US11240843B2
The disclosed subject matter is directed towards a clear channel assessment procedure based on a common preamble, such as for use with 3GPP and IEEE 802.11 technologies, or any other radio technology, including for use in the 6 GHz band. Detection of the common preamble is based on detecting known sequences in signal part, which can be detected without decoding the preamble's payload (channel) part to determine an ongoing transmission's duration. If an ongoing transmission is detected, subsequent energy detection monitoring is performed to determine when transmission ends, which can use a different energy detection threshold from what is used in the initial clear channel assessment's energy detection. The technology facilitates the usage of different sampling rates by different radio technologies that work concurrently in the same unlicensed band, by correlating a received preamble with a stored preamble that accounts for deterministic distortions arising from the different sampling rates.
US11240841B2
Various aspects of the disclosure relate to use of a default communication configuration for cross carrier wireless communication. For example, a wireless communication device such as a user equipment (UE) may use a default communication configuration that includes quasi-colocation information (e.g., a default CORESET configuration) for communication on a secondary component carrier (SCC). The default communication configuration may be used, for example, in scenarios where a CORESET is not defined for the SCC and other configuration information is not available. For example, other configuration information might not be available due to a short time gap between a grant sent on a primary component carrier (PCC) and the communication on the SCC scheduled by the grant.
US11240837B2
A method for transmitting a scheduling request includes receiving, at a relay UE and from a remote UE, a sidelink control information. The relay UE is within a coverage area of a base station. The remote UE is outside of the coverage area. The relay UE is configured to relay transmissions from the remote UE to the base station, and the sidelink control information indicates a future transmission of a data packet over a sidelink channel. A scheduling request is transmitted to a base station. A scheduling grant that indicates an uplink resource is received from the base station. A data packet over the sidelink channel is received from the remote UE.
US11240832B2
A communication method is provided. In the method, if a first logical channel of a terminal device does not have an uplink resource for carrying a scheduling request (SR) and the terminal device is in a first SR state, remaining, by the terminal device, in the first SR state and/or a first buffer status report (BSR) state until data of the first logical channel and/or a BSR are/is sent, where the BSR is used to indicate buffer status information of a logical channel group including the first logical channel. When a logical channel of the terminal device does not have an uplink resource for carrying the scheduling request, a problem that the terminal device cannot obtain an uplink transmission resource can be resolved.
US11240823B2
A wireless communication method and a wireless communication device for managing multiple systems causing interference to a reference point, the device including one or more processors, the processors being able to: acquire a total amount of interference that is allowed to be caused by the multiple systems at the reference point, determined by another device. On the basis of the acquired total amount of interference, the method includes determining a communication resource for each of the multiple systems, such that the interference caused at the reference point by the multiple systems when communicating using the communication resources is different and the sum of interference caused by the multiple systems does not exceed the total amount of interference; and notifying each system of the corresponding communication resource determined for the system.
US11240822B2
A method for processing a network allocation vector (NAV) includes: terminating the receiving of a first radio frame when it is determined that a target receiving station of the first radio frame being received is not a first station; and updating an NAV of the first station or maintaining the NAV of the first station unchanged according to a remaining duration of the first radio frame and a first transmission opportunity duration carried in the first radio frame, where the remaining duration of the first radio frame is the transmission time used for transmitting the remaining part of the first radio frame after the receiving of the first radio frame is terminated. The technical solution solves the problem in the related art of collisions with hidden stations caused by an inaccurate NAV update in the existing art, thereby ensuring the accuracy of an NAV update and the fairness of transmission and channel contention, and reducing collisions among hidden stations.
US11240821B2
Resource management such as network radio resource management in wireless networks, is described in connection with different aspects.
US11240812B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a communication method and a communications device. The method includes: obtaining, by a first access network device, a first data block; performing network coding on the first data block to generate a plurality of first encoded data blocks; and performing, by the first access network device, offload processing on at least one first encoded data block in the plurality of first encoded data blocks. The offload processing includes: sending a part of the at least one first encoded data block to a second access network device, and directly sending, by using an air interface, another part of the at least one first encoded data block to the terminal device.
US11240804B2
A method, system, and device for resource block (RB) indexing in a user equipment (UE) is provided. In an embodiment, the method includes obtaining, at the UE, a UE-independent frequency reference point. The method also includes determining, by the UE, a UE-independent index of an RB according to the UE-independent frequency reference point.
US11240800B2
Apparatus and method are provided to determine the starting subframe of a data channel. In one novel aspect, the UE monitors one or more control channel candidates, which at least one of the control channel candidate occupies a plurality of the subframes. The UE detects a control channel intended for the UE, decodes the control channel and determines the starting subframe of the data channel based on the control channel and a known gap. In another novel aspect, the UE further obtains a subframe indicator from the control channel. The subframe indicator signals either the number of subframes between the starting subframe of the data channel and the starting subframe of the control channel, or the number of subframes of the control channel, or the starting subframe of the data channel. In another embodiment, predefined rule can be applied to the subframe indicator to determining the starting subframe of the data channel.
US11240793B2
The present disclosure relates to control information sending methods in a wireless communications system. In one example waveform control information sending method, a network device obtains control information that includes uplink transmission waveform indication information, and sends the control information to a terminal. After receiving the control information, the terminal determines, based on the control information, a waveform used to send uplink data.
US11240790B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for joining an IoT technology with a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transfer rate than a 4G system, and a system thereof. The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services (for example, a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car or a connected car, a health care, a digital education, retailing, security and safe-related service, etc.) on the basis of a 5G communication technology and an IoT related technology. The present disclosure relates to a wireless communication system, and to a method and an apparatus for smoothly providing a service in a communication system. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for transmitting and receiving downlink and uplink control information within a communication system.
US11240785B2
Provided is a method for a terminal for transmitting uplink control data. The method includes receiving, from a base station, at least one of UL control channel resource set configuration information and UL control channel transmission information, configuring an UL control channel including the UL control information based on at least one of the UL control channel resource set configuration information and the UL control channel transmission information, and transmitting the UL control channel to the base station. The UL control channel is configured with one or more UL control channel formats based on the number of symbols that configure the UL control channel.
US11240784B2
A method for performing a random access is provided. The method includes identifying a first downlink (DL) reception (RX) beam based on a measurement on a beam measurement signal, identifying a first uplink (UL) transmission (TX) beam corresponding to the identified first DL RX beam and transmitting at least one random access preamble for an RX sweeping at a base station, using the identified first UL TX beam based on a first power.
US11240777B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide a device positioning method and apparatus. The apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to determine at least one target user identifier (ID) that uses a target device to be positioned. The processing circuitry obtains a plurality of pieces of login information of the at least one target user ID where each piece of login information includes the respective target user ID, a device ID of a login device, and a login site. The processing circuitry further determines a target login site based on the plurality of pieces of login information, and positions the target device according to the target login site.
US11240776B2
Embodiments herein disclose a method performed by a wireless device for managing positioning of the wireless device in the wireless communications network. The wireless device obtains, from a network node, assistance data or configuration data comprising two or more positioning reference signal, PRS, configurations associated with a radio network node or a service area of the radio network node. The wireless device further indicates, to the network node, a scope of usage of the two or more PRS configurations with an indication.
US11240763B2
Provided is a communication control device including an obtaining unit that, in a radio communication system including a primary base station to which a primary terminal is connected, and a secondary base station to which a secondary terminal is connected by secondarily using a frequency channel for the primary base station, obtains at least one of a quality report containing a communication quality indicator measured by the primary terminal and a quality report containing a communication quality indicator measured by the secondary terminal, and an interference control unit that instructs the secondary base station to reduce transmission power, when it is determined that adverse interference is present in the radio communication system, based on the communication quality indicator contained in the quality report obtained by the obtaining unit.
US11240762B2
There is provided a method for determining an uplink transmit power. The method may be performed by a user equipment (UE) and comprise: receiving information on an additional reduction value for an uplink transmission power and determining the uplink transmit power based on the additional reduction value. The additional reduction value may be used to reduce a cross link interference (CLI). The uplink transmit power may be determined within a lower bound and an upper bound. Based on that the uplink transmission may be performed in a frequency range 1 (FR1) for 5G, the additional reduction value is applied to one or both of the lower bound and the upper bound.
US11240759B2
According to some embodiments, a method performed by a network node for transmitting a physical control format indicator channel (PCFICH) comprises determining a wireless device will benefit from increased reliability of a PCFICH between the network 5 node and the wireless device; and increasing the transmission power of the PCFICH transmitted between the network node and the wireless device. In particular embodiments, determining the wireless device will benefit from increased reliability of the PCFICH comprises determining the wireless device is operating in high-reliability mode.
US11240755B2
Systems and methods compare a first battery life value associated with a first wireless device with a second battery life value associated with a second wireless device. Based on the comparison, systems and methods adjust a communication schedule by allocating timeslots of the communication schedule to the first wireless device and transmit the adjusted communication schedule to the first wireless device.
US11240754B2
Provided is a method and apparatus for discontinuously transmitting/receiving packets for low-power consumption of a terminal in a cellular system for packet transmission. The present research provides a method and apparatus that can perform a low-power consuming operation when a terminal is in active state in a cellular system. The method for discontinuously transmitting/receiving packet data to reduce power consumption of a terminal in a cellular system, including the steps of: a) establishing discontinuous reception/transmission (DRX/DTX) parameters including discontinuous DRX/DTX cycle information for terminals operating in a transmission suspension mode, which is a sub-state of an active state; and b) performing DRX/DTX based on the DRX/DTX parameters in the terminals operating in the transmission suspension mode.
US11240751B2
According to one embodiment, a method of improved communication between a wheel unit sensor and a master controller is disclosed. In this particular embodiment, the method includes determining, by the wheel unit sensor, whether a receive schedule of the wheel unit sensor indicates that a receive window has started. The method also includes in response to determining that the receive schedule indicates that the receive window has started, turning-on, by the wheel unit sensor, for the duration of the receive window, a wireless receiver of the wheel unit sensor. In this embodiment, the wireless receiver is configured to receive messages from the master controller.
US11240746B1
A mesh network device includes a radio and an application processor coupled to the radio. The application processor includes a network association engine, which receives, receives, from a client consumption device, a requested content identifier; receives, from a first access point, a beacon including a first throughput of the network path between the network ingress device and the first access point; receives, from a second access point, a beacon including a second throughput of the network path between the network ingress device and the second access point; determines that the first throughput exceeds the second throughput; transmits, to the first access point, an association request followed by a digital content request comprising a requested content identifier; receives, from the first access point, the first requested digital content item; and causes the requested digital content item to be rendered by the client consumption device.
US11240740B2
A method related to the field of mobile communications technologies and for processing radio frequency resources includes detecting, by a terminal, a service mode of a first service that uses a primary subscriber identification module (SIM) card, where the service mode includes a real-time service mode and a non-real-time service mode, and reducing, by the terminal, a proportion of radio frequency (RF) resources occupied by a secondary SIM card when the service mode of the first service is the real-time service mode, where the primary SIM card is a card for performing the real-time service mode, and the secondary SIM card is a card, other than the primary SIM card, in a multi-SIM multi-standby terminal.
US11240737B2
Disclosed are a method of accessing a network in a wireless communication system and an apparatus therefor. Specifically, a method of accessing a network by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system may include receiving, from the network, a skip condition for an access barring check operation for a cell supported by a base station, determining whether the UE satisfies the skip condition for the access barring check operation, determining that access to the network on the cell has not been barred when the skip condition for the access barring check operation is satisfied, and performing the access to the network on the cell without performing the access barring check operation.
US11240730B2
The technologies described herein are generally directed toward shedding processing loads associated with route updates. According to an embodiment, a system can comprise a processor and a memory that can enable operations facilitating performance of operations including facilitating identifying a route update for a route to a destination node on a network. Additional operations can include evaluating a value of the route update, resulting in an evaluated value of the route update. Additional operations can include determining whether to communicate the route update to a second routing device based on the evaluated value of the route update.
US11240728B2
In some implementations, a message indicating a request for delivery of data to user equipment (UE) (e.g. an IoT device) operative for communications in a mobile network may be received from an application server. One or more first loading or congestion indication values indicative of a first loading or congestion at one or more first network nodes along a first mobile network route may be obtained. In addition, one or more second loading or congestion indication values indicative of a second loading or congestion at one or more second network nodes along a second mobile network route may be obtained. The first or the second mobile network route may be selected based on at least one of the one or more first and the second loading or congestion indication values. The data may be delivered to the UE over the selected mobile network route.
US11240726B2
A communication continuity device configured to automatically switch to alternative communication service providers and/or communication channels in response to a predicted or identified communication degradation event. The communication continuity device includes a communication hub configured to receive communication channels from different sources, and an intelligent switch device that is configured to select a communication channel to provide connectivity between an internal network within an organization and an external network outside of the organization.
US11240720B2
A user equipment (UE) includes a processor configured to execute computer-executable instructions to: determine whether a required network slice/service of the UE is supported by a network node; perform at least one of a plurality of mobility management procedures, when the required network slice/service of the UE is not supported by the network node; where the plurality of mobility management procedures includes: selecting another master node (MN), or intra-MN handover or inter-MN handover to another MN; selecting or reselecting a secondary node (SN), intra-SN handover to another SN, modifying an existing SN, or adding a new SN; changing the UE's anchor node to a target new radio (NR) next generation node B (gNB) or a target evolved long term evolution (eLTE) evolved node B (eNB).
US11240719B2
According to one aspect of the present invention, a method for supporting a user equipment (UE) handover of a target (T)-access and mobility management function (AMF) in a wireless communication system may comprise the steps of: receiving a UE context creation request message from a source (S)-AMF, wherein the UE context creation request message includes packet data unit (PDU) session identifiers (ID) as a handover target and single (S)-network slice selection assistance information (NSSAI) corresponding to each PDU session ID; determining whether the corresponding S-NSSAI is valid in the T-AMF; and sending, to a session management function (SMF), a PDU session update session management (SM) context request message only for a PDU session ID that corresponds to the S-NSSAI determined to be valid according to the determination result, out of the PDU session IDs.
US11240708B2
The embodiments of the disclosure provide a data transmission method. After determining multiple radio access technologies to be used, a sending device segments or concatenates data packets of a first service to be transmitted, so as to generate multiple segments of data packets. For the multiple radio access technologies, the sending device packages and numbers the multiple segments of data packets. The sending device sends the packaged data packets to a receiving device by using corresponding radio access technologies according to the numbers.
US11240700B2
Example communication methods and an access network device are described. One example method includes sending a first message to a second access network device by a first access network device, where the first message carries a quality of service (QoS) flow identification (QFI) for a split bearer corresponding to the first access network device and a QoS parameter corresponding to the QFI. The second access network device receives the first message from the first access network device, where the first message carries the QFI for the split bearer corresponding to the first access network device and the QoS parameter corresponding to the QFI. The second access network device sends a second message to the first access network device, where the second message is a response to the first message. The embodiments of this application are used to implement QoS control.
US11240698B2
The present disclosure provides a method executed at UE, including: determining initiation of a radio resource control (RRC) connection reestablishment procedure or leaving RRC connected state; and performing the following operations on each of at least one cell group: suspending a service data adaptation protocol (SDAP) operation and/or storing an SDAP configuration in a corresponding cell group configuration; or releasing an SDAP entity used to execute the SDAP operation and/or the SDAP configuration in the corresponding cell group configuration. The present disclosure further provides corresponding UE.
US11240688B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some systems, transmissions from a neighboring base station may interfere with downlink transmissions from a serving base station to a target user equipment (UE). To coordinate interference between the base stations (e.g., mitigate interference, stabilize interference, etc.), the serving base station may generate an interference coordination message and may transmit the message over-the-air (OTA) to one or more neighboring base stations. The message may include parameters indicating a coordination scheme for the neighboring base station(s) to use for modifying one or more scheduling decisions. The coordination scheme may be configured or dynamically selected and may include interfering beam fixation, interfering beam suppression, or interfering beam avoidance. A neighboring base station receiving the OTA interference coordination message may modify a scheduling decision to mitigate or stabilize interference when the serving base station is transmitting to the target UE.
US11240687B2
A method performed by a wireless device in a wireless communication system, includes receiving a threshold value and a hysteresis value from a network; while in a radio resource control (RRC) idle mode, detecting that a measured quality of a cell is below the threshold value by the hysteresis value; establishing an RRC connection with the network to enter an RRC connected mode; and performing relaying operation between the network and a remote wireless device, upon establishing the RRC connection with the network.
US11240684B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station may determine a degradation of a communication beam associated with a user equipment (UE). The base station may transmit a first signal identifying a beam switch occasion for the UE. The UE may receive a second signal identifying the beam switch occasion based on an outcome of the contention-based procedure. In some cases, the UE may transmit a third signal acknowledging the beam switch occasion during an acknowledgment opportunity based on the second signal, and may perform a beam switch during the beam switch occasion based on transmitting the third signal.
US11240680B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). An apparatus and method are provided for analyzing propagation characteristics in a wireless communication system. The method includes analyzing a first propagation characteristic relating to a first antenna element; and determining a second propagation characteristic relating to a second antenna element, based on the first propagation characteristic.
US11240679B2
The techniques describe herein involve receiving, from a user device, captured network data associated with an altitude and analyzing the network data at a network node. The network node can determine a coverage index associated with the altitude and compare the coverage index with an aggregated coverage index to determine a network response. The network response can include deploying and/or modifying a network component associated with the altitude. Additionally, the network node can update a multidimensional coverage map based on the coverage index and/or the network response.
US11240668B2
A universal identity and physical presence detection in the form of a personal, universal transponder signal is described. This signal allows a user to interact with devices in the user's environment without having to download vendor-specific apps, set up vendor-specific accounts or be limited to a siloed eco-system of a manufacturer brand. The universal signal representing an individual allows for devices and software to detect and query the beacon transmitting the signal for information relating to the user and augmented onto the physical environment. This provides a more personalized, efficient, and, in some instances, secure experience for the user. Embodiments focus on minimizing user workload to allow for seamless interactions with her environment. Various embodiments provide a truly universal signal for all users and devices to interact, wherein all parties benefit from a seamless and natural way of interacting in the physical world.
US11240659B2
Various embodiments are generally directed to techniques for providing improved privacy protection against vehicle tracking for connected vehicles of a vehicular network. For example, at least one road side unit may: identify a set of vehicles that require pseudonym changes and send an invitation for a pseudonym change event to each of the vehicles, determine at least a total number of the acceptances, determine whether the total number meets or exceeds a predetermined threshold number, send acknowledgement messages to the accepting vehicles if the threshold number is met, and form a vehicle group to coordinate the pseudonym change event during a privacy period. During the privacy period, the RSU and the vehicles may communicate with each other in a confidential and private manner via key-session-based unicast transmission, and coordinate transmission power and vehicle trajectory adjustments to maximize the benefits for safety and obfuscation for privacy.
US11240657B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for communicating a user equipment (UE)'s capabilities to a network entity, such as a base station. An example method that may be performed by a UE includes transmitting a first message to a network entity, the first message comprising a base identification and a delta flag, wherein the base identification identifies base capabilities of the UE, and wherein the delta flag indicates whether there is delta information to be shared by the UE, the delta information corresponding to changes to the base capabilities of the UE. The method further includes determining whether to transmit a third message to the network entity based on whether the UE receives a second message from the network entity, the second message comprising a full capability flag indicating whether the UE should send an indication of its full capabilities to the network entity.
US11240656B2
The present disclosure provides a method of controlling a display of a SIM card function menu, the method including: uninstalling a default function module in a system corresponding to a preset function; determining whether a preset command corresponding to a preset function is received from the SIM card; when the preset command from the SIM card corresponding to the preset function is received, loading a function module in the SIM card corresponding to the preset function and displaying a menu corresponding to the preset function. The present disclosure further provides a device having a storage function.
US11240648B2
Vehicles, systems and methods for establishing a mesh network among a plurality of vehicles are described herein. An electronic control unit configured to determine a current position and a future position of a vehicle, determine a current position and a future position of another vehicle, generate a mesh network including the vehicle and the another vehicle based on: (i) a comparison of the current position of the vehicle and the current position of the another vehicle; and (ii) a comparison of the future position of the vehicle and the future position of the another vehicle.
US11240640B2
A multicast bearer management method includes: in a process of receiving service data of a single cell-multimedia broadcast multicast service traffic channel SC-MTCH, suspending a single cell-multimedia broadcast multicast service point to multipoint radio bearer SC-MRB corresponding to the SC-MTCH when there is a first type of data to be received; and when reception of the first type of data is completed, restoring or releasing the SC-MRB based on a temporary mobile group identity TMGI and/or a session identity corresponding to the SC-MRB. The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention can prevent frequent release and establishment of SC-MRBs, thereby saving network resources and power of a terminal device.
US11240638B1
Aspects described herein include a method and related network device and computer program product for use in an environment comprising a plurality of network devices capable of providing broadcast services to one or more client devices. The method comprises receiving, from a client device, a neighbor report that indicates whether one or more network devices of the plurality of network devices are advertising broadcast services. The method further comprises generating, using the neighbor report, a broadcast optimization map that indicates a set of one or more of the plurality of network devices that will provide a broadest coverage of broadcast services within the environment. The set corresponds to a minimum count of network devices that supports all current broadcast streams by the one or more client devices.
US11240632B2
To conserve energy associated with bi-directional communications with network devices (e.g., access point, router, long-range (LoRa) access point, edge device, etc.), and to limit data/information processing resources associated with such bi-directional communications, a user device (e.g., a data collection device, an Internet of Things (IoT) device, an end device, a low-power device, a sensor, etc.) may determine its location (e.g., geolocation, etc.). The user device may use mapping information that identifies each network device within a geographical area to identify locations of network devices within a communication range of the user device. The user device may determine its own location based on the locations of the network devices within the communication range.
US11240631B2
A computer-implemented method of distributing location-based message contents over a messaging system comprises, for each message of a set of messages, obtaining a message content, defining for the message a multiplicity of message locations, and adding the message content and the defined locations to a message distribution database or set of linked databases that is or are searchable by location. The method further comprises receiving from a consumer device a consumer update request including a location of the consumer device or a consumer defined location, searching the database using the consumer device location or consumer defined location to identify, for each of one or more of said messages, a single message location that is within a first predefined range of the consumer device location or consumer defined location and/or that is closest to the consumer location or consumer defined location, and sending the identified message location(s) to the consumer device.
US11240628B2
System and methods for delivering geofence geometries to a physical map are disclosed. At least one user device is constructed and configured in communication with a server associated at least one database. The at least one user device receives data regarding a scale unit of the physical map and latitude and longitude of all corners of the physical map. The at least one user device converts the latitude and longitude to Internet Protocol (IP) addresses via communication with the server. The at least one user device queries the at least one database for at least one geofence geometry associated with the IP addresses. The at least one user device decouples the at least one geofence geometry from the at least one database and delivers as an overlay to the physical map.
US11240608B2
A method and a device for providing a hearing aid user guide is disclosed. The device comprises a communication interface and a processing unit connected to the communication interface. The processing unit is configured for: obtaining at least one hearing aid setting of a hearing aid via the communication interface; configuring a user guide based on the at least one hearing aid setting; and providing the user guide.
US11240605B2
A sounding device includes a frame, a vibration system and a magnetic circuit system with a magnetic gap. The vibration system includes a diaphragm and a voice coil inserted in the magnetic gap. The coil includes two first sides and two second sides. An elastic supporting member including an auxiliary diaphragm is fixed to the frame and spaced from the second sides. The magnetic circuit system includes a yoke, a main magnet fixed to the yoke, and a first auxiliary magnet and a second auxiliary magnet fixed to the yoke and spaced from the main magnet to form the magnetic gap. The second auxiliary magnet is spaced from the first side. An end portion of the second auxiliary magnet close to the auxiliary diaphragm is recessed to form an avoidance notch, and the auxiliary diaphragm extends along the first sides to form an extending portion located in the avoidance notch.
US11240590B2
A baby monitor system with noise filtering comprises a capture device and a display device, the capture device comprises a detection module, the display device comprises a DSP processor with ENC module and filters; the detection module detects target signals from baby and environmental noise signals to form audio streaming data, and transmits the audio streaming data to the display device in encrypted format; the display device converts the audio streaming data to analog signals and passes the analog signals to input of ENC module of the DSP processor; the ENC module identifies the noise signals and target signals from the analog signals, and activates the filters to filter the noise signals according to frequency bands of noise for attenuating noise sound and to pass the target signals with signal amplification for improving target sound.
US11240587B1
A pair of earbuds are configured with a rotatable knob that connects to the earbud's main body and, responsive to user adjustment, adjusts the size of the silicone ear tip on the fly. The rotatable knob connects to an end of the earbud's main body, and the silicone tip attaches to an opposite end of the rotatable knob. The ear tip, typically comprised of silicone, snugly conforms to a shape of the rotatable knob so that when an adjustment section of the rotatable knob adjusts, the adjustment reflects onto the tip. The earbud's main body is equipped with a receptacle to which connectors on the rotatable knob attach. The connector is part of the rotatable knob, which includes the adjustment section. Clockwise and counterclockwise rotation of the knob results in an adjustment to the adjustment section and the size of the knob's exterior.
US11240582B1
Disclosed is an ear tip. An ear tip according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure is mounted on one side of an earphone and configured to be inserted into a wearer's external auditory canal to stably fix a position of the earphone. According to the present disclosure, it is possible to provide the ear tip including a structure easily and physically removable from a mold without the aid of a separate chemical substance even though a material having high adhesiveness is applied in a manufacturing process.
US11240575B2
A speaker grill includes a diffusion plate, a base, and a support portion. The diffusion plate forms an opening facing a speaker and is arranged on an outer side of the opening so as to form a concave shape in a sound-emitting direction of the speaker. The base supports the diffusion plate at an outer circumference thereof. The support portion is provided at a front surface of the diffusion plate in the sound-emitting direction, having a support surface that covers at least a portion of the front surface of the diffusion plate, and having a plurality of partition walls forming slits in the sound-emitting direction. The support surface forms a virtual surface that covers an outer surface of the base.
US11240572B2
An optoelectronic switch for transferring an optical signal from a source external client device to a destination external client device, includes a leaf rack unit having thereon a leaf switch assembly including: a leaf switch having a plurality of fabric ports including a first fabric port and a second fabric port; and a fabric port multiplexer associated with the leaf switch, arranged to combine a first signal from the first fabric port and a second signal from the second fabric port onto a first connection, in the form of an outgoing first multiplexed signal. The optoelectronic switch further includes a spine rack unit including: a plurality of spine switches including a first spine switch having a fabric port and a second spine switch having a fabric port; and a demultiplexer arranged to separate an incoming multiplexed signal received from a first connection into a first signal and a second signal, the first signal directed towards the fabric port of the first spine switch and the second signal directed towards the fabric port of the second spine switch.
US11240571B2
Embodiments of present disclosure relates to a method and an interactive infomercial system for enabling interactive infomercials. In one embodiment, the system receives a request for U3I (unique infomercial identification information) associated with infomercial content. The system determines the availability of pregenerated U3I and generate remaining number of U3I based on determination of non-availability of the requested U3I. Further, the system updates the generated U3I with at least one redirect URL that is activated to enable the rendering of the infomercial content on a user device. The system may also generate personalized U3Is based on user data. Thus, the above disclosed system and method enables real-time interactive infomercials to the users such that the U3Is are generated and stored in advance when the system is available and updated with animation content on demand in less time and quick response time.
US11240555B2
Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for providing over-the-air (OTA) content to electronic devices. Some embodiments operate by automatically providing program listings of OTA content to the electronic devices, wherein the program listings are displayed in user interfaces of the electronic devices; receiving a user selection of particular OTA content from one of the electronic devices; receiving electronic signals containing OTA content from an antenna; processing, using a tuner, the received electronic signals to extract the particular OTA content therefrom; and transmitting the extracted OTA content to the electronic device for playback. In some embodiments, the extracted OTA content is stored in storage of said the electronic device for future on-demand playback to the user.
US11240544B1
System, device, and method of differentiating between streaming live-video flows and streaming non-live-video flows. A system includes a Live-Video/Non-Live-Video detector unit, connected and operable between a core cellular network and an entry node of the Internet. It monitors data packets exchanged over the core cellular network and over the Internet between a User Equipment (UE) device and a destination device. It determines that a particular communication flow between the UE device and the destination device is a streaming video communication flow. It further determines whether that streaming video communication flow is either (i) a streaming Live-Video communication flow or (ii) a streaming Non-Live-Video communication flow. It then triggers pre-defined operations, or enforces a particular traffic management or steering or shaping or charging policy, upon reaching a determination that the streaming video communication flow is a streaming Live-Video communication flow and not a streaming Non-Live-Video communication flow.
US11240543B2
Playback devices may receive video content and an age of a playlist associated with the video content. A playback device may use the age of the playlist to schedule output of video fragments of the video content. The playback device may adjust the output of the video content until an actual output time of a video fragment is substantially the same as the scheduled output time for the video fragment.
US11240540B2
A storage system and method for frame trimming to optimize network bandwidth are provided. In one embodiment, a controller of the storage system is configured to receive a request from a host for a video stream stored in the memory, wherein the request comprises an instruction to reduce a frame rate of the video stream due to bandwidth consumption on a network connecting the host and a playback system being more than a threshold; retrieve the video stream from the memory of the storage system; remove frames from the video stream to reduce the frame rate of the video stream per the instructions from the host; and send the reduced-frame-rate video stream to the host. Other embodiments are provided.
US11240534B2
An example device for coding video data includes a memory configured to store video data; and one or more processors implemented in circuitry and configured to: code a first codeword representing a selected transform scheme of a set of transform candidates of a multiple transform selection (MTS) scheme for a current block of video data, the selected transform scheme being a secondary transform of a set of available secondary transforms to be applied in addition to a primary transform; code a second codeword representing the secondary transform from the set of available secondary transforms; and apply the primary transform and the secondary transform during coding of residual data for the current block. The second codeword may be a value for a low-frequency non-separable transform (LFNST) syntax element.
US11240533B2
A video decoding method performed by a decoding apparatus according to the present document comprises the steps of: receiving a bit stream including residual information of a current block; deriving a specific number of the number of context encoding bins for context syntax elements for a current sub-block of the current block; decoding the context syntax elements for the current sub-block included in the residual information on the basis of the specific number; deriving transform coefficients for the current sub-block on the basis of the decoded context syntax elements; deriving residual samples for the current block on the basis of the transform coefficients; and generating a reconstructed picture on the basis of the residual samples.
US11240528B2
Systems and methods for performing motion vector prediction for video coding are disclosed. A motion vector predictor is determined based at least in part on motion information associated with a selected motion vector predictor origin and offset values corresponding to a selected sampling point. The sampling point is specified according to a set of direction and distance on a sampling map for the motion vector predictor origin.
US11240522B2
An image decoding device is provided for decoding a current block using a coded bitstream. The image decoding device includes a processor and a memory coupled to the processor. The processor of the image coding device performs operations, including obtaining a first data to determine a number of first points in a first picture to predict the current block, the first picture including the current block. The processor also performs selecting motion information for each of the first points, the motion information being one of candidates where the number of selected motion information being equal to the number of the first points determined by the first data. The processor further performs generating a prediction image to decode the current block based on the selected motion information.
US11240514B2
A method of and an apparatus for controlling intra prediction for decoding of a video sequence are provided. The method includes determining a ratio of a width to a height of a coding unit, and based on the determined ratio being different than one, adding, to a table including intra prediction modes corresponding to intra prediction angles, first wide angles toward a bottom-left edge of the coding unit, second wide angles toward a top-right edge of the coding unit, and additional intra prediction modes respectively corresponding to the first wide angles and the second wide angles. The method further includes selecting, for decoding the video sequence, one of the intra prediction modes and the additional intra prediction modes added to the table.
US11240509B2
A method for video processing is provided to include: performing a conversion between a current video block of a video that is a chroma block and a coded representation of the video, wherein, during the conversion, the current video block is constructed based on a first domain and a second domain, and wherein the conversion further includes applying a forward reshaping process and/or an inverse reshaping process to one or more chroma components of the current video block.
US11240508B2
An image decoding method performed by a decoding device according to the present document comprises a step of receiving a bitstream containing residual information, and a step of deriving a quantized transform coefficient for a current block on the basis of the residual information contained in the bitstream, wherein the residual information includes a context syntax element coded on the basis of the context, and if the size of a transformation block is changed as much as a sub-block region having a predetermined size and the current block is the last sub-block in the sub-block region and the last quantized transform coefficient is in the current block, then the step of deriving a quantized transform coefficient includes context-based decoding of the context syntax element on the basis of a predetermined maximum value for the context syntax element, wherein the maximum value is determined on the basis of the size of the sub-block region.
US11240506B2
A video encoding method includes deriving entry point information specifying an entry point of a substream for a picture. The entry point information may include a number syntax element representing a number of offset syntax elements in a slice header; an offset syntax element representing an entry point offset between in bytes two entry points; and a length syntax element representing a bits length of the offset syntax element. A value of the length syntax element plus one corresponds to the bits length of the offset syntax element and the length syntax element is signaled when the number of the offset syntax elements is larger than 0. A value of the number syntax element corresponds to the number of offset syntax elements in the slice header, and the offset syntax element is signaled when the number of the offset syntax elements is larger than 0.
US11240502B2
A system can include a video processing engine to determine an estimated Quantization Parameter (QP) for a row of Coding Tree Units (CTUs) in a frame of a video. The processing engine can encode the row of CTUs in the frame of the video. A CTU in the row of CTUs can be encoded with a QP equal to the estimated QP. The system includes another video processing engine to determine an estimated QP for another row of CTUs of the frame of the video. The other processing engine can set a running QP to the estimated QP for the row of CTUs prior to the given video processor encoding a last CTU in the given row of CTUs. The other processing engine can further encode the other row of CTUs. CTUs encoded by the video processing engine and the other video processing engine can be stored in memory.
US11240499B2
An apparatus for video decoding includes receiving and processing circuitry. The circuitry is configured to receive a bitstream including a syntax element associated with a parent coding unit (CU) in a picture indicating the parent CU is partitioned into a predefined set of child CUs without performing a recursive tree-structure-based partitioning, and process the child CUs according to the indication of the syntax element to reconstruct the picture. In an embodiment, at least two subdivisions need to be performed when the parent CU is partitioned using the recursive tree-structure-based partitioning in order to obtain the same set of child CUs. In an embodiment, at least one of the child CUs has a size larger than a minimum allowed CU size for partitioning the parent CU and includes no syntax element to indicate whether the at least one of the child CUs is to be further subdivided.
US11240492B2
Systems and methods disclosed for video compression, utilizing neural networks for predictive video coding. Processes employed combine multiple banks of neural networks with codec system components to carry out the coding and decoding of video data.
US11240481B2
A wallpaper system presents a first wallpaper image of a wallpaper video to a user and receives, via a user input device, one or both of: (i) a spatial user input selection, and (ii) a time user input selection from the user to apply to the wallpaper video. In response to detecting one or both of: (i) the spatial user input selection, and (ii) the time user input selection, the wallpaper system determines one or both of: (i) a respective spatial movement parameter within a wallpaper video associated with the spatial user input selection, and (ii) a respective time coordinate within the wallpaper video associated with the time user input selection. Wallpaper system presents, via the image display, a second wallpaper image associated with one or both of: (i) the respective spatial movement parameter, and (ii) the respective time coordinate.
US11240479B2
A stereoscopic video playback device is provided that processes original stereoscopic image pairs taken using parallel-axis cameras and provided for viewing under original viewing conditions by scaling and cropping to provide new viewing condition stereoscopic video on a single screen.
US11240478B2
The usual coding order according to which the reference view is coded prior to the dependent view, and within each view, a depth map is coded subsequent to the respective picture, may be maintained and does lead to a sacrifice of efficiency in performing inter-view redundancy removal by, for example, predicting motion data of the current picture of the dependent view from motion data of the current picture of the reference view. Rather, a depth map estimate of the current picture of the dependent view is obtained by warping the depth map of the current picture of the reference view into the dependent view, thereby enabling various methods of inter-view redundancy reduction more efficiently by bridging the gap between the views. According to another aspect, the following discovery is exploited: the overhead associated with an enlarged list of motion predictor candidates for a block of a picture of a dependent view is comparatively low compared to a gain in motion vector prediction quality resulting from an adding of a motion vector candidate which is determined from an, in disparity-compensated sense, co-located block of a reference view.
US11240472B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to perform remote monitoring are disclosed. Some example methods include adjusting an image capture rate at which an image sensor captures images based on a difference image containing differences between a first image of a first set of objects and a second image of a second set of objects. Example methods also include reducing a file size of the difference image using an edge detection technique and prioritizing one or more of a set of frames based on an amount of information contained in the frames. The frames are subdivisions of the image. In further example methods, the first image is taken at a first time and the second image is taken at a second, later time, and the method includes subtracting the first image from the second image to generate the difference image.
US11240467B1
A computer-implemented method for a timed one-on-one video conference call between a host and a guest, the video conference call presenting a shared conference call interface including a status bar defining a question portion and an answer portion, the computer-implemented method initiating a timer that defined a preset total time for the conference call and updating the status bar to progress through the question portion and the answer portion according to the timer, and a digital curtain that transitions across the shared conference call interface signaling the end of the video conference call when the timer reaches the preset total time.
US11240453B2
A photoelectric conversion device includes a plurality of pixels arranged in an array to form a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns. Each of the plurality of pixels includes a photon detection element that outputs an output signal generated by avalanche multiplication in accordance with incidence of a photon, a quench element connected to the photon detection element, a waveform shaper that is connected to the photon detection element and generates a detection signal based on the output signal, and a signal processing circuit that performs signal processing on the detection signal output from the waveform shaper. The signal processing circuit includes a counting unit that performs a counting process of counting the detection signal output from the waveform shaper, and a calculation unit that performs a predetermined calculation process on a count result output from the counting unit.
US11240450B2
Provided is a solid-state imaging element including a plurality of pixels that includes at least two phase difference detection pixels for focus detection. Each pixel has a stacked structure including a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements that are stacked on top of each other and absorb light beams different in wavelength from one another to generate electrical charges, and each phase difference detection pixel includes, in the stacked structure, a color filter that partially covers an upper face of one of the photoelectric conversion elements and absorbs a light beam with a specific wavelength.
US11240448B2
Provided is a solid-state imaging device. A comparator is configured to perform a first comparing operation of outputting a digital first comparison result signal obtained by processing the overflow charges overflowing from PD1 to FD1 in the storing period, a second comparing operation of outputting a digital second comparison result signal obtained by processing the charges stored in PD1 that are transferred to FD1 in the transfer period, and a third comparing operation of outputting a digital third comparison result signal obtained by processing the charges stored in PD1 that are transferred to FD1 in the transfer period and the charges stored in the charge storing part, and a memory control part controls whether or not to allow writing of the data corresponding to the third comparison result signal into a memory part, depending on the states of the first and second comparison result signals.
US11240441B2
The present disclosure provides a method, device, system and computer-program product for setting a lighting condition when an object is checked and a storage medium. The method includes that: the object is lighted by light sources capable of changing lighting parameters specifying the lighting condition when the object is captured, and the object with corresponding label data is captured by an image sensor under multiple such lighting parameters to obtain multiple captured images; estimation images of the object are generated on the basis of image data sets obtained by associating the captured images and the corresponding lighting parameters; and the estimation images and the corresponding label data are applied to learning of the machine learning model, and the lighting condition is set on the basis of a comparison result between an estimation result of a machine learning model and the label data. Therefore, operations are simplified.
US11240433B2
The present disclosure is directed to a snapshot multiframe imager having an aperture element having at least one aperture, an adjacently positioned random mask, an imaging element and a computer. The random mask has a plurality of micron scale apertures and receives light passing through the aperture element, which represents the spatial information from the scene being imaged, and generates a plurality of image frames encoded in a spatial domain. The imaging element may operate in a drift-scan mode receives the encoded image frames and generates a streaked pattern of electrons representing a plurality of images of the scene at a plurality of different times. The computer analyzes the streaked pattern of electrons and mathematically reconstructs the plurality of images.
US11240429B2
The present invention provides a target object elimination method based on a panoramic camera, the panoramic camera comprising at least two independent lenses, wherein the method comprises following steps: capturing one basic panoramic image by each of the independent lenses; recognizing a target object from each of the basic panoramic images; dividing each of the basic panoramic images into a plurality of image parts having a same or different size, wherein at least one of the image parts comprises the target object; deleting the one image part comprising the target object in each of the basic panoramic images; and combining all remaining image parts in each of the basic panoramic images to obtain a corrected panoramic image from which the target object is eliminated. By the present invention, the target object can be eliminated quickly and efficiently while ensuring the quality of the image.
US11240426B2
Pulsed hyperspectral, fluorescence, and laser mapping imaging in a light deficient environment is disclosed. A system includes an emitter for emitting pulses of electromagnetic radiation and an image sensor comprising a pixel array for sensing reflected electromagnetic radiation. The system includes a controller configured to synchronize timing of the emitter and the image sensor. The system is such that at least a portion of the pulses of electromagnetic radiation emitted by the emitter comprises one or more of a hyperspectral emission, a fluorescence emission, or a laser mapping pattern.
US11240423B2
A display control apparatus comprising a display control unit configured to perform control to display a display item indicating a degree of focus; a first obtainment unit configured to obtain size information of an image to be recorded; a second obtainment unit configured to obtain a defocus amount for a focus detection region; a determination unit configured to determine the degree of focus based on the defocus amount and the size information of the image to be recorded; and a change unit configured to change a display style of the display item based on the degree of focus determined by the determination unit.
US11240422B2
An imaging lens includes one or more lens elements configured to receive and focus light in a first wavelength range reflected off of one or more first objects onto an image plane, and to receive and focus light in a second wavelength range reflected off of one or more second objects onto the image plane. The imaging lens further includes an aperture stop and a filter positioned at the aperture stop. The filter includes a central region and an outer region surrounding the central region. The central region of the filter is characterized by a first transmission band in the first wavelength range and a second transmission band in the second wavelength range. The outer region of the filter is characterized by a third transmission band in the first wavelength range and substantially low transmittance values in the second wavelength range.
US11240417B1
Upload bandwidth to a remote device may vary depending on the location of a device transmitting information to the remote device. Location of an image capture device may be used to dynamically change the upload speed from the image capture device to the remote device.
US11240413B2
A voice coil motor strongly attached to the base of a camera module comprises the base and a casing. The casing and the base are interlocked with each other. The casing is a hollow structure. The casing comprises a top surface and a side wall surrounding the top surface. The side wall and the base are engaged with each other. The side wall is extended in parts to form at least one extending leg. The extending leg extends to a side of the base away from the top surface and is bent toward the base.
US11240409B2
An image capturing apparatus capable of suppressing an increase in the handling size thereof in a state in which cables are connected thereto. The image capturing apparatus is provided with a connection terminal section on a rear side of an image capturing apparatus body. The connection terminal section includes a plurality of first connector arrangement surfaces and first external connection terminals provided on the first connector arrangement surfaces, respectively. The first connector arrangement surfaces are arranged at respective locations not overlapping each other as viewed from a front-rear direction of the image capturing apparatus body and overlapping each other as viewed from a vertical direction of the image capturing apparatus body and are arranged such that the first connector arrangement surfaces face obliquely downward toward the rear of the image capturing apparatus body.
US11240408B2
In one embodiment, a device includes a device body that includes a touch-sensitive display and a processor. The device also includes a band coupled to the device body and an optical sensor in or on the band. The optical sensor faces outward from the band and captures images. The processor communicates with the optical sensor to process captured images.
US11240394B2
An information processing apparatus includes a controller that performs control so that a specific operation among operations performed on a second operation unit is invalidated in a state where an operation performed on a first operation unit is valid.
US11240384B2
An information processing apparatus includes an arrangement unit and a display unit. The arrangement unit arranges an image in a page. The display unit displays, on a display, a page image indicating the arrangement of the image in the page by the arrangement unit. Based on that an image selected by a user is arranged in a plurality of pages, the display unit displays a plurality of page images, each indicating arrangement of the selected image in each of the plurality of pages.
US11240379B2
A method of function prioritization in a multi-channel voice-datalink radio is provided. The method comprises suspending transmission of one or more data messages on a communication channel when transmission of a voice message is active on the communication channel, buffering the one or more data messages while the transmission of the voice message is active, and resuming transmission of the buffered one or more data messages on the communication channel when the transmission of the voice message ends.
US11240371B2
A method for determining a quality of voice transmitted by electrical signals between a first telecommunication terminal and a second telecommunication terminal in a telecommunication network, the method comprising: identifying a model type for the first telecommunication terminal and the second telecommunication terminal respectively; identifying at least one operating parameter for the telecommunication network; selecting at least one call aspect (i) of the transmitted voice wherein a quality of the transmitted voice shall be determined for the at least one call aspect; identifying a value of at least one quality parameter (KQIA/B, i, n) for the at least one call aspect (i) for at least one of the first telecommunication terminal and the second telecommunication terminal as a function of a value of at least one selected engineering parameter (KPIA/B) of the at least one telecommunication terminal as well as a function of the at least one operating parameter.
US11240370B1
Apparatuses and methods concerning routing of calls in an IPBX server are disclosed. As an example, one apparatus includes an IPBX server configured to route VoIP calls for a plurality of end-users having respective VoIP-enabled circuit devices communicatively coupled to the IPBX server via a communications network. A call data processing circuit is communicatively coupled to the IPBX server. The call data processing circuit is configured to receive call event messages corresponding to a plurality of end-users from the IPBX server and generate call models from the call event messages. The call data processing circuit also generates call summary metrics from the call models. In response to an input query, the call data processing circuit evaluates the call summary metrics for a parameter of interest specified in the input query to generate data for the parameter of interest.
US11240367B1
A human trafficking case management and mentoring system, Coming Home, is a centralized system that seamlessly links victims of human trafficking with a Coming Home trained and licensed case manager mentor via an app that is accessible to the victim via a mobile communications device. The Coming Home case manager mentor coordinates one or more supporting services based on the current situation of the victim. Forward looking services assist the victim in recovery from their life within a human trafficking environment. The app includes a plurality of configurable victim activated tools to facilitate victim access for the employment of emergency services and protective measures to facilitate the victim's safety while using the app. The victim activated tools may include a camouflage screen tool: a geo-fencing/tracking tool; a facial recognition tool; a reporting HT Distress reporting tool; and a direct 911 emergency tool.
US11240360B2
A computer-implemented method for determining potentially undesirable voices, according to some embodiments, includes: receiving a plurality of audio recordings, the plurality of audio recordings comprising voices associated with undesirable activity, and determining a plurality of audio components of each of the plurality of audio recordings. The method may further comprise generating a multi-dimensional vector of audio components, from the plurality of audio components, for each of the plurality of audio recordings to generate a plurality of multi-dimensional vectors of audio components, and comparing audio components between the plurality of multi-dimensional vectors of audio components to determine a plurality of clusters of multi-dimensional vectors, each cluster of the plurality of clusters comprising two or more of the plurality of multi-dimensional vectors of audio components, wherein each cluster of the plurality of clusters corresponds to a blacklisted voice. The method may further comprise receiving an audio recording or audio stream, and determining whether the audio recording or audio stream is associated with a voice associated with undesirable activity based on a comparison to the plurality of clusters.
US11240359B2
A protective phone case system enabling quick release coupling of an auxiliary grip with a phone case. Two arms enable couple of the auxiliary grip with a phone case. A push button is configured to interact with the arms to couple and detach from the phone case. Two rails may enable coupling of the auxiliary grip within an adjustment range.
US11240352B2
Robust Header Compression (RoHC) compressors and decompressors are provided. A RoHC compressor includes a memory and a processor. The memory stores multiple contexts and multiple codes or program instructions. The processor executes the codes or the program instructions to perform the following steps: receiving a header flow; freeing at least one of the contexts when free space of the memory is insufficient; compressing the header flow; and transmitting the compressed header flow.
US11240349B2
The present disclosure is directed to providing supplemental content to one or more client devices requesting multimedia content. The supplemental content may be determined or selected based on the availability of one or more device channels, such as a display, speakers, or other component of the one or more client devices capable of providing an output. The supplemental content may also be selected based on one or more characteristics of the requested multimedia content, such as a genre, subject matter, or duration. Furthermore, the supplemental content may be determined or selected based on the portions of the requested multimedia content that are the most prominent or significant, such as any audio content, any video content, and/or any textual content. The supplemental content may be provided to the one or more client devices such that it is displayed before, during, or after the display of the requested multimedia content.
US11240347B2
A device, system and method for sharing information in a card-based environment is provided. A display screen is controlled, via a first computing device of a first agency, to provide an incident card associated with a given incident managed by the first agency. A command is received to share information of the incident card with a second agency different from the first agency. A subset of the information is transmitted to a second computing device of the second agency. A display attribute, at the display screen, associated with the incident card, is controlled to indicate that the information thereof is at least partially shared with the second agency; and/or a shared incident card is generated in association with the incident card, the shared incident card visually distinguishable as including shared information relative to the incident card, and the shared incident card including at least the subset of the information.
US11240344B2
A system includes persistent storage configured to store definitions of interfaces of remote software applications, and a software application configured to define the interfaces. The software application identifies a remote software application system by which the remote software applications are exposed for execution, and obtains therefrom a specification of a particular remote software application. The software application determines, based on the specification, (i) objects accessible by way of the particular remote software application and (ii) functions invokable to interact with the objects. The software application generates actions that define an interface for the particular remote software application. Each action is configured to invoke execution of one or more of the functions by transmitting a request to the remote software application system and, in response, receive, by way of the remote software application system, an output of the one or more of the functions. The actions are stored in the persistent storage to define the interface.
US11240343B2
Techniques for operating a communication platform herein can be used to select a profile to be used for configuration one or more parameters of the communication session. These techniques include receiving a signal from a user device to initiate a communication session between a first party and a second party via the communications platform; determining a context of the communication session based on contact information, calendar information, or both associated with the first party, the second party, or both; selecting a profile from a plurality of profiles based on the context; and handling the requested communication session according to the selected profile by setting one or more communications parameters based on the selected profile.
US11240341B2
Methods and apparatus are disclosed to measure exposure to streaming media using media watermarks. An example apparatus includes a memory, and a logic circuit to cause transmission of media, received from a service provider, to a media device in response to a first request for the media, the media including instructions to cause the media device to (1) determine a source Uniform Resource Locator, (2) determine a current playback time of the media, and (3) transmit a second request for metadata of the media to the apparatus, and metadata associated with the source Uniform Resource Locator and the current playback time of the media, the second request including the source Uniform Resource Locator of the media and the current playback time of the media. Example systems, methods, and apparatus disclosed herein enable a single set of monitoring instructions to be operated on multiple different devices and/or browsers.
US11240338B2
In one embodiment, a method includes: receiving, from a mobile gateway associated with the computing system, a first request for first content provided by a content publisher, the first request being sent from a mobile device; determining, based on information associated with the first request and one or more policies, that the first content is to be provided to the mobile gateway through one or more caching gateways associated with the mobile gateway; identifying at least one of the one or more caching gateways to provide the requested first content; and sending, to the mobile gateway, first instructions configured to cause the mobile gateway to obtain the requested first content from the identified at least one caching gateway.
US11240336B2
A technique for accelerating dynamic content delivery in a content delivery network. In some embodiments of the invention, responsive to a request that is sent by a client and that is for dynamic content, a client-proxy hosted in a datacenter of a CDN sends the request to a “forwarder-proxy” hosted in another datacenter of the same CDN. The forwarder-proxy, responsive to the request for dynamic content, forwards the request to an origin server and does not cache the dynamic content. The datacenter selected for the forwarder-proxy is one that is “close” to the origin server in terms of round-trip time (RTT) to improve network performance for requests for dynamic content.
US11240335B2
A content caching system intercepts a request from a user device for delivery of an item of popular content stored in the cache, redirects the request to a gateway based on a determination that the requesting device may receive the item from the gateway which provides a multicast service for the item, wherein the redirecting occurs subsequent to the device being able to join a wireless multicast of the requested content after a period of delivery of a portion of the content from the cache to the device while the content is in the midst of being delivered to the device so that delivery from the cache is terminated and delivery continues such that a subsequent portion of the popular content is delivered to the device from the gateway as part of the wireless multicast.
US11240333B2
Provided is an ID space conversion system enabling an application to access a correct data resource by using a system ID. An ID space conversion function unit generates a non-overlapping unique system ID for each type of components based on a physical ID of a component included in a device D which is determined to be a correct device by a device configuration verification function unit. A sharing function unit shares, with a gateway, a gateway file including a correspondence relationship between the physical ID and the system ID included in the device D. Accordingly, the gateway adds, to data, the system ID, on the basis of the gateway-setting file, and outputs system ID-added data to a network. A data processing unit determines whether component data of the device D includes the generated system ID. Accordingly, it is determined whether the data is output from the correct device.
US11240327B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for associating a plurality of Internet-enabled devices with a common user profile for targeting Internet content or advertising. One method includes: receiving, from a plurality of Internet-enabled devices, a plurality of requests for electronic content or advertising; extracting, from each of the plurality of requests, a source IP address and a unique identifier associated with the respective Internet-enabled device; for each source IP address for which requests were received over a predetermined time period from a number of Internet-enabled devices below a threshold number of devices, identifying each possible pair of devices from which requests were received; and for each possible pair of devices, calculating a probability that the pair of devices are owned or operated by a common user.
US11240326B1
An electronic device identifier mapping and resolution system are disclosed which may be used to analyze various device identifiers associated with an online event initiated by a particular device in applying a matching algorithm to determine a unique device identifier and/or device profile for the device. Device identifiers provided from disparate sources (such as web browser cookies, network IP addresses, device-specific identifiers, application-specific identifiers, custom identifiers, probabilistic identifiers, etc.), including both deterministic and/or probabilistic identifiers, may be analyzed according to the matching algorithm to determine a device identifier associated with the device. Matching algorithms may be customized and configured to a high degree of complexity for respective entities, such as to analyze disparate device identifiers according to a variety of identifier comparison functions and matching tiers. Matching algorithms may include conditional requirements that streamline execution of such algorithms, e.g., which may reduce processor load and increase execution time, such as conditional requirements that bypass portions of the matching algorithm based on particular identifiers associated with the online event that are initially analyzed.
US11240320B2
A document modification event management system for notification of specific edits made to electronic content items, and a method of determining the relevance of the modification. As an example, a first user may make an edit to a portion of a document. A second user may receive a notification of this edit if the system determines the edit was relevant to the second user. In addition, during review of an electronic content item, a reader may select a specific portion of content and view the modifications that have occurred to only the selected portion. These tools can provide collaborative document users the ability to more readily monitor document development and stay up-to-date with changes that are important to them.
US11240319B2
A Service Continuity Network Function (SCNF) may be used to provide service continuity support in IoT networks such as 3 GPP and oneM2M, whereby higher layer session and service information is associated with transport layer session information. By means of the SCNF, a higher layer service may be resumed when a new session or connection is created, without support for transport layer session continuity. The service continuity capabilities of the SCNF may be exposed to the service layer of the network by way of a resource data structure.
US11240312B2
Provided are an apparatus and method of interworking IoT servers associated with heterogeneous platforms. The method of providing IoT resource information in an IoT server operating based on a first IoT platform includes: receiving device information of a first IoT device to register in a resource table; transmitting resource information of the first IoT device including a resource path of the first IoT device to an external IoT server through an interworking brokerage server; receiving resource information of a second IoT device registered in the external IoT server operating based on a second IoT platform through the interworking brokerage server; and translating an original resource path included in the resource information of the second IoT device into a format according to the first IoT platform to store the resource information of the second IoT device including the original resource path and a translated resource path in the resource table.
US11240311B2
A system and method in a building or vehicle for an actuator operation in response to a sensor according to a control logic, the system comprising a router or a gateway communicating with a device associated with the sensor and a device associated with the actuator over in-building or in-vehicle networks, and an external Internet-connected control server associated with the control logic implementing a PID closed linear control loop and communicating with the router over external network for controlling the in-building or in-vehicle phenomenon. The sensor may be a microphone or a camera, and the system may include voice or image processing as part of the control logic. A redundancy is used by using multiple sensors or actuators, or by using multiple data paths over the building or vehicle internal or external communication. The networks may be wired or wireless, and may be BAN, PAN, LAN, WAN, or home networks.
US11240306B2
A large-scale storage system is provided. The large-scale system includes a plurality of compute nodes; a plurality of storage nodes; and a communication fabric for providing a communication infrastructure between the plurality of compute nodes and the plurality of storage nodes; wherein each compute node of the plurality of compute nodes is configured to independently perform at least a storage operation on any of the storage nodes in a persistent manner, and wherein each storage node of the plurality of storage nodes provides physical storage space of the large-scale storage system.
US11240305B2
In one example, a processor may receive a first request to process a first task, the first request including a first estimated central processing unit utilization for the first task and a first estimated memory utilization for the first task and receive central processing unit capacities and memory capacities of a plurality of sub-data routers including at least a first sub-data router. The processor may further determine that the first sub-data router has a lowest central processing unit capacity from among the plurality of sub-data routers that is sufficient to accommodate the first estimated central processing unit utilization for the first task and determine that the first sub-data router has a memory capacity that is sufficient to accommodate the first estimated memory utilization for the first task. The processor may then assign the first task to the first sub-data router.
US11240297B2
A computing system includes a server to execute a first portion of a real-time media application so as to integrate with other desktop applications and other operating system functionality, and to redirect intercepted APIs of the real-time media application based on redirection code injected into the real-time media application so that a second portion of the real-time media application is redirected. A client computing device communicates with the server, and executes the redirected second portion of the real-time media application. The redirected second portion of the real-time media application corresponds to real-time media processing and networking off-loaded from the server to the client computing device.
US11240289B2
An apparatus and method for low-latency real-time request processing. For example, one implementation comprises a front end and a plurality of micro-services each utilizing a different type of hardware and/or software tailored to perform a specialized type of processing. In one implementation, the front end receives a request message (e.g., an HTTP request) containing program code/data in its header and forwards the request to certain micro-services in accordance with the type of processing required and/or other variables such as load on the micro-services. A central storage may be shared by the front end and the micro-services to exchange data and/or the data may be stored in the intermediate messages passed between the front end and micro-services.
US11240287B2
The present invention provides a method, Web server and computer system for converging a desktop application and a Web application. The method may comprise: in response to a request from a client user for using a target desktop application, starting a desktop application initialization process on the Web server and determining an appropriate corresponding hosting server for the user; preparing and provisioning desktop application environment on the corresponding hosting server and starting the target desktop application; transmitting the corresponding hosting server's address to the client so as to make desktop application interaction between the client and the corresponding hosting server; and in response to the completion of the desktop application interaction, stopping and exiting the target desktop application on the corresponding hosting server.
US11240285B2
Sending streamed data packets from a producer to a consumer. A method includes, at a first entity, sending consumable data packets from the first entity to a second entity at a first consumable packet rate. The method further includes receiving a first phase delta from the second entity, wherein the first phase delta is computed from transmission jitter, computed from timing information in the consumable data packets. The method further includes sending from the first entity consumable data packets at a second consumable packet rate, the second consumable packet rate being dependent on the first phase delta.
US11240282B2
Described are examples for providing stream augmenting components. A stream augmenting component having an augmentation function indicating a plurality of interfaces to one or more devices and an output stream can be initialized. At least a portion of the plurality of interfaces for the one or more devices can be accessed to at least one of obtain stream output from the one or more devices or control the one or more devices. A plurality of stream outputs from the one or more devices can be virtualized to the output stream at least in part by modifying or correlating data received over the plurality of stream outputs. The stream augmenting component can output the output stream to one or more other stream augmenting components or applications via at least another portion of the one or more interfaces.
US11240277B2
A conferencing computing device, including memory storing one or more dispatch data structures. The conferencing computing device may further include a processor configured to receive a plurality of input packets at a shared port from a plurality of sender computing devices. Based on input packet data and the one or more dispatch data structures, the processor may add each input packet to an input queue bound to the shared port. The processor may transmit the input packets to a plurality of application program instances associated with the input queues. The processor may generate a plurality of output packets at the application program instances. The processor may add each output packet to an output queue associated with the application program instance at which that output packet was generated. The processor may, through the shared port, transmit the output packets to a plurality of recipient computing devices.
US11240268B1
Dynamic honeypots for computer program execution environments are described. A determination is made whether a time period has expired since a computer program execution environment, of multiple computer program execution environments, began executing a computer program that provides a user service. The computer program execution environment is changed into a computer security mechanism that counteracts an attempt of unauthorized use of a system that comprises the computer program execution environment, in response to a determination that the time period has expired since the computer program execution environment began executing the computer program that provides the user service.
US11240267B1
A system may generate all possible character mistakes in a first uniform resource locator associated with a first website, which may produce a set of unique and similar uniform resource locators associated with a set of similar websites. The system may execute machine vision algorithms to compare visual images of the first website and the set of similar websites, and identify a subset of similar websites, which may be undistinguishable from the first website. The system may block the subset of websites, and thereby prevent any user from accessing these fraudulent and malicious websites.
US11240257B2
Techniques for providing domain name and URL visual verifications to increase security of operations on a device. The techniques include a visual indicator and/or warning to a user on the user's computing device that a domain or URL requested by the user and the device is unpopular, new, unknown, inauthentic, associated with malware or phishing, or in some other way, risky. The techniques include identifying a domain name in a communication received by a computing device and then determining a popularity ranking and/or an age of the domain name. The device can render, for display on a screen of the device, a visual indicator having the popularity ranking and/or the age of the domain name. Also, the techniques can include identifying a URL in a communication received by a computing device and then rendering, for display on a screen of the device, a visual indicator having the entire URL.
US11240253B2
An electronic control unit is connected to a network in an in-vehicle network system. The electronic control unit includes a first control circuit and a second control circuit. The first control circuit is connected to the network via the second control circuit. The second control circuit performs a first determination process on a frame to determine conformity of the frame with a first rule. Upon determining that the frame conforms to the first rule, the second control circuit transmits the frame to the first control circuit. The first control circuit performs a second determination process on the frame to determine conformity of the frame with a second rule. The second rule is different from the first rule.
US11240250B2
Implementations of the present disclosure relate to methods, systems, and computer program products for permission management. In one implementation, a computer-implemented method is disclosed. In the method, a permission score may be determined for a user in response to an operation requested to a target system by the user. Whether to permit the operation may be determined based on the permission score. Here, the permission score may be determined based on an identity component of the user and at least one of following components of the user: a state component, and an environment component. In other implementations, a computer-implemented system and a computer program product for permission management are disclosed.
US11240245B2
A computer system includes one or more storage devices, and one or more processors. The one or more storage devices store permission management information specifying relations between combinations of an information source and an information type and whether sending information from the information source to an external network system is permitted or prohibited. The one or more processor is configured to receive an information transmission request specifying an information type of first information from a first system of an information source, determine whether sending the first information to outside a network system the first system belongs to is permitted with reference to the permission management information, and select a monitoring/analysis server to receive the first information from the monitoring/analysis servers based on the determination.
US11240233B2
Systems and methods are provided for use in provisioning a biometric image template of a user to a card device associated with the user. One exemplary method includes authenticating, by a card device, a portable communication device associated with the user based on a certificate associated with the portable communication device and receiving, at the card device, a biometric image of the user from the portable communication device after the portable communication device is authenticated. The method then includes storing, by the card device, the biometric image of the user in a memory of the card device as a biometric image template of the user, whereby the user may be authenticated, by the card device, based on a subsequent biometric image matching the biometric image template.
US11240232B2
Systems, devices, and methods for multi-level authentication for a fire control system are described herein. One system includes a first device configured to receive a request corresponding to an action to be performed regarding an electronic record generated for a fire control system and receive a first authentication form a first user for the action regarding the electronic record generated for the fire control system. The system is further comprised of one or more secondary devices configured to receive a notification of the request and a secondary authentication from at least one of a number of required users for the action regarding the electronic record to be performed. The system also includes a computing device configured to receive the first authentication from the first device and each of the secondary authentications from each of the one or more secondary devices and perform the action regarding the electronic record based on the first authentication received from the first device each of the secondary authentications received from each of the one or more secondary devices.
US11240229B2
Described herein is a computer implemented method for configuring a receiving system to receive data from a sending system. The method comprises receiving an integration creation request from a client application. In response, a specific integration user account is created with credentials which provide access to the receiving system. The credentials are communicated to the client application. In addition, an integration record comprising details in respect of the integration is created, stored, and associated with the specific integration user account.
US11240225B1
Systems and methods are described herein for providing single sign-on capabilities. In some embodiments, an intermediate endpoint of a service provider receives, from a user device, an http_post message including security data provided by an identity provider. In some embodiments, the intermediate endpoint retrieves relay state data specific to the identity provider and transmits the security data and the relay state data to the user device. The user device then transmits the security data and relay state data to an authentication endpoint of the service provider. The authentication endpoint verifies that the SAML response indicated the user was authenticated by an identity provider. A URL may be retrieved from the relay state data and the user device's web browser is redirected to the URL to provide access to one or more services of the service provider.
US11240216B2
A network system comprising a first network element and a second network element. The first network element is programmed to provide the step of first, communicating to the second network element a plurality of configuration parameter sets. Each configuration parameter set corresponds to a respective frame fragment and comprises a parameter value that differs in value from the parameter value in another configuration parameter set in the plurality of configuration parameter sets. The first network element also is programmed to provide the step of second, communicating a frame, to the second network element, in a plurality of frame fragments, wherein each frame fragment in the plurality of frame fragments is communicated according to a respective parameter value in the plurality of configuration parameter sets.
US11240204B2
Example methods and systems for score-based dynamic firewall rule enforcement in a software-defined networking (SDN) environment. One example method may comprise in response to detecting a first request to access a first resource, identifying a first score associated with the user, and a firewall rule that is applicable to the user based on information associated with the user. The firewall rule may be applied to allow access to the first resource. The method may further comprise adjusting the first score to a second score that represents a more restrictive access level compared to the first score. In response to detecting a second request to access the first resource, applying the firewall rule to block the second request based on the second score.
US11240201B2
To secure communications from a process plant across a unidirectional data diode to a remote system, a sending device at the plant end publishes data across the diode to a receiving device at the remote end. The publication of various data is respectively in accordance with context information (e.g., identification of data sources, respective expected rate of data generation/arrival, etc.) that is descriptive of data sources of the plant and that is recurrently provided by the sending device across the diode. A recurrence interval may be based on a tolerance for lost data or another characteristic of an application, service, or consumer of data at the remote system. The publishing may leverage an industrial communication protocol (e.g., HART-IP) and/or a suitable general-purpose communication protocol (e.g., JSON).
US11240198B2
Example session management methods and apparatus are described. One example method includes allocating a first IP address and a first user plane network element to a terminal by a session management network element. The first user plane network element allocated to the terminal supports the first IP address.
US11240196B2
Technology for communicating by embedding messages in DNS requests/responses is disclosed. In many cases it is desirable for a device to communicate without that device having to supply network credentials. In some network environments, credentials are not required to send or receive DNS messages. The question section of a DNS request message may include a message for a destination DNS server and a query domain which, when using standard DNS routing, will result in the DNS request being directed to the intended destination DNS server. The message may be encoded in such a way that an algorithm run by the destination DNS server is able to parse the message from the DNS request.
US11240195B2
In an example implementation of the disclosed technology, a method includes predicting, by a computing device, a destination server that is predicted to be the destination of a message from a sending device connected to the computing device. The method also includes determining whether a connection exists between the computing device and the destination server. The method also includes, responsive to determining that no connection exists, determining a connection and caching the connection at the computing device. The method also includes, responsive to receiving a message for dispatch to the destination server, dispatching the message to the destination server via the connection.
US11240178B2
A data transmission method for a data transmission system including a host and a peripheral device is disclosed, including: setting at least one identification number to at least one packet stored in the host; transmitting the at least one packet from the host to the peripheral device; allocating the at least one packet to plural temporary blocks of a memory of the peripheral device corresponding to the at least one identification number according to the at least one identification number of the at least one packet. Each of the temporary blocks includes a threshold value, and the threshold value of each of at least two of the temporary blocks are different; and transmitting part of the at least one packet stored in one of the temporary blocks when the one of the temporary blocks reaches the threshold value of the one of the temporary blocks.
US11240169B2
Various example embodiments relate generally to supporting queuing of packets in a communication network. Various example embodiments for supporting queuing of packets in a communication network may be configured to support queueing of packets based on a packet queuing memory space including a hash entry space configured to maintain a set of H hash entries and a packet queue space configured to maintain a set of Q packet queues, wherein H is greater than Q. Various example embodiments for supporting queuing of packets in a communication network may be configured to support queueing of packets in a manner for handling packet events (e.g., packet arrival events, packet departure events, or the like) while preventing or mitigating queue collisions of hash entries (where a queue collision occurs when multiple hash entries, and the respective network flows of those hash entries, are associated with a single packet queue).
US11240168B2
A technique for identity governance (IG) data exchange includes receiving, by a first adapter, an identity governance message from a first identity governance resource for transmission of the identity governance message to a second identity governance resource. The first adapter analyzes the message and, based on the analysis, selects a routing policy to apply to the message. Based on the routing policy, the adapter determines a select input queue from a plurality of input queues to receive the message and writes the message to the select input queue. The message is then routed from the select input queue to an output queue, and then a second adapter transfers the message from the output queue to the second identity governance resource.
US11240166B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication terminal and a wireless communication method for efficiently scheduling uplink multi-user transmission. To this end, provided are a base wireless communication terminal, including: a transceiver configured to transmit and receive a wireless signal; and a processor configured to control an operation of the transceiver, wherein the processor selects an access category for transmitting a trigger frame which solicits an uplink multi-user transmission, performs a backoff procedure for transmitting the trigger frame based on the selected access category, and transmits the trigger frame when a backoff counter of the backoff procedure expires and a wireless communication method using the same.
US11240163B2
Some embodiments provide a method of identifying packet latency in a software defined datacenter (SDDC) that includes a network, several host computers executing several machines, and a set of one or more controllers. At the set of controllers, the method o receives, from a set of host computers, (i) a first set of time values associated with multiple packet processing operations performed on packets sent by a set of machines executing on the set of host computers and (ii) a second set of time values associated with packet transmission between host computers through the SDDC network. The method processes the first and second sets of time values to identify a set of latencies experienced by multiple packets processed and transmitted in the SDDC.
US11240162B1
Systems, and method and computer readable media that store instructions for remote direct memory access (RDMA) congestion control.
US11240160B2
Apparatuses and methods comprise receiving traffic from multiple virtual machines (VMs) associated with a same identification (ID); mapping the ID into a destination Internet Protocol (IP) address; and forwarding the traffic from the multiple VMs to a first gateway instance announcing the destination IP address.
US11240150B2
In one embodiment, a method by an apparatus of a segment routing (SR) network includes receiving a data packet and accessing an attestation token for the apparatus. The method further includes determining a location within a header of the received data packet for the attestation token and creating an updated header by encoding the attestation token in the determined location of the header. The method further includes sending the updated header with the encoded attestation token to another apparatus of the SR network.
US11240146B2
A computer implemented method of routing service requests to service instances in a service mesh. The method comprises monitoring one or more performance characteristics of each of a plurality of network links to service instances. The method further comprises making a prediction of the network latency of transmitting a service request via each of at least two of the plurality of network links and selecting one of the plurality of service instances and routing the service request thereto based on the predictions of the network latencies.
US11240140B2
The invention is directed to a computer-implemented system and method for transmitting data from a first node to a second node of a source-selected path routing network. In said system and method according to the present invention, a first data packet is received at the first node, wherein said data packet was sent from a source node according to next-hop routing. Subsequently, at least part of the data contained in the data packet is transmitted from the first node to the second node according to source-selected path routing. Finally, the data received at the second node is transmitted to a destination node according to next-hop routing. Said system and method is further characterized by the steps of determining, for at least a subset of a plurality of available paths between the first node and the second node, a plurality of path parameters; determining a plurality of attributes related to the first data packet; selecting a preferred path from the plurality of available paths based on a decision rule, said decision rule specifying, for at least one attribute, a preferred range of path parameters; and remotely determining the second node based on destination information related to the destination node, wherein said destination information is extracted from the data packet.
US11240132B2
Systems, methods, and related technologies for device classification are described. In certain aspects, traffic data associated with a device and data from an external system can be accessed. The data can be processed to determine a device classification for the device. An action can be initiated based on the classification.
US11240130B2
In one embodiment, a method is performed. A device comprising a non-transitory memory and a processor coupled to the non-transitory memory may be in communication with a plurality of network devices. The device may detect an anomaly in a detected sequence of events occurring during a connectivity process for establishing a connection between a first network device and a second network device of the plurality of network devices. The anomaly may comprise a difference between the detected sequence of events and a predetermined sequence of events. The device may determine whether the anomaly satisfies a criterion for triggering a packet capture operation. If so, the device may cause at least one of the first network device or the second network device to capture at least one target packet.
US11240124B2
Some examples described herein relate to providing a customized cloud service. In an example, Key Service Indicators (KSI) may be received for a cloud service. The Key Service Indicators may be associated with a cloud service template for providing the cloud service. The resources required for providing the cloud service may be identified based on the Key Service Indicators.
US11240119B2
A method of operating a communications network is disclosed. Modern communications networks produce vast amounts of network operational data which have the potential to provide a useful summary of the operational state of the network. Whilst processes such as clustering are known for arranging the vast amount of data into groups, the clusters themselves do not provide data which might be easily interpreted by network elements or administrators. Network operational data often comprises a plurality of data items, each of which gives a value for each of a set of attributes. By processing a cluster to identify attributes in the cluster whose values vary less in the cluster then they vary outside of the cluster, and then generating a cluster description which is based on a measure of the central tendency of the values of those attribute in the cluster, an easily interpretable general description of the data items in the cluster is provided. The easily interpretable general description of the cluster can then be used to relatively identify data items similar to those present in the cluster (e.g. from a larger database of data items), and elements in the network can then act autonomously on the basis of the cluster description to control the operation of the communications network.
US11240111B2
Some embodiments provide a method for presenting packets captured in a network. The method identifies a first set of packets from a first packet group of multiple captured packet groups. The method identifies a second set of packets, that corresponds to the first set of packets, from a second packet group of the multiple captured packet groups. The method displays representations of the multiple captured packet groups. At least one of the first set of packets and the second set of packets are presented with a different appearance from other packets of their respective packet group.
US11240108B1
A data processing system for end-to-end configuration assistance for cloud services implements receiving a request from a client device for a solution assistant configured to provide step-by-step guidance for configuring a plurality of cloud services to interoperate to produce a specified result; causing to be presented a solution assistant user interface; providing the step-by-step guidance comprising a plurality of steps by: launching a configuration interface of a respective cloud service of the plurality of cloud services associated with a respective step of the plurality of steps; presenting step-by-step configuration information providing guidance for configuring the respective cloud service; and receiving a confirmation indication from the client device that the respective cloud service has been configured according to the step-by-step configuration information; generating a summary report that includes a summary of the cloud services configured using the solution assistant; and causing to be presented the confirmation summary report.
US11240105B2
A computer system performs software discovery on a shared resource in a network. A logical group is generated for the shared resource, wherein the logical group includes a plurality of devices accessing the shared resource. A designated device is selected from the plurality of devices for performing a software discovery operation on the shared resource, wherein the selection is based on one or more performance factors. Results of the software discovery operation on the shared resource are received from the designated device. The results of the software discovery operation are distributed by the designated device to the plurality of devices. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and program product for performing software discovery on a shared resource in a network in substantially the same manner described above.
US11240102B2
A system and method for dynamically identifying an accessory or other peripheral device to be wirelessly paired with a tablet computer or other primary device, wherein the accessory comprises a display screen that displays a quick response (QR) code when the accessory is not paired, and after the QR code is scanned by the tablet computer, which is then wirelessly paired with the accessory, the QR code is replaced on the display screen with an image associated with the user, such as a picture of the user, the users name, or other means of associating the accessory with the user.
US11240082B1
Methods and systems for modulating and demodulating data in systems. Bits can be converted into complex-valued symbols. An Inverse Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) can be applied to the complex-valued symbols that represent the bit groups. An FFT time window can be replaced with a time window and a frequency window. A signal comprising the time window and the frequency window can be transmitted. The signal can be converted into a complex-valued symbol. The complex-valued symbols can be converted into bits.
US11240077B2
Methods, apparatus, and systems provide improved throughput on a communication link. An apparatus has a plurality of line drivers, a first wire state encoder configured to receive a first symbol in a sequence of symbols when a 3-wire link is in a first signaling state, and to define a second signaling state for the 3-wire link based on the first symbol and the first signaling state, a second wire state encoder configured to receive a second symbol in the sequence of symbols, and to define a third signaling state for the 3-wire link based on the second symbol and the second signaling state. The first symbol immediately precedes the second symbol in the sequence of symbols. The 3-wire link transitions from the first to the second signaling state, and from the second to the third signaling state in consecutive transmission intervals.
US11240066B2
Systems and methods for virtual network implementation and management based on a peer-to-peer metadata exchange are disclosed. Metadata pertaining to a flow traversing a virtual network overlaying an underlying network is generated in accordance with actions executed to send data packets via the underlying network relative to the virtual network. The metadata is encapsulated in one or more control packets sent to a set of nodes of the underlying network. Each node of the set of nodes maintains a copy of the metadata received in the one or more control packets in a local data store. The metadata is accessed via the local data store when needed to process packets of the flow.
US11240064B2
Systems and methods for connecting devices via a virtual global network are disclosed. In one embodiment the network system may comprise a first device in communication with a first endpoint device and a second device in communication with a second endpoint device. The first and second devices may be connected with a communication path. The communication path may comprise one or more intermediate tunnels connecting each endpoint device to one or more intermediate access point servers and one or more control servers.
US11240056B2
A safety automation system for an occupiable structure includes a computing management system including a computer processor, and a computer readable storage medium configured to run embedded software and cloud server software. A fire detection device of the automation system is adapted to detect a fire condition and output an associated fire condition detected signal to the computing management system. A condition deterrence device is configured to accept a wireless command signal from the computing management system associated with the fire condition detected signal and for actuating an appliance to at least reduce risk presented by the condition.
US11240055B2
An energy control network may include a number of load control devices, such as dimmer switches, multi-button selector switch, occupancy sensors, and remote controllers, among others. These load control devices may be configured for wireless communication. Other wireless devices, such as laptops, tablets, and “smart” cellular phones may be configured to communicate with the load control devices of the energy control network. The load control devices and the other wireless communication devices may also be configured for Near Field Communication (NFC). NFC may be used to provide a load control device with its initial default configuration and/or an application specific configuration. Also, NFC may be used to transfer a configuration from one load control device that may have become faulty, to a replacement load control device. And NFC may be used to provide and trigger commands that may cause a load control load device to operate in a predetermined manner.
US11240051B1
A multimedia collaboration system that facilitates more efficient, free-flowing collaboration sessions. In order to make addition of new participants, media components, and or network access device to a collaboration session more efficient, client devices associated with each participant can store endpoint address information that can be automatically obtained by the multimedia collaboration system. The endpoint address information can then be used to add the new participants, media components, and or network access device.
US11240039B2
In one example an apparatus comprises a computer readable memory, a signature logic to generate a signature to be transmitted in association with a message, the signature logic to apply a hash-based signature scheme to the message using a private key to generate the signature comprising a public key, or a verification logic to verify a signature received in association with the message, the verification logic to apply the hash-based signature scheme to verify the signature using the public key, and an accelerator logic to apply a structured order to at least one set of inputs to the hash-based signature scheme. Other examples may be described.
US11240035B2
A system for extending the utility of blockchain environments when such environments become too large or complex, is disclosed. The system systematically creates a second generation, or child blockchain that can retain machine-readable links to the parent blockchain which, in turn, can be archived and referenced, when necessary, for historical reference. Accordingly, the system serves to reduce the size of the working blockchain thereby making it easier to store the blockchain, and further serves to increase the speed of queries to interrogate the current state of the blockchain. By reducing the size of the working blockchain, the present invention seeks to extend the utility of large blockchains by segregating and archiving historical or older transactions recorded in the blockchain. The system and process further includes methodologies to create links between the current blockchain and the archived sections of the blockchain to ensure the integrity of the full historical ledger.
US11240025B2
A system for implementing a distributed certificate authority using trusted hardware includes a first verifying node communicatively coupled to a plurality of remote devices, the verifying node designed and configured to receive an authorization request from a remote device, wherein receiving the authorization request further comprises receiving an identifier of the remote device, authenticate the remote device, and generate an authorization token, wherein generating the authorization token further includes associating the identifier of the remote device with at least an authorization datum, associating the identifier of the remote device with at least a temporal attribute, and digitally signing the authorization datum, and generating the authorization token containing the digitally signed authorization datum.
US11240021B2
A physical card (in some cases without any on-board source of power or computing capabilities) is configured to maintain access information for digital bearer assets. The physical card may include disposed thereon a single address operable to receive digital bearer assets in one or more transactions on a decentralized computing platform, like a blockchain-based decentralized computing platform. Other decentralized computing platforms utilize different address generation protocols, thus preventing use of a single address on those other platforms. A set of addresses is generated, each address corresponding to a given decentralized computing platform. Each address is based on a same underlying key-pair, and a primary address is selected from the set for a given card. The remaining addresses in the set are stored, without storage of the public key or private key, and returned in a response to a request for additional addresses of the currency card.
US11240016B2
The present disclosure in some embodiments provides a method and an apparatus for providing a quantum cryptographic key distribution stabilization, which can quickly and efficiently compensate for an error caused by a temperature change, a change in polarization of a transmission path of an optical system included in a quantum cryptographic key distribution system in a cost-effective manner working perfectly with the very conventional quantum cryptographic key distribution system.
US11240012B2
An aggregate order is efficiently obtained while keeping confidentiality. An inverse permutating part (12) generates a share of a vector representing an inversely permutated cross tabulation by applying inverse permutation to a cross tabulation of a table, the inverse permutation being a permutation which moves elements so that, when the table is grouped based on a key attribute, last elements of each group are sequentially arranged from beginning. A partial summing part (13) computes a prefix sum from the inversely permutated cross tabulation. The order computing part (14) generates a share of a vector representing ascending order within a group from a result of the prefix sum.
US11240008B2
A key management method includes: sending, by a security chip of a computer device, a request for obtaining a service key to a key management service; receiving, by the security chip, a service key ciphertext from the key management service, wherein the service key ciphertext is obtained by encrypting the service key by the key management service based on a migration key of the security chip; decrypting, by the security chip, the service key ciphertext based on the migration key to obtain the service key; storing, by the security chip, the service key in the security chip; and providing, by the security chip, the service key to an application program of the computer device when the application program needs to encrypt data based on the service key.
US11240007B1
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for systems and methods for using secure enclaves for decryption in unsecured locations. Example methods may include receiving, by a webserver, an encrypted session key from a device, where the encrypted session key is encrypted using a public key associated with the webserver, sending the encrypted session key to a key server for decryption, where the key server is configured to decrypt the encrypted session key in a secure enclave, determining, by the key server, a decrypted session key using a private key, where private key data for a number of private keys is stored at the secure enclave, receiving a decrypted session key from the key server, where the decrypted session key is the encrypted session key in decrypted form, and establishing a secure session with the device using the decrypted session key.
US11240002B2
A resource operating method for each of plurality of nodes communicating through a network includes: receiving a problem through a mining program, and performing a proof-of-work process to solve the received problem; generating a transaction and transmitting the generated transaction to the plurality of nodes; receiving a transaction and a block hash value from the plurality of nodes; stopping the proof-of-work process; verifying validity of the generated or received transaction using the block hash value, and creating, in response to the transaction being verified, a block including information of the verified transaction; receiving a reward corresponding to the performed proof-of-work process through the mining program; and connecting the block to a blockchain.
US11240000B2
An example operation may include one or more of connecting, by an asset server, to a source blockchain configured to store a digital asset of an asset owner, enciphering and locking, by the asset server, the asset in the source blockchain, manifesting, by the asset server, the asset as a linked asset in a target blockchain, tracking, by the asset server, a life cycle of the asset, detecting, by the asset server, an end of the life cycle of the asset, reflecting, by the asset server, the end of the life cycle of the asset in the source blockchain, and creating, by the asset server, the asset in the target blockchain.
US11239999B1
The present patent application discloses a distributed network system for communications via messaging based on blockchains. Utilizing blockchains for network messaging allows for various security systems to ensure that messages are not intercepted in a man-in-the-middle attack, or other form of hacking. An electronic message formed of a blockchain includes a genesis block containing as data an electronic message and identifying information of a sender terminal that generated the electronic message. The blockchain also includes a plurality of blockchain blocks containing identifying information of devices that transmitted the electronic message through a distributed network. The blockchain also includes a recipient block containing identifying information of a recipient terminal to which the electronic message was sent.
US11239995B2
A method for processing an encryption is provided. The method for processing an encryption includes the steps of linearly transforming a homomorphic encryption for an approximate message including an error, performing an approximate modulus operation for the linearly transformed homomorphic encryption by using a multi-degree polynomial set such that input values within a predetermined range are approximate to an integer point, and linearly transforming the homomorphic encryption which was approximately modulus operated into a form of encryption.
US11239993B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for syntonizing machines in a network. A coordinator accesses probe records for probes transmitted at different times between pairs of machines in the mesh network. For different pairs of machines, the coordinator estimates the drift between the pair of machines based on the transit times of probes transmitted between the pair of machines as indicated by the probe records. For different loops of at least three machines in the mesh network, the coordinator calculates a loop drift error based on a sum of the estimated drifts between pairs of machines around the loop and adjusts the estimated absolute drifts of the machines based on the loop drift errors. Here, the absolute drift is defined relative to a drift of a reference machine.
US11239991B2
The present invention is directed to circuits and communication. More specifically, a specific embodiment of the present invention provides a timing recovery device with two stages. The first stage generates a clock signal to sample the received waveform, and the second stage provides timing-jitter mitigation. The second stage includes a jitter mitigation circuit with coefficients a function of the instantaneous jitter estimate, in addition to a jitter estimation tracking loop consisting of an error generator, a timing error detector and a loop filter to compensate for timing jitter associated with the clock signal. There are other embodiments as well.
US11239987B2
Embodiments described herein relate to time division duplexing (TDD) support for in-band, guard band, and standalone operation modes of narrowband internet-of-things (NB-IoT) systems. At least one example is directed to an indication technique for transmission of a narrowband system information block type 1 (SIB1-NB) on a carrier.
US11239981B2
Technology for a next generation node B (gNB) operable to transmit in multiple bandwidth parts (BWPs) is disclosed. The UE can determine a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) symbol location in a first bandwidth part (BWP). The UE can determine a CSI-RS symbol location in a second BWP. The UE can encode the CSI-RS in one or more of the first BWP or the second BWP for transmission to a user equipment (UE). The UE can have a memory interface configured to send to a memory the CSI-RS symbol location.
US11239972B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques and apparatus for performing narrowband physical random access channel (PRACH) procedures in large cells. For example, aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for narrowband PRACH procedures (e.g., narrowband internet of things (NB-IoT)) to accommodate larger RTTs (e.g., up to 100 km). In some cases, supporting larger RTTs may involve a base station altering its PRACH processing by performing a two-step process of, first, obtaining a frequency domain phase offset based on an uplink signal from a UE, which provides a fractional delay and, second, performing a time domain correlation for different timing hypotheses to determine a timing offset based on the uplink signal. Supporting larger RTTs may also involve enabling a new NPRACH format that may coexist with legacy 3.75 kHz resources.
US11239971B2
A method of mapping control information in a wireless communication system is disclosed (FIG. 5). The method includes forming a subframe (FIG. 3) having a bandwidth and having plural regions (302-306). A base station (eNB) determines a communication mode with a remote user equipment. The base station maps control information specific to the user equipment into a first region of the subframe (508). The base station also maps control information common to plural user equipments into a second region of the subframe (512). The subframe is transmitted to the plural user equipments (412, FIG. 4).
US11239964B2
Methods and apparatus for symbol-to-symbol multiplexing of control, data, and reference signals on a 5G uplink. In one aspect, a job descriptor generator is configured to calculate mapping parameters for each symbol based on high level configuration parameters. A data/UCI multiplexing job engine, which is coupled to the job descriptor generator, provides symbol-based multiplexing and mapping which includes calculating reserved locations for PTRS and DMRS based on frequency-domain mapping of both PTRS and DMRS and multiplexing of data and controls from calculated intermediate parameters. A downstream processor is coupled to the job engine and configured to modulate data and control REs and insert DMRS or PTRS. In one example, the job descriptor generator is a configurable DSP processor and the job engine is an ASIC hardware accelerator.
US11239960B2
A method of operating a semiconductor memory device can include receiving data, from a memory controller, at an Error Correction Code (ECC) engine included in the semiconductor memory device, the data including at least one predetermined error. Predetermined parity can be received at the ECC engine, where the predetermined parity is configured to correspond to the data without the at least one predetermined error. A determination can be made whether a number of errors in the data is correctable by the ECC engine using the data including the at least one predetermined error and the predetermined parity.
US11239956B2
A wireless device receives message(s) comprising: a first value for an uplink hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) round-trip-time (RTT) timer; and a second value for an uplink discontinuous reception (DRX) retransmission timer. A transport block is transmitted via an uplink data channel. The uplink HARQ RTT timer is started with the first value in response to transmitting the transport block. The first value indicates a first number of symbols. The uplink DRX retransmission timer is started with the second value in response to the uplink HARQ RTT timer expiring. The second value indicates of a second number of slot lengths. A downlink control channel is monitored while the uplink DRX retransmission timer is running.
US11239954B2
An encoding method on the basis of a polar code in order to support an HARQ according to the present embodiment comprises the steps of: configuring, an input vector for retransmission, which has a length of N and is applied to a mother matrix predetermined on the basis of a polar code, by a wireless device, wherein the input vector is defined on the basis of a first index set for an optimized position of an information bit having a length of K, a second index set for a position of a bit to be punctured among encoded bits generated on the basis of the mother matrix, and a third index set for a position of at least one unknown frozen bit associated with an information copying scheme; and performing encoding on the basis of the input vector and the mother matrix, by the wireless device.
US11239951B2
The present disclosure discloses a method for controlling transmission power in a wireless communication system and an apparatus therefor. Specifically, in a method for performing repetition transmission of a wireless signal by a terminal in a wireless communication system, the method comprises receiving a configuration of multiple resources for repetition transmission of the wireless signal semi-statically by a base station; wherein a redundancy version sequence for repetition transmission of the wireless signal is pre-configured, performing repetition transmission of the wireless signal based on the redundancy version sequence on the remaining resources except for at least one particular resource among the multiple resources; and performing repetition transmission of the wireless signal on the at least one particular resource based on a redundancy version value pre-configured for the at least one particular resource.
US11239948B2
Transmitting, in a wireless local area network (WLAN), a second punctured coded bit sequence generated by puncturing coded data using a second puncturing pattern, wherein the coded data has previously been punctured using a first puncturing pattern to generate a first punctured coded bit sequence transmitted in the WLAN. The second puncturing pattern is different than the first puncturing pattern to cause at least some bits of the coded data that were omitted in the first punctured coded bit sequence to be included in the second punctured coded bit sequence.
US11239941B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A device, which may be otherwise known as user equipment (UE) may support sidelink communications, for example, such as device-to-device (D2D) communications, vehicle-based communications, which may also be referred to as vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications, vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications, and the like. To mitigate or decrease collisions or other interference on resources (e.g., time and frequency resources) used by other UEs in sidelink communications, a UE may determine a blind retransmission of a packet, determine that the packet satisfies one or more conditions based in part on the blind retransmission, and transmit feedback signal relating to the blind retransmission of the packet.
US11239936B2
An optical network is provided that includes at least one strand of a plurality of strands of optical fiber optically connected to a first fiber distribution hub and an access terminal. The at least one strand optically is also connected to a second fiber distribution hub and the access terminal. The at least one strand thus provides a full duplex optical path in a first direction from the first fiber distribution hub to the access terminal and in a second direction from the second fiber distribution hub to the access terminal.
US11239929B1
A receiver is configured to detect, at a communication interface, a received signal that suffers from degradations incurred over a communication channel. The receiver applies an adaptive filter to a series of received blocks of a digital representation of the received signal, thereby generating respective filtered blocks, where each received block represents 2N frequency bins, and where N is a positive integer. The receiver calculates coefficients for use by the adaptive filter on a jth received block as a function of (i) error estimates associated with an (j−D−1)th filtered block, where D is a positive integer representing a number of blocks, and where j is a positive integer greater than (D−1); and (ii) an inverse of an approximate covariance matrix associated with the (j−D−1)th received block, where the approximate covariance matrix is a diagonal matrix of size L×L, and where L is a positive integer lower than 2N.
US11239928B2
Described herein is an implantable medical device (IMD) that wirelessly communicates another IMD, and methods for use therewith. Such a method can include receiving one or more implant-to-implant (i2i) communication signals from the other IMD using a communication receiver of the IMD, measuring a strength of at least one of the one or more received i2i communication signals or a surrogate thereof, and updating a strength metric based on the measured strength or surrogate thereof. The method further includes determining, based on the updated strength metric, whether to increase, decrease, or maintain the sensitivity of the communication receiver of the IMD, and responding accordingly such that the sensitivity is sometimes increased, sometimes decreased, and sometimes maintained. The method can also include selectively causing a transmitter of the IMD to transmit an i2i communication signal to the other IMD requesting that the other IMD adjust its transmission strength.
US11239916B2
A baseband processing unit includes a baseband processor configured to receive a plurality of component carriers of a radio access technology wireless service, and a delta-sigma digitization interface configured to digitize at least one carrier signal of the plurality of component carriers into a digitized bit stream, for transport over a transport medium, by (i) oversampling the at least one carrier signal, (ii) quantizing the oversampled carrier signal into the digitized bit stream using two or fewer quantization bits.
US11239915B2
An optical communication access point comprises: an optical communication channel for allowing wireless light communication with a remote device, and a memory for storing content, wherein the content in the memory is accessible by the remote device via the wireless light communication link.
US11239909B2
Dynamic error-quantizer tuning systems and methods prevent misconvergence to local minima by using a dynamic quantizer circuit that controls reference voltages of three or more comparators that are independently adjusted to modify the transfer function of the dynamic quantizer circuit. A weighted sum of the comparator outputs is subtracted from the input to form an error signal in a control loop. The ratio of the reference voltages is chosen to reduce or eliminate local minima during a convergence of the control loop and is set to values that minimize a mean squared error signal with respect to discrete modulation states of the input after the convergence of the control loop is complete.
US11239902B2
A radio relay apparatus, which can monitor a status of a radio relay apparatus for realizing a three-dimensional network, without providing a dedicated line, is provided. The radio relay apparatus can fly and move in an upper airspace, and comprises a first antenna for transmitting and receiving a radio signal of a feeder link to and from a gateway station on a communication network side provided on the ground or on the sea, a second antenna for transmitting and receiving a radio signal of a service link to and from a terminal apparatus, a relay processing section for relaying the radio signal of the feeder link and the radio signal of the service link, which is provided between the first antenna and the second antenna, an information acquisition section for acquiring monitoring information on the status of the radio relay apparatus, and an information communication section for transmitting the monitoring information to the gateway station via the feeder link.
US11239893B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to quasi co-location assumptions for aperiodic channel state information (CSI) reference signals (RS) in communications systems operating according to NR techniques. An exemplary method that may be performed by a UE includes determining a quasi-co-location (QCL) relationship of an aperiodic channel state information (CSI) reference signal (CSI-RS) to a physical channel and processing the aperiodic CSI-RS according to the determined QCL relationship.
US11239892B2
A sector level sweep method and apparatus are provided. A local end generates a first sector sweep packet at the local end sector sweep stage, and the local end sends the first sector sweep packet to a peer end by using a first beam. A quantity of bytes of the first sector sweep packet is not greater than 27, the first sector sweep packet includes beam indication information of the first beam, the beam indication information includes antenna identification information of the beam, and a maximum quantity of antennas indicated by the antenna identification information is at least 8.
US11239887B2
A data transmission method and a data transmission device are provided. The data transmission method includes steps of: determining, by a transmitting end, a first precoding matrix and a second precoding matrix, the first precoding matrix being selected from a predefined first codebook, the second precoding matrix being acquired on the basis of CSI; performing, by the transmitting end, precoding processing on a data stream in accordance with the first precoding matrix and the second precoding matrix; and transmitting, by the transmitting end, the data streamed acquired after the precoding processing to a receiving end.
US11239885B2
A near field communication (NFC) transceiver includes a receiver, a transmitter, and a clock recovery circuit. The receiver is configured to recover a reception (RX) frame encoded with power supply information and information transmitted from a reader to a tag. The transmitter is configured to recover a transmission (TX) frame by a subcarrier load modulation scheme for information transmitted from the tag to the reader. The clock recovery circuit is configured to recover a carrier signal of the TX frame as a baseband clock signal of the NFC transceiver through a rail-to-rail boosting.
US11239880B2
This application provides a Demodulation Reference Signal (DMRS) transmission method and a communications device. The method includes: determining, by a communications device, a current mode of a resource scheduling unit, where the current mode is a frequency hopping mode or an aggregation mode, and performing, by the communications device, DMRS mapping or demapping by using a DMRS pattern corresponding to the current mode, where a location of a symbol occupied by a DMRS in the DMRS pattern corresponding to the current mode is different from a location of a symbol occupied by a DMRS in a preset DMRS pattern. In embodiments of this application, a location of a symbol occupied by a DMRS can be flexibly selected depending on different modes. Therefore, requirements of the different modes can be satisfied in the embodiments of this application, thereby improving network performance.
US11239867B2
An electronic device is provided that includes a first antenna element that includes a first portion of a housing, and a second antenna element that include a second portion of the housing that is different from the first portion of the housing. The electronic device also includes a memory that stores feed conditions, each for applying a current to one of the first antenna element and the second antenna element. A tuner of the electronic device is controlled such that a first current flows to one of the first antenna element and the second antenna element, based on a first feed condition of the stored feed conditions, and a processor of the electronic device transmits or receives a signal in a specified frequency band based on an electrical path formed through the tuner.
US11239859B2
A method for partitioning of input vectors for coding is presented. The method comprises obtaining of an input vector. The input vector is segmented, in a non-recursive manner, into an integer number, NSEG, of input vector segments. A representation of a respective relative energy difference between parts of the input vector on each side of each boundary between the input vector segments is determined, in a recursive manner. The input vector segments and the representations of the relative energy differences are provided for individual coding. Partitioning units and computer programs for partitioning of input vectors for coding, as well as positional encoders, are presented.
US11239853B1
An analog-to-digital converter includes a first converter stage, a second converter stage coupled to the first converter stage to quantize a residue signal of the first converter stage, and an inter-stage converter disposed between the first and second converter stages. The inter-stage converter is configured to convert between a first domain and a second domain. The inter-stage converter is configured to process the residue signal of the first converter stage such that a range of the residue signal matches a full scale of the second converter stage.
US11239851B2
A system has a digital-to-analog converter; a reference signal coupled to the digital-to-analog converter; a differential amplifier for applying gain, and for generating output signals as a function of sampled input signals, the reference signal, digital codes, and the gain applied by the differential amplifier coupled to the digital-to-analog converter; and a multi-bit successive-approximation register for determining the digital codes in successive stages coupled to the differential amplifier; and the gain applied by the differential amplifier is corrected based on previously determined digital codes.
US11239847B2
In described examples, a first clock generator generates an output clock signal in response to an input reference signal and in response to a feedback signal that is generated in response to the output clock signal. A code generator generates a code in response to the input reference signal. A loss detector generates an indication of a loss of the input reference signal in response to the feedback signal and at least two codes generated by the code generator.
US11239844B2
An oscillator includes: a resonator; a heat generation circuit configured to heat the resonator; a temperature sensor positioned closer to the heat generation circuit than the resonator is and configured to output a temperature detection signal; a temperature control circuit configured to output a temperature control signal for controlling a temperature of the heat generation circuit based on the temperature detection signal; an oscillation clock signal output circuit configured to oscillate the resonator and output an oscillation clock signal; and a correction circuit configured to correct a frequency variation of the oscillation clock signal, in which the correction circuit is configured to compensate for a transient frequency variation of the oscillation clock signal based on a time change amount of the temperature detection signal or a time change amount of the temperature control signal.
US11239819B2
An elastic wave device includes a supporting substrate, an acoustic multilayer film on the supporting substrate, a piezoelectric substrate on the acoustic multilayer film, and an IDT electrode on the piezoelectric substrate. The acoustic multilayer film includes at least four acoustic impedance layers. The at least four acoustic impedance layers include at least one low acoustic impedance layer and at least one high acoustic impedance layer having an acoustic impedance higher than the low acoustic impedance layer. The elastic wave device further includes a bonding layer provided at any position in a range of from inside the acoustic impedance layer, which is the fourth acoustic impedance layer from the piezoelectric substrate side towards the supporting substrate side, to an interface between the acoustic multilayer film and the supporting substrate.
US11239813B2
A first conductive pattern made from a conductive material is formed on a first surface that is one surface of a flexible film made from a dielectric material. An adhesive layer is disposed on a second surface opposite to the first surface of the flexible film. A pair of first outer electrodes generates an electric field in an in-plane direction of a composite member composed of the flexible film and the adhesive layer, and causes an electric current to flow through the first conductive pattern.
US11239805B2
Isolators and methods for operating the same are described for opto-isolators with improved common mode transient immunity (CMTI). In some embodiments, a pair of photodetectors are provided in the opto-isolator and configured to generate photocurrents of opposite signs or directions in response to a light signal. Photocurrents from the pair of photodetectors are combined in a differential manner to represent data transmitted in a light signal, while common mode transient noise at the two photodetectors is attenuated or eliminated.
US11239804B2
Techniques for controlling the output of a power amplifier are disclosed. In one embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a system that includes a power amplifier and a controller coupled to the power amplifier to form a feedback loop. The power amplifier is enabled or disabled in response to a blanking signal. The controller includes an accumulator that stores an accumulated error of the feedback loop. The controller suspends operation of the accumulator when (1) a level of the input signal is below a first threshold for an amount of time that exceeds a second threshold, (2) the blanking signal indicates that the power amplifier is disabled, or (3) both. The controller resumes operation of the accumulator when (1) the level of the input signal is above the first threshold and (2) the blanking signal indicates that the power amplifier is enabled.
US11239796B2
An embodiment of the present disclosure relates to a device comprising an electronic circuit; an oscillation circuit comprising a quartz crystal, configured to provide a clock signal to the electronic circuit; and a heater configured to increase the temperature of the quartz crystal.
US11239793B2
Systems and methods for removing charge buildup/leakage from solar modules. A discharge controller may be coupled between a solar module and a string bus of a solar array. The discharge controller is configured to disconnect the solar module from the string bus, and to connect a grounded frame to solar cells of the solar module. Since the grounded frame of the solar module is grounded, connecting the grounded frame and the solar cells allows charge buildup/leakage to discharge into ground.
US11239784B2
Stable current control is performed even at the time of occurrence of disturbance, while the steadily occurring current pulsation is suppressed. A motor drive device 100 includes a power conversion circuit 103 that drives an alternating-current motor 101, and a controller 102 that controls the power conversion circuit 103. The controller 102 includes a voltage command calculation unit 108, a control state judgement unit 112, and a control gain change unit 113. When the determination signal output from the control state judgement unit 112 is switched from a determination signal representing a steady state to a determination signal representing a transient state, the control gain change unit 113 immediately changes the control gain to a value of normal setting, and when the judgement signal output from the control state judgement unit 112 is switched from a determination signal representing the transient state to a judgement signal representing the steady state, the control gain change unit 113 changes, with a predetermined delay time, the control gain to a value of high-gain setting.
US11239779B2
A method of controlling a power converter, connected to an electrical grid, to mimic a synchronous generator, by: determining a frequency control error with respect to a setpoint and actual frequency of the grid, determining an input power to an inertia model of a synchronous generator based on the frequency control error, regulating by means of the input power a rotational frequency of the inertia model, determining a voltage control error with respect to a setpoint and actual voltage, determining an exciter parameter of a synchronous generator model based on the voltage control error, regulating by means of the exciter parameter an output voltage of the synchronous generator model, adjusting the rotational frequency or a phase angle obtained from the rotational frequency, and the output voltage based on a virtual impedance of a stator of the synchronous generator model, and controlling the power converter based on the adjusted rotational frequency or the adjusted phase angle and on the adjusted output voltage.
US11239776B2
A motor controller having low standby power consumption is provided. The motor controller includes a direct current (DC) bus. The motor controller also includes a low-power supply. The motor controller also includes an inverter configured to control a supply of current to stator windings of a motor. The motor controller also includes a switch circuit coupled between the DC bus and the low-power supply. The motor controller also includes a switch controller coupled to the switch circuit and configured to be coupled to a system controller. The switch controller is configured to control the switch circuit to electrically decouple, in response to detecting an absence of a control signal from the system controller, the DC bus from the low-power supply.
US11239769B2
A thyristor starter accelerates a synchronous machine from a stop state to a predetermined rotation speed by sequentially performing a first mode of performing commutation of an inverter by intermittently setting DC output current to zero and a second mode of performing commutation of the inverter by induced voltage of the synchronous machine. A second controller controls the firing phase of a thyristor in a converter such that DC output current of the converter matches a current command value, based on a detection signal of a position detector. In the first mode, the current command value is set such that the current value is higher as the rotation speed of the synchronous machine is higher.
US11239768B2
The present invention is concerned with an electricity generator. The generator resembles a transistor and powered by impacting liquid such as water droplets. The generator has a glass substrate defining an upwardly facing surface and a downwardly facing surface. The substrate includes i) a region with polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) coated on the upwardly facing surface and acting as a virtual source and ii) an electrode arranged adjacent said PTFE coated region on the upwardly facing surface and acting as a drain in that the PTFE coated region and the electrode are positioned on the upwardly facing surface to receive an impacting water droplet acting as a gate, and wherein circuitry of the generator connects the virtual source and the drain via an electrical connection passing the downwardly facing surface, and electricity is harvested via the electrical connection.
US11239759B2
A control method includes the following operations: combining multiple output voltages into a total output voltage; generating a first switching frequency based on a first voltage difference, and generating at least one offset frequency based on at least one second voltage difference; generating at least one second switching frequency according to the at least one offset frequency and the first switching frequency; and generating a first set of switching signals according to the first switching frequency, and generating at least one second set of switching signals according to the at least one second switching frequency to respectively control a switching element of the resonant converter circuits.
US11239752B2
A method may include monitoring an input power supply, monitoring an inductance of an inductor of a boost converter, monitoring one or more other characteristics of the boost converter, and calculating a target peak inductor current based on the input power supply voltage, the inductance, the one or more other characteristics of the boost converter, and a target average current of the inductor during a switching cycle of the boost converter. A method may include monitoring an input power supply voltage, monitoring an inductance of an inductor of a boost converter, monitoring one or more other characteristics of the boost converter, and calculating an average current of the inductor during a switching cycle of the boost converter based on the input power supply voltage, the inductance, the one or more other characteristics of the boost converter, and a peak inductor current of the inductor.
US11239749B2
A regulator system includes a multi-bit detector system and a multi-cell charge/discharge circuit. The multi-bit detector system includes a plurality of detectors. Each of the plurality of detectors has a predetermined threshold voltage. The multi-cell charge/discharge circuit includes a plurality of charge pumps. Each of the charge pumps is configured to generate a predetermined charge. Each of the charge pumps is associated with a predetermined threshold voltage of the detector circuit.
US11239746B2
A two-stage converter, a method for starting the two-stage converter, an LLC converter, and an application system are provided. A controller of the LLC converter of the two-stage converter first controls a main circuit of the LLC converter to perform hiccup charging on a direct current bus of a later-stage converter at a preset interval, so that the direct current bus voltage of the later-stage converter gradually increases, until an auxiliary power supply of the later-stage converter starts to operate, to supply power to the controller of the later-stage converter. After the controller of the later-stage converter reports the detected direct current bus voltage, the controller of the LLC converter determines whether the output voltage of the LLC converter increases to a hiccup starting voltage. If so, the controller of the LLC converter controls the main circuit to operate in a hiccup voltage stabilization phase.
US11239742B2
A load control device for controlling power delivered from an alternating-current power source to an electrical load may comprise a controllably conductive device, a control circuit, and an overcurrent protection circuit that is configured to be disabled when the controllably conductive device is non-conductive. The control circuit may be configured to control the controllably conductive device to be non-conductive at the beginning of each half-cycle of the AC power source and to render the controllably conductive device conductive at a firing time during each half-cycle (e.g., using a forward phase-control dimming technique). The overcurrent protection circuit may be configured to render the controllably conductive device non-conductive in the event of an overcurrent condition in the controllably conductive device. The overcurrent protection circuit may be disabled when the controllably conductive device is non-conductive and enabled after the firing time when the controllably conductive device is rendered conductive during each half-cycle.
US11239737B2
The present disclosure provides a linear vibration motor. The linear vibration motor comprises a shell having a housing space, a vibration unit housed in the housing space, an elastic member suspending the vibration unit in the housing space, and a driving unit driving the vibration unit to vibrate. The vibration unit comprises a housing portion recessed inwardly on two sides perpendicular to the vibration direction. The housing portion includes respective inner walls constituting the housing portion. The linear vibration motor further includes a blocking piece housing in the housing portion and fixedly connected to the inner wall, and a foamed cotton fixedly connected to the blocking piece and at least partially received in the housing portion, the blocking piece carrying and supporting the foamed cotton, and the blocking piece cooperating with the foamed cotton to limit the displacement of the vibration unit in the vibration direction.
US11239736B1
An electromagnetic inertial force generator provides a linear output with improved compactness and reliability because it has no radial gaps and only one pair of axial gaps. Radial permanent magnet rings are directly in contact with inner and outer flux cylinders to provide magnetic bias. The magnetic bias flux flows across two axial air gaps to a supporting flux return structure. A current conducting coil drives magnetic flux across the same axial air gaps. The magnetic bias flux is in opposite directions across the two air gaps, while the coil flux across the two gaps is in the same direction. The combination of bias flux and coil flux cancels in one gap and adds in the other gap, producing a net force on an inertial mass and an equal and opposite force on the supporting structure. The resulting force is linear with current through the drive coil.
US11239735B2
A motor unit includes: a first rotating electric machine which includes a cylindrical first stator, a first rotor disposed coaxially with the first stator, a first shaft disposed coaxially with the first rotor, and a cylindrical first casing accommodating the first stator and the first rotor; a second rotating electric machine which includes a cylindrical second stator, a second rotor disposed coaxially with the second stator, a second shaft disposed coaxially with the second rotor, and a cylindrical second casing accommodating the second stator and the second rotor; a single drive device which is integrally fixed across a peripheral surface in a diameter direction of the first rotor in the first casing and a peripheral surface in a diameter direction of the second rotor in the second casing; and a surface-matching fixing portion which is fixed by a fixing member while an axial end surface of the first casing comes into contact with an axial end surface of the second casing.
US11239730B2
A rotating device according to the present invention includes a motor including an outer shell, a rotating shaft protruding from the outer shell, a first inner bearing supporting the rotating shaft, and a second inner bearing supporting the rotating shaft, a plurality of gears configured to transmit rotation of the motor to an external device, and a casing. A first outer bearing and a second outer bearing are arranged at the casing, and the first outer bearing and the second outer bearing rotatably support portions of the rotating shaft protruding from end surfaces at both sides of the outer shell in a longitudinal direction of the rotating shaft.
US11239722B2
A housing for an electric motor includes a tubular wall extending in an axial direction of the housing, and closures at opposite axial ends of the tubular wall to rotatably support opposite axial end portions of a rotor. At least one of the closures is separate from the tubular wall and includes a radially inner portion and a radially outer flange that, in an assembled state, is in physical contact with a radially inner surface of the tubular wall and extends from the radially inner portion of the separate closure towards the opposite axial end of the tubular wall.
US11239714B2
In an IPM motor, since a first portion which is a pressed powder compact made of soft magnetic powder and has a lower magnetic permeability and a lower saturation magnetic flux density than those of a main body portion made of a laminated steel sheet is replaced and disposed in the vicinity of an inner arc side portion of a right end portion of a permanent magnet, local demagnetization is prevented.
US11239709B2
A power transmitter for wireless power transfer includes a control and communications unit configured to provide power control signals to control a power level of a power signal configured for transmission to a power receiver and including a pulse width modulation (PWM) signal generator for determining and selecting the operating frequency from the operating frequency range. The power transmitter further includes an inverter circuit configured to receive a direct current (DC) power and convert the input power to a power signal, coil configured to transmit the power signal to a power receiver, the coil formed of wound Litz wire and including at least one layer, the coil defining, at least, a top face, and a shielding comprising a ferrite core and defining a cavity, the cavity configured such that the ferrite core substantially surrounds all but the top face of the coil.
US11239700B2
A wireless power transfer system includes: (a) an annular first substrate, a first coil, a second coil, and an annular second substrate that are stacked such that central axes of those substantially coincide with each other; (b) a power transmission circuit, implemented on the first substrate, for applying a voltage to the first coil; and (c) a power reception circuit, implemented on the second substrate, for rectifying an electric current that is generated at the second coil through electromagnetic induction and/or magnetic resonance. The second substrate is a multilayer substrate that includes a first layer provided with a ground pattern and a second layer provided with a power supply pattern, and includes slit portions where the patterns are not present as viewed from a direction of the central axes.
US11239698B1
A digitally timed complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) rectifier for wireless power transfer in an implanted medical device is provided. According to one aspect, a voltage rectification circuit for a medical device having an internal coil and internal circuitry includes a voltage rectifier comprising a complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) circuit having low-side first type MOS transistors and upper cross-coupled second type MOS transistors. The voltage rectifier may be configured to output a rectified received voltage, each low-side first type MOS transistor being configured with an first type MOS body diode, the low-side first type MOS transistors being enabled by a timing signal to provide conduction through the low-side first type MOS transistors while bypassing conduction through the first type MOS body diode during a time window having a duration determined by voltage level crossings of the received voltage.
US11239695B2
A wireless power system may have a wireless power transmitting device and wireless power receiving devices. The wireless power transmitting device has wireless power transmitting circuitry with coils to transmit wireless power to wireless power receiving devices. The wireless power receiving devices are placed on the wireless power transmitting device in an order. Batteries in the wireless power receiving devices are charged based at least partly on the order. Power allocation is based on utilization factor information such as information on a power draw associated with each of the power receiving devices. Measurement circuitry in the wireless power transmitting device is used to gather impedance images from the coils. Changes in the impedance images are used to temporarily halt power transmission. Power transmission is resumed depending on whether in-band communications are lost or are maintained.
US11239690B2
The present disclosure relates to an uninterruptable power supply for an electrical consumer. The uninterruptable power supply may include a first current path; a second current path, where the first current path and the second current path are configured to supply electrical energy; a first switch configured to interrupt the first current path; a voltage transformer configured to limit a current intensity of an electrical current, where the voltage transformer is in the second current path; and a controller configured to open the first switch when a current intensity limit value of the electrical current in the first current path is reached to electrically interrupt the first current path and conduct the electrical current over the voltage transformer to limit the current.
US11239678B2
A low-cost task specific device system for scheduling tasks that are performed by one or more devices is described. After a preceding task is performed, the performance of a successive task is delayed for a task-specific recharge interval associated with the preceding task. The successive task is performed after the task-specific recharge interval has expired.
US11239668B2
A charger case for storing and charging two electronic devices includes a docking tray having two storage compartments to hold the two electronic devices. The charger case includes two device connectors, with each device connector exposed to a respective one of the two storage compartments to establish electrical communication with a respective one of the two electronic devices. A portable charger is included in the case and electrically coupled to the two device connectors.
US11239667B2
Desk top items with LEDs also include USB-unit(s) or USB-module(s) and, optionally, additional outlet-units, to supply power to other electric or digital devices such as a smart phone or digital data device.
US11239666B2
The present invention relates to an application device comprising an integrated energy storage, an application controller and a method of operating an application system, supporting different operation modes. In a first operation mode, AC power is provided via a distribution line to operate the application device. In a second mode, the AC power transmission at the distribution line is replaced by data communication, wherein the application device is run by energy from the energy storage during the second operation mode. Preferably in a third operation mode, DC power from the energy storage of an application device may be provided via the distribution line to another application device.
US11239663B2
An energy storage device for a power system is provided. The energy storage device is electrically connected with a high voltage DC transmission grid. The energy storage device includes at least one energy storage element, at least one bidirectional inverter module, at least one medium frequency transformer and at least one bidirectional AC/DC conversion module. A DC terminal of each bidirectional inverter module is electrically connected with the corresponding energy storage element. A first transmission terminal of each medium frequency transformer is electrically connected with an AC terminal of the corresponding bidirectional inverter module. An AC terminal of each bidirectional AC/DC conversion module is electrically connected with a second transmission terminal of the corresponding medium frequency transformer. A DC terminal of each bidirectional AC/DC conversion module is electrically connected with the high voltage DC transmission grid.
US11239630B2
In various embodiments, laser apparatuses include thermal bonding layers between various components and sealing materials for preventing or retarding movement of thermal bonding material out of the thermal bonding layers.
US11239611B2
A connector for controlling impedance for use in a connector assembly, the connector has a housing made of dielectric material. The housing has a first conductor receiving opening and a second conductor receiving opening which are dimensioned to receive exposed conductors of a cable. The first conductor receiving opening and the second conductor receiving opening have conductor receiving portions, the conductor receiving portions extending at an angle relative to a longitudinal axis of the housing. The first conductor receiving opening and the second conductor receiving opening have conductor spacing portions which extend from the conductor receiving opening. The conductor spacing portions extend in a direction which is essentially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the housing. The spacing portions are spaced apart by a distance. The dielectric material and the distance the spacing portions are spaced apart being selected to match the impedance of the cable.
US11239607B2
A fastening device for expansion cards that is capable of connecting to a slot on a normal motherboard and fastening an expansion card in the slot is disclosed. The fastening device includes a top pressing unit and two side fastening units, wherein the two side fastening units are connected to two ends of the top pressing unit, respectively, and each side fastening unit is provided with an opening. When two clip units disposed on the two ends of the slot pass through the openings of the two side fixing units respectively, the top pressing unit presses the top edge of the expansion card inserted into the slot and the two side fastening units respectively press and fasten the two clip units so as to restrain the clip units from unlocking and to prevent the expansion card from becoming loose in the slot.
US11239603B2
The invention relates to an electrical connector locking hub nut that does not damage the wiring during pulling, frees up manpower by allowing one person rather than two to be able to do the pulling, has a simplified design, and which has universal threading for conduit of all currently approved sizes and materials.
US11239597B2
The invention generally provides a connector recording system or platform that includes a recording system designed to interact with a connector system to read an indicia and then transfer, store, and display information associated with the positioning of the connector system in the installed component or device. The connector system includes a male housing assembly, a female housing assembly coupled to the male housing assembly in a connected state, and a connector position assurance assembly with the indicia and a locking member that is movable between locked and unlocked positions. In the locked position, the locking member secures the male housing assembly to the female housing assembly and the indicia can be read by the scanner to signal that the connector position assurance assembly is in the locked position. In the unlocked position, the indicia is in a state that does not allow the scanner to obtain information from the indicia.
US11239596B2
A connector includes: a plurality of terminals; a housing having a tubular outer wall part, a holding part having a plurality of terminal housing chambers, lances positioned radially outside the respective terminal housing chambers, and a locking part; and a detection member having a tubular fitting part to be fit to the holding part and an engaging part. The lances, when the respective terminals are inserted into a regular position in the respective terminal housing chambers, enter the inside of the fitting part when the fitting part is fit to the holding part and, when the respective terminal are not inserted into the regular position, are pressed by the respective terminals to become deformed radially outward and to lock the fitting part at a first position, the first position being short of a position at which the engaging part is engaged with the locking part.
US11239595B2
A female terminal is provided with a tubular connecting tube portion, a male terminal being connected to the connecting tube portion from front, a resilient contact piece configured to resiliently contact the male terminal inserted into the connecting tube portion from a first direction, receiving portions configured to sandwich the male terminal between the resilient contact piece and the receiving portions inside the connecting tube portion, a vibration suppressing portion configured to resiliently contact the male terminal from a second direction intersecting the first direction, and a contact portion configured to sandwich the male terminal between the vibration suppressing portion and the contact portion inside the connecting tube portion. The vibration suppressing portion is provided on a wall portion constituting the connecting tube portion and includes a plurality of deflecting portions deflectable in the second direction.
US11239594B2
The electrical contact material includes a base material, a coating layer provided on a surface of the base material, and an oxide layer provided on a surface of the coating layer. The base material contains Cu. The coating layer includes an undercoat layer, a first layer, and a second layer that are provided in that order from the base material side. The undercoat layer contains Ni. The first layer contains Ni, Zn, Cu, and Sn. The second layer contains Sn. The oxide layer is constituted by an oxide containing Zn, Cu, and Sn. The undercoat layer has a thickness larger than 0.5 μm.
US11239588B2
A card edge connector includes an elongated housing comprising opposite long walls and defining a card slot between the long walls, two rows of contacts retained in the long walls respectively and a ground member including two long plates retained in the long walls respectively. Each row of contacts includes ground contacts and signal contacts, the ground contacts comprises retaining sections retained in the housing, elastic sections extending upward from the retained sections with mating portions exposed to the card slot and leg sections extending downward from the retaining sections. Each of the ground contacts further comprises an engaging portion curved from the elastic section and touching corresponding long plate.
US11239584B2
A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of panel pads, a connection board including a plurality of connection lines, and a circuit board including a plurality of board pads. The plurality of connection lines are spaced apart from each other. Each of a connection line among the plurality of connection lines includes: a first end portion at which the connection line is connected to the display panel, the first end portion being in direct contact with a panel pad, and a second end portion opposite to the first end portion and at which the connection line is connected to the circuit board, the second end portion being in contact with a board pad.
US11239583B2
A connector includes a terminal clasp, a flexible flat conductive component, a housing in which an electrical connection part of the terminal clasp protrudes out of an opening of a storage room, and a cover that covers the electrical connection part from outside together with at least part of the housing. The flexible flat conductive component includes an electrical connection region in which the electrical connection part is connected with a conductor, a peripheral region enclosing the electrical connection region, an extension region extending out of the housing and the cover connected with each other, and at least two fitting holes provided on the extension region side in the peripheral region.
US11239579B2
A terminal block for transitioning electrical connections between two adjacent areas comprises at least one hole for receiving a stud. Each hole comprises a through hole and a sealing chamber surrounding the through hole. A stud is used for each hole. Each stud comprises a seal support flange and a sealing device. Each side of the seal support flange comprises a system for making an electrical connection. The seal support flange is sized to fit within the sealing chamber. The sealing device is located between the support flange and the sealing chamber. The stud is secured to the hole on the opposite side of the dielectric insert from the support flange and the sealing chamber to compress the sealing device between the support flange and the sealing chamber and cause the sealing device to fill the space of the sealing chamber and form a seal between the stud and the sealing chamber.
US11239578B2
A connector includes a first housing and a second housing. The connector includes a terminal that is a first terminal disposed in a region opposite to the electronic device, of the second housing, and a terminal that is a second terminal disposed in the region opposite to the electronic device, of the second housing, and disposed adjacent to the first terminal. The connector includes a terminal that is a third terminal disposed in the region opposite to the electronic device, of the second housing, and disposed adjacent to the second terminal along an arrangement direction of the first terminal and the second terminal. The connector includes a first connecting conductor that electrically connects together the first terminal and the second terminal, and electrically connects the first terminal and the second terminal to a first device-side conductor provided in the electronic device.
US11239568B2
A reflector antenna, preferably a fixed mesh reflector antenna, and a process for manufacturing the reflector antenna, is disclosed that includes forming a support structure, placing a reflector surface on a mold, attaching the support structure to the reflector surface, measuring the geometry of the reflector surface, adjusting the surface geometry of the reflector if appropriate to obtain improved accuracy for the reflector surface, and fixedly connecting the support structure and the reflector surface. In an embodiment, the antenna reflector system includes a mesh reflector surface, a plurality of spline support elements, a plurality of splines connected to the reflector surface, and a plurality of adjustable spline supports attachable to the spline support elements and the splines, wherein the adjustable spline supports are adjustably repositionable with respect to the spline support elements, and also fixedly connectable to the spline support elements.
US11239567B2
An antenna having a reflector mounted on a rigid boom uses a line feed or phased array feed to operate in the Ka band with frequencies up to 36 gigahertz while maintaining the ability to operate at frequencies down to L-Band of 1-2 GHz.
US11239557B2
An antenna structure including a first radiator and a second radiator is provided. The first radiator includes a first section, a second section, and a third section. The first section has a feed-in end. The second section is adjacent to the first section and connected to a position of the first section close to the feed-in end. The third section is connected to the second section and the feed-in end to encircle a space. The second radiator is disposed around the first section and the second section. The second radiator includes a first end and a second end opposite to each other. The first end is a ground end. A coupling interval is formed between the second end and the third section. A first frequency band, a second frequency band, and a third frequency band are resonated by the first radiator and the second radiator.
US11239555B2
A phase shift element includes a first dielectric layer, a conductive layer, a second dielectric layer, a conducting pattern layer, switches, and vertical interconnect accesses (vias). Each conductor of a plurality of conductors of the conducting pattern layer is orthogonal to two other conductors. Each switch is switchable between a conducting position and a non-conducting position. Each via is connected to a single conductor. The first conductive material reflects an electromagnetic wave incident on the conducting pattern layer and on the second dielectric layer. When a switch is in the conducting position, the switch electrically connects two conductors to each other through their respective vias. A plurality of different switch configurations of the switches provide a 2-bit phase quantization on the reflected electromagnetic wave relative to the electromagnetic wave incident on the conducting pattern layer when the electromagnetic wave is incident on the conducting pattern layer.
US11239551B2
An information handling system to wirelessly transmit and receive data may include a processor; a memory; an input/output (I/O) device; a wireless adapter; a metal C-cover to house a speaker grill, the speaker grill covering a speaker to emit audio waves; the speaker grill formed within the C-cover to emit a target radio frequency (RF), including: a slot formed around an operative antenna portion of the speaker grill forming a peninsula of the speaker grill in the C-cover; an antenna cavity formed on a back side of the peninsula, the antenna cavity including walls formed around the cavity in the back side of the peninsula; and a tuning module operatively coupled to the speaker grill to excite the speaker grill and dynamically switch frequencies based on the target frequency to be emitted by the speaker grill.
US11239550B2
An electronic device may be provided with an antenna for receiving signals in first and second ultra-wideband communications bands. The antenna may include a shielding ring that runs around first and second arms. The first arm may radiate in the first band and the second arm may radiate in the second band. The first arm may have an end formed from a first segment of the ring and a radiating edge facing the second arm. The second arm may have an end formed from a second segment of the ring and a radiating edge facing the first arm. First and second sets of conductive vias may couple the ring to ground. The first set may form a return path for the first arm. The second set may form a return path for the second arm.
US11239546B2
Multiple feed, front-shielded, coplanar waveguide, direct-fed, cavity-backed slot antennas are described. Various implementations form an antenna unit capable of millimeter waveform and/or microwave waveform transmissions. An antenna comprises a conductive plate that includes an aperture. The aperture has a shape that extends along an axis that bisects the aperture into first and second bisected portions, the first bisected portion having a first geometry type, and the second portion having a second geometry type that is a bilateral symmetry shape type of the first geometry type. In implementations, the aperture is configured to radiate waveforms within a frequency range from about between 600 Megahertz (MHz) to 72 Gigahertz (GHz) by applying multiple signal feeds to the conductive plate.
US11239539B1
An electromagnetic waveguide including conductive material on upper lower, and side surfaces of a dielectric is disclosed. A conductive excitation member is electrically coupled to the conductive material on the upper surface of the dielectric and extends to the lower surface of the dielectric at or near an end surface of the dielectric. The conductive excitation member includes a host interface flange separated and electrically isolated from the conductive material on the lower surface of the dielectric. The conductive material on the lower surface of the dielectric can be a ground plane and the waveguide can be a surface-mountable component.
US11239538B2
A photonic integrated circuit is disclosed comprising: a dielectric substrate (110); a dielectric waveguide arrangement (120) on the substrate (110) for guiding terahertz (THz) waves; and a local functionalization (130) having a metallization in a surface area of the dielectric waveguide arrangement (120). The metallization is localized along a propagation direction of the THz waves to allow a metallization-free propagation of the THz wave outside of the local functionalization.
US11239525B2
A battery pack includes a box body assembly including a box body and a plurality of fixing beams which are fixed in the box body and divide the internal space into a plurality of containing cavities, a plurality of battery modules correspondingly arranged in each containing cavity and a plurality of restraint components, each of which includes a limit part, a first mounting part and a second mounting part. Each limit part covers each battery module correspondingly. The first and second mounting part are connected on both sides of the limit part in the direction in which the plurality of fixing beams are arranged and fixed with the fixing beams on both sides of the corresponding battery module respectively; the first mounting part of one of adjacent restraint components and the second mounting part of the other are fixed on the same fixing beam and overlapped in a height direction.
US11239523B2
A battery pack coupling system for mechanically and/or electrically coupling a battery pack optionally to a harness device or to a manually operated electrical device includes a mechanical backpack coupling interface at the battery pack for the releasable mechanical coupling to a corresponding mechanical battery pack-backpack coupling interface at the harness device and/or an electrical coupling interface at the battery pack and an electrical connecting line with a connecting plug body at the end which can be releasably coupled to the electrical coupling interface. The battery pack coupling system has a mechanical device coupling interface at the battery pack, different from the mechanical backpack coupling interface, for the releasable mechanical coupling to a corresponding mechanical battery pack-device coupling interface at the electrical device and/or a plug fastening mechanism through which the connecting plug body can be fastened releasably to the harness device.
US11239522B2
A battery pack includes a plurality of battery cells each including a laminate film casing from which positive and negative electrode lead tabs are led out in a same direction, and a coupling assisting member that includes a conductive plate member fixing portion that fixes a conductive plate member having first and second main surfaces, and first and second slit portions provided on the first and second main surface sides of the conductive plate member, respectively. Either of the positive and negative lead tabs of one battery cell is inserted through the first slit portion and conductively connected to the first main surface. A lead tab of a battery cell adjoining one battery cell and having a polarity different from that of the lead tab of the one battery cell, is inserted through the second slit portion and conductively connected to the second main surface.
US11239520B2
This disclosure details assemblies for mounting and supporting components within battery packs. Exemplary battery packs may include a first battery array, a second battery array positioned adjacent to the first battery array, a crossmember positioned between the first battery array and the second battery array, and a support bracket connected to the crossmember. Together, the crossmember and the support bracket established an assembly. Both the first battery array and the second battery array may be secured to the crossmember, and the support bracket may support a second tier structure above at least one of the first battery array or the second battery array.
US11239518B2
The present disclosure relates to a rechargeable battery including: an electrode assembly including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a separation layer interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, a first electrode tab electrically connected to the first electrode, a second electrode tab electrically connected to the second electrode, and a first exterior member and a second exterior member receiving the electrode assembly and disposed to face each other, wherein at least one of the first exterior member and the second exterior member includes at least one of a first draw-out unit drawing out the first electrode tab and a second draw-out unit drawing out the second electrode tab, and a display device including the same.
US11239514B2
A lithium ion battery (100) of the invention includes a battery main body (10) which includes one or more power generation elements configured by laminating a positive electrode layer, an electrolyte layer, and a negative electrode layer, in this order; an outer package (20) which includes at least a heat-fusion resin layer (21) and a barrier layer (23), and in which the battery main body (10) is sealed; and a pair of electrode terminals (30), each of which is electrically connected to the battery main body (10) and at least a part of which is exposed to the outside of the outer package (20). The outer package (20) includes an accommodation portion (25) which accommodates the battery main body (10), a joint portion (27) where the heat-fusion resin layers (21) positioned on a peripheral portion of the accommodation portion (25) are joined with each other directly or through the electrode terminal (30), and an extruded resin portion (29) which is formed by extrusion of a part of the heat-fusion resin layer (21) of the joint portion (27) from the joint portion (27) to the accommodation portion (25) side, and a difference (Lmax−Lmin) between a maximum length Lmax and a minimum length Lmin of the extruded resin portion (29) is equal to or greater than 0.0 mm and equal to or smaller than 1.0 mm.
US11239506B2
This disclosure relates to thermal event detection for battery packs of electrified vehicles. An example electrified vehicle includes a battery assembly including an enclosure assembly surrounding at least one battery array, and a controller configured to receive information associated with the battery assembly and detect a thermal event based on the information. The controller is configured to issue a plurality of corrective action commands following detection of the thermal event.
US11239499B2
Additive, electrolyte for lithium secondary battery and lithium secondary battery including the same
An additive for a lithium secondary battery includes a compound represented by Formula 1 below, where R1 to R4 are as defined in the disclosure. An electrolyte for a lithium secondary battery includes: a lithium salt; a non-aqueous organic solvent; and the additive. A lithium secondary battery includes: a cathode; an anode; and the electrolyte.
US11239492B2
A solid electrolyte material according to an aspect of the present disclosure is represented by the following Compositional Formula (1): Li6-3zYzX6 where, 0
US11239486B2
A cell stack in which a plurality of cells may have a cylindrical shape and may include gas flow passages may be arranged uprightly and may be electrically connected may include: a manifold configured to fix lower ends of the plurality of cells and supply gas to the gas flow passages of the plurality of cells, and a gas supply pipe configured to supply the gas to the manifold. The gas supply pipe may include one end connected to a gas supply portion and another end inserted into a first through hole provided in the manifold, and may be joined to the manifold via a first joining portion. The gas supply pipe may include a first protruding portion protruding toward an inner side of the gas supply pipe and located at a position corresponding to the first joining portion in any cross-section along an insertion direction of the gas supply pipe.
US11239484B2
A fuel cell system and a method for operating the fuel cell system, wherein the fuel cell system includes a fuel cell, a controller, a switch, an oxygen supply device and an output circuit. The fuel cell includes an anode and a cathode. The fuel cell is a cathode enclosed fuel cell. The controller is used to drive control signal for adjusting the electrochemical metering ratio of oxygen flow, supplied by the oxygen supply device, to output current, wherein the electrochemical metering ratio is ‘a’, and ‘a’ satisfies: 1≤a≤4. The method of the present disclosure uses the fuel cell system of the present disclosure, which optimizes the performance of a fuel cell and makes the output interruption time very short; hence it is highly beneficial for providing a more stable output.
US11239478B2
A fuel cell system includes: a fuel cell including an inlet and an outlet; first and second injection devices injecting purge gas; a gas-liquid separator separating liquid water from the purge gas discharged from the outlet and causing the liquid water to flow out; a discharge valve discharging the liquid water flowing out to an outside; an ejector including: an inflow port and an outflow port for the purge gas; a first connection path between the outflow port and the inlet; an introduction path introducing the purge gas injected from the second injection device into the first connection path without flowing through the ejector; a second connection path between the gas-liquid separator and the outlet; a third connection path connected between the gas-liquid separator and the inflow port, and extending vertically upward from the gas-liquid separator; and a controller.
US11239469B2
A hybrid lithium-ion battery/capacitor cell comprising at least a pair of graphite anodes assembled with a lithium compound cathode and an activated carbon capacitor electrode can provide useful power performance properties and low temperature properties required for many power utilizing applications. The graphite anodes are formed of porous layers of graphite particles bonded to at least one side of current collector foils which face opposite sides of the activated carbon capacitor. The porous graphite particles are pre-lithiated to form a solid electrolyte interface on the anode particles before the anodes are assembled in the hybrid cell. The pre-lithiation step is conducted to circumvent the irreversible reactions in the formation of a solid electrolyte interface (SEI) and preserve the lithium content of the electrolyte and lithium cathode during formation cycling of the assembled hybrid cell. The pre-lithiation step is also applicable to other anode materials that benefit from such pre-lithiation.
US11239461B2
There is provided a method of forming a porous particle comprising an electrically conductive continuous shell encapsulating a core, said core comprising an elemental compound that reversibly reduces in the presence of a cation and oxidizes in the absence of said cation, said method comprising the steps of: a) encapsulating an elemental compound precursor with said electrically conductive shell; b) reacting said elemental compound precursor with an oxidation agent to oxidise said elemental compound precursor to form said elemental compound, thereby forming said electrically conductive shell encapsulating said core comprising said elemental compound.
US11239460B2
A method of producing a powder mass for a lithium battery, comprising: (a) mixing an inorganic filler and an elastomer or its precursor in a liquid medium or solvent to form a suspension; (b) dispersing a plurality of particles of a cathode active material in the suspension to form a slurry; and (c) dispensing the slurry and removing the solvent and/or polymerizing or curing the precursor to form the powder mass, wherein at least a particulate comprises one or a plurality of cathode active material particles being encapsulated by a layer of inorganic filler-reinforced elastomer having a thickness from 1 nm to 10 μm, a fully recoverable tensile strain from 2% to 500%, and a lithium ion conductivity from 10−7 S/cm to 5×10−2 S/cm and the inorganic filler has a lithium intercalation potential from 1.1 V to 4.5 V versus Li/Li+.
US11239457B2
According to one embodiment, provided is a nonaqueous electrolyte battery including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The positive electrode includes a spinel type lithium-manganese composite oxide and a lithium cobalt oxide, which satisfy formula (1): 0.01≤B/(A+B)<0.05. The negative electrode includes a titanium-containing oxide. The nonaqueous electrolyte battery satisfies formula (2): 0.3≤C/D 0.8. A is a weight ratio (wt %) of the spinel type lithium-manganese composite oxide. B is a weight ratio (wt %) of the lithium cobalt oxide. C is a pore specific surface area (m2/g) of the positive electrode. D is a pore specific surface area (m2/g) of the negative electrode.
US11239456B2
A composite cathode active material, a cathode including the composite cathode active material, and a lithium battery including the cathode are provided. The composite cathode active material includes a core including a lithium metal oxide and a coating layer on the core, wherein the lithium metal oxide includes two or more transition metals including nickel (Ni), an amount of Ni within one mole of the two or more transition metals included in the lithium metal oxide is about 0.65 mol or greater, the coating layer includes LiF, and a resistance of the composite cathode active material is lower than that of the core.
US11239453B2
A method of manufacturing a flexible display device, includes forming a base layer on a non-flexible substrate, the base layer including a first resin layer, an inorganic film, and a second resin layer, wherein the forming of the base layer includes a first step of forming the first resin layer inward from an end portion region of the non-flexible substrate, a second step of forming the inorganic film on the first resin layer such that the non-flexible substrate and/or the first resin layer is exposed, and a third step of forming the second resin layer in contact with the non-flexible substrate exposed from the inorganic film and/or the first resin layer exposed from the inorganic film, and the method further includes peeling the non-flexible substrate and bonding a flexible substrate to the first resin layer via an adhesive layer.
US11239447B2
The invention provides an OLED display panel and manufacturing method thereof. The manufacturing method of OLED display panel of the invention forms a first scattering layer on the thin film encapsulation layer, a quantum dot layer on the first scattering layer, and a second scattering layer on the quantum dot layer. The first scattering layer extracts light from the OLED device, so that the light totally reflected by OLED device through thin film encapsulation layer is emitted as much as possible; the light extracted by the first scattering layer reaches the quantum dot layer. The quantum dots are excited to perform light color matching to emit light of desired color. Since the light excited by quantum dot layer is dispersed, the second scattering layer extracts the light excited by the quantum dot layer in an orderly manner, so that the OLED display panel emits light uniformly, thereby improving luminous efficiency.
US11239444B2
A display panel. The display panel includes a base substrate; a plurality of light emitting elements on the base substrate; and an encapsulating structure encapsulating the plurality of light emitting elements. The encapsulating structure includes a first inorganic encapsulating sublayer; a first organic encapsulating sublayer; and a first amphiphilic cross-linking sublayer between the first inorganic encapsulating sublayer and the first organic encapsulating sublayer.
US11239442B2
A display panel includes a base substrate including a first surface; another base substrate including a second surface disposed face the first surface; a first insulating layer disposed above the first surface of the base substrate, a plurality of grooves being disposed in a surface of the first insulating layer away from the base substrate; a first conductive layer disposed at a side of the first insulating layer away from the base substrate, the first conductive layer at least covering bottom faces and side walls of the plurality of grooves; a plurality of support portions disposed above the second surface of the another base substrate; and a second conductive layer disposed at a side of the plurality of support portions away from the another base substrate, the second conductive layer at least covering surfaces of the plurality of support portions facing away from the another base substrate and side faces of the plurality of support portions. Each support portion is embedded into a respective one of the plurality of grooves, and the first conductive layer is in electrical contact with the second conductive layer at the bottom faces and side walls of the plurality of grooves.
US11239441B2
A lighting apparatus using an organic light emitting diode that has an emission area and a non-emission area, the light emitting apparatus comprises a first electrode; an organic layer disposed on the first electrode; a second electrode disposed on the organic layer; and an insulating layer disposed in the non-emission area, wherein the first electrode disposed in the emission area includes at least one metal layer and at least one dielectric layer, and wherein the first electrode disposed in the non-emission area includes at least one dielectric layer.
US11239432B2
A new series of iptycene derivatives as ligands for metal complexes that are useful as phosphorescent emitters for incorporation into OLEDs are disclosed. Provided are compositions that include a compound including a chemical group of Formula I wherein (1) the chemical group of Formula I is included as at least one of the substituents in a bidentate ligand forming the metal complex, or (2) when the substituents in a bidentate ligand forming the metal complex are attached to a six-membered ring, at least one of the such substituents join adjacent substituents and fuse into the six-membered ring attached thereto to form a chemical group having Formula I.
US11239426B2
There is provided a compound having Formula (I), Formula (II), or Formula (III). The variables are described in detail herein.
US11239415B2
A method of forming a memory device includes the following steps. A plurality of carbon nanotubes are formed over a substrate as a first electrode. An insulating layer is formed over the carbon nanotubes. A graphene is formed over the insulating layer as a second electrode separated from the first electrode by the insulating layer.
US11239411B2
A spin-orbit-torque magnetization rotational element includes: a spin-orbit-torque wiring extending in a first direction; an antiferromagnetic layer laminated on one surface of the spin-orbit-torque wiring; and a first ferromagnetic layer located on a side of the antiferromagnetic layer opposite to the spin-orbit-torque wiring and magnetically coupled with the antiferromagnetic layer by exchange coupling, wherein a length of the antiferromagnetic layer in the first direction is shorter than a length of the spin-orbit-torque wiring in the first direction.
US11239400B1
A light-emitting diode (LED) array is formed by bonding an LED chip or wafer to a backplane substrate via curved interconnects. The backplane substrate may include circuits for driving the LED's. One or more curved interconnects are formed on the backplane substrate. A curved interconnect may be electrically connected to a corresponding circuit of the backplane substrate, and may include at least a portion with curvature. The LED chip or wafer may include one or more LED devices. Each LED device may have one or more electrical contacts. The LED chip or wafer is positioned above the backplane substrate to spatially align electrical contacts of the LED devices with the curved interconnects on the backplane substrate. The electrical contacts are bonded to the curved interconnects to electrically connect the LED devices to corresponding circuits of the backplane substrate.
US11239397B2
A micro light emitting diode display includes a display module and a hydrophobic layer. The display module includes a substrate, an electrode layer, and a micro light emitting diode device. The substrate has a first surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface and at least one air passage extending from the first surface to the second surface. The electrode layer is disposed on and in contact with the first surface of the substrate. The air passage has an opening on the first surface of the substrate, and the electrode layer is spaced apart from the opening. The micro light emitting diode device is disposed on the electrode layer and has a light emitting area that is less than or equal to 2500 μm2. The hydrophobic layer at least partially covers a side of the display module.
US11239396B2
A light-emitting device and a method for manufacturing a light-emitting device are disclosed. In an embodiment a light-emitting device includes a light-emitting semiconductor chip with a light-outcoupling surface surrounded laterally by a first reflective material in a form-locking manner, a foil element on the light-outcoupling surface, an optical element on the foil element laterally surrounded by a second reflective material in a form-locking manner and a gas-filled gap located at least in a partial region between the foil element and the optical element.
US11239392B2
An optoelectronic semiconductor chip may include a semiconductor layer sequence having at least one n-doped semiconductor layer, at least one p-doped semiconductor layer, and an active layer arranged between the at least one n-doped semiconductor layer and the at least one p-doped semiconductor layer. A p-terminal contact may be electrically contacted to the p-doped semiconductor layer. An n-terminal contact may be electrically contacted to the n-doped semiconductor layer. The n-terminal contact may be arranged in direct contact with the p-doped semiconductor layer at least in regions.
US11239390B2
A light emitting apparatus including a light emitting device including a first base at which a laminate is provided, a second base at which the light emitting device is provided, and a first member provided between the first base and the second base, wherein the laminate includes a light emitter, the light emitter includes a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer of a conductivity type different from the conductivity type of the first semiconductor layer, and a light emitting layer provided between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer and capable of emitting light when current is injected into the light emitting layer, the first member has one end connected to the first base and another end connected to the second base, and the laminate is connected to the second base on the side opposite the first base.
US11239388B2
A semiconductor device includes a first type semiconductor structure, an active structure, and a contact layer. The first type semiconductor structure includes a first lattice constant, a first side and a second side opposite to the first side. The active structure is on the first side of the first type semiconductor structure and emits a radiation, and the radiation has a peak wavelength between 1000 nm and 2000 nm. The contact layer is on the second side of the first type semiconductor structure and includes a second lattice constant. A difference between the first lattice constant and the second lattice constant is at least 0.5%.
US11239382B2
A semiconductor photomultiplier includes a microcell, a photosensitive diode, and an anti-reflective coating. The microcell has an insulating layer formed over an active region. The photosensitive diode is formed in the active region beneath the insulating layer. The anti-reflective coating is provided on the insulating layer.
US11239368B2
In an embodiment, a device includes: a semiconductor substrate having a channel region; a gate stack over the channel region; and an epitaxial source/drain region adjacent the gate stack, the epitaxial source/drain region including: a main portion in the semiconductor substrate, the main portion including a semiconductor material doped with gallium, a first concentration of gallium in the main portion being less than the solid solubility of gallium in the semiconductor material; and a finishing portion over the main portion, the finishing portion doped with gallium, a second concentration of gallium in the finishing portion being greater than the solid solubility of gallium in the semiconductor material.
US11239358B2
A semiconductor structure and fabrication method are provided. The method includes: providing a substrate with a first doped region and a second doped region; forming discrete first isolation structures in the second doped region; forming a third doped region in the second doped region between adjacent first isolation structures and under the first isolation structures; forming a gate structure; forming a source region in the first doped region; and forming a drain region in the second doped region. The first doped region includes first doping ions and the second doped region includes second doping ions with a conductivity type opposite to a conductivity type of the first doping ions. The third doped region includes third doping ions with a conductivity type opposite to the conductivity type of the second doping ions. A portion of the first isolation structure is located between the gate structure and the drain region.
US11239356B2
A semiconductor device includes an N-type silicon carbide layer, a P-type region, an N-type source region, a P-type contact region, a gate insulating film, a gate electrode, and a source electrode on the front surface side of an N-type silicon carbide substrate. A drain electrode is located on the back surface of the N-type silicon carbide substrate. A life time killer introduction region is located along an entire interface of the N-type silicon carbide layer and the bottom face of the P-type region. The life time killer is introduced by implanting helium or protons from the back surface side of the N-type silicon carbide substrate after forming a surface structure of an element on the front surface side of the N-type silicon carbide substrate and before forming the drain electrode.
US11239355B2
A semiconductor device is provided, including: a semiconductor substrate; an active section in which current flows between upper and lower surfaces of the semiconductor substrate; a transistor section provided in the active section; a gate metal layer to supply a gate voltage to the transistor section; a gate pad electrically connected to the gate metal layer; a temperature-sensing unit provided above the active section; a temperature-measurement pad arranged in a peripheral region between the active section and an outermost perimeter of the semiconductor substrate; and a temperature-sensing wire having a longitudinal portion and connecting the temperature-sensing unit and the temperature-measurement pad, wherein on the upper surface of the semiconductor substrate, the gate pad is arranged in a region other than an extending region that is an extension of the longitudinal portion of the temperature-sensing wire to the outermost perimeter of the semiconductor substrate in the longitudinal direction.
US11239353B2
Provided is a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device. The method includes providing a substrate, forming uneven portions in a region of the substrate in which an electrode is to be formed, forming a precursor film formed of a two-dimensional material on the substrate on which the uneven portions are formed, forming a metal chalcogen film by performing a chalcogenation process on the formed precursor film, and forming the electrode on the formed metal chalcogen film.
US11239351B2
A gate controlled semiconductor device comprising a collector region of a first conductivity type; a drift region of a second conductivity type located over the collector region; a body region of a first conductivity type located over the drift region; at least one first contact region of a second conductivity type located above the body region and having a higher doping concentration compared to the body region. The device further comprises at least one second contact region of a first conductivity type located laterally adjacent to the at least one first contact region, the at least one second contact region having a higher doping concentration than the body region. The device further comprises at least one active trench extending from a surface into the drift region, in which the at least one first contact region adjoins the at least one active trench so that, in use, a channel region is formed along said at least one active trench and within the body region. The at least one active trench comprises: two vertical sidewalls and a bottom surface between the two vertical sidewalls; and an insulation layer along the vertical side walls and the bottom surface, wherein the insulation layer along at least one vertical side wall comprises different thicknesses; at least one auxiliary trench extending from the surface into the drift region. The at least one auxiliary trench comprises: two vertical sidewalls and a bottom surface between the two vertical sidewalls; and an insulation layer along the vertical side walls and the bottom surface, wherein the insulation layer along at least one vertical side wall comprises a constant thickness.
US11239349B2
A first region is formed by injecting a first condition type first dopant into a surface layer portion of an IGBT section of a semiconductor substrate. A second region is formed by injecting a second condition type second dopant into a region of the IGBT section shallower than the first region. An amorphous third region is formed by injecting the first conduction type third dopant into a surface layer portion of a diode section at a concentration higher than that of the second dopant. Thereafter, the IGBT section and the diode section are laser-annealed under conditions in which the third region is partially melted and the first dopant is activated. Subsequently, a surface layer portion which is shallower than the second injection region in the entire region of the IGBT section and the diode section is melted and crystallized by annealing the IGBT section and the diode section.
US11239346B2
A method of forming an integrated circuit relative to a wafer comprising a semiconductor substrate. The method first forms a first dielectric layer having a first thickness and along the substrate, the first forming step comprising plasma etching the wafer in a first substrate area and a second substrate area and thereafter growing the first dielectric layer in the first substrate area and the second substrate area. After the first step, the method second forms a second dielectric layer having a second thickness and along the substrate in the second substrate area, the second thickness less than the first thickness, the second forming step comprising removal of the first dielectric layer in the second substrate area without plasma and until a surface of the substrate is exposed and growing the second dielectric layer in at least a portion of the surface.
US11239340B2
A semiconductor arrangement and method of formation are provided. The semiconductor arrangement comprises a conductive contact in contact with a substantially planar first top surface of a first active area, the contact between and in contact with a first alignment spacer and a second alignment spacer both having substantially vertical outer surfaces. The contact formed between the first alignment spacer and the second alignment spacer has a more desired contact shape then a contact formed between alignment spacers that do not have substantially vertical outer surfaces. The substantially planar surface of the first active area is indicative of a substantially undamaged structure of the first active area as compared to an active area that is not substantially planar. The substantially undamaged first active area has a greater contact area for the contact and a lower contact resistance as compared to a damaged first active area.
US11239339B2
A semiconductor structure includes a first active region over a substrate and extending along a first direction, a gate structure over the first active region and extending along a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction, a gate-cut feature abutting an end of the gate structure, and a channel isolation feature extending along the second direction and between the first active region and a second active region. The gate structure includes a metal electrode in direct contact with the gate-cut feature. The channel isolation feature includes a liner on sidewalls extending along the second direction and a dielectric fill layer between the sidewalls. The gate-cut feature abuts an end of the channel isolation feature and the dielectric fill layer is in direct contact with the gate-cut feature.
US11239337B2
To provide a semiconductor device having improved reliability. The semiconductor device has, on a SOI substrate thereof having a semiconductor substrate, an insulating layer, and a semiconductor layer, a gate insulating film having an insulating film and a high dielectric constant film. The high dielectric constant film has a higher dielectric constant than a silicon oxide film and includes a first metal and a second metal. In the high dielectric constant film, the ratio of the number of atoms of the first metal to the total number of atoms of the first metal and the second metal is equal to or more than 75%, and less than 100%.
US11239335B2
The present disclosure provides an integrated circuit (IC) device, including: a semiconductor substrate having a top surface; a first source/drain feature and a second source/drain feature disposed on the semiconductor substrate; and a plurality of semiconductor layers including a first semiconductor layer and a second semiconductor layer. Each of the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer extends longitudinally in a first direction and connects the first source/drain feature and the second source/drain feature. The first semiconductor layer is stacked over the second semiconductor layer in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. A length of the first semiconductor layer along the first direction is less than a length of the second semiconductor layer along the first direction. The IC device further includes a gate structure engaging center portions of the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer.
US11239334B2
A semiconductor device including a lower contact pattern including a first metal, an upper contact pattern including a second metal, a first resistivity of first metal being greater than a second resistivity of the second metal, and a metal barrier layer between the lower contact pattern and a lower portion of the upper contact pattern, the metal barrier layer including a third metal, the third metal being different from the first and second metals may be provided. A lower width of the upper contact pattern may be less than an upper width of the lower contact pattern.
US11239331B2
A thin film transistor substrate and a method of fabricating same are provided. The thin film transistor substrate includes a substrate, a light shielding layer disposed on the substrate, a buffer layer disposed on the light shielding layer, an active layer disposed on the buffer layer, and a gate insulating layer disposed on the active layer. The gate insulating layer includes a stacked structure including a first insulating layer and a second insulating layer.
US11239323B2
An object is to provide a technology for enabling prevention of deterioration of characteristics of an oxide semiconductor device. The oxide semiconductor device includes an n-type gallium oxide epitaxial layer, a p-type oxide semiconductor layer, and an oxide layer. The p-type oxide semiconductor layer is disposed above the n-type gallium oxide epitaxial layer, contains an element different from gallium as a main component, and has p-type conductivity. The oxide layer is disposed between the n-type gallium oxide epitaxial layer and the p-type oxide semiconductor layer, and is made of a material different from gallium oxide and different at least partly from a material of the p-type oxide semiconductor layer.
US11239321B2
A vertical JFET is provided. The JFET is mixed with lateral channel structure and p-GaN gate structure. The JFET has an improved barrier layer for p-GaN block layer and enhanced Ohmic contact with source. In one embodiment, regrowth of lateral channel is provided so that counter doping surface Mg will be buried. In another embodiment, a dielectric layer is provided to protect p-type block layer during the processing, and later make Ohmic source and p-type block layer. Method of a barrier regrown layer for enhanced lateral channel performance is provided where a regrown barrier layer is deposited over the drift layer. The barrier regrown layer is an anti-p-doping layer. Method of a patterned regrowth for enhanced Ohmic contact is provided where a patterned masked is used for the regrowth.
US11239290B2
A display apparatus includes a substrate including a display area and a sensor area, the display area including main pixels and the sensor area including auxiliary pixels and a transmission area, a plurality of display elements included in each of the main pixels and each of the auxiliary pixels, a first stack structure overlapping the plurality of display elements, a second stack structure overlapping the transmission area, and a thin film encapsulation layer covering the first stack structure and the second stack structure, wherein the first stack structure has a thickness that is different from a thickness of the second stack structure.
US11239284B2
A display device including a color filter is provided. The display device may include at least one color conversion pattern realizing a color same as the color filter. The color conversion pattern may be surrounded by the color filter. Thus, in the display device according to the embodiment of the present disclosure, the color gamut may be improved without increasing the overall thickness of the display device.
US11239279B2
A resistive random access memory (RRAM) structure includes a resistive memory element formed on a semiconductor substrate. The resistive element includes a top electrode, a bottom electrode, and a resistive material layer positioned between the top electrode and the bottom electrode. The RRAM structure further includes a field effect transistor (FET) formed on the semiconductor substrate, the FET having a source and a drain. The drain has a zero-tilt doping profile and the source has a tilted doping profile. The resistive memory element is coupled with the drain via a portion of an interconnect structure.
US11239271B2
An imaging device includes a plurality of light-receiving elements arranged in a two-dimensional matrix shape. Each of the light-receiving elements includes a first electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer, and a second electrode. The photoelectric conversion layer has a laminated structure in which a first compound semiconductor layer having a first conductivity type and a second compound semiconductor layer having a second conductivity type that is a reverse conductivity type to the first conductivity type are laminated from a side of the first electrode. The second compound semiconductor layer has been removed in a region between the light-receiving elements. The first electrode and the first compound semiconductor layer are shared by the light-receiving elements. An impurity concentration of a first compound semiconductor layer near the first electrode is lower than that of a first compound semiconductor layer near the second compound semiconductor layer.
US11239267B2
Imaging apparatus (20) includes a photosensitive medium (22) and a bias electrode (32), which is at least partially transparent, overlying the photosensitive medium. An array of pixel circuits (26) is formed on a semiconductor substrate (30). Each pixel circuit includes a pixel electrode (24) coupled to collect the charge carriers from the photosensitive medium; a readout circuit (75) configured to output a signal indicative of a quantity of the charge carriers collected by the pixel electrode; a skimming gate (48) coupled between the pixel electrode and the readout circuit; and a shutter gate (46) coupled in parallel with the skimming gate between a node (74) in the pixel circuit and a sink site. The shutter gate and the skimming gate are opened sequentially in each of a sequence of image frames so as to apply a global shutter to the array and then to read out the collected charge carriers via the skimming gate to the readout circuit.
US11239242B2
Some embodiments include a method of forming an integrated assembly. A construction is formed to include a conductive structure having a top surface, and a pair of sidewall surfaces extending downwardly from the top surface. Insulative material is over the top surface, and rails are along the sidewall surfaces. The rails include sacrificial material. The sacrificial material is removed to leave openings. Sealant material is formed to extend within the openings. The sealant material has a lower dielectric constant than the insulative material. Some embodiments include an integrated assembly having a conductive structure with a top surface and a pair of opposing sidewall surfaces extending downwardly from the top surface. Insulative material is over the top surface. Voids are along the sidewall surfaces and are capped by sealant material. The sealant material has a lower dielectric constant than the insulative material.
US11239230B2
An integrated circuit (IC) includes a second metal level located between first and third metal levels, a dielectric layer located over the metal levels, and first, second and third vias within the dielectric layer. The first via traverses the first dielectric layer from a surface of the dielectric layer to the first metal level and has a first diameter. The second via traverses the dielectric layer from the surface to the second metal level and has the first diameter. The third via traverses the dielectric layer from the surface to the third metal level and has a second diameter greater than the first diameter. In some implementations the first, second and third metal levels implement a capacitor.
US11239226B2
A semiconductor apparatus that includes a semiconductor substrate having a first main surface and a second main surface, a first electrode opposing the first main surface of the semiconductor substrate, a dielectric layer between the semiconductor substrate and the first electrode, a second electrode opposing the second main surface of the semiconductor substrate, and a resistance control layer between the semiconductor substrate and the second electrode. The resistance control layer includes a first region having a first electrical resistivity and electrically connecting the semiconductor substrate and the second electrode, and a second region having a second electrical resistivity higher than the first electrical resistivity of the first region and adjacent to the first region.
US11239220B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor package. The semiconductor package includes a carrier member, a plurality of inductors and a memory chip. The carrier member includes a first surface, a second surface and a centrally-located opening. The carrier member also includes a plurality of conductive pads on the second surface proximal to the opening. The memory chip is attached to the carrier member in a face-down manner. The memory chip includes a plurality of bidirectional and unidirectional signal-transmission pins electrically coupled to the inductors. The memory chip also includes a plurality of bonding pads. A plurality of bonding wires, passing through the opening, electrically connect the bonding pads on the memory chip to the conductive pads on the carrier member. A first insulative structure substantially encapsulates the memory chip and the inductors. A plurality of solder balls are attached to the second surface of the carrier member.
US11239219B2
A semiconductor package including a lower redistribution layer including wiring patterns; a lower substrate on the lower redistribution layer, the lower substrate including a cavity; an application processor on the lower redistribution layer in the cavity; a cache memory chip on the application processor; a passive device module on the application processor; a plurality of first through-silicon vias penetrating the application processor to connect the lower redistribution layer to the passive device module; and lower bumps on a bottom surface of the lower redistribution layer, wherein the passive device module is adjacent to a side of the cache memory chip.
US11239218B2
A light emitting module includes red, green and blue light sources, and a light diffusing member is arranged above the light sources. The red light source includes a first light emitting element configured to emit light in a range from ultraviolet to blue, a first phosphor layer containing a first phosphor configured to emit red light, and a first film configured to transmit red light and block light in the range from ultraviolet to blue. The green light source includes a second light emitting element configured to emit light in the range from ultraviolet to blue, a second phosphor layer containing a second phosphor configured to emit green light, and a second film configured to transmit green light and block light in the range from ultraviolet to blue. The blue light source includes a third light emitting element configured to emit light in the range from ultraviolet to blue.
US11239217B2
A semiconductor package includes a first sub-package and a second sub-package. The first sub-package is stacked atop the second sub-package. Each of the first sub-package and the second sub-package includes at least two first semiconductor dies, a second semiconductor die, a plurality of molding pieces, a bond-pad layer, a plurality of redistribution layers (RDLs) and a plurality of bumps. The bumps of the first sub-package are attached to the bond-pad layer of the second sub-package.
US11239216B2
A transparent display panel includes a base and a plurality of sub-pixels disposed on the base. Each sub-pixel includes a light-emitting unit, and a light transmission portion disposed on at least one side of the light-emitting unit. The light-emitting unit includes at least one Micro-LED and a control circuit connected to the Micro-LED. The control circuit is configured to drive the at least one Micro-LED to emit light. The light transmission portion includes at least one of a transparent insulating portion or an opening.
US11239209B2
A memory device includes a first memory block defined in a first wafer; and a second memory block defined in a second wafer that is disposed in a vertical direction with respect to the first wafer. A size of the first memory block is smaller than a size of the second memory block.
US11239194B2
A chip package structure is provided. The chip package structure includes a first redistribution structure including a dielectric structure and wiring layers in the dielectric structure. The chip package structure includes a first chip over the first surface. The chip package structure includes a first conductive pillar over the first surface and electrically connected to the wiring layers. The chip package structure includes a second chip over the second surface. The second chip includes a second substrate and a second conductive pad over the second substrate, and the second conductive pad is between the second substrate and the first redistribution structure. The chip package structure includes a second conductive pillar over the second surface and electrically connected to the wiring layers.
US11239193B2
In an embodiment, a device includes: a semiconductor device; and a redistribution structure including: a first dielectric layer; a first grounding feature on the first dielectric layer; a second grounding feature on the first dielectric layer; a first pair of transmission lines on the first dielectric layer, the first pair of transmission lines being laterally disposed between the first grounding feature and the second grounding feature, the first pair of transmission lines being electrically coupled to the semiconductor device; a second dielectric layer on the first grounding feature, the second grounding feature, and the first pair of transmission lines; and a third grounding feature extending laterally along and through the second dielectric layer, the third grounding feature being physically and electrically coupled to the first grounding feature and the second grounding feature, where the first pair of transmission lines extend continuously along a length of the third grounding feature.
US11239184B2
The present disclosure provides a package substrate and method of manufacturing the same. The package substrate includes a substrate, an electronic component and a conductive trace. The electronic component is disposed in the substrate, and the electronic component includes a magnetic layer and a conductive wire. The conductive wire includes a first section embedded in the magnetic layer, and a second section connected to the first section and thinner than the first section. A first upper surface of the first section is covered by the magnetic layer, a second upper surface of the second section is lower than the first upper surface, and the magnetic layer includes a first recess disposed in the upper surface and exposing the second upper surface of the second section. The first conductive trace is in the first recess and electrically connected to the second upper surface of the second section of the conductive wire.
US11239178B2
A semiconductor package structure includes a substrate structure having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface; at least two electronic components electrically connected to the first surface of the substrate structure; at least one shielding pad disposed on the first surface of the substrate structure; a plurality of vias connected to the at least one shielding pad; a plurality of shielding wirebonds disposed between the electronic components. Each of the shielding wirebonds includes a first bond and a second bond opposite to the first bond, the first bond and the second bond being electrically connected to the at least one shielding pad, and the vias being free from overlapping with any of the plurality of vias.
US11239171B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposing each other, a plurality of semiconductor elements disposed on the first surface in a device region, an insulating protective layer, and a connection pad. The second surface is divided into a first region overlapping the device region, and a second region surrounding the first region. The insulating protective layer is disposed on the second surface of the semiconductor substrate, and includes an edge pattern positioned in the second region. The edge pattern includes a thinner portion having a thickness smaller than a thickness of a center portion of the insulating protective layer positioned in the first region and/or an open region exposing the second surface of the semiconductor substrate. The connection pad is disposed on the center portion of the insulating protective layer and is electrically connected to the semiconductor elements.
US11239158B1
An integrated circuit (IC) package comprising a first die, including an active layer opposite a backside surface of the first die supporting a plurality of backside pads is provided. The IC package also incorporates a package substrate coupled to the active layer. The package pads on the package substrate correspond to the plurality of backside pads. A passive device comprising a plurality of wire bonds is coupled to the plurality of backside pads and the plurality of package pads. The passive device may also comprise a plurality of wire bonds coupled to the package pads by through silicon vias (TSVs). Multiple dies may be coupled with die-to-die wire bonds coupled to backside pads on each die.
US11239156B2
Integrated circuitry comprising devices electrically coupled through a plurality of interconnect levels in which lines of a first and second interconnect level are coupled through a planar slab via. An interconnect line may include a horizontal line segment within one of the first or second interconnect levels, and the slab via may be a vertical line segment between the first and second interconnect levels. A planar slab via may comprise one or more layers of conductive material, which have been deposited upon a planarized substrate material that lacks any features that the conductive material must fill. A planar slab via may be subtractively defined concurrently with a horizontal line of one or both of the first or second interconnect levels.
US11239150B2
A tetherless system-in-package includes a first integrated circuit (IC) chip having interconnects and energy harvesting elements. A super-capacitor is configured to store a charge output by the energy harvesting elements. At least a second IC chipset including a smart chip and an optical I/O or an RF I/O is aligned and bonded to at least one of the interconnects of the first IC chip. The first IC chip and the second IC chip are configured to receive a portion of the charge stored by the super-capacitor.
US11239144B2
A semiconductor device includes a mounting substrate; a first wiring electrode and a second wiring electrode disposed on a main surface of a mounting substrate; an interposing member disposed between the first wiring electrode and the second wiring electrode; a semiconductor element flip-chip connected with the first wiring electrode and the second wiring electrode via a first electrical connection member and a second electrical connection member so as to at least partially overlap the interposing member in a top surface view; and a resin disposed in contact with the semiconductor element and the mounting substrate. The wettability of the interposing member to the resin is higher than that of the mounting substrate to the resin. The resin is disposed in contact with the semiconductor element and the interposing member.
US11239132B2
A semiconductor power device has: a die, with a front surface and a rear surface, and with an arrangement of projecting regions on the front surface, which define between them windows arranged within which are contact regions; and a package, which houses the die inside it. A metal frame has a top surface and a bottom surface; the die is carried by the frame on the top surface; an encapsulation coating coats the frame and the die. A first insulation multilayer is arranged above the die and is formed by an upper metal layer, a lower metal layer, and an intermediate insulating layer; the lower metal layer is shaped according to an arrangement of the projecting regions and has contact projections, which extend so as to electrically contact the contact regions, and insulation regions, interposed between the contact projections, in positions corresponding to the projecting regions.
US11239131B2
A semiconductor module, including a laminated substrate that has an insulating plate, a circuit board disposed on a top surface of the insulating plate, and a heat dissipation plate disposed on a bottom surface of the insulating plate. The semiconductor module further has a semiconductor element disposed on a top surface of the circuit board, a metal wiring board disposed on a top surface of the semiconductor element, and a temperature sensor that detects a temperature of the semiconductor element, and that is disposed on a top surface of the metal wiring board. The metal wiring board includes a heat blocking part that blocks heat of the semiconductor element.
US11239129B2
A semiconductor device assembly can include a first die package comprising a bottom side; a top side; and lateral sides extending between the top and bottom sides. The assembly can include an encapsulant material encapsulating the first die package. In some embodiments, the assembly includes a cooling cavity in the encapsulant material. The cooling cavity can have a first opening; a second opening; and an elongate channel extending from the first opening to the second opening. In some embodiments, the elongate channel surrounds at least two of the lateral sides of the first die package. In some embodiments, the elongate channel is configured to accommodate a cooling fluid.
US11239123B2
A base plate (1) includes a fixed surface and a radiating surface which is a surface opposite to the fixed surface. An insulating substrate (3) is bonded to the fixed surface of the base plate (1). Conductive patterns (4,5) are provided on the insulating substrate (3). Semiconductor chips (7,8) are bonded to the conductive pattern (4). An Al wire (12) connects top surfaces of the semiconductor chip (8) to the conductive pattern (5). The insulating substrate (3), the conductive patterns (4 ,5), the semiconductor chips (7 to 10) and the Al wires (11 to 13) are sealed with resin (16). The base plate (1) includes a metal part (19) and a reinforcing member (20) provided in the metal part (19). A Young's modulus of the reinforcing member (20) is higher than a Youngs modulus of the metal part (19).
US11239119B2
A method of forming a vertical channel semiconductor structure, comprises forming a source/drain layer in contact with at least one semiconductor fin. A first sacrificial layer is formed over the source/drain layer. A second sacrificial layer is formed over the first sacrificial layer. A trench is formed in the second sacrificial layer to expose a portion of the first sacrificial layer. After forming the second sacrificial layer, the first sacrificial layer is selectively removed to form a cavity under the second sacrificial layer. A spacer layer is then formed within the cavity.
US11239109B2
A flash memory device includes a substrate, a plurality of active regions and a plurality of first isolation regions alternately arranged in a first direction and extending in a second direction different from the first direction, a plurality of gate structures on the substrate, the gate structures being spaced apart from each other and extending in the second direction, a gap structure between the gate structures, and a second isolation region filling an upper portion of the gap structure and leaving a first air gap in a lower portion of the gap structure.
US11239108B2
A process for producing a donor substrate for creating a three-dimensional integrated structure comprises the following steps: providing a semiconductor substrate comprising a surface layer, referred to as an active layer, and a layer comprising a plurality of cavities extending beneath the active layer, each cavity being separated from an adjacent cavity by a partition, forming an electronic device in a region of the active layer located plumb with a cavity, depositing a protective mask on the active layer so as to cover the electronic device while at the same time exposing a region of the active layer located plumb with each partition, and implanting atomic species through regions of the active layer exposed by the mask to form a weakened zone in each partition.
US11239099B2
In some embodiments, a system for monitoring a tool is provided. The system includes a tool monitoring device, a transporting system and an external apparatus. The tool monitoring device is configured to monitor an environmental parameter of a load port of a tool. The tool monitoring device includes a wafer pod and a monitoring module disposed in the wafer pod. The monitoring module includes at least one sensor, a computer coupled to the at least one sensor, a power supply electrically coupled to the at least one sensor and the computer, and a wireless unit coupled to the computer. The transporting system is configured to transfer the tool monitoring device from one load port to another load port. The external apparatus is coupled to the tool monitoring device.
US11239094B2
Methods for evaluating synergy of modification and removal operations for a wide variety of materials to determine process conditions for self-limiting etching by atomic layer etching are provided herein. Methods include determining the surface binding energy of the material, selecting a modification gas for the material where process conditions for modifying a surface of the material generate energy less than the modification energy and greater than the desorption energy, selecting a removal gas where process conditions for removing the modified surface generate energy greater than the desorption energy to remove the modified surface but less than the surface binding energy of the material to prevent sputtering, and calculating synergy to maximize the process window for atomic layer etching.
US11239088B2
Semiconductor device and fabrication method are provided. A plurality of first-type fin groups and second-type fins, each between the first-type fin groups, are formed on a substrate. A first-type fin group includes first-type fins. The first-type fins and the second-type fins are arranged in a direction perpendicular to an extending direction of the first-type fins and the second-type fins. The second-type fins are removed to form first trenches between corresponding first-type fin groups. A protective layer is formed on sidewalls of the first trenches after removing the second-type fins. The protective layer covers sidewalls of the first-type fins that are perpendicular to a width direction of the first-type fins. Second trenches are formed in the substrate under the first trenches by etching the substrate at bottoms of the first trenches using the protective layer as an etch mask.
US11239085B2
A device includes a non-insulator structure, a first dielectric layer, and a first conductive feature. The first dielectric layer is over the non-insulator structure. The first conductive feature is in the first dielectric layer and includes carbon nano-tubes. The first catalyst layer is between the first conductive feature and the non-insulator structure. A top of the first catalyst layer is lower than a top of the first conductive feature.
US11239079B2
A semiconductor device according to an embodiment includes: a silicon carbide layer; a silicon oxide layer; and a region disposed between the silicon carbide layer and the silicon oxide layer and having a nitrogen concentration equal to or more than 1×1021 cm−3. A nitrogen concentration distribution in the silicon carbide layer, the silicon oxide layer, and the region have a peak in the region, a nitrogen concentration at a first position 1 nm away from the peak to the side of the silicon oxide layer is equal to or less than 1×1018 cm−3 and a carbon concentration at the first position is equal to or less than 1×1018 cm3, and a nitrogen concentration at a second position 1 nm away from the peak to the side of the silicon carbide layer is equal to or less than 1×1018 cm−3.
US11239073B2
Dirac semimetals, methods for modulating charge carrying density and/or band gap in a Dirac semimetal, devices including a Dirac semimetal layer, and methods for forming a Dirac semimetal layer on a substrate are described.
US11239072B2
A semiconductor structure includes a substrate, a pair of first fins extending from the substrate, a pair of second fins extending from the substrate, an isolation feature over the substrate and separating bottom portions of the first and the second fins, a pair of first epitaxial semiconductor features over the pair of first fins respectively, a pair of second epitaxial semiconductor features over the pair of second fins respectively, and a first dielectric feature sandwiched between and separating the pair of first epitaxial semiconductor features. The pair of second epitaxial semiconductor features merge with each other.
US11239068B2
Systems and methods for controlling mass filtering of polyatomic ions in an ion beam passing through an inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (ICP-MS). Polyatomic ion mass data representative of the exact mass of a polyatomic ion having a target isotope is determined. A control signal is generated based on the determined polyatomic ion mass data and output to an ICP-MS to filter based on mass the polyatomic ions in the ion beam traveling through the ICP-MS to an ion detector.
US11239056B2
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and apparatus for a pulsed power supply assembly that distributes pulsed power to two or more loads using a single pulsed power supply. A pulsed power supply of the assembly can phase shift pulses to the different loads to ensure that there is no overlap between pulses at the outputs even where target frequencies and/or duty cycles for the different loads would otherwise call for such pulse overlaps. Variances applied by the pulsed power supply can be limited by attempts to keep average parameters of the pulse trains provided to the different loads to within predetermined variances.
US11239054B2
A multi-beam particle beam system includes a multi-aperture plate having a multiplicity of apertures. During operation, one particle beam of the plurality of particle beams passes through each of the apertures. A multiplicity of electrodes are insulated from the second multi-aperture plate to influence the particle beam passing through the aperture. A voltage supply system for the electrodes includes: a signal a generator to generate a serial sequence of digital signals; a D/A converter to convert the digital signals into a sequence of voltages between an output of the D/A converter and the multi-aperture plate; and a controllable changeover system, which feeds the sequence of voltages successively to different electrodes.
US11239048B2
An electron beam inspection system is disclosed, in accordance with one or more embodiments of the present disclosure. The inspection system may include an electron beam source configured to generate one or more primary electron beams. The inspection system may also include an electron-optical column including a set of electron-optical elements configured to direct the one or more primary electron beams to a sample. The inspection system may further include a detection assembly comprising: a scintillator substrate configured to collect electrons emanating from the sample, the scintillator substrate configured to generate optical radiation in response to the collected electrons; one or more light guides; one or more reflective surfaces configured to receive the optical radiation and direct the optical radiation along the one or more light guides; and one or more detectors configured to receive the optical radiation from the light guide.
US11239045B1
Correctors for correcting two-fold, fifth-order parasitic aberrations in charged particle systems according to the present disclosure include a first corrective component that generates a first quadrupole field when a first excitation is applied to the first corrective component, and a second corrective component that generates a second quadrupole field when a second excitation is applied to the second corrective component. Correctors according to the present disclosure also include a quadrupole positioned between the second corrective component and the sample when used in the charged particle microscope system that generates a third quadrupole field. The third quadrupole field, in combination with at least the first quadrupole field and the second quadrupole field, corrects the fifth-order, two-fold aberrations when the charged particle microscope is in use.
US11239039B2
Electrical fuse element 12 comprising a switchable load path 22 and a switchable fuse path 36, wherein the load path 22 and the fuse path 36 are short-circuited with their respective inputs 14. The load path 22 and the fuse path 36 are in mechanical connection with each other in such a way that an electrical opening of the load path 22 causes an electrical closing of the fuse path 36 and that a melting fuse 38 arranged in the fuse path 36 is triggered at the moment of closing of the fuse path 36.
US11239035B2
The present disclosure relates to a button structure and a display device having the button structure. The button structure includes a housing, a function control substrate, a mechanical button and a remote control module. The housing has a reception space and a connection structure, is detachably connected to an electronic device through the connection structure, and has an installation surface to be docked to the electronic device, the installation surface is provided with a cable hole which communicates with the reception space, the electronic device is provided with a hole corresponding to the cable hole. The function control substrate is provided within the reception space and is connected with a cable, which extends into the electronic device via the cable hole and the hole and is connected to an electronic element inside the electronic device.
US11239022B2
An inductor component includes an inductor electrode having two metal pins that form input and output terminals and a connecting conductor that connects one end of each of the metal pins to each other, the inductor electrode arranged such that other ends of the metal pins oppose each other, and a resin layer containing the inductor electrode such that other ends of the metal pins are exposed. The resin layer is formed having a single-layer structure. Variation in the characteristics of the inductor electrode can be reduced as compared to a case where the parts corresponding to the metal pins of the inductor electrode are formed as via conductors or through-hole conductors. Because the resin layer has a single-layer structure, stress acting on joint portions between the metal pins and the connecting conductor can be reduced, which makes it possible to improve the reliability of the inductor component.
US11239019B2
There is provided a coil component including a coil portion that has at least one layer of planar coil including a coil-wound portion and an insulative layer which covers the periphery of the coil-wound portion, a covering portion that covers the coil portion and is constituted of a mixture including magnetic fillers and resin, and a conductor post that is penetratingly provided inside the covering portion and extends from the coil-wound portion to an upper surface of the covering portion along an axial direction of the planar coil. The conductor post has a post portion which extends from the coil-wound portion in the axial direction of the planar coil, and a lid portion which is exposed from the covering portion and extends from an end portion of the post portion on the upper surface side along a surface direction of the upper surface.
US11239010B2
A mechanically stable main body having a cutout, into which an ESD protection element is at least partly embedded and mechanically fixed by means of a connection means. Electrical terminals of the protection element are connected to terminal pads on the top side of the main body by way of a structured metallic layer bearing on main body and protection element.
US11239009B2
A power resistor is disclosed, having at least one electrical connection, having a carrier substrate, which has at least one resistor element composed of a thick-film material and at least one contact electrode to which the resistor element electrically connects, having at least one electrical conductor, which is soldered to the contact electrode and produces an electrical connection between the contact electrode and the electrical terminal, and having a housing, which is at least partially filled with at least one casting compound and in which the resistor element and contact electrode are encapsulated, with the electrical conductor protruding out through the casting compound. In order to achieve a simply designed and easy-to-use power resistor, it is proposed for a pin, in particular a soldering pin or press-fitting pin, to constitute the electrical conductor, which pin is placed onto the contact electrode and soldered to it and constitutes the electrical terminal of the power resistor.
US11239007B2
An electrical isolator includes a first fluid-carrying member and a second fluid-carrying member spaced apart from the first fluid-carrying member in an axial direction and a resistive, semi-conductive or non-conductive component located between the first and second fluid-carrying members. The component is adapted to convey fluid flowing from the first fluid-carrying member to the second fluid-carrying member. The isolator also include a first fluid sealing member provided between the first fluid-carrying member and the component, a second fluid sealing member provided between the second fluid-carrying member and the component, and a reinforcing composite encircling the first fluid-carrying member, the second fluid-carrying member and the resistive, semi-conductive or non-conductive component. A a radially inner portion of the component separates the first fluid-carrying member and the second fluid-carrying member by an axial distance. The first and second sealing members are located within the axial distance between the first and second fluid-carrying members.
US11239003B2
Provided is a target plate for radioisotope production that has sufficient durability and sufficient heat resistance for use in radioisotope production and that is capable of reducing the extent of radioactivation. In a target plate for radioisotope production, a support substrate, which supports a target, includes a graphite film(s). The thermal conductivity in a surface direction of the graphite film(s) is 1200 W/(m·K) or greater, and the thickness of the graphite film(s) is 0.05 μm or greater and 100 μm or less.
US11238994B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to systems, methods, and user interfaces for providing intelligent touch care. More particularly, embodiments of the present disclosure utilizes contributing data elements in a community early warning score (CEWS) to predict touchpoint discipline and to recommend frequency, modality, and upstream transitions of care and outside service referrals for a patient in a community care setting. In response to a touch point (e.g., a change in condition or medication, a scheduled or unscheduled appointment, or a patient question), the CEWS can be utilized along with data in an EHR of a patient, data from a patient device, or data from a patient portal to initiate a follow-up (e.g., personal health question or encounter). Notification tools and scheduling functionality are provided via a user interface of the patient device to improve clinical workforce capacity, increase the number of patient touches, and encourage heightened patient engagement.
US11238993B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to systems, methods, and user interfaces for providing intelligent touch care. More particularly, embodiments of the present disclosure utilizes contributing data elements in a community early warning score (CEWS) to predict touchpoint discipline and to recommend frequency, modality, and upstream transitions of care and outside service referrals for a patient in a community care setting. In response to a touch point (e.g., a change in condition or medication, a scheduled or unscheduled appointment, or a patient question), the CEWS can be utilized along with data in an EHR of a patient, data from a patient device, or data from a patient portal to initiate a follow-up (e.g., personal health question or encounter). Notification tools and scheduling functionality are provided via a user interface of the patient device to improve clinical workforce capacity, increase the number of patient touches, and encourage heightened patient engagement.
US11238990B2
An electronic system is provided that simulates a glucose-insulin metabolic system of a T2DM or prediabetic subject, wherein the system includes a subsystem that models dynamic glucose concentration in a T2DM or prediabetic subject, including an electronic module that models endogenous glucose production (EGP(t)), or meal glucose rate of appearance (Ra(t>>, or glucose utilization (U(t)), or renal excretion of glucose (B(t)), a subsystem that models dynamic insulin concentration in said T2DM or prediabetic subject, including an electronic module that models insulin secretion (S(t)), an electronic database containing a population of virtual T2DM or prediabetic subjects, each virtual subject having a plurality of metabolic parameters, and a processing module that calculates an effect of variation of at least one metabolic parameter value on the glucose insulin metabolic system of a virtual subject by inputting the plurality of metabolic parameter values.
US11238988B2
Methods, systems, and computer-storage media are provided for facilitating the management of population health. A parallel processing architecture receives patient population health data from healthcare facilities along with one or more documents that are in human-readable form. From the human-readable document, computer-readable code is generated that includes high-level clinical logic is executed against the population health data to identify, among other things, patients in the population who qualify for health intervention programs. Using this information, healthcare facilities can implement management programs to help care for these patients.
US11238981B2
Systems, methods, and computer readable storage medium for providing a genericized medical device architecture common to a plurality of medical devices are disclosed. The architecture may comprise at least one diagnostics module associated with at least one of the plurality of medical devices, wherein the at least one diagnostics module is configured to monitor an operational status of the at least one medical device. At least one hardware abstraction layer may be associated with at least one of the plurality of medical devices, and may be configured to provide abstracted access to hardware of the at least one medical device.
US11238973B2
A hand-held antenna system allows medical personnel to ascertain the presence or absence of objects (e.g., medical supplies) tagged with transponders in an environment in which medical procedures are performed. In use, the hand-held antenna system may be positioned proximate a patient at a time after a medical procedure, such as after child birth, so the system can scan the patient's body to determine the presence of objects tagged with transponders. The antenna system includes three antenna elements arranged mutually orthogonal to each other to transmit and receive signals in three coordinate directions. A controller is coupled to the antenna elements to transmit signals to the transponders and to receive response signals. The antenna system may operate in a static scan mode wherein the antenna system is held in a fixed position by a user and a dynamic scan mode wherein the antenna system is moved by a user.
US11238953B2
A memory device to estimate a bit error count of data retrievable from a group of memory cells. For example, the memory device has a group of memory cells programmed to store a predetermined number of bits per memory cells to be read at a plurality of first voltages. The memory device determines a plurality of calibrated read voltages corresponding to the plurality of first voltages respectively, based on first signal and noise characteristics of the group of memory cells. The first signal and noise characteristics are used to compute second signal and noise characteristics of the group of memory cells for the calibrated read voltages. The second signal and noise characteristics are used in an empirical formula to compute an estimate of the bit error count of data retrievable from the group of memory cells using the calibrated read voltages.
US11238946B2
A memory might include a common source, a first data line and a second data line, an array of memory cells, a plurality of access lines, and a controller. The array of memory cells might include a first string of memory cells selectively connected between the first data line and the common source and a second string of memory cells selectively connected between the second data line and the common source. Each access line of the plurality of access lines might be connected to a control gate of a respective memory cell of the first string of memory cells and a control gate of a respective memory cell of the second string of memory cells. The controller may access the array of memory cells. The controller might be configured to implement a source-side seeding operation concurrently with a data line set operation.
US11238940B1
Methods, systems, and devices for initialization techniques for memory devices are described. A memory system may include a memory array on a first die and a controller on a second die, where the second die is coupled with the first die. The controller may perform an initialization procedure based on operating instructions stored within the memory system. For example, the controller may read a first set of operating instructions from read-only memory on the second die. The controller may obtain a second set of operating instructions stored at a memory block of the memory array on the first die, with the memory block indicated by the first set of operating instructions. The controller may complete or at least further the initialization procedure based on the second set of operating instructions.
US11238927B2
A memory device includes a plurality of memory cells, each memory cell including a switching element and a data storage element having a phase change material, and each memory cell connected to one of a plurality of wordlines and to one of a plurality of bitlines, a decoder circuit configured to determine at least one of the plurality of memory cells as a selected memory cell, and a programming circuit configured to input a program current to the selected memory cell to perform a program operation, to detect a holding voltage of the selected memory cell, and to adjust a magnitude of the program current based on the detected holding voltage. The selected memory cell is turned off when a voltage across the selected memory cell is lower than the holding voltage.
US11238915B2
Disclosed herein is an apparatus that includes a memory cell array including a plurality of word lines each coupled to a plurality of memory cells, and a control circuit configured to activate first and second internal signals in a time-di vision manner in response to a first external command. A first number of the word lines are selected in response to the first internal signal, and a second number of the word line is selected in response to the second internal signal, the second number is smaller than the first number.
US11238902B2
A circuit layout structure and a memory storage device are disclosed. The circuit layout structure includes a plurality of first volatile memory modules, a plurality of second volatile memory modules, a first data line, a second data line, a first clock enable signal line and a second clock enable signal line. The first data line is configured to access the first volatile memory modules in parallel by a first sequential bit group. The second data line is configured to access the second volatile memory modules in parallel by a second sequential bit group. The first clock enable signal line and the second clock enable signal line are configured to control the first volatile memory modules and the second volatile memory modules to enter a self-refresh mode respectively.
US11238891B1
Described are magnetic recording heads that include a read transducer and a write transducer, with the two transducers being arranged in a side-by-side configuration.
US11238887B2
A processor, that may include at least one neural network that comprises at least one leaky spiking neuron; wherein the at least one leaky spiking neuron is configured to directly receive an input pulse density modulation (PDM) signal from a sensor; wherein the input PDM signal represents a detected signal that was detected by the sensor; and wherein the at least one neural network is configured to process the input PDM signal to provide an indication about the detected input signal.
US11238885B2
A computer-implemented technique for animating a visual representation of a face based on spoken words of a speaker is described herein. A computing device receives an audio sequence comprising content features reflective of spoken words uttered by a speaker. The computing device generates latent content variables and latent style variables based upon the audio sequence. The latent content variables are used to synchronized movement of lips on the visual representation to the spoken words uttered by the speaker. The latent style variables are derived from an expected appearance of facial features of the speaker as the speaker utters the spoken words and are used to synchronize movement of full facial features of the visual representation to the spoken words uttered by the speaker. The computing device causes the visual representation of the face to be animated on a display based upon the latent content variables and the latent style variables.
US11238882B2
A method for separating an audio input signal into a dry signal component and an ambient signal component is provided. The method includes generating a transferred input signal including transferring the audio input signal into frequency space and applying a smoothing filter to the transferred input signal to generate an estimated ambient signal component. The method includes determining the dry signal component based on the estimated ambient signal component and determining the ambient signal component based on the determined dry signal component and the audio input signal.
US11238880B2
According to various embodiments, an electronic device includes a plurality of microphones, and a processor electrically connected to the plurality of microphones, wherein the processor may obtain audio signals through the plurality of microphones, estimate a probability of existence of a voice signal included in the obtained audio signals, obtain correlation information between the audio signals based on the probability of existence of the voice signal and/or the obtained audio signals, obtain voice blocking information based on the correlation information or a direction of arrival (DOA) estimation, obtain a first signal among the audio signals based on the audio signals, the correlation information, and the voice blocking information, obtain a second signal including the voice signal among the audio signals, and obtain a noise-removed voice signal by removing the first signal from the second signal. In addition, it is possible to implement various embodiments understood through the disclosure.
US11238871B2
An electronic apparatus and a control method are provided, including an input interface, a communication interface, a memory including at least one command, and at least one processor configured to control the electronic device and execute the at least one command to receive a user speech through the input interface, determine whether or not the user speech is a speech related to a task requiring user confirmation by analyzing the user speech, generate a question for the user confirmation when it is determined that the user speech is the speech related to the task requiring the user confirmation, and perform a task corresponding to the user speech when a user response corresponding to the question is input through the input interface. Embodiments may use an artificial intelligence model learned according to at least one of machine learning, a neural network, and a deep learning algorithm.
US11238869B2
The disclosed invention provides system and method to reconstruct metadata of audio outputs in which portions of metadata are missing. The system and method of the disclosed invention utilizes characteristics of speakers in audio outputs, voiceprints to identify speakers, and transcripts of the audio outputs to further analyze the audio outputs through machine learning process. The metadata reconstruction system performs operations that include isolating the metadata of the audio output, detecting missing portions of the metadata, detecting characteristics of speakers involved in the audio output, identifying the speakers from the characteristics of the speakers by utilizing voiceprints of speakers, creating a transcript of the audio output, analyzing the transcript by using natural language processing (NLP), annotating the transcript with identified speakers, constructing metadata with the identified speakers and results of the analysis of the transcript, and recombining the constructed metadata with the audio output to produce reconstructed audio output.
US11238863B2
One embodiment provides a method, including: capturing, using at least one sensor of an information handling device, environmental audio; receiving, at an audio capture device associated with the information handling device, a user query, wherein the user query comprises at least one deictic term; disambiguating, using a processor and by analyzing the captured environmental audio, the user query; and providing, based on the disambiguating, a response to the user query. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US11238861B2
A food processing system includes a food work device that performs predetermined work on a food, controller circuitry that controls the food work device, a sound input device that receives a sound made by a worker, and sound recognition circuitry that obtains and recognizes the input sound and, based on the recognized input sound, instructs the controller circuitry to control the food work device to perform predetermined processing.
US11238860B2
A terminal for implementing speech control records a correspondence between a first keyword text and a second keyword text. When a user inputs a speech, the terminal sends, to a first server for semantic parsing and logical parsing, the speech input by the user. Then, when the first server returns a parsing failure, the terminal obtains a parsed text returned by the first server, replaces the second keyword in the parsed text with the first keyword based on the correspondence, and then sends, to the first server, the text obtained after the replacement.
US11238859B2
A natural-language voice chatbot is initiated and a voice session is established between the chatbot and a customer while the customer is operating a vehicle device within a vehicle. A pre-staged order is taken from a customer during the session and the session is suspended until the customer arrives at a store associated with the pre-staged order. A location-based trigger is raised when the customer is detected as being present at a transaction terminal of a store; the session is resumed on the transaction terminal and/or the vehicle device. The pre-stage order is confirmed during the resumed session and payment is obtained from the customer for the order when payment was not already obtained from the customer. The order is sent to a fulfillment station and, in an embodiment, the items associated with the order are delivered to the customer while the customer remains at the terminal.
US11238836B2
Methods and systems for depth-based foveated rendering in the display system are disclosed. The display system may be an augmented reality display system configured to provide virtual content on a plurality of depth planes using different wavefront divergence. Some embodiments include determining a fixation point of a user's eyes. Location information associated with a first virtual object to be presented to the user via a display device is obtained. A resolution-modifying parameter of the first virtual object is obtained. A particular resolution at which to render the first virtual object is identified based on the location information and the resolution-modifying parameter of the first virtual object. The particular resolution is based on a resolution distribution specifying resolutions for corresponding distances from the fixation point. The first virtual object rendered at the identified resolution is presented to the user via the display system.
US11238829B2
A driving method of a display panel and a display device using the same. The driving method includes: obtaining a drive signal of each of sub-pixels on the display panel; determining a first adaptive threshold and a second adaptive threshold according to properties of the sub-pixels; and adjusting the drive signal higher than the first adaptive threshold and lower than the second adaptive threshold, to approach an interval lower than the first adaptive threshold or an interval higher than the second adaptive threshold.
US11238816B2
A method of driving a pixel arrangement structure having first subpixels, second subpixels and third subpixels is provided. The method of driving a pixel arrangement structure includes deriving an first actual data signal of a subpixel of the plurality of first subpixels in an i-th column and in a j-th row based on theoretical data signals; deriving a second actual data signal of a subpixel of the plurality of third subpixels in the i-th column and in the j-th row based on theoretical data signals; deriving a third actual data signal of a subpixel of the plurality of second subpixels in an (i+1)-th column and in the j-th row based on theoretical data signals; and deriving a fourth actual data signal of a subpixel of the plurality of third subpixels in the i-th column and in the (j−1)-th row based on theoretical data signals.
US11238814B2
The present disclosure illustrates a method of driving a display device, including steps of dividing an original display image into first and second display image; acquiring first, second and third mean values of the original display image; setting the mean values of the first components, the second components, and the third components of the first display image to be equal to the second mean value, and setting the mean values of the first components and the third components of the second display image to be equal to a third mean value; regulating brightness value of a backlight circuit; acquiring drive components corresponding to the pixels of the second display image; and driving the pixel units of the display device for display, according to the drive components corresponding to the pixels of the first display image and the drive components of the pixels of the second display image.
US11238811B2
A stage and a scan driver having the same. The stage outputs a scan signal and a sensing signal to a scan line and a sensing line, respectively. The stage includes a first controller configured to control a voltage of a sensing node and a driving node based on first to third control signals and a carry signal of the stage and another stage connected to the stage, a second controller configured to control a voltage of an inversion driving node based on a first carry clock signal, the voltage of the driving node, and the third control signal, and a first output buffer configured to output a second carry clock signal or a second low potential power as the carry signal in correspondence with the voltage of the driving node and the inversion driving node.
US11238803B2
The present disclosure provides a pixel circuit and a method for driving the same, and a display panel. The pixel circuit includes a driving sub-circuit and a light-emitting control sub-circuit. The driving sub-circuit is configured to transmit a first power voltage at a first power signal terminal to a second node. The light-emitting control sub-circuit is configured to: transmit a voltage at the second node and a second power voltage at the second power signal terminal to the first electrode of the first light-emitting element and the second electrode of the first light-emitting element respectively in a first period, to the first electrode of the second light-emitting element and the second electrode of the second light-emitting element respectively in a second period, and to the first electrode of the third light-emitting element and the second electrode of the third light-emitting element respectively in a third period.
US11238793B2
A pixel compensation method includes: detecting driving transistors of pixels to obtain present characteristic values of the driving transistors of the pixels; extracting historical compensation characteristic values of the driving transistors of the pixels obtained in a previous display cycle of a screen; calculating a present compensation characteristic value of at least one driving transistor of the pixels according to a present characteristic value and a historical compensation characteristic value corresponding to the driving transistor of the pixels; and compensating a corresponding pixel according to the present compensation characteristic value of the driving transistor of the pixels.
US11238791B2
The present application provides a display data correction method, a display driving method and a display device. The display data correction method includes: receiving display data corresponding to pixel units of an irregularly-shaped display screen; determining whether the pixel units are in an area to be corrected; and if the pixel units are in the area to be corrected, correcting the display data corresponding to the pixel units to generate corrected display data.
US11238789B2
The present disclosure discloses a pixel driving circuit and a method of driving the same, a display panel and a display apparatus. The pixel driving circuit includes: a driving circuit, an energy storage circuit, a data and sensing line, a first initialization circuit, a second initialization circuit and a data writing circuit. The data and sensing line is configured to input a data signal or output a sensing signal; the first initialization circuit is configured to provide a potential at a voltage supply terminal to a control terminal of the driving circuit under control of a potential at a first control line; the second initialization circuit is configured to provide a potential at a second terminal of the driving circuit as the sensing signal to the data and sensing line under control of a potential at a second control line; and the data writing circuit is configured to provide the data signal input at the data and sensing line to the control terminal of the driving circuit under control of a potential at a third control line.
US11238781B2
A display device may include: a first pixel coupled to a first scan line, a first data line, and a first sensing line; a second pixel coupled to the first scan line, a second data line, and a second sensing line; a first sensing channel corresponding to the first pixel and including a first sampling capacitor; and a second sensing channel corresponding to the second pixel and including a second sampling capacitor. During a first period, the first sensing channel may store a first sampling signal in the first sampling capacitor while the first sensing line is coupled to the first sensing channel, and the second sensing channel may store a second sampling signal in the second sampling capacitor while the second sensing line is disconnected from the second sensing channel.
US11238776B2
A pixel circuit and a driving method thereof, and a display device and a driving method thereof are disclosed. The pixel circuit includes a drive circuit, a reset circuit, and a sensing circuit. A control terminal of the drive circuit is configured to receive a data voltage, a first terminal of the drive circuit is configured to receive a first voltage, and a second terminal of the drive circuit is configured to be electrically connected to a light-emitting element. The reset circuit is electrically connected to the second terminal of the drive circuit, and is configured to reset the second terminal of the drive circuit in response to a first scanning signal. The sensing circuit is electrically connected to the second terminal of the drive circuit, and is configured to connect the second terminal of the drive circuit to a sensing signal line in response to a second scanning signal.
US11238774B2
A method of displaying an image and an image display device are disclosed. The method is implemented by calculating a total current value of subpixels of an image to be displayed, and comparing the total current value of the subpixels with a total current threshold, thereby to output a gain factor for adjusting brightness of an image to be displayed, so that an original subpixel dataset can be adjusted according to the gain factor, enabling power consumption to be correspondingly limited at the time when an image is displayed to meet a high brightness requirement.
US11238772B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatus for display processing. The apparatus can determine at least one data parameter corresponding to each of a plurality of layers in a display frame. The apparatus can also calculate a model for the at least one data parameter corresponding to each of the plurality of layers. Additionally, the apparatus can modify the model for the at least one data parameter based on one or more application use cases of the display frame. Moreover, the apparatus can implement the modified model on each of the plurality of layers in the display frame. In some aspects, the apparatus can also determine one or more composition settings for each of the plurality of layers based on the modified model. The apparatus can also apply the one or more composition settings to each of the plurality of layers based on the modified model.
US11238767B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an array substrate, a display device. The array substrate comprises first power lines and second power lines disposed on a substrate, wherein the first power line crosses the second power line to define a pixel region, wherein the first power lines crosses the second power lines at intersection points, and the intersection points include a first intersection point where the first power line is electrically connected to the second power line and a second intersection point where the first power line is insulated from the second power line are insulated; the first intersection points for each of the first power supply lines and/or the first intersection points for each of the second power supply lines are distributed at intervals.
US11238759B1
A combination wristband and label form. The form includes a polyester section having a single-ply wristband defined by die cuts therein. The wristband includes a foldable portion having a first panel and a second panel. An outer surface of one of the first panel and the second panel is coated with a coating configured for receiving printed indicia. An outer surface of at least the other of the first panel and the second panel has adhesive to allow for the first panel to be adhesively secured to the second panel after the coating has received the printed indicia. The void exposes the coating on the outer surface of one of the first panel and the second panel to allow the printed indicia to be printed on the coating through the void. Upon folding the foldable portion, the printed indicia is sandwiched between the first panel and the second panel.
US11238752B2
A phonics learning system, comprising a letter identification board and letter manipulatives that may be placed on the letter identification board by a child, and a computing device connected to the letter identification board that identifies the letters placed on the board, generates a phonetic pronunciation for the combination of letters, and identifies any words or misspelled words.
US11238743B2
A traffic information processing method includes obtaining, by a first traffic control unit, a traffic application type and first traffic information of a traffic target object, determining an interaction coverage area based on the traffic application type and the first traffic information of the traffic target object, determining, by the first traffic control unit, a second traffic control unit based on the interaction coverage area and a management area of a traffic control unit known to the first traffic control unit, and sending the first traffic information of the traffic target object to the second traffic control unit, where there is an overlapping area between a management area of the second traffic control unit and the interaction coverage area.
US11238736B2
The disclosure provides a parking management system and a parking management method. The parking management system can comprise one or more servers in communication with one or more vehicles. The one or more vehicles can be configured to be shared and utilized by one or more users for transportation. The one or more servers can be configured to receive location data from the one or more vehicles, and determine, based on the received location data and for each vehicle, whether the vehicle is located within one or more predefined parking areas when (1) the vehicle is not in use or (2) upon completion of a transportation trip by the vehicle.
US11238732B2
The present disclosure generally relates to generating emergency vehicle warnings, alternate vehicle routing recommendations and/or insurance-related data based upon emergency vehicle warning data. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to generating data representative of emergency vehicle warnings and/or alternate routing based upon real-time information related to an emergency vehicle. The information related to the emergency vehicle may include emergency vehicle origination location data, emergency vehicle current location data, emergency vehicle route data, and/or emergency vehicle destination location data. An emergency vehicle warning and/or alternate vehicle routing for non-emergency response vehicles may be generated based further on information related to a non-emergency vehicle. In one aspect, an emergency vehicle may wirelessly communicate with the non-emergency vehicle and/or an insurance provider remote server. The insurance provider may adjust auto insurance for insureds having vehicles with the vehicle safety functionality discussed herein to reflect lower risk and provide insurance savings to customers.
US11238719B2
The technology relates to portable personal monitor device and associated methods. In particular, the technology provides for improving the capability of personal monitor device systems by enabling functions such as two-way communications from the personal monitor; associating possible threats with one or more locations; and dynamically determining safe locations and potential evacuation routes. Also described herein are monitors which improve the detection of possible threats or risks by allowing a base unit to be used with various replacement sensor modules.
US11238712B1
A signaling pole assembly includes an elongated structure that provides both audible and visual notification when a remote sensor has been triggered. The elongated structure has a base assembly end configured to be buried underground and a cap end that is located opposite the base end. Lights and sirens are positioned on the elongated body near the cap end. A receiver module is positioned on the elongated body above the surface of the ground. The receiver module further comprising circuitry configured for receiving signals when a remote sensor has been triggered causing the lights and sirens to activate and return to standby operation after a predetermined amount of time has elapsed.
US11238703B2
Methods and systems are provided herewith for managing a wagering system. In one exemplary embodiment, a stream of state information of a live sporting event is received in real time. A computer processor determines an initial state and a plurality of possible future states of a first performance parameter of the live sporting event based on the stream of state information. After a beginning of the game and before the start of the event, a probability of occurrence is calculated for at least one of the plurality of possible future states of the first performance parameter based on historical data related to the first performance parameter. The plurality of possible future states are mutually exclusive from one another. During an initial state of the first performance parameter, a signal operative to open a first market for betting on the at least one of the plurality of possible future states is transmitted. The first market comprises betting odds based on the calculated probability of occurrence. After transmitting the signal operative to open the first market, an end of the initial state is determined. Before the end of the initial state, a signal operative to close the first market is transmitted. After transmitting the signal operative to close the first market, an outcome of the first performance parameter is determined based on the received stream of state information. A signal operative to resolve one or more payouts of the first market is transmitted, in which the signal indicates the outcome of the first performance parameter.
US11238699B2
In accordance with some embodiments, a game table such as a smart baccarat table may be equipped with one or more detecting components (e.g., an RFID antenna, an NFC antenna or an optical reader) to identify gaming elements placed in a certain area of the smart table that a dealer of the table places gaming elements into when conducting a transaction. A specific type of transaction may be automatically inferred by the game table, without a dealer specifically requesting an initiation of a mode or process for the type of transaction, based on statuses of the gaming elements detected within the area. For example, a Change Transaction may be inferred upon the game table determining that both inventory and non-inventory game elements are present within the area of the table at the same time.
US11238690B2
A gaming machine that provides an operation unit, a display unit, and a control unit. The operation unit is configured to receive an operation of the player. The display unit is operably coupled to the operation unit and is configured to display a plurality of cells. The plurality of cells is arranged in a plurality of rows and columns. The control unit is operably coupled to the operation unit and the display unit and, for each instance of the game, randomly establishes a symbol to be displayed within each of the plurality of cells. The control unit is further configured to provide a first instance of the game and to display the symbols established for the first instance of the game in the respective cells, and to automatically add a new row of cells to the display unit prior to each subsequent instance of the game.
US11238682B2
Methods and systems are described for a medication container that may be locked using a locking mechanism. In one exemplary method, a request from a user may be received by a medication provider for a medication. The medication may be placed in a medication container with a locking mechanism that is operable to lock and unlock the medication container. The medication container may be locked using the locking mechanism. The locked medication container with the medication within may be provided to the user. Subsequent to providing the locked medication container to the user, a request may be received from the user to access the medication in the medication container. A credential may be sent to the user that is usable, via the locking mechanism, to unlock the medication container. The user may then input the credential into the locking mechanism to unlock the medication container and access the medication therein.
US11238667B2
Some implementations relate to modification and display of game characters. In some implementations, a computer-implemented method to update a displayed character includes providing a user interface with endpoints, an input area enclosed by a plurality of lines, and a preview area that includes the displayed character. Each endpoint is associated with a corresponding type of character. Each line of the plurality of lines connects two adjacent endpoints. The method further includes receiving user input that is indicative of a particular position within the input area, in response to receiving the user input, determining a size of one or more body parts of the displayed character based on the position, and updating the displayed character in the preview area based on the determined size of the one or more body parts of the displayed character.
US11238659B2
A method to efficiently update and manage outputs of real time or offline 3D reconstruction and scanning in a mobile device having limited resource and connection to the Internet is provided. The method makes available to a wide variety of mobile XR applications fresh, accurate and comprehensive 3D reconstruction data, in either single user applications or multi-user applications sharing and updating the same 3D reconstruction data. The method includes a block-based 3D data representation that allows local update and maintains neighbor consistency at the same time, and a multi-layer caching mechanism that retrieves, prefetches, and stores 3D data efficiently for XR applications. Altitude information, which may be expressed as a building floor for indoor environments, may be associated with sparse and/or dense representations of the physical world, to increase the accuracy of localization results and/or in rendering virtual content more realistically.
US11238658B2
An AR space image projecting system is configured to: acquire a depth map of an area photographed by a photographing unit; specify at least one three-dimensional object existing in the area; receive designation of a projected image; receive a projection execution input in a state where the projected image is superimposed onto the three-dimensional object and the superimposed projected image is displayed; specify, when the projection execution input is received, onto what position of the three-dimensional object the projected image is projected, and register information on the projected image and information on a projected position so as to be associated with the three-dimensional object information; and superimpose the projected image on the three-dimensional object reflected on a display unit and display the three-dimensional object thus superimposed in a case where the three-dimensional object onto which the projected image is projected is photographed by the photographing unit.
US11238656B1
The present disclosure describes systems and methods that apply artificial intelligence to augmented reality for enhanced user experience. A sensor, such as a camera, on a mobile phone can capture output data of a laptop computer or other computing device, such as a user interface. The captured image can be assessed by the mobile phone to determine an intent of a user and to display a three dimensional rendering, such as an avatar, on the mobile phone overlaid on top of the user interface of the laptop. The avatar can help navigate the user, such as pointing to areas of a webpage of interest, or inviting the user to scroll down on a webpage to a portion of the webpage that may not be in current view.
US11238654B2
Embodiments of the specification provide offline shopping guide methods and apparatuses. One method includes: obtaining a user identifier (ID) of a user and a scene ID of a shopping venue; obtaining historical offline shopping data and historical online shopping data of the user according to the user ID, and obtaining commodity information of the shopping venue according to the scene ID; obtaining a commodity to be recommended to the user according to the historical offline shopping data, the historical online shopping data, and the commodity information; and sending augmented reality (AR) display information of the recommended commodity to a smart terminal of the user, so that the smart terminal displays the recommended commodity to the user in an AR mode.
US11238650B2
Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to identify a shape or camera pose of a three-dimensional object from a two-dimensional image of the object. In at least one embodiment, objects are identified in an image using one or more neural networks that have been trained on objects of a similar category and a three-dimensional mesh template.
US11238648B2
A display method is a display method performed by a display device that operates in conjunction with a mobile object, and includes: determining which one of first surrounding information, which is video showing a surrounding condition of the mobile object and is generated using two-dimensional information, and second surrounding information, which is video showing the surrounding condition of the mobile object and is generated using three-dimensional data, is to be displayed, based on a driving condition of the mobile object; and displaying the one of the first surrounding information and the second surrounding information that is determined to be displayed.
US11238646B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for calculating dynamic ambient occlusion (AO) values for character models to yield high-quality approximations of global illumination effects. The approach utilizes a dual component machine-learning model that factorizes dynamic AO computation into a non-linear component, in which visibility is determined by approximating spheres and their casted shadows, and a linear component that leverages a skinning-like algorithm for efficiency. The parameters of both components are trained in a regression against ground-truth AO values. The resulting model accommodates lighting interactions with external objects and can be generalized without requiring carefully constructed training data.
US11238645B2
A method and system of computer graphics rendering implemented upon a processor in communication with a memory device storing a data comprises: loading a data structure representing at least a part of a scene in world space for display into the processor; a transform module transforming the data structure from world space to clip space; a dividing module subdividing the data structure in clip space so as to form child data structures; and a testing module testing which of the plurality of child data structures are within a viewing frustum, so that child data structures outside of the viewing frustum are discarded and a plurality of remaining nodes are retained. The plurality of remaining data structures are subsequently subdivided and tested until the plurality of remaining data structures do not overlap with the viewing frustum. A display module processing the plurality of remaining data structures for generation of an image on a display device.
US11238644B2
This application relates to an image processing method and apparatus, a storage medium, and a computer device. The method can include obtaining image frames acquired from a real scene, and playing the obtained image frames one by one according to an acquisition time sequence. The method can further include determining a position corresponding to a target object in the real scene when a trajectory formed by a movement of the target object in a plurality of the obtained image frames meets a trigger condition, rendering a virtual entry in a currently played image frame according to the position, and displaying virtual content in the virtual entry. The solutions provided in this application improve image processing efficiency.
US11238638B2
A graphics processing hardware pipeline is arranged to perform an edge test or a depth calculation. Each hardware arrangement includes a microtile component hardware element, multiple pixel component hardware elements, one or more subsample component hardware elements and a final addition and comparison unit. The microtile component hardware element calculates a first output using a sum-of-products and coordinates of a microtile within a tile in the rendering space. Each pixel component hardware element calculates a different second output using the sum-of-products and coordinates for different pixels defined relative to an origin of the microtile. The subsample component hardware element calculates a third output using the sum-of-products and coordinates for a subsample position defined relative to an origin of a pixel. The adders sum different combinations of the first output, a second output and a third output to generate output results for different subsample positions defined relative to the origin of the tile.
US11238635B2
Implementations are directed to providing an edit profile including one or more suggested edits to a digital video, actions including receiving metadata associated with the digital video, the metadata including data representative of one or more of movement and an environment associated with recording of the digital video, processing the metadata to provide a suggested edit profile including at least one set of effects, the at least one set of effects including one or more effects configured to be applied to at least a portion of the digital video, providing a respective graphical representation of individual effect of the one or more effects within an effect interface, and receiving, through the effect interface, a user selection of a set of effects of the suggested edit profile, and in response, storing, in computer-readable memory, an edit profile comprising the set of effects for application to the digital video.
US11238634B2
In some embodiments, a motion model refinement system receives an input video depicting a human character and an initial motion model describing motions of individual joint points of the human character in a three-dimensional space. The motion model refinement system identifies foot joint points of the human character that are in contact with a ground plane using a trained contact estimation model. The motion model refinement system determines the ground plane based on the foot joint points and the initial motion model and constructs an optimization problem for refining the initial motion model. The optimization problem minimizes the difference between the refined motion model and the initial motion model under a set of plausibility constraints including constraints on the contact foot joint points and a time-dependent inertia tensor-based constraint. The motion model refinement system obtains the refined motion model by solving the optimization problem.
US11238617B2
A client device and method to normalize a digital image into a universal digital color system includes a camera and a processor. The camera acquires a digital image of a color swatch and the processor converts the digital image into a RGB color image of the color swatch. The RGB color image is segmented into segments and each segment is analyzed to determine a dominant color for each segment. At least one dominant color for the color swatch is determined based on prevalence of at least one dominant color in each segment. A hexadecimal code of the universal color system is assigned to the color swatch that is closest to a digital hexadecimal value of the RGB image based on color component intensity values of the dominant color of the color swatch, thereby normalizing RGB colors of the color swatch.
US11238610B2
Systems and methods are described for placing large objects and objects separated by large distances in an AR environment. An AR headset system may place and generate digital objects using relative geographical coordinates (e.g., latitude, longitude, and altitude) between the user's current position and the object being placed. In one implementation, a digital object's geographical coordinates may be calculated by determining a user's geographical coordinates, using a distance determination device to measure a distance to a boundary in the user's real-world environment within an AR headset's field of view, and calculating an orientation of the AR headset relative to the user's position. In another implementation, a digital object's geographical coordinates may be calculated by determining the user's geographical coordinates, calculating an orientation of the AR headset relative to the user's position, and receiving input at a user input device specifying at what distance to place and generate a digital object.
US11238608B2
A lift-up determining device includes a detector and a determination unit. The detector acquires a captured image including a tire on an axle of a vehicle and detects the tire from the captured image. The determination unit determines, based on a detection result by the detector, whether the axle is lifted up.
US11238607B2
A system for measuring accuracy of an electronic map or a localization of a vehicle may include one or more processors and a memory in communication with the one or more processors having an image capture module, a ground truth generating module, a curve function generating module, and an accuracy determining module. These modules contain instructions that when executed by the one or more processors causes the processors to obtain sensor data that includes images of one or more road lane markings of a road or trajectory data regarding the trajectory of the vehicle, determine ground truth curvature values, perform a curve fitting of map lane marking points or map trajectory points, and compare curvature values of a curve function generated by the curve fitting to the ground truth curvature values to determine the accuracy the electronic map or the localization of the vehicle.
US11238606B2
Augmented reality devices and methods for computing a homography based on two images. One method may include receiving a first image based on a first camera pose and a second image based on a second camera pose, generating a first point cloud based on the first image and a second point cloud based on the second image, providing the first point cloud and the second point cloud to a neural network, and generating, by the neural network, the homography based on the first point cloud and the second point cloud. The neural network may be trained by generating a plurality of points, determining a 3D trajectory, sampling the 3D trajectory to obtain camera poses viewing the points, projecting the points onto 2D planes, comparing a generated homography using the projected points to the ground-truth homography and modifying the neural network based on the comparison.
US11238605B2
Embodiments of this application disclose a method, a computer device, and a storage medium for simultaneous localization and mapping, applied to the field of information processing technologies. In the simultaneous localization and mapping method in the embodiments, edge information of a current frame image captured by an image capturing apparatus is obtained, and the edge information is divided into structural features of a plurality of first components, where each first component may correspond to a partial structure of one object in the current frame image, or correspond to at least one object. Then, a correspondence between first components in the current frame image and second components in a reference frame image may be obtained by matching the structural features of the first components with structural features of the second components in the reference frame image. Finally, the image capturing apparatus may be simultaneously localized according to the correspondence.
US11238602B2
The present invention provides a method for estimating high-quality depth map based on depth prediction and enhancement sub-networks, belonging to the technical field of image processing and computer vision. This method constructs depth prediction subnetwork to predict depth information from color image and uses depth enhancement subnetwork to obtain high-quality depth map by recovering the low-resolution depth map. It is easy to construct the system, and can obtain the high-quality depth map from the corresponding color image directly by the well-trained end to end network. The algorithm is easy to be implemented. It uses high-frequency component of color image to help to recover the lost depth boundaries information caused by down-sampling operators in depth prediction sub-network, and finally obtains high-quality and high-resolution depth maps. It uses spatial pyramid pooling structure to increase the accuracy of depth map prediction for multi-scale objects in the scene.
US11238599B2
The present invention discloses a region-growing motion tracking method based on Bayesian inference and polynomial fitting, including: determining a target region; selecting candidate points; calculating a posterior probability; determining a seed point by judging the seed point according to the maximum posterior probability threshold and the maximum absolute displacement difference; dividing a known-displacement point set (including an interior point (IP) set and a boundary point (BP) set) and an unknown-displacement point set of the target region; selecting an active growing point, with the maximum posterior probability value in the boundary point set; conducting guided search; updating the displacement value; conducting local polynomial fitting; updating the IP set and the BP set; calculating strain elastogram. Compared with a traditional algorithm, the method of the present invention is higher in accuracy, smaller in displacement tracking error, smoother in displacement image and strain elastogram, and higher in clinical application value.
US11238595B2
An input image of an object is prepared for presentation by removing extraneous portions such as text, logos, advertising, watermarks, and so forth. The input image is processed to determined contours of features depicted in the input image. A bounding box corresponding to each contour may be determined. Based at least in part on the areas of these bounding boxes, an image mask is created. A candidate image is determined by applying the image mask to the input image to set pixels within portions of the input image to a predetermined value, such as white. Many candidate images may be generated using different parameters, such as different thresholds for relative sizes of the areas of the bounding boxes. These candidate images may be assessed, and a candidate image is selected for later use. Instead of manual editing of the input images, the candidate images are automatically generated.
US11238592B2
There is provided a medical imaging processing device, comprising: at least one hardware processor executing a code for: iteratively generating instructions for iterative adjustment of presentation parameter(s) of a 2D frame of the 3D anatomical image presented on the display, for creating a sequence of adapted 2D frames of the 3D anatomical image, the instructions transmitted from the medical imaging processing device to a physical input interface of at least one of the client terminal and display, for each respective 2D frame: capturing the respective 2D frame from video signals transmitted from the client terminal to the display, analyzing the respective captured 2D frame for extraction of a 2D anatomical image, analyzing the respective captured 2D frame to identify metadata element(s), converting the metadata element(s) into converted metadata value(s), and formatting the extracted 2D anatomical images and associated converted metadata values for reconstruction of the 3D anatomical image.
US11238585B2
A method and apparatus uses multi-material decomposition of three or more material components to generate material-component images from spectral images reconstructed from spectral computed tomography data. In three-component material decomposition e.g., the Mendonça method is used for multi-material decomposition when the attenuation values satisfy an assumed volume fraction condition (i.e., for a given voxel, the attenuation values are within a triangle having vertices given by unit volume fractions of three respective material components). However, when the volume fraction condition fails (e.g., the attenuation values are outside the triangle), either a shortest-Hausdorff-distance method or a closest-edge method is used for multi-material decomposition. For example, the attenuation values of the voxel are projected onto a lower-dimensional space (e.g., the space of a closest edge) and decomposed into a pair/single material component(s) of the lower-dimensional space.
US11238583B2
A system and method for generating a stained image including the steps of obtaining a first image of a key sample section; and processing the first image with a stain learning engine arranged to generate at least one stained image, wherein the at least one stained image represents the key sample section stained with at least one stain.
US11238582B2
A method and system for preprocessing microscopic images. A method includes identifying a plurality of microglial cells shown in microglial cell channel images, wherein identifying the plurality of microglial cells further comprises quantizing the microglial cell channel microscopic images and filtering a plurality of objects in the quantized microglial cell channel microscopic images; identifying a soma and at least one projection for each of the plurality of microglial cells, wherein identifying the soma and the at least one projection for each microglial cell further includes iteratively removing pixels on the microglial cell as shown in one of the microglial cell channel images, wherein each soma and each projection has a respective size; and determining an activation state of each microglial cell based on the size of the soma and a total size of the at least one projection identified for the microglial cell.
US11238570B2
An image processing device, an image processing method, and an image processing program capable of appropriately correcting contrast even for an image in which the amplitude of the reflection rate differs for each local area of the image. An image processing device, including a signal intensity extraction unit configured to extract signal intensity of an input image; a peripheral region reference value calculator configured to calculate a peripheral region reference value based on the signal intensity of a peripheral region located around a small region of interest; and an emphasis degree determination unit configured to determine an emphasis degree of the signal intensity so as to increase the signal intensity of the small region, wherein the signal intensity is defined as a reflection rate in the input image input to the image processing device, the small region is defined as a region which is a part of the input image.
US11238560B2
In some embodiments, a computing device uses a blue noise sampling operation to identify source pixels from an input image defining respective pixel sets. Each pixel set is associated with a respective weight matrix for a down-scaling operation. The blue noise sampling operation causes an overlap region between first and second pixel sets. The computing device assigns an overlap pixel in the overlap region to the first weight matrix based on the overlap pixel being closer to the first source pixel. The computing device modifies the second weight matrix to exclude the overlap pixel from a portion of the down-scaling operation involving the second weight matrix. The computing device performs the down-scaling operation on the input image by combining the first pixel set into a first target pixel with the first weight matrix and combining the second pixel set into a second target with the modified second weight matrix.
US11238556B2
Image processing technology embeds signal (e.g., digital watermarks) within imagery during a raster image process(or). One claim recites: an image processing method of embedding a signal within imagery using raster image processing (RIP), including: obtaining a plurality of elements representing a signal; determining edges within the imagery; using the determined edges as a reference, modulating a plurality of print structures within the RIP according to the plurality of elements to embed the signal within the imagery, in which one determined edge defines the signal to be at a predetermined angle in a set of dimensions comprising color and spatial frequency. Of course, other claims, combinations and technology are described too.
US11238553B2
Secure system and method of detecting and preventing inmate to inmate message relays. A system and method which monitors inmate communications for similar phrases that occur as part of two or more separate inmate messages. These similar phrases may be overlapping in real time as in a conference call or can occur at separate times in separate messages. The communications that appear similar are assigned a score and the score is compared to a threshold. If the score is above a certain threshold, the communication is flagged and remedial actions are taken. If the flagged communication contains illegal matter then the communication can be disconnected or restricted in the future.
US11238547B2
A controller is configured to obtain a cost function defining a cost of operating building equipment over a time period. The cost function includes a revenue term defining revenue to be obtained by operating the equipment to participate in an incentive program over the time period. The controller is configured to modify the cost function to account for an initial purchase cost of a new asset to be added to the equipment and an effect of the new asset on the cost of operating the equipment. The initial purchase cost of the new asset and the effect of the new asset on the cost of operating the equipment are functions of asset size variables. The controller is also configured to perform an optimization of the modified cost function to determine values for energy load setpoints, the asset size variables, and participation in the incentive program over the time period.
US11238545B2
Illustrative embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods and computer systems for reporting a consumer's usage of a resource. A computer system retrieves consumer characteristic data and resource usage data for the first consumer and a set of second consumers including characteristic data related to each consumer. The computer system selects at least one consumer that is similar to the first consumer from the set of second consumers based upon a plurality of common criteria between the first consumer's characteristic data and a second consumer's characteristic data. The computer processes may be performing iteratively until the total number of similar consumers is equal to or greater than the predetermined number of consumers. Once a desired number of similar consumers is found, the computer system generates a report that displays the first consumer's resource usage data and the at least one similar consumers' resource usage data.
US11238544B2
A non-transitory computer readable storage media having computer-executable instructions, when executed by a processor, performs a method for evaluating a reach of a social media influencer. The methods provides for receiving a plurality of influencers at a server, wherein a data set is associated with each of the plurality of influencers; parsing the data set into quantitative data readable by a machine learning algorithm at the server; receiving, inputting, or both, a type of product or service at the server; classifying the type of product or service into at least one class of goods or services; training a node using the machine learning algorithm using the date set an input; and executing the machine learning algorithm to determine a score of each influencer for each class of goods or services. Systems for evaluating the reach of a social media influencer as it relates to advertisers and content is also disclosed herein.
US11238540B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for automatically obtaining tax documents. The system includes a taxpayer client device and a server configured to automatically identify tax return items associated with the taxpayer by analyzing a prior year tax return. The server is configured to generate a list of tax return items including the automatically identified tax return items. The server is configured to receive, from the taxpayer client device, authentication data for a third party database. The server is configured to access the third party database using the authentication data. The server is configured to receive a document from the third party database and automatically determine whether the document corresponds to a tax return item from the list of tax return items. The server is configured to automatically store the document when the document corresponds to one of the tax return items from the list of tax return items.
US11238538B1
Methods and systems for evaluating the effectiveness of autonomous operation features of autonomous vehicles using an accident risk model are provided. According to certain aspects, an accident risk model may be determined using effectiveness information regarding autonomous operation features associated with a vehicle. The effectiveness information may indicate a likelihood of an accident for the vehicle and may include test data or actual loss data. Determining the likelihood of an accident may include determining risk factors for the features related to the ability of the features to make control decisions that successfully avoid accidents. The accident risk model may further include information regarding effectiveness of the features relative to location or operating conditions, as well as types and severity of accidents. The accident risk model may further be used to determine or adjust aspects of an insurance policy associated with an autonomous vehicle.
US11238535B1
The innovation disclosed and claimed herein, in one aspect thereof, comprises systems and methods of stock trading using social network sentiment. The system and method can receive a trading order entry for a stock asset having at least one condition to execute, wherein the at least one condition to execute is based on a social network sentiment. The system and method monitors the stock asset for conditions to execute and monitors a tracking social network sentiment of the stock asset. The system and method can determine if the conditions to execute satisfied. The system and method can execute a stock trade according to the trading order entry based on the determination.
US11238534B2
According to an embodiment of the present invention, an automated computer implemented system aggregates foreign exchange data and graphically commingles a franchise price and an aggregated price. The system comprises a computer processor coupled to a storage mechanism, an aggregator server, an orders server and an interactive user interface. The computer processor is programmed to: aggregate data from a plurality of market data sources representing a plurality of different underlying markets; generate an aggregated price based on the aggregate data; generate a price attributed to a franchise entity; and provide, via the interactive user interface, an aggregate price in a first graphical representation and a franchise price in a second graphical representation.
US11238528B2
A system for analyzing risk using machine learning models may be trained using a data set to generate a risk assessment model that is optimized for metrics commonly used in for financial risk evaluation. The metrics may include Gini and CaptureRate, for example. The system may receive a request for a financial service, and generate a risk assessment by applying the risk assessment model to factors associated with the request. The system may also decide on the request in response to the risk assessment.
US11238519B1
Disclosed are various embodiments for generating search results to search queries based on user-submitted content. A query containing a first search term for an item and a second search term for an intended use of the item is obtained. Then, an item catalog is search for a browse node that includes the item and is related to the intended use of the item. A plurality of items classified within the browse node are selected. A network page that includes the plurality of items classified within the browse node is then generated.
US11238512B1
A system manages the customization of content for three-dimensional physical artifacts. The three-dimensional physical artifacts represent digital content items such as electronic books. The systems receives as input requests for physical artifacts and customization instructions. The customization instructions may define an arrangement of content on a back side of the digital content item. The content may include barcode(s) relating to the electronic content item (e.g., a link to a location where the electronic content item may be obtained). The system uses the input to generate sets of machine-readable instructions that are used by a production apparatus to produce the content of the physical artifacts.
US11238506B1
A system and computer-implemented method for processing images of a damaged vehicle and estimating a repair cost of the damaged vehicle includes receiving image data of a vehicle from a user mobile device. The image data is processed to determine whether one or more parts of the damaged vehicle are damaged. In addition, one or more parts of the damaged vehicle are identified for repair and one or more parts of the damaged vehicle are identified for replacement. A cost associated for the repair of each of the one or more parts of the damaged vehicle for repair is estimated based on estimated repair cost data contained in a parts repair database. Moreover, a cost associated with the replacement of each of the one or more parts of the damaged vehicle for replacement is determined based on replacement cost data contained in a parts replacement database.
US11238503B2
Techniques and systems for beacon triggered processes are disclosed. A described technique includes causing a beacon device to broadcast a beacon message, the beacon device being within the vicinity of an establishment; detecting a presence of a user of a mobile device based on receiving from the mobile device a first message that is responsive to the beacon message; retrieving a transaction record based on a user or mobile device identifier in the first message; generating and transmitting a second message based on the transaction record to facilitate a completion of a transaction associated with the transaction record at the establishment; the second message being configured to provide notification of an arrival of the user and dispatch an employee to meet the user and handle the transaction; and generating and transmitting a third message based on the transaction record to facilitate the completion of the transaction at the mobile device.
US11238502B2
Methods and corresponding systems are provided for configuring communications to customers when there are multiple campaigns scheduled in a given period. An optimal number of communications are sent prioritized according to business or performance measures where send times are spaced out in a manner that strives to attain the highest value. An example method includes determining a number of electronic communications, for a plurality of campaigns to send to the particular customer during a particular time period; determining the optimal send time during the particular time period; determining for which campaigns the particular customer is eligible; for each determined optimal time: determining a strategy including selecting an electronic communication for one of the campaigns to send to the eligible particular customer so as to maximize the value over the particular time period; and causing the selected electronic communication to be sent to the particular customer at the determined optimal time.
US11238482B1
Methods and systems for generating an optimal clearance schedule for inventory items in a retail enterprise. A method includes accessing historical sales data for a plurality of inventory items in a department of a retailer. A selection of an item is received and a set of possible discount schedules for the item are generated. Each schedule includes a set of prices and a price duration. A forecasting tool provides a sales performance of the item based on the historical sales data. An optimal clearance schedule is selected from the possible discount schedules.
US11238468B1
Systems and techniques for semantic graph database capture of industrial organization and market structure are described herein. Electronic market data may be obtained from an electronic data source. A set of entities and corresponding relationships may be extracted from the electronic market data. A property may be determined for each of the relationships. A market graph data structure may be generated using the set of entities. A search query may be received including an identifier of a member of the set of entities. A market graphic may be generated based on a node corresponding to the identifier and a set of edges corresponding to the node. The market graphic may be output in a computer-readable format.
US11238467B2
Provided herein are systems for managing properties, e.g., real estate or financial properties, in real time and over time. The system generally comprises an electronic device with at least a processor, a memory and a display coupled to the processor and at least one network connection and an interactive management tool coupled to the electronic device. The interactive management tool comprises features for managing captured leads such as Email Alerts, Exporting, Labels, Syncing, Value, and Mobility. Also provided is a method for utilizing the system to capture leads and to interactively manage the same. Further provided herein is a non-transitory machine-readable storage device comprising processor-executable instructions to perform the method.
US11238461B2
Methods for facilitating financial transactions include facilitating or otherwise increasing the ease and speed of checkout processes. In particular, one or more implementations comprise an e-commerce payment facilitator that acts as an intermediary between a commerce application and a payment gateway. The e-commerce payment facilitator can provide stored payment information to a commerce application based on a few simple selections by a user. This allows a user to easily and securely complete commerce transactions, which simplifies the user's checkout experience and reduces barriers to purchase. Furthermore, the e-commerce payment facilitator can pass payment details to the commerce application's payment gateway. In addition to the foregoing, methods involve dynamically and intelligently providing a user the option of using payment information stored by the network application.
US11238449B2
Systems and methods for validation of transaction policy compliance are provided. Code is implemented, including a transaction policy compliance check, in a form of a trusted application to be executed in a trusted execution environment (TEE). A secret is attested and provisioned to a trusted application instance in the TEE. The trusted application instance is executed on a client transaction request to generate a policy compliance result. A transaction object is generated, including the policy compliance result and a proof of the execution. The transaction object is proposed to a distributed ledger system. The policy compliance result and a proof of the execution during transaction validation in the distributed ledger system is verified.
US11238447B2
A method includes: determining, by a computing device communicably coupled to a blockchain network, participants in a remittance transaction, in which each participant has a corresponding account in a blockchain ledger of the blockchain network, and in which each account includes one or more assets; assembling the remittance transaction based on one or more to-be-spent assets of the one or more assets in an account corresponding to a real remitter, one or more covered assets of the one or more assets in an account corresponding to a fake remitter, and one or more encrypted transfer amounts; generating a linkable ring signature for the remittance transaction based on a private key held by the real remitter, a public key held by the real remitter, and a public key held by the fake remitter; and submitting the remittance transaction and the linkable ring signature to the blockchain network for completion.
US11238439B1
Technologies for emulating payment transaction messaging for electronic payment transaction include a transaction management controller for receiving a transaction amount for a payment transaction from a business management engine and simulated payment card data for the payment transaction from a point of interaction emulator. The transaction management controller inserts the transaction amount and the payment card data into a test payment authorization request message, which is transmitted to a null host. A payment authorization response message is received from the null host and transmitted by the transaction management controller the business management engine. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11238438B2
Method, apparatus, and computer program product for topping up prepaid payment cards for offline use
A card holder carries out an initial top-up of a balance of a pre-paid payment card. The prepaid payment card is configured for use in an infrastructure in accordance with a payment specification requiring different behavior for normal transactions in the infrastructure versus that required for topping-up of the balance. Contemporaneously with the initial top-up, the card holder registers risk mitigation information in association with the pre-paid payment card. Subsequent to the initial top-up, an indicator is written to the pre-paid payment card during a transaction with the pre-paid payment card outside the infrastructure. The indicator identifies the pre-paid payment card as having the risk mitigation information associated therewith. During subsequent presentation of the pre-paid payment card to the infrastructure, the pre-paid payment card is treated as a token backed up by the risk mitigation information, based on presence of the indicator on the pre-paid payment card.
US11238432B2
According to a first aspect, there is provided a method for enabling a communication link over which transaction data is transmitted between a mobile terminal and a receiving terminal, the method comprising: storing in a memory at the mobile terminal, the receiving terminal and a server administering the communication link, a generated unique identifier, the unique identifier used to facilitate the enablement of the communication link; creating a storage slot at the server administering the communication link, the storage slot being assigned the unique identifier and the storage slot used to store the transaction data; and enabling the communication link in response to the creation of the storage slot, wherein the communication link is utilised by both the mobile terminal and the receiving terminal by referencing the unique identifier to the server.
US11238413B2
One or more in-range stationary stations are provided which are configured to transmit a signal received by an in-range mobile unit. An application is run on the in-range mobile unit, and, when run, comprises a destination input configured to present a destination graphical user input on a display screen of the in-range mobile unit along with information to thereby prompt a user to input textual information which the application receives and then uses to populate a set of geographic address fields representing a destination premises address. The application when run further includes calls to location services APIs, the calls including calls to cause an acquisition of a current location determination. The application converts the destination premises address to a destination geographic location using the same parameters used to represent the current location determination. The application when run provides an indication of the determined location of the in-range mobile unit in terms of a premises address. The current determined location is set to the destination premises address when a straight line distance between the destination geographic location and the acquired current location determination is less than a prescribed value.
US11238411B1
Methods and systems are provided for adaptive recruitment computer system. In one novel aspect, the adaptive recruitment computer system generates a question bank based on a job description, selects adaptively questions from the question bank for an interview, and generates a feedback report for the candidate based on the evaluation of the candidate's answer. In one embodiment, the computer system categorizes a job requirement based on a body of knowledge (BOK) skill knowledge base, generates a question bank, selects adaptively a subset of questions from the generated question bank, wherein each question selected is based on evaluations of candidate's answers to corresponding prior questions using a recurrent neural network (RNN) model, and generates a feedback report for the candidate, wherein the feedback report using the RNN model based on evaluations of answers and a BOK candidate knowledge base, wherein the BOK candidate knowledge base receives updates from the computer system.
US11238408B2
The systems and methods involve a feedback application, a feedback processing application, an analytics application, and an event moderating application. The feedback application allows users to submit feedback and displays received feedback anonymously to feedback recipients. The feedback processing application anonymizes the submitted feedback and the data to be retrieved from the feedback processing application and provide the anonymized feedback and data to the feedback application. The feedback processing application includes technology to protect feedback giver's identity and increase the speed of anonymizing the feedback and data and providing the anonymized feedback and data to the feedback application. The analytics application examines user's feedback giving and receiving behavior and evaluate their feedback empathy and authenticity and their learning behavior. The event moderating application can control the feedback application and access data in the feedback processing application and the analytics application.
US11238403B2
Features are disclosed for an interface for verifiable tracking of an item through a supply chain using a distributed electronic ledger. For example, when an item is added to a catalog system, the item information may be included in the creation element at the start of the ledger for the item. A certification authority may be included to verify that items received correspond to the item included in the catalog based on one or more certification rules. If a certification rule is satisfied, a record may be added to indicate transfer of the item from a provider to the catalog system. The certification information may be dynamically presented with item description information such as in response to searches of the catalog system.
US11238401B1
Techniques for employing user interfaces to output information indicative of events occurring in an inventory facility, and receive feedback from a human regarding the events are described herein. In one implementation, an event may take place in an inventory facility, such as a customer taking an item from an inventory location, returning an item to an inventory location, and so forth. An automated system of an inventory management system may process sensor data collected by sensors in the inventory facility to determine details of the event. In some examples, the inventory management system is unable to determine with a high level of confidence what occurred during the event. The inventory management system may provide the sensor data to a human associate through an associate interface, and receive input regarding details of the event from the human associate through the associate interface.
US11238390B2
Data processing systems and methods, according to various embodiments, are adapted for mapping various questions regarding a data breach from a master questionnaire to a plurality of territory-specific data breach disclosure questionnaires. The answers to the questions in the master questionnaire are used to populate the territory-specific data breach disclosure questionnaires and determine whether disclosure is required in territory. The system can automatically notify the appropriate regulatory bodies for each territory where it is determined that data breach disclosure is required.
US11238388B2
Techniques for solving asset synthesis by integrating asset synthesis instances into a historical, virtual, or predicted workflow within an organization. The integration facilitates improving a parameter of the synthesis, such as cost or time. The result is a system that improves productivity in an organization and improves accuracy of workflow completion prediction within the organization.
US11238387B2
A management system includes a storage unit that stores schedule information that indicates schedules of a plurality of tasks to be performed by the same flight vehicle. The schedule information includes types of the plurality of tasks, date/times of the plurality of tasks, and locations at which the plurality of tasks are to be performed. When the types, the date/times, and the locations that are included in the schedule information stored in the storage unit satisfy an integration condition, an integration unit integrates the schedules of the plurality of tasks. An output unit outputs integrated schedule information indicating the schedules of the integrated tasks.
US11238386B2
Techniques are described for workflow management, including automatically deriving characteristics of a user task node in a workflow based on an analysis of other workflow elements such as conditional sequence connectors. In some implementations, elements of a workflow presented in the modeler user interface of a workflow management platform are analyzed, and element(s) of the workflow are automatically and dynamically modified based on the analysis. For example, a workflow may include a first user task that is connected to subsequent node(s) in the workflow, such as other user task(s) downstream from the first user task. The first user task may be connected to each subsequent node by a conditional sequence connector. The condition information for each connector can be extracted from the workflow information and used to automatically modify the first user task to include decision branches for each element of condition information extracted from a respective connector.
US11238382B1
A system comprising a database storing schedule information associated with different meeting spaces, at least a first threshold display located proximate at least a first meeting space, an employee tracking system, a processor programmed to perform the steps of receiving employee tracking information including locations and identities, determining the relative juxtapositions of employees with respect to the first threshold display, identifying content to be presented on the first threshold display based on identity of a first employee, a distance between the first employee and the display and the schedule information.
US11238377B2
A server system may match a segment of code for a code integration request to metadata about similar segments of code, wherein the metadata qualifies one or more outcomes of previous integration requests. The server may determine usage rights and rules based on the metadata, wherein some of the usage rights and rules have previously have been approved by a multi-approval workflow that enforces a predetermined process to authorize use of the segment of code for code segment integrations. The server may analyze the metadata to predict an integration score based at least in part on the usage rights and rules of the segments of code. If the integration score of the segment of code exceeds a threshold, the system may automatically generate a data structure for deploying the segment of code, wherein the automatically generating the data structure is performed without the multi-approval workflow.
US11238376B1
A system and a method are disclosed herein for machine-learned detection of outliers within payload requests. An entity management system uses machine learning to cluster data characterizing requests from entities to route payloads, and determines one or more data clusters that are outliers. The system receives a request to route a payload to a destination, and applies a supervised machine learning model to size and type information indicated by the payload. The supervised machine learning model applies a label to the payload data (e.g., indicating that the payload routing request is an outlier). This outlier detection may drive a validation process to address detected outliers. The system may receive an indication to perform a validation function and transmit the payload to a validation destination. The system may leverage payload data and feedback received from an entity to optimize machine learning techniques to the entity.
US11238373B2
A method comprises obtaining temporal measurements associated with a heterogeneous material; building a numerical model of a material by assigning initial approximations to the temporal measurements; modifying the numerical model to create a modified numerical model; generating simulated temporal measurements associated with the temporal measurements using the modified numerical model; determining a reward, a penalty, or a modification based on a quality of a fit between the temporal measurements and the simulated temporal measurements; and updating the numerical model based on the reward, the penalty, or the modification.
US11238371B2
A computer system can be configured to: receive, in a low-precision mode, first status data generated by one or more sensors, the first status data reflecting technical parameters of a technical system, the first status data exhibiting a first precision level; apply a low-precision machine learning model to analyze the first status data for one or more indicators of an abnormal technical status, the machine learning model having been trained with data exhibiting the first precision level; send, based on an abnormal technical status being indicated, instructions for the one or more sensors to generate second status data exhibiting a second precision level, the second precision level being associated with greater accuracy than the first precision level; receive the second status data exhibiting the second precision level based on the sent instructions; providing the second status data to a data analyzer.
US11238366B2
A machine learning (ML)-based technique for user behavior analysis that detects when users deviate from expected behavior. A ML model is trained using training data derived from activity data from a first set of users. The model is refined in a computationally-efficient manner by identifying a second set of users that constitute a “watch list.” At a given time, a differential data ingestion operation is then performed to incorporate data for the second set of users into the training data, while also pruning at least a portion of the data set corresponding to data associated with any user included in the first set but not in the second set. These operations update the training data used for the machine learning. The machine learning model is then refined based on the updated training data that incorporates the activity data ingested from the users identified in the watch list.
US11238359B2
Techniques facilitating simplified quantum programming are provided. In one example, a computer-implemented method comprises reducing, by a device operatively coupled to a processor, a first computing problem of a problem type to a second computing problem of the problem type, wherein the second computing problem is associated with a quantum circuit; facilitating, by the device, execution of the quantum circuit at a quantum computer, resulting in a first output corresponding to the second computing problem; and mapping, by the device, the first output to a second output corresponding to the first computing problem.
US11238353B2
A method, computer system, and a computer program product for managing and optimizing connectivity of a plurality of IoT devices based on cognitive learning is provided. The present invention may include identifying a user, wherein a plurality of user context data is stored in a user profile. The present invention may then include detecting a change in at least one current user context associated with the identified user. The present invention may also include performing a connectivity and management analysis on the detected change in the at least one current user context. The present invention may then include generating at least one optimal plan for the plurality of IoT devices associated with the identified user based on the performed connectivity and management analysis. The preset invention may further include performing at least one action based on the generated at least one optimal plan.
US11238352B2
Techniques are provided for predicting talent flow to and/or from a geographical region. In one technique, multiple entity profiles are stored and analyzed to generate training data that is labeled indicating whether a corresponding entity has moved to or moved from a region. A machine-learned prediction model is generated or trained based on the training data. Using the machine-learned prediction model, a prediction is made whether, for each entity corresponding to another entity profile, that entity will move to or move from a particular geographic region. Based on multiple predictions, a number of entities that are predicted to move to or move from the particular geographic region is determined. Talent flow data that is based on the number of entities is presented on a computer display.
US11238347B2
Parallel processing among arrays of physical neural cores is provided. An array of neural cores is adapted to compute, in parallel, an output activation tensor of a neural network layer. A network is operatively connected to each of the neural cores. The output activation tensor is distributed across the neural cores. An input activation tensor is distributed across the neural cores. A weight tensor is distributed across the neural cores. Each neural core's computation comprises multiplying elements of a portion of the input activation tensor at that core with elements of a portion of the weight tensor at that core, and storing the summed products in a partial sum corresponding to an element of the output activation tensor. Each element of the output activation tensor is computed by accumulating all of the partial sums corresponding to that element via the network. The partial sums for each element of the output activation tensor are computed in a sequence of steps whose order is described by tracing a path through the weight tensor that visits every weight tensor element that contributes to any partial sum.
US11238344B1
Aspects of the disclosure generally relate to computing enabled devices and/or systems, and may be generally directed to devices, systems, methods, and/or applications for learning a device's operation in various circumstances, storing this knowledge in a knowledgebase (i.e. neural network, graph, sequences, etc.), and enabling autonomous operation of the device.
US11238341B2
Embodiments include applying neural network technologies to encoding/decoding technologies by training and encoder model and a decoder model using a neural network. Neural network training is used to tune a neural network parameter for the encoder model and a neural network parameter for the decoder model that approximates an objective function. The common objective function may specify a minimized reconstruction error to be achieved by the encoder model and the decoder model when reconstructing (encoding then decoding) training data. The common objective function also specifies for the encoder and decoder models, a variable f representing static aspects of the training data and a set of variables z1:T representing dynamic aspects of the training data. During runtime, the trained encoder and decoder models are implemented by encoder and decoder machines to encode and decoder runtime sequences having a higher compression rate and a lower reconstruction error than in prior approaches.
US11238336B2
An accelerator for modern convolutional neural networks applies the Winograd filtering algorithm in a wavelength division multiplexing integrated photonics circuit modulated by a memristor-based analog memory unit.
US11238335B2
A motion-sensing circuit for determining a direction of motion and a velocity of an object includes a first photo-receptor for sensing the object, an excitatory active memristor neuron circuit coupled to the first photo-receptor, a second photo-receptor for sensing the object, an inhibitory active memristor neuron circuit coupled to the second photo-receptor, and a self-excitatory active memristor output-counter neuron circuit coupled to the excitatory active memristor neuron circuit and coupled to the inhibitory active memristor neuron circuit.
US11238329B2
A payment card (e.g., credit and/or debit card) or other device (e.g., mobile telephone) is provided with a magnetic emulator operable to communicate data to a magnetic stripe read-head. Gift cards may be inputted by a user into such a payment card or other device such that a user can combine gift cards. Similarly, a user be provided with a global payment account that can be utilized in multiple countries that have different standards for formatting data. A user may be provided with a default country (e.g., United States) but may have a way to select that the user is in a different country (e.g., Japan). Accordingly, a user may select that a Japanese data structure be transmitted through a magnetic stripe reader when the user is in Japan.
US11238323B2
A quality management system for products including a multiplicity of barcoded quality indicators, a barcode indicator reader and a product type responsive indication interpreter, each of the barcoded quality indicators including a first barcode including at least one first colorable area, the first barcode being machine-readable before exceedance of the at least one time and temperature threshold, at least a second barcode including at least one second colorable area, the second barcode not being machine-readable before exceedance of the at least one time and temperature threshold, a coloring agent located at a first location on the indicator and a coloring agent pathway operative to allow the coloring agent to move, from the first location to the first and second colorable areas simultaneously thereby causing the first barcode to become unreadable and at the same time causing the second barcode to become machine-readable.
US11238318B2
A method of characterizing a serum and plasma portion of a specimen in regions occluded by one or more labels. The characterization may be used for determining Hemolysis (H), Icterus (I), and/or Lipemia (L), or Normal (N) of a serum or plasma portion of a specimen. The method includes capturing one or more images of a labeled specimen container including a serum or plasma portion, processing the one or more images with a convolutional neural network to provide a determination of Hemolysis (H), Icterus (I), and/or Lipemia (L), or Normal (N). In further embodiments, the convolutional neural network can provide N′-Class segmentation information. Quality check modules and testing apparatus adapted to carry out the method are described, as are other aspects.
US11238305B2
An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to execute first preprocessing on acquired image data, and execute second preprocessing on a specified partial region of the image data as a target in a case where information for specifying at least one partial region in an image corresponding to the image data is received from post processing on which the image data after the first preprocessing is processed.
US11238302B2
A method and an illumination manipulation device of performing an object illumination manipulation operation on a first image are provided. The method includes receiving the first image and an input of a light direction, generating a second image with a first object detected from the first image, determining a second object illumination of the second image based on the light direction and replacing a first object illumination of the first image with the second object illumination.
US11238296B2
The present disclosure discloses a sample acquisition method, a target detection model generation method, a target detection method, a computing device, and a computer readable medium. The sample acquisition method includes: adding a perturbation to a pre-marked sample original box in an original image to obtain a sample selection box, wherein an image framed by the sample original box contains a target; and extracting an image framed by the sample selection box as a sample. The technical solutions of the present disclosure can effectively increase the number of the samples that can be acquired in the original image, and adding a background to the samples can effectively improve the recognition accuracy of the trained target detection model.
US11238290B2
A method at a server system includes: receiving a video stream from a remote video camera, wherein the video stream comprises a plurality of video frames; selecting a plurality of non-contiguous frames from the video stream, the plurality of non-contiguous frames being associated with a predetermined time interval; encoding the plurality of non-contiguous frames as a compressed video segment associated with the time interval; receiving a request from an application running on a client device to review video from the remote video camera for the time interval; and in response to the request, transmitting the video segment to the client device for viewing in the application.
US11238289B1
An automatic lie detection method and apparatus for interactive scenarios, a device and a medium to improve the accuracy of automatic lie detection are provided. The method includes: segmenting three modalities, namely a video, an audio and a text, of a to-be-detected sample; extracting short-term features of the three modalities; integrating the short-term features of the three modalities in the to-be-detected sample to obtain long-term features of the three modalities corresponding to each dialogue; integrating the long-term features of the three modalities by a self-attention mechanism to obtain a multi-modal feature of the each dialogue; integrating the multi-modal feature of the each dialogue with interactive information by a graph neutral network to obtain a multi-modal feature integrated with the interactive information; and predicting a lie level of the each dialogue according to the multi-modal feature integrated with the interactive information.
US11238288B2
A method for highlight extraction capable of automatically extracting a highlight from a video including a sporting event is provided. The method for highlight extraction may include: identifying a video including a sporting event, log information that sequentially records events occurring in the sporting event, and a keyword related to the video; tagging the video with game information related to the video; extracting at least one piece of log information corresponding to the keyword and determining at least one frame that corresponds to the log information extracted from the tagged video; and creating a highlight video by combining the at least one determined frame.
US11238281B1
In some embodiments, a first image may be captured from a first field of view using a first exposure time. A second image may be captured from a second field of view using a second exposure time that is different than the first exposure time. An overlapping field of view may be defined by an overlapping portion of the first field of view and the second field of view. Histograms may be created for the first image and the second image, and possibly more images that include different exposure times and represent the overlapping field of view. The histograms may be analyzed to determine a presence or an absence of a light source in the overlapping field of view.
US11238275B2
A technique making use of a few-shot model to determine graphical features present in an image based on a small set of examples with known graphical features. Where a support set including a number of images that each have a known combination of graphical features, the image recognition can identify unknown combinations of those graphical features in any number of query images. In an embodiment of the present disclosure examples of a filled-out form are used to interpret any number of additional filled out versions of the form.
US11238273B2
Provided are a data processing method and apparatus, an electronic device and a storage medium. The data processing method comprises: according to a reference depth value and an actual depth value of a key point of a target in an image, converting first 2D coordinates of the key point into second 2D coordinates, wherein the second 2D coordinates and the reference depth value constitute a first 3D feature of the key point; and based on the first 3D feature, obtaining a 3D posture of the target.
US11238263B2
The present disclosure provides a display device and an electronic device. The display device includes a substrate, a pixel circuitry, a first light emitting unit, a fingerprint sensor circuitry, and a fingerprint sensor unit. The pixel circuitry and the first light emitting unit are disposed on the substrate, and the first light emitting unit is driven by the pixel circuitry. The fingerprint sensor circuitry and the fingerprint sensor unit are disposed on the substrate, and the fingerprint sensor unit is driven by the fingerprint sensor circuitry. The first light emitting unit overlaps with at least a portion of the fingerprint sensor circuitry in a top view direction of the display device.
US11238261B2
An ultrasonic fingerprint recognition module is described that includes sensing units distributed in the form of array, where the sensing units include: a receiving electrode layer having a plurality of receiving electrodes distributed in the form of array; a piezoelectric material layer disposed on one side of the receiving electrode layer; an emission electrode layer disposed on a side of the piezoelectric material layer distal to the receiving electrode layer, and including a plurality of rows of emission electrodes; a selection circuit having an input terminal which is connected with an excitation signal and an output terminal which is connected with the emission electrode for selecting to transmit the excitation signal to the plurality of emission electrodes; and a pixel receiving circuit connected to the receiving electrode layer that receives a fingerprint signal.
US11238256B2
A display deice is provided including a substrate. The substrate includes a display region that includes a plurality of pixels and a sensing region provided in at least one region of the display region. A circuit element layer is disposed on the substrate, the circuit element layer includes a plurality of conductive layers. A light emitting element layer is provided on the circuit element layer. The light emitting element layer includes a plurality of light emitting elements. A sensor layer is disposed on the substrate. The sensor layer includes a plurality of photo sensor units each including sensor pixels. The photo sensor units are arranged in an irregular pattern in the sensing region.
US11238244B2
A method may include generating a source transaction description, encoding, by an encoder model of a machine translation model executing on a computer processor, the source transaction description to create a context vector, decoding, by a decoder model of the machine translation model, the context vector to predict a target entity description, generating a transaction including the target entity description, detecting an acceptance, by a user, of an action performed on the transaction, in response to detecting the acceptance, updating a translation accuracy metric for the target entity description, determining that the updated translation accuracy metric satisfies a translation accuracy criterion, and in response to determining that the updated translation accuracy metric satisfies the translation accuracy criterion, adding the target entity description to golden entity descriptions.
US11238235B2
From a natural language document using a natural language concept analyzer, a set of natural language input concepts is extracted. Using a query generation model, a query corresponding to the set of natural language input concepts is generated. From a set of natural language results using the natural language concept analyzer, a set of natural language output concepts is extracted, a result in the set of natural language results comprising a portion of narrative text within a natural language corpus, the result identified by searching the natural language corpus using the query. Using the set of natural language input concepts and the set of natural language output concepts, a novelty concept is scored, the scored novelty concept comprising a degree to which a natural language input concept in the set of natural language input concepts is external to a boundary defined by the set of natural language output concepts.
US11238234B2
In one general aspect, a computer-implemented method includes identifying current choices with different verbosity levels for a current turn in a conversation; normalizing multi-dimensional verbosity vectors for each of the current choices to obtain a normalized value for each of the current choices; determining a state definition for the current turn in the conversation, utilizing the normalized values for each of the current choices; providing the state definition for the current turn in the conversation and the normalized values for each of the current choices to a trained reinforcement learning module; receiving, from the trained reinforcement learning module, a score associated with each of the current choices for the current turn in the conversation; and selecting one of the current choices to be entered for the current turn in the conversation, based on the score associated with each of the current choices for the current turn in the conversation.
US11238230B2
Word vectors are multi-dimensional vectors that represent words in a corpus of text and that are embedded in a semantically-encoded vector space. Word vectors can be used for sentiment analysis, comparison of the topic or content of sentences, paragraphs, or other passages of text or other natural language processing tasks. However, the generation of word vectors can be computationally expensive. Accordingly, when a set of word vectors is needed for a particular corpus of text, a set of word vectors previously generated from a corpus of text that is sufficiently similar to the particular corpus of text, with respect to some criteria, may be re-used for the particular corpus of text. Such similarity could include the two corpora of text containing the same or similar sets of words or containing incident reports or other time-coded sets of text from overlapping or otherwise similar periods of time.
