a given set of parameters; applying at least one radio frequency excitation pulse; and applying a dephasing gradient in readout direction; and reading out the echo train having at least two echo signals, wherein a readout gradient is applied while reading out the echo signals. The method further includes acquiring at least two echo signals, wherein the set of parameters differs in at least one parameter being used for different echo signals; processing the echo signals line by line to projections; and obtaining the operating parameter using the projections.
US11181593B2
A gradient coil assembly for a magnetic resonant apparatus has a primary coil and a secondary coil, wherein the primary coil has a first primary coil winding and a second primary coil winding, wherein the first primary coil winding and the second primary coil winding are electrically connected to a voltage source and are jointly designed to generate a magnetic field gradient in a direction when the voltage source induces a current in those windings.
US11181588B2
Provided are techniques for automatically detecting and configuring a variety of spray system components. The techniques include a controller configured to detect one or more spray system components. The controller is also configured to initialize software drivers corresponding to the spray system components upon connection of the spray system components to the controller. The techniques may provide one or more hardware on top (HAT) boards configured to couple to the controller and the spray system components.
US11181585B2
A method for detecting state of health of a battery of an electronic device is provided. An initial capacity of the battery is obtained when the battery is charged or discharged with a predetermined current and in a predetermined temperature, and a first State of Charge (SOC) value is calculated when the battery is discharged to a discharge cutoff voltage. An available capacity of the battery is calculated with the predetermined current and in the predetermined temperature based on a maximum capacity of the battery, the first State of Charge value, and a second State of Charge value, and a capacity fade is obtain based on a ratio of the available capacity and the initial capacity. Thus, the state of health is detected based on the capacity fade.
US11181584B2
A storage amount estimation device estimates the storage amount of the energy storage device in which at least one of a positive electrode and a negative electrode contains an active material, at least two electrochemical reactions being generated in the active material depending on a transition of charge-discharge, the hysteresis between a storage amount-voltage value charge characteristic and a storage amount-voltage value discharge characteristic during generation of one of the electrochemical reactions being smaller than the hysteresis during generation of the other electrochemical reaction in the active material. The storage amount estimation device includes an estimator that estimates the storage amount using a voltage reference storage amount-voltage value characteristic obtained based on the storage amount-voltage value discharge characteristic when the one electrochemical reaction is generated more than the other electrochemical reaction.
US11181579B2
A system for performing a scan test of a processor core includes a scan test module and a processor including a processor core and an input/output die, where the input/output die is coupled to the processor core. The scan test module transmits, in parallel to the input/output die, scan test input data. A serializer/deserializer module of the input/output die receives the input data, serializes the input data, and transmits the serialized input data to the processor core. A serializer/deserializer module of the processor core receives the serialized scan test input data, deserializes the input data, receives result data generated in dependence upon the input data, serializes the result data, and transmits the serialized result data to the input/output die. The input/output die serializer/deserializer module receives the result data, deserializes the result data, and provides the result data to the scan test module. Error detection can be carried out through redundancy.
US11181576B2
An electronic component handling apparatus includes: a moving device that presses a device under test (DUT) against a socket of a test head. The moving device includes: a pusher that contacts the DUT; and a heater that heats the DUT through the pusher. The pusher includes: an internal space; and a first flow path that communicates with the internal space. Fluid from the test head is supplied to the internal space through the first flow path.
US11181564B2
A method for determining power output levels of a plurality of nodes in an electric power system includes receiving, at a first node of the plurality of nodes, voltage information and multipliers of all neighboring nodes of the first node within the electric power system, determining, by the first node, a local power generation and a local voltage using the voltage information and the multipliers of the neighboring nodes and distributing the local power generation and the local voltage to the neighboring nodes, determining, by the first node, an estimated voltage of each of the neighboring nodes and distributing the estimated voltage to each of the neighboring nodes, and updating, by the first node, a local multiplier using the voltage information received from the neighboring nodes and the estimated voltage of each of the neighboring nodes determined by the node.
US11181558B2
Magnetic sensors each disposed to face each of current paths for each of windings with 2n phases (n is a multiple of three) in an AC rotating machine are included, and when each of a DC component and an AC component in a d-axis sum current and a q-axis sum current obtained by performing a dq-transformation into a two-axis coordinate system on 2n detection currents on the assumption that all current amplitudes of the windings are the same is represented collectively with each of terms expressed by sine functions with different phases, each of the current paths at each of 2n current path arrangement positions is arranged to have a positional relationship where error components are reduced by cancellation among coefficients included at least in one of the term or by cancellation among values of the terms.
US11181552B2
A method of classifying waveform data includes receiving input waveform data at a test and measurement system, accessing a repository of reference waveform data and corresponding classes, analyzing the input waveform data and the reference waveform data to designate a class of the input waveform data, and using the class designation to provide information to a user. A test and measurement system has a user interface, at least one input port, a communications port, a processor, the processor configured to execute instructions causing the processor to: receive input waveform data through at least one of the input port or the user interface; access a repository of reference waveform data; analyze the input waveform data using the reference waveform data; designate a class of the input waveform data; and use the class to provide information to the user about the input waveform.
US11181546B2
A physical quantity sensor includes a substrate; a movable body that is displaceable about a support axis according to a physical quantity and includes an opening; a support that is provided on the substrate and is located in the opening, and the support includes a first fixed plate and a second fixed plate that are fixed to the substrate and provided so as to sandwich the support axis in plan view; a first beam and a second beam that each connect the first fixed plate with the second fixed plate and are spaced apart from each other; a third beam extending in a direction of the support axis and connecting the first beam with the movable body; and a fourth beam extending in a direction of the support axis and connecting the second beam with the movable body.
US11181536B2
A Disease Severity Index (DSI) is provided for assessment of chronic liver disease in a patient using non-invasive liver function test results. A DSI was derived from non-invasive liver function test results based on hepatic blood flow. The DSI is used in methods for prediction of clinical outcomes, prediction of response to antiviral treatment, and assessment of progression of chronic liver diseases. Non-invasive methods to diagnose three distinct categories of patients with Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis (PSC) are provided. The methods can be used to diagnose PSC patients as Slow Progressors, Moderate Progressors and Rapid Progressors.
US11181532B2
The invention refers to a method for in vitro diagnosis of a severe infection comprising determining delta-like ligand 1 protein or a nucleotide sequence coding for delta-like ligand 1 protein in a biological sample wherein an elevated level of expression of delta-like ligand 1 protein or a nucleotide sequence coding for delta-like ligand 1 protein is indicative of a severe infection; and the use of delta-like ligand 1 protein as a biomarker for in vitro diagnosis of a severe infection such as sepsis.
US11181526B2
A peptide, including: a first peptide fragment including (KG)n or (GK)n where n is an integer between 2 and 5, K represents a lysine residue, and G represents a glycine residue; a second peptide fragment including an identification sequence; and a first connection peptide including 1-2 glycine residues. The first connection peptide is disposed between the first peptide fragment and the second peptide fragment.
US11181523B2
The invention is an ex vivo method for early detection of acute kidney injury in critical patients, which includes the measurements of fibroblast growth factor 23 (FGF23), klotho (KL) and erythropoietin (EPO) as biomarkers. These measurements are obtained from a venous blood sample or urine, and allow the determination of the following indicators: 1=([FGF23]p×[EPO]p); 2=([FGF23]p/[Klotho]p); 3=([EPO]p)/[Klotho]p); 4=([FGF23]p×[EPO]p)/[Klotho]p); where [X]p is defined as the plasma level of a specific molecule (X) which includes fibroblast growth factor 23 (FGF23), klotho (KL) or erythropoietin (EPO). If the value of the indicator 1, 2, 3, 4 or two or more thereof, is equal or higher than a cut-off point (10 U), the indicator and/or indicators allow the identification of patients with high risk of developing AKI, with a high sensitivity/specificity. Therefore high levels of the indicator are associated to a high probability of the presence/development of AKI, which allows to perform specific clinical interventions for patients with AKI. If the value of the indicator 1, 2, 3, 4 or two or more thereof, is lower than the previously mentioned cut-off point, the probability of presence/development of AKI is low, therefore patients require only standard treatment.
US11181520B2
Methods of imaging described herein comprises disposing a first and second ultrasound-switchable fluorophore in an environment; exposing the environment to an ultrasound beam to create an activation region; disposing the first and/or second fluorophore within the activation region to switch the first and/or second fluorophore from an off state to an on state; exposing the environment to a beam of electromagnetic radiation; detecting a first photoluminescence signal at a first location within the environment, the photoluminescence signal comprising at least one of a first ultrasound fluorescence signal emitted by the first fluorophore, a first fluorescence signal emitted by the second fluorophore, and a background signal; correlating the first photoluminescence signal with a first reference signal to generate a correlation coefficient for the first location; and multiplying the first photoluminescence signal by the first correlation coefficient for the first location to generate a first modified photoluminescence signal for the first location.
US11181514B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable mediums storing computer executable code for detecting and alerting of gases is provided. The method may include determining a parts per million of a specified gas. The method may also include comparing the determined parts per million to a pre-determined threshold. The method may include, when the parts per million meets or exceeds a threshold, generating a control signal. The method may also include transmitting the control signal to an alerting device to emit an alert to a user. The method may also include transmitting the control signal to a control device, wherein the control device performs a specified task.
US11181513B2
There is provided a biogas flux chamber constructed in one embodiment from a metal can with an open bottom and an epoxy interior coating. The chamber is inserted into the soil to allow influx of soil gases. The lid includes a sampling septum and a vent tube to prevent pressure build-up when the lid is in place which allows for an increase in interior gas concentrations. The rubber sampling septum is installed in a hole in the lid. The vent tube is constructed using flexible copper tubing inserted through the lid and secured using a bulkhead-fitting, and rubber O-ring to seal the insertion hole. The copper tubing is bent to form a double-curved ‘C’ shape which positions the open ends of the tube above and below the lid surfaces.
US11181511B2
A plurality of product ion spectra measured over plurality of cycles for each precursor ion mass selection window of two or more precursor ion mass selection windows are received from a tandem mass spectrometer. A product ion extracted ion chroatograms (XIC) is calculated for each precursor ion mass selection window of the two or more precursor ion mass selection windows from the plurality of product ion spectra for each precursor ion mass selection window. Two or more product ion XICs are produced. A two-dimensional binary bit matrix is generated to represent each product ion XIC of the two or more product ion XICs. For each XIC of the two or more product ion XICs, the binary bit matrix is separately initialized with binary values calculated from each XIC and the initialized binary bit matrix is compared with stored information about known compounds to identify known compounds of each XIC.
US11181509B2
To provide a technique for expanding a measurement dynamic range and performing a stable detection in a sensing sensor using a crystal resonator. A spacer is disposed between an oscillator circuit that oscillates a crystal resonator and a base body that cools an oscillator circuit to a cryogenic temperature, and an oscillator circuit board includes a heater resistor that heats the oscillator circuit. Therefore, the temperature of the oscillator circuit that does not fall below a functional limit temperature and is a low temperature as much as possible can be provided. A negative resistance of the oscillator circuit can be increased, the measurement dynamic range can be expanded, and the crystal resonator can be stably oscillated.
US11181503B1
Devices and methods employing stationary homodyne interferometry to aid in the determination of the magnitude and polarity of electrophoretic mobility and zeta potential of particles are provided. The devices use an optical quadrature interferometer having a sample holder loadable with an electrophoresis sample chamber that may contain sample particles undergoing electrophoresis, the optical quadrature interferometer being configured to perform optical velocimetry on the particles and to generate a quadrature signal comprising characteristics related to the speeds and directions of the particles. The quadrature signal may be used to determine the speeds and directions of particles. The speeds and directions of particles may be used, together with other information, for the determination of the magnitudes and polarities of the electrophoretic mobility and zeta potential of the particles. Constraints on vibration, light source coherence length, and measurement resolution may be relaxed.
US11181501B2
A method and an apparatus for determining a presence or an amount of a polyamine or its derivative in a sample, the method including: applying the sample on an electrochemical detector having a substance selection structure, wherein the substance selection structure is sensitive to the polyamine or its derivative; applying at least one voltage bias to the electrochemical detector; and detecting a change of electrical characteristics of the electrochemical detector so as to determine the presence or the amount of the polyamine or its derivative in the sample.
US11181500B2
An all-solution electrode fabrication process is provided. The process comprises the steps of: i) preparing and activating a shrinkable polymer substrate for deposition of a a) conductive film; ii) modifying the substrate to incorporate a linker; iii) immobilizing particles of a conductive material on the linkers of the substrate to form a conductive film on the substrate; and vi) heating the modified substrate to a temperature sufficient to cause contraction of the polymer substrate and to result in micro- and/or nano-texturing in the conductive film. The process advantageously yields a novel multi-scale electrode device comprising a polymer substrate; and a textured electro-conductive film linked to the substrate.
US11181491B2
Aspects of the disclosure are directed to an analysis of a material of a component. A radiation source is activated to transmit radiation to the component. A beam pattern is obtained based on the component interfering with the radiation. The beam pattern is compared to a reference beam pattern. An anomaly is detected to exist in the material when the comparison indicates a deviation between the beam pattern and the reference beam pattern.
US11181482B1
A mobile phone-based system for ELISA (MELISA). The MELISA system can perform all steps of ELISA procedure and output hormone concentration values. The system includes a heater that keeps the temperature required for sample incubation, illumination system for sample image capturing, and a digital camera system. All components are enclosed in a dark box to create optimal light conditions for image capturing. After sample images are captured, they are digitally processed, and hormone concentration values are reported based on colorimetric data from the samples. The system can be used to complete all steps of the assay, including incubation and reading. It is lightweight, can be fabricated at low cost, is portable, and can transfer test results via mobile phone. MELISA can be calibrated for accurate measurements of progesterone and has demonstrated successful measurements with the calibrated system.
US11181479B2
The invention provides methods and devices for generating optical pulses in one or more waveguides using a spatially scanning light source. A detection system, methods of use thereof and kits for detecting a biologically active analyte molecule are also provided. The system includes a scanning light source, a substrate comprising a plurality of waveguides and a plurality of optical sensing sites in optical communication with one or more waveguide of the substrate, a detector that is coupled to and in optical communication with the substrate, and means for spatially translating a light beam emitted from said scanning light source such that the light beam is coupled to and in optical communication with the waveguides of the substrate at some point along its scanning path. The use of a scanning light source allows the coupling of light into the waveguides of the substrate in a simple and cost-effective manner.
US11181477B2
System and methods for analyzing single molecules and performing nucleic acid sequencing. An integrated device includes multiple pixels with sample wells configured to receive a sample, which when excited, emits radiation. The integrated device includes at least one waveguide configured to propagate excitation energy to the sample wells from a region of the integrated device configured to couple with an excitation energy source. A pixel may also include at least one element for directing the emission energy towards a sensor within the pixel. The system also includes an instrument that interfaces with the integrated device. The instrument may include an excitation energy source for providing excitation energy to the integrated device by coupling to an excitation energy coupling region of the integrated device. One of multiple markers distinguishable by temporal parameters of the emission energy may label the sample and configuration of the sensor within a pixel may allow for detection of a temporal parameter associated with the marker labeling the sample.
US11181466B2
A monitoring device, in particular a wire netting monitoring device, for a wire netting, in particular for a protective net for stabilizing, catching and/or intercepting and/or retaining heavy loads, has at least two inter-engaging net elements, at least one net element of which is produced from at least one single wire, a wire bundle, a wire strand, a wire rope and/or some other longitudinal element having at least one wire, in particular produced from a high-tensile steel, wherein the monitoring device comprises at least one corrosion monitoring unit configured for monitoring at least one corrosion indicator.
US11181462B2
A multilayer component is coated with a fluorogenic probe designed to give off florescence when in contact with one or more metals in the multilayer component. The fluorogenic probe is exposed to radiation. The intensity and wavelength of the florescence is measured to determine a porosity of the one or more layers of the multilayer component.
US11181451B1
An infectious disease screening system (1) for screening for infectious diseases, such as COVID-19 disease. The system comprises an ultrasonic transducer (49) for generating ultrasonic waves to lyse cells in a biological sample. The system (1) comprises a controller which controls the ultrasonic transducer (49) to oscillate at an optimum frequency for cell lysis, a PCR apparatus (16) which receives and amplifies the DNA from the sample; and a detection apparatus (70) which detects the presence of an infectious disease in the amplified DNA and provides an output which is indicative of whether or not the detection arrangement (70) detects the presence of an infectious disease in the amplified DNA.
US11181450B2
A system for applying a fluid to a substrate bearing a sample for analysis has an array of sensor plates positioned to sense the presence of fluid in contact with respective areas of the substrate. In a particular embodiment, fluid presence in different areas of the substrate is sensed by the effect of the fluid and its identity on the impedances of capacitors formed between sensor plates within the array. In a more particular embodiment, by polling the sensor array continually while fluid is applied to the substrate determine a coverage map, a fluid dispensing mechanism can be controlled to efficiently cover the entire substrate with fluid a minimal amount of fluid, thereby reducing waste.
US11181445B2
A structural health monitoring system is provided comprising sensors and/or sensor modules attached to, or near to, one or more parts or regions of a structure that detect and measure data regarding physical or related features or phenomena associated with the structure before, during and after a load or other event impacting or otherwise affecting the structure. The sensor modules measure and convert the detected phenomena into digital data and transmit the data to a master station for data compilation, storage and analysis. The master station is configured to produce analytic work product based on sensed phenomena which is useful for assisting inspectors in determining what action to take with respect to a structure's health after an event.
US11181442B2
A six-DOF motion testing and motion parameter decoupling method for rotors based on shaft-disk is proposed, which includes a displacement sensor tooling and a precision shaft-disk fixed on the rotor where three measuring points are arranged on the surface of disk to measure the axial motion of the rotor, two measuring points on the shaft to measure the radial motion, and the angle encoder at the shaft shoulder to measure the rotation motion. The tooling guarantees the accuracy of displacement sensors. The fixed coordinate system and the shaft-disk moving coordinate system are set, and the measured values of the displacement sensors and the encoder are represented by vectors to establish the relationship between the six-DOF motion of the shaft-disk axis and the measured values of sensors. Thus, the six-DOF motion of the rotor/shaft-disk can be determined by the measured data.
US11181441B2
A sensor system that detects a vibration of a rotating part with a high accuracy even in a case in which a sensor is additionally attached is provided. The invention is directed to a sensor system includes a board that is installed in a rotating part of a cut processing machine; a plurality of acceleration sensors mounted on the board, and a signal processing unit (arithmetic operation). The signal processing unit detects a translational acceleration accompanying moving of the rotating part and a centrifugal acceleration accompanying rotation of the rotating part on the basis of acceleration data detected by each of the acceleration sensors.
US11181433B2
A center-of-mass height estimation device includes a roll moment calculation unit for calculating roll moment of a sprung portion in a vehicle on the basis of bearing capacities of left and right suspensions provided on the vehicle, a lateral acceleration measurement unit for measuring lateral acceleration, which is acceleration in a width direction of the vehicle, a mass measurement unit for measuring mass of the sprung portion, a transfer function calculation unit for calculating a transfer function of the roll moment with respect to the lateral acceleration, and a center-of-mass height calculation unit for dividing the gain of the transfer function by the mass of the sprung portion to calculate a height from a roll center of the vehicle to a center of mass of the sprung portion.
US11181428B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for measuring the location, the amplitude, and/or the direction of forces applied to a walking or running surface. An example system includes a pressure-sensitive sheet that extends along a first axis. The pressure-sensitive sheet includes a top surface and a bottom surface. A vertical force applied at a location along at least one of the top surface or the bottom surface forms an electrical path between the top surface and the bottom surface having a resistance, rf, that is inversely proportional to an amplitude of the vertical force. The system further includes read out circuitry configured to provide information indicative of the amplitude of the vertical force and the location of the vertical force along the first axis of the pressure-sensitive sheet.
US11181427B2
Provided herein is a differential temperature sensor which utilizes multiple temperature sensors to quickly and accurately calculate ambient fluid temperature with a reduced response time. The provided systems and methods utilize a first fluid temperature sensor and a second probe temperature sensor to account for the thermal impact of the device on the ambient fluid temperature and the effect of heat within the device, or temperature difference between the probe and fluid temperature, on the first fluid temperature sensor measurement.
US11181412B2
A decontamination device removes particles from a gas flow and is usable in a gas metering device. The decontamination device may include an upper portion defining a plurality of openings and a lower portion attached to the upper portion. In an example, the lower portion includes a first curved ramp to redirect the gas flow and a plurality of fingers in a path of the redirected gas flow. First and second flow pipes receive incoming gas and bifurcate the gas flow, which is redirected at the first curved ramp. The fingers contact and remove particles in the redirected gas flow. A second curved ramp may include at least one hole to bifurcate the gas flow into a first gas flow passing through the at least one hole and a second gas flow redirected by the second curved ramp to pass through the plurality of openings defined in the upper portion.
US11181411B2
A flow rate measurement system outputs a measurement value which represents a magnitude of a flow rate and a flow direction of a fluid that flows through a particular main passage. The system includes a bypass passage disposed in the main passage, a detection unit disposed in the bypass passage that outputs a detection value corresponding to a magnitude of a flow rate and a flow direction of the fluid flowing through the bypass passage, and a calculation unit that, by using the detection value, calculates the measurement value by compensating as needed for a delay in the change in flow rate in the bypass passage with respect to the change in flow rate in the main passage. The compensation is based on whether a change of flow direction has occurred in the main passage or the bypass passage.
US11181408B2
A thermoresistive gas sensor, e.g. for a flow sensor or a thermal conductivity detector, has a lattice with lattice webs, which consist of a semiconductor material arranged in the plane of the lattice in parallel next to one another, wherein the semiconductor material is formed on a plate-shaped semiconductor substrate that extends over a window-like cutout in the semiconductor substrate and forms the lattice, where the semiconductor layer is doped outside the cutout in areas of two ends of the lattice at least over the width of the lattice until it degenerates and/or bears metallizations, where the semiconductor layer further contains a separation structure insulating the two ends of the lattice from one another, in which the semiconductor material is removed or is not doped, and where the lattice webs extend in an S shape and are connected electrically in parallel to achieve a high measurement sensitivity and mechanical stability.
US11181400B2
The present invention discloses a Fiber Bragg Grating demodulation device with a suppressed fluctuation at a variable ambient temperature and a demodulation method. The device comprises a broadband light source (1), an optical attenuator (2), a tunable F-P filter (3), a first optical fiber isolator (41), an erbium-doped optical fiber amplifier (5), an optical fiber first-stage beam splitter (6), a first optical fiber second-stage beam splitter (71), optical fiber circulators (8), FBG sensor arrays (9), a first photoelectric detector array (161), an optical fiber gas cell (10), a second optical fiber second-stage beam splitter (72), an optical fiber F-P etalon (11), a notch filter (12), an optical fiber assisted interferometer (13), a data acquisition card (17) and a processor (18).
US11181395B2
An electronic position encoder includes a scale and detector. The detector includes a field generating coil (FGC) having elongated portions (EPs) bounding a generated field area (GFA) aligned with sensing windings, to provide position signals responsive to the scale interacting with the generated field. Sensing elements and EPs are fabricated in “front” layers of the detector. A transverse conductor portion (TCP) fabricated in a “rear” layer connects the EP of the FGC via feedthroughs. A shield region in a layer between the front and rear layers intercepts at least a majority of a projection of the TCP toward the front layers to eliminate undesirable signal effects. The FGC feedthroughs generate GFC feedthrough stray fields. Feedthrough pairs that connect sensing winding signals to rear layers of the detector are specially configured to mitigate undesirable signal effects that may otherwise result from their coupling to the GFC feedthrough stray fields.
US11181393B2
By configuring an encoder scale as a varying scale with successively increasing or decreasing pitch, sensors in a travel path of the scale can detect a phase difference to determine an absolute position of the scale for use in an industrial control system. Due to the successively increasing or decreasing pitch, each sensor can detect successively increasing or decreasing properties (such as magnetic fields) from the scale in a uniquely identifiable pattern. By taking the difference between readings of adjacent sensors, each sensor detecting properties of the scale, an absolute position of the scale between the sensors can be determined. The principle for feedback for the encoder system is analogous to a Nonius or Vernier principle to determine absolute position.
US11181392B2
An automatic meter reading (AMR) system includes a plurality of metering endpoints, each endpoint being configured to wirelessly transmit meter data in compliance with a data transmission schedule. A handheld unit, transported by a vehicle in proximity to the endpoints, is adapted to receive the meter data. To reduce the risk of communication collision, each endpoint is configured with techniques for modifying its transmission schedule. As one technique, each endpoint transmits meter data at a fixed time interval between successive transmissions, each transmission being applied with a random time offset to yield a non-periodic transmission cycle. As another technique, each metering endpoint is configured to transmit meter data within a designated time slot within the fixed time interval. Further, each endpoint monitors the distribution of data within the various time slots and modifies the time slot to which it is assigned to optimally balance the distribution of meter data.
US11181389B2
Provided is a driving guide system, and more specifically, a system for guiding a vehicle occupant in driving through linguistic description. One embodiment of the present invention is an apparatus for guiding driving with linguistic description of a destination, which is installed on a vehicle and guides driving by outputting a linguistic description of a destination building, wherein the apparatus sets a destination according to a command or input, receives appearance information of a building of the destination from a server, and represents and outputs the appearance information in a linguistic form.
US11181388B2
Some embodiments provide a mapping application that provides a variety of UI elements for allowing a user to specify a location (e.g., for viewing or serving as route destinations). In some embodiments, these location-input UI elements appear in succession on a sequence of pages, according to a hierarchy that has the UI elements that require less user interaction appear on earlier pages in the sequence than the UI elements that require more user interaction. In some embodiments, the location-input UI elements that successively appear in the mapping application include (1) selectable predicted-destination notifications, (2) a list of selectable predicted destinations, (3) a selectable voice-based search affordance, and (4) a keyboard. In some of these embodiments, these UI elements appear successively on the following sequence of pages: (1) a default page for presenting the predicted-destination notifications, (2) a destination page for presenting the list of predicted destinations, (3) a search page for receiving voice-based search requests, and (4) a keyboard page for receiving character input.
US11181387B2
Methods, systems and computer program products for dynamic routing are provided. Aspects include receiving a plurality of stops from a user, wherein the plurality of stops includes at least one fixed location and at least one variable location and obtaining an address for at least one of the plurality of stops. Aspects also include obtaining a routing goal associated with the user and generating a route, including each of the plurality of stops, based on the routing goal. Aspects further include monitoring a movement of the user and updating the route based at least in part on the movement of the user.
US11181381B2
A portable pedestrian navigation system including a computing device, a proximity sensor and an output device. The proximity sensor and the output device are communicatively coupled to the computing device and the computing device is adapted for receiving environmental data at least from the proximity sensor. Based on the environmental data, A candidate guide entity near the pedestrian is identified. Based on the environmental data, the output device is used for guiding the pedestrian in accordance with a movement of the identified candidate guide entity as a selected guide entity.
US11181378B2
Device for locating moving objects or people in a space equipped with at least one inductive surface
A device is provided for locating a moving object or person in a space partially equipped with inductive surfaces. The device comprises magnetic detection means configured to detect the presence of the object or of the person on or close to an inductive surface, measure a heading angle by way of two simultaneous measurement points and generate dated reference heading angle data for the object or for the person; inertial detection means configured to generate estimated angular speed and acceleration data for the object or for the person; and calculation means coupled to the magnetic and inertial detection means, configured to combine the dated reference heading angle data with the estimated data in order to generated corrected position and orientation data for the object or for the person in the space.
US11181375B2
In some implementations, a UAV flight system can dynamically adjust UAV flight operations based on thermal sensor data. For example, the flight system can determine an initial flight plan for inspecting a flare stack and configure a UAV to perform an aerial inspection of the flare stack. Once airborne, the UAV can collect thermal sensor data and the flight system can automatically adjust the flight plan to avoid thermal damage to the UAV based on the thermal sensor data.
US11181370B2
A total station configured for receiving from a camera a first image captured in a first face and a second image captured in a second face, wherein in the second face the camera is rotated around the optical axis by between 170° and 190° compared to the first face, receiving at least one of an azimuthal angle pair and an elevative angle pair, said azimuthal angle pair comprising a first azimuthal angle and a second azimuthal angle, and said elevative angle pair comprising a first elevative angle a second elevative angle, matching the first image and the second image with a relative rotation and a relative translation, determining the relative rotation of the matched first image and second image, determining the relative translation of the matched first image and second image, based on the respective angle pair, the relative rotation, the relative translation, and determining an instrument error.
US11181368B2
A system includes at least one light projector, at least one image sensor, and at least one controller. The at least one light projector is attachable to an aircraft at a first location. The at least one light projector is configured to emit a first beam of light in a first direction at a first intensity. The at least one image sensor is attachable to the aircraft at a second location. The at least one image sensor is configured to capture a first image of a scene including reflections of the first beam of light and a second image of the scene without the at least one projector emitting a beam of light. The at least one controller is configured to determine a maximum detection range of the first beam of light based upon the light intensity of the light beam, the first location, and the second location.
US11181367B2
Provided are a first DSM generating unit, a first DEM generating unit, a first DHM generating unit, a first inclination image generating unit, a first inclination image storing unit, a first red relief image generating unit, a first gradient-tinted image generating unit, a first feature height-based colored image generating unit, a first building height comparison image generating unit, a second red relief image generating unit, a first feature height comparison image generating unit, a first terrain/feature height-based colored image generating unit, and the like, to obtain a terrain/feature height-based colored image, in which a terrain is expressed in color in accordance with a height and an inclination thereof, and in which a feature is expressed in color in accordance with a height and an inclination thereof.
US11181360B2
This evaluating method is an evaluating method for evaluating an assembly (50) provided with a reinforced member (60) and a reinforcing member (70), and includes: a step of introducing incident light into a first optical fiber (20) extending between a first composite layer and a second composite layer and detecting outgoing light therefrom to measure a first strain distribution, and introducing incident light into a second optical fiber (30) extending between the second composite layer and a third composite layer and detecting outgoing light therefore to measure a second strain distribution; and a step of acquiring the shape of wrinkles at the surface (60s) of the reinforced member (60) from the first strain distribution and the second strain distribution.
US11181356B2
A three-coordinate measuring system includes a three-coordinate measuring apparatus, and a type collector for a product to be measured; the apparatus is provided with a probe, and a control component which controls motion of the probe through a measuring program preset according to product type of the product to be measured, the control component is electrically connected to the probe; the type collector includes an optical collecting head capable of scanning a graphic identifier, the optical collecting head is electrically connected to the control component; the control component acquires the product type of the product to be measured according to the graphic identifier scanned by the optical collecting head, and call a corresponding measuring program to control the motion of the probe in order to measure the product to be measured and acquire measuring data, a method for three-coordinate measuring is also provided.
US11181355B2
The present application relates to an on-line automatic detection device for wheel brake space, which is composed of a lower lifting drive system, a detection system, a synchronous clamping drive system and an upper driving and pressing system. In use, the device may not only detect the brake space of the back cavity of the wheel, but also detect the specific value of the interference amount of the brake space. Moreover, it has the characteristics of high automation, powerful function, advanced technology, strong versatility, and safe and stable performance.
US11181350B2
Herein we describe cartridges, including for shotgun shells, utilizing a particulate obturating medium to provide a gas seal. The obturating medium comprises particles having an average particle size greater than 212 microns, and an average specific gravity greater than 1.1. Such cartridges are particularly useful as shotshell cartridges used as blanks, less lethal loads, hunting loads, target loads, and barrel-cleaning loads. Methods for loading and use are described, as well as different particulate obturating media.
US11181343B2
A method of operating a deployable armor panel is disclosed with steps as; grasping a pair of extractors with a pair of handles or distal loops by inserting a thumb and/or finger of a user into said pairs of distal loops; extracting said deployable armor panel up and out by stretching said pair of extractors through said pair of distal loops connected therewith; stretching said deployable armor panel over head of said user by pulling said pair of extractors through said pair of distal loops from said internal compartment of said carrier; positioning said deployable armor panel in front of a chest of said user by draping said pair of tethers over said shoulders of said user; and securing said deployable armor panel in front of said chest by attaching said panel, to a belt disposed at both sides of said carrier, by a pair of adjustable fasteners.
US11181342B2
The present invention relates to target acquisition and related devices, and more particularly to telescopic gunsights and associated equipment used to achieve shooting accuracy at, for example, close ranges, medium ranges and extreme ranges at stationary and moving targets.
US11181341B2
A sight device for a firearm having a base, a sight arm, a rear sight slide, and at least one rear sight piece having a rear sight. The sight arm engages the base and is pivotable in a pivot direction relative thereto about a pivot axis. The rear sight slide, arranged proximate a free end of the sight arm, is displaceable relative to the sight axis and the pivot direction relative to the sight arm, and is fixed on the sight arm in an adjusted setting position. The rear sight slide includes a receptacle with retaining structures for removably engaging the rear sight piece. A latch section of a spring-loaded latch piece on the rear sight slide engages in a latch receiver on the rear sight piece when the rear sight piece is inserted into the receptacle and holds the rear sight piece in a fixed position.
US11181339B2
Apparatus and associated methods relate to a handgun brace arranged with a rigid structure extending radially away from a handgun trigger guard, and having a forward-facing surface configured to physically engage with at least one finger of a user's non-primary grip hand in a stable position below the handgun's barrel and in front of the handgun's trigger, such that a counter-force applied by the finger(s) at the forward-facing surface tends to prevent the handgun (especially the muzzle), from rising or rotating in response to shooting, such as due to muzzle jump. In an illustrative example, the brace may be releasably fixed to the handgun (e.g., as a modular handgun accessory). A handgun brace that substantially mitigates the unwanted effects of muzzle jump/recoil may advantageously yield higher shooting accuracy and beneficially promote proper handgun grip positioning.
US11181335B1
In some embodiments, an archery bow comprises a riser and a bushing attached to the riser. In some embodiments, the bushing comprises a flange and a tubular shaft. In some embodiments, the tubular shaft comprises an external helical thread and an internal helical thread. In some embodiments, the flange comprises a front portion and a rear portion, the rear portion comprising a rear surface in contact with the riser. In some embodiments, the front portion comprises a recessed portion and a contacting ring. In some embodiments, a diameter of the contacting ring is greater than a distance across the external helical thread.
US11181329B2
A heat exchanger includes a core comprising a single piece continuous boundary having a first surface defining a first labyrinth, and an opposing second surface defining a second labyrinth; a first inlet manifold connected to the first labyrinth and configured to supply a first fluid to the first labyrinth; and a second inlet manifold connected to the second labyrinth and configured to supply a second fluid to the second labyrinth; wherein the core comprises a plurality of identical three dimensional unit cell structures replicated in three orthogonal spatial dimensions.
US11181324B2
A rotor system includes a rotor hub, a plurality of rotor blades supported by the rotor hub, and a fairing mounted to the rotor hub. The fairing includes an external surface exposed to an external airflow and an internal surface defining an interior portion. One or more heat generating components are arranged in the interior portion. A cooling system is arranged in the interior portion. The cooling system includes a first heat exchanger thermally connected to each of the one or more heat generating components, a second heat exchanger mounted to the fairing, and at least one fluid conduit extending therebetween so as to remove heat generated by each of the one or more heat generating components.
US11181306B2
A double-sided roll bond condenser has a main body, an interposition section, and a neck portion. The main body is an upright board and has two side surfaces. Two filling structures are respectively protruded from the two side surfaces of the main body. The interposition section is formed at a bottom portion of the double-side roll bond condenser, and is a U-shaped folded structure. The U-shaped folded structure protrudes from one of the two side surfaces of the main body. The neck portion is located between the main body and the interposition section.
US11181300B2
Systems and methods for providing a personal heater are disclosed. In some embodiments, the personal heater comprises a housing, a heating element, and a controller. The housing is configured with an opening for receiving one or more feet. The controller is configured to cause the heating element to heat one or both of an interior and an exterior of the housing based on whether the one or more feet are inside the housing.
US11181296B2
A system for improving an air-quality of a given space serviced by an exit register of an AC system including a base frame device that is configured to engage the exit register, a metal base frame section for engaging the base frame device with a perimeter of the exit register. A register cover device that is configured to magnetically engage the base frame device. The register cover device having a plurality of alternating open space portions, a plurality of air diverting fin segments, and a magnet holder implement. The magnet holder implement includes at least four magnet holders that are disposed on each end corner portion of the register cover device. At least four height adjustable magnets are disposed on each of the magnet holders, wherein each of the height adjustable magnets is configured to magnetically engage the register cover device with the base frame device.
US11181295B2
An indoor unit of an air conditioner and an air conditioner are provided. A bracket of the indoor unit has a chassis. The chassis has a limiting structure. An air duct assembly of the indoor unit is detachably engaged or magnetically connected with an upper portion of the chassis. A movable limiting member of the indoor unit is provided to the air duct assembly. The movable limiting member is configured to movably protrude from the air duct assembly and engage with the limiting structure to retain the air duct assembly within the bracket.
US11181291B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of air conditioning technology. In particular, it involves a control method and control device based on a DC variable speed AC compressor.
US11181286B2
This disclosure relates to methods, systems, and devices for detecting an operational mode of a building component of an environmental control system. In some instances, the apparatus may include a sensor for outputting a signal related to a measure of power drawn by the building component. The sensor may be a current sensor associated with a power cord of an air conditioning unit. The signal output by the sensor may be received by a signal conditioning circuit for conditioning the signal received from the sensor such as, for example, by amplifying and/or filtering. A comparator may be configured to compare the conditioned signal to a specified threshold associated with an ON condition and/or an OFF condition of the building component. The apparatus may include a wireless interface configured to wirelessly transmit a determination of whether the building component is ON or OFF based on the result determined by the comparator.
