US11317543B1
A cooling system can include an input channel from which a fluid enters the cooling system and an output channel from which the fluid exits the cooling system. The cooling system can include a vapor buffer and a liquid buffer, and the connections between the two buffers. Vapor buffer valves arranged in fluid channels of the cooling system can be controlled to, in a first mode, disconnect the vapor buffer from an input channel, and, in a second mode, connect the vapor buffer to the input channel and disconnect the vapor buffer from the input of the condenser or the port that is attachable to the input of the condenser.
US11317532B2
A labor-saving mainboard withdrawing structure for electronic devices is used for withdrawing a mainboard from a slot in a withdrawing direction, and the structure includes a fixed seat, a movable seat installed separately on both sides of the fixed seat and limited to move in the withdrawing direction only and having a space defined between the two movable seats for installing the mainboard, and a rail track disposed on an opposite side and extending along the withdrawing direction for slidably inserting the mainboard. Each movable seat has a pushing portion and a pushing member abutting against the mainboard, and each pushing member has a head provided for operator to push, and a tail abutting against the fixed seat, and the head can be pushed to move the tail pivotally, and when the tail is moved pivotally, the movable seat is pushed to move a retreat distance in the withdrawing direction relative to the fixed seat, so as to detach the mainboard from the slot by pushing the pushing portion.
US11317530B2
A substrate case can be used in common with different types of substrates, and thus reduces production costs. A substrate case is tubular and has a bottom that includes an open portion into which a first substrate and a second substrate that has a different size can be selectively inserted. Guide portions are configured to guide movement of the first substrate and the second substrate in an insertion direction when the first substrate and the second substrate are selectively inserted through the open portion. A first restricting portion is configured to restrict movement of the first substrate when the first substrate has been guided by the guide portion and inserted to a regular position; and a second restricting portion that is configured to restrict movement of the second substrate when the second substrate has been guided by the guide portion and inserted to the regular position.
US11317529B2
A carrier device includes a base bracket, a device bracket, a lever, and a cable holder. The device bracket is coupled to the base bracket and is movable between an initial device bracket position and a final device bracket position. The lever is coupled to the base bracket and is movable between an initial lever position and a final lever position. The lever is configured to move from the initial lever position toward the final lever position in response to the device bracket moving from the initial device bracket position to the final device bracket position. The cable holder is coupled to the base bracket and the lever. The cable holder is configured to hold one or more cables. The cable holder is further configured to move from an initial cable holder position to a final cable holder position, in response to the lever moving to the final lever position.
US11317526B2
An electronic device and a display thereof are provided. The electronic device includes a display and a supporting device. The display includes a display panel, a back cover, and a connecting member. The back cover is disposed on the display panel, and includes an inner surface, an outer surface opposite to the inner surface, and a mounting hole penetrating the inner surface and the outer surface. The inner surface faces the display panel. The mounting hole is disposed on a central region of the back cover. The connecting member is disposed on the inner surface at a position corresponding to the mounting hole, and includes a screw hole. The supporting device includes a detachable fixer connected to the screw hole. Thus, it is convenient for a user to connect the display to different supporting devices.
US11317517B2
A method for connecting an electronic component to a circuit board is disclosed. Initially, a substrate and an electronic component having solder located between them are placed under a flashlamp. Multiple light pulses from the flashlamp are applied to the electronic component, substrate and solder until the solder reflows. During the application of the light pulses, the power of one of the light pulses from the flashlamp and the temperature of the electronic component are measured, the measured power is converted to radiant exposure, and in response to the measured temperature of the electronic component, the duty cycle of a next light pulse is adjusted adaptively according to the radiant exposure of the one light pulse.
US11317515B2
A method for embedding a line in a substrate. A line embedding head in positioned relative to a surface of the substrate. The line from an output port in the line embedding head is output at an angle relative to the embedding head such that the line is embedded in the substrate.
US11317513B2
An optical module includes a photoelectric device and a flexible printed circuit board. The flexible printed circuit board includes an insulating substrate with a first surface and a second surface, a first wiring pattern on the first surface, and a second wiring pattern on the second surface. The first wiring pattern includes a signal line with a signal terminal portion at a tip and a signal-line portion narrower than the signal terminal portion, the first wiring pattern including a pair of ground pads at positions sandwiching the signal-line portion, at least part of the pair of ground pads avoiding being adjacent to the signal terminal portion. The second wiring pattern includes a ground plane overlapping with the signal-line portion and being connected to the pair of ground pads, the second wiring pattern including a signal pad connected to the signal terminal portion.
US11317511B2
The present disclosure provides a circuit board. The circuit board may include a number of stacked core boards each having a top surface. At least part core boards of the number of stacked core boards may include circuit layers at top surfaces thereof. A groove may be defined through the at least part core boards. A conductive material may be received in the groove configured to couple to the circuit layers of at least two core boards. A cross section of the groove may include a length in a first direction and a length in a second direction, and the length in the first direction may be greater than the length in the second direction. Electroplating solution may capable of contacting any portions of the groove to electroplate, to form the conductive material.
US11317507B2
A laminate comprising a substrate; an adhesive layer formed on at least one surface of both surfaces of the substrate so as to be in direct contact with the substrate; and a plating layer formed on a surface of the adhesive layer opposite to the substrate, wherein the adhesive layer comprises a plating catalyst containing a precious metal, and a silane coupling agent.
US11317506B2
A circuit board with high light reflectivity includes an inner wiring base board, a base board with a high light reflectivity, a first insulation layer, a first conductor layer, and a second insulation layer. A first opening in the inner wiring base board receives the base board. The first insulation layer is stacked on a surface of the inner wiring base board and defines a second opening corresponding in position to the first opening and exposing a portion of the base board. The first conductor layer is on a surface of the first insulation layer away from the inner wiring base board and includes connecting pads on the base board. The second insulation layer and the second conductor are stacked in that order on another surface of the inner wiring base board. A method for manufacturing the circuit board is also disclosed.
US11317504B2
An electronic assembly is provided, including a wiring board, a control element, and a pair of first internal electrical connectors. The wiring board includes a mounting surface, a first patterned conductive layer, a plurality of second patterned conductive layers, a plurality of near conductive holes, a plurality of far conductive holes, and a first conductive path. The first patterned conductive layer is located between the mounting surface and the second patterned conductive layers. The control element is mounted on the mounting surface of the wiring board. The pair of first internal electrical connectors are mounted on the mounting surface of the wiring board, and are adapted for mounting a pair of memory modules. The first conductive path extends from the control element at least through the corresponding second patterned conductive layer and the first patterned conductive layer to the pair of first internal electrical connectors.
US11317495B2
An LED lighting device is disclosed. The LED lighting device includes an LED circuit having at least two LEDs that are mounted on a substrate and separated from each other by a distance of 3 millimeters or less. At least one of the at least two LEDs includes a different phosphor coating than that of at least one other LED of the at least two LEDs. The LED lighting device also includes a switch selectable by an end user to enable a change in a color of light emitted from the LED lighting device by causing one of at least a change in brightness or turning ‘on’ or ‘off’ the at least one LED with the different phosphor coating of the at least two LEDs in the LED circuit. The substrate and the switch are integrated within the LED lighting device.
US11317490B2
An input detection and protection circuit and an AC electronic ballast for HID lamps, including a power input circuit performing a first limitation to an input surge voltage and then performing a second limitation to a residual voltage from the first input surge voltage limitation; an input voltage acquisition circuit feeding back an input voltage to an MCU chip; a pull-in circuit for a relay connecting to a relay in the power input circuit; a PFC circuit, and an MCU chip controlling the PFC circuit to switch on and off according to voltage values input by the input voltage acquisition circuit, and controlling pull-in and drop-out of the relay through the pull-in circuit for the relay.
US11317479B2
Disclosed herein is a cooking apparatus. The cooking apparatus includes a cooking plate, a plurality of induction heating coils installed under the cooking plate, a plurality of drivers configured to supply driving power to the plurality of induction heating coils, and a controller configured to control the plurality of drivers to drive a plurality of groups to which the plurality of induction heating coils belong, respectively. Power output by a first driver, among the plurality of drivers, which drives a first group among the plurality of groups may be increased and power output by a second driver, among the plurality of drivers, which drives a second group among the plurality of groups may be decreased.
US11317476B2
An evaporator unit for an inhaler comprising a heating element is designed to evaporate liquid, the evaporated liquid being taken up by an airflow flowing through the evaporator unit. The evaporator unit comprises at least one air-permeable capillary structure having a surface that is heatable in order to preheat the liquid and can be wetted, at least in part, by liquid and is supplied with liquid by capillary action, and the heating element is designed to heat the airflow flowing through the evaporator unit, the capillary structure being arranged downstream of the heating element such that the heated airflow leads to evaporation of the preheated liquid.
US11317474B2
A wirelessly operable cooking appliance for cooking food products includes a wireless communication device. A computing device, such as a smartphone, can wirelessly communicate with the cooking appliance to control and monitor the cooking appliance.
US11317460B2
Communication control for establishing a multi-access PDN connection is performed based on a response to a PDN connectivity establishment request from a terminal device. Communication control for transmitting and/or receiving user data using one or more default bearers for a multi-access PDN connection is performed. This provides a communication control method and the like along with a multi-access PDN connectivity establishment request from the terminal device.
US11317458B2
This disclosure relates to temporary suspension, and subsequent resumption, of radio resource aggregation in a wireless communication system. A wireless device may establish a communication link with a base station. The communication link with the base station may aggregate radio resources according to a first wireless communication technology and a second wireless communication technology. Use by the communication link of radio resources according to the second wireless communication technology may be suspended. Wireless communication activity according to the second wireless communication technology that is not associated with the communication link may be performed while use by the communication link of radio resources according to the second wireless communication technology is suspended. Use by the communication link of radio resources according to the second wireless communication technology may be resumed after performing the wireless communication activity according to the second wireless communication technology.
US11317448B2
Provided are an initial access method and apparatus of a wireless communication system. The initial access method of a terminal in a wireless communication system includes: detecting at least one synchronization signal included in a plurality of synchronization signal blocks; selecting at least one synchronization signal among the detected at least one synchronization signal; and performing an initial access procedure based on the selected at least one synchronization signal.
US11317447B2
A method for communications is proposed. The method may comprise transmit a request for a packet data network connection of the terminal device to a network node. The method may further comprise receiving a response to the request from the network node. The response may indicate whether user plane setup is needed for data transfer on the packet data network connection.
US11317444B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide for random access channel (RACH) configuration in wireless communication systems. In some examples, a RACH configuration may be selected for use by a scheduled entity in transmitting a RACH signal to a scheduling entity based on an estimated timing advance value. The RACH configuration may include, for example, a transmission time of the RACH signal and/or a RACH waveform configuration identifying at least a cyclic prefix (CP) length and a guard time (GT) for the RACH signal. In some examples, the CP and GT length may each be set to the difference between an estimated maximum round-trip time (RTT) and an estimated minimum RTT between the scheduled entity and the scheduling entity. In some examples, the timing advance value may be estimated as the estimated minimum RTT.
US11317437B2
Provided by an embodiment of the present application are a method and device for determining a contention window, the method comprising: according to feedback information sent by a terminal device, a network device determining the length of a contention window (CW) used for channel detection, the feedback information comprising feedback information corresponding to a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) sent by the network device on a first carrier wave; according to the length of CW, the network device performing channel detection on the first carrier wave.
US11317432B2
The method for reception of a signal by a terminal in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention may comprise a step of monitoring control channel candidates on the basis of information on precoding granularity. Specifically, even if information on the precoding granularity instructs to the terminal to assume that the reference signal with respect to the control channel candidates is mapped to all resource element groups (REGs) included in consecutive resource blocks in the first control resource set, when some of the consecutive resource blocks overlap with a second control resource set set by a physical broadcasting channel (PBCH), the terminal may not assume that the reference signal with respect to the control channel candidates is mapped to the REGs included in some resource blocks which are overlapping.
US11317431B2
The present invention discloses a method for receiving scheduling information, comprising steps of: receiving Downlink Control Information (DCI); and determining, according to a mapping relationship between configured transmission resources used for a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) and scheduling information in the DCI, scheduling information corresponding to the PUSCH in the DCI. Compared with the prior art, in the present invention, the scheduling information in the DCI is determined by the mapping relationship between the configured transmission resources used for transmitting the PUSCH by a UE and the scheduling information in the DCI, so that a base station can schedule all UEs for which there is a mapping relationship between PUSCH configured transmission resources and the scheduling information in DCI by sending only one piece of DCI. The scheduling overhead is reduced, the resource waste is reduced, and the efficiency of scheduling terminals by a communication system is significantly improved.
US11317424B2
A system for prioritizing network resource dispatch may include receiving a request for a network resource from a mobile device associated with a user, the request comprising mobile device and user characteristics, and location information. A request priority may be determined based on some combination of a mobile device score and user score. The request priority is assigned to the request. A highest ranked mobile device request priority is determined, and the network resource is dispatched to a location corresponding to the highest ranked request priority. A heatmap may be generated to illustrate a geographical representation of each mobile device data usage rate at each mobile device respective location. The request priorities may change based on any combination of the mobile device characteristics, user characteristics, location information and the usage characteristics. Therefore, the priority of dispatching the network resource may be determined dynamically and updated as the inputs change.
US11317411B2
At least two PDSCH resource allocations can be received. Different PDSCH resource allocations of the at least two PDSCH resource allocations can be associated with different spatial filters for a UE. A pre-emption indication that indicates pre-empted resources can be received. A determination can be made as to whether the pre-emption indication is applicable to a first PDSCH resource allocation, a second PDSCH resource allocation, both PDSCH resource allocations, or no PDSCH resource allocation of the at least two PDSCH resource allocations. A first PDSCH corresponding to the first PDSCH resource allocation can be decoded based on no transmission being present for the UE in the pre-empted resources in response to determining the pre-emption indication is applicable to the first PDSCH resource allocation and not applicable to the second PDSCH resource allocation.
US11317403B2
An eNodeB (eNB), user equipment (UE) and method of providing a flexible Radio Access Technology (FRAT) are generally described. The information (resource allocation, partition information and numerology) of at least one of a plurality of RATs used by the eNB is provided to a UE. Each RAT has a flexible subcarrier spacing and symbol duration, which are integer multiples of a base subcarrier spacing and symbol duration, and is associated with at least one of different temporal and frequency resources. The symbol and/or frame structure of each RAT are independent. A Transmission Time Interval (TTI) boundary between the RATs is common, and the RATs comprise a common reference TTI duration. The information of the RATs is provided either via a different RAT than the RAT used by the UE for communication or via a dedicated carrier in the RAT used by the UE for communication.
US11317402B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The present application discloses a method for generating a preamble, comprising the following steps of: receiving dedicated preamble configuration information and random access preamble configuration information, wherein the dedicated preamble configuration information comprises root sequence configuration information and/or cyclic shift value configuration information; determining dedicated root sequence configuration information, dedicated cyclic shift value configuration information and dedicated preamble index according to the dedicated preamble configuration information and random access preamble configuration information.
US11317397B2
A method and apparatus for configuring a data subband in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment (UE) receives an indication of a data subband from a network, configures at least one data subband according to the indication, and performs communication with the network via the at least one data subband. One data subband consists of contiguous or noncontiguous physical resource blocks (PRBs).
US11317393B2
The present disclosure provides a slot monitoring method, an information transmission method, a user equipment and a network device. The slot monitoring method includes: monitoring UE group common PDCCH for a slot format indicator (SFI), and getting control information transmitted on the UE group common PDCCH. The SFI indicates to a UE slot formats of a number of consecutive N slots including a slot where the UE group common control information located, where N is positive integer.
US11317391B2
A method in which a terminal transmits/receives a special subframe in a wireless communication system supporting time division duplex (TDD) according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a step for receiving information about a special subframe configuration; a step for receiving a downlink signal from a base station during a time corresponding to a downlink pilot time slot (DwPTS) allocated according to the special subframe configuration; and a step for transmitting an uplink signal to the base station during a time corresponding to an uplink pilot time slot (UpPTS) allocated according to the special subframe configuration, wherein the special subframe consists of the DwPTS, a guard period (GP), and the UpPTS, and is received or transmitted through an sTTI structure pattern including a plurality of short transmission time interval (sTTI) transmission blocks, wherein the sTTI structure patterns can be determined according to the special subframe configuration.
US11317390B2
When communication is performed by using a plurality of cells (CCs) for DL and/or UL transmission, communication is controlled by appropriately using a reduced TTI and/or a reduced processing time. A user terminal that performs communication by using a plurality of cells for DL transmission and/or UL transmission includes: a reception section that receives a DL signal; and a control section that controls transmission of a UL signal at a predetermined timing based on the DL signal, and the control section controls the predetermined timing based on at least the number of cells used for the UL transmission.
US11317388B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to the communication processes in a wireless communication system based on short TTIs. According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, there provide a method for communication by a base station. The method comprise: receiving, from a user equipment, an uplink demodulation reference signal, DMRS, in an uplink transmission time interval, TTI, of an uplink subframe, which supports two or more uplink TTIs. At least one uplink TTI supported by the uplink subframe is configured to only transmit uplink control information and/or uplink data without any uplink DMRS. In the other aspects of the present disclosure, there also provides methods for communication by a user equipment and corresponding apparatuses.
US11317384B2
To effectively and efficiently provide control information, a broadcast pointer channel (BPCH) may be used to identify the type and perhaps relative location of control information that is being provided in a given frame structure, such as a sub-frame, frame, or superframe. A sub-frame (or like framing entity, such a frame or superframe) may have a BPCH and a corresponding system control information segment in which control information may reside. The system control information segment may have any number of control information blocks, wherein each control information block that is present may correspond to a particular type of control information. The BPCH is used to identify the type of control information that is present in a corresponding system control information segment, and if needed or desired, the relative locations of the various control information.
US11317380B2
A method for transmitting data in sidelink communication, performed by a transmitting terminal, may comprise transmitting first control information including first resource allocation information for a first data transmission resource and second resource allocation information for a second data transmission resource; transmitting data through the first data transmission resource; transmitting second control information including the first resource allocation information for the first data transmission resource and the second resource allocation information for the second data transmission resource; and transmitting data through the second data transmission resource.
US11317375B2
This disclosure relates to systems, apparatuses, and methods for coordinating communication and avoiding and/or mitigating collisions for multi-subscriber identity module devices in a wireless communication system. A wireless device may coordinate communication associated with different subscriber identity modules and/or may mitigate collisions between communications associated with different subscriber identity modules. A network may provide information to improve coordination and/or mitigate collisions. A network may adjust paging schedules and/or provision of alert messages to improve coordination.
US11317372B2
The present disclosure provides an information transmission method and apparatus, and a computer-readable storage medium, and belongs to the field of communication. The method includes: sending a synchronization signal block (SSB) and paging indication information through a first beam, wherein the puling indication information is configured to identify user equipment (UE) paged by a base station in a cell served by the base station; and sending a first control resource set (CORSET) through a second beam, wherein the first CORSET includes a plurality of physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs), and the plurality of PDCCHs comprised in the first CORSET carry first downlink control information (DCI) configured to instruct the UE paged by the base station to acquire a paging message according to the first DCI. A technical solution of the present disclosure can reduce monitoring duration of the first UE, thereby reducing power consumption of the first UE.
US11317370B1
Disclosed are some examples of techniques for ranging and positioning of distributed devices to avoid local and/or periodic interference. For example, an initiator user equipment (UE) can broadcast a positioning reference signal (PRS) message of a current positioning session to responder UEs. One or more characteristics of PRS transmission associated with a first responder UE in the current positioning session can be determined. Based on the characteristic(s), interference with the first responder UE can be identified, which can cause the initiator UE to change the broadcast order of the responder UEs for a next positioning session.
US11317367B2
Exemplary embodiments provide a method and apparatus for transmitting a synchronization signal for Device-to-Device (D2D) communication in a wireless communication system. With respect to a D2D synchronization source to transmit a synchronization signal for D2D communication, the method includes: generating a D2D Synchronization Signal (D2DSS); and transmitting, by a synchronization source, the D2DSS to a D2D reception (Rx) UE, wherein the D2DSS includes a Primary D2D Synchronization Signal (PD2DSS) generated based on information associated with the synchronization source.
US11317365B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for determining time delay for different physical signal transmission orders in communications. One apparatus (200) includes a processor (202) that determines (402) a time delay set of multiple time delay sets corresponding to a downlink signal and an associated signal based on a duplex mode, a time division duplex configuration, a frame configuration, a subcarrier spacing of the associated signal, a resource unit time of the associated signal, a first indication, or some combination thereof. The apparatus (200) includes a receiver (212) that receives (404) a second indication corresponding to the time delay set. The processor (202) determines (406) a time delay value from the time delay set based on the second indication.
US11317353B2
A user equipment (UE) being configured to receive a downlink, DL, information; determine a spatial association for an uplink, UL, transmission based on the DL information; and determine UL power control, PC, parameters based on the DL information.
US11317349B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method of reducing power consumption in a wireless network device, comprising determining a duration prior to a beacon being received by the device; comparing the duration against a predetermined value; and adjusting a duration of a sleep period in response to the comparison.
US11317346B2
A communication system includes a transmitting module. The transmitting module is configured to send at least one preamble to a receiver module operating alternatively in an idle mode or a transmission mode during a synchronization time period (Tsync). The synchronization time period (Tsync) is greater than an idle time period of the idle mode of the receiving module.
US11317345B2
Solutions for data network name (DNN) selection when user equipment (UE) route selection policy (URSP) rule is applied in evolved packet system (EPS) with respect to user equipment and network apparatus in mobile communications are described. An apparatus may start an application in an EPS network. The apparatus may select a URSP rule from one or more configured URSP rules by matching a traffic descriptor (TD) of the URSP rule with the application. The apparatus may determine whether a data network name (DNN) or access point name (APN) included in a route selection descriptor (RSD) is a local area data network (LADN) DNN or APN. The apparatus may skip the RSD in an event that the DNN or APN is the LADN DNN or APN. The apparatus may evaluate a next RSD or a next URSP rule in case that the next RSD or the next URSP rule is available.
US11317344B2
A communication scheme and system converges a 5G communication system supporting a data rate higher than that of a 4G system with an internet of things (IoT) technology. Applicable to intelligent services (e.g., smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars, connected cars, health care, digital education, retails, and security and safety-related services), the communication scheme and system is based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology. Methods of operation a terminal and a network for facilitating a 5G terminal registration procedure in a wireless communication system are disclosed.
US11317336B2
Example communication methods and apparatus are described. One example communication method includes receiving broadcast information by a terminal device. The broadcast information includes a first parameter and a second parameter that are for a first cell. The first parameter is used for cell selection or cell reselection performed by a terminal device that supports supplementary uplink (SUL) carrier transmission, and the second parameter is used for cell selection or cell reselection performed by a terminal device that does not support SUL carrier transmission. The terminal device performs cell selection or cell reselection based on the first parameter when the terminal device supports SUL carrier transmission. The terminal device performs cell selection or cell reselection based on the second parameter when the terminal device does not support SUL carrier transmission.
US11317334B2
Obtaining, by a source cell, a key retention policy of a terminal device, where the source cell and the terminal device use a first key to communicate with each other; determining, by the source cell according to the key retention policy of the terminal device and a key retention policy of the source cell, whether the terminal device and a target cell use the first key to communicate with each other; and sending, by the source cell, a handover request message to the target cell, where the handover request message is used to request to hand over the terminal device from the source cell to the target cell, the handover request message includes first indication information, and the first indication information is used to indicate whether the terminal device and the target cell use the first key to communicate with each other.
US11317331B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatuses, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for uplink switching for enhanced mobility. In some aspects, this disclosure provides techniques for potentially reducing or eliminating service interruptions experienced during a handover from a source cell to a target cell. Additionally, this disclosure provides techniques for potentially simplifying or improving uplink communications while a UE is connected to both the source cell and the target cell during the handover. This disclosure further provides techniques for potentially reducing UE power consumption or improving uplink resource utilization during a handover from a source cell to a target cell while a UE is connected to both the source cell and the target cell during the handover.
US11317328B2
A system (300) of a wireless communication network (100) comprising a first network node (110) arranged for wireless communication with a wireless communication device (130). A message is triggered to be sent from the first network node (110) to and received by the wireless communication device (130). The message comprises instructions related to measurements by the wireless communication device (130) on a signal from a network node (110; 120) of the wireless communication network (100). The instructions comprising a first measurement condition and a second measurement condition and that both the first measurement condition and the second measurement condition have to be fulfilled for the wireless communication device (130) to report at least one of the measurements to the wireless communication network (100).
US11317324B2
A user equipment (UE) device may communicate according to a new device category satisfying specified QoS (quality of service) requirements while also satisfying specified link budget requirements, and/or additional optimization requirements. The UE device may communicate with a cellular base station according to a first mode of operation associated with the new device category, and may switch to communicating with the cellular base station according to a second mode of operation associated with a second (pre-existing) device category in response to the link budget requirements exceeding a specified value and the quality of service requirements not being sensitive. The UE device may also switch to communicating with the cellular base station according to a third mode of operation associated with a third (pre-existing) device type in response to the link budget requirement not exceeding the specified value, or the QoS requirements being sensitive and a downlink throughput requirement exceeding a specified throughput value.
US11317313B2
Provided are a data distribution method and device, and a storage medium and a system. The method may comprise: receiving an access state report sent by at least one access device, wherein the access state report comprises multiple pieces of network state information for characterizing access networks provided by the corresponding access devices; and determining, based on network state information about access networks provided by various access devices and a data stream to be transmitted, data distribution amounts corresponding to various access devices. Accordingly, multi-connection data transmission control is carried out for a data stream to be transmitted, so as to improve the throughput of service data.
US11317302B2
Methods, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums are provided. The MDT configuration method includes setting MDT configuration information for performing an MDT measurement on a specified network device, adding the MDT configuration information to specified signaling, and sending the specified signaling to a base station, so that the base station determines, according to the MDT configuration information, a terminal to be configured that meets a specified MDT measurement condition, and then sends the MDT configuration information to said terminal, and said terminal performing MDT measurement on the specified network device according to the MDT configuration information.
US11317301B2
In one embodiment, a DAS comprises: a master unit configured to receive a signal from a base station, and configured to transmit a signal to the base station; remote antenna units coupled to the master unit and configured to radiate a remote downlink RF signal and receive a remote uplink RF signal; and a controller configured to execute code for a DAS management virtualization system that includes a virtual system controller function configured to establish a plurality of virtual systems and assign physical resources of the DAS to each of the virtual systems. The DAS management virtualization system includes a northbound interface driver that defines a first virtualized DAS operator interface configured to manage a first set of physical resources assigned to a first virtual system, and a second virtualized DAS operator interface configured to manage a second set of physical resources assigned to a second virtual system.
US11317300B2
According to one embodiment, a wireless communication device, includes a receiver configured to receive a first field, receive at least one of a plurality of second fields having been multiplexed and transmitted, and decode the one of the second fields to obtain a frame in a case where first information identifying the wireless communication device is not set in the first field, and a controller configured to suppress access to a wireless medium during a period indicated by a value set in the frame.
US11317299B1
Cellular communication network is managed by receiving at a computing device certain data specifying geolocation information of one or more user equipment in communication with one or more nodes of the cellular communication system. The computing device identifies a disruption in receipt of the periodic geolocation information, and uses the received geolocation information to at least partially define a location of a peripheral edge of a communication dead zone. The peripheral edge information is used to facilitate a dynamic modification or control of the cellular communication network and/or the user equipment.
US11317288B2
A method for securing communication may include: (1) receiving, at the authorization platform and from a hybrid browser component of a computer application, an encrypted payload comprising an authentication code, a bundle identifier, and an application unique identifier; (2) registering, by the authorization platform, a username for a user; (3) receiving, at the authentication framework and from the computer application, the username and the encrypted payload; (4) receiving, at the authentication framework, user login credentials from the user; (5) validating, by the authentication framework, the user login credentials; (6) passing, by the authentication framework to the authorization platform, the encrypted payload; (6) comparing, by the authorization platform the encrypted payload received from the computer application to the encrypted payload received from the authentication framework; and (8) accepting, by the authentication framework, the encrypted payload and tying the process to the computer application.
US11317275B2
Embodiments are directed towards employing parallel satellite and wire transmissions to facilitate 5G communications. A network origination system receives, via 5G communication, a message from an origination device for distribution to a destination device. The network origination system determines a priority of the message and selects a transmission mechanism—wire transmission, satellite transmission, or parallel transmission—in which to transmit the message to the network destination system based on the priority. The network origination system transmits the message to a network destination system via the selected transmission mechanism. The network destination system forwards the message to the destination device and determines if the message is tagged for the parallel transmission. If the message is tagged for parallel transmission, the network destination system determines if the message is received via wire transmission and satellite transmission within a time window associated with a transmission time obtained from the message.
US11317273B2
A system is described in which a default mobility management entity (MME) receives, from a base station, a request for setting up a communication connection to a mobile device having an associated usage type. The default MME sends, to the base station and responsive to the request, a message identifying a dedicated MME, to which the request should be re-routed, the dedicated MME having a supported service type corresponding to the usage type associated with the mobile device. The base station sends a response to the default MME, the response indicating whether re-routing to said dedicated MME is was successful or not (e.g. due to an overload of the dedicated MME). If the re-routing was not successful, the default MME attempts to serve the mobile device instead of the dedicated MME.
US11317261B2
Apparatus, system and method for promoting media apps to an end user of a smart device. The smart device gathers information of apps that have been installed into the smart device and provides this information to a remote server. The remote server compares the information sent by the smart device to an identification of promoted apps received from a remote source to identify apps that are not installed in the smart device that are included in the identification of promoted apps. The remote server then notifies the smart device of which apps in the identification of promoted apps are not installed into the smart device, so that a user of the smart device may choose to have the missing app installed.
US11317259B2
The present disclosure discloses a communication method of a hybrid V2X communication device. The method of comprises accessing a first channel; receiving a Service Advertisement Message (SAM) from the first channel, the SAM providing service information and information related with a service channel through which a service is provided; and accessing a service channel and receiving service data based on the SAM.
US11317253B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for improving establishment and broadcasting of communication among mobile computing devices, including providing an improved user experience using descriptive operator access. For example, a method comprises determining a first user accesses a mobile application on a first mobile device of the first user; determining a second user accesses the mobile application on a second mobile device of the second user; and initiating the audio conversation between the first user and the second user, wherein the audio conversation is streamed to a third user who accesses the mobile application on a third mobile device of the third user, wherein a selectable descriptive operator associated with at least one of the audio conversation, the first user, or the second user, is displayed to third user on the mobile application.
US11317247B1
An approach is disclosed for a data-driven evaluation of heuristics for trajectory cropping. The approach involves, e.g., determining a cropping heuristic, wherein the cropping heuristic comprises an algorithm for cropping a probe trajectory collected from one or more sensors of a mobile device to anonymize the probe trajectory data. The approach also involves processing the probe trajectory using the cropping heuristic to generate a cropped probe trajectory. The approach further involves extracting one or more heuristic-based features of the cropped probe trajectory data. The approach also involves extracting one or more privacy-based features from a privacy preference, wherein the one or more privacy-based features represent a target level of cropping to meet the privacy preference. The approach further involves computing a score based on a distance between the one or more heuristic-based features and the one or more privacy-based features. The approach further involves providing the score as an output.
US11317244B1
At least one target destination of a consumer is determined. A quality of service (QOS) of a network at each target destination of the at least one target destination is predicted. One or more travel route recommendations are made to the consumer, based on the predicted QOS of the network at each target destination of the at least one target destination.
US11317241B2
A method disclosed herein for allows users to avoid such undesirable encounters by determining whether an undesirable contact of the user has opted for sharing location information, in response to determining that the undesirable contact has opted for sharing location information, collecting location signal from the undesirable contact, forecasting anticipated locations of the undesirable contact over a period based on the location signal of the undesirable contact, forecasting anticipated locations of the user over the period, determining potential of encounter between the user and the undesirable contact based on analysis of anticipated locations of the user and the anticipated locations of the undesirable contact over the period, generating an undesirable contact avoidance scheme based on the potential of encounter, and optionally notifying the user of the undesirable contact avoidance scheme.
US11317230B1
A loudspeaker includes a loudspeaker body, a voice coil and a damper. The damper includes a main body, a wire and a first fixing sewing thread. The first fixing sewing thread includes a first sewing part including first to fourth wire winding portions and first to third yarn winding portions. The first and third wire winding portions extend from one side of the wire through upside of the wire to the other side of the wire while the second and fourth wire winding portions extend in the opposite direction The first to third yarn winding portions connect adjacent two wire winding portions and pass under one of the weft yarns, respectively.
US11317220B2
In an embodiment, the invention provides a structure of MEMS microphone includes a substrate of semiconductor, having a first opening in the substrate. A dielectric layer is disposed on the substrate, having a dielectric opening. A diaphragm is within the dielectric opening and held by the dielectric layer at a peripheral region, wherein the diaphragm has a diaphragm opening. A back-plate is disposed on the dielectric layer, over the diaphragm. A protruding structure is disposed on the back-plate, protruding toward the diaphragm. At least one air valve plate is affixed on an end of the protruding structure within the diaphragm opening of the diaphragm. The air valve plate is activated when suffering an air flow with a pressure.
US11317208B2
This application discloses a speaker system and a speaker configuration method. The system includes: a main speaker and an expandable speaker that operate independently of each other, where the main speaker and the expandable speaker respectively play sound through respective drivers when operating independently of each other, and after the main speaker is connected to the expandable speaker, the main speaker detects and obtains parameter information of the expandable speaker for sending an audio signal to the expandable speaker according to the parameter information so that the main speaker and the expandable speaker jointly play sound, where the audio signal has a loudness information which is corresponding to the speaker system.
US11317175B2
Systems and methods for gathering research data using multiple monitoring devices are provided. The systems and methods include a processor to generate message data by supplementing first information collected by a first monitoring device with second information collected by a second monitoring device, the first information and the second information collected from media presented by a monitored device, and process the message data to determine a portion of the media that is encoded and a portion of the media that is unencoded. The example systems and methods also include a memory to store an indication that the message data is valid when the message data represents a code encoded in the media, and store data indicating the portion of the media that is encoded.
US11317173B2
A cloud-based video production system, methods, and apparatus are provided. Video sources are in communication with a cloud-based video production server and a remote user interface via a network. A control unit, which is located at or in communication with video production server, is in communication with the remote user interface. A buffer, corresponding to each of the video sources, is disposed between each of the video sources and the control unit to account for network delays. Commands for selecting and manipulating video content from the video sources are sent from the user interface to the control unit, each of the commands containing a command timestamp corresponding to the video timestamp of the video frame displayed on the user interface when the command is issued. The control unit executes each command at a time when the video timestamp at an output of the corresponding buffer corresponds to the command timestamp. The control unit outputs a video program in accordance with the commands.
US11317166B2
An apparatus and method of managing video playback includes receiving user input associated with a trick play operation. In response to receiving the user input, a presentation of advertising content may be coordinated with data frames of the trick play operation. A presentation of the advertising content may be initiated such that the advertising content is displayed concurrently with the data frames of the trick play operation.
US11317153B2
Media content items is provided to content consumers for playback and consumption includes plurality of nodes interacting with each other in accordance with defined protocol in communication network. A first node receives a request for playback of a media content from a content consumer. A second node owns the requested media content and provides media content rights to the first participant and/or the content consumer. The first node further provides media content metadata to the consumer device for consumption. A plurality of instances of a distributed media rights transaction ledger, associated with respective node, includes a plurality of media content rights transactions corresponding to an acquisition of the media content rights by the first participant and/or content consumer prior to the consumption of the media content. The plurality of media content rights transactions is categorized, defined, and managed by plurality of nodes in accordance with the defined protocol.
US11317152B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for a network-based media device upgrading system. An embodiment operates by receiving a fetch command from a first instance of an application executing locally on a host device. The fetch command is provided to a media device executing a second instance of the application. At the host device, metadata corresponding to the file that was retrieved by the media device is received. A rendering command is determined from the first instance of the application corresponding to displaying the interface including the fetched file as indicated by the metadata. The rendering command is provided to the media device that is configured to display the interface of the application responsive to executing the rendering command.
US11317137B2
According to one implementation, a system for supplementing entertainment content with ambient lighting includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a memory storing a software code. The hardware processor is configured to execute the software code to receive an entertainment content, detect one or more attributes of the entertainment content that correspond to an artistic intent of a producer of the entertainment content, and interpret the artistic intent of the producer of the entertainment content using the detected one or more attributes. The hardware processor is further configured to execute the software code to compose an ambient lighting routine as a supplement to the entertainment content based on the interpreted artistic intent.
US11317129B1
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system and method for providing the best available version of a content to a viewer client device considering the device capabilities of the viewer client device. To access the content, a viewer client device sends an access request comprising its device capabilities. Upon receiving the access request, the server computer generates a ranked list of all possible content versions for the viewer client device, the content versions being ranked based on their compatibility with the device capabilities of the viewer client device. The server computer selects, among the one or more available versions of the content, the content version ranked first in the ranked list and provides the selected content version to the viewer client device.
US11317124B2
An apparatus comprises a processor (301) providing a plurality of reference video streams for a plurality of reference viewpoints for a scene. A receiver (305) receives a viewpoint request from a remote client where the viewpoint request is indicative of a requested viewpoint. A generator (303) generates an output video stream comprising a first video stream with frames from a first reference video stream and a second video stream with frames from a second reference video stream. The frames of the second video stream are differentially encoded relative to the frames of the first video stream. A controller (307) selects the reference video stream for the first and second video streams in response to the viewpoint request and may be arranged to swap the reference video streams between being non-differentially encoded and being differentially encoded when the viewpoint request meets a criterion.
US11317117B2
A method, a non-transitory computer readable medium, and a computer system is provided for encoding or decoding video data. The method may include: receiving an entropy coded bitstream comprising compressed video data including point cloud occupancy codes; generating one or more dequantized dimensions of a boundary box of a point cloud; based on determining that the compressed video data was predicted by using the attribute-based predictor, determining a predictor for decoding is the attribute-based predictor; based on determining that the compressed video data was predicted by using the attribute-based predictor, determining the predictor for decoding is the geometry-based predictor; and building an octree structure by using the determined predictor.
US11317113B2
Innovations in intra block copy (“BC”) prediction mode facilitate intra BC prediction that is more effective in terms of rate-distortion performance and/or computational efficiency of encoding and decoding. For example, some of the innovations provide ways to select block vector (“BV”) values more effectively. Other innovations provide ways to encode/decode BV values more efficiently. Still other innovations address how to perform in-loop deblock filtering when a block has intra BC prediction mode, or address how to perform intra BC prediction when constrained intra prediction is enabled.
US11317112B2
A moving picture coding apparatus includes: an inter prediction control unit which determines to code a motion vector using, among candidate predicted motion vectors, a candidate predicted motion vector having the least error with relative to a motion vector derived by motion estimation; a picture type determination unit which generates picture type information; a temporal direction vector calculation unit which derives a candidate predicted motion vector in temporal direct; and a co-located reference direction determination unit which generates, for each picture, a co-located reference direction flag.
US11317111B2
Systems and techniques for video coding and compression are described herein. Some examples include affine coding modes for video coding and compression. One example is an apparatus for coding video data that includes a memory and a processor or processors coupled to the memory. The processor(s) are configured to obtain a current coding block from the video data, determine control data for the current coding block, and determine one or more affine motion vector clipping parameters from the control data. The processor(s) are further configured to select a sample of the current coding block, determine an affine motion vector for the sample of the current coding block, and clip the affine motion vector using the one or more affine motion vector clipping parameters to generate a clipped affine motion vector.
US11317103B2
A computer-implemented method for compressing video data comprises receiving a sequence of video data values, each video data value being a digital value from a successive one of a plurality of pixels that form a video sensor, the sequence of video data values resulting from successive frames of video captured by the video sensor; extracting the video data values for each pixel in turn to create a plurality of pixel data streams, each pixel data stream including the video data value for each frame of captured video for the pixel; and applying data compression to each pixel data stream to create compressed data for each pixel data stream.
US11317099B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide a method and an apparatus including processing circuitry for video decoding. The processing circuitry decodes prediction information of a current block in a current picture from a coded video bitstream. The prediction information indicates a prediction mode for the current block being an inter prediction mode or an intra block copy (IBC) mode. The processing circuitry selects a base vector from a candidate list including a block vector candidate used in the IBC mode and determines an offset vector based on offset information that includes directions and sizes for constructing offset vectors. The processing circuitry determines a vector of the current block based on the base vector and the offset vector. The vector is a block vector when the prediction mode is the IBC mode and the vector is a motion vector when the prediction mode is the inter prediction mode.
US11317094B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide methods, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums for video encoding/decoding. In a method, prediction information of a current block of a current picture in a coded bitstream is decoded. The prediction information indicates a geometric partitioning mode (GPM) for the current block. The current block is partitioned into two partitions in the GPM mode. Each of the partitions is associated with a respective predictor. A weighting index for a sample of the current block is determined based on a position of the sample. A weighting factor is calculated based on the weighting index of the sample according to an equation that converts the weighting index to the weighting factor. The sample is reconstructed based on the weighting factor and the predictor corresponding to the sample.
US11317085B2
Video coding methods are described for reducing latency in template-based inter coding. In some embodiments, a method is provided for coding a video that includes a current picture and at least one reference picture. For at least a current block in the current picture, a respective predicted value is generated (e.g. using motion compensated prediction) for each sample in a template region adjacent to the current block. Once the predicted values are generated for each sample in the template region, a process is invoked to determine a template-based inter prediction parameter by using predicted values in the template region and sample values the reference picture. This process can be invoked without waiting for reconstructed sample values in the template region. Template-based inter prediction of the current block is then performed using the determined template-based inter prediction parameter.
US11317083B2
An image sensor may be formed from stacked first and second substrates. An array of imaging pixels and verification circuitry may be formed in the first substrate. Row control circuitry may be formed in the second substrate. The row control circuitry may provide row control signals to the array of imaging pixels. The verification circuitry may also receive the row control signals from the row control circuitry. The first substrate may include a plurality of n-channel metal-oxide semiconductor transistors and may not include any p-channel metal-oxide semiconductor transistors. The verification circuitry may include an SR latch circuit with an S node coupled to a pull-up line and an R node coupled to a pull-down transistor to ensure the SR latch circuit starts up in a set state. The verification circuitry may include a level shifter that shifts a control signal voltage when the control signal is at a low level.
US11317081B2
Gaze is corrected by adjusting multi-view images of a head. Image patches containing the left and right eyes of the head are identified and a feature vector is derived from plural local image descriptors of the image patch in at least one image of the multi-view images. A displacement vector field representing a transformation of an image patch is derived, using the derived feature vector to look up reference data comprising reference displacement vector fields associated with possible values of the feature vector produced by machine learning. The multi-view images are adjusted by transforming the image patches containing the left and right eyes of the head in accordance with the derived displacement vector field.
US11317080B2
Disclosed are an image processing method and device, and a three-dimensional imaging system. The method comprises the following steps of: acquiring a two-dimensional image to be processed; aligning the two-dimensional image to be processed to a grid template; performing mapping processing on the two-dimensional image to be processed by using a grid mapping table to acquire a first image, wherein the grid mapping table is used for representing the mapping relationship of grid images; mirroring the first image to acquire a second image; and synthesizing the first image and the second image to acquire the superimposed image of the first image and the second image. According to the method, the grid template and the grid mapping table are used for performing mapping processing on the two-dimensional image to be processed so as to simulate a left-eye image and a right-eye image acquired by human eyes; and a same two-dimensional image to be processed need to be mapped only once to acquire the left-eye image and the right-eye image, the steps of image processing being reduced, thus the time of image processing being shortened, and providing favorable conditions for the follow-up real-time conversion of the superimposed two-dimensional image into a three-dimensional image.
US11317065B2
A scan display system includes a picture receiving unit, a scan needle, a picture display screen having first and second opposing surfaces, and a driving unit. The picture receiving unit is configured to receive picture data and transmits the picture data to the scan needle. The driving unit is configured to perform a picture scanning process by moving the scan needle to scan in a horizontal direction relative to the first of the picture display screen at a predetermined frequency. The scan needle is configured to emit light, representative of the picture data, to the first surface of the picture display screen to project image lines, each image line being formed by the scan needle during the scan. The picture display screen is configured to receive the emitted light on the first surface and display an image comprising the image lines on the second surface.
US11317060B1
Managing a video conference includes presenting, to a plurality of participants of the video conference, a channel pane containing information for the video conference that is controlled by a presenter, the channel pane being provided on a background that is visible to the plurality of participants and superimposing a dynamic image of the presenter on the background. The dynamic image of the presenter is continuously captured by a camera. Managing a video conference also includes adjusting the dynamic image of the presenter to prevent obscuring the information of the channel pane and/or to focus attention of the participants to specific information of the channel pane. The dynamic image of the presenter may be adjusted in response to the channel pane being enlarged and/or moved and/or by shrinking and/or by making the dynamic image semi-transparent. The channel pane may include a physical medium that the presenter actuates.
US11317055B2
A processing load on a reception side when subtitle graphics data is superimposed on video data is alleviated. A video stream including video data is generated. A subtitle stream including bitmap data is generated, the bitmap data being obtained by converting subtitle graphics data. A container having a predetermined format containing the video stream and the subtitle stream is transmitted. The subtitle stream includes a bitmap conversion table containing conversion information of a color gamut and/or a luminance. On the reception side, subtitle graphics data having characteristics matched with those of target video data of a superimposition destination can be easily obtained by just converting the bitmap data to the subtitle graphics data by using the bitmap conversion table.
US11317054B2
A video processing method includes: receiving motion information of a display apparatus; determining, according to the motion information of the display apparatus and a motion threshold of the display apparatus, whether a motion state of the display apparatus affects the effect of the display apparatus using a frame rate up-conversion image processing method based on motion compensation to process a video that is to be displayed by the display apparatus; if yes, stopping using the frame rate up-conversion image processing method based on motion compensation to process the video that is to be displayed by the display apparatus; if no, continuing to use the frame rate up-conversion image processing method based on motion compensation to process the video that is to be displayed by the display apparatus.
US11317043B2
An imaging device includes a pixel including a permittivity modulation element that includes opposite and pixel electrodes and a permittivity modulation structure whose permittivity changes according to the radiation of light, a capacitive element that includes first and second electrodes, and a detection circuit that outputs a signal corresponding to the potential of the pixel electrode. Also provided are a voltage supply circuit that applies first and second voltages in different first and second periods to one of the opposite electrode and the first electrode, and a signal processing circuit that generates a third signal being a difference between a first signal output from the detection circuit in the first period and a second signal output from the detection circuit in the second period. The potential difference between the opposite electrode and the first electrode when the second voltage is applied is less than when the first voltage is applied.
US11317037B2
A light-detection method for a light-detection device including a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of read-out lines and a plurality of photo sensing elements is provided. Each of the plurality of photo sensing elements is coupled to one of the plurality of scan lines and one of the plurality of read-out lines. The method includes simultaneously turning on at least two of the plurality of scan lines to turn on a portion of the plurality of photo sensing elements which are coupled to the turned-on scan lines, turning on at least one of the plurality of read-out lines to transmit signals of the portion of the plurality of photo sensing elements, and determining whether the signals match a trigger standard. When it is determined that the signals match the trigger standard, a reading mode is entered.
US11317033B2
An adaptive filter system and a method for controlling the adaptive filter system are described herein. The system can includes one or more filters to attenuate incoming light. The one or more filters can be moved by one or more actuators. The method can capture image data from an imaging device through the one or more filters. Information can be determined from the captured image data. The one or more filters can be moved to a position for capturing image data based on the information.
US11317031B2
An imaging system for general illumination and range imaging in strong ambient illumination conditions includes a light source, at least one image sensor with a rolling shutter, a steering device, and a controller. The light source transmits laser pulses with a structured pattern towards a scene. The steering apparatus spatially directs each of the laser pulses towards a different region of interest within the scene. The image sensor receives reflected laser pulses, via the rolling shutter, from the different regions of interest. The controller triggers the image sensor to read each of the pixels in the image sensor with the rolling shutter at a time instance when one of the laser pulses having the structured pattern is reflected onto the pixel from one of the different regions of interest.
US11317029B2
A system, apparatus and methods for providing a scope having an imaging sensor which provides a two thousand pixel by two thousand pixel array of pixels. The imaging sensor allows for an angle of view to be changed within a field of view by selecting a one thousand pixel by one thousand pixel array within the two thousand pixel by two thousand pixel array of pixels containing imaging data that corresponds to a desired angle of view.
US11317028B2
An image capturing device having a user interface in a form of a screen; wherein the user interface allows a user to provide instructions regarding positioning of the image capturing device to include at least one predetermined view point. The instructions are in a form of at least one of a voice, a text, and an image. The image capturing device can also have a storage device configured to (i) record the instructions; and (ii) store a captured image and a processor programmed to retrieve the instructions from the storage device when requested by a user via the user interface and to create boundaries around key objects that are being built.
US11317026B1
Some embodiments provide enhanced resolution imaging systems. These systems comprise: a mounting configured to secure with a vehicle; an electro-optical image capture system configured to sequentially obtain a series of frames per second; and a first jitter compensation system comprising: an angular velocity sensor system to detect velocity of change of line of sight angular displacement of the image capture system; and an image capture control circuit is configured to: receive, in real-time, angular velocity data from the angular velocity sensor system; identify, during the frame, when an angular velocity is less than an angular velocity threshold; and activate, during the frame, exposure of the image capture system to illumination for at least one of: at least a minimum integration period of time during the frame, and while the angular velocity is less than the angular velocity threshold during the frame.
US11317016B2
An imaging device acquires a plurality of viewpoint image signals having different viewpoints from an imaging element. The imaging device selects a subject region within a captured image, and divides the subject region into a plurality of regions. The imaging device performs a correlation operation for each divided region, and calculates an amount of parallax on the basis of one or more extreme positions. In addition, the imaging device calculates distance information of a subject on the basis of the amount of parallax, and calculates a reliability for the distance information. If there are two or more pieces of distance information which are output in the divided region, the imaging device generates a distance histogram using the two or more pieces of distance information based on the reliability.
US11317010B2
The present invention relates to Optical device (1), comprising: a transparent and elastically expandable membrane (10), an optical element (20) facing the membrane (10), a wall member (300), wherein the optical element (20) and the membrane (10) are connected to the wall member (300) such that a container (2) with a volume (V) is formed, a fluid (F) residing in said volume (V), and a lens shaping part (11) that is in contact with the membrane (10) for defining a curvature adjustable area (10c) of the membrane (10), which area (10c) faces said optical element (20), and a circumferential lens barrel (50) that surrounds an opening (50c) in which at least one rigid lens (51) is arranged that is held by the lens barrel (50), and an actuator means (40) that is designed to move the optical element (20) in an axial direction (A) with respect to the lens shaping part (11), which axial direction (A) is oriented perpendicular to a plane along which the lens shaping part (11) extends, or to move the lens shaping part (11) in an axial direction (A) with respect to the optical element (20), which axial direction (A) is oriented perpendicular to a plane along which the rigid lens (51) extends so as to adjust the pressure of the fluid (F) residing inside the volume (V) and therewith a curvature of said area (10c).
US11317003B2
An image processing apparatus includes a memory and processing circuitry electrically coupled to the memory. The processing circuitry is configured to correct image data in a section of an abnormal image, based on information that indicates a position of the section in an abnormal line image that is included in a received image. The processing circuitry is configured to output the corrected image data.
US11317000B2
An image processing apparatus includes a light source, an image sensor, and an invisible component remover. The light source emits visible component light and invisible component light to a target object. The image sensor receives reflected light from the target object to detect a visible invisible mixture image including an invisible component and a visible component and an invisible image including an invisible component. The invisible component remover, based on the visible invisible mixture image and the invisible image which have been detected, removes the invisible component from the visible invisible mixture image to generate a visible image. The invisible component remover includes a removal calculator performing a removal calculation process of an invisible component with respect to the visible invisible mixture image, and a noise reducer performing a noise reduction process on at least one of images to be input to and output from the removal calculator.
US11316998B2
An image processing apparatus includes a first processor and a second processor. The first processor has a power saving function. The second processor is configured to consume less power than the first processor during operation. When the first processor stopped by the power saving function is activated in response to reception of a network packet, the first processor determines an operating frequency of the first processor in accordance with a type of the network packet.
US11316995B2
A bending detection device includes a processor configured to receive a read image obtained by reading a document, and notify a user of a bend in the document based on a determination that the read image has been obtained by reading the document in a bent state.
US11316979B2
In order to provide effective communications, the individuals engaged in the communication should have appropriately matched language proficiencies. By ensuring that a customer of a contact center is matched with an agent having, or presenting, content of a communication utilizing language proficiency appropriate for the customer, effective communications may be provided. Should an agent deviate and provide communication content having language proficiency that is misaligned with the customer, automatic corrective action may be taken to realign the language proficiency presented to the customer.
US11316976B1
One or more embodiments of techniques or systems for intelligent data presentation are provided herein. Data can be presented on similar devices having different characteristics in different manners. For example, data may be rendered in a first manner on a first device having one monitor, the same data may be rendered in a second manner on a second device having two displays or a different display size. Financial information, sales data, banking information, etc. may be presented in a variety of ways based on capabilities or properties of a device accessing the information or data. Similarly, renderings may be selected based on interaction capabilities or interaction options a user may have with different renderings or presentations. In other embodiments, user interaction with an automated teller machine (ATM), call center, vehicle, or other interface can be based on device properties or device capabilities.
US11316973B2
Methods, devices, and systems can include, for example, receiving an incoming call and identification information and determining whether the identification information indicates that the incoming call is legitimate. The identification information is associated with the incoming call. The incoming call is received at a call control unit. The call control unit is associated with a telephone, and the incoming call is directed to the telephone. In response to a determination that the identification information indicates that the incoming call is legitimate, generating an indication that the incoming call is legitimate (where the indication is generated by the call control unit) and communicating the indication that the incoming call is legitimate to the telephone. In response to a determination that the identification information indicates that the incoming call is not legitimate, determining a telephone number of the incoming call and communicating the telephone number and the identification information to a server.
US11316962B2
A handle for holding a mobile device with at least one finger has a first element attachable to a back of the mobile device, and a second element pivotally connected to the first element for pivoting around a pivot axis extending in an axial direction, the second element includes at least two branches spaced from one another in a direction which is parallel to the axial direction and each having a finger receiving opening, in a folded position of the first and second elements the second element extends along the back of the mobile device, while in a pivoted away position of the second element relative to the first element the first and second elements are located at an angle relative to one another, and each of the branches of the second elements has a first portion located closer to the pivot axis and a second portion located farther from the pivot axis and formed so that when a finger of a user is introduced into the finger receiving opening of any of the branches it is surrounded by the first portion of said branch which is located closer to the pivot axis and the second portion of the branch which is located farther from the pivot axis correspondingly from two sides.
US11316960B2
An electronic apparatus comprises a display panel defined by a display area and a non-display area surrounding the display area, including at least one hole formed in the display area, an optical module arranged below the display panel and overlaps with the at least one hole, a light source module arranged at one side of the optical module, and an optical member arranged between the at least one hole and the light source module and partially overlaps with each of the at least one hole and the light source module, wherein the optical member emits a light source or image output from the light source module toward the at least one hole.
US11316951B2
A system, method and program product for synchronizing client-based data with data in a shared resource. A system is provided that receives data from a plurality of client devices, the data being indicative of at least one action associated with a shared resource accessible by the plurality of client devices, and inserts a plurality of actions indicated by the data as nodes into a polytree queue, wherein actions that do not depend on other actions in the polytree queue are inserted as root level nodes, and actions that depend on other actions in the polytree queue are inserted as child nodes. The system further executes the nodes in the polytree queue to synchronize the data from the plurality of client devices with the shared resource, wherein root level nodes are scheduled for immediate concurrent execution, and execution of child nodes is delayed until parent nodes of an associated child node are executed.
US11316941B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for remotely managing and adapting monitoring programs using machine learning predictions. In some implementations, data describing a monitoring program that involves collecting data over a period of time from geographically distributed devices is accessed. Composition characteristics of the monitoring pro group for the monitoring program are determined. Predicted composition characteristics are generated for a portion of the monitoring group predicted to comply with the monitoring program requirements for the period of time. It is determined whether the predicted composition characteristics indicate at least a minimum level of diversity among the portion of the monitoring group. One or more devices associated with the monitoring program are communicated with.
US11316935B2
A wireless communication system includes an external provider subsystem and an electronic network subsystem in operable communication with the external provider subsystem. The electronic network subsystem is configured to provide a first microservice and a second microservice different from the first microservice. The wireless communication system further includes an in-home subsystem (i) separate from the external provider subsystem, (ii) in operable communication with the electronic network subsystem, and (iii) including a first micronet and a second micronet different from the first micronet. The first micronet is configured to operably interact with the first microservice, and the second micronet is configured to operably interact with the second microservice. The wireless communication system further includes at least one electronic device configured to operably connect with one of the first micronet and the second micronet.
US11316932B2
Various systems and methods of establishing and utilizing device management (DM) services in Internet of Things (IoT) networks and similar distributed network architectures, are described. In an example, RESTful messaging within IoT operational and resource models are used to establish, instantiate, and operate DM services having various roles within an IoT framework abstraction.
US11316917B2
A method may include transferring data between a host and a first storage device through a first storage interface, transferring data between the host and a second storage device through a second storage interface, and transferring data between the first storage device and the second storage device through a peer-to-peer channel. A storage system may include a host interface, a first storage device having a first storage interface coupled to the host interface, a second storage device having a second storage interface coupled to the host interface, and a peer-to-peer bus coupled between the first and second storage devices. A storage device may include a storage medium, a storage device controller coupled to the storage medium, a storage interface coupled to the storage device controller, and a peer-to-peer interface coupled to the storage device controller.
US11316914B2
A system for intermediated communication between applications running on the same computer is presented. The system routes communication between a first application and a second application through a data broker on a remote server to avoid direct communication between the applications. The first application may be a desktop application, such as a word processing application, that has an add-in installed to facilitate communication through the data broker. The second application may be a web browser that includes a web client implemented using standard functionality of the web browser, without an application-specific plug-in. The data broker operates on a remote server to receive and direct communication between the applications. By eliminating direct communication between the applications, the data broker improves system security and reliability by utilizing communication protocols and capabilities already existing within the computer.
US11316913B2
A server or other computing device can receive a request for a feed (e.g., Really Simple Syndication, Atom, or other Extensible Markup Language format feed) from a client. Content of the requested feed and a type of the client can be determined. Executable processing logic can be added into the requested feed according to the determined content of the feed and the type of the client. The feed into which the executable processing logic has been added can be sent to the client.
US11316912B2
A system and method is provided for synchronizing media content in a media distribution network using timestamps. The system includes a decoder configured to parse a plurality of data packets of a media stream to determine a timestamp value for each video frame in the media stream; and a media content synchronizer. The media content synchronizer generates a media content timeline based on the determined timestamp value of each of video frame, generates the media content timeline based on a cadence having monotonic increasing count, determines whether each video frame of the media stream is a next frame in a video sequence of the media stream based on the timestamp value for the respective video frame, and repeats a previous frame in the video sequence to generate the media content timeline when a current frame in the video sequence was dropped based on the determined timestamp value.
US11316902B2
Methods and system are provided for dynamically securing a workspace based on changes in the security context in which the workspace operates. Upon receiving a request from an IHS for access to a managed resource and receiving attributes of a risk context for the request, a risk score for the request is determined. A workspace definition that provides access to the managed resource is selected based on the risk score. A workspace definition includes security requirements for operation of the workspace by the IHS, where the security requirements are commensurate with the risk score. The workspace definition is transmitted to the IHS for operation of the workspace according to the security requirements. A risk context may include, IHS software, a physical environment in which the IHS is located, a physical location of the IHS, a classification of the requested resource, IHS hardware, and a user of the IHS.
US11316897B2
Disclosed are various approaches for generating a management token corresponding to a client device. The management token can include one or more device policies that can be installed or enforce on a client device. This can allow a device that might not be enrolled as a managed device to be taken into a facility and comply with the security policies of the facility.
US11316892B2
Systems and methods are disclosed that minimize ongoing risk to an organization from user behaviors which magnify the severity of a spoofed domain. Systems and method are provided which enable an entity and users of an entity to identify potential harmful domains, combining search, discovery, reporting, the generation of risk indicators, end-user risk assessments, and training into a security awareness system.
US11316879B2
A computer-implemented method and system for protecting a host computer in a computer network from security threats uses local security-relevant data for the host computer, as well as global security-relevant data for other components in the computer network downloaded from a security information plane system to the host computer, to determine a security threat to the host computer. When a security threat is determined to be a legitimate threat, a security alert is issued, and then an action is initiated in response to the security alert.
US11316866B2
Systems and methods for managing membership in a private data exchange are provided herein. In one embodiment, the method includes generating, by a first member of a data exchange a listing. The listing comprises a reference to shared data within a database controlled by the first member. The method further includes providing a second member of the data exchange with a set of rights with respect to listing. The method further includes limiting, by a processing device, access for the second member to a portion of the shared data that is less than all of the database referenced by the listing based on the set of rights of the second member with respect to the listing.
US11316865B2
A method, computer program product, and computing system for initiating a session within an ACI platform; receiving an authentication request from a requester; and authenticating that the requester has the authority to access the ACI platform.
US11316855B2
Systems and methods described herein provide a private network management service for enterprise networks with wireless access. The systems and methods receive, within a provider network and from a user of a private network, parameters for multiple subscription profiles; associate the multiple subscription profiles with an identifier for the private network to create private network subscription profiles; store the private network subscription profiles; and provide at least a portion of the private network subscription profiles from a core network of the provider network to an authentication proxy in the private network. The authentication proxy performs authentication for end devices locally based on the private network subscription profiles.
US11316852B2
A secure mechanism for adding network devices uses an unsecure guest network and a secure network both coupled to a secure hub. When an unknown device is introduced, it is initially connected to the guest network and can only communicate with the hub and with a wide area network (WAN). The unknown device is prohibited from communicating with the secure network and any device connected to the secure network. The unknown device provides credentials to the hub, which are verified with a secure database, such as a blockchain ledger, that provides manufacturer device information and certification. Upon authentication, the hub permits the identified device to connect to the secure network. The hub may also configure the now identified device for security and operational parameters. The hub may also retrieve network traffic pattern information from the secure database and use such information to monitor normal expected activity from the identified device.
US11316844B2
The present disclosure is directed to generating cross-platform electronic tokens. First information of a first user associated with a first identity platform is accessed. Second information of a second user associated with a second identity platform is accessed. The second identity platform is different from the first identity platform. The first information and the second information are analyzed to determine whether the first user and the second user are the same person. In response to a determination that the first user and the second user are the same person, a cross-platform electronic token is generated to be used for both the first identity platform and the second identity platform.
US11316835B2
Techniques for securing communication. The techniques include using at least one device to perform method for encrypting input data using a cipher associated with a plurality of languages including a first language, the first language associated with a first set of ciphertext symbols, a first permutation for the first set, and a first partition for the first permutation. The method includes obtaining, from the input data, a first plaintext symbol; mapping the first plaintext symbol to a first ciphertext symbol using the cipher, the mapping including: identifying a first set of candidate ciphertext symbols using the first plaintext symbol, the first permutation, and the first partition; and identifying, at random, the first ciphertext symbol from the first set of candidate ciphertext symbols; and outputting the first ciphertext symbol.
US11316834B2
A machine and process for remotely controlling a vessel. The system may include a land-based computing system configured to communicate control signals via a communications system that communicates the control signals to the vessel and a controller network on the vessel configured to control at least certain functions of the vessel. The controller network may further be configured to receive the control signals from the land-based computing system. The controller may include a switch including an input port and multiple output ports. A remote control computing device may be configured to control the vessel via at least one other computing device. A one-way Ethernet cable may be communicatively coupled between one of the output ports of the switch and the remote control computing device. The control signals may be received by the switch being communicated to the remote control computing device via the one-way Ethernet cable.
US11316831B2
A node including processing circuitry configured to: generate anonymized data based at least in part on a first cryptographic key and network data, calculate a coordination vector, generate initialized data based at least in part on the anonymized data, a second cryptographic key and the coordination vector, transmit the initialized data, the random vector, a security policy and instructions to analyze n iterations of the initialized data and the security policy using the random vector and the second cryptographic key, and receive results of the analysis of the n iterations of the initialized data and the security policy using the random vector and the second cryptographic key. The analysis of an m iteration of the n iterations correspond to an analysis of the initialized data with prefix preservation where the analysis of the remaining iterations of the n iterations fail to be prefixed preserved.
US11316829B2
A distributed memory data repository of connected data centres. The network load balances by routing requests to different data centres for processing. The solution design provides a blue print to implement a distributed memory data repository based defense system across multiple nodes with dynamic fail-over capabilities. The defense system runs independently on a single node, exclusively leveraging memory for data storage and implementing a communication channel to interact with other nodes.
US11316816B1
A system may receive a first message transmitted over a network from a first device. A first invitation to join a text-based communication channel may be transmitted to the first device in response to the first message. A second invitation may be transmitted to a second device to join the text-based communication channel with the server configured to retain context of the text-based communication channel. The system may receive a second message transmitted from the second device and may transmit a third invitation to the first device to join the text-based communication channel in response to the second message.
US11316807B2
A method includes providing a server executing computer code embodying the chat-bot, receiving, via the server, a requirement for customization of a main computer code, the main computer code including modules, and determining, by the chat-bot, top-k modules of the main computer code potentially affected given the requirement for customization. The determination of the top-k modules includes representing each of the modules of the main computer code in an embedding vector space, representing the requirement for customization as a vector in the embedding space, and fetching the top-k modules nearest the requirement for customization in the embedding space. The method further includes determining a question, communicating the question to an entity providing the requirement for customization, receiving a response to the question, and filtering the top-k modules using the response to determine a set of the modules associated with the requirement for customization.
US11316798B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for control signaling of beam failure detection are disclosed. A beam pair link may be comprised of multiple bandwidth parts (BWPs) or component carriers (CCs). In one embodiment, a beam failure detection reference signal (BFD RS) may be configured, with subsequent BFD RS instances defining a BFD RS periodicity. A BFD periodicity for monitoring the BFD RS may be configured to be less than, or equal or greater than the BFD RS periodicity. A beam failure may be declared if a minimum number of BFD RS instances, either within the BFD periodicity, or nearest the BFD periodicity if no instances fall within the BFD periodicity, fall below a predetermined threshold. The BFD periodicity and BFD RS may be configured for all BWPs/CCs, a subset of BWPs/CCs, or each individual BWP/CC.
US11316796B2
In general, techniques are described for facilitating balanced cell handling by fabric cores of a fabric plane for an internal device switch fabric. In some examples, a routing system includes a plurality of fabric endpoints and a switching fabric comprising a fabric plane to switch cells among the fabric endpoints. The fabric plane includes two fabric cores and one or more inter-core links connecting the fabric cores. Each fabric core selects an output port of the fabric core to which to route a received cell of the cells based on (i) an input port of the fabric core on which the received cell was received and (ii) a destination fabric endpoint for the received cell, at least a portion of the selected output ports being connected to the inter-core links, and switches the received cell to the selected output port.
US11316794B1
A system is provided for improving functionality and performance of ABR framework, so as to preemptively compensate for additional latencies arising as result of having an additional control channel associated with ABR Control Engine which runs as a standalone entity separated physically or logically from ABR Media Player running on a Consumer device. The system comprises a set of software and/or hardware-based components implementing ABR Fetch-Processor or functionally similar design, wherein the ABR Fetch-Processor provided as the software or hardware component is plugged in between Media Pipeline of the Consumer Device and distributed embodiment of the ABR framework.
US11316789B2
A method for autonomously selecting data routing path by a distributed system includes forming a pulse group comprising a plurality of nodes in a computer network, automatically measuring one-way latencies between nodes in the pulse group, recording the one-way latencies in a one-way latency matrix, automatically determining a lower-latency data routing path from a first node to a second node through a relay node using in the one-way latency matrix. The lower-latency data routing path has a lower sum of one-way latencies from the first node to the second node via the relay node than the one-way latency for the direct path between from the first node to the second node. Data is sent from the first node to the second node via the relay node along the lower-latency data routing path. A payment transfer is automatically recorded in response to the data transmission along the lower-latency data routing path.
US11316785B2
A relay system includes a first relay device, a second relay device, a controller, and a route advertisement unit. The second relay device receives route advertisement from the first relay device. If an excess of a number of pieces of routing information registered in a routing table of the second relay device over a maximum number of pieces of routing information registrable in the routing table is predicted, the controller controls a number of pieces of routing information that are to undergo the route advertisement from the first relay device to the second relay device. The route advertisement unit performs the route advertisement to the second relay device after excluding, from pieces of routing information registered in a routing table of the first relay device, a piece of routing information set not to undergo the route advertisement as a result of the control of the number of pieces of routing information by the controller.
US11316783B2
A method for forwarding a packet, and a network device are provided. The method includes: receiving, a first packet, where the first packet includes first indication information, payload data, and a packet sequence number of the first packet in a data flow corresponding to the first packet; when the first network device determines that the first packet includes the first indication information, generating, a plurality of second packets based on the first packet, where each of the plurality of second packets includes the payload data, the packet sequence number, and second indication information; and separately forwarding, the plurality of second packets to a second network device over different forwarding paths in a plurality of forwarding paths.
US11316781B2
In some aspects, a wireless node in a wireless multi-hop network may receive, from a central unit in the wireless multi-hop network, a configuration indicating that a first wireless interface between the wireless node and a first parent node of the wireless node is to be used for a first traffic type, and that a second wireless interface between the wireless node and a second parent node of the wireless node is to be used for a second traffic type; configure a first connection with the first parent node via the first wireless interface and a second connection with the second parent node via the second wireless interface based at least in part on the configuration; and transmit or receive a communication using the first connection or the second connection based at least in part on a traffic type of the communication.
US11316777B2
A method, network device, and computer program product for network traffic diversion are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method according to the present disclosure includes receiving a frame at a core edge node that is a member of a redundancy group (where the frame comprises network address information and a packet), and determining whether a link (to which the core edge node is communicatively coupled) is affected by a network failure. The frame was sourced by a remote core edge node that is not a member of the redundancy group, and the network address information indicates that the packet is to be forwarded via the link. In response to the link being affected by the network failure, the method further includes generating a modified frame and forwarding the modified frame to another core edge node. The generating comprises including a redirect label in the modified frame. The another core edge node is another member of the redundancy group.
US11316775B2
In general, techniques are described for maintaining coherency in distributed operating systems for network devices. A network device comprising hardware computing nodes may be configured to perform the techniques. The hardware computing nodes may execute a distributed operating system. At least one the hardware computing nodes may determine whether one or more of the plurality of hardware computing nodes has failed and is no longer supporting execution of the distributed operating system, and determine whether remaining ones of the plurality of hardware computing nodes exceeds a quorum threshold. The at least one of the hardware computing nodes may further restart, when the remaining ones of the plurality of hardware computing nodes is less than the quorum threshold, the distributed operating system.
US11316762B2
A database is accessed to retrieve performance data associated with a content delivery network. Based on the performance data, a performance metric is determined for components of the content delivery network that are within a particular geographic region. A display is generated that visually represents geographic data representing the particular geographic region, at least one component of the content delivery network within the particular geographic region, and the performance metric.
US11316754B2
A method may include identifying service requirements associated with a network service, identifying at least one analytics component to monitor the network service and identifying network functions to implement the network service. The method may also include deploying the network functions to monitor the network service, deploying the at least one analytics component and obtaining data associated with monitoring the network service. The method may further include forwarding, by the network functions, the data to the at least one analytics component and determining, by the least one analytics component, whether to take a control action with respect to the network service.
US11316752B2
Systems and methods for recommending actions in a closed-loop system are provided. In one embodiment, an Action Recommendation Engine (ARE) may include a processor and memory configured to store computer programs having instructions that cause the processor to obtain input data pertaining to a state of a network and obtain information regarding one or more historical actions performed on the network. Also, the instructions may cause the processor to utilize a Machine Learning (ML) model for imposing one or more current actions on the network, the one or more current actions selected from the group of procedures consisting of: a) suggesting one or more remediation actions that, when performed, transition the network from a problematic state to a normal state, and b) identifying one or more root causes in response to detecting a transition in the network from a normal state to a problematic state.
US11316741B1
A system for providing policy-controlled communication between a plurality of different cloud computing environments includes a user interface that receives configuration settings to be applied to a plurality of first instances within a first cloud computing environment and a plurality of second instances within a second cloud computing environment. The system also includes a plurality of collectors that retrieve information from the first cloud computing environment and the second cloud computing environment, and a controller that determines policies for the plurality of first instances and the plurality of second instances as functions of the configuration settings and the information. Further, the system includes a configurator that applies the policies to the plurality of first instances and the plurality of second instances; a first tester that inspects operations of the plurality of first instances and detects violations of the policies; and an enforcer that responds to the detected violations.
US11316728B2
A method for analyzing failures in network resources in a multilayered communication network using passive shared risk resource groups may include, in a processor, identifying network resources in a plurality of network resources having common risk attributes. The network resources may be grouped into one or more passive shared risk resource groups (PSRG) based on the common risk attributes. A likelihood of a PSRG failure may be assessed for each of the one or more PSRGs.
US11316723B2
A method and an apparatus for transmitting/receiving a downlink signal in a wireless communication system are provided. Carrier information about a second carrier that is different from a first carrier can be transmitted on the first carrier. Downlink data for UE can be transmitted on the second carrier based on the carrier information. The first carrier is a carrier having a synchronisation signal and a physical broadcast channel, and the second carrier can be a carrier without any synchronisation signals or physical broadcast channels. The first carrier can be operated on a single resource block in a guard frequency that is used in the wireless communication system.
US11316715B1
A method for automatically identifying an impairment of a communication medium includes (1) obtaining a spectrum response of communication signals traveling through the communication medium, (2) converting the spectrum response from a frequency domain to a time domain, to generate an impulse response, and (3) identifying the impairment of the communication medium at least partially based on one or more characteristics of the impulse response.
US11316708B2
A Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) can maintain a mapping table that associates gateway identifiers of gateways in a packet core network with corresponding IP address ranges. Based on an IP address of user equipment (UE), the PCRF can identify which of the IP address ranges in the mapping table over the UE's IP address, and which gateway identifier is mapped to that IP address range. The PCRF can accordingly contact the identified gateway to establish a Gx session for the UE with the gateway, such as restoring a previous Gx session or establishing a new Gx session.
US11316701B1
A decentralized certificate module generates a unique key pair. The decentralized certificate module creates a certificate signing request (CSR) based at least on a public key of the unique key pair. The decentralized certificate module signs the CSR with pre-installed system data to generate a signed trust certificate. The decentralized certificate module initiates a secure communication that includes the signed trust certificate.
US11316692B2
A method of selecting a distributed framework includes identifying, by a selection device coupled to a memory, at least a first cryptographic evaluator of a plurality of cryptographic evaluators, wherein identifying the at least a first cryptographic evaluator further comprises and evaluating a secure proof generated by the at least a first cryptographic evaluator, and identifying the at least a first cryptographic evaluator as a function of the secure proof, assigning, by the selection device, a confidence level of the at least a first cryptographic evaluator, and selecting, by a selection device, a distributed framework from the plurality of cryptographic evaluators as a function of the confidence level, and assigning a task to the distributed framework.
US11316687B2
Disclosed are apparatus and methods for programming a plurality of nonvolatile memory (NVM) devices. Each NVM device self-generates and stores a unique encryption key. Each NVM device concurrently receives an image from a multiple-device programming system to which all the NVM devices are communicatively coupled. Each NVM device encrypts the received image using such NVM device's unique encryption key to produce a unique encrypted image for each NVM device. Each NVM device stores its unique encrypted image within a nonvolatile memory of such NVM device. The unique encryption key can then be securely transferred to a host device for decrypting the image accessed from one of the NVM devices.
US11316683B2
Provided are a system and method for providing an Internet of Things (IoT) security service using a hardware security module. The system includes a host device configured to transmit a security service request by calling a security service application programming interface (API) and a security module configured to convert the security service request into a security execution request and execute the security execution request by calling a security API. According to the call of the security API, the security module converts the security execution request into a request to execute a security algorithm executable by at least one of a security element and a security storage.
US11316679B2
A data monitoring system comprising a server communicatively coupled to a client device and a data module via a network. The server is configured to store a private key of a public-private key pair associated with the data module, receive a request from the client device for authenticated access to the data module, and generate an authentication key based at least on the private key and a time. The client device is configured to generate the request for authenticated access to the data module and transmit the request to the server. The data module is configured to store the private key of the public-private key pair associated with the data module, generate the authentication key based at least on the private key and the time, and grant access to the data module if the authentication key generated by the data module and the authentication key generated by the server match.
US11316677B2
A quantum key distribution (QKD) node apparatus and a QKD method therein. The QKD node apparatus may include a QKD module for generating quantum keys and quantum key IDs, a quantum key synchronization management module for storing the quantum keys and the quantum key IDs as outbound and inbound quantum keys in a distributed manner and sharing the outbound and inbound quantum keys with a second QKD node apparatus, and a quantum key orchestration module for delivering a master key and a master key ID to a secure application connected therewith in response to a request for the master key with the ID of a second secure application and delivering a packet including the master key encrypted with the outbound quantum key shared with the second QKD node apparatus, the master key ID, and a quantum key ID, to the second QKD node apparatus.
US11316674B2
An aggregate median is efficiently obtained while confidentiality is kept. An order computing part generates ascending order a and descending order d within a group when a table which has been stably sorted based on a desired value attribute and a key attribute is grouped based on the key attribute. A subtracting part generates shares {a-d}, {d-a} of a-d, d-a. A bit deleting part generates shares {a′}, {d′} of a′, d′ obtained by excluding least significant bits from {a-d}, {d-a}. An equality determining part generates shares {a″}, {d″} of {a″}:={|a′=0|}, {d″}:={|d′=0|}. A format converting part (15) converts {a″}, {d″} into [a″], [d″]. A flag applying part generates shares [va], [vd] of [va]:=[v1a″], [vd]:=[v1d″]. A permutation generating part generates shares {{σa}}, {{σd}} of permutations σa, σd which sort ¬a″, ¬d″. A median computing part generates a share [x] of a vector x.
US11316673B2
A secret sharing scheme in which a trust structure of the parties receiving a share of the secret is encoded in the shares. In this regard, an access structure defining an authorized set of participants may be based, at least in part, on the encoded trust structures. The secret sharing scheme includes a secret generator that generates the shares distributed to the parties. In turn, an authorized set of participants as defined by the access structure may provide shares to a dealer for reconstruction of the secret. However, if the participants requesting secret reconstruction are not an authorized set of participants, the secret reconstruction fails. In this regard, secret sharing with asymmetrical trust structures may be provided in which the trust structures are not known by other parties in the scheme.
US11316658B2
A system is configured for managing security of a database associated with an organization. A fingerprint of an authorized user is captured. The data is scrambled using a scrambling technique. A list of users authorized to access the data is received from the user. A descrambler key corresponding to the scrambling technique is generated. The descrambler key is associated with fingerprints and predetermined location coordinates of authorized users. The descrambler key is configured to descramble the data when authorized users attempt to access the data using their fingerprints at their corresponding location coordinates. The scrambled data is encrypted. The system determines whether a particular user attempting to access the data is authorized to access the data by validating a fingerprint and location coordinates of the particular user. If the particular user is authenticated, the descrambler key descrambles the data. The particular user is allowed to access the data.
US11316654B2
A communication device and method for operating a communication system for transmitting time-critical data, wherein a respective individual time window within predefined time intervals is specified for data flows assigned to selected control applications running on terminals, where time windows each have an individual cycle time that is a multiple of a general cycle time or corresponds to the general cycle time, first and second communication devices each check, for the selected control applications, whether a specified time window is available for data transmission, where information about a beginning of the time window within the predefined time intervals is in each case transmitted to the terminal upon which the respective selected control application is executing in the event of an available time window, and where data flows that are assigned to selected control applications are each transmitted according to the information about the beginning of the individual time window.
US11316653B2
A terminal apparatus is a terminal apparatus for communicating via a primary cell and a secondary cell, the terminal apparatus including: a receiver configured to receive an activation/deactivation MAC CE indicating activation of the secondary cell; and a medium access control layer processing unit configured to: activate a first downlink BWP in multiple downlink BWPs in a case that the activation/deactivation MAC CE is received and the secondary cell is not activated; and not to activate the first downlink BWP in a case that the activation/deactivation MAC CE is received, the secondary cell is activated, and a second downlink BWP of the secondary cell is activated. The first downlink BWP is different from the second downlink BWP.
US11316652B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for processing data in a wireless communication system.
US11316646B2
Method and apparatus of a source network device and a destination network device for autonomous transmission are provided in this disclosure. In a source network device, a coordination indicator and a portion of data is transmitted to the destination network device, the coordination indicator identifying a resource coordination zone to coordinate interference resolution. Then, the source network device determines whether an acknowledgement is received from the destination device prior to an allocation of its repeated transmission. When a message is detected in the resource coordination zone and the acknowledgement is received, the source device transmits a further portion of the data to be transmitted. Problem arising from channel interference can be resolved through the provided methods.
US11316629B2
An electronic device, according to one embodiment, comprises: a wireless communication circuit for providing at least one cellular wireless communication; a secure element comprising profile information associated with the wireless communication, the profile information including notification configuration information; at least one processor operatively connected to the wireless communication circuit and the secure element; and a memory operatively connected to the at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor may acquire the notification configuration information from the secure element, transmit a notification associated with profile management to an external server, acquire a response indicating the failure of the notification from the external server as a response to the notification, and retry transmitting the notification on the basis of the notification configuration information. In addition, various embodiments are possible as identified in the specification.
US11316624B2
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for new radio (NR) sidelink (SL) hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback are provided. One method may include monitoring, by a user equipment in sidelink groupcast configured with two stage hybrid automatic repeat request feedback channels, a first stage hybrid automatic repeat request feedback channel when no physical sidelink control channel and physical sidelink shared channel is received. The method may include sending a discontinuous transmission indicator or hybrid automatic repeat request negative acknowledgement on a second stage hybrid automatic repeat request feedback channel when hybrid automatic repeat request positive acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement is monitored on the first stage hybrid automatic repeat request feedback channel.
US11316620B2
Embodiments of a method in a network node configured to transmit data using an automatic retransmission process are disclosed. The method comprises: receiving data to be transmitted to a remote endpoint; and when all process identifiers in a predetermined set of process identifiers are currently in use: selecting one process identifier from the predetermined set of process identifiers; storing information pertaining to a previously transmitted transport block in a temporary buffer, the previously transmitted transport block including the selected process identifier; and transmitting the received data in a second transport block including the selected process identifier.
US11316619B2
A wireless device may receive one or more messages. The one or more messages may comprise configuration parameters of a first uplink control channel and a second uplink control channel. Downlink control information may be received. The downlink control information may indicate a downlink transmission of a transport block via a downlink channel. One of the first uplink control channel or the second uplink control channel may be selected as a selected uplink control channel based on one or more parameters of the downlink control information. A hybrid automatic repeat request (HARD) feedback for the transport block may be transmitted via the selected uplink control channel.
US11316617B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for information having symbol repetition. One apparatus (300) includes a transmitter (310) that transmits (1602) multiple sets of information. Each set of information of the multiple sets of information includes a group of basic symbols and optional repetition symbols, and the optional repetition symbols are a repetition of at least part of the group of basic symbols.
US11316613B2
A method and a device for transmitting a signal by using a polar code are provided. The method includes generating a first codeword by applying the polar code to an input signal, dividing the first codeword into a plurality of partial vectors, allocating a shaping bit to the input signal when at least one of the plurality of partial vectors does not satisfy a preset Hamming weight condition, generating a second codeword by applying the polar code to the input signal to which the shaping bit is allocated, and transmitting a signal based on the second codeword.
US11316612B2
Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, devices, systems and methods of communicating a Physical Layer Protocol Data Unit (PPDU). For example, an Enhanced Directional Multi-Gigabit (DMG) (EDMG) station (STA) may be configured to encode a Physical Layer (PHY) Service Data Unit (PSDU) of at least one user in an EDMG PHY Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) according to an EDMG Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) encoding scheme, which is based at least on a count of one or more spatial streams for transmission to the user; and transmit the EDMG PPDU in a transmission over a channel bandwidth in a frequency band above 45 Gigahertz (GHz).
US11316604B2
A node may determine the topology of a computation system. The computation system is a network of nodes and multiple nodes are capable of being a grandmaster clock source. The method includes starting a best clock selection process, announcing clock information, and if the node is not acting grand master then receiving messages announcing clock information from other nodes of the network. Topology information is extracted from the messages, and if the node is acting grandmaster then retiring from the position of grandmaster. The best clock selection process steps are repeated until no node of the network becomes acting grandmaster.
US11316603B2
Methods and apparatus for determining increasing robustness of media signatures are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a characteristic analyzer to determine a first difference between (A) a first characteristic of an audio signal at a first time and (B) a second characteristic of the audio signal at a second time. The apparatus further includes a characteristic enhancer to compare the first difference to a first threshold; at least one of (A) boost the first characteristic of the audio signal at the first time or (B) attenuate the second characteristic of the audio signal at the second time when the first difference does not satisfy the threshold to create an enhanced audio signal; and determine whether a second difference between a third characteristic of the enhanced audio signal at the first time and a fourth characteristic of the enhanced audio signal at the second time satisfies the threshold, the third characteristic corresponding to the first characteristic, the fourth characteristic corresponding to the second characteristic.
US11316602B2
In some embodiments, a first receiver in a plurality of receivers receives a signal via a unicable line from a satellite transmission. The unicable line connects the plurality of receivers to an interface that receives multiple inputs from a satellite reflector dish. The first receiver generates a first unicable message for delivery on the unicable line and detects a characteristic on the unicable line to determine whether a second unicable message from a second receiver in the plurality of receivers is being sent on the unicable line. When the second unicable message is detected, the first receiver delays transmission of the first unicable message by a time period. When the second unicable message is not detected, the first receiver transmits the first unicable message on the unicable line.
US11316596B2
Disclosed is a method for detecting at least one compromised computer device in an information system, the method including: performing a frequency scan involving dividing the electromagnetic spectrum into frequency sub-bands; performing, in each frequency sub-band, a time envelope demodulation in order to recover signals transmitted by at least one computer device of the information system; converting each demodulated signal in the frequency domain; constructing a frequency spectrum on the basis of the demodulated signals in all the frequency sub-bands; finding, in each frequency sub-band of the frequency spectrum, at least one amplitude line having energy that is greater than a first predefined energy threshold; and, if at least one line having energy that is greater than the first predefined energy threshold is found, indicating the presence of at least one compromised computer device transmitting compromising spurious signals.
US11316594B2
Methods and apparatus are described for ultrasound transmission. A bit packet is created from received data. A cyclic redundancy check (CRC) is added to the bit packet based on the input data. The bit packet is encoded with forward error correction. The encoded bit packet is block interleaved to create a bit stream. The bit stream is converted into symbols. Each symbol is mapped to a dual tone multi frequency (DTMF). A first audio buffer based upon the DTMF is created. The audio buffer is provided for output.
US11316593B2
An optical data transmission system and method for, at an optical transmitter, converting to a second wavelength, an optical data signal at a first wavelength; transmitting at the second wavelength, the optical data signal to an optical receiver over an optical path; and transmitting at the first wavelength, to the receiver over the path a single-photon signal comprising a stream of single photons. The optical path is configured to carry optical signals at different wavelengths and the optical path attenuates signals at the first wavelength less than the optical path attenuates signals at the second wavelength. The optical data transmission system and method for, at the receiver, receiving the single-photon signal at the first wavelength and receiving the optical data signal at the second wavelength; and converting the optical data signal to the first wavelength for detection.
US11316592B2
An optical module includes a photoelectric converter configured to receive an optical signal having an intensity that changes at one of a first frequency or a second frequency that is higher than the first frequency, and convert the optical signal into a current signal corresponding to the intensity of the optical signal; a signal processor configured to acquire, when the optical signal has the intensity that changes at the first frequency, wavelength information set on a transmitting side based on a ratio between a plurality of signal intensities included in the current signal relating to the optical signal having the intensity that changes at the first frequency; and a decoder configured to generate, when the optical signal has the intensity that changes at the second frequency, communication data from the current signal relating to the optical signal having the intensity that changes at the second frequency.
US11316586B2
Systems and methods relating to correction of a Doppler/frequency offset in a wireless communication system are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of operation of a node comprises estimating a Doppler/frequency offset for a wireless device based on an uplink signal received from the wireless device and providing a frequency adjustment to the wireless device that corrects for the Doppler/frequency offset. In this manner, the Doppler/frequency offset for a wireless device is determined and corrected.
US11316585B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for channel bonding in an adaptive coding and modulation mode. In some implementations, a system receives packets of a data stream for transmission in a satellite communications system. The system determines a modulation and coding arrangement for the received packets. The system generates code blocks that include data from the packets of the data stream. The system assigns the generated code blocks for transmission on different carriers. One or more of the different carriers is operated in an adaptive coding and modulation mode to support multiple modulation and coding arrangements within a single carrier. The system transmits the code blocks on the different carriers using the determined one or more modulation and coding arrangements.
US11316581B2
An example embodiment may involve flying, by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), to a geographical location, where a wireless router is at the geographical location. The example embodiment may also involve detecting, by the UAV, a wireless coverage area defined by the wireless router. The example embodiment may also involve accessing, by the UAV, the wireless coverage area using a network identifier and a password. The example embodiment may also involve establishing, by the UAV, a backhaul link to a data network. The example embodiment may also involve transmitting, by the UAV, a notification to a client device served by the wireless coverage area, where the notification indicates that the UAV is a default gateway for the wireless coverage area. The example embodiment may also involve exchanging, by the UAV, data transmissions between (i) the client device, and (ii) one or more other devices accessible via the data network.
US11316580B2
A communication system includes a communication device, a plurality of servers configured to communicate with the communication device, a plurality of communication lines corresponding to a plurality of servers, and a relay server. The relay server includes a communication acquisition part configured to acquire the device identification information for identifying the communication device, the communication content information representing the communication content of the communication device, and the line identification information for identifying a plurality of communication lines respectively; and a communication information output part configured to output the communication content information and the device identification information acquired by the communication acquisition part over a communication line corresponding to the line identification information acquired by the communication acquisition part. The communication device includes a communication output part configured to correlate and output the device identification information, the communication content information, and the line identification information to the relay server.
US11316579B2
A communication method and a communications apparatus. The method includes: receiving configuration information of at least one frequency resource group, and receiving, by using at least one beam, a downlink signal on a corresponding frequency resource in the at least one frequency resource group, wherein each frequency resource group comprises at least two frequency resources, each frequency resource corresponds to at least one beam, and the configuration information comprises an identifier of each frequency resource group and an identifier of each frequency resource; and when it is detected based on the downlink signal that a beam associated with a first frequency resource in the frequency resource group fails, sending a beam recovery request on a second frequency resource in the frequency resource group. Correspondingly, a corresponding apparatus is further disclosed.
US11316577B2
Methods are provided for configuring an initial CORESET and associated search space during beam management. A base station (BS) receives measurements of at least one downlink reference signal (RS) from a User Equipment (UE), wherein each of the at least one downlink RS is associated with a transmit beam. The BS selects, based on the received measurements, a transmit beam for transmitting on resources of an initial time and frequency control resource set (CORESET), wherein the initial CORESET schedules unicast Physical Downlink Data Channel (PDSCH) for the UE, wherein the initial CORESET is identified during initial access of the UE to the BS. The BS transmits information relating to the initial CORESET on the selected beam in a Medium Access Control (MAC) Control Element (MAC-CE), wherein the information is transmitted using a combination of bits in the MAC-CE, the bits configured for indicating CORESETs.
US11316576B2
A wireless communication system and a precoder device for use in such system. The precoder device includes a delay element arranged to introduce a delay to a plurality of sub-channels of a signal at a transmitter end of the communication system; wherein the delay in a plurality of sub-channels are associated with a process time of a receiver component at a receiver end of the communication system.
US11316575B2
Methods related to wireless communication systems and performing link adaption for multiple user-multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) communications using multiple expected channel quality indicators are presented. A base station (BS) transmits, to a first user equipment (UE) of a plurality of UEs, a channel state report configuration indicating a set of one or more measurement resources and at least one of precoding information or rank indications associated with the set of one or more measurement resources. The BS receives, from the first UE, a channel state report including a plurality of expected channel quality indicators (CQIs) over a time period based on the set of one or more measurement resources and the at least one of the precoding information or rank indications. The BS uses the channel state report to determine a link adaptation for the first UE. Other features are also claimed and described.
US11316574B2
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). Disclosed is a method of reporting beam measurement state information by a User Equipment (UE). The method may include: measuring beam state information by using a first reception chain and a second reception chain; controlling beam state information on the first reception chain to correspond to beam state information on the second reception chain; calculating state information on each beam based on the controlled beam state information on the first reception chain and beam state information on the second reception chain; and reporting state information on one or more beams.
US11316555B2
A wireless signal receiving device is disclosed that includes an RF tuner for receiving a wireless signal over an antenna radiator, a demodulator for demodulating the received signal to output a signal of a first frequency band, and a spread spectrum modulator for spreading a frequency spectrum of the demodulated signal to output a signal of a second frequency band. In addition, various embodiments recognized through the specification are possible.
US11316554B2
Systems and methods for detecting, localizing, and filtering signals such as radiofrequency signals using an array of antennas are disclosed. Input signals each containing a signal of interested are received, along with a reference signal sharing one or more characteristics of the signal-of-interest. Predetermined time delays and frequency shifts are applied to the input signals such that the signal-of-interest components of the signals are synchronized and to cancel any Doppler-shifting between the signal-of-interest components. A filtering process is employed to filter the shifted input signals and sum them such that a metric indicating the degree of difference between the reference signal and the summed filtered signals (such as the mean squared error, for example) is minimized.
US11316552B2
A high-frequency switch includes an input interface configured to receive a high-frequency signal; an output interface configured to output the high-frequency signal to outside; and a reactance switch inserted between the input interface and the output interface. The reactance switch includes a plurality of reactance circuits connected in a cascade arrangement between the input interface and the output interface. Each of the plurality of reactance circuits is configured to form a common passband for the high-frequency signal based on a reactance of a respective predetermined values, and at least one of the reactance circuits is a variable reactance circuit having a reactance which changes in response to a control signal input from the outside so that the passband of the variable reactance circuit changes.
US11316551B2
Provided are a co-time co-frequency full duplexing system and a mobile terminal. The co-time co-frequency full duplexing system includes a baseband processing circuit, a transmitting terminal signal processing circuit, a receiving terminal signal transmission circuit, a signal transceiver circuit. A first end of the baseband processing circuit is electrically connected to a first end of the transmitting terminal signal processing circuit, a second end of the transmitting terminal signal processing circuit is electrically connected to a first end of the signal transceiver circuit, a second end of the baseband processing circuit is electrically connected to a first end of the receiving terminal signal processing circuit, a second end of the receiving terminal signal processing circuit is electrically connected to a second end of the signal transceiver circuit. The signal transceiver circuit transmits an uplink signal and receive a downlink signal simultaneously, and isolate the uplink signal from the downlink signal. In the above technical solution, the signal transceiver circuit may transmit the uplink signal and receive the downlink, and isolate the uplink signal from the downlink signal. It is able to achieve the self-interference suppression, and simplify a link.
US11316549B2
The present invention discloses radio frequency transmitting and receiving devices and an unmanned aerial vehicle system. The radio frequency transmitting device comprises: a first crystal oscillator, configured to provide a first clock signal with a frequency f; a reference signal receiving circuit, configured to receive a reference signal with a frequency (N−1)×f transmitted by a radio frequency receiving device; a frequency mixer, configured to perform frequency mixing processing on the first clock signal and the reference signal to obtain a carrier signal with a frequency N×f; a modulating circuit, configured to load a signal to be transmitted on the carrier signal, to obtain a frequency band signal; and a first transmitting circuit, configured to transmit the frequency band signal to the radio frequency receiving device. The radio frequency transmission performed according to the present invention has higher resistance to instantaneous vibration.
US11316548B2
A circuit includes a transmitter, a transmission channel communicatively coupled with the transmitter, and a receiver communicatively coupled with the transmission channel. The circuit further includes a combiner on a transmitter-side of the transmission channel, a decoupler on a receiver-side of the transmission channel, and a channel loss compensation circuit communicatively coupled between the transmitter and the receiver. The combiner is coupled between the transmitter and the transmission channel. The decoupler is coupled between the receiver and the transmission channel.
US11316540B2
A method of decoding polar codes based on belief propagation includes conventional belief propagation to decode the polar codes first; when a number of iterations exceeds a predefined upper limit and a cyclic redundancy check fails, the method selects log-likelihood ratio vectors of a plurality of R or L messages from a plurality of log-likelihood ratio vectors generated in each of the iterations and generates another set of log-likelihood ratio vectors (referred to as candidate vector group) to be used as initial values of the R or L messages for a subsequent belief propagation to perform belief propagation decoding iterations and cyclic redundancy check again. Whenever a decoding result passes the cyclic redundancy check, the method exits; otherwise, the method iterates the above procedure until a maximum number of candidate vector groups has been reached.
US11316537B2
A fault-tolerant analog computing device includes a crossbar array having a number l rows and a number n columns intersecting the l rows to form l×n memory locations. The l rows of the crossbar array receive an input signal as a vector of length l. The n columns output an output signal as a vector of length n that is a dot product of the input signal and the matrix values defined in the l×n memory locations. Each memory location is programmed with a matrix value. A first set of k columns of the n columns is programmed with continuous analog target matrix values with which the input signal is to be multiplied, where k
US11316518B2
An AND gate comprises: a first input; a second input; an output; and a plurality of field effect transistors, FETs, each having a respective first terminal, a respective second terminal, and a respective gate terminal to which a voltage may be applied to control a conductivity of a respective channel between the respective first terminal and the respective second terminal. The plurality of FETs comprises: a first FET having its first terminal directly connected to the first input, its second terminal directly connected to the output, and its gate terminal directly connected to the second input; a second FET having its first terminal directly connected to the first input, its second terminal directly connected to the output, and its gate terminal directly connected to the output; and a third FET having its first terminal directly connected to the second input, its second terminal directly connected to the output, and its gate terminal directly connected to the output. Also disclosed is a clock divider stage for receiving a first clock signal oscillating at a first frequency and a second clock signal, the second clock signal being an inversion of the first clock signal, and generating a first output clock signal oscillating at half of the first frequency.
US11316516B2
A circuit fault detection apparatus includes an AD conversion circuit, a corrector, first and second determination devices, and a fault detector. The AD conversion circuit detects a voltage corresponding to a current or a voltage applied to the circuit fault detection element, and converts the voltage to a digital value. The corrector corrects a measurement value to a corrected measurement value. The first determination device determines whether or not the electric circuit has the fault, based on a comparison between an uncorrected measurement value and an uncorrected threshold value. The second determination device determines whether the electric circuit has the fault, based on a comparison between the corrected measurement value and a corrected threshold value. The fault detector detects the fault in the electric circuit, based on a condition that at least one of the first or second determination devices determines that the electric circuit has the fault.
US11316501B1
A resampling method based on window function for flexible sampling rate conversion in broadband frequency measurement devices is described. The resampling algorithm can satisfy the requirements of different sampling rates. The frequency responses of the filter in the resampling model based on the Farrow structure are analyzed, and the design criterion of the filter in resampling model is considered. A fractional delay filter design model based on window function method is described. A fractional delay filter matrix, which is expressed by polynomial form, is constructed. Then the expression related to subfilter coefficients is obtained and subfilter coefficients are solved for by the least square method.
US11316499B2
A filter device includes: a common terminal; a first input/output terminal; a second input/output terminal; a first filter connected to a first path that connects the common terminal and the first input/output terminal, and having a passband that is a first band; a second filter connected to a second path that connects the common terminal and the second input/output terminal, and having a passband that is a second band having a frequency range that is different from and does not overlap a frequency range of the first band; a first switch element connected between a first node on the first path between the first filter and the first input/output terminal and a second node on the second path between the second filter and the second input/output terminal; and a second switch element on the second path, which is connected between the second node and the second input/output terminal.
US11316498B2
A reconfigurable microacoustic filter is specified which comprises a ladder-type-like filter topology and a suitably placed adjustable capacitive element.
US11316492B2
A balun includes a first capacitor, a second capacitor, a first inductor, an unbalanced signal port, a first balanced signal port, and a second balanced signal port. The first capacitor and the second capacitor are electrically connected in series between the unbalanced signal port and the first balanced signal port. The first inductor is electrically connected in parallel to the first capacitor and the second capacitor electrically connected in series. A second signal path is electrically connected to a first signal path between the first capacitor and the second capacitor, and the second balanced signal port is electrically connected to the second signal path.
US11316488B2
A gain control system for controlling gain applied to an audio signal includes a power estimator configured to estimate the power of a digital signal derived from the audio signal, a digital gain estimator configured to determine, in dependence on the estimated power, a digital gain which would modify the power of the digital signal so as to reach a target power level, and a gain controller configured to adjust an analogue gain applied to the audio signal in dependence on the determined digital gain.
US11316482B2
In an embodiment, an apparatus includes: a modulator to modulate a first signal; a distortion circuit coupled to the modulator to digitally pre-distort the first signal to compensate for a distortion of an amplifier; a distortion characterization circuit coupled to the distortion circuit to determine the distortion of the amplifier and configure the distortion circuit based on the determined distortion; a mixer coupled to the distortion circuit to upconvert the pre-distorted first signal to a pre-distorted radio frequency (RF) signal; and the amplifier coupled to the mixer to amplify the pre-distorted RF signal and output an amplified RF signal.
US11316480B2
An operational amplifier includes a voltage terminal; a common terminal; a first amplification stage for receiving a differential signal pair to generate a single-end amplification signal; a first buffer for generating a first voltage according to the single-end amplification signal; a first diode for reducing the first voltage to generate a second voltage; a second amplification stage for amplifying the second voltage to generate a third voltage; a voltage stabilizing circuit for stabilizing the third voltage; a second diode coupled between the second amplification stage and the common terminal; a second buffer for generating an output voltage according to the third voltage; and a current mirror coupled to the common terminal, the first amplification stage, the first diode and the second amplification stage.
US11316479B1
This application is directed to methods and devices for an efficient power amplification system. An electronic device includes a first and a second power amplifier that are coupled to a quadrature combiner, a temperature monitoring circuit coupled to the first and second power amplifiers, and a controller coupled to the temperature monitoring circuit. The temperature monitoring circuit is configured to determine a temperature difference between the first and second power amplifiers. The controller is configured to adjust operation of at least one of the first and second power amplifiers to reduce the temperature difference between the first and second power amplifiers.
US11316474B1
A double-balanced mixer, including a coupling transformer, a first diode cascade circuit, a second diode cascade circuit, and a first set of coils, is provided. The coupling transformer receives a first input signal and generates at least one set of signals with opposite voltage phases. The first diode cascade circuit is coupled to the coupling transformer, and generates a first node voltage according to a first set of bias voltages. The second diode cascade circuit is coupled to the coupling transformer, and generates a second node voltage according to a second set of bias voltages. The first set of coils is coupled to the first and second diode cascade circuits, receives the first and second node voltages and a second input signal, and generates an output signal. The first node voltage is equal to the second node voltage.
US11316472B2
A system for use with contaminated land comprises: a region defined by or within the land, the region having a plurality of locations defined therewithin; at each location, one or more apparatus selected from the group comprising: sensor, well, electrode, cathode, injector and vent; an array of photovoltaic cells for producing DC power; a ground-mounted frame supporting the array, the frame having a boundary substantially contiguous with the region and supporting the photovoltaic cells; a fluid distribution system of conduits supported by the frame; a power system for delivering DC power to each of the locations; and a communication system adapted to provide for remote control of the apparatus.
US11316469B1
In accordance with the present invention, a panel cleaning system is provided. In one aspect, the panel cleaning system includes a storage tank containing pressurized air, first and second linear actuators, and a panel-cleaning device wherein the pressurized air contained in the storage tank operates the first and second actuators and the panel-cleaning device to clean PV panels. A further aspect includes sensors associated with the first and second actuators and panel-cleaning device and configured to scan and detect fluid and debris on the PV panels to be removed. Another aspect provides sensors associated with a panel cleaning system and a programmable controller or processor configured to execute instructions stored in a nontransitory computer-readable medium.
US11316468B2
A method and system for cleaning an array of solar panels. The system can include an applicator apparatus configured with a plurality of cleaning devices, and an automatic position system (APS) configured with the applicator apparatus. The APS can include a first and second sensor coupled to the applicator apparatus. A controller coupled to the first and second sensor devices can be configured to adjust a position of the applicator apparatus to maintain the plurality of cleaning devices in a direction facing a solar panel to facilitate a removal of an undesired material from the solar panel, while the applicator apparatus is moved from a first position to a second position. A mobile vehicle can be configured with the applicator apparatus to move along a row of the array of solar panels to perform the method for cleaning.
US11316461B2
A motor control apparatus (2) according to the present disclosure is configured to control motors (#1-#3), automatically acquire identification information of a plurality of encoders (#1-#5), the encoders (#1-#5) being configured to be connected in series under a control of the motor control apparatus (2) and to detect position information of the motors (#1-#3) or position information of a mechanical apparatus configured to be driven by the motors (#1-#3), and store the identification information and the motor control unit in a non-volatile memory (11) in association with each other.
US11316457B2
An inverter type engine generator includes an alternator operable as a motor for starting an engine; a converter composed of a three-phase rectifying bridge circuit, converting three-phase alternating current output from the alternator into direct current, and operatable as a motor driver for driving the alternator when power is supplied from a power source; and a processor and a memory. The upper and lower three sets of elements of the three-phase rectifying bridge circuit of the converter are configured such that upper elements are configured from duty-controllable switching elements and thyristors connected in parallel therewith, and lower elements are configured from duty-controllable switching elements having diodes. The processor and the memory perform turning off the lower elements and controlling the duty of the thyristors while turning off the upper elements so that an output voltage of the three-phase rectifying bridge circuit is reduced, when a detected terminal voltage of the converter exceeds the target voltage.
US11316456B2
A system comprises a generator and an engine coupled thereto. The engine is configured to provide mechanical power to the generator. A controller is coupled to the engine and the generator and is configured to compare an engine operating parameter value to a load demand value indicative of a load exerted by the generator on the engine. The controller determines that the engine operating parameter value fails to match the load demand value. The controller determines an engine operating parameter threshold value at which the engine operating parameter value failed to match the load demand value, and sets the engine operating parameter threshold value as a maximum allowable engine operating parameter value for the engine.
US11316453B2
Provided is a control system and method for a power-driven nail gun, which includes a battery, a motor, a flywheel rotating along with the motor, an impacting member receiving kinetic energy of the flywheel and a nail channel providing a channel for a nail to move along therewith when hit by the impacting member. The method includes utilizing a microcontroller to provide a pulse width modulation (PWM) signal for a driving circuit to drive the motor based on the PWM signal; and in response to reaching a target rotation speed by the motor, utilizing the microcontroller to output a corresponding PWM duty to the driving circuit based on the voltage of the battery, to make the motor maintain at the target rotation speed. The nails obtain stable and consistent kinetic energy and stability of nail firing is effectively improved.
US11316450B2
A brushless motor includes: a stator having a three-phase winding; a rotor that has a permanent magnet; an inverter that supplies an AC current to the three-phase wiring by turning on or turning off a plurality of switching elements; and a control part that controls an ON or OFF state of the plurality of switching elements by switching a power distribution pattern that represents a change of a power distribution state of each phase of the three-phase wiring in response to a rotation of the rotor to a low-speed power distribution pattern in use for a low-speed power distribution control or a high-speed power distribution pattern in use for a high-speed power distribution control, wherein the control part switches the power distribution pattern to the low-speed power distribution pattern in a case where a rotation speed of the rotor is less than a predetermined threshold value, and the control part switches the power distribution pattern to the high-speed power distribution pattern when a state in which a load of the rotor is within a predetermined range is continued for a predetermined period of time in a case where the rotation speed of the rotor is equal to or more than the threshold value.
US11316433B2
A power conversion device includes a first bridge circuit, a second bridge circuit, and an inductance element connected between a first AC terminal of the first bridge circuit and a second AC terminal of the second bridge circuit. The controller calculates a passing current passing through the inductance element based on a difference between a first alternating current flowing between the first AC terminal and the inductance element and a second alternating current flowing between the second AC terminal and the inductance element, and detects a first DC component included in the passing current. The controller changes a duty in at least one of the first AC voltage and the second AC voltage to cancel the detected first DC component, the duty being a ratio of a positive potential period and a negative potential period.
US11316431B2
A concentration control circuit can include: a voltage feedback circuit configured to generate a current reference signal representing an error between a voltage reference signal and an output voltage feedback signal shared by each of a plurality of power stage circuits of a multi-phase power converter to adjust a respective phase current; and a clock signal generation circuit configured to generate a clock signal to adjust at least one of switching frequency and phase of each of the power stage circuits, where the clock signal is adjusted in accordance with a change of the current reference signal.
US11316425B2
A cascade multiplier includes a switch network having switching elements, a phase pump, and a network of pump capacitors coupled with the phase pump and to the switch network. The network of pump capacitors includes first and second capacitors, both of which have one terminal DC coupled with the phase pump, and a third capacitor coupled with the phase pump through the first capacitor.
US11316424B2
An apparatus for power conversion includes a transformation stage for transforming a first voltage into a second voltage. The transformation stage includes a switching network, a filter, and a controller. The filter is configured to connect the transformation stage to a regulator. The controller controls the switching network.
US11316423B2
Various embodiments include a half-bridge comprising: a first power semiconductor; a second power semiconductor connected in series with the first power conductor; a controller for the power semiconductors; a line starting at connection node of the power semiconductors; and a meter for measuring the current in the line. The controller is configured to: compare the current with an upper threshold value and a lower threshold value; switch off the first power semiconductor if the upper threshold value is reached; switch on the second power semiconductor after a first dead time has elapsed; and switch off the second power semiconductor if the lower threshold value is reached; and switch on the first power semiconductor after a second dead time has elapsed.
US11316422B1
A station-to-station synchronous and interleaved phase system for multiple DC or AC power supplies connected in parallel includes a master and a plurality of slaves. The master and the slaves each includes a time base selector, a time base generator, a station-to-station synchronization and interleaved phase controller, a local interleaved phase controller and multiple sets of switching circuits, so that the switching circuits are controlled by the local interleaved phase controller to form interleaved phases, and the time base selector and the station-to-station synchronization and interleaved phase controller further control the station-to-station phases between the master and the slaves, and further generate synchronization and interleaved phases between the master and the slaves. In addition to the advantages of increasing the equivalent operating frequency, it can reduce the rate of ripples and increase the response speed.
US11316420B2
A circuit includes first and second transistors, an adaptive bias current source circuit, and an adaptive resistance circuit. The first transistor has a control terminal and first and second current terminals. The control terminal of the first transistor being a first input to the circuit. The second transistor has a control terminal and first and second current terminals, and the control terminal of the second transistor is a second input to the circuit. The first and second inputs are differential inputs to the circuit. The adaptive bias current source circuit is coupled to the second current terminal of the first transistor. The adaptive resistance circuit is coupled between the second current terminal of the second transistor and the adaptive bias current source circuit.
US11316418B2
A rotary encoder includes a rotor and a stator. The rotor and the stator are arranged in the rotary encoder such that, when the rotary encoder is arranged on a machine that includes a shaft having a rotation axis, a rotation of the rotor in relation to the stator about the rotation axis of the shaft is allowed, a relative movement between the rotor and the stator along the rotation axis of the shaft is restricted to a predetermined distance, and a movement of the rotor in relation to the shaft along the rotation axis of the shaft is allowed. Additionally, movement of the stator in relation to the machine along the rotation axis of the shaft may be allowed.
US11316417B2
A Rotor of a claw pole machine (12), having a rotor winding (5), which is surrounded by pole fingers of claw poles, for generating an excitation field, and having permanent magnets (8, 10), wherein two permanent magnets (8), which are arranged offset in the circumferential direction and have a magnetization in the circumferential direction, are allocated to a pole finger (3) in the axial direction next to the pole finger, a magnetic flux guiding element (9) being arranged between the two permanent magnets (8).
US11316412B2
A motor includes an annular sensor magnet rotated integrally with a rotation shaft of a rotor by a bushing, and a rotation detector arranged opposed to the sensor magnet to detect rotation information of the rotor. The bushing includes an annular fixing portion, which is fixed to the rotation shaft, and an extension, which extends from the fixing portion in an axial direction of the rotation shaft and is embedded in the sensor magnet. The extension includes an axial engagement portion engaged with the sensor magnet in the axial direction inside the sensor magnet.
US11316385B2
An example operation may include one or more of determining an energy state of a system, generating a wireless energy transfer request based on the energy state, transmitting the wireless energy transfer request to another system, receiving wireless energy transfer information from the other system, performing a wireless energy exchange with the other system based on the wireless energy transfer information, and receiving a data block associated with the wireless energy exchange from the other system.
US11316379B2
A wireless charging system is provided. The wireless charging system includes: a wireless charging device and a wireless powered device. The wireless charging device includes a light emitter configured to emit infrared light. The wireless powered device includes a surface with a light receiver disposed thereon, where the light receiver is configured to receive the infrared light emitted from the light emitter. The light receiver is further configured to convert light energy of the received infrared light into electrical energy and supply the electrical energy to power the wireless powered device.
US11316377B2
Wireless transceiver devices are disclosed herein that enhance and otherwise extend the wireless power transmission range of a retrodirective wireless power transmission system. The wireless transceiver devices can be configured to operate, in whole or in part, as additional wireless power transmission systems enhancing range of the retrodirective wireless power transmission system and/or delivering supplemental wireless power to devices within range.
US11316373B2
A wireless power transmission method of control where an electrical parameter of a resonant circuit, which is part of a transmitter antenna tuning and coupling unit, determines in some part the regulation current level target or power level target of the resonant circuit. By using an electrical parameter of a resonant circuit to establish a current or power regulation level of the resonant circuit, a maximum limitation is established for the electrical current and voltage of the antenna tuning and coupling unit in order to operate the electrical elements within safe design limits. Additionally, energy is managed entering the transmitter antenna tuning and coupling unit for variable load at the receiver.
US11316365B2
A system includes a converter unit and a power distribution unit (PDU) having at least one power outlet, a first power port configured to be coupled to an AC power source and second power port coupled to the converter unit. The PDU is further configured to selectively provide power to the at least one outlet from the first and second power ports. The PDU may include a power strip with an elongate enclosure and a plurality of receptacles at a face of the enclosure, and the converter may include a rack mountable converter unit coupled to the power strip by a power cable and a communications cable. The rack mountable converter unit may include an inverter and a battery.
US11316343B2
Embodiments provide capabilities by which a user provides interactive inputs for allocating use of the available power budget of an IHS (Information Handling System) when a conflict in the power budget is detected. The power demand of the IHS processor(s) is monitored. When a USB device is coupled to the IHS, a power output to the USB device is enabled within the available power budget. Upon detecting an increase in the power demand of the processor, the power budget may be exceeded. The user is then prompted to specify whether to prioritize use of the power budget for performance of the IHS or for charging the USB device. Based on inputs provided by the user, the processor may be throttled or the power output to the USB device may be reduced. The user is thus provided a capability for resolving individual power budget conflicts based on the user's current preferences.
US11316341B2
Disclosed are a surge protection power supply clamping circuit, a chip and a communication terminal. The power supply clamping circuit comprises at least one driving unit and discharging unit; the discharging units are connected to the corresponding driving units respectively, and the driving units are connected to the same time delay unit respectively; the time delay units and the discharging units are connected to a power supply voltage and a ground line respectively. The driving units or the discharging units are sequentially controlled in the power supply voltage wiring direction, so that the sum values of an equivalent conduction resistance and an equivalent metal wiring resistance of respective discharging units are the same, and therefore, the uneven conduction of an NMOS transistor caused by different metal wiring resistances due to different metal wiring lengths of the NMOS transistor of each discharging unit can be counteracted.
US11316338B2
The present disclosure relates to a device for supplying energy to at least one intrinsically safe load in a potentially explosive area, the device including: a housing with an electrical input and with at least one electrical output, the housing is encapsulated in a pressure-proof manner, the electrical input encapsulated in a pressure-proof manner, and the at least one electrical output being intrinsically safe; an ignition protection module arranged in the housing and electrically connected to the electrical input and to the at least one electrical output, wherein the ignition protection module converts an electrical voltage present at the electrical input into an intrinsically safe electrical voltage and provides it at least one electrical output there, wherein the ignition protection module converts an electrical current present at the electrical input into an intrinsically safe electrical current and provides it at the at least one electrical output there.
US11316332B2
The present invention discloses a bracket (1) with enhanced loadbearing capacity for power transmission poles wherein protrusions (52) extending from loadbearing plates (12, 13) are inserted into horizontal and parallel slots made in the base plate (11), and protrusions (52) are bent behind the base plate (11). After insertion and bending, protrusions (52) portion of loadbearing plates (12, 13) are secured by welding on both sides namely the front and rear of the base plate (11). The bending of protrusions of loadbearing plates (12, 13) behind the base plate (11) and welding it on both sides considerably improve the strength of the joint, and thus the loadbearing capacity of the bracket is significantly enhanced.
US11316317B2
A multi-wavelength laser device equipped with a linear cavity along which a first direction and a second direction opposite to the first direction are defined is disclosed. The apparatus includes, along the first direction, a first optical component, a gain and Raman medium, a sum frequency generation crystal, a first second-harmonic generation crystal and a second optical component. The first optical component allows a pumping light to transmit therethrough and be incident in the first direction. The gain and Raman medium receives the pumping light from the first optical component and generates a first infrared base laser light having a first wavelength and a second infrared base laser light having a second wavelength. The first and second optical components form a laser cavity for oscillation of these two infrared base laser lights. The sum frequency generation crystal receives the first and second infrared base laser lights and generates a first visible laser light having a third wavelength. The first second-harmonic generation crystal receives the first infrared base laser light and generates a second visible laser light having a fourth wavelength. The second optical element allows the first and the second visible laser lights to emit out along the first direction.
US11316310B2
An electrical connector includes an insulating housing, a center ground plate fastened in the insulating housing, a strengthening ground strap, and a terminal assembly fastened in the insulating housing. The strengthening ground strap is fastened to the insulating housing. The strengthening ground strap has a front slice and two lateral slices. The front slice is fastened to a front surface of the center ground plate. The top edge of the front slice is higher than a top surface of the center ground plate. A bottom edge of the front slice projects beyond a bottom surface of the center ground plate. The two lateral slices are disposed to two opposite sides of the center ground plate. The terminal assembly includes a plurality of high speed terminals disposed among the front slice and the two lateral slices.
US11316299B2
In a particular implementation, an electric power device includes a body, a receptacle configured to receive a plug, and a source connector configured to be coupled to a power source. The electric power device further includes a casing coupled to the body and movable with respect to the body between a first position in which the casing defines an enclosed chamber and access to the receptacle is inhibited and a second position in which the casing is configurable to enable access to the receptacle for receipt of the plug. A transition from the first position to the second position is configured to cause the receptacle to be electrically decoupled from the source connector when the casing is at the second position, and a transition from the second position to the first position is configured to cause the receptacle to be electrically coupled to the source connector when the casing is at the first position.
US11316298B1
Provided is a safety socket, including a first conductive seat, a second conductive seat, a first terminal, a first insulator, a second terminal, a second insulator, a first conductive sheet and a second conductive sheet. The first conductive seat includes a first elastic body. The first elastic body includes a first elastic connecting portion and two first elastic pieces. Both ends of the first elastic connecting portion are respectively integrally formed with the bottom ends of the first elastic pieces. The second conductive seat includes a second elastic body and a second socket terminal. The second elastic body includes a second elastic connecting portion and two second elastic pieces. Both ends of the second elastic connecting portion are respectively integrally formed with the bottom ends of the first elastic pieces. The elastic body can be reset by its own elastic force without a spring.
US11316297B2
An electrical plug connector includes a metallic shell, an insulated housing in the metallic shell, plug terminals held in the insulated housing, and a hook member. Hook portions of the hook member extend into the insertion cavity of the insulated housing. Each hook portion forms a first positioning portion and a second positioning portion. When the electrical plug connector is mated with an electrical receptacle connector, the electrical plug connector can be positioned with the electrical receptacle connector through multiple contacts, thereby preventing the electrical plug connector from shaking.
US11316294B2
Miniaturized electrical connector systems are disclosed herein. In exemplary aspects disclosed herein, the connector system includes a twinaxial female connector having a housing and at least one dielectric positioned therein. The at least one dielectric defines two parallel channels configured to receive at least a portion of two conductors of a twinaxial cable. The twinaxial female connector includes an oval interface configured to orient and align the conductors of the twinaxial cable with mating pins of a male connector. The twinaxial female connector further includes two spring-type interconnects positioned within the oval interface, each configured to directly contact a conductor of the twinaxial cable and a mating pin of the male connector. The twinaxial female connector further includes a retaining clip attached to an exterior of the housing with a lever arm biased towards and pivotable from an engaged orientation. Such features reduce the manufacturing complexity, cost, and overall size.
US11316291B2
A board mounting type connector includes a housing, a plurality of contact portions to be extending from the housing toward a circuit board, and a plurality of protrusions to be protruding from the housing toward the circuit board. The plurality of contact portions are aligned along a width direction at a first position in a fitting direction. The connector and a mating connector are to be fit each other in the fitting direction. The width direction intersects the fitting direction. The plurality of protrusions are aligned along the width direction at a second position in the fitting direction. A distance between the first position and a position of a center of gravity of the connector in the fitting direction is longer than a distance between the second position and the position of the center of gravity in the fitting direction.
US11316277B2
This application provides implementations related to lenses. In one implementation, a lens comprises a substrate layer and a metal layer, wherein at least one surface of the substrate layer is a concave surface or a convex surface; the metal layer exists on the at least one surface of the substrate layer; the metal layer comprises a metal part and a hollow-out part, and the metal part or the hollow-out part is presented by using a graphics array; the graphics array comprises a plurality of first rings, the first ring comprises a plurality of graphic units, and a larger ring encircles a smaller ring in the plurality of first rings; and at least one of the following are different: size of graphic units comprised in two adjacent first rings, rotation angle of graphic units comprised in two adjacent first rings, or two adjacent first intervals, wherein the first interval is an interval between the two adjacent first rings.
US11316274B2
A semiconductor device package includes a substrate, a first molding compound and antenna layer. The substrate has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The first molding compound is disposed on the first surface of the substrate. The antenna layer is disposed on the first molding compound. The substrate, the first molding compound and the antenna layer define a cavity.
US11316267B2
Devices and methods for mitigating external passive intermodulation sources in base station antennas
The present disclosure describes an antenna mount kit. The antenna mount kit includes an antenna mount and a pipe clamp coupled to the antenna mount. The pipe clamp includes a front shell half and a rear shell half, the front shell half and the rear shall half having a front shell half inner surface and a rear shell half inner surface configured to cooperate with each other such that the mounting structure can be secured within the pipe clamp, at least two threaded bolts, a plurality of washers, and a plurality of nuts. The antenna mount kit may further include at least two isolation fasteners. The front shell half inner surface and the rear shell half inner surface each include a plurality of jagged teeth formed of a non-metallic material, at least two front shell bolt apertures through the front shell half, and at least two rear shell half bolt apertures through the rear shell half. The front shell half bolt apertures align with the rear shell half bolt apertures when securing the mounting structure within the pipe clamp. Antenna mount assemblies and methods for reducing external passive intermodulation from an antenna mount kit are also provided.
US11316260B2
An antenna arrangement for an aircraft for fastening to an outer side of an exterior skin of the aircraft has a body and side wall sections and a connecting section. The body is U-shaped or H-shaped if viewed from a predefined direction and can be flowed through with a low aerodynamic drag by a flow along the predefined direction. The antenna arrangement has one or more antennas in the form of a printed circuit board and of which each is fastened to the body and is fastenable directly to the outer side of the aircraft exterior skin at two first edges of the side wall sections which form two free ends of the U-shape or H-shape on a first side of the connecting section or, for the U-shape, on the connecting section and/or regions of the side wall sections, which regions adjoin the connecting section directly as the predefined direction is parallel to the flow direction during flight.
US11316255B2
An antenna comprising a metal frame and at least one resonating structure. The metal frame includes a first radiating element and a second radiating element. The first radiating element includes a radiation arm coupled to a feedpoint. The second radiating element includes a suspended radiation arm. Each resonating structure includes a suspended radiation arm and a resonating component, and the suspended radiation arm is coupled to a ground point by using the resonating component.
US11316254B2
Apparatus and method for multi cell communication using beamforming in wireless communication system
A multicell access method using beamforming in a wireless communication system is provided. In the method for operating a terminal, an access procedure for accessing a first base station using a first antenna and accessing a second base station using a second antenna is performed. Communication with the first base station is performed using the first antenna. Communication with the second base station is performed using the second antenna.
US11316246B2
There are provided an antenna device with improved antenna performance while suppressing a decrease in yield and a decrease in viewability, and a display device including the same. The antenna device includes an antenna substrate, a first antenna pattern formed on a first main surface of the antenna substrate, and a second antenna pattern formed on a second main surface opposite to the first main surface of the antenna substrate. The first antenna pattern and the second antenna pattern are formed such that positions on the front and back of the antenna substrate coincide with each other, and at least a part of the antenna substrate is transparent to transmit an image.
US11316245B2
The present disclosure relates to base station antennas. One example base station antenna includes at least two antennas, at least two outer cover structures, a fastening assembly, a connection assembly, and an upper cover, and each antenna is independently packaged in a radome. The fastening assembly includes a pole and a base. A bottom of the pole is mounted on the base. The connection assembly includes an antenna connection assembly, an outer cover connection assembly, and a pole connection assembly. The pole connection assembly is disposed on the pole, a top of the antenna is connected to the pole by using the antenna connection assembly and the pole connection assembly, and a bottom of the antenna is fastened on the bottom of the pole. Each of the outer cover structures is connected to the pole by using the outer cover connection assembly and the pole connection assembly.
US11316239B2
The present invention features a waveguide transition. A waveguide transition is used to join two dissimilar segments of waveguide, in this case coplanar waveguide to rectangular waveguide, and vice-versa. Care taken during the design of the waveguide transition ensures that the reflection of electromagnetic waves, which may be traveling along the coplanar waveguide segment and toward the waveguide transition and subsequent rectangular waveguide segment, is minimized.
US11316238B2
A film transmission line includes a dielectric layer including at least one of a liquid crystal polymer (LCP) structure or a cyclo olefin polymer (COP) structure, and an electrode line on the dielectric layer. A signal loss level (S21) defined of the film transmission line is −1.5 dB or more at a frequency in a range from 20 GHz to 30 GHz. The film transmission line may be applied to a high frequency thin film antenna and an image display device.
US11316231B2
In accordance with at least selected embodiments, the present disclosure or invention is directed to improved battery separators, high conductance separators, improved lead-acid batteries, such as flooded lead-acid batteries, high conductance batteries, improved systems, and/or, improved vehicles including such batteries, and/or methods of manufacture or use of such separators or batteries, and/or combinations thereof. In accordance with at least certain embodiments, the present disclosure or invention is directed to improved lead acid batteries incorporating the improved separators and which exhibit increased conductance. Particular, non-limiting examples may include lead acid battery separators having structure or features designed to improve conductance, lower ER, lower water loss, and the like.
US11316226B2
A battery module includes: a cell stack including a first surface being a surface on one end in the first direction, a second surface being a surface on the other end in the first direction, a third surface being a surface on one end in a second direction that is a direction orthogonal to the first direction, a fourth surface being a surface on the other end in the second direction, a fifth surface being a surface on one end in a third direction orthogonal to the first direction and the second direction, and a sixth surface being a surface on the other end in the third direction; and a restraining member that restrains the cell stack. The restraining member includes: a pair of restraining plates restraining the cell stack in the first direction; and a pair of sandwiching plates sandwiching the cell stack in the third direction.
US11316225B2
A battery container is adapted to be disposed at a battery charging station for containing a battery which has a charging port. The battery container includes a container body, a floating connector, and a coupling board. The container body includes a rear wall that is formed with a through hole. The floating connector extends movably through the through hole of the rear wall. The coupling board is secured co-movably to the floating connector and is slidable on the rear wall. The floating connector and the coupling board are movable relative to the container body and along a plane parallel to the rear wall when the battery is inserted into a receiving space of the container body to electrically connect the charging port of the battery to the floating connector.
US11316216B2
A modular heat exchanger for battery thermal management having a plurality of similarly constructed heat exchange elements affixed to a cover plate and fluidly coupled with one another via a single external manifold structure that functions as both an inlet manifold and an outlet manifold for each of the heat exchange elements. Rigidity is improved with alternating tabs or overlapping tabs between adjacent elements, and/or side edges between adjacent elements having cutouts for receiving stiffening ribs formed in the cover plate. The external manifold structure provides additional stiffening for the interconnected heat exchange elements.
US11316209B2
The present invention relates to an arrangement 10 comprising plural electric battery cell modules. Each of the electric battery cell modules comprises at least one electric battery cell 12 and a module antenna 14. The arrangement further comprises a transmission line 16 operative as an antenna. The arrangement 10 is configured to provide near field electromagnetic coupling of data between the transmission line 16 and each of the plural battery cell modules by way of the module antenna 14.
US11316205B2
A lithium ion secondary battery includes at least a positive electrode, a separator, a first intermediate layer, a second intermediate layer, and a negative electrode. The separator is arranged between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The first intermediate layer is arranged between the separator and the negative electrode. The second intermediate layer is arranged between the first intermediate layer and the negative electrode. The first intermediate layer and the second intermediate layer are each a porous layer. The first intermediate layer contains at least a metal organic framework. The second intermediate layer is electrically insulating.
US11316200B2
A method for drying and purifying a lithium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide salt. Also, a method for producing a lithium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide salt which is then dried and purified by the method. Further, a composition containing lithium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide salt having a water content by mass of between 5 and 45 ppm. And, the use of the composition C in Li-ion batteries.
US11316194B2
The present invention relates to a gel polymer electrolyte composition and a lithium secondary battery including the same, and particularly, to a gel polymer electrolyte composition, in which flame retardancy is improved by including an ionic liquid, instead of a non-aqueous organic solvent, as well as a lithium salt, a polymerization initiator, and an oligomer having a specific structure, and a lithium secondary battery in which high-temperature stability is improved by including the same.
US11316193B2
A lithium borosilicate composition, consisting essentially of a system of lithium oxide in combination with silicon oxide and boron oxide, wherein said lithium borosilicate comprises between 70-83 atomic % lithium based on the combined atomic percentages of lithium, boron and silicon, and wherein said lithium borosilicate is a glass, is disclosed.
US11316191B2
An electrochemical cell for a secondary battery, preferably for use in an electric vehicle, is provided. The cell includes a solid metallic anode, which is deposited over a suitable current collector substrate during the cell charging process. Several variations of compatible electrolyte are disclosed, along with suitable cathode materials for building the complete cell.
US11316182B2
A fuel cell module has: a first stacked body including a plurality of unit cells stacked on each other; and a second stacked body including a plurality of magnetic body sheets stacked on each other. The magnetic body sheets includes a coil. The first stacked body is superposed on the second stacked body so as to be electrically connected to the coil. A conductor serving as a part of the coil is embedded in each magnetic body sheet. The conductor has a first end portion and a second end portion exposed from surfaces of each magnetic body sheet on opposite sides from each other. The first end portion of the conductor of one of a set of magnetic body sheets adjacent to each other, among the magnetic body sheets, contacts the second end portion of the conductor of the other of the set of magnetic body sheets.
US11316178B2
A checking method of a resin-framed membrane electrode assembly includes checking whether there is breakage in one of short sides of a first rectangular peripheral shape of a clearance provided in the resin-framed membrane electrode assembly without checking whether there is breakage in any other part of the clearance, the resin-framed membrane assembly including a solid polymer electrolyte membrane, a gas diffusion layer provided on the solid polymer electrolyte membrane, and a resin frame member that has a second rectangular peripheral shape and surrounds the solid polymer electrolyte membrane and the gas diffusion layer to provide the clearance between the resin frame member and the gas diffusion layer, the solid polymer electrolyte membrane being made from a solid polymer electrolyte membrane roll in which a solid polymer electrolyte membrane sheet is wound in a winding direction, long sides of the rectangular peripheral shape extending in the winding direction.
US11316177B2
A fuel cell joint separator includes a passage bead and an outer bead. In a dual seal section where the passage bead and the outer bead extend next to each other, a ridge protruding from one surface of a metal separator is formed integrally with the metal separator, between the passage bead and the outer bead. The height of the ridge is smaller than the height of the bead seal compressed by the tightening load. A joining line is provided between the outer bead and the ridge.
US11316174B2
A fuel cell stack for providing uniform fluid flow through a plurality of plates is provided. The fuel cell stack includes a plurality of plates that define a plurality of fuel cells stacked with each other, each plate having a fuel inlet hole for receiving fuel and a fuel outlet hole for discharging fuel. The fuel cell stack includes a fuel inlet insert extending into the fuel inlet hole of at least some of the plurality of plates. The fuel inlet insert has an upstream end and a downstream end relative to a direction of fuel flow through the fuel inlet holes. The upstream end of the fuel inlet insert has a porosity and permeability less than a porosity and permeability of the downstream end of the fuel inlet insert such that the fuel insert provides uniform fuel flow through the plurality of plates.
US11316171B2
A fuel cell bipolar plate (BPP) includes a metal substrate having a bulk portion and a surface portion comprising an anticorrosive, conductive material having oxygen vacancies and a formula (I): MgTi2O5-δ (I), where δ is any number between 0 and 3 optionally including a fractional part denoting the oxygen vacancies, the material having an electronic conductivity of about 2-10 S/m at room temperature in an ambient environment.
US11316170B2
A redox flow battery cell includes: an electrode to which an electrolyte solution is supplied; and a bipolar plate with which the electrode is arranged, wherein the bipolar plate has at least one groove portion through which the electrolyte solution flows, on a face on the electrode side, the electrode is made of a carbon fiber aggregate containing carbon fibers, and has a buried portion that is pressed toward the bipolar plate side and buried into the groove portion, and an amount of burial of the buried portion is not less than 0.2 mm and not more than 1.4 mm.
US11316169B2
Described herein are methods of forming an electrocatalyst structure on an electrode, comprising depositing a first layer on the electrode using atomic layer deposition (ALD), wherein the first layer comprises a plurality of discrete nanoparticles of a first electrocatalyst, and depositing one or more of a second layer on the first layer and the electrode using ALD, wherein the one or more second layer comprises a second electrocatalyst, wherein the first layer and the one or more second layers, collectively, form a multi-layer electrocatalyst structure on the electrode. Also described are electrodes having a multi-layer electrocatalyst structure. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present disclosure.
US11316167B2
The present application relates to an anode electrode and an electrochemical device containing the same. The anode electrode comprises: a current collector, including a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface; an insulation layer being disposed on a peripheral portion of the first surface and/or a peripheral portion of the second surface; and a protection layer being disposed on the insulation layer and covering the first surface and/or the second surface. According to an embodiment of the present application, the insulation layer and the protection layer are disposed in the anode electrode of the electrochemical device to construct a seal cavity, which defines a space of the deposition of lithium metal on the anode electrode, thereby resolving the safety problem caused by the irregular deposition of the lithium metal.
US11316165B2
There is provided a solid-state battery layer structure which may include an anode current collector metal layer, an anode layer arranged on the anode current collector metal layer, a solid electrolyte layer arranged on the anode layer laterally, a cathode layer arranged on the solid electrolyte layer, and a cathode current collector metal layer, and a plurality of nanowire structures comprising silicon and/or gallium nitride, wherein said nanowire structures are arranged on the anode layer and, wherein said nanowire structures are laterally and vertically enclosed by the solid electrolyte layer, wherein the anode layer comprises silicon and a plurality of metal vias connecting the plurality of nanowire structures with the anode current collector metal layer. Methods for producing solid-state battery layer structures are also provided.
US11316164B2
Batteries include an anode structure, a cathode structure, and a conductive overcoat. The anode structure includes an anode substrate, an anode formed on the anode substrate, and an anode conductive liner that is in contact with the anode. The cathode structure includes a cathode substrate, a cathode formed on the cathode substrate, and a cathode conductive liner that is in contact with the cathode. The conductive overcoat is formed over the anode structure and the cathode structure to seal a cavity formed by the anode structure and the cathode structure. At least one of the anode substrate and the cathode substrate is pierced by through vias that are in contact with the respective anode conductive liner or cathode conductive liner.
US11316160B2
A supercapacity lithium ion battery cathode material, a preparation method therefor and an application thereof. The supercapacity lithium ion battery cathode material consists of a transition metal-containing lithium ion cathode material and carbon which is coated on the surface of the lithium ion cathode material. The transition metal on the surface of the lithium ion cathode material is coordinated with carbon by means of X—C bonds to form transition metal-X—C chemical bonds, such that carbon stably coats the surface of the cathode material, wherein C is SP3 hybridization and/or SP2 hybridization, and X is at least one selected from among N, O and S. The supercapacity lithium ion battery cathode material connects the lithium ion cathode material and the carbon by means of the transition metal-X—C chemical bonds, and utilizes the transition metal-X—C chemical bonds to repair boundary of lattices on the surface of the cathode material, such that an interface between the lithium ion cathode material and a carbon layer can be optimized, to form an interface that can store Li, thereby increasing the per gram capacity of the cathode material, and laying the foundation for preparing a supercapacity lithium ion battery.
US11316147B2
A negative electrode active material includes: particles of negative electrode active material, the particles of negative electrode active material contain particles of silicon compound containing a silicon compound (SiOx:0.5≤x≤1.6); the particles of silicon compound contain at least one kind or more of Li2SiO3 and Li4SiO4; the particles of negative electrode active material contain Li2CO3 and LiOH on a surface thereof; and a content of the Li2CO3 is 0.01% by mass or more and 5.00% by mass or less relative to a mass of the particles of negative electrode active material and a content of the LiOH is 0.01% by mass or more and 5.00% by mass or less relative to the mass of the particles of negative electrode active material. Thus a negative electrode active material is capable of improving initial charge/discharge characteristics and the cycle characteristics when used as a negative electrode active material of the secondary battery.
US11316144B1
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for lithium-ion batteries with solid electrolyte membranes. In one embodiment, a battery cell may include a copper current collector, a first layer in contact with the copper current collector, the first layer comprising polyvinylidene fluoride, an anode comprising a first lithiated polymer binder configured to conduct lithium ions, where the first layer is disposed between the copper current collector and the anode, and a lithiated polymer electrolyte membrane in contact with the anode. The battery cell may include a cathode in contact with the lithiated polymer electrolyte membrane and comprising a second lithiated polymer binder configured to conduct lithium ions, a second layer in contact with the cathode, the second layer comprising polyvinylidene fluoride, and an aluminum current collector disposed adjacent to the second layer, wherein the aluminum current collector is a positive current collector.
US11316137B2
A flexible display panel, a method for fabricating the same, and a display device are provided. A protruding structure located is formed in a via-hole area on a flexible base substrate so that both the protruding structure, and the portions of an organic light-emitting functional film and a top electrode layer covering the protruding structure can be removed. Thereafter an encapsulation thin film covering the patterns of the organic light-emitting functional film and the top electrode layer is formed. After the encapsulation thin film is formed, the step of removing the pattern of the encapsulation thin film in the via-hole area can be further performed to expose the flexible base substrate in the via-hole area, and after the flexible base substrate in the via-hole area is removed, a via-hole can be formed in the flexible base substrate.
US11316133B2
An organic light-emitting display apparatus includes a substrate, an inorganic insulation film on the substrate, an organic insulation film on the inorganic insulation film, an organic light-emitting device on the organic insulation film, and an encapsulation unit including a first inorganic film covering the organic light-emitting device and having a first boundary portion contacting the organic insulation film, an organic film covering the first inorganic film and having a second boundary portion contacting the inorganic insulation film, and a second inorganic film covering the organic film and having a third boundary portion contacting the substrate.
US11316132B2
A display panel and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The display panel includes a substrate, a thin film transistor (TFT) device layer, a luminescent device layer, and a thin film encapsulation layer, wherein the thin film encapsulation layer includes a first inorganic layer, a first hardening layer disposed on the first inorganic layer, a second inorganic layer disposed on the first hardening layer, an organic planarization layer disposed on the second inorganic layer, a second hardening layer disposed on the organic planarization layer, a third inorganic layer disposed on the second hardening layer, and a third hardening layer disposed on the third inorganic layer, thereby realizing a cover window and encapsulation structure characteristics at the same time, and achieving ultra-thin encapsulation.
US11316124B2
An organic light-emitting device and a flat panel display device, the organic-light emitting device including an anode; a cathode; and an organic layer therebetween including an emission layer, a hole transport region between the anode and the emission layer, the hole transport region including at least one of a hole injection layer, a hole transport layer, and an electron blocking layer, an electron transport region between the emission layer and the cathode, the electron transport region including at least one of a hole blocking layer, an electron transport layer, and an electron injection layer, and a buffer layer between the emission layer and the electron transport region, wherein the buffer layer includes a biscarbazole-based derivative and triphenylene-based derivative, and a triplet energy (ET1) of the biscarbazole-based derivative or the triphenylene-based derivative and a triplet energy (ET2) of a dopant of the emission layer satisfy the following relationship: ET1>ET2.
US11316122B2
The present invention provides an OLED display panel and a manufacturing thereof, and an OLED device. The OLED display panel adopts organic host materials, organic light-emitting materials, and amorphous fluoropolymers to produce a light-emitting layer, so that amorphous polymers improve thermal stability and solvent resistance of the light-emitting layer, and the light-emitting layer is not damaged by solvents when an electron transport layer is formed by solvents, thereby resolving the process of processing OLED devices by solvents having damage to the light-emitting layer causing poor display performance in the prior art.
US11316119B2
Disclosed are a curved display apparatus and a method of manufacturing the same, which improve a luminance difference between a flat part and a curved part. The curved display apparatus having a flat part and a bending part extending from one side of the flat part, either of the flat part and the bending part defining a plurality of emission areas therein, wherein the curved display apparatus comprises: a light emitting device layer including a plurality of light emitting devices to form the emission areas, wherein a slope film is provided in the bending part such that an emission surface of the emission areas in the bending part is almost parallel to an emission surface of the emission areas in the flat part.
US11316112B2
The present invention provides with an electron-accepting compound having a structure of the following formula (1):
US11316107B2
Electrical contacts may be formed by forming dielectric liners along sidewalls of a dielectric structure, forming sacrificial liners over and transverse to the dielectric liners along sidewalls of a sacrificial structure, selectively removing portions of the dielectric liners at intersections of the dielectric liners and sacrificial liners to form pores, and at least partially filling the pores with a conductive material. Nano-scale pores may be formed by similar methods. Bottom electrodes may be formed and electrical contacts may be structurally and electrically coupled to the bottom electrodes to form memory devices. Nano-scale electrical contacts may have a rectangular cross-section of a first width and a second width, each width less than about 20 nm. Memory devices may include bottom electrodes, electrical contacts having a cross-sectional area less than about 150 nm2 over and electrically coupled to the bottom electrodes, and a cell material over the electrical contacts.
US11316103B2
A process flow for forming magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) nanopillars with minimal sidewall residue and minimal sidewall damage is disclosed wherein a pattern is first formed in a hard mask that is an uppermost MTJ layer. Thereafter, the hard mask sidewall is etch transferred through the remaining MTJ layers including a reference layer, free layer, and tunnel barrier between the free layer and reference layer. The etch transfer may be completed in a single RIE step that features a physical component involving inert gas ions or plasma, and a chemical component comprised of ions or plasma generated from one or more of methanol, ethanol, ammonia, and CO. In other embodiments, a chemical treatment with one of the aforementioned chemicals, and a volatilization at 50° C. to 450° C. may follow an etch transfer through the MTJ stack with an ion beam etch or plasma etch involving inert gas ions.
US11316090B2
A thermoelectric generator has a heat conducting body that exchanges heat with the environment according to environmental temperature changes, a heat storing body, and a thermoelectric conversion unit and thermal resistance body arranged between the heat conducting body and the heat storing body. One end of the thermal resistance body and one end of the thermoelectric conversion unit are in contact with each other. The other end of the thermal resistance body is in contact with the heat conducting body, and the other end of the thermoelectric conversion unit is in contact with the heat storing body. The surface of the heat storing body is covered by a covering layer having certain heat insulation properties. The temperature difference generated between the heat conducting body and the heat storing body is utilized to extract electric energy from the thermoelectric conversion unit.
US11316087B2
A light emitting device includes a mount board that includes a wiring pattern on an upper surface, and light emitting elements that are mounted at corresponding one of mounting positions on the wiring pattern to be connected in series and/or in parallel to each other through the wiring pattern. The light emitting elements each include a pair of electrodes on a back surface side thereof. The mounting positions include four or more connection terminals that are electrically separated from each other to connect the electrodes of their corresponding light emitting element to each other. Series connection and parallel connection numbers are determined in accordance with orientations of the light emitting elements in which each electrode straddles at least adjacent two of the four or more connection terminals that are spaced away from and adjacent to each other.
US11316083B2
An embodiment of the present invention discloses a backlight module and a display device. The backlight module includes a circuit board. A side surface of the circuit board is provided with a plurality of light emitting elements spaced apart from each other. A light output surface of at least one of the light emitting elements is covered with a first encapsulation layer. A side surface of the first encapsulation layer away from the at least one light emitting elements is a curved surface.
US11316080B2
A light emitting device includes a light emitting element, a light guide member, a reflecting member, a wavelength conversion member. The light emitting element has a light emitting surface and lateral surfaces. The light guiding member is provided on at least a portion of the lateral surfaces of the light emitting element. The reflecting member is provided on the lateral surface of the light emitting element with the light guiding member interposed therebetween. The wavelength conversion member is provided on the light emitting surface of the light emitting element, the light guiding member and the reflecting member. The wavelength conversion member is provided with a recess between an outer lateral surface of the wavelength conversion member and the light guiding member. The reflecting member is provided in the recess.
US11316079B2
An emissive nanocrystal particle includes a core including a first semiconductor nanocrystal including a Group III-V compound and a shell including a second semiconductor nanocrystal surrounding the core, wherein the emissive nanocrystal particle includes a non-emissive Group I element.
US11316077B2
A radiation-emitting device includes a semiconductor layer sequence having an active layer that emits a primary radiation during operation, a decoupling surface on a surface of the semiconductor layer sequence, a wavelength conversion layer on a side of the semiconductor layer sequence facing away from the decoupling surface, containing at least one conversion material that converts the primary radiation into secondary radiation, and a mirror layer on the side of the wavelength conversion layer facing away from the semiconductor layer sequence, wherein the at least one conversion material is electrically conductive and/or embedded in an electrically conductive matrix material.
US11316074B2
A display device is disclosed, wherein the display device includes a light emitting unit, including: a first semiconductor layer; an active layer disposed on the first semiconductor layer; a second semiconductor layer disposed on the active layer; and a protecting layer disposed on the second semiconductor layer, wherein the protecting layer has a region in which oxygen atomic percentages decrease toward the second semiconductor layer.
US11316070B2
According to an aspect, an illumination device configured to be arranged opposing an image display surface of a reflective display device, includes: a translucent substrate; a plurality of light emitting elements that is provided to the translucent substrate; an anode electrode that is electrically coupled to the light emitting elements; and a cathode electrode that is electrically coupled to the light emitting elements. The anode electrode includes: a plurality of first partial anode electrodes having recessed structures in which the light emitting elements are arranged; and a second partial anode electrode that has a width less than widths of the first partial anode electrodes and couples the first partial anode electrodes.
US11316067B2
A semiconductor body is disclosed. In an embodiment a semiconductor body includes an n-doped region comprising a first layer sequence comprising pairs of alternating layers, wherein a first layer and a second layer of each pair differ in their doping concentration, and wherein the first and second layers of each pair have the same material composition except for their doping and a second layer sequence comprising pairs of alternating layers, wherein a first layer and a second layer of each pair differ in their material composition, an active region, wherein the second layer sequence is disposed between the first layer sequence and the active region and a p-doped region, wherein the active region is disposed between the n-doped region and the p-doped region.
US11316061B2
n-type amorphous semiconductor layers (4) and p-type amorphous semiconductor layers (5) are alternately disposed on the back surface of a semiconductor substrate (1) so as to be separated from each other at a desired interval paralleled with the direction of the surface of the semiconductor substrate (1). An electrode (6) is disposed on the n-type amorphous semiconductor layer (4), and an electrode (7) is disposed on the p-type amorphous semiconductor layer (5). A protective film (8) includes an insulating film, and is disposed on a passivation film (3), the n-type amorphous semiconductor layer (4), the p-type amorphous semiconductor layer (5), and the electrodes (6, 7), so as to be in contact with the passivation film (3), the n-type amorphous semiconductor layer (4), the p-type amorphous semiconductor layer (5), and the electrodes (6, 7).
US11316058B2
A stacked multi-junction solar cell with a metallization comprising a multilayer system, wherein the multi-junction solar cell has a germanium substrate forming a bottom side of the multi-junction solar cell, a germanium subcell, and at least two III-V subcells, the multilayer system of the metallization has a first layer, comprising gold and germanium, a second layer comprising titanium, a third layer, comprising palladium or nickel or platinum, with a layer thickness, and at least one metallic fourth layer, and the multilayer system of the metallization covers at least one first and second surface section and is integrally connected to the first and second surface section, wherein the first surface section is formed by the dielectric insulation layer and the second surface section is formed by the germanium substrate or by a III-V layer.
US11316048B2
Provided are a tin oxide layer, a thin film transistor (TFT) having the same as a channel layer, and a method for manufacturing the TFT. The TFT comprises a gate electrode, a tin oxide channel layer disposed on the gate electrode and being a polycrystalline thin film with preferred orientation in a [001] direction, a gate insulating film disposed between the gate electrode and the channel layer, and source and drain electrodes electrically connected to both ends of the channel layer, respectively.
US11316032B2
Provided is an integrated circuit including at least one cell, the at least one cell includes first and second active regions spaced apart from each other, a dummy region disposed between the first and second active regions, at least one first active fin disposed in the first active region and extending in a first direction, at least one second active fin extending along the first direction over the entire length of the second active region, and an active gate line extending in a second direction that is substantially perpendicular to the first direction, wherein the active gate line vertically overlaps the first active region and the dummy region and does not vertically overlap the second active region.
US11316030B2
A method includes forming a doped region on a top portion of a substrate, forming a first epitaxial layer over the substrate, forming a recess in the first epitaxial layer, the recess being aligned to the doped region, performing a surface clean treatment in the recess, the surface clean treatment includes: oxidizing surfaces of the recess to form an oxide layer in the recess, and removing the oxide layer from the surfaces of the recess, and forming a second epitaxial layer in the recess.
US11316028B2
Transistors are fabricated by forming a nitride-based semiconductor barrier layer on a nitride-based semiconductor channel layer and forming a protective layer on a gate region of the nitride-based semiconductor barrier layer. Patterned ohmic contact metal regions are formed on the barrier layer and annealed to provide first and second ohmic contacts. The annealing is carried out with the protective layer on the gate region. A gate contact is also formed on the gate region of the barrier layer. Transistors having protective layer in the gate region are also provided as are transistors having a barrier layer with a sheet resistance substantially the same as an as-grown sheet resistance of the barrier layer.
US11316018B2
A compound semiconductor substrate includes a SiC (silicon carbide) layer, a AlN (aluminum nitride) buffer layer formed on the SiC layer, an Al (aluminum) nitride semiconductor layer formed on the AlN buffer layer, a composite layer formed on the Al nitride semiconductor layer, a GaN (gallium nitride) layer as an electron transition layer formed on the composite layer, and an Al nitride semiconductor layer as a barrier layer formed on the GaN layer. The composite layer includes C—GaN layers stacked in a vertical direction, and an AlN layer formed between the C—GaN layers.
US11316016B2
A novel material is provided. A composite oxide semiconductor includes a first region and a second region. The first region contains indium. The second region contains an element M (the element M is one or more of Ga, Al, Hf, Y, and Sn). The first region and the second region are arranged in a mosaic pattern. The composite oxide semiconductor further includes a third region. The element M is gallium. The first region contains indium oxide or indium zinc oxide. The second region contains gallium oxide or gallium zinc oxide. The third region contains zinc oxide.
US11316009B2
An integrated electronic device includes a first terminal and a second terminal, a Schottky diode having a first threshold voltage and coupled between the first terminal and the second terminal, a derivation component having a second threshold voltage greater than the first threshold voltage and coupled between the first terminal and the second terminal. The derivation component comprises a super-junction.
US11316000B2
An array substrate, a manufacturing method thereof and a display device are disclosed. The array substrate includes a base substrate; a first metal layer on the base substrate; a first insulating layer on the first metal layer; a second metal layer on the first insulating layer; and a second insulating layer located on the second metal layer. The array substrate includes a display region and a peripheral region surrounding the display region, the first metal layer includes a plurality of signal lines in the peripheral region, the second insulating layer includes at least one groove overlapping at least two signal lines, the second metal layer includes a metal strip in the peripheral region, and in the area where the groove overlaps the signal lines, an orthographical projection on the base substrate fall into the orthographic projection of the metal strip on the base substrate.
US11315985B2
The present disclosure provides a display panel and a method for manufacturing the same, and a display device. The display panel includes: a substrate; a pixel unit array disposed on one side of the substrate, wherein the pixel unit array comprises a plurality of pixel units, at least one of the plurality of pixel units comprising an anode layer, a cathode layer, and a light emitting layer located between the anode layer and the cathode layer, the cathode layer defining an opening configured to transmit a light emitted from the light emitting layer; and at least one sensor disposed on one side of the pixel unit array away from the substrate and configured to detect a light transmitted through the opening.
US11315982B2
A light emitting diode includes a pixel unit. The pixel unit may include a first sub-pixel configured to emit white light. The first sub-pixel may include a first microcavity adjustment layer, a scattering layer, a first transparent electrode layer, a first emitting layer, and a first semi-transparent electrode layer. The scattering layer includes a plurality of patterns formed on a surface of the scattering layer. The scattering layer may be configured to reduce color cast of the first sub-pixel to be less than about 0.025 at viewing angles in a range of about −50 degree to +50 degree.
US11315978B2
An image sensor includes a substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other, a first floating diffusion region provided in the substrate and being adjacent to the first surface, a through-electrode provided in the substrate and electrically connected to the first floating diffusion region, an insulating structure, a bottom electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer, and a top electrode sequentially stacked on the second surface, a color filter buried in the insulating structure, and a top contact plug penetrating the insulating structure to connect the bottom electrode to the through-electrode.
US11315961B2
(Object) To miniaturize a field-effect transistor. (Means of Achieving the Object) A field-effect transistor includes a semiconductor film formed on a base, a gate insulating film formed on a part of the semiconductor film, a gate electrode formed on the gate insulating film, and a source electrode and a drain electrode formed in contact with the semiconductor film, wherein a thickness of the source electrode and the drain electrode is smaller than a thickness of the gate insulating film, and the gate insulating film includes a region that is not in contact with the source electrode or the drain electrode.
US11315960B2
A thin film transistor structure and a manufacturing method thereof, a circuit structure, a display substrate and a display device are provided. The thin film transistor structure includes: a base plate, and a first thin film transistor and a second thin film transistor stacked on the base plate. The first thin film transistor and the second thin film transistor share a same active layer.
US11315957B2
A light emitting display apparatus is disclosed. The light emitting display apparatus includes: a substrate; and a plurality of pixels disposed on a pixel area on the substrate. Each of the plurality of pixels includes: a first circuit layer including a first pixel circuit including a driving transistor; a second circuit layer overlapping the first circuit layer, wherein the second circuit layer includes a second pixel circuit including a data supply transistor configured to supply a data signal to the first pixel circuit; a circuit insulating layer between the first circuit layer and the second circuit layer; and a light emitting diode layer including a light emitting diode electrically connected with the first pixel circuit.
US11315955B2
A thin film transistor substrate, a display device, a method of manufacturing a thin film transistor substrate, and a method of manufacturing a display device, the thin film transistor substrate including a substrate; a first thin film transistor on the substrate, the first thin film transistor including a first active pattern, and a first gate electrode arranged to overlap at least a part of the first active pattern; and a second thin film transistor on the substrate, the second thin film transistor including a second active pattern that includes a plurality of protrusions on an upper surface thereof, and a second gate electrode arranged to overlap at least a part of the second active pattern.
US11315950B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a conducting layer and an insulating layer that are disposed above a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of pillars that extend in a direction which crosses a surface of the semiconductor substrate, and a plate that is disposed between the plurality of pillars and extends in the same direction as the pillars. A surface of the plate, which faces the pillars, has convex portions and non-convex portions.
US11315949B2
Disclosed are a semiconductor structure, which includes a charge-trapping sidewall spacer-type non-volatile memory (CTSS-NVM) device, and a method of forming the structure. The CTSS-NVM device includes asymmetric first and second sidewall spacers on opposing sidewalls of a gate structure above a channel region in a semiconductor substrate. The second sidewall spacer is wider than the first and includes multiple dielectric spacer layers, one of which is made of a charge-trapping material, is separated from the substrate (e.g., by a thin oxide layer), and has a bottom end closest to the substrate with a maximum width that is sufficient to achieve charge-trapping for proper CTSS-NVM device operation. The CTSS-NVM device further includes an epitaxial semiconductor layer for a source/drain region on the semiconductor substrate adjacent to the first sidewall spacer and a metal silicide layer for a Schottky barrier on the semiconductor substrate adjacent to the second sidewall spacer.
US11315932B2
A method for forming a memory structure includes: providing a substrate including a memory array region and a peripheral circuit region; forming a plurality of bit line structures in the memory array region; forming a dielectric layer in the peripheral circuit region; forming a plurality of contacts between the bit line structures; depositing a protective layer on the substrate; depositing a hard mask layer on the protective layer; etching back the hard mask layer to form a hard mask spacer on the first top surface of the protective layer and immediately adjacent to the peripheral circuit region; and etching the protective layer with the hard mask spacer as an etching mask to leave a protective feature at the boundary between the memory array region and the peripheral circuit region.
US11315928B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor structure. The semiconductor structure comprises a substrate having a first top surface. An active region is surrounded by an isolation region in the substrate. A buried power line and a buried signal line are disposed within the substrate and in the active region. A first circuit layer is disposed on the first top surface of the substrate to cover the buried power line and the buried signal line. A second circuit layer is disposed on the first top surface of the substrate and separated from the first circuit layer. A cell capacitor is disposed on and electrically coupled to the first circuit layer.
US11315920B2
An array substrate includes a base substrate, at least one first signal line and at least one second signal line disposed at a first side of the base substrate, and at least one electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection device disposed at the first side of the base substrate. Each ESD protection device includes a first electrode coupled to one first signal line, a second electrode coupled to one second signal line, and an insulating medium disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. An orthographic projection of the first electrode on the base substrate at least partially overlaps with an orthographic projection of the second electrode on the base substrate, and the ESD protection device is configured to discharge electrostatic charges on one of the first signal line and the second signal line that are coupled to the ESD protection device to the other one.
US11315914B2
A semiconductor memory device includes: a first pad layer in a surface of a memory chip including a cell region in which a memory cell array coupled to a plurality of row lines and a step region including staggered step portions of the plurality of row lines, and including a plurality of first pads that are coupled to the step portions; a second pad layer in a surface of a circuit chip bonded to the surface of the memory chip, and having a plurality of second pads coupled to a plurality of pass transistors defined in the circuit chip; a first redistribution line disposed in the first pad layer that couples one of the step portions and one of the pass transistors; and a second redistribution line disposed in the second pad layer that couples another one of the step portions and another one of the pass transistors.
US11315913B2
A light emitting device includes: a base comprising a first lead, a second lead, and a supporting member; a light emitting element mounted on the first lead; a protection element mounted on the second lead; a wire including a first end and a second end, wherein the first end is connected to an upper surface of the first lead, and the second end is connected to a first terminal electrode of the protection element; a resin frame located on an upper surface of the base, wherein the resin frame covers at least part of the protection element and surrounds the light emitting element and the first end of the wire; a first resin member surrounded by the resin frame and covering the light emitting element and the first end of the wire; and a second resin member covering the resin frame and the first resin member.
US11315910B2
A method is provided for the selective harvest of microLED devices from a carrier substrate. Defect regions are predetermined that include a plurality of adjacent defective microLED devices on a carrier substrate. A solvent-resistant binding material is formed overlying the predetermined defect regions and exposed adhesive is dissolved with an adhesive dissolving solvent. Non-defective microLED devices located outside the predetermined defect regions are separated from the carrier substrate while adhesive attachment is maintained between the microLED devices inside the predetermined defect regions and the carrier substrate. Methods are also provided for the dispersal of microLED devices on an emissive display panel by initially optically measuring a suspension of microLEDs to determine suspension homogeneity and calculate the number of microLEDs per unit volume. If the number of harvested microLED devices in the suspension is known, a calculation can be made of the number of microLED devices per unit of suspension volume.
US11315894B2
A semiconductor stack and a method for manufacturing the same are disclosed. The semiconductor stack includes a lower chip, an upper chip disposed over the lower chip, an upper lateral-side passivation layer surrounding side surfaces of the upper chip, and a plurality of bonding pads and a bonding passivation layer disposed between the upper chip and the lower chip.
US11315892B2
A power semiconductor device, a power semiconductor module and a power semiconductor device processing method are provided. The power semiconductor device includes a first load terminal structure, a second load terminal structure, and a semiconductor structure electrically coupled to each load terminal structure and configured to carry a load current. The first load terminal structure includes a conductive layer in contact with the semiconductor structure, a bonding block configured to be contacted by at least one bond wire and to receive at least a part of the load current from the at least one bond wire and/or the conductive layer, a support block having a hardness greater than the hardness of the conductive layer and the bonding block. The bonding block is mounted on the conductive layer via the support block, and a zone is arranged within the conductive layer and/or the bonding block, the zone exhibiting nitrogen atoms.
US11315887B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor structure and a method of manufacturing the semiconductor structure. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate defined with a peripheral region and an array area at least partially surrounded by the peripheral region, wherein the substrate includes a plurality of fins protruding from the substrate and disposed in the array area, and a first elongated member protruding from the substrate and at least partially surrounding the plurality of fins; an insulating layer disposed over the plurality of fins and the first elongated member; a capping layer disposed over the insulating layer; and an isolation surrounding the plurality of fins, the first elongated member, the insulating layer and the capping layer.
US11315865B2
A method of manufacturing circuit board structure includes forming a sacrificial layer having first openings on a substrate; forming a metal layer on the sacrificial layer; forming a patterned photoresist layer having second openings over the sacrificial layer, in which the second openings are connected to the first openings and expose a portion of the metal layer; forming a first circuit layer filling the second openings and the first openings; forming a first dielectric layer over the sacrificial layer and covering the metal layer, in which the first dielectric layer has third openings exposing the first circuit layer; forming a second circuit layer filling the third openings and covering a portion of the first dielectric layer; removing the substrate to expose the sacrificial layer, a portion of the metal layer and a portion of the first circuit layer; and removing the sacrificial layer and the metal layer.
US11315860B2
A package manufacturing process and semiconductor packages are provided. An interposer having a crystal structure is provided. A first die and a second die are bonded on the interposer. The second die is positioned to be spaced apart from the first die with a gap extending direction that is perpendicular to a shortest distance of the gap, and the gap extending direction is not parallel with a crystallographic orientation of the crystal structure of the interposer. A molding compound is formed over the interposer covering the first and second dies. The molding compound and the interposer are cut into packages.
US11315848B2
A semiconductor device, includes: a semiconductor element including an element main surface and an element back surface facing opposite sides in a thickness direction; a wiring part electrically connected to the semiconductor element; an electrode pad electrically connected to the wiring part; a sealing resin configured to cover a part of the semiconductor element; and a first metal layer configured to make contact with the element back surface and exposed from the sealing resin, wherein the semiconductor element overlaps the first metal layer when viewed in the thickness direction.
US11315843B2
Various embodiments disclosed relate to a substrate for a semiconductor device. The substrate includes a first major surface and a second major surface opposite the first major surface. The substrate further includes a cavity defined by a portion of the first major surface. The cavity includes a bottom dielectric surface and a plurality of sidewalls extending from the bottom surface to the first major surface. A first portion of a first sidewall includes a conductive material.
US11315840B2
An assembly for monitoring a semiconductor device under test comprising a mill configured to mill the device, a sensor configured to measure an electrical characteristic of the device, and a computer configured to determine the amount of strain in the device from the electrical characteristic when the mill is milling the device and detect an endpoint of milling at a circuit within the device. In use the endpoints of the milling process of the semiconductor device are detected measuring an electrical characteristic of the device with a sensor during milling determining the amount of strain in the device from the electrical characteristic and detecting an endpoint of the milling process within the device based on the amount of strain.
US11315835B2
One illustrative method disclosed herein includes forming a conformal SMCM layer above a conformal high-k gate insulation layer within each of first and second replacement gate cavities (RGC), removing the SMCM layer from the first RGC while leaving the SMCM layer in position within the second RGC, forming a first conformal metal-containing material (MCM) layer above the gate insulation layer within the first RGC and above the SMCM layer in position within the second RGC, removing the first conformal MCM layer and the conformal SMCM layer positioned within the second RGC while leaving the first conformal MCM layer within the first RGC, and forming a second conformal MCM layer above the first conformal MCM layer positioned within the first RGC and above the gate insulation layer positioned within the second RGC.
US11315833B2
A wafer processing method includes a sheet bonding step of placing a polyolefin or polyester sheet on a front side of a wafer having a device area where devices are formed so as to be separated by division lines, the sheet having a size capable of covering the device area, and next performing thermocompression bonding to bond the sheet to the front side of the wafer, thereby protecting the front side of the wafer with the sheet. The method further includes a test element group (TEG) cutting step of applying a first laser beam through the sheet to the wafer along each division line thereby cutting a TEG formed on each division line, and a modified layer forming step of applying a second laser beam to a back side of the wafer along each division line, the second laser beam having a transmission wavelength to the wafer, thereby forming a modified layer inside the wafer along each division line.
US11315829B2
A method includes depositing an etch stop layer over a first conductive feature, performing a first treatment to amorphize the etch stop layer, depositing a dielectric layer over the etch stop layer, etching the dielectric layer to form an opening, etching-through the etch stop layer to extend the opening into the etch stop layer, and filling the opening with a conductive material to form a second conductive feature.
US11315827B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device including a skip via connection between metallization levels includes subtractively etching first conductive material to form a first via and a skip via on a first conductive line. The first via and the first conductive line are included within a first metallization level. The skip via is used to connect the first metallization level to a third metallization level above a second metallization level. The method further includes forming, on the first via from second conductive material, a second via disposed on a second conductive line. The second via and the second conductive line are included within the second metallization level.
US11315824B2
A method for manufacturing a trench isolation structure comprising forming a shallow trench having a wider upper section and a narrower lower section in a wafer surface, removing part of the silicon oxide by etching, forming a silicon oxide corner structure at a corner at a top corner of the shallow trench by thermal oxidation, depositing silicon nitride on the wafer surface to cover surfaces of the shallow trench silicon oxide and the silicon oxide corner structure, dry etching the silicon nitride on the shallow trench silicon oxide surface thereby forming masking silicon nitride residues extending into the trench, etching downwards to form a deep trench, forming silicon oxide layers on a side wall and the bottom of the deep trench, depositing polycrystalline silicon in the shallow and deep trenches, removing the silicon nitride, and forming silicon oxide in the shallow trench to cover the polycrystalline silicon.
US11315822B2
A porous chuck table for holding a plate-like workpiece under suction includes a porous plate having a porous structure, the porous plate having a holding surface for holding the workpiece under suction thereon, and a frame surrounding the porous plate and having a face side lying flush with the holding surface. The porous plate is at least made of spherical glass particles, adjacent ones of the glass particles are partly joined together, and interstices between adjacent ones of the partly joined glass particles function as pores through which a fluid can flow.
US11315819B2
System apparatus and method for enhancing electrical clamping of substrates using photo-illumination
A method may include providing a substrate on a clamp, and directing radiation from an illumination source to the substrate when the substrate is disposed on the clamp during substrate processing, wherein the radiation is characterized by a radiation energy, wherein at least a portion of the radiation energy is equal to or greater than 2.5 eV.
US11315814B2
The present disclosure provides a carrying apparatus and a carrying method, the carrying apparatus includes: a carrying part configured to carry an object to be carried; an adhesive assembly disposed on the carrying part, a viscosity of the adhesive assembly is variable, and the carrying apparatus is configured to selectively adhere to or separate from the object to be carried according to a change of the viscosity; and a supporting part disposed on the carrying part and configured to support the object to be carried so that the object to be carried separates from the carrying part.
US11315802B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor package includes forming a plurality of trenches at a first surface of a silicon substrate, forming a conductive pad inside each of the plurality of trenches, forming a redistribution layer on the first surface of the silicon substrate, forming an external connection terminal on a first surface of the redistribution layer, removing the silicon substrate to expose each conductive pad, mounting a semiconductor chip to be connected to the conductive pads, and forming an encapsulant to cover at least one surface of the semiconductor chip.
US11315793B2
An etching method is performed in a state where a substrate is placed on a substrate support provided in a chamber of a plasma processing apparatus. In the etching method, radio-frequency power is supplied to generate plasma from a gas in the chamber. Subsequently, a negative DC voltage is applied to a lower electrode of the substrate support during the supplying of the radio-frequency power to etch the substrate with positive ions from plasma. Subsequently, the applying of the negative DC voltage to the lower electrode and the supplying of the radio-frequency power are stopped to generate negative ions. Subsequently, a positive DC voltage is applied to the lower electrode in a state where the supply of the radio-frequency power is stopped to supply the negative ions to the substrate.
US11315789B2
Described herein is a method of bonding and/or debonding substrates. In one embodiment, at least one of the surfaces of the substrates to be bonded is comprised of an oxide. In one embodiment, the surfaces of both substrates comprise an oxide. A wet etch may then be utilized to debond the substrates by etching away the layers that have been bonded. In one embodiment, a fusion bonding process is utilized to bond two substrates, at least one substrate having a silicon oxide surface. In one exemplary etch, a dilute hydrofluoric (DHF) etch is utilized to etch the bonded silicon oxide surface, allowing for two bonded substrates to be debonded. In another embodiment, the silicon oxide may be a low density silicon oxide. In one embodiment, both substrates may have a surface layer of the low density silicon oxide which may be fusion bonded together.
US11315777B2
The invention provides a method and apparatus subjecting an analyte in an ion concentrating chamber to an electric and velocity field to concentrate analyte ions into a smaller space.
US11315776B2
An analysis system includes a degassing cell, at least one first valve, and at least one second valve. The at least one first valve is fluidly coupled with a top of the degassing cell, the at least one first valve configured selectably connect the degassing cell to a displacement gas flow and to a vacuum source. The at least one second valve is fluidly connected with a lateral side of the degassing cell and separately fluidly connected with a bottom of the degassing cell. The at least one second valve is selectably coupled with any of a source of a sample-carrying fluid, a transfer line configured to deliver a sample to an analysis device, or a waste output.
US11315775B2
An example system includes an ion detector and a signal processing apparatus in communication with the ion detector. The ion detector is arranged to detect ions during operation of the system and to generate a signal pulse in response to the detection of an ion. The signal pulse has a peak amplitude related to at least one operational parameter of the system. The signal processing apparatus is configured to analyze signal pulses from the ion detector and determine information about the detected ions during operation of the system based on the signal pulses. The signal processing apparatus includes a discriminator circuit. The signal processing apparatus is programmed to vary a threshold of the discriminator circuit based on the at least one operational parameter of the system during operation of the system.
US11315768B2
The present disclosure provides a loading apparatus and a physical vapor deposition (PVD) apparatus. The loading apparatus includes a pedestal configured to support a workpiece; and a first support member placed on the pedestal and configured to push up a cover ring when the pedestal is at an operation position to prevent an overlapping portion of a cover ring and the workpiece from contacting each other. In the loading apparatus and the PVD apparatus, the first support member supports the cover ring, such that the cover ring does not contact the workpiece, thereby reducing stress forces on the workpiece by external components.
US11315766B2
In a plasma processing apparatus, a mounting table have a first mounting surface on which a target object or a jig is mounted and a second mounting surface on which a ring member is mounted. The jig is used for measuring a thickness of the ring member disposed around the target object and having a facing portion facing an upper surface of the ring member. Elevating mechanisms lift or lower the ring member with respect to the second mounting surface. An acquisition unit acquires gap information indicating a gap dimension between the second mounting surface and the facing portion of the jig. A measurement unit measures a lifted distance of the ring member from the second mounting surface. A thickness calculation unit calculates the thickness of the ring member based on the gap dimension and the measured lifted distance of the ring member.
US11315765B2
Disclosed is a plasma processing apparatus including a processing chamber configured to perform a processing on a wafer by plasma, a VF power supply configured to change a frequency of a high frequency power to be supplied into the chamber, a susceptor configured to mount the wafer thereon, and a focus ring disposed to surround the wafer. A first route, which passes through the plasma starting from the VF power supply, passes through the susceptor, the wafer and the plasma, and a second route, which passes through the plasma starting from the VF power supply, passes through the susceptor, the focus ring and the plasma. The reflection minimum frequency of the first route is different from the reflection minimum frequency of the second route, and the frequency range changeable by the VF power supply includes the reflection minimum frequencies of the first and second routes.
US11315756B2
A method for analyzing a sample with a charged particle beam including directing the beam toward the sample surface; milling the surface to expose a second surface in the sample in which the end of the second surface distal to ion source is milled to a greater depth relative to a reference depth than the end of the first surface proximal to ion source; directing the charged particle beam toward the second surface to form one or more images of the second surface; forming images of the cross sections of the multiple adjacent features of interest by detecting the interaction of the electron beam with the second surface; assembling the images of the cross section into a three-dimensional model of one or more of the features of interest. A method for forming an improved fiducial and determining the depth of an exposed feature in a nanoscale three-dimensional structure is presented.
US11315754B2
A method of evaluating a region of a sample that includes alternating layers of different material. The method includes milling, with a focused ion beam, a portion of the sample that includes the alternating layers of different material; reducing the milling area; and repeating the milling and reducing steps multiple times during the delayering process until the process is complete.
US11315742B2
A sticker-type electronic device which is freely detachably attachable to various bodies repeatedly is provided. The electronic device includes a main substrate which exhibits a surface adhesion property due to the properties of a material thereof and which provides an attachment/detachment surface to an article, and an electrode formed by being transferred from a temporary substrate to a surface that is opposite to the attachment/detachment surface of the main substrate to the article wherein the electrode is transferred directly to the main substrate using the adhesion property of the main substrate. The electronic device is freely detachably attachable to the surface of the article repeatedly using the surface adhesion property of the main substrate. The electronic device is formed directly on the surface of the substrate constituted by the material having the surface adhesion property, thereby providing a sticker-type electronic device which is freely repeatedly detachably attachable to various bodies.
US11315740B2
A solid electrolytic capacitor comprising a capacitor element is provided. The capacitor element comprises a sintered porous anode body; a dielectric that overlies the anode body; and a solid electrolyte that overlies the dielectric and that includes a conductive polymer and a depolarizer.
US11315732B2
A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes a ceramic body, and first and second external electrodes disposed on the surface of the ceramic body, respectively. The ceramic body includes a capacitance forming portion including a dielectric layer and internal electrodes, margin portions disposed on both sides of the capacitance forming portion, and cover portions disposed on both sides of the capacitance forming portion. The first and second external electrodes include first and second base electrodes, respectively, first and second conductive layers disposed on edges of the first and second base electrodes, respectively, and first and second terminal electrodes covering the first and second base electrodes, respectively.
US11315730B2
A multilayer electronic component having an electrode facing portion in which a plurality of internal electrode layers face one another with a dielectric layer interposed therebetween. Each dielectric layer includes Ba, Ti, Si, Re, and M. M is at least one element selected from Mn, Ni, Co, Fe, Cr, Cu, Mg, Li, Al, Mo, W, and V. When the Ti is represented in an amount of 100 parts by mole the dielectric layer at the electrode facing portion has Si in an amount a of 0.01≤a≤0.1, Re in an amount b of 0.1≤b≤3.0, and M in an amount c of 0.2≤c≤5.0. A ratio m of the amount of Ba to the amount of Ti is 0.965≤m≤0.990.
US11315728B2
A method of increasing coercivity of a sintered Nd—Fe—B permanent magnet includes a first step of providing a sintered Nd—Fe—B magnet block having a pair of block surfaces extending perpendicular to a magnetization direction. The method then proceeds with depositing an organic adhesive layer on one of the block surfaces. Next, the method proceeds with depositing a powder containing at least one heavy rare earth element on the organic adhesive layer. After depositing the powder, the sintered Nd—Fe—B magnet block is pressed to adhere the powder to the organic adhesive layer. Then, the method follows with a step of removing excess powder from the sintered Nd—Fe—B magnet block to form a uniform film. Then, the powder is diffused into the sintered Nd—Fe—B magnet is diffused into the sintered Nd—Fe—B magnet block to produce a diffused magnet block. Next, the method proceeds with aging the diffused magnet block.
US11315725B2
The present disclosure relates to an electrostatic shield for providing electrostatic shielding for a current sensing coil. Current sensing coils are configured to enable the measurement of a current carried by an electrical conductor passing through a core of the current sensing coil. The electrostatic shield of the present disclosure is configured to provide electrostatic shielding to a core of the current sensing coil in order to reduce or eliminate electrostatic coupling between the electrical conductor and the current sensing coil, thereby improving the accuracy of current measurement that may be achieved by the current sensing coil.
US11315698B2
The invention relates to a smoothing tool (3) configured for smoothing glass frit in a radioactive environment, in an induction-melting cold crucible. Smoothing tool (3) comprising a rod (30), a grid (50) configured to be in contact with glass frit (7) to be smoothed, and at least one vibrator (37, 55, 56) configured to make the grid (50) vibrate. The grid (50) is mechanically connected to the rod (30).
US11315696B2
A sealing bolt for sealing a container (e.g. for fissile materials), the sealing bolt adapted to cooperate, in use, with a locking device for locking a container lid to a container body of the container. The sealing bolt includes an upper part (i.e. adapted to be manipulated by an operator using a tool), a lower part (cooperating with the locking device 46) and an axial rod connecting the upper and lower parts, the upper part, lower part and axial rod being arranged coaxially about an axis. An integrity element is disposed in the upper part and a release arrangement (a detachable conical end-piece 24 retained by a ball 34 and recess 32 arrangement) is disposed so as to be releasably attached to the lower part. The sealing bolt is movable, through a first operator actuation of the upper part, from a first state, in which the integrity element is intact, to a second state, in which the integrity element of the sealing bolt is visibly broken. The sealing bolt is movable, through a second operator actuation of the upper part, from the second state to a third state, in which the release arrangement is released, thereby enabling disengagement of the locking device and removal of the lid from the container body. A locking system for a container, a method of releasably sealing a container, and a method of unsealing a container, are also disclosed.
US11315691B2
Methods and systems for providing health professionals with continued education are based on performance gaps identified from patient data available in transactional systems of record. The methods can include creating a repository of educational material, measuring patient and team level performance gaps, associating the identified performance gaps with appropriate educational material, alerting the person about the appropriate educational material, capturing a user's interaction with the educational materials, and issuing credits or rewards for substantial consumption of the educational materials.
US11315682B2
Techniques are described for real-time phase detection. For the phase detection, a signal is correlated with a frequency component of a frequency band whose phase is being detected, and the correlation includes predominantly decreasing weighting of past portions of the signals.
US11315681B2
Embodiments of a negative pressure wound therapy systems and methods for operating the systems are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system includes a pump assembly, canister, and a wound dressing configured to be positioned over a wound. The pump assembly, canister, and the wound dressing can be fluidically connected to facilitate delivery of negative pressure to a wound. The pump assembly can be configured to communicate data to a remote computer. The data can include location information, usage information, therapy information, and the like. Remote management and tracking of the pump assembly can be performed.
US11315677B2
The present application discloses a detection model training method and apparatus. The method includes determining an initial training model; determining a training sample; determining whether a lesion target is present in a first user body organ image through the initial detection model according to a feature of the each first user body organ image, to obtain a detection result; and determining a domain that each user body organ image in the training sample belongs to through the adaptive model according to a feature of the each user body organ image, to obtain a domain classification result; calculating, a loss function value related to the initial training model according to the detection result, the domain classification result, a first identifier, a second identifier, and a third identifier; and adjusting a parameter value in the initial training model according to the loss function value, to obtain a final detection model.
US11315670B2
The present invention relates to a method and to a monitoring device for monitoring operation of a drug delivery device, the monitoring device comprising of at least a first and a second sensor arranged at a distance from each other with regard to a first direction and being adapted to generate a first and a second electrical signal in response to an operation of the device, a processing unit configured to determine a time delay between the first and the second electrical signals and being adapted to determine at least one state parameter of the drug delivery device on the basis of said time delay.
US11315661B2
Aspects of the present disclosure include systems for use in preparing an epitope tagged biomolecule reagent. A reagent preparatory apparatus for preparing the epitope tagged biomolecule reagent from an activated biomolecule and activated epitope tag is also described. Methods for communicating and receiving an epitope tagged biomolecule reagent request and preparing the subject epitope tagged biomolecule reagents are also provided.
US11315653B2
The present disclosure provides a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) and method for controlling the DRAM. The DRAM has a first operation mode and a second operation mode. The DRAM includes a control module and a connecting module. The connecting module includes an input/output (I/O) pad and a determining circuit. The I/O pad is configured to receive a first input signal. The determining circuit includes a detector and a first determining unit. The detector is configured to compare the first input signal to a reference signal so as to generate a first signal. The first determining unit is configured to receive the first signal and generate a first output signal according to the first signal. The control module is configured to control the DRAM being operated under the first operation mode or the second operation mode according to the first output signal.
US11315650B2
A memory system is provided to include a memory device and a memory controller configured to control the memory device. The memory device includes a first data latch storing information about a state of the memory cell and is configured to: execute a first verification operation and a second verification operation on the memory cell in response to receiving, from the memory controller, a suspend command to suspend a program operation being performed on the memory cell; store, in the first data latch, a temporary value obtained based on a result value of the first verification operation and a result value of the second verification operation; and execute, a resumption command to resume the program operation, a third verification operation, and restore the result value of the first verification operation and the result value of the second verification operation.
US11315639B2
A memory device includes a cell wafer including a memory cell array; a first logic wafer bonded to one surface of the cell wafer, and including a first logic circuit which controls the memory cell array; and a second logic wafer bonded to the other surface of the cell wafer which faces away from the one surface, and including a second logic circuit which controls the memory cell array.
US11315629B2
The present application provides a dual-port SRAM cell and a layout structure thereof, comprises a first and a second NMOS transistors, a first and a second PMOS transistors; the gates of the first and second NMOS transistors and the drains of the first and second PMOS transistors are connected to a word line; the source of the first NMOS transistor is connected to a first bit line; the source of the first PMOS transistor is connected to a second bit line; the source of the second NMOS transistor is connected to a third bit line; the source of the second PMOS transistor is connected to a fourth bit line; the drain of the first NMOS transistor and the gate of the first PMOS transistor are connected to a common input node of a latch.
US11315626B2
Examples of the present disclosure provide apparatuses and methods related to performing a sort operation in a memory. An example apparatus might include a a first group of memory cells coupled to a first sense line, a second group of memory cells coupled to a second sense line, and a controller configured to control sensing circuitry to sort a first element stored in the first group of memory cells and a second element stored in the second group of memory cells by performing an operation without transferring data via an input/output (I/O) line.
US11315609B2
A read path for a memory is provided that includes an integrated sense mixing and redundancy shift stage coupled between a sense amplifier and a data latch. The data latch is integrated with a level shifter.
US11315608B2
A semiconductor device may include a sudden power detection circuit and an operation circuit. The sudden power detection circuit may generate a power-off control signal in a sudden power-off state. The operation circuit may discharge a specific node based on the power-off control signal.
US11315607B2
An information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives, during or after reproduction of a video, a predetermined operation with respect to the video, an associating unit that associates the received operation with a reproduction location where the received operation has been generated in the video, and a setting unit that sets in response to the received operation an importance degree of the reproduction location associated with the received operation.
US11315600B2
Metadata about a movie is retrieved. The metadata includes a plurality of associated viewer responses from at least one previous audience viewing of the video. The plurality of associated viewer responses from the at least one previous audience viewing are associated with one or more segments of the video. A segment of the video associated with a type of viewer reaction based on emotion and sentiment recognition is identified. Additional media content based on the identified video segment is retrieved. A segment of the additional media content that exceeds a threshold of similarity with the segment of the video is determined. A video clip that includes the segment of the additional media content is created.
US11315599B2
An information processing device including a mode control unit that determines a replay mode from replay mode candidates including a user dependent mode where output and replay are performed dependently on a user's action and a user independent mode where output and replay are performed independently of the user's action, and a output control unit that controls output and replay of an image, based on the replay mode.
US11315597B1
A plasmon generator (PG) is formed between a waveguide and main pole, and has a front portion (Au/Rh bilayer) wherein the upper Rh layer has a peg shape at an air bearing surface (ABS), and a tapered backside that is separated from a PG back portion by a dielectric spacer. The lower Au layer has a front side recessed from the ABS and curved sides self-aligned with the Rh layer sides. A key feature is that the back section of lower Au layer curved side forms a smaller angle with a plane aligned orthogonal to the ABS than a front section thereof thereby selectively enabling a deformation of the back end of the Au layer during a heat treatment to >300° C. at the wafer level. Accordingly, the front end of the lower Au layer is densified and provides an improved heat sink to improve reliability and area density capability (ADC).
US11315590B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for voice and graphical user interfaces. One of the methods includes receiving an audio input, analyzing the audio input to determine a requested task, determining response data in response to the requested task, determining at least a first part of the response data to be presented as an audio output and at least a second part of the response data to be presented as a visual output, forwarding the first part of the response data to an audio output for presentation to a user, forwarding the second part of the response data to a visual output for presentation to a user; and forwarding to at least one of the audio output and the visual output data describing sources and/or assumptions used to construct the response data.
US11315588B2
A reference acoustic input is processed into a quantization representation such that the quantization representation comprises acoustic components determined from the reference acoustic input, wherein the acoustic components comprise amplitude, rhythm, and pitch frequency of the reference acoustic input. A visual representation is generated that simultaneously depicts the acoustic components comprising amplitude, rhythm, and pitch frequency of the reference acoustic input. A user spoken input may be received and similarly processed and displayed.
US11315584B2
The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for decoding an encoded Unified Audio and Speech stream. The apparatus comprises a core decoder for decoding the encoded Unified Audio and Speech stream. The core decoder includes an eSBR unit for extending a bandwidth of an input signal, the eSBR unit including a QMF based harmonic transposer. The QMF based harmonic transposer is configured to process the input signal in the QMF domain, in each of a plurality of synthesis subbands, to extend the bandwidth of the input signal. The QMF based harmonic transposer is configured to operate at least in part based on pre-computed information. The present disclosure further relates to corresponding methods and storage media.
US11315583B2
An audio decoder for providing a decoded audio information on the basis of an encoded audio information is configured to obtain decoded spectral values on the basis of an encoded information representing the spectral values. The audio decoder is configured to jointly decode two or more most significant bits per spectral value on the basis of respective symbol codes for a set of spectral values using an arithmetic decoding, wherein a respective symbol code represents two or more most significant bits per spectral value for one or more spectral values. The audio decoder is configured to decode one or more least significant bits associated with one or more of the spectral values in dependence on how much least significant bit information is available, such that one or more least significant bits associated with one or more of the spectral values are decoded.
US11315578B2
Some disclosed methods involve encoding or decoding directional audio data. Some encoding methods may involve receiving a mono audio signal corresponding to an audio object and a representation of a radiation pattern corresponding to the audio object. The radiation pattern may include sound levels corresponding to plurality of sample times, a plurality of frequency bands and a plurality of directions. The methods may involve encoding the mono audio signal and encoding the source radiation pattern to determine radiation pattern metadata. Encoding the radiation pattern may involve determining a spherical harmonic transform of the representation of the radiation pattern and compressing the spherical harmonic transform to obtain encoded radiation pattern metadata.
US11315572B2
A speech recognition device includes: an obtaining unit which obtains a speech uttered in a conversation between a first speaker and a second speaker; a storage which stores the speech obtained; an input unit which receives operation input; an utterance start detector which, when the input unit receives the operation input, detects a start position of the speech; and a speaker identification unit which identifies a speaker of the speech as the first speaker who has performed the operation input or the second speaker who has not performed the operation input, based on (i) first timing at which the input unit has received the operation input and (ii) second timing indicating the detected start position of the speech. The first and second timing are set for each speech of the first and second speakers. A speech recognizer performs speech recognition on the speech whose speaker has been identified.
US11315567B2
An electronic device and an method of the electronic device are provided, where the electronic device maintains a context that does not reflect a request for a secret conversation, in response to the request for the secret conversation being received from a first user, and generates a response signal to a voice signal of a second user based on the maintained context, in response to an end of the secret conversation with the first user.
US11315566B2
In one aspect, a device may include at least one processor and storage accessible to the at least one processor. The storage may include instructions executable by the at least one processor to identify one or more commands to share content with first and second contacts. The instructions may also be executable to, based on the one or more commands to share the content, share the content with the first contact via a first application and share the content with the second contact via a second application that is different from the first application. The one or more commands to share the content may be received based on receipt of user input selecting respective selectors for the first and second contacts, where the respective selectors may be concurrently presented on a display and may each be associated with a different one of the first and second applications.
US11315561B2
[Problem] To provide an audio device having a voice operation receiving function with which the state of a voice recognition process can be notified in detail without affecting an audio playback environment, and which is inexpensive and has an excellent degree of freedom in design. [Solution] A wireless speaker 1 has a voice operation receiving function that receives an operation by a voice input into a microphone 11. The wireless speaker comprises: an LED 12; an LED control unit 18 that subjects the LED 12 to PWM control; and a lighting pattern storage unit 17 that stores a lighting pattern in which the brightness is changed on a time axis for each state of a voice recognition process. The LED control unit 18 subjects the LED 12 to PWM control in accordance with the lighting pattern stored in the lighting pattern storage unit 17 corresponding to the state of the voice recognition process performed on the voice input into the microphone 11.
US11315559B2
Implementations set forth herein relate to phasing-out of vehicle computing device versions while ensuring useful responsiveness of any vehicle computing device versions that are still in operation. Certain features of updated computing devices may not be available to prior versions of computing devices because of hardware limitations. The implementations set forth herein eliminate crashes and wasteful data transmissions caused by prior versions of computing devices that have not been, or cannot be, upgraded. A server device can be responsive to a particular intent request provided to a vehicle computing device, despite the intent request being associated with an action that a particular version of the vehicle computing device cannot execute. In response, the server device can elect to provide speech to text data, and/or natural language understanding data, in furtherance of allowing the vehicle computing device to continue leveraging resources at the server device.
US11315550B2
A speaker recognition device according to the present disclosure includes: an acoustic feature calculator that calculates, from utterance data indicating a voice of an obtained utterance, acoustic feature of the voice of the utterance; a statistic calculator that calculates an utterance data statistic from the calculated acoustic feature; a speaker feature extractor that extracts speaker feature of a speaker of the utterance data from the calculated utterance data statistic using a deep neural network (DNN); a similarity calculator that calculates a similarity between the extracted speaker feature and pre-stored speaker feature of at least one registered speaker; and a speaker recognizer that recognizes the speaker of the utterance data based on the calculated similarity.
US11315549B2
Disclosed are an Intelligent electronic device and authentication method using message sent to intelligent electronic device. The method of authenticating using a message transmitted to the intelligent electronic device comprises the steps of: receiving a first message from a first external device; learning the received first message and extracting characteristics on a user of the first external device based on the learned first message; generating a template for the user of the first external device modeled based on the extracted characteristics on the user of the first external device; receiving a second message from a second external device; determining whether a unique identifier of the first external device is the same as a unique identifier of the second external device; and comparing the second message with the template to determine whether the user of the first external device is the same person as the user of the second external device, when the unique identifier of the first external device is the same as the unique identifier of the second external device. Accordingly, the fraud of impersonating another person can be prevented. The method of authenticating using a message transmitted to the intelligent electronic device of the present disclosure may be associated with an artificial intelligence module, a drone, a robot, an augmented reality device, a virtual reality device, a device related to a 5G service, and the like.
US11315546B2
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 provide systems and methods for automatic creation of a formatted, readable transcript of multimedia content, which is derived, extracted, determined, or otherwise identified from the multimedia content. The formatted, readable transcript can be utilized to increase accuracy and efficiency in search engine optimization, as well as identification of relevant digital content available for communication to a user.
US11315543B2
A system performs pole-zero or IIR modeling and estimation of an inter-microphone transfer function between first and second microphones that output respective first and second microphone signals. The system includes a first adaptive FIR filter to which the first microphone signal is provided, a delay element that delays the second microphone signal by a predetermined delay amount, and a second adaptive FIR filter to which the delayed second microphone signal is provided. A first coefficient of the second adaptive FIR filter is constrained to a fixed non-zero value. The filters are jointly adapted to minimize an error signal that is a difference of the two filters outputs. The delay is small: approximately the acoustic propagation delay between the two microphones and is not determined by the environmental reverberation characteristics. The error signal may serve as a noise reference in a noise canceller, for implementing far-field beamforming with low delay.
US11315541B1
The disclosed computer-implemented method may include applying, via a sound reproduction system, sound cancellation that reduces an amplitude of various sound signals. The method further includes identifying, among the sound signals, an external sound whose amplitude is to be reduced by the sound cancellation. The method then includes analyzing the identified external sound to determine whether the identified external sound is to be made audible to a user and, upon determining that the external sound is to be made audible to the user, the method includes modifying the sound cancellation so that the identified external sound is made audible to the user. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US11315538B2
Noise insulation may be provided by an anti-resonant panel that includes a base panel including a base panel core material and two base panel face sheets, where each of the two base panel face sheets is adjacent to an opposite side of the base panel core material. The anti-resonant panel further includes at least one stiffener-member positioned along the base panel in a defined area of the base panel, where the defined area is less than a full area of the base panel. The stiffener-member includes a stiffener-member core having a top surface, a bottom surface in contact with the base panel, a plurality of cells having walls that extend from the top surface to the bottom surface, and a stiffener-member face sheet that is seamlessly integrated with the walls of the plurality of cells along the top surface.
US11315519B2
The invention provides a control method for improving network performance, comprising: each upstream device issues corresponding playing commands and performs filtering to the playing commands to obtain first available playing commands; a downstream device switches to a route where the first available playing commands is located, and then issues vendor command parameters; an implementation module receives the vendor command parameters, then enables a timer, and sets identification information; during the preset timer time period, the implementation module filters the first available playing commands to obtain second available playing commands; when the preset timer time period ends, the implementation module turns off the timer and resets the identification information; and the downstream device receives the second available playing commands and switches to a route where the second available playing commands is located. The present invention has the following advantageous effects: the network congestion and the transmission delay are reduced.
US11315512B2
A gate driver on array (GOA) circuit is provided. The GOA circuit includes a plurality of cascading GOA units. One of the GOA unit includes: a scan control module, an anti-backfill module connected to a constant high-level signal and the scan control module, a cascading reset module, and a gate signal output module. Base on functions of prior art solution, the provided GOA circuit of the disclosure reduces two types of signal to simplify signal traces at the bezel to realize a narrow bezel design.
US11315510B2
The present disclosure provides a display panel and a display device. The display panel is provided with a plurality of sub-pixels, the display panel including: a first substrate and a second substrate opposite to each other, and multistable liquid crystals between the first substrate and the second substrate; wherein, each of the sub-pixels is provided with a first electrode and a second electrode to generate an electric field for the multistable liquid crystals, and the multistable liquid crystals have different optical properties under different electric fields and after an electric field disappears, the multistable liquid crystals can maintain the same optical properties as the electric field exists. The present disclosure also provides a display device, including: the above mentioned display panel.
US11315509B2
A driving method for a liquid crystal display device is provided. The liquid crystal display device has a wide viewing angle mode and a narrow viewing angle mode. The driving method includes: in the wide viewing angle mode, all the frames of the liquid crystal display device have the same display brightness; in the narrow viewing angle mode, the odd frames and the even frames of the liquid crystal display device have different display brightness. In the narrow viewing angle mode of the liquid crystal display device, by using an alternate driving method of bright frames and dark frames, the mura degree is significantly reduced, and the smoothness of dynamic picture display is improved, thereby improving the use experience of users.
US11315500B2
A display device system circuit and a display device are provided. The display device system circuit includes a power supply, a plurality of functional circuit modules and a plurality of ground wires corresponding to the plurality of functional circuit modules, respectively. Operating current input ends of the plurality of functional circuit modules are electrically connected to a positive electrode of the power supply, respectively. An operating current output end of each of the functional circuit modules is electrically connected to a negative electrode of the power supply via a corresponding ground wire. The functional circuit modules will not be interfered with each other, avoiding causing abnormal displaying by signal coupling between the functional circuit modules.
US11315499B1
A display device comprises a first pattern disposed on a substrate and receiving a driving voltage, a second pattern disposed on the first pattern and receiving the driving voltage, an intermediate pattern disposed on the first pattern and receiving the driving voltage, a first source pattern disposed on the intermediate pattern and contacting the first pattern, the second pattern, and the intermediate pattern, a second source pattern disposed in the same layer as the first source pattern and contacting the intermediate pattern, and a third source pattern disposed on the second source pattern and contacting the second source pattern.
US11315495B2
A gate driving circuit including a controller for providing a first carry signal to a control node, a first pull-up portion for outputting a first clock signal as a first gate signal in accordance with a signal provided to the control node, and a second pull-up portion for outputting a second clock signal with a phase that is different from the first clock signal as a second gate signal in accordance with the signal provided to the control node.
US11315490B2
A pixel circuit, a driving method thereof and a display panel are disclosed. The pixel circuit includes a data writing circuit, a light-emitting drive circuit, and a voltage amplification circuit; the data writing circuit is electrically connected with a first node and is configured to write a data signal to the first node under control of a scan signal; two ends of the voltage amplification circuit are electrically connected with the first node and a second node respectively, and the voltage amplification circuit are configured to obtain an amplified voltage signal based on the data signal and write the amplified voltage signal to the second node; and the light-emitting drive circuit is electrically connected with the second node and is configured to drive a light-emitting component to emit light under control of the amplified voltage signal.
US11315489B1
A pixel circuit includes a drive transistor configured to control an amount of current to a light emitting device during an emission phase depending upon a voltage applied to a control terminal of the drive transistor, the drive transistor having a first terminal and a second terminal. During a first phase, an anode of the light emitting device is set to a reference voltage and the first terminal of the drive transistor is set to a fixed data voltage such that the drive transistor is stressed with a fixed source-to-gate voltage to prevent a drift of a threshold voltage in the drive transistor thereby preventing a drift in screen brightness. During a second phase, the anode of the light emitting device is set to the reference voltage and the first terminal of the drive transistor is set to a voltage of the first power supply.
US11315480B2
Provided are a pixel driving circuit, a driving method thereof, and display panel. The pixel driving circuit includes a current control circuit and a time control circuit, wherein the current control circuit is configured to receive a display data signal and control a magnitude of a driving current flowing through the current control circuit according to the display data signal; the time control circuit is configured to receive the driving current, and receive a time data signal, a first light-emitting control signal and a second light-emitting control signal, and control a flowing time period of the driving current according to the time data signal, the first light-emitting control signal and the second light-emitting control signal.
US11315477B2
A vehicle-mounted display control method includes: receiving, by a vehicle-mounted control device, a signal to be displayed transmitted by a signal source; converting, by the vehicle-mounted control device, the signal to be displayed into a relay data signal, and transmitting, by the vehicle-mounted control device, the relay data signal to a signal conversion circuit of a corresponding vehicle-mounted display assembly; and converting, by the signal conversion circuit, the relay data signal into a display drive signal, and outputting, by the signal conversion circuit, the display drive signal to at least one display screen of the vehicle-mounted display assembly, so as to drive the at least one display screen to display.
US11315473B2
A gate-on-array (GOA) driving circuit is provided, and the GOA driving circuit includes a plurality of cascading GOA driving units. Each of the GOA driving units further includes a first GOA driving sub-unit including a first signal source and a second GOA driving sub-unit including a second signal source. The first GOA driving sub-unit operates when the first signal source transmits a first signal with a high voltage, and the second GOA driving sub-unit transmitting a second signal operates when the first signal source transmits the first signal with a low voltage.
US11315472B2
A shift register unit, a gate driving circuit and a driving method thereof, a display device. The shift register unit includes: a first input circuit configured for outputting a voltage of a first voltage terminal to a pull-up node under a control of a first signal terminal; a second input circuit configured for outputting a voltage of a second voltage terminal to the pull-up node under a control of a second signal terminal; an output circuit configured for outputting a clock signal of a clock signal terminal to the signal output terminal under a control of the pull-up node; a pull-up node reset circuit configured for outputting a voltage of the third voltage terminal to the pull-up node under a control of the third signal terminal.
US11315471B2
A shift register unit, a driving device, a display device and a driving method are provided. The shift register unit includes an input circuit, a first pull-up node reset circuit, an output circuit, an output reset circuit, a pull-down node control circuit and a power-on initialization circuit. The power-on initialization circuit is configured to reset the pull-up node in response to a power-on initialization signal.
US11315468B2
A pixel driving circuit and a display device are provided. The pixel driving circuit includes a data writing unit, a driving unit, a compensating unit, and a light emitting unit. A first capacitor is provided in the driving unit. A first thin film transistor is provided between the micro light emitting diode and the driving unit. Reduce a transmission efficiency of the driving unit in different gray scale by a capacitance coupling effect of the first capacitor to the driving unit. Enhance an ability of gray scale switching of the pixel driving circuit. Improve a display effect of a display device.
US11315465B2
Disclosed is an electronic device that includes a display that outputs display data, an antenna arranged on a display area of the display, at least one processor electrically connected to the display, and a memory electrically connected to the processor, where the memory stores instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to correct the display data based on characteristic information of the antenna when a display location of the display data overlaps an arranged location of the antenna when the instructions are executed. In addition, various embodiments that are understood through the present disclosure are possible.
US11315462B2
TA dual source driver includes first and second gamma voltage generators configured to generate first and second gamma voltages, respectively, first and second latches configured to latch first and second data, respectively, a first driving cell configured to receive the first gamma voltage and the first data, and to transmit a first voltage corresponding to the first data and the first gamma voltage to a panel load based on a first switching operation, and a second driving cell configured to receive the second gamma voltage and the second data, and to transmit a second voltage corresponding to the second data and the second gamma voltage to the panel load based on a second switching operation. The first switching operation and the second switching operation may operate complementarily to each other.
US11315436B2
A system and method for providing graphical user interfaces based on computational algorithms described in printed publications. The method includes indexing a first output generated by a container; caching the indexed output in a cache memory; analyzing the printed publication to determine algorithm-indicating information of the computational algorithm; identifying, in the algorithm-indicating information, at least one input and at least one second output; generating at least one GUI element, wherein generating the at least one GUI element includes identifying an association between the printed publication and the container, wherein generating the at least one GUI element further comprises retrieving the first output from the cache memory, wherein the at least one GUI element is generated based on the retrieved first output; and generating executable code, wherein the executable code includes instructions for causing a display of the GUI including the at least one GUI element.
US11315432B2
An apparatus is provided for causing an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to perform a contingency landing procedure. The apparatus includes memory and processing circuitry configured to cause the apparatus to at least determine candidate safe landing zones (SLZs) within an estimated current range of the UAV. Trajectories are generated for landing the UAV in respective ones of the candidate SLZs. Risk values are calculated that quantify third-party risk associated with operation of the UAV along respective ones of the trajectories to the respective ones of the candidate SLZs. A flight termination risk value is calculated that quantifies third-party risk associated with immediately landing the UAV at the current position. The lowest of the risk values is compared with the flight termination risk value, and a sequence is executed to operate the UAV along the trajectory to the selected one of the candidate SLZs, or immediately land the UAV.
US11315417B2
A method for wrong-way driver detection, including a step of reading in position data via an interface, the position data representing a measured position of a vehicle, a step of reading in inaccuracy data representing an inaccuracy of the position data, a step of reading in map data mapping road segments negotiable by the vehicle, and a step of ascertaining at least one plausible road segment based on the position data, the inaccuracy data and the map data, using a particle filter, the plausible road segment representing a road segment to which an instantaneous position of the vehicle may be assigned.
US11315410B2
In response to a detected presence of an intended target appliance within a logical topography of controllable appliances identity information associated with the intended target appliance is used to automatically add to a graphical user interface of a controlling device an icon representative of the intended target appliance and to create at a Universal Control Engine a listing of communication methods for use in controlling corresponding functional operations of the intended target appliance. When the icon is later activated, the controlling device is placed into an operating state appropriate for controlling functional operations of the intended target appliance while the Universal Control Engine uses at least one of the communication methods to transmit at least one command to place the intended target appliance into a predetermined operating state.
US11315405B2
Systems, methods, and software for allowing interaction between consumer appliance devices and security systems are provided herein. An exemplary method may include allowing various interactions of a user with a consumer appliance device to generate n signal, such as a panic signal, causing various forms of security systems to escalate the signal to obtain help. Another exemplary method involves allowing the device, when placing the panic signal, to involve back end systems related to the security system to provision access to an emergency service provider (i.e., 911 provider) “just in time,” eliminating the need for costly pre-provisioning. Another exemplary method involves various sensors of the security system to communicate with consumer appliance devices to improve the performance, usability, or efficiency of the consumer appliance device or related systems.
US11315403B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for nanosatellite-based property monitoring are disclosed. A method includes receiving satellite data related to conditions of a property monitored by a monitoring system; determining, based on the satellite data, that the property is at risk from a threat; requesting, from a sensor of the monitoring system, sensor data related to the threat; receiving, from the sensor, the sensor data related to the threat; and based on analyzing the sensor data related to the threat, performing one or more monitoring system actions. The threat may include one of a weather hazard, a security hazard, or a property damage hazard. The monitoring system actions can include sending an instruction to adjust a sensor or component of the monitoring system and can include sending, to a user device, a notification that the property is at risk from the threat.
US11315399B2
A security device comprising a body having a first end and a second end, the first end being threadable into a light socket and the second end having a rotatable mount disposed thereon. The body may also include a light source disposed on the body of the security device and a slide connected to the rotatable mount, wherein the slide is configured to extend away from the mount. A camera with a lens may be disposed on a distal portion of the slide. The security device may further include a hood surrounding the lens of the camera and extending beyond the lens of the camera.
US11315398B2
Improved systems and techniques are disclosed for controlling the security states of anti-theft security systems such as product display assemblies using security fobs. The tasks relating to fob authentication are offloaded to a computer system, and these authentications can be based on identifiers for the different security fobs. The interactions between security fobs and product display assemblies can be consistent regardless of the population of authorized security fobs by using a security code that is shared by the security fobs. When attempting to use a security fob to change a security status for a product display assembly, the provision of the code to the subject product display assembly can be predicated on authorization of the subject security fob by the computer system. The computer system can maintain a list of identifiers for authorized security fobs that is easily updated when new security fobs are added to or existing security fobs are de-authorized from the system.
US11315397B2
It is disclosed an anti-tampering assembly for the transportation and storage of a package, the anti-tampering assembly being configured to be associated with the package. the anti-tampering assembly comprises: a tampering detection unit comprising a RFID passive tag and a tampering track of a conductive material configured to be connected to said RFID tag upon dispatching the package so as to inhibit the operation of the RFID tag, wherein the tampering track is configured to be interrupted in case of tampering of the package; an actuating unit configured to detect the interruption of the tampering track in case of tampering of the package and, upon detection, actuate an alarm unit; and the alarm unit comprising a radio module configured to, upon actuation, transmit an alarm message over a long range wireless communication network.
US11315395B2
A pet-activated signaling device, a pet-activated signaling system, and a method of a pet signaling a human is provided. The pet-activated signaling device includes a belt, a transducer, and multiple bells. The transducer, which emits an electromagnetic signal, and bells, which emit an audible signal, are attached to the belt. The pet-activated signaling system includes the signaling device and a receiving device which emits an alert when a signal is received from the signaling device. The method of a pet signaling a human includes pawing at the pet-activated signaling device suspended from a door handle to activate the transducer and the bells. The invention is particularly useful for use on an exterior door, allowing a dog to use a familiar method of alerting a human to open the door even if the bells are not heard by the human.
US11315394B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for implementing an integrated doorbell device are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving doorbell data indicating activation of a doorbell of a property. The actions further include receiving device data from one or more devices associated with a monitoring system within the property. The actions further include determining a security status associated with the monitoring system. The actions further include based on the doorbell data indicating activation of the doorbell of the property, the device data from the one or more devices associated with the monitoring system, and the security status associated with the monitoring system, determining a response action for execution by the monitoring system. The actions further include performing, by the monitoring system, the response action.
US11315392B2
A method for enhancing automated transaction machine (ATM) security surveillance. The method consists of receiving a set of data from a financial device and generating a template for the financial device. The method generates an analysis by analyzing a portion of the received set of data. The method then determines a likelihood factor that the analyzed first portion is associated with a security threat, wherein if the likelihood factor is above a threshold then the method generates a second analysis by analyzing a second portion of the received first set of data and revises the likelihood factor based on the second analysis. The method generates a notice if the first likelihood factor exceeds a second threshold and then updates the template with the analysis and the likelihood factor and receives a second set of data from the monitoring device. The method updates the template with the second set of data.
US11315391B2
Automatic teller machine having a note storage unit with a door capable of being locked and unlocked
An automatic teller machine includes a door having a locking part for opening and closing a medium storage space in which a medium is stored; a first slide member located at a locked position or an opened position by means of a locking or opening operation of the locking part; a second slide member for locking the door by means of engagement with the first slide member when the first slide member is in the locked position; a drive unit for moving the second slide member between a first position in which the door is locked and a second position in which the door is unlocked when the first slide member is in the locked position; and a control unit for controlling driving of the drive unit.
US11315388B2
In accordance with some embodiments, a physical game element such as a wagering chip or a playing card may be utilized to implement a promotion scheme on an electronic card table (e.g., using RFID or optical imaging technology). During a game it may be determined whether the element is associated with special functionality (e.g., entitles the player to a payout multiplier, special payout table, bonus prize or other benefit). The special functionality may have been previously associated with the element or associated with the element during the game (e.g., dynamically and/or randomly). In accordance with some embodiments a player is not able to readily discern the special functionality by a physical inspection of the physical game element and is only notified of the special functionality once the physical game element is used in a qualifying action (e.g., during a wager at an electronic card table).
US11315387B2
A fraud detection system which detects fraud in a game of performing collection and redemption of chips in accordance with a win or lose result includes a camera which captures an image of chips contained in a chip tray of a dealer, an image analyzing apparatus which analyses the image captured by the camera to detect an amount of the chips contained in the chip tray, a card distribution device which determines a win or lose result of a game, and a control device which compares the win or lose result of the game and the amount of the chips contained in the chip tray before and after collection and redemption of the chips to detect fraud.
US11315382B2
A roulette wheel device, and related devices, systems, and methods, includes a base coupled to a table, the base having a circular ball track within a circular rim. The roulette wheel device further includes a circular wheelhead rotatably coupled to the base within the ball track. The wheelhead includes a circular ring having a plurality of pockets, wherein the circular ball track is sloped downwardly toward the circular ring to direct a roulette ball into one of the plurality of pockets. The wheelhead further includes a circular display subassembly including a display device to selectively display graphical elements corresponding to the plurality of pockets. The circular ball track, the circular ring, and the circular display subassembly are substantially concentric.
US11315372B2
According to one embodiment, a method of conserving energy while seeking to wirelessly actuate an access control using a mobile device is provided. The method including: searching for a wireless signal at a first rate; detecting a wireless signal; generating a zone of interest; detecting positional data of a mobile device; and searching for a wireless signal at a second rate greater than the first rate when positional data of the mobile device indicates that the mobile device is within the zone of interest.
US11315367B2
Provided are a method and an apparatus for controlling vehicle operations, and a computer device. The method includes: acquiring current running status information of an in-vehicle component and current user operating behavior information sent by a first vehicle; determining a current running status score of the first vehicle according to the current running status information of the in-vehicle component and the current user operating behavior information from the first vehicle; and generating an operation strategy for the first vehicle according to the current running status score of the first vehicle.
US11315359B2
A biological-information detection device includes a video input section accepting video signals including three wavelength components in an infrared region of reflected light from an object, a wavelength detecting section acquiring a wavelength and an intensity of the reflected light from the video signals, a face feature amount detecting section detecting a plurality of feature points of a face based on the video signals, a measurement target area identifying section identifying a measurement target area on a basis of the plurality of feature points of the face detected, a wavelength fluctuation detecting section detecting a difference between a wavelength of reflected light from the measurement target area at a certain point in time and a wavelength of reflected light at a point in time preceding the certain point in time, and a pulse wave detecting section detecting a change in the detected difference according to the point in time.
US11315356B2
An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display panel module includes a cover plate, a first adhesive agent, a circular polarizer, an OLED display panel, and an ultrasonic fingerprint recognition module. The ultrasonic fingerprint recognition module is disposed at a lower surface of the OLED display panel. Both sides of the OLED display panel module are provided with a sound absorbing layer, both sides of the ultrasonic fingerprint recognition module are provided with the sound absorbing layer, and a portion of the lower surface of the OLED display panel not contacted the ultrasonic fingerprint recognition module is provided with the sound absorbing layer.
US11315353B1
Systems and methods for spatial-aware information extraction from electronic source documents are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: obtain an electronic source document in electronic format, including human-readable information; obtain extracted information that has been extracted from the electronic source document; generate a character-based representation of the electronic source document that uses a grid of character positions; and present a user interface to a user to search and/or select information in the electronic source document based on the character-based representation.
US11315340B2
Disclosed are devices, systems, methods, techniques, and computer program products for estimating a Region Of Interest (ROI) corresponding to a plurality of content streams. A method may include receiving a plurality of sensor data associated with a plurality of mobile devices. The plurality of sensor data corresponds to a plurality of content streams captured by the plurality of mobile devices. Further, each of the plurality of mobile devices may include at least one recorder configured to capture a corresponding content stream. Further, a sensor data associated with a mobile device may include a location data and an orientation data of the mobile device during capturing of a content stream. The method may further include, analyzing, by the system, the plurality of sensor data and determining, by the system, a ROI based on at least the plurality of sensor data, thereby generating an estimation of the ROI.
US11315329B1
In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a plurality of points, wherein each point (1) corresponds to a spatial location associated with an observed feature of a physical environment and (2) is associated with a patch representing the observed feature, determining a density associated with each of the plurality of points based on the spatial locations of the plurality of points, scaling the patch associated with each of the plurality of points based on the density associated with the point, and reconstructing a scene of the physical environment based on at least the scaled patches.
US11315321B2
An apparatus to facilitate encoding of point cloud data is disclosed. The apparatus includes one or more processors to receive point cloud data including a plurality of images and camera parameters, generate encoded point cloud data including a color texture image and a depth image having cropped regions for each of the plurality of images, and metadata to describe the camera parameters and a mapping of the cropped regions to a real coordinate space.
US11315312B2
The disclosure provides a display cabinet and a control method thereof. The display cabinet comprises a cabinet body which defines an exhibition space, the display cabinet further comprises: a rotatable tray arranged in the exhibition space, which is configured to place an exhibit; a first camera located in the exhibition space, which is configured to capture images of the exhibit at different angles to construct a 3D model of the exhibit; a transparent touch display constituting at least a portion of the cabinet body, which is configured to display the 3D model when the transparent touch display screen is in an awake state, and acquiring a touch operation and displaying a detailed information of the exhibit according to the touch operation.
US11315306B2
An illustrative volumetric processing system generates a plurality of point clouds each representing an object from a different vantage point. Based on the plurality of point clouds, the volumetric processing system consolidates point cloud data corresponding to a surface of the object. Based on the consolidated point cloud data for the object, the volumetric processing system generates a voxel grid representative of the object. Based on the voxel grid, the volumetric processing system generates a set of rendered patches each depicting at least a part of the surface of the object. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.
US11315301B1
In one embodiment, a method includes retrieving a video stream that was recorded while a first artificial-reality effect was being displayed on the video stream, where each frame of the video stream comprises a real-world scene without the first artificial-reality effect, retrieving an artificial-reality state information stream corresponding to the video stream, where the artificial-reality state information stream comprises state information associated with the first artificial-reality effect, retrieving one or more contextual data streams corresponding to the video stream, where the first artificial-reality effect displayed on the video stream was rendered based on at least a portion of the one or more contextual data streams, rendering a second artificial-reality effect based on at least a portion of the artificial-reality state information stream and a portion of the one or more contextual data streams, and displaying the second artificial-reality effect on the video stream.
US11315299B1
An image generator generates images of a set of virtual fibers and effects thereon by processing representations of the set of fibers and computing representation of a virtual surface for a fiber clump in the set of virtual fibers from an artist parameter representing a desired artist effect, computing correlations of the vertices from a set of vertices based on associations of the vertices corresponding to the artist parameter, computing a set of relevant vertices using the correlations of the vertices, computing orthogonal gradients to produce a plurality of gradients using a selected vertex and the set of relevant vertices for the fiber clump, and computing the virtual surface of the fiber clump from the plurality of gradients.
US11315294B2
To display with a display mode with which an analyst may easily ascertain actions (movements) of objects being monitored, provided is an information processing device, including a sensing unit and a display control unit. The sensing unit classifies, based on information relating to movements of objects being monitored, a plurality of objects into set movement paths. The display control unit controls a display such that the movements of the objects are displayed in a display screen of the display with an arrow in each set movement path. The axis of the arrow which is displayed in the display has a thickness according to the number of objects which are classified in the corresponding movement path, has a shape according to the trace of the objects which are classified in the corresponding movement path, and furthermore, the direction indicated by the arrow represents the direction of progress of the objects.
US11315293B2
A computer-implemented method for autonomous segmentation of contrast-filled coronary artery vessels includes receiving a CT scan volume representing a 3D volume of a region of anatomy that includes a pericardium; preprocessing the CT scan volume to output a preprocessed scan volume; converting the CT scan volume to three sets of two-dimensional slices; extracting a region of interest (ROI) by autonomous segmentation of the heart region as outlined by the pericardium, by means of three individually trained ROI extraction convolutional neural networks (CNN), each trained to process a particular one of the three sets of two-dimensional slices to output a mask denoting a heart region as delineated by the pericardium; combining the preprocessed scan volume with the mask to obtain a masked volume; converting the masked volume to three groups of sets of two-dimensional masked slices; and performing autonomous coronary vessel segmentation to output a mask denoting the coronary vessels.
US11315275B2
The present technology relates to the field of medical monitoring, and, in particular, to non-contact detecting and monitoring of patient breathing. Systems, methods, and computer readable media are described for calculating a change in depth of a region of interest (ROI) on a patient. In some embodiments, the systems, methods, and/or computer readable media can identify steep changes in depths. For example, the systems, methods, and/or computer readable media can identify large, inaccurate changes in depths that can occur at edge regions of a patient. In these and other embodiments, the systems, methods, and/or computer readable media can adjust the identified steep changes in depth before determining one or more patient respiratory parameters.
US11315274B2
A method includes obtaining a reference image and a target image each representing an environment containing moving features and static features. The method also includes determining an object mask configured to mask out the moving features and preserves the static features in the target image. The method additionally includes determining, based on motion parallax between the reference image and the target image, a static depth image representing depth values of the static features in the target image. The method further includes generating, by way of a machine learning model, a dynamic depth image representing depth values of both the static features and the moving features in the target image. The model is trained to generate the dynamic depth image by determining depth values of at least the moving features based on the target image, the object mask, and the static depth image.
US11315264B2
The present disclosure provides a laser sensor-based map generation method. In an embodiment, the method includes: obtaining image data, the image data being acquired by a visual sensor; determining first point cloud data belonging to glass-like region in laser data based on the image data; adjusting a weight of the laser data according to the first point cloud data; fusing the first point cloud data and second point cloud data belonging to non-glass-like region in the laser data based on the adjusted weight of the laser data, to generate a map.
US11315261B2
An image processing method includes acquiring an image frame; tracking a face region of a user based on first prior information obtained from at least one previous frame of the image frame; based on a determination that tracking of the face region based on the first prior information has failed, setting a scan region in the image frame based on second prior information obtained from the at least one previous frame; and detecting the face region in the image frame based on the scan region.
US11315258B1
Methods, apparatus, and systems for sensing or tracking relative position between objects or locations. A digital camera or imager captures one or more fiducials in its field of view. By calibration and processing, the imaged fiducials can be identified and distinguished from other objects and background in camera space, and position of imaged fiducials in camera space relative to a reference can be translated to position of the actual fiducials in physical space. In one example, the fiducials are IR LEDs.
US11315256B2
Technology is disclosed herein for detecting motion in video using motion vectors. In an implementation, a frame of video is divided into regions and a vector score is identified for each of the regions. A selection is then made of a subset of the regions based on the identified vector scores, i.e. at least some of the regions may be excluded from further analysis based on their score. The selected subset is divided into or grouped in clusters. Motion may then be identified in response to at least one of the clusters appearing in at least one other frame of the video.
US11315252B2
A method may include acquiring MR signals by an MR scanner and generating image data in a k-space according to the MR signals. The method may also include classifying the image data into a plurality of phases. Each of the plurality of phases may have a first count of spokes. A spoke may be defined by a trajectory for filling the k-space. The method may also include classifying the plurality of phases of the image data into a plurality of groups and determining reference images based on the plurality of groups. Each of the reference images may correspond to the at least one of the phases of the image data. The method may further include reconstructing an image sequence based on the reference images and the plurality of phases of the image data.
US11315241B2
A method of fundus oculi image analysis includes acquiring a target fundus oculi image; analyzing the target fundus oculi image by a fundus oculi image analysis model determined by training to acquire an image analysis result of the target fundus oculi image; and the fundus oculi image analysis model includes at least one of an image overall grade prediction sub-model and an image quality factor sub-model. The method performs quality analysis on the target fundus oculi image by the fundus oculi image analysis model, and when the model includes the overall grade prediction sub-model, a prediction result of whether the target fundus oculi image as a whole is gradable can be acquired; when the model includes the image quality factor sub-model, the analysis result of the fundus oculi image quality factor can be acquired and the image analysis model is determined by extensive image training, and the reliability of the result of whether the image is gradable determined based on the above model is high.
US11315240B2
At least one embodiment relates to an image analysis system for tumor classification. The system is configured for receiving at least one digital image of a tissue sample; analyzing the at least one received image for identifying immune cells and tumor cells in the at least one received image; for each of the identified tumor cells, determining the distance of the tumor cell to the nearest immune cell; computing a proximity measure as a function of the determined distances; in dependence on the proximity measure, classifying the identified tumor cells into tumor cells of an inflammatory tumor or as tumor cells of a non-inflammatory tumor; and storing the classification result on a storage medium and/or displaying the classification result on a display device.
US11315223B2
An image processing apparatus is disclosed. The present image processing apparatus comprises: a memory for storing a low dynamic range (LDR) image and a processor for adjusting the brightness of the LDR image by means of a pixel-specific brightness ratio identified using a first parameter, and acquiring a high dynamic range (HDR) image by adding or subtracting a pixel-specific correction value identified using a second parameter in the brightness-adjusted LDR image.
US11315207B1
A shipping container optimization and utilization system and method for identifying and utilizing otherwise unused, deadheading shipping containers. The systems and methods aggregate, compile, and index cargo capacity data into a searchable database so that users can identify and pair loads with unused shipping containers. The systems and methods improve efficiency in transportation and shipping routes.
US11315204B2
A method can present a new sequence of online courses within a specialization for a group of new learners while maintaining a previous sequence of online courses within the specialization for a group of previous learners. The method can include maintaining a base class, associating a first learner with the base class, receiving a request to update a previous sequence of courses, generating a child class, associating a second learner with the child class, responding to a request for a sequence associated with the first learner, and responding to a request for a sequence associated with the second learner.
US11315202B2
A facility for representing home attribute values for a plurality of homes and a plurality of home attributes is described. The facility incorporates a data structure comprising, for each of the plurality of homes, for each of the plurality of attribute value sources, the capacity to store values for any of the plurality of home attributes obtained from the attribute value source.
US11315198B2
Systems and methods for performing data analysis include receiving data for performing analysis from a user. A value associated with a variable is extracted from a first file based on the data. The value associated with the variable is loaded into a second file, the second file including a formula referencing the variable. An output is generated based on the data by calculating the formula based on the value associated with the variable.
US11315195B1
Method and system for validating a plurality of policies. For example, a computer-implemented method includes receiving a plurality of policies, each policy of the plurality of policies associated with a policy lifecycle including one or more validation actions, each validation action of the one or more validation actions being associated with an action time; mapping the one or more validation actions associated with each policy of the plurality of policies on a common timeline of a shared clock; and determining the plurality of validation times based at least in part upon the action time associated with each validation action of the one or more validation actions by at least one of: minimizing the amount of validation times of the plurality of validation times; and maximizing the amount of validation actions contained within each validation time of the plurality of validation times on average across the plurality of validation threads.
US11315186B1
Methods and apparatuses are described for automatic execution of subscription-based financial instrument trading strategies in real-time. A server receives a request to deploy a trading strategy with trading strategy parameters. The server determines that a trading strategy has already been created for other users based upon the parameters. The server generates a subscription to the trading strategy, which comprises indicators needed to deploy the trading strategy. The server identifies at least one indicator that has already been calculated and calculates any of the indicators that have not already been calculated. The server deploys the trading strategy using the identified and calculated indicators.
US11315183B2
An electronic trading system and corresponding method are based on a point-to-point mesh architecture. The electronic trading system comprises a gateway, core compute node, and sequencer. The core compute node performs an electronic trading matching function. The gateway transmits a message to the core compute node via a first direct connection. The gateway transmits the message via a second direct connection to the sequencer which, in turn, transmits a sequence-marked message to the core compute node via a third direct connection. The core compute node determines relative ordering of the message among other messages in the electronic trading system based on the sequence-marked message to complete the electronic trading matching function, deterministically. The gateway, core compute node, sequencer, and respective direct connections form at least a portion of the point-to-point mesh architecture and enable the electronic trading system to perform high-speed, deterministic, electronic trading of financial instruments while exhibiting low latency, fairness, and fault tolerance, among other features.
US11315170B2
The present disclosure discloses an order allocation method. The method may include: receiving orders and extracting order information; extracting service provider information and obtaining features of service providers; determining whether the order information matches the features of the service providers, or determining whether the features of the service providers satisfy a preset condition to generate a determination result; ranking the service providers based on the determination result; generating orders to be allocated; and allocating the orders to be allocated to the service providers based on the ranking. The present disclosure also discloses an order allocation system that can perform the method above.
US11315157B1
A mobile electronic device is described that is configured to upload a commercial application to a centralized server. In an implementation, the mobile electronic device includes a memory, and a processor communicatively coupled to the memory. The mobile electronic device also includes an aggregator module stored in memory and executable by the processor. The module is also configured to instruct the processor to aggregates the product information with applicant information to generate a commercial application relating to the product, the commercial application comprising an application for services from at least one a lending entity, an insurance entity, or a third-party service entity. The module is also configured to instruct the processor to cause transmission of the commercial application to a central server. The commercial application is accessible to the at least one of the lending entity, the insurance entity, or the third-party service entity.
US11315150B2
A system, method, device, and platform for generating targeted advertisements. Transaction information for a user is received. The transaction information associated with the user is verified. The information is reconciled with advertising data associated with the transaction information. Targeted advertisements are created based on the available advertising data. The targeted advertisements are communicated to the user.
US11315127B2
Computer-powered system for determining a stability rating of an artwork piece, comprising a server, network, computer database(s) containing data regarding preservation-effecting factors and sub-factors and relating the factors and sub-factors to other pieces of artwork of various types, wherein data contained within the database forms a dynamic and searchable catalog of records of artwork pieces, at least one computing device having a software application stored therein that receives data from a user pertaining to queries about the artwork piece based on the examination of and research about the artwork and transmits the data to the network; the server applies algorithmic computations to the received data to convert it into representative grades for each factor and sub-factor and calculate a stability rating, wherein the stability rating represents the projected stability of the artwork and the resulting grades and stability rating are dependent upon the entire body of data within the database(s).
US11315122B2
The present disclosure provides an authentication method for e-wallet carrier, wherein the e-wallet carrier is stored with an authentication program, and the method comprises: an escrow institution constructs user information and a user database, and the user database has private and public key information; the escrow institution generates authentication information through the authentication program, and transmits the private key information as well as authentication program to the carrier to make the carrier in a restricted mode; when receiving verification information and confirming that its user information is correct, the escrow institution provides the authentication information to the user; after electronic receives the authentication information, the carrier is switched to be in a unlocked mode, thus to make transactions in currency. Through this, the information content of the private key information is in the custody of the escrow institution reduce the risk of man-caused loss in the private key information.
US11315116B2
Systems and methods are provided for use in authenticating consumers based on images of the consumers stored in payment cards. One exemplary method includes receiving, at a point-of-sale (POS) device, a transaction request by a consumer to purchase a product and soliciting, by the POS device, a payment device from the consumer for funding the transaction request. The method also includes retrieving, by the POS device, a reference image provisioned to the payment device, capturing, by the POS device, an image of the consumer presenting the payment device, and comparing, by the POS device, the captured image of the consumer to the reference image. The method then further includes submitting an authorization request, in response to the transaction request, when the captured image of the consumer matches the reference image, whereby the consumer is authenticated to the payment device.
US11315113B1
Disclosed herein are systems and method for transaction authorization. In one aspect, a method comprises receiving, at an authenticating device from a terminal device, a request to generate a dataset, the request comprising a plurality of data object values indicative of transaction information. The method comprises generating, based on the plurality of data object values, a transaction comprising a source identifier, a destination identifier, a transaction value, and authorization data in a form of a digital signature. The method comprises encapsulating and embedding either the at least one portion of the transaction or the symmetric encryption key in the discretionary data fields and transmitting the dataset to the terminal device that forwards the transaction to a processing service configured to reconstruct the transaction from the forwarded dataset and process the transaction in a target ledger.
US11315111B2
Disclosed herein are methods, devices, and apparatuses, including computer programs stored on computer-readable media, for testing signature verification for a blockchain system. One of the methods includes: obtaining a testing configuration from a configuration file, wherein the testing configuration specifies a cryptography algorithm used in the blockchain system, a group of one or more private keys corresponding to the cryptography algorithm, and a predetermined execution result based on the cryptography algorithm and the group of one or more private keys; signing a transaction, by encrypting data representing the transaction based on the cryptography algorithm and the group of one or more private keys, to generate one or more signed transactions; sending the one or more signed transactions to the blockchain system and receiving an execution result from the blockchain system; and determining whether the predetermined execution result is satisfied based on the execution result.
US11315109B2
During operation, a first node coupled to the blockchain sends a transaction confirmation request for a target transaction to a second node, the transaction confirmation request comprising transaction data associated with the target transaction. The first node receives a transaction confirmation response from the second node, the transaction confirmation response comprising a first data block comprising at least an identifier of the second node, first encoded transaction data generated based on a predetermined encoding scheme, and a first confirmation result. The first node generates a second data block comprising at least an identifier of the first node, second encoded transaction data generated based on the predetermined encoding scheme, and a second confirmation result; and in response to determining that each of the first confirmation result and the second confirmation result indicates that the target transaction is confirmed, stores the first data block and the second data block in the blockchain.
US11315108B2
A payment service generates multiple user profiles, each profile associated with a different user. Each user profile may be linked to multiple transaction cards and multiple numerical balances. Multiple transaction cards can be linked to a same numerical balance—even if the cards are from different user profiles. Restrictions, such as transaction type blacklists and whitelists or parent/guardian permission relationships, can be placed on particular numerical balances, or on access to particular numerical balances by particular cards. Numerical balances and transactions using particular cards may be tracked using user profiles with access to those cards and numerical balances.
US11315104B2
Described herein are various technologies pertaining to integrating account identifier (e.g., card provider(s)) into a digitization system, for example, without requiring changes to a client application on a user device (e.g., smart phone). An extensible account identifier abstraction system is provided that stores data according to a unified data model and is accessible to the user device via unified interface(s). The extensible abstraction system includes one or more plugin modules/provider relay plugin(s) that convert call(s) to the unified interface(s) and data stored according to the unified data model into provider-specific call(s) with data formatted according to a provider-specific schema.
US11315102B2
Embodiments described herein disclose a mobile device system for displaying contactless payment options to a user of a mobile device. A location of the device may be detected. The location may be transmitted to a payment services provider, and information indicating that the location corresponds to a merchant having contactless payment options may be received. In response, graphical depictions of payment options associated with a plurality of payment sources are displayed on a touch-sensitive display of the mobile device. A selection of one of the graphical depictions is received, and in response, one or more transceivers of the mobile device, such as one or more NFC transceivers, may be activated. The activation may cause the transceivers to transmit a personal account number to a point-of-sale terminal. Thus, the user is presented with contactless payment options based on a geographical location, and may be presented with a suggested payment source.
US11315093B2
Systems and associated methods for recycling and performing other processes with consumer electronic devices are described herein. In various embodiments, the present technology includes systems and methods for identifying and evaluating a used or pre-owned consumer electronic device, such as a mobile phone, laptop, etc. to facilitate purchasing the device. In some embodiments, the present technology includes a counter-top evaluation terminal that evaluates a device and facilitates purchase and recycling of the device. Various other aspects of the present technology are described herein.
US11315090B1
A financial management network is disclosed for optimizing interest return and/or deposit insurance coverage among a plurality of online accounts that may include one or more savings accounts and a checking account, by automatically allocating and transferring funds among the accounts without intervention of the account holder, in accordance with constraints that may be set by the financial management network, account holder, the account holder's financial advisor, and/or imposed by the associate financial institutions holding the accounts.
US11315083B2
An asset management method for a substation includes deriving an optimal management plan by each element of the substation depending on integrity of the each element of the substation and deriving an optimal unique reliability model for each element of the substation through a process of compensating a reference reliability model of each substation type and an apparatus executing the method.
US11315081B2
A resource reservation system includes an information processing apparatus configured to manage reservation information of one or more resources, and an information processing terminal configured to acquire the reservation information from the information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes first circuitry configured to provide information necessary for transmitting the reservation information to the information processing terminal. The information processing terminal includes second circuitry configured to receive the information provided by the first circuitry. The information processing terminal can acquire the reservation information from the information processing apparatus by using the information received by the second circuitry.
US11315077B2
A manufacturing materiel management system. The system comprises a manufacturing assembly line to manufacture an object comprising a plurality of parts. The system also comprises a computer to monitor an input device for input that indicates a disruption event defined as an event in which manufacture of the object is disrupted as a result of loss of a resource or the part, or a shortage of human resources. Responsive to receiving the input, the computer system calculates another project which may continue, calculates remaining resources which may be allocated to the other projects, and generate a resource re-allocation plan which defines how remaining resources are to be re-allocated to the other project. A communication system in communication with the computer is configured to communicate the re-allocation plan to a manager of the manufacturing assembly line.
US11315076B2
Systems and methods that may be used to automatically generate inventory templates for use with an accounting platform. The automatically generated templates may be for a first user within a particular industry and may be based on established inventory trees of other system users within the same industry that have similar demographics of the first user.
US11315074B2
The present invention describes a shelf system for monitoring items coupled with support utilities. The system is configured to detect item change caused by customer actions and optimize the camera system and computing resources of a remote server. The system also is configured to sense certain visual indicators with customer actions.
US11315071B1
Systems and methods for tracking inventory are provided herein. In some embodiments, a method for tracking inventory includes receiving weight sensor data representing a weight of a physical item in the storage unit, adding the weight of the physical item to a profile corresponding to the physical item, determining that the weight of the physical item is less than a predetermined threshold weight associated with the physical item, generating notification information associated with the physical item, and sending the notification information. In some embodiments, a method for tracking inventory includes receiving sensor data representing a location of a physical item, adding the location of the physical item to a profile corresponding to the physical item, receiving audio data representing a request for the location of the physical item, retrieving the location of the physical item from the profile, generating responsive data representing the of the physical item, and sending the responsive data.
US11315070B2
A method and apparatus for storing information. The method comprises: generating a traceability code of an article, and associating the traceability code of the article with the article (201); collecting circulation information of the article (202); determining a form data item corresponding to the circulation information of the article (203); and according to the traceability code of the article, and a correlation between the form data item corresponding to the circulation information of the article and the circulation information of the article, storing the traceability code of the article, the form data item corresponding to the circulation information of the article and the circulation information of the article (204).
US11315062B2
The present approach relates to an automated approach for verifying sufficiency of and/or quality of a service operation performed on an asset by a field engineer. In one implementation the approach employs autonomous tests and/or compares performance of the serviced asset with that of comparable peers operating in similar or co-local environments.
US11315058B2
Described herein is a computer-implemented method. The method comprises receiving an operation notification in respect of a gated operation from a change requesting system, determining an issue type associated with the gated operation, and creating an issue of the determined issue type. The method further comprises determining that the issue has transitioned state from a pending workflow state to a particular operation resolution workflow state and, in response, generating an operation resolution message which is communicated to the change requesting system.
US11315057B2
A power storage device management system includes a storage device configured to store power storage devices that are removably mounted on an electric power device using electric power and a server device communicatively connected to the storage device. The server device includes a first storage unit storing identification information of a power storage device shared by a plurality of users among the power storage devices as storage identification information. The storage device includes a second storage unit storing the storage identification information received from the server device and a determiner configured to determine whether or not reception of the power storage device is possible on the basis of the storage identification information stored in the second storage unit when the power storage device has been received from a user.
US11315052B2
A system and a method for tracking agricultural commodities, such as crop inventories, is based on measuring a flow of crop through an equipment unit during a period of time, and determining the flow of crop through the unit to be a transfer event. More particularly, there is measured a quantity of crop in a first equipment unit; followed by a detection of a presence of one or more additional equipment units proximate the first equipment unit; and by a determination of at least one crop transfer event between the first equipment and at least one of the additional equipment units based on a change in the quantity of crop in the first equipment unit and the detection of presence.
US11315046B1
Machine learning-based disaster modeling and high-impact weather event forecasting are provided herein. Embodiments herein provide a flexible machine-learning platform for providing skillful forecast of severe weather (tornadoes, damaging wind gusts, and hail), tropical cyclone activity, and precipitation, with skill potentially extending to 13 months or more.
US11315041B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer-readable media, for machine learning in a multi-tenant data sharing platform. In some implementations, a server system provides a multi-tenant data sharing platform configured to selectively use stored data collected for different tenant organizations according to policy data for the respective tenant organizations. A request from one organization is received to perform a machine learning task involving a data set of a different tenant organization. The server system uses stored policy data to determine an applicable data policy, and based on the determination, the server system performs the machine learning task and provides the results of the machine learning task.
US11315037B2
There is provided a system for computing a secure statistical classifier, comprising: at least one hardware processor executing a code for: accessing code instructions of an untrained statistical classifier, accessing a training dataset, accessing a plurality of cryptographic keys, creating a plurality of instances of the untrained statistical classifier, creating a plurality of trained sub-classifiers by training each of the plurality of instances of the untrained statistical classifier by iteratively adjusting adjustable classification parameters of the respective instance of the untrained statistical classifier according to a portion of the training data serving as input and a corresponding ground truth label, and at least one unique cryptographic key of the plurality of cryptographic keys, wherein the adjustable classification parameters of each trained sub-classifier have unique values computed according to corresponding at least one unique cryptographic key, and providing the statistical classifier, wherein the statistical classifier includes the plurality of trained sub-classifiers.
US11315036B2
Techniques are disclosed for a computer system to predict a next sample for a data stream that specifies data values of one or more variables. A current subset of data values and previous subsets of data values is determined, and polyline simplification techniques may then be used on the subset to produce a reduced-sample current subset of data values that are converted to an angular coordinate system. A space partitioning data structure such as a k-dimensional tree that stores converted reduced-sample previous subsets of the data stream may then be traversed to determine one or more nearest neighbors to the current subset. The predicted next sample for the data stream may be generated from the nearest neighbors. The space partitioning data structure may be updated to include the current subset, and the process may be repeated with a new current subset.
US11315015B2
The present invention provides a system and method of side-stepping the need to retrain neural network model after initially trained using a simulator by comparing real-world data to data predicted by the simulator for the same inputs, and developing a mapping correlation that adjusts real world data toward the simulation data. Thus, the decision logic developed in the simulation-trained model is preserved and continues to operate in an altered reality. A threshold metric of similarity can be initially provided into the mapping algorithm, which automatically adjusts real world data to adjusted data corresponding to the simulation data for operating the neural network model when the metric of similarity between the real world data and the simulation data exceeds the threshold metric. Updated learning can continue as desired, working in the background as conditions are monitored.
US11315012B2
Systems and techniques for neural network training are described herein, a training set may be received for a neural network. Here, the neural network may comprise a set of nodes arranged in layers and a set of inter-node weights between nodes in the set of nodes. The neural network may then be iteratively trained to create a trained neural network. An iteration of the training may include generating a random unit vector and creating an update vector by calculating a magnitude for the random unit vector based on a degree that the random unit vector matches a gradient—where the gradient is represented by a dual number. The iteration may continue by updating a parameter vector for an inter-node weight by subtracting the update vector from a previous parameter vector of the inter-node weight. The trained neural network may then be used to classify data.
US11315011B2
The compression system trains a machine-learned encoder and decoder through an autoencoder architecture. The encoder can be deployed by a sender system to encode content for transmission to a receiver system, and the decoder can be deployed by the receiver system to decode the encoded content and reconstruct the original content. The encoder is coupled to receive content and output a tensor as a compact representation of the content. The content may be, for example, images, videos, or text. The decoder is coupled to receive a tensor representing content and output a reconstructed version of the content. The compression system trains the autoencoder with a discriminator to reduce compression artifacts in the reconstructed content. The discriminator is coupled to receive one or more input content, and output a discrimination prediction that discriminates whether the input content is the original or reconstructed version of the content.
US11314999B2
The present invention relates generally a method to authenticate a data carrier, such as passports, licenses, identification card . . . by hiding at least two optically encoded image within a data carrier so that the data carrier is authenticated through at least two factor authentication process. In the methods of the present invention, at least two reliable, readable optically encoded image are hidden within the data carrier wherein each of the encoded image is visible through a same decoder device but under different specific lighting conditions without the former having influence on the quality of the latter. The authentication methodology of the present invention provides an improved security, being even more difficult to reproduce by infringers, even more difficult to remove, replace or exchange and easy to check.
US11314997B1
A barcode tag includes a base layer having a front side and a back side, an attachment surface disposed on at least a portion of the front side or the back side, and a barcode symbol comprising plural perforations formed entirely through the base layer. Methods and systems for tracking equipment items in an equipment rack using barcode tags are also disclosed.
US11314995B2
An image processing comprising: an obtaining unit configured to obtain image data of a rectangle unit of input image; a compression unit configured to perform the compression processing for compressing the image data on a per rectangle unit basis from the rectangle unit at the front edge to the rectangle unit at the rear edge of the rectangle line in a case where the input image is rotated by a predetermined angle in a first direction; wherein, in a case where the input image is rotated by the predetermined angle in a direction opposite to the first direction, the compression unit compresses the image data on a per rectangle unit basis from the rectangle unit at the rear edge to the rectangle unit at the front edge of the rectangle line.
US11314993B2
An action recognition system is provided that includes a device configured to capture a video sequence formed from a set of unlabeled testing video frames. The system further includes a processor configured to pre-train a recognition engine formed from a reference set of CNNs on a still image domain that includes labeled training still image frames. The processor adapts the recognition engine to a video domain to form an adapted engine, by applying non-reference CNNs to domains that include the still image and video domains and a degraded image domain that includes labeled synthetically degraded versions of the frames in the still image domain. The video domain includes random unlabeled training video frames. The processor recognizes, using the adapted engine, an action performed by at least one object in the sequence, and controls a device to perform a response action in response to an action type of the action.
US11314991B2
An information display method includes converting P (P≥2) high-dimensional data respectively obtained from P images each tagged with a label representing a result of classification into one of a plurality of classes to respectively acquire P low-dimensional data, generating a plot diagram including P plot points obtained by visualizing the P low-dimensional data each depending on the classification result, generating auxiliary information corresponding to a base point set as one of the plot points included in the plot diagram and N (1≤N
US11314986B2
For each of a plurality of images, a learning device acquires first training data including an image, a class of each of one or more objects shown in the image, and the number of objects, from a storage. The learning device trains a feature extraction part, a class estimation part, and an object number estimation part using the first training data. For each of images of which the number is smaller than the plurality of images, the learning device acquires second training data including an image and coordinates of each of one or more objects in the image, from the storage. The learning device causes the trained feature extraction part to output a feature map of the image included in the second training data, and trains a coordinate estimation part using the feature map and the coordinates included in the second training data.
US11314981B2
There is provided an information processing system capable of appropriately assisting in creation of a marker, an information processing method, and a program. The information processing system includes an acquisition part configured to acquire a recognition result of a marker that a user is making, and a display control part configured to cause a display face to display assistance information for assisting in creation of the marker depending on the recognition result in association with the marker in process of creation.
US11314978B2
Provided herein are a calibration method for a fingerprint sensor and a display device using the calibration method, where, in the calibration method for a fingerprint sensor, the fingerprint sensor includes a substrate, a light-blocking layer located on a first surface of the substrate and having openings formed in a light-blocking mask, a light-emitting element layer located on the light-blocking layer and having a plurality of light-emitting elements, and a sensor layer located on a second surface of the substrate and having a plurality of photosensors; and the calibration method includes generating calibration data through white calibration and dark calibration, and applying offsets to the plurality of photosensors using the calibration data.
US11314961B2
A texture image acquisition method, a texture image acquisition circuit and a display panel are provided. The texture image acquisition circuit includes a photosensitive circuit, the texture image acquisition method includes: allowing the photosensitive circuit to receive light from a texture, and obtaining a first curve based on a signal amount accumulated by the photosensitive circuit within a first integral time period, the first curve being a time-varying curve of a residual signal amount which is a signal amount remaining after a signal amount, left over by the photosensitive circuit before the first integral time period, is released over time; obtaining a first acquisition value based on a signal amount accumulated by the photosensitive circuit within a second integral time period which is after the first integral time period; obtaining a first photosensitive signal of an image of the texture; based on the first curve and the first acquisition value.
US11314953B2
This disclosure relates to tagging of materials and objects and analysis for authentication thereof. An example method includes analyzing separately a number of locations distributed across a given surface of a solid object according to one or more analysis technologies to determine feature data for each of the locations. The feature data are indicative of a respective chemical property and/or mechanical property of the solid object at each of the locations, corresponding to a feature tag, and the feature data depend on the one or more analysis technologies. The method also includes determining a tag signature for the solid object based on the feature data determined for each of the locations.
US11314952B2
Systems and methods of identifying wearable tags or other items within a facility. The location of the identifiable item can be calculated by the system and used to improve the efficiency of the facility or to dispatch emergency help or maintenance to the location of the badge.
US11314936B2
A system and method for assembling segments of recorded music or video from among various versions or variations of a recording, into a new version or composition, such that a first segment of a first version of a recorded work is attached to a segment of a second segment of a second version of the recorded work, to create a new version of the recorded work.
US11314933B2
An example method includes determining a subset of content displayed by an application on a user interface (UI) of a user device, wherein the subset excludes user-specific information. The method further includes transmitting a request to a remote provider for at least one template for use with the application, wherein the request comprises the subset of content displayed on the UI. The method also includes receiving a response to the request from the remote provider, wherein the response comprises the at least one template indicating how to process user input data in one or more text input fields displayed by the application on the UI, and generating a prompt to authorize transmission of the one or more user input values to the remote provider for future use in autofill, wherein the prompt is customized by processing the one or more user input values using the at least one template.
US11314927B1
An online document system maintains a document comprising document content. Users can edit document of the online document system by in the form of operations (which represent desired changes to document content). Instead of directly applying the received operations to the document content, the online document system consolidates operations into a tracked change object based on a common intent of the operations. To render the document content (with tracked change object) the online document system applies the set of operations to the document content and generates a tracked change indication to highlight content changed by the set of operations.
US11314926B2
Systems, methods performed by data processing apparatus and computer storage media encoded with computer programs for receiving feedback from a client device at which a presentation page of content items is displayed, the received feedback relating to an affirmative act performed by the user, determining, based at least in part on the received feedback, whether the user is likely to perform a predetermined action relative to one or more of the content items, based on a result of the determining, selectively identifying one or more replacement content items and transmitting the one or more identified replacement content items to the client device for display in the presentation page in place of one or more of the plurality of content items.
US11314923B2
This specification discloses an information presentation method and device. The method includes: determining at least one display object on a display page; obtaining information related to the at least one display object; and presenting the information related to the display object. At least part of a presentation area of the information overlaps with a display area of the related display object.
US11314919B2
Disclosed are a semiconductor device and a method of fabricating the same. The semiconductor device includes an area-oriented region and a performance-oriented region, standard cells disposed on each of the area-oriented region and the performance-oriented region, and a routing metal layer on the standard cells. The routing metal layer includes first routing lines on the area-oriented region and second routing lines on the performance-oriented region. The smallest line width of the first routing lines is a first width, the smallest line width of the second routing lines is a second width greater than the first width, a pitch between the first routing lines is a first pitch, and a pitch between the second routing lines is a second pitch greater than the first pitch.
US11314913B2
An information processing apparatus includes a conversion unit configured to convert circuit configuration data representing a configuration of an electric circuit including an input terminal group and an output terminal group into circuit calculation data including an equation group that generates an output signal group corresponding to an argument group given to a variable group and an input signal group given to the input terminal group, wherein the argument group includes a constant representing a characteristic of a circuit element that forms the electric circuit.
US11314912B2
An IC design data base generating method, including: receiving a condition parameter, which comprises a process parameter and an operating parameter range comprising at least one operating parameter; and testing at least one cell according to the process parameter and the operating parameter range to generate a delay value data base. The delay value data base comprises a plurality of delay values, wherein the plurality of delay values for an identical cell correspond to the operating parameter range with an identical type but different value. An IC design method using the delay value data base is also disclosed.
US11314908B2
A repository is configured in a hybrid data processing environment comprising a classical computing system and a quantum computing system, to hold a plurality of quantum circuit components (QCC(s)). A degree of difficulty in simulating the received QCC in the classical computing system is transformed into a classical hardness score. A degree of difficulty in implementing the received QCC in the quantum computing system is transformed into a quantum hardness score. A first parameter in a metadata data structure associated with the received QCC is populated with the classical hardness score. A second parameter in the metadata data structure associated with the received QCC is populated with the quantum hardness score. The received QCC is transformed into a library element by at least augmenting the received QCC with the metadata data structure. The library element is added to the repository.
US11314899B2
A method for detection of tampering in an executable code including one or more code blocks. The method includes monitoring execution of the executable code with a call stack data structure associated therewith, the execution involving accessing one or more address spaces; receiving information about the one or more address spaces, as accessed; comparing the received information about one or more accessed address spaces with information about one or more allowed address spaces defined in the call stack data structure of the executable code; raising a flag upon detection that the one or more accessed address spaces are different from the one or more allowed address spaces, based on the comparison; and executing an action based on the raised flag.
US11314892B2
A method, a computerized apparatus and a computer program product for mitigating governance and regulation implications on machine learning. A governance impact assessment is generated for a partial data set generated by applying a data governance enforcement on a data set of instances comprising valuations of a feature vector. The partial data set comprises partial instances each comprising partial feature vectors. The governance impact assessment comprises information about data excluded from the data set. A machine learning model trained based on the partial data set and configured to provide an estimated prediction for a partial instance is obtained. A set of core features is determined. A bias introduced by the data governance is identified based on a core feature being affected by the data governance. In response to identifying a bias, an anti-bias procedure is applied on the machine learning model, whereby mitigating the bias introduced by the data governance.
