US11197525B2
A drink spiking prevention device comprising a hair accessory and a cover. The hair accessory having a band forming a circle and the band being elastic. The hair accessory further having a hair accessory fabric forming a tube that encapsulates the elastic band and a pouch coupled to the hair accessory fabric. The cover is stored in and removeable from the pouch. The cover includes a cover fabric that extends to a perimeter, an aperture formed in the cover fabric, and a cord extending from the perimeter and coupled to the hair accessory. The cover covers an opening of a cup by the perimeter stretching over and conforming to a diameter of the opening to prevent new material from being added to a liquid in the cup.
US11197523B2
An auxiliary handle for a walking assistance device has a tube seat and a handgrip tube. The tube seat utilizes the positioning space for accepting a crutch tube. When a user holds the handle portion of the handgrip tube and turns it downward; when the handgrip tube is turned, the positioning protrusion of the connecting portion moves from the stopping portion to the positioning portion and compresses the elastic member. When the handgrip tube is horizontal, the positioning protrusion passes over the stopping edge and inserts into the positioning portion for positioning to lock the handgrip tube and prevent the elastic member from rebounding. Meanwhile, the user holds a top grip on the top of the walking assistance device with one hand, and holds the handgrip tube with the other hand, and then applies force to support the body to get up and stand.
US11197522B2
The invention involves a modular jewelry system and method for constructing a modular jewelry system. The system includes a base having a bore, the side wall of the bore including a groove having a slight helix. The helix includes a small protrusion beyond which the helix flattens and the slot ends. A charm, stone or the like, has an outwardly extending stem; the stem including at least one outwardly extending tab. The tab is sized to cooperate with the groove, so that the stem is pulled into the bore as the stem is rotated until passing the protrusion, whereby the stem is locked into position in the bore.
US11197520B2
A fixing belt which includes: a double-sided hook surface fastener having hook-like engaging elements on both surfaces thereof; and a double-sided loop surface fastener having loop-like engaging elements on both surfaces thereof. The double-sided hook surface fastener is an extrusion molding surface fastener, the double-sided hook surface fastener is folded back in a length direction in a shape of an alligator's mouth, and the double-sided hook surface fastener is fixed to a first mounting object at a folded-back portion by a rivet. One end portion of the double-sided loop surface fastener is tucked by the alligator's mouth, the double-sided loop surface fastener is folded back by an annular part fixed to a second mounting object, and the other end portion of the double-sided loop surface fastener engages with an outer side surface of the alligator's mouth.
US11197516B2
A shoe capable of adjusting heel height includes a front bracket, a rear bracket, a telescopic linkage rack, a telescopic support member, a linking member and a locking mechanism. The rear bracket is rotatably connected to the front bracket. The telescopic linkage rack is pivotally connected to the rear bracket, and can be telescoped with the movement of the rear bracket. The telescopic support member is fixedly connected to the telescopic linkage rack, and can be simultaneously telescoped in the same direction and in the same proportion with the telescoping degree of the telescopic linkage rack. The linked member is pivotally connected to the front bracket and the telescopic support member, and arranged spaced to the rear bracket, and the linked member is spaced to the rear bracket. The locking mechanism can removably fix the telescopic support member for limiting the telescopic support member.
US11197504B2
An aerosol generating apparatus includes a case including an insertion pipe for surrounding and supporting at least a portion of a cigarette and an extraction member that includes a disk for supporting a lower end of the cigarette, the extraction member being slidably installed on the case. The insertion pipe includes a step portion that is concaving away from an external surface to form an internal surface of the insertion pipe to allow mounting of the extraction member on the step portion, and based on the extraction member being removed from the case, the disk is configured to pressurize the lower end of the cigarette so that the cigarette is removed from the case.
US11197499B2
An electronic smoking article includes a liquid aerosol formulation, a heater operable to at least partially volatilize the liquid aerosol formulation and form an aerosol and a tubular filter segment downstream of the heater. The tubular filter segment is operable to selectively filter aerosol particles and vapors from the aerosol.
US11197493B2
A stabilized composition of fat soluble nutrient(s) includes a water soluble polymer and at least one nutraceutically acceptable excipient. The composition can be in the form of significantly amorphous aqueous microparticulate mixtures or as a solid beadlet product. A process for preparation of a stabilized composition includes a fat soluble nutrient solubilized in an organic solvent embedded in an aqueous polymer phase by evaporation, so as to obtain an aqueous microparticulate mixture. This mixture is stable, soluble and can be formulated for end use or can be layered on inert core for example to obtain stable beadlet(s) for use in solid dosage forms. Such stabilized aqueous microparticulate and solid beadlet compositions exhibit good solubility and dispersibility. Stabilized compositions of fat soluble nutrients can be prepared using industrially convenient equipment and can be formulated as per requirement for use in health applications.
US11197491B2
The present invention relates to a flavour mixture containing 2E,4Z,7Z- and 2E,4E,7Z-tridecatrienal. This flavour mixture can be produced advantageously from arachidonic acid or oils containing esters thereof.
US11197487B2
Device for heating and emulsifying beverages includes a pump (2), an air and water meeting zone (10), a device for producing steam, and a first conduit (5) for steam mixed with air that communicates with a steam wand (6) adapted to be immersed into a beverage (7) to be heated and emulsified. The device for producing steam includes an instant steam generator (4). The meeting zone (10) is positioned before the instant steam generator (4).
US11197462B2
An anti-marking system includes an absorber and a connector that removably attaches the absorber to an article, e.g., a collar, worn by the pet. The pet may be inhibited from marking by absorbing into the absorber the fluid or scent that the pet produces when the pet marks a location and then after absorbing the scent into the absorber, attaching the absorber to the article worn by the pet. In one implementation, the system includes a dog collar and an absorbent pad that is removably attached to the dog collar.
US11197460B2
A detachable saddle bag pet carrier is disclosed. The carrier comprises a box-like container provided with an upper portion that forms part of the container top. The container includes a plurality of vent openings for circulating air flow inside the carrier. The carrier further comprises a lid hinged to the upper portion of the container. The lid includes one or more air vents that could be adjusted from wide open position to fully closed position. The upper portion comprises a skylight mounted on the lid through which a pet could see the outside environment. The carrier is further provided with a removable foam backed carpet placed underneath the container for the pet. The carrier is mounted on the vehicle using a frame assembly to hold the carrier to the vehicle, thereby a user carries the pet within the carrier.
US11197457B2
This invention relates to methods and materials for providing a benefit to a plant by associating the plant with a complex endophyte comprising a host fungus further comprising a component bacterium, including benefits to a plant derived from a seed or other plant element treated with a complex endophyte. For example, this invention provides purified complex endophytes, purified complex endophyte components such as bacteria or fungi, synthetic combinations comprising said complex endophytes and/or components, and methods of making and using the same.
US11197453B1
A soybean cultivar designated 95130716 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 95130716, to the plants of soybean cultivar 95130716, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 95130716, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 95130716. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 95130716. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 95130716, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 95130716 with another soybean cultivar.
US11197451B1
A novel soybean variety, designated 5PNBY64 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety 5PNBY64, cells from soybean variety 5PNBY64, plants of soybean 5PNBY64, and plant parts of soybean variety 5PNBY64. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety 5PNBY64 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety 5PNBY64, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety 5PNBY64, and methods of characterizing soybean variety 5PNBY64. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety 5PNBY64 are further provided.
US11197438B2
The present invention relates to a Lactuca sativa seed designated 79-871 RZ. The present invention also relates to a Lactuca sativa plant produced by growing the 79-871 RZ seed. The invention further relates to methods for producing the lettuce cultivar, represented by lettuce variety 79-871 RZ.
US11197429B2
An object is to provide a plant illumination apparatus that can output light having a high degree of circular polarization in the target wavelength range. This object is achieved by having a reflective-type polarizing plate having an effective wavelength range, a light-emitting device, and a reflective plate configured to reflect light emitted from the light-emitting device and satisfying: λ1>λ2,λ2>λ3, and w>30 nm wherein λ1 is the center wavelength of the effective wavelength range of the reflective-type polarizing plate, λ2 is the center wavelength of the light-emitting device, w is the full width at half maximum of the transmittance of the reflective-type polarizing plate, and λ3 is the shorter wavelength of the wavelengths at the full width at half maximum.
US11197428B2
A self-propelled baling vehicle for forming a bale of material includes a drive system for propelling the baling vehicle, a baling system for forming the bale, and a control system coupled to the drive system and the baling system. The control system includes a controller configured to determine a proposed location for ejection of the bale, operate the drive system to maneuver the baling vehicle from a first position to a second position for ejection of the bale at the proposed location, operate the baling system to eject the bale at the proposed location, and operate the drive system to maneuver the baling vehicle back to the first position.
US11197424B2
A sorting table for sorting fruit includes a frame with a first side member and a second side member, a plurality of conveying rollers carried by the frame, a plurality of sorting rollers carried by the frame and positioned downstream from the conveying rollers, and a pair of combs positioned respectively with the first side member or the second side member. Each comb includes slots associated with a respective one of the sorting rollers. Each of the combs is pivotally coupled with a corresponding one of the first side member or the second side member. An actuator is coupled with each of the combs for selectively moving the pair of combs in directions transverse to the crop flow direction. An electrical processing circuit coupled with the actuator is configured for controlling the actuator and thereby selectively increasing or decreasing a spacing between the sorting rollers.
US11197412B2
A controller communicates with a user interface and sends a first signal to a first actuator to unlock a first lock, sends a second signal to move a first ground-engaging implement into a stowed position, sends a third signal to the first actuator to lock first lock to retain the first ground-engaging implement in the stowed position, sends a fourth signal to inhibit flow through a first hose with a flow blocking element, sends a fifth signal to a second actuator to unlock a second lock, sends a sixth signal to move a second ground-engaging implement into a deployed position, sends a seventh signal to the second actuator to lock the second lock to retain the second ground-engaging implement in the deployed position, and sends an eighth signal to a second flow blocking element to permit flow through a second hose around the flow blocking element.
US11197407B2
An agricultural implement having a row unit and a material throw monitoring system. The row unit includes a ground engaging tool configured to engage with a ground at a ground engaging point to form a trench, and a conduit configured to deposit an agricultural product in the trench. The material throw monitoring system includes a sensor and a controller. The sensor is oriented toward the ground engaging point and configured to provide feedback to the controller based at least in part on material displaced by the ground engaging tool. The controller is configured to determine a throw distance of the material relative to the ground engaging tool based on the feedback from the sensor, determine an action to adjust operation of the agricultural implement based on a comparison of the throw distance with a threshold, and communicate the action with a controller coupled to the agricultural implement.
US11197403B2
A land preparation tool. The tool body can have a longitudinal axis, and include a first imaginary plane and a second imaginary plane. The first and second imaginary planes can intersect orthogonally at the longitudinal axis. The tool body can also include a concave cutting surface tapering from a proximal midpoint to a distal edge comprising a circular blade, and a multi-faceted surface mounting interface disposed on the tool body opposite the cutting surface. The mounting interface can have a plurality of beveled surfaces defining a first pair of V-shaped surfaces and a second pair of V-shaped surfaces, wherein a first apex of the first pair of V-shaped surfaces is disposed in the first imaginary plane and a second apex of the second pair of V-shaped surfaces is disposed in the secondary imaginary plane. A channel can be disposed into the mounting interface and extend into the tool body.
US11197402B2
In one aspect, a system for detecting plugging of an agricultural implement may include a disc rotatably coupled to a frame member, with the disc configured to rotate relative to soil within a field as the implement is moved across the field. The system may also include a disc scraper coupled to the frame member, with the disc scraper configured to remove the soil from the disc as the disc rotates relative to the soil. Furthermore, the system may include a sensor configured to detect a parameter indicative of an acceleration of the disc scraper relative to frame member. Additionally, a controller of the system may be configured to monitor the acceleration of the disc scraper relative to the frame member based on data received from the sensor moreover. The controller may be further configured to determine when the disc is plugged based on the monitored acceleration.
US11202399B2
The present invention provides a mounter air controller capable of executing appropriate air control associated with replacement of a nozzle without stopping operation of a mounter. This mounter air controller includes: a flow rate adjustment mechanism 4 mounted on a head module HM of the mounter; and control means 5 that controls this flow rate adjustment mechanism 4. The flow rate adjustment mechanism 4 is interposed between a positive-pressure region and a nozzle n and has a function capable of continuously changing a flow rate of passing air. The control means 5 is configured to bring the nozzle n to have a negative pressure and then control the flow rate in the flow rate adjustment mechanism 4 on the basis of an applied voltage or an applied current, which is determined in advance, so as to supply the air to the nozzle n.
US11202395B1
A power module and method of forming the same. The power module includes an extruded tube with internal and external fins, first and second opposing surfaces defining ends thereof, and an internal slot for housing a power converter. The power module includes a bottom plate having a first depression to receive a first O-ring to provide a first liquid-tight fluid seal at the first opposing surface for an electrically insulting oil encapsulating the power converter. The power module includes a cable interface plate having a second depression to receive a second O-ring to provide a second liquid-type fluid seal at the second opposing surface for the electrically insulting oil encapsulating the power converter. The power module includes an end cap to mate with the cable interface plate and accept a conduit fitting to enable an electrical cable to be routed from within the end cap to an external connection point.
US11202394B1
A cooling system configured to remove heat from a chimney of a server cabinet. The system includes a first heat exchanger unit in the chimney of the server cabinet. The first heat exchanger has a fluid inlet for receiving a working fluid and a fluid outlet for discharging the working fluid. The first heat exchanger also has an upstream surface receiving waste heat generated by one or more servers and a downstream surface that discharges air cooled by the first heat exchanger. The upstream surface is generally perpendicular to the downstream surface.
US11202371B2
A multilayer substrate includes a stacked body obtained by stacking a plurality of insulating base material layers, a driver IC including a plurality of mounting electrodes, coils, and magnetic sensors. The driver IC and the magnetic sensors are mounted to the stacked body. The coils include a first end and a second end that are electrically connected to the driver IC through a conductive bonding material. The first end and a mounting electrode are connected at one position through the conductive bonding material.
US11202364B2
An electronic device according to various embodiments comprises: a circuit element; a printed circuit board comprising a first connection pad connected to the ground of the electronic device, a second connection pad, and a third connection pad arranged between the first connection pad and the second connection pad and connected to a signal terminal of the circuit element; and a flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) comprising a coupling part connected to the printed circuit board, and a connection part extending from the coupling part, wherein the FPCB comprises first ground wiring connected to the first connection pad and extending from the coupling part to the connection part in an assigned direction, second ground wiring connected to the second connection pad and extending from the coupling part to the connection part in the assigned direction, signal wiring connected to the third connection pad and extending from the coupling part to the connection part in the assigned direction, while being arranged between the first ground wiring and the second ground wiring, and third ground wiring arranged in an opposite direction to the assigned direction so as to be connected, in the coupling part, to the first ground wiring and the second ground wiring and surround the signal wiring. Other various embodiments are possible.
US11202362B1
This disclosure relates to an apparatus or device commonly referred to as a superconducting resonant cavity or Radio Frequency (SRF) cavity, the related components associated with the SRF Cavity, and various fabrication methods thereof. SRF cavities are used to accelerate charged particles to high energies and high velocities and various fabrication methods of said SRF apparatus. SRF cavities are used in a wide variety of applications ranging from particle accelerators, to light sources for spectroscopy, to linear accelerators for the transmutation of nuclear waste and the advanced production of tritium, to NMR and MRI imaging and spectroscopy, and proton radiation therapy for the treatment of certain types of cancer. This disclosure further describes a wide variety of means and methods for: a) the fabrication of SRF cavity structures, b) at least one or more film deposition means, and c) at least one or more heat treating means using either the Bronze Route or Internal Tin processes to form the superconducting Nb3Sn phase on the interior surface of an SRF cavity via a solid state diffusion reaction process.
US11202353B2
The present application provides an intelligent lighting control method based on the number of persons, which includes: counting the number of persons within the target area; dividing the target area into m detection sub-areas, and counting the number of the detection sub-areas where a person is present; selecting the lighting color of the indoor light fixture based on the number of persons within the target area; selecting the lighting mode of the indoor light fixture based on the number of the detection sub-areas where a person is present. The present application adjusts the lighting color, light display mode and illumination brightness of indoor light fixture by analyzing the number of persons within the target area and the degree of dispersion of indoor persons, thereby avoiding the trouble of switching light switch for users and improving the intelligence of the home lighting system, and greatly enhance the user experience, to provide users with a better quality, comfortable living environment.
US11202351B2
A load control device may be configured to control multiple characteristics of one or more electrical loads such as the intensity and color of a lighting load. The load control device may switch from controlling one characteristic of the electrical loads to controlling another characteristic of the electrical loads based on the position and/or orientation of one or more components of the load control device. Such a position and/or orientation may be manipulated by moving the one or more components relative to a base portion of the load control device. The load control device may be a wall-mounted device or a battery-powered remote control device.
US11202350B2
A load control system has a system controller and a plurality of load control devices which receive power from a utility power source. The load control system includes at least one emergency load control device which receives power from a backup power source in the event of a power failure of the utility power source. The emergency load control device is configured to enter an emergency mode during the power failure of the utility power source, wherein in the emergency mode, the emergency load control device controls respective electrical loads according to emergency mode preset settings, and the emergency load control device transmits a message to the system controller to indicate the emergency load control device is in the emergency mode. The system controller is configured to transmit a message to the emergency load control device to exit the emergency mode when power from the utility power source is restored.
US11202349B2
Systems and processes for use in heating articles include passing a carrier loaded with an article through a vessel inlet and into a first vessel portion and moving the loaded carrier in a first direction through the first vessel portion away from the inlet. During at least a portion of the movement through the first vessel portion, the article is contacted with a first fluid medium. The loaded carrier is moved carrier in a second direction opposite the first direction through a second vessel portion toward a vessel outlet. During at least a portion of the movement through the second vessel portion, the articles is contacted with a second fluid medium. In certain implementations, each of the first direction and the second direction are vertical.
US11202343B2
Provided is an aerosol generating device which is capable of stopping aerosol generation at an appropriate timing. This aerosol generating device includes a power source which supplies power in order to atomize an aerosol source and/or heat a flavor source; a sensor which outputs a measurement value for controlling the power supplied; and a circuitry which controls the power supplied from the power source on the basis of the measurement value. The circuitry controls to increase a power supply amount per unit time in response to a first condition that the measured value is equal to or larger than a first threshold being satisfied, and to decrease the power supply amount per unit time in response to a second condition that the measured value is less than a second threshold greater than the first threshold and a third condition which is different from the first condition and the second condition being satisfied.
US11202333B2
A layer 2 processing method, a CU and a DU are provided. The layer 2 processing method includes: sending channel reconstruction indication information to the DU; receiving a response message sent by the DU; generating an RRC reconfiguration message based on the response message; and sending the RRC reconfiguration message to a UE, and performing, by the UE, a corresponding operation.
US11202332B2
To provide a control apparatus or a terminal apparatus included in a communication system with a preferable measure for session management, a preferable communication control measure for establishing a session corresponding to a session continuation mode, or a preferable communication control measure for session control. With this configuration, the control apparatus or the terminal apparatus included in the communication system is provided with a session anchor relocation procedure corresponding to a mode relating to continuation of a preferable session, a communication control measure, and a management measure.
US11202324B2
The present disclosure provides a grant free state for user equipment, for example a machine type communication (MTC) UE. There is provided a method for transitioning a state of a User Equipment (UE). The method includes determining, by the UE, if data is to be sent and transitioning, by the UE, to a grant free state when no data is to be sent, wherein transitioning to the grant free state includes receiving a grant free identifier (GF-ID). In some embodiments, the method further includes in accordance with a determination that an amount of data to be sent is below a threshold, transmitting, by the UE, the data together with the GF-ID. In addition, user equipment and base transceiver stations are provided each of which include a processor and memory having instructions stored thereon, which when executed by the processor configure the respective UE or BTS to perform the respective methods.
US11202321B2
A terminal apparatus receives a signal including indication information indicating initiation of a random access procedure from a base station apparatus. The terminal apparatus transmits the one or more random access preambles, based on the indication information. The terminal apparatus determines an antenna port to be used for transmission of the one or more random access preambles, based on information of the SRS resource included in the indication information.
US11202316B2
The disclosure relates to a communication technique for convergence of a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate beyond a 4G system with an IoT technology, and a system therefor. The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services (e.g., smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, health care, digital education, retail business, security and safety-related services, etc.) based on 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. The disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for detecting an uplink listen-before-talk (LBT) failure when using a 3GPP 5G new radio (NR) technology in a wireless communication system.
US11202308B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive control information indicating a resource allocation pattern for a downlink transmission that is configured for transmission using a plurality of beams and a plurality of mini-slots, where a duration of a mini-slot is less than a duration of a slot. The UE may identify a start time of a first mini-slot of the plurality of mini-slots and a length of the first mini-slot based on the resource allocation pattern, and receive the downlink transmission based on the start time of the first mini-slot and the length of the first mini-slot.
US11202307B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for transmitting uplink data which is robust to collision on shared uplink resource in wireless communication system, the method comprising: checking whether uplink data is allowed to transmit on contention based resource or not, when the uplink data becomes available for transmission; and transmitting a buffer status reporting (BSR) on the contention based resource without any uplink data, if the uplink data is not allowed to transmit on the contention based resource.
US11202287B2
Communication methods and devices for a sidelink (SL) are provided. A communication method for an SL includes the following. A first terminal device obtains a first transmission resource. The first terminal device sends first feedback information to a second terminal device, by using the first transmission resource. A time unit in which the first transmission resource is located is not used for transmitting data by the first terminal device to at least one third terminal device or the second terminal device, where the first terminal device, the second terminal device, and the at least one third terminal device belong to a first group.
US11202277B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may identify a first plurality of control resources associated with a first transceiver node and a second plurality of control resources associated with a second transceiver node. The UE may select, based at least in part on a decoding limit for the UE, a decoding configuration to use for decoding one or more control resources from the first plurality of control resources and one or more resources from the second plurality of control resources. The UE may decode control signals received over control resources from the first plurality of control resources and the second plurality of control resources according to the decoding configuration.
US11202265B2
This application provides a signal transmission method, a terminal device, and a network device. The method includes: determining, by a terminal device, a first transmit power based on an access status of the terminal device at a current coverage level and/or a first power control parameter; and transmitting a signal at the first transmit power.
US11202259B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for performing power saving for a wireless device. The wireless device may connect to a base station (BS). The wireless device may establish discontinuous reception (DRX) with the BS, where the DRX comprises a DRX cycle having a cycle length. The wireless device may receive reference signal information from the base station in association with the DRX cycle length, where the reference signal information is transmitted according to the cycle length. The wireless device may perform tracking using the reference signal information.
US11202256B2
A wireless MESH network includes multiple low-power nodes. When serving as a data receiving node or a data relay node, each low-power node is configured to listen to data transmission at intervals.
US11202248B2
A method and apparatus of a network entity in a wireless communication system supporting ranging capability is provided. The method and apparatus comprises: identifying a MAC sublayer management entity-receive-enable request (MLME-RX-ENABLE.request) primitive including a list of ranging scheduling time unit (RSTU) counter (RxOnTime) values and a number of RSTUs (RxOnDuration), wherein the MLME-RX-ENABLE.request primitive is sent to a MAC layer from a higher layer; in response to identifying the MLME-RX-ENABLE.request primitive, identifying a value of a MAC RSTU_COUNTER; determining whether the value of the MAC RSTU_COUNTER is set to an RxOnTime value included in the list of the RxOnTime values of the MLME-RX-ENABLE.request primitive; increasing the value of the MAC RSTU_COUNTER; determining whether a frame is received from another network entity based on the value of the MAC RSTU_COUNTER; and in response to determining that the frame is received, generating a MAC common part sublayer indication (MCPS-DATA.indication) primitive.
US11202247B2
A method of providing information about a leader node to a plurality of follower nodes in a wireless mesh communication network is provided. The method includes designating the leader node; designating the plurality of follower nodes; and designating one or more predetermined frequency ranges as a public channel. The method further includes from the leader node and during a plurality of network intervals having a predetermined length of time, transmitting a sync message at a beginning of each network interval to the plurality of follower nodes. The method further includes during each network interval in which a sync message is received by any one of the plurality of follower nodes, transmitting from any of the plurality of follower nodes receiving a sync message, on the public channel, a message advertising at least one property of the leader node after receipt of the sync message.
US11202240B2
A method may include storing, in a block chain ledger, information associated with an agreement between a first service provider associated with a first network and a second service provider associated with a second network. The method may also include receiving, by a device, first capacity information associated with slices in the first network, storing the first capacity information in the block chain ledger and receiving a message associated with a roaming handoff for a communication session in the first network. The method may further include determining, by the device whether adequate resources are available in the second network to support the communication session and sending, to the first service provider, a message indicating that adequate resources are available in the second network to support the communication session.
US11202238B2
A connection including a wireless NB-IoT link is established between a base station in a MNO network and a base station in a MSO network. UE context information, UE radio frequency (RF) information and/or UE Key Performance Indicator (KPI) information are exchanged between the two networks over the established connection via the NB-IoT link, thus facilitating handover preparation and/or handover for a UE. A control server in the MNO controls transfer over the connection including the NB-IoT link, receives and sends information and requests over the connection, evaluates received UE information, makes handover decisions, and generates and sends handover requests.
US11202237B2
A method for enhancing mobility of a communications apparatus is provided. The method includes the steps of: establishing a connection with a cell; measuring one or more parameters of one or more cells; transmitting a measurement report to a network device according to the measured parameters of the one or more cells; determining whether a mobility command is received from the network device after transmitting the measurement report; and triggering a connection release procedure based on no mobility command being received from the network device after transmitting the measurement report.
US11202232B2
An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a method for obtaining a Vehicle to Everything Policy (V2XP). The method includes: transmitting, by a terminal device, at least one of first information and second information to a Policy Control Function (PCF), the first information being used for requesting a configuration of a policy for V2X communication over a PC5 interface, and the second information being used for requesting a configuration of a policy for V2X communication over a Uu interface; and receiving, by the terminal device from the PCF, at least one of the policy corresponding to the first information and the policy corresponding to the second information.
US11202231B2
A device and a method for managing and controlling an end-to-end network in a wireless communication system are provided. The management device for controlling an end-to-end network in a wireless communication system includes a network slice manager configured to configure network slices for a terminal, a policy manager configured to set a policy applied to the network slices and a software defined network (SDN) device configured to control one or more network entities related to transmission of traffic for the network slices, based on the policy, wherein each of the network slices are configured for a different frequency band.
US11202226B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide an uplink data transmission method, a timer configuration method, and a related device, where the uplink data transmission method is applied to a user equipment, and includes starting a timer when a first operation is performed on first data on a first transmission branch, and performing a third operation on second data when a second operation is not performed on the second data on a second transmission branch as timing of the tinier ends. Preprocessed data is allocated to two transmission branches by the user equipment.
US11202223B2
A wireless device sends a PDU session establishment request message to an access and mobility management function (AMF). The PDU session establishment request message requests establishment of a packet data unit (PDU) session for an always-on PDU session. The wireless device receives a first message from the AMF. The first message indicates at least one service associated with the always-on PDU session. The wireless device sends at least one packet of an at least one allowed service of the at least one service via the always-on PDU session.
US11202219B2
According to an aspect, one or more network nodes of a wireless communication system sends, to a wireless device operating in the wireless communication system, mobility reference signal (MRS) configuration information, the MRS configuration information specifying one or more parameters for each of a plurality of MRS configurations. The network node subsequently sends, to the wireless device, an activation command indicating that at least a first one of the MRS configurations is to be used by the wireless device, the activation command including an index identifying the first one of the MRS configurations from among the plurality of MRS configurations. The wireless device receives the MRS configuration information and the activation command. The wireless device searches for at least one MRS specified by the first one of the MRS, responsive to the activation command and performs at least one measurement on the at least one MRS.
US11202215B2
Methods, apparatus and systems for providing automatic assistance based on wireless monitoring are described. In one example, a described automatic assistant system comprises: a transmitter, a receiver, a processor, and an assistant device. The transmitter is configured for transmitting a first wireless signal through a wireless multipath channel of a venue. The receiver is configured for receiving a second wireless signal through the wireless multipath channel. The second wireless signal differs from the first wireless signal due to the wireless multipath channel that is impacted by a motion of an object in the venue. The processor is configured for: obtaining a time series of channel information (TSCI) of the wireless multipath channel based on the second wireless signal, and monitoring the motion of the object in the venue based on the TSCI. The assistant device is configured for generating an assistance with respect to the object in the venue based on the monitoring.
US11202201B2
A subscriber identity module (eUICC), comprises profiles for the utilization of a mobile terminal that include at least a first profile and at least a second profile, of which the second profile (Pr1, Pr2) is devised as an active profile. The first profile is designed as a root profile (PrR) which in a normal state of the subscriber identity module is in an inactive state, and which is devised to be activated in response to an authentication command (AUTHENTICATE) received at the subscriber identity module. The authentication command is specially parameterized for the root profile (PrR) with a specific root value of the network parameter (P2) to be activated during a change-over period. The initially active second profile (Pr1, Pr2) is deactivated during the change-over period. After the end of the change-over period, the first profile (PrR) is again deactivated and the second profile (Pr1, Pr2) is again activated.
US11202199B2
An electronic device includes a display; a first wireless communication circuit configured to support Bluetooth (BT) communication and to include a first BT address; a processor operatively connected to the display and the first wireless communication circuit; and a memory, wherein the memory may store instructions that are configured to, when executed, cause the processor to: receive first data including a second BT address associated with a first external device; perform a page scan based on the first BT address and the second BT address using the BT communication; receive second data based on the second BT address from a second external device using the BT communication; identify information for connection with the second external device based on the second data using the BT communication; and provide a user interface for connection with the second external device through the display based on the identified information.
US11202174B2
A tracking system can provide smart alerts based on a user's location. The tracking system can receive a location of a user's mobile device and establish a geographic boundary around the location if the mobile device remains at the location for a threshold amount of time. The tracking system can receive a new location of the mobile device outside of the geographic boundary and configure the mobile device to scan for a tracking device associated with the user for an interval of time. If the tracking system detects the tracking device within the interval, the tracking system stores information indicating that the user possesses the tracking device. Otherwise, the tracking system sends an indication to the mobile device indicating that the user has left behind the tracking device.
US11202169B2
Described is a social communication system. The system includes a server having a memory storing user data and a user computing device coupled to the server. The server may be programmed to receive and process a signal that the user computing device has accessed the system and send for display on the user computing device other users that are accessing the system and within a predetermined proximity of the user computing device. The system allows users to communicate anonymously through a communication interface.
US11202164B2
Methods and apparatus for predictive head-tracked binaural audio rendering in which a rendering device renders multiple audio streams for different possible head locations based on head tracking data received from a headset, for example audio streams for the last known location and one or more predicted or possible locations, and transmits the multiple audio streams to the headset. The headset then selects and plays one of the audio streams that is closest to the actual head location based on current head tracking data. If none of the audio streams closely match the actual head location, two closest audio streams may be mixed. Transmitting multiple audio streams to the headset and selecting or mixing an audio stream on the headset may mitigate or eliminate perceived head tracking latency.
US11202158B2
Presented herein are low-power active bone conduction devices that comprise an actuator that is subcutaneously implanted within a recipient so as to deliver mechanical output forces to hard tissue of the recipient. The low-power active bone conduction devices include an energy recovery circuit configured to extract non-used energy from the actuator and to store the non-used energy for subsequent use by the actuator. The low-power active bone conduction devices may also include a multi-bit sigma-delta converter that operates in accordance with a scaled sigma-delta quantization threshold value to convert received signals representative of sound into actuator drive signals.
US11202157B2
A method of configuring a custom insert of a charger, wherein the custom insert is for aligning a receiver charging element of a hearing device and a transmitter charging element of a charger, includes: obtaining a digital three-dimensional hearing device model comprising a representation of the receiver charging element, wherein the digital three-dimensional hearing device model is based on a digital scan of an ear; obtaining a digital three-dimensional charger model comprising a representation of the transmitter charging element; obtaining a generic digital three-dimensional insert model; obtaining a digital cavity representing a cavity in the custom insert; and creating a custom digital three-dimensional insert model based on the digital cavity and the generic digital three-dimensional insert model, such that the representation of the receiver charging element in the digital three-dimensional hearing device model and the representation of the transmitter charging element in the three-dimensional charger model, are aligned.
US11202153B2
A micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) microphone is provided. The MEMS microphone includes a substrate, a backplate disposed on a side of the substrate, and a diaphragm movably disposed between the substrate and the backplate. The diaphragm includes a plurality of implantation portions, and the implantation portions have different concentration-depth profiles.
US11202152B2
A method for acoustic beamforming filter generation may be provided. Applying eigen decomposition to generate a matrix of eigenvectors and a matrix of eigenvalues to solve a pseudoinverse of a matrix of transfer functions. Substituting any eigenvalues in the matrix of eigenvalues that are less than a value of a gain control parameter with the value of the gain control parameter to form a revised matrix of eigenvalues. A matrix of spatial filter coefficients to apply to a sound signal received at least at the first speaker and at the second speaker may be calculated based on the matrix of eigenvectors, the revised matrix of eigenvalues, and a matrix of desired frequency responses.
US11202151B2
Systems and methods are provided for distributing audio. An audio system is provided that includes one or more audio interfaces, at least one of which is a wireless audio interface. An audio hub couples to the one or more audio interfaces and detects the presence of one or more headphones coupled to the wireless audio interfaces. The audio hub selectively establishes communication channel(s) to convey audio content between a plurality of devices coupled to the audio interfaces. The plurality of devices may include one or more headphones, an infotainment head unit, a microphone, and a speaker. Accordingly, headphone users may hold conversations with each other and/or other occupants of a vehicle, and various users may share audio content with headphone users and/or other occupants of a vehicle.
US11202142B2
A vibrator is fitted to a human body for use. A variable filter extracts a signal of a predefined frequency range from an input music signal. A driving controller drives the vibrator based on the signal of the frequency range extracted by the variable filter. It is possible to adjust the frequency range that is predefined by using a user operation interface. The frequency range that is predefined may be determined by a frequency determination interface.
US11202137B1
An earbud with an electro-acoustic transducer for producing sound, a proximity sensor that is configured to detect when the earbud is close to a user's skin, an orientation sensor that is configured to detect an orientation of the earbud, and a processor that is configured to estimate, based on the proximity sensor and the orientation sensor, whether the earbud has been inserted into the user's ear canal.
US11202133B2
The present disclosure relates to an audio component, including an enclosure, a speaker, and a connector. The enclosure includes a receptacle and a connection hole connected to the receptacle, both the speaker and the connector are accommodated in the receptacle, a plug port of the connector is connected to outside of the enclosure by using the connection hole, a sound guide channel connected between the speaker and the plug port is formed in the receptacle, and the sound guide channel is configured to propagate, to the plug port, a sound emitted by the speaker. This disclosure further discloses a mobile terminal.
US11202131B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for artificially generating a revoiced media stream and maintaining original volume changes of a character in the revoiced media stream are provided. For example, a media stream including an individual speaking may be obtained. A transcript of the media stream may be obtained. The transcript of the media stream may be translated to a target language. A revoiced media stream in which the translated transcript in the target language is spoken by a virtual entity may be generated, wherein a ratio of the volume levels between first and second sets of words in the revoiced media stream is substantially identical to the ratio of volume levels between corresponding first and second utterances in the received media stream.
US11202126B2
A medical imaging system includes an endoscope and a processor. The endoscope includes a camera that outputs a video signal with a plurality of portions. The processor receives the video signal and processes a first portion of the plurality of portions according to a first processing mode to generate a first processed video signal, processes a second portion of the plurality of portions of the sensor signal according to a second processing mode to generate a second processed video signal, and generates an output video signal using the first processed video signal and the second processed video signal.
US11202124B2
Systems and methods described herein relate to generation of media collections in a messaging system. The media collection may be created by the user, other users, or an entity. Example embodiments further allow users to set access criteria through privacy settings assigned to one or more media content items themselves, as well as to a media collection, such that some or all of the media collection may only be viewed by users authorized by the user sharing the media content item or media collection (e.g., only to one or more users designated by the user as a “friend”).
US11202121B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for the detection of human presence in front of a plurality of sensors such as those of speakers and a device with a processor, such as a television. Data gathered from the plurality of sensors may be analyzed by the processor to determine if one or more humans are present proximate to the device. Based on the determined presence or absence of one or more humans, further actions including, inter alia, customizing a home theatre experience for the one or more humans, making content recommendations, or activating parental controls can be taken by the device.
US11202110B2
An information processing apparatus receives, from a server apparatus, image data of one or a plurality of partial areas of a plurality of partial areas forming an image. The information processing apparatus comprises: a designating unit configured to designate a region of interest in the image; an establishing unit configured to establish a connection as a logical communication path to the server apparatus, and establish, as a plurality of streams based on the connection to the server apparatus; a control unit configured to control the plurality of streams such that the image data of the region of interest is obtained preferentially to the partial area; and a receiving unit configured to receive image data from the server apparatus by using the plurality of streams controlled by the control unit.
US11202108B2
Systems, methods, and devices of the various embodiments may provide for dynamic ad insertion. Systems, methods, and devices of the various embodiments may enable Video-On-Demand (VOD) dynamic ad inventory handling by a network operator. Systems, methods, and devices of the various embodiments may enable augmenting network operator VOD ad inventory in a VOD session.
US11202107B2
A method, system and apparatus for providing multimedia data, wherein the method includes defining, by a first user, a task for requesting multimedia data, wherein the task includes criteria for the requested multimedia data; maintaining, by an operator, the defined task based on the criteria, wherein the task being available for a second user; receiving multimedia data, from the second user, in response to the defined task based on the criteria; and maintaining, by an operator, the received multimedia data based on the criteria, wherein the multimedia being available to a third user.
US11202098B2
A system comprises an encoder configured to compress attribute and/or spatial information for a point cloud and/or a decoder configured to decompress compressed attribute and/or spatial information for the point cloud. To compress the attribute and/or spatial information, the encoder is configured to convert a point cloud into an image based representation. Also, the decoder is configured to generate a decompressed point cloud based on an image based representation of a point cloud. In some embodiments, an encoder performs downscaling of an image frame prior to video encoding and a decoder performs upscaling of an image frame subsequent to video decoding.
US11202095B2
The image decoding method according to the present invention comprises the steps of: determining the availability of a block adjacent to a current block; configuring a merge candidate list for the current block on the basis of the result of the determined availability; and performing motion compensation for the current block on the basis of the merge candidate list, wherein the step of determining availability comprises the steps of inducing block availability information on the adjacent block and inducing the availability of motion information on the adjacent block, and the step of determining the availability of the adjacent block is such that when there is more than one adjacent block, the availability of adjacent blocks can be determined in accordance with a predetermined order restriction.
US11202075B2
According to an embodiment, an encoding device includes a deriving unit and an encoding unit. The deriving unit is configured to derive a first reference value based on fixed point precision representing roughness of a weighting factor that is used for multiplying a reference image. The encoding unit is configured to encode a first difference value that is a difference value between the weighting factor and the first reference value and the fixed point precision. The weighting factor is included in a first range of predetermined bit precision having the first reference value at approximate center. The first difference value is in the predetermined range.
US11202070B2
In some embodiments, a method determines a first set of reference pixels for a current block to be coded. The current block is split into a plurality of sub-partitions. The method processes a first sub-partition in the plurality of sub-partitions using the first set of reference pixels and a second sub-partition in the plurality of sub-partitions using the first set of reference pixels in parallel. Then the method processes a third sub-partition in the plurality of sub-partitions based on a second set of reference pixels determined from the processing of the first sub-partition and processing a fourth sub-partition in the plurality of sub-partitions based on a third set of reference pixels determined from the processing of the second sub-partition.
US11202059B2
The image processing apparatus acquires image data to be displayed and generates an initial image to output the image to a head-mounted display. Further, the apparatus generates a reference image including an image for a left eye and an image for a right eye and representing an image of an object viewed from two viewpoints spaced apart horizontally. In the case where the inclination angle of the head of the user is other than 0 degrees, the apparatus rotates the image for the left eye and the image for the right eye in reverse to the head inclination, using one point defined on a view screen, as a common axis. The apparatus outputs the image data to the head-mounted display regardless of the presence or absence of rotation. The apparatus repeats the processes until the display ends.
US11202057B2
An adaptable sorter unit includes an attachment mechanism, a device that is capable of moving a first sample by use of a vacuum, a pressurized air inlet, and a valve. The pressurized air inlet is connected to the valve that controls a flow of pressurized air through the device. The valve may be electronically controlled or pneumatically controlled. The location of the adaptable sorter unit may be adjustable based, at least in part, on data captured by an optical inspector. An array of adaptable sorter units may be configured side-by-side to cover the width of the processing line. The device may be a venturi vacuum. The adaptable sorter unit may include a baseline vacuum control valve that causes a baseline vacuum force to be applied. An electrical control signal may be used to open the valve, the frequency of which may control the amount of time the valve is opened.
US11202051B2
System and method for distributing and rendering content as spherical video and 3D asset combination
Motion parallax effects can be emulated for 3D video content. At a head mounted display (HMD), motion parallax may be emulated through: receiving a 3D video at the HMD; obtaining a model of an object in the 3D video; obtaining a processed 3D video in which the 3D video is processed to remove the object from the 3D video; tracking a change in position of the HMD by a sensor of the HMD; rendering the processed 3D video at the HMD; and rendering the model of the object at a position in the processed 3D video based on the tracked change in position of the HMD. Multilayer spherical video, indicating the depths of objects therein, which may be used for motion parallax emulation may also be generated.
US11202049B2
Methods and systems for managing content items are described. A content item may be separated into components, such as chroma components, luminance components, and audio components. For more efficient management of the content, including for storage and delivery of the content, the separate components may be stored at different locations. For example, chroma components may be stored on a central server, while luminance and audio components are stored at other locations, such as edge servers, or vice versa, to accommodate network efficiency considerations. When content is delivered to a player, two or more separate streams carrying different content components may be delivered to the player.
US11202046B2
An image processor according to the present disclosure includes: a multiplier that receives image data from a pixel section including pixels of a plurality of colors and multiplies the image data by an adjustment parameter that adjusts a color level in each of the pixels; an adjuster that calculates a ratio of respective colors in each of the pixels in the image data and adjusts a value of the adjustment parameter on the basis of the ratio of the respective colors; and a binarization processor that extracts a target image of a specific color on the basis of the image data multiplied by the adjustment parameter.
US11202037B2
A virtual presence merged reality system comprises a server comprising at least one processor and memory including a data store storing a persistent virtual world system comprising one or more virtual replicas of real world elements. The virtual replicas provide self-computing capabilities and autonomous behavior. The persistent virtual world system comprises a virtual replica of a physical location hosting a live event, wherein the persistent virtual world system is configured to communicate through a network with a plurality of connected devices that include sensing mechanisms configured to capture real-world data of the live event that enables updating the persistent virtual world system. The system enables guests to virtually visit, interact and make transactions within the live event through the persistent virtual world system. Computer-implemented methods thereof are also provided.
US11202028B2
A display device configured as a multi display system is provided. The display device includes an input; a display; an output connected to an adjacent display device; and a processor, wherein the processor is configured to control the output to insert image output information into at least one of frames of a first predetermined interval in a first image and frames of a second predetermined interval in a second image when the first image and the second image are received through the input, and to alternately transmit the frames of the first interval and the frames of the second interval to an adjacent display device, and to control the display to display some regions of one of the frames of the first interval and the frames of the second interval based on display layout information.
US11202025B2
An image processing device includes a vision sensor and a processor. The vision sensor generates a plurality of events in which an intensity of light changes and generates a plurality of timestamps depending on times when the events occur. In addition, the processor may regenerate a timestamp of a pixel where an abnormal event occurs, based on temporal correlation of the events.
US11202022B2
An image capturing device for forming a higher resolution image of an image target having a plurality of pixel areas respectively is disclosed. The image capturing device includes an image sensor having a plurality of sensing pixels corresponding to the plurality of pixel areas respectively; an in-plane motion motor coupled to the image sensor, and configured to cause the image sensor to take a plurality of raw images related to the image target one by one; and a controller configured to synthesize the plurality of raw images into the higher resolution image, wherein: the image sensor has a sensor surface; the in-plane motion motor incrementally moves a plurality of times the image sensor, each time with a distance equal to 1/N of a pixel pitch of one of the plurality of sensing pixels, along a first direction parallel to the sensor surface to respectively capture the plurality of raw images for forming the higher resolution image; and N is a positive integer being larger than 1.
US11202014B2
A system, apparatus and methods for providing a scope having an imaging sensor which provides a two thousand pixel by two thousand pixel array of pixels. The imaging sensor allows for an angle of view to be changed within a field of view by selecting a one thousand pixel by one thousand pixel set within the two thousand pixel by two thousand pixel array of pixels containing imaging data that corresponds to a desired angle of view.
US11202013B2
A control apparatus includes at least one processor configured to execute instructions to function as a first controller that automatically adjusts a focus lens to a focusing position, a second controller that adjusts the focus lens on the basis of a user operation quantity, and a third controller that drives the focus lens. The first controller and the second controller effectively work in a first drive area of the focus lens. The first controller is disabled in a second drive area of the focus lens. The third controller drives the focus lens on the basis of changes of the second drive area.
US11202011B2
A control apparatus includes a motion vector detector configured to detect a motion vector, a calculator configured to calculate angular velocity information of an object based on the motion vector and an angular velocity detected by an angular velocity detector, an acquirer configured to acquire a result of an image stabilizing control in capturing a still image based on the angular velocity information of the object, and a controller configured to control a display unit so as to display the still image and information of the result of the image stabilizing control superimposed on the still image.
US11202008B2
Methods and apparatus provide for controlling an information processing apparatus that is connected to a video display apparatus worn on a head of a user, the method comprising: displaying a planar video on the video display apparatus in a display mode that changes a shape of the planar video as a function of a change in position and/or orientation of the video display apparatus.
US11202004B2
A video server includes a video encoder to encode video data representing panoramic video content in which the panoramic video content has a greater field of view than a displayable region at a client device, the video encoder being configured to encode spatial regions within the video content at different respective encoding qualities in dependence upon track data indicating, for temporal positions with respect to the panoramic video content, a preferred viewing region within the panoramic video content at those temporal positions, so that the preferred viewing region is encoded at a higher encoding quality than another region of the panoramic video content.
US11201989B2
A method for processing data in a video sequence comprising impulse noise (“salt-and-pepper”, “snow”, or other type), comprising, for filtering the noise, an application of a recursive filter (S2), given by: z(n)=z(n−1)+Δ if y(n)>z(n−1) z(n)=z(n−1)−Δ if y(n)
US11201979B2
An image forming apparatus that executes a password-protected job includes a function for omitting an input of a job password, manages a user password for keyboard authentication in association with a user, manages a personal identification number for icon authentication in association with the user, accepts login to an account of the user based on the keyboard authentication, permits execution of a password-protected print job associated with the user based on a print instruction without inputting a job password, accepts login to the account of the user based on the icon authentication, and permits execution of a password-protected print job associated with the user based on a print instruction with an input of a job password.
US11201971B1
A maintenance support apparatus includes one or more processors and a memory having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations including: storing both (a) acceptable maintenance levels associated with a user that are related to an apparatus and (b) estimated failure levels corresponding to a plurality of diagnosis algorithms correlated with a plurality of maintenance works; acquiring operation log data of the apparatus and diagnose the operation log data according to each of the plurality of diagnosis algorithms; determining whether maintenance of the apparatus is necessary, based on a comparison between (a) the estimated failure levels corresponding to the one or more maintenance tasks identified when diagnosing the operation log data and (b) the acceptable maintenance levels of the user; and providing a notification indicating whether maintenance of the apparatus is necessary.
US11201966B1
An interactive voice response system for interpreting sentiment of a conversation in real time is provided. The system may include a receiver. The receiver may be operable to receive a plurality of sentiment signals and a first portion of a conversation. The first portion of the conversation may include a plurality of interaction pairs. Each interaction pair may include an utterance and a system response. The system may include an utterance sentiment category determination module that may be operable to determine a sentiment category for each utterance. The system may include a sequential module. The sequential module may determine a conversation sentiment category based on the utterance sentiment categories and the order in which the utterance sentiment categories are received. The system may include an output module. The output module may output the conversation sentiment category. The conversation sentiment category may be used to determine a future system response.
US11201965B2
A system and method for omnichannel voice and text-based routing, transfer, and customer-to-enterprise communications with a secure smart mobile user device. The system is a cloud-based network containing an interaction control server, a routing engine, an optimization engine, a media translation server, a mobile application, a business entity portal, mobile and compute devices for business enterprise and customer, and an enterprise database. Taken together or in part, said system optimizes customer interactions by delivering context aware text message, chat or email to customers; and when requested by customer, optimally routes with context, based upon a multitude of variables, to best available resource to handle the customer interaction. The system may be accessed through web browsers, purpose-built computer, mobile phone applications or a secure smart mobile user device.
US11201957B2
A text-assisted telephony system for use by an assisted user while communicating with a hearing user via a hearing user's phone device. The system includes first and second assisted user's communication devices, each including a processor, a microphone, a speaker, a display and a communication component. One processor is programmed to establish a voice call with the hearing user's phone device. One processor is programmed to establish a communication link with the other processor. Each processor is programmed to generate an alert indicating when an incoming call is received and to enable an assisted user to answer the call and, upon one of the devices being used to answer a call, that device receiving text captions from a remote relay corresponding to a hearing user's voice signal and presenting the text captions to the assisted user via the device display.
US11201947B2
Described embodiments provide systems and methods for reducing latency in accessing application resources. The first device may be intermediary between a client and a server, and may receive a request of a user session for an application resource from the server. The first device may determine, responsive to the request that a user context of the user session is with a second device at a second location. The second location can be farther from the server than a first location of the first device. The first device may send, responsive to the determination, a request to the second device to obtain the user context of the user session. The first device may provide the client with access to the application resource via the user session. The first device may provide the client with access to the application resource according to the obtained user context.
US11201941B2
The disclosed embodiments relate generally to efficient data encoding and transmission. An encoding system determines an encoding interval at which to encode different groups of related data in a data structure. The encoding interval for each group encoded together optimizes the amount of newly received information that is encoded and transmitted in a continuous, repeating loop.
US11201933B2
A method of providing a social presence service in a mobile device. The method comprises: i) detecting in the mobile device a change in a calendar event associated with a first user; ii) in response to detecting the calendar event change, modifying in the mobile device social presence information associated with the first user; and iii) publishing the modified social presence information to a social presence server for subsequent sharing with a second user who has subscribed to the social presence information of the first user. The method further comprises: iv) synchronizing the changed calendar event to a calendar server that provides a calendar service to the first user. Detecting the change in the calendar event is performed by an IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) service in the mobile device. Modifying the social presence information is performed by an IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) service in the mobile device. Publishing the modified social presence information is performed by an IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) service in the mobile device.
US11201931B1
An administrator can use a portal platform to manage social equity for social collaboration features of the web sites. A goal is to encourage users to contribute to an online community's social activities such as its blogs, message boards, and wiki pages. The portal platform supports social equity features, where users can earn points for their participation. The administrator can specify a counter period, where the points accumulated during the last period are reset. This feature can be used to encourage continual participation by the users.
US11201929B2
A computer-implemented method of providing one or more selected tracking tags to a domain owner server for deployment on a website is described. The one or more tracking tags are selected from a set of available tracking tags and the method comprises: storing the set of available tracking tags, each available tracking tag including a purpose parameter describing a use to which data collected by the available tracking tag will be put; storing a plurality of user identifiers and a plurality of sets of tag-selection parameters, each user identifier identifying a website user and having an associated set of tag-selection parameters which identity a specific tracking tag and indicate whether a user consent has been obtained for a specific purpose of the specific tag; receiving, from the domain owner server, a request for deployment of one or more tracking tags on the website, the request including a received user identifier identifying a user accessing the website; for a user identifier corresponding to the received user identifier, comparing the tag-parameters for each specific tracking tag to the purpose parameter of each corresponding available tracking tag; selecting available tracking tags where the purpose parameter of the available tracking tag corresponds to a specific purpose which has an indication of user consent in the corresponding tag-selection parameters; and transmitting the selected available tracking tags to the domain owner server for deployment on the website.
US11201926B2
A virtualization server may include a memory and a processor cooperating with the memory to operate a virtual session controller. The virtual session controller may be configured to assign virtual sessions to a plurality of different client devices, each virtual session having a respective user profile associated therewith, maintain a respective unique access token associated with each user profile separate from the client devices, relay the access tokens to a cloud computing service, receive the user profiles from the cloud computing service responsive to the unique access tokens, and synchronize with the cloud computing service changes in the user profiles responsive to the user sessions based upon the respective access tokens.
US11201923B2
Transferring control over a device. A method includes, receiving a first indication, including a first verifiable token, from a first entity that at least a portion of control of a device should be relinquished by the first entity. A second indication is received from the second entity, including a second verifiable token, that the at least a portion of control should be transferred to the second entity. The first token and the second token are verified. As a result of verifying the first token and the second token, the at least a portion of control of the device is transferred from the first entity to the second entity. Transferring the at least a portion of control of the device from the first entity to the second entity includes updating the device with configuration applicable to the second entity.
US11201917B2
A method performed by a first peer node for acting as a P2P proxy for a user device is provided. The first peer node operates in a communications network. The first peer node establishes (201) a renewable energy profile of the first peer node used for powering the first peer node. The renewable energy profile indicates to what extent one or more energy sources are renewable. When a proportion of renewable energy according to the established renewable energy profile exceeds a first threshold, the first peer node acts (205) as a P2P proxy for the user device for downloading a piece of data to the user device by being powered according to its renewable energy profile.
US11201915B1
Computer systems and methods are disclosed to implement a virtual server using a multitenant serverless execution service (MTSES) and a request labeling endpoint outside the MTSES to identify the virtual server to worker nodes in the service. The MTSES is configured to host multiple virtual servers, and forward requests for the different virtual servers to dynamically selected worker nodes. However, in embodiments, the MTSES is not configured to determine the virtual server targeted by the requests. Accordingly, to allow the MTSES to support virtual servers that require knowledge of their identity, for example to authorize incoming requests, a request labeling endpoint is provided outside the MTSES to forward requests to the MTSES and automatically label individual requests with an endpoint identifier associated with their target virtual servers. In this manner, nodes in the MTSES can dynamically determine the virtual server that they are to assume for each request.
US11201902B2
Various methods, apparatuses/systems, and media for delivering a multimedia communication to a thin client device are provided. A processor receives multimedia communication data from a telephony device over a network and transfers the multimedia communication data to a switching device. The processor also establishes a connection between a browser, embedded within the thin client device, and a server. The processor delivers and terminates the multimedia communication data to the thin client device using the browser embedded within the thin client device after establishing the connection between the browser and the server.
US11201897B1
Methods and systems for managing data transmissions. The methods disclosed herein may involve receiving requests for a first and a second service, and routing communications with the second service through the first service without requiring the firewall to be reconfigured to allow communications with the second service.
US11201896B1
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and processes for validating vulnerabilities using lightweight offensive payloads. An attack payload limited by an execution scope that includes pre-defined exploit features for validating code execution associated with a vulnerability is generated. The attack payload is transmitted to a target computing system and a confirmation of the code execution based on at least one pre-defined exploit feature is received, permitting a determination that the vulnerability has been validated.
US11201893B2
A system for assessing potential cybersecurity threats to a subject system is provided. The system includes a computer system including at least one processor in communication with at least one memory device. The at least one processor is programmed to: receive a subject system to analyze, determine a potential hazard event associated with the subject system, generate an attack graph associated with the potential hazard event, wherein the attack graph includes a plurality of actions, determine an exploitability score for each of the plurality of actions, determine an uncertainty level for each of the plurality of actions based on the corresponding exploitability score, aggregate the plurality of actions including the corresponding exploitability scores and the corresponding uncertainty levels to determine one or more vulnerabilities of the subject system, and generate a response to the one or more vulnerabilities of the subject system.
US11201891B2
A method includes identifying two or more vulnerabilities, each vulnerability affecting a set of one or more assets of an enterprise system. The method also includes assigning a weight to each vulnerability, the weight assigned to each of the vulnerabilities being based at least in part on the set of assets affected by that vulnerability, asset criticalities associated with the set of assets affected by that vulnerability, and at least one of (i) an exploitability potential of that vulnerability and (ii) an impact potential of that vulnerability. The method further includes determining an order in which to apply remediation actions in the enterprise system to address at least one of the vulnerabilities based at least in part on the weights assigned to the vulnerabilities, and applying, in accordance with the determined order, at least one of the remediation actions to at least one of the assets in the enterprise system.
US11201890B1
A method for performing cyber-security analysis includes generating a semantic graph in which each object is represented as a node, and each event associated with an object is represented as an edge. A cyber-threat related alert, with an associated alert type, is received from a source. A first object from the plurality of objects is modified based on the alert. A plurality of threat scores, each associated with an object, are calculated, substantially concurrently, based on the alert type. Subsequently, a plurality of modified threat scores are determined for each object, based on: (1) the threat score for that object, (2) a connectivity of that object to each of the remaining objects within the semantic graph; and (3) the threat score for each remaining object from the plurality of objects. A subgraph of the semantic graph is identified based on normalized versions of the modified threat scores.
US11201883B2
Disclosed is a computer security device configured to monitor data traffic between computing devices on a local area network and an external network in order to protect the local area network against unauthorized access and data exfiltration. Such computer security device includes each of a data transport module, a management information module, and a data storage module, each of which are operable independently of the other modules, but which modules together form the single computer security device. The computer security device is configured for connection between a router on a local network that is to be protected and a wide area network, such as the Internet, which such local network communicates with. The computer security device monitors data traffic, collecting it for analysis and data visualization, creating alerts upon detection of potentially dangerous communications, and blocking, redirecting, or replacing such data with corrupted data or predetermined innocuous information in a similar format to the original data. Methods of using such a computer security device are also disclosed.
US11201882B2
A method of monitoring network traffic in a communication network with a sentinel module to detect malicious activity is described. A gateway sentinel module receives network traffic directed through a gateway installed for a local distribution of the network, the gateway connecting the local distribution of the network to a core of the network. Malicious activity in the local distribution is detected based on a combination of: a local machine-learning model for identifying malicious activity in the local distribution, the local machine-learning model modelling network traffic from the local distribution; and a global machine-learning model. The global machine-learning model models network traffic from a plurality of local distributions of the network based training data from a plurality of local sentinel modules executed on a respective plurality of computing nodes. The computing nodes respectively receive network traffic from the plurality of location distributions. A corresponding device and system are also described.
US11201878B2
Various systems and methods for bus-off attack detection are described herein. An electronic device for bus-off attack detection and prevention includes bus-off prevention circuitry coupled to a protected node on a bus, the bus-off prevention circuitry to: detect a transmitted message from the protected node to the bus; detect a bit mismatch of the transmitted message on the bus; suspend further transmissions from the protected node while the bus is analyzed; determine whether the bit mismatch represents a bus fault or an active attack against the protected node; and signal the protected node indicating whether a fault has occurred.
US11201877B2
In one embodiment, a device obtains telemetry data for a plurality of encrypted traffic flows observed in a network. The device clusters the flows into observed flow clusters, based on one or more flow-level features of the obtained telemetry data, as well as malware-related traffic telemetry data into malware-related flow clusters. The observed and malware-related telemetry data are indicative of sequence of packet lengths and times (SPLT) information for the traffic flows. The device samples sets of flows from the observed and malware-related flow clusters, with each set including at least one flow from an observed flow cluster and at least one flow from a malware-related flow cluster. The device trains a deep learning neural network to determine whether a particular encrypted traffic flow is malware-related, by using the SPLT information for the sampled sets of traffic flows as input to an input layer of neurons of the deep network.
US11201876B2
A computer implemented method to identify malicious software in a computer system includes receiving an indication of a detection of malicious network traffic communicated via a computer network accessed by the computer system; identifying a software component involved in the malicious network traffic at the computer system; evaluating a measure of a correlation fractal dimension (CFD) for at least a portion of the software component; and storing the measure of CFD for subsequent comparison with a second measure of CFD for a corresponding portion of a second software component in the computer system to identify the second software component as a software component involved in malicious network communication.
US11201874B2
An information processing apparatus acquires monitoring data. The monitoring data is data representing an event occurring in the monitoring target system. The information processing apparatus determines whether or not the event represented by the monitoring data is an event to be warned. This determination is made using the determination model. The determination model is a model for determining whether or not the event is a warning target. The information processing apparatus updates the determination model, based on the monitoring data and the result of determination on the monitoring data by using the determination model.
US11201851B2
An information processing device includes storage and a controller. In a case where a change of network address occurs in a communication channel, the storage stores a pre-change network address for a terminal connected to the communication channel in association with a post-change network address for a terminal whose network address has changed. In a case where communication to a terminal is performed using the pre-change network address, the controller controls the communication by using the storage such that, in a case where the network address of the terminal has not changed, the communication is performed as-is, whereas in a case where the network address of the terminal has changed, the pre-change network address is converted to the post-change network address to communicate with the terminal.
US11201849B2
A device can include a processor; memory accessible to the processor; a microphone operatively coupled to the processor; a network interface operatively coupled to the processor; circuitry that parses audio signals received via the microphone for a name and a type of device; circuitry that analyzes network information associated with remote devices accessible via the network interface based at least in part on at least one of the name and the type of device to associate the name and the type of device with one of the remote devices; and circuitry that stores the name and the type of device to the memory in association with the one of the remote devices.
US11201846B2
Methods and systems are enclosed herein for automatically managing email communication between a group of users and a group of target prospects. A sequence of outbound emails is automatically sent on behalf of a user to a prospect. Based upon the prospect's inbound replies (or lack thereof) the system will perform preconfigured actions, such as stopping automated communications and deferring to the user for manual action.
US11201844B2
Embodiments for managing electronic communications by one or more processors are described. A plurality of electronic messages are received. Each of the plurality of electronic messages is associated with a respective one of a plurality of topics. A portion of the plurality of topics is selected. A signal representative of the plurality of electronic messages that are associated with the selected portion of the plurality of topics is generated.
US11201837B2
Communication network systems are disclosed. In one or more implementations, the communication network system includes a plurality of network devices. Each of the plurality of network devices incorporates one or more multi-port switches, where each multi-port switch includes a connection to the network device incorporating the multi-port switch and a connection to at least one other port of another multi-port switch incorporated by another respective one of the plurality of network devices.
US11201836B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method and a device for managing a stateful application on a server. The method includes, in response to receiving a first request from a client for initializing the stateful application, allocating a storage resource to the stateful application. The method further includes, in response to receiving a second request from the client for processing data, storing the data in the storage resource. The method also includes enabling the stateful application to process the stored data.
US11201833B2
Systems, methods and devices provide efficient bandwidth allocation on a satellite, mobile telephone or other data connection by allowing nodes to share bandwidth for commonly-requested data. A transmission center, uplink or other gateway suitably recognizes when content requests from multiple different nodes are simultaneously requesting delivery of the same content. When the same content is recognized, the gateway device allocates shared bandwidth on the data transmission link for the requested content that is accessible to both the first and second nodes.
US11201829B2
Technologies for pacing network packet transmissions include a computing device. The computing device includes a compute engine and a network interface controller (NIC). The NIC is to select a first transmit descriptor from a window of transmit descriptors. The first transmit descriptor is associated with a packet stream. The NIC is also to identify a node of a plurality of nodes of a hierarchical scheduler. The node is associated with the selected first transmit descriptor. The NIC is also to determine whether the identified node has a target amount of transmission credits available and transmit, in response to a determination that the identified node has a target amount of transmission credits available, the network packet associated with the first transmit descriptor to a target computing device.
US11201824B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, an electronic device and a computer program product of load balancing. The method comprises collecting, at a target device in a distributed system, resource usage information of a plurality of devices in the distributed system. The method further comprises determining a first work task for the target device to be stopped based on the resource usage information, the target device having a first authority to execute the first work task. The method further comprises causing the first authority to be released. With the embodiments of the present disclosure, each node in the distributed system can individually balance different task loads and the use of resources by different operations of the task, thereby improving the performance of the distributed system.
US11201823B2
The present technology is directed to a system and method for using cloud based processing to co-locate one or more tunnel end points, associated with mobile user generated traffic traversing a Core network, with the serving machine located on application provider network. The describe system/method involves early stage identification of traffic flow (i.e., at the Packet Data network Gateway device using Application Detection and Control function) and dynamically instantiating an end point for the aforementioned traffic flow at the server where the application request is being served. The traffic is then directly tunneled to the endpoint thus avoiding decapsulated mobile traffic from traversing across provider network.
US11201812B2
Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for virtual probes. A processor can execute a probe orchestrator service. The processor can obtain traffic monitoring data that describes traffic associated with a logical node. The logical node can include two or more devices that can exchange information as internal traffic. The processor can analyze the traffic monitoring data to determine one of the two or more devices hosts external traffic that involves an external device that resides outside of the logical node. In response to a determination that the one of the two or more devices hosts the external traffic, the processor can trigger instantiation of a virtual probe at the device of the plurality of devices.
US11201810B2
A method including receiving, by a first device, a request message from a second device regularly, wherein the request message carries a timestamp corresponding to the request message currently received; determining, by the first device, whether the value of the timestamp is less than a preset threshold; and synchronizing, by the first device according to a corresponding relationship between timestamps and fragmented data locally cached by the first device, the fragmented data corresponding to the timestamp to the second device when the value of the timestamp is less than the preset threshold, wherein the fragmented data is obtained by fragmenting the full amount of data recorded by the first device. The present disclosure solves the technical problem of frequent failure during full-amount data updating between systems.
US11201808B2
Some embodiments provide a method for a network controller that manages several managed forwarding elements. The method receives a request to trace a specified packet having a particular source on a logical switching element. The method generates the packet at the network controller according to the packet specification. The generated packet includes an indicator that the packet is for a trace operation. The method inserts the packet into a managed forwarding element associated with the particular source. The method receives a set of messages from a set of managed forwarding elements that process the packet regarding operations performed on the packet.
US11201807B2
A first time series of traffic volume and a first time series of communication quality that are observed in a first communication line in which traffic demand is equal to or greater than a line bandwidth and a second time series of traffic volume and a second time series of communication quality that are observed in a second communication line in which traffic demand is less than a line bandwidth are input to a state space model to estimate values of a parameter group of the state space model, the traffic demand is calculated based on the values of the parameter group, and the state space model is a state space model in which the first time series of traffic volume and the second time series of traffic volume are generated from a third time series indicating cyclicity of traffic common to the first communication line and the second communication line under influence of the first time series of communication quality and the second time series of communication quality on the traffic demand, thereby supporting appropriate band design of an overload line in which traffic demand is equal to or greater than a line bandwidth.
US11201805B2
In embodiments, methods and systems for implementing an infrastructure management system that supports hardware failure remediation are provided. A determination is made that a failure of a hardware component has occurred. The hardware component is part of a hardware composite. A remediation attribute of the hardware composite is accessed. The remediation attribute indicates a minimum operational bar for the hardware composite. The minimum operational bar is based on health metrics or optional and required components of the hardware composite. The bar supports determining whether the hardware composite should operate in a degraded state. A determination is made that the hardware composite if operating without the hardware component that has failed meets the minimum operational bar for the hardware composite. Operation of the hardware composite in the degraded state is initiated. In embodiments, hardware managers are associated with degraded state configurations to facilitate operating the hardware composite in the degraded state.
US11201788B2
In a distributed computing system, a bottleneck for performance of a network is avoided and a high-performance scalable resource management function is achieved. The distributed computing system includes a plurality of components connected to each other via a network. Each of the components includes a plurality of compute nodes, a plurality of drive casings, and a plurality of storage devices. The network includes a plurality of network switches and is configured in layers. When a storage region is to be allocated to a compute node among the compute nodes, a managing unit selects, from the storage devices, a storage device related to the storage region to be allocated or selects, from the drives, a drive casing related to the storage region to be allocated, based on a network distance between two of the compute node, the storage device, and the drive casing.
US11201787B1
A configuration of a service of a cloud computing system is rendered in a user interface of an electronic display, according to a discovery chain generated by a networking tool using a service discovery function to establish the configuration. The configuration includes one or more of a router, a splitter, and/or a resolver, each having one or more configuration files that are represented as a graphical element within a graphical representation of the one or more of the router, the splitter, and/or the resolver. The configuration further includes data traffic routes between pairs of the configuration files, each being represented in the UI as a line between each pair of configuration files, where each line is rendered in the UI so as to avoid crossing over any graphical element that represents a configuration file.
US11201781B2
The system and methods described herein provided for automatically configuring a network port at a first network device with isolation parameter. A network device receives a network access message that includes network access parameters to be used when a second network device communicates with the first network device. The network device determines network isolation parameter based on the network access parameters to be used for a plurality of network packets received from the second network device. The network device determines whether the port of the network device is configured with the network isolation parameter, and, if not so configured, the network device automatically configures the port with the network isolation parameter.
US11201779B1
Systems and methods provide for automatically generating a data model that includes a first data feed conforming to industry standards where only alerts for alert triggering violations are provided. The data model further comprises a second data feed that includes both the alerts from the first data feed and a plurality of synthetic alerts for any violations that occur in a data center but do not qualify as alert triggering violations. This second data feed provides a complete picture of the performance of a data center's devices and allows for accurate analytics.
US11201775B2
A technique for transmitting data from a passive radio device (100) is described. As to a method aspect of the technique, an antenna (102) of the passive radio device (100) is exposed to an incident radio signal (502). A frequency domain representation of the incident radio signal (502) comprised at least one muted gap between active subcarriers within a bandwidth of the incident radio signal (502). The incident radio signal (502) is backscattered from the antenna by modulating an impedance of the antenna according to the data using at least two different modulation frequencies that differ by less than the bandwidth.
US11201773B1
A transmitting device may reduce a peak to average power ratio (PAPR) ratio by clipping samples that have an amplitude exceeding a threshold. For a downlink transmission, the transmitting device may transmit an incremental peak suppression information message (PSIM) to multiple user equipments (UEs). A UE may receive downlink control information (DCI) indicating a data and a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) for the UE, and at least a first incremental PSIM. The UE may decode at least the first incremental PSIM that is applicable to a MCS lower than or equal to the MCS for the UE. The UE may determine whether to decode one or more subsequent incremental PSIMs based on the MCS for the UE. The UE may apply peak information from the incremental PSIMs to the data channel. The UE may decode the data channel based on the MCS for the UE.
US11201768B1
The present disclosure relates to an adaptation method for data level (dLev) or data swing detection in a high-speed link system for multi-level (e.g. PAM-4) signaling. Provided are a receiver and a receiving method in which when a swing range of data received as an input is changed according to a channel condition, reference levels of data/swing detection samplers are not adaptively controlled, but the reference levels are fixed and a variable gain amplifier (VGA) is adaptively controlled for response to the change. Through the present disclosure, offset calibration of the data/swing detection samplers is more accurately performed and lower bit error rate (BER) is thus achieved.
US11201767B1
Embodiments are directed to continuous time linear equalization including a low frequency equalization circuit which maintains DC gain. A first all-pass filter is coupled to an integrated filter, the integrated filter having a low-pass filter and a second all-pass filter. A high-pass filter is coupled to the first all-pass filter and the integrated filter, a differential input terminal being coupled to the first all-pass filter, the integrated filter, and the high-pass filter, where a differential output terminal is coupled to the high-pass filter.
US11201765B2
A receiver has an antenna to receive a pulse shaped transmit signal transmitted by a transmitter of a multi carrier (MC) pulse shaped transmission system. The pulse shaped transmit signal includes a predefined signal pattern. The predefined signal pattern is not subjected to pulse shaping. The receiver includes a filter to pulse shape filter the pulse shaped transmit signal to obtain data for the receiver. The predefined signal pattern is retrieved from the pulse shaped transmit signal prior to filtering the pulse shaped transmit signal.
US11201763B2
A communication method according to one embodiment comprises: transmitting, by a base station that manages a Licensed-Assisted Access (LAA) cell, downlink control information (DCI) to a user equipment, the DCI including subframe information and a transmission instruction of a sounding reference signal in the LAA cell, the subframe information indicates a specific subframe in which the user equipment should transmit the sounding reference signal; and transmitting, by the user equipment, the sounding reference signal to the base station in the specific subframe, based on the DCI.
US11201761B2
Disclosed in the present specification is a method by which a terminal acquires service function chain (SFC) information. The method comprises the steps of: transferring, to a controller, the terminal state information and/or the terminal configuration information; and receiving the SFC information, determined by the controller, by considering the terminal state information and/or the terminal configuration information, wherein the SFC information includes logical path information of a virtualized network function (VNF). The method can also include a step for receiving sub-chain information, determined by the controller, on the basis of the SFC information, or determining the sub-chain information on the basis of the SFC information.
US11201755B2
Methods and systems for managing a security system are described. A security server located external to a premises may be in communication with a security system and a gateway device located at the premises. A status signal may be sent to the security server. The status signal may be initiated based on an alarm event. If the security server fails to detect a message of the status signal, the security server may send one or messages indicating the failure.
US11201745B2
Embodiments of the present systems and methods may provide encrypted biometric information that can be stored and used for authentication with undegraded recognition performance. For example, in an embodiment, a method may comprise storing a plurality of encrypted trained weights of a neural network classifier, wherein the weights have been trained using biometric information representing at least one biometric feature of a person, receiving encrypted biometric information obtained by sampling at least one biometric feature of the person and encrypting the sampled biometric feature, obtaining an match-score using the encrypted trained neural network classifier, the match-score indicating a probability that the received encrypted biometric information matches the stored encrypted biometric information, and authenticating the person when the probability that received encrypted biometric information matches the stored encrypted biometric information exceeds a threshold.
US11201744B2
A system for a time-based one-time password security system operating at a provisioning server may comprise transmitting one or more first locally generated random-string numbers for generation of a first time-based one-time password to a remotely connected internet of things sensor and a remotely connected internet of things sensor hub. The system may also comprise executing code instructions to associate the internet of things sensor with a first client key in a table stored in a memory operatively connected to the processor, associate the internet of things sensor hub with a second client key in the table, and associate the internet of things sensor and internet of things sensor hub with the one or more first locally generated random-string numbers in the table. Further the first remotely generated random-string numbers may identify a first preset function for generation of a first session key used in encrypting and decrypting sensor data records.
US11201740B2
A control system includes a reader device including a transceiver for scanning scan for ephemeral ID signals, for detecting an ephemeral ID signal from a smart-device of a user not permanently associated with the user, for outputting to the smart device, reader data, in response to the ephemeral ID signal, and for receiving from the smart-device a first authorization server token, a processor coupled to the transceiver for determining whether the first token is valid, and for determining user data in a payload portion of the first token, a transmitter for transmitting the user data to a peripheral control unit, wherein a data protocol is selected from a group consisting of: Wiegand and OSDP, and the peripheral control unit for directing a peripheral device to perform a user-perceptible action in response to the user data.
US11201732B1
An apparatus, process, and system, that enables secure information and communication across channels based on a perfect key-exchange method. The secure channel between two users enables each to use the public key of the other user—to derive a secret key specific to both users. Traditional (but yet widely used) key-exchange methods are not perfect-secure; the public key encryption makes these methods to be broken under many kinds of attacks. Unlike these methods, the apparatus, process, and system of the present invention is not based on the computational assumptions like: Integer Factorization and Discrete Logarithm Problem. The apparatus, process, and system of the present invention inhibits and/or prevents the man-in-the-middle attack, which is a problem that has not been solved to this day.
US11201728B1
Example data leakage detection apparatus disclosed herein include a fingerprinter to generate a first data fingerprint of a first data item accessed from a data source. Disclosed example data leakage detection apparatus also include a blockchain scanner to scan a blockchain to detect whether a first blockchain record includes a second data fingerprint that matches the first data fingerprint of the first data item. Disclosed example data leakage detection apparatus further include a blockchain writer to write a second blockchain record to the blockchain when the second data fingerprint matches the first data fingerprint, the second blockchain record to indicate the first data item is associated with a data leak of a protected data item represented by the second data fingerprint. In some examples, the second blockchain record is to include the first data fingerprint and a first timestamp.
US11201714B2
To appropriately control UL transmission such as a CSI reporting when communication is performed by applying a different configuration from those of legacy LTE systems, one aspect of a user terminal according to the present invention includes: a transmitting section that transmits first Channel State Information (CSI) and second CSI of different information types to be reported, by using an uplink control channel and/or an uplink shared channel based on timings respectively configured by a base station; and a control section that, when transmission timings of the first CSI and the second CSI overlap, performs control to transmit both or one of the first CSI and the second CSI.
US11201710B2
A wireless device monitors search spaces by receiving an orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing, OFDM, symbol in a downlink slot. The OFDM symbol is included in a control-resource set, CORESET, of resource elements configured to carry control information. The CORESET is associated with at least one property. The wireless device identifies at least one first property of the at least one property of the CORESET. The wireless device monitors at least one particular search space for a control message related to the wireless device based on the identified at least one first property of the CORESET.
US11201709B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method for determining a parameter of a reference signal, a method for transmitting a parameter of a reference signal, a terminal device and a base station. The determination method includes: obtaining a parameter of a first type of reference signal by a first signaling; and determining a parameter of a second type of reference signal according to the obtained parameter of the first type of reference signal, and the first type of reference signal and/or the second type of reference signal include at least one of: reference signal for data demodulation, reference signal for phase noise compensation, reference signal for Doppler shift compensation, or extended reference signal for data demodulation.
US11201690B2
A test instrument or host device can apply inverse transmitter and receiver functions to data transmitted or received by an electrical and optical transponder. The inverse transmitter and receiver functions are applied to counteract internal signal conversion processes of the transponder. Forward error correction and test pattern analysis may be performed on signals received from the transponder after the inverse receiver function is applied to the received signals.
US11201689B2
In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may be a UE. The UE receives a first trigger indicating at least one trigger state for reporting channel state information on a carrier or multiple carriers. The UE generates respective one or more channel state information reports associated with each of the at least one trigger state, each of the respective one or more channel state information reports being generated in accordance with a respective set of configurations that are unique with respect to sets of configurations used to generate the rest of the respective one or more channel state information reports. The UE sends the respective one or more channel state information reports associated with each of the at least one trigger state.
US11201687B2
[Problem] In a disaggregated optical transmission system formed by connecting bases including transmission apparatuses having specifications of different vendors through an optical fiber, wavelength information is easily set in the transmission apparatuses at both bases of the optical fiber such that the required wavelength is assigned to the optical fiber. [Solution] The optical transmission system 30 includes a facility DB 34 that stores at least information on the NW configuration in which a predetermined optical signal wavelength is assigned to the optical fiber 17, a wavelength assignment unit 32f that, if the facility DB 34 stores no information on the same NW configuration as a NW configuration that the wavelength assignment request to the optical fiber 17 between bases has, associates a management number with a wavelength commonly available for different vendors, based on vendor information in which management numbers and wavelengths of vendors are associated, and further if this wavelength is assignable to the optical fiber 17, performs a wavelength assignment instruction by using the management number, and a wavelength setting unit 33 that performs wavelength assignment setting in the transmission apparatuses at both bases of the optical fiber 17 in response to the wavelength assignment instruction.
US11201684B2
There is provided mechanisms for transmission of timestamp information. A method is performed by a transmitter device. The method comprises obtaining a first timestamp. The method comprises inserting a protected representation of the first timestamp in a payload field of a message. The message is a precision time protocol message. The method comprises timestamping the message by inserting a second timestamp in a timestamp field of the message. The method comprises transmitting the timestamped message to a receiver device. There is also provided mechanisms for reception of protected timestamp information. A method is performed by a receiving device.
US11201679B2
Embodiments of this application provide communications methods and user equipment. A communications method disclosed herein comprises: obtaining, by a user equipment, at least one signal value that is generated based on contact between the user equipment and a human body, where the human body is also in contact with another user equipment; determining at least one transmission parameter at least according to the at least one signal value and a preset transmission parameter rule; and communicating with the another user equipment at least according to the at least one transmission parameter.
US11201677B1
An optical transmitter (and methods of transmitting and receiving) includes a delay and modulation circuit (or communications circuit) configured to receive at least one optical beam and a data signal and generate at least two or more modulated optical beams having the data encoded therein. One of the modulated optical beams is a time-delayed or time-shifted version of another one of the modulated optical beams, and both beams are directed toward a target.
US11201676B2
The invention discloses a method of amplifying an optical signal, in particular a data signal, transmitted from a first location (A) to a second location (B) via a first transmission link (10a), wherein said optical signal is amplified by means of a transmitter side remote optically pumped amplifiers (ROPA) (18) comprising a gain medium (24), wherein the gain medium (24) of said transmitter side ROPA (18) is pumped by means of transmitter side pump power (20) provided from said first location (A), characterized in that at least a part of said transmitter side pump power (20) is provided by means of light supplied from said first location (A) to said transmitter side ROPA (18) via a portion of a second transmission link (10b) provided for transmitting optical signals from said second location (B) to said first location (A).
US11201666B2
Disclosed is a communication method of a satellite and a ground station and apparatuses performing the same. The communication method includes transmitting a plurality of frames to a satellite based on a beam hopping time plan (BHTP) of the satellite and a ground station and synchronizing the BHTP based on an index of a frame received through a beam switching window (BSW) allocated to the ground station among the plurality of frames, and an identification value indicating at least one sub-frame included in the frame.
US11201662B2
Systems and methods related to partial beam correspondence may be used to address potential limitations of beamforming wireless networks. A user equipment electronic device and/or wireless network identifies a subset of available transmitter beams for the user equipment electronic device that are indicated as similar to a downlink reference signal received at the user equipment electronic device from a wireless network node. The user equipment electronic device sweeps the subset of available transmitter beams for communication with the wireless network node and uses a best beam from the sweep to communicate with the wireless network node.
US11201659B2
An electronic device includes a communication circuit, a plurality of antennas that are fed with power from the communication circuit, and a processor that controls the communication circuit. The processor is configured to receive a first signal for indicating initiation of configuration for carrier aggregation. The processor is also configured to change the configuration of at least one of the antennas or the communication circuit to perform the carrier aggregation if a second signal for indicating operation initiation of the carrier aggregation is received from a base station.
US11201654B2
Disclosed herein is a method of receiving a channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) of a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, including receiving CSI-RS resource information about a CSI-RS resource location having the CSI-RS mapped thereto, from a base station and receiving the CSI-RS through a CSI-RS resource at a location determined based on the CSI-RS resource information, wherein the CSI-RS resource information includes an index value indicating a location of a CSI-RS resource element where the CSI-RS is transmitted, a period and offset information of a subframe where the CSI-RS is transmitted, and information on a number of antenna ports where the CSI-RS is transmitted, wherein when the index value indicates locations of different CSI-RS resource elements by types of the subframe where the CSI-RS is transmitted and the CSI-RS is set to be transmitted alternately through a normal subframe and a special subframe within one wireless frame, the location of the CSI-RS resource is determined in additional consideration of a type of the subframe in addition to the CSI-RS resource information.
US11201651B2
An electronic apparatus is configured to be a transmitting apparatus in D2D communication, and comprises: a transceiver; and one or more processing circuits configured to perform the following operations: enabling, on the basis of the electronic apparatus and position information of a receiving apparatus corresponding to the electronic apparatus, the transceiver to request a server in a wireless communication system for beamforming information; if the electronic apparatus does not receive beamforming information from the server, triggering a beam training process between the electronic apparatus and the receiving apparatus; and after the beam training process is completed, enabling the transceiver to report a result of the beam training process to the server. Employing the electronic apparatus, server, and wireless communication method enables combination of advantages of two beamforming techniques, i.e., adaptive beamforming and predefined codebook beam switching, thus achieving high transmission performance on the basis of a simple algorithm.
US11201641B2
An analog tamper-detection apparatus (ATAMP) for onboard analysis of a target device includes a plurality of antennas, each antenna of the plurality of antennas disposed within the target device and being electrically isolated from components of the target device. The ATAMP device further includes radio frequency (RF) front-end (RFFE) transmitter circuitry coupled to the plurality of antennas, the RFFE transmitter circuitry configured to illuminate the target device with a plurality of electromagnetic signals emitted via the plurality of antennas, to generate a plurality of mixed RF signals. The ATAMP device further includes RFFE receiver circuitry configured to receive emissions from the target device based on the mixed RF signals, and processing circuitry configured to perform subsequent analysis and evaluation of the target device based on the received emissions. The processing circuitry further generates a notification of the subsequent analysis and evaluation.
US11201628B2
A transmission method and a reception device for securing favorable communication quality in data transmission using an LDPC code. In group-wise interleaving, the LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits is interleaved in units of 360-bit bit groups. In group-wise deinterleaving, a sequence of the LDPC code after group-wise interleaving is returned to an original sequence.
US11201627B2
Spectrally-efficient digital logic (SEDL) techniques implement spectrally-efficient pulses (e.g., Gaussian-shaped pulses) in lieu of conventional square waveforms to improve electromagnetic, radio frequency, and other unwanted emissions. The SEDL techniques can be used for analog-to-digital converters (ADC) and digital-to-analog converters (DAC). An ADC circuit comprises a plurality of comparators configured to receive an analog input signal and compare the analog input signal to a predetermined reference signal, an encoder, and a spectrally-efficient circuit. A DAC circuit includes an integrator circuit, a clocked comparator circuit, a pulse generator, and a combiner circuit. The clocked comparator circuit receives the logic state of each SEDL pulse. The pulse generator receives the logic state and generates a scaled SEDL pulse for each input SEDL pulse. A combiner circuit combines the outputs from the pulse generator and determines analog value corresponding to the input values.
US11201620B2
A power supply circuit and an apparatus includes: a first switching transistor, a second switching transistor, a third switching transistor, a fourth switching transistor, a first capacitor, and a second capacitor. In this power supply circuit, one terminal of the first capacitor is connected to one terminal of the second capacitor, the other terminal of the first capacitor is separately connected to a first electrode of the first switching transistor and a first electrode of the second switching transistor, a second electrode of the first switching transistor is connected to a second electrode of the third switching transistor, a second electrode of the second switching transistor is connected to a second electrode of the fourth switching transistor, a third electrode of the first switching transistor is connected to an output node, and a third electrode of the second switching transistor is grounded.
US11201616B2
A voltage tolerant interface circuit includes an input terminal and one or more low-voltage transistors for generating an output from the voltage tolerant interface circuit based on a voltage received at the input terminal. The voltage tolerant interface circuit also includes a blocking transistor coupled between a control terminal of at least one low-voltage transistor and the input terminal. In some implementations, the blocking transistor is configured to protect the control terminal of the low-voltage transistor by blocking the voltage received at the input terminal when the voltage exceeds a voltage tolerance of the low-voltage transistor. In other implementations, the low-voltage transistor receives a supply voltage higher than the voltage tolerance of the low-voltage transistor. In that implementation, the blocking transistor is configured to protect the control terminal of the low-voltage transistor by blocking the voltage received at the input terminal when the voltage is below a predetermined threshold.
US11201615B2
A control circuit for controlling a power semiconductor element includes a temperature detection circuit configured to detect a temperature signal of the power semiconductor element, a current detection circuit configured to detect a current signal flowing through the power semiconductor element, a state determination circuit configured to receive the detected temperature signal and the detected current signal, determine a state of the power semiconductor element based on at least one of the detected temperature signal and the detected current signal, and output one or more output control signals indicating the determined state, and a driver circuit configured to control electric power supplied by the power semiconductor element based on the output control signals.
US11201614B2
Disconnection of a circulation path through which a circulation current flows is detected while suppressing an increase in circuit scale. A battery monitoring device includes switching circuits that control currents flowing through coils of main contactors by being controlled to be turned on and off, freewheeling diodes that are connected to the coils of the main contactors to form circulation paths for circulating the currents, and a control unit. The control unit measures output voltages of the freewheeling diodes at an input terminal, and detects the disconnection of the circulation paths based on the output voltages of the freewheeling diodes.
US11201608B2
One example includes a superconducting latch system. The system includes a first input stage configured to receive a first input pulse and a second input stage configured to receive a second input pulse. The system also includes a storage loop configured to switch from a first state to a second state in response to receiving the first input pulse, and to switch from the second state to the first state in response to the second input pulse. The first state corresponds to no flux in the storage loop and the second state corresponds to a flux in the storage loop. The system further includes an output stage configured to generate an output pulse in the second state of the storage loop.
US11201606B2
The present invention discloses a CSAMT transmitter, including: a first transmitter, where the first transmitter includes a first generator, a first rectifier module, a first transmission module, and a second transmission module, the first generator is connected to the first transmission module and the second transmission module by using the first rectifier module; and a second transmitter, where the second transmitter includes a second generator, a second rectifier module, a third transmission module, and a fourth transmission module, the second generator is connected to the third transmission module and the fourth transmission module by using the second rectifier module, where the first transmission module is connected to the third transmission module, and the second transmission module is connected to the fourth transmission module; the first transmission module has the same voltage as the third transmission module, and the second transmission module has the same voltage as the fourth transmission module.
US11201597B1
A novel phantom-powered inline preamplifier is configured to provide selective processing of a sound source signal by intelligently determining the need for a low or high impedance matching and transformer coupling, based on high fidelity requirements of a particular sound source signal. For example, the phantom-powered inline preamplifier can intelligently detect a microphone-originating sound source signal and automatically route the microphone-originating sound source signal to a low impedance matching circuit pathway that leads to a phantom-powered output terminal for an optimal hi-fidelity processing specific to the microphone-originating sound source signal. Likewise, the phantom-powered inline preamplifier can intelligently detect a musical instrument-originating sound source signal and automatically route the musical instrument-originating sound source signal to a high impedance matching circuit pathway and optionally couple to an instrument transformer, which leads to the phantom-powered output terminal for an optimal hi-fidelity processing specific to the musical instrument-originating sound source signal.
US11201595B2
A radio-frequency (RF) module includes a first transistor having a base, a collector, and an emitter, a radio-frequency output transmit path coupled to the collector of the first transistor at a first end and to a radio-frequency output port at a second end, and an output matching network disposed in the radio-frequency output transmit path, the output matching network including a shunt arm coupled to ground, the shunt arm including a switch that is controllable to modify an impedance of the output matching network.
US11201578B2
According to an embodiment, a motor control system includes an inverter, a PWM generation circuit, a shunt resistor, and a current detection circuit. Before the starting of the motor, at least one of all the low side transistors is turned on for a first period and detection of a first detection current flowing through the shunt resistor is performed. When the first detection current is detected, it is judged that the motor is rotating abnormally, and the rotation number of the motor is calculated based on the waveform of the first detection current. When the first detection current is not detected, it is judged that the motor is being stopped.
US11201568B2
A vibration actuator capable of adjusting the position of a vibration element with respect to a contact body. The vibration actuator includes a vibration element unit and a contact body capable of relative movement to each other. The vibration element unit includes a first vibration element in contact with the contact body, an urging unit that brings the first vibration element and the contact body into contact with each other with predetermined pressure force, a first holding member that holds the first vibration element, a base, a first supporting member that slidably supports the first holding member in a direction in which the first vibration element is pressed against the contact body, and a first connection member that is rotatably connected to the first supporting member and rotatably connected to the base about an axis parallel to a direction of the relative movement.
US11201567B2
The present invention discloses a vehicle. The vehicle includes an AC electric machine configured to generate traction driving force, a DC bus configured to provide a DC voltage, an inverter, and a controller. The inverter is coupled with the DC bus and configured to convert the DC voltage from the DC bus to an AC voltage to drive the AC electric machine, and the inverter includes a plurality of transistors. The controller is configured to control the inverter to maintain the vehicle to run in a fault-tolerant mode when an open circuit fault occurs in one of the transistors in the inverter during running of the vehicle. The present invention further discloses a control method of the vehicle and a system.
US11201562B1
An auxiliary resonant soft-edge pole inverter circuit is provided. The power inverter circuitry may include a first pair of capacitors in parallel with a corresponding pair of main power switching modules, each power switching module comprising a switch and a diode in parallel and sharing a common central node with the first pair of capacitors. The power inverter circuit may further include a first pair of auxiliary switches connected in series with a first pair of inductors, respectively, to generate resonant current from a DC power source, the first pair of inductors also sharing the common central node. The power inverter circuitry may further include a second pair of auxiliary switches connected in series with a second pair of capacitors, respectively, the second pair of auxiliary switches also sharing the common central node, the circuit producing an alternating current output at the common central node.
US11201558B2
An operating circuit and a method for operating a synchronous machine on a voltage supply network is disclosed. The operating circuit has a converter circuit with controllable converter switches and a controllable switching arrangement to switch the converter circuit between a start converter configuration and a direct converter configuration. The power supply network is connected to a converter output and the synchronous machine is connected to a converter input of the converter circuit. In the direct converter configuration, an AC voltage is provided at the converter output with a preset AC voltage frequency. In the direct converter configuration, the switching of the AC voltage between the converter input and the converter output takes place without intermediate rectification.
US11201556B2
An AC-DC converter with synchronous rectifier (SR) architecture and method for operating the same are described. Generally, a secondary side integrated circuit (IC controller of the AC-DC converter includes a peak-detector block coupled to detect peak voltages sensed on a SR-SNS pin. The peak-detector block comprises a peak comparator, a sample-and-hold (S/H) circuit, and a DC offset circuit. The peak comparator is coupled to receive a sinusoidal input from the SR-SNS pin. The S/H circuit is coupled to sample the sinusoidal input and to provide a peak sampled voltage. The DC offset voltage circuit is coupled between the output of the S/H circuit and a reference voltage input of the peak comparator to subtract a DC offset voltage from the peak sampled voltage.
US11201553B2
A control method and a control circuit for a switching power supply circuit and the switching power supply circuit. The switching power supply circuit includes a main switching transistor, a synchronous rectifier and an inductive element. When a switching signal indicates that the synchronous rectifier is turned from on to off, and the main switching transistor is turned from off to on, a gate voltage of the synchronous rectifier is pulled down to be lower than a threshold voltage of the synchronous rectifier and higher than a zero voltage by using a resistor-capacitor delay effect and timing is started. When a gate voltage of the main switching transistor is detected to rise to a first voltage or the timing reaches a first time, the gate voltage of the synchronous rectifier is pulled down to the zero voltage.
US11201543B2
A system includes a current mirror coupled to a first transistor, the first transistor includes a first gate, a first current terminal, and a second current terminal, a controller coupled to the current mirror and a converter, the controller is to output a delayed signal for a second transistor, the second transistor being a part of the converter, and a source voltage coupled to the current mirror.
US11201542B2
Disclosed a method for determining a stability range of control parameters of a Buck-Boost converter based on segmented delay feedback control, including by taking inductor current and capacitor current in a Buck-Boost converter as state variables, establishing state differential equations respectively for two different level states of the converter under the pulse input voltage; based on different input voltages, correcting inductor reference current to obtain novel inductor reference current; based on the state differential equations and the novel inductor reference current, obtaining a discrete iteration mapping model of a system; based on the discrete iteration mapping model, obtaining function equations corresponding to an upper limit and a lower limit of control parameters of the converter when the segmented delay feedback control is used to realize the stable operation of the system under the pulse input voltage, and determining a stability range of the corresponding control parameters by the function equations.
US11201539B2
A power train is described herein comprising a load, a first power supply for providing power to the load, a DC-link capacitor connected to the load, a main converter configured to convert DC power to AC power for powering the load; and pre-charge circuitry. The pre-charge circuitry comprises pre-charge means configured to, during a first, pre-charge phase, prevent said power from being provided to said load but provide power to said DC-link capacitor to charge said DC-link capacitor, and, further configured to, during a second, post-charge phase, allow said power to be provided from said first power supply to said load. A method for providing power to the load is also described herein.
US11201526B2
A magnet embedded core is manufactured in a stable manner by preventing an excessive pressurizing force from being applied to the laminated iron core and performing the clamping with an appropriate pressurizing force so that the leakage of the resin out of the magnet insertion holes can be minimized, and the reduction in the geometric and dimensional precision of the laminated iron core may be suppressed. An electric die clamping device is used, such that a laminated iron core is placed on one of a fixed die and a moveable die and upon clamping by the die clamping device, the other of the fixed die and the moveable die is caused to abut onto an end surface of the laminated iron core to close openings of magnet insertion holes and pressurize the laminated iron core in a laminating direction.
US11201518B2
A stator core includes plate-shaped core members laminated to define the stator core. Each core member includes an annular core back portion, and tooth portions that project radially inward from an inner circumferential surface of the core back portion. The core back portion includes at least one recessed portion recessed radially inward from an outer circumferential surface of the core back portion, and at least one welded portion arranged at a corresponding one of the at least one recessed portion to join axially adjacent ones of the core members. The at least one recessed portion is recessed in a radial direction is in a range of about 0.2 mm to about 1.5 mm, both inclusive.
US11201513B2
A rotor includes magnets, and a rotor core including thin film cores laminated in an axial direction and magnet holes in which the magnets are located. The rotor core includes first thin plate cores and second thin plate cores. The first thin plate cores include an annular first inner plate, first outer plates on a radially outer side of the inner plate and arrayed side by side in the circumferential direction, first inner connecting portions connecting the inner plate and the outer plate, and a first outer connecting portion that is on a radially outer side of the first outer plate and connects the adjacent outer plates in the circumferential direction.
US11201512B2
A rotor assembly for a motor is disclosed. The motor has a minimum air gap width value. The rotor assembly includes magnets, a main-body portion, magnet-receiving slots and arc-trimming portions. Each of the magnet-receiving slots is disposed around a central axis of the main-body portion and locates through the main-body portion for accommodating the corresponding magnet therein. The magnet-receiving slot has a slot width value. The arc-trimming portions spatially correspond to the magnet-receiving slots. Each of the arc-trimming portions and a geometric symmetry center of the corresponding magnet-receiving slot together form an arc-trimming depth value. The arc-trimming depth value is greater than a sum value of a rate constant multiplied by the slot width value and then subtracted 2 times of the minimum air gap width value, and is less than the sum value of the rate constant multiplied by the slot width value and then plus 2 times of the minimum air gap width value.
US11201503B2
An exemplary embodiment of the present invention is a wireless power transmission circuit that provides power to a load of variable resistance with an alternating current (AC) power source induced at a secondary coil in a secondary side of the circuit by a primary coil in a primary side of the said circuit. The wireless power transmission circuit includes a switch-controlled capacitor (SCC) and a semi-active rectifier (SAR). The SCC connects to the AC power source. The SCC includes a first capacitor connected in parallel with two electrically controllable switches in series. The SAR connects to output of the SCC for rectifying the output of the SCC, wherein the SAR comprises a bridge circuit that includes two electrically controllable switches. A control angle of the SCC and a conduction angle of the SAR are regulated to provide a load impedance that matches the impedance of the coils.
US11201497B2
An apparatus and methods to reduce current transient during power mode transfer in uninterruptible power supply (UPS). The disclosure provides a zero-cross detection based phase width modulated (PWM) element (E3). The element (E3) is configured to delay activation of a PWM modulator, by delaying a PWM start command for a first delay time (Tdz), wherein the first delay time is the time between receiving a static switch command to the time when a positive sequence component of a phase load current crosses zero. The element (E3) is further configured to delay the activation of the PWM modulator for a second delay time (Tdi) after the end of the first delay time (Tdz), by delaying the PWM start command for the second delay time, wherein the second delay time is based on a power factor of load connected to the UPS.
US11201496B2
The present disclosure provides energy control systems for whole home and partial home backup with integrated breaker spaces and metering. The energy control system includes a grid interconnection electrically coupled to a utility grid, a backup power interconnection electrically coupled to a backup power source, a backup load interconnection electrically coupled to at least one backup load, and a non-backup load interconnection electrically coupled to at least one non-backup load. The energy control system includes a microgrid interconnection device that switches between an on-grid mode to electrically connect the grid interconnection and the backup power interconnection with the backup and non-backup load interconnections and a backup mode to electrically disconnect the grid interconnection and the non-backup load interconnection from the backup power interconnection.
US11201493B2
A power converter and methods with an input terminal, a capacitor, a first output terminal, a second output terminal, an output switch between the first output terminal and the second output terminal, and an inductor are presented. A first terminal of the inductor is connected to the first output terminal. An input switch is connected between the input terminal and a first terminal of the capacitor. A first capacitive charging switch is connected between the first terminal of the capacitor and the second output terminal. A second capacitive charging switch is connected between the second output terminal and a second terminal of the capacitor. A ground switch is connected between the second terminal of the capacitor and a reference potential. The power converter can convert electrical power into electrical power for powering an external device d or into electrical power for charging an external energy storage device.
US11201490B2
Provided are a charging method, a terminal, and a non-transitory computer storage medium. The method includes the following. A charging voltage is detected in applying flash fast charging (FFC) to a terminal. Whether to end the FFC is determined according to the charging voltage. FFC is ended and a standing duration is recorded, where the standing duration is indicative of time which has elapsed after charging of a terminal is ended. A preset safe current is applied to the terminal, when the standing duration is longer than or equal to a preset threshold duration.
US11201488B2
An energy store has at least one energy storage module with a plurality of energy storage cells. The energy storage cells are each electrically coupled to a monitoring unit. Each monitoring unit is designed to discharge the respective energy storage cell by use of a specified symmetry current in an active operating state. The method operates the energy store by performing the acts of: detecting an open-circuit voltage of each energy store cell and determining a discharge duration for each energy storage cell as a function of the open-circuit voltage of the energy storage cell and a specified target discharge voltage value; and controlling each monitoring unit in order to discharge the respective energy storage cell by use of the specified symmetry current for the discharge duration associated with the respective energy storage cell.
US11201484B2
Accessory devices for portable electronic devices are herein described. An accessory device may include a receptacle used to receive and carry an electronic device. Further, the accessory device may include a cover that is pivotally coupled to the receptacle. The cover is designed to protect a front surface of the electronic device, including a cover glass. The accessory device may further include a power supply (such as a battery) that is located on the cover. The power supply is designed to provide power to the electronic device, and subsequently charge a battery of the electronic device. The power supply can also provide power to different devices. In this regard, the accessory device may include an inductive charging coil that can inductively charge a battery of a device located on the accessory device. The inductive charging coil can be integrated into the receptacle or the cover.
US11201466B2
A circuit structure includes: a network of clamps; sense elements in series with the clamps and configured to sense a turn-on of at least one clamp of the network of clamps; and feedback elements connected to the clamps to facilitate triggering of remaining clamps of the network of clamps.
US11201464B2
The invention relates to an arrangement for overload protection of overvoltage protection devices, consisting of at least one type II surge arrester with or without a thermal disconnecting device that responds in the event of an of overload. According to the invention, a switching unit free of movable contacts is connected in series with the at least one surge arrester and structurally combined therewith, which switching unit has at least two fixed narrow spaced switching contacts, wherein the spacing of the switching contacts is specified in such a way that in the event of every surge current or discharge process, the switching device changes into a quasi-closed state because of the arc formed; whereas in the idle state, the voltage of the connected mains drops at the switching device, with the surge arrester arranged in series remaining free of leakage current.
US11201455B1
Disclosed herein is an apparatus for providing and monitoring a temporary electrical supply, which comprises a portable electrical panel with an array of circuit breakers, an array of electrical plugs for supplying a temporary source of electricity, and an array of amp and voltage meters that detect information needed for each corresponding phase. The Temporary Electrical Panel is supplied by a 50-amp cord and has a 40-amp main breaker. Each electrical plug is rated at 20 amps, tamper resistant, and GFCI protected, with a dedicated 20-amp breaker. The electrical plugs may also be color coded to differentiate which phase they are on. Additionally, the Temporary Electrical Panel comprises a plastic backing board with handle cut outs or a handle, which allow the Temporary Electrical Panel to be carried.
US11201454B2
The invention relates to a semiconductor laser comprising a layer structure comprising an active zone, wherein the active zone is configured to generate an electromagnetic radiation, wherein the layer structure comprises a sequence of layers, wherein two opposite end faces are provided in a Z-direction, wherein at least one end face is configured to at least partly couple out the electromagnetic radiation, and wherein the second end face is configured to at least partly reflect the electromagnetic radiation, wherein guide means are provided for forming an optical mode in a mode space between the end faces, wherein means are provided which hinder a formation of an optical mode outside the mode space, in particular modes comprising a propagation direction which do not extend perpendicularly to the end faces.
US11201450B2
In a Q-switched solid-state laser having a resonator (3, 30) in the form of a linear resonator or a ring resonator having an active laser material (1) and at least one first and one second mirror (4, 5) and a resonator length (a) of less than 50 mm, preferably less than 25 mm, in the case of the configuration as a linear resonator and of less than 100 mm, preferably less than 50 mm, in the case of the configuration as a ring resonator, at least substantially only one longitudinal mode oscillates in the resonator (3). The resonator (3, 30) is in the form of an unstable resonator, with one of the mirrors (4, 5) being a gradient mirror.
US11201447B2
Chirped pulse amplification (CPA) systems configured to generate and amplify multi-pulses are described. The nonlinear interaction of pulses can generate a multiple pulse pack with a dense time separation between pulses. Reducing or eliminating the nonlinear interaction can be provided by spectrally and/or temporally splitting pulses in the chirped amplification system.
US11201442B2
The present disclosure relates to a converter. The converter may include a first connector configured to transmit one or more signals, a second connector configured to receive the one or more signals, a first cable with a first impedance, a second cable with a second impedance, and an impedance module. The first connector may be connected to the impedance module via the first cable. The second connector may be connected to the impedance module via the second cable. The impedance module may be configured to convert the first impedance of the first cable to the second impedance of the second cable such that the one or more signals are transmitted from the first connector to the second connector via the first cable and the second cable.
US11201439B2
In the plug connector, the front end side of a fiber optic cable used for optical signal transmission is connected to, and rearwardly extends from, the rear end side of said plug connector and lateral terminals are arranged in each of a pair of lateral edge portions that extend in the forward-backward direction; at least one of the plug connector and receptacle connector has provided therein resilient members that generate a biasing force between the plug connector and receptacle connector in the forward-backward direction; and, a restricting portion, which provides a limiting value for the distance of relative displacement of the plug connector with respect to the receptacle connector in the direction of the biasing force under the action of the above-mentioned biasing force, is formed in the receptacle connector, and a restricted portion is formed in the plug connector.
US11201438B2
An electrical connector includes multiple terminals fixed to an insulating body. Each terminal has a contact portion electrically connected with a mating connector, and a conducting portion located behind the contact portion. The conducting portion extends out of the insulating body and is electrically connected with a circuit board. A grounding shell wraps outside the insulating body. A shielding shell rotates relative to the insulating body between a closed position and an open position. A first end of the shielding shell is electrically connected with the grounding shell. When the shielding shell is at the closed position, a second end of the shielding shell is electrically connected with at least one grounding medium electrically connected with the circuit board. When the shielding shell is at the open position, an observation window is formed between the shielding shell and the grounding medium to expose the conducting portions of the terminals.
US11201436B2
An assembly including a plug connector (22) and a conductive cage (20). The plug connector includes a housing (44), a projection (66) extending therefrom, and a paddle card (60) mounted therein. The cage (20) includes a cage housing (26) forming an inner area and at least one cap (64) forming a keyway (68). The housing (44) of the plug connector (22) is received in the inner area (36) of the cage (20) and the projection (66) of the plug connector (22) is received in the keyway (68) of the cage (20). The cage (20) may include a plurality of spring fingers therein which engage with a conductive bezel (122). The cage (20) provides EMI shielding for the plug connector (22).
US11201419B2
The present disclosure provides an electrical connector comprising an insulating body and at least one power terminal module. The insulating body comprises a receiving slot. The power terminal module is disposed in the receiving slot. Each power terminal module comprises a power terminal set and an elastic terminal. The power terminal set is disposed in the receiving slot. The power terminal set comprises a first power terminal, a second power terminal and an accommodating part which are overlappingly stacked. The second power terminal is closer than the first power terminal to the slot wall. The elastic terminal is disposed in the power terminal set, comprising a first end part, a second end part, and a plurality of elastic contacting parts. The plurality of elastic contacting parts is disposed between the first end part and the second end part. The first end part is disposed in the accommodating part.
US11201415B2
The present disclosure relates to a technology for designing a transmitarray antenna based on the mode and incidence angle of feed radio waves. The transmitarray antenna according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes a plurality of transmitting surface unit cells having different surface structures and different longitudinal lengths located in a plurality of regions, wherein the transmitting surface unit cells are arranged in a mixed manner in the regions based on the different longitudinal lengths and the phase of a transmission coefficient determined based on an input phase and an output phase based on the mode and incidence angle of radio waves transmitted from a feed antenna.
US11201413B1
An antenna module includes a first antenna including a first radiator, a second radiator, a third radiator, a fourth radiator, and a fifth radiator. The first radiator has a first end and a second end opposite to each other. The first end is a first feeding end, and the second radiator, the third radiator and the fourth radiator are connected to the second end of the first radiator. The second radiator has a plurality of bending portions. The fifth radiator is connected to the second radiator, and the fifth radiator has a first ground terminal. The first radiator, the second radiator and the fifth radiator resonate in a first frequency band, the first radiator and the third radiator resonate in a second frequency band, and the first radiator and the fourth radiator resonate in a third frequency band.
US11201392B2
An antenna apparatus has a sleeve antenna. The sleeve antenna has an internal conductive member, an external conductive member, an insulating member, and a mountain-shaped conductive member that is electrically connected to the external conductive member. The mountain-shaped conductive member expands radially from an upper edge towards a lower edge. The internal conductive member protrudes higher than the external conductive member above the upper edge of the mountain-shaped conductive member.
US11201391B2
Methods and apparatus for relay aided beam management in a vehicle communication system are provided. The relay comprises an antenna system including an internal antenna located inside a vehicle and an external antenna located outside the vehicle. The relay further comprises a transceiver operably connected to the antenna system, the transceiver configured to receive, from a base station (BS), a first signal via the external antenna of the antenna system, and receive, from the vehicle, configuration information including at least one of a vehicle speed, or a position of a window of the vehicle or windshield wiper. The relay further comprises a processor operably connected to the antenna system and the transceiver, the processor configured to generate a second signal based on (i) the configuration information and (ii) the first signal, wherein the transceiver is further configured to transmit, to a user equipment (UE), the second signal via the internal antenna.
US11201389B2
A measurement system includes a stator-side unit and a rotor-side unit installed on the rotary machine. The stator-side unit includes a stator-side antenna, an oscillation unit that oscillates a microwave signal and outputs the oscillated microwave signal to the stator-side antenna, and a reception unit that demodulates the microwave signal and outputs a desired signal. The rotor-side unit includes a sensor, a rotor-side antenna that receives a microwave transmitted by the stator-side antenna and outputs the microwave signal, a power conversion unit that converts the received microwave signal into predetermined DC power and outputs the DC power, and a modulation unit that modulates a rotor output signal or a multiplication rotor output signal obtained by frequency multiplication of the rotor output signal, according to the output signal of the sensor, using the DC power output of the power conversion unit, and outputs the modulated rotor signal to the rotor-side antenna.
US11201388B2
A base station antenna (BSA) system includes a radio-frequency (RF) generator having a plurality of power-amplifying circuits therein, and an antenna, which includes a plurality of columns of radiating elements. These radiating elements are electrically coupled by RF signal routing to a corresponding plurality of ports of the antenna that receive a corresponding plurality of RF input signals. These RF input signals have respective amplitudes and phases that support the concurrent generation of three spaced-apart RF beams by the antenna and are derived from respective RF signals generated by the plurality of power-amplifying circuits. The RF input signals including: (i) a first RF input signal defined by at least two linearly superposed RF signals of equivalent frequency having unequal combinations of amplitude and phase weighting, and (ii) a second RF input signal defined by at least two linearly superposed RF signals of equivalent frequency having unequal combinations of amplitude and phase weighting.
US11201385B2
An example of a device including a display panel and a border region around the display panel is provided. The device includes a cover disposed on the display panel and the border region. The cover is to protect the display panel and the border region. The device also includes an antenna with a keep-out area disposed within a portion of the border region. The device includes a bezel disposed in the keep-out area to support the cover. The bezel includes a partially filled portion to reduce a resonance shift of the antenna.
US11201377B2
A connection arrangement is disclosed. The connection arrangement comprises a cell contact in contact with a cell in the form of at least one of a voltage source and a voltage sink, a cell connection line connected to the cell contact, and a connection line connected to the cell connection line at an end opposite the cell contact, the connection line connecting the cell connection line to an external electrical component.
US11201372B2
A battery pack provided with a plurality of battery cells, the battery pack making it possible to achieve higher safety than before during handling work. The battery pack is provided with a battery group in which the plurality of battery cells are stacked, and a housing in which the battery group is accommodated. The housing, with respect to a first direction and a second direction perpendicular to a height direction of the housing and to each other, has a dimension in the first direction which is made smaller than a dimension in the second direction. The battery group is eccentrically located on one side in the first direction in the housing.
US11201370B2
A battery housing for a vehicle battery includes side walls which laterally delimit an interior of the battery housing, with a mounting frame running externally around the side walls for mounting the battery housing on a chassis of an electric vehicle, and with a floor structural element delimiting the interior of the battery housing at the bottom, wherein a first reinforcing profile for reinforcing the floor structural element is arranged on said floor structural element, and/or a second reinforcing profile for reinforcing the mounting frame is arranged on said mounting frame.
US11201369B2
A structure for sealing a button-type lithium cell includes a cell cover, a sealing ring and a cell casing. The cell cover includes an overlapping structure. The overlapping structure includes a first overlapping portion, a second overlapping portion and a third overlapping portion and the third overlapping portion includes a locking portion and a sealing portion. The cell casing includes a sealing structure. The sealing structure includes a first sealing portion, a second sealing portion, a third sealing portion and a fourth sealing portion. The first overlapping portion abuts against the fourth sealing portion through the sealing ring, the second overlapping portion abuts against the third sealing edge through the sealing ring, the locking portion of the third overlapping portion abuts against the second sealing edge through the sealing ring, and the sealing portion of the third overlapping portion abuts against the first sealing edge through the sealing ring.
US11201363B2
Additional cooling is provided to an energy storage module of a cooling system with a plurality of cooling channels in contact with a surface of an energy storage device, by pipe connections of a common cooling fluid outlet pipe that have a lower melting point than pipe connections of the common cooling fluid inlet pipe. In use, if the pipe connections are subjected to elevated temperatures, or fire, the pipe connections of the common fluid outlet pipe fail before the pipe connections of the common fluid inlet pipe, causing a pressure drop, whereby the rate of fluid flow through the cooler of the energy storage module in which the pipe connection has failed is substantially increased.
US11201361B2
A battery charger and method is disclosed for detecting when a battery has a low state of health while simultaneously charging or maintaining the battery. A battery charger includes a processor; a non-transitory memory device; a power management device to receive an input power and to output a charging current; a pair of electrical conductors to electrically couple with a battery, and a display electrically coupled to the processor. The display being configured to indicate a bad battery indicator when the battery has a low state of health and whether the battery is good to start.
US11201359B2
Provided are a charging control method, a charging control apparatus, and a computer readable storage medium. The charging control method includes the following. A charging parameter currently used for charging a battery is acquired, when an electronic device is in a constant-current charging mode. A temperature of the battery is acquired when the charging parameter reaches a preset parameter. A charging cut-off current of the battery is regulated according to the temperature. The charging cut-off current is continuously applied to the battery until the battery is fully charged.
US11201354B2
An electrolytic solution contains: an electrolyte including a lithium salt represented by general formula (1) below; an organic solvent including a linear carbonate represented by general formula (2) below; and an unsaturated cyclic carbonate, wherein the linear carbonate is contained at a mole ratio of 3 to 6 relative to the lithium salt, and/or the lithium salt is contained at a concentration of 1.1 to 3.8 mol/L. (R1X1)(R2SO2)NLi general formula (1) R20OCOOR21 general formula (2)
US11201351B2
An all solid battery includes: a solid electrolyte layer including phosphoric acid salt-based solid electrolyte; a first electrode that is formed on a first main face of the solid electrolyte layer; and a second electrode that is formed on a second main face of the solid electrolyte layer, wherein a D50% grain diameter of crystal grains of the phosphoric acid salt-based solid electrolyte is 0.5 μm or less, wherein a D90% grain diameter of the crystal grains is 3 μm or less.
US11201348B2
According to one embodiment, an electrode is provided. The electrode includes an active material-containing layer containing active material particles, ferroelectric particles, and solid electrolyte particles. A ratio (FEcontact) of the number of the ferroelectric particles in contact with the active material particles relative to the number of the ferroelectric particles included in the active material-containing layer is 85% or more. A ratio (SEnon-contact) of the number of the solid electrolyte particles not in contact with the active material particles relative to the number of the solid electrolyte particles included in the active material-containing layer is 30% or more.
US11201346B2
A fuel cell stack is provided comprising a plurality of fuel cells comprising a membrane electrode assembly and at least one gas diffusion layer, which fuel cells are divided into at least one first fuel cell segment having a portion of the plurality of fuel cells and a second fuel cell segment having a different portion of the plurality of fuel cells, wherein the first fuel cell segment and the second fuel cell segment are arranged in a common fuel cell cascade, wherein the first fuel cell segment comprises a first collector inlet line for an operating medium and a first collector outlet lined which is formed integrally with a second collector inlet line of the second fuel cell segment and wherein the second fuel cell segment comprises a second collector outlet line. The membrane electrode assemblies and/or the gas diffusion layers inside the second fuel cell segment are designed in such a way that they are more water-repellent than those of the first fuel cell segment. A fuel cell system comprising such a fuel cell stack is also provided.
US11201336B2
In a production method and a production apparatus for producing a joint separator, in the state where first and second separators are stacked together, a step of fixing the first and second separators by holding the first and second separators between a base and a holder is performed. Thereafter, a step of welding the first and second separators by radiating a laser light from laser light emitting units, through gaps provided in the holder is performed. After the welding step, an additional pressing step of moving pressing members ahead through the gaps to press heat affected zones welded by the laser light, by the pressing members is performed.
US11201332B2
Provided is a sulfide all-solid-state battery configured to suppress hydrogen sulfide generation and decrease battery resistance, wherein the sulfide all-solid-state battery comprises a cathode comprising a cathode layer, an anode comprising an anode layer, and a solid electrolyte layer disposed between the cathode layer and the anode layer; wherein the sulfide all-solid-state battery comprises a composite electroconductive material containing a porous electroconductive material and a basic material; wherein the basic material is contained in pores of the porous electroconductive material; and wherein the composite electroconductive material is contained in at least one of the cathode layer and the anode layer.
US11201331B2
There is provided a positive electrode material for a lithium-sulfur battery, including a sulfur-rich polymer and graphene, wherein an internal structure of the sulfur-rich polymer is an interpenetrating network structure; the graphene is doped in the sulfur-rich polymer; a particle size of the sulfur-rich polymer is 100-300 meshes; and the number of flake layers of the graphene is 2-10. A preparation method includes: crushing a prepared sulfur-rich polymer into powder, adding a solvent to obtain a solution, performing sufficient stirring processing; performing ultrasonic dispersion on graphene in a solvent to generate a suspension; and mixing the two solutions, then continuing to perform ultrasonic dispersion and stirring, and finally removing the solvent and drying a product to obtain the positive electrode material for a lithium-sulfur battery. The positive electrode material for a lithium-sulfur battery has relatively high conductivity and cycle performance and a long service life, and is simple to operate.
US11201320B2
Disclosed is that an anode active material for a lithium secondary battery, and a lithium secondary battery comprising the same. The anode active material for a lithium secondary battery comprises a composite of a Si-based or Sn-based material and a carbon-based material, a Raman spectrum peak intensity ratio (ID/ID′) of a peak intensity (ID) of a D peak (1360 cm−1 to 1370 cm−1) relative to a peak intensity (ID′) of a D′ peak (1620 cm−1 to 1625 cm−1) of the carbon-based material is 4.5 to 10, a peak intensity ratio (IG/ID) of a peak intensity (IG) of a G peak (1580 cm−1 to 1590 cm−1) relative to a peak intensity (ID) of a D peak (1360 cm−1 to 1370 cm−1) of the carbon-based material is 0.6 to 1.5, and an average diameter (D50) of the Si-based or Sn-based metallic material is 30 nm to 80 nm.
US11201317B2
A method of peeling a mother protective film from a mother display panel includes: laminating the mother protective film on the mother display panel, the mother display panel comprising a plurality of display cells each including a display area and a peripheral area in an outer portion of the display cells; forming a target area and a dummy area on the mother protective film by forming a cutting line having a closed loop shape enclosing the target area corresponding to the display cells and an additional cutting line in a first direction near the cutting line; arranging a fixing member on the mother protective film within the target area enclosed by the cutting line; and physically peeling off the dummy area from the mother display panel.
US11201305B2
A display panel comprises a substrate, active switches and light-emitting diodes formed on the substrate. The active switches are disposed between the substrate and the light-emitting diodes. Each light-emitting diode comprises a first electrode, a second electrode, and a quantum dot luminescent layer. The quantum dot luminescent layer comprises a mesoporous frame. The mesoporous frame adopts a self-assembling form, the mesoporous frame serves as a main material, and quantum dots are disposed in the mesoporous frame. The first electrode, the quantum dot luminescent layer and the second electrode are stacked in order. Since the quantum dots are disposed in the mesoporous frame, the sizes of the quantum dots and the uniformity of their arrangement are adjusted and controlled, the light-emitting diodes with different luminous colors depending on the sizes of the quantum dots are then adjusted.
US11201303B2
A flexible display panel, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device are provided. The flexible display panel includes a first base layer, a stress relief layer, a second base layer, and at least one adhesion enhancing layer. The first base layer, the stress relief layer, and the second base layer are sequentially stacked along a light exiting direction of the flexible display panel. The at least one adhesion enhancing layer is provided between the stress relief layer and at least one of the first base layer or the second base layer in such a manner that the adhesion enhancing layer enhances adhesion there between.
US11201299B2
The present invention includes novel heterocyclic materials for use as blue phosphorescent materials in OLED devices. The novel materials include two fused 5-membered aromatic or pseudoaromatic rings, which are bonded with 6 membered aromatic rings to serve as chelation ligands for a transition metal. The novel materials were determined computationally to have appropriate triplet energies for use as blue emitters and to possess sufficient chemical stability for use in devices.
US11201298B2
Ligands for metal complexes that are useful as phosphorescent emitters in OLEDs are disclosed. The ligands contain an aryl group covalently bonded to the coordinating metal. The aryl group has a cycloalkyl or a substituted cycloalkyl that is linked para to the linkage of the coordinating metal on that aryl group.
US11201295B2
A heterocyclic compound and an organic light-emitting device including the heterocyclic compound, the heterocyclic compound being represented by the following Formula 1: A1-(A2)n2,
US11201288B2
OVJP depositors and techniques for using the same are provided, in which the in-substrate plane velocity of the delivery and confinement flows are both nonzero and parallel to each other across the boundary between the two. These configurations provide improved material utilization efficiency and relaxed fly height tolerances, while achieving acceptable printing resolution and feature uniformity.
US11201275B1
A structure has a substrate, and a spring structure disposed on the substrate, the spring structure having an anchor portion disposed on the substrate, an elastic material having an intrinsic stress profile that biases a region of the elastic material to curl away from the substrate, and a superconductor film in electrical contact with a portion of the elastic material. A method of manufacturing superconductor structures includes depositing a release film on a substrate, forming a stack of films comprising an elastic material and a superconductor film, releasing a portion of the elastic material by selective removal of the release film so that portion lifts out of the substrate plane to form elastic springs. A method of manufacturing superconductor structures includes depositing a release film on a substrate, forming a stack of films comprising at least an elastic material, releasing a portion of the elastic material so that portion lifts out of a plane of the substrate to form elastic springs, and coating the elastic springs with a superconductor film.
US11201272B2
The present invention relates generally to an optical device package on which an optical device is mounted and, more particularly, to an optical device package that is configured such that a unit substrate of the optical device package comes into surface contact with a curved surface of a light transmission member.
US11201270B2
Illumination devices based on quantum dot technology and methods of making such devices are described. An illumination device includes a substrate having a plurality of microLEDs, a beam splitter, and a film having a plurality of quantum dots. The beam splitter includes a plurality of layers and is disposed between the substrate and the film having the plurality of quantum dots.
US11201266B2
A light-emitting device includes a substrate including a base member having an upper surface having a substantially rectangular shape, a lower surface opposite to the upper surface, a first longer lateral surface, a second longer lateral surface opposite to the first longer lateral surface, a first shorter lateral surface, and a second shorter lateral surface opposite to the first shorter lateral surface, first wirings disposed on the upper surface, and second wirings disposed on the lower surface and each electrically connected with a respective one of the first wirings; at least one light-emitting element; and a light-reflective covering member covering lateral surfaces of the light-emitting element and the upper surface of the base member. The base member has at least one first recess open at the upper surface and the first longer lateral surface. Surfaces defining the at least one first recess are covered with the covering member.
US11201263B2
A surface roughening method includes the following steps: preparing a first epitaxial layer of a three-dimensional island shape growth over a light emitting structure; and preparing a discontinuous second epitaxial layer over the first epitaxial layer. The surface roughening method provided in the present application is simple and convenient, and improves the efficiency. In addition to the epitaxial growth process, it is not necessary to use an additional process such as wet etching, photonic crystal and other processes to further process the surface of the epitaxial layer, and the method may be implemented by means of one process in a same reaction equipment.
US11201257B2
According to the embodiments provided herein, a method for doping an absorber layer can include contacting the absorber layer with an annealing compound. The annealing compound can include cadmium chloride and a group V salt comprising an anion and a cation. The anion, the cation, or both can include a group V element. The method can include annealing the absorber layer, whereby the absorber layer is doped with at least a portion of the group V element of the annealing compound.
US11201256B2
Provided are an infrared detecting device and an infrared detecting system including the infrared detecting device. The infrared detecting device includes at least one infrared detector, and the at least one infrared detector includes a substrate, a buffer layer, and at least one light absorbing portion. The buffer layer includes a superlattice structure.
US11201249B2
An object is to provide favorable interface characteristics of a thin film transistor including an oxide semiconductor layer without mixing of an impurity such as moisture. Another object is to provide a semiconductor device including a thin film transistor having excellent electric characteristics and high reliability, and a method by which a semiconductor device can be manufactured with high productivity. A main point is to perform oxygen radical treatment on a surface of a gate insulating layer. Accordingly, there is a peak of the oxygen concentration at an interface between the gate insulating layer and a semiconductor layer, and the oxygen concentration of the gate insulating layer has a concentration gradient. The oxygen concentration is increased toward the interface between the gate insulating layer and the semiconductor layer.
US11201246B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for fabricating an FET structure. The method includes forming on a substrate a first semiconductor structure and an insulator structure covering the first semiconductor structure with a first insulator layer, forming on the first insulator layer a sacrificial layer extending to a reference plane, forming a second insulator layer on the reference plane, forming a first cavity through the second insulator layer, the sacrificial layer and the first insulator layer, thus exposing a surface of the first semiconductor structure, filling the first cavity with a second semiconductor structure extending from the surface at least up to the first reference plane, forming a third semiconductor structure on the second semiconductor structure, selectively removing the sacrificial layer, thus forming a second cavity, and filling the second cavity with a gate structure.
US11201229B2
A structure and a formation method of a semiconductor device are provided. The method includes forming a dummy gate stack over a semiconductor substrate and forming a spacer element over a sidewall of the dummy gate stack. The spacer element has an inner spacer and a dummy spacer, and the inner spacer is between the dummy spacer and the dummy gate stack. The method also includes forming a dielectric layer to surround the spacer element and the dummy gate stack and replacing the dummy gate stack with a metal gate stack. The method further includes removing the dummy spacer of the spacer element to form a recess between the inner spacer and the dielectric layer. In addition, the method includes forming a sealing element to seal the recess such that a sealed hole is formed between the metal gate stack and the dielectric layer.
US11201228B2
A method includes providing a structure having a substrate, a gate structure over the substrate, a sacrificial spacer over a sidewall of the gate structure, a source/drain feature over the substrate and adjacent to the gate structure; forming a dielectric layer over the gate structure, the sacrificial spacer, and the source/drain feature; with the dielectric layer over the gate structure, the sacrificial spacer, and the source/drain feature, forming a contact extending through the dielectric layer to the source/drain feature; removing the dielectric layer to expose the sacrificial spacer; etching the sacrificial spacer to form a trench; and depositing an inter-layer dielectric (ILD) layer, wherein the ILD layer caps the trench, thereby defining an air gap inside the trench.
US11201221B2
An apparatus including a circuit structure including a device stratum including a plurality of devices including a first side and an opposite second side; and a metal interconnect coupled to at least one of the plurality of devices from the second side of the device stratum. A method including forming a transistor device including a channel between a source region and a drain region and a gate electrode on the channel defining a first side of the device; and forming an interconnect to one of the source region and the drain region from a second side of the device.
US11201217B2
The characteristic of Fe-doped HEMTs is improved. The invention provides a nitride semiconductor substrate having a substrate, a buffer layer made of nitride semiconductors on the substrate, and an active layer composed of nitride semiconductor layers on the buffer layer; the buffer layer containing Fe, the Fe having a concentration profile in which the Fe concentration increases monotonically and gradually in the thickness direction of the buffer layer from an interface between the substrate and the buffer layer, has a maximum value within 2×1017 to 1.1×1020 atoms/cm3 inclusive, and decreases monotonically and gradually toward an interface between the buffer layer and the active layer, and the point of the maximum value being within ±50 nm from the midpoint in the thickness direction of the buffer layer, and being 500 nm or more away from the interface between the buffer layer and the active layer.
US11201215B2
A semiconductor metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) transistor with increased on-state current obtained through intrinsic bipolar junction transistor (BJT) of MOSFET has been described. Methods of operating the MOS transistor are provided.
US11201204B2
A display device including: a substrate; an active layer disposed on the substrate and including active patterns; a first conductive layer disposed on the active layer; a second conductive layer disposed on the first conductive layer and including a data line; a third conductive layer disposed on the second conductive layer; and a light-emitting element disposed on the third conductive layer, wherein the first conductive layer includes a scan line, a first voltage line, and a second voltage line, the third conductive layer includes a third voltage line connected to the first voltage line and a fourth voltage line connected to the second voltage line, the first voltage line and the second voltage line extend in a first direction, the third voltage line and the fourth voltage line extend in a second direction, and the third voltage line and the fourth voltage line are alternately arranged in the first direction.
US11201202B2
A display module and a large format display apparatus incorporating the display module are provided. The display module includes a thin film transistor substrate, light emitting diodes arranged on one surface of the thin film transistor substrate, and side wirings formed on each of a first edge of the thin film transistor substrate and a second edge of the thin film transistor substrate that is adjacent to the first edge, to electrically couple components on the one surface of the thin film transistor substrate with components on an opposite surface of the one surface respectively.
US11201200B2
A semiconductor device package includes a display device, an electronic module and a conductive adhesion layer. The display device includes a first substrate and a TFT layer. The first substrate has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The TFT layer is disposed on the first surface of the first substrate. The electronic module includes a second substrate and an electronic component. The second substrate has a first surface facing the second surface of the first substrate and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The electronic component is disposed on the second surface of the second substrate. The conductive adhesion layer is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate.
US11201199B2
A chip on film package includes: a base substrate having an output pad region; a plurality of output pads disposed in the output pad region of the base substrate, wherein the output pads are arranged in a zigzag configuration on the base substrate; a plurality of output pad wirings connected to the output pads, respectively; and a protection layer disposed on the output pad wirings. The protection layer is disposed on the output pad wirings disposed between two adjacent output pads, arranged in a first direction.
US11201195B2
An electronic device includes a first lead, a second lead, a touch sensitive display panel including a screen area and an extended area that extends from the screen area, and a control circuit. The touch sensitive display panel includes a flexible substrate, a thin film transistor (TFT) layer including a plurality of light-emitting elements, an insulation layer in which a via-hole is formed, and a touch sensor. The first lead is formed on the TFT layer in the screen area and the extended area and connects the control circuit and the plurality of light-emitting elements. The second lead is formed on the insulation layer in the screen area and on the TFT layer in the extended area, and extends from the screen area to the extended area through the via-hole formed in the insulation layer and connects the control circuit and the touch sensor.
US11201194B2
The display device comprises: a display panel; a sound generator under the display panel; a frame disposed under the display panel and the sound generator; and a porous layer disposed adjacent to the sound generator between the display panel and the frame and having a plurality of air pockets, wherein the porous layer has a porosity of about 90% or more.
US11201188B2
An imaging device may have an array of image sensor pixels. Each image sensor pixel of the array of image sensor pixels may have first and second photodiodes with different sensitivities. The photodiode having the lower sensitivity may be coupled to a storage diode and may alternately discard charge and transfer charge to the storage diode during an integration time for flicker mitigation. The length of time for which charge is discarded in each shutter cycle for flicker mitigation may be selected to adjust dynamic range of the imaging pixel. Upon conclusion of the integration time, charge from the storage diode may be sampled in a high conversion gain readout. Overflow charge from a dual conversion gain capacitor may then be sampled in a low conversion gain readout. Charge from the photodiode having higher sensitivity may finally be sampled in a high conversion gain readout.
US11201184B1
The present invention relates generally to sensing devices. In an embodiment, the present invention provides a SPAD pixel that includes a first region and a second region. An absorption region is configured within the first region. A first reflector array is configured within the second region and below the absorption region. A second reflector array is configured within the second region and below the first reflector array. The SPAD pixel also includes isolation structures configured within the first region.
US11201182B2
An embedded image sensor package including a transparent cover having a first side and an opposing second side. A first layer couples over the second side of the transparent cover and has an opening. An electrically conductive layer couples in or over the first layer and electrically couples with one or more electrical contacts exposed on an outer surface of the package. An image sensor chip having a first side with an image sensor and an opposing second side electrically couples with the electrically conductive layer at the first side of the image sensor chip. The image sensor chip couples over the first layer so the first side of the image sensor chip faces the second side of the transparent cover through the opening. The image sensor chip, first layer, and transparent cover at least partially define a cavity hermetically sealed using an underfill material. The package includes no wirebonds.
US11201175B2
An array substrate includes at least one electrode, at least one first capacitance forming portion, at least one electrode connecting portion, and at least one second capacitance forming portion. The first capacitance forming portion is disposed to overlap the electrode via an insulator. The electrode connecting portion is connected to the electrode and disposed between the electrode and the first capacitance forming portion to overlap the electrode and the first capacitance forming portion via insulators, respectively. The second capacitance forming portion is connected to the first capacitance forming portion and disposed between the electrode and the electrode connecting portion to overlap the electrode and the electrode connecting portion via insulators, respectively.
US11201169B2
A memory device includes: a first bit line located on a dielectric layer and a second bit line located over the dielectric layer; a first word line and a second word line located between the first bit line and the second bit line; a source line located between the first word line and the second word line; a channel pillar penetrating through the first word line and the source line and the second word line, and being connected to the first bit line, the source line and the second bit line; and a charge storage structure including an upper portion surrounding an upper sidewall of the channel pillar and located between the second word line and the channel pillar; and a lower portion surrounding a lower sidewall of the channel pillar and located between the first word line and the channel pillar.
US11201166B2
A semiconductor device includes a plurality of first gate electrodes sequentially stacked on a substrate, a second gate electrode on the plurality of first gate electrodes, a first channel structure extending through the plurality of first gate electrodes and a portion of the second gate electrode, a buried insulation pattern on a sidewall of the first channel structure, of which an upper surface is at a higher level than a top end of the first channel structure, a second channel structure extending through a remainder of the second gate electrode, the second channel structure connected to the first channel structure, and a buried conductive pattern on a sidewall of the second channel structure.
US11201161B2
An eFuse memory cell, an eFuse memory array and a using method thereof, and an eFuse system are provided. In one form, an eFuse memory cell includes: a programming transistor, where a source of the programming transistor is grounded; a first electric fuse having a first terminal and a second terminal opposite to the first terminal, where the first terminal is connected to a drain of the programming transistor; one or more second electric fuses connected in parallel to each other, where each of the second electric fuses is connected in parallel with the first electric fuse, the second electric fuse has a third terminal and a fourth terminal opposite to the third terminal, and the third terminal is connected to the drain of the programming transistor; a word line connected to a gate of the programming transistor; a first programming bit line connected to the second terminal of the first electric fuse; and one or more second programming bit lines in a one-to-one correspondence with the second electric fuses, the second programming bit line being connected to the fourth terminal of the corresponding second electric fuse. The eFuse memory cell provided in the present disclosure has an opportunity to be programmed at least twice, thereby improving a yield rate of the eFuse memory array.
US11201150B2
A system on chip includes first to third nanowires extending in a second direction, first to third gate lines respectively surrounding the first to third nanowires, each of the first to third gate lines extending in a first direction across the second direction, a gate isolation region cutting the first to third gate lines and extending in the second direction, a first gate contact formed on the second gate line arranged between the first gate line and the third gate line, and electrically connecting the cut second gate line, a second gate contact formed on the first gate line, a third gate contact formed on the third gate line, a first metal line electrically connecting the second gate contact and the third gate contact; and a second metal line electrically connected to the first gate contact.
US11201149B2
A semiconductor device includes a master chip and a first slave chip. The master chip outputs a write signal or read signal and a chip identification (ID) signal and outputs data through a transmitter activated by the write signal or receives data through a receiver activated by the read signal. The first slave chip enters a write operation according to the write signal and activates a first receiver to store the data when the chip ID signal has a first logic level combination. The first slave chip enters a read operation according to the read signal and configured to activate a first transmitter to output the data when the chip ID signal has a first logic level combination. The master chip and the first slave chip are vertically stacked and are electrically connected to each other by a plurality of through electrodes penetrating the first slave chip.
US11201141B2
A light emitting device is disclosed. In an embodiment a light-emitting device includes a plurality of light-emitting diode chips arranged on a mounting surface of a carrier, a first translucent element and a second translucent element, wherein the first translucent element is arranged over the plurality of light-emitting diode chips as viewed from the mounting surface and the second translucent element is disposed on a side of the plurality of light-emitting diode chips opposite the first translucent element such that the light-emitting diode chips are arranged between the first and second translucent elements, wherein the first and second translucent elements are configured to emit light generated by the light-emitting diode chips during operation outwardly, and wherein the first and second translucent elements appear white or grey in daylight.
US11201137B2
The power on wafer assembly can include: a compliant connector, an integrated circuit, a printed circuit board (PCB), a power component, and a set of compliant connectors. The power on wafer assembly can optionally include: a compression element, a cooling system, a set of mechanical clamping components, and a power source. However, the power on wafer assembly can additionally or alternately include any other suitable components.
US11201125B2
The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor package and a method of manufacturing the same. In some embodiments, a semiconductor package includes a substrate, at least one die, a sealing ring and an inductor. The at least one die is mounted on the substrate and includes a plurality of component structures operating with acoustic waves. The component structures are arranged on a side of the at least one die that faces the substrate. The sealing ring is disposed between the at least one die and the substrate and surrounds the component structures. The inductor is disposed in the substrate.
US11201119B2
A component carrier including i) an electronic component embedded in the component carrier, ii) an antenna structure arranged at a region of a first main surface of the component carrier, iii) a shielding structure made of an electrically conductive material and configured for shielding electromagnetic radiation from propagating between the antenna structure and the electronic component. Hereby, the shielding structure is arranged at least partially between the antenna structure and the electronic component. Furthermore, the component carrier includes an electrically conductive structure to electrically connect the electronic component and the antenna structure through the shielding structure. The shielding structure is non-perforated at least in a plane between the antenna structure and the electronic component.
US11201118B2
A chip package including a first semiconductor die, a support structure and a second semiconductor die is provided. The first semiconductor die includes a first dielectric layer and a plurality of conductive vias, the first dielectric layer includes a first region and a second region, the conductive vias is embedded in the first region of the first dielectric layer; a plurality of conductive pillars is disposed on and electrically connected to the conductive vias. The second semiconductor die is stacked over the support structure and the second region of the first dielectric layer; and an insulating encapsulant encapsulates the first semiconductor die, the second semiconductor die, the support structure and the conductive pillars, wherein the second semiconductor die is electrically connected to the first semiconductor die through the conductive pillars.
US11201115B2
A semiconductor device includes: a first gate line and a second gate line extending along a first direction, a third gate extending along a second direction and between the first gate line and the second gate line, and a drain region adjacent to one side of the third gate line. Preferably, the third gate line includes a first protrusion overlapping the drain region.
US11201110B2
A semiconductor device package includes a conductive layer, a first conductive pillar, a circuit layer and a second conductive pillar. The conductive layer has a first surface. The first conductive pillar is disposed on the first surface of the conductive layer. The circuit layer is disposed over the conductive layer. The circuit layer has a first surface facing the conductive layer. The second conductive pillar is disposed on the first surface of the circuit layer. The first conductive pillar is physically spaced apart from the second conductive pillar and electrically connected to the second conductive pillar.
US11201108B2
A semiconductor package mounted board includes a printed circuit board on which a plurality of first pads and a plurality of second pads are disposed on one surface, and a semiconductor package disposed on the one surface of the printed circuit board and including a plurality of third pads and a plurality of fourth pads. A plurality of first electrical connection structures electrically connect the plurality of first pads and the plurality of third pads, and one or more second electrical connection structures electrically connect the plurality of second pads and the plurality of fourth pads. The plurality of first pads are disposed to correspond to and overlap/align with the plurality of third pads from each other, and the plurality of second pads are disposed to be staggered and offset with respect to the plurality of fourth pads.
US11201107B2
A three-dimensional memory device includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers located over a carrier substrate. Memory stack structures vertically extend through the alternating stack. Each memory stack structure includes a respective vertical semiconductor channel and a respective memory film. A pass-through via structure vertically extends through a dielectric material portion that is adjacent to the alternating stack. The memory die can be bonded to a logic die containing peripheral circuitry for supporting operations of memory cells within the memory die. A distal end of each of the vertical semiconductor channels is physically exposed by removing the carrier substrate. A source layer is formed directly on the distal end each of the vertical semiconductor channels. A backside bonding pad or bonding wire is formed to be electrically connected to the pass-through via structure.
US11201101B2
An electronic component has a base 10; an electronic element 20 provided on one side of the base 10; a connecting body 30 provided on one side of the electronic element 20; a heat dissipating block 40 provided on one side of the connecting body 30; an insulating part 50 provided between the connecting body 30 and the heat dissipating block 40; and a sealing part 90 in which the electronic element 20, the connecting body 30 and the insulating part 50 are sealed. At least a part of a surface on another side of the base 10 is exposed from the sealing part 90. At least a part of a surface on one side of the heat dissipating block 40 is exposed from the sealing part 90.
US11201098B2
A structured metal layer in contact with an electronic component is applied on an upper side of a substrate of electrically insulating material. A metallic contact layer is applied to an underside of the substrate, with the underside configured as planar surface in a state of the substrate that is free of mechanical stress. The contact layer is connected to a metallic base plate via an intermediate layer. The contact layer is connected to the metallic base plate at an elevated temperature. The semiconductor module is then cooled. The side of the metallic base plate facing the substrate and the side of the metallic base plate facing away from the substrate are configured as planar surfaces in a state of the base plate that is free of mechanical stress. Upon cooling of the semiconductor module, the base plate forms a concave curvature on its side facing away from the substrate.
US11201091B2
A semiconductor structure includes an isolation structure disposed in a semiconductor substrate; a gate electrode and a resistor electrode disposed in the semiconductor substrate, wherein the isolation structure is disposed between the gate electrode and the resistor electrode, and the isolation structure is closer to the resistor electrode than the gate electrode. A source/drain (S/D) region is disposed in the semiconductor substrate and between the gate electrode and the isolation structure, wherein the S/D region is electrically connected to the resistor electrode. A conductive structure is disposed in the semiconductor structure and over the isolation structure, wherein the S/D region is electrically connected to the resistor electrode through the conductive structure.
US11201085B2
A semiconductor device structure is provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a first gate structure and a second gate structure formed over a semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor device structure also includes a first insulating cap structure formed between and adjacent to the first gate structure and the second gate structure. The first insulating cap structure is separated from the semiconductor substrate by a first air gap. The first air gap includes a first portion extending into the first insulating cap structure and a second portion extended from the bottom of the first portion toward the semiconductor substrate. The first portion has a width that is less than the width of the second portion.
US11201082B2
A method includes forming an isolation region between a plurality of active regions of a semiconductor substrate, forming at least one deep trench extending from the isolation region toward a bottom of the semiconductor substrate, and forming an interlayer dielectric layer over the semiconductor substrate. The interlayer dielectric layer fills in the deep trench to form a deep trench isolation structure and an air void in the deep trench isolation structure.
US11201079B2
A wafer chuck includes a chuck body and a plurality of seal rings. The chuck body includes a carrying surface configured to receive a wafer and at least one vacuum hole disposed on the carrying surface. A ratio of a diameter of the carrying surface to a diameter of the wafer is substantially equal to greater than 45% and substantially equal to or smaller than 90%. The seal rings are disposed on the carrying surface and configured to physically contact with the wafer. The seal rings surround the vacuum hole.
US11201076B2
This electrostatic chuck device includes an electrostatic chuck part which has a placement surface on one main surface thereof to place a plate-shaped sample and has an electrode for electrostatic attraction; a temperature controlling base part configured to cool the electrostatic chuck part; and a heater element disposed between the electrostatic chuck part and the temperature controlling base part, in which the electrostatic chuck part and the temperature controlling base part are parts in which a plurality of through holes communicating in a thickness direction are provided, the heater element has a first site formed in a band shape and a second site continuous with the first site, wherein the second site is formed to have in a band shape and a closed ring shape, one through hole of the through holes is disposed on an inner peripheral side of the second site in plan view.
US11201068B2
A heat treatment apparatus of heating a substrate mounted on a mounting plate heated by a heating part includes: plural types of physical quantity detecting parts for detecting plural types of physical quantities, respectively; a state estimating part for estimating an occurrence probability occurring for each of abnormality modes by a neural network, and including an input layer to which a group of time-series detection values obtained for each of physical quantity detection values detected respectively by the physical quantity detecting parts is inputted; and a selecting part for selecting one of correspondence processes based on the occurrence probability of each of the abnormality modes estimated by the state estimating part. One of the physical quantity detection values is a temperature detection value detected by a temperature physical quantity detecting part for detecting a temperature of the mounting plate among the physical quantity detecting parts.
US11201065B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor package includes covering a semiconductor die and a plurality of conductive terminals coupled to the semiconductor die in a mold compound, positioning the mold compound between a first pair of electrodes and a second pair of electrodes, and moving a movable electrode of the first pair and a movable electrode of the second pair into a first clamping position. In the first clamping position, each of the first pair of electrodes and the second pair of electrodes electrically couples to a unique subset of the plurality of conductive terminals. The method also includes applying, by the first pair of electrodes, a first voltage to the semiconductor die within the mold compound; and applying, by the second pair of electrodes, a second voltage to the semiconductor die within the mold compound. The second voltage is less than the first voltage.
US11201060B2
Structures and formation methods of a semiconductor device structure are provided. The method includes forming a dummy gate stack over a semiconductor substrate and forming a spacer element over a sidewall of the dummy gate stack. The method also includes removing the dummy gate stack to form a recess exposing a semiconductor strip and forming an inhibition layer over an interior surface of the spacer element. The method further includes forming a gate dielectric layer in the recess to selectively cover the semiconductor strip. The inhibition layer substantially prevents the gate dielectric layer from being formed on the inhibition layer. In addition, the method includes forming a metal gate electrode over the gate dielectric layer.
US11201056B2
Methods and structures for pitch multiplication include forming a plurality of mandrel lines and non-mandrel lines on a target layer, wherein the non-mandrel lines include a protective spacer material about a top sidewall portion and a first spacer material about a lower sidewall portion, wherein the protective spacer material has a different etch selectivity than the first spacer material. The plurality of mandrel lines and non-mandrel lines are transferred into the target layer.
US11201053B2
A method for forming a silicon nitride film to cover a stepped portion formed by exposed surfaces of first and second base films in a substrate, includes: forming a nitride film or a seed layer to cover the stepped portion, wherein the nitride film is formed by supplying, to the substrate, a nitrogen-containing base-film nitriding gas for nitriding the base films, exposing the substrate to plasma and nitriding the surface of the stepped portion, and the seed layer is composed of a silicon-containing film formed by supplying a raw material gas of silicon to the substrate and is configured such that the silicon nitride film uniformly grows on the surfaces of the base films; and forming the silicon nitride film on the seed layer by supplying, to the substrate, a second raw material gas of silicon and a silicon-nitriding gas for nitriding silicon.
US11201051B2
Techniques herein include methods of forming conformal films on substrates including semiconductor wafers. Conventional film forming techniques can be slow and expensive. Methods herein include depositing a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) film over the substrate. The SAM film can include an acid generator configured to generate acid in response to a predetermined stimulus. A polymer film is deposited over the SAM film. The polymer film is soluble to a predetermined developer and configured to change solubility in response to exposure to the acid. The acid generator is stimulated and generates acid. The acid is diffused into the polymer film. The polymer film is developed with the predetermined developer to remove portions of the polymer film that are not protected from the predetermined developer. These process steps can be repeated a desired number of times to grow an aggregate film layer by layer.
US11201050B2
A substrate processing method capable of suppressing particles from remaining on a surface of a substrate is provided. In the substrate processing method, a liquid film of a protection liquid is formed on the surface of the substrate, and the substrate is dried by using a supercritical fluid so that the protection liquid is removed from the surface of the substrate. After the substrate is dried, the particles remaining on the surface of the substrate is removed.
US11201049B2
A semiconductor structure and a method for fabricating the same. The semiconductor structure includes a gallium arsenide substrate, a thiourea-based passivation layer in contact with at least a top surface of the gallium arsenide substrate, and a capping layer in contact with the thiourea-based passivation layer. The method includes passivating a gallium arsenide substrate utilizing thiourea to form a passivation layer in contact with at least a top surface of the gallium arsenide substrate. The method further includes forming a capping layer in contact with at least a top surface of the passivation layer, and annealing the capping layer and the passivation layer.
US11201048B2
A method of operating a quadrupole device is disclosed that comprises operating the quadrupole device in a first mode of operation, and operating the quadrupole device in a second mode of operation. Operating the quadrupole device in the first mode of operation comprises applying one or more first voltages to the quadrupole device such that the quadrupole device is operated in an initial stability region and such that at least some ions are stable within the quadrupole device. Operating the quadrupole device in the second mode of operation comprises applying one or more second voltages to the quadrupole device such that the quadrupole device is operated in a different stability region and such that at least some of the ions that were stable within the quadrupole device in the first mode of operation are stable within the quadrupole device in the second mode of operation.
US11201046B2
A lead-in electrode, of an orthogonal acceleration time-of-flight mass spectrometer, includes: a main body having an ion passing part and a first member including a main-body accommodating part that is a through-hole. One surface of the first member includes an extension part to define a position of one surface of the main body. A second member is attached to the first member. A through-hole is provided at a position of the second member. One surface of the second member includes a first area in contact with a surface opposite to the one surface of the first member and a second area located inside with respect to the first area. The second area is formed lower than a surface, of the first area, in contact with the surface opposite to the one surface. A lead-in electrode elastic member is disposed, in the second area, between the first member and second members.
US11201039B2
A mounting apparatus for an object to be processed includes a mounting stage, on which an object to be processed is mounted inside a processing container, an edge ring disposed in a peripheral edge portion of the mounting stage, and a spring-like conductive member that includes a first spring-like member contacting the edge ring at a first recess formed in the edge ring, and a second spring-like member contacting the mounting stage at a second recess formed in the mounting stage.
US11201035B2
Described herein are technologies related to a radical source with a housing that includes a plasma cavity that is designed to contain a plasma created by a plasma generator. The housing has at least one gas injector designed to inject process gas into the plasma. The plasma produces radicals from the gas injected into the plasma. The cavity has an exit or opening formed therein that ejects the radicals from the cavity. The ejected radicals may be directed towards a subject wafer substrate under the radical source. This Abstract is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.
US11201034B2
A plasma processing apparatus includes: a processing container; an electrode that places a substrate thereon within the processing container; a plasma generation source that supplies plasma into the processing container; a bias power supply that supplies bias power to the electrode; a part exposed to the plasma in the processing container; a DC power supply that supplies a DC voltage to the part; a controller that executes a process including a first control procedure in which a first state in which the DC voltage has a first voltage value and a second state in which the DC voltage has a second voltage value higher than the first voltage value are periodically repeated, and the first voltage value is applied in a partial period in each cycle of a potential of the electrode, and the second voltage value is applied such that the first state and the second state are continuous.
US11201027B2
The invention relates to a triggered fuse for low-voltage applications for protecting devices that can be connected to a power supply system, in particular surge protection devices, consisting of at least one fusible conductor which is located between two contacts and is arranged in a housing, and also consisting of a trigger device for controlled disconnection of the fusible conductor in the event of malfunctions or overload states of the respective connected device, wherein an arc quenching medium is introduced into the housing. By way of example, an arc quenching medium-free region is formed in the housing such that the at least one fusible conductor is exposed, and a mechanical disconnection element can be introduced into the arc quenching medium-free region via an access point in the housing in order to mechanically destroy the at least one fusible conductor depending on the trigger device, and independently of its melting integral.
US11201019B2
A switch module includes a pressing button and a circuit board. The pressing button includes a fastening element. The fastening element extends outward to form a cantilever arm. The cantilever arm protrudes downward to form an operation rod. The operation rod is exposed out of a lower shell which has a first position and a second position. The operation rod slides from the first position to the second position. The other end of the bottom surface of the cantilever arm extends outward to form an extending arm. At least one portion of one end of a top surface of the cantilever arm protrudes upward to form at least one extending foot. The circuit board is disposed above the pressing button. The circuit board is equipped with a first switch and a second switch. The at least one extending foot is corresponding to the first switch.
US11201015B2
A multilayer electronic component having a plurality of laminated dielectric layers and inner electrode layers. The dielectric layers have a plurality of crystal grains including first regions where Re is dissolved in a solid state; and second regions where Re is not dissolved in the solid state. A median size of the crystal grains to an average thickness of the dielectric layers is 0.5≤t≤0.7. A ratio of a sum of cross sectional areas of the first regions to those of the plurality of crystal grains is 0.7≤s≤0.9. When a total amount of Ti, Zr, and Hf is 100 molar parts in the dielectric layers, a sum of the Zr and the Hf is 0≤a≤1.0; an amount b of Si is 0.1≤b≤1.0; an amount c of Re is 0.5≤c≤10.0; and a ratio m of a total of Ba and Re to a total of Ti, Zr, and Hf is 0.990≤m≤1.050.
US11201012B2
A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a ceramic body having a dielectric layer disposed between two internal electrodes. The dielectric layer includes a plurality of dielectric grains. A grain boundary between at least two dielectric grains of the plurality of dielectric grains has a ratio Si/Ni of a weight of Si to a weight of Ni in the grain boundary that is at least 1 and 6 or less.
US11201009B2
A method of manufacturing a multilayer ceramic electronic component includes preparing a ceramic green sheet containing a ceramic powder and forming an internal electrode pattern on the ceramic green sheet using a conductive paste containing conductive metal particles and an additive. A ceramic laminate is formed by stacking the ceramic green sheets on which the internal electrode pattern is formed. A ceramic body including dielectric layers and internal electrodes is formed by sintering the ceramic laminate. An average number of conductive metal particles in the internal electrode pattern in a thickness direction is more than 2 and 5 or less.
US11201004B1
A cable of an information handling system may include a first signal wire, a first drain wire, and a plastic sheath enclosing a volume having at least the first signal wire. To reduce mechanical stress on the cable and the drain wire, the drain wire has a ratio of length along a first axis and along a second axis perpendicular to the first axis that is not equal to one. When bending a cable away from a first axis parallel to the cable's thickness defined as the longest dimension or towards a second axis that is perpendicular to the first axis, the top surface of the wire in the bend undergoes tensile stress and the bottom surface undergoes compression stress, and the non-equal lengths along the two axis reduce the effect of the compression and tensile stresses.
US11201003B2
A power and data connectivity micro grid includes a first power sourcing equipment device having first and second power ports and first and second data ports, and configured to deliver DC power signals to the first and second power ports. The micro grid further includes first and second remote distribution nodes, and first and second splice enclosures, each splice enclosure having a power input port, a data input port, a power tap port, a data tap port, a power output port and a data output port. A first composite power-data cable is coupled between the first power port and the first data port of the first power sourcing equipment device and the power input port and the data input port of the first splice enclosure. A second composite power-data cable is coupled between the second power port and the second data port of the first power sourcing equipment device and the power input port and the data input port of the second splice enclosure. The power tap port and the data tap port of the first splice enclosure are coupled to a power input port and a data input port of the first remote distribution node, respectively.
US11201000B2
The present teaching relates to methods, systems, and apparatus for X-ray imaging with a detector capable of resolving photon energy. In one example, an X-ray microscope is disclosed. The X-ray microscope comprises an X-ray source and a detector. The X-ray source is configured for irradiating X-ray to a sample. The detector is configured for: detecting X-ray photons from the irradiated X-ray, determining energy of each of the detected X-ray photons, and generating an image of the sample based on detected X-ray photons that have energies in a predetermined range.
US11200995B2
This invention relates to a solidifying agent for solidifying radioactive waste, and more particularly to a solidifying-agent composition for solidifying radioactive waste, including alumina cement and a gypsum powder. The solidifying-agent composition including alumina cement and a gypsum powder is capable of effectively minimizing an increase in the volume of a solidified radioactive waste product to a level satisfying physical and chemical safety regulations upon the solidification of radioactive waste.
US11200993B2
Radiation protection clothing arrangement and method of wearing the radiation protection clothing arrangement. The radiation protection clothing arrangement includes a flexible coat having radiation protection material configurable to surround, in a state of use, an interior space and a bottom edge, a weight-relieving device that is embodied as a support skeleton connected to the flexible coat and that absorbs a weight of the flexible coat in multiple locations distributed in a direction of gravity and a support device, to which the support skeleton is connected, being arranged within a space extending in the direction of gravity from the interior space and being supportable, in the state of use, on an underlying surface.
US11200990B2
Systems and methods utilizing successive, axially symmetric acceleration and adiabatic compression stages to heat and accelerate two compact tori towards each other and ultimately collide and compress the compact tori within a central chamber. Alternatively, systems and methods utilizing successive, axially asymmetric acceleration and adiabatic compression stages to heat and accelerate a first compact toroid towards and position within a central chamber and to heat and accelerate a second compact toroid towards the central chamber and ultimately collide and merge the first and second compact toroids and compress the compact merge tori within the central chamber.
US11200988B2
A method includes obtaining training data for a plurality of patients of a patient population. The training data includes training blood glucose history data including treatment doses of insulin administered by the patients of the patient population and one or more outcome attributes associated with each treatment dose. The method also includes identifying, for each patient of the patient population, one or more optimum treatment doses of insulin from the treatment doses yielding favorable outcome attributes. The method also includes receiving patient-state information for the treated patient, determining a next recommended treatment dose of insulin for the treated patient based on one or more of the identified optimum treatment doses associated with the patients of the patient population having training patient-state information similar to the patient-state information for the treated patient, and transmitting the next recommended treatment dose to a portable device associated with the treated patient.
US11200986B2
A method for generating medical trends based on medical test results by a server, comprising obtaining results from a first test related to a medical condition of a first patient, obtaining results from a second test related to a medical condition second patient, wherein the results include patient information and efficacy and dosage level information of a medication, comparing the patient information and the test results of the first patient with the patient information and the test results of the second patient, determining that a patient characteristic of the first patient matches a patient characteristic of the second patient, storing a potential trend, receiving a plurality of additional test results, determining that the potential trend is found in the additional test results in an amount that is above a threshold, and altering the potential trend to an active trend.
US11200980B2
A mechanical teleoperated device for remote manipulation includes a slave unit having a number of slave links interconnected by a plurality of slave joints; an end-effector connected to the slave unit; a master unit having a corresponding number of master links interconnected by a plurality of master joints; and a handle connected to a distal end of the master unit. The device further includes first device arranged to kinematically connect the slave unit with the master unit, second device arranged to kinematically connect the end-effector with the handle, and a mechanical constraint device configured to ensure that one master link of the master unit is guided along its longitudinal axis so that the corresponding slave link of the slave unit always translates along a virtual axis parallel to the longitudinal axis of the guided master link in the vicinity of the remote manipulation when the mechanical teleoperated device is operated.
US11200978B2
An information processing apparatus includes an obtaining unit, an inference section, and a selection unit. The obtaining unit is configured to obtain a temporal subtraction image between a first medical image captured at a first point of time and a second medical image captured at a second point of time. The inference section includes a plurality of inference units, each for making an inference from the temporal subtraction image. The selection unit is configured to select, based on a region of interest in the obtained temporal subtraction image, at least one inference unit from the plurality of inference units in the inference section. In response to being selected by the selection unit, the at least one inference unit so selected makes the inference from the temporal subtraction image.
US11200976B2
A method of determining a path of a tubular structure comprises: obtaining volumetric medical imaging data that represents anatomy of a subject including the tubular structure; performing a position-determining procedure that comprises: obtaining an initial position of a current point on said path of the tubular structure; selecting a sub-region based on said initial position; obtaining values of at least one parameter representative of the tubular structure; inputting to a trained model both data from said selected sub-region and said parameter values, the trained model having been trained to determine paths of tubular structures; outputting by the trained model a position for a next point on said path of the tubular structure; and updating said initial position to said next point; and repeating the position-determining procedure for updating the initial position thereby to obtain the path of the tubular structure.
US11200958B2
Memories might include an array of memory cells comprising a plurality of strings of series-connected memory cells and a controller for access of the array of memory cells, wherein the controller is configured to perform a sense operation on a particular memory cell of a string of series-connected memory cells, discharge the access line for a second memory cell of the string of series-connected memory cells to a first voltage level and discharge the access line for the particular memory cell to a second voltage level higher than the first voltage level after completion of the sense operation, and discharge the access line for a third memory cell of the string of series-connected memory cells to a third voltage level lower than the second voltage level and higher than the first voltage level after initiating the discharge of the access line for the particular memory cell.
US11200954B2
Adaptive write operations for non-volatile memories select programming parameters according to monitored programming performance of individual memory cells. In one embodiment of the invention, programming voltage for a memory cell increases by an amount that depends on the time required to reach a predetermined voltage and then a jump in the programming voltage is added to the programming voltage required to reach the next predetermined voltage. The adaptive programming method is applied to the gate voltage of memory cells; alternatively, it can be applied to the drain voltage of memory cells along a common word line. A circuit combines the function of a program switch and drain voltage regulator, allowing independent control of drain voltage of selected memory cells for parallel and adaptive programming. Verify and adaptive read operations use variable word line voltages to provide optimal biasing of memory and reference cells during sensing.
US11200947B2
Apparatus and methods relating to programmable superconducting cells are described. A programmable superconducting cell can be formed from a superconducting current loop having at least two terminals connected to the loop. The current loop and terminals can be formed from a single layer of superconducting material. The programmable superconducting cell can be incorporated into a crossbar architecture to form a high-speed vector-matrix multiplying processor for deep neural network computations.
US11200946B2
Systems and methods for a bit-cell are presented. The bit-cell comprises a read-port circuit and a write-port circuit. The read-port circuit comprises four transistors, wherein the read-port circuit is activated by a first threshold voltage. The write-port circuit comprises eight transistors, wherein the write-port circuit is activated by a second threshold voltage. The write-port circuit is coupled to the read-port circuit. The first threshold voltage and the second threshold voltage may be different and may be provided by a single supply voltage.
US11200940B2
According to one implementation of the present disclosure, a memory array to block read-access of uninitialized memory locations is disclosed. The memory array includes: a plurality of memory cells apportioned into a plurality of memory columns and a plurality of memory rows, where each of the memory cells is configured to store a single bit of memory data; and one or more initialization columns corresponding to at least one of the plurality of memory columns. The initialization state of a memory row of the memory cells may be configured to be stored in: the memory row; a latch of word-line driver circuitry coupled to the memory array; or a memory cell of the one or more initialization columns of a corresponding row of the plurality of memory rows of the memory array.
US11200937B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses related to a reprogrammable non-volatile latch are described. A latch may include ferroelectric cells, ferroelectric capacitors, a sense component, and other circuitry and components related to ferroelectric memory technology. The ferroelectric latch may be independent from (or exclusive of) a main ferroelectric memory array. The ferroelectric latch may be positioned anywhere in the memory device. In some instances, a ferroelectric latch may be positioned and configured to be dedicated to single piece of circuitry in the memory device.
US11200934B2
A magnetoresistive memory device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a layer stack located between the first electrode and the second electrode. The layer stack may include a ferroelectric material layer and a metamagnetic tunnel junction containing a metamagnetic material layer, an insulating barrier layer, and a metallic material layer. Alternatively, the layer stack may include a multiferroic material layer, the metamagnetic material layer, the insulating barrier layer, and a reference magnetization layer.
US11200925B2
A programmable memory device includes a read only memory (ROM) block to store instructions associated with functionality of the programmable memory device. The device includes a memory array having a set of reserved pages to store updates to be performed on the ROM block. The device includes a controller coupled to the ROM block and the memory array. The controller is to execute the instructions to: execute a set features command; program, in execution of the set features command, a set of sub-feature parameters to a specified feature address of the set of reserved pages, wherein the set of sub-feature parameters are to trigger operation within a ROM-emulated memory (REM) profile mode; and program a REM-profiled page of the set of reserved pages with REM data received from a host system.
US11200923B2
A semiconductor apparatus includes a first chip that generates a first oscillator signal in response to a detection enable signal and activates a ZQ circuit in response to a ZQ enable signal, and a second chip generates the ZQ enable signal by comparing frequencies of the first oscillator signal and a second oscillator signal with each other in response to the detection enable signal.
US11200920B1
Described herein are example carrier systems for supporting memory storage drives of multiple sizes. The carrier systems include a carrier tray having a u-shape formed by a front bezel that extends between first and second lateral plates, and a tray adapter removably attached to the carrier tray. The carrier tray has a carrier internal space between the first and second lateral plates and is configured to receive a first memory storage drive. The tray adapter has a bottom plate that extends between first and second side walls. The tray adapter has a tray internal space between the first and second side walls, the tray internal space is configured to receive a second memory storage drive. The second memory storage drive has a smaller size than the first memory storage drive.
US11200917B2
A system and method for automatically creating a video of a journey includes at least one computer unit and at least one vehicle. The vehicle has at least one sensor which is configured to continuously detect technical driving parameters of the vehicle. The vehicle also has at least one video camera which is configured to continuously record video sequences of a predefinable length. The computer unit is configured to process each of the video sequences with respect to the detected technical driving parameters and also to tag each of the processed video sequences with reference to predefinable criteria. The computer unit is configured to automatically create a video including a predefinable number of suitably tagged video sequences.
US11200908B2
A method for improving voice quality is provided herein. The method includes receiving acoustic signals from a microphone array; receiving sensor signals from an accelerometer sensor of the headset; generating, by a beamformer, a speech output signal and a noise output signal according to the acoustic signals; best-estimating the speech output signal according to the sensor signals to generate a best-estimated signal; and generating a mixed signal according to the speech output signal and the best-estimated signal.
US11200904B2
An electronic apparatus is provided. The electronic apparatus includes an inputter comprising input circuitry, a voice receiver comprising voice receiving circuitry, a storage, and a processor configured to: provide a guide prompting a user utterance based on user authentication being performed according to user information input through the inputter, generate a speaker recognition model corresponding to the user information based on a voice corresponding to the guide being received through the voice receiver, store the speaker recognition model in the storage, and identify a user corresponding to a voice received through the voice receiver based on the speaker recognition model updated by comparing a voice received through the voice receiver with the speaker recognition model.
US11200901B2
A method for responding to a voice activated request includes receiving a speech input request from a smart speaker requesting energy management data associated with energy consumption at a premises of the smart speaker. The method also includes generating a voice service request including a first query for a first data source. The first query includes a request for the energy management data. Additionally, the method includes communicating the first query to the first data source and receiving a first response to the first query from the first data source. Further, the method includes generating an audible speech output in response to the speech input request based on the first response to the first query and transmitting the audible speech output to the smart speaker. The smart speaker audibly transmits the audible speech output.
US11200894B2
In one aspect, a playback device includes a voice assistant service (VAS) wake-word engine and a command keyword engine. The playback device detects, via the command keyword engine, a first command keyword of in voice input of sound detected by one or more microphones of the playback device. The playback device determines an intent based on at least one keyword in the voice input via a local natural language unit (NLU). After detecting the first command keyword event and determining the intent, the playback device performs a first playback command corresponding to the first command keyword and according to the determined intent. When the playback device detects, via the wake-word engine, a wake-word in voice input, the playback device streams sound data corresponding to at least a portion of the voice input to one or more remote servers associated with the VAS.
US11200874B2
The present document relates to audio coding systems which make use of a harmonic transposition method for high frequency reconstruction (HFR), and to digital effect processors, e.g. so-called exciters, where generation of harmonic distortion adds brightness to the processed signal. In particular, a system configured to generate a high frequency component of a signal from a low frequency component of the signal is described. The system may comprise an analysis filter bank (501) configured to provide a set of analysis subband signals from the low frequency component of the signal; wherein the set of analysis subband signals comprises at least two analysis subband signals; wherein the analysis filter bank (501) has a frequency resolution of Δf. The system further comprises a nonlinear processing unit (502) configured to determine a set of synthesis subband signals from the set of analysis subband signals using a transposition order P; wherein the set of synthesis subband signals comprises a portion of the set of analysis subband signals phase shifted by an amount derived from the transposition order P; and a synthesis filter bank (504) configured to generate the high frequency component of the signal from the set of synthesis subband signals; wherein the synthesis filter bank (504) has a frequency resolution of FΔf; with F being a resolution factor, with F≥1; wherein the transposition order P is different from the resolution factor F.
US11200871B2
A string instrument pick holder assembly including a pouch operable to store one or more instrument picks. The pouch having an inner surface configured to contain the one or more picks, and an outer surface located opposite the inner surface. The string instrument pick holder assembly further including a saddle having a first surface and a second surface, wherein the second surface is located opposite the first surface, and a strap coupled with the saddle, wherein the strap is operable connect the saddle with a string instrument. A first portion of a fastener is connected with the outer surface of the pouch, and a second portion of the fastener is coupled with the first surface of the saddle. The second portion of the fastener is operable to detachably connect with the first portion of the fastener.
US11200865B2
A signal is transmitted to an external device through a transmission channel. A data block containing capability information indicating existence/non-existence of compatibility with an extended function is received from the external device through the transmission channel. A layer field that indicates the connection layer is provided in this data block. A check is made to determine whether all the devices existing in the path are compatible with the extended function based on the value of the layer field provided in the data block, and the contents of the transmission signal are then determined.
US11200856B1
An electronic display includes a display panel that operates in a single display mode to provide a single display, or a dual display mode to provide two displays separated by an inactive region. The electronic display includes the display panel and a panel driver. The display panel includes a left pixel region, a right pixel region, and a middle pixel region between the left and right pixel regions. In the single display mode of the electronic display, the panel driver provides first gate signals generated from first input data to the left, right, and middle pixel regions. In a dual display mode, the panel driver provides second gate signals generated from second input data to the left and right pixel regions. The first input data has a first resolution that is larger than a second resolution of the second input data.
US11200853B2
A data driver includes a gamma voltage generator configured to generate gamma voltages based on a number of data bits of a pixel data; a first digital-to-analog block configured to generate a plurality of time-division gamma voltage signals respectively corresponding to a plurality of gamma voltage groups; a plurality of time-division gamma voltage line groups for transferring the plurality of time-division gamma voltage signals; a second digital-to-analog block configured to select a time-division gamma voltage signal among the time-division gamma voltage signals according to upper bits of the pixel data in each channel; a time-division gamma voltage select block configured to select a gamma voltage according to lower bits of the pixel data in each channel; and an output buffer block configured to output the selected gamma voltage in each channel.
US11200851B2
In a display device having a non-rectangular display panel, when the display panel is divided into a rectangular region and a non-rectangular region by a boundary line extending in a same direction as scanning lines, light emission control lines are driven so that a length of a first non-light emission period in which pixel circuits in each row in the rectangular region are in a non-light emission state and a length of a second non-light emission period in which the pixel circuits in each row in the non-rectangular region are in the non-light emission state are different. With this, a luminance difference that occurs near a boundary between the rectangular region and the non-rectangular region is suppressed, and display quality is improved.
US11200850B2
A gate driving circuit and a light emitting display apparatus including the same are disclosed, in which current leakage of a control node may be avoided. The gate driving circuit includes first to mth stage circuits, wherein each of the first to mth stage circuits includes first to fifth control nodes, a node control circuit controlling a voltage of each of the first to fourth control nodes based on a first front carry signal, a sensing control circuit controlling a voltage of the fifth control node based on a line sensing preparation signal, a second front carry signal and a first reset signal, and a first node reset circuit controlling the voltage of the first control node based on the voltage of the fifth control node and a second reset signal, wherein the first node reset circuit may include a discharge path having two thin film transistors connected between a gate low potential voltage line and the fifth control node.
US11200825B2
The present disclosure provides a shift register unit and a method for driving the same, a gate driving circuit and a method for driving the same, and a display apparatus. The shift register unit includes a first input sub-circuit to an Nth input sub-circuit and a first output sub-circuit to an Nth output sub-circuit. N is an integer greater than or equal to 2. For n=1, 2, . . . , N, an nth input sub-circuit is electrically coupled to an nth input signal terminal, a first level signal terminal and a pull-up node, and an nth output sub-circuit is electrically coupled to an nth clock signal terminal, the pull-up node and an nth output signal terminal.
US11200813B1
Systems and methods improve call center performance. Systems and methods can receive a motor input from a trainee based on a training call, analyze the motor input from the trainee to determine a trainee motor accuracy metric, receive a communication input from the trainee based on the training call, analyze the communication input from the trainee to determine a trainee communication accuracy metric, and determine a composite trainee accuracy metric based on the trainee motor accuracy metric and the trainee communication accuracy metric.
US11200810B2
A computer implemented method of planning a drone flight path to increase safety of dynamic objects the drone is estimated to encounter along the flight path based on a mobility model constructed to predict movement of dynamic objects, comprising receiving sensory data captured over time by one or more sensors monitoring movement of a plurality of dynamic objects in a certain geographical area, analyzing the sensory data to identify one or more mobility patterns of one or more dynamic objects detected in the certain geographical area, updating a mobility model with the mobility pattern(s) and generating a planned flight path based on the mobility model for one or more drones planned to fly in the certain geographical area, the flight path is planned to maintain a predefined safety space between the drone(s) and the dynamic object(s).
US11200804B2
A method for operating a display unit in a vehicle includes detecting a parking space and collision obstacles. The collision obstacles are obstacles located in the vicinity of the vehicle and/or the parking space. A relative position of the vehicle to the parking space is determined. A control signal is generated to generate an image on the display unit according to the relative position of the vehicle to the parking space. The image comprises a virtual vehicle, a virtual parking space and schematic elements. The virtual vehicle is a schematic representation of the vehicle. The virtual parking space is a schematic representation of the parking space. The schematic elements are a schematic representation of the collision obstacles.
US11200800B2
A vehicle search system includes a vehicle incorporating a vehicle-mounted camera and a server configured to communicate with the vehicle. The server transmits search target vehicle data for specifying a search target vehicle to the vehicle. The vehicle is configured to (a) store the search target vehicle data from the server and (b) transmit, when a vehicle detected by the vehicle-mounted camera falls under search target vehicles included in the search target vehicle data, detection information on the detected vehicle to the server.
US11200791B2
A sticker for attaching to at least one part of a machine comprising at least one rotating component to be monitored, the sticker providing a vibration status indicator indicating when a vibration of the at least one rotating component exceeds a predetermined level. The sticker is fixed to a machine part externally visible and not directly mounted onto a bearing part.
US11200783B2
Selective exchange of available gaming segments to enhance payout potential in other gaming segments
Systems, apparatuses and methods for exchanging awarded or otherwise provided gaming segments for opportunities to enhance payouts in other gaming segments. In the context of electronic/video poker games, the poker system facilitates exchanging one or more concurrently-played poker hands for an opportunity(s) to enhance potential payouts associated with one or more other concurrently-played poker hands.
US11200777B2
Systems and methods that account for a current balance of funds of a target device, such as a gaming establishment device, when determining whether or not to transfer an amount of funds between the target device and an account associated with the amount of funds.
US11200768B2
According to one embodiment, when a control unit is notified of information in at least one second signal received by one of first and second wireless communication units after the control unit provides the second wireless communication unit with a command to transmit a first signal containing first address information and before a waiting time elapses and when the at least one second signal contains second address information assigned to an authentication apparatus having received the first signal, then the control unit provides the first wireless communication unit with a command to transmit a third signal for a connection request with the second address information set in a destination address.
US11200766B2
An information processing device relates to a predetermined service provided to a user by allowing a worker to temporarily access a vehicle cabin including a trunk of a vehicle used by the user. The information processing device includes a processor. The processor is configured to determine whether the worker relating to a service provider of the service has unlocked a door of the vehicle using key information for unlocking the door, the door accessing the vehicle cabin of the vehicle, and notify the user of a warning or activate an alarm device of the vehicle, in a case where the processor determines that the door has been unlocked and in a case where the processor determines that a state in which the door of the vehicle is not locked continues after a predetermined time has elapsed from unlocking of the door.
US11200764B2
An information processing system includes a receiving unit that receives request to reserve a lockable place for a time window from a first person; and an authority giving unit that gives one or more second persons an unlocking authority to unlock the place within the time window.
US11200760B2
Systems and methods for measuring a fleet of self-driving vehicles are disclosed. The system comprises one or more self-driving vehicles, non-transitory computer-readable media in communication with the vehicles, a fleet-management system in communication with the media and vehicles, and a server in communication with the media. The fleet-management system is configured to store vehicle status records comprising a vehicle status pertaining to each of the one or more vehicles, and a timestamp in a vehicle status log on the media. The server has a processor that is configured to generate a fleet-performance report based on the vehicle status log.
US11200739B2
An apparatus, method and computer program is described, comprising: determining a similarity between a content of a first zone and a content of at least one or more other zones of a multi-zone virtual scene, in response to a modification of the content of said first zone, wherein content as perceived by a user within said scene is dependent on a virtual position of the user within said scene; and determining an updated rendering position of the first zone relative to said one or more other zones within the virtual scene, dependent on the determined similarities.
US11200735B2
A display apparatus and method for displaying an operational area to an operative of a host platform, said operational area being defined within an external real-world environment relative to said host platform, the apparatus comprising a viewing device (12) configured to provide to said operative, in use, a three-dimensional view of said external real-world environment; a display generating device for creating images at the viewing device, a user input (33) configured to receive user input data (35) representative of a specified target or region in respect of which an operation is to be performed, and thereby defining an initial geometric volume for the operational area, said user input data including data representative of the location within said external real-world environment of said specified target or region and data representative of said operation to be performed in respect thereof; and a processor (32) configured to: use said user input data to generate or obtain three-dimensional image data representative of an adjusted geometric volume based, at least, on said initial geometric volume and on said operation to be performed, and display one or more images depicting said adjusted geometric volume and created using said three-dimensional image data, on said display generating device, the apparatus being configured to project or blend said one or more images displayed on said display generating device into said view of said external real-world environment at the relative location therein of the specified target or region.
US11200727B2
A method and system for fusing image data. The method may include obtaining a first volume image and a second volume image. The method may further include casting a plurality of rays through at least one of the first volume image or the second volume image. Each of the plurality of rays may correspond to a pixel of an image to be displayed. For each of at least a portion of the plurality of rays, the at least one processor may further be directed to cause the system to set a series of sampling positions along the ray. The method may further include selecting a reference position from the series of sampling positions. The method may further include determining fusion data of the ray. The method may further include determining a pixel value of a pixel of the image to be displayed that corresponds to the ray.
US11200724B2
A texture processor based ray tracing accelerator method and system are described. The system includes a shader, texture processor (TP) and cache, which are interconnected. The TP includes a texture address unit (TA), a texture cache processor (TCP), a filter pipeline unit and a ray intersection engine. The shader sends a texture instruction which contains ray data and a pointer to a bounded volume hierarchy (BVH) node to the TA. The TCP uses an address provided by the TA to fetch BVH node data from the cache. The ray intersection engine performs ray-BVH node type intersection testing using the ray data and the BVH node data. The intersection testing results and indications for BVH traversal are returned to the shader via a texture data return path. The shader reviews the intersection results and the indications to decide how to traverse to the next BVH node.
US11200711B2
The following relates to noise filtering in nuclear imaging systems. In one aspect, a fully automatic noise filtering system is provided in a nuclear imaging device. In some embodiments, a filter parameter selection engine is applied to an image environment of a medical image to calculate an image filter configuration for the medical image wherein the image environment includes values for one or more of an imaging subject of the medical image, an imaging device used to acquire the medical image, and a medical context of the medical image.
US11200709B2
According to one embodiment, a radiation image diagnostic apparatus includes a gantry and image reconstruction circuitry. The gantry images a subject with radiation over a plurality of phases and acquires a plurality of imaging data sets for the plurality of phases. The image reconstruction circuitry executes an iterative reconstruction for the plurality of imaging data set to generate a plurality of reconstruction images for the plurality of phases. The image reconstruction circuitry executes the iterative reconstruction using, as the initial image, the first reconstruction image obtained by executing the iterative reconstruction based on the imaging data set of the first phase, generating a second reconstruction image for the second phase different from the first phase.
US11200707B2
A method of modifying a retina fundus image for a deep learning model is disclosed. In a described embodiment, the method includes converting a retina fundus image to a binary image by converting pixels of the retina fundus image to low intensity modified pixels and high intensity modified pixels of the binary image, and determining a first boundary between the low intensity modified pixels and high intensity modified pixels of the binary image. The method further includes removing outlier boundary values from the first boundary, constructing a second boundary from remaining boundary values, identifying the pixels of the retina fundus image that are within the second boundary, and constructing a modified retina fundus image containing the identified pixels for a deep learning model.
US11200703B2
An information processing device and method for enabling partial control of the resolution of a data group that can be turned into a tree structure. Data of an Octree pattern is encoded, so that a bit stream containing depth control information indicating that a leaf node is to be formed at a different level from the lowest level based on information specifying the depth of the Octree pattern is generated. Also, a bit stream is decoded, so that an Octree pattern including a leaf node at a different level from the lowest level is constructed, on the basis of depth control information indicating that the leaf node is to be formed at a different level from the lowest level based on information specifying the depth of the Octree pattern. The present disclosure can be applied to an information processing device, an image processing device, an electronic apparatus, an information processing method, a program, or the like, for example.
US11200698B2
Devices and systems for image-based analysis of objects are disclosed herein. An example device includes side panels connected together so as to form a tubular support system, a floor panel that covers an opening of the tubular rectangle, the floor panel having a test bed that receives an object, a top panel that having an optical lens that aligns with the test bed when the top panel covers another opening of the tubular rectangle. The optical lens is aligned with an aperture that extends through the top panel. The side panels, the floor panel, and the top panel forming an optic chamber when joined together. The device also includes an electromagnetic wave source or mechanical wave source that projects inside the device.
US11200694B2
An apparatus for extracting object information according to one embodiment includes: a padding image generator for generating a padding image including an original image; a partial image acquirer for acquiring a plurality of partial images of the padding image; an object classification result acquirer for acquiring an object classification result for each of the plurality of partial images using an object classification model; a confidence map generator for generating a confidence map having a size the same as that of the padding image and including a confidence value on the basis of the object classification result; and an object information acquirer for acquiring information on an object in the padding image on the basis of the confidence map.
US11200692B2
Systems and techniques are provided for linking subjects in an area of real space with user accounts. The user accounts are linked with client applications executable on mobile computing devices. A plurality of cameras are disposed above the area. The cameras in the plurality of cameras produce respective sequences of images in corresponding fields of view in the real space. A processing system is coupled to the plurality of cameras. The processing system includes logic to determine locations of subjects represented in the images. The processing system further includes logic to match the identified subjects with user accounts by identifying locations of the mobile computing devices executing client applications in the area of real space and matching locations of the mobile computing devices with locations of the subjects.
US11200691B2
Systems and methods for optical sensing, visualization and detection in media (e.g., turbid media; turbid water; fog; non-turbid media). A light source and an image sensor are positioned in turbid media or external to the turbid media with the light source within a field of view of the image sensor array. Temporal optical signals are transmitted through the turbid media via the light source and multiple perspective video sequence frames are acquired via the image sensor array of light propagating through the turbid media. A three-dimensional image is reconstructed from each frame and the reconstructed three-dimensional images are combined to form a three-dimensional video sequence. The transmitted optical signals are detected from the three-dimensional video sequence by applying a multi-dimensional signal detection scheme.
US11200687B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an image registration method and apparatus, and an image stitching method and device. The image registration method includes: calculating a correlation coefficient image between a reference image and a floating image; calculating a gradient image of the correlation coefficient image; determining a pixel with extreme correlation coefficient in the correlation coefficient image according to a pixel with extreme gradient in the gradient image; and registering the reference image and the floating image according to the pixel with extreme correlation coefficient. The above image registration method and apparatus have high universality, require a small amount of calculation, and can ensure real-time operation and obtain a more accurate registration result. The image stitching method and device are realized based on the image registration method, thereby improving the speed and accuracy.
US11200683B2
An image processing device (100) includes an object detecting unit (103a) that detects objects each appearing in a corresponding one of pieces of image data; an object tracking unit (103b) that tracks the detected objects in a time direction; a descriptor generating unit (104) that generates feature descriptors of the respective objects on the basis of results of the detection and results of the tracking of the objects; a data recording control unit (105) that forms a database from the generated feature descriptors and the pieces of image data of the objects corresponding to the feature descriptors; an image retrieving unit (108a) that retrieves, from the database, object groups that match a retrieval condition and form a pair of object groups appearing in pieces of image data obtained by capturing different regions, each of the object groups corresponding to a corresponding one of the regions; a feature extracting unit (108b) that extracts a feature to be used for checking, from pieces of image data and feature descriptors of each of the retrieved object groups; and a determining unit (108c) that determines whether the object groups forming the pair of object groups are identical to each other, by checking the extracted features against each other.
US11200678B2
An electronic apparatus and method for image-based mask frame interpolation is provided. The electronic apparatus receives a sequence of image frames, including a group of image frames and an intermediate image frame. The electronic apparatus generates foreground (FG) masks based on application of a trained Neural Network on the group of image frames and selects a Region-of-Interest (RoI) from a first image frame of the group of image frames. The electronic apparatus extracts first feature vectors for pixels within the selected RoI and second feature vector for a first pixel of the intermediate image frame. The electronic apparatus estimates a first mask value for the first pixel based on application of a statistical function on the first feature vectors and the second feature vector and generates an intermediate FG mask based on the estimated first mask value and re-estimation of mask values for remaining pixels of the intermediate image frame.
US11200675B2
There is provided an image processing apparatus and an image processing method that make it possible to reduce the transmission amount of data. The image processing apparatus includes a segmentation section configured to generate, for a plurality of point-of-view images of an object from a plurality of points of view, a plurality of segmentation images each of which is narrowed to a region that includes the object. The present technology can be applied to an encoding device, a decoding device and so forth of a system that performs generation and display of a bird view video, for example, on the basis of a plurality of point-of-view images captured from a plurality of points of view or a plurality of point-of-view images that are CG images from a plurality of points of view.
US11200669B2
The present disclosure provides a system and method for image generation. The method may include obtaining a first image acquired by an imaging device. The first image may include a representation of a blood vessel of a subject based on a tracer. The method may further include obtaining a blood vessel model configured to provide one or more constraints regarding one or more characteristics of the blood vessel. The method may further include generating a second image including a representation of the blood vessel based on the blood vessel model and the first image. An image resolution of the second image may be higher than an image resolution of the first image. The presentation of the blood vessel in the second image may satisfy at least one of the one or more constraints.
US11200667B2
Disclosed prostate computer aided diagnosis (CAD) systems employ a Random Forest classifier to detect prostate cancer. System classify individual pixels inside the prostate as potential sites of cancer using a combination of spatial, intensity and texture features extracted from three sequences. The Random Forest training considers instance-level weighting for equal treatment of small and large cancerous lesions and small and large prostate backgrounds. Two other approaches are based on an AutoContext pipeline intended to make better use of sequence-specific patterns. Also disclosed are methods and systems for accurate automatic segmentation of the prostate in MRI. Methods can include both patch-based and holistic (image-to-image) deep learning methods for segmentation of the prostate. A patch-based convolutional network aims to refine the prostate contour given an initialization. A method for end- to-end prostate segmentation integrates holistically nested edge detection with fully convolutional networks. HNNs automatically learn a hierarchical representation that improve prostate boundary detection.
US11200666B2
Methods, computer programs, and systems for detecting disease in vasculature. The method includes obtaining images of the vasculature. The method includes extracting vessel measurements from the obtained images. The method includes determining features of the vasculature in the obtained images based on the extracted vessel measurements. The method includes applying artificial intelligence algorithms to determine if the disease is present in the vasculature based on these vascular features.
US11200663B1
A method and system for production of layered wood products employs local and independently operating robotic panel assembly cells including a vison system for inspecting and grading veneer sheets, one or more veneer handling robots, one or more core handling robots, and one or more glue application robots to produce stacks of layered wood product panels locally near the pressing stations. Consequently, the stacks of layered wood product panels are independently built at, or near, the location of the pressing stations using inspected and graded veneer sheets. This eliminates the need for traditional panel conveyors, traditional layered wood product panel assembly layup lines, and stack press delivery lines. This, in turn, eliminates thousands of moving parts and dozens of people from the layered wood product production process.
US11200658B2
Methods and systems for combining information present in measured images of semiconductor wafers with additional measurements of particular structures within the measured images are presented herein. In one aspect, an image-based signal response metrology (SRM) model is trained based on measured images and corresponding reference measurements of particular structures within each image. The trained, image-based SRM model is then used to calculate values of one or more parameters of interest directly from measured image data collected from other wafers. In another aspect, a measurement signal synthesis model is trained based on measured images and corresponding measurement signals generated by measurements of particular structures within each image by a non-imaging measurement technique. Images collected from other wafers are transformed into synthetic measurement signals associated with the non-imaging measurement technique and a model-based measurement is employed to estimate values of parameters of interest based on the synthetic signals.
US11200653B2
A method includes obtaining, using at least one sensor of an electronic device, multiple image frames of a scene. The multiple image frames include a first image frame and a second image frame captured using different exposures. The method also includes excluding, using at least one processor of the electronic device, pixels in the first and second image frames based on a coarse motion map. The method further includes generating, using the at least one processor, multiple local histogram match maps based on different portions of the first and second image frames. In addition, the method includes generating, using the at least one processor, an image of the scene using the local histogram match maps.
US11200651B2
Provided are an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and an image processing program capable of obtaining an enjoyable image for a user unexpectedly. The user selects images from image groups imaged from January to December 2017 as an image to be printed. From not-selected remaining images, an image having an attribute in which a frequency for the attribute contained in each image is equal to or less than a threshold is found and printed. Since the obtained image is an image irrelevant to the images selected by the user, the image unexpected for the user can be obtained.
US11200637B2
A method for profiling energy usage in graphics user interfaces (UI) in handheld mobile devices is disclosed, which includes quantifying the central processing unit (CPU) energy drain of each UI update, quantifying the graphics processing unit (GPU) energy drain of each UI update, quantifying the number of pixels changed due to each UI update, identifying an UI update that consumes energy drain but results in no pixel changes to the displayed frame as a graphics energy bug.
US11200634B2
A vehicle computer includes a watermark memory and a watermark processor programmed to execute instructions stored in the watermark memory. The instructions executed by the watermark processor include receiving an image captured by a camera, selecting a set of random pixel locations, generating a random watermark, and embedding the random watermark into the image at the set of random pixel locations. Another vehicle computer includes a validation memory and a validation processor programmed to execute instructions stored in the validation memory. The instructions executed by the validation processor include receiving a watermarked image, determining a random watermark, detecting an embedded watermark in the received watermarked image by selecting a set of random pixels and analyzing the selected set of random pixels for the random watermark, and authenticating the watermarked image as a result of determining that the watermarked image includes the random watermark at the set of random pixel locations.
US11200629B2
An improved computerized system and method for management of leased real property, including amenities inspection features for dwelling units in multi-unit dwellings. The amenities inspection features allow for input of additional amenities on a per-dwelling unit basis, as well as input of related photos of such amenities; editing of existing amenities to add or delete amenities; and upstream or back-end processing of inputted amenities data to analyze costs, availability, and otherwise assist in property rentals and management.
US11200624B1
A system and method that provides for selectively displaying accounting data that is recorded into and independently maintained in both cash basis format and accrual basis format. The dual ledger aspect of the system enables the present disclosure to eliminate the need for modifying entries when the customer switches their viewing preference from the cash basis model to the accrual basis model, or vice versa. As such, the system is able to simplify the process of retrieving accounting data in either basis which has the benefit of increasing computer functionality by reducing processing requirements and increasing signal throughput to thereby provide faster delivery of the information to the customer.
US11200622B2
An art investment estimation system is provided that is updated to include a first sale price and date, and a second sale price and date of a plurality of repeat sale pairs of a plurality of works of art associated with an artist. The system determines one or more investment value variables derived from the first sale price and associated first sale date and the second sale price and associated second sale date for the plurality of repeat sale pairs of the plurality of works of art. The system receives, at a graphical user interface (GUI), input from a user designating weights for the investment value variables for an artist. The system determines, from the designated weights and the investment value variables, an artist investment potential value for the artist and, at the GUI, displays to the user the artist investment potential value.
US11200618B2
A charging system including a recognizing section provided on the main body and configured to recognize individual identification information of the rented unit attached to the main body; an attachment position information memory section configured to memorize a relationship between an attachment position of the main body to which the rented unit is attached and the individual identification information of the rented unit attached to the main body; an operating information acquiring section provided on the main body and configured to acquire operating information of the rented unit attached to the main body; an operating information memory section configured to memorize the operating information for each of the individual identification information; and a charge calculating section configured to calculate a charging amount based on the operating information memorized on the operating information memory section.
US11200614B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for using location data to identify and provide services in association with items appearing in captured images. One of the methods includes receiving, from a device, an image and location data representing the device's physical location, determining, based on the location data, that a particular set of one or more locations are within a threshold distance of the device's physical location, accessing, for each of the one or more locations in the particular set, item information that indicates one or more items that are associated with the location, determining, based on the accessed item information, that the image likely shows a particular item that is associated with one or more locations in the particular set, and providing, to the device, instructions for presentation of information about (i) the particular item and (ii) one or more locations in the particular set that are associated with the particular item.
US11200609B1
A system and method for customizing a vehicle for a user from a dealer through a user interface of a mobile device. The system and method may include a vehicle customization application stored on the mobile device. The user interface can be used to select the vehicle from a plurality of vehicles using the vehicle customization application. The vehicle customization application may create a user desires profile for the user of the vehicle customization application and may retrieve all dealer installed option packages for the selected vehicle from a dealer database of the dealer. Based on the user desires profile and the retrieved dealer installed packages, artificial intelligence may be used to generate a list of dealer installed option packages for the user. The user may select dealer installed option packages from the generated list of dealer installed option packages through the user interface.
US11200606B2
System and method for facilitating purchase of products from a plurality of different merchants. The system includes a payment processor module that is in communication with a first e-commerce platform associated with a first merchant and a second e-commerce platform associated with a second merchant. The payment processor module is configured to receive data comprising: first product information relating to a first product to be purchased by a customer through the first e-commerce platform; and second product information relating to a second product to be purchased by the customer through the second e-commerce platform. The data is received in real-time without delay after the customer provides an indication of intent to purchase the first and the second products. The payment processor module is further configured to initiate a single transaction based on the data that is received, wherein the single transaction corresponds to the purchase of the first and the second products by the customer.
US11200598B2
First information associated with a first anonymous user, which indicates activities related to interactions of the first user with a first website, is obtained using a cookie. Second information associated with a second anonymous user, which indicates activities related to interactions of the second user with a second website, is obtained using a cookie. The first information and the second information are correlated to determine commonalities between the first information and the second information. In response to identifying at least one commonality, the first user identifier is associated with the second user identifier, and the first information is aggregated with the second information, based on the association. The aggregated information is stored in a profile associated with a single user, who is classified based on the aggregated information. The user, who may still be anonymous, is provided content based on the aggregated information.
US11200592B2
This disclosure involves allocating content-delivery resources to electronic content-delivery channels based on attribution models accuracy. For instance, a simulation is executed that involves simulating user exposures, times between user exposures, and user responses. The simulation is performed based on parameters associated with simulating user exposures to electronic content-delivery channels and user responses to the user exposures. An accuracy of a channel attribution model when estimating an attribution of an electronic content-delivery channel to a user response is evaluated based on the simulation. A channel attribution model is selected based on the evaluation. An attribution of the electronic content-delivery channel is determined by applying the selected channel attribution model to actual user exposures and actual user responses. This attribution can be used to allocate content-delivery resources to the electronic content-delivery channel in accordance with the selected channel attribution model, and thereby provide interactive content via the electronic content-delivery channel.
US11200590B2
A system for monitoring a vending machine is presented, the vending machine includes a controller and associated memory configured to store information associated with the condition of the vending machine. The vending machine also has a first short range transceiver configured to transmit the information associated with the condition of the vending machine, a first distance. A plurality of mobile devices each having a second short range transceiver and a first long range transceiver, the mobile devices configured to receive information associated with the condition of the vending machine and transmit it via the long range transceiver. A second long range transceiver is associated with a server coupled to the second long range transceiver. The server configured to receive the information associated with the condition of the vending machine, the server configured to send a signal to a subset of the plurality mobile device to induce the mobile device to be transported to within the first distance from the vending machine.
US11200586B2
An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire at least one of weather information and time information of a predetermined area as an environmental parameter, a use history unit configured to acquire a use history including a use section, a use time, and vehicle information of a vehicle previously used by a user, a prediction unit configured to perform a demand prediction of a vehicle to be used by the user based on correspondence information with the environmental parameter and the use history stored in association with each other, and a vehicle arrangement plan output unit configured to output a plan of arrangement locations of the vehicles planed based on the demand prediction of the vehicle performed by the demand prediction unit.
US11200580B2
The disclosed customer support methods and systems allow customers to request and receive product-specific support from service providers. The embodiments facilitate support interactions between such customers and providers by allowing providers to provide on-demand and/or scheduled support services to customers via various communication channels, displaying product-specific communications and resources to customers, and/or allowing customers and providers to access past support interactions.
US11200576B2
The specification describes methods and systems for payment processing. An example method comprises: receiving a product settlement request from a settlement user; acquiring and storing biometric feature information of the settlement user; receiving product information from the settlement user; obtaining a payment account of the settlement user according to the stored biometric feature information; and deducting, from the payment account, a consumption amount determined based on the product information.
US11200570B2
A method includes receiving a cyphertext of a digital document specifying a guarantee and one or more zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) related to a value associated with the guarantee; verifying the one or more ZKPs; upon successfully verifying the one or more ZKPs, storing the cyphertext to a blockchain based on performing a consensus algorithm; receiving a first message from a first computing device associated with the beneficiary or a representative of the beneficiary indicating there is no outstanding claim for the guarantee; sending a second message to a second computing device associated with a guarantor to confirm that the guarantor is discharged from undertaking payment under the guarantee; receiving a third message from the second computing device associated with the guarantor requesting the status of the guarantee to be changed to expired; and updating the status of the guarantee stored in the blockchain to indicate that the guarantee has expired.
US11200561B2
A method is applied to a first terminal, the first terminal includes a main processor and an NFC chip, and a first SE is integrated into and/or an HCE application is run on the main processor. The method includes: when the main processor of the first terminal is powered off, receiving, by the first terminal, an application selection instruction sent by a second terminal, where the application selection instruction is used to instruct to process an NFC service by using an application in the first SE or the HCE application; and after receiving the application selection instruction, controlling, by the first terminal, the main processor to be powered on, and routing the application selection instruction to the main processor, so that the main processor processes the NFC service.
US11200560B2
In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving a unique identifier from an item and sending a communication to an electronic device requesting that a user confirm a pending transaction, receiving input from the electronic device associated, and sending the received input to an authentication system for completing a transaction. In another embodiment, a system comprises a sensor, an authentication system, and a transaction processing system. The sensor is configured to emit energy and receive at least one first identifier, send at least one communication to an electronic device requesting a second identifier, receive at least one second identifier, and send the at least one first identifier and the at least one second identifier to the authentication system. The authentication system is configured to receive the at least one first and second identifiers from the sensor, to choose, based on the at least one first identifier and the at least one second identifier, a transaction processing system, and send the at least one first and second identifiers to the chosen transaction processing system.
US11200557B2
A device implementing a scalable wireless transaction system includes at least one processor configured to receive, from a wireless transaction system server, a list of wireless transaction group identifiers, and an indication of at least one applet associated with each of the wireless transaction group identifiers. The at least one processor is further configured to receive, from a wireless transaction device, a polling frame that includes one of the wireless transaction device group identifiers. The at least one processor is further configured to select an applet provisioned on a device secure element that is assigned to the wireless transaction group identifier, the assigning being based at least in part on the received list. The at least one processor is further configured to utilize the selected applet to perform a wireless transaction with the wireless transaction device.
US11200552B2
A transaction sequencer that comprises a processor, a non-transitory memory, and an application stored in the non-transitory memory. The application receives a message comprising information about a first purchase item, wherein the message was created by a point-of-sale after a filtering step that assured that the first purchase item is associated with a master approved item list, searches a plurality of different approved product lists using the information about the first item, wherein the plurality of different approved product lists comprise a first approved product list and a second approved product list, creates a first transaction based on finding the first item in the first approved product list, transmits the first transaction to a first transaction processing system, receives a first response from the first transaction processing system, bundles the first response in a unified response, and transmits the unified response.
US11200551B2
A system for facilitating real-time transactions of data representing monetary value between clients in a computer network comprises at least one first client and a transaction server computer system, the first client being associated with a set of data representing a balance of monetary value. The transaction server computer system is configured for receiving requests for transactions of data representing an amount of monetary value from a plurality of second clients for real-time updates of the first client's set of data. The first client's set of data is stored in a data structure comprising first and second subsets of the data, each subset of data defining a sub-balance representing an amount of monetary value. The first and second subsets are simultaneously updated following respective requests. A server architecture comprising a further administrative authority server computer system and secure tunnels enhances security.
US11200550B1
Wireless Electronic Check Deposit Scanning and Cashing Machine (also known and referred to as WEDS) Web-based Online account cash Management computer application System (also known and referred to as OMS virtual/live teller)—collectively invented integrated as “WEDS.OMS” System. Method and Apparatus for Depositing and Cashing Ordinary paper and/or substitute checks and money orders online Wirelessly from home/office computer, laptop, Internet enabled mobile phone, pda (personal digital assistant) and/or any Internet enabled device. WEDS enables verification and transmittal of image, OMS is the navigation tool used to set commands and process requests, integrated with WEDS, working collectively as WEDS.OMS System.
US11200537B2
One variation of a method for tracking fresh produce in a store includes: accessing a first hyper-spectral image, of a produce display in a store, recorded at a first time; extracting a first spectral profile from a first region of the first hyper-spectral image depicting a first set of produce units in the produce display; identifying a first varietal of the first set of produce units; characterizing qualities (e.g., ripeness, bruising, spoilage) of the first set of produce units in the produce display based on the first spectral profile; and, in response to qualities of the first set of produce units in the produce display deviating from a target quality range assigned to the first varietal, generating a prompt to audit the first set of produce units in the produce display.
US11200535B1
Systems, devices, and methods for automatically monitoring and managing inventory in real time within a retail environment are presented. To monitor and manage inventory of electronic devices configured to communicate wirelessly, the electronic devices are configured to send device status messages via wireless communication to wireless connection devices, which in turn send inventory messages to a remote inventory server via a communication network. To monitor non-communicating inventory, wireless tags are included within or affixed to inventory packaging to communicate with the electronic devices or wireless connection devices. Based upon such inventory messages, the remote inventory server monitors inventory location and levels at retail locations. Inventory levels may be adjusted according to inventory distribution plans based upon such inventory information.
US11200533B2
Disclosed embodiments provide systems and methods related to managing inventory by validating physical quantities of items in fulfillment centers for use with a user interface. A method for managing inventory comprises receiving, from a mobile device, a request for one or more validation locations, a zone for performing a validation, a validation type, and a round of validation, retrieving validation locations, each location associated with a status of not assigned, assigned, problem zone, or validated, and determining which of the retrieved validation locations needing assignment have a location in the received zone, a match in the validation type, and a match round of validation. Based on the determination, the method further comprises selecting one or more of the matching validation locations if a status of each determined validation locations is equal to not assigned and responding to the received request by transmitting one or more selected validation locations to the mobile device.
US11200531B1
Features are disclosed for an overpackage that can contain an object and provide for automated identification and handling of the object by a robotic retrieval system. The automated identification and handling are enabled through self-identifying marks on the overpackage that indicate the identity of the overpackage as well as the relative location of the mark on the overpackage. Using the location information, a robot or other autonomous actor of the robotic retrieval system can identify a path to a pick point and detect whether the proper pick point is engaged through additional identifiers on the overpackage or a pick point.
US11200528B2
A generation technique and an analysis technique of a large number of explanatory variables to derive effective measures by using various data are provided. Specifically, a factor which lurks in a large amount of data and affects business performance is identified by automatically generating a large number of explanatory variables and performing correlation analysis between the explanatory variables and an objective variable. Three operators representing condition, target, and arithmetic which are variable generation conditions are defined in advance for data inputted into an analysis system and a large number of explanatory variables are automatically generated by these operators.
US11200526B2
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 Quest 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.
US11200523B2
A method receiving image information with one or more processor(s) and from a sensor disposed at a worksite and determining an identity of a work tool disposed at the worksite based at least partly on the image information. The method further includes receiving location information with the one or more processor(s), the location information indicating a first location of the sensor at the worksite. Additionally, the method includes determining a second location of the work tool at the worksite based at least partly on the location information. In some instances, the method includes generating a worksite map with the one or more processor(s), the worksite map identifying the work tool and indicating the second location of the work tool at the worksite, and at least one of providing the worksite map to an additional processor and causing the worksite map to be rendered via a display.
US11200521B2
Mechanisms are provided for matching patients with care providers. Patient information for a current patient, from at least one patient information source, is analyzed and a medical need of the current patient is determined. Patient information for a plurality of other patients associated with a plurality of care providers is analyzed and, for each care provider in the plurality of care providers, a measure of strength for a type of medical care corresponding to the at least one medical need is determined, based on results of the analysis of patient information for the plurality of other patients associated with the care provider. At least one care provider is selected for inclusion in a care team for the current patient based on the determined strengths of each care provider in the plurality of care providers. A care team data structure comprising information about the at least one care provider is output.
US11200520B2
Provided is an industrial equipment production system, including: a production propriety acquisition unit configured to acquire a determination result indicating whether or not industrial equipment is producible by using setting information regarding the industrial equipment based on equipment information regarding the industrial equipment; a supply propriety acquisition unit configured to acquire, based on user information regarding a user, a determination result indicating whether or not the industrial equipment produced by using the setting information is suppliable to the user; and a permission unit configured to permit the production of the industrial equipment that uses the setting information based on the determination result acquired by the production propriety acquisition unit and the determination result acquired by the supply propriety acquisition unit.
US11200518B2
A distributed file system may store a plurality of entity attributes. A node linking system may classify links between the nodes. The node linking system may calculate a network effect of an action with a link. The node linking system may modify parameters of the action based on the network effect.
US11200517B2
A method, computer program product, and system for managing the transportation of an individual. The method includes a processor identifying, based on communicating with location services on a client, a user entering a venue, where the client is a wireless device associated with the user. The processor determined, in real time, a current location of the user within the venue. The processor obtains transportation route information associated with the user. The processor determines, based on the current location of the user and/or the transportation route, an occurrence of a transportation event. Based on the event, the processor determines one or more alternate transportation routes for the user. The processor transmits an alert that includes data related to the one or more alternate transportation routes over a wireless communication channel to the wireless device of the user.
US11200516B2
Techniques herein attempt to provide actors with more flexible and satisfactory experiences regarding obtaining tickets for an event. A learning model may identify attributes indicative of whether a particular actor (e.g., attempting to purchase tickets to an event) possesses a desirable characteristic (e.g., is likely to attend the event). Each actor can then be evaluated to estimate whether she is a good actor (possesses the characteristic). If so, favored opportunities may be made available, such as the opportunity to buy high-demand tickets. An actor may further have the opportunity to hold or reserve tickets for a period time, during which other actors cannot purchase them. A fee for holding or reserving tickets (and/or maintaining the hold or reserve) can be dynamically set based on market factors. Opportunities to modify seat assignments to allow a group of friends to sit together may also be provided.
US11200511B1
At a machine learning service, an indication of a training data set for a model is obtained. One or more training iterations of the model are conducted using an adaptive input sampling strategy. In a particular iteration, index values for a set of training observations are selected based on a set of sampling weights, parameters of the model are updated based on results using training observations identified by the index values, and sampling weights are modified. A result obtained from a trained version of the machine learning model is provided.
US11200505B2
A system and method for predicting search term popularity is disclosed herein. A database system may comprise a first database cluster H and a second database cluster L. A machine learning algorithm is trained to create a predictive model. Thereafter, for each record in a database system, the predictive model is used to calculate a probability of the record being accessed. If the calculated probability of the record being accessed is greater than a threshold value, then the record in the first database cluster H; otherwise, the record is placed in the second database cluster L. Training the machine learning algorithm comprises inputting a training feature vector associated with the record into the machine learning algorithm, inputting a cost vector into the machine learning algorithm, and iteratively operating the machine learning algorithm on each record in the set of records to create a predictive model. Other embodiments are also disclosed herein.
US11200498B2
In one general embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes identifying an input search term, determining an additional term associated with the input search term, where the additional term targets a predetermined entity, altering the input search term utilizing the determined additional term, and performing a search, utilizing the altered input search term.
US11200495B2
A convolution neural network (CNN) model is trained and pruned at a pruning ratio. The model is then trained and pruned one or more times without constraining the model according to any previous pruning step. The pruning ratio may be increased at each iteration until a pruning target is reached. The model may then be trained again with pruned connections masked. The process of pruning, retraining, and adjusting the pruning ratio may also be repeated one or more times with a different pruning target.
US11200494B1
A method of training an obfuscation network for obfuscating original data to protect personal information is provided. The method includes steps of a learning device, (a) inputting acquired training data into an obfuscation network to obfuscate the training data and inputting the obfuscated training data into an augmentation network to augment the obfuscated training data; (b) (i) inputting the augmented obfuscated training data into a learning network to generate first characteristic information and (ii) inputting the training data into the learning network to generate second characteristic information; and (c) training the obfuscation network such that (i) a first error, calculated by using the first and the second characteristic information, is minimized and (ii) a second error, calculated by using (ii-1) modified training data or modified obfuscated training data, and (ii-2) the obfuscated training data or the augmented obfuscated training data, is maximized.
US11200489B2
A method of generating a controller for a continuous process. The method includes receiving from a storage memory, off-line stored values of one or more controlled variables and one or more manipulated variables of the continuous process over a plurality of time points. The off-line stored values are used to train a first neural network to operate as a predictor of the controlled variables. Then, the method includes training a second neural network to operate as a controller of the continuous process using the first neural network after it was trained to operate as the predictor for the continuous process and employing the second neural network as a controller of the continuous process.
US11200487B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus for performing convolutional computations using an optical system. In some aspects computations for a neural network are performed in a digital domain using electronic circuitry, the neural network including a convolutional layer. Input data for the convolutional layer of the neural network is obtained, and a convolution or correlation computation on the input data in an analog domain using an optical correlator module is performed to generate an optical correlator module output. Based on the optical correlator module output, data is processed through additional layers of the neural network in the digital domain using the electronic circuitry.
US11200486B2
A hardware acceleration component is provided for implementing a convolutional neural network. The hardware acceleration component includes an array of N rows and M columns of functional units, an array of N input data buffers configured to store input data, and an array of M weights data buffers configured to store weights data. Each of the N input data buffers is coupled to a corresponding one of the N rows of functional units. Each of the M weights data buffers is coupled to a corresponding one of the M columns of functional units. Each functional unit in a row is configured to receive a same set of input data. Each functional unit in a column is configured to receive a same set of weights data from the weights data buffer coupled to the row. Each of the functional units is configured to perform a convolution of the received input data and the received weights data, and the M columns of functional units are configured to provide M planes of output data.
US11200479B2
An electromagnetic-coupling dual IC card includes an IC module and a plate-like card body. The IC module includes a module substrate having a first surface and a second surface, contact terminals provided on the first surface of the module substrate to be contactable with an external contact-type device, an IC chip having a contact communication function and a contactless communication function and disposed on the second surface, and a first connecting coil provided on the first surface. The plate-like card body includes an antenna sheet embedded therein and has a recess for holding the IC module, the antenna sheet being provided with a coupling coil to be electromagnetically coupled to the first connecting coil, and a main coil connected to the coupling coil to perform contactless communication with an external contactless-type device. The first connecting coil does not overlap with the contact terminals in plan view.
US11200475B2
In certain embodiments, indication-related detectable changes on a transaction token may be facilitated. In some embodiments, a transaction card may determine a state of the transaction card (e.g., during an interaction with a transaction terminal). The transaction card may generate a signal related to a color based on the state of the transaction card and cause the signal to be transmitted to a change element of the transaction card. The change element may be configured such that the change element causes one or more edges or other portions of the transaction card to be (i) a first color in response to the signal being a first signal and (ii) a second color in response to the signal being a second signal. As an example, the portions of the transaction card may turn red when the signal is a first voltage and green when the signal is a second voltage.
US11200473B2
An information processing device according to aspects of the present disclosures configured to determine whether a managed device is a mobile device or a stationary device. When it is determined that the managed device is the mobile device, a first threshold value is set as a threshold value, and when it is determined that the managed device is the stationary device, a second threshold value is set as the threshold value. When it is determined that the remaining amount of the consumable is equal to or less than the threshold value, the information processing device issues a notification regarding the remaining amount of the consumable associated with the managed device. The notification is issued earlier in a case where the threshold value is the first threshold value than in a case where the threshold value the second threshold value.
US11200472B2
An identification apparatus uses a sensor to sense a sheet, thereby obtaining a parameter concerning a characteristic of the sheet, and identifies a type of the sheet based on a result of inputting the parameter obtained by the sensor to an estimation model obtained by machine learning using a parameter of a sheet as input data and a type of a sheet as supervised data, the type used as supervised data corresponding to the parameter used as input data. The apparatus performs re-learning such that the identified type of the sheet based on a result of inputting the parameter obtained by the sensor as the input data to the estimation model becomes the type of the sheet represented by input information if the identified type of the sheet and the type of the sheet represented by the input information are different.
US11200471B2
Methods and systems for identifying cut-out patterns from a scanned raw image file and arranging shapes within a document prior to printing cut-out patterns are described. A printing device may identify and group contents in a page of a print job as shapes to be cut out from the paper after they are printed. The printing device may then detect the grouped page contents as cut-out patterns. For each cut-out pattern, the printing device may detect the white spaces of content of the cut-out pattern and mark them as available for printing other cut-out patterns. Thus, the printing device may print multiple cut-out patterns on a same page based on using the white space within larger cut-out patterns.
US11200469B2
A graphics adaptation method for printable ceramic supports. Images are printed on sample ceramic supports starting from an original image file. A sample printed image is acquired. Sample points representative of the sample image are selected. Original points present in the original image file are also selected. A point-based matching is sought between the sample points and the original points, on the basis of which the original image file is modified and an adapted image file is determined, thus adapting the graphics of the original image file to the graphics of the sample image. A graphics adaptation system based on the method is also described.
US11200468B2
The present subject matter provides various technical solutions to technical problems facing advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous vehicle (AV) systems. In particular, disclosed embodiments provide systems and methods that may use cameras and other sensors to detect objects and events and identify them as predefined signal classifiers, such as detecting and identifying a red stoplight. These signal classifiers are used within ADAS and AV systems to control the vehicle or alert a vehicle operator based on the type of signal. These ADAS and AV systems may provide full vehicle operation without requiring human input. The embodiments disclosed herein provide systems and methods that can be used as part of or in combination with ADAS and AV systems.
US11200467B2
An artificial intelligence apparatus for recognizing an object included in image data can include a camera, a communication modem, a memory configured to store an image recognition model, a natural language processing (NLP) model, and an NLP model-based image recognition model learned based on the NLP model, and a processor is configured to receive image data from the camera or the communication modem, in response to recognizing an object included in the image data using the image recognition model, generate first recognition information on the object included in the image data, and in response to the recognizing the object included in the image data using the image recognition model being unsuccessful, generate second recognition information on the object included in the image data based on recognizing the object using the NLP model-based image recognition model.
US11200451B2
A template determining apparatus including an attribute distribution determination unit configured to determine a distribution of a specific attribute in a plurality of images; and a template determination unit configured to adaptatively determine a template set from the plurality of images according to the determined distribution of the specific attribute of the plurality of images. Where the determined template set will be used for image normalization.
US11200447B2
Disclosures herein teach applying a set of sections spanning a down-sampled version of an image of a road-scene to a low-fidelity classifier to determine a set of candidate sections for depicting one or more objects in a set of classes. The set of candidate sections of the down-sampled version may be mapped to a set of potential sectors in a high-fidelity version of the image. A high-fidelity classifier may be used to vet the set of potential sectors, determining the presence of one or more objects from the set of classes. The low-fidelity classifier may include a first Convolution Neural Network (CNN) trained on a first training set of down-sampled versions of cropped images of objects in the set of classes. Similarly, the high-fidelity classifier may include a second CNN trained on a second training set of high-fidelity versions of cropped images of objects in the set of classes.
US11200445B2
A computer-implemented method for determining image similarity includes determining, by a first neural network, a first feature value associated with a first characteristic of a first product based on an image of the first product. The method also includes determining, by a second neural network, a second feature value associated with a second characteristic of the first product based on the image of the first product. The method further involves calculating a first vector space distance between the first feature value and a third feature value associated with the first characteristic of a second product, and calculating a second vector space distance between the second feature value and a fourth feature value associated with the second characteristic of the second product. Additionally, the method includes determining a similarity value based on the first vector space distance and the second vector space distance.
US11200444B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for determining a presentation object. In some examples, an apparatus for determining a presentation object includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry extracts a feature of an object in an image and determines, according to the feature of the object, first feature similarities between the object and a plurality of class nodes. Each class node is associated with at least one leaf node, and each of the class nodes and the leaf nodes is associated with one presentation object. The processing circuitry selects a subset of the plurality of class nodes according to the first feature similarities and calculates second feature similarities between the leaf nodes associated with the selected subset of the plurality of class nodes and the object. The processing circuitry selects a predetermined quantity of presentation objects according to the first feature similarities and the second feature similarities.
US11200436B2
A spoofing detection apparatus comprises obtaining, from an image capture apparatus, a first image frame that includes the face of a subject person obtained when a light-emitting apparatus is emitting light and a second image frame that includes the face of the subject person obtained when the light-emitting apparatus is turned off, extracting, from the first image frame, information specifying a face portion of the subject person, and extract, from the second image frame, information specifying a face portion of the subject person, extracting a portion that includes a bright point formed by reflection in an iris region of an eye of the subject person, from the first image frame, extracts a portion corresponding to the portion that includes the bright point, from the second image frame, and calculates a feature that is independent of the position of the bright point, and determining authenticity of subject person based on the feature.
US11200427B2
The invention provides methods, systems and computer program products for image based detection of occurrence of an anomalous event within a process environment. Detection of occurrence of an anomalous event comprises (i) receiving a first set of information from a first image acquisition device, (ii) analyzing the first set of information for determining whether the first image frame images an occurrence of an anomalous event, (iii) receiving a second set of information generated at a second device, wherein the second set of information represents a state of the process environment, (iv) analyzing the second set of information for determining whether an anomalous event has occurred, and (v) generating an anomaly identification decision based at least on output from analysis of the second set of information.
US11200425B2
A method for automatically providing key moments in a multimedia content on an electronic device and an electronic device therefor are provided. The method includes determining a navigation behavior of each user of the multimedia content during playback, determining a plurality of key moments in the multimedia content based on the navigational behavior, the plurality of key moments including a positive key moment, a negative key moment, and a neutral key moment, storing the plurality of key moments, detecting a playback event of the multimedia content by a candidate user, retrieving at least one key moment from the plurality of key moments in the multimedia content based on the candidate user, and displaying an actionable user interface including the at least one key moment.
US11200423B2
A system and methodology provide for annotating videos with entities and associated probabilities of existence of the entities within video frames. A computer-implemented method identifies an entity from a plurality of entities identifying characteristics of video items. The computer-implemented method selects a set of features correlated with the entity based on a value of a feature of a plurality of features, determines a classifier for the entity using the set of features, and determines an aggregation calibration function for the entity based on the set of features. The computer-implemented method selects a video frame from a video item, where the video frame having associated features, and determines a probability of existence of the entity based on the associated features using the classifier and the aggregation calibration function.
US11200422B2
A method and a system for pixel channel imbalance compensation for an image sensing circuit are provided. The system includes an image acquisition circuit having a lens, a color filter and an image sensor and a processing circuit. In the method performed by the processing circuit, a second frame image is retrieved from a motion image, and a first frame image that has undergone noise reduction can be retrieved from a memory. Motion detection is performed between the frames by comparing the first frame image and the second frame image. The motion detection is referred to as a reference for determining how to perform 3D noise reduction. A compensation value for channel imbalance between the adjacent channels can be estimated based on the image under noise reduction in a same buffer. While the pixel channel imbalance is compensated, the image is then restored by an interpolation method.
US11200419B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer-readable storage devices, for enhanced object discrimination by robots are described. In some implementations, a robot obtains image data from a camera of the robot, where the image data indicates a detected object. The robot classifies the object as having a particular object type based on the image data. The robot evaluates a current state of the object that includes a predetermined set of object state characteristics. The robot determines that a software application of the robot has indicated (i) an object type and (ii) one or more object state criteria that satisfy the current state of the detected object. The robot provides to the software application data indicating detection of the object and a position of the object.
US11200415B2
A computer-implemented method, system and computer program product for understanding information using a document analysis technique. An initial corpus of information is formed by identifying a document(s) that match a search criteria. The initial corpus of information is expanded with a set of documents containing statements with a semantic meaning within a threshold degree of similarity to a semantic meaning of statements contained within the document(s) used to form the initial corpus of information. Viewpoint(s) are then extracted from the expanded corpus of information using a natural language processing technique. A new set of documents is analyzed by identifying the subject, assertion and context statements. Assertions in the new set of documents that are within a threshold degree of agreement or disagreement with the extracted viewpoint are highlighted to assist the user in understanding how information aligns with a viewpoint.
US11200414B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for a data capture application of a computing device that receives image data for an image of a document and uses the image data to capture content on the document while minimizing glare at the document. The data capture application receives user input for positioning an image token provided for display to a user of the data capture application. Positioning the image token causes adjustment of an attribute value of the image data. In response to receiving the user input the data capture application determines whether the attribute value of the image data satisfies a predefined attribute value. Based on the attribute value satisfying the predefined attribute value, the data capture application generates a composite image of the document using the image data received by the data capture application.
US11200405B2
A three-dimensional (3D) image-based facial verification method and apparatus is provided. The facial verification method may include capturing a facial image of a 3D face of a user, determining an occluded region in the captured facial image by comparing the captured facial image and an average facial image, generating a synthetic image by synthesizing the captured facial image and the average facial image based on the occluded region, and verifying the user based on the synthetic image.
US11200402B2
Disclosed are various embodiments for initiating execution of an application based at least in part on an identification of the object in an image, video, or other graphical representation of the object. A graphical representation of an object is obtained using an image capture device. The object in the graphical representation is identified along with a list of applications associated with the identified object. A user interface is then rendered that allows the user to execute or install one or more of the applications associated with the identified object.
US11200401B2
The invention concerns a method and a biometric acquisition device for biometric vascular recognition and/or identification. The method comprising a step of capturing a plurality of veins images (116, 117, 118) of supposed subcutaneous veins (21) of a same inspecting portion (20) of a presented entity (2) from various converging orientations (113, 114, 115). The method further comprises a step of determine if said entity is a spoof based on estimated likelihood that said supposed subcutaneous veins within said plurality of veins images (116, 117, 118) are likely projections of solid veins (120).
US11200400B2
A fingerprint identification apparatus and an electronic device applicable to an electronic device having a display screen, including: an optical function layer, disposed between the display screen and a middle frame of the electronic device, wherein the optical function layer includes a quarter-wave plate and a polarizer, and the polarizer is disposed under the quarter-wave plate; and an optical fingerprint module, disposed under the optical function layer, and configured to receive a fingerprint optical signal transmitted through the quarter-wave plate and the polarizer, wherein the fingerprint detecting signal is used for detecting fingerprint information of a finger.
US11200396B2
An electronic device has a touch sensing mode and a fingerprint sensing mode, and the electronic device includes a substrate, a driving circuit, a fingerprint sensor and a touch signal line. The driving circuit is disposed on the substrate. The fingerprint sensor is disposed on the substrate, and the fingerprint sensor includes a first electrode and a second electrode, wherein the first electrode is electrically connected to the driving circuit. The touch signal line is disposed on the substrate and electrically connected to the second electrode.
US11200394B1
A method of assisting a customer to obtain water care information and products by associating the customer with water care dealer through a supplier-associated app where the water care dealer is identifiable through a QR Code.
US11200387B1
RFID tags may compensate for non-RFID power sources by automatically enforcing data or state persistence even while powered. A tag may measure a time interval between successive detected modulated reader transmissions. If the interval exceeds a minimum time, then the tag may deassert a protocol flag, erase data, and/or change tag operating states, even if the tag would normally not perform these actions while powered.
US11200379B2
Computer implemented systems and methods of processing clinical documentation for a multi-axial coding scheme include inputting clinical documentation from memory operatively coupled with a computer system, and executing a natural language processor configured to process narrative text in the clinical documentation. The processor segments the narrative text based on boundaries defined in the clinical documentation, sequences words in the narrative text based on the segmentation, and maps the sequenced words to semantic objects in an ontology database. The ontology defines classes of semantic objects and relationships between them, corresponding to the multi-axial coding scheme. The semantic objects are converted into characters and output into slots in a medical code, with the characters positioned in the slots based on the multi-axial coding scheme.
US11200378B2
Embodiments for processing language by one or more processors are described. A plurality of document portions are detected. Each of the plurality of document portions includes text in a respective language type. The text of each of the plurality of document portions is converted to a standardized language type. A language processing method is caused to be performed on the plurality of document portions after the converting of the text of each of the plurality of document portions to the standardized language type.
US11200376B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products for expanded concept matching are provided. Aspects include receiving an ontology, determining a set of target concepts, building a cache from the ontology, the cache comprising a set of expressions extracted from the ontology for each target concept in the set of target concepts, receiving a document, determining a first segment of text in the document based on the set of target concepts, and annotating the first segment of text by comparing the set of target concepts to the set of expressions in the cache.
US11200371B2
A hand-written information inputting apparatus includes a receiving surface which, in operation, receives a paper sheet placed thereon, the paper sheet having printed thereon a document form including a writing region for hand-written input and identification information that identifies the document form, a position detection device which, in operation, detects a position indicated by an electronic pen in response to a hand-written inputting operation to the paper sheet, a reader device which, in operation, reads the identification information, a display device, and a control circuit which, in operation, decides, based on the identification information read by the reader device, whether document form information that corresponds to the paper sheet on which the document form is printed and that is displayable on the display device is acquirable through a communication network.
US11200368B2
An in-line webpage editing system includes identifying an editable region of a dynamically rendered webpage. Providing an indicator, wherein the indicator is associated with the editable region of the dynamically rendered webpage, and identifies the editable region as available for editing. Further, identifying an in-line edit, made by a user, to a portion of the editable region, and commitment of the in-line edit for rendering. Rendering a first portion of the webpage is rendered based upon, at least in part, the commitment of the in-line edit for rendering, wherein the first portion of the webpage is affected by the in-line edit, and one or more portions of the webpage that are not affected by the in-line edit are not rendered concurrently with the first portion of the webpage.
US11200366B2
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for using classifications from text to determine instances of graphical element types to include in a template layout for digital media output. Text is processed to determine classifications. The determined classifications of the text are inputted to a machine learning module to output instances for graphical element types. The outputted instances of the graphical element types are rendered in a user interface for a user to select. User selection is received of one of the instances rendered in the user interface for each of the graphical element types. The text with the user selected instances for the graphical element types are rendered in a template layout. The template layout including the text rendered with the user selected instances for the graphical element types is rendered in an output layout of digital media.
US11200360B1
Systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer program products to facilitate synthesis of a quantum circuit are provided. According to an embodiment, a system can comprise a memory that stores computer executable components and a processor that executes the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can comprise a circuit generation component that generates, iteratively, quantum circuits from 1 to N two-qubit gates, wherein at least one or more iterations (1, 2, . . . , N) adds a single two-qubit gate to circuits from a previous iteration based on using added single 2-qubit gates that represent operations distinct from previous operations relative to previous iterations. The computer executable components can further comprise a circuit identification component that identifies, from the quantum circuits, a desired circuit that matches a quantum circuit representation.
US11200359B2
Logged data from an autonomous vehicle is processed to generate augmented data. The augmented data describes an actor in an environment of the autonomous vehicle, the actor having an associated actor type and an actor motion behavior characteristic. The augmented data may be varied to create different sets of augmented data. The sets of augmented data can be used to create one or more simulation scenarios that in turn are used to produce machine learning models to control the operation of autonomous vehicles.
US11200357B2
Target characteristic data may be predicted using an apparatus including a processor and one or more computer readable mediums collectively including instructions. When executed by the processor, the instructions cause the processor to obtain a plurality of physical structure data and a plurality of characteristic data, estimate at least one structural similarity between at least two physical structures that correspond with physical structure data among the plurality of physical structure data, and generate an estimation model for estimating a target characteristic data from a target physical structure data by using at least one characteristic data and corresponding at least one structural similarity between the target physical structure data and each of the plurality of the physical structure data.
US11200356B2
In modeling contact between two or more objects (such as a robotic arm placing a block on a stack of blocks) or articulations of a series of linked joints (such as modeling a backhoe), current techniques can introduce additional energy into the system or fail to resolve a constraint imposed on the system. The current techniques attempt to resolve these issues, for example, by using very small time steps. Very small time steps, however, can significantly increase computational costs of the modeling simulation. The disclosed simulation system for rigid bodies uses a time interval to reduce linearization artifacts due to the small time steps and reduce computational costs with faster solver convergence by permitting more efficient bias calculations. High mass handling can also be improved through the more efficient bias calculations.
US11200355B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for computer aided design and manufacture of physical structures include, in at least one aspect, a method including: obtaining a design space for a modeled object, load cases for physical simulation, and design criteria, wherein the modeled object includes specified geometry with which generatively designed geometry will connect, and wherein the load cases include at least one in-use load case for the physical structure and at least one subtractive-manufacturing load case associated with the specified geometry and with a subtractive manufacturing system; producing the generatively designed geometry in the design space for the modelled object in accordance with the load cases for physical simulation of the modelled object and the design criteria for the modeled object; and providing the modeled object with the generatively designed geometry for use in manufacturing the physical structure.
US11200350B2
This invention provides a method for providing trusted display to security sensitive applications on untrusted computing platforms. This invention has a minimal trusted code base and maintains full compatibility with the computing platforms, including their software and hardware. The core of the invention is a GPU separation kernel that (1) defines different types of GPU objects, (2) mediates access to security-sensitive GPU objects, and (3) emulates accesses to security-sensitive GPU objects whenever required by computing platform compatibility.
US11200347B1
Systems and methods for encrypted processing are provided. For example, an apparatus for encrypted processing includes: an input interface adapted to receive input from a device; an encrypted processor connected to the input interface; a program store control connected to the encrypted processor, the program store control controlling use of and access to at least two program stores, where at least one program store acts as a primary program store and at least one program store acts as a back-up program store; and an output interface connected to the encrypted processor for outputting at least one of commands or data; where the encrypted processor is programmed to: receive and validate a request; determine whether a valid request is a program update request for a first program; and initiate a lock mechanism into a locked state.
US11200341B2
A consent receipt management system may, for example, be configured to track data on behalf of an entity that collects and/or processes persona data related to: (1) who consented to the processing or collection of personal data; (2) when the consent was given (e.g., a date and time); (3) what information was provided to the consenter at the time of consent (e.g., a privacy policy, what personal data would be collected following the provision of the consent, for what purpose that personal data would be collected, etc.); (4) how consent was received (e.g., one or more copies of a data capture form, webform, etc. via which consent was provided by the consenter); (5) when consent was withdrawn (e.g., a date and time of consent withdrawal if the consenter withdraws consent); and/or (6) any other suitable data related to receipt or withdrawal of consent.
US11200336B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described for identifying potential identity fraud by tracking a user's typical communication patterns. If a new communication is received from someone who purports to be a trusted user, but the communication exhibits communication traits that are not typical for the user, additional identity fraud prevention steps may be taken.
US11200327B1
Disclosed are methods and systems that include receiving updated operating system information, encrypting the updated operating system information, and updating a map file. The updated operating system information is received at an encryption virtual machine. The encrypting the updated operating system information results in the encrypted updated operating system information. The encrypting the updated operating system information is managed by the encryption virtual machine. The updated operating system information is encrypted in response to receipt of the updated operating system information. The updated operating system information is encrypted using an encryption key. In certain embodiments, the updating includes storing operating system metadata in the map file (where the operating system metadata is associated with the encrypted updated operating system information) and storing the encryption key in the map file (where the storing the encryption key in the map file associates the encryption key with the operating system metadata).
US11200325B2
Embodiments disclosed herein identify a first data asset that is associated with a non-optimized security configuration, based at least in part on metadata associated with the first data asset. Additionally, an optimized security configuration is generated for the first data asset by processing the metadata associated with the first data asset using one or more machine learning models. Furthermore, the optimized security configuration is applied to the first data asset.
US11200322B2
A method of detecting a cold-boot attack on an integrated circuit, including the steps of: periodically sampling a signal delivered by at least one ring oscillator; and verifying that the proportion of states “1” and of states “0” of the result of the sampling is within a range of values.
US11200312B1
A dual lock step processor system includes a first processor connected to a first memory, a second processor connected to a second memory, compiler engine, a first instruction engine operably connected to a first memory, and a second instruction engine operably connected to a second memory. The first instruction engine is configured to store a program value; encode the first program value using a first differential encoding and the compiler engine to generate a first encoded program value; and write the first encoded program value into a first address location of a plurality of first address locations. The second instruction engine is configured to store a program value; to encode the first program value using a second differential encoding and the compiler engine to generate a second encoded program value and write the second encoded program value into a second address location of a plurality of second address locations corresponding to the first selected address location.
US11200306B1
A method for authenticating a user includes transmitting, from a first electronic device at a first location via a first communications link, first biometric information of a first user, authenticating a first identity of the first user for a transaction associated with an item, transmitting, from a second electronic device at a second location via a second communications link, second biometric information of a second user, authenticating a second identity of the second user located at the second location that is different from the first location, verifying that the first user at the first location corresponds to the second user at the second location, and authorizing access to the item at the second location, responsive to verifying by the server that the first user at the first location corresponds to the second user at the second location. Related systems, devices and computer program products are also described.
US11200304B2
In devices that determine levels of substance use, a substance level in a test sample provided to the testing device by a test subject is determined. A sequence of images are captured to include a portion of the face of the test subject providing the test sample and a display of the testing device. A value indicative of the substance level detected within the test sample is determined. A validity indicator indicating validity of the value indicative of the substance level is determined. A current location is determined. The value indicative of the substance level, the validity indicator, and the current location are sent to a remote server.
US11200294B2
The present disclosure describes page updating methods and display devices. The method includes displaying, by a display device in a shopping mall mode, a first presentation page as an overlay on a user interface of the display device. The first presentation page comprises a first presentation file, and the first presentation file corresponds to a first URL. The method includes sending, by the display device, an update message associated with a web page presentation to a web application on the display device; generating, by the display device, a second URL based on the first URL and the update message, the update message indicating that the first presentation file is updated to a second presentation file; obtaining, by the display device, the second presentation file according to the second URL; and updating, by the display device, the first presentation page to a second presentation page based on the second presentation file.
US11200291B2
A computer-implemented method for creating a web programming interface (API) description may include parsing an API usage dataset with a processor to identify a plurality of nodes in each of a plurality of uniform resource locators (URLs), and tagging path parameters for the plurality of nodes. Tagging the path parameters may include identifying, with the processor, which nodes are static parts of the URLs, and identifying, with the processor, which of the nodes are path parameters for the URLs. The method may further include aggregating, with the processor, a plurality of node types based on the tagged path parameters and the static parts of the URLs, and outputting, via the processor, an API description based on the aggregated plurality of node types.
US11200290B2
A method for user-oriented information search and information gathering using a backend system and a frontend system includes: providing a search query element to the frontend system; generating, initializing, or instantiating an information queue element related to at least one type of relevant information element associated with the search query element; feeding the content of the information queue element to at least one queue consumer element related to the information queue element, wherein potentially relevant information elements are gathered or searched by the at least one queue consumer element related to the information queue element; and feeding the potentially relevant information elements to a processing element. The processing element, by using information stored in a database element, performs a validation on the potentially relevant information elements to obtain relevant information elements.
US11200280B2
Systems and methods for storing and retrieving geospatial data in a geographic information system are provided. Geospatial data can be spatially partitioned along axes of a spherical coordinate system associated with a virtual globe or other spheroid into a plurality of discrete geospatial volumes pursuant to a hierarchical spatial partitioning scheme. For instance, geospatial data can be spatially partitioned into geospatial volumes along surfaces of constant latitude, longitude, and altitude defined by the spherical coordinate system. The discrete geospatial volumes can be stored as nodes in a hierarchical tree data structure. Additional methods are provided for portioning geospatial objects, such as tiles or discrete geospatial volumes, in tritree to reduce polar distortions.
US11200276B2
Provided is a search system which is configured to search for a registered vector being similar to an input vector among a plurality of registered vectors, on the basis of a degree of similarity between an input vector and a registered vector. The search system includes a partial similarity calculation unit that calculates a degree of partial similarity which is the degree of similarity concerning some of one or more dimensions of the input vector and the registered vector, a limit calculation unit that calculates, on the basis of the degree of partial similarity, an upper limit of the degree of similarity that is expected when the degree of similarity is calculated, and a rejection decision unit that decides, on the basis of the upper limit of the degree of similarity, whether or not to reject the registered vector from a candidate for a search result.
US11200274B2
A system and method for providing search results is disclosed. One embodiment includes first presenting an image containing a product to a user and providing the user with a user interface for selecting the image, or a portion of the image associated with the product, from among several images. Search results are generated by searching for at least one characteristic based on one tag applied to the image or portion of the image in a database associated with a brand or designer identified in a second tag. In another embodiment, a user is provided with an upload interface to upload and tag an image so that the image is tagged for use in generating and providing search results to an independent user.
US11200272B2
Systems, methods and computer program products that facilitate dynamic playlist priority in a vehicle based upon user preferences and context. According to an embodiment, a system comprises a processor that executes computer executable components stored in at least one memory, a compilation component that receives content in a vehicle, an assessment component that respectively classifies subsets of the content, a ranking component that ranks relevancy of the classified subsets of content based upon preferences and context of a user in the vehicle, a content playback component that plays the subsets of classified content based upon relevancy ranking, a prioritization component that dynamically prioritizes a first subset of the content based upon the context of the user or context of a sender of the first subset of content, wherein the first subset of content comprises extrinsic data, and an interrupt component that interrupts playback of the subsets of classified content based upon the dynamic prioritization.
US11200267B2
A system for automated classifying of electronic messages is disclosed. The system may receive an electronic message comprising a text including a message body and a metadata. The system may determine a case status based on the metadata and extract a set of events form the message body in response to the case status. The system may determine a case type based on the set of events and a set of case types. The system may generate a new case event in a case management system based on the case type.
US11200265B2
A narrative response generator receives a user data query specifying variables and data sources from which to extract information desired by a user. The narrative response presents the information desired by the user in a non-textual format such as graphs and a textual format such as one or more paraphrases that are automatically generated by a sentence struct model. The sentence struct model generates context free grammar (CFG) which provides templates for generating word sequences that contain natural language words and placeholders. The placeholders are replaced with values obtained from the user data query for generating grammatically-accurate, complete paraphrases. The narrative response may additionally include information extracted from external data sources.
US11200264B2
The system receives a voice query at an audio interface and converts the voice query to text. The system identifies entities included in the query based on comparison to an information graph, as well as dynamic types based on the structure and format of the query. The system can determine dynamic types by analyzing parts of speech, articles, parts of speech combinations, parts of speech order, influential features, and comparisons of these aspects to references. The system combines tags associated with the identified entities and tags associated with the dynamic types to generate query interpretations. The system compares the interpretations to reference templates, and selects among the query interpretations using predetermined criteria. A search query is generated based on the selected interpretation. The system retrieves content or associated identifiers, updates metadata, updates reference information, or a combination thereof. Accordingly, the system responds to queries that include non-static types.
US11200263B2
Techniques facilitating automatic feature extraction from a relational database are provided. In an embodiment, a method can include generating an entity graph based on a relational database, wherein the entity graph comprises a first node associated with a first table in the relational database and a second node associated with a second table in the relational database. In another embodiment, the method can include joining the first table and the second table based on an edge between the first table and the second table defined by the entity graph, wherein a resulting joined table is connected by a column of data. In another embodiment, the method can include extracting a feature from the column of data using a data mining algorithm selected from a set of data mining algorithms based on a type of data in the column of data.
US11200261B2
Disclosed is a system for retrieving data records from database arrangement based on search query. The database arrangement comprises plurality of data records that are associated with at least one concept. The system comprises ontological databank and processing arrangement. The ontological databank comprises plurality of concept buckets comprising plurality of concepts. The ontological databank is structured using structuring arrangement communicably coupled to ontological databank. The structuring arrangement comprises classification module to classify plurality of concepts, variant module to generate lexical variants of plurality of concepts, and normalization module to determine validity of plurality of concepts and association of new concept with one of plurality of concept buckets. The processing arrangement is operable to receive search query, process search query based on ontological databank, retrieve data records from database arrangement based on processed search query, and provide retrieved data records on computing device.
US11200259B2
Provided is a system and method for processing contract documents. The method includes parsing a first contract document to identify a plurality of clauses in the first contract document, each clause of the plurality of clauses including a sequence of words, generating a plurality of representation vectors based on the first contract document and at least one embedding model, wherein each representation vector of the plurality of representation vectors is generated based on a separate clause of at least a subset of clauses of the plurality of clauses, comparing each representation vector of the plurality of representation vectors with a second plurality of representation vectors stored in a vector database, and generating output data based on the representation vectors and the first contract document.
US11200256B2
A computer-implemented method for increasing record availability on a distributed database system implementing multiple partitioning strategies includes identifying first processing devices of a distributed database system for storing one or more first records in accordance with multiple partitioning strategies, determining that at least two of the first processing devices are identified for storing a given one of the one or more first records, and selecting one or more new processing devices of the distributed database system for storing the given first record to achieve sufficiently high availability of the given record within the distributed database system.
US11200253B2
Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided that enable immediate access to data associated with a source blob. The foregoing is achieved by creating a copy-on-read blob based on the source blob and a link blob based on the copy-on-read blob for each virtual machine to be deployed. When creating the copy-on-read blob, the source blob is not copied. Instead, data from the source blob is copied to the copy-on-read blob upon request by a virtual machine. Subsequent requests for that data are retrieved from the copy-on-read blob. Each link blob stores write data provided by its corresponding virtual machine. When a virtual machine requests data, its corresponding link blob is checked for the data. If the data is not stored therein, the copy-on-read blob is checked for the data. If the copy-on-read blob does not store the data, the data is retrieved from the source blob.
US11200246B2
The disclosed embodiments include a method performed by a data intake and query system. The method includes ingesting metrics including respective key values and respective measured values, where the respective key values include a primary key value of a selected primary key. The method further includes generating a hash value for each metric by processing each primary key value with a hashing function, and indexing each metric in association with an existing hash bucket having a matching hash value.
US11200243B2
Systems and methods provide a media guidance application that recognizes a plurality of natural language search queries for identifying a set of search results. For example, a user may want to determine when the Yankees are playing their next baseball game. The user may structure their query in multiple ways, such as, “When are the Yankees playing?” “What time is the Yankees game?” “When is the next Yankees baseball game?” The user would expect the same result, a description of when the Yankees are playing, regardless of how the query is structured. The systems and methods enable a user to use a plurality of search queries when searching for items or information to get desired results.
US11200242B2
Embodiments for medical condition communication management by one or more processors. A maturity score and medical condition acceptance score relating to a medical condition of a user may be estimated according to data collected from one or more devices associated with the user. The maturity score may represent a measure of an emotional state, age, and cognitive reasoning ability. The medical condition acceptance score may represent a measure of understanding and acceptance capability of the medical condition. One or more search results responsive to a search query related to the medical condition submitted by the user may be adjusted according to the maturity score, the medical condition acceptance score, and an appropriateness of communications for the one or more search results based on a plurality of identified contextual factors.
US11200237B2
Some embodiments are associated with an analytics cloud environment. A user interface may facilitate generation of an advanced formulas planning script by a user. The advanced formulas planning script may be stored, for example, in a planning script data store. An analytic data cube may contain a multidimensional dataset usable for analysis via queries. A conversion platform may receive the advanced formulas planning script and automatically create a structured query language stored procedure based on the advanced formulas planning script. The conversion platform may then execute the structured query language stored procedure on the analytic data cube to calculate a result comprising a base cell and at least one cell has a different point of view associated with the analytic data cube as compared to a calculation source. The calculated result man then be provided to the user.
US11200226B2
One or more embodiments of the present specification provide data retrieving and recording methods and apparatuses, and electronic devices. One method comprises: identifying, by a blockchain node in a blockchain network, a data retrieving and recording request for a smart contract, wherein the data retrieving and recording request is configured to trigger a data retrieving and recording operation on a target object in a data set comprised in the smart contract; and parsing, by the blockchain node and to generate a parsing result, metadata comprised in the smart contract, wherein the parsing performs instructions comprised in the smart contract, and wherein the parsing result indicates a storage field corresponding to the target object in the data set for implementing the data retrieving and recording operation on the storage field.
US11200202B2
Legal document processing (review/summarization/analysis) is a complex and intellectually intensive process. The quality process required for accomplishing this task needs to ensure acceptable levels of accuracy to the customer along with speed and efficiency. Defining of Error Codes, measurement of Error Codes and the related analysis, calibration of results and the analysis of deviations and similarities and the sampling strategy associated with unit selection are critical in ensuring a high acceptable quality level. A system and method of searching through documents in order to find documents relevant to a defined inquiry, whereby the number of irrelevant documents produced and number of relevant documents overlooked is minimized. A system and method of using scoring and quality evaluations for a given search project are described.
US11200200B2
Merging directory information from a user directory to a common directory includes based on a rule associated with contents of a user directory of a local database, extracting a department indicator from the user directory, mapping the department indicator to a corresponding user record in a common directory of a registry database, and based on the department indicator, marking the user record in the common directory with a department that corresponds to the contents from the user directory with a department for controlling access to that user record in the registry database.
US11200198B2
The described technology is generally directed towards domains that data services can use to collect files of a global filesystem namespace into groups, and domains that can be used to exclude certain files or metadata. A data service (a domain patron) creates a domain, e.g., for a particular directory, and a domain manager associates files under that directory with domain membership information. The data service can relate exclusion information to the domain, e.g., to exclude part of the directory. This can be done by an exclusion domain instance, e.g., a child to a parent domain, or can be done in metadata, by having the data service (e.g., a snapshot data service) exclude certain metadata such as snapshot identifiers from a larger set of snapshot identifiers.
US11200189B2
A technique includes holding a bus interface of a removable device that is inserted into a connector of a computer system in a state to prevent the device from communicating with a communication link. The communication link is coupled to the connector and is associated with operating system access to the device. The method includes a baseboard management controller communicating with the device using a channel other than the communication link while the bus interface of the device is held in the state; the baseboard management controller performing a security operation corresponding to the device based on the communication with the device using the channel; and the baseboard management controller releasing the bus interface of the device from the state to allow the device to communicate with the communication link in response to the baseboard management controller completing the security operation.
US11200183B2
Implementations of the disclosure provide processing device comprising: an interrupt managing circuit to receive an interrupt message directed to an application container from an assignable interface (AI) of an input/output (I/O) device. The interrupt message comprises an address space identifier (ASID), an interrupt handle and a flag to distinguish the interrupt message from a direct memory access (DMA) message. Responsive to receiving the interrupt message, a data structure associated with the interrupt managing circuit is identified. An interrupt entry from the data structure is selected based on the interrupt handle. It is determined that the ASID associated with the interrupt message matches an ASID in the interrupt entry. Thereupon, an interrupt in the interrupt entry is forwarded to the application container.
US11200176B2
A system and method are described for flushing a specified region of a memory side cache (MSC) within a multi-level memory hierarchy. For example, a computer system according to one embodiment comprises: a memory subsystem comprised of a non-volatile system memory and a volatile memory side cache (MSC) for caching portions of the non-volatile system memory; and a flush engine for flushing a specified region of the MSC to the non-volatile system memory in response to a deactivation condition associated with the specified region of the MSC.
US11200172B2
A storage system includes a plurality of controllers and a plurality of storage drives. A first cache area and a second cache area are set in a memory. The first cache area is permitted to be written data by the plurality of storage drives, and the second cache area is not permitted to be written data by the plurality of storage drives. In a case where the plurality of controllers duplicates data stored in the cache area to a cache area of another controller for redundancy, the plurality of controllers causes the data to be redundant in a second cache area of the other controller in a case where the data is stored in the first cache area, and causes the data to be redundant in a first cache area of the other controller in a case where the data is stored in the second cache area.
US11200164B2
Fast modern interconnects may be exploited to control when garbage collection is performed on the nodes (e.g., virtual machines, such as JVMs) of a distributed system in which the individual processes communicate with each other and in which the heap memory is not shared. A garbage collection coordination mechanism (a coordinator implemented by a dedicated process on a single node or distributed across the nodes) may obtain or receive state information from each of the nodes and apply one of multiple supported garbage collection coordination policies to reduce the impact of garbage collection pauses, dependent on that information. For example, if the information indicates that a node is about to collect, the coordinator may trigger a collection on all of the other nodes (e.g., synchronizing collection pauses for batch-mode applications where throughput is important) or may steer requests to other nodes (e.g., for interactive applications where request latencies are important).
US11200163B2
Provided herein may be a controller and a method of operating the controller. The controller may include a central processing unit configured to generate a command, manage a logical address using a notation system, a radix of which is greater than that of a binary notation system, and output the command and the logical address, and a flash interface layer configured to queue the command depending on workloads of dies, translate the logical address into a physical address, and output the command and the physical address through a selected channel.
US11200162B2
The present disclosure generally relates to methods of operating storage devices. The storage device comprises a controller, random-access memory (RAM), and a NVM unit, where in the NVM unit comprises a plurality of zones. The RAM unit comprises a logical to physical address (L2P) table for the plurality of zones. The L2P table comprises pointers that are associated with a logical block address (LBA) and the physical location of the data stored in the NVM. The L2P table comprises one pointer per erase block or zone. When a command is received to read data within the NVM, the controller reads the L2P table to determine the LBA and associated pointer of the data. The controller can then determine which zone or erase block the data is stored in, and calculates various offsets of wordlines, pages, and page addresses to find the exact location of the data in the NVM.
US11200137B1
Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to systems and methods for determining execution of failure prediction models and duration prediction models for a sensor system. Systems and methods can involve receiving streaming data from one or more sensors and for a failure prediction model processing the streaming data indicating a predicted failure with a probability higher than a threshold, obtaining a duration of the predicted failure from a duration prediction model configured to predict durations of detected failures based on the streaming data; deactivating the failure prediction model when the predicted failure occurs; and determining a time to reactivate the failure prediction model based on the obtained duration of the predicted failure.
US11200129B2
A method for evaluating an electronic design under test may be performed in an environment that includes a functional verification test bench having at least one verification component coupled to the electronic design under test. The method includes provisioning the functional verification test bench to provide protocol-agnostic performance data for activity of the electronic design under test during functional verification testing of the electronic design under test. The method further includes capturing at least a part of the protocol-agnostic performance data from the at least one verification component, and calculating, from the protocol-agnostic performance data, a performance measurement for the electronic design under test.
US11200123B2
A consensus process recovery method and a related node, where the method includes determining, by a plurality of nodes, a target instance from one or more secondary instances, where a throughput of the target instance is higher than a throughput of a primary instance, and obtaining, by a first node and all second nodes, a consensus to replace the primary instance with the target instance as a new primary instance, where the second nodes are backup nodes running the target instance, and the first node is a primary node running the target instance.
US11200104B2
Racks and rack pods to support a plurality of sleds are disclosed herein. Switches for use in the rack pods are also disclosed herein. A rack comprises a plurality of sleds and a plurality of electromagnetic waveguides. The plurality of sleds are vertically spaced from one another. The plurality of electromagnetic waveguides communicate data signals between the plurality of sleds.
US11200101B2
Embodiments of the present application relate to a method, apparatus, and system for waking up an app. The method includes adding an application (app) to a wake-up alarm group comprising a plurality of apps, adjusting a plurality of alarm wake-up times corresponding to the plurality of apps, wherein the plurality of alarm wake-up times corresponding to the plurality of apps are adjusted to be consistent, and waking up the plurality of apps belonging to the wake-up alarm group according to the adjusted alarm wake-up times corresponding to the plurality of apps belonging to the wake-up alarm group.
US11200098B2
A technique for operating a system including a plurality of processors and a shared resource includes executing a first instruction by a first processor of the plurality of processors. The first instruction generates a reservation of the shared resource for the first processor. The technique includes, after generating the reservation of the shared resource for the first processor, executing a spin lock by the first processor until successful execution of a second instruction acquires a lock of the shared resource. The technique includes disabling interrupts of the first processor in response to an indicator of the successful execution of the second instruction. The first instruction may be a load and reserve instruction and the second instruction may be a conditional store instruction.
US11200094B2
Techniques for safe guarding of functionalities of a computer program in an information processing system are disclosed. For example, a method comprises the following steps. A plurality of criticality levels is obtained for a plurality of functionalities of a computer program configured to execute on a computer system, wherein the computer system comprises one or more resources usable to execute the computer program. Data is collected for the plurality of functionalities of the computer program. Usage of the one or more resources for executing the plurality of functionalities of the computer program for a given set of data is predicted. Execution of a portion of the plurality of functionalities of the computer program is ensured based on the predicted usage of the one or more resources and the criticality level for each of the plurality of functionalities.
US11200090B2
Systems and methods for identifying memory devices for swapping virtual machine memory pages. An example method may comprise: identifying, by a processing device, a workload type associated with a workload being executed by a computer system; identifying a memory device associated with the workload type; evaluating a memory pressure metric reflecting a period of time during which an application being executed by the computer system has been blocked by a memory allocation operation; and responsive to determining that the memory pressure metric exceeds a threshold value, allocating a memory block on the identified memory device.
