US11265589B2
Items of video content offered for viewing on a video-on-demand (VOD) platform of a digital TV service provider are each assigned a respective title and hierarchical address corresponding to hierarchically-arranged categories and subcategories within which the title for the video content is to be categorized. The title is listed in a location of an electronic program guide (EPG) using the same categories and subcategories as its hierarchical address. Any TV subscriber can access the EPG and navigate through its categories and subcategories to find a title for viewing on the TV. The EPG dynamically adjust its display listings of each level of categories, subcategories, and titles in order to minimize the number of remote control keypresses needed for a viewer to navigate to a title of interest. In one basic form, the EPG display is reordered by listing more frequently visited categories or subcategories first, and other less frequently visited categories or subcategories lower on the listing or out-of-sight on another page of the display.
US11265587B2
The present disclosure discloses a method for synchronously pushing a multimedia resource based on a heterogeneous network. The method includes: step 1: obtaining, by a server, end-to-end broadband network delay information or broadband network delay and available bandwidth information of different users; step 2: after receiving a client request, calculating, by the server according to the end-to-end broadband network delay information or the broadband network delay and available bandwidth information of the different users, a moment at which the multimedia resource can be synchronously presented; and step 3: sending, by the server, the multimedia resource after the moment at which the multimedia resource can be synchronously presented, and synchronously playing, by a client, content according to a start presentation time of the multimedia resource, so that broadband content of the different users can be synchronously presented.
US11265581B2
A method of video decoding can include determining a prediction mode of a current coding unit (CU), and determining values of a transform unit (TU) coded block flag (CBF) of a Cb transform block, denoted tu_cbf_cb, and a TU CBF of a Cr transform block, denoted tu_cbf_cr, determining a context index, denoted ctxIdx, based on the prediction mode of the current CU and the values of the tu_cbf_cb, and the tu_cbf_cr, and performing an arithmetic decoding process according to a context model indicated by the ctxIdx to determine a bin of a joint Cb Cr residual (JCCR) flag indicating whether residual samples for both Cb and Cr chroma components of the current CU are coded as a single transform block.
US11265580B2
A method, computer program, and computer system is provided for video post-processing using supplemental enhancement information (SEI) messages by determining whether a structure of a neural network and one or more parameters associated with the neural network are defined for a decoder and requesting data corresponding to the structure of the neural network and the one or more parameters based on the determination using one or more SEI messages. The requested structure and parameter data is received, and post processing is performed on video data based on the received structure and parameter data.
US11265579B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses are described for processing video. Encoded video data may be determined from uncompressed video data. A chrominance component for a portion of the encoded video data may be determined that references another portion of the encoded video data. A luma component of the portion of the encoded video data may be determined to correspond with the luma component of the corresponding portion of the uncompressed video data.
US11265573B2
A method for video processing is disclosed to include: determining, for a conversion between a coded representation of a current block of a video and the current block, a motion vector difference (MVD) precision to be used for the conversion from a set of allowed multiple MVD precisions applicable to a video region containing the current video block; and performing the conversion based on the MVD precision.
US11265559B2
A disclosed configuration includes a system (or a computer implemented method or a non-transitory computer readable medium) for automatically preprocessing higher dynamic range image data into lower dynamic range image data through a data adaptive tuning process. By automatically preprocessing the higher dynamic range image data into the lower dynamic range image data through the data adaptive tuning process, an existing encoding process for encoding the standard dynamic range image data can be applied to the lower dynamic range image data while preserving metadata sufficient to recover image fidelity even in the high dynamic range. In one aspect, the system (or a computer implemented method or a non-transitory computer readable medium) provides for backwards compatibility between high dynamic range video services and existing standard dynamic range services. In one aspect, regrading is applied in a domain that is perceptually more uniform than the domain it is initially presented.
US11265556B2
A higher coding efficiency for coding a significance map indicating positions of significant transform coefficients within a transform coefficient block is achieved by the scan order by which the sequentially extracted syntax elements indicating, for associated positions within the transform coefficient block, as to whether at the respective position a significant or insignificant transform coefficient is situated, are sequentially associated to the positions of the transform coefficient block, among the positions of the transform coefficient block depends on the positions of the significant transform coefficients indicated by previously associated syntax elements. Alternatively, the first-type elements may be context-adaptively entropy decoded using contexts which are individually selected for each of the syntax elements dependent on a number of significant transform coefficients in a neighborhood of the respective syntax element, indicated as being significant by any of the preceding syntax elements.
US11265553B2
A first value of a first data element (311) in a first set of data elements (310) is obtained, the first set of data elements being based on a first time sample of a signal. A second value of a second data element (321) in a second set of data elements (320) is obtained, the second set of data elements being based on a second, later time sample of the signal. A measure of similarity is derived between the first value and the second value. Based on the derived measure, a quantisation parameter useable in performing quantisation on data based on the first time sample of the signal is determined. Output data is generated using the quantisation parameter.
US11265539B2
There is provided an encoding apparatus, an encoding method, a decoding apparatus, and a decoding method that make it possible to improve the performance of a filter process. The encoding apparatus and the decoding apparatus perform classification of classifying, according to a reliability degree determined according to a frequency distribution of inclination directions indicating directions of inclination of pixel values of a plurality of pixels in a frequency distribution generation region including a pixel of interest of a decoded image, the pixel of interest into any of a plurality of classes, and performs a filter process of applying, to the decoded image, a prediction formula for performing product sum calculation of tap coefficients of the class of the pixel of interest obtained by the classification and pixels of the decoded image. The present technology can be applied, for example, to a case in which encoding and decoding of an image are performed.
US11265528B2
Systems and methods for decoding a video stream by at least one processor, a method includes receiving the video stream, the video stream including at least one cell; and reconstructing a cell from among the at least one cell. The reconstructing includes: obtaining a maximum difference value for each of at least one set of attribute values of the cell; and determining whether to apply a filter to the cell based on the maximum difference value of a set of attribute values of the at least one set of attribute values.
US11265525B2
A method for processing image information has accessing position information associated with images, identifying a position sequence that provides a series of locations along a pathway corresponding to a subject, and displaying the images in an order of the position sequence. The position sequence is adjusted based on movement of the subject.
US11265516B2
A system consisting of a vehicle which is autarchically mobile in the outdoor area on a property and a surveillance module which can be attached to the vehicle, wherein the surveillance module has surveillance sensors for carrying out surveillance of the property. The surveillance module can be replaced with a work module. Plant care activities can be performed with the work module.
US11265504B2
A solid-state imaging device includes: a pixel unit in which pixels are arranged in a matrix pattern; and a pixel signal read-out unit including an AD conversion unit performing analog-to-digital (AD) conversion of a pixel signal read out from the pixel unit, wherein each pixel included in the pixel unit includes division pixels divided into regions in which photosensitivity levels or electric charge accumulating amounts are different from one another, the pixel signal reading unit includes a normal read-out mode and a multiple read-out mode, and includes a function of changing a configuration of a frame in accordance with a change of the read-out mode, and wherein the AD conversion unit acquires a pixel signal of one pixel by adding the division pixel signals while performing AD conversion for the division pixel signals.
US11265491B2
Fluorescence imaging with reduced fixed pattern noise is disclosed. A method includes actuating an emitter to emit a plurality of pulses of electromagnetic radiation and sensing reflected electromagnetic radiation resulting from the plurality of pulses of electromagnetic radiation with a pixel array of an image sensor. The method includes reducing fixed pattern noise in an exposure frame by subtracting a reference frame from the exposure frame. The method is such that at least a portion of the plurality of pulses of electromagnetic radiation emitted by the emitter comprises electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength from about 795 nm to about 815 nm.
US11265471B2
The present disclosure provides a gimbal control method, a device, a gimbal, a system, and a storage medium. The gimbal includes at least one axis of rotation. The method includes: determining a current first working mode of the gimbal; and if the gimbal satisfies a preset mode switching condition, controlling the gimbal to switch from the first working mode to a second working mode, and enabling the gimbal to maintain smooth and stable operation during the switching process, where in the first working mode, the axis of rotation is configured to enable the gimbal to face a first direction, and in the second working mode, the axis of rotation is configured to enable the gimbal to face a second direction. In this way, smooth transition of the gimbal can be maintained during mode switching, so that stability of image shooting during mode switching of the gimbal is improved.
US11265468B2
An image stabilization apparatus includes a first acquisition unit configured to acquire an output of a shake detection device, a motion vector detection unit configured to detect a motion vector, an estimation unit configured to calculate an estimate of an offset value of the shake detection device using an observed offset value and an a priori offset estimate, the observed offset value being obtained using a difference between the output of the shake detection device and the motion vector; and a calculation unit configured to calculate a correction amount for correcting image blur using the output of the shake detection device and the estimate of the offset value, wherein the estimation unit is configured to calculate the estimate of the offset value according to operation for driving a movable lens.
US11265461B2
The present technology relates to a controller and a control method capable of providing an imaging system which achieves cost reduction. A control unit controls a first imaging direction of a first imaging unit and a second imaging direction of a second imaging unit as a direction different from the first imaging direction in accordance with a situation of an object associated with a first image captured by the first imaging unit or a second image captured by the second imaging unit. For example, the present technology is applicable to a lecture capture system.
US11265459B2
According to an aspect of an embodiment of the disclosure, an electronic device includes: a photographing device; a memory storing one or more instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the one or more instructions stored in the memory to capture a first image by using the photographing device, perform first adjustment on an exposure value based on the first image, when the first image does not satisfy a first condition, perform second adjustment on the exposure value based on a second image acquired by applying a mask having a high weight for a region of interest to the first image, when the second image does not satisfy a second condition, adjust at least one photographing setting value based on the adjusted exposure value, and capture, by using the photographing device, a third image based on the adjusted at least one photographing setting value.
US11265454B2
A control apparatus includes a focus detecting unit configured to detect a defocus amount, a continuity determining unit configured to determine a continuity of a focus detection result, a characteristic detecting unit configured to detect characteristics of a main object and of surroundings of the main object, a controlling unit configured to change a parameter relating to a tracking operation based on the characteristics during the tracking operation and a focus adjusting unit configured to perform a focus adjustment based on the defocus amount, the continuity of the focus detection result and the parameter.
US11265451B2
Disclosed is a camera module capable of being detachably arranged on and operating with a host of a mobile terminal cooperatively and used in combination with the host. The camera module comprising a main board, a battery, a capturing assembly, and a housing. The main board defines a first mounting hole. The battery is stacked on the main board. The battery defines a second mounting hole corresponding to the first mounting hole. The capturing assembly includes a bracket and a camera. The camera is installed on the bracket, and the bracket is contained in a space defined by both the first and the second mounting holes. The camera is arranged through the first mounting hole. The incident surface of the camera is protruded out of the first mounting hole. The housing is arranged on the main board and the battery.
US11265444B2
Systems and apparatuses for applying coating to nails are disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, to performing image processing on an image of the nail to locate a boundary of the nail. The method can further include determining a path along which to move the nail relative to an applicator, the applicator being used to coat the nail. In a further embodiment, using the located boundary of the nail, a dispensing procedure for the applicator to follow to coat the nail is determined.
US11265442B2
Certain examples relate to configuring a print processing system to produce rendered color outputs based on desired properties of said outputs using resources available to the print processing system. In these examples, print job data is received comprising image data and print property data. Color mapping data is configured to produce print mapping data based on at least the print property data. Print instructions for an image rendering device are generated based on the print mapping data. The print properties may be selectable by a user. Color mapping data may be characterized by color properties.
US11265436B2
An image forming apparatus includes a display panel, a sheet conveying passage, a reading unit, a light source, a chassis, and a controller. The reading unit includes a light transmitting plate and a conveying image sensor. The conveying image sensor reads a conveyed sheet, which is a sheet to print on. The chassis has a cleaning hole in which to insert a cleaning rod for rubbing the light-transmitting plate. In a maintenance mode, the controller turns on the light source, and makes the display panel display a graph showing the pixel values of the pixels included in conveyed-and-read image data acquired by reading with the conveying image sensor.
US11265434B2
Provided is an information processing device connected to a device that executes a process in accordance with a function selected by a user among a plurality of functions, the information processing device includes a setter that sets a first function and a second function from the plurality of functions and a restrictor that restricts the first function, and the restrictor releases the restriction on the first function if the user selects the second function.
US11265432B2
A printing apparatus includes a feeding units, a detecting unit, a designating unit, and a control unit. The detecting unit detects a respective operation on each of the feeding units. The designating unit designates, in response to a user operation via a display, which of the feeding units is to be used for printing. The control unit executes, in response to a command to execute predetermined printing, a process based on a first feeding unit on which an operation has been last detected by the detecting unit and a second feeding unit designated by the designating unit. Based on that the first and second feeding units are different, the control unit displays, as the process, a predetermined screen on the display. Based on that the first and second feeding units are the same, the control unit executes, as the process, the predetermined printing on a second feeding unit fed sheet.
US11265428B2
An information processing apparatus includes a detection unit and a control unit. The detection unit detects motion of a user made between a display surface that displays an image of an object to be operated and the user. The motion is made without contact with the display surface. The control unit instructs the object to execute an operation corresponding to the detected motion of the user.
US11265426B2
The present invention provides systems and methods for the virtualization, aggregation, and distributed processing of facsimile communications. The Remote FAX Interconnect known as etherFAX® is a system and method that allows for the reception and delivery of information based on cloud computing infrastructure to or from one or more facsimile systems using Internet/web based communication protocols such as HTTP(S) as the transport between a facsimile capable application or hardware and the remotely accessible etherFAX® services.
US11265420B2
Techniques for behavioral pairing in a contact center system are disclosed. In one particular embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for pairing in a contact center including ordering one or more contacts, ordering one or more agents, comparing a first difference in ordering between a first contact and a first agent in a first pair with a second difference in ordering between a second contact and a second agent in a second pair, and selecting the first pair or the second pair for connection based on the comparing, wherein the first contact and the second contact are different or the first agent and the second agent are different.
US11265415B2
Embodiments of this application disclose a terminal. The terminal includes a bezel, a screen, a lampshade, and a proximity light assembly. A periphery of the screen is fixedly connected to the bezel. The bezel is provided with a through hole. The lampshade is located on an inner side of the bezel and partially accommodated in the through hole. The proximity light assembly is located on the inner side of the bezel. The proximity light assembly is configured to emit emitted light into the lampshade and receive induced light passing through the lampshade. The emitted light passes through the lampshade to form emergent light. The emergent light intersects with a plane on which the screen is located. The terminal has a relatively high screen-to-body ratio.
US11265412B2
A cooperation system is a cooperation system including a mobile terminal and an in-vehicle apparatus that can be coupled according to a plurality of cooperation schemes by using one or more physical couplings, wherein the mobile terminal includes: an app that outputs at least one of an audio signal and an image signal as output data; a cooperation control section that determines the cooperation scheme to be used for transmission of the output data, based on the cooperation scheme that is operatively functioning; and a library that transmits the output data to the in-vehicle apparatus by using the cooperation scheme determined by the cooperation control section, and the in-vehicle apparatus includes: a protocol control section that receives the output data from the library by using the cooperation scheme; and an output section that reproduces the output data received by the protocol control section.
US11265408B2
In a mobile communication terminal in which a flexible display panel is provided in two body portions which are foldably connected to each other, a plurality of rotation supports are provided in a central joint that connects the two body portions and two sliding panels sliding in the respective body portions together and the rotation supports are directly connected to the two body portions to support rotation of the body portions such that the body portions do not rotate over 180 degrees when the two body portions are fully unfolded, whereby damage of the flexible display panel provided on the surfaces of the two body portions is prevented.
US11265403B2
Systems and techniques, including computer software, for retrieving information to a mobile device involve installing a data retrieval application on the mobile device. The data retrieval application includes instructions for presenting a structured data display on the mobile device, defining a structure of the structured data display, requesting selected hyperlinks included in the structured data display, and rendering markup language information received in response to the selected hyperlinks. A user request to retrieve data through the data retrieval application is received, and data is retrieved in response to the received user request. The retrieved data is displayed according to the structure of the structured data display, and a user can select a hyperlink in the displayed data to retrieve and render markup language information using the data retrieval application.
US11265396B1
Embodiments of the invention are directed to system structured for dynamically adapted, time latency-based, cross channel data caching for performing electronic activities. The invention is structured for selective proactive data caching based on interdependency of electronic activities and transformation of cached data for transmission through a plurality of communication channels, for reducing memory and processing burdens on data caching servers and reducing turnaround time for activity execution. Specifically, the invention is configured to detect initiation of a first technology activity event by a user at a first time, and in response, determine a second interdependent technology activity event. The invention is also structured for caching second event data for the second technology activity event prior to a second time associated with initiation of the second technology activity event at a second network device associated with a second communication channel.
US11265393B2
Data valuation techniques in a sensor data environment are provided. For example, a method obtains at least one sensor data element generated by at least one sensor associated with a set of one or more sensors operatively coupled to a gateway. At least one data valuation algorithm is applied to the at least one sensor data element to compute at least one value. The computed value is distributed for assignment to one or more of the gateway, the at least one sensor, and the at least one sensor data element.
US11265392B2
A system and method for multichannel notifications that includes configuring an account for notifications within a multitenant platform for multi-channel notifications, which further includes receiving configuration for a set of participant binding resources, wherein the set of participant binding resources comprises endpoint addressing resources, where an endpoint addressing resource specifies a communication address and a communication channel identifier; receiving a notification request on behalf of an account, the notification request comprising at least one targeting property; and executing notifications in accordance to the notification request and the configuration of the participant binding resources of the account by selecting endpoint addressing resources that are accessed from the participant binding resources using the targeting properties of the notification request and transmitting notifications to communication addresses over a set of different communication channels as indicated by the selected endpoint addressing resources.
US11265391B1
A patient uses a token with multiple actuators to request assistance from a healthcare provider. When the patient activates one of the token's actuators, a nearby mobile device receives a signal from the relevant actuator, selects a code depending on which actuator was activated, and sends the code along with location data and a patient identifier to a server. The server uses the identifier to access a patient record for the patient and retrieve insurance data. The server will use the code, the location data and the insurance data to select an appropriate healthcare provider for the patient. The system will transmit a communication to the selected healthcare provider with a phone number for the patient's mobile device so that the healthcare provider can contact the patient.
US11265388B2
The present disclosure relates to methods, systems, and storage media for updating confidence scores of labels based on subsequent electronic activities. Exemplary embodiments may maintain a plurality of node profiles corresponding to a plurality of unique entities; access a plurality of electronic activities transmitted or received via electronic accounts associated with one or more data source providers; identify a first electronic activity to process; assign a tag to the first electronic activity based on the data included in the electronic activity; determine a confidence score of the tag based on the data included in the first electronic activity; identify a second electronic activity to process; and update the confidence score of the tag assigned to the first electronic activity responsive to parsing the second electronic activity.
US11265383B2
Systems and methods for enabling proximity services to be delivered as part of an application service and/or for providing tailored services and/or a differential quality of service (QoS) to a flow may be disclosed. For example, a temporary service name between an application and a server such as a D2D server may be established such that a UE and/or network may execute such a service at a later time without later involvement by the application and/or without exchanging credentials for the application with the network and vice versa.
US11265382B2
Systems, methods, and software described herein manage data from spaceborne and airborne nodes. In one implementation, a control system may obtain sensor data from sensors of spaceborne or airborne nodes. Once obtained, the control system may process the sensor data to determine metadata associated with the sensor data. Once processed, the sensor data may be stored in one or more data stores, such that applications may access the data based at least in part on the metadata.
US11265381B2
An electric field personal seat communication protocol within an inductive charging supporting near field communication (NFC) chipset is positioned in respective portions of a vehicle and a personal communications device. Such a chipset can then be utilized to support safety and security applications including the reduction of driver distraction due to cellular phone use at inappropriate times, improved security of vehicle based wireless network based on occupancy detection (E-field sensor 20) and secondary BAN between the seat sensor and NFC enabled devices held/possessed by the occupant. Alternatively, the E-field sensor function could be integrated directly into an NFC chipset that supports the PSC E-field communication protocol.
US11265377B2
A method to exchange medical data between a cloud repository on a cloud server and a plurality of local repositories on a plurality of local servers connected to the cloud server. The plurality of local servers comprises a first local server and the plurality of local repositories comprises a first local repository on the first local server. The method includes, causing the first local server to: transmit an image retrieval request to the cloud server, receive the medical image generated by the cloud server or an instruction from the cloud server to generate the medical image locally, and display the generated medical image on a display. The image retrieval request causes the cloud server to determine whether raw image data associated with the image retrieval request is stored in the cloud repository or locally in the first local repository.
US11265363B2
Systems and methods for facilitating interactions with embedded devices are provided. In one embodiment, a method can include obtaining a first set of data indicative of at least a plurality of interactions between a user device and a plurality of embedded devices associated with a building, and one or more locations of the user device associated with each respective interaction. The method can include generating a second set of data for each embedded device based, at least in part, on the first set of data. Each second set of data can be indicative of at least a number of interactions between the user device and the respective embedded device for each location. The method can include determining a particular location of the user device. The method can include identifying one or more recommended embedded devices and providing information about at least one recommended embedded device to the user device.
US11265362B1
The disclosed virtual mobile desktop platform includes a native mobile desktop client application and a remote mobile desktop customized for a specific user, wherein the user can select or unselect specific applications from a list of pre-installed applications based on user preference. The native mobile desktop client application may be accessible via the remote mobile desktop, and the native mobile desktop application can retain the state of the application when the user last logged off and resumes from the same point when the user logs in the next time.
US11265356B2
Network assistance is provided for the streaming of multi-segment data from a data source (12) to a streaming client (54) in a network. The network assistance for multi-segment data streaming may be carried out in an automated manner by the respective devices. The systems and methods include new functions that allow for more efficient handling of data segments that make up a data stream. The network assistance for multi-segment streaming may improve, for example, virtual reality (VR) streaming performance.
US11265355B2
A processing device implementing a streaming media service determines that a user has logged-in to the streaming media service, and retrieves, from a storage device, a user-specified location preference. The user-specified location preference indicates that a user has selected between receiving perishable content associated with a specified static location and perishable content associated with a current user location. a processing device included in a media delivery platform, obtains perishable content items selected in accordance with the user-specified location preference, assembles the perishable content items into an add-in block, and delivers the add-in block to the streaming media service. The streaming media service inserts the add-in block into a media stream associated with the user, and delivers the media stream to a user device.
US11265350B2
Systems and methods for cyber risk analysis and remediation using network monitored sensors are provided herein. An example system includes one or more data collecting devices deployed within a network that collect entity information and monitor network traffic of the network that is related to security information. The network includes computing systems that are subject to a cyber risk policy having breach parameters defining one or more events that are indicative of a cyber security breach. A cyber security risk assessment and management system is used to automatically detect occurrence of one or more of the events that are indicative of a cyber security breach, automatically determine the breach parameters that apply for the one or more events that occurred, and generates a remediation of cyber security parameters for the network.
US11265345B2
In some implementations, systems and methods for detecting leaked credentials in a request for a network resource are provided. A request to access a resource on a network is analyzed to determine if the request was transmitted using an unsecured protocol, and if so, determine whether the request includes authentication credentials. If the request includes authentication credentials, the authentication credentials are authenticated and in response to determining that the authentication credentials are authentic, the authentication credentials are disabled. One or more notifications may be transmitted to an owner of the disabled authentication credentials.
US11265344B2
In some implementations, a method includes receiving, for each of multiple users, user activity data describing actions taken by the user by use of a user device over a period of time, determining, for each user and based on the actions taken by the user over the period of time and user responsibility data that describe responsibilities of the user, a risk assessment representative of a security risk resulting from the actions taken by the user by use of the user device, and determining, by the data processing apparatus, for each user and based on the risk assessment determined for the user, whether to implement a user-specific remedial action directed to risk mitigation.
US11265341B1
A method of dynamically adapting a blockchain consensus criteria. The method comprises evaluating a first computing context by a consensus criteria adaptation application executing on a computer, wherein the first context comprises a first current vulnerability to cyber threats and an operational importance of a blockchain, based on evaluating the first computing context, adapting a first blockchain validity consensus criteria by the adaptation application, where the first consensus criteria identifies a first minimum number of consensus voting server computers, a first minimum percentage of approvals among voting server computers, and a first nonce calculation difficulty, applying the first consensus criteria to a first block requested to be added to the first blockchain, and determining, based on applying the first consensus criteria, that the first block is approved to be added to the first blockchain.
US11265320B2
Examples disclosed herein relate to a method comprising determining, at a first gateway, that a packet originating from a first device has hit an access control list (ACL) rule, wherein the first gateway has an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) that does not have the capability to log packets that hit ACL rules. The method may include creating, at the first gateway, a copy of the packet and including, at the first gateway, an identification of the ACL Rule and an identification of the first device into a header of the copy of the packet. The method may include transmitting, from the first gateway, the copy of the packet to a first network device via a network tunnel.
US11265307B2
Provided is a process including: receiving, with an intermediary server, a request to access web content at a web server; submitting, from the intermediary server a value by which possession of an access credential is demonstrated, wherein the value is withheld from the client web browser; receiving, by the intermediary web browser, instructions to store in web browser memory an access token; and sending, from the intermediary server, to the client web browser executing on the client computing device, instructions to store the access token in browser memory of the client web browser, thereby authenticating the client web browser without the client web browser having access to the value by which possession of the access credential is demonstrated.
US11265305B2
Managing anonymous network connections. In one aspect managing anonymous network connections by providing anonymous authentication credentials to a plurality of devices in a hierarchical network, registering a first set of devices at a first data aggregator, determining that the first set of devices at the first aggregator numbers less than a first threshold value, registering the first set of devices with a second aggregator upstream in the hierarchy from the first aggregator, causing data from the first set of devices to be received at the second aggregator.
US11265303B2
Embodiments provide a system and method for stateless session synchronization between inspectors for high availability deployments. Man in the Middle inspectors of a communication session between a client and server exchange a shared key that is used as a common seed value in a mapping function algorithm. Each inspector generates identical key-pairs using the common mapping function algorithm, and the inspectors generate the session keys from the key-pairs. Inspectors use the session keys to decrypt and either actively or passively inspect data transferred in a session between a client and server.
US11265282B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a group-based communication system that is configured to more efficiently manage resource sharing requests. In particular, in some embodiments, the group-based communication system is configured to enable admin users to use an external service, such as an external approval provisioning service, that is separate and distinct from the group-based communication system to manage group-based communication resource sharing requests. In other embodiments, the group-based communication system is configured to allow communication with external users and to trigger new user onboarding protocols through the ingestion of external user directories associated with a sponsor user.
US11265276B2
Systems and methods are provided for electronically distributing messages over communication channels. In accordance with one implementation, a system is provided that comprises at least one database for storing instructions for operating an input field and transmitting messages over a plurality of different communication channels, and at least one processing system configured to execute the instructions, to perform a method. The method may include displaying to a user, over a network, an input field for entering messages and receiving from the user, over the network and by entry into the input field, a message, an identification of one or more recipients, and a selection of at least one communication channel. The method may also include determining whether an identifier is stored in relation to each recipient for the selected communication channel and electronically sending, to each recipient with a stored identifier, the message via the selected communication channel.
US11265260B2
A process controls presentation of digital resources. Different resources or viewing components associated with viewing areas may be assigned different visual designators that affect how the digital resources are processed and presented. A user interface enables automatic generation of an array of resources that causes resources to be displayed in a particular predefined way based on their visual designators.
US11265255B1
A security system that provides for obfuscating the sending entities, receiving entities, and/or routings (e.g., host entities that are routing the communication and the path through which the communication is sent) without the need to encrypt the foregoing. The packets for a communication may include a datagram packet portion, an IP packet portion, and a routing packet portion and may be signed with a signature using a pre-shared key (e.g., a wheat signature or a chaff signature). Therefore, the actual datagram packet, IP packet, and/or routing packet may have the actual information or may have imitation information. Only the systems that have the pre-shared key are able to determine what are the wheat packets and what are the chaff packets such that the correct sending entity, receiving entity, and/or hosts routing the communication are able to determine the correct entities and/or the routing.
US11265248B2
A method, system, device, or apparatus for selecting an IP address for a message. The method, system, device, or apparatus is used when there are two or more IP addresses for a multihomed device. The method determines an IP address reachable from a destination for the message. The message is generated using the reachable IP address as the hostname of the multihomed device. The generated message is transferred to the destination.
US11265242B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving non-Internet Protocol (IP) traffic from one or more non-IP traffic sources. The method also includes terminating the non-IP traffic and re-originating the non-IP traffic as first IP traffic in accordance with one or more software-defined networking in a wide area network (SD-WAN) protocols. The method further includes communicating the first IP traffic to an SD-WAN link in accordance with one or more SD-WAN policies.
US11265241B2
A path detection method and apparatus for forwarding at least two layers of labels includes generating, by a first network device, a first request packet used for path detection, where the first request packet includes a label stack and a time to live (TTL), and an initial quantity of layers of the label stack matches an initial value of the TTL, and sending the first request packet, where the first request packet instructs a second network device to send a first response packet to the first network device when the TTL is 0 after being reduced by 1, and the first response packet reaches the first network device through an internet protocol route.
US11265240B1
In one embodiment, a method includes determining, by a first router, service level agreement (SLA) requirements for an application and generating, by the first router, first SLA characteristics for the first router. The first router is in an active mode within a network. The method also includes comparing, by the first router, the first SLA characteristics for the first router to the SLA requirements and determining, by the first router, second SLA characteristics for a second router. The second router is in a standby mode within the network. The method further includes comparing, by the first router, the second SLA characteristics for the second router to the SLA requirements and determining, by the first router, whether to lower a first hop redundancy protocol (FHRP) priority of the first router.
US11265239B1
Techniques for extended network configuration conversion and reconfiguration are described. A network controller proceeds through a set of extended network nodes in an extended network and reconfigures ports in at the various nodes from a first configuration to a second configuration while preventing network traffic looping and maintaining data and management traffic connection to the nodes during the reconfiguration.
US11265234B2
A computer-implemented system includes an electromechanical device configured to be manipulated by a patient while performing an exercise session, and a processor in communication with the electromechanical device. The processor is configured to receive data, generate a map packet, and transmit the map packet. The processor is configured to use the data to generate continuity packets, where each of the continuity packets includes a contiguous portion of the data, and transmit the continuity packets. The processor is configured to use the map packet and the continuity packets to cause an output file to be generated.
US11265233B2
A distributed cloud computing system is disclosed that includes a controller configured to deploy a first gateway in a first cloud computing network and a second gateway in a second cloud computing network and logic. The logic, upon execution by one or more processors, causes operations including receiving, from the controller, metadata pertaining to a plurality of constructs, receiving, from each of the first and second gateways, network data, deriving heat map information detailing a density of network traffic at a plurality of geographic locations, wherein the network traffic is transmitted across multiple cloud computing networks, generating a heat map visualization illustrating the density of the network traffic that includes a map of a geographic region as well as an overlay of visual indicators representing the density of the network traffic, and causing rendering of the heat map visualization on a display screen of a network device.
US11265231B2
The disclosed technology includes ranking entities in real-time to show the relative importance of those entities. The ranking is based on attributes of the entities that vary in real-time. An example of an entity is a process (e.g., an executing computer program) and the associated attributes can include the process' current CPU memory consumption. While the process runs, its CPU and memory consumption vary in real-time.
US11265228B2
An ingress node inserts into a header of a packet service level agreement information and forwards the packet. At an egress node of the network, the packet is received and the service level agreement information is obtained from the header of the packet. The egress node verifies whether there is conformance to a service level agreement based on at least one parameter associated with reception of one or more packets at the egress node and the service level agreement information.
US11265224B1
Example methods and systems for logical network visualization. One example may comprise a computer system obtaining and processing topology information identifying a set of logical network elements. To visualize the set of logical network elements, the computer system may configure logical network topology graph is configured to include a multi-level group node that is formed using (a) a parent group node and (b) a child group node. The parent group node may be configured in a folded state to visualize multiple first elements and associated with parent group node information. The child group node may be configured in a folded state to visualize multiple second elements and associated with child group node information. The computer system may interact with a user device to cause display of the parent group node and the child group node along with the respective parent group node information and child group node information.
US11265220B1
A method in which an enterprise switches its devices to various federated network slices across operators based on cost, time, quality, and/or availability parameters defined in flexible rules managed by the enterprise. The method includes obtaining, by a controller of an enterprise, one or more parameters of a device served by a network slice of a core network. The method further includes, based on the one or more parameters of the device and one or more rules, determining, by the controller, whether a triggering event associated with a slice reselection occurred and based on the triggering event and the one or more rules, selecting, by the controller, a federated network slice from among a plurality of network slices provided by a plurality of core networks. The method further includes the controller causing the device to switch from the network slice to the federated network slice.
US11265214B2
Updated radio protocol data may be propagated in a peer-to-peer (P2P) distribution scheme so that peer devices that are incompatible with a particular radio protocol may be dynamically re-configured to communicate with other devices using the particular radio protocol. A remote server(s) may push updated radio protocol data to a hub device, which thereafter disseminates the radio protocol data to other peer devices. These peer devices can forward the data to downstream peer devices, and so on, without further intervention by the remote server(s) that initiated the distribution. The transfer of radio protocol data over P2P connections may occur using a broadcasting technique where, prior to the transfer, a device in possession of the radio protocol data broadcasts an indication to nearby peer devices, which can receive the broadcast and indicate to the broadcaster whether they are ready to receive the radio protocol data.
US11265200B2
A method and apparatus for decomposition of signals with varying envelope into offset components are disclosed here, that sample the time variant envelope of a single carrier (SC) or a multi-carrier (MC) band limited signal, quantizes the sampled value using Nb quantization bits and decomposes the sample into Nb in-phase and quadrature components that are combined in pairs and modulated to generate a set of Nb offset signals. The pulse shape applied in each offset signal is selected according to the spectral mask needed for the signal and to minimize envelope fluctuations in each offset signal from the set of Nb components.
US11265196B2
This application discloses a reference signal configuration method and apparatus. Before a network device sends reference signals aperiodically, the network device sends configuration information to a terminal device, where the configuration information is used to indicate a timeslot offset of one or more reference signal resource sets. Therefore, the network device can flexibly send reference signals in different timeslots, thereby reducing a quantity of times of reference signal triggering and measurement result reporting, and improving efficiency of a communications system.
US11265192B2
In accordance with an embodiment, a device configured to detect a presence of at least one digital pattern within a signal includes J memory circuits having respectively Nj memory locations; and processing circuitry comprising an accumulator configured to successively address the memory locations of the J memory circuits in a circular manner at frequency F and during an acquisition time, and successively accumulate and store values indicative of a signal intensity in parallel in the J addressed memory locations of the J memory circuits, and a detector configured to detect the possible presence of the at least one pattern.
US11265187B2
For a multi-tenant environment, some embodiments of the invention provide a novel method for (1) embedding a specific path for a tenant's data message flow through a network in tunnel headers encapsulating the data message flow, and then (2) using the embedded path information to direct the data message flow through the network. In some embodiments, the method selects the specific path from two or more viable such paths through the network for the data message flow.
US11265184B2
A system and method for broadcast response generally employing RDS, DARC, or similar technology is provided, including a method for responding to a broadcast comprising extracting an event identifier from a broadcast signal; detecting a response by a user to the broadcast signal; polling a communications device to determine a user identifier; and communicating the event identifier and the user identifier when the user response is detected.
US11265182B2
Disclosed embodiments provide for collaborative access to a distributed data structure. Operations such as inserting, deleting, and annotating are performed by various clients participating in the collaboration. A serialization service enforcing a single order of these operations and ensures the operations and order are communicated to all of the clients participating in the collaboration. Once all clients have acknowledged particular operations, this information is also communicated to all of the clients, such that the clients may perform maintenance activities on the collaboration data structures. The result is a rolling collaboration window shared by all of the clients of the collaboration, with a bottom of the collaboration window defined by a lowest ordered operation not yet acknowledged by all clients of the collaboration, and a highest ordered operation as assigned by the serialization service.
US11265181B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media relate to a method for providing multi-point video presentations with live annotations within a communication platform. First, the system receives video feeds depicting imagery of a number of users. The system then determines a boundary about each user in the video feeds, with the boundaries each having an interior portion and an exterior portion. The system provides a media background for the exterior portions, then generates a composite video for each of the feeds. The system then determines that one or more client devices have annotation permissions, and receives one or more annotation inputs corresponding to at least one of the composite videos. Finally, the system updates at least one of the composite videos to additionally depict the annotation inputs within a third layer.
US11265173B2
This specification discloses a method and a system. The method includes: obtaining a Merkle root of one or more proposals initiated by one or more nodes associated with a blockchain; signing the Merkle root of the one or more proposals to obtain a digital signature of the one or more proposals; transmitting the digital signature of the one or more proposals to one or more nodes associated with the blockchain; receiving one or more digital signatures of the one or more proposals from one or more nodes associated with the blockchain respectively; determining that a quantity of the received one or more digital signatures is at least 2 f+1, wherein f is a maximum quantity of abnormal nodes permitted by the blockchain; and generating a proof of consensus for the one or more proposals based on the received one or more digital signatures.
US11265166B2
Systems and methods for combining input data and machine learning models that remain secret to each entity are described. This disclosure can allow groups of entities to compute predictions based on datasets that are larger and more detailed collectively than individually, without revealing their data to other parties. This is of particular use in artificial intelligence (AI) tasks in domains which deal with sensitive data, such as medical, financial, or cybersecurity.
US11265165B2
Systems and methods for initial provisioning through shared Proofs of Knowledge (PoKs) and crowdsourced identification are provided. In some embodiments, a method of sharing a PoK between a first Relying Party (RP) server and a second RP server includes receiving, by the first RP server, a request from a client device by a user for sharing the PoK. The method also includes causing, by the first RP server, the PoK to be provided to the client device and receiving, by the second RP server, a request from the client device to use the shared PoK for authentication of the user. In this way, the user may be provided additional convenience by allowing the reuse of the shared PoK. Also, depending on the number of RP servers that accept the shared PoK, the user may also be provided a degree of crowdsourced identification.
US11265162B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for implementing blockchain-based private transactions are provided. One of the methods includes transmitting, at a first blockchain node of a number (N) of blockchain nodes that are involved in a private transaction, the private transaction to each of a plurality of second blockchain nodes of the N blockchain nodes, wherein N is at least four, at least (N−F) signatures certifying the private transaction respectively from at least (N−F) blockchain nodes of the first and second blockchain nodes, wherein F is a largest integer no more than (N−1)/2; and submitting, at the first blockchain node, a hash value of the private transaction in association with the at least (N−F) signatures to one or more blockchain nodes of a public blockchain for adding into the public blockchain.
US11265158B2
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). Embodiments herein provide method and system for end-to-end security over signaling plane in a mission critical data (MCData) communication system. The proposed method includes various ways of securing MCData data payload transmitted over signaling plane using short data service (SDS). The proposed method allows usage of multiple security keys to encrypt the MCData SDS message as per the requirements. Various Keys such as, signaling plane key or media plane key or a dedicated MCData data payload signaling key can be used independently or in a combination thereof to achieve the desired security context. The proposed method allows protection of all the application level components with the signaling plane security context.
US11265154B2
A first network node (100; 200) is configured to, —compute a first shared key (245) to protect confidentiality from the first identity of the second network node and the local key material to protect confidentiality of the first network node, —compute a second shared key (246) to protect integrity from the second identity of the second network node and the local key material to protect integrity of the first network node, —encrypt a message using the first shared key, and —compute a first message authentication code over the message using the second shared key.
US11265151B2
A computing device includes an array of addressable elements. Each addressable element is a hardware element that generates a substantially consistent response when interrogated. The device includes a processor coupled to the array of addressable elements and configured to communicate using a communication network. The processor receives a public key, and processes the public key to produce at least a set of addresses. Each address in the set of addresses identifies one or more hardware elements in the array of addressable elements. The processor generates a set of responses by interrogating the one or more hardware elements in the array of addressable elements identified by the set of addresses according to a set of reading instructions, appends the responses in the set of responses to generate a private key, receives an encrypted message and decrypts the encrypted message using the private key to generate an unencrypted message.
US11265149B2
An encryption specification named “MetaEncrypt” implemented as a method and associated apparatus is disclosed for unbreakable encryption of data, code, applications, and other information that uses a symmetric key for encryption/decryption and to configure the underlying encryption algorithms being utilized to increase the difficulty of mathematically modeling the algorithms without possession of the key. Data from the key is utilized to select several encryption algorithms utilized by MetaEncrypt and configure the algorithms during the encryption process in which block sizes are varied and the encryption technique that is applied is varied for each block. Rather than utilizing a fixed key of predetermined length, the key in MetaEncrypt can be any length so both the key length and key content are unknown. MetaEncrypt's utilization of key data makes it impossible to model its encryption methodology to thereby frustrate cryptographic cracking and force would be hackers to utilize brute force methods to try to guess or otherwise determine the key.
US11265130B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station (BS), information identifying a core resource set (CORESET) for one or more shared radio frequency spectrum channels. The CORESET may be configured into a plurality of resource blocks based at least in part on a resource block granularity associated with the one or more shared radio frequency spectrum channels. The UE may communicate with the BS using the CORESET. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11265128B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless communication device may determine that a threshold is satisfied with regard to a search space set mapping, for a plurality of search space sets, for a slot of a downlink control channel, wherein the threshold relates to at least one of: a slot-based control channel element limit, or a slot-based blind decode limit; and perform a mapping of or monitor a subset of search space set occasions, of a search space set of the plurality of search space sets, in the slot in connection with determining that the threshold is satisfied. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11265119B1
A system includes a stream parser, a multiplexer, and a plurality of transmission paths. The stream parser is configured to parse an input data stream for a packet into a plurality of spatial streams for transmission via a plurality of transmission paths over a plurality of wireless channels, respectively. The multiplexer is configured to multiplex data from the stream parser onto the plurality of transmission paths for each of the plurality of spatial streams. The plurality of transmission paths is configured to generate portions of the packet based on outputs of the multiplexer and to transmit the portions of the packet via the plurality of transmission paths over the plurality of wireless channels, respectively, using different carrier frequencies corresponding to different frequency bands for each of the portions of the packet.
US11265118B2
A fully functional spectrum analyzer is integrated into an outdoor communications unit of a point-to-point communication system. The spectrum analyzer of the outdoor unit provides for remote spectral diagnostics for network planning and wideband operation and is operable to capture signals outside of the signal bandwidth. With the spectrum analyzer integrated into the outdoor unit, accessing spectral diagnostic information is conducted without having to disrupt the normal operation of the communications network.
US11265109B2
The present invention is directed to data communication systems and techniques thereof. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention provide an FEC encoder that processes an interleaved data stream and generates parity symbols that are embedded into FEC blocks. An FEC decoder determines whether to perform error correction based on the parity symbols. When performing error correction, the decoder selects a worst symbol from a segment of symbols, and the worst symbol is corrected. There are other embodiments as well.
US11265093B2
A method for compensating group delay variations in a CDMA spread spectrum receiver, comprising: receiving an RF signal; generating an ideal replica signal; filtering the RF signal by one or more filters; obtaining an ideal auto-correlation function (ACF) of the ideal replica signal; distorting the ideal ACF to generate a distorted ACF by a filtering model of the one or more filters; aligning the ideal ACF and the distorted ACF; calculating a set of correction factors based on a ratio of the ideal ACF and the distorted ACF; calculating a cross-correlation signal based on the filtered RF signal and the ideal replica signal; and obtaining a compensated correlation signal by applying the set of correction factors to the cross-correlation signal.
US11265092B2
A network connection method and a device. The method includes: determining, by a routing device, a connectivity state and link quality, where the connectivity state is used to indicate a connectivity state between the routing device and a master device, and the link quality is used to indicate link quality of the routing device; the routing device is the master device or a slave device; and the master device is directly connected to a network side, and the slave device is directly or indirectly connected to the master device; and broadcasting, by the routing device, a first message, where the first message includes the connectivity state and the link quality.
US11265091B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe apparatuses, methods and machine-readable storage medium for Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP) measurement and allocation of Downlink (DL) transmission resources. A user equipment (UE) may detect a first Synchronization Signal/Physical Broadcast Channel (SS/PBCH) block, and determine a subcarrier spacing (SCS) thereof. Mapping the first SS/PBCH block to OFDM symbols may be dependent on the SCS and a first SS/PBCH block index of the first SS/PBCH block. The UE may determine, based on the first SS/PBCH block and the SCS, a number of symbols of the slot or the slot pair for a CORESET for reception of a DL control channel associated with Remaining Minimum System Information (RMSI). The UE may decode the DL control channel in the CORESET. The DL control channel may be configured to indicate a DL data channel carrying the RMSI associated with the first SS/PBCH block.
US11265089B2
A power distributor for a communications system for controlling delivery of electrical power drawn over a plurality of electrical communications connections allocated to respective customer premises equipment, to provide electrical power to network components within a network is arranged to control collection of electrical power to be drawn from each connection in accordance with power requirements of services operated by or for its respective customer premises equipment, independent of the identities of the electrical connections used to deliver those services. In particular when electrical connections are not being used by their respective customers they may instead be used by a beam-forming system to support improved service to a customer associated with a different connection, and the additional electrical power to power the beam-former is drawn from the connection associated with the customer receiving the enhanced service.
US11265087B2
The present disclosure provides a compact-optic-connecting device for mounting on a motherboard of a computer, which includes an optic-receiving unit, an optic-launching unit, two flexible-circuit plates, a circuit board and a connecting interface. The optic-receiving unit and the optic-launching unit are connected to the bottom surface of the circuit board respectively via flexible-circuit plates. The connecting interface is connected to the bottom surface of the circuit board, and also connected to an external motherboard via the connecting interface. By virtue of such structure, the compact optic-connecting device can have a small length and size, and meanwhile to maintain a safety distance between the connecting interface and the optic-receiving unit, or the connecting interface and optic-launching unit, to prevent faulty conduction therebetween.
US11265086B2
Systems and methods for constellation shaping using low rate loss bit-level distribution matchers include receiving blocks of input bits and, for each input block of a predetermined size, assigning a respective codeword of a predetermined output block size. The number of bits of a given bit value in the codeword is dependent on a predetermined target probability distribution. A one-to-one mapping exists between each possible combination of input bits and a codeword for input blocks containing the combination. Some codewords include a number of bits having the given bit value that is different than the predetermined target probability distribution, but an average number of bits having the given bit value in the available codewords meets the predetermined target probability distribution. The disclosed methods result in more available codewords and a lower rate loss than in bit-level distribution matchers with a constant modulus, while achieving similar shaping.
US11265083B2
An apparatus for signal modulation in a point-to-multipoint optical network is configured to modulate a single-wavelength carrier wave before distribution towards optical receivers of a first type adapted for intensity detection and a second type adapted for optical field detection. The apparatus includes a first module configured to modulate the carrier wave by varying the intensity of the carrier wave to represent data intended for the first type of receivers, and by controlling the phase and/or polarization of the carrier wave during selected periods. The apparatus includes a second module configured to modulate the carrier wave by varying the phase and/or polarization of the carrier wave to represent data intended for the second type of receivers, and by varying the intensity of the carrier wave during selected periods.
US11265080B2
This application discloses a submarine cable fault determining method and apparatus for realizing detecting whether a fault occurs to a submarine cable, without depending on TTE. The submarine cable fault determining method includes: receiving, by a network management system, first detection information from a first device during a first preset time, and receiving second detection information from a second device during a second preset time, where the second detection information is used to indicate whether the second device receives a first heartbeat signal from the first device through a submarine cable, and the first detection information is used to indicate whether the first device receives a second heartbeat signal from the second device through the submarine cable; and determining, by the network management system based on the first detection information and the second detection information, whether a fault occurs to the submarine cable between the first device and the second device.
US11265077B1
Disclosed is a method for deploying tasks in a satellite network. In the method for deploying tasks in a satellite network, a utility function is determined by constructing a task processing delay model and a traffic model; a fitness degree of each individual is determined according to the utility function, and an individual with a highest fitness degree is put into a next-generation population; a probability that each of the plurality of individuals is selected is determined according to the fitness degree; a crossover operation and a mutation operation are performed on the individual according to the probability, to obtain a crossover individual and a mutation individual respectively; an available crossover individual and an available mutation individual are put into a next-generation population, to perform a repeated iteration and complete population updating; an optimal task deployment location table is output; and satellite network task deployment is completed.
US11265072B2
A method for beam alignment through location recognition in a wireless communication system and an apparatus therefor are provided. The method includes a first process of configuring a beam set including beams based on relative location information of a terminal, a second process of receiving reference signals (RSs) from the terminal by using the beams, and a third process of determining an optimal beam from among the beams included in the beam set, and the third process includes configuring a window including adjacent beams in the beam set, measuring beams within the window by using the RSs, determining a local optimal beam from among the measured beams, and re-configuring a window based on the local optimal beam.
US11265071B2
The present disclosure relates to electronic device, method and storage medium for a wireless communication system. One embodiment of the present disclosure proposes beam management based on matching condition of channel path parameters under different beams. An electronic device includes a processing circuitry configured to: estimate, based on reference signals which are transmitted from the transmitter of the wireless communication system based on at least one second beam included in coverage of a first beam, parameters for channel paths from the transmitter to the receiver corresponding to the second beam, and wherein a particular second beam of the at least one second beam is selected based on the estimated parameters for channel paths, and the estimated parameter for channel path corresponding to the particular second beam matches parameter for channel path corresponding to the first beam.
US11265069B2
The present disclosure relates to an electronic device, a method, and a storage medium for a wireless communication system. Various embodiments are described with respect to beam pair link. In one embodiment, the electronic device used at the base station side in the wireless communication system may comprise a processing circuitry configured to monitor status of an uplink signal; determine it necessary to adjust a first uplink beam pair link (BPL) based on the status of the uplink signal, wherein the first uplink BPL comprises a first transmitting beam at a terminal device side and a first receiving beam at the BS side; and perform operations in order to adjust the first uplink BPL.
US11265068B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. An example method includes performing transmission or receive beam measurements at two or more wireless antennas of a wireless device, selecting a serving beam pair based at least in part on the transmission or receive beam measurements, and presenting an indication at the wireless device corresponding to the selected serving beam pair. The method may further include detecting user obstruction of part of the selected serving beam pair. The method may also include determining that a transmission power restriction applies to a first antenna associated with the selected transmission beam based at least in part on the transmission or receive beam measurements. Other example methods may further include detecting a change in an orientation of the wireless device and performing the transmission or receive beam measurements in response to detecting the change in the orientation of the wireless device.
US11265067B2
A method is performed for beam training of a radio transceiver device comprising at least two antenna arrays. During the beam training, a first set of occurrences of a reference signal is received using all the antenna arrays and such that one respective occurrence of the reference signal is received in one single wide beam at each of all the antenna arrays. During the beam training, a second set of occurrences of the reference signal using less than all antenna arrays and such that one respective occurrence of the reference signal is received in each respective narrow at each of the less than all antenna arrays. Which of the less than all antenna arrays to receive the second set of occurrences of the reference signal is determined based on evaluation of reception of the first set of occurrences of the reference signal at each of all the antenna arrays.
US11265062B2
Sounding reference signal transmission method, terminal device, and computer-readable storage medium
This application provides sounding reference signal transmission methods and apparatuses. One method comprises: determining, by a terminal device, that a sounding reference signal (SRS) to be transmitted is an nSRSth transmission of a plurality of SRS transmissions, wherein nSRS is a non-negative integer; selecting, by a terminal device, an antenna group of Λ antenna groups to transmit the sounding reference signal (SRS) based on Λ and nSRS, such that when sending the SRS for 2Λ times, the SRS is sent through each of the Λ antenna groups at least once, wherein Λ is a positive integer greater than or equal to 3; and sending, by the terminal device during the nSRSth transmission, the SRS through antenna ports comprised in the selected antenna group.
US11265052B1
An information handling system includes a processor, a memory, and a wireless interface adapter for transceiving wireless communications via radiofrequency (RF) waves, a plurality of antennas operatively coupled to the wireless interface adapter, including a first antenna operatively coupled to a first wireless protocol subsystem, a second antenna operatively coupled to a second wireless protocol subsystem, and a shared antenna, an RF switch configured to operatively switch the shared antenna between the first wireless protocol subsystem and the second wireless protocol subsystem, and an antenna controller operatively coupled to the RF switch to receive status information of the status of the first wireless protocol subsystem to determine assignment of the shared antenna, and to switch the RF switch to operatively couple the shared antenna to the first wireless protocol subsystem when it is determined to be active.
US11265051B2
According to various embodiments, a method of controlling data communication of an electronic device, the method comprising performing the directional wireless communication together with an external electronic device capable of performing the directional wireless communication and the omni-directional wireless communication, by using the first wireless communication circuit, determining the distance between an electronic device and the external electronic device, at least partially on the basis of a signal of the external electronic device received by using the second wireless communication circuit, when the stop or degradation of the directional wireless communication is detected, and determining whether to reattempt the directional wireless communication using the first wireless communication circuit, at least partially on the basis of the determined distance or to start the omni-directional wireless communication using the second wireless communication circuit. Other embodiments are possible.
US11265050B2
A method for transmitting Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) performed by a User Equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system may include receive downlink control information (DCI) for uplink (UL) transmission scheduling; and performing codebook based PUSCH transmission based on precoding information included in the DCI.
US11265046B2
Examples disclosed herein relate to a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) radar for virtual beam steering. The MIMO radar has a plurality of transmit antennas and a receive antenna array having a plurality of radiating elements. The MIMO radar also includes a digital signal processor (DSP) configured to synthesize a virtual receive array having N×M receive subarrays from the plurality of transmit antennas and the receive antenna array, where N is the number of transmit antennas and M is the number of receiving elements. Other examples disclosed herein relate to a method of virtual beam steering.
US11265043B2
A communication circuit includes a first buffer configured to output a signal indicative of a first logic state or a second logic state, a signal in which the first logic state and the second logic state are defined being input to the first buffer, a second buffer configured to output a signal indicative of any one of the first logic state, the second logic state, and a third logic state, the signal output from the first buffer being input to the second buffer, and a monitoring circuit configured to monitor a logic state indicated by the signal output from the first buffer and cause the second buffer, in a case where the logic state does not change during a first period, to output the signal indicative of the third logic state.
US11265032B2
A method and apparatus for intermodulation product (IMP) cancellation. In one embodiment, the method comprises: acquiring copies of source signals that create IMPs in a passband of interest; creating copies of the IMPs for use as IMP cancellation signals by either multiplying the source signals together as a series of digital samples such that the multiplied signals create a near real and continuous time copy of the IMPs or creating a sum of the source signals in near real and continuous time and convolving the sum of the source signals with a mathematical model to effectively multiply the signals together to create a copy of the IMPs; adjusting one or both of phase and amplitude of the copies; and using the copies to cancel the IMPs inband of the passband of interest.
US11265029B2
Radio frequency (RF) communication systems with coexistence management are provided herein. In certain embodiments, a method of coexistence management in a mobile device includes providing an RF receive signal from a first front end system to a first transceiver, generating an RF transmit signal and an RF observation signal using a second front end system, the RF observation signal generated based on observing the RF transmit signal, generating digital observation data based on the RF observation signal using a second transceiver, downconverting the RF receive signal to generate a baseband receive signal using the first transceiver, and compensating the baseband receive signal for RF signal leakage based on the digital observation data using the first transceiver.
US11265025B2
The present invention is directed to data communication systems and methods thereof. According to various embodiments, the present invention provides a communication with a reconfigurable forward-error-correction (FEC) module. The FEC module processes data received from two or more communication lanes, and depending on the mode of operation, the FEC module can combine data from the two or more communication lanes and perform error correction on the combined data, or the FEC module can processes data from the two communications lanes separately and perform error correction independently for the each of the data communication lanes. There are other embodiments as well.
US11265024B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for processing data. In one exemplary implementation, there is provided a method of generating H output data from W data input streams produced from input data. Moreover, the method may include generating the H discrete output data components via application of the W data inputs to one or more transforming components or processes having specified mathematic operations and/or a generator matrix functionality, wherein the W data inputs are recoverable via a recovery process capable of reproducing the W data inputs from a subset (any W members) of the H output data streams. Further exemplary implementations may comprise a transformation process that includes producing an H-sized intermediary for each of the W inputs, combining the H-sized intermediaries into an H-sized result, and processing the H-sized result into the H output data structures, groups or streams.
US11265016B2
Examples relate to a decoding apparatus, a decoding device, a decoding method, a decoding computer program, and a communication device, a memory device and a storage device comprising such a decoding apparatus or decoding method. A decoding apparatus for performing iterative decoding on a codeword comprises processing circuitry comprising a plurality of processing units, and control circuitry configured to control the iterative decoding of the codeword. The iterative decoding is based on a parity-check matrix. The matrix is sub-divided into two or more partitions. The control circuitry is configured to operate in a first mode of operation to process a codeword having a first length, and to operate in a second mode of operation to process a codeword having a second length. The control circuitry is configured to multiplex the utilization of the plurality of processing units across the two or more partitions of the matrix at least in the second mode of operation.
US11265012B1
A method of transmitting a message includes, for each data block, generating a root matrix using a generator, generating a quasi-cyclic matrix H using the root matrix, encoding the block using H to create a codeword, and transmitting the codeword. The root matrix includes three submatrices: an identity matrix in an upper-left-hand portion of the root matrix, an identity matrix in a lower-left-hand portion of the root matrix, and a circulant matrix in a right-hand portion of the root matrix. The circulant matrix equals the sum of an identity matrix and an identity matrix with rows shifted once to the right. Generating H includes expanding the root matrix by replacing 0 elements in the root matrix by a square matrix of 0 elements and replacing 1 elements in the root matrix by a shifted diagonal matrix. Non-zero elements of the diagonal matrix are selected from GF(q) based on the generator.
US11265011B2
Embodiments relate to the emulation of the effect of Forward Error Correction (FEC) codes, e.g., GF10 Reed Solomon (RS) FEC codes, on the bit error ratio (BER) of received Pseudo-Random Binary Sequences (PRBS) patterns. In particular, embodiments group errors into RS-FEC symbols and codewords in order to determine if the errors are correctable. By emulating the error correction capabilities of FEC codes in order to determine which errors are correctable by the code, embodiments afford a more accurate representation of the post-FEC BER of RS FEC codes from links carrying PRBS patterns. This FEC code emulation provides error correction statistics, for stand-alone use or for error correction in connection with Bit Error Rate Testers (BERTs).
US11265006B2
In some examples, an integrated circuit device includes a sampling switch configured to sample an input signal. The integrated circuit device also includes a first evaluation unit configured to receive the sampled input signal from the sampling switch and evaluate the sampled input signal. The integrated circuit device further includes a second evaluation unit configured to receive the sampled input signal from the sampling switch and evaluate the sampled input signal. The sampling switch is configured to deliver the sampled input signal to the first evaluation unit and deliver the sampled input signal to the second evaluation unit.
US11265002B2
A method includes converting, by n analog to digital converter circuits, n analog signals into n first digital signals having a first data rate frequency; converting, by n digital decimation filtering circuits, the n first digital signals into n second digital signals having a second data rate frequency; and converting, by n digital bandpass filter (BPF) circuits, the n second digital signals into a plurality of outbound digital signals having a third data rate frequency. The coefficients for the taps of a digital BPF circuit is set to produce a bandpass region approximately centered at the oscillation frequency of the analog signal and having a bandwidth tuned for filtering a pure tone component of the analog signal. The first data rate frequency is a first integer multiple of the third data rate frequency. The second data rate frequency is a second integer multiple of the third data rate frequency.
US11264994B1
A delay circuit includes a coarse delay circuit, a header circuit, and a phase mixing circuit. The coarse delay circuit is configured to delay a reference clock signal to generate a first clock signal and a second clock signal and to change each phase of the first clock signal and the second clock signal by double a unit phase. The header circuit is configured to receive the first clock signal and the second clock signal and to generate a first phase clock signal and a second phase clock signal, between which a phase difference corresponds to half of the unit phase. The phase mixing circuit is configured to mix phases of the first phase clock signal and the second phase clock signal to generate an output clock signal.
US11264989B1
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes first, second, third, and fourth circuits. A first voltage is applied to the first circuit. A second voltage is applied to each of the second, third and fourth circuits. The third circuit is configured to generate a first control signal and a second control signal based on a signal generated by the first circuit and a signal generated by the second circuit. The fourth circuit is configured to output an output signal based on the first control signal and the second control signal. The output signal is brought to a high impedance state when at least one of the first voltage or the second voltage is not applied.
US11264987B2
Methods and apparatus for detecting possible living body contact at an electrical contact surface is disclosed, comprising sending a non-hazardous probing signal to the contact surface, detecting an electrical response from the contact surface in response to the electrical probing signal, and determining whether a captured responsive signal has characteristics of an expected responsive pulse, and to output a positive output signal indicative of possible living body to mitigate risks of electrical shock.
US11264982B2
A high voltage driving circuit for driving a load receives a low voltage input signal and generates a high voltage output signal. A short circuit protection circuit including a first electronic switch operated by the low voltage input signal and a second electronic switch operated by a low voltage signal obtained by a voltage division of the output high voltage signal. The first electronic switch causing a first pull-up current to be sent to a capacitive element whose voltage controls an input of a threshold comparator. A second electronic switch causes a second pull-down current to be drawn from the capacitive element whose voltage controls the input of the threshold comparator. A short circuit detection signal is generated at an output of said threshold comparator, indicating a short circuit and capable of inhibiting operation of the driving circuit.
US11264979B1
A circuit includes a period calculator and a pulse width calculator. The period calculator is configured for receiving a first predetermined digital code and a second predetermined digital code, and for calculating a first calculated period value according to the first predetermined digital code, and calculating a second calculated period value according to the second predetermined digital code. The first predetermined digital code has a first predetermined period value, and the second predetermined digital code has a second predetermined period value. The pulse width calculator is configured for receiving a predetermined pulse width, and calculating a first pulse width code corresponding to the predetermined pulse width according to the first predetermined period value, the second predetermined period value, the first calculated period value, the second calculated period value and the predetermined pulse width.
US11264968B2
A high-frequency device includes: a circuit substrate including dielectric layers that are stacked, wiring patterns located on at least one of the dielectric layers, and a passive element formed of at least one of the wiring patterns, the circuit substrate having a first surface that is a surface of an outermost dielectric layer in a stacking direction of the dielectric layers; a terminal for connecting the high-frequency device to an external circuit, the terminal being located on the first surface and electrically connected to the passive element through a first path in the circuit substrate; and an acoustic wave element located on the first surface and electrically connected to the passive element through a second path in the circuit substrate.
US11264967B2
A multi-piece wiring substrate includes a matrix substrate including first and second insulating layers, and interconnection substrate regions arranged in a matrix. The matrix substrate includes dividing grooves opposing each other and disposed along boundaries between the interconnection substrate regions, and through-holes penetrating the matrix substrate in a thickness direction at positions where the dividing grooves are disposed. The inner surface conductor gradually decreases in thickness from a thick portion in a middle of the inner surface conductor, to thin portions disposed on a side of a boundary between the first and second insulating layers and on a first main surface side, and includes inclination portions each of which gradually increases in thickness from a boundary between corresponding one of the dividing grooves and the inner surface conductor to an inner surface of the inner surface conductor, in vertical sectional view.
US11264960B2
A current source circuit can include a first amplifier circuit and a second amplifier circuit. Each of the first and second amplifier circuits can be configured to generate respective amplifier output voltages based on a corresponding input voltage and respective feedback voltage. The current source circuit can further include a cross-coupling circuit that can include a first set of resistors and a second set of resistors. The first set of resistors can be configured to establish a first cross-coupling voltage based on the first amplifier output voltage and the second set of resistors can be configured to establish a second cross-coupling voltage based on the second amplifier output voltage. The first and second amplifier circuits can be configured to maintain the first and second cross-coupling voltage at a given voltage amplitude to provide a constant current at an output node of the current source circuit.
US11264959B2
A precharge circuit comprises a gain amplifier, a comparator, a reservoir capacitor, a switch, a current source, and a switching network. The gain amplifier has a gain G1 and receives an input voltage Vrefp. The gain amplifier outputs an amplified voltage G1Vrefp to the comparator, which compares G1Vrefp to a voltage across the reservoir capacitor. The comparator outputs a control signal for the switch based on the comparison. The switch couples the current source to the reservoir capacitor. The current from the current source charges the reservoir capacitor. The switching network couples the reservoir capacitor to an output of the precharge circuit during a first operating mode and provides the input voltage Vrefp to the output during a second operating mode.
US11264954B2
Thermal temperature sensors for power amplifiers are provided herein. In certain implementations, a semiconductor die includes a compound semiconductor substrate, and a power amplifier including a plurality of field-effect transistors (FETs) configured to amplify a radio frequency (RF) signal. The plurality of FETs are arranged on the compound semiconductor substrate as a transistor array. The semiconductor die further includes a semiconductor resistor configured to generate a signal indicative of a temperature of the transistor array. The semiconductor resistor is located adjacent to one end of the transistor array.
US11264953B2
Bias arrangements for amplifiers are disclosed. An example bias arrangement for an amplifier includes a bias circuit, configured to produce a bias signal for the amplifier; a linearization circuit, configured to improve linearity of the amplifier by modifying the bias signal produced by the bias circuit to produce a modified bias signal to be provided to the amplifier; and a coupling circuit, configured to couple the bias circuit and the linearization circuit. Providing separate bias and linearization circuits coupled to one another by a coupling circuit allows separating a linearization operation from a biasing loop to overcome some drawbacks of prior art bias arrangements that utilize a single biasing loop.
US11264950B2
A vibration element includes: a quartz crystal substrate having a first vibration part and a second vibration part; a pair of first excitation electrodes formed at two main surfaces of the quartz crystal substrate, at the first vibration part; and a pair of second excitation electrodes formed in such a way as to sandwich the second vibration part in a direction of thickness of the quartz crystal substrate, at the second vibration part. At least one second excitation electrode of the pair of second excitation electrodes is formed at an inclined surface inclined to at least one of the two main surfaces.
US11264945B2
Systems for generating solar power are provided. One such system includes a solar radiation collector and one or more side-emitting fiber-optic cables, coupled to the solar radiation collector. The system further includes one or more photovoltaic cell enclosures, including an outer housing and one or more photovoltaic cells, wherein the one or more side-emitting fiber-optic cables is positioned within the outer housing and configured to emit, to the one or more photovoltaic cells, solar radiation collected from the solar radiation collector.
US11264944B1
Solar tracker systems include a torque tube, a solar panel attached to the torque tube, and a damper assembly. The damper assembly includes an outer shell, a first chamber wall and a second chamber wall within the outer shell at least partially defining a chamber, and a piston to direct fluid through the chamber. A valve is within the chamber that includes a first axial end, a second axial end, and a seal positioned on the first axial end. The damper assembly further includes a biasing assembly that biases the valve into a first position within the chamber in which the seal is spaced from the first chamber wall. The valve is moveable within the chamber from the first position to a second position in which the seal contacts and seals against the first chamber wall to prevent the flow of fluid through the chamber.
US11264927B2
An electric vehicle propulsion control device includes a power converter that applies an alternating-current voltage to an induction machine and a controller that controls the power converter based on an external operation command. The controller includes a first calculation unit. The first calculation unit calculates, from current information (id and iq) detected at the induction machine and current command values (id*1 and iq*1) that are based on the operation command, a d-axis voltage command (Vd*1) and a q-axis voltage command (Vq*1) for the power converter, and a primary magnetic flux φds and a secondary magnetic flux φdr of the induction machine. The first calculation unit also adds to or subtracts from a term including the q-axis voltage command (Vq*1) an interference term stemming from the d-axis voltage command (Vd*1) in calculating a first speed ω1 that is a free-run speed of the induction machine.
US11264923B2
Various implementations of the invention correspond to an improved vortex flux generator. In some implementations of the invention, the improved vortex flux generator includes a magnetic circuit configured to produce a magnetic field; a quench controller configured to provide a variable current; a vortex material configured to form and subsequently dissipate a vortex in response to the variable current, wherein upon formation of the vortex, a magnetic field density surrounding the vortex is urged to decrease, and wherein upon subsequent dissipation of the vortex, the urging to decrease ceases and the magnetic field density increases prior to a reformation of the vortex, and wherein the decrease of the magnetic field density and the increase of the magnetic field density correspond to a modulation of the magnetic field; an inductor disposed in a vicinity of the vortex such that the modulation of the magnetic field induces an electrical current in the inductor; and a dissipation superconductor electrically disposed in parallel with the vortex material and configured to carry, without quenching, an entirety of the variable current during dissipation of the vortex in the vortex material.
US11264916B2
A method that operates a modular multilevel converter (MMC), includes controlling a plurality of submodules of an arm of the MMC for a plurality of subsequent periods. Each of the submodules has a capacitor. The controlling includes, for each of the subsequent periods: sampling a value of a reference voltage; determining an integer number n of submodules of the plurality of submodules required to approximate the sampled value; for each submodule of a subset of the n submodules of the plurality of submodules, determining a temperature characterizing the respective submodule; inserting all submodules of the subset of the n submodules except for one remaining submodule; determining, depending on the determined temperatures, a duty ratio; and inserting the one remaining submodule for a duration given by the duty ratio. A minimum temperature of the determined temperatures is identified and the duty ratio is determined depending on the minimum temperature.
US11264908B1
A multi-phase switched-mode power supply includes first and second interleaved phase circuits coupled between input and output terminals. The first phase circuit includes a first inductor coupled with a first switch, and the second phase circuit includes a second inductor coupled with a second switch. A control circuit is configured to output first and second PWM signals to the first and second switches. An on time of the second PWM signal is equal to an on time of the first PWM signal plus a fixed offset time period. The control circuit is configured to determine a period between rising edges of the first PWM signal in order to determine an off trigger PWM signal, and change the second PWM signal to a logical low value when a falling edge of the off trigger PWM signal occurs while the second PWM signal has a logical high value.
US11264901B2
There is provided an electric-power conversion system controller in which even when the temperatures of a switching device and a diode included in the driving circuit for a converter become high, the performances of the devices are prevented from being deteriorated and the lifetimes thereof are prevented from being shortened. In the case where even when determining that direct-coupling control is to be performed, a positive-polarity-side device temperature is higher than a determination temperature, the electric-power conversion system controller performs voltage-boosting control in which the positive-polarity-side switching device and the negative-polarity-side switching device are on/off-controlled in an on/off period; in the case where the positive-polarity-side device temperature is the same as or lower than the determination temperature, the electric-power conversion system controller performs direct-coupling control in which the positive-polarity-side switching device is turned on and the negative-polarity-side switching device is turned off.
US11264900B2
The present disclosure is directed to a pulse frequency modulation (PFM) control method for a boost converter and apparatus for carrying out the method. A boost converter includes an inductor and a transistor coupled thereto. A control circuit is arranged to control the transistor to cause current pulsed to be sourced through the inductor. When operating in a PFM mode, the control circuit may control the timing of pulses such that, at the beginning of a specified time period, current pulses may be sourced with no spacing between successive pulses. After a desired number of pulses have been sourced, no pulses are sourced for the remainder of the specified time period. Nevertheless, the number of pulses sourced over the time period corresponds to a desired average frequency of pulses.
US11264889B2
There is provided an electric-power conversion apparatus that can protect semiconductor switching devices in accordance with the ambient temperature. The electric-power conversion apparatus includes a comparator that generates an output based on a comparison between the output of a sensor and a threshold value, a reference voltage circuit that produces the threshold value, and a control circuit that is configured in such a way as to be able to stop operation of a main circuit, based on the output of the comparator; the reference voltage circuit is configured in such a way as to change the threshold value in accordance with an ambient temperature under which semiconductor switching devices are laid.
US11264885B2
Various embodiments include a rotor for an electric machine comprising: an electric coil arrangement; and a winding carrier mechanically carrying the coil arrangement and at least partially enclosing the coil arrangement on a radially outer side of the coil arrangement. The rotor includes an inner cavity for circulating a fluid coolant such that the coil arrangement comes into contact with the liquid coolant on its radially inner side as the rotor rotates.
US11264882B2
The present application discloses a vibrating motor, which includes a housing having a receiving cavity, a stator received in the receiving cavity, a vibrator received in the receiving cavity, and a flexible assembly received in the receiving cavity. The flexible assembly is configured for elastically supporting the vibrator. The housing includes a top wall, a bottom wall facing the top wall, and a side wall connecting the top wall and the bottom wall. The stator includes an iron core, a coil sleeved on the iron core, and pole shoes positioned at two ends of the iron core. Each the pole shoe has a surface close to the iron core recessed to form an avoiding portion, and the iron core is inserted in the avoiding portion.
US11264873B2
A process for assembly of a brushless air core motor-generator includes assembling a rotor formed from two spaced apart rotor portions having magnetic poles that drive magnetic flux circumferentially through the rotor portions and back and forth across an armature airgap between the rotor portions. An air core armature is made by coating a nonmagnetic armature form with a tacky adhesive layer, and winding armature windings in a winding pattern onto the form with a winding head, using wire comprised of bundled multiple individually insulated conductor strands that are electrically connected in parallel but are electrically insulated from each other along their lengths where located inside the magnetic flux in the armature airgap. The armature windings are adhered to the nonmagnetic form simultaneously as the winding head traverses the winding pattern while applying pressure to the wire against the tacky adhesive, so tack of the tacky adhesive layer holds the wire to the armature form during the winding process, in the winding pattern later required for magnetic torque production. The air core armature is inserted into the armature airgap and mounted to a stator of the motor-generator for production of magnetically induced torque between the rotor and the stator.
US11264866B2
A pump arrangement includes an axial-flow machine and a drive to convey fluid mounted in a housing. The axial-flow machine is formed by at least one first rotor having permanent magnets, a shaft connected to the first rotor and a stator arrangement with stator teeth distributed concentrically around the shaft axis circumferentially and axially separated from the first rotor by an air gap. The stator teeth have axially-opposite end portions and a tooth core therebetween wound with at least one coil winding. The second end portion, turned away from the first rotor, of each stator tooth forms a tooth root joined to a back plate. The first rotor is an eccentric disk and on the side away from the stator arrangement has an eccentric cam, radially spaced from the shaft axis, and rotatably and torque-transmittingly connected to the drive. An axial-flow machine and a compressor includes the pump arrangement.
US11264862B2
The present invention relates to a terminal device for a drive motor of a vehicle. The terminal device includes: a core bobbin assembly having a core mounted in a circumferential direction, the core having a coil wound therearound; a support ring for supporting an outer part of the core bobbin assembly; and a terminal assembly for being fitted with the support ring. The terminal for constituting the terminal assembly is provided with a resin injection hole formed vertically along an inner circumference thereof, and the resin injection hole are injected with a synthetic resin for holding the terminal assembly and the core bobbin assembly together.
US11264857B2
A stator for an electric motor, including a stator ring with slots arranged on the inner or the outer circumference, wherein each slot accommodates a plurality of conductors extending along the slot and having a rectangular cross-section, each of which is covered by an insulation layer, wherein to form a channel through which a coolant can flow, the insulation layer of at least one of the conductors has at least one recess extending along the conductor.
US11264856B2
An electric machine includes a stator core defining circumferentially arranged slots alternating between odd and even slots. Each slot has radial pin positions arranged in adjacent pairs to define radial layers. A hairpin winding includes a first path of interconnected hairpins that is disposed in the stator core such that, for each of the radial layers, the first path is disposed in the odd slots and the even slots a same number of times.
US11264855B2
A coil substrate includes a flexible substrate, and a coil including a wiring and formed on the flexible substrate. The flexible substrate has a cut penetrating through the flexible substrate such that the cut is formed to extend along a portion of the coil.
US11264850B2
A rotor assembly for an electric machine includes a rotor core that is fabricated from a plurality of laminations stacked along a rotational axis of the electric machine. The rotor core has a plurality of arcuately arranged, axially extending magnet-receiving slots. The rotor core includes a plurality of magnets received in respective ones of the magnet-receiving slots. Each of the laminations includes opposed deflectable magnet-retaining prongs that extend into a corresponding one of the magnet-receiving slots. The magnet-retaining prongs are deflected by and engage the magnets to exert a reactive force against the magnets and hold them in place. Each of the laminations also includes respective support posts axially adjacent the magnet-retaining prongs. The support posts extend alongside and thereby limit the deflection of the magnet-retaining prongs when engaged with the corresponding one of the magnets.
US11264846B2
A stator for an electric machine having a plurality of radially extending teeth, supported by an outer annular yoke radial to the teeth, at least part of the teeth supporting a coil and the outer annular yoke having flutes of partially cylindrical shape opening towards the teeth, at least part of the teeth each having, at their end, on the side of the outer annular yoke, a protuberance of partially cylindrical shape, the protuberance being held in the flute by contact points so that at least one part of the teeth performs a relative movement having a degree of rotational and/or translational freedom relative to the annular yoke.
US11264844B2
A position alignment method performed by a ground assembly for wireless power transfer includes measuring, through at least one low frequency (“LF”) receiver of the ground assembly, a first magnetic flux density for a magnetic field emitted from at least one LF transmitter of a vehicle assembly; measuring, through the at least one LF receiver, a second magnetic flux density for a magnetic field emitted from the at least one LF transmitter; configuring a received signal measurement based on a comparison result of the first magnetic flux density and the second magnetic flux density; and providing the configured received signal measurement to a vehicle.
US11264842B2
Foreign object detection for wireless power transmitters and related systems, methods, and devices are disclosed. A controller for a wireless power transmitter includes a processing core and an analog to digital converter configured to sample at least one of a coil voltage potential and a coil current of a transmit coil. The processing core is configured to determine an expected reference Q-factor value responsive to the at least one of the sampled coil voltage potential and the sampled coil current, and compare the expected reference Q-factor value to a reference Q-factor value received from a wireless power receiver. The processing core is further configured to determine that a foreign object is detected proximate to the transmit coil responsive to a comparison of the expected Q-factor value to the reference Q-factor value received from the wireless power receiver.
US11264831B2
An LED luminaire emergency driver comprises a rechargeable battery, a charger circuit, an LED driving circuit, and a charging and discharging control circuit. The LED luminaire emergency driver is intended to automatically supply a first supplied voltage to drive LED arrays in an event of a normal power failure. The LED driving circuit is configured to convert a terminal voltage from the rechargeable battery into the first supplied voltage when a line voltage from AC mains is unavailable. The charging and discharging control circuit comprises a relay switch and a transistor circuit assembly configured to sense a charging voltage, to control switching between normal power and an emergency power to operate the LED arrays, and to meet regulatory requirements without operational ambiguity and safety issues.
US11264825B1
A vehicle charger includes two charge connectors configured to couple with DC charge ports of two vehicles each having a battery, a buck boost converter connected between the two charge connectors configured to convert a first DC voltage to a second DC voltage, and a controller. The controller is configured to wirelessly connect to a mobile device to obtain a charging instruction identifying a donor vehicle and a beneficiary vehicle among the two vehicles, and responsive to the two charger connectors being coupled with the DC charge ports of the donor vehicle and the beneficiary vehicle, output a request for charging permission to a digital device associated with at least one of the vehicles. The controller is further configured to, responsive to receiving the charging permission, start a charging session by transferring electric charge from the donor vehicle to the beneficiary vehicle via the buck boost converter.
US11264816B2
A mobile device includes: a drive circuit driven based on power output from a battery; a first coupling portion configured to electrically couple a first battery being an electrolyte battery having a liquid electrolyte as the battery to the drive circuit; and a second coupling portion configured to electrically couple a second battery being an all-solid battery having a solid electrolyte as the battery to the drive circuit.
US11264812B2
Circuit module for coupling a plurality of battery cell units. The circuit module includes a first set of terminals having a positive terminal and a negative terminal for coupling to a first battery cell unit, and a second set of terminals having a positive terminal and a negative terminal for coupling to a second battery cell unit. The positive terminal of the first set of terminals is coupled to the negative terminal of the second set of terminals either directly or via one or more passive components, and the negative terminal of the first set of terminals and the positive terminal of the second set of terminals each is coupled to a switching assembly. The switching assembly is operatively configured to selectively connect or bypass each one of the battery cell units. The invention is also directed to a battery system including the circuit module and a plurality of battery cell units.
US11264811B2
A method is described in which electronic circuitry of a mobile device is powered by a plurality of battery cells that are selectably connectable in series and in parallel. The energy utilization of the circuitry is measured during operation. The power efficiency for series and parallel configurations of the battery cells is determined based on the measured energy utilization. The battery cells are configured in series or in parallel based on which of the series and parallel configurations is determined to provide a higher efficiency of energy utilization during operation.
US11264806B2
Operation voltage control circuit device for solar cells connected in series or other power supplies
An operation voltage control circuit device includes a column of selective electrical conduction elements connected in series, a column of capacitors connected in parallel to the selective electrical conduction elements, inverted voltage generation units alternately inserted between the selective electrical conduction elements and the capacitors, and electrode connection terminals connected in parallel to the capacitors between a pair of output terminals and connected to power supply cells connected in series to each other. The column of the selective electrical conduction elements are alternately grouped and are controlled to be alternately switched to an electrical conduction state or a cutoff state. The operation voltage control circuit device further includes auxiliary capacitors connected in parallel to the selective electrical conduction elements excluding both ends of the selective electrical conduction element column, and auxiliary inverted voltage generation units alternately inserted between the selective electrical conduction elements and the auxiliary capacitors.
US11264805B2
A method for dispatching a power system based on optimal load transfer ratio and optimal grid connection ratio of wind power and photovoltaic power includes: acquiring load data; drawing a load curve; defining a peak load period, a flat load period and a low load period, and calculating average loads of the peak load period, the flat load period and the low load period before a load transfer; determining value ranges of a peak-low load transfer ratio, a peak-flat load transfer ratio and a flat-low load transfer ratio; establishing an objective function considering generation cost of thermal power unit, wind power purchase cost, PV power purchase cost and compensation cost for consumer load transfer; introducing an immune algorithm to calculate grid connection ratio of wind power, grid connection ratio of PV power, peak-low load transfer ratio, peak-flat load transfer ratio and flat-low load ratio corresponding to a minimum operating cost.
US11264803B1
Current imbalance may be detected and components reactively moved to correct the current imbalance. The components, such as rectifiers, machines, etc., may be moved from the most loaded phase to the least loaded phase. The imbalance may be detected at one or more power distribution units. Rebalancing may be performed using a model which preserves the number of components per rack, while limiting per-rack phase imbalance and minimizing imbalance among phases. Once the rebalancing has been computed, instructions for moving components according to the rebalancing may be generated.
US11264799B2
Systems and methods manage electrical loads in a grid by applying Robust principal component analysis (R-PCA) to decompose annual load profiles into low-rank components and sparse components; extracting one or more predetermined features; constructing a similarity graph; selecting submodular cluster centers through the constructed similarity graph; determining a cluster assignment based on selected centers; and applying the clustering assignment for load analysis.
US11264797B2
Disclosed in the present invention is a novel overvoltage protective device for lightning protection, comprising a first varistor, a second varistor, a PTC Thermistor, and lead-out terminals. The first varistor and the PTC Thermistor are connected in parallel, and then further connected in series with the second varistor to form a single port combined circuit. The surge-withstand capability of the first varistor is higher than the surge-withstand capability of the second varistor. At least one of the two lead-out terminals of the single port combined circuit is a thermally-conductive end with low thermal resistance. The second varistor is thermally coupled to the PTC Thermistor. The thermally-conductive end with low thermal resistance is thermally coupled to one or both of the second varistor and the PTC Thermistor.
US11264791B2
A protective wiring device disposed in an electrical distribution system, the device comprising: a plurality of line terminals comprising a line-side phase terminal and a line-side neutral terminal; a plurality of load terminals comprising a load-side phase terminal and a load-side neutral terminal; a line conductor electrically coupling the line-side phase terminal to the load-side phase terminal; a neutral conductor electrically coupling the line-side neutral terminal to the load-side neutral terminal; a controller configured to transmit wirelessly data derived from signals present on at least one of the line conductor or the neutral conductor and to receive wirelessly receive at least one command.
US11264790B2
Systems, methods, techniques and apparatuses of power switches are disclosed. One embodiment is a power switch comprising a first reverse blocking integrated gate-commutated thyristor (RB-IGCT); a second RB-IGCT coupled in an antiparallel configuration with the first RB-IGCT; a transient voltage suppressor coupled in parallel with the first RB-IGCT and the second RB-IGCT; and a controller. The controller is structured to determine a direction of a current flowing through the power switch, determine a magnitude of the current flowing through the power switch exceeds a threshold, and turn off the one of the first RB-IGCT and the second RB-IGCT receiving a current flowing in a reverse direction in response to determining the magnitude of the current flowing through the power switch exceeds the threshold.
US11264786B2
An apparatus used in securing together a bundle of conductors has a support structure with an edge surface having a plurality of notches provided in the edge surface. Each notch of the plurality of notches has an open space dimensioned for receiving a bundle of conductors in the open space. A plurality of clamps are provided that are attachable to the edge surface with each clamp extending over a notch of the plurality of notches and over a bundle of conductors positioned in the open space of the notch. The clamps attached to the edge surface of the support structure over the bundle of conductors positioned in the notch in the edge surface secures the bundle of conductors in the open space of the notch.
US11264783B2
A headlock cable installation system includes a headlock assembly, an extension rod, and a flexible headlock cable. The headlock cable installation system is used for installing a pre-connectorized cable assembly. The headlock assembly defines a cavity configured to receive a connectorized end of the pre-connectorized cable assembly. The flexible headlock cable has opposite first and second ends. The first end of the headlock cable is coupled to the headlock assembly, whereas the opposite second end of the headlock cable is adjustably coupled to the extension rod. Adjustment of the second end varies a position of the headlock assembly relative to the extension rod.
US11264772B2
There is provided a photoacoustic measurement apparatus including a laser light source unit that has a flash lamp for emitting excitation light and a laser rod for emitting laser light in response to incidence of the excitation light, an excitation light source power supply unit that has a capacitor bank for supplying a voltage to the flash lamp, an IGBT for controlling an output of the voltage charged in the capacitor bank to the flash lamp, a discharge control circuit for generating a driving pulse for driving the IGBT, and a pulse width limiting circuit for limiting a pulse width of the driving pulse output from the discharge control circuit, the pulse width limiting circuit being formed of a passive element, and a photoacoustic wave detection unit that detects photoacoustic waves generated inside a subject by emission of light emitted from the laser light source unit to the subject.
US11264771B1
An optical path cover is located on an optical path through which beam light travels. The optical path cover includes a cylindrical portion through which the beam light is capable of passing. A plurality of protruding portions are formed on inner walls of the cylindrical portion, the inner walls facing toward a side of an optical axis of the beam light. The protruding portions, each of which has a convex shape in cross-section taken perpendicularly to the optical axis, are arranged next to each other with the convex shape facing toward the side of the optical axis. Each of the protruding portions has an elongated shape extending along the optical axis.
US11264766B2
An electrical connector includes: a plastic housing provided with a receiving cavity extending in a front-rear direction therein; a metal stopping member provided in the housing, including at least one fixing portion embedded in the housing and a body exposed to the cavity, the body is provided with a through hole; a terminal base including a base portion and a tongue extending forwardly from the base portion, the terminal base is mounted in the cavity, the body of the metal stopping member blocks in front of the base portion, the tongue passes through the through hole of the metal stopping member and extends forwardly; and a plurality of conductive terminals fixed to the terminal base, each terminal includes a contact portion which is exposed to the tongue and a soldering portion which rearwardly extends out of the terminal base. The connector has a robust structure and facilitates to reduce weight.
US11264764B2
The present disclosure relates to a telecommunications jack including a housing having a port for receiving a plug. The jack also includes a plurality of contact springs adapted to make electrical contact with the plug when the plug is inserted into the port of the housing, and a plurality of wire termination contacts for terminating wires to the jack. The jack further includes a circuit board that electrically connects the contact springs to the wire termination contacts. The circuit board includes a multi-zone crosstalk compensation arrangement for reducing crosstalk at the jack.
US11264760B2
A first housing 10 includes a resiliently deformable lock arm 30. The lock arm 30 has a lock surface 34 to be arranged to contact a front surface of a panel 90 with the first housing 10 arranged in a mounting hole 91 of the panel 90. A second housing 40 includes a space portion 53 into which an arm plate 72 of a lever 70 is arranged, leg portions 57 rising from the side of an outer wall 52 of the space portion 53 while facing each other, and a bridge portion 58 extending between the leg portions 57 facing each other. The bridge portion 58 includes a releasing portion 65 capable of releasing a state where the lock surface 34 is in contact with the front surface of the panel 90.
US11264758B2
A holder bracket for extension cord receptacle head having a base plate and one or more clips, hooks, claws, or latches for receiving and securing to a surface a receptacle head of an electrical extension cord. The clips, hooks, claws, or latches provide flexibility which allow for easy intentional insertion and removal of the receptacle head of the electrical extension cord, sufficient retention force to allow single-handed plugging and unplugging of electrical plugs into and out of the receptacle head, and a forceful release feature to prevent or reduce trip hazards that may be posed by the electrical extension cord.
US11264752B1
An electrical connector assembly includes an elongate planar terminal extending along a first longitudinal axis having a connection end configured to interconnect the terminal to a corresponding elongate planar mating terminal extending along a second axis and an attachment end configured to attach the terminal to an electrical conductor. The electrical connector assembly also includes a contact spring configured to exert a normal force between the terminal and the mating terminal when the mating terminal is arranged between the contact spring and the connection end such that second axis is parallel to the first axis or when the mating terminal is arranged between the contact spring and the connection end such that the second axis is perpendicular to the first axis.
US11264751B2
A male terminal 40 to be accommodated into a cavity 12 of a housing 11 includes a plate-like tab 49 formed in a front end part, and a box portion 41 in the form of a rectangular tube connected to a rear part of the tab 49 and open rearward. A first projection 42 projecting in a thickness direction of the tab 49 is formed on one plate surface of the tab 49, and press-fit to an inner wall of the cavity 12 of the housing 11 from behind.
US11264747B2
A connector has a housing configured to mate with a second housing, a pair of slide members movably mounted on the housing, and a lever pivotably attached to the housing and slidably coupled to the slide members. Each slide member has a cam groove in a side surface which provides an angled lead-in surface into the cam groove and cam surfaces engageable with a cam follower post of the second housing. A blocking shoulder partially blocking an opening of the cam groove to prevent entry of the cam follower post unless the cam follower post is in a correct position. When the cam follower post engages the angled lead-in surface, this provides a visual and tactile indication to a user that the connector is ready to be mated with the second housing.
US11264742B2
The display device includes: a display panel; a first circuit board having a first portion connected to one portion of the display panel and comprising a connector; and a second circuit board electrically connected to the first circuit board through the connector, wherein the first portion includes a base film, a dummy pad disposed on the base film, and a first solder mask partially covering the dummy pad and exposing a portion of the dummy pad, the dummy pad includes a covered region covered by the first solder mask and an exposed region exposed by the first solder mask, and a solder ball, The exposed region of the dummy pad is connected to the connector through a solder ball.
US11264741B2
A press-fit terminal includes a press-fit portion to be inserted into a through hole of a circuit board. The press-fit portion includes a plurality of protruding portions extending outward from a cross-sectional center of the press-fit portion, and a distance between an outer edge of each of the protruding portions and the cross-sectional center is continuously decreased toward the distal end of the press-fit portion.
US11264734B2
According to various embodiments, an electronic device may include: a housing including a side member including a conductive member and a non-conductive member coupled with the conductive member; and at least one antenna structure disposed in an internal space of the housing and including a substrate disposed to face the side member, and at least one antenna element which is disposed on the substrate such that a beam pattern is formed through the non-conductive member in a direction in which the side member faces, wherein: when the side member is viewed from the outside, a boundary region between the conductive member and the non-conductive member is disposed in a region not overlapping the substrate; in the boundary region, the conductive member includes at least one concave part formed to at least partially receive the non-conductive member; and the at least one concave part includes two or more stepped parts which gradually get higher or lower as the stepped parts are further leftward or rightward from the substrate, when the side member is viewed from the outside.
US11264733B2
Techniques are provided for constructing a wide-beam antenna, for example a dipole antenna printed over an arbitrary ground plane. An example antenna includes at least one wide-beam dipole antenna cell, comprising a substrate, one or more signal lines disposed in the substrate, a conductive cladding disposed on the substrate, a dielectric layer disposed on the conductive cladding, a first sidewall via through the dielectric layer and electrically coupled to the conductive cladding, a second sidewall via extending through the dielectric layer and electrically coupled to the conductive cladding, a dipole antenna element disposed on the dielectric layer between the first sidewall via and the second sidewall via, a first director element disposed on the dielectric layer and extending toward the dipole antenna element, and a second director element disposed on the dielectric layer and extending toward the dipole antenna element.
US11264729B2
Systems and methods are provided for wide scan phased array fed reflector systems using ring-focus optics to significantly improve the scan volume of such systems. The subject system includes a reflector having a focal plane and a parabolic curvature configured to receive electromagnetic radiation having a first gain and provide reflected electromagnetic radiation having a second gain greater than the first gain that collimates into a focal ring. The subject system includes a feed array having feed elements positioned about the focal ring, in which each feed element is configured to receive the reflected electromagnetic radiation from the reflector and collimate the reflected electromagnetic radiation into a scanned beam for scanning an annular region. In some aspects, the feed array is centered on the focal ring such that at least one feed element overlaps with the focal ring and remaining feed elements are non-overlapping with the focal ring.
US11264728B1
Disclosed are devices and methods for selecting, at an antenna reflector, electromagnetic waves with a certain polarization and frequency and rejecting electromagnetic waves with different polarizations and/or frequencies. In one aspect, a directional antenna includes a shaped reflector surface with a series of conforming layers attached to the surface. The layers include a reflecting layer that causes reflection of electromagnetic waves at a specific frequency and polarization. Underneath the reflecting layer is a frequency selective surface (FSS) layer that absorbs electromagnetic waves not at the specific frequency or polarization which pass through the reflecting layer. Underneath the absorbing layer is a conductive layer.
US11264722B2
An antenna is provided, including: a first substrate, having has a first and a second surfaces parallel to each other and having a dielectric; a second substrate, having a third and a fourth surfaces parallel to each other, the third surface being disposed to face and abut the second surface, having a dielectric; a first radiation conductor, formed on the first surface; a second radiation conductor, formed on the third surface; and a power supply, supplying power to the first and second radiation conductors. A position of the power supply is disposed from centers of the first and second radiation conductors by distance d. A distance between a position where a reflection loss with respect to the second high-frequency signal becomes the smallest and the centers is d0, d/d0 is equal to or larger than 4/3.
US11264720B2
An electrically controllable RF circuit that includes an EC cell and an EAP-based actuator configured to produce relative movement of an electrode of the electrochromic cell and an electrically conducting patch or another electrode electromagnetically coupled thereto. In one embodiment, the RF circuit operates as a tunable patch antenna whose frequency characteristics can be changed by changing the bias voltages applied to the EC cell and EAP-based actuator. Advantageously, the capability to tune the antenna using two different tuning mechanisms (i.e., a dielectric-permittivity based tuning mechanism implemented using the EC cell and a geometry-based tuning mechanism implemented using the EAP-based actuator) provides more degrees of control over the pertinent antenna characteristics compared to what is available in some other antenna designs. In another embodiment, the RF circuit can operate as a tunable RF filter whose frequency characteristics can similarly be changed using these two different tuning mechanisms.
US11264717B2
A dual-band antenna, a wireless local area network (WLAN) device, and a method for manufacturing a dual-band antenna, where the dual-band antenna includes a conductive plane, a smooth curved-surface assembly joined onto the conductive plane, and a feed pin connected to the smooth curved-surface assembly. The conductive plane is configured to function as a first antenna, for receiving and sending a radio frequency signal of a first frequency band, and the smooth curved-surface assembly is configured to function as a second antenna, for receiving and sending a radio frequency signal of a second frequency band. Hence, a curved surface of a surface of the curved-surface assembly that is used as the second antenna transits smoothly. Therefore, a current is distributed relatively evenly, and radiation efficiency is relatively high.
US11264713B2
An adjustable wireless accessible point includes a base, a plurality of antenna modules and an antenna driving module. The plurality of antenna modules are movably disposed on the base and for emitting or receiving wireless signals. The antenna driving module is movably connected to the plurality of antenna modules and for driving the plurality of antenna modules to synchronously move relative to the base, so as to achieve a purpose of adjusting a radiation pattern of the adjustable wireless accessible point.
US11264703B2
A chip antenna includes a first ceramic substrate, a second ceramic substrate disposed to oppose the first ceramic substrate, a first patch, disposed on the first ceramic substrate, configured to operate as a feed patch, a second patch, disposed on the second ceramic substrate, configured to operate as a radiation patch, an insertion member disposed between the first ceramic substrate and the second ceramic substrate, and a shielding layer disposed on a side surface of the insertion member.
US11264702B1
A wideband antenna transmits and/or receives electromagnetic radiation. The wideband antenna includes a feedline, a first dielectric layer, a via, a driven patch, a second dielectric layer, and a parasitic patch. The feedline couples a radiofrequency signal and an element of the wideband antenna. The first dielectric layer is between the feedline and the driven patch. The via couples the radiofrequency signal of the feedline through the first dielectric layer. The driven patch couples between the electromagnetic radiation and the radiofrequency signal of the via. The second dielectric layer has a low dielectric constant of less than 1.3. The parasitic patch is electrically isolated from the driven patch by the second dielectric layer between the driven patch and the parasitic patch. The parasitic patch electromagnetically couples with the driven patch and the electromagnetic radiation to produce a wideband frequency response of the wideband antenna.
US11264701B1
A method for manufacturing an antenna printed circuit board includes the following steps: providing a flexible-rigid printed circuit board comprising a flexible region and a rigid region. The flexible region comprises at least one first connecting pad and at least one second connecting pad arranged opposite sides of the rigid region. At least one antenna module is attached to the first connecting pad through a conductive paste. The antenna module is fixed on the rigid region by a first reflow soldering process. At least one radio frequency integrated circuit structure is attached to the second connecting pad through a conductive paste. The radio frequency integrated circuit is fixed on the rigid region by a second reflow soldering process. A gap between the antenna module and the rigid region and a gap between the radio frequency integrated circuit structure and the rigid region are filled with dielectric materials and cured.
US11264695B2
This invention concerns a multibeam antenna with adjustable pointing, comprising a single reflection arrangement and a plurality of radiating sources arranged opposite the reflection arrangement and suited to emit and/or receive radiofrequency (RF) signals, the reflection arrangement defining a centre, a focal plane, and a focal point located on the focal plane. The antenna is characterised in that at least one of the radiating sources (‘mobile source’) is movable substantially independently of the or each other radiating source on a scanning surface to adjust the pointing of the antenna, wherein the scanning surface coincides with the focal plane or is tangential to it at the focal point.
US11264692B2
An antenna unit includes a patch antenna and a case. The patch antenna includes a conductive antenna pattern and an antenna ground pattern that functions as ground of the antenna pattern and receives an electric wave. The case has dielectricity, the case being provided with the patch antenna. The antenna pattern is provided on an inner wall surface of a wall portion of the case. The antenna ground pattern is provided on an outer wall surface of a wall portion of the case and is positioned so as to face the antenna pattern.
US11264680B2
Embodiments of secondary batteries having electrode assemblies are provided. A secondary battery can comprise an electrode assembly having a stacked series of layers, the stacked series of layers having an offset between electrode and counter-electrode layers in a unit cell member of the stacked series. A set of constraints can be provided with a primary constraint system with first and second primary growth constraints separated from each other in a longitudinal direction, and connected by at least one primary connecting member, and a secondary constraint system comprises first and second secondary growth constraints separated in a second direction and connected by members of the stacked series of layers. The primary constraint system may at least partially restrain growth of the electrode assembly in the longitudinal direction, and the secondary constraint system may at least partially restrain growth in the second direction that is orthogonal to the longitudinal direction.
US11264678B2
Provided is a battery wiring module that can reduce damage of electric wires. The battery wiring module has: a module-side terminal electrically connected to a bus bar connecting battery terminals of a plurality of battery cells; an electric wire with one end side to which the module-side terminal is connected; and a housing for accommodating the electric wire and the module-side terminal. The housing has a terminal accommodating portion for accommodating the module-side terminal. The battery wiring module includes a partition wall portion that is provided such that the module-side terminal disposed on the bottom portion of the terminal accommodating portion is located between the partition wall portion and the bottom portion, and separates the module-side terminal and the electric wire.
US11264677B2
Embodiments of the present application relate to an electrochemical device. Specifically, the electrochemical device includes a cathode, an anode and a separator, the separator being disposed between the cathode and the anode, the separator including a porous substrate and a porous layer, and the porous layer being disposed on a surface of the porous substrate and including inorganic particles and a binder, where a ratio of a puncture elongation of the porous substrate to a puncture force of the porous substrate is about 1.5 mm/N to about 25 mm/N. A lithium-ion battery including the separator, provided by the present application, improves the safety performance of the lithium-ion battery.
US11264664B2
A circuit interrupting device for use with a electrical power distribution system includes a housing containing a circuit interrupting mechanism. A battery tube is positioned in the housing. A battery assembly is configured to be inserted into the battery tube. The battery assembly includes a battery assembly body having a first end and a second end. A battery is positioned in the battery assembly body. The battery assembly is configured such that both a positive contact and a negative contact are exposed from the second end of the battery assembly body. In some embodiments, the battery assembly includes a keyed portion mates with the battery tube to ensure alignment of the battery assembly in the battery tube.
US11264654B2
The present application can provide a battery module case applicable to an automation process, a battery module comprising the same, a battery pack comprising such a battery module and an automobile comprising such a battery module or pack. The present application can provide a battery module at low cost by applying an automation process.
US11264653B2
A battery cell monitoring system and method of operating the system are provided. The system includes a plurality sense lines and a plurality of cell sense units that each include an active semiconductor device are electrically coupled to the sense lines for transferring a device current characteristic of a bias voltage based on an input device voltage applied thereto. A cell sense reader unit includes a voltage generator for outputting the input voltage to the cell sense units in an alternating fashion across each of the sense lines. The cell sense reader unit includes a current measuring device for sampling the device current output from the active semiconductor device as the input device voltage is alternated. The cell sense reader unit calculates the bias voltage and determines a cell voltage of each of a plurality of battery cells each connected to one of the cell sense units.
US11264652B2
A vehicle battery charger and a vehicle battery charging system are described and illustrated, and can include a controller enabling a user to enter a time of day at which the vehicle battery charger or system begins and/or ends charging of the vehicle battery. The vehicle battery charger can be separate from the vehicle, can be at least partially integrated into the vehicle, can include a transmitter and/or a receiver capable of communication with a controller that is remote from the vehicle and vehicle charger, and can be controlled by a user or another party (e.g., a power utility) to control battery charging based upon a time of day, cost of power, or other factors.
US11264639B2
Methods of synthesizing particles and the resulting particles are disclosed. The methods include synthesizing the particles in the presence of one or more additives. The resulting particles are smaller and easier to disperse in solution. Also described are methods of processing particles and the resulting particles. In particular embodiments, the particles are suited for incorporation into films.
US11264631B2
Methods and systems are provided for manufacturing a bipolar plate for a redox flow battery. In one example, the bipolar plate is fabricated by a roll-to-roll process. The bipolar plate includes a non-conductive substrate that is coupled to a negative electrode on a first surface and coupled to a positive electrode on a second surface, the first surface opposite of the second surface.
US11264621B2
A microporous layer for use in a fuel cell includes a first carbon black having carboxyl groups at a concentration less than 0.1 mmol per gram of carbon, a hydrophobic additive and a hydrophilic additive. A method for producing a membrane electrode assembly includes preparing a microporous layer ink, applying the microporous layer ink to a first side of a gas diffusion substrate, sintering the gas diffusion substrate to form a gas diffusion layer having a first side with a microporous layer, and thermally bonding the first side of the gas diffusion layer to an electrode layer. The microporous layer ink includes a suspension medium, a first carbon black having carboxyl groups at a concentration less than 0.1 mmol per gram of carbon, a hydrophobic additive and a hydrophilic additive.
US11264609B2
The present disclosure relates to a method of manufacturing a cathode composite for an all-solid-state battery and a method of manufacturing an all-solid-state battery including the same. In particular, the present disclosure relates to a method of manufacturing a cathode composite for an all-solid-state battery in which the cathode composite is manufactured by mixing a solid electrolyte, a conductive material and a cathode active material with a solvent, and then performing two-step vacuum drying, whereby interfacial resistance between the cathode active material, the solid electrolyte and the conductive material is reduced to thus increase ionic conductivity, thereby improving battery performance and capacity, and a method of manufacturing an all-solid-state battery including the same.
US11264596B2
An electronic device includes a base substrate including a hole region including a recessed region and a display, a circuit device layer including insulating layers, each of which has an opening overlapped with the recessed region, a display element layer including an organic light emitting element including a charge control layer, which is between first and second electrodes and is overlapped with the display and hole regions, an encapsulation layer including first and second inorganic encapsulation layers and an organic encapsulation layer therebetween, and a protection inorganic layer between the insulating layers and first inorganic encapsulation layer. The charge control layer may include a first pattern on one of the insulating layers overlapped with the hole region and a second pattern spaced apart from the first pattern and in the recessed region. The protection inorganic layer may cover the first pattern and the second pattern.
US11264594B2
The present disclosure provides a display substrate and a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device. The display substrate includes a stretchable base substrate; a display functional layer provided on the stretchable base substrate, the display functional layer including a plurality of pixel structures spaced apart from each other, each of the pixel structures including at least one inorganic insulation layer; the pixel structure having an upper surface distal to the stretchable base substrate and a first lateral surface connected between the upper surface and the stretchable base substrate; a protection layer covering at least a portion of the first lateral surface of at least one of the pixel structures corresponding to the inorganic insulation layer.
US11264592B2
An encapsulation structure of an organic electroluminescent device includes a substrate, a first inorganic sealing layer and an organic sealing layer. The first inorganic sealing layer is stacked on the substrate, and the organic sealing layer is stacked on a side of the first inorganic sealing layer that is away from the substrate. The organic sealing layer includes a UV light absorbing material and/or a UV resistant polymer material. An encapsulation method of the encapsulation structure of an organic electroluminescent device and a display panel including the encapsulation structure are further provided.
US11264591B2
A light emitting diode display includes: a substrate; a light emitting element on the substrate; and a capping layer on the organic light emitting element and including a plurality of refractive layers each including a low refraction layer and a high refraction layer, wherein the high refraction layer includes a first inorganic material having a refractive index which is equal to or greater than about 1.7 and equal to or less than about 6.0, wherein the low refraction layer includes a second inorganic material having a refractive index which is equal to or greater than about 1.0 and equal to or less than about 1.7, and wherein the second inorganic material comprises at least one selected from LiF, AlF3, NaF, KF, RbF, CaF2, SrF2, and YbF2.
US11264589B2
The image display device sealing material contains a resin component and a curing agent, wherein the resin component contains biphenyl skeleton-containing epoxy resin having a weight-average molecular weight of 200 or more and 100,000 or less, alicyclic skeleton-containing epoxy resin having a weight-average molecular weight of 180 or more and 790 or less, and styrene oligomer having a weight-average molecular weight of 750 or more and 4000 or less.
US11264584B2
A film thickness securing region of a green island-shaped hole transport layer in a display device is located at the inside of a green pixel light-emitting region in a direction in which a red pixel and a green pixel are adjacent to each other, and part of a shadow region of a red island-shaped hole transport layer and part of a shadow region of the green island-shaped hole transport layer overlaps each other within the green pixel light-emitting region.
US11264583B2
An organic light-emitting device comprising: a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; a first emission unit, a second emission unit and a third emission unit between the first electrode and the second electrode; a first charge generation layer between the first emission unit and the second emission unit; and a second charge generation layer between the second emission unit and the third emission unit, wherein the first emission unit comprises a first emission layer, the second emission unit comprises a second emission layer, the third emission unit comprises a third emission layer, and at least one of the first emission unit, the second emission unit and the third emission unit comprises an inorganic buffer layer.
US11264579B2
In a flexible display panel and a preparation method thereof provided by the present application, the flexible display panel includes a flexible substrate including a display area and a non-display area connected to each other, a thickness of the flexible substrate in the non-display area is less than a thickness of the flexible substrate in the display area; a thin film transistor layer disposed on one side of the flexible substrate; and an organic light-emitting layer disposed on one side of the thin film transistor layer away from the flexible substrate.
US11264574B2
The present invention relates to a composition for an organic optoelectronic element, an organic optoelectronic element employing the composition, and a display device, wherein the composition comprises: a first compound for an organic optoelectronic element, represented by Chemical Formula 1; and a second compound for an organic optoelectronic element, comprising a combination of a moiety represented by Chemical Formula 2 and a moiety represented by Chemical Formula 3. The details of chemical formulas 1 to 3 are as defined in the specification.
US11264571B2
A bake system may include a chamber having an internal space, a stage disposed in the internal space of the chamber and on which a target substrate is disposed, a gas ejection structure providing a process gas in the chamber, an exhaust structure, an atmosphere analyzer monitoring moisture and oxygen in the chamber, and a gas supplier controlling a flow rate of the process gas based on information provided from the atmosphere analyzer. The exhaust structure may include a suction part disposed in the internal space, and an exhaust part connected to the suction part and is disposed outside the chamber.
US11264565B2
An object of the invention is to provide a magnetoresistance effect element which includes a reference layer having three or more magnetic layers and which improves a thermal stability factor Δ by decreasing a write error rate using an element structure that enables a wide margin to be secured between a current at which magnetization of the reference layer is reversed and a writing current Ic of a recording layer and by reducing an effect of a stray magnetic field from the reference layer. The magnetoresistance effect element includes: a first recording layer (A1); a first non-magnetic layer (11); and a first reference layer (B1), wherein the first reference layer (B1) including n-number of a plurality of magnetic layers (21, 22, . . . , 2n) and (n−1)−number of a plurality of non-magnetic insertion layers (31, 32, . . . 3(n−1)) adjacently sandwiched by each of the plurality of magnetic layers, where n≥3.
US11264564B2
A magnetoresistive device may include one or more electrodes or electrically conductive lines and a fixed region and a free region disposed between the electrodes or electrically conductive lines. The fixed region may have a fixed magnetic state and the free region may be configured to have a first magnetic state and a second magnetic state. The free region may store a first value when in the first magnetic state and store a second value when in the second magnetic state. The magnetoresistive device may further include a dielectric layer between the free region and the fixed region and a spin-Hall (SH) material proximate to at least a portion of the free region. An insertion layer may be disposed between the SH material and the free region.
US11264560B2
A perpendicular magnetic tunnel junction is disclosed wherein first and second interfaces of a free layer (FL) with a first metal oxide (Hk enhancing layer) and second metal oxide (tunnel barrier), respectively, produce perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) to provide thermal stability to 400° C. Insertion of an oxidation control layer (OCL) such as Mg and a magnetic moment tuning layer (MMTL) like Mo or W enables FL thickness to be reduced below 10 Angstroms while providing sufficient PMA for a switching voltage substantially less than 500 mV at a 10 ns pulse width and 1 ppm defect rate. Magnetoresistive ratio is ≥1, and resistance×area (RA) product is below 5 ohm-μm2. Embodiments are provided where MMTL and OCL materials interface with each other, or do not contact each other. Each of the MMTL and OCL materials may be deposited separately, or at least one is co-deposited with the FL.
US11264559B2
A multilayered magnetic free layer structure is provided that includes a first magnetic free layer and a second magnetic free layer separated by a non-magnetic layer in which the second magnetic free layer is composed of a M1/M2 superlattice structure or a M1/M2 multilayer structure, wherein M1 is a first magnetic metal selected from the group consisting of cobalt (Co), iron (Fe) and alloys thereof, and M2 is a second magnetic metal selected from the group consisting of platinum (Pt), palladium (Pd), nickel (Ni), rhodium (Rh), iridium (Jr), rhenium (Re) and alloys thereof.
US11264555B2
An actuator device comprises an electroactive polymer actuator (116) and a control circuit for driving the electroactive polymer actuator. The control circuit comprises a voltage boosting circuit including at least a capacitor (114; C11, C12, C13). An electroactive polymer layer (110) forms the electroactive polymer actuator in an active region (112) as well as a dielectric layer of the capacitor in a passive region (111). This provides integration of components to enable cost reductions and miniaturization.
US11264548B2
In some embodiments, an interconnect electrical connects a light emitter to wiring on a substrate. The interconnect may be deposited by 3D printing and lays flat on the light emitter and substrate. In some embodiments, the interconnect has a generally rectangular or oval cross-sectional profile and extends above the light emitter to a height of about 50 μm or less, or about 35 μm or less. This small height allows close spacing between an overlying optical structure and the light emitter, thereby providing high efficiency in the injection of light from the light emitter into the optical structure, such as a light pipe.
US11264546B2
A metallic structure for an optical semiconductor device, including a base body having disposed thereon at least in part metallic layers in the following order; a nickel or nickel alloy plated layer, a gold or gold alloy plated layer, and a silver or silver alloy plated layer, wherein the silver or silver alloy plated layer has a thickness in a range of 0.001 μm or more and 0.01 μm or less.
US11264545B2
A light emitting diode (LED) having a uniform optimal luminance pattern includes an outer cylindrical section, an inner cone shape section completely contained inside the outer section, and a top section having a plurality of micro-lenses covering the top surface of the outer cylindrical section.
US11264540B2
A light emitting diode includes a light emitting structure including first and second conductive type semiconductor layers and an active layer disposed therebetween, a second hole formed through the active layer and the second conductive type semiconductor layer, and exposing the first conductive type semiconductor layer, a reflective metal layer contacting a portion of the light emitting structure, a cover metal layer contacting at least a portion of the reflective metal layer, a first insulation layer covering the reflective metal layer and the cover metal layer, an electrode layer disposed on the first insulation layer, the electrode layer covering the first insulation layer and filling the second hole, an electrode pad disposed on the light emitting structure, and a first hole formed through the first conductive type semiconductor layer and corresponding to the cover metal layer, in which the electrode pad overlaps the cover metal layer.
US11264524B1
A multijunction solar cell including an upper first solar subcell and having an emitter of p conductivity type with a first band gap, and a base of n conductivity type with a second band gap greater than the first band gap; a second solar subcell having an emitter of p conductivity type with a third band gap, and a base of n conductivity type with a fourth band gap greater than the third band gap; and an intermediate grading interlayer disposed between the first and second subcells and having a graded lattice constant that matches the first subcell on a first side and the second subcell on the second side, and having a fifth band gap that is greater than the second band gap of the first solar subcell.
US11264519B2
A light receiving element includes a first substrate, a photodiode formed on a main surface of the first substrate, and a second substrate constituted by a semiconductor and adhered to a rear surface side of the first substrate by an adhesive layer formed from a resin adhesive. A light receiving element according to an embodiment includes a lens that is formed on the side of an adhesion surface of the second substrate, has a convex surface, and is disposed in a light receiving region of the photodiode. The light receiving side of the photodiode is oriented toward the side of the first substrate. The lens is disposed so that the convex surface thereof is oriented toward the side of a light receiving surface of the photodiode.
US11264515B2
A resistor element encompasses a first resistive layer, a first protection strip implemented by a tandem connection of p-n junctions, an interlayer insulating film covering the first resistive layer and the first protection strip, a first external electrode on the interlayer insulating film, being connected to a terminal of the first resistive layer and a terminal of the first protection strip, and a second external electrode on the interlayer insulating film, being connected to another terminal of the first resistive layer and another terminal of the first protection strip.
US11264505B2
A method includes forming a fin over a substrate, forming a dummy gate structure over the fin, forming a first spacer over the dummy gate structure, implanting a first dopant in the fin to form a doped region of the fin adjacent the first spacer, removing the doped region of the fin to form a first recess, wherein the first recess is self-aligned to the doped region, and epitaxially growing a source/drain region in the first recess.
US11264501B2
Techniques and mechanisms for imposing stress on a channel region of an NMOS transistor. In an embodiment, a fin structure on a semiconductor substrate includes two source or drain regions of the transistor, wherein a channel region of the transistor is located between the source or drain regions. At least on such source or drain region includes a doped silicon germanium (SiGe) compound, wherein dislocations in the SiGe compound result in the at least one source or drain region exerting a tensile stress on the channel region. In another embodiment, source or drain regions of a transistor each include a SiGe compound which comprises at least 50 wt % germanium.
US11264498B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a first source region, a first drain region, a first gate, a second source region, a second drain region, a second gate, and a first dielectric layer. The first source region and the first drain region are disposed within the semiconductor substrate. The first gate is disposed over the semiconductor substrate in between the first source region and the first drain region. The second source region and the second drain region are disposed within the semiconductor substrate. The second gate is disposed over the semiconductor substrate in between the second source region and the second drain region. The first dielectric layer is located in between the first gate and the semiconductor substrate, and in between the second gate and the semiconductor substrate, wherein the first dielectric layer extends from a position below the first gate to a position below the second gate.
US11264496B2
In one aspect, a method of fabricating a transistor includes depositing a first epitaxial layer, depositing a second epitaxial layer on the first epitaxial layer, implanting the second epitaxial layer to form a p-field termination region, depositing a third epitaxial layer on the p-field termination layer and forming trenches in the third epitaxial layer. The trenches include a trench gate of the transistor and a termination trench.
US11264494B2
A wide gap semiconductor device has: a drift layer 12 using wide gap semiconductor material being a first conductivity type; a plurality of well regions 20 being a second conductivity type and formed in the drift layer 12; a polysilicon layer 150 provided on the well regions 20 and on the drift layer 12 between the well regions 20; an interlayer insulating film 65 provided on the polysilicon layer 150; a gate pad 120 provided on the interlayer insulating film 65; and a source pad 110 electrically connected to the polysilicon layer 150.
US11264491B2
Provided is a semiconductor device including a semiconductor substrate provided with a transistor portion, wherein the semiconductor substrate includes, in the transistor portion, a drift region of a first conductivity type; an accumulation region of the first conductivity type that has a higher doping concentration than the drift region; a collector region of a second conductivity type; and a plurality of gate trench portions and a plurality of dummy trench portions that are provided extending in a predetermined extension direction in the top surface of the semiconductor substrate, and are arranged in an arrangement direction orthogonal to the extension direction, and the transistor portion includes a first region that includes a gate trench portion; and a second region in which the number of dummy trench portions arranged in a unit length in the arrangement direction is greater than in the first region.
US11264484B2
A structure and a formation method of a semiconductor device are provided. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate and a first gate electrode over the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor device also includes a first gate dielectric layer between the first gate electrode and the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor device further includes a second gate electrode over the semiconductor substrate. The second gate electrode has an upper portion and a lower portion between the upper portion and the semiconductor substrate, and the upper portion is wider than the lower portion. In addition, the semiconductor device includes a second gate dielectric layer between the second gate electrode and the semiconductor substrate.
US11264483B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: receiving a semiconductor structure, the semiconductor structure including: a fin structure; a dummy gate across over the fin structure to define a channel region of the fin structure; and a dummy dielectric layer separating the channel region of the fin structure from the dummy gate; removing the dummy gate and the dummy dielectric layer to expose the channel region of the fin structure; and forming a doped interfacial layer covering the channel region of the fin structure, in which the doped interfacial layer includes a dopant selected from the group consisting of Al, Hf, La, Sc, Y and a combination thereof.
US11264476B2
Systems, apparatus, and methods for initializing spin qubits with no external magnetic fields are described. An apparatus for quantum computing includes a quantum well and a pair of contacts. At least one of the contacts is formed of a ferromagnetic material. One of the contacts in the pair of contacts interfaces with a semiconductor material at a first position adjacent to the quantum well and the other contact in the pair of contacts interfaces with the semiconductor material at a second position adjacent to the quantum well. The ferromagnetic material initializes an electron or hole with a spin state prior to injection into the quantum well.
US11264474B1
The present application discloses a semiconductor device and a method for fabricating the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, a pad oxide layer positioned on the substrate, a hard mask layer positioned on the pad oxide layer, an isolation layer positioned along the hard mask layer and the pad oxide layer and extending to the substrate, a first dielectric layer positioned between the substrate and the isolation layer, and a liner layer positioned on a top surface of the hard mask layer and positioned between the first dielectric layer and the isolation layer, between the pad oxide layer and the isolation layer, and between the hard mask layer and the isolation layer. The hard mask layer and the liner layer include boron nitride.
US11264469B2
Various embodiments of the present application are directed to a method for forming a thin semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) substrate without implantation radiation and/or plasma damage. In some embodiments, a device layer is epitaxially formed on a sacrificial substrate and an insulator layer is formed on the device layer. The insulator layer may, for example, be formed with a net charge that is negative or neutral. The sacrificial substrate is bonded to a handle substrate, such that the device layer and the insulator layer are between the sacrificial and handle substrates. The sacrificial substrate is removed, and the device layer is cyclically thinned until the device layer has a target thickness. Each thinning cycle comprises oxidizing a portion of the device layer and removing oxide resulting from the oxidizing.
US11264468B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a field oxide layer, a gate region and field plate integrated structure and a plurality of contact holes. A body region and a drift region are formed in the semiconductor substrate. An active region is formed in the body region, and a drain region is formed in the drift region. A field oxide layer is located on the drift region and the drift region surrounds a part of the field oxide layer. An integrated structure including a gate region and a field plate, the integrated structure extending from above the field oxide layer to above the body region. A depth of a contact hole closer to the source region penetrating into the field oxide layer is greater than a depth of a contact hole closer to the drain region penetrating into the field oxide layer.
US11264466B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer including a Ga2O3-based single crystal, and an electrode that is in contact with a surface of the semiconductor layer. The semiconductor layer is in Schottky-contact with the electrode and has an electron carrier concentration based on reverse withstand voltage and electric field-breakdown strength of the Ga2O3-based single crystal.
US11264462B2
A silicon carbide semiconductor device, including a semiconductor substrate having first and second semiconductor regions and a plurality of third semiconductor regions sequentially formed therein, a plurality of trenches penetrating the second and third semiconductor regions, a plurality of gate electrodes provided in the trenches via a gate insulating film, an interlayer insulating film covering the gate electrodes, a plurality of contact holes penetrating the interlayer insulating film, a first electrode provided in the contact holes and at the surface of the interlayer insulating film, and a second electrode electrically connected to the first semiconductor region. The interlayer insulating film has a plurality of recessed parts and protruding parts, to thereby form at least three recesses and protrusions repeatedly at a surface of the interlayer insulating film. The first electrode includes first to third electrode films, the second electrode film having a shape reflecting the surface of the interlayer insulating film.
US11264459B2
A power semiconductor device includes a semiconductor body having front and back sides. The semiconductor body includes drift, field stop and emitter adjustment regions each of a first conductivity type. The field stop region is arranged between the drift region and the backside and has dopants of the first conductivity type at a higher dopant concentration than the drift region. The emitter adjustment region is arranged between the field stop region and the backside and has dopants of the first conductivity type at a higher dopant concentration than the field stop region. The semiconductor body has a concentration of interstitial oxygen of at least 1E17 cm−3. The field stop region includes a region where the dopant concentration is higher than that in the drift region at least by a factor of three. At least 20% of the dopants of the first conductivity type in the region are oxygen-induced thermal donors.
US11264454B2
An integrated circuit device includes a substrate having a first region and a second region separated from each other along a direction parallel to an upper surface of the substrate. An interface device isolation layer fills an interface trench in an interface region between the first region and the second region and defines a portion of a first active area positioned in the first region and a portion of a second active area positioned in the second region. An insulation pattern extends from the first region to an upper portion of the interface device isolation layer. The insulation pattern covers the first active area and at least a portion of the interface device isolation layer. The insulation pattern defines an undercut area on an upper surface of the interface device isolation layer. A buried pattern substantially fills the undercut region.
US11264451B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer having a first surface and a second surface, a first region of a first conductivity type formed on the first surface side of the semiconductor layer, a second region of a second conductivity type in contact with the first region, a third region of the first conductivity type that is in contact with the second region and exposed from the first surface side of the semiconductor layer, a gate electrode facing the second region through a gate insulating film, a first electrode that is physically separated from the gate electrode and faces the second region and the third region through an insulating film, a second electrode formed on the semiconductor layer and electrically connected to the first region, the second region, and the first electrode, and a third electrode electrically connected to the third region.
US11264448B2
Provided is a dielectric thin film. The dielectric thin film includes: a plurality of ferroelectric domains including phonons having displacement in a direction of a first axis; and a plurality of spacers configured to block elastic interaction between the phonons, wherein the ferroelectric domains and the spacers are alternately and repeatedly arranged along a second axis which is perpendicular to the first axis.
US11264426B2
The embodiments disclosed in the present document relate to an image sensor for detecting infrared multi-band light, and an electronic device using same. The image sensor according to the various embodiments of the present invention may comprise: a first filter configured to allow light in the infrared band to pass; a pixel array comprising a first pixel configured to be able to at least detect light of a first band which corresponds to part of the light in the infrared band that passed through the first filter, and a second pixel configured to be able to at least detect light of a second band which corresponds to another part of the light in the infrared band that passed through the first filter; and a second filter provided on top of the first pixel, for lowering electrical reactivity of the first pixel towards light in a band other than the first band.
US11264424B2
An imaging device includes a photodetector and an optical filter disposed on a light-receiving surface of the photodetector. The optical filter may include a diffraction grating, a core layer, and a reflector disposed on first and second opposing sides of the core layer. In some cases, the optical filter (e.g., a guided mode resonance (“GMR”) filter) uses interference of electromagnetic waves on an incidence plane of light or a plane parallel to the incidence plane. The reflector may reflect electromagnetic waves between adjacent optical filters. In some cases, the imaging device is a back-side-illuminated or front-side-illuminated CMOS or CCD image sensor.
US11264405B2
Integrated circuit (IC) strata including one or more transistor and one or more semiconductor diode. A transistor may include one or more non-planar semiconductor bodies in which there is a channel region while the diode also includes one or more non-planar semiconductor bodies in which there is a p-type region, an n-type region, or both. One IC stratum may be only hundreds of nanometers in thickness and include both front-side and back-side interconnect levels. The front-side interconnect level is disposed over a front side of one or more of the non-planar semiconductor bodies and is coupled to at least one terminal of the transistor. The back-side interconnect level is disposed over a back side of one or more of the non-planar semiconductor bodies and is coupled to at least one terminal of the semiconductor diode.
US11264401B2
A vertical memory device includes a substrate having a peripheral circuit structure, first gate patterns having first gate pad regions stacked vertically from the substrate, vertical channel structures penetrating the first gate patterns, first gate contact structures each extending vertically to a corresponding first gate pad region, mold patterns stacked vertically from the substrate, the mold patterns each being positioned at the same height from the substrate with a corresponding gate pattern, peripheral contact structures penetrating the mold patterns to be connected to the peripheral circuit structure, a first block separation structure disposed between the first gate contact structures and the peripheral contact structures, and a first peripheral circuit connection wiring extending across the first block separation structure to connect one of the first gate contact structures to one of the peripheral contact structures.
US11264397B2
Embodiments of source structure of a three-dimensional (3D) memory device and method for forming the source structure of the 3D memory device are disclosed. In an example, a NAND memory device includes a substrate, an alternating conductor/dielectric stack, a NAND string, a source conductor layer, and a source contact. The alternating conductor/dielectric stack includes a plurality of conductor/dielectric pairs above the substrate. The NAND string extends vertically through the alternating conductor/dielectric stack. The source conductor layer is above the alternating conductor/dielectric stack and is in contact with an end of the NAND string. The source contact includes an end in contact with the source conductor layer. The NAND string is electrically connected to the source contact by the source conductor layer. In some embodiments, the source conductor layer includes one or more conduction regions each including one or more of a metal, a metal alloy, and a metal silicide.
US11264394B2
Some embodiments include an integrated assembly. The integrated assembly has a first transistor with a horizontally-extending channel region between a first source/drain region and a second source/drain region; has a second transistor with a vertically-extending channel region between a third source/drain region and a fourth source/drain region; and has a capacitor between the first and second transistors. The capacitor has a first electrode, a second electrode, and an insulative material between the first and second electrodes. The first electrode is electrically connected with the first source/drain region, and the second electrode is electrically connected with the third source/drain region. A digit line is electrically connected with the second source/drain region. A conductive structure is electrically connected with the fourth source/drain region.
US11264391B1
A semiconductor structure including silicon substrate, buried word lines, active areas, isolating areas, and nitride pillars is provided. The silicon substrate has a carrier surface. The buried word lines are buried in the silicon substrate. The active areas and the isolating areas are located on the carrier surface. The nitride pillars are disposed in the isolating areas respectively. The active areas and the isolating areas are arranged along a first direction. The buried word lines are extended along a second direction. The nitride pillars are located below the buried word lines in the isolating areas. A manufacturing method of semiconductor structure is also provided.
US11264388B2
A microelectronic device comprises a die comprising a front side and a back side opposite the front side, one or more components of integrated circuitry within a base material of the die and between the front side and the back side of the die, and one or more decoupling capacitors within the back side of the die. The one or more decoupling capacitors comprise a first electrode, a second electrode, and a dielectric material between the first electrode and the second electrode. The microelectronic device further comprises a first conductive via comprising a conductive material extending through the base material, the first conductive via in electrical communication with the first electrode of the one or more decoupling capacitors and the front side of the microelectronic device. Related apparatuses including a decoupling capacitor in a back side, and related electronic systems and methods are also described.
US11264387B2
A semiconductor storage device according to an embodiment includes: a stacked body in which a plurality of conductive layers are stacked via an insulating layer and which has a memory portion in which a plurality of memory cells are disposed and a staircase portion in which end portions of the plurality of conductive layers form a staircase shape. The staircase portion has three or more first sub-staircase portions ascending in a direction opposite to a direction toward the memory portion, and at least one first sub-staircase portion among the three or more first sub-staircase portions is divided into at least an upper staircase and a lower staircase by a difference in level larger than a difference in level of each stair of the first sub-staircase portion.
US11264375B2
A semiconductor device has an N-type substrate, a through conductor penetrating the N-type substrate, a protection target circuit provided on the N-type substrate, and an ESD protection circuit provided on the N-type substrate. The protection target circuit and the ESD protection circuit are connected together to the through conductor.
US11264355B2
A method of manufacturing a die package structure includes steps described below. A conductive substrate with a plurality of trenches is provided. A die is disposed in each of the trenches. A conductive layer is formed covering the dies and the conductive substrate. A patterned photoresist layer with a plurality of openings is formed exposing a plurality of areas of the conductive layer. A mask is formed on each of the areas of the conductive layer. The patterned photoresist layer is removed after forming the masks. By using the masks, the conductive layer and the conductive substrate under thereof are selectively etched to a predetermined depth to form a plurality of conductive bumps and a plurality of electrodes, in which a remaining of the conductive substrate includes a bottom substrate, the electrodes and the conductive bumps. An upper sealing layer is formed covering the bottom substrate and the dies.
US11264349B2
A semiconductor device having a capillary flow structure for a direct chip attachment is provided herein. The semiconductor device generally includes a substrate and a semiconductor die having a conductive pillar electrically coupled to the substrate. The front side of the semiconductor die may be spaced a distance apart from the substrate forming a gap. The semiconductor device further includes first and second elongate capillary flow structures projecting from the front side of the semiconductor die at least partially extending toward the substrate. The first and second elongate capillary flow structures may be spaced apart from each other at a first width configured to induce capillary flow of an underfill material along a length of the first and second elongate capillary flow structures. The first and second capillary flow structures may include pairs of elongate capillary flow structures forming passageways therebetween to induce capillary flow at an increased flow rate.
US11264347B2
The present disclosure relates to a radio frequency (RF) device that includes a mold device die and a multilayer redistribution structure underneath the mold device die. The mold device die includes a device region with a back-end-of-line (BEOL) portion and a front-end-of-line (FEOL) portion over the BEOL portion, and a first mold compound. The FEOL portion includes an active layer formed from a strained silicon epitaxial layer, in which a lattice constant is greater than 5.461 at a temperature of 300K. The first mold compound resides over the active layer. Herein, silicon crystal does not exist between the first mold compound and the active layer. The multilayer redistribution structure includes a number of bump structures, which are at a bottom of the multilayer redistribution structure and electrically coupled to the FEOL portion of the mold device die.
US11264343B2
A package includes a first die that includes a first metallization layer, one or more first bond pad vias on the first metallization layer, wherein a first barrier layer extends across the first metallization layer between each first bond pad via and the first metallization layer, and one or more first bond pads on the one or more first bond pad vias, wherein a second barrier layer extends across each first bond pad via between a first bond pad and the first bond pad via, and a second die including one or more second bond pads, wherein a second bond pad is bonded to a first bond pad of the first die.
US11264342B2
Some embodiments relate to a semiconductor device package, which includes a substrate with a contact pad. A non-solder ball is coupled to the contact pad at a contact pad interface surface. A layer of solder is disposed over an outer surface of the non-solder ball, and has an inner surface and an outer surface which are generally concentric with the outer surface of the non-solder ball. An intermediate layer separates the non-solder ball and the layer of solder. The intermediate layer is distinct in composition from both the non-solder ball and the layer of solder. Sidewalls of the layer of solder are curved or sphere-like and terminate at a planar surface, which is disposed at a maximum height of the layer of solder as measured from the contact pad interface surface.
US11264338B2
Apparatuses, systems and methods associated with over void signal trace design are disclosed herein. In embodiments, an integrated circuit (IC) package may include a first layer that has a void and a guard trace, wherein a first portion of the void is located on a first side of the guard trace and a second portion of the void is located on a second side of the guard trace. The IC package may further include a second layer located adjacent to the first layer, wherein the second layer has a signal trace that extends along the guard trace. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US11264334B2
The present disclosure provides a package device and a method of manufacturing the same. The package device includes a supporting member, a main component, a sealant, and a conductive encapsulant. The supporting member includes a plurality of grounding contacts. The main component is mounted on the supporting member. The sealant covers the main component. The conductive encapsulant encases the sealant and the grounding contacts exposed through the sealant for EMI shielding.
US11264328B2
The present disclosure, in some embodiments, relates to a method of forming an integrated chip. The method may be performed by forming a first capping layer on a dielectric structure over a substrate, and patterning the dielectric structure and the first capping layer to define cavities within the dielectric structure. A conductive material is formed within the cavities and a second capping layer is formed on the conductive material. An etch stop layer is formed along sidewalls and over an upper surface of the second capping layer. The etch stop layer has a first thickness over the first capping layer and a second thickness over the second capping layer. The first thickness is greater than the second thickness.
US11264326B2
Semiconductor devices and methods of forming the same are provided. In one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes an active region including a channel region and a source/drain region and extending along a first direction, and a source/drain contact structure over the source/drain region. The source/drain contact structure includes a base portion extending lengthwise along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and a via portion over the base portion. The via portion tapers away from the base portion.
US11264324B2
An electronic chip disclosed herein includes a plurality of IP core circuits, with a shared strip that is at least partially conductive and is linked to a node for applying a fixed potential. A plurality of tracks electrically links the plurality of IP core circuits to the shared strip. Each individual track of the plurality of tracks solely links a single one of said IP core circuits to the shared strip.
US11264322B2
A semiconductor structure and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate, a semiconductor device, an interconnect structure, a capacitor, and a plurality of pads. The semiconductor device is disposed at the substrate. The interconnect structure is disposed on the substrate and electrically connected to the semiconductor device. The capacitor is disposed on the interconnect structure and electrically connected to the interconnect structure. The capacitor includes a first electrode, a second electrode covering a top surface and a sidewall of the first electrode, and an insulating layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. The plurality of pads are disposed on the interconnect structure and electrically connected to the interconnect structure, wherein at least one of the plurality of pads is electrically connected to the capacitor.
US11264319B1
Provided is a storage system including a decoupling device having a plurality of unit capacitors. The storage system includes a storage device, a control device, and a decoupling device disposed on a circuit substrate. The storage device is configured to receive and store data from the control device. The control device is configured to generate an inner voltage. The decoupling device is connected to the control device and decouples the inner voltage. The decoupling device includes a plurality of unit capacitors constituting a plurality of decoupling capacitors. Each of the unit capacitors includes a plurality of capacitor elements, a first terminal, and a second terminal. Some of the unit capacitors are selectively connected with each other to constitute the decoupling capacitors having various capacitances.
US11264314B2
An interconnection structure is disclosed. The interconnection structure includes a base substrate, a set of conductive pads disposed on the base substrate and an interconnection layer disposed on the base substrate. The interconnection layer has an edge located next to the set of the conductive pads and includes a set of side connection pads located and disposed at the edge of the interconnection layer. Each side connection pad is arranged with respect to a corresponding one of the conductive pads disposed on the base substrate.
US11264308B2
The present disclosure relates to a radio frequency device that includes a transfer device die and a multilayer redistribution structure underneath the transfer device die. The transfer device die includes a device region with a back-end-of-line (BEOL) portion and a front-end-of-line (FEOL) portion over the BEOL portion and a transfer substrate. The FEOL portion includes isolation sections and an active layer surrounded by the isolation sections. A top surface of the device region is planarized. The transfer substrate resides over the top surface of the device region. Herein, silicon crystal does not exist within the transfer substrate or between the transfer substrate and the active layer. The multilayer redistribution structure includes a number of bump structures, which are at a bottom of the multilayer redistribution structure and electrically coupled to the FEOL portion of the transfer device die.
US11264306B2
Structural combinations of TIMs and methods of combining these TIMs in semiconductor packages are disclosed. An embodiment forms the structures by selectively metallizing a backside of a semiconductor chip (chip) on chip hot spots, placing a higher performance thermal interface material (TIM) on the metallized hot spots, selectively metalizing an underside of a lid in one or more metalized lid locations, and assembling a lid over the backside of the chip to create an assembly so that metalized lid locations are in contact with the higher performance TIMs. A lower performance TIM fills the region surrounding the higher performance TIM on the underside of the lid enclosing the chips. Disclosed are methods of disposing both solid and dispensable TIMs, curing and not curing the thermal interface, and structures to keep the TIMs in place while assembly the package and compressing dispensable TIMs. Alternative method steps are disclosed, such as: injecting the lower performance TIM through injection holes in a pre-assembled assembly, using solid preform TIMs with cutouts, and using high performance TIM structures that have collapsible rails to prevent lower performance TIM from spilling onto the surface of the higher performance TIM to permit good/bonding.
US11264294B2
A method of manufacturing an integrated circuit device, the method including forming a plurality of target patterns on a substrate such that an opening is defined between two adjacent target patterns; forming a pyrolysis material layer on the substrate such that the pyrolysis material layer partially fills the opening and exposes an upper surface and a portion of a sidewall of the two adjacent target patterns; and forming a material layer on the exposed upper surface and the exposed portion of the sidewall of the two adjacent target patterns, wherein, during the forming of the material layer, the material layer does not remain on a resulting surface of the pyrolysis material layer.
US11264283B2
The disclosure is directed towards semiconductor devices and methods of manufacturing the semiconductor devices. The methods include forming fins in a device region and forming other fins in a multilayer stack of semiconductor materials in a multi-channel device region. A topmost nanostructure may be exposed in the multi-channel device region by removing a sacrificial layer from the top of the multilayer stack. Once removed, a stack of nanostructures are formed from the multilayer stack. A native oxide layer is formed to a first thickness over the topmost nanostructure and to a second thickness over the remaining nanostructures of the stack, the first thickness being greater than the second thickness. A gate dielectric is formed over the fins in the device region. A gate electrode is formed over the gate dielectric in the device region and surrounding the native oxide layer in the multi-channel device region.
US11264282B2
Processes to form differently-pitched gate structures are provided. An example method includes providing a workpiece having a substrate and semiconductor fins spaced apart from one another by an isolation feature, depositing a gate material layer over the workpiece, forming a patterned hard mask over the gate material layer, the patterned hard mask including differently-pitched elongated features, performing a first etch process using the patterned hard mask as an etch mask through the gate material layer to form a trench, performing a second etch process using the patterned hard mask as an etch mask to extend the trench to a top surface of the isolation feature, and performing a third etch process using the patterned hard mask to extend the trench into the isolation feature. The first etch process includes use of carbon tetrafluoride and is free of use of oxygen gas.
US11264270B2
The present disclosure describes a method of fabricating a semiconductor structure that includes forming a dummy gate structure over a substrate, forming a first spacer on a sidewall of the dummy gate structure and a second spacer on the first spacer, forming a source/drain structure on the substrate, removing the second spacer, forming a dielectric structure over the source/drain structure, replacing the dummy gate structure with a metal gate structure and a capping structure on the metal gate structure, and forming an opening in the dielectric structure. The opening exposes the source/drain structure. The method further includes forming a dummy spacer on a sidewall of the opening, forming a contact structure in the opening, and removing the dummy spacer to form an air gap between the contact structure and the metal gate structure. The contact structure is in contact with the source/drain structure in the opening.
US11264268B2
A method includes receiving a structure that includes a substrate including a first well region having a first dopant type and a second well region having a second dopant type that is opposite to the first dopant type; and fins extending above the substrate. The method further includes forming a patterned etch mask on the structure, wherein the patterned etch mask provides an opening that is directly above a first fin of the fins, wherein the first fin is directly above the first well region. The method further includes etching the structure through the patterned etch mask, wherein the etching removes the first fin and forms a recess in the substrate that spans from the first well region into the second well region; and forming a dielectric material between remaining portions of the fins and within the recess.
US11264266B2
A substrate processing method is implemented in a substrate processing apparatus including a processing chamber, a turntable on which a substrate is placed inside the processing chamber, and first and second gas supplies that supply first and second gases, respectively. The substrate processing method deposits a film, generated by a reaction between the first gas and the second gas, on the substrate in a first state where the substrate rotates and the turntable undergoes a clockwise orbital rotation around a rotating shaft so that the substrate passes through a region supplied with the first gas and thereafter passes through a region supplied with the second gas, and deposits the film on the substrate in a second state where the substrate rotates and the turntable undergoes a counterclockwise orbital rotation.
US11264262B2
The present disclosure, in some embodiments, relates to a debonding and cleaning apparatus. The apparatus has a debonding module configured to separate semiconductor substrates from carrier substrates. A first cleaning module is configured to clean surfaces of a first plurality of the semiconductor substrates and a second cleaning module is configured to clean surfaces of a second plurality of the semiconductor substrates. The apparatus also has a first substrate handling module including a first robotic arm in communication with the debonding module and a second substrate handling module including a second robotic arm that is located between the first cleaning module and the second cleaning module. The second substrate handling module is configured to transfer the first plurality of the semiconductor substrates to first cleaning module and to transfer the second plurality of the semiconductor substrates to the second cleaning module.
US11264252B2
Implementations described herein provide a chamber lid assembly. In one embodiment, a chamber lid assembly includes a heater embedded in a dielectric body forming a boundary of a processing chamber, wherein the heater has one or more heating zones that are independently controlled.
US11264251B2
A method of manufacturing a power amplifier package embedded with an input-output circuit including a dielectric circuit board, a heat sink and lead frames, the method comprising: the step of preparing the dielectric circuit board including the steps of forming a power amplifier hole in which a power amplifier chip is to be disposed on a dielectric substrate, printing an input matching network metal pattern on a left side of the power amplifier hole, and printing an output matching network metal pattern on a right side of the power amplifier hole, and sintering the input matching network metal pattern and the output matching network metal pattern printed on the dielectric substrate; the step of preparing the lead frames by etching alloy 42 and plating nickel; and the step of attaching the heat sink on a bottom surface of the dielectric circuit board.
US11264241B2
A semiconductor substrate includes a single crystal Ga2O3-based substrate and a polycrystalline substrate that are bonded to each other. A thickness of the single crystal Ga2O3-based substrate is smaller than a thickness of the polycrystalline substrate, and a fracture toughness value of the polycrystalline substrate is higher than a fracture toughness value of the single crystal Ga2O3-based substrate.
US11264236B2
A substrate processing method includes: providing a substrate having a pattern formed on a surface layer thereof; setting a temperature of the substrate such that a change in the pattern becomes a predetermined change amount; forming a reaction layer having a thickness corresponding to the temperature set in the setting on the surface layer of the substrate; and applying energy to the substrate formed with the reaction layer thereby removing the reaction layer from the surface layer of the substrate.
US11264234B2
Disclosed are methods and systems for providing silicon carbide films. A layer of silicon carbide can be provided under process conditions that employ one or more silicon-containing precursors that have one or more silicon-hydrogen bonds and/or silicon-silicon bonds. The silicon-containing precursors may also have one or more silicon-oxygen bonds and/or silicon-carbon bonds. One or more radical species in a substantially low energy state can react with the silicon-containing precursors to form the silicon carbide film. The one or more radical species can be formed in a remote plasma source.
US11264233B2
According to one embodiment, a method for cleaning a substrate includes first cleaning process and second cleaning process. The first cleaning process subjects a substrate to a first cleaning method. The second cleaning process subjects the substrate to a second cleaning method that is different from the first cleaning method and is subsequent to the first cleaning process. The first cleaning method includes at least one of acidic cleaning or alkaline cleaning. The second cleaning method includes freeze cleaning.
US11264232B2
Methods for cleaning integrated circuit (IC) wafers after undergoing planarization processes (for example, chemical mechanical polishing processes) and associated cleaning units and/or planarization units are disclosed herein. An exemplary method includes configuring outlet areas of spray nozzles to deliver a cleaning solution to optimal locations of the IC wafer and delivering the cleaning solution via the spray nozzles having the configured outlet areas to the IC wafer. Each of the outlet areas is configured to achieve a particular velocity of the cleaning solution exiting the outlet area, such that the cleaning solution reaches a particular location of the IC wafer depending on the particular velocity. In some implementations, the cleaning solution enters inlet areas of the spray nozzles at the same flow rate and the cleaning solution exits the outlet areas of the spray nozzles at different velocities.
US11264230B2
Measurement of a standard sample is repeated under control of an analysis control unit (94) while a CD voltage applied to a conversion dynode (61) of a detection unit (6) is gradually changed by a CD voltage adjustment unit (96). Then, every time a measured mass spectrum is obtained, a spectrum pattern determination unit (93) determines whether a pattern of the measured mass spectrum matches a pattern of a standard mass spectrum of a standard sample in a compound database (92), and determines the CD voltage at the time of being regarded as matching to be the set value. When the pattern of the mass spectrum is adjusted by changing the voltage applied to the ion lens (3), performance such as sensitivity is likely to be unstable due to stain on the lens electrode or the like, but since the detection unit (6) is unlikely to be affected by such a stain, unstable performance can be avoided.
US11264229B1
Disclosed embodiments include a time-of-flight mass spectrometer with a straight ion optical axis comprising: an ion gate is electrically insolated electrode on which applied voltages to reject/pass ions through ion gate, entrance module and exit module set in focus/mirror modes, and create ion optical image on image plane located in field view aperture, electrostatic object lens, entrance module in focus mode and, transport electrostatic lens, exit module in focus mode and projection lens focused and map ions from image plane of field view aperture to image plane of ion detector, projection lens configured to form ion optical image of sample holder on image plane of ion detector and ion optical components with corrected geometrical, chromatic and timed aberrations configured to compensate time arriving disturbance in image plane of ion detector and improve mass and spatial resolution of image on image plane of ion detector.
US11264228B2
A method for modifying a carbon thermal ionization filament is disclosed. In particular, the method requires a step of reacting a fluorine-containing compound with the carbon thermal ionization filament to provide a fluorinated carbon thermal ionization filament. Such method can result in a fluorinated carbon thermal ionization filament that can be employed in a system, such as a thermal ionization mass spectrometer, for ionizing a sample.
US11264218B2
An apparatus of processing a target substrate is provided. The apparatus includes a processing chamber having a substantially cylindrical inner space, a mounting table disposed in the processing chamber and configured to mount thereon the target substrate, at least one supply line configured to supply a gas in a direction along an inner wall surface of a sidewall of the processing chamber to generate a swirl flow of the gas in the processing chamber, and a ventilator configured to exhaust the gas from the processing chamber. Further, in a direction intersecting an axis of the substantially cylindrical inner space, a flow velocity of the gas in a first region close to the inner wall surface is higher than a flow velocity of the gas in a second region where the mounting table is disposed.
US11264217B2
There is provided a technique that include: a process chamber including a plasma generation space and a process space; a coil electrode arranged around the plasma generation space; a substrate mounting table on which a substrate to be processed in the process space is mounted; an elevator configured to move the substrate mounting table in the process chamber; and a controller configured to control the elevator to vary a distance between the substrate and an end portion of the coil electrode according to process distribution information on the substrate.
US11264210B2
In one embodiment, the present disclosure may be directed to a method for impedance matching. A matching network is positioned between a radio frequency (RF) source and a plasma chamber. The RF source is configured to provide at least two non-zero pulse levels, and the matching network includes at least one electronically variable capacitor (EVC) configured to alter its capacitance to provide a match configuration. For each of the pulse levels, at a regular time interval, the method determines a first parameter value for a first parameter related to the plasma chamber or matching network. For each of the pulse levels, the method carries out a separate matching process based on the determined parameter values for the pulse level.
US11264203B1
A method, a non-transitory computer readable medium and a system for reducing a temperature difference between a sample and a chuck of an electron beam tool. The method may include determining a target temperature of samples located at the load port of the electron beam tool; setting a temperature of the samples, located at the load port, to the target temperature; moving the sample from the load port to the chuck, the chuck is located within a vacuum chamber, the sample belongs to the samples; and positioning the sample on the chuck, wherein when positioned on the chuck, a temperature of the sample substantially equals a temperature of the chuck.
US11264196B1
Melting fuse with a melting wire arranged between a first and a second terminal, characterized in that a connecting pin is arranged on each of the first and second terminals, a printed circuit board is placed on the connection pin, and at least one integrated circuit is arranged on the printed circuit board on the side facing away from the melting wire.
US11264192B2
A circuit interrupter includes a fixed terminal, a movable contactor, a moving mechanism, a squib, and accommodation. The fixed terminal includes a fixed contact. The movable contactor includes a movable contact connected to the fixed contact. The moving mechanism is configured to move the movable contactor from a closed position where the movable contact is connected to the fixed contact to an open position where the movable contact is separated from the fixed contact. The squib is configured to generate gas by combustion. The accommodation is for accommodating the fixed contact and the movable contactor. In the circuit interrupter, the gas is introduced into the accommodation.
US11264189B1
An electrical load control device such as, for example, an electrical switch is disclosed. In use, the electrical device includes a manual switch or mechanical actuator positioned with an opening or aperture of a front cover of the device, the manual switch or actuator being arranged and configured to manipulate a connected load. The electrical device includes one or more geometries, surface features, or spacers arranged and configured within the aperture of the front cover. During use, the geometries, surfaces features, or spacers are arranged and configured to interact with the manual switch or actuator to reposition and/or align the switch or actuator within the aperture so that a consistent and uniform gap or spacing is maintained between the outer perimeter of the switch or actuator and the inner surface of the aperture. In one embodiment, the geometries, surfaces features, or spacers may be positioned within one or more of the corners of the aperture.
US11264188B2
An operator for an electrical switching apparatus includes an actuator configured to be grasped by a user. A linkage is attached to the actuator at a first end of the linkage and configured for extending through an enclosure housing the electrical switching apparatus. An engagement assembly is attached to the linkage at a second end of the linkage such that when the operator is mounted to the enclosure movement of the actuator outside of the enclosure causes movement of the engagement assembly inside the enclosure. The engagement assembly includes an extension arm attached to the linkage and an attachment member attached to the extension arm. The attachment member is configured to engage a toggle of the electrical switching apparatus in the enclosure to move the toggle between at least two positions.
US11264179B2
The present disclosure describes solution methods for manufacturing perovskite halide films for use in solar cells. The methods include the use of additives that facilitate the formation of transitory, intermediate films that are later transformed into the final target perovskite halide films, such that the final films provide improved physical characteristics and operational performance.
US11264178B2
An electronic component includes: a capacitor array including a plurality of tantalum capacitors arranged linearly; and a fixing member supporting a first surface and both side surfaces of the capacitor array so that the plurality of tantalum capacitors are not separated, wherein an area through which adjacent tantalum capacitors in the capacitor array are in contact with each other is 90% or more of an entire area of a corresponding surface of the adjacent tantalum capacitors.
US11264163B2
A method of manufacturing a winding-type coil component, wherein at the time of manufacturing the winding-type coil component, the method can efficiently form an inclined external electrode, can change inclination of an external electrode, and can satisfy a demand for the manufacture of plural kinds of winding-type coil components provided with external electrodes having different inclination angles respectively.
US11264162B2
A coil component includes a first coil and a second coil that are magnetically coupled to each other. The coil component includes a multilayer body, first wiring patterns, second wiring patterns, and third wiring patterns. The first coil includes a portion in which the first wiring patterns and the third wiring patterns are electrically connected to each other by a first via conductor and a second via conductor through the first wiring patterns and the third wiring pattern to connect the wiring patterns in parallel. The second coil includes a portion in which the second wiring patterns and the third wiring patterns are electrically connected to each other by a third via conductor and a fourth via conductor through the second wiring patterns and the third wiring pattern to connect the wiring patterns in parallel.
US11264152B2
Methods and apparatus for robot motion control and wire dispensing during automated routing of wires onto harness form boards. The robot includes a manipulator arm and a wire-routing end effector mounted to a distal end of the manipulator arm. The wire-routing end effector is configured for dispensing and routing a wire along a path through form board devices mounted to a harness form board. The wire-routing end effector is moved along a planned path under the control of a robot controller. An end effector path is provided with a set of processes that enable rapid, even fully automatic, development of robot motion controls for routing wires on harness form boards. The system uses a measurement encoder on the end effector that is routing individual wires on a wire harness form board to learn the length of each wire and its length variation.
US11264148B2
A composite cable includes a pair of first electric wires, a twisted pair wire formed by twisting a pair of second electric wires having a smaller outer diameter than the first electric wires, a tape member wound into a spiral around an assembly that is formed by twisting the pair of first electric wires and the twisted pair wire together, and a sheath covering an outer periphery of the tape member. The tape member and the sheath includes an inwardly projecting part formed in a spiral along a cable longitudinal direction and formed so as to enter inward at least one of a valley part between the two first electric wires and valley parts between the first electric wires and the twisted pair wire. The inwardly projecting part has a projecting length of not less than 3% of an outer diameter of the first electric wires.
US11264147B2
A cable assembly extends in a longitudinal direction. The cable assembly comprises a first cable, two second cables, two coupling portions, an interposing portion and an outer cover. The first cable has a first conductor and a first cover. Each of the second cables has a second conductor and a second cover. The coupling portions couple the second covers, respectively, with the first cover. The first cable, the two second cables and the two coupling portions are arranged in a V-shape in a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. The interposing portion extends along the first cable and the two second cables and has a full length which is equal to that of each of the first cable and the two second cables. The interposing portion is brought into contact with all the first cable and the two second cables.
US11264145B2
An extensible electroconductive wiring material includes a flexible electroconductive material and insulating elastic bodies and, wherein the flexible electroconductive material having an electroconductive layer has vent peripheral edge portions in which vent holes and/or vent slits are penetrated and aligned in series and/or in parallel along an energization direction of the electroconductive layer while the vent peripheral edge portions are energizably linked, and the vent peripheral edge portions is sealed and covered by the insulating elastic bodies, so as not to be exposed; and the insulating elastic bodies, have penetration slits, and/or penetration holes which penetrate therethrough while matching the vent peripheral edge portions and are smaller than the vent holes and the vent slits. The extensible electroconductive wiring module has a plurality of these extensible electroconductive wiring materials.
US11264143B2
Solid nanocomposite material comprising nanoparticles of a hexacyanometallate or octacyanometallate of an alkali metal and of a transition metal, of formula [Alk+x]Mn+[M′(CN)m]z− in which Alk is an alkali metal, x is 1 or 2, M is a transition metal, n is 2 or 3, M′ is a transition metal, m is 6 or 8, z is 3 or 4, attached to at least one surface of a porous inorganic solid support, in which the nanoparticles are attached by adsorption to the at least one surface of the solid support, and in which the surface is a basic surface. Method for preparing this material. Method for extracting at least one metal cation from a liquid medium containing it, wherein the liquid medium is brought into contact with the material.
US11264117B2
A method for identifying neoantigens that are likely to be presented on a surface of tumor cells of a subject. Peptide sequences of tumor neoantigens are obtained by sequencing the tumor cells of the subject. The peptide sequence of each of the neoantigens is associated with one or more k-mer blocks of a plurality of k-mer blocks of the nucleotide sequencing data of the subject; The peptide sequences and the associated k-mer blocks are input into a machine-learned presentation model to generate presentation likelihoods for the tumor neoantigens, each presentation likelihood representing the likelihood that a neoantigen is presented by an MHC allele on the surfaces of the tumor cells of the subject. A subset of the neoantigens is selected based on the presentation likelihoods.
US11264116B2
Several embodiments of systems incorporating memory sub-systems are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a memory sub-system can include a memory component and a processing device configured to perform a background scan on a memory region of the memory component. In some embodiments, the background scan includes generating a bit error count (BEC) of a codeword saved on the memory region and saving statistical information corresponding to the BEC of the codeword to a histogram statistics log. In some embodiments, when the BEC of the codeword is greater than a BEC threshold, a refresh operation is scheduled for the memory region and/or logged. In these and other embodiments, when one or more error recovery error correction code (ECC) operations do not correct bit errors in the codeword, a refresh and/or retirement operation is schedule for the memory region and/or is logged.
US11264113B2
A memory system and an operating method thereof are provided. The memory system includes a storage device including a mode register suitable for activating or inactivating an auto mode and a memory suitable for storing data, and a storage device controller controlling the mode register to enter a test mode, after inactivating the auto mode, during a test operation of the storage device, and controlling the mode register to activate the auto mode again when the test operation of the storage device is completed.
US11264110B2
Apparatuses and techniques are described for periodically refreshing word line voltages in a block of memory cells based on the susceptibility of the block to read errors. One source of read errors is delayed read disturb which results from a low word line voltage during idle periods of the memory device. In one aspect, periodic refresh operations are optimized based on factors such as a number of bits per cell in the block and number of program-erase (P-E) cycles. For example, at high P-E cycles, the amplitude of a refresh voltage for a single-level cell (SLC) block can be 0 V or lower while the amplitude of a refresh voltage for a multi-level cell (MLC) block can be an intermediate voltage between 0 V and a pass voltage.
US11264105B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes first and second memory cells, first and second word lines, and a bit line. The first and second memory cells are coupled to each other and adjacent to each other. When a state of the second memory cell is the first state or one of the states corresponding to a lower threshold voltage distribution than that of the first state, the first memory cell data is read in a first period during which a first voltage is applied to the second word line. And when the state of the second memory cell is the second state or one of the states corresponding to a higher threshold voltage distribution than the second state, the first memory cell data is read in a second period during which a second voltage higher than the first voltage is applied to the second word line.
US11264099B2
An example apparatus includes a controller and a memory device. The memory device is configured to maintain, internal to the memory device, a status of a number of open blocks in the memory device. The status can include a programming operation being initiated in the respective number of open blocks. Responsive to receipt of, from the controller, a request to direct initiation of the programming operation to a word line, determine a group of memory cells associated with the word line that programs first relative to other groups of memory cells associated with the word line and maintain, included in the status of an open block, a voltage at which the group of memory cells is the first group to program.
US11264094B2
An embodiment of a semiconductor apparatus may include technology to convert an analog voltage level of a memory cell of a multi-level memory to a multi-bit digital value, and determine a single-bit value of the memory cell based on the multi-bit digital value. Some embodiments may also include technology to track a temporal history of accesses to the memory cell for a duration in excess of ten seconds, and determine the single-bit value of the memory cell based on the multi-bit digital value and the temporal history. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
US11264093B1
A circuit includes a first transistor and a second transistor cross-coupled with each other such that a source of the first transistor and a source of the second transistor are connected to a power supply, a gate of the first transistor is connected to a drain of the second transistor at a first node, a gate of the second transistor is connected to a drain of the first transistor at a second node. The circuit can provide a first level of a word line voltage to the memory cell by directly coupling the power supply configured at a first level to the memory cell through the second transistor and a third transistor, and provide a second level of the word line voltage by directly coupling the power supply configured at a second level to the memory cell through the second transistor and the third transistor.
US11264088B2
A device is disclosed that includes a plurality of first memory cells, a plurality of second memory cells, a power circuit, and a header circuit. The power circuit is configured to provide a first power voltage via a conductive line for the plurality of first memory cells, and to provide a second power voltage, that is independent from the first power voltage, for the plurality of second memory cells. The header circuit is configured to provide, during the write operation, the first voltage smaller than the first power voltage, the second power voltage, or smaller than the first power voltage and the second power voltage, for corresponding memory cells of the plurality of first memory cells via the conductive line and for corresponding memory cells of the plurality of second memory cells. A circuit structure of the power circuit is different from a circuit structure of the header circuit.
US11264077B2
A memory subsystem is disclosed comprising at least one memory module, the memory module having a substrate to which a plurality of memory chips is mounted and a voltage regulator, the voltage regulator receiving a power supply signal from a system power supply and outputting two or more power signals, each power signal providing a different, regulated voltage, which regulated voltages are each routed to each of the memory chips; and a redundant voltage regulator external to and not mounted on the memory module and configured to output two or more power signals, providing external different, regulated voltages which are the same voltages as the voltages output by the voltage regulator on the memory module, and supplying the two or more signals to the memory module.
US11264068B2
Apparatuses for providing a clock signal for a semiconductor device are described. An example apparatus includes a chip including a first clock tree and a second clock tree. The first clock tree includes a first wiring segment extending in a first direction and a second wiring segment extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and coupled the first wiring segment. The second clock tree includes a third wiring segment extending in the second direction, a fourth wiring segment extending in the first direction and coupled to the third wiring segment, and a fifth wiring segment extending in the second direction and coupled to the fourth wiring segment.
US11264060B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for dynamically generating a memory bitcell supply voltage rail from a logic supply voltage rail are disclosed. A circuit includes at least one or more comparators, control logic, and power stage circuitry. The circuit receives a logic supply voltage rail and compares the logic supply voltage rail to threshold voltage(s) using the comparator(s). Comparison signal(s) from the comparator(s) are coupled to the control logic. The control logic generates mode control signals based on the comparison signal(s) and based on a programmable dynamic range that is desired for a memory bitcell supply voltage rail. The mode control signals are provided to the power stage circuitry which generates the memory bitcell supply voltage rail from the logic supply voltage rail. A voltage level of the memory bitcell supply voltage rail can be above, below, or the same as the logic supply voltage rail.
US11264052B1
Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to a magnetic recording device comprising a magnetic recording head having a negative anisotropic magnetic (−Ku) material notch. The magnetic recording device comprises a main pole disposed at a media facing surface (MFS), a trailing shield disposed adjacent to the main pole, and a trailing gap disposed between the main pole and the trailing shield. The trailing shield comprises a hot seed layer disposed adjacent to the trailing gap, and a notch comprising a −Ku material in contact with the hot seed layer and the trailing gap. The notch is disposed adjacent to a first surface of the main pole at the MFS. The notch comprising the −Ku material results in an increased effective write magnetic field, an increased down-track field gradient due to reduced shunting from the main pole to the trailing shield, leading to an increased areal density capacity.
US11264051B1
A PMR writer with a capacitive one turn design is disclosed with a one turn top coil above the main pole (MP), a one turn bottom coil below the MP, and where a capacitor (C_bot) is electrically connected to the bottom coil thereby shunting the write current (lw) in the bottom coil above certain frequencies proximate to 1 GHz. The C_bot is made of TiO2 or Al-doped TiO2, for example, with a dielectric constant >10. As a result, the writer behaves like a 1+1T writer at lw frequencies substantially below 1 GHz, as a 1+0.xT writer at lw frequencies proximate to 1 GHz, and like a 1+0T writer in an overshoot region of the lw. Accordingly, better trailing shield field gradient, signal-to-noise ratio, and bit error rate during high frequency operation are achieved without compromising saturation speed and adjacent track interference for an overall improvement in performance.
US11264050B2
An apparatus and method of blind detection of binauralized audio. If the input content is detected as binaural, a second binauralization may be avoided. In this manner, the user experience avoids audio artifacts introduced by multiple binauralizations.
US11264049B2
Systems and methods provide a first sample of audio data and detect speech onset in the first sample of the audio data. Responsive to detecting the speech onset, systems and methods switch from capturing second samples of the audio data at first intervals, to capturing the second samples of the audio data at second intervals. Systems and methods provide contiguous audio data using the second samples of the audio data captured at the first intervals and at least one captured portion of the second samples of the audio data captured at the second intervals.
US11264047B2
A voice enabled device includes a transducer to capture multiple inaudible signals received from multiple ultrasonic speakers and audio recording electronics to process the multiple inaudible signals to generate digital output samples, which are recorded sound data comprising non-linearities from frequency-shifted versions of the multiple inaudible signals to within an audible frequency range. A processing device is to detect, within the recorded sound data, at least a portion of the non-linearities, e.g., via: comparison of the recorded sound data with expected patterns from an audible audio signal generated by human voice; and detection of non-linear variations within the recorded sound data as compared to the expected patterns. In response to the detection, the processing device is further to suppress an action programmed for response to a voice command corresponding to the recorded sound data.
US11264045B2
In an audio processing system (300), a filtering section (350, 400): receives subband signals (410, 420, 430) corresponding to audio content of a reference signal (301) in respective frequency subbands; receives subband signals (411, 421, 431) corresponding to audio content of a response signal (304) in the respective subbands; and forms filtered inband references (412, 422, 432) by applying respective filters (413, 423, 433) to the subband signals of the reference signal. For a frequency subband: filtered crossband references (424, 425) are formed by multiplying, by scalar factors (426, 427), filtered inband references of other subbands; a composite filtered reference (428) is formed by summing the filtered inband reference of the subband (422) and the filtered crossband references; a residual signal (429) is computed as a difference between the composite filtered reference and the subband signal of the response signal corresponding to the subband; and the scalar factors and the filter applied to the subband signal of the reference signal corresponding to the subband are adjusted based on the residual signal.
US11264044B2
To begin with, an acoustic model training apparatus extracts speech features representing speech characteristics, and calculates an acoustic-condition feature representing a feature of an acoustic condition of the speech data using an acoustic-condition calculation model that is represented as a neural network, based on an acoustic-condition calculation model parameter characterizing the acoustic-condition calculation model. The acoustic model training apparatus then generates an adjusted parameter that is an acoustic model parameter adjusted based on the acoustic-condition feature, the acoustic model parameter characterizing an acoustic model represented as a neural network to which an output layer of the acoustic-condition calculation model is coupled. The acoustic model training apparatus then updates the acoustic model parameter based on the adjusted parameter and the speech features, and updates the acoustic-condition calculation model parameters based on the adjusted parameter and the speech features.
US11264037B2
A method of speaker identification comprises receiving an audio signal representing speech; performing a first voice biometric process on the audio signal to attempt to identify whether the speech is the speech of an enrolled speaker; and, if the first voice biometric process makes an initial determination that the speech is the speech of an enrolled user, performing a second voice biometric process on the audio signal to attempt to identify whether the speech is the speech of the enrolled speaker. The second voice biometric process is selected to be more discriminative than the first voice biometric process.
US11264032B2
Methods, apparatus, and computer readable media related to receiving textual input of a user during a dialog between the user and an automated assistant (and optionally one or more additional users), and generating responsive reply content based on the textual input and based on user state information. The reply content is provided for inclusion in the dialog. In some implementations, the reply content is provided as a reply, by the automated assistant, to the user's textual input and may optionally be automatically incorporated in the dialog between the user and the automated assistant. In some implementations, the reply content is suggested by the automated assistant for inclusion in the dialog and is only included in the dialog in response to further user interface input.
US11264026B2
The present application discloses a method, device, and system for interfacing with a terminal with a plurality of response modes. The method includes obtaining a voice command from a user, determining context information corresponding to the voice command, and performing a response operation in response to the voice command, the response operation being based at least in part on a response mode that is determined based at least in part on the context information, and the response mode indicating one or more interfaces for interaction between the terminal and the user.
US11264020B2
A system for user interaction with a building automation system (BAS). The system includes a user device configured to accept vocal inputs and produce audio outputs, and a server in communication with the user device and a BAS controller. The server is configured to translate a vocal input to input text, and determine and store a conversation context based on the input text. The server is further configured to determine a desired output corresponding to the input text. Additionally, the server is configured to receive, from the BAS controller, BAS data corresponding to the desired output, and generate at least one audio output from the BAS data. The user device outputs the at least one audio output, and the server is configured to apply the conversation context to a subsequent vocal input.
US11264018B2
A speech recognition engine is provided voice data indicative of at least a brand of a target appliance. The speech recognition engine uses the voice data indicative of at least a brand of the target appliance to identify within a library of codesets at least one codeset that is cross-referenced to the brand of the target appliance. The at least one codeset so identified is then caused to be provisioned to the controlling device for use in commanding functional operations of the target appliance.
US11264017B2
Systems and methods include a plurality of audio input components configured to generate a plurality of audio input signals, and a logic device configured to receive the plurality of audio input signals, determine whether the plurality of audio signals comprise target audio associated with an audio source, estimate a relative location of the audio source with respect to the plurality of audio input components based on the plurality of audio signals and a determination of whether the plurality of audio signals comprise the target audio, and process the plurality of audio signals to generate an audio output signal by enhancing the target audio based on the estimated relative location. The logic device is further configured to use relative transfer-based covariance to construct directional covariance matrix aligned across frequency bands and find a direction that minimizes beam power subject to distortionless criteria.
US11264013B2
Identifying private information and preventing privacy violations is provided by a process that evaluates digital information obtained by an organization as part of a digital information stream from a user. The evaluating identifies a user utterance, including keyword(s), entity/ies, and intent(s), and applies natural language understanding to the digital information to ascertain a contextual understanding for the user utterance. The process selects training set(s) of historical information from available training sets that includes vocabulary used in varying contexts. The process compares the identified user utterance to an ontology based on the selected training set(s), and determines a confidence level that the digital information includes digital private information. The process also flags for the organization an action to take with respect to handling of the digital information. The flagging is based on the determined confidence level that the digital information includes digital private information.
US11264007B2
A translation device includes a speech recognition unit, a storage, a translation processor, and an information acquisition unit. The speech recognition unit recognizes a voice to generate a spoken sentence in a first language. The storage stores a plurality of example sentences each including a parameter representing a category corresponding to a plurality of terms. The translation processor searches the plurality of example sentences stored in the storage for an example sentence on the basis of the spoken sentence as a search result example sentence, and generates a converted sentence based on the search result example sentence. The information acquisition unit acquires specific information representing a specific term which corresponds to a specific parameter. If the search result example sentence includes the specific parameter, the translation processor generates the converted sentence based on the specific term represented by the specific information.
US11263998B2
Provided are techniques for providing animation in electronic communications. An image is generated by capturing multiple photographs from a camera or video camera. The first photograph is called the “key photo”. Using a graphics program, photos subsequent to the key photo are edited to cut an element common to the subsequent photos. The cut images are pasted into the key photo as layers. The modified key photo, including the layers, is stored as a web-enabled graphics file, which is then transmitted in conjunction with electronic communication. When the electronic communication is received, the key photo is displayed and each of the layers is displayed and removed in the order that each was taken with a short delay between photos. In this manner, a movie is generated with much smaller files than is currently possible.
US11263995B2
A display device, an electronic equipment, and a method for driving a display device are disclosed. The display device includes a first light source group, a second light source group, a first image sensor group, and a second image sensor group. The first light source group is configured to emit light of a first determined frequency to illuminate a first partial region of a detection object, the second light source group is configured to emit light of a second determined frequency to illuminate a second partial region of the detection object, the first image sensor group is configured to receive the light of the first determined frequency emitted by the first light source group and reflected by the detection object, and the second image sensor group is configured to receive the light of the second determined frequency emitted by the second light source group and reflected by the detection object.
US11263991B2
Technology for a display source controller is described. The display source controller can receive display pixel data from a display source. The display source controller can convert the display pixel data to display symbol data that includes a plurality of 32-bit double words (DWords). The display source controller can divide the display symbol data that includes the plurality of 32-bit DWords for a number of unidirectional serial data channels. The display source controller can process, for each unidirectional serial data channel, the display symbol data at a 32-bit DWord granularity level. The display source controller can send the display symbol data for each of the unidirectional serial data channels over a physical serial link to a display panel.
US11263989B2
A display device includes a display panel, a data driver, a gate driver, and a controller. The display panel includes a plurality of pixels. The data driver provides data voltages to the plurality of pixels through data lines during an active period of a frame period and provides a blank voltage to the plurality of pixels through the data lines during a blank period of the frame period. The gate driver provides a gate-on voltage to the plurality of pixels through gate lines during the active period and provides a gate-off voltage to the plurality of pixels through the gate lines during the blank period. The controller controls the data driver and the gate driver. The blank voltage increases and the gate-off voltage increases, when a time in the blank period reaches a predetermined time.
US11263981B2
A display device includes: a display panel including a display region for image display; an illumination device including a plurality of light sources, the illumination device being configured to cast light upon the display panel; and a control substrate including a regulator configured to regulate an amount of light emitted from the plurality of light sources, wherein the display region is sectioned into a plurality of sections in a form of concentric circles, and the regulator regulates the amount of light in such a manner that one of the plurality of sections that is adjacent to a middle of the concentric circles is irradiated with a relatively large amount of light, and in such a manner that another one of the plurality of sections that is adjacent to an outer edge of the concentric circles is irradiated with a relatively small amount of light.
US11263972B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a pixel circuitry and a drive method thereof, an array substrate, and a display panel. The pixel circuitry includes a shift register unit, an inverter, and a pixel driving circuit. The shift register unit is configured to provide a first drive signal under the control of an enable signal, a first clock signal, and a second clock signal. The inverter is configured to invert the first drive signal to generate a second drive signal. The pixel driving circuit is configured to control a light emitting device according to the first drive signal and the second drive signal.
US11263970B2
A pixel driving circuit includes a driving signal control sub-circuit and a driving duration control sub-circuit. The driving signal control sub-circuit is configured to provide a driving signal to the driving duration control sub-circuit under control of a first scanning signal transmitted via the first scanning signal terminal and an enable signal transmitted via the enable signal terminal. The driving signal is related to a first data signal and a first voltage signal. The driving duration control sub-circuit is configured to transmit the driving signal to the element to be driven under control of a second scanning signal transmitted via the second scanning signal terminal and the enable signal transmitted via the enable signal terminal. A duration for transmitting the driving signal to the element to be driven is related to a second data signal.
US11263960B2
Disclosed are a display panel and a driving method. The display panel includes: a substrate, sub-pixels and a switch module. Each sub-pixel includes a pixel drive circuit and a light-emitting element. The pixel drive circuit includes an initialization transistor and a drive transistor, each including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a gate electrode; the first electrode of the initialization transistor is electrically connected to the gate electrode of the drive transistor. The drive transistor provides a drive current to the light-emitting element, the second electrodes of the initialization transistors of at least two sub-pixels are connected to an output terminal of the same switch module. An input terminal of the switch module is electrically connected to an initialization signal terminal. The switch module transfers an initialization signal to the second electrode of the initialization transistor.
US11263959B2
Disclosed is a display device including a power factor corrector including a converter correcting a power factor of an input power and a controller controlling the converter, a power transformer converting power, of which a power factor is corrected by the power factor corrector, and a display panel receiving power through the power transformer to display an image. The controller controls the converter to increase a first voltage when the first voltage output through the converter is less than a specified voltage. Other various embodiments as understood from the specification are also possible.
US11263948B2
A display apparatus and a control method are disclosed. The display apparatus includes a plurality of sub-pixels, at least one photosensitive assembly, and a processor. Each photosensitive assembly is configured to detect and output actual luminance value(s) of at least one sub-pixel. The processor is configured to obtain a display compensation map corresponding to a target sub-pixel according to actual luminance values of the target sub-pixel that are acquired respectively in cases where a plurality of preset display data are input to the target sub-pixel, and target luminance values of the target sub-pixel that are obtained respectively in cases where the plurality of preset display data are input to the target sub-pixel.
US11263947B2
A display panel and a driving method thereof, a drive device, and a drive system. The display panel includes a plurality of data lines, a plurality of gate lines, and a pixel array. The pixel array includes a communication pixel including a communication sub-pixel; the first communication gate line of the plurality of gate lines connected to the communication sub-pixel is configured to transmit a first scan signal which includes a display scan sub-signal and a first communication scan sub-signal, the first communication data line of the plurality of data lines connected to the communication sub-pixel is configured to transmit a first data signal which includes a first display data sub-signal and a first communication data sub-signal; and the communication sub-pixel is configured to display information corresponding to the first display data sub-signal and information corresponding to the first communication data sub-signal in a time-sharing manner.
US11263946B2
Disclosed are a reference voltage generating circuit and a display device. The reference voltage generating circuit includes a timing control circuit, a digital-to-analog conversion circuit, an operational amplifier circuit, a drive circuit, a switch control circuit, a first switch circuit, and a second switch circuit. The switch control circuit generates a control signal according to a frame start signal and a clock signal provided by the timing control circuit, and outputs the control signal to the first switch circuit and the second switch circuit to control the channels inside the first switch circuit and the second switch circuit to be turned on sequentially, such that an analog voltage signal output by the digital-to-analog conversion circuit can be output to the drive circuit through the first switch circuit, the operational amplifier circuit and the second switch circuit, to provide a reference voltage signal for the drive circuit.
US11263939B2
Embodiments of the present application disclose various display control methods and apparatuses and various display devices, wherein one of the display control methods comprises: adjusting display pixel density of at least one display unit in a display array as uneven distribution; and displaying multiple first images respectively via multiple display units in the adjusted display array, to splice and/or superimpose the multiple first images to be displayed as a second image, the multiple display units comprising the at least one display unit. The present application can increase the actual utilization rate of display pixels of the display array, and improve splicing and/or image local display quality.
US11263938B1
A light-emitting panel and a display device are provided. The light-emitting panel includes a plurality of light-emitting components arranged in an array, a plurality of signal calculation modules, and a reference-signal generation module. A light-emitting component includes a light-emitting module and a first switch module. The light-emitting module and the first switch module are connected in series between a first power terminal and a second power terminal. A control terminal of the first switch module is connected to a signal calculation module, and the signal calculation module is connected to the reference-signal generation module. The reference-signal generation module is configured to generate a reference signal. The signal calculation module is configured to receive an original data signal and the reference signal, and generate a first data signal. The signal calculation module is further configured to generate a pulse width modulation signal, and to control the light-emitting module to emit light.
US11263927B2
A tamper evident label is formed of destructible material and has opposite major surfaces. One of the major surfaces has an adhesive thereon and is configured to overlie a theft protection sensor and adhere to an article to be protected. At least one weakness formation is provided in the label adjacent the periphery thereof.
US11263923B2
Vasculature models and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, the model comprises a tube including a lumen extending therethrough, a synthetic thrombus including a magnetic component, and a magnetized member. The thrombus is sized to be positioned within the lumen, and the magnetized member is positioned peripheral to the thrombus such that a radially outward force is exerted on the thrombus via the magnetized member. The tube may be part of a network of tubes that generally resemble human neurovasculature.
US11263916B2
An application for an adaptive training system includes a computer interfaced to one or more graphics displays, one of more input/output devices and having access to a plurality of training segments. The input/output devices are in communication with a trainee. Software operates in either a simulation mode in which a trainee interacts with the adaptive training system as if the trainee was operating a target vehicle or in a training mode in which the trainee receives computer-based training from the adaptive training system, in particular, when the trainee does not perform well during the simulation mode of operation.
US11263915B2
A simulator for simulating a use of a missile of an attacking system is proposed. The simulator comprises: a storage device for storing of a terrain model of a battle terrain and target object models of target objects; a sensing unit for sensing and tracking a defined target object of the target objects in the battle terrain; a transmitting unit for transmitting a coded laser signal to the defined target object; a receiving unit for receiving a response signal transmitted by the defined target object; a providing unit for providing a target object model for the defined target object in dependence on at least type information of the received response signal; and a visual means associated with the missile for outputting a current visual representation of the battle terrain by means of the terrain model, the provided target object model and the location information.
US11263909B2
Air traffic control systems and methods include communicating with passenger drones via one or more cell towers associated with the one or more wireless networks, wherein the passenger drones each include hardware and antennas adapted to communicate to the one or more cell towers, and wherein each passenger drone has a unique identifier in the air traffic control system; obtaining data associated with flight of each of the passenger drones based on the communicating; and managing the flight of each of the passenger drones based on the obtained data and performance of one or more functions associated with air traffic control, wherein each passenger drone is configured to constrain flight based on a determined route.
US11263903B2
Provided is an information provision system capable of reducing secondary damage in the case of a disaster. The information provision system includes: a vehicle; and an information provision apparatus communicatively connected to the vehicle and configured to provide information to the vehicle. The information provision apparatus includes an acquirer that acquires fire-related information indicating information about fire, a fire detector that detects an occurrence of fire based on the fire-related information, and a fire information generator that generates, in response to the detection of the occurrence of fire by the fire detector, fire avoidance information for avoiding the fire, and transmits the fire avoidance information to the vehicle. The vehicle includes an information receiver that receives the fire avoidance information, and a display controller that causes a display to display the fire avoidance information.
US11263899B2
A retrofittable modular school bus safety apparatus comprising a CPU, a plurality of sensors and scanners, an electrical plug device, and an output device. The electrical plug device is preferably adapted to plug into an auxiliary power port, a USB port or an OBD port to provide electrical power to the apparatus and to provide actuatable communication to school bus devices such as lights, horns, crossing arm, etc. The sensors include machine vision sensors, proximity detection sensors, and speed detection sensors. The apparatus is adapted to “read” a vehicle's license plate via ALPR, perform facial recognition, automatically monitor and warn/alert traffic proximate the school bus, to automatically respond with an appropriate level of response depending on an observed level of a moving violation, and to automatically wirelessly obtain the traffic laws/regulations applicable to location of the school bus and to operate accordingly.
US11263898B2
A method of assessing whether a vehicle is straddled between lanes (12,14) on a multi-lane carriageway, the method comprising the steps of: a) measuring inductance change values from two adjacent inductive loops (22a, 20b) situated at a loop site, as the vehicle traverses the loop site; b) summing separate logarithms of the inductance change values, or taking a logarithm of the product of the inductance change values, to obtain a value; and c) comparing the value from step (b) against a predetermined threshold value to make a determination as to whether: i) a single vehicle is straddling multiple lanes (12,14), where the value from step (b) is on one side of the predetermined threshold value, or ii) two vehicles are present in adjacent lanes (12,14), where the value from step (b) is on the other side of the predetermined threshold value.
US11263896B2
This application relates to a method and a system for automatically detecting jaywalking of vulnerable road users (VRUs). In one aspect, the method includes first determining whether a detected current trajectory of the first VRU substantially matches a first path infrequently taken by the plurality of VRUs. The method also includes second determining whether a predicted trajectory of a selected VRU crosses a second path frequently taken by a plurality of vehicles based on the past trajectory data of the plurality of vehicles. The method further includes third determining whether the predicted trajectory of the selected VRU is substantially distal to a third path marked for VRU use. The method further includes determining whether the selected VRU is jaywalking based on the first determining, the second determining, and the third determining.
US11263877B2
A method for identifying a mechanical impedance of an electromagnetic load may include generating a waveform signal for driving an electromagnetic load, the waveform signal comprising a first tone at a first driving frequency and a second tone at a second driving frequency. The method may also include during driving of the electromagnetic load by the waveform signal or a signal derived therefrom, receiving a current signal representative of a current associated with the electromagnetic load and a back electromotive force signal representative of a back electromotive force associated with the electromagnetic load. The method may further include determining amplitude and phase information of the current signal responsive to the first tone and second tone, determining amplitude and phase information of the back electromotive force signal responsive to the first tone and second tone, and identifying parameters of the mechanical impedance of the electromagnetic load based on the amplitude and phase information of the current signal and the amplitude and phase information of the back electromotive force signal.
US11263870B2
A user interface of the invention includes an operation input interface including multiple selection buttons for a player to conduct a winning game, and an information output interface including winning balls positioned corresponding to the selection buttons. The winning balls respectively comprise a pattern which is hidden. The winning balls are respectively associated with at least one of multiple winning prizes. After a winning game starts, the winning balls and the selection buttons are provided on the information output interface and the operation input interface. The pattern of the winning prize having the position corresponding to the selection button selected by the player is displayed, and at least one associated winning prize is triggered according to the selected selection button. When the triggered times of the winning prize has reached a threshold, the player wins the winning prize of which the triggered times has reached the threshold.
US11263857B1
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for re-configuring a recycling unit of a self-service terminal that includes a plurality of cassettes. The systems and methods can include receiving an indication that a first cassette of the plurality of cassettes has reached a storage capacity. A second cassette can be selected from the plurality of cassettes after the first cassette has reached the storage capacity. The second cassette can initially be one of a plurality of recycling cassettes. A parameter associated with the second cassette can be changed to indicate the second cassette is no longer a recycling cassette.
US11263846B2
An authentication method used in a server, includes: acquiring check-in information sent by user equipment (UE) of a user, wherein the check-in information includes information on the user and a check-in period; determining information on a room of the user based on the check-in information; sending the information on the room to the UE; determining unlocking information based on the check-in information; and sending the unlocking information to at least one of the UE or door lock equipment corresponding to the information on the room, wherein the door lock equipment is configured to authenticate the user based on the unlocking information during the check-in period, the unlocking information being invalid other than during the check-in period.
US11263844B2
A lock module for use with an electronic lock configured to selectively lock a lockable structure includes a communication subsystem configured to be communicatively coupled to a gateway and configured to be communicatively coupled to an electronic lock, wherein the communication subsystem is further configured to send an unlock signal to the electronic lock.
US11263837B2
Systems and methods for automatically determining, in near real-time, whether a vehicular incident has occurred and for automatically assessing whether the driver of a specific vehicle contributed to that incident. Data related to a specific vehicle is gathered by at least one sensor. The data is then transmitted to a data processing unit, which uses an incident detection module to determine whether an incident occurred. The system may verify that conclusion by sending a message to the vehicle occupant(s). The system may also take actions in response to the incident. If an incident has occurred, the data processing unit can use the vehicle-related data, as well as external data, to assess the contribution of the vehicle's driver. The system may comprise one or more neural networks. The system may also comprise a database for storing the vehicle-related data.
US11263833B2
The present disclosure describes a system for detecting, identifying and addressing a maintenance event for light electric vehicles. The maintenance event may be detected based on rider profile information, riding parameter information and light electric vehicle information. If a maintenance event is detected, a light electric vehicle management system may determine an action that addresses the maintenance event and provide instructions regarding the action to the light electric vehicle and/or one or more individuals that are trained or otherwise certified to address the maintenance event.
US11263822B2
A multiuser, collaborative augmented reality (AR) system employs individual AR devices for viewing real-world anchors, that is, physical models that are recognizable to the camera and image processing module of the AR device. To mitigate ambiguous configurations when used in the collaborative mode, each anchor is registered with a server to ensure that only uniquely recognizable anchors are simultaneously active at a particular location. The system permits collaborative AR to span multiple sites, by associating a portal with an anchor at each site. Using the location of their corresponding AR device as a proxy for their position, AR renditions of the other participating users are provided. This AR system is particularly well suited for games.
US11263819B2
A method includes: triggering rendering of an augmented reality (AR) environment having a viewer configured for generating views of the AR environment; triggering rendering, in the AR environment, of an object with an outside surface visualized using a mesh having a direction oriented away from the object; performing a first determination that the viewer is inside the object as a result of relative movement between the viewer and the object; and in response to the first determination, increasing a transparency of the outside surface, reversing the direction of at least part of the mesh, and triggering rendering of an inside surface of the object using the part of the mesh having the reversed direction, wherein the inside surface is illuminated by light from outside the object due to the increased transparency.
US11263818B2
A three-dimensional geometry of an object is stored, and a representation of the object that can facilitate identification of the object via a camera is also stored. An image of the object is obtained via a scene in the camera. The presence of the object is detected from the image via the stored representation of the object. The three-dimensional geometry to the object is mapped within the scene based on the detection. A virtual object is attached to a point that is at a fixed orientation relative to the three-dimensional geometry based on the mapping. The virtual object is rendered on an augmented reality display as being located at the point and at the fixed orientation regardless of a change in location of the augmented reality display relative to the object.
US11263817B1
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program and method for performing operations comprising: receiving, by one or more processors that implement a messaging application, a video feed from a camera of a user device; detecting, by the messaging application, a face in the video feed; in response to detecting the face in the video feed, retrieving a three-dimensional (3D) caption; modifying the video feed to include the 3D caption at a position in 3D space of the video feed proximate to the face; and displaying a modified video feed that includes the face and the 3D caption.
US11263812B2
Described is compressing a digital representation of an object, wherein the object representation comprises image information items for the object that each specify a value of a measurand for the object at a defined position of the object. Compressing includes determining the object representation, determining a distance field from the image information items of the object representation that comprises a plurality of data points in a grid, the distance field assigns at least one distance value to each of the data points that in each case indicate the shortest distance of the data point from a closest material boundary of the object, determining a near region around a material boundary of the object, determining a sub-set of data points of the distance field which lie outside the near region, deleting the sub-set of data points, and saving the distance field in the form of a compressed object representation.
US11263805B2
The present application discloses method for real-time processing image data based on a rendering engine. The method includes sampling a first set of data in a first pixel arrangement to be displayed as an image in a display screen with pixels in a second pixel arrangement. The method further includes creating a first model mapped with the first set of data to generate a second set of data and a second model mapped with the first set of data to generate a third set of data. Additionally, the method further includes rendering the second set of data using a first shader to output a fourth set of data and rendering the third set of data using a second shader to output a fifth set of data. Furthermore, the method includes superimposing the fourth set of data over the fifth set of data to display a sixth set of data.
US11263803B2
The present disclosure provides a method, apparatus and device for rendering virtual reality scenes. The method includes: obtaining a virtual reality scene and determining whether the virtual reality scene is in a rendering idle state; if the virtual reality scene is in the rendering idle state, performing image rendering on the virtual reality scene to generate a display image and store a correspondence between the display image and a display area; and obtaining a target area to be displayed of the virtual reality scene, calling a target display image corresponding to the target area according to the correspondence and displaying the target display image.
US11263802B2
Apparatuses and methods pertaining to computer handling of three-dimensional volumes are disclosed. One such method comprises obtaining data representing an input set of one or more three-dimensional volumes; selecting a first three-dimensional volume from among the input set of three-dimensional volumes; identifying a concavity in the first three-dimensional volume, the concavity having a region of deepest concavity; splitting the first three-dimensional volume along a split plane or intersection loop contacting or intersecting the region of deepest concavity, such as to provide plural three-dimensional volumes; and providing data representing an output set of two or more three-dimensional volumes.
US11263801B2
The present disclosure provides an automated interpretation workflow for smooth surface wrapping of an imaged volume. The methods use a volume attribute to classify data into regions corresponding to feature/uncertain/non-feature parts and use smoothing through the uncertain parts to connect the clear boundaries of the feature. Any volume attribute can be used as long as feature/uncertain/non-feature categories can be identified in terms of continuous or discontinuous threshold values or ranges. The workflow can be combined with interpretation of well-defined boundary parts to resolve uncertainty and can be used with both explicit single-z and implicit multi-z (level set) boundary representations.
US11263799B2
Cluster of acceleration engines to accelerate intersections. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: a set of graphics cores to execute a first set of instructions of a primary graphics thread; a scalar cluster comprising a plurality of scalar execution engines; and a communication fabric interconnecting the set of graphics cores and the scalar cluster; the set of graphics cores to offload execution of a second set of instructions associated with ray traversal and/or intersection operations to the scalar cluster; the scalar cluster comprising a plurality of local memories, each local memory associated with one of the scalar execution engines, wherein each local memory is to store a portion of a hierarchical acceleration data structure required by an associated scalar execution engine to execute one or more of the second set of instructions; the plurality of scalar execution engines to store results of the execution of the second set of instructions in a memory accessible by the set of graphics cores; wherein the set of graphics cores are to process the results within the primary graphics thread.
US11263798B2
A graphics processing unit having multiple groups of processor cores for rendering graphics data for allocated tiles and outputting the processed data to regions of a memory resource. Scheduling logic allocates sets of tiles to the groups of processor cores to perform a first render, and at a time when at least one of the groups has not completed processing its allocated sets of one or more tiles as part of the first render, allocates at least one set of tiles for a second render to one of the other groups of processor cores for processing. Progress indication logic indicates progress of the first render, indicating regions of the memory resource for which processing for the first render has been completed. Progress check logic checks the progress indication in response to a request for access to a region of the memory resource as part of the second render and enables access that region of the resource in response to an indication that processing for the first render has been completed for that region.
US11263792B1
A calibration method for an x-ray computerized tomography system and a method of tomographic reconstruction are provided. The calibration method includes steps of measuring at least one point spread function (PSF) at each of a plurality of points, compressing each PSF, and in one or more storing operations, storing the compressed PSFs in a computer-accessible storage medium. The PSF measurements are made in a grid of calibration points in a field of view (FOV) of the system. In the measuring step, an absorber is positioned at each of the calibration points, and an x-ray projection is taken at least once at each of those absorber positions. In the method of tomographic image reconstruction, projection data from an x-ray tomographic projection system are input to an iterative image reconstruction algorithm. The algorithm retrieves and utilizes a priori system information (APSI) The APSI comprises comprising point spread functions (PSFs) of all voxels in a voxelization of the field of view that are compressed in the form of vectors of parameters. For utilization, each retrieved vector of parameters is decompressed so as to generate a discretized PSF.
US11263788B2
An apparatus and method for superimposing a teeth data image onto a face image is provided. The apparatus for superimposing the teeth data image onto the face image includes a scanner for generating a teeth data image by scanning a teeth of a patient; a camera for obtaining a side face image by photographing a side face of the patient; and a control unit for extracting a feature point of the side face image, extracting a reference line of the side face based on the feature point, adjusting a size of the teeth data image according to a length of the reference line of the side face, and superimposing the teeth data image onto the side face image.
US11263787B2
Disclosed embodiments include methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable medium for augmented reality detection for locating a particular autonomous vehicle. In a non-limiting embodiment, an illustrative method includes providing, by an electronic device to a remote server, a request for an autonomous vehicle. A first signal indicating that the autonomous vehicle is within an accessible range to an intended passenger is received by an electronic device. The passenger is prompted by the electronic device to orient an image sensor of the electronic device towards a designated area of the accessible range. The designated area is imaged by the image sensor for the autonomous vehicle. A visual representation of the imaged designated area is generated on a graphical user interface of the electronic device. The autonomous vehicle is identified within the generated visual representation.
US11263784B2
Examples disclosed herein relate to determining image capture position information based on a quasi-periodic pattern. For example, a processor may determine whether a target area is within a captured image based on the detection of a quasi-periodic pattern in a first detection area and in a second detection area of the captured image.
US11263773B2
According to an embodiment, an object detection apparatus includes a hardware processor. The processor calculates, from an input image, first feature aps in which feature quantities of at least some elements are mutually different. The processor generates, based on a first group of the first feature aps calculated in current instance and based on a second group of the first feature maps calculated in past, a time observation map in which an element having a closer relationship in time direction between the first group and the second group is defined to have proportionally a greater first weighting value. The processor generates second feature maps by weighting each of the first feature maps included in the first group or the second group in accordance with first weighting values indicated in the time observation map. The processor detects an object captured in the input image by using the second feature maps.
US11263772B2
A method for computer assisted identification of appropriate anatomical structure for placement of a medical device, comprising: receiving a 3D scan volume comprising set of medical scan images of a region of an anatomical structure where the medical device is to be placed; automatically processing the set of medical scan images to perform automatic segmentation of the anatomical structure; automatically determining a subsection of the 3D scan volume as a 3D ROI by combining the raw medical scan images and the obtained segmentation data; automatically processing the ROI to determine the preferred 3D position and orientation of the medical device to be placed with respect to the anatomical structure by identifying landmarks within the anatomical structure with a pre-trained prediction neural network; automatically determining the preferred 3D position and orientation of the medical device to be placed with respect to the 3D scan volume of the anatomical structure.
US11263767B2
A method for processing an image in a virtual reality display device comprises determining a gaze area and a non-gaze area in a display area of the virtual reality display device, performing, at a first time instant, a rendering process in the gaze area and the non-gaze area to generate a first image, performing a time warping process on the first image to generate a second image, based on attitude information of the virtual reality display device at a second time instant, and modifying the second image based on the movement information and attribute information of a motion object in the gaze area. The method can avoid problems caused by the time warping process, reduce delays, and avoid smearing or ghosting, and thus obtain a good display effect.
US11263753B2
A method and system pre-trains a convolutional neural network for image recognition based upon masked language modeling by inputting, to the convolutional neural network, an image; outputting, from the convolutional neural network, a visual embedding tensor of visual embedding vectors; tokenizing a caption to create a list of tokens, at least one token having visual correspondence to the image received by the convolutional neural network; randomly selecting one of the tokens in the list of tokens to be masked, the selected token being taken as ground truth; computing, using a language model neural network, hidden representations of the tokens; using the hidden representation of the masked token, as a query vector, to pool the visual embedding vectors in the visual embedding tensor, attentively; predicting the masked token by mapping the pooled visual embedding vectors to the tokens; determining a prediction loss associated with the masked token; and back-propagating the prediction loss to the convolutional neural network to tune parameters thereof.
US11263747B2
An example method includes generating, using a multi-scale block of a convolutional neural network (CNN), a first output image based on an optical coherence tomography (OCT) reflectance image of a retina and an OCT angiography (OCTA) image of the retina. The method further includes generating, using an encoder of the CNN, at least one second output image based on the first output image and generating, using a decoder of the CNN, a third output image based on the at least one second output image. An avascular map is generated based on the third output image. The avascular map indicates at least one avascular area of the retina depicted in the OCTA image.
US11263746B2
The present disclosure relates to methods for determining a liquid front position of a liquid on a surface of an assay test strip placing a liquid on the surface of the test strip; and acquiring one or more signals from the surface of the test strip at one or more times, comparing the one or more acquired signals to a threshold, wherein the liquid front position is a position on the surface of the test strip where a signal is greater than or less than a threshold (e.g., fixed or dynamic threshold). Such methods may be used to determine the liquid front velocity of a liquid on a surface of an assay test strip and the transit time of a liquid sample to traverse the one or more positions on the surface of the assay test strip.
US11263739B2
A repair length determination method that can accurately calculate a repair region (repair length) in which repair is to be performed in a structure and an apparatus are provided. The repair length determination method has: an image acquiring step of acquiring an image obtained by imaging a repair target region; a detection step of detecting a crack from the image; a display step of displaying a crack; a pointing step of pointing a plurality of points including two points at both ends of the crack; an interpolation curve creating step of creating an interpolation curve by using the pointed points; and a repair length determining step of measuring a length of the interpolation curve and determining a repair length. The apparatus is used for the determination method.
US11263738B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving one or more querying images associated with a container of a pharmaceutical product, each of the one or more querying images being based on a particular angle of the container of the pharmaceutical product, calculating one or more confidence scores associated with one or more defect indications, respectively for the container of the pharmaceutical product, by processing the one or more querying images using a target machine-learning model, and determining a defect indication for the container of the pharmaceutical product from the one or more defect indications based on a comparison between the one or more confidence scores and one or more predefined threshold scores, respectively.
US11263728B2
Provided is an a priori constraint and outlier suppression based image deblurring method. A convolution model is used for fitting a blurring process of a clear image and then the blurred image I is restored, so that the purpose of image deblurring is achieved. The method comprises an evaluation process of the significant structure of a blurred image, a process of blurring kernel estimation and outlier suppression, and a process of restoring the blurred image by non-blind deconvolution. A structure in the blurred image is obtained by use of L0 norm constraint and heavy-tailed a priori information. The L0 norm constraint is used to evaluate the blurring kernel. The evaluated blurring kernel is subjected to outlier suppression. The final restored image is obtained by using a non-blind deconvolution algorithm. The present invention can prominently improve the restoration level of the blurred image.
US11263723B2
The present disclosure provides an image warping method and an image warping device, including: obtaining an image or a video; identifying at least one target portion of a to-be-warped portrait in the image or the video; and performing a warping process on the target portion using a preset warping algorithm, where the warping process includes one or more of the following processes: enlarging, narrowing down, or shifting. In this way, a portrait in the image or the video can be beautified automatically, without a manual beautification of the image from a user, making the beautification more intelligent and simpler, thereby improving the user experience. Moreover, according to the method of the present disclosure, a warping process can be performed on an image or a video online in real time, or performed on a stored image or a stored video offline, allowing the image warping method to be more widely used.
US11263722B2
A video processing method includes: decoding a part of a bitstream to generate a decoded frame, where the decoded frame is a projection-based frame that includes projection faces in a hemisphere cubemap projection layout; and remapping sample locations of the projection-based frame to locations on the sphere, where a sample location within the projection-based frame is converted into a local sample location within a projection face packed in the projection-based frame; in response to adjustment criteria being met, an adjusted local sample location within the projection face is generated by applying adjustment to one coordinate value of the local sample location within the projection face, and the adjusted local sample location within the projection face is remapped to a location on the sphere; and in response to the adjustment criteria not being met, the local sample location within the projection face is remapped to a location on the sphere.
US11263717B2
Systems and methods which are adapted to generate multiple indicia in a single secure environment session are described. Embodiments provide for generation of a plurality of postage indicia in a single postage security device (PSD) transaction, whereby the PSD loads and unloads corresponding virtual PSD information a single time for generating the plurality of postage indicia (i.e., in a single secure environment session). The indicia generated in a same secure environment session according to embodiments of the invention may comprise a plurality of indicia requested by a same, single user. Additionally or alternatively, the indicia generated in the same secure environment session may comprise a plurality of indicia requested by multiple different users.
US11263706B2
Described is a system for guiding opinions of users of a social media network. The system determines a number of control agents to be inserted into a population of users of the social media network. The system also determines a rate at which an expressed opinion of each control agent should change over a period of time. A control strategy is output which includes a control schedule based on the number of control agents to be inserted into the population of users and the rate at which the expressed opinion of each control agent should change over the period of time. Finally, the control schedule is deployed in the social media network.
US11263704B2
A system, a machine-readable storage medium storing instructions, and a computer-implemented method are described herein are directed to a Content Optimization Engine that determines a display probability for each content item in a set of content items. Each respective display probability corresponds to a given content item's probability of display in a specific content slot of a plurality of content slots in a social network feed of a target member account in a social network service. The Content Optimization Engine calculates a selection probability for each content item in an ordered set of the content items, based on each display probability and a set of interaction effects. The Content Optimization Engine causes display of the ordered set of content items in the target member account's social network feed based on satisfaction of the first and second targets.
US11263703B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods that may advantageously apply machine learning to accurately identify and investigate potential money laundering. In an aspect, the present disclosure provides a computer-implemented method for anti-money laundering (AML) analysis, comprising: (a) obtaining, by the computer, a dataset comprising a plurality of accounts, each of the plurality of accounts corresponding to an account holder among a plurality of account holders, wherein each account of the plurality of accounts comprises a plurality of account variables, wherein the plurality of account variables comprises financial transactions; (b) applying, by the computer, a trained algorithm to the dataset to generate a money laundering risk score for each of the plurality of account holders; and (c) identifying, by the computer, a subset of the plurality of account holders for investigation based at least on the money laundering risk scores of the plurality of account holders.
US11263699B1
Systems and methods can leverage images of remotely captured items to extract information, populate forms, authenticate users, and perform other actions.
US11263684B2
The present disclosure discloses a product recommendation method and a product recommendation device. The product recommendation method includes: detecting whether a sensor arranged on a shopping cart is triggered; determining whether there is a baby in the shopping cart in response to the sensor being triggered; and recommending products related to babies to a user in response to determining that there is a baby in the shopping cart.
US11263683B2
An event servicing (ES) computing device for targeting ancillary merchants based on wallet events is provided. The ES computing device receives primary purchase data for a primary purchase made by a user with a primary merchant, and determines and displays to the user one or more secondary merchants based at least in part on the primary purchase data. The ES computing device further receives secondary purchase data for at least one secondary purchase made by the user from the one or more secondary merchants and determines whether the user has requested to cancel the primary purchase. When the user has requested to cancel the primary purchase, the ES computing device automatically cancels the at least one secondary purchase. When the user has not requested to cancel the primary purchase, the ES computing device processes payment transactions for the primary purchase and the at least one secondary purchase.
US11263674B2
A device may receive, from a user device, an input that indicates a request to set up a payment plan associated with a bill. The device may send to the user device an instruction for a user to send access information that permits access to a system associated with an employment account of the user. The device may receive from the user device the access information and obtain data related to future earnings of the user from the system using the access information. The device may process the data to identify an earnings amount and an earnings date. The device may determine, based on the earnings amount and the earnings date, the payment plan, wherein the payment plan indicates a payment amount and a payment date, and cause a payment account associated with the user to pay the bill according to the payment plan.
US11263668B2
A press release distribution system provides press release and other news to forum sites as posts. The forum software that runs at forum sites includes press release interface software or is adapted to receive press release interface plug-in modules for interfacing with the press release distribution system. The press release interface software or plug-in module may also monitor and/or analyze user data of forum members and/or forum activities of the users. The monitored user data and forum activities may be provided to the press release distribution system for analysis and generation of user profiles. Using the result of the analysis (e.g., user profiles), the press release distribution system can target particular users or forums to direct the press releases, news, or advertisements for most effective advertising campaign.
US11263664B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content searching, generating, hosting and/or providing systems supported by or configured with personal computing devices, servers and/or platforms. The systems interact to identify and retrieve data within or across platforms, which can be used to improve the quality of data used in processing interactions between or among processors in such systems. The disclosed systems and methods transform user search keywords into equivalent keyword formats commonly used and/or found within messaging platforms, and compile a data set from such information from which a search for content can be based. The present disclosure, therefore, provides systems and methods that augment users' search terms with terms found in users' mailboxes for purposes of searching for, identifying and communicating content that is relevant to those users.
US11263663B2
By intercepting a natural language communication of a protected party, the communication is monitored, wherein the protected party is a human being. Within the monitored communication using a natural language processing engine, a natural language interaction between the protected party and a second party is detected. To determine an interaction pattern, the natural language interaction is analyzed. The interaction pattern includes data derived from the monitored communication, metadata of the protected party, and metadata of the second party. Using the interaction pattern and an interaction behavior model, an adverse result of the natural language interaction is predicted, wherein the adverse result comprises an economic loss to the protected party. By notifying the protected party, the predicted adverse result is intercepted.
US11263660B2
Various implementations for multitouch attribution are described. One example method includes receiving a plurality of channel data associated with a first channel and second channel, determining conversion data for the first channel and the second channel using the plurality of channel data, receiving a first touch event and a second touch event associated with a first channel and a second channel, determining a first attribution for the first channel using a first touch event and the first channel data, determining a second attribution for the second channel using a second touch event and the second channel data, and determine an item conversion strategy using the first attribution and the second attribution.
US11263657B2
Systems and methods for improved brand interaction including a method for brand promotion comprising the steps of: receiving a media broadcast signal comprising a media signal and a unique promotion code with a media receiver; reading said unique promotion code from said media broadcast; broadcasting said promotion code using a communication network associated with the media receiver; receiving the promotion code with a computing device; correlating the promotion code with a promotion database; receiving social link data from the promotion database; wherein the computing device is adapted to provide user engagement with the link data.
US11263648B1
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving multiple data items respectively associated with multiple conversion events and identifying, from one or more data stores associated with a social-networking system, a content object corresponding to a business location, the content object including information describing the business location. The method also includes identifying one or more users, each being associated with at least one of the conversion events and updating the content object based at least in part on a determined location of each of one or more of the identified users at a time of the conversion event associated with the user.
US11263645B2
Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to social bookmarking and provide a method, system and computer program product for aggregating scoring of tagged content across social bookmarking systems. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for aggregating scoring of tagged content across social bookmarking systems can be provided. The method can include combining tag scores for a tag in content across multiple different social bookmarking systems into a single aggregate tag score and applying the single aggregate tag score to the tag in the content. In this regard, combining tag scores for a tag in content across multiple different social bookmarking systems into a single aggregate tag score can include computing either a simple or a weighted average of the tag scores for the tag to produce the single aggregate score.
US11263640B2
The CLOUD SERVICE FACILITATOR APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS (“CSF”) transforms user purchase requests, refund requests, and product/service replacement requests via CSF components into transaction records, refunds, and replacement products/services outputs. The CSF may receive a consumer purchase request for a cloud service from a merchant. In response to the request, the CSF may generate a unique record key for the purchase and may transmit the unique record key to the merchant. The CSF may further receive additional transaction information and the unique record key from the merchant. In response to the received information and the unique key, the CSF may provide additional service to the merchant or the consumer.
US11263639B2
The disclosure includes systems and methods for disabling a payment function of a transaction card. The system receives payment account data from a transaction card and transmits a payment authorization request message to a card issuer associated with the transaction card. The system receives, from the card issuer, an authorization request response message. The authorization request response message declines the transaction and includes a status response code corresponding to a status of the transaction card. The system determines whether the status response code indicates that the transaction card is to be captured, and if so, disables the payment function of the transaction card via activation of a disabling system.
US11263635B2
A registration apparatus stores priority which is set for each of a plurality of payment apparatuses. If a condition to update the priority is established, the registration apparatus updates the priority, based on data indicating a state of each payment apparatus. The registration apparatus transmits accounting data and data on the priority, to a payment apparatus having a top priority. A payment apparatus pays a transaction by transmitting a permission response to the registration apparatus, when receiving the accounting data and the priority data in a state where the payment of the transaction is possible. The payment apparatus transfers the accounting data and the priority data to another payment apparatus having a lower priority than the payment apparatus, based on the priority data, when the accounting data and the priority data are received in a state where the payment of the transaction is not possible.
US11263632B2
Examples in this application disclose an information sharing methods, media, and systems. One example method includes receiving, by a trusted execution environment (TEE), a user verification result acquisition request from a first institution, where the user verification result acquisition request is configured to request a verification result associated with a user, receiving first encrypted data of the user from a second institution, decrypting the first encrypted data to obtain first user basic data, receiving second encrypted data of the user from a trusted institution, decrypting the second encrypted data of the user to obtain second user basic data, in response to the user verification result acquisition request, determining the verification result of the user to indicate whether the first user basic data matches the second user basic data, and sending the verification result of the user to the first institution.
US11263631B1
The innovation disclosed and claimed herein, in one aspect thereof, comprises systems and methods of funds transfer authentication. The authentication can include receiving a transfer request to transfer funds from a payer to a payee, the transfer request identifies the payer, the payee, and an amount to transfer. Customer information associated respectively with the payer and the payee is identified. The payer and the payee are authenticated. A communication session is opened between the payer and payee. A time-limited payee OTP is generated and sent to the payee. The payee OTP is received within a first time limit. The funds are transferred from the payer to the payee based on receiving a matching payee OTP.
US11263623B1
Implementations of the present specification provide a method and an apparatus for grouping transactions in a blockchain. The method includes: obtaining a first transaction in multiple transactions; obtaining a first variable accessed in the first transaction; reading a first value of a first belonging variable corresponding to the first variable; reading a first value of a first associated variable corresponding to the first transaction; if the first value of the first belonging variable is a numbering value of a second transaction in the multiple transactions, recording an association relationship between the first transaction and the second transaction in the associative array by performing an atomic comparative change operation on an atomic variable in an associative array; and grouping the multiple transactions based on the associative array.
US11263622B2
Computer-implemented systems and methods are detailed for establishing information on states of a machine executable contract, for instance in the context of unspent transactions (UTXOs), blockchain and deterministic finite automaton (DFA) implementation of contracts and the determination of states within those. The stages can include determining the information of interest and the codes or tags identifying that information, constructing the metadata associated with those codes or tags, combining that with a public key for an agent that will be associated with the information. The scriptPubKey values of each script may be used to provide the keys for use in constructing an external database and more specifically mapping the keys from the scriptPubKey values, linked to the information of interest. To obtain the other half of the combination, there is a derivation of the script hash addresses from the scriptPubKey values, with those being used to populate a digital wallet. A search and match algorithm is then used to find UTXO's with matching script hash addresses on the blockchain. These then populate the aforementioned database with UTXO's that match to the script hash addresses and hence to the keys to complete the combinations. A match indicates in a definitive manner the state.
US11263621B2
There are provided systems and methods for parent level token issuance for asynchronous data processing based on device trust levels. Two devices may interact enough that they develop a trust rating between the two devices that the devices are trusted for transaction processing and resolution. In order to provide asynchronous transaction processing without requiring a token service provider or transaction processor, a parent level token may be issued to the devices by a token service provider based on the trust rating. The devices may receive child level tokens from the parent token, while the parent token is stored by the transaction processor. The child level tokens may allow the devices and transaction processor to trust the devices to process and resolve transaction processing without availing the token service provider for token issuance.
US11263616B2
An information processing method executed by one or more processors included in an information processing apparatus. The method includes obtaining a notice indicating that a deferred payment has been selected for a settlement of a price of a product on a website; identifying a seller to which the settlement is to be made; receiving a request for settlement on an amount of money determined based on information including information on delivery of the product and information on the price of the product; and advancing the settlement in a case where the amount of money is less than or equal to an upper limit of an amount of settlement using the deferred payment allowed for a user.
US11263613B2
According to an embodiment, an information processing apparatus, comprises a database configured to store a first list of commodities determined as having been removed from a store display shelf and a second list of commodities registered by a customer in a sales transaction using a mobile terminal. A processor is configured to detect that a commodity has been removed from a store display shelf based on entry of the commodity on the first list, detect a registration of the commodity by the customer in the sales transaction based on entry of the commodity on the second list, and measure an elapsed time from the time of detecting that the commodity has been removed from the store display shelf. When the elapsed time exceeds a threshold value without the registration of the commodity being detected, the processor causes an output of warning notification information.
US11263612B2
The present disclosure relates generally to providing a mechanism for communication between point of sale devices. Using network technology and novel processes, the present systems and methods can share transaction records among multiple devices without the presence of a physical server. For example, in certain embodiments, the present systems and methods leverage virtual server technology to implement local area networks of point of sale devices with zero configuration.
US11263610B2
Fuel hedging is used by large corporations to reduce exposure to fuel price volatility. But individual consumers are not afforded the same opportunities. In an embodiment, a payment card is provided that stores units of purchased products, and allows a user to purchase future units of the product before redeeming the products (such as oil). In an embodiment, a user can purchase the payment card with purchased units at a kiosk at a gas station. A backend processor receives the purchase request and buys select derivatives on the market to match the purchase request. Upon authenticating the user, the backend processor sends an authorization message back to the kiosk that dispenses the payment card.
US11263605B2
A system for confirming an authorization to consume an output of a transaction based on multiple signatures with different authority weights is provided. The system confirms the authorization to consume the output when the combined authority weights of one or more authorities that provide their authorizations satisfy a threshold weight. The authority weight for each authority and the threshold weight are identified in an authorization specification that specifies the criterion for the authorization of a matter. The authorization specification also specifies authorization verification information for each authority. When the sum of the authority weights of the authorities whose authorizations have been verified is greater than or equal to the threshold weight, the system confirms the authorization to consume the output.
US11263600B2
The present automated trustee payments system implements a series of automated processes which significantly reduce, and in many cases, eliminate a creditor user's work that is required to accurately and timely process incoming Chapter 13 Trustee remittances. The automated trustee payments system also effects application of the funds to the proper bankrupt debtor accounts and accounts for the funds against the proper creditor's loan account segments (e.g., the bankruptcy estate pre-petition indebtedness or the post-petition ongoing payments).
US11263597B2
There is provided a system for workscoping an asset. The system includes a processor and a memory that includes instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations including fetching information indicative of a service bulletin and associating the information with a module of the asset.
US11263591B2
Disclosed is a method and system for managing contacts for a communication system by storing contact information in a centralized storage system and permitting receiving users to access the centralized contact information storage system using a token passed with communications from a sending user. The communications system may be a trusted network with trusted sending and receiving members. Each communications system member provides contact information the member may wish to make available to other parties. The member may also create a policy defining which contact information may be made available to different classes of users. A member of the communications system generates a message to send to a receiving user. A token that identifies the sending user to the communications system is embedded into the message to be sent to the receiving user. The receiving user, after identifying the message as a message containing a token, may request contact information for the sending user from the communications system using the token identifying the sending user to the communication system. The communication system delivers a subset of the sending user's contact information to the receiving user based on the sending user's contact information and policy definitions stored in the centralized contact information storage system of the communication systems. The system and method are especially adaptable to e-mail communications, but other forms of electronic communications may also be included in an embodiment, either solely or in combination.
US11263580B2
Disclosed are an information push method and device. One of the specific embodiments of the method comprises: extracting a user name and telephone number from order information submitted by a user; generating a confirmation page comprising a partial user name and partial telephone number of the order associated with the order information, wherein the partial user name is a user name in which some of the characters of the user name have been replaced by preset characters, and the partial telephone number is a telephone number in which some of the characters have been replaced by preset characters; using the link address of the user name, telephone number, and confirmation page and an order number pre-allocated to the order, generating a two-dimensional code of the order; in response to detecting a scan operation on the two-dimensional code by a distribution terminal, pushing the confirmation page to the distribution terminal.
US11263577B2
A method that includes receiving a request on a mobile device from a user to access first performance data indicative of at least one performance metric of a physician is provided. The method includes receiving confirmation that the user has been authenticated as the physician and receiving the first performance data indicative of the at least one performance metric of the physician for a period of time. In some embodiments, the method further includes configuring the first performance data for display in a format specific to the mobile device and providing the formatted first performance data for display on the mobile device. A mobile device and a system to perform the above method are also provided.
US11263576B2
Systems and methods for auditing business controls are disclosed. The system may receive or retrieve data from one or more data sources corresponding to a business control. The system may perform a direct analytic control test (ACT) or an indirect ACT on the data. The system may compare a direct ACT result or an indirect ACT result to an ACT threshold. The ACT threshold may comprise separate direct ACT thresholds and indirect ACT thresholds. Based on the comparison, the system may determine an operating effectiveness of the business control.
US11263570B2
A system may include a processor and a memory. The memory may include computer-executable code that, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to retrieve a workflow dataset from a database based on a query input associated with an industrial automation device. The workflow dataset may include an instruction associated with one or more operations for the industrial automation device and a virtual object associated with the one or more instructions and the industrial automation device. The memory may include computer-executable code that, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to transmit a first portion of the workflow dataset to a computing device corresponding to a first instruction. The memory may include computer-executable code that, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to transmit a second portion of the workflow dataset to the computing device in response to determining that the first instruction is completed.
US11263565B2
Disclosed herein is new software technology for creating and managing a lookahead schedule for a construction project. In one aspect, disclosed herein is a method that involves (1) receiving, from a client station, a request to create an initial lookahead schedule for a project, where the request comprises timeline information for the initial lookahead schedule, (2) after receiving the request, creating the initial lookahead schedule based on the timeline information and a previously-created master schedule for the project, and (3) causing the client station to present a user-interface view that provides a representation of the initial lookahead schedule.
US11263555B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for receiving a set of documents matched by a ML model, each document in the set of documents including a computer-readable electronic document, processing a set of pairwise features, the ML model, and the set of documents by an explanation framework to generate a set of raw explanations, the set of raw explanations including one or more raw explanations, each raw explanation including a pairwise feature and an importance score, for each raw explanation, identifying a natural language template based on the pairwise feature and the importance score, and populating the natural language template with one or more parameters provided from the set of documents to provide a natural language explanation for matching of the documents in the set of documents by the ML model.
US11263554B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for managing machine learning algorithms. Some embodiments comprise one or more transformer applications, one or more streamliner applications, a configuration file; accessing the configuration file, and an output file. In various embodiments, the streamliner application can be configured to read a configuration file and identify one or more attributes defining a machine learning algorithm. The streamliner application can also run each transformer application in an order determined by an ordered list in the configuration file. An output file can then be created for running one or more machine learning algorithms. Other embodiments are disclosed herein.
US11263553B2
A method, system, and computer program product are provided. A web service learns multiple commands and respective parameters associated therewith for a command line interface application based on the web service providing the respective command and the any respective parameters associated therewith to a command line interface application. A command and each corresponding parameter received for the command line interface application are validated based on the learned commands and respective parameters and provided to the command line interface application. Each of the validated parameters are provided in response to the web service receiving from the command line interface application respective indications for more input. A successful indication is provided to an originator of the new input in response to the web service receiving a successful indication from the command line interface application.
US11263540B2
In one embodiment, a method includes providing, to a client system of a user, a user interface for display. The user interface may include a first set of options for selecting an artificial intelligence (AI) task for integrating into a user application, a second set of options for selecting one or more devices on which the user wants to deploy the selected AI task, and a third set of options for selecting one or more performance constraints specific to the selected devices. User specifications may be received based on user selections in the first, second, and third sets of options. A custom AI model may be generated based on the user specifications and sent to the client system of the user for integrating into the user application. The custom AI model once integrated may enable the user application to perform the selected AI task on the selected devices.
US11263536B2
Electronic arrangement comprising a data interface for transferring data with external elements, at least one processor for processing instructions and other data, and memory for storing the instructions and other data, said at least one processor being configured, in accordance with the stored instructions, to obtain at least one predictive user model including one or more demographic characteristics as dependent variables to be predicted and usage statistics of applications as explanatory variables, obtain deterministic usage statistics indicative of digital applications a target user has utilized during a monitoring period, and determine, through utilization of the deterministic usage statistics obtained during the monitoring period as input to the at least one established predictive model, an estimate of said one or more of the demographic characteristics of the target user.
US11263535B2
Associative relevancy knowledge profiling architecture, system, method, and computer program product
Provided are architectures, system, methods, and computer program products that provide a user with the ability to define an association of data and/or information from known reference sets perceived by the user as relevant to a subject matter domain, thereby imparting and formalizing some of the user's knowledge about the domain. An associative relevancy knowledge profiler may also allow a user to create a profile by modifying or restricting the known reference sets and windowing the results from the association as a user might refine any other analysis algorithms. An associative relevancy knowledge profiler may also be used to define a user profile used by the user and others. A user profile may be usable in various manners depending upon, for example, rights management permissions and restrictions for a user.
US11263530B2
Aspects for maxout layer operations in neural network are described herein. The aspects may include a load/store unit configured to retrieve input data from a storage module. The input data may be formatted as a three-dimensional vector that includes one or more feature values stored in a feature dimension of the three-dimensional vector. The aspects may further include a pruning unit configured to divide the one or more feature values into one or more feature groups based on one or more data ranges and select a maximum feature value from each of the one or more feature groups. Further still, the pruning unit may be configured to delete, in each of the one or more feature groups, feature values other than the maximum feature value and update the input data with the one or more maximum feature values.
US11263523B1
Techniques related to a system for news classification comprising one or more non-transitory memory devices and one or more hardware processors configured to execute instructions from the one or more non-transitory memory devices to cause the system to receive an article, the article including text, extract text from the received article, store the extracted text in a database, determine a set of potential target entities based on the extracted text, determine a classification of the article for each potential target entity of the set of potential target entities for a category, valence, presence of litigation, rumor, or opinion based on the extracted text, associate the classification of the article, along with a probability of the determined classification of the article for each potential target entity, assign the classification of the article if the probability of the classification is greater than a threshold probability, and store the classification of the article and the probability.
US11263522B2
Systems and methods are provided for reducing power in in-memory computing, matrix-vector computations, and neural networks. An apparatus for in-memory computing using charge-domain circuit operation includes transistors configured as memory bit cells, transistors configured to perform in-memory computing using the memory bit cells, capacitors configured to store a result of in-memory computing from the memory bit cells, and switches, wherein, based on a setting of each of the switches, the charges on at least a portion of the plurality of capacitors are shorted together. Shorting together the plurality of capacitors yields a computation result.
US11263515B2
A heterogeneous processor architecture for integrating a convolutional neural network (CNN) and a recurrent neural network (RNN) into a single high-performance, low-power chip in a neural network processor architecture, the heterogeneous processor architecture includes: an on-chip integrated circuit including a CNN operator for processing the CNN, an RNN operator for processing the RNN, an operation controller for performing control, a memory for storing data which is to be used by the operators, an interface for externally exchanging data, and a data bus through which data moves between constituent elements, wherein a fully-connected layer constituting the CNN performs data processing by sharing the RNN operator.
US11263501B2
Various techniques are provided for generating reports of three dimensional (3D) images. The techniques include identifying a plurality of volume features in a 3D image using a first machine learning (ML) module trained with annotated 3D images, and identifying a plurality of semantic representations associated with the 3D image using a second ML module trained with the annotated 3D images and reports associated with the annotated 3D images. The techniques further include generating a report of the 3D image based on the volume features and the semantic representations using a third ML module trained with the reports and outputs generated by the first ML module and the second ML module using the annotated 3D images and the reports.
US11263500B2
A method for designating a given image as similar/dissimilar with respect to a reference image is provided. The method includes normalizing the image. Normalizing includes performing pre-processing and a lossy compression on the given image to obtain a lossy representation. The pre-processing includes at least one of cropping, fundamental extracting, gray scale converting and lower color bit converting. The method also includes comparing the lossy representation of the given image with a reference representation, which is a version of a reference spam image after the reference spam image has undergone a similar normalizing process as normalizing. The method further includes, if the lossy representation of the given image matches the reference representation, designating the given image similar to the reference image. The method yet also includes, if the lossy representation of the given image does not match the reference representation, designating the given image dissimilar to the reference image.
US11263492B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for automatic event recognition and photo clustering. In one aspect, methods include receiving, from a first user, first image data corresponding to a first image, receiving, from a second user, second image data corresponding to a second image, comparing the first image data and the second image data, and determining that the first image and the second image correspond to a coincident event based on the comparing.
US11263485B2
A system for training transfer models that includes a memory and a processor coupling to each other. The memory stores instructions. The processor accesses the instructions to retrieve raw datasets from a first-type device and train a feature extraction model, a transfer feature and a preliminary classify model based on the raw datasets. The processor further transfers the feature extraction model, the transfer feature and the preliminary classify model to a host of a manufacturer so that the host directly applies the feature extraction model and the transfer feature, and retrains the preliminary classify model as an adapted classify model based on practical datasets.
US11263484B2
Disclosed herein is a system and method for performing on-demand supervised learning-based data analytics directly on blockchain without the need to extract data from the blockchain to an external intermediary platform. The system and method disclosed herein enable supervised learning-based analysis directly on the blockchain, for data records stored on the blockchain. Furthermore, the system and methods disclosed herein allows a training and validation of supervised learning-based algorithms using data records from the transaction blocks of the blockchain without the need of an intermediary platform external to the blockchain.
US11263482B2
Systems and methods to label images for inclusion into a machine learning image recognition training data set. A coded labeling definition is defined. A set of digital images is collected that includes images of different types of piece of equipment. A digital image is presented that includes an image of a particular piece of equipment. A received numeric code corresponding to the particular piece of equipment within the present image is received. The received numeric code is associated with the present image and the present image is stored in association with the received numeric code into a machine learning image recognition data set. A machine learning image recognition is trained based on the machine learning image recognition data set to automatically associate unlabeled images with the respective numeric code that corresponds to the particular piece of equipment in the unlabeled image.
US11263481B1
Mechanisms are provided for determining a measure of radiodensity of anatomical structures of interest and classifying medical imaging study data structures (studies) with regard to contrast phase. In some embodiments, this classification may be used to select/exclude slices for processing by other downstream computing systems. A subset of slices are selected from the study and, for each slice in the subset, a corresponding body part regression (BPR) score is determined. A linear regression on the BPR scores is performed and a representative slice is selected based on results of the linear regression. The representative slice is segmented and a statistical measure of a radiodensity metric for each segment in the representative slice is determined.
US11263470B2
A content saliency network is a machine-learned neural network that predicts the saliency of elements of a content item. The content saliency network may be used in a method that includes determining a set of elements in draft content and computing a first pixel-level vector for the content. The method may also include, for each element in the set of elements, computing a vector of simple features for the element, the simple features being computed from attributes of the element, computing a second pixel-level vector for the element, computing a third pixel-level vector for an intermediate context of the element, and providing the vectors to the content saliency network. The content saliency network provides a saliency score for the element. The method further includes generating an element-level saliency map of the content using the respective saliency scores for the set of elements and providing the saliency map to a requestor.
US11263463B2
A secure imaging system for drug preparations on a predetermined site comprises a dynamic graphic interface including at least one processing camera having a focal distance adjusted for the detection of objects and connected to a digital unit for managing video signals from the processing camera. The unit has means for establishing a comparison between the stored data of the in-method preparation using first images corresponding to the video signals and steps for preparing stored prescriptions and means for selecting a prescription in accordance with said comparison. Warning means are activated in the event that at least one step of the indexed preparation does not comply with the corresponding step of the selected prescription.
US11263458B1
An Augmented Reality (AR) device or gear or glasses, includes one or more imagers to capture images of an area-of-interest. A processor performs computer vision analysis or image recognition analysis, and detects one or more marine animals in a body of water; and estimates their relative location, and further classifies them or estimates their properties. The detected and estimated information is then conveyed to the user, as an Augmented Reality layer of information that is super-imposed on the real-life field-of-view that is observed by the user. Optionally, additional indicators are used to convey the information, such as audio output, haptic output, or the like.
US11263456B2
Provided is an information processing device that includes a position acquisition section that acquires a position of a virtual object in a real space, having been determined on the basis of a recognition result of a real space corresponding to an image captured by an imaging device, and a display control section that controls display of at least a boundary of the virtual object, on the basis of the position of the virtual object, and a feature of a real object that resides in the real space and is away from the position of the virtual object.
US11263453B2
The present disclosure relates to an object trajectory tracking and displaying method, comprising the following steps of: creating a mapping relationship database of image features and WIFI information for objects in a distributed search server, where each WIFI information includes position information; receiving a trajectory query request for a monitored object; searching the mapping relationship database of image features and WIFI information for objects according to an image feature of the monitored object to produce a WIFI information set, and producing a corresponding position information set based on the WIFI information set; and generating real-time trajectory information of the monitored object based on the position information set. The object trajectory tracking and displaying method and system of the present disclosure make the position of the sampling data points more accurate and improve the accuracy of trajectory querying.
US11263448B2
Disclosed are computer-implemented methods, non-transitory computer-readable media, and systems for document identification. One computer-implemented method includes extracting a sequence of image frames from a video clip capturing an impact of an object against a surface. A stream of audio signals is extracted from the video clip. Using a trained document identification model, a first score and a second score is generated based on the sequence of image frames and the stream of audio signals, respectively. The trained document identification model is trained with a plurality of historical video clips, where each video clip captures an impact of a document against a surface. An identification score is generated based on the first score and the second score. Whether the object in the video clip is a document is determined based on a comparison between the identification score and an identification threshold.
US11263443B2
A method, apparatus and system for human skeleton pose estimation includes synchronously capturing images of a human moving through an area from a plurality of different points of view, for each of the plurality of captured images, determining a bounding box that bounds the human in the captured image and identifying pixel locations of the bounding box in the image, for each of the plurality of captured images, determining 2D and single-view 3D skeletons from the pixel locations of the bounding box, determining a first, multi-view 3D skeleton using a combination of the 2D and single-view 3D skeletons, and optimizing the first, multi-view 3D skeleton to determine a final 3D skeleton pose for the human. The method, apparatus and system can further include illuminating the area with structured light during the capturing of the images of the human moving through the area.
US11263433B2
Automatic substance preparation and evaluation systems and methods are provided for preparing and evaluating a fluidic substance, such as e.g. a sample with bodily fluid, in a container and/or in a dispense tip. The systems and methods can detect volumes, evaluate integrities, and check particle concentrations in the container and/or the dispense tip.
US11263427B2
Provided are an array substrate and display device. The array substrate includes a base substrate; a fingerprint recognition unit with a light sensing structure; a light blocking layer and an electrode connecting structure arranged at a side of the light sensing structure facing away from the base substrate. The light blocking layer is provided with a collimation hole. A vertical projection of the collimation hole on the base substrate is partially overlapped with a vertical projection of the light sensing structure on the base substrate. An insulation layer is arranged between the electrode connecting structure and the light sensing structure. The insulation layer is provided with an electrode via. The electrode connecting structure is connected to the light sensing structure through the electrode via. The vertical projection of the collimation hole on the base substrate is not overlapped with a vertical projection of the electrode via on the base substrate.
US11263424B2
Microelectromechanical (MEMS) devices and associated methods are disclosed. Piezoelectric MEMS transducers (PMUTs) suitable for integration with complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) integrated circuit (IC), as well as PMUT arrays having high fill factor for fingerprint sensing, are described.
US11263417B2
An electronic apparatus according to a variety of embodiments of the present invention may comprise: a display panel comprising a display which comprises one or more first pixels, one or more second pixels, and one or more first wires connected to the one or more first pixels and second pixels, and one or more fingerprint sensors which are disposed between the one or more first pixels and one or more second pixels; and a wiring layer comprising one or more second wires connected to the one or more fingerprint sensors by wiring between the layers, A variety of other embodiments are possible.
US11263411B2
An example method may include transmitting a noise signal through a reader connection of a magnetic reader element. The control component and the magnetic reader element may be associated with a card reader device of a transaction device, and the magnetic reader element may be configured to read a magnetic strip of a transaction card. The method may include receiving, from the magnetic reader element, a reader connection signal from the reader connection. The reader connection signal may include the noise signal. The method may include extracting, from the reader connection signal, a card information signal associated with the transaction card from the magnetic strip. The card information signal may be extracted based on the noise signal. The method may include performing an action associated with the card information signal.
US11263407B1
Embodiments are directed to organizing conversation information. Two or more machine learning (ML) models and a plurality of sentences provided from a conversation may be employed to generate insight scores for each sentence such that each insight score correlates to a probability that its sentence includes one or more of an action or a question. In response to one or more sentences having insight scores that exceed a threshold value an information score and a definiteness score may be determined for the one or more sentences. And one or more insights associated with the conversation may be generated based on the one or more sentences. A report may be generated that associates the one or more insights with one or more portions of the conversation that include the one or more sentences that are associated with the insights.
US11263398B2
A method, computer program product, and system includes a processor obtaining data including values and generating a value conversion dictionary by applying a parse tree based compression algorithm to the data, where the value conversion dictionary includes dictionary entries that represent the values. The processor obtains a distribution of the values and estimates a likelihood for each based on the distribution. The processor generates a code word to represent each value, a size of each code word is inversely proportional to the likelihood of the word. The processor assigns a rank to each code word, the rank for each represents the likelihood of the value represented by the code word; and based on the rank associated with each code word, the processor reorders each dictionary entry in the value conversion dictionary to associate each dictionary entry with an equivalent rank, the reordered value conversion dictionary comprises an architected dictionary.
US11263397B1
The present disclosure relates to management of presentation content including technical instances where presentation content interacts with live feeds. The scope of the present disclosure covers technical examples that pertain to creation/design of presentation content as well technical examples where presentation content is presented in real-time (or near real-time). Design solutions are provided enabling users to easily interject a representation of a live camera feed into presentation content. For example, an editable GUI object is presented enabling users to incorporate a representation of a live camera feed into slide-based presentation content. The present disclosure further provides processing that fosters dynamic management of presentation content including interactions with live camera feeds during a presentation. Furthermore, an improved GUI presents GUI elements and notifications to aid management of representations of live camera feeds relative to presentation content. Live camera feeds can be dynamically added within a slide-based presentation during real-time presentation.
US11263386B1
Techniques are described for optimizing the display of hierarchically organized data by dynamically rendering portions visible within a display area of a web browser. Using a web page file corresponding to a web page that includes the display of a visual tree structure representing JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) data and client-side executable logic, an application running at the client device displays the web page including the visual tree structure and one or more first tree nodes corresponding to first JSON objects from a first portion of the JSON data. In response to input requesting display of one or more second JSON objects from a second portion of the JSON data not currently displayed in the visual tree structure, the application modifies one or more elements of the web page to update display of the visual tree structure to include one or more second tree nodes corresponding to the second JSON objects.
US11263385B1
A web browser extension identifies graphic objects from images or video being presented by a web browser. Webpages related to the graphic objects are identified. Web links that facilitate navigation to the webpages are embedded over an area of the image corresponding to the identified graphic image. Where the graphic objects are identified within video, the web links are progressively embedded within graphic object boundaries of the graphic object as the graphic objects move locations during progression of the video. In this way, a user is able to interact with graphic objects of images and video to navigate to webpages related to the graphic objects. Some implementations provide a webpage redirect command at a stop point of the video so that the user can interact with graphic objects while the video is playing and without interrupting the video.
US11263373B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for predictive machining for forging distortions. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining a mesh model of a machined part to be machined from a forged part and residual stress field data for the forged part, where the mesh model includes multiple nodes corresponding to at least one boundary of the machined part, updating the mesh model by applying the residual stress field data to the multiple nodes corresponding to the at least one boundary to change positions of the multiple nodes in the mesh model, repeating the updating until an amount of change to each of the positions of the multiple nodes in the mesh model satisfies a correction criteria, and providing the compensated mesh model for use in machining the machined part from the forged part.
US11263364B2
A method for operating a building information modeling (BIM) system, is provided. The method includes at a BIM server, receiving a data alteration request from a client computing device for altering data in one of a building model, a hierarchical structure of building model data, and a Construction Operations Building Information Exchange (COBie) spreadsheet, the building model, hierarchical structure of building model data, and COBie spreadsheet simultaneously displayed in a GUI generated by the BIM server, automatically determining validity of data in the data alteration request, and if it is determined that the data is valid, permitting the data alteration request based on predetermined permissions of the client computing device.
US11263362B2
A subsurface representation may define simulated subsurface configuration of a simulated subsurface region. The simulated subsurface region may include simulated wells, and the simulated subsurface configuration may define simulated correlation between the simulated wells. Subsurface configuration of wells may be compared with the simulated subsurface configuration to generate similarity maps for the wells. Simulated wells may be matched to the wells based on the similarity maps and the arrangement of the wells. Correlation between the wells may be determined based on the simulated correlation between the matched simulated wells.
US11263360B2
A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product provide the ability to dynamically generate a digital building information model. Design data for various designs is received. The design data for each design is encoded into a graph. A knowledge base (consisting of a collection of the design data, actions taken on the design data, and interpretations of the received design data) is maintained. The knowledge base processes and stores the graph, and indexes and provides access to design knowledge. The knowledge base is iteratively trained based on the graph and updates to the graph, and translates user input for new design projects into actionable design models, documentation, and analytical data. User input (e.g., a sketch or bubble diagram) is received. As the user input is received, a layout floorplan is generated and displayed in real-time (based on the user input and the knowledge base).
US11263356B2
One embodiment of the invention disclosed herein provides techniques for fitting a mesh representation that includes a plurality of mesh points with a NURBS surface. A subdividing engine subdivides the mesh representation into a plurality of patches in a parametric domain. A vertex solving engine computes one or more vertex boundary continuity constraints for each vertex included in a plurality of vertices associated with the plurality of patches. An edge solving engine computes one or more edge boundary continuity constraints for each edge included in a plurality of edges associated with the plurality of patches. A patch solving engine fits a first patch included in the plurality of patches with at least one partial NURBS surface based on the vertex boundary continuity constraints and the edge boundary continuity constraints.
US11263351B2
There is provided mechanisms for verifying a log entry in a communications system. A method is performed by a host server. The method comprises obtaining a log entry of a service access tracker. The log entry indicates access to a service during a client session, the service being tracked by the service 5 access tracker. The method comprises providing the log entry to a trusted third party for digital signing thereof using a digital trusted timestamping scheme. The method comprises verifying that the log entry has been digitally signed by the trusted third party. The method comprises providing a new aggregate comprising the digitally signed log entry and a previous aggregate 10 of previously digitally signed and aggregated log entries to the trusted third party for digital signing thereof using the digital trusted timestamping scheme. The method comprises verifying that the new aggregate has been digitally signed by the trusted third party.
US11263344B2
The invention is a data management method for an anonymous data sharing system, comprising the steps of receiving a data supply from a data source (10), the data supply comprising an anonymous data source identifier, an entity identifier encrypted with the private encryption key of the data source (10), and data associated with the entity. The method further comprises mapping the encrypted entity identifier to a common anonymous entity identifier by applying a classifier key associated with the data source identifier in such a manner that for every entity identifier the following applies: by encrypting said entity identifier with the private encryption key of any data source (10) and by mapping it using the classifier key associated with the identifier of the data source, the same common anonymous entity identifier is obtained, wherein the data associated with the entity are stored in a database (12) in a manner that said data are assigned to the common anonymous identifier. The invention also relates to a registration method, to a data manager, and to an anonymous data sharing system comprising same.
US11263336B2
Systems and methods generate a first security node hash identifier by performing a first hash operation, such as a one-way hash, on a first data resource identifier associated with a first data resource, such as a data set, produced by a data resource platform. The systems and methods generate a dependent second security node hash identifier by performing a second hash operation on a second data resource identifier associated with a dependent second data resource produced by the data resource platform and on the first security node hash identifier, receive an access request for access to the dependent second data resource; and in response to the access request, grant permission to access the dependent second data resource to a user associated with the access request based on the dependent second security node hash identifier.
US11263328B2
Disclosed are various examples for threat detection and security for edge devices in communication with Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices. In one example, a profile is associated with a virtual machine of a gateway device. The profile includes an expected behavior for the virtual machine. The virtual machine is executed by a hypervisor of the gateway device. An actual behavior for the virtual machine is determined. A remedial action is performed. The remedial action is based on an anomaly between the expected behavior and the actual behavior.
US11263310B2
The technology disclosed herein provides a proof-of-work key wrapping system for verifying device capabilities. An example method may include: accessing instructions, a wrapped key, and a cryptographic attribute for the wrapped key from an encrypted memory region, wherein the wrapped key encodes a cryptographic key; executing, by a processing device, the instructions to derive the cryptographic key in view of the wrapped key and the cryptographic attribute, wherein the executing consumes computing resources for a duration of time; using the cryptographic key to access program data; executing, by the processing device, the program data, wherein the executed program data evaluates a condition related to the duration of time; and transmitting a message comprising an indication of the evaluated condition.
US11263308B2
The present disclosure includes apparatuses, methods, and systems for run-time code execution validation. An embodiment includes a memory, and circuitry configured to monitor run-time executable code stored in a secure array of the memory device and receive an indication that a portion of the run-time executable code executed, wherein the indication includes a received Message Authentication Code (MAC) and take an action in response to the indication that the portion of the run-time executable code failed to execute.
US11263303B1
A computer-implemented method of authenticating a user with a computing device is disclosed. The method involves displaying a grid of selectable visually-distinguishable graphical elements on a device display, receiving from a user of the device a drawn pattern across the selectable graphical elements, comparing the received drawn pattern to information representing a stored authentication pattern for the user, and unlocking access to functions on the device if the received drawn pattern substantially matches the stored authentication pattern.
US11263301B2
One embodiment provides a method, including: providing, using a light source operatively coupled to an information handling device, illumination on an object; capturing, using a sensor operatively coupled to the information handling device, illumination reflectance from the object; determining, using a processor and based on the illumination reflectance, whether the object is associated with a human user and whether the human user is an authorized user; and authenticating, responsive to determining that the object is associated with the human user and that the human user is an authorized user, the human user. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US11263299B2
Techniques for electronic signature process management are described. Some embodiments provide an electronic signature service (“ESS”) configured to manage electronic identity cards. In some embodiments, the ESS generates and manages an electronic identity card for a user, based on personal information of the user, activity information related to the user's actions with respect to the ESS, and/or social networking information related to the user. The electronic identity card of a signer may be associated with an electronic document signed via the ESS, so that users may obtain information about the signer of the document. The ESS may also generate a trust score for the user based on activity information related to the user's actions with respect to the ESS and/or other factors. The trust score may be used to recommend authentication mechanisms to use with respect to electronic signature transactions.
US11263295B2
A variety of methods are provided for an application or operating system (OS) kernel intrusion detection and prevention, based on usage of existing vulnerability fixes and their transformation into honeypot detectors. A honeypot patch may be generated for a computing system associated with a software vulnerability in software installed on the computing system. The honeypot patch, when used to modify the installed software, can convert the computing system into a honeypot system configured to detect attempts to exploit the software vulnerability of the software, and in response, generate a security event associated with the software vulnerability.
US11263288B2
An aspect includes an apparatus for evaluating a mathematical function at an input value. The apparatus includes a selector for selecting a mathematical function, an input for a value at which to evaluate the function, an identifier for identifying an interval containing the input value. The interval is described by at least one polynomial function. At least one control point representing the polynomial function is retrieved from at least one look up table, and the polynomial function can be derived from the control points. The function is evaluated at the input value and an output of the evaluation is used as a value of the function at that input value.
US11263286B2
A method for legacy-based access to non-legacy data includes: receiving, at an intermediation server, a non-legacy data object containing non-legacy content; generating a legacy data object containing the non-legacy content, for storage in a repository; storing, in association with the legacy data object, a non-legacy distribution channel indicator; adjusting a legacy processing mechanism at the repository according to the non-legacy distribution channel indicator; receiving from a client subsystem, via a legacy interface, a request for the non-legacy content; and in response to the request, retrieving and sending the legacy data object containing the non-legacy content, via the legacy interface.
US11263280B2
Systems and methods for recalling digital content utilizing contextual data are disclosed. In embodiments, a method includes: determining, by a computing device, that a user has accessed a content item from a content resource; associating, by the computing device, the content item with session data, the session data including a route between a first location and a second location; receiving, by the computing device, a first search query; determining, by the computing device, one or more potential user sessions of interest based on the first search query; receiving, by the computing device, a second search query directed to the content item; and filtering, by the computing device, search results of the second search query based on the one or more potential user sessions of interest to produce filtered search results including one or more content items associated with the session data.
US11263278B2
Content of the material the user is consuming is identified. Physiological pattern generated by the user while consuming the content is captured via at a sensor device. Responsive to detecting that the physiological pattern represents an outlier, a term in the content is determined for which additional information is to be provided. The term may be determined from the content based on user knowledge, frequency of the term appearing in previous content consumed by the user and popularity of the term. A search query is executed with the determined term. Result of the search query may be filtered based on the user's knowledge. The filtered result and at least one of the previous content containing the term the user has previously consumed is presented.
US11263277B1
A method for executing a computerized query includes receiving a new query from a user device. The query includes natural language text. Based on a type of user, and using an alternative term generator, a selected data model is selected from among pre-determined data models. The selected data model is particular to the type of user. Each of the pre-determined data models includes a corresponding semantic graph data model that establishes semantic relationships between words. Query words in the natural language text are compared to the selected data model using the alternative term generator to find at least one alternative term. The alternative term has a semantic relationship to a query word in query words. The semantic relationship exceeds a first threshold value. The alternative term is substituted for a query word to form a revised query. The revised query is executed on a search engine using the alternative terms.
US11263274B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for identifying and monitoring social media accounts belonging to offenders, inmates, and relevant third parties. In an embodiment, a social media monitoring system retrieves information from a criminal history database to identify and verify social media account information. In an embodiment, a social media monitoring system retrieves information from an offender communication device, such as a computer, phone, or tablet, to identify and verify social media account information. The social media monitoring system analyzes this information, retrieves social media accounts, and generates a confidence score and/or relevance score for each retrieved social media account. Social media monitoring system organizes links to the social media accounts based on the scores and also generates alerts when a security threat associated with the social media accounts is detected.
US11263266B2
A traffic anomaly sensing system 10 includes a preprocessing unit 11, a local graph feature generation unit 12, a global graph feature generation unit 13, a learning unit 14, and an anomaly determination unit 15. The preprocessing unit 11 generates a communication history graph from traffic data. The local graph feature generation unit 12 generates, from the communication history graph, a local graph feature about a certain vertex. The global graph feature generation unit 13 generates, from the communication history graph, a global graph feature about a vertex. The learning unit 14 generates a feature vector by combining the generated local graph feature and the generated global graph feature and generates a learned model for each host identifier. The anomaly determination unit 15 determines whether the traffic data is anomalous or not by inputting the graph feature to the generated learned model.
US11263249B2
Methods, systems and computer program products are described herein that provided context to user queries to a chat bot. In one embodiment, the method may include receiving a user query at a chat bot. The chat bot is communicating with a system providing conversation interaction with the user. The chat bot accessing a user profile being initiated by the user. The user can revoke the permission to the system for creating and/or using a user profile at any time. In some embodiments, the user profile includes a query history and profile information about the user that correlates keywords to context. The chat bot weighs query keywords for comparison with the keywords of the user profile that are correlated to context. The chat bot interacts with the user using the context correlated to the user in accordance with the weight of the query keywords matched to the keywords of the user profile that are correlated to the context.
US11263241B2
The present disclosure relates to an intelligent user interface that predicts tasks for users to complete using a trained machine-learning model. In some implementations, when a user accesses the intelligent user interface, the available tasks and a user profile can be inputted into the trained machine-learning model to output a prediction of one or more tasks for the user to complete. Advantageously, the trained machine-learning model outputs a prediction of tasks that the user will likely need to complete, based at least in part on the user's profile and previous interactions with applications.
US11263237B2
The disclosed computer-implemented method for storage block replication in a hybrid storage environment may include receiving a request associated with a data source being replicated to modify a cloud object, storing an instruction for modifying the cloud object, determining that a replication operation for the source has completed, and modifying the cloud object and deleting the instruction for modifying the cloud object in response to determining that the replication operation has completed. In some examples, the request to modify the cloud object may include deleting the cloud object. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US11263234B2
A method and apparatus managing a set of processors for a set of queries is described. In an exemplary embodiment, a device receives a set of queries for a data warehouse, the set of queries including one or more queries to be processed by the data warehouse. The device further provisions a set of processors from a first plurality of processors, where the set of processors to process the set of queries, and a set of storage resources to store data for the set of queries. In addition, the device monitors a utilization of the set of processors as the set of processors processes the set of queries. The device additionally updates a number of the processors in the set of processors provisioned based on the utilization/Furthermore, the device processes the set of queries using the updated set of processors.
US11263231B2
A data copy method comprises: acquiring, by a destination server, a data block identifier, version information and hole information; transmitting, by the destination server, the data block identifier, the version information and the hole information to a source terminal server so as to enable the source server to find corresponding data according to the data block identifier, the version information and the hole information; receiving, by the destination server, a response message carrying the data transmitted by the source server and copying the data to a hole corresponding to the data block identifier, the version information and the hole according to the response message.
US11263221B2
A search service executes on one or more computing systems and searches at least one index associated with content accessible through an application based on the at least one portion of the search query to provide search results associated with the application. A search results interface returns one or more search results from the search. At least one of the search results is associated with an application identifier identifying the application. The search service ranks the search results associated with the application with other search results from at least one other search of other content based on the search query.
US11263219B2
The present disclosure provides various systems and methods for indexing digital (electronic) documents and providing various error reporting and identification functions. The systems and methods may utilize various software, hardware, and firmware modules to identify notations, such as sheet names, anchors, and anchor references on construction documents. Various algorithms and methods may be employed to identify errors, erroneous notations, missing sheets, missing details, and/or the like to aid in the correction of construction documents. Identified notations are indexed and used to create hyperlinked pages that are easily navigable. In some embodiments, the hyperlinked pages may include previous- and next-sheet hyperlinks that allow for direct navigation within a set of pages, according to an order provided in an index sheet (e.g., a table of contents sheet).
US11263217B2
A method and system for determining user-specific proportions of types of content for recommendation to a given user comprising: acquiring for each respective type of content of at least two types of content, a respective base interval of proportion of content for recommendation, computing for each respective type of content of the at least two types of content an associated respective distribution of user interaction parameters associated with a respective set of users, acquiring an associated respective user-specific interaction parameter of the given user, computing for each respective type of content a respective user-specific proportion of the respective type of content for content recommendation to the given user, the respective user-specific proportion being within the respective base interval of proportion of content, the computing being based on: the respective distribution of user interaction parameters of the set of users, and the respective user-specific interaction parameter of the given user.
US11263215B2
A method for enhancing rapid data analysis includes receiving a set of data; storing the set of data in a first set of data shards sharded by a first field; and identifying anomalous data from the set of data by monitoring a range of shard indices associated with a first shard of the first set of data shards, detecting that the range of shard indices is smaller than an expected range by a threshold value, and identifying data of the first shard as anomalous data.
US11263211B2
Described are methods, systems and computer readable media for data partitioning and ordering.
US11263209B2
Document information may define words, key groups of words, and sets of context words within a document. Word feature scores for words within the document may be generated. Key group feature scores for individual key groups of words may be generated based on aggregation of word feature scores the words within the individual key groups of words and word feature scores for words within corresponding sets of context words. A document feature score for the document may be generated based on aggregation of word feature scores for words within the document. The key group feature scores and the document feature score may enable context-sensitive searching of words/word vectors in the document.
US11263207B2
Methods and systems for performing root cause analysis for information technology incident management using cognitive computing are disclosed. A method includes: generating, by a computing device, a cache including a plurality of links between causes and solutions; obtaining, by the computing device, information about a current incident; generating, by the computing device, search keys from the information about the current incident using natural language processing; searching, by the computing device, the cache using the search keys; iteratively generating, by the computing device, new search keys using results from a previous search and searching the cache using the new search keys; and displaying, by the computing device, solutions based on results from the searching and the iteratively generating and searching.
US11263205B2
A method according to one embodiment includes monitoring, by an access control device, for changes to a first access control database stored on the access control device, wherein the first access control database is associated with a first security ecosystem having a first set of security protocols; automatically updating a mediation database stored on the access control device to identify a change to the first access control database in response to a determination that the change occurred; and automatically updating a second access control database stored on the access control device based on the change identified in the mediation database and in response to the automatic update of the mediation database, wherein the second access control database is associated with a second security ecosystem different from the first security ecosystem and having a second set of security protocols different from the first set.
US11263203B2
Data processing and storage is an important part of a number of applications. Conventional data processing and storage systems utilize either a full array structure or a full linked list structure for storing data wherein the array consumes large amount of memory and linked list provides slow processing. Thus, conventional systems and methods are not capable of providing simultaneous optimization of memory consumption and time efficiency. The present disclosure provides an efficient way of storing data by creating an integrated array and linked list based structure. The data is stored in the integrated array and linked list based structure by using a delta based mechanism. The delta based mechanism helps in determining the location in the integrated array and linked list based structure where the data should be stored. The present disclosure incorporates the advantages of both array and linked list structure resulting in reduced memory consumption and latency.
US11263198B2
Systems and methods are provided for systematically finding and fixing automatic speech recognition (ASR) mistranscriptions and natural language understanding (NLU) misinterpretations and labeling data for machine learning. High similarity of non-identical consecutive queries indicates ASR mistranscriptions. Consecutive queries with close vectors in a semantic embedding space indicates NLU misinterpretations. Key phrases and barge-in also indicate errors. Only queries within a short amount of time are considered.
US11263194B2
Systems and methods for backing up data and for restoring at least sub-sets of the backed up data or for restoring sub-sets of data from a single file. An offset map is generated when backing up data. The offset map identifies at least starting locations of files and data records in the backup. A request for specific data is accommodated by identified the start locations of the specific data and then extracting the requested data from the backup. The requested data can then be restored independently of the entire backup.
US11263190B2
A system comprises a data processing unit (DPU) integrated circuit having programmable processor cores and hardware-based accelerators configured for processing streams of data units; and software executing on one or more of the processing cores. In response to a request to perform an operation on a set of one or more data tables, each having one or more columns of data arranged in a plurality of rows, the software configures the DPU to: input at least a portion of the rows of each of the database tables as at least one or more streams of data units, process the one or more streams of data units with the hardware-based accelerators to apply one or more of compression, encoding or encryption to produce a resultant stream of data units; and write the resultant stream of data units to a storage in a tree data structure.
US11263182B2
A method and apparatus for distribution of applications amongst a number of servers, ensuring that changes to application data on a master for that application are asynchronously replicated to a number of slaves for that application. Servers may be located in geographically diverse locations; the invention permits data replication over high-latency and lossy network connections and failure-tolerance under hardware and network failure conditions. Access to applications is mediated by a distributed protocol handler which allows any request for any application to be addressed to any server, and which, when working in tandem with the replication system, pauses connections momentarily to allow seamless, consistent live-migration of applications and their state between servers. Additionally, a system which controls the aforementioned live-migration based on dynamic measurement of load generated by each application and the topological preferences of each application, in order to automatically keep servers at an optimum utilisation level.
US11263161B2
A dongle for connecting a computerized device to a certified unit under test (UUT) includes a computerized device communication port and a UUT communication port. The dongle also includes a communication module operatively connecting the computerized device communication port and the UUT communication port. The communication module includes an internet protocol (IP) module that supplies an IP address to a computerized device connected to the computerized device communication port, wherein the IP address enables the computerized device to receive signals from and/or send signals to the UUT.
US11263148B2
A memory system is provided to include a first storage device including a first memory device and a first memory controller configured to receive, from a host external to the first storage device, a request including a logical address corresponding to the request; and a second storage device including a second memory device and a second memory controller coupled to receive a request from the first storage device and to control the second memory device, wherein the first memory controller is configured to select a target address among candidate addresses and map the logical address received from the host to the target address, and wherein the candidate addresses include first physical addresses corresponding to the first memory blocks and virtual addresses corresponding to the second memory blocks included in the second memory device.
US11263145B2
A method comprising: receiving, at a vector processor, a request to store data; performing, by the vector processor, one or more transforms on the data; and directly instructing, by the vector processor, one or more storage device to store the data; wherein performing one or more transforms on the data comprises: erasure encoding the data to generate n data fragments configured such that any k of the data fragments are usable to regenerate the data, where k is less than n; and wherein directly instructing one or more storage device to store the data comprises: directly instructing the one or more storage devices to store the plurality of data fragments.
US11263144B2
A method comprising: receiving, at a block device interface, an instruction to write data, the instruction comprising a memory location of the data; copying the data to pinned memory; performing, by a vector processor, one or more invertible transforms on the data; and writing the data from the pinned memory to one or more storage devices asynchronously; wherein the pinned memory of the data corresponds to a location in pinned memory, the pinned memory being accessible by the vector processor and one or more other processors.
US11263142B1
Various embodiments described herein provide for a memory device that can service a high priority read request during data input without losing the data inputted to the memory device prior to the high priority read request, without re-requesting data from a host, and while leaving one or more internal resources of a memory sub-system available for use by an error correction function of the memory sub-system.
US11263137B2
A method and apparatus is disclosed for transferring data from a first processor core to a second processor core. The first processor core executes a stash instruction having a first operand associated with a data address of the data. A second processor core is determined to be a stash target for a stash message, based on the data address or a second operand. A stash message is sent to the second processor core, notifying the second processor core of the written data. Responsive to receiving the stash message, the second processor core can opt to store the data in its cache. The data may be included in the stash message or retrieved in response to a read request by the second processing core. The second processor core may be determined by prediction based, at least in part, on monitored data transactions.
US11263133B2
Coherency control circuitry (10) supports processing of a safe-speculative-read transaction received from a requesting master device (4). The safe-speculative-read transaction is of a type requesting that target data is returned to a requesting cache (11) of the requesting master device (4) while prohibiting any change in coherency state associated with the target data in other caches (12) in response to the safe-speculative-read transaction. In response, at least when the target data is cached in a second cache associated with a second master device, at least one of the coherency control circuitry (10) and the second cache (12) is configured to return a safe-speculative-read response while maintaining the target data in the same coherency state within the second cache. This helps to mitigate against speculative side-channel attacks.
