US11330750B2
An electronic component mounting device including a component holding device to hold and mount on a board an electronic component supplied by a component supply device; a motor to drive the component holding device; a motor control device to control the motor; a load measurement device to measure a load applied from the component holding device upon being pressed by the component holding device while the component holding device performs the same operation as when mounting an electronic component on a board, by replacing the board with the load measurement device; a motor information acquisition section to obtain motor information corresponding to the force with which the motor drives the component holding device in the pressing direction against the load measurement device while the motor control device performs the same operation as when mounting an electronic component on the board, by replacing the board with the load measurement device.
US11330735B2
Disclosed is duct for a scanner for a point of sale terminal. The duct may include a first body portion and a second body portion. The first body portion may have a first edge and a second edge. The second body portion may have a third edge. The second body portion may be connected to the first body portion so as to define a duct cavity. The first edge may define a duct cavity exhaust opening. The second edge and the third edge may define a duct cavity inlet opening.
US11330726B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes: a panel, a first cushioning component, and a second cushioning component. The panel includes a bottom surface, a first corner and a second corner, and the bottom surface connects between the first corner and the second corner. The first cushioning component supports the first corner of the panel. The second cushioning component supports the second corner of the panel. The Young's modulus of the first cushioning component and the Young's modulus of the second cushioning component are ranged from 500 MPa to 1500 MPa.
US11330723B2
An electronic device includes a housing, a display assembly, a drive component, a support member, and a protection member. The housing includes an accommodation chamber and an opening. The opening is connected with the accommodation chamber. The accommodation chamber includes a first space and a second space. The first space overlaps with the opening along a first direction. The second space and the opening are staggered along the first direction. The display assembly is located in the first space of the accommodation chamber and exposed through the opening. The drive component is partially located in the second space of the accommodation chamber, electrically connected to the display assembly, and configured to drive the display assembly. The support member is fixed in the accommodation chamber. The protection member at the opening is fixedly connected to the display assembly, and connected to a portion of the support member.
US11330714B2
Electrical connectors, electrical modules, and systems are provided. In one aspect, an electrical connector includes a housing defining a side surface, an electrical conductor supported by the housing and including an engagement portion proximate the side surface of the housing. The engagement portion is adapted to engage another electrical conductor of another electrical connector. The connector also includes a magnet supported by the housing proximate the side surface of the housing, a projection extending from the side surface of the housing, and a receptacle defined in the side surface of the housing. In other aspects, an electrical module includes at least one of these electrical connectors. In further aspects, a system includes a plurality of these modules and the modules are selectively couplable together.
US11330704B2
An electronic control device includes a housing that stores a substrate on which an electronic component is mounted, a first capacitance unit formed between the housing and the electronic component, and a second capacitance unit formed between the housing and the substrate, in which a noise transmission path is formed between the housing and the substrate via the first capacitance unit and the second capacitance unit.
US11330701B2
A module board of an embodiment includes a printed board having a through-hole, a semiconductor device mounted on the printed board so as to cover the through-hole, and a heat conductive polygonal column included in the through-hole. The semiconductor device includes a ground terminal or a power supply terminal, the polygonal column is supported by the through-hole at the corners of the polygonal column, and the polygonal column is connected to the ground terminal or the power supply terminal.
US11330700B2
A display device includes: a display panel; an input sensor disposed on the display panel; a flexible circuit board connected to the display panel and the input sensor; a first differential signal line and a second differential signal line, which are disposed on the flexible circuit board and connected to the display panel; and a transmission line and a receiving line, which are disposed on the flexible circuit board and connected to the input sensor. In a plan view, the receiving line is disposed between the first differential signal line and the second differential signal line.
US11330696B2
The present disclosure relates to a high voltage generator including multiple high voltage generating modules configured to provide a total voltage. Each of the multiple high voltage generating modules may be configured to receive a driving pulse and generate a voltage component of the total voltage according to the driving pulse. The multiple high voltage generating modules may be in a series connection. Time points when the multiple high voltage generating modules receive driving pulses may be different, and waveforms of the driving pulses may be the same.
US11330690B2
Provided are a switching device with an auxiliary power unit and a wireless receiver function, and a lamp system using the same, wherein the switching device is connectable to a lamp and includes a power switching portion, which transmits external electricity to the lamp when in a power supplying mode and stops doing so when in a power-off mode; and the auxiliary power unit in the switching device keeps powering other components of the switching device, so while the power switching portion is in the power-off mode, a wireless module in the switching device can still transmit a wireless signal from a wireless controller to a control unit to adjust the power switching portion to the power supplying mode. Thus, even when the switching device is in a power-off state, a user can control the lamp by sending a wireless control signal to the switching device through the wireless controller.
US11330686B2
The invention provides a light generating device (100) configured to generate in a first control mode device light (101), wherein the light generating device (100) comprises (i) a first source (210) of first light (211), and (ii) a second source (220) of second light (221), different from the first light (211), wherein the second light (221) comprises cyan-like light having a wavelength selected from the range of 470-520 nm, wherein the device light (101) comprises the first light (211) and the second light (221), and wherein in the first control mode the first light (211) is white light and the device light (101) is white light enriched with cyan-like light.
US11330683B2
A lighting system including monitoring of input power and output power parameters to a set of lighting loads to detect power faults and/or anomalies. The set of sensing circuits include primary side and secondary side sensing circuits that communicate with a set of monitoring circuits to process the information supplied by the sensing circuits. If a fault and/or anomaly is sensed or detected, a signal is transmitted to provide an alert.
US11330682B2
Techniques for self-aware light are provided. A self-aware light can determine characteristics of the environment in which the self-aware light is installed, determine capabilities of self-aware light, determine one or more objectives of the installation of self-aware light, perform a self-configuration of self-aware light according to the determined one or more objectives, and determine and execute suitable actions for self-aware light to perform to achieve the determined one or more objectives.
US11330681B2
A method for heating or cooking a frozen food product with a susceptor in a solid state microwave oven includes placing the frozen food product with a susceptor into a microwave oven, heating the food product at a first heating step at a low absorption frequency, and heating the food product at a second heating step at a high absorption frequency.
US11330680B2
Method of processing an object in an energy application zone by radio frequency (RF) radiation emitted by one or more radiating elements configured to emit the RF radiation in response to RF energy applied thereto, wherein the method includes controlling supply of RF energy to the one or more radiating elements via an RF energy supply component, receiving measured response values produced based on RF energy received by the one or more radiating elements from the energy application zone, accessing a stored set of coefficients associated with the RF energy supply component, said set of coefficients being utilized to transform the measured response values and controlling application of RF energy to the one or more radiating elements based on the measured response values and the set of coefficients.
US11330676B2
A heater for use in heating a fluid flow through a passageway is provided that includes a continuous resistive heating element having a predefined shape that is directly exposed to the fluid flow. The predefined shape includes a cross-sectional geometry that provides a required heat distribution, structural strength, and reduced back pressure within the passageway. The predefined shape may include airfoils, while the cross-sectional geometry provides a required heat distribution, structural strength, and reduced back pressure within the passageway.
US11330675B2
The invention concerns an electric heating cable intended for pipelines. Sections (11a, 12a and 13a) of three phase conductors (11, 12 are 13) are stripped respectively. These sections are intended to be installed and both secured in place and electrically connected to each other inside a box (14) having, for example, a central cavity (15) having a rectangular cross-section, the depth of which is at least equal to the length of the stripped sections (11a, 12a and 13a) and the length of which is preferably greater than the transverse cross-section of these stripped sections of the phase conductors. They are secured in the central cavity (15) with a conductive binder (16), for example a tin solder, in order to ensure they are secured in place and electrically connected to each other.
US11330666B2
Disclosed are a data transmission method and a terminal device. The method comprises: storing, by the terminal, a parameter value list; sending, by a terminal device, an first protocol data unit (PDU) session establishment request message to a session management function (SMF), wherein the first PDU session request includes at least one value in at least one of the parameter value list; and receiving, by the terminal device, a response message sent by the SMF, wherein the response message carries a rejection cause value to indicate the cause why the first PDU session is established unsuccessfully.
US11330660B2
Disclosed are a communication technique for merging IoT technology with a 5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G system and a system therefor. The present disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (for example, smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, healthcare, digital education, retail, security, and safety related services, and the like) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. The present invention relates to operations of a terminal and a base station in a mobile communication system. The present invention provides a method by which a terminal re-establishes a PDCP in a wireless communication system, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a message including PDCP re-establishment information on a DRB from a base station in which an RRC connection is set up; checking whether the PDCP re-establishment information includes configuration information of an SDAP layer; and determining whether to perform a PDCP re-establishment procedure for changing the DRB operating as a PDCP of a first system into a PDCP of a second system on the basis of the checking result.
US11330657B2
A master RAN node (1) associated with a master RAT (1) communicates with a secondary RAN node (2) associated with a secondary RAT and provides a radio terminal (3) with dual connectivity that uses the master RAT and the secondary RAT. In response to receiving, from the radio terminal (3) or a core network (4), terminal capability information indicating that the radio terminal (3) supports the split bearer, the master RAN node (1) uses a PDCP entity, which provides unified PDCP functionalities, for a master cell group split bearer for the radio terminal (3).
US11330651B2
An electronic device according to various embodiments may comprise a communication module and a processor, wherein: the communication module is configured to transmit a data packet, received from the processor, to an external electronic device connected to the electronic device, receive, from the external electronic device, a response packet corresponding to the data packet, acquire a received signal strength indication (RSSI) of the response packet, and transmit, to the processor, a first packet including information on the RSSI when the response packet is received; and the processor is configured to identify the RSSI of the response packet by using the first packet received from the communication module.
US11330646B2
Systems and methods are provided for network slice selection during an initial connection. A wireless station receives, from a core network device, network slice data for each network slice available via the wireless station, wherein the network slice data includes a slice identifier and corresponding slice characteristics for each network slice. The wireless station receives, from a user equipment (UE) device, a registration request message that indicates a network slice characteristic required by an application being executed on UE device. The wireless station selects, based on the network slice data from the core network device and the network slice characteristic from the UE device, one of the slice identifiers for servicing the UE device.
US11330643B2
A method for implementing a wireless backhaul is applied to a second base station with a wired backhaul capability and includes: receiving an access request message, the access request message carrying identity information; in a case that it is determined based on the identity information that a device requesting access is a first base station with only a wireless backhaul capability, determining, based on an available wired bandwidth of a wired backhaul link between the second base station and a core network, whether to allow the access of the first base station; and returning a response message to the first base station, the response message being configured to indicate whether the access of the first base station is allowed.
US11330641B2
Various aspects support 5G NR connectivity for Internet of Things (IoT) devices by adding one or more 5G NR network bearer support information elements to a connectivity monitoring object of the Lightweight Machine-to-Machine (LwM2M) protocol, and using 5G specific parameters to add support for 5G non-standalone (NSA) and/or 5G standalone (SA) objects to the LwM2M protocol.
US11330634B2
A method for receiving a random access preamble includes: sending, by a network device, a broadcast message, where the broadcast message is used to configure an NR uplink resource and an SUL resource, and the NR uplink resource and the SUL resource are used to send a random access preamble; sending, by the network device, first indication information and second indication information to a terminal device, where the first indication information is used to indicate the NR uplink resource or the SUL resource, and second indication information is used to indicate a first random access preamble; and receiving, by the network device, the first random access preamble on the resource indicated by the first indication information.
US11330631B2
This application discloses a remote apparatus, a base station, a random access method, a storage medium, and a program product, and relates to the field of communications technologies. The remote apparatus includes a radio frequency apparatus and a baseband apparatus, where the baseband apparatus is configured to perform partial or total physical layer protocol processing on data of UE, and respond to a random access preamble sent by the UE. In this application, after receiving the random access preamble of the UE, the remote apparatus may directly respond to the random access preamble by using the baseband apparatus, and does not need to send the random access preamble to a centralized control apparatus, so that the centralized control apparatus responds to the random access preamble.
US11330629B2
Provided is a wireless communication terminal that communicates wirelessly. The wireless communication terminal includes: a transceiver; and a processor. The processor receives a first PLCP Protocol Data Unit (PPPU) through the transceiver, and transmits a second PPDU based on Basic Service Set (BSS) information indicated by the first PPDU.
US11330628B2
Provided is a wireless communication terminal that communicates wirelessly. The wireless communication terminal includes: a transceiver; and a processor. The processor receives a first PLCP Protocol Data Unit (PPPU) through the transceiver, and transmits a second PPDU based on Basic Service Set (BSS) information indicated by the first PPDU.
US11330622B2
Provided are a method for a user equipment (UE) to request system information in a wireless communication system and a device supporting the same. The method may include: transmitting a random access preamble for requesting system information to a base station (BS); receiving, from the BS, a random access response including only a random access preamble identifier (RAPID) corresponding to the transmitted random access preamble; and considering that a random access procedure is completed.
US11330616B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a scheduling method, a data transmission method, and an apparatus, and relate to the field of communications technologies, so as to resolve a problem that an existing LTE system does not support a new type of terminal. The scheduling method includes: sending, by a base station, downlink control information DCI to a first-type terminal, where the DCI includes scheduling information used to instruct the first-type terminal to send uplink data by using a first-mode frame format; the first-mode frame format includes at least one uplink subframe, and each uplink subframe includes at least one first-mode frame format symbol; and duration of the first-mode frame format symbol is at least four times of duration of a second-mode frame format symbol, and the second-mode frame format symbol is a single carrier frequency division multiple access SC-FDMA symbol in an LTE system.
US11330610B2
A data sending and receiving method and apparatus are disclosed. The method includes: obtaining, by a first device, first data, where the first data includes data obtained after a first transport block is encoded, the first data includes at least two pieces of subdata, and the at least two pieces of subdata include first subdata and second subdata; determining, by the first device, a first time-frequency resource used to transmit the first data, where the first time-frequency resource occupies at least two subbands, and the at least two subbands include a first subband and a second subband; and sending, by the first device, the first subdata by using the first subband occupied by the first time-frequency resource, and sending, by the first device, the second subdata by using the second subband occupied by the first time-frequency resource.
US11330607B2
The present disclosure relates a communication technique that fuses a 5G communication system supporting a higher data transmission rate following a 4G system with IoT technology and a system therefor. The present disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (e.g., smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, health care, digital education, retail, security and safety related services, etc.) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT related technology. A method for transmitting a scheduling request (SR) of a terminal according to the present invention comprises the steps of: receiving SR configuration information; performing channel sensing of an unlicensed band in case that the SR is triggered in the unlicensed band; and waiting for SR transmission in case that a channel is occupied as a result of the channel sensing.
US11330605B2
A system described herein may provide a technique for allocation and/or preemption of radio access network (“RAN”) resources in a wireless network based on Quality of Service (“QoS”)-related metrics associated with User Equipment (“UEs”) that are connected to, and/or are requesting connection to, a RAN. QoS-related metrics may include a network slice, a QoS Flow Identifier (“QFI”), other suitable metrics. A Slice-Based Priority (“SBP”) determine one or more priority (e.g., SBP) values for UEs connected to the one or more RANs, and/or for UEs requesting connection to such RANs. In addition to QoS-related metrics priority values may be determined based on RAN-related metrics, such as Allocation and Retention Priority (“ARP”) values associated with a UE. RANs may accordingly be able to allocate resources, accept or deny connection requests, and/or perform preemption based at least partly on slice-related QoS metrics, thus preserving end-to-end QoS parameters.
US11330601B2
A method of mitigating start-of-packet interference in a millimetre waveband wireless mesh communications network which comprises a first plurality of network node devices each having a transceiver unit which includes a beamforming antenna device, and a second plurality of millimetre waveband wireless communications links each of which interconnects a respective pair of the transceiver units of the network node devices, the method comprising: allocating respective baseband centre frequencies to pairs of transceivers of the network node devices, which baseband centre frequencies are for use with respective communications links of the network, each such allocated baseband centre frequency being offset from at least one other allocated baseband centre frequency by a respective predetermined offset amount; and at a first transceiver of a selected pair of transceivers, encoding a data packet using an encoding signal having the baseband centre frequency allocated to the selected pair of transceivers, to generate an encoded signal.
US11330591B2
A Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) communication system is provided. The CBRS communication system includes at least one baseband controller communicatively coupled to a spectrum access system (SAS) that allocates radio frequency (RF) channels in the CBRS communication system. The at least one baseband controller is communicatively coupled to at least one radio point (RP) using a switched ETHERNET network. Each of the at least one RP implements at least one Citizens Broadband Radio Service device (CBSD) that is communicatively coupled to the SAS and configured to provide wireless service to user equipment (UEs) using one or more of the RF channels allocated by the SAS.
US11330586B2
A wireless access point controls Carrier Aggregation (CA) over a wireless repeater chain. The wireless access point exchanges signaling with User Equipment (UE) over the wireless repeater chain which uses a number of repeater hops. The wireless access point selects a radio frequency for a Primary Component Carrier (PCC) based on the number of repeater hops. The wireless access point exchanges user data with the UE over the wireless repeater chain using the selected radio frequency for the PCC. The wireless access point determines uplink throughput for the user data. The wireless access point re-selects the radio frequency for the PCC based on the number of repeater hops and the uplink throughput. The wireless access point exchanges additional user data with the UE over the wireless repeater chain using the re-selected radio frequency for the PCC.
US11330582B2
A method and apparatus for performing transmission in a wireless communication system is provided. A narrowband internet-of-things (NB-IoT) user equipment (UE) transmits a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) to a network by using a first resource unit, and transmits an acknowledgement/non-acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) to the network by using a second resource unit. The first resource unit for PUSCH transmission consists of a first number of resource elements (REs) within a first tone in frequency domain and a first time interval in time domain. The second resource unit for ACK/NACK transmission also consists of a second number of REs within a second tone in frequency domain and a second time interval in time domain. The second number is smaller than the first number.
US11330574B2
A system is disclosed in which a base station defines a search space, in which a communication device can search for control information. The search space is characterised by at least first information which is related to a starting subframes of a plurality of portions of the search space and second information which is related to a periodicity between respective starting subframes, each portion representing a different candidate for the transmission of control information. The base station obtains a parameter indicating both the initial starting subframe and the periodicity and transmits the generated parameter to the communication device.
US11330571B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that provide for selection of different sets of transmission beams by a user equipment (UE) for establishing beamformed communications with a base station. Each transmission beam of a first set of transmission beams may have corresponding uplink random access channel (RACH) resources. A UE may monitor for transmission beams from a base station and select a first transmission beam of the first set for communications with the base station. As part of a connection establishment, the base station may provide configuration information that indicates a second set of transmission beams that includes each transmission beam of the first set of transmission beams and at least an additional transmission beam. In some cases, the additional transmission beam may be mapped to a first RACH resource that also corresponds to a first transmission beam of the first set of transmission beams.
US11330568B2
Provided are a transmitting method and a transmitting device for uplink control information, a storage medium, and a user equipment. The transmitting method includes: receiving PUCCH resource assignment information sent from a network to determine a PUCCH format and assigned resource blocks; and resource mapping the uplink control information at least based on all frequency domain resources of the assigned resource blocks, if the determined PUCCH format is one that requires more than one physical resource block for resource transmission and a number of the assigned resource blocks is larger than that required for transmitting the uplink control information. With the technical solution provided in the present disclosure, when the uplink control information is transmitted in unlicensed spectrums in a PUCCH format requiring more than one physical resource block for resource transmission, the occupation ratio of the uplink power in unlicensed spectrums can be significantly improved.
US11330567B2
The technology described in this case facilitates random access by a user terminal with a radio base station. A user terminal determines one of a first type of uplink scrambling sequences and generates a random access message using the determined one of the first type of uplink scrambling sequences. The random access message is transmitted to the base station. The user terminal receives from the base station a second, different type of uplink scrambling sequence and uses it for subsequent communication with the radio base station. For example, the first uplink scrambling sequences may he specifically associated with the radio base station's cell area or a random access radio channel associated with the radio base station, but they arc not specifically assigned to any user terminal, and the second uplink scrambling sequence may be selected from a second set of uplink scrambling sequences specifically assignable to individual user terminals.
US11330560B2
One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method whereby a terminal transmits data to another terminal in a wireless communication system, the data transmission method comprising the steps of: selecting resources for transmitting multiple pieces of data; and transmitting the multiple pieces of data by using the selected resources, wherein the terminal is configured to execute the transmission through sensing, and if the terminal fails to transmit the data a preset number of times or more in a row, the terminal reselects resources.
US11330542B2
A method and system for including a base station that configures a first user equipment (UE) that is in a radio resource control connected state with the base station. The UE is configured to be a synchronization source and transmit a first device-to-device synchronization signal (D2DSS) by using a synchronization resource that comprises a time resource, a frequency resource or a time and frequency resource. The base station instructs the first UE to transmit the first D2DSS using the synchronization resource. The base station signals the UE to configure the UE separately from the signal to transmit the D2DSS, and both of the signals are performed with radio resource control signaling from the base station to the UE.
US11330541B2
A system information sending method and an apparatus. The method includes receiving, by a base station, at least one first uplink trigger signal in a first time-frequency resource group in a first radio frame, determining, based on a time-frequency resource of the at least one first uplink trigger signal, a time-frequency resource used for sending first system information, where a start location of the time-frequency resource of the first system information in time domain has a first time offset relative to a frame header location of a radio frame in which the first system information is located, and sending the first system information on the time-frequency resource of the first system information.
US11330538B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to reporting channel state information (CSI) when synchronization state is altered. In some embodiments, a UE starts a timing alignment timer (TAT) in response to a time alignment command (TAC) from a cellular network for one or more serving cells. In some embodiments, the UE stores a configuration for a semi-persistent (SP) channel state information (CSI) report for the apparatus over a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH). In some embodiments, the UE activates the SP-CSI report based on downlink control information (DCI) from the network. In some embodiments, the UE transmits one or more SP-CSI reports according to the configuration. In some embodiments, in response to expiration of the TAT, the UE deactivates all active stored configurations of SP-CSI reports that use the PUSCH and that correspond to the one or more serving cells. In some embodiments, this may avoid collisions with PUSCH transmissions from other UEs, e.g., when the UE returns to an in-sync state.
US11330531B2
A system that incorporates aspects of the subject disclosure may perform operations including, for example, obtaining performance parameters in a communications network, identifying a degradation in performance of one or more nodes of the communications network according the monitored performance parameters, and initiating corrective action to mitigate the degradation in performance of the one or more nodes of the communications network. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11330521B2
The application discloses an intelligent device wake-up method, an intelligent device and a computer-readable storage medium. A specific implementation is: obtaining wake-up voice sent by a user; when determining that a current wake-up mode is a group wake-up mode, recognizing volume information corresponding to obtained wake-up voice, and determining wake-up delay time according to the volume information; when determining that the wake-up delay time is different from wake-up delay time corresponding to other intelligent device in the group, and no response information sent by other intelligent device in the group is obtained within the wake-up delay time, performing a wake-up process and playing response information when the wake-up delay time is over. Thus, it can ensure that only one intelligent device responds to the wake-up voice sent out by the user at any time, thereby avoiding the situation that multiple intelligent devices respond at the same time.
US11330518B2
The invention refers to a method for controlling sleep operation of a radio network node (12) that supports multiple sleep modes, the method comprising determining (110) which one or more of the supported sleep modes, if any, would prevent the radio network node (12) from being able to meet requirements on a quality of service, such as a maximum allowable data latency, to be provided by the radio network node (12); and preventing (120) the radio network node (12) from operating in any of the determined sleep modes; the invention further refers to a corresponding network node and a computer program.
US11330515B2
Systems and methods for instituting redistribution of wireless clients to improve service, comprising via access point (AP), multiple APs acting in concert, and/or a central entity, in connection with a network, allowing a client to associate; deciding that an associated client should be redistributed based on a connection metric, wherein the decision is based on at least one of, a probability calculation, network metric and a threshold comparison; and via the AP, sending the associated client a trigger, wherein the trigger is at least one of, a redistribution request and a disconnect message.
US11330507B2
User equipment, UE, includes: a receiver configured to receive a parameter indicating whether the UE is restricted or authorized for transmission of user data in a message transmitted on Uplink Synchronization Channel, UL-SCH, from an access network node; and a hardware processor configured to process instructions to determine whether the transmission of the user data in the message is restricted or authorized based on the parameter.
US11330506B2
Various solutions for multiple active bandwidth parts (BWPs) operation with respect to user equipment and network apparatus in mobile communications are described. An apparatus may receive a configuration of a plurality of BWPs. The apparatus may determine whether a restriction is configured. The apparatus may activate the plurality of BWPs on a same carrier according to the restriction. The apparatus may perform a transmission or reception on at least one of a plurality of activated BWPs.
US11330486B2
Disclosed are methods and systems for improved wireless terminal roaming. In some embodiments, a management module determines access point density metrics for a plurality of centrally managed access points of a communications site. The density metric considers an average RSSI of access point signals received by other access points of the site, and each access point's contribution to the average. A determination of whether a particular wireless terminal roams is based on the density metrics of the source and target access point, as well as statistics relating to a current capacity of each of the access points. The disclosed embodiments may determine that a wireless terminal should transition/roam away from an access point even when that access point's RSSI value at the wireless terminal is above a threshold that would cause traditional methods to inhibit roaming.
US11330478B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may determine a UE capability for available radio access technologies. The UE may determine which of the available radio access technologies are suitable for idle cell reselection (e.g., inter-radio access technology idle cell reselection, intra-radio access technology idle cell reselection) according to the UE capabilities, which may be related to a UE category or UE usage mode (e.g., voice centric mode, data centric mode) of the UE, etc. The UE may transmit a signal indicating the UE capabilities to a network entity (e.g., a serving cell). The network entity may receive the signaling and determine suitable radio access technologies for the idle cell reselection, and transmit a set of parameters in a message for the UE to use as part of the idle cell reselection.
US11330477B2
A method for adjusting a terminal operating bandwidth, includes: a base station sends configuration information of at least two BPs to a terminal; and the base station sends a BP adjustment instruction to the terminal, where the BP adjustment instruction carries an identifier of a second BP, the second BP is one of the at least two BPs, the BP adjustment instruction is used to instruct the terminal to switch from a first BP to the second BP at a specified timeslot after the terminal receives the BP adjustment instruction.
US11330471B2
This disclosure describes systems, devices, and computer-implemented methods that facilitate the simultaneous transmission of subsets of user plane data to a telecommunications network via two or more uplink transmission paths. More specifically, a mobile device may detect user plane data within a buffer pool and in doing so, transmit a resource allocation request for the uplink transmission of the user plane data. In response, the mobile device may receive a set of control plane data associated with the uplink transmission via two or more uplink transmission paths. The mobile device may simultaneously transmit subsets of user plane data to the telecommunications network via multiple base station nodes, based at least in part on the control plane data.
US11330461B2
For QoS (quality of service) requirements of a session at a first access point and a wireless station, a cost function value is calculated for the specific session based on a number of network packets to be processed in the queue and the identified QoS requirement. It is determined whether another of the plurality of access points within range of the specific session can better serve the identified QoS requirement than the first access point by comparing the cost function value for the specific session against at the first access point against at least a cost function value for a second access point.
US11330459B2
An apparatus and a method are provided, by which a measurement gap sharing scheme is generated by sharing measurement gaps between radio link monitoring measurement, intra-frequency measurement and inter-frequency measurement based on configurations of radio link monitoring reference signals for radio link monitoring and synchronization signal blocks and/or other reference signals used for intra-frequency measurements; measurements including the radio link monitoring measurement, the intra-frequency measurement and inter-frequency measurement are performed according to the measurement gap sharing scheme, and the measurement gap sharing scheme between radio link monitoring measurement, intra-frequency measurement and inter-frequency measurement is changed based on the radio link quality of a serving cell.
US11330456B2
A wireless device monitors a first radio link quality on a first plurality of reference signals of a bandwidth part of a cell in a non-power-saving state. The wireless device detects at least a first synchronization status based on the monitoring the first radio link quality. The wireless device receives a downlink control information indicating transitioning from the non-power-saving state to a power saving state. The wireless device monitors, based on the downlink control information, a second radio link quality on a second plurality of reference signals of the bandwidth part. The wireless device detects at least a second synchronization status based on the monitoring the second radio link quality.
US11330452B2
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 disclosure discloses a method and an apparatus for allocating a PTRS in a next-generation communication system.
US11330450B2
A technique may include receiving, from one or more sensors, sensor data samples; receiving radio network information data samples associated with a radio network; determining one or more associated sensor and radio network information data samples based on an association of one or more received sensor data samples with one or more of the received radio network information data samples; selecting at least some of the one or more associated sensor and radio network information data samples that are relevant to performance of the radio network; and forwarding the selected associated sensor and radio network information data samples for subsequent use.
US11330446B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide apparatus, methods, processing systems, and computer readable mediums for processing transmissions with multiple beams. For example, the techniques may be implemented in wireless systems in which any type of network entity (gNB or transmission reception points TRPs) send directional transmissions to user equipments (UEs) that receive the directional transmissions with receive beams.
US11330443B2
A wireless device receives configuration parameters of one or more configured grants of an unlicensed cell. The wireless device transmits, based on a configured grant of the one or more configured grants, one or more code block groups of a transport block and a code block group transmission information. The code block group transmission information indicates a presence of the one or more code block groups for the transport block. The wireless device receives a downlink control information comprising a first field and a second field. The first field indicates that the base station received the code block group transmission information. The second field indicates hybrid automatic repeat request feedbacks for the one or more code block groups.
US11330439B2
Disclosed is 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 the Internet of Things (IoT), and may be applied to intelligent services based on 5G and the IoT-related technologies, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method herein by a terminal in a communication system includes receiving a radio resource control (RRC) message including information associated with a change from a first packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) entity for a bearer to a second PDCP entity for the bearer, identifying first data to be transferred from the first PDCP entity to the second PDCP entity among second data stored in the first PDCP entity, transferring the first data to the second PDCP entity, discarding the second data stored in the first PDCP entity and releasing the first PDCP entity, and processing the transferred first data in the second PDCP entity.
US11330429B2
The present invention relates to a vehicle digital key sharing service method. The vehicle digital key sharing service method according to one embodiment includes a digital registration step in which a management server generates a terminal digital key and a vehicle digital key after user authentication in response to a digital key registration request through a dedicated application of a mobile terminal and the mobile terminal stores the terminal digital key in a secure world that is separated from a normal world and a digital key using step in which an authentication token is generated using the terminal digital key stored in the secure world when the mobile terminal approaches or tags a vehicle and a vehicle device locks or unlocks a door of the vehicle by activating the vehicle digital key, which is registered from the management server, to validate the authentication token.
US11330418B2
A lone worker system for performing a safety check is provided. The lone worker system includes a mobile device. The mobile device includes a memory storing a safety check application thereon and a processor. The processor is coupled to the memory and executes the safety check application. The processor initiates the safety check application with respect to the service call. The safety check application executes a use-case safety monitoring of the mobile device with respect to a service call to implement the safety check. The use-case safety monitoring detects an emergency situation with respect to a connectivity of the mobile device to a server, an activity of the mobile device, and a motion of the mobile device.
US11330417B2
A method for electromagnetic interference adjustment and related products are provided. A current first operating frequency of a MIPI of the display is obtained by the AP, and in response to detecting that a screen state is a screen-on state and the Bluetooth assembly is enabled, a current second operating frequency of the Bluetooth assembly is obtained by the AP. Electromagnetic interference in the electronic device is detected by the AP according to the first operating frequency and the second operating frequency. In response to the detected electromagnetic interference, a target operating frequency of the MIPI is determined, and the operating frequency of the MIPI is adjusted from the first operating frequency to the target operating frequency by the AP.
US11330413B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for operating a transmitting device of a motor vehicle, in which method the transmitting device is operated in a private mode or in a transmitting mode. In the transmitting mode, the transmitting device transmits vehicle data to a computing device external to the vehicle. In the private mode, transmission of the vehicle data is stopped. A switchover from the transmitting mode into the private mode occurs as soon as a successful authentication of a specified user action has been captured.
US11330411B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The method may include an interference estimation procedure that measures interference from radio access technologies (RATs) different from cellular vehicle to everything (CV2X) on the CV2X network at a user equipment (UE). A UE may record measurements of interference on the CV2X network when no CV2X signal is present during the last symbol of a subframe. Then, the UE may estimate the noise plus interference measured during the empty symbol to improve noise plus interference whitening when decoding a subframe.
US11330404B2
An apparatus and a method manage a telephone number in a terminal, which can separately manage telephone numbers, a call to each of which an attempt to originate has been made and to each of which the call has failed to be connected, and then enable a convenient attempt to re-originate a call to the telephone number. The apparatus includes: a memory including a temporary list which stores a non-connecting telephone number, to which a call has been originated and has failed to be connected; and a controller for performing a control operation so as to store a particular telephone number in the temporary list as the non-connecting telephone number, when an attempt to originate a call to the particular telephone number is made and the call fails to be connected to the particular telephone number.
US11330403B2
An electronic communication device and method for crowd-based application synchronization. The device includes a display, a memory storing a first application, a transceiver, and an electronic processor. The electronic processor is configured to associate the electronic communication device with a first talk group, determine a first function in which the first application is configured to perform, and receive, via the transceiver, information regarding a number of members of the first talk group that are using an instance of a second application to perform the first function. The electronic processor is further configured to automatically present, based on the information, on the display, a running instance of the second application or a selection mechanism for the second application.
US11330401B2
The technologies described herein are generally directed toward facilitating centrally assisted associations with a local manager by peers in a peer to peer wireless system. According to an embodiment, a system can comprise a processor and a memory that can store executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations. The operations can include identifying a group of local managers of a group of user equipments. The operations can further include receiving, from a network device, a criterion for selecting a local manager from the group of local managers of the group of user equipments, wherein the criterion is based on an association parameter selected by the network device.
US11330399B2
In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods and devices for surfacing alerts are provided. A monitoring service may monitor a plurality of devices associated with a group. The group may include a plurality of accounts. Each account may be associated with a different location control list. The location control list may include locational information comprising geocoordinates of locations that a corresponding user is approved to visit and temporal information corresponding to times, days of the week, and/or dates when a corresponding user is approved to visit a location. If a determination is made that a device associated with an account is at a location that is not included in a location control list for the account, an anomaly alert may be surfaced on one or more devices associated with other group members. The alert may be surfaced in association with a safety score for the location.
US11330390B2
A sound generating object for worn by a user, includes: a first accelerometer; and a second accelerometer; wherein when the sound generating object is at an operative position, a line extending through the first and second accelerometers intersects an axis at right angle, the axis extending in an up-and-down direction, the first and second accelerometers being spaced by a known distance; wherein the first accelerometer is configured to determine a first acceleration component having a first value, and the second accelerometer is configured to determine a second acceleration component having a second value; and wherein the sound generating object is configured to determine a distance between ears of the user based on the first value of the first acceleration component determined by the first accelerometer, the second value of the second acceleration component determined by the second accelerometer, and the known distance between the first accelerometer and the second accelerometer.
US11330386B2
An apparatus for generating one or more audio output channels is provided. The apparatus includes a parameter processor for calculating output channel mixing information and a downmix processor for generating the one or more audio output channels. The downmix processor is configured to receive an audio transport signal including one or more audio transport channels, wherein two or more audio object signals are mixed within the audio transport signal, and wherein the number of the one or more audio transport channels is smaller than the number of the two or more audio object signals. The audio transport signal depends on a first mixing rule and on a second mixing rule. The first mixing rule indicates how to mix the two or more audio object signals to obtain a plurality of premixed channels. Moreover, the second mixing rule indicates how to mix the plurality of premixed channels.
US11330377B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for fitting a sound personalization algorithm using a two-dimensional (2D) graphical fitting interface. A calculated set of initial digital signal processing (DSP) parameters are determined for a given sound personalization algorithm, based on a user hearing profile. The initial DSP parameters are outputted to a 2D graphical fitting interface of an audio personalization application, wherein a first axis represents a level of coloration and a second axis represents a level of compression. A user input specifies a first 2D coordinate selected from a coordinate space presented by the 2D graphical fitting interface. A first set of refined DSP parameters is generated to apply a coloration and/or compression adjustment corresponding to the first 2D coordinate. The given sound personalization algorithm is parameterized with the first set of refined DSP parameters.
US11330375B2
A hearing device, e.g. a hearing aid, adapted for being located at or in an ear, or to be fully or partially implanted in the head, of a user, the hearing device comprises a) an input unit providing at least two input audio data streams, each comprising a mixture of a target signal component from a target sound source and a noise component from one or more noise sources; b) a mixing processor for receiving said at least two input audio data streams, and for mixing said at least two input audio data streams, or processed versions thereof, and for providing a processed input signal based thereon; c) an output unit providing output stimuli perceivable to the user as sound based on said processed input signal or a processed version thereof. The processor is configured to process said noise component of said at least two input audio data streams, or processed versions thereof in order to reduce or avoid artefacts in said processed input signal due to said mixing. A method of operating a hearing device is further disclosed. The invention may e.g. be used in hearing aids, e.g. hearing aids configured to communicate with another device, e.g. binaural hearing aid systems.
US11330371B2
An audio reproduction device and method for audio control based on room-correction (RC) and head related transfer function (HRTF) are provided. The audio reproduction device includes a speaker that reproduces a first audio signal. The audio reproduction device receives a plurality of second audio signals indicative of frequency responses captured based on the first audio signal and captured by a plurality of audio capturing devices positioned on a head wearable device of a user present within an enclosed physical space. The audio reproduction device determines RC preset for one or more RC filters associated with the speaker, based on the captured frequency responses. The audio reproduction device further determines HRTF associated with the user based on the captured frequency responses, and user-specific information of the user. The audio reproduction device further controls audio reproduction of the speaker based on the determined RC preset and the determined HRTF.
US11330364B1
A ported speaker assembly includes an outer enclosure having a front opening. An inner frame of the speaker assembly is positioned at least partially within the outer enclosure and has an outer perimeter edge proximate the front opening of the outer enclosure. A resonator chamber is defined between an interior of the outer enclosure and an exterior of the inner frame. At least one speaker driver is mounted to the inner frame and configured to emit sound from a front end of the ported speaker assembly. A perimeter port is formed between the outer perimeter portion of the inner frame and the front opening of the outer enclosure. The perimeter port extends uninterrupted to encircle the outer perimeter portion. A plurality of fastener joints secure the inner frame to the outer enclosure, and at least some are distributed around multiple sides of the inner frame and positioned closer to the front opening of the outer enclosure than a rear end of the inner frame.
US11330363B2
This application provides a speaker and a mobile terminal. The speaker includes a housing and a kernel located in the housing, where there is a front cavity and a rear cavity in the housing, the front cavity is in communication with the outside, and the rear cavity is an isolated cavity. In addition, to reduce a space area occupied by the entire speaker, the front cavity and the rear cavity are disposed in a stacked manner when being disposed. Specifically, the front cavity and the rear cavity are at least partially stacked along a thickness direction of the kernel. Therefore, the rear cavity is disposed in space of the entire speaker in the thickness direction of the kernel, to reduce an area occupied by the entire speaker in the mobile terminal on the premise that a size of the rear cavity meets a requirement.
US11330355B2
A positioning and retaining structure for an in-ear earpiece. An outer leg and an inner leg are attached to each other at an attachment end and attached to a body of the earpiece at the other end. The outer leg lies in a plane. The positioning and retaining structure have a stiffness that is greater when force is applied to the attachment end in a counterclockwise direction in the plane of the outer leg than when force is applied to the attachment end in a clockwise direction in the plane of the outer leg. The positioning and retaining structure position an earpiece associated with the earpiece in a user's ear and retains the earpiece in its position.
US11330351B2
A portable electronic device can include a housing defining an aperture and a display positioned in the aperture. The display and the housing can define an internal volume and a speaker assembly can be positioned in the internal volume. The speaker assembly can include a speaker enclosure sealed to the housing within the internal volume, the speaker enclosure and the housing defining a speaker volume, and a speaker module in fluid communication with the speaker volume, the speaker module including a diaphragm positioned at an aperture defined by the speaker volume, the diaphragm defining multiple ridges.
US11330347B2
Aspects include receiving past performance data. Aspects also include collecting a set of observations about a live event. Aspects also include generating a stoppage time prediction based on the past performance data and the set of observations about the live event. Aspects also include generating an optimized content sequence based on the stoppage time prediction and a respective duration of each of a plurality of preexisting media files. The optimized content sequence includes a sequence of one or more media files of the plurality of preexisting media files.
US11330345B2
A verification code generation method is performed in an electronic device which is for performing encoding to generate a video/audio stream having multiple data segments. The verification code generation method includes the following steps. Each time one of the data segments is generated by the encoding, a first-level checksum associated with the data segment is generated, and the first-level checksum is recorded in an accompanying verification file. At an interval of every N data segments of the data segments, a second-level checksum is generated for W consecutive first-level checksums, and the second-level checksum is recorded in the accompanying verification file, such that a subsequent verification method can quickly verify integrity of a part of data according to the accompanying verification file. Wherein, W is a positive integer greater than or equal to 2, N is a positive integer greater than 0 and smaller or equal to W.
US11330341B1
An improved backhaul protocol is provided, as well as computer-implemented systems and methods for autonomously broadcasting video data, audio data, or video and audio data during an event, wherein the broadcasting can be scheduled in advance and from a remote location (e.g., using a web browser), and wherein the video/audio data is streamed to a remote user over a network using the improved backhaul protocol.
US11330333B2
A method of supporting Adaptive Bit Rate, ABR, video resolution shaping of a video data stream of a video session transferred by a User Plane Function, UPF, in a Service Based Architecture, SBA, domain. The video resolution shaping is performed by the UPF implementing a Reinforcement Learning Agent, RLA, operating with an observation space having a determined video resolution of a received video data stream, a reward space having a reward referring to a required video resolution, and an action space having video resolution shaping levels to be applied at the received video data stream. Complementary methods and devices for performing such a method in an SBA domain deployed in a telecommunications system are disclosed.
US11330331B2
A system and method for detection of media items matching is disclosed. In an implementation, the method includes identifying a first media item associated with a channel of a first user; determining whether the first media item qualifies as a candidate reference media item based on properties of the first media item and the channel; analyzing content of the first media item to determine whether a first threshold amount of frames of the first media item does not match with any frame of any previously uploaded media item; selecting the first media item as a reference media item; detecting a subsequently uploaded media item that includes at least a second threshold portion of the reference media item; and providing a graphical user interface (GUI) for presentation to the first user, the GUI including the subsequently uploaded media item and one or more actions to be initiated by the first user.
US11330327B2
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for multimedia playback. One of the methods includes: receiving, by a multimedia playback device from a multimedia server, a list indicating a plurality of multimedia files; caching, by the multimedia playback device, the plurality of multimedia files in a cache storage of the multimedia playback device; requesting, by the multimedia playback device from the multimedia server, an indication of a primary multimedia file to be played by the multimedia playback device; determining, by the multimedia playback device, a secondary multimedia file from the plurality of multimedia files to be played by the multimedia playback device; and playing, by the multimedia playback device, the secondary multimedia file when a playback condition of playing the secondary multimedia file is satisfied.
US11330321B2
Disclosed are a method for adjusting a video parameter based on voiceprint recognition, a device for adjusting a video parameter based on voiceprint recognition and a readable storage medium, where the method includes: during a video program is displayed on a smart terminal, receiving audio information collected by a voiceprint data collection module; in a determination that a voiceprint feature library includes target preset audio information corresponding to the audio information, determining user identity information and user mood information corresponding to the audio information based on the target preset audio information; acquiring an adjustment parameter of a parameter adjustment mode corresponding to the user mood information, and acquiring an adjustment ratio corresponding to the parameter adjustment mode based on the user identity information; and adjusting a video playback parameter of the smart terminal based on the adjustment parameter and the adjustment ratio.
US11330320B2
Provided are a display device and a screen display method for of the display device. In detail, disclosed are a display device capable of controlling a screen thereof through voice recognition, and a screen display method of the display device. Some of the disclosed embodiments provide a display device for displaying, on the screen, a recommendation guide corresponding to the voice recognition result, and a screen display method of the display device.
US11330318B2
A method for managing a device able to communicate with at least one terminal of a user. The terminal is able to process and render data associated with the device via a rendering application. The method includes the following steps on the device: transmitting, to the terminal, a command to activate the data rendering application; and transmitting the data to the terminal.
US11330311B2
Aspects of the disclosure include a receiving device that includes a receiving unit, a decoder, and a processing unit. The receiving unit receives a predetermined number of video streams containing encoded image data of a plurality of images of a multi-image-arrangement distribution service, position information being inserted in the predetermined number of video streams, and the position information showing arrangement positions of the plurality of images. The decoder unit decodes the predetermined number of video streams, and obtains image data of the plurality of images. The processing unit arranges image data of the plurality of decoded images based on the position information, and obtains image data of a multi-image-arranged image.
US11330306B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for video encoding/decoding. In some examples, an apparatus for video decoding includes receiving circuitry and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry receives coded information of a block that is encoded in a palette based coding mode. The block is a beginning of a predefined coding region that includes one or more coding tree units (CTUs). The processing circuitry further determines a palette for the block independently of palette information of one or more previously decoded blocks of the palette based coding mode, and decodes pixels of the block based on the coded information of the block and the determined palette for the block.
US11330300B2
The present technology relates to an encoding device, an encoding method, a decoding device, and a decoding method capable of improving the coding efficiency of an image of a plurality of viewpoints. A motion parallax prediction/compensation unit sets first image specifying information specifying a first image of a viewpoint present in a first direction from a viewpoint of a current coding image and second image specifying information specifying a second image of a viewpoint present in a second direction opposite to the first direction in a list (L0) in first order and sets the first image specifying information and the second image specifying information in a list (L1) in second order that is different from the first order. The motion parallax prediction/compensation unit and a calculation unit generate coded data by coding the current coding image based on the lists (L0 and L1). The present technology, for example, can be applied to an encoding device that codes a 3D image and the like.
US11330297B2
Methods incorporating extensions to copy-above mode for palette mode coding are disclosed. In one aspect, the method includes coding a current pixel of a current block of video data in copy-previous mode via coding a previous line index. The coding of the current pixel in copy-previous mode further including identifying a number of candidate values for the previous line index, identifying a number of escape pixels in a column of pixels above the current pixel in the current block, and reducing a number of candidate values of the previous line index by the number of identified escape pixels.
US11330296B2
Systems and methods for improving operational efficiency of a video encoding system used to encode image data are provided. In embodiments, a video encoding system includes image processing circuitry configured to receive source image data and derive full-resolution image data and low-resolution image data from the source image data. The video encoding system also includes a low resolution pipeline configured to receive the low-resolution image data and determine one or more low resolution inter prediction modes based on the low-resolution image data. Furthermore, the video encoding system includes a main pipeline configured to encode the full-resolution image data based on the one or more low resolution inter prediction modes.
US11330293B2
A method of scaling complexity of a video processing system including determining a power saving factor based on an operating parameter and adjusting processing of video information based on the power saving factor to reduce computation complexity. The operating parameter may include available power and/or available processing capacity. A method of complexity scalability for a video processing system using prioritized layered coding including determining a power saving factor based on one or more metrics, such as power capacity and/or available processing capacity, and reducing processing complexity of multiple prioritized coding functions in a predetermined order of priority based on the level of the power saving factor. A video processing system including a power management circuit which determines the power saving factor and a video encoder system which correspondingly adjusts computation complexity.
US11330290B2
A video decoding method according to the present disclosure includes the steps of: generating a merge candidate list for a current block; determining a merge candidate for the current block among merge candidates included in the merge candidate list; deriving an offset vector for the current block; and deriving a motion vector for the current block by adding the offset vector to a motion vector of the merge candidate.
US11330284B2
In an example, a method of processing video data includes splitting a current block of video data into a plurality of sub-blocks for deriving motion information of the current block, where the motion information indicates motion of the current block relative to reference video data. The method also includes deriving, separately for each respective sub-block of the plurality of sub-blocks, motion information comprising performing a motion search for a first set of reference data that corresponds to a second set of reference data outside of each respective sub-block. The method also includes decoding the plurality of sub-blocks based on the derived motion information and without decoding syntax elements representative of the motion information.
US11330278B2
A processing for a first pixel in a picture comprises setting upper and/or lower limits of a first color component of the first pixel in a first color space to a respective fixed value if a maximum and/or minimum value of the first color component in the first color space results in a color component in a second color space that is below a first value of the color component in the second color space and above a second value of the color component in the second color space. A filtered value is obtained of the first color component and which is equal to or larger than the lower limit and equal to or lower than the upper limit. The processing results in filtered values that are cheaper to encode but that are visibly undistinguishable from the original colors of the pixels.
US11330277B2
Method and apparatus for constrained de-blocking filter are disclosed. According to one method, if a CU is partitioned into multiple sub-CUs, the de-blocking process is also applied to the sub-block boundaries inside the current filtered-reconstructed block. According to another method, if first reference samples used for the de-blocking process of a first boundary are to be modified by the de-blocking process of a second boundary, the first reference samples are replaced by padding samples that are not to be modified by the de-blocking process of the second boundary. According to yet another method, the de-blocking process is applied to a reconstructed block corresponding to a current block to result in a current filtered-reconstructed block regardless whether a boundary of the current block corresponds to an 8×8 sample grid boundaries.
US11330270B2
Temporal domain rate distortion optimization considering coding-mode adaptive distortion propagation
A temporal domain rate distortion optimization considering a coding-mode adaptive distortion propagation is provided. A problem of dependency rate distortion optimization based on a temporal domain distortion propagation is induced again according to a temporal domain dependency relationship under an LD structure and a distortion propagation analysis under a skip mode and an inter mode; and an aggregation distortion of a current coding unit and an affected future coding unit are estimated and a propagation factor of a coding unit in a temporal domain distortion propagation model is calculated by constructing a time propagation chain, wherein a Lagrange multiplier is adjusted through an accurate propagation factor to realize a temporal domain dependency rate distortion optimization, and an I frame is subjected to a secondary coding technology to realize the temporal domain dependency rate distortion optimization of the I frame.
US11330266B2
A method, computer program, and computer system is provided for encoding or decoding video data. Video data including a chroma component and a luma component is received. One or more contexts for entropy coding chroma intra prediction modes are identified based on a co-located luma block at one or more pre-defined positions. The video data is decoded based on the identified contexts.
US11330263B1
Techniques for machine learning based coded size estimation in rate control of video encoding are described. An encoder in accordance with various embodiments uses one or more machine learning approaches to facilitate the rate control of video encoding. When training one or more neural network models, the relationship between the coded size and unit characteristics (e.g., picture pixels and/or picture features) is learned from past encoding. The encoder then uses the trained model(s) to estimate the coded size through model inference with improved accuracy. In some embodiments, the trained model(s) are integrated into the encoder for direct model inference. The direct model inference reduces the overhead of referencing application programming interfaces (APIs) provided by a separate machine learning platform, thus making the rate control methods and systems described herein useful in real time video encoding.
US11330255B2
According to the present disclosure, a video decoding method performed by a video decoding device includes parsing remaining intra prediction mode information for a current block, deriving neighboring samples of the current block, deriving MPM list including MPM candidates of the current block, deriving an intra prediction mode of the current block based on the remaining intra prediction mode information, wherein the intra prediction mode is one of remaining intra prediction modes excluding the MPM candidates, deriving a prediction sample of the current block based on the intra prediction mode and the neighboring samples, and deriving a reconstructed picture based on the prediction sample, wherein the remaining intra prediction mode information is coded through a truncated binary (TB) binarization process, and wherein a binarization parameter for the TB binarization process is 60.
US11330254B2
The embodiments of this application relate to a video encoding method performed at a computer device. The video encoding method includes: during video encoding, obtaining an input video sequence; selecting, from candidate video sequence encoding modes, a target video sequence encoding mode corresponding to the input video sequence, the candidate video sequence encoding modes including a constant-resolution encoding mode and a mixed-resolution encoding mode; and encoding each input video frame of the input video sequence according to the target video sequence encoding mode, to obtain encoded data.
US11330252B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, transmitting viewpoint information associated with a first portion of a three-dimensional (3D)/volumetric video to a device, wherein the viewpoint information comprises a first coordinate in 3D space associated with a first viewing direction in a playback of the first portion and a first timestamp associated with the first portion, receiving, from the device, a multiplane image (MPI) representation of a second portion of the 3D video responsive to the transmitting of the viewpoint information, and providing an image of the MPI representation to a display device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11330250B2
A three-dimensional display device configured to display a main image and an additional image on a screen includes a display region candidate decider that decides one candidate region from a plurality of region candidates for the additional image to be superimposed on the main image on the screen, a depth suitability determiner that determines whether a difference between a depth of the main image displayed at a boundary region and a depth of the additional image is within a predetermined tolerance range, and an image composer that, when the difference in depth between the depth of the main image displayed at the boundary region and the depth of the additional image is within the tolerance range, superimposes the additional image upon the main image at the candidate region, thereby composing a composite image of the main image and the additional image, and displays the composite image on the screen.
US11330242B2
Embodiments are described which exploit a finding, according to which a higher compression rate or better rate/distortion ratio may be achieved by adopting or predicting second coding parameters used for encoding a second view of the multi-view signal from first coding parameters used in encoding a first view of the multi-view signal. In other words, the inventors found out that the redundancies between views of a multi-view signal are not restricted to the views themselves, such as the video information thereof, but that the coding parameters in parallely encoding these views show similarities which may be exploited in order to further improve the coding rate.
US11330232B1
Systems and methods for managing current flow in a power circuit used to dynamically share power are disclosed. A Zener diode may automatically adjust current flow in the power circuit. If the power circuit has not received sufficient current for dynamic power sharing, the Zener diode may draw additional current from a power source. An electrical current in the power circuit may be divided into a plurality of current loads. Each of the plurality of current loads may be directed through a different path in the power circuit.
US11330223B2
The present disclosure describes a display apparatus. The display apparatus includes a power source, a power supply circuit, a load and a control circuit. The power source is configured to supply electric power to the load. The power supply circuit connects the power source and the load respectively, and configured to turn on or off an electric path between the power source and the load. The control circuit connects with the power source and the power supply circuit respectively and configured to control the power source circuit to determine whether the power supply supplies power to the load.
US11330222B2
A display apparatus is provided, which includes a USB Type-C connector, display panel, a multiplexing circuit, a switch circuit, and a display controller. The USB Type-C connector is connected to a portable device, wherein a USB signal between the display apparatus and the portable device includes an image-transmission channel and a data-transmission channel. The multiplexing circuit separates the image-transmission channel from the data-transmission channel. The display controller controls a display mode of the display panel. In response to the display panel being in a first display mode, the display controller transmits a control signal to the switch circuit to control the multiplexing circuit to switch to a first operation mode. In response to the multiplexing circuit being in the first operation mode, the portable device acts as a host terminal in the image-transmission channel, and acts as a device terminal in the data-transmission channel.
US11330215B2
A distributed, parallel, image capture and processing architecture provides significant advantages over prior art systems. A very large array of computational circuits—in some embodiments, matching the size of the pixel array—is distributed around, within, or beneath the pixel array of an image sensor. Each computational circuit is dedicated to, and in some embodiments is physically proximal to, one, two, or more associated pixels. Each computational circuit is operative to perform computations on one, two, or more pixel values generated by its associated pixels. The computational circuits all perform the same operation(s), in parallel. In this manner, a very large number of pixel-level operations are performed in parallel, physically and electrically near the pixels. This obviates the need to transfer very large amounts of pixel data from a pixel array to a CPU/memory, thus alleviating the significant high-speed performance constraints placed on modern image sensors.
US11330214B2
A comparator is provided to comprise a comparison circuit including a first transistor configured to receive a ramp signal and a second transistor configured to receive a pixel signal, the comparison circuit configured to compare the ramp signal and the pixel signal and output a comparison signal at an output node, and an output swing control circuit including a third transistor coupled to the first transistor and the second transistor, and the output swing control circuit including a current path to decrease an amount of current flowing through the second transistor.
US11330213B2
An imaging device with low power consumption is provided. It includes a pixel capable of outputting difference data between two different frames, a circuit determining the significance of the difference data, a circuit controlling power supply, an A/D converter, and the like; obtains image data and then obtains difference data; and shuts off power supply to the A/D converter and the like in the case where it is determined that there is no difference, and continues or restarts the power supply to the A/D converter and the like when it is determined that there is a difference. Determining the significance of the difference data can be performed row by row in a pixel array or at nearly the same time in all the pixels included in the pixel array.
US11330209B2
The present technology relates to an imaging device and an electronic device that enable highly accurate adjustment of a focus position and a camera shake correction position. The device includes: a lens that focuses subject light; an imaging element that photoelectrically converts the subject light from the lens; a circuit substrate including a circuit that externally outputs a signal from the imaging element; an actuator that drives the lens with a Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) waveform in at least one of an X-axis direction, a Y-axis direction, or a Z-axis direction; and a detection unit that detects a magnetic field generated by a coil included in the actuator. The actuator drives the lens to move a focus, or drives the lens to reduce an influence of camera shake. The present technology can be applied to the imaging device.
US11330208B2
Flare compensation includes obtaining a first input frame, which includes lens flare, and a second input frame; obtaining a stitch line between the first input frame and the second input frame; obtaining, for the first input frame, a first intensity profile; obtaining, for the second input frame, a second intensity profile; obtaining an intensity differences profile; obtaining a first dark corner profile based on a first illumination of a first area outside a first image circle of the first input frame; obtaining a second dark corner profile based on a second illumination of a second area outside a second image circle of the second input frame; obtaining a dark corner difference profile; calculating a flare model; obtaining a flare mask; and correcting the first input frame by subtracting the flare mask from the first input frame.
US11330199B2
Techniques related to a method and system of adaptable exposure control and light projection for cameras are described herein.
US11330197B2
An electronic device according to various embodiments of the present invention comprises a camera, a communication module, a display and a processor, wherein the processor can be set so as to: acquire a raw image corresponding to an external object by using the camera; generate a first level image having a first attribute and a second level image having a second attribute by using the raw image; transmit a first image, in which at least a part of the first level image is encoded, to an external electronic device by using the communication module such that the external electronic device generates analysis information on the first image; and generate a second image, in which at least a part of the second level image is encoded, on the basis of at least the analysis information, and transmit the second image to the external electronic device by using the communication module. Other embodiments could be possible in addition to the various embodiments of the present invention.
US11330196B2
Technology is described herein that uses an object-encoding system to convert an object image into a combined encoding. The object image depicts a reference object, while the combined encoding represents an environment image. The environment image, in turn, depicts an estimate of an environment that has produced the illumination effects exhibited by the reference object. The combined encoding includes: a first part that represents image content in the environment image within a high range of intensities values; and a second part that represents image content within a low range of intensity values. Also described herein is a training system that trains the object-encoding system based on combined encodings produced by a separately-trained environment-encoding system. Also described herein are various applications of the object-encoding system and environment-encoding system.
US11330188B2
There is provided a camera of which operability is good regardless of the brightness of the surrounding environment. The brightness of the surrounding environment is detected by a brightness detection unit provided in a camera. The contents of settings of the camera are displayed on a sub-display 18 in a situation in which the surrounding environment is bright. The contents of settings of the camera and an image representing the set state of a shutter speed dial 33 are displayed on the sub-display 18 in a case in which the surrounding environment is dark.
US11330186B2
Provided is a biaxial tilting device, a camera device, and an electronic apparatus, which enable suppression of shaking of a camera unit. A biaxial tilting device includes: a frame body including a back plate opposed to a bottom surface of a member to be tilted across a space; a plurality of suspension springs made of a shape memory alloy, which are configured to connect the bottom surface and the back plate to each other; and a current supply control unit configured to supply currents to the plurality of suspension springs.
US11330183B2
A shake correction device including a driven body, a first actuator that is extendable and contractible in a first direction, a second actuator that is extendable and contractible in a second direction, a support that supports the driven body via the first actuator and the second actuator, a first connection mechanism unit that connects at least either between the first actuator and the driven body or between the first actuator and the support, and a second connection mechanism unit that connects at least either between the second actuator and the driven body or between the second actuator and the support. The first connection mechanism unit and the second connection mechanism unit have at least one degree of rotational freedom.
US11330175B2
An image capture apparatus capable of charging a battery. The image capture apparatus includes a connection unit that receives power from a power supply device, a charging control unit that charges the battery by using power received from the power supply device, a power supply control unit that supplies power to components of the image capture apparatus by using power received from the power supply device, and a control unit that controls charging of the battery and power supply to the components of the image capture apparatus by using power received from the power supply device, according to whether or not an operating mode of the image capture apparatus is restricted due to heat from the battery.
US11330173B2
A method includes receiving one or more panoramic image processing parameters from a remote terminal, controlling a carrier to rotate an image capturing device about a first axis of the carrier while causing the image capturing device to capture a plurality of images based at least in part on the one or more panoramic image processing parameters, and stabilizing the image capturing device against motions with respect to a second axis or a third axis of the carrier while the image capturing device is rotating about the first axis of the carrier. The image capturing device is coupled to an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) via the carrier.
US11330168B2
The present invention discloses an image capture device comprising, an image capture unit, an image-capture control unit for controlling pan, tilt, and zoom (PTZ) when an image is captured, a storage unit for storing a set value of the PTZ for capturing an image of a predetermined region in an image-capture area of the image capture unit, and region information that specifies a detection region for detecting an object in a captured image, an reception unit for receiving a deletion instruction to delete the set value from an information processing device, and a processing unit for deleting the set value from the storage unit if the set value for which the deletion instruction has been received is not associated with the region information.
US11330163B2
In an embodiment, a camera sensor module is communicatively coupled to a vision processing system. The camera sensor module captures a plurality of exposures, produces an HDR-combined stream, and sends both the HDR-combined stream and the plurality of exposures to the vision processing system. A first ISP of the vision processing system performs color processing to produce a color-processed HDR-combined stream for neural network processing, presentation to a human, and/or computer vision processing. At least one other ISP of the vision processing system performs color processing to collect exposure-specific statistics on at least one of the plurality of exposures for determining camera calibration data for the camera sensor module.
US11330162B2
A technology is provided in which moving objects positioned at a different place and having more than the number of the cameras are displayed on a display device. The present invention is directed to a moving object imaging device including a camera, a deflection unit, a controller configured to control the camera and the deflection unit, an imaging processing part, and an imaging display part, thereby imaging the moving object in a sequentially repeating manner and creating moving image data based upon images acquired by the image processing part to display the created moving image data on the image display part.
US11330152B2
The present invention discloses an image data transmission apparatus. The lock confirmation circuit receives an original signal having an original pulse width from the image data reception apparatus to generate an output signal. The image data transmission circuit determines that the image data reception apparatus locks a transmission frequency when an output pulse width is larger than a pulse threshold value to perform a synchronous image data transmission. The lock confirmation circuit sets the output pulse width to be a lengthened pulse width when a difference between the original pulse width and the pulse threshold value is smaller than a predetermined value and the original pulse width is not smaller than the pulse threshold value. The lock confirmation circuit sets the output pulse width to be a shortened pulse width when the difference is smaller than the predetermined value and the original pulse width is smaller than the pulse threshold value.
US11330151B2
An apparatus, method and computer program product for receiving captured visual information comprising a representation of an object, receiving captured audio information associated with the object, determining a user awareness parameter indicating a level of user comprehension of a context of capturing the visual information and the audio information and selecting, based on the user awareness parameter, a type of synchronization of the captured audio information with respect to the captured visual information.
US11330148B2
Provided is an image processing device which has: an image input part configured to input a multi-spectral image which includes N (N is an integer of 4 or more) channels corresponding to N bands; a reference vector setting part configured to cause a user to set, as three reference vectors, three types of N-dimensional vectors having sensitivities of the respective N bands as elements; and a conversion part configured to convert the multi-spectral image into a 3-channel image including three channels by decomposing a spectral distribution of each pixel of the multi-spectral image on the basis of the three reference vectors.
US11330143B2
A communication device including: a transmission file setter which sets an upper limit value of a capacity of a file transmittable by e-mail; a transmission page setter which sets a page count of a transmission file; a communicator which divides, when the transmission file including multiple pages exceeds the upper limit value, the transmission file into multiple divided transmission files, and transmits the divided transmission files; a transmission setter which receives a combining configuration file for combining the divided transmission files, and the setting of a combining tool; and a controller which controls the transmission file setter, the transmission page setter, and the communicator. When the communicator transmits the plurality of divided transmission files, the controller causes the communicator to also transmit the combining configuration file and the combining tool for creating a file of the page count, in accordance with the setting of the transmission setter.
US11330130B2
An image processing apparatus includes a flow execution unit configured to receive, in response to an instruction from a user to start an application installed in the image processing apparatus, a request to register a flow from the application; store information for identifying functions included in the flow and an execution order of the functions; switchably display setting screens for the respective functions included in the flow in response to a request from the application to execute the flow; and execute the functions identified based on the stored information in the stored execution order based on setting information input on the setting screens for the respective functions.
US11330129B2
In an image forming system provided with a plurality of image forming apparatuses, at least one of the image forming apparatuses takes over an application owned by other the image forming apparatus, and acquires, from a transfer source, the number of times of application use indicating the number of times of using the application in the image forming apparatus being the transfer source of the application. When execution of the application is finished, the image forming apparatus determines between the image forming apparatus itself, and the transfer source of the application, in which the number of times of application use of the application is larger, based on the number of times of application use acquired from the transfer source, and transfers the application to the transfer source, when the transfer source has a larger number of times of application use than the transfer destination.
US11330128B2
Adjustment image data is for use in adjusting imaging operation. The adjustment image data is stored in a storage of an image forming apparatus and read from the storage to form an image on a sheet of paper at the time of adjusting an imaging operation of the image forming apparatus. The adjustment image data includes a single identification mark located in the vicinity of a longitudinal center of the sheet of paper.
US11330123B2
An information processing device includes a processor configured to receive an addition of additional information by an administrator, and cause a display position of an image representing the additional information to be restricted in a case where an important attribute indicating importance is assigned to the additional information.
US11330111B2
The present disclosure is directed to using distributed ledger architectures to for exchange of wireless communication services. In one example, a distributed ledger system for facilitating an exchange among wireless service providers includes a plurality of wireless service providers and a plurality of nodes. Each of the plurality of nodes is configured to facilitate an exchange between a first wireless service provider and a second wireless service provider for roaming services; generate a recording of terms and conditions of the exchange between the first wireless service provider and the second wireless service provider to yield an agreement; record the agreement on the distributed ledger system; facilitate independent evaluation of performance parameters of the exchange by each of the first wireless service provider and the second wireless service provider to independently evaluate performance parameters of the exchange; and trigger settlement for the exchange based on the independent evaluation of the performance parameters by the first and second wireless service providers.
US11330106B1
System and methods for classifying free-form occupation inputs into prescribed occupation inputs are provided. In one embodiment, a machine receives an occupation; generates a meaning vector; compares the meaning vector against meaning vectors associated with a prescribed set of occupations; determines meaning scores for the prescribed set of occupations based upon an affinity between vector and the vectors associated with the prescribed set of occupations; selects a subset of the prescribed set of occupations based upon the meaning scores for the prescribed set of occupations; presents a selectable list of the subset of prescribed occupations; receives an indication of a selection a particular prescribed occupation for the selectable list; and provides the particular prescribed occupation to a downstream-processing system that is configured to only handle occupations in prescribed set of occupations.
US11330101B2
Methods and apparatuses for managing spoofed calls to a mobile device are described, in which the mobile device receives a call transmitted over a cellular or mobile network. The call may include a set of information associated with the network, such as a geological location of a device that generated the call, a hardware device identifier corresponding to the device, an internet protocol (IP) address associated with the device, or a combination thereof. The mobile device may determine whether the call is spoofed or genuine based on the set of information. Subsequently, the mobile device may assist a user of the mobile device to manage the call, such as blocking the call from reaching the user, informing the user that the call is spoofed, facilitating the user to report the call as spoofed to an authority and/or a service provider of the network.
US11330095B2
An emergency kit (10A), including an apparatus (38A) including: a long-range communication device including a unique identity module (30A), for receiving (24) a status of the apparatus (38A) from another long-range communication device (26B); and a visual/vocal/transmitting device (16A), for being turned on once the status is active, thereby the apparatus (38A) indicates a first location of an emergency event setting the active status.
US11330086B2
Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, systems and/or methods of negotiating a range measurement protocol. For example, an initiator station may be configured to transmit a negotiation request message to a responder station and receive a negotiation response message from the responder station to negotiate a range measurement protocol to perform a range measurement procedure with the responder station, the negotiation request message including an initiator protocol element including an indication of one or more initiator range measurement protocols supported by the initiator station, the negotiation response message including a compatibility indication to indicate whether or not at least one of the initiator range measurement protocols is compatible with at least one responder range measurement protocol supported by the responder station; and based on the compatibility indication, select to perform the range measurement procedure with the responder station or to abort communication with the responder station.
US11330084B2
Communication apparatus includes a transceiver configured to transmit and receive signals over a wireless channel in accordance with both a first communication protocol and a second communication protocol, the second communication protocol being backward-compatible with the first communication protocol. The transceiver is configured to provide capabilities that are supported by the second communication protocol but are not supported by the first communication protocol. A communication controller is configured to generate data frames for transmission by the transceiver. The date frames include frame headers that are compatible with the first communication protocol while including, in a specified field of the frame headers, a predefined value indicating that the apparatus is capable of communicating in accordance with the second communication protocol.
US11330083B2
A transformation device installed in a vehicle includes a transformation section, a transmission section, a detection section and a control section. The transformation section transforms data transmitted from a first control device in a first communication protocol to data in a second communication protocol. The transmission section transmits the data transformed by the transformation section to a second control device. The detection section detects an update of one or more of the first control device and the second control device. In a case in which an update of at least one of the first control device or the second control device is detected by the detection section, the control section changes a mode of transformation by the transformation section.
US11330080B2
Downloadable pluggable services and methods of distributing the same are described. The downloadable pluggable services may correspond to communication services that can be downloaded to upgrade a communication system. The downloadable pluggable services may include a number of component parts that can be distributed among various servers in the communication system being upgraded along with instructions that enable the component parts to instruct each server in the communication system to operate in a coordinated fashion so as to provide the downloaded service.
US11330079B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for distributing an application across multiple nodes. An embodiment operates by determining a first local state of a first bundle and a second local state of a second bundle, wherein the application comprises the first bundle and the second bundle. The embodiment calculates the first bundle is to be stored at a first node and the second bundle is to be stored at a second node based on a first level configuration file and a second level configuration file. The embodiment compares the first local state of the first bundle to a first remote state of the first node and the second local state of the second bundle to a second remote state of the second node. The embodiment then transmits the first bundle to the first node and the second bundle to the second node.
US11330078B1
Techniques described herein relate to a method for deploying workflows with data management services. The method may include identifying a service update event; identifying a service sub-tree based on a service call graph; generating an update sequence for the service sub-tree; predicting an update window for the service sub-tree; selecting a first service of the service sub-tree based on the update sequence, wherein the first service includes a first standby service instance and a first active service instance; generating a backup of a first portion of a services shared data volume repository associated with the first service; applying an update to the first standby service instance to obtain a first updated active service instance; making a first determination that a first performance and reliability check associated with the first updated active service instance is below a threshold; applying the update to a second standby service instance.
US11330073B1
Disclosed herein is a system, method, and computer program product for dynamically altering message rates through a transport. The system, method, and computer program product continually operates a transport and analyzes trend data using a moving average of producer rates and consumer rates. Keeping message flow at an optimal rate as system conditions vary throughout time enables efficient delivery of messages through multiple subsystems and intermediary transports to the messages' manifold endpoints.
US11330072B2
A networked data capturing device is provided, which implements a method of automatically distributing test data output by a laboratory equipment device, wherein the test data is representative of testing performed by the laboratory equipment device and formatted according to an application layer protocol, across a network. The networked data capturing device comprises networking means for connecting to one or more emote servers over networks, a local data input interface for connecting to the laboratory equipment device, and is configured to listen for and automatically obtain the test data through the local data input interface, to process the obtained data into an alternative format according to a remote parameterisation of the device, and to automatically communicate the processed data to at least one remote server with the networking means.
US11330071B2
An inter-process communication (IPC) system, includes a first client engine, a first server engine, and a broker engine that is coupled to the first client engine. The broker engine initiates a first timer that is configured to reset when traffic is received from the first server engine while the first server engine is registered with the broker engine and coupled to the broker engine via a communication channel. The traffic that causes the first timer to reset includes at least one of: traffic generated by the first client engine to complete a request, and a first server-to-broker heartbeat message generated by the first server engine. The broker engine determines that the first timer has reached a predefined time amount, and in response, removes the registration of the first server engine and removes the communication channel between the broker engine and the first server engine.
US11330067B1
As described herein, a system, method, and computer program are provided for a platform managing service provisioning for a communication service provider (CSP) and digital content partner integration. In use, a digital content partner is onboarded to a platform. Additionally, CSP is onboarded to the platform. Further, service provisioning for an integration of the CSP and the digital content partner is managed by the platform.
US11330065B2
A method for application connection includes receiving, by a first electronic device, a list of application active sessions based on the active sessions being in an area of a global positioning system (GPS) location of the first electronic device. The first electronic device receives a selection of an active session associated with a first application running on a second electronic device. In response to the selection of the active session, the first electronic device receives information including at least a service set identification (SSID) and a network security key associated with the secure local network. The first electronic device connects to the secure local network without user input of the SSID and the network security key from a user of the first electronic device. The first electronic device connects to the first application running on the second electronic device via the secure local network.
US11330063B2
The 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 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 disclosure provides a method for supporting re-authentication of a PDU session generated through DN authentication/authorization with a DN-AAA server, and a method and an apparatus for managing a corresponding PDU session if DN authorization information is updated at the time of re-authentication.
US11330062B2
A personal protection equipment (PPE) system with a remote user interface comprises an article of PPE including an active wireless communication device for transmitting a signal and a controller for managing settings on the article of PPE; and a communication hub including a user interface, an electronic connection to a PPE management software, and a wireless communication device. When the wireless communication device of the communication hub detects that the article of PPE is in proximity to the communication hub, the hub displays information on the user interface. The user interface displays settings for the article of PPE, and the settings can be adjusted by a user through interaction with the user interface. The wireless communication device of the communication hub transmits information related to the adjusted settings to the wireless communication device of the article of PPE; and the controller adjusts the settings on the article of PPE.
US11330056B2
A possible performance bottleneck associated with insufficient network bands is mitigated to allow improvement of access performance of a storage system. A storage system includes a first node with a storage medium of storage and a plurality of second nodes each with a controller function for the storage, and is communicatively connected to a host providing an access request to the storage. One of the plurality of second nodes is determined to be a node to which a controller function executing access processing on the storage is assigned on the basis of a first amount of data transfer between the second node and the host and a second amount of data transfer between the second node and the first node.
US11330036B2
Systems and methods for allocating communication resources via information technology infrastructure
The present disclosure is directed to allocating communication resources via information technology infrastructure. A system can provide a communication tag and an analytics tag for integration in a web site. The system can receive a request to allocate a phone number generated based on an interaction between the communication tag and the analytics tag. The request can include a first field comprising the communication endpoint identifier, a second field comprising the site identifier for the web site, and a third field comprising a session identifier for the computing device. The system can determine a virtual phone number to assign to a combination of the values of the fields provided in the request, and create a link between the assigned virtual number and the combination. The system can provide the assigned virtual phone number to the computing device that initiated the request.
US11330026B1
Methods and systems relate to a method for providing concurrent sharing of screen elements by multiple users within a communication session. First, a system connects multiple participants of a communication session. The system receives, from a first participant, a request to initiate sharing of one or more screen elements from a user device associated with the first participant. In response to the request, the system captures and displays the one or more screen elements from the user device of the first participant to the communication interfaces of the other participants. The system then receives, from one or more additional participants of the communication session, additional requests to initiate sharing of one or more additional screen elements. In response, the system captures and displays the additional screen elements of the additional participants to the communication interfaces of the other participants, such that multiple screen elements from multiple users are displayed concurrently.
US11330020B2
In various embodiments, an electronic device comprising a communication circuit, a processor, and a memory is disclosed. The memory may store instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to transmit, to a network, a first session initiation protocol (SIP) invite message including at least one dummy value by using the communication circuit, obtain channel state information by using the communication circuit, determine a codec for performing a packet based call on the basis of channel state information, and transmit, to the network, a second SIP invite message including information of the determined codec by using the communication circuit. Various other embodiments are also possible which are known from the specification.
US11330011B2
A method of detecting patterns for automated filtering of data is provided. The method includes receiving network traffic including bad traffic and good traffic, wherein an attack is known to be applied to the bad traffic, and the good traffic is known to be free of an applied attack. Processing the good and bad traffic includes generating, for each unique packet, each potential unique combination of the packet's fields, storing each combination with associated bad match and good match counters, and incrementing a combination's respective good and bad match counters for each occurrence it matches one of the packets of the respective good and bad traffic. The combinations are sorted based on the good match counter associated with each combination, a number of fields in each combination, and the bad match counter associated with each combination. One or more combination is selected based on results of the sorting for provision to a network traffic filtering component.
US11330010B2
Systems and methods are described for detecting compromised web pages and domains by analyzing of elements of hypertext markup language (HTML) files of a domain. In one embodiment, a security service receives a request including a potentially malicious uniform resource locator (URL) and retrieves a first HTML file to which the potentially malicious URL points and a second HTML file to which a host URL corresponding to the potentially malicious URL points. The security service determines whether the potentially malicious URL is a malicious URL by comparing features of the first HTML file to corresponding features of the second HTML file and when a similarity value resulting from the comparing is less than a threshold, then the security service concludes that the first HTML file was created by a malicious actor and responds to the request with an indication that the potentially malicious URL is a malicious URL.
US11330003B1
A secure messaging platform for an enterprise environment is disclosed. The secure messaging platform enables users to exchange encrypted communications. Further, the secure messaging platform allows enterprise platforms to review the encrypted communications to ensure that they comply with company policies. Messages that comply with company policies may be provided to their intended recipients, while messages that fail to comply with company policies are not provided to their intended recipients. Additionally, the encrypted communications may be retained for a predetermined time.
US11329998B1
The system and method disclosed performs entity authentication through identification proofing. A relying party such as a corporation or other type of entity having a secure website, computer network and secure facility working a risk engine can determine the authenticity, validation and verification during registration of a user entity. The identification proofing is integrated with a risk engine. The risk engine is capable of using bio-behavior based information which may be continuously monitored.
US11329997B2
A delivering email system is configured to receive a request to send an email to a recipient, identify an authentication method of a sender account for the email, modify email headers of the email to include an indication of the authentication method, generate digital signatures for the email that include the email headers within a scope of the digital signatures, modify the email such that an email header of the email includes the digital signatures, and transmit the email, including the indication of the authentication method and the digital signatures, to the recipient at a receiving email system. The receiving email system is configured to receive the email, determine that the email headers are unaltered by validating the digital signatures against a public key of the sender domain, determine whether the authentication method indicated meets a criteria, and execute a security response against the email if not.
US11329991B2
Systems and methods for managing access to computing services include an access manager that receives a request to modify a configuration of a computing service to a new configuration. The access manger stores a previous configuration of the computing service, updates the configuration of the computing service from the previous configuration to the new configuration based on information representing the new configuration, and starts a service request timer for the computing service. The access manager receives a subsequent request. When the subsequent request is a reconnect request, the access manager deletes the stored previous configuration. When the subsequent request is not a reconnect request or a new request the access manager returns an error when the service request timer has not expired, or sets the configuration of the computing service to the previous configuration of the computing service when the timer has expired.
US11329987B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to protecting enterprise computing resources by implementing an optical air gap system. A computing platform may receive, from an external communications server, a message. The computing platform then may generate an image representation of the message received from the external communications server. Subsequently, the computing platform may execute an optical character recognition (OCR) process on the image representation of the message, which may produce a recreated message. Then, the computing platform may validate contents of the recreated message. Based on validating the contents of the recreated message, the computing platform may send, to an enterprise communications server, the recreated message, and sending the recreated message to the enterprise communications server may cause the enterprise communications server to deliver the recreated message to at least one enterprise user computing device.
US11329983B2
The present disclosure includes apparatuses, methods, and systems for validating an electronic control unit of a vehicle. An embodiment includes a memory, and circuitry configured to generate a run-time cryptographic hash based on an identification (ID) number of an electronic control unit of a vehicle and compare the run-time cryptographic hash with a cryptographic hash stored in a portion of the memory.
US11329982B2
Systems and methods are described herein for provisioning a home automation hub, or one or more of IoT devices, with blockchain nodes (or sub-nodes). The hub, an IoT device, and/or a group of IoT devices can perform operations similar to a node on a blockchain network. The operations can include blockchain transactions and other operations, such as transactions performed to verify or confirm an IoT device is authorized to be part of the shared network and thus is authorized to connect to the hub.
US11329967B2
A system and method of provisioning personalization data of a second type to a device having personalization data of a first type, the device having a global root key GK_0, and a secure processing environment having unique information is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises accepting a provisioning request from the device, the provisioning request comprising the unique information and an identifier of a second type of provisioning data requested, converting the personalization data from the first type to the second type, and transmitting the converted personalization data to the device.
US11329965B2
A method for dynamic encryption and signing includes: obtaining, by a terminal during session connection, a predetermined first key index and a randomly-generated first signature index; signing session request data with a first signature corresponding to the first signature index; encrypting the session request data with a first key corresponding to the first key index; sending the encrypted session request data and the first signature index to the server; and receiving, from the server, session response data signed with a second signature corresponding to a second signature index and encrypted with a second key corresponding to a second key index, after decryption and signature verification by the server over the session request data succeed. The second signature index and the second key index are randomly selected by the server and saved in a login session object accessible by both the server and the terminal.
US11329960B2
A first container of a first device can receive information that identifies a configuration of a first interface and a second interface of a second container of the first device. The first container can include a self-contained execution environment. The first container can configure a firewall of the first device to enable network traffic to be transferred between a second device and a third container of a third device via the first interface and the second interface.
US11329958B2
Systems and methods for policy-controlled communication over the Internet between third party client applications and remote services. A client device enforces policies on the communication between the applications and services. The communication is redirected through a mid-link server using a digitally protected tunnel. Network addresses of the client device and remote service are masked.
US11329953B2
A system and method securing an in-vehicle network in a vehicle may include a switch connected to at least two segments of the in-vehicle network and an IDPS connected to the switch. The IDPS unit may be adapted to: receive network messages from the switch; determine at least some of the network messages are related to a cyber threat and configure the switch according to the cyber threat. The IDPS unit may be included in the switch.
US11329941B2
An efficient email display is provided. Elements in the email that are determined to be useful or relevant to a particular recipient are displayed and elements that are determined not to be useful or relevant to the recipient are removed from view. A received email is parsed for identifying elements that can be collapsed or expanded when displayed to the recipient. A predetermined value is applied to each element based on the content type. The weight of one or more of the elements is adjusted by applying a weight based on one or more weight factors. A collapsed or expanded display state is assigned to each content element based on the adjusted value. Further, the email message is rendered in the email client application interface to the recipient, where elements having the expanded display state are displayed and elements having the collapsed display state are hidden.
US11329938B2
An example terminal apparatus includes a communicator configured to communicate with at least one device through a hub device; a display configured to display an image; a user input receiver configured to receive a user's input; and at least one processor configured to control the display to display a dialog box where the hub device or the at least one device is set as a counterpart in response to execution of a messenger program, control the communicator to transmit a control signal including a command for controlling a predetermined device to the device targeted for control through the hub device so that the device targeted for control operates in response to the command corresponding to a user's input, and control the display to display a message corresponding to the transmitted command in the dialog box.
US11329935B2
Technologies are presented directed to smart attachment of cloud-based files to communications such as email. A communication service may determine and select automatically between local and cloud versions of synchronized files allowing the recipient of the message to receive a version of the file regardless of whether the sender is offline or online when the attachment was made and in a user-friendly manner to the sender through a single representation.
US11329927B2
An apparatus includes a message receiver circuit that receives, at a port of a network node, a message from a neighboring network node. The message includes a maximum transmission unit (“MTU”) of the neighboring network node. The network nodes communicate using a layer-2 protocol. The apparatus includes a comparison circuit that determines if the received MTU is larger than an MTU for the port, and an approval circuit that, after determining that the received MTU is larger than the port's MTU, determines if the received MTU is supported by the network node. The method includes an increase circuit that, after determining that the received MTU is supported, changes the MTU of the network node's ports to match the received MTU, and a message circuit that, after determining that the received MTU is supported, sends a message with the MTU to network nodes connected to ports of the network node.
US11329920B2
A method for congestion control in a data communication protocol employing acknowledged communication may include measuring a flight size. A transmission rate may be measured. A trend of the flight size may be determined. A trend of the transmission rate may be determined, and the trend may be derived from a transmission rate gradient calculation, in which either the transmission rate measurements or the transmission rate gradient calculations or both may be filtered to reduce their temporal variability. Whether there is a congestion may be detected according to the determined trend of the transmission rate and the trend of the flight size. Upon detection of the congestion, a change may be made from a current congestion control state to a new congestion control state. Data may be transmitted while respecting a maximum amount of unacknowledged data which the transmitting node may transmit. An apparatus is also disclosed.
US11329918B2
Techniques are described for facilitating flow symmetry using a scalable service platform that anchors the service chain. The scalable service platform may facilitate flow symmetry and, at least in some cases, flow stickiness for a first packet flow (a “forward packet flow”) and a second, related packet flow (a “reverse packet flow”) both traversing the service chain in the forward and reverse directions, respectively. For example, a virtualized computing infrastructure may deploy a scalable service platform to perform load balancing of multiple forward packet flows, received from the gateway, among multiple parallel service instances for an ingress service in a service chain. For each corresponding reverse packet flows for the multiple forward packet flows, the scalable service platform load balances the reverse packet flow to the service instance for the egress service in the service chain that is applied to the corresponding forward packet flow.
US11329916B2
A network device has an input configured to receive a message relating to a given device attempting to forward one or more packets across a computer network. The message has given device information relating to the given device. In addition, the routing device also has a selector, operatively coupled with the input, configured to select (after receiving the given data) a given group routing policy from a plurality of group routing policies. Preferably, the selector is configured to select the given group routing policy as a function of the given device information. The routing device also has an output operatively coupled with the selector. The output is configured to cause routing of device communication across the network using link-layer routes specified by the given group routing policy.
US11329897B2
This disclosure describes techniques that include adding information to a network service header in packets being processed by a set of compute nodes in a service chain. The information added to the network service header can be used during selection of the next hop in a service chain, and may be used to help ensure that service level agreements (SLA) are met with respect to one or more metrics. In one example, this disclosure describes a method that includes receiving, by a service complex having a plurality of service nodes, a packet associated with a service chain representing a series of services to be performed on the packet by one or more of the plurality of service nodes; identifying, by the service complex, one or more service chain constraints associated with the service chain; and modifying the packet, by the service complex, to include information about the service chain constraints.
US11329885B2
Disclosed embodiments provide cluster creation using self-joining cluster nodes. Each node within a cluster is assigned a role of master or non-master. A master node initializes and creates a cluster. A non-master, or “role” node initializes and joins a cluster established by the master. If the master has not yet initialized, the non-master node waits until the master node is operational and then joins the cluster. A description file associated with each node describes the services and configuration required for the node's assigned role. In this way, non-master nodes can be spawned independently of the master node, providing a greater level of scalability, improved fault tolerance, and increased availability.
US11329884B2
A network capacity planning system for forecasting and scheduling of network capacity for electronic devices is provided. A server monitors usage of a network associated with the electronic devices. The server analyzes a frequency of a transmission of data packets between the electronic devices and the network, and a time duration of a network busy time based on predetermined thresholds. The server uses results of the analysis to drive a dynamic mechanism, which identifies when a bandwidth associated with the network needs to be upgraded to support the growing network bandwidth requirements. The server adjusts a network capacity value of a network routing device associated with the network to support the required bandwidth for an operation of the electronic devices.
US11329877B1
Examples described herein relate to systems and methods for tiered updating of configuration data. Updated configuration data is transmitted to different tiers of nodes. The nodes of a first tier are commanded to use the updated configuration data. After waiting to see if any nodes of the first tier communicate a fault after using the updated configuration data, for each of the additional tiers in the CDN it is sequentially repeated to: transmit a command to the nodes of that additional tier to use the updated configuration data; and after waiting to see if any nodes of any tier communicate a fault after using the updated configuration data, transmitting a command to the nodes of another additional tier to use the updated configuration data.
US11329868B2
A computer implemented method of network monitoring and control. The method includes receiving alerts related to monitored devices; analyzing the alerts to identify a first alert related to a first monitored device; automatically performing at least one predefined action for the first monitored device based on the first alert; and after a first predefined period of time, checking whether the first alert has reappeared and responsively taking a further action.
US11329858B2
A method is performed by a wireless device for transmitting Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) feedback. The wireless device, for an uplink transmission to be transmitted on an uplink channel, applies a modified modulation constellation for a HARQ feedback. The modified modulation constellation has a modified Acknowledgment/Non-Acknowledgment (ACK/NACK) assignment as compared to a normal modulation constellation having a normal ACK/NACK assignment. The wireless device further transmits HARQ feedback in the uplink transmission according to the modified modulation constellation.
US11329856B2
To appropriately communicate even when a shortened TTI is applied. A user terminal that communicates using a first Transmission Time Interval (TTI) and a second TTI whose TTI length is shorter than a TTI length of the first TTI, includes a receiving section that receives an L1/L2 control channel transmitted from a radio base station, and a control section that controls receiving of a first L1/L2 control channel transmitted for each first TTI and a second L1/L2 control channel transmitted at the second TTI.
US11329855B2
There are provided an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) demodulator, a demodulation method and a receiver. The OFDM demodulator includes a phase analog-to-digital converter and a determiner, wherein the phase analog-to-digital converter is configured to acquire an OFDM analog signal, extract and quantize phase information of a modulated signal on each subcarrier in the OFDM analog signal, and output a phase quantified value corresponding to the phase information of the each subcarrier; and the determiner is configured to perform determination according to the phase quantified value, to obtain modulation information corresponding to the each subcarrier.
US11329849B2
Aspects of the present disclosure disclose techniques for the indication of the allocation of the downlink (DL) demodulation reference signal (DM-RS) ports for the data channel in NR communications. In some examples, the channel state information (CSI) reference signal (CSI-RS) may be associated with a corresponding DM-RS for a DL data channel. The transmitting device, in some examples, may further transmit a notification that provides resource allocations (e.g., port allocations) that minimize the redundant information that is required to be transmitted from the base station to the user equipment (UE) when the DM-RS port allocation is the same as the CSI-RS port allocation received by the UE in an earlier time slot.
US11329839B2
UEs are configured to transmit feedback related to data received on a multicast traffic channel on dedicated resources. Network nodes are configured to retransmit the data based on the received feedback.
US11329833B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for improving provision of secret data on programmable devices. An appliance receives physical unclonable function (PUF) data pertaining to an integrated circuit. Secret data is provided to the appliance from a secret vault. Public and private PUF keys are derived based upon the PUF data. Further, ephemeral public and private keys are derived by the appliance. The public and private PUF keys, along with the ephemeral public and private keys are used to establish a secure channel for programming the secret data on the programmable device.
US11329826B2
Exemplary embodiments are directed to a blockchain-based communication system. The system includes a public blockchain, a private blockchain and a processing device in communication with the public and private blockchains. The public blockchain includes a database configured to electronically store registration data associated with an originator and at least one recipient. The private blockchain is configured to allow for transmission of data between the originator and the at least one recipient. The processing device is configured to receive a request from the originator to compose a message to be transmitted from the originator to the least one recipient, receive as input and associate at least one digital rights management (DRM) parameter with content of the message, and generate a micro-blockchain within the private blockchain having an originator node associated with the originator and a recipient node associated with the at least one recipient.
US11329815B2
A key management device for data encryption/decryption is provided. The key management device includes a static random-access memory (SRAM), a register, and a control circuit. The control circuit can set a key lookup table in the SRAM or the register, and manage a key database. The key database includes the SRAM and an one-time programmable (OTP) memory disposed outside the key management device, and the key database stores at least one key. The key lookup table includes a key number and metadata of each of the at least one key stored in the key database. According to a specific key number contained in a key read command or a key delete command from the processor, the control circuit reads or deletes a specific key corresponding to the specific key number in the key database.
US11329811B1
In aspects of quantum-based security for hardware devices, a computing device includes a processor for application processing in a trusted execution environment, and includes a quantum random number generator to generate quantum random numbers sourced by multiple hardware devices in the computing device. The computing device also includes an embedded secure element that manages connection security of the multiple hardware devices, and is a single root of trust as a secure controller of the quantum random number generator. The computing device also includes a secure switch controlled by the embedded secure element, the secure switch being switchable to connect at least one of the multiple hardware devices to obtain a quantum random number from the quantum random number generator. The secure switch may be a virtualized secure switch implemented in the embedded secure element.
US11329808B2
A secure computation device obtains a first concealed verification value [z]i=[w−ω]i with secure computation by using concealed authentication information [w]i which is preliminarily stored and concealed authentication information [ω]i which is inputted, obtains a concealed extension field random number [rm]i∈[Fε] which is a secret sharing value of an extension field random number rm, obtains a second concealed verification value [ym]i in which ym is concealed with secure computation by using the first concealed verification value [z]i, and obtains a third concealed verification value [rmym]i with secure computation by using the concealed extension field random number [rm]i and the second concealed verification value [ym]i and outputs the third concealed verification value [rmym]i.
US11329797B2
A digital communication method over an optical channel. Bob modulates a coherent optical signal with a random envelope phase φr, known to him and not to Alice, and transmits the modulated coherent optical signal (envelope) over the optical channel to Alice. Alice further modulates the envelope with a key phase φk, based on a secret key and a selected modulation scheme, to create a cipher envelope, and sends the cipher envelope towards Bob along the optical channel. Bob then demodulates a received version of the cipher envelope by removing the random envelope phase φr (known to Bob) and then measures the phase of the resulting demodulated coherent optical signal with the coherent detector to extract, to within a certain margin of error, the key phase φk, from which Alice's secret key can be decoded. Bob then uses the secret key for encrypting messages sent to Alice over any digital network.
US11329792B2
A method and an apparatus for determining an RBG size are provided. In the method, a network device or a terminal determines an RBG size set, where the RBG size set may include one or more possible RBG sizes; and determines a first RBG size included in the RBG size set. The network device allocates a resource to the terminal by using the determined first RBG size. The terminal determines, based on the determined first RBG size, the resource allocated by the network device to the terminal.
US11329791B2
A method, performed by a User Equipment (UE), includes receiving, from a cell, configuration signaling configuring the UE with one or more PUCCH resources on an active UL BWP, the one or more PUCCH resources not being configured with PUCCH-SpatialRelationInfo, and the configuration signaling indicating that a default spatial relation behavior for PUSCH transmission scheduled by a DCI format 0_0 is enabled; receiving, from the cell, the DCI format 0_0 on an active DL BWP, the DCI format 0_0 providing scheduling information for a PUSCH; and transmitting the PUSCH according to the default spatial relation behavior which determines a spatial relation with reference to a QCL-TypeD RS corresponding to a QCL assumption of a pre-determined CORESET on the active DL BWP of the cell.
US11329789B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first device may identify that a first set of transmission resources in a transmission time interval (TTI) has a higher priority at a second device than a second set of transmission resources in the TTI. The first device may identify that a message is to be transmitted from the first device to the second device via the TTI and process the message into a bit sequence based on the identification of the second set of transmission resources in the TTI, where the processing increases a likelihood that systematic bits of the message are received at the second device despite presence of the second set of transmission resources in the TTI. The first device may transmit the bit sequence to the second device via the TTI.
US11329785B2
A method and system for minimizing the control overhead in a multi-carrier wireless communication network that utilizes a time-frequency resource is disclosed. In some embodiments, one or more zones in the time-frequency resource are designated for particular applications, such as a zone dedicated for voice-over-IP (VoIP) applications. By grouping applications of a similar type together within a zone, a reduction in the number of bits necessary for mapping a packet stream to a portion of the time-frequency resource can be achieved. In some embodiments, modular coding schemes associated with the packet streams may be selected that further reduce the amount of necessary control information. In some embodiments, packets may be classified for transmission in accordance with application type, QoS parameters, and other properties. In some embodiments, improved control messages may be constructed to facilitate the control process and minimize associated overhead.
US11329783B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method and device for performing communication. The method comprises: determining a target transmission pattern from a set of candidate transmission patterns, wherein the target transmission pattern is indicated by a signal including one or more of: a reference signal, a signal for performing CRC, and a feedback signal; and performing communication between a network device and a terminal device by using the target transmission pattern.
US11329778B2
The present invention relates to a resource allocation method and apparatus, and a signal transmission method, which are applicable to various technical scenarios of 5G New Radio (NR). A method for operating a communication node for resource allocation in a communication network includes: allocating first data and a first pilot for a first type service to a first block period of a first subframe; allocating second data and a second pilot for a second type service to a second block period overlapping with the first block period; and transmitting the first subframe to another communication node. Here, at least one of the second data and the second pilot is allocated to an area to which the first data is allocated.
US11329768B2
Disclosed are a data transmission method and device, and a computer storage medium. The method comprises: a first terminal sends a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH) and/or a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) to a second terminal, the PSCCH or the PSSCH comprising feedback information and/or measurement information.
US11329767B2
The disclosed subject matter is directed towards highly reliable Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) retransmission procedures, including to provide different levels of reliability for Sidelink transmissions. A scheduler node schedule a data transmission by a transmitter node, and can receive (and store) the data packet transmission. If the scheduler node receives a negative acknowledgement (NAK) from the receiver node, the scheduler node can allocate resources to the transmitter node to perform a retransmission of the data packet, and/or retransmit a copy of the data packet from the scheduler node to the receiver node. The scheduler node can inform the receiver node that a retransmission is being sent by the transmitter node and the scheduler node.
US11329765B2
An indicator (6011, 6012, 6013) associated with transmission of a plurality of repetitions (351) of data (6001, 6001-1, 6001-2, 6005) to a second device (112) is broadcasted on an open spectrum. The indicator (6011, 6012, 6013) is for control of contention-based access to the open spectrum by at least one further device (131). In response to said transmitting of the indicator (6011, 6012, 6013): a subset (6021, 6022, 6023) of the plurality of repetitions (351) of the data (6001, 6001-1, 6001-2, 6005) is transmitted on the open spectrum to the second device (112).
US11329764B2
An error correction device includes a first correction unit which performs error correction decoding of data by a repetitive operation, having a full operation state in which the error correction decoding is repeated until convergence is obtained and a save operation state in which the number of times of the repetitive operation is restricted to a predetermined number. An error information estimation unit estimates an input error rate or an output error rate of the first correction unit using a decoding result of the first correction unit, and a control unit which controls transition between the full operation state and the save operation state based on at least one piece of information of the input error rate, the output error rate, and an operation time of the first correction unit. It is thus possible to provide an error correction device that can improve a transmission characteristic while suppressing power consumption.
US11329749B2
A bandwidth allocation device is included in a communication system having a terminal station device and a terminal device and relaying upstream data, which is received from a communication terminal by a lower device connected to the terminal device, to an upper device connected to the terminal station device. The bandwidth allocation device includes a transmission-permitted period start position determining unit configured to estimate a start position of an arrival period in which the upstream data arrives at the terminal device from the lower device; a transmission-permitted period length determining unit configured to estimate a length of the arrival period based on an amount of upstream data to be transmitted from the lower device to the terminal device; and a bandwidth allocation unit configured to allocate a bandwidth to the terminal device based on the estimated start position and the estimated length of the arrival period.
US11329748B2
Provided are a service transmission method and device using a FlexO, equipment and a storage medium. The method includes: customer service data is mapped into N FlexO frames on M Physical Layer links of a FlexO transmission group, and then the N FlexO frames are sent through the FlexO transmission group; and a receiving end sequentially extracts the customer service data from the N FlexO frames. The FlexO transmission group comprises M PHY links. The customer service data occupies the same number of cells in the FlexO frame of each PHY link, and cell locations of the occupied cells are the same. A set of logic is used to directly map the customer service data into the N FlexO frames on the M PHY links of the FlexO transmission group, so as to minimize complexity and logical resources needing to be occupied.
US11329745B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems for dynamically estimating a propagation time between a first node and a second node of a wireless network are disclosed. One method includes receiving, by the second node, from the first node a packet containing a first timestamp representing the transmit time of the packet, receiving, by the second node, from a local time source, a second timestamp corresponding with a time of reception of the first timestamp received from the first node, calculating a time difference between the first timestamp and the second timestamp, storing the time difference between the first timestamp and the second timestamp, calculating a predictive model for predicting the propagation time based the time difference between the first timestamp and the second timestamp, and estimating the propagation time between the first node and the second node at a time by querying the predictive model with the time.
US11329743B2
In a transmission system of an audio signal etc., circuit enlargement is suppressed and deterioration of transmitting signal is reduced. A transmission system including a transmitting apparatus including a first delta-sigma modulator outputting first multi-bit delta-sigma modulated signals of three or more bits and a first code modulator code-modulating first signals of two or more bits located in bit positions higher than a predetermined bit position of the first multi-bit delta-sigma modulated signals based on at least part of a second signal located in one or more bit positions not higher than the predetermined bit position and outputting a plurality of modulated signals; a transmission path transmitting the second signal and the plurality of modulated signals; and a receiving apparatus including a first demodulator demodulating the plurality of the received modulated signals based on at least part of the received second signal is provided.
US11329727B1
A device for transmitting a signal according to some embodiments of the present disclosure relates to a device for transmitting a signal using a hybrid waveform. The device may include a modulator configured to modulate an input signal and a signal transmitter configured to transmit the modulated final transmission signal through an LED light source, wherein the modulator is configured to modulate first information into a pulse signal based on frequency shift keying (FSK), and modulate second information into an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signal, wherein the first information and the second information are different from each other and mix the pulse signal and the OFDM signal into one waveform to generate the final transmission signal.
US11329714B1
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless communication device, such as a repeater, may select a polarization configuration for multiple antennas that form beams for forwarding wireless communications between a first wireless device and a second wireless device. The repeater may forward wireless communications between the first wireless device and the second wireless device according to the polarization configuration. Numerous other aspects are described.
US11329713B2
This specification provides a beam failure recovery method in a wireless communication system. In this specification, a beam failure recovery method performed by a UE includes: receiving, from a base station, control information related to a candidate beam configuration for the beam failure recovery; selecting an RS having a quality of the threshold or more among the RSs related to the candidate beam identification; and; transmitting, to the base station, a beam failure recovery request based on an uplink (UL) resource related to the selected RS.
US11329702B2
A multi-input multi-output (MIMO) Bluetooth module with effectively suppressed mutual interference is disclosed. The MIMO Bluetooth module has multiple Bluetooth transceivers which operate in a synchronized transmission mode, in which no Bluetooth transceiver is permitted to transmit data when any of the Bluetooth transceivers are receiving data.
US11329695B2
A power supply apparatus includes a power supply unit configured to wirelessly supply power to an electronic apparatus, a communication unit configured to communicate with the electronic apparatus, and a control unit configured to perform control whether to supply power to the electronic apparatus according to whether the electronic apparatus is capable of updating information about the electronic apparatus.
US11329694B2
A first mobile device including a connection terminal configured to electrically connect to a second mobile device, a variable impedance device connected to the connection terminal, the variable impedance device configured to vary an impedance, processing circuitry configured to determine a power line communication (PLC) mode between the first mobile device and the second mobile device to be one of a low-speed PLC mode or a high-speed PLC mode, and control the impedance of the variable impedance device according to the determined PLC mode, and a PLC modem configured to receive power from the second mobile device or communicate data with the second mobile device based on the determined PLC mode.
US11329690B2
The present disclosure provides computer-based methods and a system for synthesizing a NoC that advantageously generate balanced NoC topologies without end-to-end fairness or local credit-based arbitration, and improve NoC performance when destination device bridge ports support only one incoming physical link per channel. More particularly, a clock domain is assigned to certain routers that satisfies the minimum frequency for the router while reducing clock domain transitions to neighboring routers, and the traffic flows received by these routers are balanced based on the traffic flow packet rates.
US11329689B1
Systems and method are provided for canceling unwanted transmitter-to-receiver leakage in a coherent wireless system using a feedforward waveform that overcomes the limitations of purely analog or purely digital cancelation systems and methods. Systems and methods in accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure generate a software-defined waveform that, when fed forward into the receiver, effectively cancels the leakage. Embodiments of the present disclosure can use a defined cancelation waveform (e.g., a software-defined cancelation waveform) that can cancel multiple leakage paths at the same time.
US11329686B2
A signal transceiver apparatus includes at least one plug-in card and a backplane. The plug-in card includes two waveguide boards, a multi-layer circuit board disposed between the two waveguide boards, and an antenna array and a first waveguide interface that are mounted on each of the two waveguide boards. A waveguide slot is provided on one side, facing the multi-layer circuit board, of each of the two waveguide boards. A metal layer corresponding to the waveguide slot is disposed on each of two sides of the multi-layer circuit board, wherein the metal layers and the waveguide slots cooperate to form two waveguide channels that are respectively located on two sides of the multi-layer circuit board and that each are connected to the antenna array and the first waveguide interface.
US11329680B2
A receiving device is provided. The receiving device includes an antenna device, a filter circuit, a transceiver, an adjustable attenuator, a circulator, and a processor. The antenna device receives a received signal. The filter circuit separates an in-band signal and an out-band signal from the received signal. The adjustable attenuator adjusts the attenuation value corresponding to the in-band signal and transmits the adjusted in-band signal to the transceiver. The circulator receives the received signal from the antenna device and transmits the received signal to the filter circuit, and the circulator receives a reflected signal from the filter circuit. The processor determines how to adjust the attenuation value corresponding to the in-band signal according to information related to the out-band signal and information related to the in-band signal that has been processed by the adjustable attenuator and the transceiver.
US11329665B1
Disclosed approaches for performing a Burrows-Wheeler transform (BWT) of a sequence of data elements, S, include determining sets of less-than values and sets of equal-to values for the data elements. Index values are determined for the data elements based on the sets of less-than values. Each index value indicates a count of data elements of S that a data element is lexicographically greater than. Rank values are determined for the data elements of S based on the sets of less-than values and the sets of equal-to values. Each rank value indicates for the data element an order of the data element in the BWT relative to other ones of the data elements of equal value. Positions in the BWT of S for the data elements are selected based on the index values and rank values, and the data elements are output in the order indicated by the respective positions in the BWT.
US11329659B2
An apparatus and method for analog to digital conversion of analog input signals are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, an analog-to-digital (ADC) may comprise: a first successive approximation register (SAR) circuit comprising a fast SAR (FSAR) circuit and a residue digital-to-analog converter (RDAC) circuit and a residue amplifier circuit, coupled to the RDAC circuit, comprising an amplifier circuit that is configured to amplify a residual signal generated by the RDAC circuit, wherein the amplifier circuit comprises a deadzone control circuit and a first, second and third inverter stages, wherein the third stage is biased to operate in a sub-threshold region.
US11329655B1
The present invention relates to a field programmable gate array system that provides phase control with minimal latency.
US11329654B2
A delay circuit of a delay-locked loop (DLL) circuit includes: a phase splitter configured to split a phase of a reference clock signal to output a first reference clock signal and a second reference clock signal having a phase difference of 180 degrees; a logic gate configured to delay the second reference clock signal to output a delayed reference clock signal; and a delay line circuit including a plurality of delay cells that are cascade-connected, the delay line circuit configured to delay the first reference clock signal and the delayed reference clock signal based on a control code set, and to output a first delayed clock signal and a second delayed clock signal having a delay amount corresponding to a delay of one logic gate included in the plurality of delay cells.
US11329646B2
Transformer-driven power switch devices are provided for switching high currents. These devices include power switches, such as Gallium Nitride (GaN) transistors. Transformers are used to transfer both control timing and power for controlling the power switches. These transformers may be coreless, such that they may be integrated within a silicon die. Rectifiers, pulldown control circuitry, and related are preferably integrated in the same die as a power switch, e.g., in a GaN die, such that a transformer-driven switch device is entirely comprised on a silicon die and a GaN die, and does not necessarily require a (large) cored transformer, auxiliary power supplies, or level shifting circuitry.
US11329643B2
A driver circuit controls an output unit that switches whether or not to supply a current to an output line, in accordance with a potential difference between a first control signal to be input and a voltage of the output line. The driver circuit has a control line transmitting the first control signal to the output unit; a connection switching unit switching whether or not to connect the control line and the output line; a pre-stage control unit that is provided between a high potential line and a low potential line and selects and outputs a potential of any one of the high potential line and the low potential line in accordance with a second control signal; and a post-stage control unit causing the connection switching unit to connect the control line and the output line when the pre-stage control unit outputs a voltage higher than a predetermined threshold value.
US11329630B2
A switch module includes a first terminal, first and second filters, and first and second switches. Impedance of the first filter for a signal in a stop band is capacitive. When the first switch is turned OFF, impedance of the first switch is capacitive, and impedance of the first filter seen from an end portion of the first switch connected to the first filter is not in a short state and impedance of the first filter seen from the first terminal is in an open state.
US11329620B2
A method for calibrating gain in a multi-path subsystem having a first processing path, a second processing path, and a mixed signal return path, may include low-pass filtering an input signal and a mixed signal return path signal generated from the input signal at subsonic frequencies to generate a filtered input signal and a filtered mixed signal return path signal and tracking and correcting for a gain difference between the first processing path and the second processing path based on the filtered input signal and the filtered mixed signal return path signal.
US11329615B2
Methods and apparatuses for providing a reduction in output power of a balanced amplifier configuration are presented. According to one aspect, reduction of the output power is provided by deactivating one of the two amplification paths of the balanced amplifier. According to another aspect, impedances seen at ports of input and output couplers of the balanced amplifier configuration part of a deactivated amplification path are selectively switched in dependence of operation according to the reduced output power or according to normal output power. In addition, or in the alternative, impedance seen at an isolated/terminated port of the input and/or the output coupler is selectively switched in dependence of the operation. When operating according to the reduced output power, values of the switched impedances can be adjusted to tune a frequency response of the balanced amplifier.
US11329592B2
A motor control device includes an optimal voltage calculation part configured to calculate an input voltage that is a lowest total of electric power losses generated by an inverter, a motor and a converter, a lowest voltage calculation part configured to calculate a lowest value of the input voltage required at a motor operating point, and a target value setting part configured to set any one of the optimal input voltage and the lowest input voltage as the target input voltage, and the target value setting part sets the lowest input voltage lower than the optimal input voltage to the target value when the element temperature of the inverter and the converter is equal to or greater than a predetermined value.
US11329590B2
A current sourced control topology is provided for an AC motor controller that eliminates many of the problems associated with prior art motor controllers that use voltage source inverter (VSI) technologies. By controlling the output of AC current sources such as synchronously controlled down converters to directly drive each motor phase, significant efficiency gains and a reduction in electromagnetic interference is achievable.
US11329584B2
A control device applies voltages to an AC rotating machine based on voltage command values on stationary coordinates. Currents in a plurality phases flowing the rotating machine are detected as detection currents. Coordinate conversion is applied to those detection currents based on any phase in the rotating machine, for generate detection currents on rotational coordinates. Voltage command values on the rotational coordinates are generated based on current command values on the rotational coordinates and the detection currents. Coordinate conversion is applied to those voltage command values based on the any phase, for generate first voltage command values on the stationary coordinates. Phases of one of the first voltage command values and generated second voltage command values on the stationary coordinates are corrected to generate the second voltage command values. One of the second and the first voltage command values are selected as the voltage command values on the stationary coordinates.
US11329583B2
A generalized frequency conversion system for a steam turbine generator unit. The system comprises at least a variable speed steam turbine with an adjustable rotating speed, a water feeding pump, a variable frequency generator operating at a variable speed, a speed increasing gearbox with a fixed rotating speed ratio, a variable frequency bus and an auxiliary machine. With a change in load of the unit, parameters of steam entering the variable speed steam turbine and an extracted steam amount are adjusted (changed) accordingly, so that the rotating speed of the steam turbine changes accordingly. In this way, on one hand, the rotating speed of the water feeding pump is changed through the speed increasing gearbox; and on the other hand, the frequency of alternating current outputted by the variable frequency generator is changed. In the present invention, there is no need to additionally provide other types of frequency converters, and the system is simple, reliable, low in cost and high in efficiency.
US11329580B2
A motor control apparatus includes: an excitation unit configured to excite a plurality of excitation phases of a motor; a measurement unit configured to measure a physical amount that changes according to an inductance of a plurality of coils that make up the plurality of excitation phases when the plurality of excitation phases are excited; and a control unit configured to control the excitation unit to excite the plurality of excitation phases sequentially, determine a first excitation phase by comparing a measurement value measured by the measurement unit in excitation of each of the plurality of excitation phases with a first threshold, and determine that a rotational position of a rotor of the motor is a rotational position at which the rotor stops when the first excitation phase is excited. The first excitation phase is determined, the control unit stops excitation.
US11329578B2
A device for driving a plurality of motors and an electric apparatus having the same is disclosed. The device includes an inverter connected to a DC terminal, a multi-phase motor connected to the inverter, a single-phase motor serially connected to the multi-phase motor, and a first capacitor and a second capacitor connected in series between a first end and a second end of the DC terminal, wherein the single-phase motor is connected to the multi-phase motor, and a node between the first capacitor and the second capacitor. Accordingly, a plurality of motors serially connected with each other can be driven by using a single inverter.
US11329574B2
A system and a method for an energy harvesting and storage apparatus including a flexible substrate, an energy harvesting device disposed on the flexible substrate, the energy harvesting device is configured to convert mechanical energy into electrical energy, an energy storage device disposed on the flexible substrate and in electrical communication with the energy harvesting device and configured to receive and store the electrical energy from the energy harvesting device.
US11329573B2
A power conversion system according to the present disclosure includes a plurality of power converters for performing power conversion on AC power and is connected to a power grid of multi-phase power that is a combination of multiple alternating current sources with mutually different phases. Each of the plurality of power converters includes a power converter circuit, a setting unit, and a control circuit. The power converter circuit performs power conversion between either DC power or AC power and AC power supplied from any of the multiple alternating current sources. The setting unit selects one of the multiple alternating current sources as a target of the power conversion to be performed by the power converter circuit. The control circuit controls operation of the power converter circuit in accordance with selection made by the setting unit.
US11329572B2
Provided is a semiconductor device that has a configuration provided with: a driving unit for driving an upper switching element and a lower switching element according to a control signal for controlling the driving of the upper switching element and the lower switching element, which are connected in series to constitute a bridge circuit; an insulating unit having an insulating transformer; and a package for sealing at least a part of the insulating unit and the driving unit. The insulating unit transmits a signal corresponding to the control signal to the driving unit side while insulating the signal.
US11329564B2
A control system for a battery system is provided. The control system includes: an N-phase DC-DC converter including N single phase DC-DC converters (wherein N is a whole number greater than one); a first microcontroller configured to control a first fraction of the N single phase DC-DC converters; and a second microcontroller configured to control a second fraction of the N single phase DC-DC converters. The first and second microcontrollers are connected to each other via a data line. In a first operation mode, control operations of the first microcontroller and the second microcontroller are synchronized via the data line to commonly control the N single phase DC-DC converters, and in a second operation mode, the first microcontroller and the second microcontroller independently control the first fraction and the second fraction, respectively.
US11329563B2
A buck-boost converter working in a buck mode with buck switching cycles, a boost mode with boost switching cycles or a buck-boost mode with buck-boost switching cycles. Each of the buck-boost switching cycles has an AC phase, an AD phase and a BD Phase, and the duty cycle of the AC phase is determined by a reference signal, a feedback signal and an inductor current sense signal, the duty cycle of the AD phase is controlled and maintained at a preset duty threshold, the time period of the buck-boost switching cycle equals the time period of the buck switching cycle and the time period of the boost switching cycle.
US11329556B1
A multi-input single output power system for outputting an output voltage on an output node. It includes a first integrated circuit (IC) converter device and a second IC converter device. The first IC converter device has a first pin to receive a first input voltage, a second pin to output the output voltage, and a first power unit coupled between the first pin and the second pin. The second IC converter device has a first pin to receive a second input voltage, a second pin to output the output voltage, a second power unit coupled between the first pin of the second IC converter device and the second pin of the second IC converter device, and a third pin. The third pin receives an external phase shedding control signal to determine whether to stop the second power unit from providing power to the output node.
US11329554B2
A charge pump circuit arrangement includes a multitude of capacitors of a first and a second group controlled by non-overlapping clock pulses. The capacitors are partly realized in a semiconductor substrate including a deep well doping region and a high voltage doping region surrounded by the deep well doping region. Switches are connected to a pair of capacitors to control the deep well doping regions with signals in phase with the corresponding clock signal.
US11329551B2
A power sensing and switching circuit, using voltage and current sensors, integrated circuits and logic gates that detects reverse power flow, from reactive loads, non-linear loads or dispersed electrical generators, and mitigates reverse power flow by functioning as a power factor correction device and by diverting the reverse power flow as recycled power to storage, local usage, or remote usage via a recovery line that mitigates distribution grid instability and speeds up the growth of dispersed electrical generators.
US11329543B2
A device includes a driving portion, a transformer having a primary winding and a secondary winding, the secondary winding generating an output voltage, the driving portion being connected across the secondary winding so that the output voltage is applied to the driving portion, a switching element connected in series to the primary winding, a first controller provided in a primary side of the transformer for controlling the switching element, and a second controller supplied with the output voltage. The second controller is configured to perform, during implementation of a burst switching control, transmitting a stop signal to the first controller when the output voltage exceeds a first voltage, and transmitting, after transmission of the stop signal, a resumption signal to the first controller when the output voltage falls below a second voltage lower than the first voltage. The first controller controls the switching element to stop performing switching operations in response to the stop signal, and further controls the switching element to resume performing the switching operations in response to the resumption signal.
US11329539B2
A system including a generator and a controller. The generator includes a permanent magnet generator (PMG), and an exciter. The controller manages operations of the generator. The controller includes an alternating current to direct current (AC-to-DC) converter that generates a direct current (DC) voltage, an exciter drive that provides a DC current to the exciter of the generator using the DC voltage created by the AC-to-DC converter in accordance with the control signal, and a regulator controller that drives the active AC-to-DC converter.
US11329531B2
The disclosure relates to a valve for controlling the circulation of a fluid, having a valve body and a housing containing an electric motor composed of a stator and of a rotor, a needle, a sealing bell and also a fixed screw or a fixed nut. The fixed screw or the fixed nut is secured to the valve body, and the stator is secured to the valve body via the housing. The sealing bell is positioned at the interface between the rotor and the stator in such a way that the screw/nut, the rotor and the needle are within this bell and submerged in the fluid, the stator being isolated from the fluid. Furthermore, the rotor has the function of a nut or of a screw, and has a helical movement imposed by the fixed screw or the fixed nut and drives the needle axially. The motor is a brushless polyphase motor with radial principal magnetic flux.
US11329510B2
A system and method for providing power to independent movers traveling along a track in a motion control system without requiring a fixed connection between the mover and a power source external to the mover. In one embodiment, a sliding transformer transfers power between the track and each mover. In another embodiment, an optical transmitter transfers power between the track and an optical receiver mounted on each mover. In yet another embodiment, a generator includes a drive wheel engaging the track as each mover travels along the track. A power converter on the mover receives the power generated on and/or transmitted to the mover to control an actuator or a sensor mounted on the mover or to activate drive coils mounted on the mover to interact with magnets mounted along the track and, thereby, control motion of each mover.
US11329505B2
A load control device may be used to control and deliver power to an electrical load. The load control device may comprise a control circuit for controlling the power delivered to the electrical load. The load control device may comprise multiple actuators, where each of the actuators is connected between a terminal of the control circuit and a current regulating device. The number of the actuators may be greater than the number of the terminals. The control circuit may measure signals at the terminals and determine a state configuration for the actuators based on the measured signals. The control circuit may compare the state configuration to a predetermined dataset to detect a ghosting condition.
US11329504B1
A method and system are provided for controlling transfer switch operations in a power distribution system. The method and system involve monitoring an electrical parameter of an electrical signal from a first power source associated with supplying power to a load; determining whether the electrical parameter satisfies a parameter threshold; selecting to increment or decrement a count value in accordance with the determination; and responsive to determining that the count value satisfies a first count threshold, initiating a start signal to start operation of a second power source to supply power to the load. The electrical parameter can be voltage or frequency, or other parameter(s) from which a power quality of the electrical signal may be evaluated. The electrical signal can be a single or polyphase electrical signal.
US11329498B2
Charging control techniques for a vehicle including an engine that drives an alternator configured to charge a battery of the vehicle comprise modeling a fuel consumption of the alternator for each load level across a range of alternator loads using an engine torque model and a set of operating parameters of the engine, determining an energy output from the alternator for each load level across the range of alternator loads, calculating a cost-to-charge metric based on the modeled alternator fuel consumption and the determined alternator energy output for each duty cycle across a range of duty cycles of the alternator, determining an optimal cost-to-charge from the calculated cost-to-charge metrics, determining a target cost-to-charge metric based on a state of charge of the battery, and operating the alternator accordingly at an optimal duty cycle based on the metrics and current engine operating conditions.
US11329489B2
A rechargeable battery is coupled to a power delivery unit or an external load unit. In a charging mode, the power delivery unit converts an input power to a converted voltage and/or current. A charging circuit converts the converted voltage and/or current to a charging voltage and/or current for charging the rechargeable battery. Power data is communicated between the power delivery unit and the rechargeable battery by: 1) the power delivery unit adjusting the converted voltage, wherein the power data is expressed by plural voltage levels of the converted voltage; and/or 2) the rechargeable battery adjusting a battery input current, wherein the power data is expressed by plural current levels of the battery input current. At least one of the converted voltage, the converted current, the charging voltage, or the charging current is adjusted according to the power data.
US11329484B2
The disclosure relates to an electrical energy-supply device including several usage units, wherein each usage unit is adapted to generate or temporarily store electrical energy, and wherein a control means is adapted to control an exchange of power (E) between the energy-supply device and at least one device, The invention provides that the usage units of the energy-supply device are divided into strands and the usage units of each strand are connected to a series connection and the series connection is connected via a DC converter and at least one galvanically isolable switching unit is connected to a busbar arrangement.
US11329480B1
A method for protecting an electrical transmission system having an electrical transmission line coupled to electrical equipment from hazardous EMI comprises receiving at least one pulse of hazardous EMI on the transmission line, and shunting current induced on the electrical transmission line by the at least one pulse of hazardous EMI to ground through at least one static series spark gap apparatus in such manner as to bypass high speed transient voltages from the electrical equipment to ground via a low impedance means and prevent damage thereto, wherein the static series spark gap apparatus has a rise time that is typically 2 nanoseconds or less.
US11329475B2
A multi-level over-current protection circuit includes: a signal amplification circuit configured to receive a set of detection signals and output a first signal; a comparison circuit to compare the first signal with a first reference signal and a second reference signal respectively; and a time delay counting circuit. The time delay counting circuit adjusts a first count value when the first signal is higher than or equal to the first reference signal and smaller than the second reference signal, and the time delay counting circuit activates a protection mode when the first count value reaches a first protection time delay. The time delay counting circuit adjusts a second count value when the first signal is higher or equal to the second reference signal, and activates the protection mode when the second count value reaches a second protection time delay.
US11329453B2
A surface emitting laser includes a substrate, a mesa of semiconductor layers including a lower reflector layer, an active layer, an upper reflector layer, and an upper contact layer that are successively laminated on the substrate, and an electrode provided on the upper contact layer. The upper contact layer includes GaAs. The electrode includes an alloy layer including Pt, in contact with the upper contact layer.
US11329452B2
A tunable laser device based on silicon photonics includes a substrate configured with a patterned region comprising one or more vertical stoppers, an edge stopper facing a first direction, a first alignment feature structure formed in the patterned region along the first direction, and a bond pad disposed between the vertical stoppers. Additionally, the tunable laser includes an integrated coupler built in the substrate located at the edge stopper and a laser diode chip including a gain region covered by a P-type electrode and a second alignment feature structure formed beyond the P-type electrode. The laser diode chip is flipped to rest against the one or more vertical stoppers with the P-type electrode attached to the bond pad and the gain region coupled to the integrated coupler. Moreover, the tunable laser includes a tuning filter fabricated in the substrate and coupled via a wire waveguide to the integrated coupler.
US11329449B2
A semiconductor laser device includes: a housing including: a first upward-facing surface, at least one inner lateral surface, a recess defined by at least the first upward-facing surface and the at least one inner lateral surface, a second upward-facing surface surrounding the first upward-facing surface in a top view and located above the first upward-facing surface, and at least one third upward-facing surface formed outward of the second upward-facing surface in the top view, wherein a height of the at least one third upward-facing surface is different from a height of the second upward-facing surface; at least one first wiring part located in the recess; at least one second wiring part located on the at least one third-upward facing surface and electrically connected to the at least one first wiring part thorough an insulating part of the housing; a semiconductor laser element disposed on the first upward-facing surface of the housing; and a cap fixed to the second upward-facing surface and covering the semiconductor laser element.
US11329448B2
A fluid-cooled laser amplifier module (100) is disclosed which comprises: a casing; a plurality of slabs (110) of optical gain medium oriented in parallel in the casing for cooling by a fluid stream (154, 156); a polarisation rotator (120) disposed between a first group of one or more slabs (111) of the optical gain medium and a second group of one or more slabs (112) of the optical gain medium; optical windows (150, 152) for receiving an input beam or pulse (130) for amplifying by the slabs and for outputting the amplified beam or pulse (140); and fluid stream ports (155, 157) for receiving and discharging the fluid stream for cooling the slabs.
US11329447B2
A laser system comprising two phase-locked solid-state laser sources is described. The laser system can be phase-locked at a predetermined offset between the operating frequencies of the lasers. This is achieved with high precision while exhibiting both low noise and high agility around the predetermined offset frequency. A pulse generator can be employed to generate a series of optical pulses from the laser system, the number, duration and shape of which can all be selected by a user. A phase-lock feedback loop provides a means for predetermined frequency chirps and phase shifts to be introduced throughout a sequence of generated pulses. The laser system can be made highly automated. The above features render the laser system ideally suited for use within coherent control two-state quantum systems, for example atomic interferometry, gyroscopes, precision gravimeters gravity gradiometers and quantum information processing and in particular the generation and control of quantum bits.
US11329446B2
An apparatus includes an amplified spontaneous emission source, which in turn includes an optical fiber. The optical fiber includes a solid core and a first end. The solid core includes a silica matrix. The silica matrix includes a rare-earth element and a glass co-dopant. The rare-earth element includes dysprosium or neodymium. The glass co-dopant includes Al2O3. The apparatus further includes a laser pump diode coupled to the first end of the optical fiber. The laser pump diode and the optical fiber cooperate to generate a spontaneous spectral emission confined to the solid core. The spontaneous spectral emission includes a simultaneous plurality of spectral regions.
US11329445B2
A fault location in an optical cable at a long distance is easily measured and detected with low-cost equipment in a configuration in which an isolator is disposed in the vicinity of an optical amplifier for improved optical transmission performance and for stabilization. An optical amplifier has a configuration in which multiplexing/demultiplexing units as first WDM filters and that multiplex/demultiplex main signal light and OTDR light and (measurement light) for submarine cable fault measurement transmitted to a submarine cable in opposite directions from a transmission device side and a reception device side, transmit the multiplexed/demultiplexed main signal light to a main path passing through an isolators and an EDF, and transmit the multiplexed/demultiplexed OTDR light to a bypass path bypassing the isolators and the EDF are included on both sides of a set of the isolators and the EDF of the submarine cable.
US11329444B2
To solve the problem that the power consumption of optical amplifiers is not optimized over the life time of an amplifier, the optical amplifier includes a gain medium for amplifying a plurality of optical channels, the gain medium including a plurality of cores through which the plurality of optical channels to propagate respectively and a cladding area surrounding the plurality of cores, a monitor that monitors the temperature of the optical amplifier and producing a monitoring result, a first light source that emits a first light beam to excite the cladding area, a second light source that emits a plurality of second light beams to excite each of the plurality of cores individually, and a controller that controls the first light source and the second light source based on the produced monitoring result.
US11329426B2
A moving plate moves from a protection position for protecting a tip part of a male tab to a connection position in a receptacle according to a connecting operation of a female housing. A male housing includes a male housing lock, and the female housing includes a female housing lock. The moving plate includes a plate male lock for locking the male housing lock at the protection position to restrict a movement to the connection position, and a plate female lock for locking the female housing-side locking portion to restrict separation of the female housing when locking of the male housing lock and the plate male lock is maintained.
US11329415B2
A shielded board connector (20) includes a terminal holding member for shielding (21) and left and right terminal fittings (31). An unshielded board connector (35) includes a terminal holding member for unshielding (36) and left and right terminal fittings (31). In the pair of terminal fittings (31) in the shielded board connector (20), an interval (Pw) of tab-like connecting portions (32) is wider than an interval (Po) of board connecting portions (34). In the pair of terminal fittings (31) of the unshielded board connector (35), an interval (Pn) of tab-like connecting portions (32) is narrower than an interval (Po) of board connecting portions (34). The interval (Po) of the board connecting portions for shielding (34) and the interval (Po) of the board connecting portions for unshielding (34) are substantially equal.
US11329412B2
A female terminal has a mating segment, and the mating segment includes a pair of channels. Each of the channels has a base wall, an upper side wall and a lower side wall. Each of the channels has a base part, a port part, and a connection part connecting the base part and the port part. A base wall of the connection part of each of the channels is connected to a base wall of the base part. An upper side wall and a lower side wall of the connection part respectively have a cantilever contact component connected to the base wall of the connection part. In each of the channels, a base wall of the port part is connected to the base wall of the connection part. The port part of each of the channels and a port part of another channel together form a frame port.
US11329411B2
This electrical connection socket for relaying exchange of electrical signals between a first electrical component and a second electrical component, is provided with: a signal pin which is inserted in a communication hole of a metallic casing so as to form a coaxial line path between the inner wall surface of the communication hole and the outer circumferential surface of the signal pin so that one end of the signal pin is electrically connected to a terminal of the first electrical component while the other end is electrically connected to a terminal of the second electrical component; and a holding member which holds the signal pin in the communication hole such that the outer circumferential surface of the signal pin is separated from the inner wall surface of the communication hole, wherein the characteristic impedance of a signal path formed by the signal pin in a first region where the signal pin is held by the holding member is smaller than a predetermined characteristic impedance which is a reference, and the characteristic impedance in a second region adjacent to the first region is larger than the predetermined characteristic impedance.
US11329404B2
A post insulator, a post insulator keeper, and a method of securing a conductor on a post insulator are provided. A post insulator includes: an electrically insulative case including an abutment surface defining a recess; and a keeper rotatably coupled to the case between an open position in which a conductor is receivable into the recess, and a closed position to maintain the conductor in the recess.
US11329401B2
A bail for forming a mechanical and electrical connection includes an inboard section and an outboard section. The inboard section includes an elongate, electrically conductive multi-strand conductor. The outboard section includes an elongate, electrically conductive solid rod conductor electrically connected to the multi-strand conductor.
US11329397B2
The disclosure concerns an antenna assembly having a substrate with an antenna radiating element and a ground conductor disposed on the substrate, the ground conductor further characterized by a plurality of ground resonators, wherein a length associated with each of the ground resonators increases as the ground resonators are distanced from the antenna radiating element. Additionally, a coaxial cable is routed around the antenna assembly for configuring the coaxial cable as an additional ground resonator associated with the antenna assembly. The resulting antenna provides wide band performance between 700 MHz and 2700 MHz with improved efficiency compared with conventional antennas.
US11329381B2
An antenna includes a first dielectric substrate and a first feeding element. The first dielectric substrate includes a first insulating layer, and a first radiation plate including a first opening that exposes an upper surface of the first insulating layer. The first feeding element is disposed in the first opening to penetrate the first insulating layer in a direction extending toward a lower surface of the first dielectric substrate. The first feeding element is insulated from the first radiation plate by the first insulating layer. The first feeding element includes a first conductive plate having an upper surface located on a same plane as an upper surface of the first radiation plate.
US11329378B2
A radiation pattern of a phased array antenna, comprising a plurality of antenna elements, may be dynamically modified using phase shifters to apply variable phase shifts between antenna elements. In a phased array antenna designed for airborne applications, the phase shifters may be required to enable a fine phase-shifting resolution and to operate over a wide temperature range. The phase shifters may also be required to perform while exhibiting small process variations, small form factor, low power consumption, and low loss. One possible solution to this is a passive vector-interpolating phase shifter configured to exhibit such characteristics.
US11329371B2
An antenna device includes a substrate, a feed line and an antenna. The substrate is formed with a non-opaque material. The feed line is disposed at the substrate and has a first terminal and a second terminal. The antenna is disposed at the substrate, electrically connected to the first terminal of the feed line, and is used to access a wireless signal. The second terminal of the feed line is electrically connected to a chip disposed on the substrate.
US11329368B2
A communication device with an RF (Radio Frequency) node and a detection node includes a first radiation element, a second radiation element, a first inductor, a second inductor, a third inductor, a first capacitor, and a second capacitor. The first radiation element is coupled to a first node. The second radiation element is coupled to a second node. The first inductor is coupled between the RF node and the ground voltage. The first capacitor is coupled between the RF node and the first node. The second inductor is coupled between the first node and the second node. The second capacitor is coupled between the second node and the ground voltage. The third inductor is coupled between the detection node and the second node. An antenna structure and a sensing pad are formed by the first radiation element and the second radiation element.
US11329363B1
An antenna unit includes a case having a base and a lid. An antenna assembly is located within the lid and is IP67 compliant, being waterproof. A plurality of antenna components are situated within the base separate from the antenna assembly. An optional barrier is located within the base to divide the antenna components from the lid. The antenna assembly include different types of antenna operable at least between 600 MHz to 39 GHz. The lid is separable from the base and is divided from other components to minimize interference so that all antenna may operate simultaneously while the lid is in a closed position.
US11329353B2
An electrochemical-type power supply source for use in marine environment, is provided with: an electrochemical stack, which generates electric power in the presence, internally, of an electrolytic fluid; a first tank, designed to contain electrolytic fluid at a first temperature; a second tank, designed to contain electrolytic fluid at a second temperature, lower than the first temperature; a thermostatic valve, that mixes electrolytic fluid at a lower temperature with electrolytic fluid at a higher temperature, for generating a mixed electrolytic fluid to be introduced into the electrochemical stack at a controlled temperature for generating a desired electric power. The electrochemical power supply is further provided with an auxiliary tank, adapted to contain electrolytic fluid at a third temperature, higher than the first temperature; and the thermostatic valve is connected to the auxiliary tank and receives, at an input, the electrolytic fluid at the third temperature.
US11329351B2
A battery cell for an electric vehicle battery pack is provided. A housing of the battery cell can define a cavity. An electrolyte material can be housed within the cavity. A first polarity terminal of the battery cell can be disposed at an open end of the housing. A first conductive tab can be disposed at a closed end of the housing and electrically coupled with a first polarity portion of the electrolyte material. A conductive rod can extend through a core of the electrolyte material and can include a first end disposed at the closed end of the housing and electrically coupled with the first conductive tab. A receptacle can be electrically coupled with the first polarity terminal and can extend towards the electrolyte material to engage with a second end of the conductive rod at the open end of the housing.
US11329335B1
A metal air battery cell has a sealed pouch defined by a metallocene film and a gas and liquid impermeable flexible layer, and an electrochemical cell contained within the pouch. The metallocene film and gas and liquid impermeable flexible layer are sealed to each other and around the electrochemical cell.
US11329324B2
An energy storage system has one or more energy storage units, each energy storage unit including one or more energy storage modules, and each energy storage module including a plurality of electrochemical energy storage devices connected in series. A DC switching device is provided in series with the or each energy storage unit. The DC switching device includes a semiconductor device and a rectifying unit in parallel with the semiconductor device.
US11329315B2
Disclosed is an all-solid-state lithium ion secondary battery including an anode that contains, as an anode active material, at least one selected from the group consisting of a metal that is able to form an alloy with Li, an oxide of the metal, and an alloy of the metal and Li, and being excellent in cycle characteristics. The all-solid-state lithium ion secondary battery may be an all-solid-state lithium ion secondary battery, wherein an anode comprises an anode active material, an electroconductive material and a solid electrolyte; wherein the anode active material comprises at least one active material selected from the group consisting of a metal that is able to form an alloy with Li, an oxide of the metal, and an alloy of the metal and Li; and wherein the solid electrolyte is particles with a BET specific surface area of from 1.8 m2/g to 19.7 m2/g.
US11329309B2
A wound electrode assembly, including a first electrode plate including a first current collector and a second electrode plate including a second current collector, wherein the second electrode plate includes a second empty foil segment, the second empty foil segment surrounds the first electrode plate, the second empty foil segment is configured as a tail segment of the second electrode plate, in the second empty foil segment, a surface of the second current collector opposite to the first electrode plate is coated with active substance, a surface of the second current collector away from the first electrode plate is coated with the active substance. The wound electrode assembly to effectively avoids lithium dendrite while improving the utilization of the battery material and the energy density of the battery, thereby improving the safety performance of the battery.
US11329308B2
A method for assembling a secondary battery cell module by using an assembling jig including a plurality of guide rods disposed on a jig plate includes: mounting a lower frame on the jig plate while the guide rods are inserted into a plurality of arranging through-holes of the lower frame; disposing a plurality of battery cells on the lower frame; mounting an upper frame on the battery cells while the guide rods are inserted into a plurality of arranging through-holes of the upper frame; fastening the upper frame and the lower frame together; and separating the assembling jig from the upper frame and the lower frame.
US11329301B2
To precisely measure and control the amount of a cathode gas supplied to a fuel cell, a fuel cell system includes a fuel cell, a first flow passage through which a cathode gas is supplied to the fuel cell, a second flow passage through which a cathode off-gas is discharged from the fuel cell, a bypass flow passage which is bifurcated from the first flow passage and which is connected to the second flow passage, a compressor provided in the first flow passage, a first flowmeter provided in the first flow passage, a flow amount regulation valve provided in the bypass flow passage, a second flowmeter provided in the bypass flow passage, and a controller which controls the flow amount of the cathode gas supplied to the fuel cell, wherein the compressor is arranged on the upstream side of the bypass flow passage, the first flowmeter is arranged on the upstream side of the compressor, the second flowmeter is arranged on the downstream side of the flow amount regulation valve, and the controller controls the flow amount of the cathode gas supplied to the fuel cell based on the flow amount measured by the first flowmeter and the flow amount measured by the second flowmeter.
US11329295B2
A porous body with a framework having an integrally continuous, three-dimensional network structure, the framework comprising an outer shell and a core including one or both of a hollow or a conductive material, the outer shell including nickel and cobalt, the cobalt having a ratio in mass of 0.2 or more and 0.4 or less or 0.6 or more and 0.8 or less relative to the total mass of the nickel and the cobalt.
US11329290B2
Disclosed are an electrode assembly, and a secondary lithium battery including the same. The electrode assembly is configured by alternately stacking two or more positive electrodes and one or more negative electrodes using a separator as a boundary therebetween, outermost positive electrodes are positioned on outermost opposite surfaces of the electrode assembly, respectively, each of the outermost positive electrodes includes a positive electrode current collector, a positive active material layer formed on one surface of the positive electrode current collector, and a non-reversible material coating layer formed on the other surface of the positive electrode current collector and including lithium oxide, and the non-reversible material coating layer is positioned on an outermost surface of the electrode assembly.
US11329288B2
The present invention relates to a secondary battery negative electrode binder composition with which a stable negative electrode active material layer can be formed, which can follow volumetric changes in the negative electrode, whereby a secondary battery can be manufactured that achieves a high charge/discharge capacity and allows for improvement in charge/discharge cycle characteristics. Provided is a binder composition for fabricating a secondary battery negative electrode, containing an element capable of forming an alloy with lithium as an active material, which is a secondary battery negative electrode binder composition comprising an emulsion in which polymer particles derived from an ethylenically unsaturated monomer are dispersed in an aqueous solution of a polyvinyl alcohol-based resin, wherein the ratio of the polyvinyl alcohol-based resin/polymer particles is 60/40 to 99/1, as a weight ratio of resin solids.
US11329274B2
A method for producing a positive electrode active material for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries, includes: a mixing step of adding a W compound powder having a solubility A adjusted to 2.0 g/L or less to a Li-metal composite oxide powder and stirring in water washing of the composite oxide powder, the solubility A being determined by stirring the W compound in water having a pH of 12.5 at 25° C. for 20 minutes, the composite oxide powder being represented by the formula: LicNi1-x-yCoxMyO2 and composed of primary and secondary particles, followed by solid-liquid separation, to thereby obtain a tungsten-containing mixture with the tungsten compound dispersed in the composite oxide powder; and a heat-treating step of heat-treating the mixture to uniformly disperse W on the surface of primary particles and thereby form a compound containing W and Li from the W and Li in the mixture, on the surface of primary particles.
US11329267B2
Systems and methods are provided for heat treatment of whole cell structures. A battery may be formed based on applying of heat treatment to a whole cell composition that includes, at least, both anode material and cathode material, such that the anode material and the cathode material are heat treated at the same time. The heat treatment may include pyrolysis. The whole cell composition, and the corresponding cell formed based thereon, may include solid state electrolyte.
US11329259B2
A display panel and method of fabricating thereof. The display panel includes a capacitor structure, a first plate of the capacitor structure includes an active region and a light shielding metal layer which are electrically connected, and a second plate of the capacitor structure includes an anode and a capacitor metal layer which are electrically connected. The anode and the active region are disposed correspondingly, and at least two insulating layers are disposed between the anode and the active region, the light shielding metal layer and the capacitor metal layer are disposed correspondingly, and at least two insulating layers are disposed between the light shielding metal layer and the capacitor metal layer.
US11329255B2
A display device is disclosed, wherein the display device comprises a hole area on a substrate, a buffer area configured to surround the hole area, and a display area configured to surround the buffer area, wherein the display area includes a thin film transistor including a gate electrode, a source electrode, and a drain electrode on the substrate, the buffer area is provided with a damage preventing portion configured to control damages generated in a process of forming the hole area from extending to the display area, and the damage preventing portion is formed of a same material as a material of the source and drain electrodes.
US11329254B2
A display panel and a display device are provided and have a base substrate, a blocking wall, an encapsulation layer, and a touch capacitor layer. By forming a second-layer blocking wall and a first-layer blocking wall to form a second blocking wall, a height of the second blocking wall is increased. Further, a blocking block is disposed between the second blocking wall and the first blocking wall, thereby increasing a thickness and a height of the blocking wall. When inkjet printing an organic layer, a slope at edges of a display area is relatively smooth, which can make an entire encapsulation layer relatively flat, thereby reducing a height difference of wirings at the edges and avoiding a problem of inaccurate exposure and focus.
US11329245B2
An electron transport thin film is comprised of nano-zinc oxide doped with metal ions. The nano-zinc oxide doped with the metal ions is nano-zinc oxide having a surface enriched with the metal ions.
US11329243B2
The present invention provides a quantum dot light-emitting diode device, which includes a substrate, a first electrode disposed on the substrate, a hole layer vertically disposed on an anode, wherein the hole layer includes a sidewall, an electron transport layer disposed on the sidewall, a quantum dot layer disposed on the electron transport layer, and a second electrode disposed on the electron transport layer. A density of the zinc oxide nanowire is high in the present disclosure, causing high light current density, which greatly improves a brightness of light to achieve a purpose of increasing a light-emitting performance of the light-emitting diode device.
US11329238B2
A flexible organic light emitting diode (OLED) display panel and a foldable display device are provided. The flexible OLED display panel includes a flexible substrate and an elastic material layer. The flexible substrate includes a folding zone and two non-folding zones located on left and right sides of the folding zone. The elastic material layer is disposed over a bottom surface corresponding to the folding zone of the flexible substrate.
US11329235B1
Provided are a novel compound capable of improving the luminous efficiency, stability and lifespan of an element, an organic electronic element using the same, and an electronic device thereof.
US11329232B2
Provided are an organic light-emitting device including an arylamine-based compound including a thermally decomposable group, and an arylamine-based compound including a thermally decomposable group. The organic light-emitting device includes: a first electrode; a second electrode facing a first electrode; and an organic layer between the first electrode and the second electrode and including an emission layer, the organic layer including an arylamine-based compound in which the thermally decomposable group has been thermally decomposed and removed from the arylamine-based compound including the thermally decomposable group.
US11329219B2
In a method of manufacturing a magnetoresistive random access memory, a memory structure may be formed on a substrate. The memory structure may include a lower electrode, a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) structure, and an upper electrode sequentially stacked. A protection layer including silicon nitride may be formed to cover a surface of the memory structure. The protection layer may be formed by a chemical vapor deposition process using plasma and introducing deposition gases including a silicon source gas, a nitrogen source gas containing no hydrogen and a dissociation gas. Damages of the MTJ structure may be decreased during forming the protection layer. Thus, the MRAM may have improved characteristics.
US11329210B2
A sensing device is provided. The sensing device includes a heat regulation mechanism to regulate a temperature of a piezoelectric resonator corresponding to a voltage, and uses a sensing sensor to cause a sensing object to adsorb to and desorb from the piezoelectric resonator by increase and decrease of the temperature. A drive voltage is regulated to regulate an amplification factor of a heat regulation voltage input to a drive voltage regulator that regulates the temperature of the heat regulation mechanism corresponding to the type of a sensing sensor connected to a device main body. Therefore, when a CQCM sensor that heats a crystal resonator using a heater circuit and a TQCM sensor that regulates a heat of the crystal resonator sing a Peltier element are each used, regulation ranges of the driving powers supplied to the respective heater circuit and Peltier element can be changed.
US11329209B1
A high temperature optoelectronic isolator for power electronics operating above 250 degrees Celcius.
US11329208B1
Instead of discrete LED chips, monolithic LED strips reduce manufacturing time and inaccuracy when building high-resolution displays with small LED pixels of less than 100 micrometers. Guide strips next to LED strips align the monolithic LED strips and increase light emission area. A monolithic LED strip formed on a substrate has a P contact and an N contact. A first transfer layer is on an upper surface of the monolithic LED strip. The first transfer layer separates the monolithic LED strip from the substrate. A second transfer layer applied to the lower surface of the monolithic LED strip separates the monolithic LED strip from the first transfer layer. A display backplane is prepared with positive electrodes, negative electrodes, positive contact pads, and negative contact pads.
US11329205B2
A light emitting device package according to an embodiment may include first and second frames, a body, a light emitting device, first and second conductive parts, and first and second conductors. According to the embodiment, first and second frames may be spaced apart from each other and include first and second openings, respectively. The body may be disposed between the first and second frames. The light emitting device may be disposed on the body and include first and second bonding parts. The first and second conductive parts may be disposed under the first and second bonding parts. The first and second conductors may be disposed in the first and second openings, respectively. According to the embodiment, the first and second conductive parts may extend into the first and second openings from the first and second bonding parts, respectively, and the first and second conductors may be disposed between the first and second conductive parts and the first and second frames, respectively.
US11329204B2
A micro light emitting diode (LED), including a first semiconductor layer doped with an n-type dopant; a second semiconductor layer doped with a p-type dopant; an active layer arranged between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer, and configured to provide light; a first side surface including a vertical side surface of the first semiconductor layer; a second side surface tilted with respect to the first side surface, and including a first tilted side surface of the active layer and a second tilted side surface of the second semiconductor layer; an insulating layer arranged to surround the first side surface and the second side surface; and a reflective layer arranged to partially surround the insulating layer in an area of the insulating layer corresponding to the second side surface.
US11329203B2
A light emitting device includes: a light emitting element comprising: a semiconductor multilayer structure that has an electrode formation surface, a light-emitting surface opposite to the electrode formation surface, and side surfaces between the electrode formation surface and the light-emitting surface, and a pair of electrodes provided on the electrode formation surface; a covering member covering the side surfaces of the light emitting element; and an optical member disposed over the light-emitting surface of the light emitting element and an upper surface of the covering member, the optical member comprising: a light-reflective portion disposed above the light emitting element, and a light-transmissive portion disposed between the light-reflective portion and the covering member and forming a part of an outer side surface of the light emitting device.
US11329199B2
An optoelectronic semiconductor chip, a method for manufacturing an optoelectronic component and an optoelectronic component are disclosed. In an embodiment an optoelectronic semiconductor chip includes a semiconductor layer sequence having an emission side, the emission side comprising a plurality of emission fields, partition walls on the emission side in a region between two adjacent emission fields and a conversion element on one or more emission fields, wherein the conversion element includes a matrix material with first phosphor particles incorporated therein, wherein the first phosphor particles are sedimented in the matrix material such that a mass fraction of the first phosphor particles is greater in a lower region of the conversion element facing the semiconductor layer sequence than in a remaining region of the conversion element, and wherein the partition walls are attached to the emission side without any additional connectors.
US11329194B2
A display panel and a display device are provided. When manufacturing a first electrode, by depositing a first transparent electrode layer, a first metal layer, and a second transparent electrode layer on a region of the display panel, and etching the first transparent electrode layer, the first metal layer, and the second transparent electrode layer on the thinned-down region; and afterwards, depositing a third transparent electrode layer, a second metal layer, and a fourth transparent electrode layer, a first electrode of the display panel is formed.
US11329187B2
A method of aligning micro LEDs and a method of manufacturing a micro LED display using the same are provided. The method of aligning micro LEDs includes providing micro LEDs, each having a first surface that has a first maximum width and a second surface opposite to the first surface and has a second maximum width that is greater than the first maximum width, providing a transfer substrate including a transfer mold that has an array of openings, each of the openings being configured to accommodate the first surface of a corresponding micro LED and not accommodate the second surface of the corresponding micro LED and aligning the micro LEDs in one direction in the openings of the transfer mold by inserting the micro LEDs into the openings of the transfer mold so that the first surface of each of the micro LEDs is positioned within a corresponding opening.
US11329186B2
An apparatus (201) comprises a light emitter (202) and a photodetector (203) formed on a single fluid-permeable substrate (206) such that the photodetector (203) is able to detect light emitted by the light emitter (202) after interaction of the light with a user of the apparatus (201). The photodetector comprises a channel member (207) which may be made from graphene, respective source and drain electrodes (208, 209), a layer of photosensitive material (210) configured to vary the flow of electrical current through the channel member (207) on exposure to light from the light emitter (202), and a gate electrode (211). The apparatus (201) further comprises a layer of fluid-impermeable dielectric material (212) configured to inhibit a flow of electrical current between the channel member (207) and the gate electrode (211) of the photodetector (203) to enable the electrical conductance of the channel member (207) to be controlled by a voltage applied to the gate electrode (211) and to inhibit exposure of the light emitter (202) to fluid which has permeated through the fluid-permeable substrate (206). The layer of fluid-impermeable dielectric material (212) allows resilient substrates made from polymeric material to be used without the risk of damage to the overlying components caused by the permeated fluid. The dual functionality of the layer of fluid-impermeable dielectric material (212) reduces the number of fabrication steps used to form the apparatus (201) and results in a thinner, more compact device.
US11329181B1
A multijunction solar cell including an upper first solar subcell having a first band gap and positioned for receiving an incoming light beam; a second solar subcell disposed directly below and adjacent to the upper first solar subcell, and having a second band gap smaller than said first band gap; wherein a light scattering layer is provided below the upper first solar subcell and adjacent to the upper first solar subcell for redirecting the incoming light to be scattered along longer path lengths into the second solar subcell.
US11329176B2
The present disclosure provides interconnect elements and methods of using interconnect elements. In one embodiment, the interconnect element includes: a first end including at least three members, each member having a pair of parallel gap weld positions for mounting an adjoining first component; a second opposing end including at least two members, each member having a pair of parallel gap weld positions for mounting an adjoining second component; and one or more interconnect connecting portions to attach the first end of the interconnect element to the second end of the interconnect element.
US11329169B2
A multi-negative differential transconductance device includes a substrate conductive portion; a gate insulating layer formed by being laminated on the substrate conductive portion; a first semiconductor, a second semiconductor, and a third semiconductor which have different threshold voltages and are formed to be horizontally connected in series on the gate insulating layer; and an electrode formed at both ends of the first semiconductor and the third semiconductor. The multi-negative differential transconductance device forms a junction of three or more semiconductor materials in one device to have a plurality of peaks and valleys so that the multi-negative differential transconductance device is utilized to implement a multi-valued logic circuit which is capable of representing four or more logical states without significantly increasing an area of the negative differential transconductance device which occupies the chip. Therefore, effects of low power consumption, a reduced size, and high speed of a chip may be achieved.
US11329168B2
Semiconductor device and the manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. An exemplary semiconductor device comprises a first semiconductor stack and a second semiconductor stack over a substrate, wherein each of the first and second semiconductor stacks includes semiconductor layers stacked up and separated from each other; a dummy spacer between the first and second semiconductor stacks, wherein the dummy spacer contacts a first sidewall of each semiconductor layer of the first and second semiconductor stacks; and a gate structure wrapping a second sidewall, a top surface, and a bottom surface of each semiconductor layer of the first and second semiconductor stacks.
US11329167B2
A method is presented for reducing sagging effects in nanosheet devices. The method includes forming at least two nanosheet structures over a substrate, wherein each nanosheet structure includes alternating layers of a first semiconductor material and a second semiconductor material, depositing a dielectric layer over the at least two nanosheet structures, depositing a dummy gate over the dielectric layer, etching the first semiconductor material to create voids filled with inner spacers, removing the dummy gate and the dielectric layer such that a supporting dielectric section remains between the at least two nanosheet structures, and removing the etched first semiconductor material such that a supporting structure is defined including the supporting dielectric section and the second semiconductor material.
US11329163B2
In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, a fin structure is formed. The fin structure includes a stacked layer of first semiconductor layers and second semiconductor layers disposed over a bottom fin structure, and a hard mask layer over the stacked layer. An isolation insulating layer is formed so that the hard mask layer and the stacked layer are exposed from the isolation insulating layer. A sacrificial cladding layer is formed over at least sidewalls of the exposed hard mask layer and stacked layer. A first dielectric layer is formed, and a second dielectric layer made of a different material than the first dielectric layer is formed over the first dielectric layer. The second dielectric layer is recessed, and a third dielectric layer made of a different material than the second dielectric layer is formed on the recessed second dielectric layer, thereby forming a wall fin structure.
US11329159B2
A field effect transistor includes a substrate and spacers over the substrate. The field effect transistor includes a channel recess cavity between the spacers, wherein a bottom-most surface of the channel recess cavity is parallel to the substrate top surface. The field effect transistor includes a gate stack, wherein the gate stack includes a bottom portion in the channel recess cavity and a top portion outside the channel recess cavity, the gate stack further includes a gate dielectric layer extending from the channel recess cavity along sidewalls of each of the pair of spacers, and the gate dielectric layer directly contacts the substrate below substrate top surface. The field effect transistor includes a strained source/drain (S/D) below the substrate top surface, wherein the strained S/D extends below the gate stack. The field effect transistor further includes a source/drain (S/D) extension substantially conformably surrounding the strained S/D.
US11329157B2
A two-terminal biristor in which a polysilicon emitter layer is inserted and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The method of manufacturing the two-terminal biristor according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes forming a first semiconductor layer of a first type on a substrate, forming a second semiconductor layer of a second type on the first semiconductor layer, forming a third semiconductor layer of the first type on the second semiconductor layer, and forming a polysilicon layer of the first type on the third semiconductor layer.
US11329149B2
There are provided a vertical semiconductor device, a method of manufacturing the same, and an electronic device including the same. According to an embodiment, the semiconductor device may include a vertical active region disposed on a substrate and comprising a first source/drain layer, a channel layer and a second source/drain layer which are stacked in sequence; a gate stack surrounding at least a part of a periphery of the channel layer; and at least one of: a first electrical connection component for the first source/drain layer, comprising a first contact portion disposed above a top surface of the active region and a first conductive channel in contact with the first contact portion and extending from the top surface of the active region to be in contact with at least a part of sidewalls of the first source/drain layer; and a second electrical connection component for the gate stack, comprising a second contact portion disposed above the top surface of the active region and a second conductive channel in contact with the second contact portion and extending from the top surface of the active region to be in contact with at least a part of sidewalls of a gate conductor layer in the gate stack.
US11329142B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a fin on a semiconductor substrate, and forming a bottom source/drain region adjacent a base of the fin. In the method, a dielectric layer, a work function metal layer and a first gate metal layer are sequentially deposited on the bottom source/drain region and around the fin. The dielectric layer, the work function metal layer and the first gate metal layer form a gate structure. The method also includes removing the dielectric layer, the work function metal layer and the first gate metal layer from an end portion of the fin, and depositing a second gate metal layer around the end portion of the fin in place of the removed dielectric layer, the removed work function metal layer and the removed first gate metal layer. The second gate metal layer contacts the end portion of the fin.
US11329138B2
Self-aligned gate endcap (SAGE) architectures having gate endcap plugs or contact endcap plugs, or both gate endcap plugs and contact endcap plugs, and methods of fabricating SAGE architectures having such endcap plugs, are described. In an example, a first gate structure is over a first of a plurality of semiconductor fins. A second gate structure is over a second of the plurality of semiconductor fins. A first gate endcap isolation structure is laterally between and in contact with the first gate structure and the second gate structure and has an uppermost surface co-planar with an uppermost surface of the first gate structure and the second gate structure. A second gate endcap isolation structure is laterally between and in contact with first and second lateral portions of the first gate structure and has an uppermost surface below an uppermost surface of the first gate structure.
US11329134B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device according to an embodiment includes: forming a first silicon oxide film on a surface of a silicon carbide layer; and performing first heat treatment at 1200° C. or more in an atmosphere including nitrogen gas and carbon dioxide gas.
US11329130B2
An IGBT chip having a mixed gate structure includes a plurality of mixed gate units. Each of the mixed gate units includes a source region (3) and a gate region. The gate region includes a planar gate region (1) and a trench gate region (2), which are respectively disposed at both sides of the source region (3). A planar gate and a trench gate are compositely disposed on the same cell (16), thereby greatly improving chip density while retaining both trench gate's features of low on-state energy loss and high current density and planar gate's feature of wide safe operating area.
US11329122B2
A display panel or a display device with high display quality is provided. The display panel includes a light-emitting element, an insulating layer, a protective layer, and a conductive layer. The light-emitting element includes a first electrode, a light-emitting layer, and a second electrode. The light-emitting element emits light to the protective layer side. The insulating layer includes a first opening overlapping with the first electrode. The insulating layer covers an end portion of the first electrode. The light-emitting layer overlaps with the first electrode through the first opening. The second electrode is positioned over the light-emitting layer. The protective layer is over and in contact with the second electrode. The protective layer functions as a protective layer of the light-emitting element. The protective layer includes a second opening overlapping with the insulating layer. The conductive layer is connected to the second electrode through the second opening. The conductive layer functions as an auxiliary wiring of the second electrode.
US11329114B2
A display substrate and a manufacture method thereof are provided. The display substrate includes a pixel definition layer and a controllable deformation layer; the pixel definition layer includes a plurality of openings for defining a plurality of pixel units; and the controllable deformation layer is on the pixel definition layer, and a horizontal extension of at least a portion of the controllable deformation layer in a direction parallel to the pixel definition layer is controllable. The organic functional layer of the display substrate has uniform morphology, so the display substrate has better display effect.
US11329109B2
The present invention provides a display panel and a display device, the display panel has an array substrate, and the array substrate has a substrate, a first inorganic film layer, at least one auxiliary cathode, a second inorganic film layer, and at least one via hole. The via hole is arranged in at least two voltage drop regions that are arranged sequentially. The via hole in each of the voltage drop regions is distributed evenly. A first voltage drop region is disposed opposite to a center or a side edge of the substrate.
US11329102B2
Provide a resistive random-access memory device having an optimized 3D construction. A resistive random-access memory includes a plurality of pillars, a plurality of bit lines, and a memory cell. The pillars extend vertically along the main surface of the substrate. The bit lines extend in a horizontal direction. The memory cell is formed at the intersection of the pillars and the bit lines. The memory cell includes a gate insulating film, a semiconductor film, and a resistive element. The gate insulating film is formed on the circumference of the pillar. The semiconductor film is formed on the circumference of gate insulating film and provides a channel area. The resistive element is formed on the circumference of the semiconductor film. A first electrode area on the circumference of the resistive element and a second electrode area facing the first electrode area are electrically connected to a pair of adjacent bit lines.
US11329096B2
A fingerprint sensing module including an image sensor, a microlens array and a light-shielding layer is provided. The image sensor has multiple pixels. Each of the pixels has multiple light-sensing regions physically separated. Each of the light-sensing regions is adapted to receive an image beam coming from a fingerprint of user. The microlens array is disposed above the image sensor. The microlens array includes multiple microlens. A focus region of each of the microlens covers a portion of the light-sensing regions. The light-shielding layer is disposed between the image sensor and the microlens array. The light-shielding layer has multiple openings, and the positions of the openings are corresponded to the positions of the pixels.
US11329095B2
A photodetection device includes a pixel matrix in which each pixel includes a barrier photodetector. The pixel matrix includes an absorption layer, a barrier layer, a contact layer, and at least one separation element to delimit the pixels. At least one separation element extends above the contact layer, and forms at least one depletion zone that extends locally in the contact layer, to block the lateral circulation of charge carriers.
US11329092B2
The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor device, a manufacturing method of the semiconductor device, and electronic equipment that are directed to improving quality and reliability of a semiconductor device including a through electrode, or electronic equipment. The semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor substrate including a through electrode, a first insulating film laminated on a first surface of the first semiconductor substrate, and a second insulating film laminated on the first insulating film, in which an inner wall and a bottom surface of the through electrode are covered with a conductor, the first insulating film and the second insulating film are laminated on the conductor, and the through electrode includes a groove which reaches the first insulating film on the bottom surface from the first surface of the first semiconductor substrate. The present technology may be applied to a packaged solid-state imaging device or the like, for example.
US11329085B2
A pixel array includes a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of isolation layer segments, and a plurality of photodiodes. Each of the plurality of isolation layer segments extends through the semiconductor substrate in a first direction. Each of the plurality of isolation layer segments encloses a portion of the semiconductor substrate in a plane perpendicular to the first direction. The plurality of isolation layer segments form a grid that defines a plurality of isolated sections of the semiconductor substrate. The plurality of isolated sections of the semiconductor substrate include the portions of the semiconductor substrate. Each of the photodiodes is formed in a respective one of the plurality of isolated sections of the semiconductor substrate.
US11329080B2
The present disclosure relates to a solid state imaging element and an electronic device that make it possible to improve sensitivity to light on a long wavelength side. A solid state imaging element according to a first aspect of the present disclosure has a solid state imaging element in which a large number of pixels are arranged vertically and horizontally, the solid state imaging element includes a periodic concave-convex pattern on a light receiving surface and an opposite surface to the light receiving surface of a light absorbing layer as a light detecting element. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a CMOS and the like installed in a sensor that needs a high sensitivity to light belonging to a region on the long wavelength side, such as light in the infrared region.
US11329079B2
An imaging device including a semiconductor substrate; a photoelectric converter stacked on the semiconductor substrate, the photoelectric converter being configured to generate a signal through photoelectric conversion of incident light; a multilayer wiring structure located between the semiconductor substrate and the photoelectric converter; and circuitry located in the multilayer wiring structure and the semiconductor substrate, the circuitry being configured to detect the signal. The circuitry includes a first capacitance element and a second capacitance element; and a first transistor including a first source and a first drain in the semiconductor substrate and a first gate. The first capacitance element includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a dielectric film between the first electrode and the second electrode, the multilayer wiring structure includes an insulating layer adjacent to the first capacitance element, and a permittivity of the dielectric film is greater than a permittivity of the insulating layer.
US11329076B2
A display substrate includes a plurality of pixel units. Each of the plurality of pixel units is provided with a plurality of sub-pixels. Each of the plurality of sub-pixels is correspondingly provided with a thin film transistor TFT. At least two TFTs are symmetrical about a geometric center point of the pixel unit.
US11329073B2
A display panel includes: a substrate; a thin film transistor layer, wherein the thin film transistor layer is disposed on the substrate an organic layer; and a via, wherein the via is disposed on the thin film transistor layer, and a part of the organic layer extends to the via.
US11329056B2
A SRAM device includes a substrate, at least one two-transistor static random access memory (2T-SRAM), an inner dielectric layer, a plurality of contacts, an inter-layer dielectric (ILD) layer, a plurality of vias, and a conductive line. The 2T-SRAM is disposed on the substrate, the inner dielectric layer covers the 2T-SRAM, and the contacts are disposed in the inner dielectric layer and coupled to the 2T-SRAM. The ILD layer covers the inner dielectric layer and the contacts, and the vias are disposed in the ILD layer and respectively coupled to the 2T-SRAM trough the corresponding contacts. The conductive line is disposed on the ILD layer and connects with the plurality of vias, wherein the thickness of the conductive line is less than or equal to one-tenth of the thickness of the via such that it can significantly reduce the coupling effect compared with the traditional bit line.
US11329051B2
Systems, methods and apparatus are provided for a three-node access device in vertical three-dimensional (3D) memory. An example method includes a method for forming arrays of vertically stacked memory cells, having horizontally oriented access devices and vertically oriented access lines. The method includes depositing alternating layers of a dielectric material and a sacrificial material to form a vertical stack. Forming a plurality of first vertical openings to form elongated vertical, pillar columns with sidewalls in the vertical stack. Conformally depositing a gate dielectric in the plurality of first vertical openings. Forming a conductive material on the gate dielectric. Removing portions of the conductive material to form a plurality of separate, vertical access lines. Repairing a first side of the gate dielectric exposed where the conductive material was removed. Forming a second vertical opening to expose sidewalls adjacent a first region of the sacrificial material. Selectively removing the sacrificial material in the first region to form first horizontal openings. Repairing a second side of the gate dielectric exposed where the sacrificial material was removed in the first region. Depositing a first source/drain region, a channel region, and a second source/drain region in the first horizontal openings.
US11329050B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a substrate having a memory cell region where a plurality of active regions are defined; a word line having a stack structure of a lower word line layer and an upper word line layer and extending over the plurality of active regions in a first horizontal direction, and a buried insulation layer on the word line; a bit line structure arranged on the plurality of active regions, extending in a second horizontal direction perpendicular to the first horizontal direction, and having a bit line; and a word line contact plug electrically connected to the lower word line layer by penetrating the buried insulation layer and the upper word line layer and having a plug extension in an upper portion of the word line contact plug, the plug extension having a greater horizontal width than a lower portion of the word line contact plug.
US11329048B2
A DRAM memory cell and memory cell array incorporating a metal silicide bit line buried within a doped portion of a semiconductor substrate and a vertical semiconductor structure electrically connected with a memory element such as a capacitive memory element. The buried metal silicide layer functions as a bit buried bit line which can provide a bit line voltage to the capacitive memory element via the vertical transistor structure. The buried metal silicide layer can be formed by allotaxy or mesotaxy. The vertical semiconductor structure can be formed by epitaxially growing a semiconductor material on an etched surface of the doped portion of the semiconductor substrate.
US11329045B2
A field effect transistor structure includes a connection hole leading out a gate structure arranged on the formation area of one of a plurality of fins, and connection holes leading out a source electrode and a drain electrode, wherein the connection hole leading out the gate structure is located on formation areas of different fins; a gate cap layer formed at the top of the gate structure formed on the same fin body and adjacent to the connection holes leading out the source electrode and the drain electrode, wherein the gate cap layer protects the corresponding gate structure; buried holes formed on the source electrode and the drain electrode at both sides of the connection hole leading out the gate structure; a buried hole cap layer formed on the buried holes, and the buried hole cap layer protects the buried holes connecting the source and the drain electrode.
US11329043B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards an integrated chip (IC). The IC includes a first fin projecting vertically from a semiconductor substrate. A second fin projects vertically from the semiconductor substrate, where the second fin is spaced from the first fin, and where the first fin has a first uppermost surface that is disposed over a second uppermost surface of the second fin. A nanostructure stack is disposed over the second fin and vertically spaced from the second fin, where the nanostructure stack comprises a plurality of vertically stacked semiconductor nanostructures. A pair of first source/drain regions is disposed on the first fin, where the first source/drain regions are disposed on opposite sides of an upper portion of the first fin. A pair of second source/drain regions is disposed on the second fin, where the second source/drain regions are disposed on opposite sides of the nanostructure stack.
US11329039B2
An integrated circuit includes first and second active regions, first and second standard cells on the first active region and the second active region, and a filler cell between the first and second standard cells and including first and second insulating isolations. The filler cell has a one-pitch dimension. The first and second insulating isolations are spaced the one-pitch dimension apart from each other. The first insulating isolation of the filler cell is disposed at a first boundary between the first standard cell and the filler cell. The second insulating isolation of the filler cell is disposed at a second boundary between the second standard cell and the filler cell. The first and second insulating isolations separate at least a part of the first active region, and at least a part of the second active region.
US11329033B2
A semiconductor module includes a base substrate; a plurality of light emitting elements; a plurality of color conversion layers being in contact with each upper portion of the plurality of light emitting elements adjacent to each other; and a light shielding layer disposed between the plurality of light emitting elements adjacent each other and between the color conversion layers adjacent to each other, and separating the plurality of light emitting elements and a plurality of color conversion layers.
US11329028B2
The present application discloses a semiconductor device with a recessed pad layer and a method for fabricating the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a first die, a second die positioned on the first die, a pad layer positioned in the first die, a filler layer including an upper portion and a recessed portion, and a barrier layer positioned between the second die and the upper portion of the filler layer, between the first die and the upper portion of the filler layer, and between the pad layer and the recessed portion of the filler layer. The upper portion of the filler layer is positioned along the second die and the first die, and the recessed portion of the filler layer is extending from the upper portion and positioned in the pad layer.
US11329026B2
Apparatuses and methods for internal heat spreading for packaged semiconductor die are disclosed herein. An example apparatus may include a plurality of die in a stack, a bottom die supporting the plurality of die, a barrier and a heat spreader. A portion of the bottom die may extend beyond the plurality of die and a top surface of the bottom die extending beyond the plurality of die may be exposed. The barrier may be disposed alongside the plurality of die and the bottom die, and the heat spreader may be disposed over the exposed top surface of the bottom die and alongside the plurality of die.
US11329025B2
A multi-chip isolation (ISO) device package includes a leadframe including leads, an interposer substrate including a top copper layer and a bottom metal layer, with a dielectric layer in-between. A first IC die and a second IC die include circuitry including a transmitter or a receiver, and first and second bond pads are both attached top side up in the package. A laminate transformer is attached to the top copper layer positioned lateral to the IC die. Bondwires wirebond the first bond pads to first pads on the laminate transformer and to a first group of the leads or the lead terminals, and bondwires wirebond the second bond pads to second pads on the laminate transformer and to a second group of the leads or the lead terminals. A mold compound provides encapsulation.
US11329021B2
A semiconductor device and method for fabricating a semiconductor device, comprising a paste layer is disclosed. In one example the method comprises attaching a substrate to a carrier, wherein the substrate comprises a plurality of semiconductor dies. A layer of a paste is applied to the substrate. The layer above cutting regions of the substrate is structured. The substrate is cut along the cutting regions.
US11329016B2
A semiconductor device package includes a carrier, an emitting device, a first building-up circuit and a first package body. The carrier has a first surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface and a lateral surface extending from the first surface to the second surface. The emitting element is disposed on the first surface of carrier. The first building-up circuit is disposed on the second surface of the carrier. The first package body encapsulates the lateral surface of the carrier.
US11329014B2
A semiconductor package includes: a connection structure including one or more redistribution layers; a core structure disposed on a surface of the connection structure; a semiconductor chip disposed on the surface and including connection pads electrically connected to the redistribution layers of the connection structure; a first encapsulant disposed on the surface and covering at least a portion of each of the core structure and the semiconductor chip; an antenna substrate disposed on the first encapsulant and including one or more wiring layers, at least a portion of the wiring layers including an antenna pattern; and a through via penetrating at least a portion of each of the connection structure, the core structure, the first encapsulant, and the antenna substrate.
US11329012B2
A technique for activating a fuse function in a semiconductor device in a relatively short time is provided. The semiconductor device includes a second bonding material provided on the upper surface of the insulating substrate, a third bonding material provided on an upper surface of the semiconductor element, a through hole extending from the first circuit pattern to the second circuit pattern via the core material, a conductive film provided on an inner wall of the through hole, and a heat insulating material provided inside the through hole and surrounded by the conductive film in plan view. The conductive film allows the first circuit pattern and the second circuit pattern to be conductive.
US11328983B2
The present disclosure relates to a radio frequency device that includes a transfer device die and a multilayer redistribution structure underneath the transfer device die. The transfer device die includes a device region with a back-end-of-line (BEOL) portion and a front-end-of-line (FEOL) portion over the BEOL portion and a transfer substrate. The FEOL portion includes isolation sections and an active layer surrounded by the isolation sections. A top surface of the device region is planarized. The transfer substrate resides over the top surface of the device region. Herein, silicon crystal does not exist within the transfer substrate or between the transfer substrate and the active layer. The multilayer redistribution structure includes a number of bump structures, which are at a bottom of the multilayer redistribution structure and electrically coupled to the FEOL portion of the transfer device die.
US11328981B2
The present disclosure includes a semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the same. The semiconductor device includes a substrate including a first area and a second area, a vertical insulating film passing through the substrate between the first area of the substrate and the second area of the substrate, an interlayer insulating structure disposed on the substrate, and a conductive pad formed on the interlayer insulating structure and overlapping the first area of the substrate. The semiconductor device &so includes a through electrode passing through the conductive pad, the interlayer insulating structure, and the substrate in the first area.
US11328979B2
A device package and a method of forming a device package are described. The device package includes a plurality of posts disposed on a substrate. Each post has a top surface and a bottom surface that is opposite from the top surface. The device package also has one or more dies disposed on the substrate. The dies are adjacent to the plurality of posts on the substrate. The device package further includes a lid disposed above the plurality of posts and the one or more dies on the substrate. The lid has a top surface and a bottom surface that is opposite from the top surface. Lastly, an adhesive layer attaches the top surfaces of the plurality of posts and the bottom surface of the lid. The device package may also include one or more thermal interface materials (TIMs) disposed on the dies.
US11328972B2
A method includes filling a trench formed in a first integrated circuit carrier with temporary bonding material to form a temporary bonding layer. At least one chip is bonded over the temporary bonding layer.
US11328966B2
A chip-stacked semiconductor package includes a first chip including a first detection pad and a second detection pad; a second chip provided on the first chip, the second chip including a third detection pad facing the first detection pad and a fourth detection pad facing the second detection pad; and a first medium provided between the first detection pad and the third detection pad to connect the first detection pad to the third detection pad through the first medium, and a second medium, different from the first medium, provided between the second detection pad and the fourth detection pad to connect the second detection pad to the fourth detection pad through the second medium.
US11328965B2
In an embodiment, a system includes: a pad comprising a first side and a second side opposite the first side, wherein the first side is configured to receive a wafer during chemical mechanical planarization (CMP), and a platen adjacent the pad along the second side, wherein the platen comprises a suction opening that interfaces with the second side; a pump configured to produce suction at the suction opening to adhere the second side to the platen; and a sensor configured to collect sensor data characterizing a uniformity of adherence between the pad and the platen, wherein the pump is configured to produce the suction at the suction opening based on the sensor data.
US11328964B2
Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable medium are described for prescriptive analytics in highly collinear response space. A method includes receiving film property data associated with manufacturing parameters of manufacturing equipment. The method further includes determining that the film property data is correlated and is different from target data. The method further includes selecting a set of data points of the film property data that are orthogonal to the target data. The method further includes performing feature extraction on the set of data points. The method further includes determining, based on the feature extraction, updates to one or more of the manufacturing parameters to meet the target data.
US11328963B2
A method of fabricating a device includes forming a dummy gate over a plurality of fins. Thereafter, a first portion of the dummy gate is removed to form a first trench that exposes a first hybrid fin and a first part of a second hybrid fin. The method further includes filling the first trench with a dielectric material disposed over the first hybrid fin and over the first part of the second hybrid fin. Thereafter, a second portion of the dummy gate is removed to form a second trench and the second trench is filled with a metal layer. The method further includes etching-back the metal layer, where a first plane defined by a first top surface of the metal layer is disposed beneath a second plane defined by a second top surface of a second part of the second hybrid fin after the etching-back the metal layer.
US11328957B2
A device includes a first transistor, a second transistor, and a contact. The first transistor includes a first source/drain, a second source/drain, and a first gate between the first and second source/drains. The second transistor includes a third source/drain, a fourth source/drain, and a second gate between the third and fourth source/drains. The contact covers the first source/drain of the first transistor and the third source/drain of the second transistor. The contact is electrically connected to the first source/drain of the first transistor and electrically isolated from the third source/drain of the second transistor.
US11328954B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method forming a via and a trench. By utilizing a first etching process, a first metal layer of a multi-layered device to form a via, wherein the multi-layered device comprises the first metal layer and a second metal layer, wherein the first metal layer is formed directly on top of the second metal layer, wherein the second metal layer acts as an etch stop for the first etching process, wherein the first etching process does not affect the second metal layer. By utilizing a second etching process, the second metal layer of the multi-layered device to form a trench, wherein first metal layer is not affected by the second etching process, wherein the first etching process and the second etching process are two different etching process.
US11328952B2
A device, structure, and method are provided whereby an insert layer is utilized to provide additional support for surrounding dielectric layers. The insert layer may be applied between two dielectric layers. Once formed, trenches and vias are formed within the composite layers, and the insert layer will help to provide support that will limit or eliminate undesired bending or other structural motions that could hamper subsequent process steps, such as filling the trenches and vias with conductive material.
US11328949B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first fin, and a second fin. The first and second fins are spaced apart from each other in a first direction on the substrate and extend in a second direction intersecting the first direction. The semiconductor device further includes a first shallow trench formed between the first and second fins, and a field insulating film which fills at least a part of the first shallow trench. The field insulating film includes a first portion, a second portion adjacent to the first portion, and a third portion adjacent to the second portion and adjacent to a side wall of the first shallow trench. The first portion includes a central portion of an upper surface of the field insulating film in the first direction. The upper surface of the field insulating film is in a shape of a brace recessed toward the substrate.
US11328947B1
An aligner apparatus according to one or more embodiments may include a first rotating base, a second rotating base, and a detection apparatus. The first rotating base on which a wafer placed thereon rotates around a first rotation axis line. The second rotating base on which a wafer placed thereon rotates around a second rotation axis whose position is different from that of the first rotation axis line. The detection apparatus includes one sensor for detecting the edge of the wafer, and the detection range of the sensor includes the edge of the wafer placed on the first rotating base and the edge of the wafer placed on the second rotating base, and detects the edges of the two wafers.
US11328942B1
A pick-up head assembly comprises a body of a liquid crystalline elastomer (LCE) that undergoes a reversible expansion when exposed to a first frequency of light and contracts when exposed to a second frequency of light. Selective portions of the LCE in the pick-up head assembly are irradiated with the first frequency to cause an expansion in the selective portions. The adhesive forces of the expanded portions of the LCE are used to pick-up semiconductor devices from a first substrate. The semiconductor devices are placed on a second substrate by exposing the expanded portions of the LCE to the second frequency of light, causing the expanded portions to contract.
US11328934B2
Provided is an etching method performed in a substrate-processing apparatus having: a first electrode on which a substrate is placed; and a second electrode facing the first electrode, the method comprising: a first step for introducing a first gas and halfway etching a target film into a pattern of a predetermined film on the target film formed on the substrate; a second step for introducing a second gas including Ar gas, H2 gas, and deposition gas and applying DC voltage to the second electrode to form a protective film, the second step being performed after the first step; and a third step for introducing a third gas and etching the target film, the third step being performed after the step for forming the protective film.
US11328929B2
Methods, apparatuses, and systems for substrate processing for lowering contact resistance in at least contact pads of a semiconductor device are provided herein. In some embodiments, a method of substrate processing for lowering contact resistance of contact pads includes: circulating a cooling fluid in at least one channel of a pedestal; and exposing a backside of the substrate located on the pedestal to a cooling gas to cool a substrate located on the pedestal to a temperature of less than 70 degrees Celsius. In some embodiments in accordance with the present principles, the method can further include distributing a hydrogen gas or hydrogen gas combination over the substrate.
US11328927B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor structure includes providing an engineered substrate including a polycrystalline substrate, a barrier layer encapsulating the polycrystalline substrate, and a bonding layer coupled to the barrier layer. The method further includes forming a first silicon layer coupled to the bonding layer, forming a dielectric layer coupled to the first silicon layer, forming a second silicon layer coupled to the dielectric layer, removing a portion of the second silicon layer and a corresponding portion of the dielectric layer to expose a portion of the first silicon layer, forming a gallium nitride (GaN) layer coupled to the exposed portion of the first silicon layer, forming a gallium nitride (GaN) based device coupled to the GaN layer, and forming a silicon-based device coupled to a remaining portion of the second silicon layer.
US11328924B2
Provided is a method for manufacturing a semiconductor wafer and a semiconductor wafer. The method includes: disposing a sacrificial layer on a first surface and a second surface of a patterned substrate, the patterned substrate comprising the first surface and the second surface having different normal directions; exposing the first surface by removing the first portion of the sacrificial layer disposed on the first surface; growing an original nitride buffer layer on the first surface and the second portion of the sacrificial layer; partially lifting off the second portion of the sacrificial layer disposed on the second surface such that at least one sub-portion of the second portion of the sacrificial layer remains on the second surface of the patterned substrate; and growing an epitaxial layer on the original nitride buffer layer, where a crystal surface of the epitaxial layer grows along a normal direction of the patterned substrate.
US11328921B2
A quadrupole mass filter includes: four electrodes arranged to surround a central axis and constituting a quadrupole; attachment portions to which a plurality of electrical conductors are attached, at least one of the electrical conductors being arranged at a position that lies in a direction toward an area between each of the adjacent electrodes among the four electrodes, as viewed from the central axis; and a holder having a hollow portion and holding the four electrodes and the plurality of electrical conductors, wherein the electrical conductors are attached to the respective attachment portions and held by the holder with elasticity of a material constituting the electrical conductors.
US11328919B2
An ion source includes a base, a first chamber, a second chamber and an extractor. The first chamber is disposed downstream of the base and defines a first internal volume having a first pressure. The second chamber is disposed downstream of the first chamber and defines a second internal volume having a second pressure. The second pressure is less than the first pressure. The repeller electrode is disposed within the first chamber. The extractor is disposed downstream of the second chamber.
US11328917B2
A MALDI ion source is disclosed comprising: a target plate (2) having a front surface (4), a rear surface (6), and at least one sample receiving well (9) for receiving a liquid sample or at least one sample receiving channel (8) extending from an opening (12) in the rear surface (6) to an opening (14) in the front surface (4) for receiving a liquid sample (10), wherein each well (9) or channel (8) has a volume of ≥1 μL. The ion source also comprise a laser (16) for ionising a liquid sample (10) on or in the target plate (2), wherein the laser (16) is a pulsed laser set up and configured to have a pulsed repetition rate of ≥20 Hz, or is a continuous laser.
US11328915B2
A mass spectrometry method comprising steps of generating an ion beam from an ion source; directing the ion beam into a collision cell; introducing into the collision cell through a gas inlet on the collision cell a charge-neutral analyte gas or reaction gas; ionizing the analyte gas or reaction gas in the collision cell by means of collisions between the analyte gas or reaction gas and the ion beam; transmitting ions from the ionized analyte gas or reaction gas from the collision cell into a mass analyzer; and mass analyzing the transmitted ions of the ionized analyte or reaction gas. The methods can be applied in isotope ratio mass spectrometry to determine the isotope abundance or isotope ratio of a reaction gas used in mass shift reactions between the gas and sample ions, to determine a corrected isotope abundance or ratio of the sample ions.
US11328911B2
An oxide sintered body includes a bixbyite phase represented by In2O3, and a garnet phase represented by Y3In2Ga3O12.
US11328910B2
Provided is a substrate processing apparatus, including: transportation chamber maintained in an atmospheric environment where a substrate is transported; a vacuum processing chamber connected with the transportation chamber through a load lock chamber; a substrate placing table installed in the vacuum processing chamber and having a body part and a surface part that is attachable to/detachable from the body part; a storage unit installed in the load lock chamber or the transportation chamber and configured to receive the surface part; and a transportation mechanism configured to transport the substrate from the transportation chamber to the vacuum processing chamber through the load lock chamber and transport the surface part between the storage unit and the body part of the vacuum processing chamber.
US11328906B2
According to one embodiment, an electrostatic chuck includes a ceramic dielectric substrate, a base plate, and a first electrode layer. The ceramic dielectric substrate has a first major surface and a second major surface. The first electrode layer is provided inside the ceramic dielectric substrate and connected to a high frequency power supply. The first electrode layer is provided between the first major surface and the second major surface. The first electrode layer has a first surface and a second surface. The first electrode layer includes a first region including the first surface, a second region including the second surface, and a third region positioned between the first region and the second region. A porosity of the first region is lower than a porosity of the third region.
US11328904B2
A substrate processing apparatus, for generating a plasma from a gas by a high frequency energy and etching a substrate in a processing chamber by radicals in the plasma, includes a high frequency power supply configured to supply the high frequency energy into the processing chamber, a gas supply source configured to introduce the gas into the processing chamber, a mounting table configured to mount the substrate thereon, and a partition plate provided in the processing chamber and configured to divide an inner space of the processing chamber into a plasma generation space and a substrate processing space and suppress passage of ions therethrough. The partition plate and a portion of an inner wall surface of the processing chamber which is positioned at least above the mounting table are covered by a dielectric material having a recombination coefficient of 0.002 or less.
US11328897B2
A charged particle beam device according to the present invention changes a signal amount of emitted charged particles by irradiating the sample with light due to irradiation under a plurality of light irradiation conditions, and determines at least any one of a material of the sample or a shape of the sample according to the changed signal amount.
US11328887B2
An electromagnetic relay includes a fixed contact; a movable contact movable between a first position at which the movable contact contacts the fixed contact to form a closed state, and a second position at which the movable contact does not contact the fixed contact to form a opened state; an electromagnet that includes a coil, a magnetic core, and a yoke coupled to the magnetic core, and generates magnetic field; and an actuator that includes a pair of armatures, and a permanent magnet sandwiched by the pair of armatures, and moves the movable contact by the magnetic field generated by the electromagnet, wherein a magnetic circuit formed by the magnetic core, the yoke and the pair of armatures is closed at the opened state, and is opened at the closed state.
US11328880B2
A key includes a substrate, a keycap, a connection component, and protruding structures. The connection component includes a first connection member and a second connection member, and the first connection member and the second connection member are between the substrate and the keycap. The protruding structures are disposed on the upper surface of the first connection member and disposed on the upper surface of the second connection member. When the keycap is pressed to a pressed position, the protruding structures on the first connection member and on the second connection member abut against the bottom surface of the keycap, so that a gap is formed between the keycap and the connection component. Therefore, the bottom surface of the keycap does not contact the upper surface of the first connection member and the upper surface of the second connection member so as to prevent from generating keystroke noises.
US11328876B2
A light-absorbing material contains a compound represented by the composition formula HC(NH2)2SnI3 and having a perovskite structure. A solid-state 1H-NMR spectrum, which is obtained by 1H-14N HMQC measurement in two-dimensional NMR at 25° C., of the compound includes a first peak at 6.9 ppm and a second peak at 7.0 ppm. A peak intensity of the first peak is equal to 80% or more of a peak intensity of the second peak.
US11328872B2
An LC composite component includes a non-magnetic substrate, a magnetic layer with magnetism, capacitors, inductors, and core parts with magnetism. The non-magnetic substrate includes a first surface and a second surface on a side opposite to the first surface. The magnetic layer is disposed to face the first surface of the non-magnetic substrate. The inductors and the capacitors are disposed between the first surface of the non-magnetic substrate and the magnetic layer. The core parts are disposed between the first surface of the non-magnetic substrate and the magnetic layer and connected to the magnetic layer. The thickness of the core parts is 1.0 or more times the thickness of the magnetic layer in a direction perpendicular to the first surface of the non-magnetic substrate, and each of the magnetic layer and the core parts contains magnetic metal particles and resin.
US11328855B2
Disclosed herein is a coil component that includes a conductor plate; and a magnetic core comprising a magnetic material having conductivity, the magnetic core having a through hole into which the conductor plate is inserted. The conductor plate includes: a metal element body having a body part positioned inside the through hole and a terminal part positioned outside the through hole; a metal film formed on the terminal part, the metal film comprising a metal material having a lower melting point than the metal element body; and an insulating film formed on a surface of the body part without the metal film interposed.
US11328854B2
An electronic component includes a ceramic element body including glass, and outer electrodes provided on the ceramic element body. Each of the outer electrodes includes a base electrode layer on the ceramic element body and a buffer portion to buffer an impact. The base electrode layer includes a first region that is disposed on the ceramic element body and includes the buffer portion of equal to or more than about 15 vol % and equal to or less than about 50 vol %, and a second region that covers the first region and includes the buffer portion of equal to or more than about 1 vol % and equal to or less than about 10 vol %.
US11328847B2
A soft magnetic alloy including a compositional formula of ((Fe(1−(α+β))X1αX2β)(1−(a+b+c+e))MaBbPcCue)1−fCf, wherein X1 is one or more selected from the group consisting Co and Ni, X2 is one or more selected from the group consisting of Al, Mn, Ag, Zn, Sn, As, Sb, Bi, N, O, and rare earth elements, “M” is one or more selected from the group consisting of Nb, Hf, Zr, Ta, Ti, Mo, W, and V, 0.030
US11328844B2
A wiring protection device includes a main body that defines a cavity for receipt of an associated lug of an associated wiring harness. The wiring protection device also includes a first locking member that is slidably received in the main body to define a lock, position that engages the associated lug to prevent removal of the associated lug from the main body and an unlock position that does not engage the associated lug and allows removal and installation of the associated lug out of and into the main body.
US11328842B2
Systems and methods for designing and assembling form boards with attached wire routing devices for use in wire bundle assembly. The assembly method comprises: (a) establishing a coordinate system of a form board having a multiplicity of holes; (b) using a computer system to determine locations of form board devices of different types with reference to the coordinate system of the form board based on engineering data specifying a wire bundle configuration; and (c) fastening the form board devices of different types to respective holes of the form board having centers closest to respective locations determined in step (b). The form board devices may be inserted robotically or manually.
US11328833B2
Aspects relate to patterned nanostructures having a feature size not including film thickness of below 5 microns. The patterned nanostructures are made up of nanoparticles having an average particle size of less than 100 nm. A nanoparticle composition, which, in some cases, includes a binder, is applied to a substrate. A patterned mold used in concert with electromagnetic radiation function to manipulate the nanoparticle composition in forming the patterned nanostructure. In some embodiments, the patterned mold nanoimprints a pattern onto the nanoparticle composition and the composition is cured through UV or thermal energy, Three-dimensional patterned nanostructures may be formed. A number of patterned nanostructure layers may be prepared and joined together. In some cases, a patterned nanostructure may be formed as a layer that is releasable from the substrate upon which it is initially formed. Such releasable layers may be arranged to form a three-dimensional patterned nanostructure for suitable applications.
US11328821B2
A system for non-invasive examination of a user's blood environment parameters that includes having at least four user-input sensors (1, 2, 3, 4) operably configured to measure a partial pressure of O2 and CO2 in a user's blood, a temperature of the user, and a hemoglobin content in the user's blood, an external electronic display unit (11), and a computing unit (9) with a communication interface (12) and communicatively coupled to the external electronic display unit (11) and the least four user-input sensors (1, 2, 3, 4), the computing unit (9) operably configured to cause a user's blood environment parameters to display on the external electronic display unit (11) through use of a mathematical software application resident thereon and employing a model of the user's internal environment based on a mathematical expression of an equation for hemoglobin buffer and utilizing the data from the user-input sensors.
US11328815B2
A system, a method and non-transitory computer readable medium are provided. The method includes receiving a message from a gateway. The message includes an identification parameter associated with the gateway that received a ping from a beacon. The message also includes a beacon identifier of the beacon that transmitted the ping, the ping included the beacon identifier. The message further includes a derived signal strength parameter that indicates a proximity of the beacon to the gateway when the beacon transmitted the ping. The method also includes acquiring an outcome associated with medical-care that is provided by a medical provider to a patient. The method further includes identifying a cost associated with the medical-care provided by the medical provider based in part on the received message. The method additionally includes generating a value score that relates the identified cost of providing the medical-care to the patient, to the acquired outcome.
US11328811B2
There is provided a medical image processing apparatus including: an association processing section configured to associate multiple medical captured images in which an observation target is imaged by each of multiple imaging devices including imaging devices in which one or both of an in-focus position and an in-focus range are different; and a compositing processing section configured to depth-composite each of a medical captured image for a right eye and a medical captured image for a left eye among the multiple medical captured images by using an associated other medical captured image.
US11328804B2
A distributed system can include a server outside of a clinical environment and a connectivity adapter and a plurality of infusion pumps within the clinical environment. The connectivity adapter can monitor microservices that measure the quality of connectivity adapter's performance. If the performance is below a threshold level, a message indicating poor performance can be sent to the server. The message can be sent when a prior message relating to poor performance has not already been sent within a predetermined time period.
US11328790B2
Provided herein are biomarkers of endogenous biological time (e.g. circadian time). In particular compositions and methods are provided for assessing the biological time of a subject, and diagnosis of diseases/conditions and/or providing treatments based thereon.
US11328789B2
A test rack includes two or more memory device test boards where each memory device test boards includes two or more memory device test resources. Each of the two or more memory device test boards includes a separate processing device allocated to the memory device test resources of a corresponding memory device test boards. A processing device of a test board detects that a first memory sub-system has engaged with a first memory device test resource of the corresponding memory device test board. The processing device identifies a first test to be performed for a first memory device of the first memory sub-system, where the first test includes one or more first test instructions to be executed in performance of the first test. The processing device causes the one or more first test instructions to be transmitted to the first memory sub-system, where the first test is performed by the one or more first test instructions executing at the first memory sub-system.
US11328783B2
A semiconductor device includes a first word line configured to perform a writing operation or a programing operation, a second word line configured to perform a read operation, a first switching device including a first gate electrode and a first node, a second switching device comprising a second gate electrode and a second node, an electrical fuse (e-fuse) disposed between the first node and the second node, and a diode coupled to the first node and the first word line, wherein the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode are coupled to the second word line.
US11328782B2
Memory might have a controller configured to program a first portion of memory cells of a string of series-connected memory cells closer to a particular end of the string than a second portion of memory cells of the string in an order from a different end of the string to the particular end, and program the second portion of memory cells in an order from the particular end to the different end. Memory might further have a controller configured to increment first and second read counts in response to performing a read operation on a memory cell of a block of memory cells, reset the first read count in response to performing an erase operation on a first portion of the block of memory cells, and reset the second read count in response to performing an erase operation on the second portion of the block of memory cells.
US11328767B2
A method for page writes for triple or higher level cell flash memory is provided. The method includes receiving data in a storage system, from a client that is agnostic of page write requirements for triple or higher level cell flash memory, wherein the page write requirements specify an amount of data and a sequence of writing data for a set of pages to assure read data coherency for the set of pages. The method includes accumulating the received data, in random-access memory (RAM) in the storage system to satisfy the page write requirements for the triple or higher level cell flash memory in the storage system. The method includes writing at least a portion of the accumulated data in accordance with the page write requirements, from the RAM to the triple level cell, or the higher level cell, flash memory in the storage system as an atomic write.
US11328765B2
A memory cell comprising includes a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate, an electrically floating body transistor fabricated on the silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate, and a charge injector region. The floating body transistor is configured to have more than one stable state through an application of a bias on the charge injector region.
US11328757B2
In some examples, a device includes a dielectric material, a ferromagnetic material, and a topological material positioned between the dielectric material and the ferromagnetic material. The device is configured to trap electric charge inside the dielectric material or at an interface of the dielectric material and the topological material. The device is configured to switch a magnetization state of the ferromagnetic material based on a current through the topological material or based on a voltage in the topological material.
US11328755B2
A data producer stores input data in a buffer in response to a slow clock signal and provides read data from the buffer in response to a read pointer signal. A data movement circuit reads the input data from the buffer using the read pointer signal and provides an update read pointer signal in response to reading the input data. The data movement circuit operates in response to a fast clock signal, and includes a metastable-free synchronizer circuit having inputs for receiving the update read pointer signal, the slow clock signal, and the read pointer signal, and an output for providing a synchronized read pointer signal equal to the read pointer signal except between a change in the read pointer signal while the slow clock signal is active until an inactivation of the slow clock signal. The buffer provides the read data in response to the synchronized read pointer signal.
US11328751B2
A semiconductor device includes: a first buffer circuit configured to receive a chip select signal in a power-down mode in response to a first select signal, a second buffer circuit configured to receive the chip select signal in an active mode in response to the first select signal, a power supply circuit configured to supply external power to a plurality of logic elements in the active mode in response to a second select signal, and not supply the external power to the plurality of logic elements in the power-down mode, and a select control circuit configured to transition a logic level of the second select signal at a first edge of a first chip select signal in the power-down mode, and then transition a logic level of the first select signal at a following second edge of the first chip select signal to exit from the power-down mode and enter the active mode.
US11328746B2
An apparatus comprises a slider comprising an air bearing surface (ABS). The slider comprises a reader, a writer, and a reader heater. The reader heater is configured to cause a protrusion of the ABS proximate the reader, and the reader heater comprises a first planar loop and a second planar loop, wherein the first and second loops are in the same plane.
US11328742B2
A cartridge memory used for a tape cartridge includes: a communication unit that communicates with a recording and reproducing device using a wireless communication method defined by an ISO 14443-2 standard which is a wireless communication standard; a non-volatile memory with a storage capacity exceeding 16 KB; and a control unit that writes or reads data to or from the non-volatile memory on a word-by-word basis (2 bytes at a time) or on a block-by-block basis (32 bytes at a time). The non-volatile memory includes a plurality of memory banks each having a storage capacity of 128 KB or less. The control unit writes or reads data defined by a magnetic tape standard to or from one or two or more first memory banks among the plurality of the memory banks, and writes or reads additional data to or from one or two or more second memory banks other than the first memory bank.
US11328733B2
Systems and methods for speaker verification comprise optimizing a neural network by minimizing a generalized negative log likelihood function, including receiving a training batch of audio samples comprising a plurality of utterances for each of a plurality of speakers, extracting features from the audio samples to generate a batch of features, processing the batch of features using a neural network to generate a plurality of embedding vectors configured to differentiate audio samples by speaker, computing a generalized negative log-likelihood loss (GNLL) value for the training batch based, at least in part, on the embedding vectors, and modifying weights of the neural network to reduce the GNLL value. Computing the GNLL may include generating a centroid vector for each of a plurality of speakers, based at least in part on the embedding vectors.
US11328727B2
Provided is a system for recording a voice about a working state, etc., linking the recorded voice to position information, and converting the recorded voice into a text. In a voice detail recording system (1), a control unit (10) executes an acquisition module (11) to acquire a voice and a position where the voice is uttered. In addition, the control unit (10) executes a voice recognition module (12) to perform voice recognition on the acquired voice. In addition, the control unit (10) executes a specification module (13) to specify Web content linked to the position acquired by executing the acquisition module (11). In addition, the control unit (10) executes a recording module (14) to record details obtained by executing the voice recognition module (12) to perform the voice recognition in the Web content specified by executing the specification module (13).
US11328721B2
A system and method are disclosed for ignoring a wakeword received at a speech-enabled listening device when it is determined the wakeword is reproduced audio from an audio-playing device. Determination can be by detecting audio distortions, by an ignore flag sent locally between an audio-playing device and speech-enabled device, by and ignore flag sent from a server, by comparison of received audio played audio to a wakeword within an audio-playing device or a speech-enabled device, and other means.
US11328719B2
An electronic device and a method for controlling the electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a microphone, a memory configured to include at least one instruction, and a processor configured to execute the at least one instruction. The processor is configured to control the electronic device to perform voice recognition for an inquiry based on receiving input of a user inquiry through the microphone, and acquire a text for the inquiry, generate a plurality of inquiries for acquiring response data for the inquiry from a plurality of databases using a relation graph indicating a relation between the acquired text and data stored in the plurality of databases, acquire response data corresponding to each of the plurality of inquiries from each of the plurality of databases, and generate a response for the inquiry based on the response data acquired from each of the plurality of databases and output the response.
US11328715B2
Systems and method for automatically assigning cooperative platform tasks to appropriate participants are disclosed. In embodiments, a method includes receiving new task data for a new task posted to a remote server; transforming the new task data by natural language processing to produce transformed new task data; representing the new task as a vector in a vector space based on the transformed new task data, wherein the vector space includes representations of completed tasks, and the completed tasks are associated with respective participants; calculating distances between the new task and the respective completed tasks represented in the vector space; ranking the respective participants based on the distances between the new task and the completed tasks associated with respective participants; determining a select participant of the respective participants to be assigned to the new task based on the ranking; and initiating automatic assignment of the new task to the select participant.
US11328694B2
A string instrument has a body and a neck. The body has a top plate joined to a bottom plate forming an interior volume therebetween. The neck is attached to the body and extends outwardly therefrom. A tailpiece is joined to the body. A first soundpost is located within the interior volume of the body and joins the top plate with the bottom plate. A second soundpost is also located within the interior volume and also joins the top plate with the bottom plate.
US11328691B2
A method of displaying an image on a display panel includes displaying an image of a grayscale value A, imaging the image of the grayscale value A with a camera, displaying an image of a grayscale value B, imaging the image of the grayscale value B with the camera, determining a compensation parameter P of the grayscale value A for each pixel in the display panel using the imaged data of the grayscale value A, determining a representative value Q of probability distribution of the compensation parameters of the grayscale value A from the image of the grayscale value A, determining a representative value R of probability distribution of compensation parameters of the grayscale value B from the image of the grayscale value B and compensating an input image data for each pixel using the value P, the value Q and the value R.
US11328690B2
A method for adjusting brightness of a display screen includes: in response to a brightness adjustment trigger operation, determining a target brightness level of the display screen based on a current brightness level of the display screen; obtaining a corresponding physical brightness and a corresponding display coefficient based on the target brightness level, wherein the display coefficient is smaller than 1, and the physical brightness is included in a physical brightness range in high brightness mode of the display screen; and controlling the display screen to display at a target display brightness based on the obtained physical brightness and the obtained display coefficient.
US11328679B2
This invention corrects, with consideration to the luminance of a display device, an image artifact related to the luminance or a color that originates from a high-luminance region set as the display target. To achieve this, the invention comprises an obtainment unit which obtains information corresponding to a luminance range which can be displayed by the display device, a derivation unit which derives a correction amount for correcting an artifact of display-target image data based on a maximum luminance value indicated by the obtained information, and a correction unit which corrects the image data based on the derived correction amount and generates display image data.
US11328674B2
The present disclosure provides a shift register unit, a driving method thereof, and a gate driving circuit. The shift register unit includes: an input circuit configured to receive an input signal from an input signal terminal and output the input signal to a voltage stabilizer node; a voltage-stabilizing circuit configured to input potential of the voltage stabilizer node to a pull-up node and control potential of the voltage stabilizer node under control of potential of the pull-up node; an output circuit configured to receive a clock signal from a clock signal terminal and provide an output signal to an output signal terminal based on the clock signal received under control of the potential of the pull-up node; and a control circuit configured to control potential of the output signal terminal under control of the potential of the pull-up node.
US11328673B2
A display device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present inventive concept includes: pixels; scan lines extending in a row direction and connected to the pixels; a data lines extending in a column direction and connected to the pixels; a receiving lines extending in the column direction and connected to the pixels; and a compensation circuit portion that generates first sensing data by receiving a current flowing to the pixels through the receiving lines, and generates a compensation value that compensates a characteristic of a driving transistor included in each of the pixels by multiplying the first sensing data by a calibration factor that corresponds to a position of each of the pixels, wherein the calibration factor includes a line calibration factors that correspond to the receiving lines.
US11328672B2
A shift register unit and a driving method thereof, a gate driving circuit, and a display device are provided. The shift register unit includes: a first input circuit, a second input circuit, an output circuit, and a compensation circuit, the first input circuit is configured to write a first input signal to the first node in response to a first control signal; the second input circuit is configured to input a second input signal to the second node in response to a detection control signal and configured to transmit a level of the second node to the first node in response to a second control signal; the compensation circuit is configured to compensate the level of the second node; and the output circuit is configured to output a composite output signal to the output terminal under control of a level of the first node.
US11328645B2
The display control method according to some embodiments of the present disclosure includes: acquiring an M-primary-color input signal from each pixel in an original image, the original image including a plurality of pixels corresponding to the plurality of pixel units respectively, each pixel being configured to display a colored image in M primary colors, M being an integer greater than 1 and smaller than N; and calculating an N-primary-color input signal for a corresponding pixel unit of the N-primary-color display panel in accordance with color coordinates of each primary color for the N-primary-color display panel and the M-primary-color input signal.
US11328644B2
Provided are an array substrate and a display panel. The array substrate includes: gate lines and data lines on a substrate, the gate lines extending in a first direction, the data lines extending in a second direction, and the gate lines and the data lines crossing over each other to define pixel regions arranged in a matrix; pixel electrodes respectively in the plurality of pixel regions and on a side of the gate lines away from the substrate; common electrode lines at least partially surrounding the plurality of pixel regions; and a shielding electrode on a side of the gate lines away from the substrate and electrically connected to the common electrode lines, an orthographic projection of the shielding electrode on the substrate covering an orthographic projection of a portion, between the pixel electrodes adjacent in the second direction, of at least one of the gate lines on the substrate.
US11328642B2
The present disclosure provides a gate driving unit, a gate driving method, a gate driving circuitry and a display device. The gate driving unit includes a reverse-phase gate driving signal output end, a normal-phase gate driving signal output end, an input circuitry, an output control circuitry, an input node control circuitry and an output circuitry. The input circuitry is configured to control an input end to be electrically connected to an input node under the control of a first clock signal. The output control circuitry is configured to control a potential at an output node under the control of a potential at the input node and a second clock signal. The input node control circuitry is configured to control the potential at the input node in accordance with the potential at the output node under the control of the second clock signal. The output circuitry is configured to output a reverse-phase gate driving signal and output a normal-phase gate driving signal in accordance with the potential at the output node.
US11328635B2
An object including a final target that is equivalent to an object obtained by a superposition of three objects of a target, a dark object, and a light object with approximately the same shape, a superposition of two objects of a target and a dark object with approximately the same shape or approximately similar shapes, or a superposition of two objects of a target and a light object with approximately the same shape or approximately similar shapes is arranged in a background of which luminance periodically varies over time. However, luminance of the dark object is lower than luminance of the target, luminance of the light object is higher than the luminance of the target, and the superposition described above is an incomplete superposition in which a part of the dark object and/or a part of the light object is hidden by the target.
US11328634B1
The projection device includes a light source, a liquid crystal on silicon (LCoS) panel, and a circuit. The circuit is configured to obtain a target image including a target pattern, and generate two content images. Each content image includes a duplicated pattern of the target pattern, and the duplicated patterns are off-axis shifted to the same coordinate when performing a computer-generated hologram (CGH) algorithm, so as to generate a phase image. The LCoS panel is driven according to the phase image to display a reconstructive image at a reconstructive distance.
US11328631B2
In various embodiments, the present invention is directed to an interior-light-utilizing display obtained by laminating a reflection structure and a light diffusion film, in which the light diffusion film has an internal structure including a plurality of regions having a relatively high refractive index in a region having a relatively low refractive index in the film. The interior-light-utilizing display provides improved luminance and is capable of stably maintaining constant display characteristics even where the incident angle of the external light changes.
US11328630B1
A modular collapsible shadowbox system for creating customizable decorative tables. The system comprises a plurality of individual units, each displaying a letter, number, symbol, or shape, which, when combined, form a desired word, phrase, expression, or design. The units may be folded for storage and transport, then assembled in any desired combination for use. The desired units may be aligned in a row with a tabletop secured thereon for use as a table. The units may be individually lit from within, backlighting the letter, number, symbol, or shape and creating a shadowbox effect. The individual units, combined with color-customizable lighting, allow a user to create a custom table with any desired message and color scheme and is thus ideal for weddings, parties, and other events.
US11328629B2
Provided is a display device. The display device includes a stretchable display device. The stretchable display device includes a lower substrate including a display area and a non-display area. The stretchable display device further includes a plurality of lower connection lines on the lower substrate. The stretchable display device further includes a plurality of first substrates disposed on the display area, the plurality of first substrates defines sub pixels, and a modulus of the plurality of first substrates is larger than a modulus of the lower substrate. The stretchable display device further includes a plurality of connection substrates connecting adjacent first substrates among the plurality of first substrates. The stretchable display device further includes a plurality of upper connection lines disposed on the plurality of connection substrates. Therefore, various connection lines are configured in a limited space to improve an image quality of a stretchable display device.
US11328628B2
The present application provides a flexible display apparatus. The flexible display apparatus includes a flexible display panel; and a hardness-enhancing layer on the flexible display panel, the hardness-enhancing layer for enhancing surface hardness and mechanical strength of the flexible display panel. The hardness-enhancing layer includes an inorganic material sublayer and a composite material sublayer, the composite material sublayer including a polymer matrix and an inorganic material dispersed in the polymer matrix.
US11328627B2
Provided are apparatus and method for management of electronic shelf label. The apparatus for management of electronic shelf label, ESL, including an ESL mainboard and a plurality of ESL small boards, wherein the ESL mainboard sends task commands to the plurality of ESL small boards through a first logic signal; and each ESL small board of the plurality of ESL small boards includes a receiving portion and a display portion, the receiving portion receives, through the first logic signal, a command for a task corresponding to the ESL small board as sent by the ESL mainboard, and the display portion displays the task.
US11328625B2
Disclosed herein are embodiments of a vessel cutdown simulant, and methods of making and using such a vessel cutdown simulant, whereby the vessel cutdown simulant includes a first layer; a second layer underlying the first layer, the second layer movably engaged with the first layer; a first conduit underlying the first layer; whereby the first layer, the second layer, and the first conduit together provide a simulated body tissue; and a housing including a side wall which defines an interior cavity configured to house the simulated body tissue.
US11328623B2
An assembly system includes: a tool including a sensor; a wearable device including a display, and a computing device. The computing device is programmed to: a. provide visual instructions on the display of the device; b. monitor an input from the sensor; and c. in response to the input from the sensor: i. provide feedback to the user through the display, indicating a status of an operation of the tool; and ii. store a record of a status of an operation of the tool.
US11328616B2
A method of presenting an interactive story including displaying an illustration on a display without a corresponding narrative; receiving a user's input; determining whether the user's input corresponds to at least one word in a hidden narrative associated with the illustration; and displaying the word in the hidden narrative on the display in response to determining that the user's input corresponds to the word.
US11328615B2
Route planning and movement of an aircraft on the ground based on a navigation model trained to improve aircraft operational efficiency is provided herein. A system comprises a memory that stores executable components and a processor, operatively coupled to the memory, that executes the executable components that comprise an assessment component, a sensor component, and a route planning component. The assessment component accesses runway data, taxiway data, and gate configuration data associated with an airport. The sensor component collects, from a plurality of sensors, sensor data related to performance data of an aircraft and respective conditions of the runway, the taxiway, and the gate configuration data. The route planning component employs a navigation model that is trained to analyze the sensor data, the runway data, the taxiway data, and the gate configuration data, and generate a taxiing protocol to navigate the aircraft to improve aircraft operational efficiency.
US11328613B2
Systems and methods include communicating with a plurality of passenger drones via one or more wireless networks comprising at least one cellular network; receiving updates related to an obstruction status of each of a plurality of waypoints from a plurality of passenger drones, wherein the plurality of waypoints are defined over a geographic region under control of the ATC system; and managing flight paths, landing, and take-off of the plurality of passenger drones in the geographic region based on the obstruction status of each of the plurality of waypoints, wherein the plurality of waypoints each comprise a latitude and longitude coordinate defining a point about which an area is defined for covering a portion of the geographic region.
US11328606B2
A hazardous behavior determining unit (3) determines a vehicle that is conducting or is likely to conduct hazardous driving from among one or more vehicles around a host vehicle and a type of the hazardous driving using information indicating states of the host vehicle and the vehicles and a surrounding situation and behavior information stored in an onboard database (2). A registered vehicle identifying unit (5) identifies a vehicle that corresponds to hazardous vehicle information stored in the onboard database (2) by collating numbers of a license plate detected by a number detecting unit (4) with numbers stored in the onboard database (2). A hazard predicting unit (6) predicts a risk to the host vehicle using the determination result from the hazardous behavior determining unit (3) and the identification result from the registered vehicle identifying unit (5).
US11328605B2
The disclosure includes embodiments for adjusting a blind spot monitor on a vehicle to improve safety of the vehicle. In some embodiments, a method for the vehicle includes detecting a change in a heading of the vehicle. The method includes modifying an operation of the blind spot monitor on the vehicle based on the change in the heading of the vehicle so that performance of the blind spot monitor is enhanced to improve safety of the vehicle in a scenario when the vehicle changes the heading.
US11328594B2
An information processing apparatus determines a pickup point and a drop-off point for a first user traveling to a destination in a vehicle carrying a plurality of unspecified users. The apparatus includes a controller that obtains information on the place of departure and the destination of the first user; determines a pickup point for the first user based on the place of departure of the first user; defines a predetermined field including the destination of the first user and determines a drop-off point for the first user from a plurality of points except the destination, the points being included in the predetermined field; and transmits the determined pickup point and drop-off point for the first user to a device associated with the vehicle.
US11328589B2
A traffic control system for controlling traffic at interconnected intersections is provided, where the system comprises a receiver that receives traffic data that indicates states of vehicles approaching an intersection of the interconnected intersections and directions of the vehicles exiting the intersection. Further, the system comprises a processor that determines intersection crossing times and velocities of vehicles approaching the intersection by minimizing at least one of a total travel time or a maximum travel time of the vehicles for crossing the intersection. The contribution of each vehicle of the vehicles approaching the intersection in the at least one of a total travel time or a maximum travel time is weighted based on directions of the vehicles and traffic at next intersection. Further, the system comprises a transmitter that transmits the intersection crossing times and velocities to the vehicles exiting the intersection for controlling the traffic at the interconnected intersections.
US11328588B2
One variation of a method for managing parking within a parking structure includes: after detecting a license plate number on a vehicle in an image captured by an entry camera unit arranged near an entry of the parking structure, labeling the license plate as unverified in a data log associated with the parking structure; in response to absence of validation of the license plate within a grace period after entry of the vehicle, relabeling the license plate as in-violation in the data log; in response to detecting the license plate in an image captured by a mobile enforcement unit moving through the parking structure, querying the data log for a status of the license plate; and, in response to the license plate labeled as in-violation in the data log, serving a prompt to an enforcement personnel to issue a citation to a vehicle carrying the license plate.
US11328587B2
A system for confirming the identity of a vehicle. The device includes: a vehicle control unit in the vehicle to be identified; a vehicle identification device; an external service device designed to interact with the vehicle; a vehicle sensor in the vehicle; and an external sensor. The vehicle identification device establishes a data connection with the vehicle control unit and triggers a physical interaction between the vehicle control unit and the external service device. The vehicle sensor detects the physical interaction and transmits a corresponding vehicle detection value to the vehicle identification device. The external sensor detects the physical interaction and transmits a corresponding external detection value to the vehicle identification device; and the vehicle identification device compares the vehicle detection value and the external detection value with one another and confirms the identity of the vehicle if the two detection values coincide with one another within a predefined tolerance.
US11328586B2
Methods and systems for processing vehicle to everything (V2X) messages for use by machine learning applications are disclosed. From each of a plurality of vehicles, one or more V2X messages are received, each V2X message including vehicle-related data associated with the vehicle and the received message. A sequence of frames is generated based on the vehicle-related data from at least a subset of vehicles in the plurality of vehicles. Slices of the sequence of frames are aggregated to generate a plurality of time-lapse images. One or more time-lapse images are processed using a machine learning algorithm to generate an output indicative of a traffic-related prediction.
US11328583B2
A facility creates a dynamic gauge for indicating the status of equipment. The facility causes a gauge to be displayed with an initial satisfactory range and an initial unsatisfactory range. The facility accesses historical data describing the status of a sensor attached to equipment. The facility determines a new satisfactory range and a new unsatisfactory range, and alters the gauge to visually indicate the new satisfactory range and the new unsatisfactory range.
US11328579B2
A remote-control security monitoring system, including an access permissions receiver operable for receiving, from a first entity having first access permissions to the premises automation system, second access permissions to the premises automation system, a premises monitoring selector operable for receiving, from the first entity, a selection of a second entity which provides remote monitoring services, a premises monitoring remote-control provider operable, responsive to the selection of the second entity, for subscribing the first entity to receive remote monitoring services of the premises from the second entity, and a premises monitoring activator operable, responsive to subscribing the first entity to receive the remote monitoring services from the second entity and responsive to receiving an instruction from the first entity, for instructing the second entity to monitor the premises on behalf of the first entity.
US11328578B2
An interactive wireless life safety communications system is disclosed. A central coordination server is linked to a first network, over which there is a connection to at least one resident life safety device at a specific location or for specific resident. An alarm signal is generated by the resident life safety device upon detection of an alarm condition and transmitted to the central coordination server. A caregiver communications device is connected to the central coordination server over a second network, and is receptive to an alarm notification that is generated by the central coordination server in response to the alarm signal. The caregiver communications device is also receptive to a caregiver user input, from which an action status response is generated for transmission to the central coordination server.
US11328568B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus for generating information, a device for human-computer interaction, and a computer readable medium. The method may include: acquiring gravity sensing data of a shelf carrying an item; and identifying, in response to determining that the item on the shelf is taken based on the gravity sensing data, the taken item based on the gravity sensing data and an acquired image of the taken item, and generating order information of the taken item.
US11328564B2
A luminaire whose primary operation is to provide ambient or focused lighting in a hazardous environment is further configured to communicate, within the hazardous environment, alert and/or detected events or conditions via visual sequences. Different visual sequences uniquely identify respective alerts and/or detected conditions, which may include conditions occurring at the luminaire and/or conditions occurring within the hazardous environment. Different visual sequences are defined by respective blink sequences stored in a blink sequence library at the luminaire. Blink sequences are configurable, are distinguished by different amplitudes, frequencies, duty cycles, and other energization/de-energization waveform characteristics, and are applied to one or more illumination sources of the luminaire to thereby generate corresponding visual sequences in the hazardous environment. Visual sequences generated by hazardous environment luminaires allow personnel within the hazardous environment to be informed or alerted to critical conditions upon their occurrences, even without the use of a portable computing device.
US11328555B2
A unified wallet manager (UWM) virtualized as a single virtual service in which all transactions relative to the UWM are treated as immutable facts permanently stored in append-only queues or ledgers from the time of their creation. A rules engine reads conversion requests in request calls to the service, and determines which rule or rules to apply to convert funds from one ledger to another, in the same or different vertically scaled gaming systems. The UWM is a peer of other vertical gaming systems, and the gaming systems access the UWM via an API server and data egresses from the UWM through an ETL process from a database cluster. The immutable queues allow for data reconstruction using any desired data model. The ledger stores funds of many different types, including real money, points, play money, and others. Third parties can integrate with the UWM through an integration hub connected to the UWM.
US11328533B1
A system, method and apparatus for detecting facial expressions according to EMG signals.
US11328518B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method and apparatus for outputting information. The method may include: acquiring point cloud data and image data collected by a vehicle during a driving process; determining a plurality of time thresholds based on a preset time threshold value range; executing following processing for each time threshold: identifying obstacles included in each point cloud frame and each image frame respectively; determining a similarity between the obstacles; determining, in response to the similarity being greater than a preset similarity threshold, whether a time interval between the point cloud frame and the image frame corresponding to two similar obstacles is less than the time threshold; and processing recognized obstacles based on a determining result, to determine the number of obstacles; and determining, based on a plurality of numbers, and outputting a target time threshold.
US11328505B2
A device may receive sensor data and video data associated with a vehicle, and may process the sensor data, with a rule-based detector model, to determine whether a probability of a vehicle accident satisfies a first threshold. The device may preprocess acceleration data of the sensor data to generate calibrated acceleration data, and may process the calibrated acceleration data, with an anomaly detector model, to determine whether the calibrated acceleration data includes anomalies. The device may filter the sensor data to generate filtered sensor data, and may process the filtered sensor data and anomaly data, with a decision model, to determine whether the probability of the vehicle accident satisfies a second threshold. The device may process the filtered sensor data, the anomaly data, and the video data, with a machine learning model, to determine whether the vehicle accident has occurred, and may perform one or more actions.
US11328504B2
An image-processing device includes: a reliability calculation unit configured to calculate reliability of a character recognition result on a document image which is a character recognition target on the basis of a feature amount of a character string of a specific item included in the document image; and an output destination selection unit configured to select an output destination of the character recognition result in accordance with the reliability.
US11328500B2
A platform for design of a lighting installation generally includes an automated search engine for retrieving and storing a plurality of lighting objects in a lighting object library and a lighting design environment providing a visual representation of a lighting space containing lighting space objects and lighting objects. The visual representation is based on properties of the lighting space objects and lighting objects obtained from the lighting object library. A plurality of aesthetic filters is configured to permit a designer in a design environment to adjust parameters of the plurality of lighting objects handled in the design environment to provide a desired collective lighting effect using the plurality of lighting objects.
US11328495B2
This disclosure provides methods for generating a vehicle wrap design. The method includes: obtaining customer information corresponding to an entity; generating, using the computing device, a vehicle wrap design for covering a vehicle based on the obtained customer information; generating, using the computing device, a three-dimensional rendering of the vehicle, wherein the vehicle wrap design is applied to the three-dimensional rendering of the vehicle; and causing a client device to display the three-dimensional rendering with the applied vehicle wrap.
US11328494B2
An image processing apparatus in an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: an obtaining unit configured to obtain viewpoint information indicating a change over time in a viewpoint corresponding to a virtual image; and a generation unit configured to generate the virtual image from the viewpoint according to the viewpoint information obtained by the obtaining unit such that among a plurality of objects included in the generated virtual image, an object whose position in the virtual image changes by a first amount according to the change of the viewpoint indicated by the viewpoint information is lower in clearness than an object whose position in the virtual image changes by a second amount smaller than the first amount according to the change of the viewpoint.
US11328489B2
There is disclosed an augmented reality user interface including dual representation of a physical location including generating two views for viewing the augmented reality objects, a first view includes the video data of the view including the augmented reality objects superimposed thereover in augmented reality locations and a second view that includes data derived from the physical location to generate a map with the augmented reality objects from the first view visible as objects on the map in the augmented reality locations, combining the location, the motion data, the video data, and the augmented reality objects into an augmented reality video such that when the computing device is in a first position, the first view is visible and when the computing device is in a second position, the second view is visible, and displaying the augmented reality video on a display.
US11328486B2
A method includes receiving a first image including color data and depth data, determining a viewpoint associated with an augmented reality (AR) and/or virtual reality (VR) display displaying a second image, receiving at least one calibration image including an object in the first image, the object being in a different pose as compared to a pose of the object in the first image, and generating the second image based on the first image, the viewpoint and the at least one calibration image.
US11328485B2
A method of displaying an augmented reality (AR) image includes controlling an AR display to display the AR image as being at least partially overlaid over a view through a microscope while the view is visible to a user of the microscope, wherein the AR image includes a cursor; receiving a user input from a user interface; setting an anchor point based on the user input; updating the AR image to include the anchor point; controlling the AR display to display the updated AR image; detecting a motion of a slide of the microscope; adjusting the AR image by moving at least one from among the cursor and the anchor point within the AR image based on the detected motion; and controlling the AR display to display the adjusted AR image.
US11328483B2
A method for structure inspection includes the steps of: selecting a structure; providing a vehicle having an imaging device; moving the vehicle in proximity of the structure; capturing two-dimensional images of surfaces of the structure with the imaging device; storing the two-dimensional images, wherein each image includes associated position information related to the surface; producing a three-dimensional virtual model from the stored two-dimensional images; displaying the three-dimensional virtual model on a user device; selecting a location on the display of the three-dimensional model; using the selected location to identify a corresponding one of the stored position information associated with at least one of the two-dimensional images; and displaying the at least one two-dimensional image on the user device.
US11328473B2
An information processing apparatus obtains constraint information representing constraints in placing a plurality of image capturing apparatuses that capture images for generating a virtual viewpoint image, obtains placement information based on the obtained constraint information and relating to placement of the plurality of image capturing apparatuses, and outputs the obtained placement information of the plurality of image capturing apparatuses.
US11328461B2
Automatic generation of a road map of a site can be performed. Data records collected by vehicles with a GNSS-positioning system while driving are provided, each data record having a position information representing a two-dimensional or three-dimensional position of the vehicle, an identification reference specific to a corresponding vehicle, a time tag, and a heading information. The data records are assigned to corresponding trips based on the time tag and the identification reference. The trips are mapped within an area and the area is divided into a plurality of uniform tiles. For each tile, a heading information variance of the data records covered by the respective tile is determined. A tile is defined as junction tile, if the tile has a heading information variance higher than a computed threshold variance. An area of interest (AoI) having a perimeter is determined by which a plurality of junction tiles is surrounded.
US11328460B2
An X-ray CT system includes an X-ray tube, an X-ray detector and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to cyclically change energy of the X-rays during one rotation of the X-ray tube around a subject. The processing circuitry is configured to perform a process including a correcting process addressing a difference in a transmission amount between X-rays having first energy and X-rays having second energy, on at least one selected from between: a plurality of first projection data sets acquired when the X-rays having the first energy were radiated; and a plurality of second projection data sets acquired when the X-rays having the second energy were radiated. The processing circuitry is configured to reconstruct an image on the basis of a combined data set generated on the basis of a plurality of projection data sets including the projection data sets resulting from the process.
US11328458B2
In some embodiments, a computing system generates a color gradient for data visualizations by displaying a color selection design interface. The computing system receives a user input identifying a start point of a color map path and an end point of a color map path. The computing system computes a color map path between the start point and the end point constrained to traverse colors having uniform transitions between one or more of lightness, chroma, and hue. The computing system selects a color gradient having a first color corresponding to the start point of the color map path and a second color corresponding to the end point of the color map path, and additional colors corresponding to additional points along the color map path. The computing system generates a color map for visually representing a range of data values.
US11328455B2
A method and apparatus for generating a face model, a storage medium, a processor, and a terminal are provided. The method includes that: feature extraction is performed on a currently input face image from at least one dimension to obtain a plurality of facial features; classification and identification are performed according to the plurality of facial features to obtain a facial feature identification result; a mapping relationship between the multiple facial features and face pinching parameters set in a current face pinching system is acquired; and a corresponding face model is generated according to the facial feature identification result and the mapping relationship. The present disclosure solves the technical problem that a manual face pinching function provided in a game in the related art is time-consuming and laborious, and it is difficult to obtain a face pinching effect that fully meets psychological expectations.
US11328454B2
In one example, the present disclosure describes a device, computer-readable medium, and method for enabling secure video sharing by exploiting data sparsity. In one example, the method includes applying a transformation to a video dataset containing a plurality of video samples, to produce a plurality of sparse vectors in a first dimensional space, wherein each sparse vector of the plurality of sparse vectors corresponds to one video sample of the plurality of video samples, and multiplying each sparse vector of the plurality of sparse vectors by a transformation matrix to produce a plurality of reduced vectors in a second dimensional space, wherein the dimension of the second dimensional space is smaller than a dimension of the first dimensional space, and wherein the plurality of reduced vectors in the second dimensional space hides information about the video dataset while preserving relational properties between the plurality of video samples.
US11328452B2
The present invention relates to an image processing device and method enabling noise removal to be performed according to images and bit rates. A low-pass filter setting unit 93 sets, from filter coefficients stored in a built-in filter coefficient memory 94, a filter coefficient corresponding to intra prediction mode information and a quantization parameter. A neighboring image setting unit 81 uses the filter coefficient set by the low-pass filter setting unit 93 to subject neighboring pixel values of a current block from frame memory 72 to filtering processing. A prediction image generating unit 82 performs intra prediction using the neighboring pixel values subjected to filtering processing, from the neighboring image setting unit 81, and generates a prediction image. The present invention can be applied to an image encoding device which encodes with the H.264/AVC format, for example.
US11328439B2
An information processing device includes a detection unit and a calculation unit. The detection unit detects, as a measurement use point, a portion that is used for prescribed length measurement of the object, in each of sectioned regions, in an object image included in the photographed image, set on both sides with respect to a reference line which is set for the object image and by which the object image is sectioned. The calculation unit calculates the length of a segment, in each of the sectioned regions, between the measurement use point and the intersection point between the reference line and a perpendicular line passing through the measurement use point and being perpendicular to the reference line. Further, the calculation unit calculates a length, in the object, to be measured, by adding together the calculated lengths of the segments.
US11328431B2
A method for determining a foreground image and a background image, the method includes the following steps, generating a characteristic data of each of N sub-region images of in an interested region of N parent images, classifying the N sub-region images to image groups of in M image groups according to the characteristic data of each of the N sub-region images, obtaining a motion level of each of the M image groups according to a motion area of in the N sub-region images, determining whether each the image group belongs to a background image group or a foreground image group according to each the motion level of each the image group and an image quantity of in each the image group. The method can correctly determine a foreground image and a background image, even a foreground object stops moving and stays in a viewable range of an image apparatus.
US11328426B2
The present solution can segment tracts by performing two-pass tractography. The system can first perform deterministic tractography and then probabilistic tractography. The system can use the result from the deterministic tractography to update and refine initial identified regions of interest. The refined regions of interest can be used to filter and select streamlines identified through the probabilistic tractography.
US11328421B2
Provided are an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and a storage medium that can distinguish an anomaly while reducing influence of an individual difference of images. The image processing apparatus includes: a generation unit that uses a part of an inspection image including an inspection target to generate an estimation image including at least a predetermined region of the inspection target; a comparison unit that compares the estimation image generated by the generation unit with the inspection image; and an output unit that outputs a comparison result obtained by the comparison unit.
US11328419B2
A portable biological microscopic image analysis system is suitable for analyzing a sample on a slide in real time, and the sample comes from an animal. The portable biological microscopic image analysis system includes a handheld electronic device and a microscope kit; the handheld electronic device includes an image capture unit, an image analysis module electrically connected to the image capture unit, and a real-time state analysis module electrically connected to the image analysis module; the microscope kit is detachably mounted on the handheld electronic device; wherein the image capture unit is used to obtain an image related to the sample through the microscope kit, the image analysis module is used to obtain cell information corresponding to the animal according to the image, and the real-time state analysis module is used to obtain state information corresponding to the animal according to the cell information.
US11328418B2
Disclosed is a method for vein recognition, the method includes: performing a difference operation and a channel connection on two to-be-verified target vein images respectively to obtain a difference image and a two-channel image of the two target vein images; performing the channel connection on the obtained difference image and two-channel image to obtain a three-channel image, so as to use the three-channel image as an input of a CNN network; fine-tuning a pre-trained model SqueezeNet that completes training on an ImageNet; integrating the difference image and the three-channel image through a cascade optimization framework to obtain a recognition result; regarding a pair of to-be-verified images as a sample, transforming the sample, taking the transformed sample as the input of the CNN network, obtaining a recognition result by supervised training on the network.
US11328415B2
As saturation enhancement processing, first saturation enhancement processing or second saturation enhancement processing different from the first saturation enhancement processing is executed. A high saturation range Ry(rc)Ry(r2) after the second saturation enhancement processing is greater than a high saturation range Rx(rc)Rx(r2) after the first saturation enhancement processing. A value Ry(r) included in the high saturation range Ry(rc)Ry(r2) after the second saturation enhancement processing is smaller than a value Rx(r) included in the high saturation range Rx(rc)Rx(r2) after the first saturation enhancement processing.
US11328412B2
Systems and methods are provided for performing medical imaging analysis. Input medical imaging data is received for performing a particular one of a plurality of medical imaging analyses. An output that provides a result of the particular medical imaging analysis on the input medical imaging data is generated using a neural network trained to perform the plurality of medical imaging analyses. The neural network is trained by learning one or more weights associated with the particular medical imaging analysis using one or more weights associated with a different one of the plurality of medical imaging analyses. The generated output is outputted for performing the particular medical imaging analysis.
US11328410B2
Methods and systems for selecting a mode of a tool used for a process performed on a specimen are provided. One system includes one or more computer subsystems and one or more components executed by the one or more computer subsystems. The one or more components include a generative adversarial network (GAN), e.g., a conditional GAN (cGAN). The computer subsystem(s) are configured for modifying a portion of design data for a specimen to generate an artificially defective portion of the design data and generating simulated images for the specimen by inputting the portion of the design data and the artificially defective portion of the design data into the GAN. The computer subsystem(s) are also configured for determining one or more characteristics of the simulated images and selecting a mode of a tool used for a process performed on the specimen based on the determined one or more characteristics.
US11328408B2
Various examples are provided related to face identification of material. An image can be captured by a vision system and feature parameters determined and compared to a material feature database to determine which face of the material is being presented. The vision system can employ a set of parameters for configuration to acquire the image. The system can communicate the identification to downstream processes in real time. A near-universal, color agnostic, angular orientation independent identification of material faces can be determined without the need for physical manipulation of the material.
US11328406B2
A computer-implemented method for assessing material microstructure of a machine component involves obtaining a raw image of a section of the component captured via a microscope. The method further includes pre-processing the raw image to generate a ternary image defined by pixel data including three levels of intensities. The method further includes identifying, from the ternary image, phase boundaries delineating at a phase in a primary constituent material of the component. The method further includes determining a volume associated with the phase based on the identified phase boundaries. The proposed method may be utilized, for example, as an automated tool for assessing material degradation and for quality control of gas turbine engine components.
US11328387B1
The disclosure relates to method and system for image scaling. The method includes determining a nature of image scaling required to be performed on an input image based on a vertical scaling ratio and a horizontal scaling ratio and includes determining if the image scaling is an upscaling or a downscaling, a symmetric scaling or an asymmetric scaling. The method further includes determining an overall scaling ratio based on a lower or an equal of the vertical scaling ratio and the horizontal scaling ratio. The method further includes scaling an input image to a target image using a polyphase finite impulse response (FIR) scaling filter based on the nature of the image scaling, the overall scaling ratio, and a structure of the polyphase FIR scaling filter. The scaling includes dynamically performing at least one of duplication of lines, addition of filler lines, duplication of pixels, and addition of filler pixels.
US11328382B2
A graphics processing architecture in one example performs vertex manipulation operations and pixel manipulation operations by transmitting vertex data to a general purpose register block, and performing vertex operations on the vertex data by a processor unless the general purpose register block does not have enough available space therein to store incoming vertex data; and continues pixel calculation operations that are to be or are currently being performed by the processor based on instructions maintained in an instruction store until enough registers within the general purpose register block become available.
US11328380B2
The present disclosure generally relates to machine vision systems, illumination sources for use in machine vision systems, and components for use in the illumination sources. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to machine vision systems incorporating multi-function illumination sources, multi-function illumination sources, and components for use in multi-function illumination sources.
US11328369B2
Systems and methods for engagement mapping based on counterfactual experiments are provided. In example embodiments, a network system receives parameters for one or more counterfactual experiments or tests. Based on the parameters, the network system selects one or more users of a social network platform to subject to the test(s) and selects edges of a social network of each of the one or more users to block. The network system then filters out notifications and feed items from the selected edges of the one or more users. Behavior data of the one or more users based on the filtering out of the notifications and feed items is aggregated, whereby the behavior data indicates engagement of the one or more users on the social networking platform based on the filtering of the notifications and feed items. Recommendations are derived based on the aggregated behavior data and presented to the users.
US11328360B2
A system configured to: (a) retrieve structured and unstructured data from one or more external data sources, the structured data including time-series data on a financial instrument and the unstructured data including words; (b) analyze the unstructured data to determine a sentiment measure for the financial instrument; (c) analyze the structured data to obtain a training dataset; (d) train a neural network model with the training dataset such that the neural network can provide a predicted price of the financial instrument for a future timestamp; and (e) provide a decision for managing the financial instrument based at least in part on the sentiment measure for the financial instrument, the predicted price of the financial instrument, and a current holding of the financial instrument.
US11328358B2
Systems and methods for controlling an automated electronic networked central clearinghouse for clearing and reversing reversible exchanges of digital assets are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: execute an instance of a game; receive an exchange request that indicates a first user offers a first digital asset for a reversible exchange on a fiat-currency-based online exchange platform; access a decentralized database to obtain asset-specific distribution rights for the first digital asset; generate publication information of the first digital asset for publication on the online exchange platform; receive exchange information regarding the reversible exchange; temporarily transferring the ownership of the first digital asset; determine whether to reverse the reversible exchange, and either (i) transfer the ownership of the first digital asset to the first user, or (ii) clear the reversible exchange by non-temporarily transferring the ownership to the exchanging user, and by distributing benefits in accordance with the asset-specific distribution rights.
US11328356B1
Described herein is an identity network for authenticating a user for a relying party and providing access to the user's credit report. The identity network may receive an unlock request for the digital identity and credit report of a user from a relying party. In response, the identity network may provide an identity provider link for accessing the identity provider application. The user may login to the identity provider application and provide consent for obtaining the user's credit report. The identity provider provides the identity network with verification of the digital identity of the user and the consent response from the user. The identity network can request access from a credit reporting agency and receive a credit report key in response. The identity network can provide the credit report key to the relying party, which can use the key to access the user's credit report from the credit reporting agency.
US11328355B1
Systems and methods are provided for providing an adjustment to a value estimate for a property that is considered distressed. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving the estimate of value for the property; determining, based on a model, the adjustment to the estimate of value, such that the model accounts for a characteristic of the property and a characteristic of the loan; and providing the adjustment.
US11328353B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, to present a video. One of the methods includes obtaining loan transfer information for a user. The method includes selecting non-personalized content, at least some of the non-personalized content selected based on the loan transfer information. The method includes generating a user specific video using the loan transfer information and the selected non-personalized content. The method also includes providing the user specific video to the user.
US11328352B2
In some embodiments, exemplary user interfaces for provisioning an electronic device with an account are described. In some embodiments, exemplary user interfaces for providing usage information of an account are described. In some embodiments, exemplary user interfaces for providing visual feedback on a representation of an account are described. In some embodiments, exemplary user interfaces for managing the tracking of a category are described. In some embodiments, exemplary user interfaces for managing a transfer of items are described. In some embodiments, exemplary user interfaces for managing an authentication credential connected with an account are described. In some embodiments, exemplary user interfaces for activating a physical account object are described. In some embodiments, exemplary user interfaces for managing balance transfers are described.
US11328346B2
A first type of data regarding an unidentified product is collected. A first type of analysis on the first type of data is performed. A second type of data regarding an unidentified product is collected. A second type of analysis on the second type of data is performed. Based upon the first type of analysis on the first type of data and the second type of analysis on the second type of data, product identification for the unidentified product is performed. Based on the product identification, an identity of the unidentified product is output. A user is enabled to perform a business interaction with a product matching the identity of the unidentified product.
US11328345B1
An integrated platform and associated interface(s) facilitate a transaction, such as a purchase of a vehicle or other item. The platform integrates information of multiple types received from various sources. Such information may be associated with a transaction, or possible future transaction, to purchase an item such as a vehicle. For example, the platform may receive and integrate information regarding user vehicle preferences, financing for the vehicle, insurance to cover the vehicle, total cost of ownership for the vehicle, prior vehicle trade-in information, dealer availability and price comparison information, user budget analysis, and/or other information. The platform presents information through interface(s), which are accessible through interface elements that each corresponds to a stage in the process to select and purchase an item. The displayed characteristics of each element are changeable to reflect the current status of the stage corresponding to the element.
US11328339B2
Novel system, methods, which include machine learning, and device for providing color and fashion recommendations, including for persons with visual impairment such as color blindness or complete blindness. Also, methods providing a data storage system for storing digital renditions of garments; providing a portable communication device to extract color and/or pattern from garments through use of a camera and at least one algorithm; providing a processor capable of accessing locally stored and/or remote information about or learning the preferred matching set of garments; assigning each garment in the set of garments a red-green-blue (RGB) value; providing a suitability ranking for matching compatibility of the garment or the set of garments; and providing recommendations for preferred matching garment or set of garments by organizing the garments in at least one queue selected from the group consisting of audial, tactile, visual or a combination thereof, wherein the individual imports garments or set of garments, through a series of photos or video, for bulk import into a virtual closet for the identification and assignment of type of garments or set of garments using human or computational methods.
US11328321B2
This specification describes technologies relating to content presentation. In general, one aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods that include the actions of receiving ad information from a seller; generating, using one or more processors, a single conversion ad using the received ad information, where the single conversion ad has an available inventory of one such that only a single conversion of the ad can be performed; transmitting the single conversion ad to one or more potential buyers; receive an input from one of the one or more potential buyers; and notifying the seller of the user input. Other embodiments of this aspect include corresponding systems, apparatus, and computer program products.
US11328317B2
A computer-implemented method for incentivizing user behavior including identifying an action for a user to perform, providing the number of credits that can be earned by the user for performing the action, verifying that the user has carried out the action and awarding the credits to the user.
US11328302B2
A system and method includes an authorization request message configured with information about transaction amounts of items aggregated according to item categories and applicable rates for the items in the respective categories. Based on the information provided in the authorization request, a transaction handler is configured to compute a modified transaction amount for the transaction by reducing the transaction amount of items in one or more of the categories, without reducing the transaction amount(s) of items in one or more other categories, and computing a total transaction amount based on the reduction and the applicable rates.
US11328298B2
A network gateway includes a gateway authenticator, a first network interface for interfacing the network gateway with a first computer network, and a second network interface for interfacing the network gateway with a second computer network that is distinct from the first computer network. The gateway authenticator receives from a pin-pad terminal, via the first computer network, an activation credential request that includes a first administrator credential. The pin-pad terminal receives the first administrator credential from a hardware token that is interfaced with the pin-pad terminal. The gateway authenticator is configured to (i) verify that, before the pin-pad terminal received the first administrator credential from the hardware token, the first computer network associated the first administrator credential with the pin-pad terminal; and (ii) install in the pin-pad terminal a digital authentication certificate that facilitates authentication of the pin-pad terminal to the second computer network via the network gateway.
US11328296B2
A distributed enhanced payment processing system includes a merchant point of sale (POS) terminal system and a remote payment management system. The POS terminal system initiates a transaction that includes receiving a payment amount, a purchaser account identifier, a virtual electronic payment indicator, and a merchant ID via a payment client. Subsequently, the POS terminal system outputs the transaction to the remote payment management system which generates a token for the transaction. The payment management system then provides the purchaser account identifier, a merchant account identifier, and the payment amount to a remote virtual electronic payment (VEP) entity system. Upon receiving a VEP entity system response, the payment management system outputs the response and token to the POS terminal system.
US11328294B2
An in-application content transfer system that generates receiver IDs to categorize a given exchange between two users where one does not execute a local instance of the application. One user executes the application on their mobile device and makes use of near-field communication protocols with a neighboring mobile device that is not executing the subject application. The content transfer is linked to the receiver's phone number and a unique ID is assigned to the content transfer. The receiving user is made aware of the content transfer via a push notification received via near field communication or via an SMS text message. The received message or notification enables the user to retrieve the content from the transfer at a later time.
US11328292B2
The disclosed technology includes a distributed ledger system that can include one or more transaction blocks that are associated with one or more transaction records of an account corresponding to the primary account number. The system may allocate a first type block in a first distributed ledger, and the first type block may be utilized to identify a classification type associated with the first primary account number. The system may receive, at the first node, a first transaction indication associated with the first primary account number. Responsive to receiving the first transaction indication, the system may bind a first transaction block to the first distributed ledger. Transaction blocks may be configured for selective control and/or selective replicated to other nodes of the system. In response to an end-of-cycle indication, the first transaction block may be locked to prevent further modification.
US11328283B2
A wearable payment device, such as a finger ring worn by a user, communicates payment data to a payment reader that uses the payment data in order to request a payment transaction. Such wearable payment device may be conveniently carried by and accessible to the user such that utilization of the payment device for the payment transaction is less burdensome for the user, thereby encouraging use of the payment device for payments. Indeed, in some cases, such as when the payment device is implemented as a finger ring or other type of jewelry, the user may be encouraged to carry the payment device in an exposed manner such that it is readily available for the payment transaction without the user having to search in a wallet, pocket, or purse.
US11328279B2
Techniques associated with a dual state merchant-facing device are described herein. A point-of-sale system can comprise multiple devices, such as a customer-facing device and a merchant-facing device that is coupled to the customer-facing device and can operate in a first state or a second state. In at least one example, the merchant-facing device operating in the first state can present a graphical user interface (GUI) on a display. The merchant-facing device can transition from the first state to the second state, the second state enabling the merchant-facing device to perform at least one additional functionality that is not available to the merchant-facing device in the first state, and can update the GUI based at least in part on the at least one additional functionality.
US11328268B1
Disclosed is a system for authenticating checks using a mixed reality environment. The system includes a financial instrumentation central database for storing financial and identification data related to the checks, and a reality glasses coupled to the financial instrumentation central database. The reality glass includes a memory unit for storing a plurality of modules, a camera to capture the image of the check, a reality display; and a wearable processor coupled to the memory unit for processing the stored plurality of modules. The wearable processor is coupled to the financial instrumentation central database, to the camera to process captured images of the check. The plurality of modules includes a first level authentication module to authenticate a bank routing number, a second level authentication module to authenticate an account number on the check captured by the camera, a third level authentication module to authenticate an appropriate amount on the check, and a fourth level authentication module to authenticate a signature style on the check.
US11328265B1
A system, method, and computer program product are provided to allow a user to define a list of user-defined important senders; receive an e-mail; identify information associated with the sender of the e-mail, in response to the receipt of the e-mail; perform a comparison, utilizing one or more processors, involving the information associated with the sender of the e-mail, and the list of user-defined important senders, to determine whether the information associated with the sender of the e-mail is on the list of user-defined important senders; and organize the e-mail in a single user-defined important sender(s) folder, based on the comparison.
US11328256B2
The present invention provides a takt system and method for the collaboration of production processes with uncertain time, which relates to the technical field of task collaboration. The present invention measures the collaboration efficiency of the production processes with indices such as estimated wasted time, and calculates the estimated wasted time by the expectation of the weighted sum of wasted time. For the collaboration of the production processes with uncertain time, the propagation of uncertainty factors and occurrence of wasted time in the collaborative production process are limited in a manner of takt. In different scenarios focusing on the collaboration efficiency and completion probability of the production processes, two takt control models are established, and takt solutions for the collaboration of production processes with uncertain time are obtained by solving the models. The method proposed effectively reduces the wasted time in the production processes and improves the collaboration efficiency.
US11328253B2
In some embodiments, the systems and methods built in accordance with the present disclosure may analyze audience engagement with a presentation displayed during a meeting and provide feedback to a presenter during and/or after the presentation. In some embodiments, the provided feedback may include determining metrics indicative of participant engagement levels. Participant engagement levels may then be used to adjust meetings in real-time and/or after the meeting has ended. In some embodiments, the system may include a hybrid configuration where a subset of the presenters, participants and moderators are physically present in the same environment. In some embodiments, the system may include a fully virtual configuration where all of the presenters, participants and moderators are physically remote from each other. A system may include presenter computing devices, participant computing devices and a server system including a data analytics module configured to determine metrics indicative of participant engagement levels.
US11328251B2
A vending device has at least one display area and an evaluator. The display area is formed by a rigid body, and has at least two, spatially-separated product areas, the rigid body of the display area being held by force transmission areas of at least two weighing cells. The evaluator is configured to, at periodic intervals or when a total weight detected by the at least two weighing cells changes: determine new coordinates of a center of gravity from data of the weighing cells, and transmit the new coordinates to a controller. The controller is configured to: determine a product area within the display area based upon changes in the coordinates of the center of gravity, determine, from the change in a total weight, the weight of goods removed from or added to the determined product area, and update an inventory, stored in a memory, for the product.
US11328242B2
An operation control apparatus of the invention includes a KPI tree preparation field for accepting an issues-structure tree indicating a causal relation of an issue of an organization having a plurality of departments, and KPI definition information having a KPI for evaluating the issue mutually associated with the department responsible for the KPI, and a KPI tree generation field for generating a KPI tree indicating the causal relation of the KPI from the issues-structure tree indicating the causal relation of the issue by accepting a user's association of the KPI with the issue constituting the issues-structure tree.
US11328231B2
A method of facilitating a match between an employer with at least one job opening and job seekers is provided. The employer has a set of position preferences related to the job opening. The job seekers have suitability data, resumes, etc., that are provided to the employer. The suitability data includes normalized assessment data. The method includes the steps of: determining a position quotient based on the position preferences; deriving a performance quotient for each job seeker, the performance quotient including normalized assessment data; comparing each the performance quotient to the position quotient; and ranking each the job seeker based on the comparison of the performance quotient to the position quotient.
US11328229B1
A system and method are disclosed for solving a supply chain planning problem modeled as a linear programming (LP) problem. Embodiments further include receiving a multi-period matrix formulation of a least a portion of an LP supply chain master planning problem representing a supply chain planning problem for a supply chain network and having a planning horizon divided into time buckets separated by time-bucket boundaries, mapping constraints of the LP supply chain master planning problem and variables of the LP supply chain master planning problem to the time buckets, calculating a quantity of cross-over variables for the constraints and the time buckets, selecting one or more decomposition boundaries from the time-bucket boundaries, and formulating at least two time-based decomposed subproblems by decomposing the LP supply chain master planning problem at the one or more decomposition boundaries.
US11328228B2
In an approach location allocation planning, one or more computing units determine at least one location matching model for a first current participating entity of a plurality of current participating entities of a current event, wherein an output of the location matching model indicates a matching degree between the first current participating entity and a current event location. The one or more computing units create at least one initial location allocation plan for the plurality of current participating entities of the event based, at least in part, on the at least one location matching model. The one or more computing units receive feedback from at least one of the plurality of current participating entities. Responsive to the feedback indicating acceptance of the initial location allocation plan, the one or more computing units determine a final location allocation plan based on the initial location allocation plan.
US11328226B2
The invention provides a method of efficiently determining the effectiveness of managing a chemical or industrial facility. The method involves identifying various industrial site assets and recording various specs of those assets over time. The various assets are grouped according to some hierarchy such as location, problem to be solved, or just asset type. The specs are compared to acceptable ranges and are scored positively or negatively. The system allows a user to determine trends by asset type, spec type, or by position within the hierarchy. This system allows both small scale and large-scale perspective, and can be used for both reactive and preemptive decision making.
US11328222B1
Distributed machine learning systems and other distributed computing systems are improved by embedding compute logic at the network switch level to perform collective actions, such as reduction operations, on gradients or other data processed by the nodes of the system. The switch is configured to recognize data units that carry data associated with a collective action that needs to be performed by the distributed system, referred to herein as “compute data,” and process that data using a compute subsystem within the switch. The compute subsystem includes a compute engine that is configured to perform various operations on the compute data, such as “reduction” operations, and forward the results back to the compute nodes. The reduction operations may include, for instance, summation, averaging, bitwise operations, and so forth. In this manner, the network switch may take over some or all of the processing of the distributed system during the collective phase.
US11328218B1
A system and method for identifying and predicting subjective attributes for entities (e.g., media clips, movies, television shows, images, newspaper articles, blog entries, persons, organizations, commercial businesses, etc.) are disclosed. In one aspect, subjective attributes for a first media item are identified based on a reaction to the first media item, and relevancy scores for the subjective attributes with respect to the first media item are determined. A classifier is trained using (i) a training input comprising a set of features for the first media item, and a target output for the training input, the target output comprising the respective relevancy scores for the subjective attributes with respect to the first media item.
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The disclosure describes aspects of using multiple species in trapped-ion nodes for quantum networking. In an aspect, a quantum networking node is described that includes multiple memory qubits, each memory qubit being based on a 171Yb+ atomic ion, and one or more communication qubits, each communication qubit being based on a 138Ba+ atomic ion. The memory and communication qubits are part of a lattice in an atomic ion trap. In another aspect, a quantum computing system having a modular optical architecture is described that includes multiple quantum networking nodes, each quantum networking node including multiple memory qubits (e.g., based on a 171Yb+ atomic ion) and one or more communication qubits (e.g., based on a 138Ba+ atomic ion). The memory and communication qubits are part of a lattice in an atomic ion trap. The system further includes a photonic entangler coupled to each of the multiple quantum networking nodes.
US11328210B2
A vehicle having the first ANN model initially installed therein to generate outputs from inputs generated by one or more sensors of the vehicle. The vehicle selects an input based on an output generated from the input using the first ANN model. The vehicle has a module to incrementally train the first ANN model through unsupervised machine learning from sensor data that includes the input selected by the vehicle. Optionally, the sensor data used for the unsupervised learning may further include inputs selected by other vehicles in a population. Sensor inputs selected by vehicles are transmitted to a centralized computer server, which trains the first ANN model through supervised machine learning from sensor received inputs from the vehicles in the population and generates a second ANN model as replacement of the first ANN model previously incrementally improved via unsupervised machine learning in the population.
