US11374749B2
An example method facilitates enabling Key Encryption Key (KEK) rotation for a running multi-tenant system without requiring system downtime or interruption. The example method facilitates decrypting a set of one or more DEKs using a preexisting KEK; using a new KEK to re-encode the DEKs using the new KEK, all while simultaneously enabling servicing of tenant requests. This is enabled in part, by strategic caching of tenant DEKs in a secure local memory, wherein the cached tenant DEKs are maintained in the clear and are readily accessible to running processes that are using the DEKs to decrypt and access tenant data, irrespective of the state of a background process used to implement the KEK rotation to the new KEK.
US11374735B2
A processing apparatus includes at least one processor configured to function as: an input unit that receives encrypted data based on homomorphic encryption; and a process execution unit that executes a predetermined process by using the encrypted data while maintaining a secret state and includes one or more processing units. At least one of the processing units is a multiplication corresponding processing unit for executing a calculation corresponding to a processing of multiplying plaintext data by a predetermined multiplier. The multiplication corresponding processing unit generates a first calculation result based on a first multiplier component of the predetermined multiplier that is not used in a calculation of encrypted data, generates a second calculation result by executing a calculation to encrypted data in a ciphertext space corresponding to multiplication of the plaintext data by a second multiplier component of the predetermined multiplier other than the first multiplier component, and outputs the first calculation result and the second calculation result in association with each other.
US11374731B2
Systems, devices, and methods related to selecting a sample phase of a signal are disclosed. A method includes sampling a signal including a plurality of symbols with a plurality of different sample phases to obtain sample values of each of the plurality of symbols at each of the plurality of different sample phases. The signal is received from a shared transmission medium. The method also includes determining an edge sample phase of the plurality of different sample phases that corresponds to edges of the symbols based on the sample values. The method further includes determining a center sample phase of the plurality of different sample phases based on the determined edge sample phase, and using the determined center sample phase to determine values of the symbols.
US11374729B2
An audio synchronization processing method is provided. The method includes the following steps: receiving an input request signal; in response to receiving the input request signal, starting performing a counting operation according to a basic clock signal; outputting an output request signal according to a sampling-clock signal; in response to outputting the output request signal, stopping performing the counting operation to obtain a counting value; determining whether synchronization has been achieved based on the counting value; and in response to determining that the synchronization has not been reached, adjusting a frequency of the sampling-clock signal according to the counting value.
US11374722B2
The disclosure provides a method and a device in a User Equipment (UE) and a base station for wireless communication. The UE receives a first signaling in a first time-frequency resource, and receives a first radio signal in a second time-frequency resource; the first signaling is used for indicating K1 target subband(s), the K1 target subband(s) comprise(s) K1 target time-frequency resource(s) respectively, and the second time-frequency resource is one of the K1 target time-frequency resource(s); the first signaling and the first radio signal are both specific to the UE; time domain resources occupied by the first time-frequency resource belong to a first time window. Through the design of the K1 target subband(s), the disclosure guarantees the transmission of important information such as system information and subband indicator signaling on unlicensed spectrum, thereby improving overall performances of the system.
US11374721B2
A user equipment transmits a first wireless signal and transmits a second wireless signal; the first wireless signal is generated by a first sequence; the first wireless signal is used to determine a first time interval; the first time interval is a time interval between a first and a second time instant; the first time instant is a starting time instant at which a transmitter of the first wireless signal transmits the first wireless signal; the second time instant is a starting time instant at which a transmitter of the second wireless signal transmits the second wireless signal; the first time instant is earlier than the second time instant; the second wireless signal occupies a first wireless resource; the first wireless resource is one of J candidate wireless resources; the first time interval is used to determine the first wireless resource out of the J candidate wireless resources.
US11374719B2
The present invention relates to a method for realizing data detection for a physical downlink channel in an Internet of Things, and a user equipment unit. The method for data detection includes: monitoring a first communication channel and a second communication channel; and after start of a period during which the second communication channel is monitored, if monitoring periods of the first communication channel and the second communication channel overlap, performing data detection according to priority levels of the channels, wherein the second communication channel is used to transmit information to a group of user equipment units in one transmission, and the information is acknowledge information transmitted by a base station for acknowledgement of reception of uplink data.
US11374708B2
This application discloses a communication method and a communications apparatus. The method implemented by a terminal includes: determining a configuration mode of one or more pilots used for K repeated transmissions, where in a first configuration mode, the terminal device sends a same pilot in each of first N of the K repeated transmissions, and does not send a pilot in remaining K−N transmissions; in a second configuration mode, the terminal device sends a first pilot in first N of the K repeated transmissions, and sends a second pilot in the remaining K−N transmissions; and in the third configuration mode, the terminal device sends the first pilot in each transmission in a first round of K transmissions, and sends the second pilot in each transmission in a second round of K transmissions; and sending the pilots based on the determined configuration mode when performing the K repeated transmissions.
US11374702B2
The present application relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present application relates to a method and a device for semi-persistent scheduling transmission using HARQ process IDs. Specifically, a sequential order in a HARQ process ID set is used. The communication device is capable of communicating with at least one of another device, a device related to an autonomous driving vehicle, a base station or a network.
US11374698B2
A wireless communication device generates physical layer (PHY) protocol service data units (PSDUs), and, in response to determining that the PHY data unit is to be transmitted according to a HARQ process, generates HARQ coding units of a common length, each of the HARQ coding units including a respective set of one or more PSDUs, and individually encodes the HARQ coding units. The wireless communication device also generates a HARQ signal field to the included in a PHY preamble of the PHY data unit. The HARQ signal field includes i) a common information subfield to indicate one or more parameters that commonly apply to each of at least some of the one or more HARQ coding units and ii) a respective HARQ coding unit information subfield for each of the HARQ coding units to indicate one or more parameters that apply to only the corresponding HARQ coding unit.
US11374689B2
An industrial control system includes an encryption device, a decryption device and a mission-critical communication link connecting the encryption device to the decryption device. The encryption device is configured to send encrypted messages to the decryption device over the mission-critical communication link. The system includes a failure monitor configured to monitor for a failure of the encryption device or the decryption device, and, in the event of failure, to continue the sending of the messages to the decryption device but without encrypting the messages.
US11374663B2
A method includes receiving a set of time domain samples representing audio captured using one or more microphones, and generating, from the time domain samples, a spectrum comprising a set of frequency domain coefficients, each coefficient representing a frequency bin corresponding to a range of frequencies. The method also includes adjusting the spectrum to generate a smoothed spectrum, wherein generating the smoothed spectrum includes determining that a magnitude of a first frequency domain coefficient is less than a threshold, and in response, replacing the first frequency domain coefficient by a value computed as a function of a plurality of frequency domain coefficients that include the first frequency domain coefficient. The method further includes generating an audio signal based on time domain samples computed using the smoothed spectrum.
US11374662B2
In some embodiments, a method of operation of a node to monitor for faults in a receiver subsystem of a radio node comprises estimating a noise floor for each receiver chain of a plurality of receiver chains in the receiver subsystem of the radio node for each of one or more carriers to thereby provide a plurality of noise floor estimates. The method further comprises determining average received power for each receiver chain of the plurality of receiver chains in the receiver subsystem of the radio node for each of one or more carriers to thereby provide a plurality of average received power measurements. The method further comprises determining that there is a fault in the receiver subsystem of the radio node based on at least one of (a) a subset of the plurality of noise floor estimates and (b) a subset of the plurality of average received power measurements.
US11374658B2
Embodiments disclosed herein may be implemented in the form of a method or corresponding apparatus for receiving or transmitting network communications carried at acoustic wavelengths via an acoustic medium. The corresponding method or apparatus may include a gate-level digital hardware module communicatively coupled to a communications module and define therein logic blocks configured to perform respective primitive processing functions, sequences of the logic blocks being capable of processing data units in accordance with any of the multiple communications protocols on a data unit-by-data unit basis without reconfiguring. According to some embodiments, the gate-level digital hardware module may be configured to process a data unit in accordance with a first communications protocol by directing the data unit through a first sequence of logic blocks, and process a subsequent data unit in accordance with a second communications protocol by directing the subsequent data unit through a second of sequence logic blocks.
US11374655B1
A link extender configured to extend a range of an optical transceiver module is provided. The link extender includes an array of semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs) configured to amplify an optical signal received from the optical transceiver module, a first plurality of variable optical attenuators (VOAs) configured to control a power output of the amplified optical signal output from the array of SOAs, and a plurality of dispersion compensation and filtering (DC&F) devices configured to compensate for chromatic dispersion of the optical signal.
US11374653B2
Provided is a visible light communication transceiver. A drive amplification module performs digital-to-analog conversion and amplification on a digital modulation signal to obtain a first electrical signal, and transmits the signal to a Bias Tee-like circuit. The Bias Tee-like circuit transmits the first electrical signal to a LED light source. The LED light source performs electrical-to-optical conversion on the first electrical signal to generate a first optical signal and transmits the first optical signal, and performs optical-to-electrical conversion on a received second optical signal to obtain a second electrical signal. The Bias Tee-like circuit obtains the second electrical signal from the LED light source, and transmits the second electrical signal to an adaptive amplification and equalization module. The adaptive equalization module adjusts a gain of the second electrical signal based on an optical power of the first optical signal.
US11374643B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for converging IoT technology with a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate beyond a 4G system, and a system therefor. The present disclosure may be applied to an intelligent service (for example, a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car or connected car, health care, digital education, retail business, a security and safety-related service, etc.) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. A communication method of a terminal of a mobile communication system, according to one embodiment of the present specification, comprises the steps of: acquiring moving speed information of a terminal; determining a reception beam candidate group on the basis of the moving speed information; and determining a reception beam, in the reception beam candidate group, for receiving a signal.
US11374641B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for grouping devices to reduce latency in round trip time based millimeter wave positioning. A method that may be performed by a wireless device includes obtaining a status, of the wireless device, within a group including the wireless device, wherein the group comprises a group owner (GO) of the group and one or more members of the group; and participating in a positioning procedure that estimates a position of at least one of the GO or the one or more members according to the status of the wireless device.
US11374622B2
A position alignment system facilitates positioning of a contactless card in a ‘sweet spot’ in a target volume relative to a contactless card reading device. Alignment logic uses information captured from available imaging devices such as infrared proximity detectors, cameras, infrared sensors, dot projectors, and the like to guide the card to a target location. The captured image information is processed to identify a card position, trajectory and predicted location using one or both of a machine learning model and/or a Simultaneous Localization and Mapping logic. Trajectory adjustment and prompt identification may be intelligently controlled and customized using machine-learning techniques to customize guidance based on the preference and/or historical behavior of the user. As a result, the speed and accuracy of contactless card alignment is improved and received NFC signal strength is maximized, thereby reducing the occurrence of dropped transactions.
US11374621B2
A system for wireless communications includes an antenna and a controller, the antenna configured to transmit electrical data signals, the electrical data signals including an encoded message signal. The encoded message signal including one or more encoded message words. The controller is configured to encode one or more message words, of a message signal, into one or more encoded message words of the encoded message signal, based on a coding format. The coding format correlates each of a plurality of correlated ratios with one of a plurality of format words. Each of the plurality of correlated ratios is a ratio of a duty cycle of a pulse to a respective period associated with one or both of the duty cycle and the pulse. Each of the one or more encoded message words are encoded as one of the plurality of correlated ratios.
US11374619B2
A data cable tool apparatus is disclosed. An example data cable tool apparatus includes a cable carrier having a connector cavity to receive a connector of a cable, and a lever having a tab depressor, pivotally coupled to the cable carrier, to move the tab depressor relative to the connector cavity of the cable carrier.
US11374616B2
A terminal is disclosed including a transmitter that transmits an uplink shared channel; and a processor that determines, when frequency hopping is applied to the uplink shared channel, a symbol for a demodulation reference signal of the uplink shared channel based on a mapping type of the uplink shared channel by using a start symbol of each hop as a reference point. In other aspects, a radio communication method is also disclosed.
US11374615B1
Various embodiments relate to a cancellation circuit configured to generate a cancellation signal, including: an attenuator configured to attenuate a transmitted signal from an aggressor transmitter based upon a first attenuation value; an I/Q demodulator configured to split an attenuated signal into in-phase (I) and quadrature signals (Q); a phase interpolator configured to apply a calibration phase shift and a calibration attenuation to the I signal and Q signal and to recombine the I and Q signals; an auxiliary balun coupled to an output of the phase interpolator; and an auxiliary power amplifier with an input connected to the auxiliary balun configured to generate the cancellation signal, wherein the output of the auxiliary power amplifier is connected to an output of a victim transmitter.
US11374610B2
A Radio Frequency (RF) circuit including a receive path, a transmit path, a switching circuit, and an output configured to receive RF signals from an antenna in a receive mode of operation, and to provide RF signals to the antenna in a transmit mode of operation. The receive path is configured to be coupled between a low-noise amplifier and the output. The switching circuit is located in the receive path and is configured, in the receive mode, to selectively couple the low-noise amplifier to the output and to pass the received RF signals from the output to the low-noise amplifier. The transmit path is configured to be coupled between a power amplifier and the output, to provide, in the transmit mode, signals from the power amplifier to the output, bypassing the switching circuit, and to have, in receive mode of operation, an off-state impedance of at least 200+j*13 Ohm.
US11374597B2
According to one aspect, an embodiment radio frequency receiver device comprises an input interface configured to receive a radio frequency signal of a given type and convert same into an electric signal, a detector configured to detect at least one voltage level in the electric signal, a pulse generator configured to generate at least one pulse train representative of the voltage levels detected, and a processing unit configured to determine the type of the radio frequency signal from the at least one pulse train.
US11374590B2
Methods for converting an n-bit number into an m-bit number for situations where n>m and also for situations where n
US11374586B2
A digital signal generation assumes that a base frequency (the frequency with which the primitive phase angles are specified relative to) is equal to the carrier frequency for all relevant times. But this causes errors in the digital signals output to each array element transducer. Thus, it is necessary for the development of a signal generation system that is capable of producing a digital signal using the free selection of amplitude and phase. This is used to produce a substantially error-free signal that preserves the amplitude and phase relative to a constant base frequency while allowing the carrier frequency to vary.
US11374578B2
A phase detection circuit includes a first phase detection path having a first input to receive a first signal, and a second input to receive a second signal. Asynchronous transition detection circuitry detects an early/late relationship between the first signal and the second signal when at least one of the first signal and the second signal transitions from a first state to a second state. Output circuitry generates a control signal with a value based on the early/late relationship.
US11374575B1
A new class of logic gates are presented that use non-linear polar material. The logic gates include multi-input majority gates. Input signals in the form of digital signals are driven to non-linear input capacitors on their respective first terminals. The second terminals of the non-linear input capacitors are coupled a summing node which provides a majority function of the inputs. In the multi-input majority or minority gates, the non-linear charge response from the non-linear input capacitors results in output voltages close to or at rail-to-rail voltage levels. In some examples, the nodes of the non-linear input capacitors are conditioned once in a while to preserve function of the multi-input majority gates.
US11374574B2
A new class of logic gates are presented that use non-linear polar material. The logic gates include multi-input majority gates and threshold gates. Input signals in the form of analog, digital, or combination of them are driven to first terminals of non-ferroelectric capacitors. The second terminals of the non-ferroelectric capacitors are coupled to form a majority node. Majority function of the input signals occurs on this node. The majority node is then coupled to a first terminal of a capacitor comprising non-linear polar material. The second terminal of the capacitor provides the output of the logic gate, which can be driven by any suitable logic gate such as a buffer, inverter, NAND gate, NOR gate, etc. Any suitable logic or analog circuit can drive the output and inputs of the majority logic gate. As such, the majority gate of various embodiments can be combined with existing transistor technologies.
US11374572B2
A complementary circuit, including a logic unit which includes pull-up depletion-mode MOS transistors and pull-down depletion-mode MOS transistors and a level shifting circuit coupled to the logic unit.
US11374571B2
An integrated circuit provides a semiconductor die with I/O bond pads, a power bond pad, and a circuit ground pad. Each I/O bond pad is associated with an input circuit that has an input circuit output lead. Sets of digital logic functional circuitry on the die provide different digital logic functions. Each function includes logic input leads and logic output leads. Output circuits each have an output circuit in lead and an output circuit out lead. Strapping structures, such as vias, formed in the semiconductor die electrically couple input circuits to a selected set of digital logic functions and the selected set of digital logic functions to output circuit in leads. Upper level metal conductors couple output circuit out leads and selected I/O bond pads.
US11374570B1
A transmitter provides a duobinary signal corresponding to one of level 0, level 1, and level 2 based on first data and second data, and includes a pull-up driving circuit including a plurality of pull-up resistors selectively coupled between a first power source and a transmission node according to the first data and the second data; and a pull-down driving circuit including a plurality of pull-down resistors selectively coupled between the transmission node and a second power source, wherein at least one of the plurality of pull-up resistors is coupled between the first power source and the transmission node both when the first data is activated and when the second data is activated, or at least one of the plurality of pull-down resistors is coupled between the second power source and the transmission node both when the first data is activated and when the second data is activated.
US11374566B2
A motion detection device includes an attached member on a vehicle body side, a sensor electrode configured to detect capacitance, and a sensor bracket. The sensor bracket has a sensor holding portion holding the sensor electrode and is attached to an inner surface of the attached member. The sensor holding portion includes a holding piece that extends from a side away from an inner surface of the attached member to a side approaching the inner surface and holds the sensor electrode, and the holding piece holds the sensor electrode at a position at which an axis of the sensor electrode is separated from the inner surface of the attached member by at least 15 mm or more.
US11374554B2
An apparatus and method for implementing a compact and tunable microwave resonator using NbN kinetic inductance, comprising: a DC source, an attenuator, an oxygen-free copper cavity, a superconducting coil, a first-stage amplifier, a second-stage amplifier, a vector network analyzer and a control computer, a small-sized tunable resonator whose size is reduced by 10-20 times as compared with an ordinary thin film microwave resonator is implemented in a microwave frequency band by using high kinetic inductance of an ultra-thin NbN thin film in a superconducting state, the tunability of the resonator lies in that the ultra-thin NbN thin film serves as the LC resonance circuit, a dc-SQUID is connected to the end of the resonator, and a change in the external magnetic field causes a change in the equivalent inductance of the dc-SQUID, thereby changing the total inductance of the resonator and modulating the resonant frequency of the resonance circuit.
US11374541B2
A common-mode rejection receiver including a first differential amplifier arranged to receive a differential signal including receiving a positive signal of the differential signal at a first non-inverting input port and receiving a negative signal of the differential signal at a first inverting input port, and output a first differentiated signal based on a voltage differential between the positive signal and the negative signal. A clamping circuit is arranged to limit a magnitude of the first differentiated signal to a pre-determined limit. A second differential amplifier is arranged to receive the positive signal at a second inverting input port and receive the negative signal at a second non-inverting input port, and output a second differentiated signal. A matching circuit is arranged to receive the second differentiated signal output and output a matched signal. A summing circuit adds the clamped signal and matched signal and outputs a receiver output signal.
US11374522B2
Disclosed embodiments include an apparatus for closed loop control of a linear resonant actuator comprising a motor drive circuit configured to provide a motor drive signal, a current and voltage sensing circuit coupled to the output terminal of the motor drive circuit and across the motor, and having current sense and a voltage sense outputs. A resonant frequency and back emf extraction circuit receives the current sense and voltage sense outputs, and outputs a resonant frequency signal output and a measured back emf signal output. An actuator model circuit has inputs coupled to the output of the motor drive circuit, the resonant frequency signal output, and a mechanical system quality factor signal generated by an adaptation circuit having an input coupled to the error summing circuit output. The error summing circuit has inputs coupled to the output of the actuator model and the measured back emf signal.
US11374518B2
A control unit is configured to determine a first parameter from a back EMF signal, and to determine at least one second parameter from the back EMF signal corresponding to the first parameter. The control unit verifies, based on the first parameter, at least one condition containing the at least one second parameter, and detects stall or step-loss in the stepper motor based on the verification. The control unit uses a pattern detection by identifying characteristic features of peaks of the back EMF signal, which are order, magnitude and polarity. These characteristic features are independent of RPM, backlash, load and do not require complex calculations and are very robust even at lower RPMs.
US11374508B2
An electric drive system includes an energy storage system (ESS), a power conversion system, and an alternating current (AC) traction system. The ESS provides or receives electric power. The ESS includes a first energy storage unit and a second energy storage unit. The power conversion system is electrically coupled to the ESS for converting an input power to an output power. The AC traction system is electrically coupled to the power conversion system for converting the output power of the power conversion system to mechanical torques. The AC traction system includes a first AC drive device and a second AC drive device. An energy management system (EMS) is in electrical communication with the ESS, the AC traction system, and the power conversion system for providing control signals.
US11374500B2
Power converter electronic circuitries configured to harvest and store energy from at least the parasitic oscillation occurring during the operation thereof. Methodologies of using such energy for the current injection, carried out by discharging the parasitic capacitance across the switching elements to achieve zero voltage switching condition for these switching elements. In a specific case, the methodology of current injection (with the use of so harvested and stored energy) is self-adjusting, causing the optimization of the energy required to discharge the parasitic capacitances.
US11374495B2
A renewable energy power control device may include a boost converter that receives and boosts up an input source and supplies the boosted input source to an output stage, and a control unit that controls, by using a sampling voltage of the output stage, such that the output stage does not fall below a reference voltage, and, by using a sampling voltage of the input source, such that optimal power is supplied to a charging module or additional module connected to the input source. Therefore, the charging module or additional module can use the power supply of the input source, the output stage is driven without falling below the reference voltage, the charging module or additional module is also driven, and renewable energy can be used by controlling a boost converter such that an output stage is within a reference voltage range and other modules can use the input source.
US11374485B2
A filter unit is intended to be connected between an inverter and an electric motor. The filter unit includes: a number of phase connections for connecting to corresponding phase connections of the inverter; a first DC link connection for connecting to a first DC link connection on the inverter and a second DC link connection for connecting to a second DC link connection on the inverter; a number of motor connections for connecting to corresponding connections on the electric motor; a number of filter elements for reducing a rate of voltage rise at the motor connections of the filter unit, filter element is connected between corresponding phase connections of the filter unit and corresponding motor connections of the filter unit; and a coupling unit, which couples the filter elements capacitively with the first DC link connection and the second DC link connection of the filter unit.
US11374478B2
A stepping motor has a relationship between an outer diameter of a rotor and an outer diameter of a bearing made of magnetic material that can be adjusted appropriately so as to impart magnetic attractive force to the bearing, the stepping motor including a rotor 400 made of a permanent magnet, a stator 500 including multiple pole teeth 223, 243, 323 and 343 extending in an axial direction of the rotor arranged at an outer circumferential side of the rotor 400, a bearing 250 rotatably supporting one end portion in the axial direction of the rotor 400, and a bearing 260 rotatably supporting the other end portion in the axial direction of the rotor 400. Magnetic permeability of the bearing 260 is greater than that of the bearing 250, the rotor 400 includes multiple magnetic poles on an outer circumferential surface along a circumferential direction of the rotor 400, and an outer diameter DR of the rotor 400, an outer diameter DB of a portion of the bearing 260 which is facing the rotor 400, and an inner diameter DSI of the stator 500 are set to satisfy the following relationship of formula 1 DR
US11374474B2
A method of manufacturing a core product includes injecting molten resin into a resin injection portion provided in a core body so as to extend in a longitudinal direction of the core body, and forming a core product by welding the core body. A buffer region is set between the resin injection portion and a periphery of the core body in a lateral direction of the core body. The core product is formed by welding the core body so that a weld bead formed on the core body is prohibited from reaching the buffer region, and so that the weld bead is spaced apart from the resin injection portion in the lateral direction of the core body.
US11374470B2
A rotary electric machine includes an enclosure delimiting an internal space for stator and rotor units. An access hole gives access to the internal space. An internal gasket encircles the access hole adjacent a wall of the enclosure. A closing element is disposed in the internal space, movable towards and away from the wall between a closed configuration compressing the gasket to seal the access hole and an open configuration connecting the internal space with the surrounding atmosphere. An elastic device operates to move the closing element from the open to closed configurations to compress the gasket and seal the access hole. The closing element has a pressure surface facing the access hole and accessible through the access hole via a pin. Pressing the pressure surface causes the closing element to move from the closed configuration to the open configuration.
US11374465B2
A rotating electrical machine includes a rotor and a magnet unit. The rotating electrical machine also includes a cylindrical stator and a housing. The stator is equipped with a stator winding made up of a plurality of phase windings. The stator is arranged coaxially with the rotor and faces the rotor. The housing has the rotor and the stator disposed therein. The rotor includes a cylindrical magnet retainer to which the magnet unit is secured and an intermediate portion which connects between a rotating shaft of the rotor and the magnet retainer and extends in a radial direction of the rotating shaft. A first region located radially inside an inner peripheral surface of a magnetic circuit component made up of the stator and the rotor is greater in volume than a second region between the inner peripheral surface of the magnetic circuit component and the housing in the radial direction.
US11374464B2
A detection part of a temperature detection element is mounted to ends of drawn portions which are further protruded in the axial direction than coil end portions. The detection part and the ends of the drawn portions provided with the detection part are covered with a covering member. The ends of the drawn portions provided with the detection part and covered with the covering member are inserted into a through hole of a wall member which is disposed so as to axially face an axial end face of a stator core. In this case, the detection part is located at a position deeper (on the rear side) than a position of a stator core side opening of the through hole.
US11374457B2
The invention relates to a rotary electric machine for a vehicle comprising an electronic assembly, a stator and an electrical phase connector (10) for a rotary electric machine stator (20). The electrical phase connector (10) comprises a predefined angular configuration of electrical coupling means (130b) so as to carry, respectively, a different electrical phase toward or away from a rotary electric machine stator (20). Each electrical coupling means (130b) is electrically connected to a conductive phase track (110).
US11374455B2
A rotary electric machine includes: a rotor which has two poles, and a stator in which eighty four slots are formed, wherein conductors are connected in an order of a conductor X+1t, a conductor X−1b, a conductor X+3t, a conductor X−4b, a conductor X+6t, a conductor X−6b, a conductor X+8t, a conductor X−8b, a conductor X+10t, a conductor X−10b, a conductor X+11t, a conductor X−11b, a conductor X+13t, and a conductor X−13b, in first U, V and W phase series circuits; and conductors are connected in an order of a conductor X+2t, a conductor X−2b, a conductor X+4t, a conductor X−3b, a conductor X+5t, a conductor X−5b, a conductor X+7t, a conductor X−7b, a conductor X+9t, a conductor X−9b, a conductor X+12t, a conductor X−12b, a conductor X+14t, and a conductor X−14b, in second U, V and W phase series circuits.
US11374453B2
A winding system for a stator of an electric machine is specified. The winding system comprises at least two first conductor segments and at least two second conductor segments, at least two half-bridges, at least one first short-circuit means and at least one second short-circuit means. Each half-bridge is connected to least one first conductor segment and one second conductor segment, each first conductor segment is connected to the first short-circuit means, and each second conductor segment is connected to the second short-circuit means. Further, an electric machine having a winding system is specified.
US11374447B2
The present invention provides a rotor, an axial flux electrical machine and a hybrid-electrical or electrical air craft. The rotor for the axial flux electrical machine comprises first sections of a first material and second sections of a second material. The first sections and second sections are arranged in alternating order and ring-shape. The arrangement is characterized by third sections which form interface areas between the first sections and second sections, whereas the third sections are comprising the first material and the second material in such a manner that the first section and the second section are connected force-fitted.
US11374441B2
In accordance with some embodiments of the present invention, a method of controlling and correcting negative modulation is presented. In some embodiments, a method of operating a receiver includes detecting a negative modulation and adjusting one or more parameters to force a transition to a positive modulation. The parameters can be the output voltage Vout, the transmitter input voltage Vin, or receiver structural elements.
US11374437B2
A repeater may comprise: a first member; and at least one pattern formed on the first member and configured to provide at least one of an electric field and a magnetic field, which is incident from a wireless power transmitter onto a first surface of the first member, through a second surface of the first member, opposite to the first surface.
US11374434B2
A radio frequency energy-harvesting apparatus is applied to a radio frequency energy-transmitting apparatus with a location detection function. The radio frequency energy-harvesting apparatus includes a direct current signal receiving-processing unit, a rectification and harmonic generation unit, and a radar wave receiving-transmitting unit. The rectification and harmonic generation unit is electrically connected to the direct current signal receiving-processing unit. The radar wave receiving-transmitting unit is electrically connected to the rectification and harmonic generation unit. The radio frequency energy-transmitting apparatus transmits a radar wave scanning to a space; after the radar wave receiving-transmitting unit receives the radar wave, according to the radar wave, the radar wave receiving-transmitting unit generates an alternating current signal; the radar wave receiving-transmitting unit transmits the alternating current signal to the rectification and harmonic generation unit; the rectification and harmonic generation unit generates a radar reflection harmonic wave and a direct current signal.
US11374431B2
A system for inductive power transfer that may selectively transmit power in a plurality of modes based on characteristics of a power receiver and determine which transmitter coils to drive based on received signal strength information. The inductive power transfer transmitter may detect characteristics of the power receiver in order to control the mode of the power transfer and selectively control which transmitter coils are driven based on signal strength information received from a power receiver. The power transmitter may have slugs formed of a magnetically permeable material within common coil winding openings and the transmitter coils may consists of a plurality of parallel windings.
US11374429B2
A vehicle battery jump starter including a battery pack interface configured to receive at least one of a first rechargeable battery pack having a first nominal voltage and a second rechargeable battery pack having a second nominal voltage different from the first nominal voltage, a power boost module including one or more energy storage devices, and terminal clamps configured to electrically connect the vehicle battery jump starter to a vehicle battery. The jump starter further includes a controller having an electronic processor configured to close a jump start switch in response to detecting an attempted vehicle start, close a first bypass switch when the voltage of the battery pack is greater than the voltage threshold, and close the second bypass switch when the voltage of the battery pack is less than the voltage threshold.
US11374427B2
A portable electronic device includes a housing, a secondary battery disposed inside a tip portion of the housing, and a power receiving coil unit disposed around the secondary battery. The power receiving coil unit has a first coil in which a conductive wire is helically wound around a first magnetic body and a second coil in which a conductive wire is wound helically around a second magnetic body. The first magnetic body and the second magnetic body are disposed between an outer side surface of the secondary battery and an inner side surface of the housing. The first coil and the second coil are located at mutually different positions in a direction around an axis of the secondary battery and are interconnected such that opposed magnetic flux is generated in respective winding axes when current flows the first and second coils.
US11374423B2
A battery charger includes a plurality of rectifier, a plurality of switches respectively for the plurality of rectifier elements, a zero-crossing detector, a switch controller, and a detection reference changer. The plurality of rectifier elements rectify AC voltages of three phases output from a power generator. The plurality of rectifier elements, in an off-state, causes the plurality of rectifier elements to rectify the AC voltages to charge a battery. The plurality of rectifier elements, in an on-state, causes the AC voltages to be short-circuited to a negative side of the battery. The zero-crossing detector detects zero-crossings of the AC voltages. The switch controller outputs, based on the zero crossings, a gate signal for turning on and off the plurality of switches. The detection reference changer changes a reference for the zero-crossing detector to detect the zero crossings.
US11374415B2
Systems and methods to maintain a fleet of aerial vehicles may include a maintenance system, a charging power source, and a control system. For example, the maintenance system may include a plurality of workstations to perform maintenance tasks, a charging rail that connects the workstations with the charging power source, and a plurality of platforms that move along the charging rail. The control system may instruct a platform to receive an aerial vehicle, couple the aerial vehicle to the charging rail, move the aerial vehicle among the workstations, and charge a battery of the aerial vehicle via the charging rail during movement and/or performance of various maintenance tasks.
US11374408B2
A method performed by one or more devices is disclosed in which network topology information indicative of a function of a power network is gathered at a predetermined nominal frequency. The nominal frequency is influenced by a power input, a power output, a rotational speed, a torque, a modulation angle, and/or a phase angle of components included in the power network. Harmonic information indicative of one or more harmonic levels is determined from the components of the power network or from one or more network nodes. The harmonic information is determined based on the network topology information. Evaluation information indicative of an occurrence of one or more resonances and/or harmonic level increases in the power network is determined. The evaluation information is determined based on the determined harmonic information. The determined evaluation information is output.
US11374401B2
An overvoltage absorption circuit and a single-phase HERIC topology are provided. The overvoltage absorption circuit is applicable to the single-phase HERIC topology, and includes a clamping capacitor, an absorption resistor, a first diode, and a second diode. One terminal of the clamping capacitor and one terminal of the absorption resistor are each connected to collectors of two cross transistors in the single-phase HERIC topology. The other terminal of the clamping capacitor and the other terminal of the absorption resistor are each connected to the anodes of the first diode and the second diode. The cathode of the first diode is connected to the emitter of one of the two cross transistors. The cathode of the second diode is connected to the emitter of the other of the two cross transistors.
US11374399B2
An electronic device for series connection on a power supply line, wherein the device comprises a plurality of switches comprising at least a first switch, a second switch, and a third switch. The device further comprises a control unit configured to perform the following steps: operating error detection means during operation of the device in a first mode; operating the device in a second mode in response to an erroneous power state being detected by the error detection means during operation of the device in the first mode; operating the error detection means during operation of the device in the second mode in order to determine an error location associated with the erroneous power state detected by the error detection means during operation of the device in the first mode.
US11374394B2
The application discloses an overcurrent protection method and a display panel, where the overcurrent protection method includes the steps of: setting at least two different detection times with respect to the level period of the drive current to enable at least two sets of corresponding overcurrent protection thresholds; detecting at least two real-time currents for at least two different detection times in one level period; comparing the real-time current value and the corresponding overcurrent protection threshold value respectively, and stopping the output of the drive current if one or more of the real-time current values exceed the corresponding overcurrent protection threshold value to enable the overcurrent protection.
US11374392B2
Embodiments of the disclosure include a switch having an on-state resistance that varies based on a temperature coefficient of the switch and an overcurrent protection circuit coupled to the switch and having an adjustable overcurrent threshold level determined based on an adjustable voltage generated by the overcurrent protection circuit, the adjustable voltage generated based on the temperature coefficient of the switch.
US11374388B2
A protection assembly for mounting in an underwater support structure includes at least one bend protection device coupled to a retaining device so that together they provide a through-going passage for receiving an elongate member which is to be protected. The elongate member passes through a support structure opening, and the retaining device is configured to be received in the support structure opening and to engage with the support structure to resist subsequent withdrawal from it. Installation of the protection assembly includes grasping the protection assembly with a releasable clamp, arranging a pulling line to pass through the support structure opening to the mechanical clamp and securing the pulling line to the mechanical clamp, drawing the retaining device of the protection assembly into the support structure opening using the pulling line and engaging the retaining device with the support structure, and releasing the clamp from the protection assembly.
US11374387B2
The invention provides the system supporting variable speed drive comprising a three-sided service cabinet embodiment. The cabinet comprising two heat exchange circuits limited by the basic elements of the cabinet embodiment, the first of which is configured to interact with an external environment and with the second heat exchange circuit, wherein the second heat exchange circuit which is configured without an ability to interact with the external environment includes a sealed cell for installing power electronics and the cell for installing a power connection and the cell for installing a measurement equipment. The cabinet comprising a dust and moisture filter, a plate heat exchanger, and a moisture removal device. The cabinet may be assembled with joined end-to-end metal sheets with curved joined ends which form strengthening ribs. The system supporting variable speed drive further comprising a cell for installing a passive filter or a filter compensation device or a capacitor bank preconfigured for compliance with variable speed drive and configured in such a way that it is dismountable in a form of a cabinet of the same height and depth as the cabinet of variable speed drive and closely aligned with the cabinet of variable speed drive. The cell for installing a power connection located on a side of the cell for installing a passive filter or a filter compensation device or a capacitor bank, wherein all connections between the cabinet of variable speed drive and the cell for installing a passive filter or a filter compensation device or a capacitor bank are made in the internal part of the embodiment.
US11374386B2
A foldable extension enclosure for a utility enclosure, each having first, second, third, and fourth sides connected by hinges and each folding only in one direction by means of detents on the sides. A first end of the first side slidably overlaps a second opposite end of the third side and a first end of the second side slidably overlaps a second opposite end of the fourth side. There is an internal top ledge on each side in an interior near a top end of the extension enclosure and the utility enclosure and an external bottom ledge on each side on an exterior near a bottom end of the extension enclosure, to mount the extension enclosure to the utility enclosure with concave and convex detents. Convex detents are at the top end of the utility and extension enclosures and concave detents are at the bottom end of the extension enclosure. The convex detents also reversibly lock a lid to the tops of the utility and extension enclosures.
US11374385B2
In a spark plug, a noble metal tip includes an Ir-alloy material and has a circular-columnar shape that has a predetermined outer diameter and is formed by the Ir-alloy material being stretched. The spark plug generates discharge between the noble metal tip and a ground electrode that is arranged to oppose an outer peripheral surface of the noble metal tip. The Ir-alloy material includes crystal grains of an Ir alloy having an average aspect ratio that is adjusted to be equal to or greater than 1.3 and equal to or less than 4.8. The average aspect ratio is an average value of aspect ratios of the crystal grains each being a value obtained by a length of the respective crystal grains in an axial direction of the noble metal tip being divided by a length of the respective crystal grains in a direction perpendicular to the axial direction.
US11374383B2
A semiconductor light emitting element that can form a useful beam pattern is provided. A semiconductor laser element LD includes an active layer 4, a pair of cladding layers 2 and 7 between which the active layer 4 is interposed, and a phase modulation layer 6 optically coupled to the active layer 4. The phase modulation layer 6 includes a base layer 6A and different refractive index regions 6B that are different in refractive index from the base layer 6A. The different refractive index regions 6B desirably arranged in the phase modulation layer 6 enable emission of laser light including a dark line with no zero-order light.
US11374381B1
An optoelectronic device includes a driver die including drive circuits and first bond pads on a front surface of the driver die. An emitter die is mounted on the front surface of the driver die and includes one or more vertical emitters and second bond pads connected to the vertical emitters. An encapsulation layer contains the emitter die and has an inner surface adjacent to the front surface of the driver die. Conductive vias extend through the encapsulation layer and have inner ends connected to the first bond pads and outer ends at an outer surface of the encapsulation layer. A redistribution layer is disposed over the outer surface of the encapsulation layer and includes conductive traces, each of which is connected to at least one terminal selected from a group of terminals consisting of the second bond pads and the outer ends of the conductive vias.
US11374378B2
The present disclosure relates to an optical waveguide system. The system has a first waveguide having a core-guide and a cladding material portion surrounding and encasing the core-guide to form a substantially D-shaped cross sectional profile with an exposed flat section running along a length thereof. The core-guide enables a core-guide mode for an optical pulse signal having a first characteristic, travelling through the core-guide. A material layer of non-linear material is used which forms a second waveguide. The material layer is disposed on the exposed flat section of the cladding material portion. The material layer forms a plasmonic device to achieve a desired coupling with the core-guide to couple optical energy travelling through the core-guide into the material layer to modify the optical energy travelling through the core-guide such that the optical energy travelling through the core-guide has a second characteristic different from the first characteristic.
US11374377B2
It is necessary to reduce the power consumption of a plurality of optical amplifiers when there is a difference in the required pumping power between the plurality of optical amplifiers; therefore, an optical amplifying apparatus according to an exemplary aspect of the invention includes a plurality of optical amplifying means for amplifying a plurality of optical signals, each of the plurality of optical amplifying means including a gain medium; a plurality of laser light generating means for generating a plurality of laser beams; at least one optical coupling means for coupling the plurality of laser beams variably in accordance with a coupling factor and outputting a plurality of excitation light beams, each of the plurality of excitation light beams exciting the gain medium; and controlling means for controlling the coupling factor and an output power of each of the plurality of laser light generating means.
US11374375B2
A laser-beam power-modulation system includes an acousto-optic modulator (AOM) to receive a laser beam and separate the laser beam into a primary beam and a plurality of diffracted beams based on an input signal. The power of the primary beam depends on the input signal. The system also includes a slit to transmit the primary beam and dump the plurality of diffracted beams, a controller to generate a control signal based at least in part on feedback indicative of the power of the primary beam or the power of a beam generated using the primary beam, and a driver to generate the input signal based at least in part on the control signal.
US11374373B2
A press-fit pin for a semiconductor package includes a shaft terminating in a head. A pair of arms extends away from a center of the head. Each arm includes a curved shape and the arms together form an s-shape. A length of the s-shape is longer than the shaft diameter. An outer extremity of each arm includes a contact surface configured to electrically couple to and form a friction fit with a pin receiver. In implementations the press-fit pin has only two surfaces configured to contact an inner sidewall of the pin receiver and is configured to contact the inner sidewall at only two locations. The shaft may be a cylinder. The s-shape formed by the pair of arms is visible from a view facing a top of the press-fit pin along a direction parallel with the longest length of the shaft. Versions include a through-hole extending through the head.
US11374371B2
A plug arrangement for producing a detachable multi-purpose connection, the arrangement comprising: a housing body and a contact element that is connected to the housing body, wherein the contact element is oriented in a rotationally symmetrical manner in relation to a predetermined plugging direction and comprises at least one annular contact zone arranged along the predetermined plugging direction; and at least one code segment disposed on the contact element, said code segment forming an angular code that varies with a rotational position of the contact element.
US11374363B2
A pluggable module includes a pluggable body having an upper shell at the top and a lower shell at the bottom that define an interior chamber. The upper shell includes side walls extending to the top and an upper wall extending between the side walls. The upper shell includes an airflow channel and EMI prevention fins having EMI channels therebetween in flow communication with the airflow channel. The upper wall along the airflow channel is at a first depth from the top and the upper wall along the EMI channels is at a second depth deeper than the first depth.
US11374355B2
A slipring device includes a first part and a second part rotatable against each other. Both parts include housings with slipring components. A first housing at the first part has a hollow shaft with a bayonet lock notch to engage with a locking ring having at least one bayonet lock protrusion. The locking ring can easily be attached by a bayonet lock to lock the first part and the second part together.
US11374339B2
A pluggable module includes an outer housing having a cavity between an upper wall and a lower wall. A circuit card is received in the cavity having a card edge configured to be received in a card slot of a communication connector. A circuit card holder engages the circuit card and holds the circuit card in the cavity of the outer housing. The circuit card holder includes a locating fin at a top of the circuit card holder. The locating fin has a sacrificial upper edge configured to engage the outer housing to locate the circuit card holder and the circuit card in the cavity. The sacrificial upper edge is deformed when engaging the outer housing to press the circuit card holder and the circuit card in a downward biasing direction.
US11374338B1
A wire connection device includes a housing, a conductor, and a lever. The conductor is located inside the housing and has a leaf spring, a conductive member and a push-back block, and the lever is provided with a push-back notch and an actuating cam, and the lever is movably assembled in the housing so that the lever may swing against the housing so that the leaf spring is squeezed by the lever for generating a deformation. When the lever swings to an actuate position, the touch surface of the cam that touch the conductor will be changed so that the lever can be moved in a straight line against the housing simultaneously. Therefore, the push-back block can be inserted into the inside of the push-back notch. In this way, when the push-back block is positioned inside the push-back notch, the lever is kept stay so that the leaf spring is kept in a state of deformation by the lever, and the wire can insert into the wire connection device without push the leaf spring, so that the wire connection device won't be damaged easily.
US11374336B2
A beamforming apparatus is constructed from a pliable medium and a conductor pattern disposed on the pliable medium to form a foldable Rotman lens.
US11374334B2
An antenna array for full duplex communications is described. The antenna array includes an array antenna elements supported by a substrate. The substrate includes a feed network and a parallel plate waveguide layered with the feed network. The parallel plate waveguide has a core of varying dielectric constant, wherein the varying dielectric constant varies from a first probe connected to a first antenna element to a second probe connected to a second antenna element.
US11374331B1
A base station antenna comprises two arrays of radiating elements each configured to emit electromagnetic radiation; two backplanes each configured to reflect respective electromagnetic radiation outwardly, wherein the two backplanes are positioned with a mechanical tilt relative to each other such that the respective electromagnetic radiation are directed in different directions in the azimuth plane; and two plate assemblies each configured to reflect a first portion of received electromagnetic radiation inwardly while allowing a second portion to pass outwardly through the respective plate assembly, where the two plate assemblies are positioned to form two Fabry-Perot cavities with the two backplanes, respectively.
US11374326B2
An antenna with pin header is provided, which may include a substrate, a feed point, a radiator and a metallic pin header. The feed point may be disposed on the substrate. The radiator may be printed on the substrate and connected to the feed point. The metallic pin header may penetrate through the radiator and the substrate. The metallic pin header may be connected to the feed point via the radiator, and the radiator and the metallic pin header may have a common feedline, whereby the metallic pin header can enhance the gain pattern, in the direction which the metallic pin header points in, of the radiator.
US11374322B2
Techniques for fabricating end-fire antennas are described. An example of an electronic device with an end-fire antenna includes a housing of the electronic device, and a circuit board comprising electronic components of the mobile electronic device. The circuit board is parallel with the major plane of the housing. The electronic device includes an antenna coupled to the circuit board. At least a portion of the antenna is oriented perpendicular to the first circuit board to generate a radiation pattern with an amplitude that is greater in the end-fire direction compared to the broadside direction.
US11374318B2
[Object] There is provided a Butler matrix circuit that makes it possible to further reduce volume and power consumption and to obtain symmetrical radiation characteristics. [Solution] There is provided a Butler matrix circuit including: four processing-circuit-side terminals; four antenna-side terminals; a first 90° hybrid coupler coupled to a first processing-circuit-side terminal and a second processing-circuit-side terminal; a second 90° hybrid coupler coupled to a third processing-circuit-side terminal and a fourth processing-circuit-side terminal; a third 90° hybrid coupler coupled to a first antenna-side terminal and a third antenna-side terminal; a fourth 90° hybrid coupler coupled to a second antenna-side terminal and a fourth antenna-side terminal; a first 90° delay circuit provided between the first 90° hybrid coupler and the third 90° hybrid coupler; and a second 90° delay circuit provided between the first 90° hybrid coupler and the fourth 90° hybrid coupler.
US11374313B2
The present invention relates to a biaxial antenna using a single motor capable of simplifying an apparatus and saving a manufacturing cost by controlling elevation and azimuth with the single motor. The biaxial antenna includes a fixed central shaft having a screw thread formed on an outer circumference surface thereof, a rotation part having a screw thread formed on an inner circumference surface thereof to be coupled to the fixed central shaft, rotated, and including a first rotation plate which is moved to an upper side or a lower side, an antenna part having a rear surface connected to the first rotation plate and both sides hinge coupled to the rotation part, a motor connected to the rotation part to rotate the rotation part, and a controller controlling the number of revolutions and the degree of rotation of the motor to control elevation and azimuth of the antenna part.
US11374312B2
The present disclosure discloses an antenna device and a terminal. The antenna device includes a first branch, a second branch, a third branch, a public branch, and a feed point. The first branch, the second branch, the third branch, a public branch and the feed point constitute a diversity antenna cooperatively. The first branch is configured as an earpiece metal mesh. The feed point is electrically connected to the first branch. The second branch and the third branch are electrically connected to an end of the public branch, respectively. An another end of the public branch is electrically connected to the feed point.
US11374309B2
A base station antenna includes a radome and an antenna assembly that is mounted within the radome. The antenna assembly includes a backplane that includes a first reflector, a first array that includes a plurality of first radiating elements mounted to extend forwardly from the first reflector, a second reflector mounted to extend forwardly from the first reflector and a second array that includes a plurality of second radiating elements mounted to extend forwardly from the second reflector. The first radiating elements extend a first distance forwardly from the first reflector and the second radiating elements extend a second distance forwardly from the second reflector, where the first distance exceeds the second distance.
US11374307B2
An antenna device includes first and second radiating elements, a first coil coupled to the first radiating element or a feeding circuit, and a second coil coupled to the second radiating element and coupled to the first coil via an electromagnetic field. The first and second radiating elements are coupled to each other via an electric field. At a resonant frequency defined by the antenna coupling element and the second radiating element, the absolute value of the phase difference between a current flowing into the second radiating element due to the electromagnetic field of the first coil and the second coil and a current flowing into the second radiating element due to the electric field is equal to or less than about 90 degrees.
US11374306B2
An electronic device comprising a metal case having a metal pad attached thereto is disclosed. According to the present invention, the electronic device comprises: a metal case having a metal terminal part formed therein; a metal pad joined to the metal terminal part by laser welding; and a conductive first coating layer coated on one surface of the metal pad, wherein the light reflectivity of the first coating layer is lower than the light reflectivity of the metal pad.
US11374304B2
Disclosed herein is an antenna device that includes: a substrate having a plurality of insulating layers laminated in a z-direction; a first ground pattern formed on a first insulating layer; a first radiating conductor pattern formed on a second insulating layer; a second ground pattern constituted by a first via conductor provided so as to penetrate at least two insulating layers; and a second radiating conductor pattern constituted by a second via conductor provided so as to penetrate at least one insulating layer. The first radiating conductor pattern overlaps the first ground pattern in the z-direction. The second radiating conductor pattern overlaps the second ground pattern in a y-direction.
US11374297B2
A filter arrangement having three or more stacked metallization layers separated by printed circuit board, PCB, layers. Each metallization layer includes an aperture. The filter arrangement has a plurality of via-holes extending though the stacked metallization layers and through the separating Dielectric material layers, whereby the via-holes and the metallization layers delimit a cavity in each Dielectric material layer. The cavities in two consecutive Dielectric material layers being coupled by the aperture in the single metallization layer separating the two consecutive Dielectric material layers. The aperture of a topmost metallization layer being arranged as antenna element. The filter arrangement having a signal interface arranged as a conduit connecting at least one dielectric material layer to an exterior of the filter arrangement.
US11374293B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for battery cells with positive polarity rigid containers. In accordance with disclosed embodiments, the cell may include a container and a lid piece that couple together to form a rectangular prismatic geometry. An electrode assembly having positive and negative coils may be disposed within the cell, and the positive coil may be conductively coupled to the cell. In this way, the cell (e.g., both the lid and the container) may be positively polarized. Further, the electrode assembly may incorporate a jelly-roll or a stacked structure. In one embodiment, the lid piece may include a vent that opens in response to pressure in the cell surpassing an established threshold. The lid may further include a positive terminal, negative terminal, and a method for filling the cell with electrolyte. Another embodiment may provide a battery module include multiple cells with positive polarity rigid containers.
US11374292B2
A toggle electrode disposed on the bottom end of a battery assembly. The toggle electrode includes a rotating shaft and a toggle. The battery assembly includes a negative terminal of an input end soldered on the rotating shaft and a battery. The rotating shaft is connected to the toggle. The toggle is rotatable around the battery to contact or not contact the negative terminal of the battery. When the toggle is not in contact with the negative terminal of the battery, the battery is removable for replacement. The toggle is in contact with the negative terminal of the battery for electric conduction.
US11374288B2
A busbar includes a plurality of sheets stacked together. The busbar includes: a main body that extends along an axis along which batteries are stacked together; and a plurality of connectors that are each thinner than the main body, and are welded to terminals of the batteries, respectively.
US11374286B2
The present application provides a separator comprising a first porous substrate, a second porous substrate and a first coating layer including a substance that reversibly intercalates and deintercalates lithium and a first inorganic particle, and an electrochemical device, wherein the first coating layer is disposed between the first porous substrate and the second porous substrate. By disposing the first coating layer between the first porous substrate and the second porous substrate, the present application improves the safety performance, rate performance and cycle performance of the electrochemical device.
US11374282B2
A battery module which includes a cell assembly having a plurality of secondary batteries; a module housing having at least one side wall and configured to accommodate the cell assembly in an internal space defined by the at least one side wall; and an end frame including: a body frame that includes a main wall and at least one side wall extending from an outer circumference of the main wall in a direction where the module housing is positioned; and a coupling plate that is configured such that one side portion of the coupling plate is combined and fixed to the at least one side wall of the body frame and the other side portion of the coupling plate is combined to a front end portion or a rear end portion of the module housing.
US11374281B2
A battery module disclosed herein includes a plurality of submodules, and a housing that houses the submodules. Each of the plurality of submodules includes: a cell group in which single cells are arranged; and a constraining member exerting a constraining pressure in an arrangement direction of the plurality of single cells. Inside the housing of the battery module disclosed herein, there is a region where the temperature is likely to be relatively low when charging-discharging of the plurality of submodules is performed, and among the plurality of submodules, a submodule arranged in the region where the temperature is likely to be low has a lower constraining pressure than those in the other submodules.
US11374274B2
A mixed ionic and electronic conductor represented by Formula 1: TxVayA1-x-yMzO3-δ, wherein T includes at least one monovalent cation, A includes at least one of a monovalent cation, a divalent cation, and a trivalent cation, M includes at least one of a trivalent cation, a tetravalent cation, and a pentavalent cation, M is an element other than Ti and Zr, Va is a vacancy, δ is an oxygen vacancy, 0
US11374263B2
A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a negative electrode mixture layer which contains a first region located in a flat part of an electrode body and second regions located in a pair of curved parts of the electrode body, the ratio (B/A) of the packing density (B) in each of the second regions to the packing density (A) in the first region being 0.75 or more and 0.95 or less. Further, in a section passing through the center in the axial direction of the electrode body and being perpendicular to the axial direction, the ratio (SB/SA) of the sectional area (SB) of the pair of curved parts to the sectional area (SA) of the flat part is 0.28 or more and 0.32 or less.
US11374262B2
The present disclosure relates to a solid electrolyte battery including a negative electrode including: a negative electrode current collector; a first negative electrode active material layer formed on at least one surface of the negative electrode current collector and including a first negative electrode active material, a first solid electrolyte and a first electrolyte salt; and a second negative electrode active material layer formed on the first negative electrode active material layer and including a second negative electrode active material, a second solid electrolyte, a second electrolyte salt and a plasticizer having a melting point of 30-130° C., the solid electrolyte battery is activated at a temperature between the melting point of the plasticizer and 130° C., and a solid electrolyte interface (SEI) layer is formed on the surface of the second negative electrode active material.
US11374254B2
Provided is a solid state electrolyte composition for a rechargeable lithium battery. The electrolyte composition comprises a lithium ion-conducting polymer matrix or binder and lithium ion-conducting inorganic species that is dispersed in or chemically bonded by the polymer matrix or binder, wherein the lithium ion-conducting inorganic species is selected from Li2CO3, Li2O, Li2C2O4, LiOH, LiX, ROCO2Li, HCOLi, ROLi, (ROCO2Li)2, (CH2OCO2Li)2, Li2S, LixSOy, or a combination thereof, wherein X=F, Cl, I, or Br, R=a hydrocarbon group, 0
US11374250B2
An opening is formed in an accommodating case of a fuel cell stack. Flat cables are led out of the accommodating case through the opening. The flat cables pass through a grommet covering the opening. The grommet is positioned by a seal plate (positioning member) attached to the accommodating case.
US11374249B2
A flow battery according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a first liquid containing dissolved therein a charge mediator and a discharge mediator; a first electrode immersed in the first liquid; and a first active material immersed in the first liquid. The equilibrium potential of the charge mediator is lower than the equilibrium potential of the first active material, and the equilibrium potential of the discharge mediator is higher than the equilibrium potential of the first active material.
US11374248B2
An oriented apatite-type oxide ion conductor includes a composite oxide expressed as A9.33+x[T6.00−yMy]O26.0+z, where A represents one or two or more elements selected from the group consisting of La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Be, Mg, Ca, Sr, and Ba, T represents an element including Si or Ge or both, and M represents one or two or more elements selected from the group consisting of B, Ge, Zn, Sn, W, and Mo, and where x is from −1.00 to 1.00, y is from 0.40 to less than 1.00, and z is from −3.00 to 2.00.
US11374247B2
A method for producing an electrolyte solution including a supply step of continuously supplying an emulsion based a polymer electrolyte and a solvent into a dissolution facility, and a dissolution step of continuously dissolving the polymer electrolyte in the solvent by heating the interior of the dissolution facility to obtain the electrolyte solution.
US11374246B2
An ammonia fuel cell system and an electric device are described. The ammonia fuel cell system includes an ammonia decomposition reaction device, a heating device, a hydrogen fuel cell, a DC/DC converter and an inverter connected successively, a battery pack and a heat exchanger. The heat exchanger of the system, can preheat ammonia gas by energy generated by ammonia decomposition, thereby recycling heat waste. The battery pack supports a quick response and stable output to quickly cope with the acceleration and deceleration of the electric device. This improves the stability of the system operation, and electric energy generated by the hydrogen fuel cell or electric energy in the battery pack can be transferred to the outside. The battery pack or the heating device can provide energy to the ammonia decomposition reaction device, so there is no need to supply outside energy to the ammonia decomposition reaction device.
US11374245B2
A hydrogen injector disclosed herein may include a solenoid valve connected to a hydrogen tank and a controller configured to supply a current to a coil of the solenoid valve. The controller may monitor a rate of change of the current while supplying the current equal to or greater than a first current value. The controller may decrease the current to a second current value which is lower than the first current value upon when the rate of change increases.
US11374236B2
A redox flow battery may include: a membrane interposed between a first electrode positioned at a first side of the membrane and a second electrode positioned at a second side of the membrane opposite to the first side; a first flow field plate comprising a plurality of positive flow field ribs, each of the plurality of positive flow field ribs contacting the first electrode at first supporting regions on the first side; and the second electrode, including an electrode spacer positioned between the membrane and a second flow field plate, the electrode spacer comprising a plurality of main ribs, each of the plurality of main ribs contacting the second flow field plate at second supporting regions on the second side, each of the second supporting regions aligned opposite to one of the plurality of first supporting regions. As such, a current density distribution at a plating surface may be reduced.
US11374206B2
A display panel, a display device and a manufacturing method of the display panel are provided. The display panel has a display area and a non-display area surrounding the display area and includes a substrate, an array layer, a display layer, and an encapsulation layer that are arranged sequentially, and an ink layer located in the non-display area and surrounding the display area. The ink layer includes a first ink layer and a second ink layer that are located in different layers. Each of an orthographic projection of the first ink layer on the substrate and an orthographic projection of the second ink layer on the substrate is a non-closed pattern surrounding the display area.
US11374205B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a phase difference plate for an organic EL display device having excellent light resistance, an organic EL display device, and a method for producing a phase difference plate. The phase difference plate for an organic EL display device of an embodiment of the present invention is a phase difference plate for an organic EL display device having a phase difference layer formed from a composition containing a copolymer having both of a repeating unit A including a photo-alignment group and a repeating unit B including a moiety capable of expressing birefringence having reciprocal wavelength dispersion, in which the photo-alignment group includes a double bond structure of C═C or C═N.
US11374197B2
An organic light emitting diode (OLED) panel includes a thin film transistor (TFT) array substrate, a plurality of OLED devices, and a plurality of isolator assemblies. The TFT array substrate includes a plurality of pixel regions, and the OLED devices disposed on locations corresponding to the pixel regions respectively. The OLED devices include an OLED layer. The isolator assemblies are configured to block the OLED layer of a white light-emitting device from extending to the OLED devices adjacent to the white light-emitting device. By arranging the isolator assemblies around the white light-emitting device, light generated by the white light-emitting device is prevented from leaking.
US11374196B2
An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display panel including a composite substrate including a first substrate, a barrier layer, a plurality of inorganic layers each interlaced therein with an organic material structure, and a second substrate interlaced therein with an organic material structure; a buffer layer disposed on the composite substrate; a thin film transistor layer disposed on the buffer layer; an OLED device layer disposed on the thin film transistor layer; and an encapsulation layer disposed on the OLED device layer.
US11374186B2
Polymeric photovoltaic cell (or solar cell) with an inverted structure comprising: an anode; a first anode buffer layer; an active layer comprising at least one photoactive organic polymer as the electron donor and at least one organic electron acceptor compound; a cathode buffer layer; a cathode; wherein between said first anode buffer layer and said active layer a second anode buffer layer is placed comprising a hole transporting material, said hole transporting material being obtained through a process comprising: reacting at least one heteropoly acid containing at least one transition metal belonging to group 5 or 6 of the Periodic Table of the Elements; with at least an equivalent amount of a salt or a complex of a transition metal belonging to group 5 or 6 of the Periodic Table of the Elements with an organic anion, or with an organic ligand; in the presence of at least one organic solvent selected from alcohols, ketones, esters, preferably alcohols. Said polymer photovoltaic cell (or solar cell) with an inverted structure displays high photoelectric conversion efficiency values (η), i.e. a photoelectric conversion efficiency (η) greater than or equal to 4.5%, and good open circuit voltage (Voc), short-circuit current density (Jsc) and fill factor (FF) values. Furthermore, said polymer photovoltaic cell (or solar cell) with an inverted structure is able to maintain said values over time, in particular, in terms of photoelectric conversion efficiency (η).
US11374177B2
Provided are a compound represented by the following Chemical Formulas and an organic light emitting device comprising the same.
US11374164B2
Embodiments herein relate to a system, apparatus, and/or process for producing a spin orbit torque (SOT) electrode that includes a first layer with a first side to couple with a free layer of a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) and a second layer coupled with a second side of the first layer opposite the first side, where a value of an electrical resistance in the first SOT layer is lower than a value of an electrical resistance in the second SOT layer and where a current applied to the SOT electrode is to cause current to preferentially flow in the first SOT layer to cause a magnetic polarization of the free layer to change directions. During production of the SOT electrode, the second layer may act as an etch stop.
US11374162B2
A piezoelectric element includes a first electrode; a piezoelectric layer, placed on or above the first electrode, containing potassium, sodium, niobium, titanium, and oxygen; and a second electrode placed on or above the piezoelectric layer.
US11374158B2
A semiconductor sintered body comprising a polycrystalline body, wherein the polycrystalline body comprises magnesium silicide or an alloy containing magnesium silicide, and the average grain size of the crystal grains constituting the polycrystalline body is 1 μm or less, and the electrical conductivity is 10,000 S/m or higher.
US11374151B2
A light-emitting device includes a semiconductor stacked body having first and second semiconductor layers. The second semiconductor layer includes conductive portions contacting a second conductive layer and having island configurations. The conductive portions are disposed in a first region, a second region, a third region, and a fourth region. The first region is positioned at a periphery of a first corner of the semiconductor stacked body. The second region is positioned at a periphery of a second corner of the semiconductor stacked body. The third region is positioned at a periphery of a third corner of the semiconductor stacked body. The fourth region is positioned at a periphery of a fourth corner of the semiconductor stacked body. A density of the conductive portions disposed in the first region is greater than densities of the conductive portions disposed in the second region, the third region, and the fourth region.
US11374135B2
A sensor may be provided, including a substrate having a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer, and a buried insulator layer arranged between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer. The sensor may further include a photodiode arranged in the first semiconductor layer; and a quenching resistive element electrically connected in series with the photodiode. The quenching resistive element is arranged in the second semiconductor layer, and the quenching resistive element is arranged over the photodiode but separated from the photodiode by the buried insulator layer.
US11374127B2
A device, structure, and method are provided whereby an insert layer is utilized to provide additional support for weaker and softer dielectric layer. The insert layer may be applied between two weaker dielectric layers or the insert layer may be used with a single layer of dielectric material. 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.
US11374126B2
Semiconductor device and the manufacturing method thereof are disclosed herein. An exemplary semiconductor device comprises a semiconductor fin disposed over a substrate, wherein the semiconductor fin includes a channel region and a source/drain region; a gate structure disposed over the channel region of the semiconductor fin, wherein the gate structure includes a gate spacer and a gate stack; a source/drain structure disposed over the source/drain region of the semiconductor fin; and a fin top hard mask vertically interposed between the gate spacer and the semiconductor fin, wherein the fin top hard mask includes a dielectric layer, and wherein a sidewall of the fin top hard mask directly contacts the gate stack, and another sidewall of the fin top hard mask directly contacts the source/drain structure.
US11374121B2
A nitride semiconductor device 1 includes a first transistor 3 which is constituted of a normally-off transistor and functions as a main transistor and a second transistor 4 which is constituted of a normally-on transistor and arranged to limit a gate current of the first transistor. The first transistor 3 includes a first electron transit layer 7A constituted of a nitride semiconductor and a first electron supply layer 8A which is formed on the first electron transit layer and constituted of a nitride semiconductor. The second transistor 4 includes a second electron transit layer 7B constituted of a nitride semiconductor and a second electron supply layer 8B which is formed on the second electron transit layer and constituted of a nitride semiconductor. A gate electrode 51 and a source electrode 44 of the second transistor 4 are electrically connected to a gate electrode 16 of the first transistor 3.
US11374114B2
A high-k dielectric layer is formed over a semiconductor substrate having a first trench and a second trench. A barrier layer is formed over the high-k dielectric layer. A work function layer is deposited over the barrier layer, and is patterned and removed from the second trench, exposing the barrier layer at the second trench. A precursor is deposited selectively over the barrier layer in the second trench, and deposited over the work function layer in the first trench. The precursor selectively reacts with the barrier layer to selectively etch the barrier layer, and selectively reacts with the work function layer to selectively etch a top oxidized portion of the work function layer and deposit a protective layer. The reaction products between the precursor and the barrier layer, and the reaction products between the precursor and the work function layer are removed by using an inert gas.
US11374111B2
A semiconductor device that a fin structure, and a gate structure present on a channel region of the fin structure. A composite spacer is present on a sidewall of the gate structure including an upper portion having a first dielectric constant, a lower portion having a second dielectric constant that is less than the first dielectric constant, and an etch barrier layer between sidewalls of the first and second portion of the composite spacer and the gate structure. The etch barrier layer may include an alloy including at least one of silicon, boron and carbon.
US11374108B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, an isolation structure, a first gate structure, a first gate spacer, and an epitaxy structure. The substrate has a semiconductor fin. The isolation structure is over the substrate and laterally surrounds the semiconductor fin. The first gate structure is over the substrate and crosses the semiconductor fin. The first gate spacer extends along a sidewall of the first gate structure, in which the first gate spacer has a stepped sidewall distal to the first gate structure. The epitaxy structure is over the semiconductor fin, in which the epitaxy structure is in contact with the stepped sidewall of the first gate spacer.
US11374107B2
A high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) includes a first III-V compound layer, a second III-V compound layer over the first III-V compound layer, source and drain structures over the second III-V compound layer and spaced apart from each other, a gate structure over the second III-V compound layer and between the source and drain structures, a gate field plate over the second III-V compound layer and between the gate structure and the drain structure, and an etch stop layer over the drain structure and spaced apart from the gate field plate.
US11374105B2
Semiconductor device and the manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. An exemplary semiconductor device comprises first semiconductor layers and second semiconductor layers over a substrate, wherein the first semiconductor layers and the second semiconductor layers are separated and stacked up, and a thickness of each second semiconductor layer is less than a thickness of each first semiconductor layer; a first interfacial layer around each first semiconductor layer; a second interfacial layer around each second semiconductor layer; a first dipole gate dielectric layer around each first semiconductor layer and over the first interfacial layer; a second dipole gate dielectric layer around each second semiconductor layer and over the second interfacial layer; a first gate electrode around each first semiconductor layer and over the first dipole gate dielectric layer; and a second gate electrode around each second semiconductor layer and over the second dipole gate dielectric layer.
US11374101B2
A semiconductor device includes a first raised feature in a NFET region on a substrate, a first n-type doped epitaxial semiconductor material grown on the first raised feature, the first n-type doped epitaxial material having a first upward facing surface and a first downward facing surface, a first contact metal on the first downward facing surface, and a second contact metal on the first upward facing surface. The device further includes a second raised feature in a PFET region on the substrate, a second p-type doped epitaxial semiconductor material grown on the second raised feature, the second p-type doped epitaxial material having a second upward facing surface and a second downward facing surface, a third contact metal on the second downward facing surface, and a fourth contact metal on the second upward facing surface, wherein the fourth contact metal is different from the second contact metal.
US11374098B2
A semiconductor device and a process of forming the semiconductor device are disclosed. The semiconductor device type of a high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) has double SiN films on a semiconductor layer, where the first SiN film is formed by the lower pressure chemical vapor deposition (LPCVD) technique, while, the second SiN film is deposited by the plasma assisted CVD (p-CVD) technique. Moreover, the gate electrode has an arrangement of double metals, one of which contains nickel (Ni) as a Schottky metal, while the other is free from Ni and covers the former metal. A feature of the invention is that the first metal is in contact with the semiconductor layer but apart from the second SiN film.
US11374093B2
A semiconductor device structure, along with methods of forming such, are described. The structure includes a substrate, a source/drain contact disposed over the substrate, a first dielectric layer disposed on the source drain contact, an etch stop layer disposed on the first dielectric layer, and a source/drain conductive layer disposed in the etch stop layer and the first dielectric layer. The structure further includes a spacer structure disposed in the etch stop layer and the first dielectric layer. The spacer structure surrounds a sidewall of the source/drain conductive layer and includes a first spacer layer having a first portion and a second spacer layer adjacent the first portion of the first spacer layer. The first portion of the first spacer layer and the second spacer layer are separated by an air gap. The structure further includes a seal layer.
US11374087B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming an upper structure in which a bottom electrode, a dielectric layer, a top electrode and a plasma protection layer are sequentially stacked on a lower structure, exposing the upper structure to a plasma treatment, and exposing the plasma-treated upper structure and the lower structure to a hydrogen passivation process.
US11374086B2
A single metal layer device, such as a display or sensor, comprises a substrate and a patterned metal layer. The patterned metal layer forms a two-dimensional array of spatially separated column line segments that each extend only partially across the display substrate in a column direction and forms a one-dimensional array of row lines extending across the display substrate in a row direction different from the column direction. The row lines and column line segments are electrically separate in the patterned metal layer. Spatially separated electrical jumpers are disposed on the display substrate and electrically connect pairs of column line segments adjacent in the column direction. Each electrical jumper has an independent jumper substrate independent of and separate from the display substrate. In certain embodiments, spatially separated light-emitting pixel circuits are disposed on a display substrate and are electrically connected to at least one row line and one column line.
US11374084B2
An organic light emitting display panel and a display device are provided. The organic light emitting display panel includes: an anode power wire, the anode power wire including a first extension segment and a second extension segment, a head end of the first extension segment being electrically connected to the driving power supply, a tail end of the first extension segment being electrically connected to a head end of the second extension segment; each sub-pixel includes a light emitting device and two pixel driving circuits, anode connection terminals of the two pixel driving circuits are electrically connected to an anode of the light emitting device; anode power wire connection terminals of the two pixel driving circuits are electrically connected to the first extension segment and the second extension segment, respectively.
US11374080B2
The present invention discloses a flexible display screen and a display device. The flexible display screen includes: a flexible display panel, a first flexible electromagnetic shielding layer and a bottom film disposed in that order on a side, opposite to a light-emitting side, of the flexible display panel; the organic electroluminescent flexible display panel has a bending area, and the bending area is provided with signal lines; the flexible display screen further includes: a second flexible electromagnetic shielding layer disposed on a light-emitting side of the flexible display panel and covering the signal lines, and a colloidal insulating layer covering the second flexible electromagnetic shielding layer; and the materials of the first flexible electromagnetic shielding layer and the second flexible electromagnetic shielding layer are both conductive materials with fluidity.
US11374078B2
An array substrate, a display panel and a display device are provided. The array substrate includes a plurality of pixel groups arranged as a matrix. The plurality of pixel groups include a plurality of first pixel groups, a plurality of second pixel groups and a plurality of third pixel groups. In odd number rows of pixel groups and odd number columns of pixel groups, the first pixel groups and the second pixel groups are alternately arranged. In even number rows of pixel groups and even number columns of pixel groups, the second pixel groups and the third pixel groups are alternately arranged. Each first pixel group includes two first sub-pixels arranged along a first direction. Each second pixel group includes two second sub-pixels arranged along a second direction; and each third pixel group includes two third sub-pixel groups arranged along the first direction.
US11374074B2
A display panel is provided. The display panel includes a base substrate; a first conductive layer on the base substrate, and in an encapsulated area and a peripheral area of the display panel; a second conductive layer on a side of the first conductive layer away from the base substrate, and in the encapsulated area and the peripheral area; an organic insulating layer between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer, and limited in the encapsulated area; a first inorganic insulating layer between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer, and on a side of the organic insulating layer away from the base substrate; and a second inorganic insulating layer between the organic insulating layer and the first conductive layer. The first inorganic insulating layer covers the organic insulating layer.
US11374070B2
An organic light emitting diode display panel includes a pixel definition layer on a base substrate for defining a pixel having at least a first subpixel, a second subpixel, and a third subpixel; a first electrode in the first subpixel and the second subpixel; a first organic light emitting layer for emitting light of a first color in the first subpixel; a second organic light emitting layer for emitting light of a second color in the second subpixel; a second electrode on a side of the first organic light emitting layer and the second organic light emitting layer distal to the first electrode; a third organic light emitting layer for emitting light of a third color on a side of the second electrode distal to the base substrate; and a third electrode on a side of the third organic light emitting layer distal to the base substrate.
US11374069B2
Provided are a display panel, a driving method thereof and a display device. The display panel includes a substrate, a pixel unit layer and an electrochromic layer. The pixel unit layer includes multiple pixel units arranged in an array and each pixel unit includes a main pixel region and a sub-pixel region. Along a direction facing away from the substrate, the main pixel region includes a first electrode, an organic light-emitting layer and a second electrode, and the sub-pixel region includes a third electrode and a fourth electrode. The first electrode is disposed in the same layer as the third electrode, the second electrode is disposed in the same layer as the fourth electrode, and the main pixel region is insulated from the sub-pixel region. The electrochromic layer is disposed on one side of the pixel unit layer facing away from the substrate.
US11374053B2
A method of assembling a display area includes selecting a first tile from a plurality of tiles, each tile of the plurality of tiles includes a predetermined parameter and a plurality of microLEDs defining a plurality of pixels. The selecting the first tile based on a value of the predetermined parameter of the first tile. The method includes selecting a second tile from the plurality of tiles based on a value of the predetermined parameter of the second tile. The method further includes positioning the first tile and the second tile into an array defining at least a portion of the display area. A first edge of the first tile facing a second edge of the second tile. A display device including the display area assembled by the method is also provided.
US11374051B2
The present disclosure provides a photoelectric conversion array substrate and a photoelectric conversion device, and the photoelectric conversion array substrate includes: a base substrate; a thin film transistor located on the base substrate and including a gate, a gate insulating layer disposed on the gate, an active layer disposed on the gate insulating layer, and a source electrode and a drain electrode located on the active layer; a photodetection unit located on the base substrate and including a signal output electrode, a photosensitive layer and a transparent electrode that are located on the base substrate, the signal output electrode electrically connected to the drain electrode, wherein an orthographic projection of the transparent electrode on the base substrate is located within an orthographic projection of the photosensitive layer on the base substrate; a first protective layer covering the source electrode and the drain electrode.
US11374043B2
A photodetecting device includes a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of avalanche photodiodes each having a light receiving region, the avalanche photodiodes being arranged in a matrix at the semiconductor substrate, and a plurality of through-electrodes electrically connected to corresponding light receiving regions. The plurality of through-electrodes are arranged for each area surrounded by four mutually adjacent avalanche photodiodes of the plurality of avalanche photodiodes. Each of the light receiving regions has, when viewed from a direction perpendicular to a first principal surface of the semiconductor substrate, a polygonal shape including a pair of first sides opposing each other in a row direction and extending in a column direction and four second side opposing four through-electrodes surrounding the light receiving region and extending in directions intersecting with the row direction and the column direction. The length of the first side is shorter than the length of the second side.
US11374039B2
This disclosure provides an array substrate and a method of manufacturing the same. The method includes: forming a switch element; etching on an extension of a gate insulation layer to obtain a second amorphous silicon layer, a second N-type amorphous silicon layer and a light sensing metal at the same time to form a photosensor; forming a light sensing layer and a passivation layer on a source metal, a drain metal, and the light sensing metal; and forming a first light sensing layer and a first passivation layer on the source metal and the drain metal, and forming a second light sensing layer and a second passivation layer on the light sensing metal by using a second mask.
US11374023B2
A retention circuit provided in a logic circuit enables power gating. The retention circuit includes a first terminal, a node, a capacitor, and first to third transistors. The first transistor controls electrical connection between the first terminal and an input terminal of the logic circuit. The second transistor controls electrical connection between an output terminal of the logic circuit and the node. The third transistor controls electrical connection between the node and the input terminal of the logic circuit. A gate of the first transistor is electrically connected to a gate of the second transistor. In a data retention period, the node becomes electrically floating. The voltage of the node is held by the capacitor.
US11374022B2
Electronic circuits and methods encompassing an RF switch comprising a plurality of series-coupled (stacked) integrated circuit (IC) SOI MOSFETs having a distributed back-bias network structure comprising groups of substrate contacts coupled to a bias voltage source through a resistive ladder. The distributed back-bias network structure sets the common IC substrate voltage at a fixed DC bias but resistively decouples groups of MOSFETs with respect to RF voltages so that the voltage division characteristics of the MOSFET stack are maintained. The distributed back-bias network structure increases the voltage handling capability of each MOSFET and improves the maximum RF voltage at which a particular MOSFET is effective as a switch device, while mitigating loss, leakage, crosstalk, and distortion. RF switches in accordance with the present invention are particularly useful as antenna switches.
US11374021B2
A nonvolatile semiconductor memory device that have a new structure are provided, in which memory cells are laminated in a three dimensional state so that the chip area may be reduced. The nonvolatile semiconductor memory device of the present invention is a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device that has a plurality of the memory strings, in which a plurality of electrically programmable memory cells is connected in series. The memory strings comprise a pillar shaped semiconductor; a first insulation film formed around the pillar shaped semiconductor; a charge storage layer formed around the first insulation film; the second insulation film formed around the charge storage layer; and first or nth electrodes formed around the second insulation film (n is natural number more than 1). The first or nth electrodes of the memory strings and the other first or nth electrodes of the memory strings are respectively the first or nth conductor layers that are spread in a two dimensional state.
US11374020B2
A three-dimensional memory device includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers, and a memory stack structure vertically extending through the alternating stack. The memory stack structure includes a vertical semiconductor channel and a memory film. The vertical semiconductor channel can include a III-V compound semiconductor channel material. A III-V compound substrate semiconductor layer or a III-V compound semiconductor source region can be used to provide low-resistance electrical connection to a bottom end of the vertical semiconductor channel, and a drain region including a graded III-V compound semiconductor material can be used to provide low-resistance electrical connection to a top end of the vertical semiconductor channel.
US11374016B2
A semiconductor memory device includes: a plurality of page buffers disposed on a substrate; and a plurality of pads exposed to one surface of a dielectric layer covering the page buffers, and coupled to the respective page buffers. The substrate comprises a plurality of high voltage regions and a plurality of low voltage regions which are alternately disposed in a second direction crossing a first direction. Each of the plurality of page buffers comprises a sensing unit and a bit line select transistor coupled between the sensing unit and the one of the plurality of pads. The bit line select transistors of the plurality of page buffers are disposed in the plurality of high voltage regions, and the plurality of pads are distributed and disposed in a plurality of pad regions which correspond to the high voltage regions and are spaced apart from each other in the second direction.
US11374012B2
A semiconductor device with a large storage capacity per unit area can be provided. A memory cell including a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, a fourth transistor, a first capacitor, and a second capacitor includes a stack including a first conductor, a first insulator over the first conductor, a second conductor over the first insulator, a second insulator over the second conductor, and a third conductor over the second insulator; a first oxide arranged in a ring-like shape on a side surface of an opening portion of the second conductor; a fourth conductor arranged in a ring-like shape in contact with an inner wall of the first oxide; a cylindrical third insulator arranged to penetrate the stack, the first oxide, and the fourth conductor; and a second oxide arranged in contact with an inner wall of the third insulator.
US11374006B2
Provided are a semiconductor device and a method of forming the same. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, a plurality of hybrid fins, a gate, and a dielectric structure. The substrate includes a plurality of fins. The plurality of hybrid fins are respectively disposed between the plurality of fins. The gate covers portions of the plurality of fins and the plurality of hybrid fins. The dielectric structure lands on one of the plurality of hybrid fins to divide the gate into two segment. The two segments are electrically isolated to each other by the dielectric structure and the one of the plurality of hybrid fins.
US11374005B2
A semiconductor device includes a first transistor of a first conductivity type and a second transistor of a second conductivity type. The first transistor is arranged in a first layer and includes a gate extending in a first direction and a first active region extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The second transistor is arranged in a second layer over the first layer and includes the gate and a second active region extending in the second direction. The semiconductor device also includes a first conductive line arranged in a third layer between the first layer and the second layer and extending in the second direction, wherein the first conductive line is configured to electrically connect a first source/drain region of the first active region to a second source/drain region of the second active region.
US11373991B2
Methods of manufacturing light-emitting devices are described herein. A method includes obtaining a packaging substrate. The packaging substrate includes an embedded metal inlay, vias in the packaging substrate and contacts on a bottom surface of the packaging substrate, each electrically coupled to a respective one of the vias. The method also includes forming a hybridized device, attaching a bottom surface of the hybridized device to a top surface of the metal inlay, and wirebonding a top surface of the hybridized device to a stop surface of the packaging substrate using a plurality of conductive connectors.
US11373987B2
Techniques and mechanisms for providing interconnected circuitry of an integrated circuit (IC) die stack. In an embodiment, first integrated circuitry of a first IC die is configured to couple, via a first interconnects of the first IC die, to second integrated circuitry of a second IC die. When the first IC die and the second IC die are coupled to one another, second interconnects of the first IC die are further coupled to the second integrated circuitry, wherein the second interconnects are coupled to each of two opposite sides of the first IC die. In another embodiment, the second integrated circuitry includes processor logic, and the first integrated circuitry is configured to cache data for access by the processor logic. In another embodiment, the first integrated circuitry includes a power delivery circuit and an on-package input-output interface to cache data for access by the processor logic at higher bandwidth with lower power consumption.
US11373984B2
Various embodiments include a power module comprising: a first power electronics device arranged on a first substrate board; and a second power electronics device mounted on a second substrate board. The first substrate board, the first device, the second substrate board, and the second device are arranged on a first baseplate stacked above one another or in planar fashion beside one another.
US11373980B2
A semiconductor package includes a first semiconductor chip including a first surface and a second surface which face each other, an alignment pattern formed on the first surface, a first redistribution layer arranged on the first surface of the first semiconductor chip, a second redistribution layer arranged on the second surface of the first semiconductor chip, and electrically connected with the semiconductor chip, and a first dielectric layer including the alignment pattern between the first redistribution layer and the semiconductor chip, the alignment pattern overlapping the first surface of the first semiconductor chip.
US11373978B2
The invention concerns a display device including a transfer substrate (1010) including electric connection elements (L1, L2, C1, C2, P1, P2, P3, P4), and a plurality of semiconductor chips, wherein the transfer substrate (1010) includes an insulating plate, the electric connection elements of the substrate being formed by printing, on a surface of said plate, of a first conductive level, followed by an insulating level, followed by a second conductive level, the electric connection elements of the substrate including: a plurality of first conductive tracks (L1, L2) formed in the first conductive level; a plurality of second conductive tracks (C1, C2) formed in the second conductive level; and for each chip of the device, a plurality of electric connection areas (P1, P2, P3, P4) respectively connected to connection terminals of the chip, said areas being all formed in the second conductive level.
US11373976B2
A method for fabricating semiconductor die with die-attach preforms is disclosed. In embodiments, the method includes: applying an uncured die-attach paste material to a surface of a forming substrate to form one or more die-attach preforms, the surface of the forming substrate formed from a hydrophobic material; curing the one or more die-attach preforms; performing one or more planarization processes on the one or more die-attach preforms; coupling a first surface of a semiconductor die to a handling tool; and bonding a second surface of the semiconductor die to at least one die-attach preform of the one or more die-attach preforms.
US11373975B2
An electronic component mounting device (100) bonds a semiconductor die (150) to a substrate by thermocompression bonding, and seals, using an insulating resin, a gap between the semiconductor die (150) and the substrate. The electronic component mounting device is provided with: a film cutting mechanism (200) for cutting a long film (210) into cut pieces; and a mounting tool (110), which vacuum-sucks the semiconductor die (150), and bonds the die to the substrate by thermocompression bonding. Consequently, in the electronic component mounting device (100) that moves a mounting head in the horizontal direction, adhesion of the insulating resin to the mounting tool can be suppressed.
US11373967B2
A semiconductor device package includes a first semiconductor device; a second semiconductor device; and a first redistribution layer disposed on the first semiconductor device and having a side wall defining an opening that exposes the first semiconductor device. The side wall of the first redistribution layer has an average surface roughness (Ra) in a range up to 2 micrometers (μm).
US11373964B2
The present technology relates to a semiconductor chip that can ensure a low impedance current path in an I/O ring while suppressing attenuation of radio frequency signals. The semiconductor chip includes an I/O ring surrounding a core circuit, first and second pads serving as input/output terminals for radio frequency signals, and a radio frequency signal transmission line electrically connected to the first and second pads and the core circuit. The radio frequency signal transmission line is formed above the I/O ring. The present technology is applicable to a semiconductor chip that performs input and output of RF signals.
US11373957B2
A semiconductor package includes a first substrate, a first layer structure, a second layer structure, a first antenna layer and an electronic component. The first antenna layer is formed on at least one of the first layer structure and the second layer structure, wherein the first antenna layer has an upper surface flush with a layer upper surface of the first layer structure or the second layer structure. The electronic component is disposed on a substrate lower surface of the first substrate and exposed from the first substrate. The first layer structure is formed between the first substrate and the second layer structure.
US11373955B2
A semiconductor package includes a core substrate having a through hole, a first molding member at least partially filling the through hole and covering an upper surface of the core substrate, the first molding member having a cavity within the through hole, a first semiconductor chip on the first molding member on the upper surface of the core substrate, a second semiconductor chip arranged within the cavity, a second molding member on the first molding member and covering the first semiconductor chip, a third molding member filling the cavity and covering the lower surface of the core substrate; first redistribution wirings on the second molding member and electrically connecting first chip pads of the first semiconductor chip and core connection wirings of the core substrate; and second redistribution wirings on the third molding member and electrically connecting second chip pads of the second semiconductor chip and the core connection wirings.
US11373945B2
An electronic device includes a substrate, a first conductive pad and a chip. The first conductive pad is disposed on the substrate. The chip includes a second conductive pad electrically connected to the first conductive pad, and the first conductive pad is disposed between the substrate and the second conductive pad. The first conductive pad has a first groove.
US11373943B2
A flip-chip film includes a substrate and a plurality of flip-chip film units. The plurality of flip-chip film units are disposed on the substrate, and each of the flip-chip film units includes a plurality of first metal traces arranged at intervals. A punch cut is defined between the first metal traces of two adjacent flip-chip film units.
US11373939B2
Implementations of power modules may include: a substrate having a first side and a second side. The power module may include a plurality of leads coupled to a second side of the substrate and a molding compound over a portion of five or more surfaces of the substrate. The power module may also include an opening extending from a first side of the substrate to an outer edge of the molding compound. The opening may be configured to receive a coupling device and the coupling device may be configured to couple with a heat sink or a package support.
US11373926B2
The load force bolster assembly includes a metallic stiffener. A carrier associated with a CPU (Central Processing Unit) is located upon the load force bolster assembly and positioned upon the electrical connector. A heat sink is located upon both the carrier and the load force bolster assembly wherein a torsioned wire of the bolster assembly provides a downward force upon an up-and-down movable stud which is secured to a screw of the heat sink so as to downwardly push the heat sink, thus enhancing the normal forces among the heat sink, the CPU and the contacts of the electrical connector. To efficiently hold the torsioned wire in position around a bottom corner of the stiffener, a retention groove is formed around the top portion of the restricting pole, and a pressing ring is downwardly snapped into the retention groove so as to restrain the torsioned wire in position.
US11373923B2
A heat sink including a metal-formed body having a base board part and two or more fin parts standing on a surface of the base board part and arranged in a parallel manner to each other, and one or more filled bodies consisting of a plurality of coiled metal-wire materials filled in one or more groove parts formed between the fin parts of the metal-formed body; the heat sink in which the coiled metal-wire materials have a first outer diameter at one end part and a second outer diameter at the other end part which is different from the first outer diameter; and the coiled metal-wire materials are metallurgically joined at partially to at least one of an inner surface of the groove parts of the metal-formed body and the other coiled metal-wire materials.
US11373922B2
A semiconductor package includes a die, a dummy die, a plurality of conductive terminals, an insulating layer and a plurality of thermal through vias. The dummy die is disposed aside the die. The conductive terminals are disposed at a first side of the dummy die and the die and electrically connected to the dummy die and the die. The insulating layer is disposed at a second side opposite to the first side of the dummy die and the die. The thermal through vias penetrating through the insulating layer.
US11373914B2
A method used in forming an array of vertical transistors comprises forming laterally-spaced vertical projections that project upwardly from a substrate in a vertical cross-section. The vertical projections individually comprise an upper source/drain region, a lower source/drain region, and a channel region vertically there-between. First gate insulator material is formed along opposing sidewalls of the channel region in the vertical cross-section. One of (a) or (b) is formed over opposing sidewalls of the first gate insulator material in the vertical cross-section, where (a): conductive gate lines that are horizontally elongated through the vertical cross-section; and (b): sacrificial placeholder gate lines that are horizontally elongated through the vertical cross-section. The one of the (a) or the (b) laterally overlaps the upper source/drain region and the lower source/drain region. The first gate insulator material has a top that is below a top of the channel region and has a bottom that is above a bottom of the channel region. An upper void space is laterally between the one of the (a) or the (b) and both of the upper source/drain region and the channel region. A lower void space is laterally between the one of the (a) or the (b) and both of the lower source/drain region and the channel region. Second gate insulator material is formed in the upper and lower void spaces. Other embodiments, including structure independent of method, are disclosed.
US11373913B2
An array of vertical transistors comprises spaced pillars individually comprising a channel region of individual vertical transistors. A horizontally-elongated conductor line directly electrically couples together individual of the channel regions of the pillars of a plurality of the vertical transistors. An upper source/drain region is above the individual channel regions of the pillars, a lower source/drain region is below the individual channel regions of the pillars, and a conductive gate line is operatively aside the individual channel regions of the pillars and that interconnects multiple of the vertical transistors. Methods are disclosed.
US11373905B2
An ammonium fluoride gas may be used to form a protection layer for one or more interlayer dielectric layers, one or more insulating caps, and/or one or more source/drain regions of a semiconductor device during a pre-clean etch process. The protection layer can be formed through an oversupply of nitrogen trifluoride during the pre-clean etch process. The oversupply of nitrogen trifluoride causes an increased formation of ammonium fluoride, which coats the interlayer dielectric layer(s), the insulating cap(s), and/or the source/drain region(s) with a thick protection layer. The protection layer protects the interlayer dielectric layer(s), the insulating cap(s), and/or the source/drain region(s) during the pre-clean process from being etched by fluorine ions formed during the pre-clean process.
US11373901B2
A method of forming an interconnection structure is disclosed, including providing a substrate, forming a patterned layer on the substrate, the patterned layer comprising at least a trench formed therein, depositing a first dielectric layer on the patterned layer and sealing an air gap in the trench, depositing a second dielectric layer on the first dielectric layer and completely covering the patterned layer, and performing a curing process to the first dielectric layer and the second dielectric layer.
US11373899B2
According to the present embodiment, the pattern generation device includes a misalignment value calculation unit configured to acquire a layout information, calculate a layout function from the layout information, and calculate a misalignment value by a convolution of the layout function and an integral kernel having a predetermined parameter, and a pattern correction unit configured to correct a pattern to generate a modified layout information using a calculated result by the misalignment value calculation unit, and output the modified layout information.
US11373898B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor on insulator type structure by transfer of a layer from a donor substrate onto a receiver substrate, comprises: a) the supply of the donor substrate and the receiver substrate, b) the formation in the donor substrate of an embrittlement zone delimiting the layer to transfer, c) the bonding of the donor substrate on the receiver substrate, the surface of the donor substrate opposite to the embrittlement zone with respect to the layer to transfer being at the bonding interface, and d) the detachment of the donor substrate along the embrittlement zone. A step of controlled modification of the curvature of the donor substrate and/or the receiver substrate is performed before the bonding step.
US11373893B2
Embodiments described herein relate to a substrate support assembly which enables a cryogenic temperature operation of an electrostatic chuck (ESC) so that a substrate disposed thereon is maintained at a cryogenic processing temperature suitable for processing while other surfaces of a processing chamber are maintained at a different temperature. The substrate support assembly includes an electrostatic chuck (ESC), an ESC base assembly coupled to the ESC having a base channel disposed therein, and a facility plate having a facility channel disposed therein. The facility plate includes a plate portion and a wall portion. The plate portion is coupled to the ESC base assembly and the wall portion coupled to the ESC with a seal assembly. A vacuum region is defined by the ESC, the ESC base assembly, the plate portion of the facility plate, the wall portion of the facility plate, and the seal assembly.
US11373891B2
Equipment front end module (EFEM) includes front located return ducts. The EFEM may include a front wall, a rear wall, and two side walls, the front wall including a plurality of load ports, and the rear wall configured to couple to a load lock apparatus. An EFEM chamber is formed between the front wall, the rear wall, and the two side walls. An upper plenum is positioned at a top of the EFEM and includes an opening into the EFEM chamber. Return ducts provide a return gas flow path enabling recirculation of gas from the EFEM chamber to the upper plenum. At least some of the plurality of return ducts are located between the load ports. Electronic device manufacturing assemblies and methods of operating equipment front end modules are also disclosed.
US11373882B2
Disclosed herein is a ceramic article or coating useful in semiconductor processing, which is resistant to erosion by halogen-containing plasmas. The ceramic article or coating is formed from a combination of yttrium oxide and zirconium oxide.
US11373877B2
Methods and apparatus for producing high aspect ratio features in a substrate using reactive ion etching. In some embodiments, a method comprises flowing acetylene gas into a process chamber to produce a diamond like carbon deposition on a pattern mask or on at least one layer of oxide or nitride on the substrate, flowing a gas mixture of a first gas of a hydrofluorocarbon-based gas and a second gas of a fluorocarbon-based gas into the process chamber, forming a plasma from the gas mixture using an RF power source and at least one RF bias power source, performing an anisotropic etch of the at least one layer of oxide or nitride on the substrate using the pattern mask, and evacuating the process chamber while interrupting the RF power source to stop plasma formation.
US11373868B2
In a step of calculating formation conditions for the second silicon carbide layer, a formation time of the second silicon carbide layer is calculated as a value obtained by multiplying a value obtained by dividing the second thickness by the first thickness, by the first formation time, and a flow rate of a second ammonia gas in a step of forming the second silicon carbide layer by epitaxial growth is calculated as a value obtained by multiplying a value obtained by dividing the second concentration by the first concentration, by the first flow rate.
US11373867B2
An integrated circuit includes a gate structure over a substrate. The integrated circuit includes a first silicon-containing material structure in a recess. The first silicon-containing material structure includes a first layer below a top surface of the substrate and in direct contact with the substrate. The first silicon-containing material structure includes a second layer over the first layer, wherein an entirety of the second layer is above the top surface of the substrate, a first region of the second layer closer to the gate structure is thinner than a second region of the second layer farther from the gate structure. The first silicon-containing material structure includes a third layer between the first layer and the second layer, wherein at least a portion of the third layer is below the top surface of the substrate.
US11373859B2
Implementations of methods of thinning a semiconductor substrate may include: providing a semiconductor substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposing the first surface, the semiconductor substrate having a thickness between the first surface and the second surface. The method may further include inducing damage into a portion of the semiconductor substrate at a first depth into the thickness forming a first damage layer, inducing damage into a portion of the semiconductor substrate at a second depth into the thickness forming a second damage layer, and applying ultrasonic energy to the semiconductor substrate. The method may include separating the semiconductor substrate into three separate thinned portions across the thickness along the first damage layer and along the second damage layer.
US11373849B2
A mass spectrometer is disclosed comprising: a first vacuum chamber having an inlet aperture; a second vacuum chamber; a differential pumping aperture separating the vacuum chambers; and an ion guide arranged in the first vacuum chamber for guiding ions from the inlet aperture to and through the differential pumping aperture. The ion guide has a construction for handling high gas loads such that the spectrometer is able to maintain the gas pressure in the first vacuum chamber such that when ions are accelerated therethrough the ions collide with gas and fragment.
US11373841B1
A secondary electron probe is provided. The secondary electron probe comprises a porous carbon material layer. The porous carbon material layer consists of a plurality of carbon material particles and a plurality of micro gaps, the plurality of micro gaps are located between the plurality of carbon material particles. The porous carbon material layer is an electronic blackbody. A secondary electron detector and a scanning electron microscope probe using the secondary electron probe are also provided.
US11373840B1
A tool is provided for assembling a specimen carrier assembly in an electron imaging apparatus, the assembly comprising a specimen holder, an object grid containing a sample during measurement, and a C-shaped resilient fixing ring for removably fixing the object grid into a groove of the specimen holder. The tool comprises an elongate hollow handling device with a holding sleeve surrounding a cylindrical pin that is translatory movable within the holding sleeve in both directions between a first position in which the pin protrudes from the holding sleeve at its lower end and a second position in which the pin is retracted into the holding sleeve. The hollow handling device is configured such that the C-shaped fixing ring can be pushed into the specimen holder groove by moving the cylindrical pin into its first position. This allows the object grid to be conveniently and reliably fixed in the carrier assembly.
US11373829B2
An electromagnetic relay includes a base, a spool provided on the base, a coil wound on the spool, a yoke inserted into a hole formed in the spool, an armature movably provided on the base, a movable contact fixed on the base, a static contact fixed on the base, and a driving member connected between the armature and the movable contact. The yoke is L-shaped. The yoke and the armature form a rectangular magnetic loop.
US11373828B2
An electromagnet device moves two moving contacts from one of a closed position or an open position to the other position when an electric current flows through a coil. A regenerative current coming from the coil flows through a regeneration unit when the coil makes a transition from an energized state where the coil is supplied with an electric current from a power supply to a non-energized state where the coil is supplied with no electric current from the power supply. The control unit causes the regenerative current to flow through a load by controlling a switch when the coil makes the transition from the energized state to the non-energized state.
US11373825B2
A circuit interrupting device with a temperature activated permanent lockout trip mechanism is provided. The temperature activated permanent lockout trip mechanism is located in close proximity to a section of conductor that generates heat. An energized first solenoid generates a magnetic force capable of moving an armature that unlatches a latch releasing a spring to open a main contactor removing power from an electrical circuit. The temperature activated permanent lockout trip mechanism upon reaching a predetermined temperature which is higher than the predetermined temperature threshold of the temperature sensing switch also generates a mechanical force capable of moving the armature that unlatches the latch releasing the spring to open the main contactor removing power from the electrical circuit. Once activated, the temperature activated permanent lockout trip mechanism inhibits the latch from latching which prevents a reset of the circuit interrupting device thus the circuit interrupting device is permanently disabled as the main contactor cannot be closed, and power no longer be reconnected to the electrical circuit.
US11373824B2
The present disclosure provides a gas-insulated high or medium voltage circuit breaker including a first arcing contact and a second arcing contact, wherein at least one of the two arcing contacts is axially movable along a switching axis, wherein during a breaking operation, an arc between the first arcing contact and the second arcing contact is formed in an arcing region; a nozzle including a channel directed to the arcing region, for blowing an arc-extinguishing gas to the arcing region during the breaking operation; a diffuser portion adjacent to the nozzle, for transporting the gas from the arcing region to a region downstream of the diffuser portion; a buffer volume directly downstream of the diffuser portion; and an enclosure confined within a housing of the circuit breaker.
US11373811B2
A capacitor bank that includes at least two capacitors wherein the capacitor bank is configured to change the quantity of phases of the input voltage within the capacitor bank. The capacitor bank of the preferred embodiment of the present invention includes a first capacitor and a second capacitor. The first capacitor and second capacitor are three phase capacitors each having three terminals configured to couple to an input voltage. The capacitor bank is wired so as to have a first source of an input voltage coupled to two terminals of the first capacitor and one terminal of the second capacitor. A second source of the input voltage is electrically coupled to one terminal of the first capacitor and two terminals of the second capacitor. The capacitor bank is operable to change the double phase input voltage into three phases within the capacitor bank.
US11373807B2
An electronic component device includes: an electronic component having: a base body having a pair of end surfaces facing each other and four side surfaces connecting the pair of end surfaces; and a pair of outer electrodes disposed on respective sides of the pair of end surfaces; metal terminals respectively electrically connected to the pair of outer electrodes; and joint portions joining and electrically connecting the outer electrodes to the metal terminals respectively, wherein the electronic component has a metal portion disposed on at least one surface of the four side surfaces, and the metal portion has a baked metal layer.
US11373803B2
A method of forming a magnetic core on a substrate having a stacked inductor coil includes etching a plurality of polymer layers to form at least one feature through the plurality of polymer layers, wherein the at least one feature is disposed within a central region of a stacked inductor coil formed on the substrate; and depositing a magnetic material within the at least one feature.
US11373802B2
A magnet and a method of forming the magnet are provided. The method includes forming a slurry comprising magnetic powder material and binder material and creating raw layers from the slurry. A magnetic field is applied to the raw layers to orient the magnetic powder material in a desired direction, and each layer is cured to form another layer on the most recent cured layer. The layers are attached together.
US11373798B2
An ignition device includes a case having an opening and a bottom wall, a coil bobbin arranged in the case having a through hole, a first end and a second end, an ignition coil wound around the coil bobbin, a core made of magnetic material and projecting from the opening and from the bottom wall, and extending through the coil bobbin, a retainer having a ring portion and multiple leg portions extending from the ring, and a filling resin in the case. The core extends through the ring portion and the leg portions extend in between an inner surface of the coil bobbin and an outer peripheral surface of the core toward the bottom wall, and the case is filled with the filling resin in a manner that at least a part of the ring portion is not covered by the resin.
US11373797B2
An alternating current neutral and ground inductive electromagnetic rectification unit includes a first and second reactor connectable to a neutral and a ground of an existing circuit respectively. The first redactor includes a first pair of inductive coils, each coil disposed interior to a nonconductive tube. The second redactor includes a second pair of inductive coils, each coil also disposed interior to a nonconductive tube. The first pair of inductive coils are connected together in parallel, and also connected at opposing extremes terminating the neutral. The second pair of inductive coils are also connected in parallel, at opposing extremes of the ground. The first and second redactors are surrounded by an insulating matrix set within the housing. Once connected to the ground and neutral, the first and second redactors establish a magnetic field that redacts harmonic interference emerging on the neutral thereby increasing efficiency and power factor across the circuit.
US11373791B2
A method of fabricating a shape-changeable magnetic member comprising a plurality of segments with each segment being able to be magnetized with a desired magnitude and orientation of magnetization, to a method of producing a shape changeable magnetic member composed of a plurality of segments and to a shape changeable magnetic member.
US11373784B2
A conductor assembly for transmitting power includes a former that defines a shape, a superconductor material disposed around the former, and a thermally insulating jacket (TIJ) disposed around and spaced apart from the superconductor material. An outer surface of the superconductor material and an inner surface of the TIJ can define an annulus through which a coolant can flow. The conductor assembly can also include an external layer, disposed around an outside surface of the TIJ, to provide structural support to the conductor assembly. The conductor assembly can also include an electrical insulation layer disposed around the outside surface of the TIJ or around the superconductor material.
US11373778B1
In one embodiment, an automated high-speed X-ray inspection tool may emit, by an X-ray source, an X-ray beam to an object of interest with a portion of the X-ray beam penetrating through the object of interest. The automated high-speed X-ray inspection tool may capture, by an X-ray sensor, one or more X-ray images of the object of interest based on the portion of the X-ray beam that penetrates through the object of interest. Each of the X-ray images may be captured with a field of view of at least 12 million pixels.
US11373777B2
An initial introduction control part introduces an aqueous solution containing molybdenum 99 and technetium 99m, and an organic solvent being capable of dissolving the technetium 99m into an extraction tank. A micro-mixing control part micro-mixes the aqueous solution and the organic solvent by heating and stirring a mixed solution of the aqueous solution and the organic solvent introduced into the extraction tank with a heater, while applying ultrasonic to the mixed solution. A separation control part separates the mixed solution micro-mixed into two phases of aqueous solution and an organic solvent. A taking-out introduction control part passes the organic solvent separated into two phases through an adsorption column be capable of adsorbing molybdenum 99 and introduces the organic solvent into an evaporation elution tank. An evaporation control part evaporates the organic solvent and leaves residue by reducing pressure inside the evaporation elution tank and heating the organic solvent introduced into the evaporation elution tank with a heater, while applying ultrasonic to the organic solvent. An elution control part introduces physiological saline solution into the residue and elutes technetium 99m into the physiological saline solution from the residue.
US11373776B2
A canister for interim storage and subsequent consolidation of waste materials via hot pressing and comprising at least one ion exchange material. The canister is configured to house the ion exchange material after it is exchanged with a contaminating ion without releasing the contaminating ion and to consolidate waste materials via hot-isostatic pressing. A method comprising contacting a fluid waste with an ion exchange material.
US11373773B2
A containment cask is disclosed for safely transporting and storing radioactive hazardous waste in a dry air environment. The cask comprises a single drum containing the radioactive hazardous waste, a sealed and shielded containment vessel containing the drum, and an outer container. The outer container can be in the form of an outer shield vessel (OSV) made from iron to provide further shielding. This outer container is appropriate for a drum having higher activity waste. The outer container can also be in the form of an overpack assembly that adds protection for atmospheric hazards, but adds little in terms of shielding. This outer container is appropriate for a drum having lower activity waste.
US11373764B2
A fuel assembly for a nuclear reactor having an upstream minor portion defining an upstream end, a main portion, and a downstream minor portion defining a downstream end. Fuel rods extend in a flow interspace permitting a flow of coolant through the fuel assembly in contact with the fuel rods. Two elongated tubes form a respective internal passage extending in parallel with the fuel rods and enclosing a stream of the coolant. Each elongated tube having a bottom, an inlet at the upstream minor portion and an outlet at the downstream minor portion. Each elongated tube having an inlet pipe having an inlet end and an outlet end in the internal passage at a distance from the bottom, thereby forming a space in the internal passage between the outlet end and the bottom.
US11373760B2
A machine learning system receives a witness function that is determined based on an initial sample of a dataset comprising multiple pairs of stimuli and responses. Each stimulus includes multiple features. The system receives a holdout sample of the dataset comprising one or more pairs of stimuli and responses that are not used to determine the witness function. The system generates a simulated sample based on the holdout sample. Values of a particular feature of the stimuli of the simulated sample are predicted based on values of features other than the particular feature of the stimuli of the simulated sample. The system applies the holdout sample to the witness function to obtain a first result. The system applies the simulated sample to the witness function to obtain a second result. The system determines whether to select the particular feature based on a comparison between the first result and the second result.
US11373759B2
A device (250) for estimating the risk of a future hypoglycemic event for a subject with a standing insulin regimen (206), wherein the standing insulin regimen comprises one or more types of insulin medicament dosage regimen (208), wherein each of the one or more types of insulin medicament dosage regimen (208) comprises a type of insulin medicament (210) defining one or more types of insulin medicaments. Using the evaluation of a glucose concentration, a first time derivative and an insulin on board for the subject in a current metabolic state, and the evaluation of a glucose concentration, a first derivative and a historical insulin on board to estimate a hypoglycemic risk measure.
US11373758B2
Intelligent cognitive assistants for decision-making are provided. A first plurality of decisions made by a first healthcare provider during treatment of a first patient is monitored. For each respective decision of the first plurality of decisions, one or more corresponding medical attributes of the first patient that were present at a time when the respective decision was made are determined. A cognitive assistant is trained, using an imitation learning model, based on each of the first plurality of decisions and the corresponding one or more medical attributes of the first patient. Subsequently, one or more medical attributes of a second patient are received, and a first medical decision is generated by processing the one or more medical attributes of the second patient using the cognitive assistant.
US11373757B2
A system and method for classifying the phonocardiogram (PCG) signal quality has been described. The system is configured to identify the quality of the PCG signal recording and accepting only diagnosable quality recordings for further cardiac analysis. The system includes the derivation of plurality features of the PCG signal from the training dataset. The extracted features are preprocessed and are then ranked using mRMR algorithm. Based on the ranking the irrelevant and redundant features are rejected if their mRMR strength is less. A training model is generated using the relevant set of features. The PCG signal of the person under test is captured using a digital stethoscope and a smartphone. The PCG signal is preprocessed and only the relevant set of features are extracted. And finally the PCG signal is classified into diagnosable or non-diagnosable using the relevant set of features and a random forest classifier.
US11373754B2
A display device of an anesthesia machine which is communicable with at least one syringe pump that is an external apparatus displays an anesthesia information display screen. When a call switch is operated, a syringe pump information display screen indicating operation information of the syringe pump is displayed on the display device, in addition to the anesthesia information display screen.
US11373753B2
Various techniques for facilitating communication with and across a clinical environment and a cloud environment are described. For example, a method for converting infusion pump messages having one format into standardized dataset messages having another format is described. When a connectivity adapter in the clinical environment detects a new pump protocol, the connectivity adapter may generate a message converter that can convert pump messages into standardized dataset messages. The message converter can be used to convert pump messages into standardized dataset messages. The standardized dataset messages may include information additional data or metadata not included in the pump messages.
US11373747B2
A peristaltic pump is disclosed that includes a plunger, a spring, an actuator, a position sensor, and a processor. The plunger actuates toward and away from a tube. The spring biases the plunger toward the tube. The actuator actuates the plunger away from the tube and mechanically engages and disengages from the plunger. The position sensor senses a position of the plunger. The processor receives the sensed position of the plunger and estimates fluid flow within the tube using a first position of the plunger when the actuator is engaged with the plunger and a second position of the plunger when the actuator is disengaged from the plunger.
US11373744B2
Methods, systems and apparatuses are provided for controlling and tracking patient access to medicaments. A patient is provided with medication in locked pill containers that must be unlocked before the patient can access medication. The patient is forced through an interactive session periodically with a master system, via a communicative intermediary, in order to obtain a valid passcode for each batch of medications. The patient may be assessed during each interaction with the master system. That assessment may include questions about status codes displayed on each medication container. These status codes may encode detail about the patient's pattern of accessing medication. A rate of medication usage can also be deduced from the rate at which the patient contacts the master system. After patient assessment, the master system may elect to not provide the patient with an access code, such as if the assessment indicates overuse of the medication.
US11373740B2
A method and apparatus for monitoring arid for improving eye health of a user of a device, the method comprising receiving m indication that an event occurred associated with rise of the device; updating data on the device according to the data included in a user profile associated with a user; generating a personalized user interface and displaying said interface on the device; detecting a distance of the user from the device; and providing an indication once the distance exceeds a predefined threshold for a predefined time period.
US11373728B1
Logic (apparatus and/or software) is provided that separates read and restore operations. When a read is completed, the read data is stored in a restore buffer allowing other latency critical operations such as reads to be serviced before the restore. Deferring restore operations minimizes latency and burst bandwidth for reads and minimizes the performance impact of the non-critical restore operations.
US11373725B2
Error correction control (ECC) circuits for memory devices and related apparatuses, systems, and methods are disclosed. An apparatus includes an ECC control circuit input configured to receive read data from a plurality of memory banks of a memory cell array via a single set of shared main input/output (MIO) lines. The single set of shared MIO lines are shared by the plurality of memory banks. The apparatus also includes a single ECC control circuit configured to generate corrected read data responsive to the read data received by the ECC control circuit input. The apparatus further includes an ECC control circuit output configured to provide the corrected read data generated by the single ECC control circuit to a global data bus.
US11373722B2
A memory device includes a first pad, a second pad, and a double data rate (DDR) test controller. The first pad may receive a write enable signal. The second pad may receive a data strobe signal. The DDR test controller is connected to the first pad and the second pad and outputs an internal write enable signal and an internal data strobe signal. The DDR test controller generates the internal data strobe signal based on the write enable signal received through the first pad, in at least a portion of a DDR test operation of the memory device.
US11373706B2
Memory circuit, method, and electronic device for implementing ternary weight of neural cell network
The disclosure is directed to a memory circuit, an electronic device, and a method for implementing a ternary weight for in-memory computing. According to an aspect of the disclosure, the memory circuit includes a first memory cell having a first resistor; a second memory cell having a second resistor, a write driver configured to set the first resistor to a first resistance value, a second write driver configured to set the second resistor to a second resistance value, a differential current sensing circuit configured to determine a differential current between the first memory cell and the second memory cell based on the first resistance value and the second resistance value, and a ternary weight detector configured to determine a ternary weight which is selected among a first ternary weight, a second ternary weight, and a third ternary weight based on the differential current.
US11373694B1
A generic physical layer providing a unified architecture for interfacing with an external memory device. The physical layer comprises a transmit data path for transmitting a parallel data to the external memory device and a receive data path for receiving a serial data from the external memory device. The generic physical layer is characterized by a receive enable logic for masking strobe of the serial data, wherein the transmit data path and the receive data path each comprising a FIFO circuit, a data rotator and an adjustable-delay logic for delay tuning and a per-bit-deskew for multi-lane support.
US11373693B2
The present disclosure relates to adjusting a reading speed of a memory system. A method for adjusting a reading speed of a memory system, including: generating an alternating sequence signal in which high levels and low levels appear alternately, associated with an output delay of the memory system; generating a reference signal having a predetermined frequency and a reference delay; generating a comparison result signal indicating a range of a difference between an output delay and the reference delay based on an alternating sequence signal and a reference signal; and determining whether a value indicated by a comparison result signal is a predetermined value, so as to adjust the reading speed of the memory system based on a determination result.
US11373691B2
Methods, systems, and devices for clock locking for frame-based communications of memory devices are described. A memory system may include a memory device and a host device. The memory device may receive one or more frames of data from the host device, the one or more frames of data communicated by the host device using a first frame clock. The memory device may generate a second frame clock aligned with the one or more frames on receiving the one or more frames and align one or more operations of the memory device with the second frame clock. In some examples, the host device may receive a second set of frames from the memory device based on transmitting the first set of frames. The host device may align one or more operations of the host device with the second set of frames received from the memory device.
US11373683B2
A data storage device configured to access a magnetic tape is disclosed, wherein the data storage device comprises at least one head configured to access the magnetic tape, wherein the head comprises a write element, a first read element substantially aligned with the write element, and a second read element laterally offset from the first read element. Data is written to a data track and read-after-write verify is performed using the write element and the first read element. In response to a read command received from a host, the data track is read using the second read element to compensate for a stretching of the magnetic tape.
US11373676B1
An apparatus includes an array of write transducers. Each write transducer includes a lower yoke, a lower write pole piece comprising a lower base layer in magnetic communication with the lower yoke and a lower high moment layer above the lower base layer. Each write transducer includes a write gap above the lower write pole piece and an upper write pole piece above the write gap. The upper write pole piece includes an upper high moment layer above the write gap and an upper base layer above the upper high moment layer. Each write transducer includes an upper yoke above the upper base layer. A media facing side of the lower pole piece and at least a portion of a media facing side of the upper pole piece extend along a plane and the remainder of the media facing side of the upper pole piece is recessed from the plane.
US11373664B2
Apparatus and method for synthesizing an audio signal, decoder, encoder, system and computer program
A method and an apparatus for synthesizing an audio signal are described. A spectral tilt is applied to the code of a codebook used for synthesizing a current frame of the audio signal. The spectral tilt is based on the spectral tilt of the current frame of the audio signal. Further, an audio decoder operating in accordance with the inventive approach is described.
US11373660B2
The present document relates to a method of layered encoding of a compressed sound representation of a sound or sound field. The compressed sound representation comprises a basic compressed sound representation comprising a plurality of components, basic side information for decoding the basic compressed sound representation to a basic reconstructed sound representation of the sound or sound field, and enhancement side information including parameters for improving the basic reconstructed sound representation. The method comprises sub-dividing the plurality of components into a plurality of groups of components and assigning each of the plurality of groups to a respective one of a plurality of hierarchical layers, the number of groups corresponding to the number of layers, and the plurality of layers including a base layer and one or more hierarchical enhancement layers, adding the basic side information to the base layer, and determining a plurality of portions of enhancement side information from the enhancement side information and assigning each of the plurality of portions of enhancement side information to a respective one of the plurality of layers, wherein each portion of enhancement side information includes parameters for improving a reconstructed sound representation obtainable from data included in the respective layer and any layers lower than the respective layer. The document further relates to a method of decoding a compressed sound representation of a sound or sound field, wherein the compressed sound representation is encoded in a plurality of hierarchical layers that include a base layer and one or more hierarchical enhancement layers, as well as to an encoder and a decoder for layered coding of a compressed sound representation.
US11373658B2
A method, device, system, and computer medium for providing interactive advertising are provided. For example, a device may request an advertisement from a remote server, receive the advertisement, receive a response from a user who is listening and/or watching the advertisement, and transmit the response to the server for further action. The user may input a response by speaking. A server may receive an advertisement request from the device, select an advertisement based on pre-defined one or more criteria, transmit the selected advertisement to the device for play, receive from the device a response to the selected advertisement, and then perform an action corresponding to the received response.
US11373657B2
A system for identifying audio data includes a feature extraction module receiving unknown input audio data and dividing the unknown input audio data into a plurality of segments of unknown input audio data. A similarity module receives the plurality of segments of the unknown input audio data and receives known audio data from a known source, the known audio data being divided into a plurality of segments of known audio data. The similarity module performs comparisons between the segments of unknown input audio data and respective segments of known audio data and generates a respective plurality of similarity values representative of similarity between the segments of the comparisons, the comparisons being performed serially. The similarity module terminates the comparisons if the similarity values indicate insufficient similarity between the segments of the comparisons, prior to completing comparisons for all segments of the unknown input audio data.
US11373655B2
An apparatus includes processor(s) to: perform preprocessing operations of a segmentation technique including divide speech data set into data chunks representing chunks of speech audio, use an acoustic model with each data chunk to identify pauses in the speech audio, and analyze a length of time of each identified pause to identify a candidate set of likely sentence pauses in the speech audio; and perform speech-to-text operations including divide the speech data set into data segments that each representing segments of the speech audio based on the candidate set of likely sentence pauses, use the acoustic model with each data segment to identify likely speech sounds in the speech audio, analyze the identified likely speech sounds to identify candidate sets of words likely spoken in the speech audio, and generate a transcript of the speech data set based at least on the candidate sets of words likely spoken.
US11373650B2
[Problem] Provided are an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program which are capable of giving an instruction for control relating to a location in a space even in voice utterance that does not include the name of a specific location. [Solution] The information processing device includes a control unit that acquires voice utterance corresponding to a processing command of control relating to a location in a space, determines the location in the space in the processing command on the basis of a result of environment sensing processing of the space by a plurality of kinds of sensors in a case where the acquired voice utterance does not include a word that specifies the location in the space, and performs control of issuing a processing command of control relating to the location in the space on the basis of the determined location.
US11373649B2
Techniques are described herein for enabling the use of “dynamic” or “context-specific” hot words for an automated assistant. In various implementations, an automated assistant may be operated at least in part on a computing device. Audio data captured by a microphone may be monitored for default hot word(s). Detection of one or more of the default hot words may trigger transition of the automated assistant from a limited hot word listening state into a speech recognition state. Transition of the computing device into a given state may be detected, and in response, the audio data captured by the microphone may be monitored for context-specific hot word(s), in addition to or instead of the default hot word(s). Detection of the context-specific hot word(s) may trigger the automated assistant to perform a responsive action associated with the given state, without requiring detection of default hot word(s).
US11373647B2
Provided are an intelligent voice output method, a voice output device and an intelligent computing device. An intelligent voice output method includes obtaining a voice from a plurality of voice output devices, selecting a device for a response to the voice, and controlling the response device based on recognition state information of the voice recognized by the response device so that the response device outputs the response. Accordingly, a response from a voice output device can be clearly delivered to a user. One or more of the voice output devices, intelligent computing devices, and servers of the present invention may include artificial intelligence modules, drones (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, UAVs), robots, Augmented Reality (AR) devices, and virtual reality (VR) devices, devices related to 5G services, and the like.
US11373633B2
During text-to-speech processing, a speech model creates synthesized speech that corresponds to input data. The speech model may include an encoder for encoding the input data into a context vector and a decoder for decoding the context vector into spectrogram data. The speech model may further include a voice decoder that receives vocal characteristic data representing a desired vocal characteristic of synthesized speech. The voice decoder may process the vocal characteristic data to determine configuration data, such as weights, for use by the speech decoder.
US11373632B2
Techniques are disclosed for generating a virtual persuasive dialogue. In an example, a dialogue application receives a selection of a topic from a user device. The application identifies document results that are associated with the topic. Using communicative discourse trees, the application identifies document results that include argumentation, transforms these document results into a dialogue form, and presents the results to a user device as a virtual persuasive dialogue.
US11373631B2
An acoustic bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) measurement system utilizing metamaterials and compressive sensing for measuring scattering acoustic profiles (e.g., over large angular regions, such as hemispherical scattering/emitting into two π steradians or even spherical scattering/emitting over four π steradians). The measurement system includes one or more acoustic waveguides having a curved receiving surface and made from an acoustic metamaterial configured to encode as a sound signal a frequency and directionality of a sound input received from a sample. Each acoustic waveguide includes an acoustic sensor for detecting the encoded sound signal from the metamaterial.
US11373630B2
A method for controlling a playback tempo of an audio track to be presented at an audio output, the audio track comprising a plurality of audio components, a first audio component of the plurality of audio components being associated with a plurality of sets of audio data, wherein each set of audio data in the plurality of sets of audio data is associated with a respective playback tempo range, the method comprising receiving a playback tempo for presenting the audio track at the audio output, selecting, from the plurality of sets of audio data, a set of audio data that has an associated playback tempo range comprising the received playback tempo, and allocating the selected set of audio data to the first audio component for presenting the audio track at the audio output.
US11373613B2
The present disclosure provides a shift register unit, a driving method thereof, a gate driving circuit and a display device. The shift register unit includes a pull-up node state maintenance circuitry connected to a pull-up node and a first control voltage input end, and configured to control the pull-up node to be electrically connected to, or electrically disconnected from, the first control voltage input end in accordance with a potential at the pull-up node and an input potential at the first control voltage input end.
US11373611B2
A sensor-equipped display device is provided and includes display panel including first and second substrates, common electrode, and polarizer; backlight unit which emits light toward display panel, including light guide opposed to polarizer and light source which emits light toward light guide; conductive member arranged at back side of display panel and opposed to polarizer; controller; first flexible printed circuit; and second flexible printed circuit, wherein first flexible printed circuit is connected to display panel, second flexible printed circuit is connected to back side of first flexible printed circuit, common electrode is connected to controller via first flexible printed circuit, second flexible printed circuit comprises first branch portion and second branch portion, first branch portion is connected to light source, and conductive member is connected to controller via second branch portion of second flexible printed circuit and first flexible printed circuit.
US11373609B2
It is an object to provide a display device which can favorably display a image without delayed or distorted signals. The display device includes a first gate driver and a second gate driver. The first gate driver and the second gate driver each include a plurality of flip flop circuits and a plurality of transfer signal generation circuits. Both the flip flop circuit and the transfer signal generation circuit are circuits which output a signal inputted to a first input terminal with a half clock cycle delay. In addition, an output terminal of the transfer signal generation circuit is directly connected to a first input terminal of the flip flop circuit in the next stage. Therefore, delay and distortion of the signal which is inputted from the transfer signal generation circuit to the flip flop circuit can be reduced.
US11373596B2
A pixel circuit and a display device are provided. The pixel circuit includes: a driving transistor; a switching transistor for transmitting a data voltage signal to a first electrode of the driving transistor; a storage capacitor having a first terminal coupled to a control electrode of the driving transistor, and a second terminal coupled to a reference voltage terminal; a threshold voltage extraction unit for coupling the control electrode of the driving transistor to a second electrode of the driving transistor through the scan signal; a light emission control unit for transmitting a second power voltage to the first electrode of the driving transistor; a light emitting device having a first electrode coupled to a second electrode of the driving transistor and a second electrode receiving a first power voltage; a compensation unit for transmitting a compensation voltage to a second electrode of the switching transistor.
US11373595B2
A display device includes: luminance converter that converts an input gradation value into a target luminance value corresponding to the input gradation value; correction calculator that calculates an output gradation value from the target luminance value and calculates a corrected luminance value from the output gradation value using an efficiency residual rate; cumulative stress calculator that updates the efficiency residual rate using a cumulative stress amount obtained by converting a stress amount on the light emitting element calculated from the corrected luminance value into a first stress amount at a reference current and accumulating a second stress amount obtained by converting the converted first stress amount according to a frame rate; and stress amount converter that converts the first stress amount into the second stress amount by multiplying the first stress amount by a conversion coefficient corresponding to the frame rate obtained from the video signal.
US11373592B2
Provided are a pixel circuit, a silicon-based display panel, and a display device. The pixel circuit includes a pixel drive circuit and a pixel compensation circuit; the pixel drive circuit includes a drive transistor and an organic light-emitting element; the drive transistor includes an output terminal and a body terminal, where the output terminal is connected to an anode of the organic light-emitting element, and the body terminal is connected to a body signal input terminal and configured to receive a body potential inputted from the body signal input terminal, the body potential being fixed; and a cathode of the organic light-emitting element is connected to the pixel compensation circuit at a first node, a potential of the first node is a cathode potential, and the cathode potential Vcom, a crossover voltage Voled of the organic light-emitting element, and the body potential Vbody satisfy that Vcom+Voled>Vbody.
US11373588B2
A display device includes pixels which are connected to first scan lines, second scan lines, third scan lines, emission control lines, and data lines; a scan driver which supplies a bias scan signal to each of the third scan lines at a first frequency and supplies a scan signal to each of the first scan line and the second scan line at a second frequency which corresponds to an image refresh rate of each of the pixels; an emission driver which supplies an emission control signal to each of the emission control lines at the first frequency; a data driver which supplies a data signal to each of the data lines at the second frequency; and a timing controller which controls driving of the scan driver, the emission driver, and the data driver.
US11373587B2
A pixel includes first and second sub-emission areas enclosed by a bank; a first light source unit disposed in the first sub-emission area, and including at least one first light emitting element connected between at least one first split electrode and a second power supply; a second light source unit disposed in the second sub-emission area, and including at least one second light emitting element connected between at least one second split electrode and the second power supply; a first driving circuit connected between a first power supply and the at least one first split electrode, and supplying a first driving current to the first light source unit in response to a first data signal; and a second driving circuit connected between the first power supply and the second split electrode, and supplying a second driving current to the second light source unit in response to a second data signal.
US11373581B2
The present disclosure discloses a codes reading method, the codes reading method is applied to the display panel, the storage area of the display panel stores the default codes and the same backup codes as the default codes, and the codes reading method includes the following steps: in responding to a determination that the timing controller is powered on, reading, by the timing controller, the default codes of the storage area; determining whether a read default codes are rewritten or not; in responding to a determination that the read default codes are rewritten, reading a backup codes of the storage area to take the read backup codes as the target codes; in responding to a determination that there is no rewriting of the read default codes, the read default codes are taken as the target codes. the present disclosure also discloses a display panel and a computer readable storage medium.
US11373573B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and a device for compensating for a luminance deviation, in which test pixel data is written to pixels disposed on a screen of a display panel and an image of the screen is captured, a luminance deviation is determined by analyzing luminance characteristics based on a measured luminance value of each of the pixels, which is obtained from data of the image of the screen captured by an imaging device, and a defective pixel is detected, and compensation data for reducing the luminance deviation between the pixels is derived for each pixel, so that a measured luminance value or compensation data of the defective pixel can be removed.
US11373569B2
Provided is a display driving circuit, which includes a pull-up control unit and a pull-up unit electrically connected to the pull-up control unit via a first node. The pull-up unit includes a capacitor and a first transistor. A first end of the capacitor is electrically connected to a clock signal input end and a second end of the capacitor is electrically connected to the first node. The gate of the first transistor is electrically connected to the first node, the source of the first transistor is electrically connected to the clock signal input end, the drain of the first transistor is electrically connected to a signal output end.
US11373568B2
A light emitting diode (LED) circuit for preventing parasitic current flow through a first LED when the first LED is in an off state is described, where the parasitic current flow is a result of one or more parasitic capacitances, the LED circuit comprising the first LED, and a first current switch coupled to the first LED and arranged to enable a current flow through the first LED when the first current switch is in an on state, where the first current switch is arranged to discharge the one or more parasitic capacitances when the first current switch is in the on state.
US11373565B2
A non-display area is disposed around a display area, a test circuit of non-display area comprises a plurality of signal lines disposed in parallel along a first direction, a plurality of switch groups are disposed in a same row along a second direction, a connecting signal line and a plurality of transmission line groups, the display area comprises a plurality of pixel groups disposed in parallel along the second direction, the second direction and the first direction are perpendicular to each other, and each of switch groups comprises a first switch and a second switch disposed in the same row along the second direction.
US11373564B2
Provided is a lower narrow border display panel, including a pixel unit, an array test unit and a cell test unit. By combining the array test circuit and the cell test circuit while ensuring the measurement, the space originally occupied by the array test circuit and the unit test circuit can be reduced, thereby narrowing the width of the lower border of the display panel.
US11373561B1
A protective device is installed about the outer edge or outer edges of a floor sign. When installed, the main body portion of the protective device is taller than the thickness of the sign such that an item being moved over the sign will ride on the top of the protective device as it passes over the floor sign. The protective device includes a tapered outer edge that helps an item to slide up onto the top surface of the protective device and decrease the impact force of the device when it initially encounter the protective device. The inner edge of the protective device is also tapered down to at least the height of the floor sign. The protective device is made from a hard material that is impact resistant and provides a smooth lower friction upper surface. The protective device can be installed with spaced ends to allow liquid to drain from inside the device.
US11373560B2
A rollable display device including a rollable display module is provided. The rollable display module includes a hard film group and a flexible film group that are stacked, the hard film group has a greater overall Young's modulus than the flexible film group, and the rollable display device has a rolled state and an unrolled state; the hard film group includes a first surface facing away from the flexible film group in the unrolled state; the rollable display module is rolled towards the first surface in the rolled state; a minimum thickness of the flexible film group is D1, a thickness of the hard film group is D2, and D1/(D1+D2)>πn/M, where n is a positive number that represents a preset number of rolling turns of the rollable display module, and M represents a failure strain of the flexible film group under a shearing stress.
US11373555B2
It is a teaching system for remote hydraulic experiments based on combination of virtual and real, belonging to the field of teaching application. In the virtual simulation teaching system for remote hydraulic experiments based on combination of virtual and real, the virtual and real combination part involves that a hydraulic circuit is simulated by a student by remotely calling the Automation Studio software on the experimental platform, the hydraulic circuit is modified and optimized according to the idea of the student, and the hydraulic experimental platform is connected finally to perform actual operations. The system is also added with a network HD ball machine, a network video recorder, a switch, a ball machine bracket, a router and other devices to form a feedback system, so the student can observe the real-time operation of the hydraulic experimental platform through the feedback system.
US11373553B2
A haptic robotic training system includes a haptic robot arm, a position tracking system, a scanning surface, a monitor and a computer. The robotic arm includes a haptic feedback system and holds a custom syringe in place. The position tracking system includes a positon tracking probe shaped like an ultrasound probe and a motion tracker. The scanning surface is a soft pad made from a synthetic phantom tissue. A simulation software receives the positioning data for the syringe from the robotic arm, and for the virtual ultrasound probe from the position tracking system and generates a virtual environment which mimics an actual ultrasound image. The user receives a real time feedback in the form of a haptic feel through the robotic arm, a virtual ultrasound image on the screen, and a performance feedback on the simulation software.
US11373551B2
A haptic needle insertion simulator includes a syringe compartment having a cavity and a retractable needle at an end of the syringe compartment. The needle is operable to retract into the syringe compartment when pushed against a surface. The cavity is configured to provide a force profile felt by a user holding the simulator and simulating a realistic feeling of insertion force.
US11373550B2
Disclosed is an augmented reality training system, which includes a manipulation platform, an augmented reality stereo microscopic assembly, an instrument tracking module and a simulation generation module. The augmented reality stereo microscopic assembly is configured for camera-based capture of real stereo videos and for optical transmission of augmented reality images into the user's eyes. The instrument tracking module uses top and bottom digital cameras to track a marker on an upper portion of an instrument manipulated on a surgical phantom and to track a lower portion of the instrument. The simulation generation module can generate and display augmented reality images that merge the real stereo videos and virtual images for simulation of actions of the instrument in interaction with a training program executed in a processor of the simulation generation module. Accordingly, the augmented reality training system allows real instruments as the user interface, and establishes a reliable and generalized microscopic tracking framework.
US11373543B1
A system for optimization of a recharging flight plan for an electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. The system includes a recharging infrastructure. The recharging infra structure includes a computing device. The computing device is configured to receive an aircraft metric from a flight controller of an eVTOL aircraft, generate a safe approach plan for the eVTOL aircraft as a function of the aircraft metric, transmit the safe approach plan to the eVTOL aircraft for execution by the eVTOL aircraft, and transmit the safe approach plan to a remote device. A method for optimization of a recharging flight plan for an eVTOL aircraft is also provided.
US11373524B2
A vehicle can include an on-board data processing system that receives velocity data captured by one or more sensors of the vehicle. As a vehicle travels along a route, the on-board data processing system can process the velocity data to identify potential vehicle stops. For example, the system can detect a trough in velocity values, and determine whether a velocity value at the trough is below a threshold velocity value. If the velocity value is below the threshold velocity value, the system can determine whether any vehicle stops were previously detected within a threshold time of the time corresponding to the trough. If a vehicle stop was previously detected, the system may detect that a stop occurred at the time of the trough if the velocity of the vehicle increased by at least a velocity ripple value between the time of the previously-detected stop and the time of the trough.
US11373523B2
A method for vehicle detection based on single-axis geomagnetic sensor is disclosed. The method includes the following: arranging two geomagnetic sensors in tandem at a fixed distance in the same lane, and acquiring, by the two geomagnetic sensors, data when a vehicle passes by; performing data cleansing and denoising on the data acquired by the geomagnetic sensors; detecting, by the geomagnetic sensors, the vehicle by using an state machine algorithm based on a fixed threshold, and extracting moments when the vehicle enters and leaves detection ranges of the sensors; and collecting statistics on traffic flow in a predetermined period of time, and calculating the velocity and length of the vehicle. The presently disclosed method and apparatus can be independently used to obtain vehicle parameters at important traffic sections or intersections, or can be used in combination with other traffic detection devices to obtain more comprehensive traffic information. The presently disclosed method and apparatus has low power consumption, high detection sensitivity, is easy to install and resists the impact of a harsh environment.
US11373514B2
Techniques are described for providing network device management. In some implementations, a native mobile device application enables use of a mobile device to add new devices to a network, remove devices from a network, change network and device profile settings, troubleshoot a network, provide an interface into network devices, communications, diagnostics, etc., and provide remote access to the network for installation, programming, troubleshooting, and inclusion.
US11373511B2
A system and method for processing alarms includes receiving alarm data from a third-party data source, the alarm data having visual data, an area of interest, and a sought target. The system processes the visual data to detect an object in the area of interest, and then classifies the object either in conformance with the sought target or in nonconformance with the sought target. The system issues a positive alarm when the object is in conformance with the sought target, and issuing issues a false alarm when the object is in nonconformance with the sought target. Feedback is received from the third-party data source regarding an accuracy of the respective positive alarm and the false alarm.
US11373509B2
A portable compliance dispenser provides a compliance module that is removably attached to a replaceable refill container, which carries any suitable liquid material, such as sanitizer. The compliance module is configured to be worn or carried by an individual and communicates hygiene compliance data to a remote monitoring station when material from the refill container is dispensed.
US11373494B2
A computer-implemented method including receiving, by a monitoring system that is configured to monitor a property and from a touchless doorbell device that includes a camera and a motion sensor, an image, analyzing, by the monitoring system, the image, based on analyzing the image, determining that the image likely includes a representation of a person, and based on determining that the image likely includes a representation of a person, performing a monitoring system action.
US11373490B2
In one embodiment, an apparatus includes an optical module comprising a first end for insertion into a network device and a second end extending from the network device when the optical module is inserted into the network device, and a temperature indicator thermally coupled to the optical module and extending from said second end of the optical module. The temperature indicator provides an indication that a surface temperature of the optical module exceeds a predefined safe touch temperature limit.
US11373487B2
An automatic teller machine includes: a first reading sensor that reads display information displayed on a medium at a predetermined position; and a second reading sensor that reads, from the medium at the predetermined position, storage information stored in the medium. The first reading sensor is disposed above the second reading sensor.
US11373485B2
A system involving analytics and collecting sensor data in real time. This system allows players to predict and wager on players actions during the course of a play that has yet to occur by collecting sensor data on the players to create a historical database. Utilizing an algorithm, the wagering odds may be improved using the various sensor data collected using artificial intelligence or machine learning. The algorithm may determine the probability of the outcome of the play through player's sensor data and these probabilities of the outcome provide additional data for a wagering platform to provide improved wagering odds to its users.
US11373476B1
To enable customer-facing transactions between merchants and customers that utilize cash designated as bank-owned cash (BOC), a monitoring server monitors quantities of cash within point-of-sale (POS) terminals, such as self-checkout terminals having cash verification systems therein, and monitors levels of cash within those POS terminals designated as BOC and for which the BOC cash is reflected within a financial institution account associated with the merchant. Upon execution of a cash transaction at a POS terminal involving BOC, the monitoring server updates quantities of cash stored within the POS terminal and provides data to a financial institution regarding the cash transaction.
US11373475B1
A computer-implemented method of recording voter selections includes receiving a first digital image of an official identification card and a second digital image including a putative digital image of the individual and a putative digital image of the official identification card. A first set of unique identification data of the individual is captured from the first image. A second set of unique identification data of the individual is captured from the putative digital image of the official identification card. A match score is determined based on the first set of unique identification data and the second set of unique identification data. The individual is registered with a voter selection system based on the match score exceeding a predetermined match score threshold. Voting selections from the individual are received and stored at the voter selection system.
US11373474B2
Systems and methods are provided to allow a smart phone or any terminal to activate a door lock using a web site or server computer system. An access control system is provided that includes a server and an access device. The access device includes a processor and a communication module. The process has control of a door lock and is able to receive a reservation certificate presented by a portable terminal through the communication module. The processor activates the door lock when a current reservation certificate has been presented.
US11373473B2
An access card issuance system comprising an access card issuance device located at a facility of an organization and a web server is disclosed. The access card issuance system provides a web interface in response to a request from a mobile device, and receives user information identifying a user of the mobile device. The system is also configured to validate the identity of an authorized individual associated with the facility identified by a user of the mobile device, and issue an access card to the user of the mobile device. The access card has indicia printed thereon identifying at least a portion of the user information, and programmable information encoded onto the access card providing access rights to the facility. The system further transmits, to the authorized individual, a message associated with issuance of the access card.
US11373472B2
A physical access control system (PACS) for protecting a resource. The PACS includes a credential including information regarding a user stored thereon, the credential presented to request access to a resource protected by an access point. A reader is in operative communication with the credential and configured to read the user information from the credential. The user information includes at least one attribute. A controller executes a set of access control rules, the rules based on policies extracted from a database of static permissions for the user, the policies defining requirements for permitting access of the user to the resource based on the at least one attribute, the controller configured to permit access to the resource.
US11373457B2
A method for detecting non-approved parts in a vehicle includes generating a plurality of component identifiers (IDs) for a plurality of components, wherein each component ID identifies a unique component of the plurality of components. The component IDs are stored to a decentralized database. A vehicle identifier (ID) that uniquely identifies a vehicle is generated and stored to the decentralized database. Component IDs associated with components of the vehicle that are stored in the decentralized data base are associated with the vehicle ID. The method includes subsequently, determining that a component of the vehicle has been replaced with a replacement component and searching the decentralized database for a component ID associated with the replacement component. When the component ID associated with the replacement component is not found, the replacement component is determined to be a counterfeit component or a misfit component with respect to the vehicle's ID and an alert is issued to the vehicle indicative of the determination. Otherwise when the component ID associated with the replacement component is found, the decentralized database is updated to associate the component ID associated with the replacement component with the vehicle ID.
US11373442B2
According to an embodiment, a collation device includes a hardware processor configured to: generate, based at least in part on input data, an input vector comprising input data features indicating features of the input data, the input data features comprising D number of features, D being an integer equal to or larger than two; and generate first specification information that specifies d selected features among the input data features of the input vector, based at least in part on a plurality of reference vectors and the input vector, the plurality of reference vectors each comprising reference features in the same form as the input vector, the reference features comprising the D number of features, d being an integer equal to or larger than one and smaller than D.
US11373441B2
A computer implemented method includes supplying to a client device prompts for a first individual to specify matching criteria for a potential introduction to a second individual. The matching criteria includes a filter to sort a pool of individuals by a facial feature categorized by a facial recognition module. Matching criteria from the client device are collected. Matches between the first individual and a pool of individuals are generated based upon the matching criteria. The matches are supplied to the client device. A match acceptance by the first individual of the second individual is collected. Attributes of the second individual are verified to selectively establish a verified status. Network communication between the first individual and the second individual are enabled in response to the verified status.
US11373438B2
A computer-implemented method for generating a representation for a fingerprint includes receiving, by a computer processor, an image of a given fingerprint. The method extracts particular attributes for the given fingerprint from the image using a first neural network. The first neural network is trained to identify particular attributes in fingerprints and constructs a first feature vector from the extracted particular attributes, where the first feature vector has a first fixed length. The method includes extracting textural features of the given fingerprint from the image using a second neural network, where the second neural network is trained to identify textural features that are not limited to particular attributes and constructing a second feature vector from the extracted textural features, where the second feature vector has a second fixed length. The method includes concatenating the first feature vector with the second feature vector to form a representation for the given fingerprint.
US11373437B2
A device and a method are provided which perform movement vector calculation processing from photographing images for which a microlens array is used without generating whole images. Specifically, consecutive photographing images photographed by an imaging section having a microlens array are input, and a movement vector between the images is calculated. A movement vector calculating section calculates the movement vector corresponding to a feature point by using microlens photographing images photographed by respective microlenses. When the movement vector corresponding to the feature point within duplicate image regions having the same image region within a plurality of microlens photographing images is calculated, an average value of a plurality of movement vectors corresponding to the same feature point is calculated and is set as the movement vector of the feature point. Alternatively, an average value of plural movement vectors remaining after an outlier (abnormal value) is excluded is calculated and is set as the movement vector of the feature point.
US11373433B2
An optical fingerprint identification system includes a base, a photo sensor, a light emitting layer and a cover. The photo sensor is disposed on the base. The light emitting layer is disposed above the photo sensor, and the light emitting layer includes a light emitting element. The cover is disposed above the light emitting layer. The optical fingerprint identification system further includes a condenser unit and a light receiving element between the photo sensor and the cover. The condenser unit is disposed above the photo sensor. The light receiving element is disposed above the condenser unit. The light emitting element is disposed away from the photo sensor, the condenser unit and the light receiving element in a sideway direction that is different from a stack direction of the optical fingerprint identification system.
US11373431B2
An electronic device including a plurality of micro-lenses, a light-limiting structure, a first light-transmitting structure, and a sensing element is provided. The plurality of micro-lenses are arranged in an array. The sensing element includes a plurality of sensing pixels. The sensing element, the first light-transmitting structure, the light-limiting structure, and the plurality of micro-lenses are sequentially stacked in a stacking direction. Each of the plurality of sensing pixels corresponds to at least two of the plurality of micro-lenses in the stacking direction.
US11373425B2
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a thermal image detector to determine a heat blob count based on a frame of thermal image data, the frame of thermal image data captured in the media environment, a comparator to compare the heat blob count to a prompted people count, the prompted people count based on one or more responses to a prompting message, and when the heat blob count and the prompted people count match, cause a timer that is to trigger generation of the prompting message to be reset.
US11373424B1
Systems and methods for generation and use of document analysis architectures are disclosed. A model builder component may be utilized to receiving user input data for labeling a set of documents as in class or out of class. That user input data may be utilized to train one or more classification models, which may then be utilized to predict classification of other documents. Trained models may be incorporated into a model taxonomy for searching and use by other users for document analysis purposes.
US11373415B2
A vehicle (100) may include one or more image sensors (110) configured to provide sensor image data (112d) representing a sensor image of a vicinity of the vehicle (100), and one or more processors (120) configured to determine one or more obstacles (132) from the sensor image data (112d), to determine a distance from ground for each of the one or more obstacles (132) based its corresponding image object (114), and to trigger a safety operation when the distance from ground is equal to or less than a safety height associated with the vehicle (100). A method for avoiding a collision of a vehicle with one or more obstacles.
US11373414B2
Image processing system, image processing device, image processing method and program storage medium
An image processing system includes: a possibility determination unit that determines whether there is a possibility that an obstacle is shown in an image acquired by an image acquisition device of a vehicle; a transmitting unit that transmits, from the vehicle, image information of the acquired image if it has been determined that there is a possibility that an obstacle is shown therein; a receiving unit that receives the image information from vehicles; a processing unit that performs image processing to identify an obstacle shown in the acquired image; and a duplication determination unit that determines whether or not an identified obstacle, which has been identified in a previous acquired image, is shown in a subsequent acquired image received by the receiving unit, wherein the processing unit performs the image processing on the subsequent acquired image if the subsequent acquired image has been determined to not show the identified obstacle.
US11373409B2
The structure examination support system 100 in the present example is provided with a GNSS receiver 120 that measures the current location, an image pick-up device 110 that photographs a target, and a calculating device 130 that controls the image pick-up device 110, where these are equipped in a moving body. The computing device 130 controls the image pick-up device 110 on the basis of the installation location of the target that has been set in advance, the current location that has been measured by the GNSS receiver 120, and the moving speed of the vehicle so as to repeat photography a number of times, and carries out an image recognition process on each of the plurality of images outputted from the image pick-up device 110, and thus selects an image where the target is photographed and that is appropriate for the examination.
US11373395B2
Examples relate to simultaneous localization and calibration. An example implementation may involve receiving sensor data indicative of markers detected by a sensor on a vehicle located at vehicle poses within an environment, and determining a pose graph representing the vehicle poses and the markers. For instance, the pose graph may include edges associated with a cost function representing a distance measurement between matching marker detections at different vehicle poses. The distance measurement may incorporate the different vehicle poses and a sensor pose on the vehicle. The implementation may further involve determining a sensor pose transform representing the sensor pose on the vehicle that optimizes the cost function associated with the edges in the pose graph, and providing the sensor pose transform. In further examples, motion model parameters of the vehicle may be optimized as part of a graph-based system as well or instead of sensor calibration.
US11373394B2
A computer-implemented method for generating a feature descriptor for a location in an image for use in performing descriptor matching in analysing the image, the method comprising determining a set of samples characterising a location in an image by sampling scale-space data representative of the image, the scale-space data comprising data representative of the image at a plurality of length scales; and generating a feature descriptor in dependence on the determined set of samples.
US11373386B2
A device for identifying a pattern over a first surface includes a photosensitive layer, and a light-guiding layer disposed between the photosensitive layer and the first surface. The photosensitive layer includes a plurality of photosensitive elements, each configured to convert incident light into an electrical signal. The light-guiding layer includes a plurality of light-guiding units, each positionally corresponding to one of the plurality of photosensitive elements. Each light-guiding unit includes a plurality of light-transmitting portions, each configured to guide a light beam reflected from a feature of the pattern positionally corresponding thereto to transmit therethrough and reach one of the plurality of photosensitive elements corresponding to the each of the plurality of light-guiding units. The device can be used for identification of fingerprint, as well as other biometric or non-biometric features, and has a reduced thickness and an improved accuracy for pattern identification.
US11373384B2
This application provides a method for configuring parameters of a three-dimensional face model. The method includes: obtaining a reference face image; identifying a key facial point on the reference face image to obtain key point coordinates as reference coordinates; and determining a recommended parameter set in a face parameter value space according to the reference coordinates. The first projected coordinates are projected coordinates of the key facial point obtained by projecting a three-dimensional face model corresponding to the recommended parameter set onto a coordinate system. The proximity of the first projected coordinates to the reference coordinates meets a preset condition.
US11373379B2
A contact determination section determines whether or not there is any contact between a body part of a user and an object in a real world. An AR region determination section determines, as an augmented reality region, a region that corresponds to a partial space including a portion of the object in the real world, the portion having been contacted by the body part, and that is viewed from a viewpoint of the user. An AR generation section generates an augmented reality image in the augmented reality region in a shot image of the real world.
US11373371B2
Methods and tessellation modules for tessellating a patch to generate tessellated geometry data representing the tessellated patch. Received geometry data representing a patch is processed to identify tessellation factors of the patch. Based on the identified tessellation factors of the patch, tessellation instances to be used in tessellating the patch are determined. The tessellation instances are allocated amongst a plurality of tessellation pipelines that operate in parallel, wherein a respective set of one or more of the tessellation instances is allocated to each of the tessellation pipelines, and wherein each of the tessellation pipelines generates tessellated geometry data associated with the respective allocated set of one or more of the tessellation instances.
US11373362B2
Methods and systems and for calculating light projection obstruction in human vision analyses are described. The methods and systems include an integration of formulas, algorithms, databases, and interactive interfaces that capture, document, and deliver the results of human vision studies. The methods and systems calculate the amount of vision obstruction for a particular device by producing a rendered image having pixels and designating the pixels in the rendered image to have various colors. Certain types of colors are designated for representing objects in the rendered image to be visible to the user, and other types of colors are designated to represent objects that are obstructed in the rendered image. The methods and systems may also be integrated into, and displayed within, conventional virtual reality, augmented reality, and/or mixed reality equipment and/or systems.
US11373346B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating and presenting animated graphs. In one aspect, a method includes updating a user interface to present a first graph representing a set of data corresponding to a time period. The first graph includes a heat map that visually depicts different values of the data for different sub-time periods of the time period using different colors. The heat map includes visual graph elements that each represents a respective sub-time period and depicts a particular color based on the value for the respective sub-time period. The user interface is updated to replace the presentation of the first graph with a presentation of a second graph representing a sum of the different values over the time period. The updating includes animating a transition between the presentation of the first graph and the presentation of the second graph.
US11373315B2
This disclosure relates generally to method and system for tracking motion of subjects in three dimensional space. The method includes receiving a video of the environment using a scene capturing device positioned in the environment. A motion intensity of subjects from the plurality of image frames are detected for segregating the motion of subjects present in each image frame from the plurality of image frames into a plurality of categories. Further, a three dimensional (3D) scene from the plurality of image frames are constructed using the multi focused view based depth calculation technique. The subjects are tracked based on the position in three dimensional (3D) scene categorized under the significant motion category. The proposed disclosure provides efficiency in tracking the new entry of subjects in the environment for adjusting the focus of observer.
US11373309B2
A method of facilitating image analysis in pathology involves receiving a sample image representing a sample for analysis, the sample image including sample image elements, causing one or more functions to be applied to the sample image to determine a plurality of property specific confidence related scores, each associated with a sample image element and a respective sample property and representing a level of confidence that the associated element represents the associated sample property, sorting a set of elements based at least in part on the confidence related scores, producing signals for causing one or more of the set of elements to be displayed to a user in an order based on the sorting, for each of the one or more elements displayed, receiving user input, and causing the user input to be used to update the one or more functions. Other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are disclosed.
US11373301B2
An image diagnostic device that obtains a prediction model indicating a higher accuracy diagnosis prediction result includes: an observation unit that collects an image of an examination object; and an image processing unit that generates first image data from the image, and performs image processing of the first image data. The image processing unit is provided with: a feature extraction unit that extracts a first feature from the first image data; a feature transformation unit that converts the first feature to a second feature to be extracted from second image data; and an identification unit that calculates a prescribed parameter value using the converted second feature. The feature extraction unit includes a prediction model learned using a plurality of combinations of the first image data and feature, and the feature transformation unit includes a feature transformation model learned using a plurality of combinations of the first and second features.
US11373298B2
A system including processing circuitry configured to train a model for predicting from input data at least one predicted output, wherein the processing circuitry is configured to: receive a plurality of training data sets; receive from a user a selection of a first characteristic including positive and negative samples which are relevant variations significant to prediction of the at least one predicted output; receive from the user a selection of a second characteristic including an irrelevant sample which is a spurious variation irrelevant to the prediction of the predicted output; perform positive supervision of the model using the first characteristic such that the training of the model is sensitive to the positive and negative samples of the first characteristic; and perform negative supervision of the model using the second characteristic such that the training of the model is insensitive to the irrelevant sample of the second characteristic.
US11373296B1
A system and a method for measuring drilling damage in fiber reinforced plastic (FRP) composites is described. Multiple holes are drilled in the FRP composite using a drill having nominal diameter, and the FRP composite is separated into multiple drilled blocks. Each block, covered with the black substrate, is scanned on a scanner to generate a scanned image depicting a hole region, a background, and delamination damage peaks. For each scanned image, a maximum delamination damage peak and a maximum diameter of a first circle concentric with the drilled hole and passing through tip of the maximum delamination peak, are measured. Further, a delamination size and a delamination factor are calculated based on the maximum diameter of the first circle and the nominal diameter of the drill.
US11373292B2
An image generation device and an appearance inspection device which can increase the number of types of training image are provided. An image generation device includes an image acquisition unit configured to acquire a first image; and an image generator configured to generate a training image based on the first image, wherein the first image depicts a first defect included in a first product of a different type the product to be inspected, and the training image is a image to be read by an identifier that identifies whether an inspection image obtained by imaging the product to be inspected depicts a same type of defect as the first defect and to be used by the identifier to perform learning.
US11373291B2
The invention relates to a combustion chamber module for an aircraft turbine engine, comprising a combustion chamber defined by an internal annular wall and an external annular wall provided with air intake openings, the module further comprising an internal housing and an external housing. According to the invention, at least one of the internal and external housings has, on the surface thereof facing the combustion chamber, a marking system comprising a plurality of different marks angularly spaced apart from each other, each mark being produced facing one of the air intake openings in order to be visible from inside the combustion chamber and each indicating the angular position of a zone of the combustion chamber comprising the air intake opening.
US11373290B1
A monitoring system implements a method for versatile and efficient training of a machine learning-based model for subsequent detection and grading of deviations in packaging containers for liquid food in a manufacturing plant. The method comprises creating a virtual model of a packaging container or of a starting material for use in producing the packaging container; obtaining probability distributions for features that are characteristic of a deviation type; producing reproductions of the virtual model with deviations included among the reproductions in correspondence with the probability distributions; associating gradings with the reproductions; and inputting the reproductions and the associated gradings for training of the machine learning-based model for subsequent detection and grading of an actual deviation in image data acquired in the manufacturing plant.
US11373289B2
According to one embodiment, an analysis apparatus includes an acquisition unit and a processor. The acquisition unit acquires first information with a first time length between a first time and a second time. The first information is based on motion of an object person. The processor extracts multiple similarity points from the first information. The multiple similarity points are similar to each other in the first information. The processor calculates a time interval between the similarity points.
US11373270B1
Disclosed herein are related to a system and a method of remotely rendering an image. In one approach, a console device generates an image according to a gaze direction of a user of a head mounted display (HMD). In one aspect, the image includes a first area and a second area disposed along an axis, where the second area is located farther away from a foveated area of the image than the first area. In one aspect, the foveated area corresponds to the gaze direction of the user of the HMD. In one aspect, the console device compresses the image according to the axis, where the second area is compressed at a higher level than the first area. In one aspect, the compressed image is transmitted to the HMD. The HMD may decompress the compressed image according to the axis, and render the decompressed image.
US11373268B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatus for hybrid rendering of video/graphics content by a graphics processing unit. The apparatus can configure the graphics processing unit of a display apparatus to perform multiple rendering passes for a frame of a scene to be displayed on a display device. Moreover, the apparatus can control the graphics processing unit to perform a first rendering pass of the multiple rendering passes to generate a first render target that is stored in either an on-chip graphics memory of the GPU or a system of the display apparatus. The apparatus can also control the graphics processing unit to perform a second rendering pass to generate a second render target that is alternatively stored in the system memory of the display apparatus or on-chip graphics memory of the GPU.
US11373256B2
A process, and corresponding system for performing the process, is described for editing and representing property values for a digital map. The process retrieves electronic map data from a style sheet corresponding to a vector map tile set for a digital map. The process displays a plurality of templates and receives selection of a template. The process displays a visual map representing the electronic map with the set of map style layers of the selected template. The process displays a theme and a plurality of components. Each component is a set of map style layers and is a subset of the set of map style layers of the template. The process receives selection of a component. The process displays a plurality of property values associated with the selected component. The process receives an edit to a property value. The process updates the visual map to reflect the edited property value.
US11373255B2
Disclosed herein is software technology that enables different accounts to be mirrored. In one aspect, the disclosed process may involve determining that an origin data record created under a first account of a first party is to be mirrored to a second account of a second party, generating a thread identification that is mapped to the data record created under the first account of the first party, and generating a first message that comprises data from the origin data record and the thread identifier that is mapped to the origin data record. Based on the first message, the disclosed process may further involve creating a target data record under a second account of a second party that corresponds to the origin data record created under the first account of the first party and storing the target data record under the second account of the second party.
US11373253B1
Software, databases, computer models, and a series of monitoring devices are provided that are used collectively to optimize farming operations for the purpose of efficiently utilizing the water right associated with the land while recognizing the potential to transfer a proportional amount of the water right in a lease or sale arrangement to other water users. The contemplated system encourages water conservation by allowing those owning water rights to determine the feasibility of changed farming practices intended to maximize net returns and profitability of their overall farming operations.
US11373252B1
In one embodiment, a method may include accessing, from a data store of a social network, historical data of a social-networking metric, and generating a historical-data plot for a pre-determined period of time based on the historical data. The method may include determining one or more events associated with fluctuations in the social-networking metric based on the historical-data plot, and determining a metric-effect of the events on the social-networking metric. Each event may be associated with a sub-period of time within the pre-determined period of time, and the metric-effect for each event may include a rate of change of the social-networking metric over the sub-period of time associated with the event and a magnitude of change of the social-networking metric. Then, the method includes generating a fluctuation model for the social-networking metric, the fluctuation model including the calculated metric-effects for each of the events over the pre-determined period of time.
US11373239B1
A system includes a network interface circuit and a processing circuit configured to receive a physical currency transaction request from a first user device, the physical currency transaction request including a currency exchange transaction parameter, match the physical currency transaction request to another physical currency transaction request based at least in part on the currency exchange transaction parameter, provide the physical currency transaction request to a second user device associated with the another physical currency transaction request, geo-fence an area based on at least one of the currency exchange transaction parameters or a current location of the first user device, determine an exchange location based on the geo-fenced area and the matched physical currency transaction request and another physical currency exchange request, and provide instructions to the first user device and the second user device for an exchange based on the determined exchange location.
US11373237B2
Systems and methods are disclosed to enable a system to address latency and accuracy issues in financial trading. A system with multiple buffers and at least two processors are provided to load data associated with values for securities, a plurality of executable code associated with a plurality of predetermined functions to process the values of the data; and parameter data and datasets associated with output of the individual executable code. The parameter data provides scheduling and mapping for the at least two processors in the computing system to process the values. Datasets are generated for the third buffer area after the processing of the values and results from the datasets are projected in a multi-dimensional event space of a user interface using the datasets with a predetermined granularity so that risk values are provided dynamically with security values from the results.
US11373232B2
A graphical user interface (GUI) may be provided by a computing system that implements a database system for presentation at a client device. The GUI may display a designated one or more criteria for selecting one of a plurality of recommendations for a target object instance associated with a designated object definition. A predictive model for determining a propensity score for selected ones of the plurality of recommendations in association with the target object instance may be configured. The propensity score may be a function of one or more data field values associated with the target object instance and may be configured based on user input received via the graphical user interface. The predictive model may be stored on a storage medium for retrieval when selecting recommendations in response to requests received to access instances of the designated object definition.
US11373224B2
In some examples, a method includes identifying a first listing and an additional listing having one or more characteristics in common, the first listing and the additional listing published on an online marketplace; receiving a request to perform an operation on the first listing and the additional listing; in response to the request, generating a batch of events based on the operation, the batch of events including a first event to be performed on the first listing and a second event to be performed on the additional listing; performing the first event on the first listing and the second event on the additional listing.
US11373222B1
Systems and methods electronically obtain data regarding a plurality of sources and corresponding amounts of resources received from the sources for a plurality of relationship instances each associated with one or more respective domains of a plurality of domains. For each relationship instance of the plurality of relationship instances: the system electronically identifies a rate to calculate an amount of resource due to one or more respective domains associated with the relationship instance based on a source of a resource received for the relationship instance and the one or more respective domains and calculates an amount of resources due to at least one respective domain associated with the relationship instance based on the identified rate. For each domain of the plurality of domains, the system aggregates a total amount of resources due to the domain based on the calculated amount of resources due for each relationship instance associated with the domain. The system may then prepare and send, via a computer network, a reporting document to a system of the domain indicating the aggregated total amount of resources due.
US11373220B2
A monitoring platform may obtain information that identifies a product or service and may collect one or more reviews associated with the product or service from a plurality of sources, wherein each review includes respective review information. The monitoring platform may process the one or more reviews to determine respective additional review information associated with each review of the one or more reviews. The monitoring platform may select, using a machine learning model, a particular review, of the one or more reviews, based on the review information and the additional review information associated with the one or more reviews. The monitoring platform may cause display, on a display of a client device, of a prompt for a response to the particular review and may obtain the response from the client device. The monitoring platform may cause the response to be posted to a source associated with the particular review.
US11373219B2
A computerized matching system enable users to utilize video clips to promote and/or find a person/people, place, or consumer item. The system is a recommendation service, embodied preferably in a mobile app, suggesting potential matches for its users. These suggestions are based upon the information and data entered by the users in their user profiles, as well as their Ideal Match Criteria (i.e. what it is they are seeking). The suggestions are also based upon algorithms that analyze and learn from available rating history data to make predictions on potential matches, utilizing rating trends of that user (i.e. the prior ratings entered by that user during their usage of the system while viewing other videos) as well as the rating trends of other users who have rated the same videos in a similar manner (herein referred to as Similar Rating Groups, or SRGs).
US11373218B2
A computer-implemented method may be provided for identifying a user device. An identification server in communication with the user device may receive a request from a browser of the user device to access, from a destination uniform resource locator (URL), an asset from the identification server. The request from the browser may be received from a website server. The asset is configured to be presented on a webpage hosted by the website server. The request from the browser may be modified to associate a new identity attribute of the user device with the request.
US11373213B2
Embodiments describe an approach for improving user consumption and promotion of multi-media content. Embodiments retrieve social media and location-specific context information from one or more social media platforms associated with one or more audience members. Embodiments determine a baseline mood for the one or more audience members based on the one or more audience member's social media activity and social media posts. Embodiments of capture one or more images of one or more audience member reactions while the one or more audience members view the multi-media content. Embodiments identify relevant scenes in the multi-media content based on the captured one or more audience member reactions. Additionally, embodiments generate promotional content based on the identified relevant scenes; and distribute the promotional content on the one or more social media platforms.
US11373211B2
An information processing apparatus includes a control unit configured to execute the processing of obtaining specific information, from a vehicle having an advertisement display unit, which is to be used to distribute an advertisement to be displayed by the advertisement display unit on the outside of the vehicle, selecting a plurality of vehicles based on the specific information, and controlling the plurality of vehicles to cause their advertisement display units to display the advertisement cooperatively.
US11373209B2
A system and method for enhanced location verification and content delivery confirmation including building a customized pixel for location verification, appending the customized pixel to an ad tag, collecting a combination of data from the pixel, holding the combination of data collected and grouping the held data, and processing the combination of data collected from a previous day by performing a first enrichment process including enriching the combination of data with additional data corresponding to at least one of connection type and latitude and longitude data, wherein latitude and longitude data is based on IP in a case where latitude and longitude information was not provided. The method further includes performing a second enrichment process including enriching the combination of data with location data fields.
US11373208B2
Advertisements are often presented in the context of a media content viewing experience. Advertisement presentation may be intrusive or subtle. In many instances, users may be interested in particular advertisements but may not want to disrupt a media content viewing experience by launching an advertisement window, opening an advertisement application, or otherwise being redirected to another piece of content. Consequently, mechanisms are provided to allow a user to identify advertisements or save advertisement interests for presentation at a later time. Saved advertisement interests can be used to inform future advertisement and/or content suggestions, and the user can be presented with selected advertisements within an application or through external mechanisms.
US11373199B2
Methods and systems for forecasting demand for a plurality of items are provided. In particular, the demand forecasting system and methods described herein are useful for predicting demand of products in a retail context. Forecast models are built and used to score incoming sales data to predict future demand for items. Forecast models are validated by evaluating actual demand against predicted demand and using that information to inform how future ensemble forecast will be generated. Forecasts may be broken down into smaller components to satisfy a variety of requests for data from client applications.
US11373197B2
A historical-data module may retrieve historical prices and/or sales numbers for products at a presently-relevant, historical reference time and at other times in an interval encompassing the reference time. A comparison module may generate relative price values and/or sales-number values by comparing prices and/or sales numbers at the reference time to those at other times in the interval for various products. A selection module may select a subset of products with a favorable weighted combination of relative price values and/or sales-number values for a product report presented over a communication network, potentially with a graph of historical prices for the products. Information about a viewer of the product report may further tailor the report. Viewer information may include signals of product interest identified in social-networking posts by natural language processing, viewer search and/or purchase data, the viewer's relations in a social graph of a social networking platform, and/or geo-targeting.
US11373193B2
In one aspect, the present invention features an identification tag as described herein. In a related aspect, the invention features packaging for a product that includes the identification tag and is useful in discouraging and/or detecting counterfeiting and product diversion.
US11373188B2
A co-processing fraud risk scoring system for scoring electronic payment transactions for potential fraud is described. Additionally, a method and a computer-readable storage medium for scoring electronic payment transactions for potential fraud are described.
US11373182B2
A method including receiving, by a computer system over a computer network from a recipient financial institution, (i) a public identifier associated with a recipient and (ii) a private profile identifier that was generated by the recipient financial institution. The method also can include storing, by the computer system, a record including the public identifier and the private profile identifier in an information directory. The method additionally can include receiving, by the computer system over the computer network, a funds transfer request to transfer funds from a sender account of the sender at a sender financial institution to the recipient account at the recipient financial institution. The method further can include determining, by the computer system, the private profile identifier for the recipient based on the public identifier in the funds transfer request and using the record stored in the information directory. The method additionally can include in response to receiving the funds transfer request, providing the private profile identifier, by the computer system over the computer network, to the sender financial institution to facilitate a transfer of the funds from the sender account at the sender financial institution to the recipient financial institution. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11373176B2
A computer-implemented method includes receiving, by a federated identity computing system, identity information from a customer; receiving, by the computing system, preferences for the identity information from the customer, wherein the preferences govern distribution of the identity information to requesting parties; generating, by the computing system, a key specific to the customer; and provisioning, by the computing system, the key to an identification chip associated with the customer. The computer-implemented method further includes receiving, by the computing system, the key and a request for one or more pieces of the identity information from a requesting party and providing, by the computing system, the requested one or more pieces of identity information to the requesting party based on the key and the preferences.
US11373174B1
Systems and methods for facilitating transfer of ownership of tokens between users on a decentralized database stores a registry of assets and transactions are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: store, on electronic storage, a set of code executable by the decentralized database to manifest individual tokens on the decentralized database; and record the set of code on the decentralized database such that the set of code is accessible at a creator address that is associated with the creator of the set of code. Using the functions defined by the set of code, an owner of an individual token can offer to sell the individual token, and a buyer can accept this offer to buy the individual token, at an agreed-upon price.
US11373153B2
Systems and methods are provided for processing objects. For example, a call request message is received, the call request message carrying an identification (ID) of order data associated with one or more objects, the order data including at least a total value of the objects and an ID of a second subject; a first account related to a first subject and a user password related to the first subject are acquired; the first account and the user password and the ID of the order data are sent; the first account and the user password and the ID of the order data are forwarded; and based on at least information associated with the first account and the user password and the ID of the order data, the total value is deducted from a first value included in the first account related to the first subject.
US11373151B2
A computer-based ticket system enables users to electronically transfer tickets to other users, and to obtain tickets from other users. A first software module executing in a server is configured to cancel a first ticket for a first seat at first event associated with a first user, and issue a second ticket for the first seat to a second user at least partly in response to an instruction from the first user received from a first user terminal and an instruction from the second user received from a second user terminal.
US11373144B2
Disclosed is a social networking system which provides personal pages for users and enables other users to modify the personal page of a given user. Generally, a given webpage is enabled to be collaboratively modified and edited by multiple users. In some embodiments, the owner of the personal page approves the trusted users and may define one or more rules that automatically define a trusted user. In some embodiments, rules for modifying/editing a social webpage may specify the type of operations users can perform on the page and may specify one or more potential target actions.
US11373133B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, to share information in a community of robots and users to perform tasks. In one aspect, a method includes registering a plurality of robots in a system including creating for each robot a robot profile; publishing the robot profile; collecting operational data related to performance of tasks, the operational data including situational awareness information from at least a first of the plurality of registered robots; evaluating the collected operational data including performing statistical analysis, modeling, and extrapolation using the collected operational data; and in response to a request to transfer relevant data to at least a second of the plurality of registered robots, determining relevant data from the evaluated collected operational data, the relevant data including at least a portion of the situational awareness information; and sending the relevant data to at least the second registered robot.
US11373131B1
Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for automatically identifying and correcting erroneous process actions using artificial intelligence techniques are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes discovering, during execution of a given process, one or more process action variants by processing data related to the given process using at least a first set of artificial intelligence techniques; categorizing at least a portion of the discovered process action variants into one or more groups based at least in part on historical process-related data and at least one density-based clustering algorithm; determining at least one resolution action in response to at least a portion of the one or more discovered process action variants by processing data pertaining to the one or more groups using at least a second set of artificial intelligence techniques; and performing the at least one determined resolution action.
US11373125B2
An energy-saving dynamic production scheduling operation method for a parallel heat treatment process which handle processes in parallel is provided. The energy-saving dynamic production scheduling operation method includes: acquiring, by a production scheduling operation system, dynamic state information of a process of each processor; scheduling, by the production scheduling operation system, the process of each processor based on the dynamic state information; and deriving, by the production scheduling operation system, an estimated cost based on a result of generating a schedule regarding the process of each processor. Accordingly, an input sequence of heat treatment target products and a combination schedule can be optimized by reflecting dynamic state information (a product inputted to a corresponding heat treatment furnace, estimated heat treatment start and end times, cooling and heating states, etc.) of a plurality of heat treatment furnace which handle processes in parallel.
US11373124B2
Systems and methods may include a cloud computing system configured to execute instructions to generate a planning console accessible from an instance provided on a client network, wherein the planning console includes a semi-automated scheduling mode and a project with a plurality of project tasks that include a predecessor task with a planned timing, and wherein executing the instructions includes determining at least one dependency relationship between the predecessor task and at least one successor task, identifying a timing difference between the planned timing and an actual timing of the predecessor task, and generating an one or more user-selectable interaction points, in the semi-automated scheduling mode, to automatically update the project such that the at least one successor task is modified based on the actual timing of the at least one predecessor task and interaction with a second interaction point causes the project to remain the same.
US11373121B2
The computing device transforms lab data and field data into a first format suitable for execution with a supervised machine learning model to determine an input variable importance for a first set of input variables in predicting a field outcome. Based on the determination, the computing device generates one or more logical rules of decision metrics, selects the one or more input variables that yields a higher input variable importance, and generates one or more pass-fail indicators. The computing device combines the one or more pass-fail indicators and generates one or more prediction factor rules. The computing device transforms the field data and the one or more prediction factor rules into a second format suitable for execution with a model to determine a treatment effect for the one or more prediction factor rules. The computing device selects the prediction factor rule that maximizes the treatment effect.
US11373120B2
A method may include applying a machine learning model, such as a bidirectional encoder representations from transformers model, trained to generate a representation of a word sequence including a reference word, a first candidate noun, and a second candidate noun. The representation may include a first attention map and a second attention map. The first attention map may include attention values indicative of a strength of various linguistic relationships between the reference word and the first candidate noun. The second attention map may include attention values indicative of a strength of various linguistic relationships between the reference word and the second candidate noun. A natural language processing task, such as determining whether the reference word refers to the first candidate noun or the second candidate noun, may be performed based on the first attention map and the second attention map. Related methods and articles of manufacture are also disclosed.
US11373119B1
Techniques for a framework for building, orchestrating, and deploying complex, large-scale Machine Learning (ML) or deep learning (DL) inference applications is described. A ML application orchestration service is disclosed that enables the construction, orchestration, and deployment of complex ML inference applications in a provider network. The disclosed service provides customers with the ability to define machine learning (ML) models and define transformation operations on data before and/or after being provided to the ML models to construct a complex ML inference application. The service provides a framework for the orchestration (co-ordination) of the workflow logic (e.g., of the request and/or response flows) involved in building and deploying a complex ML inference application in the provider network.
US11373118B2
Described in detail herein are systems and methods for network environment for a dynamic learning system for object matching and substitution using hand-held electronic devices. In exemplary embodiments, a hand-held electronic device may receive a request for physical objects of which a first physical object may be unavailable. The hand-held electronic device may transmit an identifier of the first physical object to a central computing system. The central computing system may query the database to retrieve data associated with the first physical object. The centrally computing system may attempt to match the first physical object to an available physical object based on dynamically learned matching behavior using the retrieved data. In response to matching data associated with one of the available physical objects to the data associated with the first physical object the central computing system may learn to replace the first physical object on the list with the one of the available physical objects based on dynamically learned matching behavior.
US11373115B2
Systems and methods are provided for training a machine learned model on a large number of devices, each device acquiring a local set of training data without sharing data sets across devices. The devices train the model on the respective device's set of training data. The devices communicate a parameter vector from the trained model asynchronously with a parameter server. The parameter server updates a master parameter vector and transmits the master parameter vector to the respective device.
US11373113B1
An apparatus can be configured to control a quantum memory of a quantum computer. The quantum memory can have a first qubit. The apparatus can comprise: a first-classical-register; a first-clock; a first-machine-language-buffer, that stores a first-machine-language-circuit; and a first-implementer. The first-machine-language-circuit includes: a first-timestamp; a first-qubit-identifier unique to the first qubit; a first-qubit-control-instruction; and a first-protected-location of the first-classical-register. The first-implementer can be configured to: read the first-machine-language-circuit from the first-machine-language-buffer; and read a first-control-value from the first-protected-location of the first-classical-register, the first-control-value can be configured to encode either a first-execute-instruction or a first-alternate-control-instruction. If the first-control-value encodes the first-execute-instruction then the implementer can determine a first-control-circuit for the first qubit; read a first-synchronization-time from the first-clock; and compare the first-synchronization-time with the first-timestamp to determine a first-timing-criterion and when the first-timing-criterion is satisfied send the first-control-circuit to first-qubit-control-hardware for application to the first qubit.
US11373110B2
An element construction unit compares output values of one or more elements included in an intermediate layer calculated by an output value calculating unit with a threshold value, and the number of elements included in the intermediate layer is maintained when any of the output values out of the output values of the one or more elements included in the intermediate layer is greater than the threshold value, and the number of elements included in the intermediate layer is increased when all of the output values of the one or more elements included in the intermediate layer are equal to or less than the threshold value.
US11373108B2
An agent interfaces with a sending computing device and a receiving computing device to automatically adjust one-way or two-way real-time audio and real-time video transmission parameters responsive to changing network conditions and/or application requirements. The agent incorporates a reinforcement learning model that adjusts transmission parameters to maximize an expected value of a sum of future rewards; the expected value of the sum of future rewards is based on a current state of the sending computing, a current action (e.g. a current set of transmission parameters) at the sending computing device and a reward provided by the receiving computing device. The reward is representative of a user-perceived quality of experience at the receiving computing device.
US11373106B2
System and method of detecting friction in a website comprising a plurality of webpages and links includes a database sever, an application executed by a processor, and a management dashboard. The application extracts text data and web usage data from the website, segments the website into three funnel stages, identifies an anomaly in the web usage data, quantifies the impacts of the webpages and links, identifies the friction and the underlying root cause, and displays the friction in the management dashboard.
US11373104B2
Techniques, systems, architectures, and methods for efficient and accurate intelligence gathering comprising the combination of Knowledge Modeling (KM) and Object Based Production (OBP) techniques, in embodiments, leveraging a context data layer within Knowledge Models (KMs) to store connections between models and OBP objects that are representative of any entities, organizations, resources, locations, etc. described within a model.
US11373098B2
An inference apparatus that executes a predetermined inference process using a neural network model including: an input unit configured to receive encryption data; and a processor configured to execute a process including: executing predetermined process with respect to the encryption data using the neural network model, wherein the neural network model has a processing layer that executes a process of generating second encryption data from a plurality of pieces of first encryption data input from a previous stage and outputting the second encryption data, the second encryption data providing, by being decrypted, a processing result obtained by performing operations with modulo operation with respect to plurality of pieces of plain text data corresponding to the plurality of pieces of first encryption data, the neural network model being configured such that a nonlinear function is not applied to the second encryption data in a posterior stage of the processing layer.
US11373090B2
In automated assistant systems, a deep-learning model in form of a long short-term memory (LSTM) classifier is used for mapping questions to classes, with each class having a manually curated answer. A team of experts manually create the training data used to train this classifier. Relying on human curation often results in such linguistic training biases creeping into training data, since every individual has a specific style of writing natural language and uses some words in specific context only. Deep models end up learning these biases, instead of the core concept words of the target classes. In order to correct these biases, meaningful sentences are automatically generated using a generative model, and then used for training a classification model. For example, a variational autoencoder (VAE) is used as the generative model for generating novel sentences and a language model (LM) is utilized for selecting sentences based on likelihood.
US11373083B2
One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at a digital assistant of an information handling device, a query from a user comprising at least two response portions; determining responses for the at least two response portions, wherein the determining comprises separately processing each of the at least two response portions; and providing a response to the user comprising the responses. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US11373080B1
A radio frequency identification host, which includes: a host body (1) for radio frequency identification, a mounting structure (2) is provided at one end of the host body (1) for fixing the radio frequency identification host body (1) on an external holding pole, the mounting structure (2) includes a first mounting frame (21) fixedly connected to one end of the host body (1), a hinge of the first mounting frame (21) is connected with a second mounting frame (22), and the second mounting frame (22) is fixedly connected to the first mounting frame (21) by bolts (23).
US11373078B2
Disclosed are apparatuses and methodologies for achieving current inventory data management with an electronic access control system. An access control system provides access control data while a sealed enclosure incorporates an RFID reading system for determining the identity of respective tagged contents therein. Particularly in conjunction with the storage of controlled substances, such as some drugs utilized on an EMS vehicle, a tamper evident RFID tag is fully or partially destroyed or damaged, or otherwise impacted or affected so as to generate a changed ID, whenever the contained medicinal dosage is acquired for administration. Specific container/cap combinations accommodate various drug dosages, and are combinable with tamper evident RFID tags. Usage of tagged drugs may be tracked by reading narcotics box contents before and after a work shift. Intra-shift access and usage reports at each point of consumption maintains a complete record of custody of control.
US11373060B2
A training method for video stabilization and an image processing device using the same are proposed. The method includes the following steps. An input video including low dynamic range (LDR) images is received. The LDR images are converted to high dynamic range (HDR) images by using a first neural network. A second neural network for video stabilization is trained to generate stabilized HDR images in a time-dependent manner.
US11373059B2
A system generates a prediction model for makeup color matching. The system includes a data storage device and a modeling engine. The data storage device stores a plurality of color sets comprising a skin color set, a makeup color set, and a target color set. The modeling engine is coupled to the data storage device and configured to generate a prediction model and an output color set. The prediction model models generation of the target color set based on inputs from the skin color set and the makeup color set. The output color set approximates the target color set with a predictable accuracy.
US11373058B2
A sequence of stimuli produced by an electric frac pump can be generated by a treatment optimization system. Well environment responses to the sequence of stimuli may be measured by sensors and respective sensor data may be received. The sensor data may be used to select a representative system model which can then be used to control the electric frac pump. The representative system model may be used to achieve well stage objectives such as particular cluster efficiencies, complexity factors, or proximity indices.
US11373057B2
A method for retrieving a plurality of electronic images that includes obtaining images from a plurality of electronic storage sites. A first set of images containing a main protagonist is selected from the plurality of electronic images. An intent based image selection is performed from the first set of images. The intent based image selection includes tagging the first set of images with word tags identifying content of the images, creating a word cloud from the word tags, plotting the top word tags from the word cloud in a Venn diagram, and extracting images from the overlapping are of the Venn diagram.
US11373043B2
According to an embodiment of a present disclosure, a method for generating and utilizing a text fingerprint performed by a computing device is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of: dividing text data into one or more segments based on a predetermined text segmentation algorithm; determining a mapping value assigned to one or more subsegments that form the divided segment based on a predetermined mapping algorithm; generating a coordinate value for each of the one or more segments based on the determined mapping value; and generating the virtual fingerprint having a phonetic feature for the text data based on the generated coordinate value. That is, whether a plurality of the text data are similar to each other can be easily determined, when the text data also has a unique virtual fingerprint based on a pronunciation, in the same way every person has a unique fingerprint.
US11373036B2
A control device (10) includes a spreadsheet process additional starting-up unit (162) and a spreadsheet process holding unit (163) configured to newly start up the spreadsheet software when the spreadsheet software has not been started up, and when the spreadsheet software has been started up configured to start up second spreadsheet software when spreadsheet software having been started up has been held such that the spreadsheet software is not terminated, a data entry unit (168) configured to enter information acquired by accessing to an information acquisition source in an information entry portion of a calculation sheet of the spreadsheet software, the calculation sheet being a calculation sheet in which a business logic is set for inter-cell computation on the calculation sheet, and a result acquisition unit (169) configured to acquire a determination result on the calculation sheet when a determination result for the information entered in the information entry portion is shown by the business logic represented as inter-cell computation on the calculation sheet, and notifies a high-order system of the acquired determination result.
US11373033B2
One embodiment provides a method, including: accepting, at an input surface, ink input; determining, using a processor, typeset for the ink input; providing, on a display, a combined display of the ink input and the typeset; where the combined display visually associates the ink input and the typeset. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US11373031B2
A method for implementing layout design is disclosed herein, including creating a container used to display a graphic, generating, at least one of one or more horizontal tracks and one or more vertical tracks housed within the container, the one or more horizontal tracks and one or more vertical tracks intersecting to create grids, placing digital content inside at least one of the one or more grids, sizing the one or more horizontal tracks and the one or more vertical tracks. Responsive to the sizing, determining a proper placement of the one or more horizontal tracks and one or more vertical tracks, by repeating the sizing of the one or more horizontal tracks and the one or more vertical tracks, and outputting an object, the object identifying parameters of the one or more horizontal tracks and the one or more vertical tracks.
US11373022B2
An apparatus for designing a structural product is provided. The apparatus accesses a computer-aided design (CAD) model that represents a first design of the structural product by a first geometry and accesses a finite element method (FEM) model that represents a second design of the structural product by a mesh of elements arranged in a second geometry. The apparatus performs a comparison of the CAD model and the FEM model to determine a similarity between the first geometry and the second geometry and produces a resulting FEM model based on the similarity, and that represents the first design of the structural product. The apparatus performs a finite element analysis on the resulting FEM model and performs a classical analysis to evaluate the first design of the structural product, produces an output based on the classical analysis, and displays the output to facilitate design of the structural product.
US11373021B2
A simulation method includes setting a density of a conversion layer which is formed in a medium which has a thermal expansion layer which expands with heat and converts electromagnetic waves into heat, deriving a temperature of the conversion layer which is obtained in a case where the conversion layer which has the set density is irradiated with the electromagnetic waves, executing a simulation relating to heat conduction which takes place in a direction along a surface of the medium in the medium on the basis of a condition which is defined in accordance with the medium and correcting the derived temperature on the basis of a result of execution of the simulation, and deriving an expansion height up to which the medium expands in a case where the medium is heated at the corrected temperature.
US11373010B2
A novel system and network architecture unburdens the end users as a result of reduced complexity of the infrastructure used by said users. As a result of the omission of processors, operating systems and conventional software on the user side, the use of the IT is simplified and the infiltration of malware into the devices belonging to the end users is prevented. In addition, the new architecture makes it possible to set up secure and more efficient networks even with respect to IoT and Industry 4.0 as well as new business models and supports both the coexistence and the migration of the conventional technology to the new architecture.
US11373000B1
Systems and methods are described for receiving at an intermediary entity a token from a data provider that enables access to a user's data at a data provider, where the token is received without an intermediary entity receiving user credentials. A request is received from a data recipient to receive data from the data provider, where the token is required to access the data. Data may be received from the data provider using the token, and the received data may be filtered based on a data directive associated with the data provider, to identify which data the data recipient is permitted to access. The identified data may be provided to the data recipient.
US11372997B2
Automatically generating audit logs is provided. Audit log statement insertion points are identified in components of an application based on a static code analysis identifying start and end operations on sensitive data in the components of the application. The application is instrumented with audit log statements at the audit log statement insertion points in the components of the application. Audit logs of monitored sensitive data activity events in the application are generated using the audit log statements at the audit log statement insertion points in the components of the application.
US11372993B2
Requests submitted to a computer system are evaluated for compliance with policy to ensure data security. Plaintext and associated data are used as inputs into a cipher to produce ciphertext. Whether a result of decrypting the ciphertext can be provided in response to a request is determined based at least in part on evaluation of a policy that itself is based at least in part on the associated data. Other policies include automatic rotation of keys to prevent keys from being used in enough operations to enable cryptographic attacks intended to determine the keys.
US11372992B2
Embodiments relate to data storage systems and data processing systems using a data hub, connector grid, and channel services. The systems can extract raw data from a plurality of source systems, and load and store the raw data at a data hub implemented by a non-transient data store. The systems can receive request to generate data for consumption and, in response, transmit generates data sets to channel services. The system can implement event detection and logging. The system can implement policy enforcement and identity management with access controls.
US11372991B1
A distributed system responds to a request to enable a restoration capability for a database instance by beginning a process for replicating configuration and transaction data for the database instance. The system associates the replicated configuration and transaction data with a first account and a second account, and prevents termination of the replication process except where consent for the termination is provided by both accounts. In response to a request to restore the database instance, the distributed system accesses the configuration and transaction data using the second account.
US11372982B2
A centralized network environment is provided for processing validated executable data based on authorized hash outputs. In particular, the system may generate cryptographic hash outputs of code or software that has been evaluated (e.g., within a virtual environment). The system may then store the hash outputs within a hash database which may be accessible by multiple entity networks, where multiple entities may upload hash output values to and/or retrieve hash output values from the hash database. Based on the data within the hash database, each entity may efficiently identify code that may be safe or unsafe to execute on certain computing systems within its network environment. The system may further comprise an artificial intelligence-powered component which may be configured to detect patterns within code that has been identified by the system as unsafe and provide notifications containing systems likely to be affected and recommended countermeasures.
US11372966B2
The present embodiments relate to an image processing apparatus and a user authentication method of the image processing apparatus. The image processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the disclosure includes: a first authentication unit configured to receive first authentication data from a user terminal, and to determine whether the first authentication data matches pre-stored first reference data to authenticate the user terminal; and a second authentication unit configured to generate, when additional authentication is set up, second reference data, requesting the user terminal to send second authentication data, to receive the second authentication data from the user terminal, and to determine whether the second authentication data matches the second reference data to authenticate the user terminal.
US11372965B2
An application with self-configuring accessibility settings is described. The application is configured to interact with an operating system of a computing device upon which the application is executing to obtain information relating to one or more user-configurable accessibility settings of the operating system. Such interaction may occur via an application programming interface exposed by the operating system. Based on the information obtained from the operating system, the application then determines one or more accessibility settings of the application, which may include identifying the one or more accessibility settings of the application based on a correspondence to the one or more accessibility settings of the operating system. The application then applies the one or more application accessibility settings either automatically or after obtaining user approval.
US11372960B2
Various features described herein may allow an authorized user to provide a guest with access to a secured location through use of an encoded image containing steganographically encoded access information. The encoded access information may be recognizable by a security system, and the security system may grant access to the secured location when the encoded image is presented to the security system. The authorized user may request the generation of the encoded image on an authorized computing device, and the encoded image may be provided to the guest on a guest computing device. When a monitoring device associated with the security system captures the encoded access information, the security system may, for example, open a door at the secured location.
US11372958B1
Embodiments described herein disclose technology for authenticating a user. In some embodiments, a smart card or other similar authentication device can be associated with a user profile. When a request to interact is received via an application associated with a device, the system prompts the user to waive the smart card within a threshold proximity of the device. In response to the smart card being placed within the proximity, the system collects information from the smart card and verifies that the smart card is associated with the user profile of the user. In response to verifying the information from the smart card, the system authenticates the user and allows the user to interact.
US11372946B2
This document describes a digital component deduplication system for generating packetized data with encryption tokens for transmittal over one or more packetized networks. A packetized data search determines that an encryption token is included with the packetized data. The encryption token includes keyed data representing a first digital component. The packetized data search engine searches the keyed database to identify contents, in the keyed database, of one or more entries that includes the keyed data representing the first digital component. A list of candidate digital components is generated. For candidate digital components associated with a data interface for requesting an eligibility value from a second client device associated with the candidate digital component, a security server generates, using the data interface, additional packetized data comprising i) a request for the eligibility value from the second client device, and ii) the encryption token.
US11372939B2
An inventory management system may have at least one document database and a search server. The search server may have a data structure engine storing a hierarchical data structure, at least one indexing engine, and a non-transitory computer readable medium having instructions, wherein the instructions, when executed by a processor cause the search server to receive an input document, parse one or more sub documents from the input document, prepare a search document based on the one or more sub documents, and update, by the data structure engine, the hierarchical data structure based on the search document. The search engine may further construct a relationship query based on a query for information and the hierarchical data structure, determine one or more sub documents responsive to the relationship query based on the hierarchical data structure, and extract information requested by the query from the sub documents.
US11372931B2
A method, comprising: displaying, on a user device, graphical objects representing risks; receiving, from the user device, gesture inputs via the graphical objects to collect risk data for the risks; providing a graphical risk model representing the risks and the collected risk data for display on the user device.
US11372926B2
A remote personal assistant server/service is configured with a plurality of different state machines for supporting asynchronous communications with the front-end interfaces of personal assistants and for supporting the interfacing with a plurality of proprietary back-end intelligence bots, which are independently controlled and separate from the remote personal assistant service/server.
US11372923B1
A service monitoring system executing on one or more processors may have operations that are determined by control information. Control over the operation of the service monitoring system can be exerted through the use of a graphical interface. The graphical interface may present the control information of a new or existing correlation search definition for user interaction. The service monitoring system may maintain a data store of key performance indicator (KPI) data, where a KPI value in the data store is produced by a KPI-defining search query that derives the value from machine data associated with one or more entities that perform a monitored service. A correlation search definition of the service monitoring system determines how a search of the KPI data is conducted, how its data is evaluated to determine whether a triggering condition has been met, and, if so, determines what triggered action is to be initiated.
US11372913B2
A desktop application and supporting web site for capturing audio and video recordings or other digital content of differing modalities is introduced, wherein multiple participants in a collaborative session may be in separate remote locations. The application includes providing a high quality data format for transferring recordings, audiovisual data and the like to a remote network location or computer and a real-time data format for intercommunicating comments and instructions that are not recorded. Peer-to-peer and server-client implementations may be optimized regarding delivery time (latency) versus content quality. The desktop application also provides mechanisms for playing back sound, video or other data for participants' reference, along with synchronized presentations of textual, audio and visual material corresponding to the session.
US11372911B2
Disclosed aspects relate to commentary management in a social networking environment. The social networking environment may include a set of media clips. The set of media clips may be analyzed in the social networking environment with respect to a set of commentary typology data. Based on the analyzing, a set of benchmark typology data which indicates a set of commentary norms of the set of media clips may be determined. A set of benchmark typology data may be established for utilization by the social networking environment.
US11372897B1
An exemplary method includes receiving a request to store a data item within a directory of a virtual file structure layer for an unstructured storage layer of a data storage system, caching an identifier of a collection object representative of the directory, sending a query to a plurality of storage nodes included in a cluster of the data storage system, receiving, in response to the query, replies from a subset of the storage nodes that are available to store the data item, selecting, based on the replies, a storage node from the subset of storage nodes, transmitting the data item to the selected storage node for storage by the selected storage node within the unstructured storage layer, accessing, based on the cached identifier, the collection object, and updating the collection object to include a reference to the data item stored in the selected storage node.
US11372895B2
In an embodiment, a method of sketching using a hybrid quantum-classical system includes creating a set of clustered data sets from a first data set. In an embodiment, the method includes evaluating, using a quantum processor and quantum memory, the set of clustered data sets. In an embodiment, the method includes evaluating, using the quantum processor and quantum memory, a set of quality metrics for the set of clustered data sets. In an embodiment, the method includes reclustering, responsive to at least one of the set of quality metrics failing to meet a quality criterion, the first data set.
US11372888B2
A method, apparatus, and system for join operations of a plurality of relations that are distributed over a plurality of storage locations over a network of computing components. An example method includes: receiving a relational join query for a join operation associated with a first relation and a second relation; generating at least one build operator and at least one probe operator to perform build operations and probe operations, respectively, of the join operation; and managing a state of one or more communication links between the at least one build operator and the at least one probe operator based on a size of the second relation as determined by the at least one build operator and an estimated size of the first relation.
US11372878B2
A multi-dimensional graphic user interface displays selected types of information regarding items included in one or more databases or returned by a search in accordance with locations on a two-dimensional display area or projection of a three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional area and provides for selective display of information about respective items in a database (e.g. metadata) as additional dimensions of the display which may be suppressed and/or selectively introduced to avoid user distraction or obscuring information or for comparison between screens which may indicate to a user the degree to which a particular item may or may not be germane to an issue or particular subject matter of interest. The graphic user interface thus provides an effective tool for evaluating search results and organizing detailed review thereof.
US11372869B2
A system for frequent pattern mining uses two layers of processing: a plurality of computing nodes, and a plurality of processors within each computing node. Within each computing node, the data set against which the frequent pattern mining is to be performed is stored in shared memory, accessible concurrently by each of the processors. The search space is partitioned among the computing nodes, and sub-partitioned among the processors of each computing node. If a processor completes its sub-partition, it requests another sub-partition. The partitioning and sub-partitioning may be performed dynamically, and adjusted in real time.
US11372866B2
Methods, systems, and media for providing a media search engine are provided. In some implementations, a method for searching for content is provided, the method comprising: receiving a media search query for media assets; identifying web search results from a corpus of web resources that are responsive to the media search query, wherein each of the web search results has an associated relevancy score; determining keyword information and contextual information from a subset of the web search results, wherein the subset of the web search results is selected from the web search results based on the associated relevancy score and wherein media entities are determined from at least a portion of the keyword information and the contextual information; assigning a topic score for the each of the media entities based on occurrence in the web search results; selecting at least one media entity from the media entities based on the topic score; identifying media assets from a corpus of media assets based at least in part on the selected media entity; and causing a subset of the media assets to be presented to a user in response to the media search query.
US11372861B2
A stream of tuples is monitored. The stream of tuples is to be processed by a plurality of processing elements of a stream application that operate on one or more compute nodes, each processing element having one or more stream operators. A processing rate of a first stream operator of the stream application is calculated. The processing rate is based on the number of tuples that are processed by the first stream operator. It is determined that the processing rate of the first stream operator meets a predetermined tuple processing criterion. The processing rate of the first stream operator is adjusted based on the predetermined tuple processing criterion.
US11372855B2
In an embodiment, a method comprises storing metadata that maps a domain model to data stored in a plurality of data stores, each data store being associated with a particular query language, the domain model describing the data and relationships between the data. The method comprises receiving a request for data stored in a first data store of, the request being in a request query language based on the domain model. The method comprises generating an abstract syntax tree indicating a field selection, an entity path, and a condition based on the request; generating a structure model comprising one or more aggregation levels for one or more entities; and generating annotations comprising query language aliases for portions of the request and correlating the portions of the request with the metadata. The method comprises generating queries in a first query language associated with the first data store based on the annotations; and sending the queries to the first data store.
US11372852B2
A system for providing responses to natural language queries or commands is disclosed. The system comprises a server comprising a processor and non-transitory memory storing instructions that cause the processor to: retrieve a stored data structure comprising a plurality of named entities; receive a natural language query or command from a human user; extract one or more named entities from the query or command, wherein the extraction comprises iteratively: dividing the query or command into overlapping sets of tokens, determining whether a set of tokens corresponds to a named entity from the plurality of named entities, extracting any corresponding set of tokens from the query, and if no corresponding sets remain, decreasing the set size and repeating; and based at least in part on the query or command and on the extracted one or more named entities, act to fulfill a user intent expressed by the query or command.
US11372845B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for converting column loadable data in a database into a page loadable format. When a column oriented in-memory database needs to perform an operation on a table, the affected columns must be loaded fully into memory. In some cases, a database may partition tables, allowing for column fragments corresponding to those partitions to be loaded into memory. These column fragments may exceed available memory, such that it is beneficial to convert the column fragment into a page loadable format. Approaches are discussed herein for performing the conversion without the need to update global metadata during the process, allowing for multiple parallel column fragments to be updated, allowing data manipulation language (DML) operations to continue on the column during the conversion process, and reducing the impact of blocked parallel savepoint operations during the conversion process by chunking the conversion process.
US11372843B2
A database system provided according to an aspect of the present disclosure provides indexed data for non-deterministic functions. In an embodiment, a request to maintain an indexed data for a non-deterministic function is received. The non-deterministic function specifies a set of input variables and a set of output variables and a manner in which respective output values are generated for the set of output variables based on corresponding input values for the input variables. Generating output values entails performing operations defined based on a set of data classes in the database system. An indexed data is formed, indicating corresponding output values for respective set of input values present in the set of data classes in the database system. The indexed data is updated when a change to data elements of a first data class of the set of data classes is processed.
US11372835B2
A data management system includes a process reception processing unit that receives input of data in each of processes in plural stages of an item, a compression processing unit that compresses the received data in a case where the process reception processing unit receives the data, and stores the compressed data into a compressed data database, and a decompression processing unit that decompresses the compressed data stored in the compressed database at the predefined date and time before an acquisition process of acquiring data in another process, stored in the compressed database is started, and stores the decompressed data into a decompressed database, the acquisition process being included in the processes in the plural stages.
US11372834B2
A database is identified, wherein the database has two or more tablespaces. A local partition and a global partition for each tablespace of the two or more tablespaces is created, wherein the created two or more global partitions are included in a global storage pool. A request to move an object to a first local partition of a first tablespace of the two or more tablespaces is received. That an amount of used space of the first local partition is above a first threshold is determined. Responsive to determining that the amount of used space of the first local partition is above the first threshold, at least a portion of the object is stored in the global storage pool.
US11372832B1
Disclosed are various embodiments for the efficient hashing of data objects. In one embodiment, a hashing application receives an update to a portion of a data object. The hashing application then generates an updated hash value of the data object by hashing the portion of the data object and at least one stored internal hash value corresponding to one or more portions of the data object that are unaffected by the update.
US11372831B2
Processing a database query for sets of data includes assigning a unique identifier from an integer space to each entity within data and creating one or more sets of entities each pertaining to a corresponding entity within the data. A representation is then generated on disk for each set of entities, wherein each representation encompasses and is suited for a range of the unique identifiers of entities within a corresponding set and indicates a presence of an entity within that corresponding set. Finally, a query is processed based on the representation for each set of entities to retrieve data satisfying the query, wherein the representation provides a constant time for association and dissociation operations that are append-only operations with deferred merge and automatic filtering of deleted and duplicate entities at query time.
US11372825B2
The various embodiments described herein include methods, devices, and systems for reading and writing data from a database table. In one aspect, a method of reading and writing data from a database table, includes: (1) initiating a write transaction to write data to a first non-key column of a row of the database table, the database table having a plurality of rows, each row comprising a primary key and a plurality of non-key columns; (2) locking the first non-key column; and (3) in accordance with a determination that the second non-key column is not locked, initiating a read transaction to read data from the second non-key column, where initiation of the read transaction occurs prior to completion of the write transaction.
US11372819B1
Embodiments are directed to traversing a file system to determine file system objects to copy to an object store. In response to visiting a document object in the file system, performing further actions, including: determining a hierarchical file path of the document object that corresponds to a location in the file system based on the file system objects that are ancestor file system objects of the document object; generating an object key for the document object that encodes the hierarchical file path such that each portion of the object key corresponds to an ancestor file system object; copying the document object and the object key to the object store such that the document object may be stored in the object store as an object store object and such that the object store object may be indexed using an unordered index based on the object key; or the like.
US11372818B2
A system and a method are disclosed that provides a data replication management technique for a distributed environment that eliminates a need to order members of a replica set. A node of a node cluster in the distributed system may be configured to send in parallel an IO request to each respective member of the replica set. Reponses are received from members of the replica set that indicate a completion status of the IO request at the replica set member sending the IO response. A request is sent to other nodes of the node cluster to remove a replica from the replica set based on an error response received from the replica. The replica that responded with the error response is removed from the replica set based on an agreement of nodes of the node cluster to remove the replica from the replica set.
US11372816B2
Disclosed are systems and methods of accessing content items stored at a content management system by a mobile device, when the mobile device is not communicatively coupled to the content management system. The content management system can receive an indication to mark a content item (e.g., folder and the content items associated with the folder) as available to a mobile device when the mobile device is offline. The content management system can mark the content item, and any content items associated with the content item, for offline access by the mobile device and determine a synchronization schedule for the content item(s). The content management system can then initially send to the mobile device, the marked content item(s) in accordance with the synchronization schedule. While offline, the mobile device can make changes to the marked content items. The changes can be synchronized between the mobile device and content management system when the mobile device is online.
US11372809B2
Described herein are systems and methods for providing a correlated content organization in a content management system based upon a training set. In accordance with an embodiment, the systems and methods described herein can build a training set based upon observations of received inputs to determine patterns that are used often in content merges. Once a pattern is established, the systems and methods can provide indications of proposed merges based upon the training set and rules established therefrom that fit the same, or similar (e.g., within a defined variant) of the pattern. The system can then receive an indication of whether the suggestion is accepted or rejected, and such decision can be fed back into the learning system. This way the accuracy of the content merge improves over time.
US11372807B2
A copy-free transition tool converts storage objects from a source format associated with a source storage system to a destination format associated with a destination storage system. The transition tool exports configuration information associated with the source storage system to the destination storage system and brings the storage objects offline. Once the transition tool determines that the storage devices containing the storage objects are physically connected to the destination storage system, the tool can convert file systems from the source format to the destination format while leaving data and file layout unchanged. The tool can also modify metadata associated with each of the storage objects to conform to the destination format and store the modified metadata with the destination storage system.
US11372803B2
An example data processing engine (DPE) for a DPE array in an integrated circuit (IC) includes: a core; a memory including a data memory and a program memory, the program memory coupled to the core, the data memory coupled to the core and including at least one connection to a respective at least one additional core external to the DPE; support circuitry including hardware synchronization circuitry and direct memory access (DMA) circuitry each coupled to the data memory; streaming interconnect coupled to the DMA circuitry and the core; and memory-mapped interconnect coupled to the core, the memory, and the support circuitry.
US11372798B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to transition devices between operational modes. An example apparatus comprising: an activity detector configured to be coupled to a communication bus; a communication bus controller coupled to the activity detector; a hardware wakeup controller coupled to the activity detector; a switching circuit coupled to the hardware wakeup controller; a first oscillator coupled to the switching circuit; and a second oscillator the second oscillator coupled to the switching circuit and the hardware wakeup controller.
US11372787B2
There is disclosed in one example an apparatus, including: a plurality of interconnects to communicatively couple an accelerator device to a host device; and an address translation module (ATM) to provide address mapping between host-physical address (HPA) and guest-physical address (GPA) spaces for the accelerator device, wherein the plurality of devices share a common GPA domain and wherein address mapping is to be associated with only one of the plurality of interconnects.
US11372782B2
A computing system includes a host, a first electronic device connected to the host, and a second electronic device that communicates with the host through the first electronic device. The first electronic device requests a command written in a submission queue of the host based on a doorbell transmitted from the host, stores the command transmitted from the host, requests write data stored in a data buffer of the host, and stores the write data of the data buffer transmitted from the host.
US11372773B2
Systems and methods for operating a virtual memory area are provided. A dynamic address translation table for the virtual memory area is generated. A program is operated at a first computing machine until insufficient local real memory is available to complete operation. A request for real memory space is transmitted from the first computing machine to an additional computing machine. A location of a segment of the local real memory of the additional computing machine is received at the first computing machine and the dynamic address translation table is updated to associate a virtual address with the received location.
US11372742B1
Techniques for generating rules from documentation are described. For example, a method for generating rules may include generating one or more rules from documentation by: extracting a plurality of chunks from the documentation, inferring one or more candidate rules from the extracted chunks, mining the inferred one or more candidate rules to determine at least one of the one or more candidate rules is to be included in rule generation, classifying the at least one mined one or more candidate rules as one or more rules, and extracting information to generate the one or more rules.
US11372739B2
An accelerator manager monitors and logs performance of multiple accelerators, analyzes the logged performance, determines from the logged performance of a selected accelerator a desired programmable device for the selected accelerator, and specifies the desired programmable device to one or more accelerator developers. The accelerator manager can further analyze the logged performance of the accelerators, and generate from the analyzed logged performance an ordered list of test cases, ordered from fastest to slowest. A test case is selected, and when the estimated simulation time for the selected test case is less than the estimated synthesis time for the test case, the test case is simulated and run. When the estimated simulation time for the selected test case is greater than the estimated synthesis time for the text case, the selected test case is synthesized and run.
US11372735B2
Embodiments are directed to managing data in a file system over a network. A source file system that includes a plurality of objects may be provided. A replication job that copies each object associated with a source replication snapshot to a target file system may be executed. The replication job may be associated with a job identifier. Recovery point information that includes the job identifier, a source snapshot number that corresponds to the source replication snapshot, a target snapshot number that corresponds to a target replication snapshot may be generated. The recovery point information may be stored on the source file system and a copy of the recovery point information may be stored on the target file system. The recovery point information or the copy of the recovery point information may be employed to recover from errors detected during execution of a next replication job.
US11372732B2
The disclosed computer-implemented method for agentless and accelerated backup of a database may include, receiving, by a data backup device from a data server, blocks of data that provide a full backup of data of the data server. The method additionally includes receiving, by the data backup device from the data server, one or more native logs indicating one or more transactions performed by the data server. The method also includes determining, by the data backup device and based on the native logs, one or more changed blocks of the blocks of data. The method further includes providing, by the data backup device, a point in time restore of the data server by creating a synthetic full backup that overlays one or more of the blocks of data with the one or more changed blocks, and that shares remaining blocks of the blocks of data with the full backup.
US11372717B2
Methods and apparatuses for a system error-correcting code function are presented. The apparatus includes a memory configured to communicate with a host. The memory includes a memory array configured to store data. The memory is configured to provide the data stored in the memory array to the host in performing computing functions and configured to provide an error-correction code (ECC) associated with the data to the host. The ECC is not stored in the memory array in a first configuration of the memory and is stored in the memory array in a second configuration of the memory.
US11372712B2
A processing device performs a first process in a plurality of cycles to update a plurality of resources included in programmable resources. The processing device includes an instruction execution circuit that records that the first process is being executed, and makes an error notification when an error is detected during execution of an instruction, and a retry control circuit that records a type of the first process at a starting point of the first process, judges from the recorded type whether the first process is re-executable upon receiving the error notification during the first process, and instructs re-execution of the first process from a start of the first process in a case where the first process is judged to be re-executable. The instruction execution circuit performs a retry process to re-execute the first process when instructed from the retry control circuit to re-execute the first process.
US11372706B2
This invention detects deviations from design without hindering the real-time nature of interrupt processing, and assists in analyzing the impact of faults caused by unintentional interrupt processing, with the goal of curbing erroneous detection. In order to resolve this problem, this vehicle control device comprises; a deviation determination unit 129 which determines if execution timing of an execution body has deviated from design settings, and transitions to a monitoring state; and a run-time verification unit 130 which verifies the impact of deviation at timing which differs from that of the interrupt processing.
US11372691B2
In a data processor that executes programs to perform data processing operations for groups of execution threads, when the threads of a thread group are all to process a same, common input data value, different portions of the common input data value are loaded into respective registers of different threads of the group of threads, such that the common input data value is stored in a distributed fashion across registers of plural different threads of the thread group. Then, when the threads of the thread group are to process a portion the common input data value, the portion is provided from the thread that stores it to all the threads in the thread group.
US11372682B2
Example embodiments of the present invention provide a method, a system, and a computer program product for managing tasks in a system. The method comprises running a first task on a system, wherein the first task has a first priority of execution time and the execution of which first task locks a resource on the system, and running a second task on the system, wherein the second task has a second priority of execution time earlier than the first priority of execution time of the first task and the execution of which second task requires the resource on the system locked by the first task. The system then may promote the first task having the later first priority of execution time to a new priority of execution time at least as early as the second priority of execution time of the second task and resume execution of the first task having the later first priority of execution time.
US11372681B2
Embodiments for allocating and reclaiming memory using dynamic buffer allocation for a slab memory allocator. The method keeps track of a count of a total number of worker threads and a count of a total number of quiesced threads, and determines if there is any free slab memory. If there is no free slab memory, the method triggers an out of memory event and increments the count of the total number of quiesced threads. It reclaims all objects currently allocated in an object pool, and allocates a buffer of a next smaller size than an original buffer until a sufficient amount of slab memory is freed.
US11372673B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose an artificial intelligence chip and an instruction execution method for an artificial intelligence chip. A specific embodiment of the artificial intelligence chip includes: an instruction memory, a data memory, at least one general execution unit, and at least one dedicated execution unit. The instruction memory is configured to: receive a kernel code including at least one code block. The general execution unit is configured to: receive the code block, lock the dedicated execution unit associated with the received code block, and send an instruction in the received code block to the locked dedicated execution unit. The dedicated execution unit is configured to: execute the received instruction, and store an execution result in the data memory. The data memory is configured to: store the execution result sent by the dedicated execution unit.
US11372672B2
A method and apparatus that schedules and manages a background task for device is described. In an exemplary embodiment, the device registers the background task, where the registering includes storing execution criteria for the background task. The execution criteria indicates a criterion for launching the background task and the execution criteria based on a component status of the device. The device further monitors the running state of the device for an occurrence of the execution criteria. If the execution criteria occurs, the device determines an available headroom with the device in order to perform the background task and launches the background task if the background task importance is greater than the available device headroom, where the background task importance is a measure of how important it is for the device to run the background task.
US11372654B1
Systems and methods are described for remotely configuring a coordinator within a coordinated environment, which coordinator can execute code to manage operation of a set of coordinated devices. A client can submit configuration information to a deployment system, including permissions indicating what data resources each set of code should have access to on the coordinator. The deployment system can remotely, and independently of configuration of the coordinator and in a manner that does not conflict with local configuration of the coordinator, determine filesystem permissions that divide access to the data resources among the sets of code. The deployment system can build a directory structure with the permissions and deploy the structure to the coordinator. The coordinator can locally generate directory structure, adopt the permissions, and execute the code to enforce the client-specified permissions.
US11372649B2
Described herein is a system and method of performing flow control for multi-threaded access to contentious resource(s) (e.g., shared memory). A request to enter a critical section of code by a particular thread of a plurality of concurrent threads is received. A determination is made as to whether or not to allow the particular thread to enter the critical section of code based, at least in part, upon a CPU core associated with the particular thread, a state associated with the particular thread, and/or a processing rate in the critical session of code associated with the particular thread. When it is determined to allow the particular thread to enter the critical section of code, the particular thread is allowed to enter the critical section of code.
US11372644B2
A processor system comprises a shared memory and a processing element. The processing element includes a matrix processor unit and is in communication with the shared memory. The processing element is configured to receive a processor instruction specifying a data matrix and a matrix manipulation operation. A manipulation matrix based on the processor instruction is identified. The data matrix and the manipulation matrix are loaded into the matrix processor unit and a matrix operation is performed to determine a result matrix. The result matrix is outputted to a destination location.
US11372643B2
Disclosed embodiments relate to systems and methods for performing instructions to convert to 16-bit floating-point format. In one example, a processor includes fetch circuitry to fetch an instruction having fields to specify an opcode and locations of a first source vector comprising N single-precision elements, and a destination vector comprising at least N 16-bit floating-point elements, the opcode to indicate execution circuitry is to convert each of the elements of the specified source vector to 16-bit floating-point, the conversion to include truncation and rounding, as necessary, and to store each converted element into a corresponding location of the specified destination vector, decode circuitry to decode the fetched instruction, and execution circuitry to respond to the decoded instruction as specified by the opcode.
US11372628B2
The display of a user interface including components associated with an application may be caused. A first selection of a component from the plurality of components associated with the application may be received via the user interface. In response to receiving the first selection of the component, properties associated with the component may be identified. A second selection of one or more properties associated with the component may be received via the user interface. In response to receiving the second selection of the one or more properties, the application may be generated in view of the component and the one or more properties associated with the component.
US11372623B2
A random number generating device includes a particle detector, a pulse generator, a clock counter, and a random number converter. The particle detector detects particles emitted from a radioactive isotope. The pulse generator generates pulses corresponding to the particles. The clock counter counts the number of clock cycles during time intervals between the pulses and generates a plurality of count values. The random number converter adjusts a clock frequency, based on a minimum value and a maximum value of the plurality of count values and converts a target count value generated depending on the adjusted clock frequency into a random number.
US11372614B2
An electronic apparatus includes an internal speaker, a communication unit configured to perform a wireless communication with a wearable external speaker, and a control unit. The control unit establishes wireless connection with the external speaker through the communication unit and the control unit continuously performs a control operation for preventing an output of an audio signal from the internal speaker in a case where the wireless connection with the external speaker is disconnected by a first factor in a state where the control unit performs the control operation. The control unit cancels performance of the control operation in a case where the wireless connection with the external speaker is disconnected by a second factor different from the first factor in a state where the control unit performs the control operation for preventing the output of the audio signal from the internal speaker.
US11372595B2
Methods, systems, and devices related to write broadcast operations associated with a memory device are described. In one example, a memory device in accordance with the described techniques may include a memory array, a sense amplifier array, and a signal development cache configured to store signals (e.g., cache signals, signal states) associated with logic states (e.g., memory states) that may be stored at the memory array (e.g., according to various read or write operations). The memory device may enable read broadcast operations. A read broadcast may occur from the memory array to multiple locations of the signal development cache, for example via one or more multiplexers.
US11372586B2
One embodiment can provide a method and system for implementing flow control. During operation, a switch identifies a command from a host to access a storage device coupled to the switch. The switch queues the command in a command queue corresponding to the host. In response to determining that an amount of data pending transmission to the host from the storage device is below a predetermined threshold, the switch removes a command from the command queue and forwards the removed command to the storage device.
US11372579B2
Techniques for generating data sets may include: receiving an initial buffer that achieves a compression ratio responsive to compression processing using a compression algorithm, the initial buffer including first content located at a first position in the initial buffer and including second content located at a second position in the initial buffer; and generating a data set of buffers using the initial buffer. The data set may be expected to achieve a specified deduplication ratio responsive to deduplication processing and to achieve the compression ratio responsive to compression processing using the compression algorithm. Generating the data set may include generating a first plurality of buffers where each buffer of the first plurality is not a duplicate of another buffer in the first plurality, and generating a second plurality of duplicate buffers. Each duplicate buffer may be a duplicate of a buffer in the first plurality of buffers.
US11372576B2
A data processing apparatus includes a memory configured to store a bit array including a first Bloom filter associating with a first subset containing a data element matching a first classification condition and a second Bloom filter associating with a second subset containing a data element matching a second classification condition, and a processor configured to, when a first data element to be a search target is inputted, determine whether the same data element as the first data element is present in the first subset by using the first Bloom filter, determine whether the same data element as the first data element is present in the second data subset by using the second Bloom filter, and when all the data elements contained in the first subset are deleted, delete the first Bloom filter from the bit array.
US11372574B2
A method is provided for managing availability of runtime asset data used by client applications hosted on workstations of an industrial system, the method including distributing runtime asset data about assets of the industrial system received at the plurality of workstations among runtime asset data caches associated with the client applications. At least a portion of locally stored runtime asset data stored on a local runtime asset data cache is replicated and stored remotely on the runtime asset data cache associated with another client application. The locally stored runtime asset data is periodically evaluated to determine if it is up-to-date, and in response to determining it is not up-to-date, the locally stored runtime asset data is updated by requesting and retrieving a replicated and updated version of the locally stored runtime asset data from the runtime asset data cache remotely storing the replicated version.
US11372562B1
A storage system that supports multiple RAID levels presents storage objects with front-end tracks corresponding to back-end tracks on non-volatile drives and accesses the drives using a single type of back-end allocation unit that is larger than a back-end track. When the number of members of a protection group of a RAID level does not align with the back-end allocation unit, multiple back-end tracks are grouped and accessed using a single IO. The number of back-end tracks in a group is selected to align with the back-end allocation unit size. If the front-end tracks are variable size, then front-end tracks may be destaged into a smaller number of grouped back-end tracks in a single IO.
US11372559B1
A data storage device and method for enabling a compare command with built-in data transformations. In one embodiment, a data storage device is provided comprising a memory and a controller. The controller is configured to: receive, from a host, a compare command, a logical block address, data, and an instruction to perform a data transformation operation; read data from a location in the memory corresponding to the logical block address; execute the data transformation operation on the data read from the location in the memory; and compare a result of the data transformation operation with the data received from the host. Other embodiments are provided.
US11372556B2
A thin device (TDev) is tagged to identify the TDev as being used to access snapshot data on the storage system. If a snapshot is to be shipped to a cloud repository, the tagged TDev is linked to the snapshot, and mounted to a cloud tethering subsystem. When the tagged TDev is linked to the cloud tethering subsystem, the snapshot subsystem reads the thin device tag and, if the thin device is tagged, selectively does not execute a define process on the tagged thin device. By not executing the define process, the tracks of the thin device do not contain metadata identifying the location of the snapshot data on the storage system. Writes to source do not require a private copy of the old data for the snapshot, even if the snapshot is created in a different storage resource pool than the source data volume.
US11372551B2
A method of operating a memory controller, the method including performing a state shaping operation on received data based on state shaping information in response to a write request, the received data and the write request being received from a host, the state shaping information representing a memory cell characteristic corresponding to a memory cell group on which the received data is to be programmed, and the state shaping information being received from a memory device, and transmitting transformation data to the memory device, the transformation data being generated through the state shaping operation.
US11372543B2
The present disclosure generally relates to scheduling zone-append commands for a zoned namespace (ZNS). Rather than taking zone-append commands in order or randomly, the zone-append commands can be scheduled in the most efficient manner consistent with the open zones of the ZNS. A zone priority is determined based upon the length of time that a zone has been open together with the zone status. Generally, the older the zone and/or the more full that a zone is increases the priority. Once the zone priority is established, the zone-append commands are scheduled to ensure the zone-append commands for the high priority zones are processed first so that the open zone can be filled prior to closing.
US11372542B2
A system and method for controlling a standalone computer through a separate touch screen input device.
US11372539B2
Method and apparatus for adjusting a user interface displayed on a user device using a masking layer
This application relates to a method for adjusting a user interface displayed on a user device using a masking layer, for example, so as to hide or block account information. In one aspect, the method includes displaying one or more accounts included in account information received from a financial institution server on a screen of the user device. The method may also include displaying a masking layer to cover a balance display area of the accounts displayed on the screen. The method may further include, if a touch event dragged in one direction occurs on the balance display area, adjusting a size of the masking layer using a length between a touch start point and a touch end point of the touch event. The method may further include, when the touch event ends, readjusting the size of the masking layer to cover the balance display area.
US11372537B2
Embodiments of this application provide an image sharing method. The method includes: establishing, by a first electronic device, a Bluetooth link to a second electronic device; establishing, by the first electronic device, a Wi-Fi link to a Wi-Fi wireless access point, and establishing, by the second electronic device, a Wi-Fi link to the Wi-Fi wireless access point; obtaining, by the first electronic device, an image, and sending the image to the second electronic device over a Wi-Fi link; and after receiving the image, determining, by the second electronic device, whether a display screen of the second electronic device is on. The second electronic device displays the image on the display screen if determining that the display screen is on. According to the method in this application, transaction processing efficiency of an electronic device can be greatly increased.
US11372529B1
Digital image object anchor point techniques are described that increase user efficiency in interacting with a user interface to create digital images. This is achieved through use of anchor points by the digital image editing system that are defined with respect to an actual geometry of the object. Further, filtering and prioritization techniques are also leveraged to promote real world utility and efficiency of these techniques as a balance between having too many and two few anchor points.
US11372525B2
The techniques disclosed herein improve existing systems by providing a system that automatically generates a scalable summary with adaptable graphical associations between people and content. The system can select a level of detail that can be applied to a process for generating a summary of content. The level of detail can be based on a user's engagement with respect to one or more events. The system can improve the usability of the summary by selecting a level of detail that is optimized for the user's contextual status. The system also improves the user's interaction with a computer by providing an adaptable layout of information indicating a source of content. The adaptable layout allows users to readily identify topics, content sources, and high-priority summary sections regardless of the level of detail that is selected for the summary.
US11372523B2
A method of interactively navigating a user through a path of menu choices on a user interface may include displaying a current menu of choices on a first portion of a user interface display. The user interface allows for selecting of a menu item from the current menu of choices and to drill down through levels of menu choices based on selecting a menu item from a prior level of menu choices. A second portion of the user interface display presents past selected and past unselected menu items of the drilled-down levels. The past unselected menu items are displayed as selectable options. The user interface allows for jumping to a different path of menu choices by selecting a past unselected menu item from a previously navigated menu level displayed on the second portion of the user interface display.
US11372517B2
A software robot is designed to carry out an activity (e.g., a mouse click, a text input, etc.) on a target element (e.g., a button, an input field, etc.) of a user interface. The robot is configured to automatically identify the target element at runtime according to a set of attributes of the target element specified in the source-code of the user interface. The robot's code specification includes an indicator of a selected fuzzy attribute and a numerical similarity threshold indicative of an acceptable degree of mismatch between design-time and runtime values of the respective fuzzy attribute. The robot is configured to identify the target element from a set of candidates which are sufficiently similar to it according to the specified degree of mismatch.
US11372516B2
A method, device and storage medium for controlling display of floating window. The method may include the following. A touch signal in a display area of the floating window may be received. A sub-area located by an initial touch position of the touch signal may be determined. The display of the floating window may be controlled based on a touch function type corresponding to the sub-area and a movement track of the touch signal.
US11372513B2
A display apparatus includes a display device capable of changing at least one of a plurality of parameters including a luminescence intensity, a color gamut, and an electro optical transfer function (EOTF); and at least one processor or circuit configured to function as a display control unit configured to control the display device to display a plurality of images and a background image displayed around each of the plurality of images such that an appearance of the background image is visually identical between the plurality of images when the display device is caused to display the plurality of images.
US11372507B2
The present disclosure provides a touch substrate, a manufacturing method thereof and a touch display device. The touch substrate includes: a base substrate; a touch area on the base substrate; a touch electrode made of nano-silver, the touch electrode including first touch electrodes and second touch electrodes, a first insulating layer located on a side of the touch electrode away from a center of the base substrate, a touch electrode bridge on the first insulating layer, the touch electrode bridge connecting adjacent first touch electrodes and/or adjacent second electrodes by way of a first through-hole penetrating the first insulating layer. An etching liquid applied to the touch electrode bridge is different from the etching liquid applied to the nano-silver. The technical solution of the present disclosure can realize a flexible touch substrate by using nano-silver and a photolithography process.
US11372499B2
A touch display panel and a touch display device including an array substrate, a light-emitting layer, an encapsulation layer, and a touch function layer are provided. The array substrate includes a first trace. The touch function layer includes a second trace. The second trace is electrically connected to the chip by a bonding end, in which the chip is integrated with functions of display control and touching control. This realizes a control of a display function and a touch function of the touch display panel or the touch display device, thereby reducing the number of chips. At the same time, the stepped structure of the edge of the encapsulation layer effectively alleviates the steep gradient between the touch function layer and the array substrate, thereby facilitating the electrical connection of the trace on the touch function layer to the trace on the array substrate.
US11372497B2
A touch sensing device includes: a first signal conversion circuit configured to convert a first sensing signal from a first sensor unit into a first detection signal, the first detection signal being a digital signal; a signal operation circuit configured to operate the first detection signal and a high-frequency signal based on the first detection signal, to generate an operation output signal; and a touch detector configured to determine whether a touch manipulation has occurred, based on the operation output signal, to generate a touch detection signal having determination result information.
US11372489B2
A touch panel and a display device thereof are provided, including a first metal layer, an insulating layer, and a second metal layer. The second metal layer includes a plurality of first metal lines and a plurality of second metal lines, and the first metal lines and the second metal lines are interlaced with each other to form a mesh pattern. The insulating layer is disposed with a via hole, and the first metal layer is electrically connected to the second metal layer through the via hole. A dummy pattern is disposed in a non-functional area of the first metal layer.
US11372481B2
A dielectric actuator including an enclosure forming a cavity having a dielectric fluid therein, the enclosure having a base, a flexible membrane and a reversibly-stretchable membrane, and a pair of electrodes, one electrode of the pair of electrodes arranged at the flexible membrane, the other electrode arranged at the base, the pair of electrodes arranged to generate an electric field to an area of the cavity that is filled with the dielectric fluid, wherein when the electric field is generated between the pair of electrodes, an electrostatic pressure in the dielectric fluid causes the flexible membrane to move towards the base, reducing an initial volume of the area of the cavity, increases a pressure of the dielectric fluid inside the cavity, and causes the reversibly-stretchable membrane to bump out to an expanded state.
US11372480B1
A flexure guidance system may be provided for controlling movement of an optical subassembly and/or a connected combiner lens. For instance, the flexure guidance system may include a distal end piece, a proximal end piece, and multiple wire flexures that link the distal end piece to the proximal end piece. The linking wire flexures may be spaced to form an interior cavity between the distal end piece and the proximal end piece. This interior cavity may house various electronic components. One or more actuators in the system may move the electronic components according to input signals along different axes of movement provided by the wire flexures. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US11372479B2
A head-mounted video camera, a processor, and a display are integrated within the head-mounted device worn by the user. The head-mounted device is configured to capture images of the environment and subject those images to specialized processing in order to diagnose and/or make up for deficiencies in the user's eyesight. Different modes of operating the device are provided that enable the user to configure the device for a specific application. The modes of operation include at least an assistive mode, a diagnostic mode, and a therapeutic mode. Each mode of operation may include further options, where each option is dedicated to a specific processing approach specific to a condition that may afflict the user, ranging from contrast sensitivity issues to strabismus.
US11372478B2
A head mounted display, including at least one display, an image capture device, a light beam generator, and an optical compensation element, is provided. The display has an open area and generates at least one image light beam. The image capture device is disposed by overlapping with the display corresponding to the open area. The image capture device is configured to capture a target area image through the open area. The light beam generator is configured to project at least one light beam to a target area. The target area reflects the light beam to generate at least one reflection light beam. The optical compensation element is configured to convert a transmission direction of the image light beam and enable the reflection light beam to be directly transmitted to the image capture device.
US11372476B1
A low-profile eye-tracking system for an off-visor helmet-mounted display (HMD) includes annular illuminators clipped to, and aligned with, the terminal component (e.g., the emitter or combiner) of the HMD optical chain. The illuminators include visible-light or IR light sources mounted around the circumference of the illuminator for bouncing light off the visor's inner surface and into the pilot's left or right eye (the HMD may include separate eye-tracking systems for each eye). Image sensors are positioned to sequentially capture images of the illuminated eyes reflected off the visor surface. HMD onboard electronics analyze the captured image sequence to determine the azimuth and elevation of the pilot's eye relative to the centerline of the HMD optics.
US11372474B2
Systems and methods are provided to create training data, validate, deploy and test artificial intelligence (AI) systems in a virtual development environment, incorporating virtual spaces, objects, machinery, devices, subsystems, and actual human action and behavior.
US11372473B2
It is desirable to enhance the human-like motion of an object. Provided is an information processing apparatus including: a motion control unit configured to control, when an abnormality of a signal input for controlling a motion of an object is detected, the motion of the object such that the object continues a predetermined motion until a normality of the signal input is detected, the signal input responding to a motion of a user, in which until the motion of the object transitions to the predetermined motion after the detection of the abnormality of the signal input, the motion control unit controls the object such that the object performs at least one first intermediate motion, the at least one first intermediate motion being different from the motion of the object at the detection of the abnormality of the signal input and the predetermined motion.
US11372463B1
Examples described herein provide improved power down of PoE interfaces. Examples described herein may set a power fault value for each of a plurality of PSUs, and set a power threshold value for each of a plurality of PoE interfaces. Examples described herein may detect a fault that interrupts a flow of power from a subset of the PSUs to at least one of the PoE interfaces, and based on detecting the fault, for each PSU in the subset of the PSUs, add the power fault value for the PSU to a total power fault value. Examples described herein may, for each of the PoE interfaces, determine whether the total power fault value satisfies the power threshold value for the PoE interface, and based on a determination that the total power fault value satisfies the power threshold value for the PoE interface, power down the PoE interface.
US11372460B2
According to one general aspect, an apparatus may include a memory storage device. The memory storage device may include a plurality of memory cells configured to store data. The memory storage device may include a first temperature sensor configured to detect a temperature of the memory cells. The memory storage device may include an artificial intelligence system configured to dynamically determine a thermal management setting to be employed by the memory storage device, based, at least in part, upon the first temperature sensor and a workload of the memory storage device. The memory storage device may dynamically changes a set of operational parameters in response to the thermal management setting determined by the artificial intelligence system.
US11372459B2
A fastener includes a base having a joint plate extended therefrom toward a first direction, a joint plate extended from the joint plate toward a second direction and configured to secure to an electronic base board, and a fastening member protruded thereon toward a third direction. The fastener includes an elastic compressive unit connected to the joint plate and including a pushing part configured to abut with a circuit board downwardly rotated. Subject to the stress in the first direction and applied by the circuit board, the pushing part is moved back and the elastically-compressive unit is compressed to make the circuit board rotate to the bottom side of the pushing part, and an edge of the circuit board can be inserted into and abutted thereon the fastening member, and the circuit board is accommodated in a fastening space formed on the outside of the fastening member.
US11372453B2
The present disclosure provides an electronic device, which comprises a first frame, a second frame, a bendable hinge located between the first frame and the second frame, and a flexible member covering the first frame, the second frame, and the bendable hinge. Wherein, the electronic device further comprises a sliding member located on one side of the bendable hinge, and a supporting member connecting the sliding member and the first frame. The flexible member connects the first frame and the second frame. When the bendable hinge is bent, the supporting member can drive the sliding member to slide relative to the bendable hinge, and the flexible member can drive the second frame to slide relative to the bendable hinge.
US11372452B2
The display device includes a display module which displays an image at a front surface of the display module and includes a rear surface, a folding area and a non-folding area extended from the folding area; and a supporter facing the rear surface of the display module and including a first portion corresponding to the non-folding area, a second portion corresponding to the folding area, and a boundary between the first portion and the second portion. The display module which is unfolded disposes the supporter bent at the boundary, and the supporter which is bent includes the first portion and the second portion together forming a curvature of the supporter having a center of curvature at the front surface of the display module.
US11372451B2
A display substrate, a display device, and a method of forming a display substrate are provided. The display substrate includes: a flexible base substrate and a plurality of pixel islands arranged on the flexible base substrate, where the plurality of pixel islands are arranged in an array, two adjacent pixel islands are connected through an island bridge, display units are arranged on the pixel islands, the display units on the pixel islands are electrically connected through an inter-island connection line arranged on the island bridge, a region outside the pixel islands and the island bridge is a hollow area, and axes of four island bridges around the hollow area are arranged as a parallelogram.
US11372439B2
A pedal apparatus for a vehicle includes a rotary arm provided in a pedal housing and configured to rotate with respect to a rotational axis by an operating force applied to a pedal pad; a magnet whose position is changed as the rotary arm rotates; a position detector configured for detecting a position of the rotary arm as the rotary arm rotates. The position detector includes: a sensor configured for sensing a strength of a magnetic field generated by the magnet; and a plurality of shield portions arranged to have different distances from the magnet, shielding the magnetic field generated by each of the magnet from an external magnetic field source.
US11372438B2
A startup circuit is provided. The startup circuit includes a first switch connected between an operating voltage terminal and a first connection node, and configured to perform a switching operation based on a shutdown signal, a second switch connected between the first connection node and ground, and configured to perform a switching operation based on a bandgap voltage, a logic circuit performing a logical AND operation on a first voltage of the first connection node and an enabling signal to generate a switching voltage, and a third switch connected between an output node and the ground, and configured to perform a switching operation based on the switching voltage, where the output node outputs a startup voltage.
US11372436B2
A simultaneous low quiescent current and high performance low dropout (LDO) voltage regulator is disclosed. In some implementations, the LDO voltage regulator includes a first and a second pass transistors configured to receive an input voltage (Vin). The LDO voltage regulator further includes an error amplifying module having a first output, a second output, a first input, and a second input. The error amplifying module can further include a first output stage configured to drive the gate of the first pass transistor during a high performance (HP) mode, and a second output stage configured to drive the gate of the second pass transistor during the HP mode and during a low power (LP) mode.
US11372428B2
Disclosed are methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for controlling an automatic descent of a vehicle. For instance, the method may include: determining whether a descent trigger condition is present; and in response to determining the descent trigger condition is present, performing an automatic descent process. The automatic descent process may include: obtaining clearance data from an on-board system of the vehicle; generating a descent plan based on the clearance data, the descent plan including a supersonic-to-subsonic transition and/or a supersonic-descent to a target altitude; and generating actuator instructions to a control the vehicle to descend to the target altitude based on the descent plan.
US11372427B2
A system for altitude control of an autogyro includes an unpowered rotor for generating lift and a forward propulsion system for generating a horizontal thrust component of a thrust vector for propelling the autogyro forward during flight. The system for altitude control also includes at least one thrust steering control devices configured to steer thrust generated by the forward propulsion system such that the forward propulsion system generates a vertical thrust component of the thrust vector.
US11372426B2
Provided are various systems and processes for improving last-mile delivery of real-time, on-demand orders for perishable goods. In one aspect, an automated vehicle (AV) comprises a body including a storage compartment for storing perishable goods. The storage compartment is accessible by a user upon authentication of the user. The AV further comprises a sensor module for receiving data for navigating the AV. The sensor module is positioned above the body on a support structure at a predetermined height above the ground, such as three to five feet. The data includes one or more of the following: audio data, video data, radio waves, and backscattered light waves. The AV further comprises an onboard computer system configured to process the data to navigate the AV along motor vehicle routes and pedestrian routes. The AV may be configured to interface with an automated locker system to retrieve or deposit the perishable goods.
US11372424B2
A vehicle, navigation system of the vehicle, and method for observing an environment of the vehicle. The navigation system includes a sensor and a processor. The sensor obtains a detection from an object located in an environment of the vehicle at a with-detection direction with respect to the sensor that includes the detection. The processor determines a no-detection direction that does not include the detection, assigns an empty space likelihood to an occupancy grid of the sensor along the no-detection direction, and generates a map of the environment using the occupancy grid.
US11372423B2
One method disclosed includes identifying, in a map of markers fixed in an environment, two co-located markers within a threshold distance of each other, where each of the two co-located markers has a non-overlapping visibility region. The method further includes determining a set of detected markers based on sensor data from a robotic device. The method additionally includes identifying, from the set of detected markers, a detected marker proximate to a first marker of the two co-located markers. The method also includes enforcing a visibility constraint based on the non-overlapping visibility region of each of the two co-located markers to determine an association between the detected marker and a second marker of the two co-located markers. The method further includes determining a location of the robotic device in the environment relative to the map based on the determined association.
US11372422B2
Technologies and techniques for determining locations of a plurality of markers on a vehicle in three-dimensional space. The markers may be configured as optical or radio markers, where a sensor determines the locations of each of the plurality of markers, or a shape formed by the markers collectively. The locations of each of the plurality of markers or shape is then compared to a template to determine a match. The match identifies a vehicle having vehicle data that includes locations of vehicle components and/or vehicle performance characteristics. The vehicle data is then used to generate control signals for controlling a control device that may be associated with a robotic apparatus, a vehicle computer system and/or drone operating system.
US11372420B2
A method and a system for docking a robotic mower with a charging station, the system including a boundary wire and a charging station loop wherein the boundary wire makes a loop in the charging station that is narrower than and crosses the charging station loop. A return signal is received from a control unit commanding the robotic mower to return to the charging station. In response thereto, the robotic mower is controlled to follow the boundary wire until the charging station loop is detected. The robotic mower then follows the charging station loop until a crossing between the charging station loop and the boundary wire loop is detected. Thereafter, the robotic mower is controlled to follow the charging station loop a first distance, and then continuing to drive the robotic mower in a direction straight forward for a second distance. When the robotic mower has moved the second distance it is turned a predefined angle towards the charging station and controlled to follow the boundary wire loop until a charging position is reached.
US11372419B1
A method for shortening a waiting time for human-robot interaction, a device and a storage medium are provided. A robot acquires a to-be-executed task, plans an optimal navigation path according to a task location of the to-be-executed task, and goes to a first location according to the planned optimal navigation path to execute a task corresponding to the first location. The robot determines whether there is a worker, capable of performing human-robot cooperation, at the first location. In a case where there is a worker, capable of performing human-robot cooperation, at the first location, the robot sends prompt information and waits, at the first location, for the worker to cooperatively complete the task corresponding to the first location. In a case where there is no worker, capable of performing human-robot cooperation, at the first location, the robot goes to a next location according to the optimal navigation path.
US11372407B2
A vehicle navigation system may comprise a memory including instructions and circuitry configured by the instructions to identify a target vehicle in an environment of a vehicle that includes the vehicle navigation system. The circuitry may receive image data of the target vehicle from at least one image capture device of the vehicle; identify, based on analysis of the image data, one or more situational characteristics of the target vehicle, the situational characteristics of the target including an indication that the target vehicle has an activated blinker; and change a navigational state of the vehicle to allow an action of the target vehicle. The vehicle may be configured to cause the change in the navigational state based on a determination that the one or more situational characteristics, including the activated blinker, indicate that the target vehicle would benefit from the change in the navigational state.
US11372389B2
Methods for remotely monitoring a status of a light fixture including monitoring sensor data associated with the light fixture; analyzing the monitored sensor data to determine if the light fixture is operating outside expected parameters associated with the light fixture; and altering the status of the light fixture for a finite period of time if it is determined that the light fixture is operating outside expected parameters are provide. Related monitoring modules and computer program products are also provided.
US11372385B2
A shot peening valve controller comprises a hub connector configurable for connecting or operating one or more shot peening valve; a microprocessor that is connected to the hub connector; and a human-machine interface that is connected to the microprocessor. The human-machine interface is configured to operate the one or more shot peening valves respectively.
US11372383B1
A spatial hierarchical model provides spatial context to a plurality of building control assets disposed within a plurality of hierarchical levels of the spatial hierarchical model. A method includes identifying non-compliance events detected by building control assets disposed at and below a particular hierarchical level of the spatial hierarchical model. The non-compliance events detected by building control assets disposed at and below the particular hierarchical level of the spatial hierarchical model over a period of time are aggregated and a healthy building dashboard that includes a representation of the aggregated non-compliance events for each of at least some of the one or more of the healthy building criteria detected by building control assets disposed at and below the particular hierarchical level of the spatial hierarchical model is generated and is displayed on a display.
US11372372B2
In a plan view in an axial direction of an indicating hand axle of a small second hand, three arrangement relationships described below are satisfied between a 10 o'clock side information display unit and an hour hand. According to a first arrangement relationship, respective numbers of a scale are disposed line-symmetrically with respect to a virtual straight line connecting a scale and the indicating hand axle to each other. According to a second arrangement relationship, the indicating hand axle is located at a position which does not overlap an indicating hand axle of the hour hand. According to a third arrangement relationship, a portion of a rotatable range of the hour hand overlaps a rotatable range of the small second hand, and does not overlap the scale.
US11372368B2
An image forming apparatus includes a discharge guide provided downstream of a fixing device in a sheet transport direction, and configured to guide a sheet on which a toner image has been fixed, to a sheet discharge port formed in a main body of the image forming apparatus, the discharge guide including an air vent for cooling the sheet, and a cooling fan that blows air to the sheet passing the discharge guide, through the air vent. A fixing device housing includes an air inlet that allows an airflow generated by the cooling fan toward the sheet and reflected thereby, to be introduced into inside the fixing device housing.
US11372365B2
A developing cartridge includes a developing frame body rotatably supporting a developing roller. A first end member is attached to the first end of the developing frame and a second end member is attached to the second end of the developing frame body. The first end member and the second end member are rotatable independently of each other and relative to the developing frame body about a rotational axis common to the first end member and the second end member, and with rotation of the developing frame body relative to the first end member and the second end member, the developing roller moves from a first position to a second position in a direction that crosses a position of an axis of the developing roller when the developing roller is in the first position.
US11372364B2
A frame for an image forming apparatus which includes a sheet cassette, an image forming unit, a first conveying roller, and a second conveying roller. The frame includes a first frame above which a second frame is coupled, the first frame supporting the sheet cassette and the first conveying roller, and the second frame supporting the second conveying roller and the image forming unit. A coupling member couples a first strut and a second strut, the first strut being part of the first frame and including: a first base portion; a first plate portion; and a second plate portion. The second strut is part of the second frame and includes: a second base portion disposed above the first base portion and contacting the first base portion; a third plate portion; and a fourth plate portion. The coupling member includes: a third base portion opposed to and spaced apart from the first base portion and the second base portion; a fifth plate portion; and a sixth plate portion.
US11372362B2
An image forming apparatus includes a developing roller, a photo-interrupter, and a separation mechanism. The developing roller is movable between a contact position and a separated position. The photo-interrupter includes a light emitting element and a light receiving element. The separation mechanism includes a cam configured to move the developing roller between the contact position and the separated position. The cam includes a phase detection wall extending in a circumference direction. The phase detection wall has a first slit and a second slit. The first slit allows the light emitted from the light emitting element to pass therethrough when the developing roller is at the separated position. The second slit allows the light emitted from the light emitting element to pass therethrough when the developing roller is at the contact position. A size of the first slit in the circumferential direction is different from that of the second slit.
US11372357B2
An image forming unit forms an image based on image data. A roller conveys a sheet from a tray. A reading unit reads the sheet. A controller controls the image forming unit to form a test image on one side of the sheet, controls the roller to convey the sheet on which the test image has been formed, obtains first read data relating to a read result of a first surface of the sheet on which the test image is formed, obtains second read data relating to a read result of a second surface from the first read data and the second read data, selects read data relating to a read result relating to the test image, and controls, based on the selected read data, a density of an output image to be formed by the image forming unit.
US11372353B2
A device includes a rotator having a rotation axis, a belt, a belt support surrounded by the belt, and a sliding sheet configured to be pinched at the nip between an inner peripheral surface of the belt and the belt support. The belt support is configured to form a nip with the rotator. One of the belt support and the sliding sheet includes a hook engaging portion. The hook engaging portion includes an aperture. The other of the belt support and the sliding sheet includes a hook engaged to the aperture.
US11372350B2
An imaging apparatus includes a transfer belt, a transfer roller, a conductive roller, and a power source. The transfer roller includes a metal shaft electrically floating during an imaging operation. The conductive roller has an electrical resistance lower than an electrical resistance of the transfer roller. The power source is electrically connected to the conductive roller, and the power source includes a first supply path to supply a first electrical bias to the conductive roller during an imaging operation and a second supply path to supply a second electrical bias to the transfer roller during a cleaning operation.
US11372337B2
A model-based tuning method for tuning a first lithography system utilizing a reference lithography system, each of which has tunable parameters for controlling imaging performance. The method includes the steps of defining a test pattern and an imaging model; imaging the test pattern utilizing the reference lithography system and measuring the imaging results; imaging the test pattern utilizing the first lithography system and measuring the imaging results; calibrating the imaging model utilizing the imaging results corresponding to the reference lithography system, where the calibrated imaging model has a first set of parameter values; tuning the calibrated imaging model utilizing the imaging results corresponding to the first lithography system, where the tuned calibrated model has a second set of parameter values; and adjusting the parameters of the first lithography system based on a difference between the first set of parameter values and the second set of parameter values.
US11372327B2
The present invention provides a molding apparatus that performs a molding process for molding a composition on a substrate using a mold, including a holding unit configured to hold the substrate, and a control unit configured to control the molding process, wherein the control unit starts a process for pressing the mold against the composition on the substrate while the substrate is held by the holding unit with a first holding force, causes the holding unit to hold the substrate with a second holding force smaller than the first holding force after the process is started, and maintains the holding of the substrate by the holding unit with the second holding force until completion of filling of the composition on the substrate into the mold.
US11372323B2
A phase-shift mask for extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography may be provided. The phase-shift mask may include a substrate, a reflection layer on the substrate, and phase-shift patterns including at least one metal nitride on the reflection layer. The at least one metal nitride may include at least one of TaN, TiN, ZrN, HfN, CrN, VN, NbN, MoN, WN, AlN, GaN, ScN, and YN.
US11372317B2
A camera supporting device includes a supporting frame, an outer casing, a camera holding structure, and a linkage mechanism. The outer casing is rotatably connected to the supporting frame. The camera holding structure is rotatably connected to the supporting frame independently of the outer casing. The linkage mechanism incudes a driving part and a driven part kinematically connected to the driving part. The driving part is fixedly connected to the camera holding structure. The driven part is fixedly connected to the outer casing. An image-capturing device can be fixed on the camera holding structure. Through the camera holding structure driving the outer casing through the linkage mechanism, the outer casing can provide a wider angle range available for the image-capturing device to capturing exterior images.
US11372316B2
A camera system and a lens barrel are provided in an exchangeable-lens camera including a shake correction mechanism that integrally drives a lens barrel and an imaging unit, it being possible for lenses to be exchanged smoothly, and greater utility and convenience to be obtained. A lens barrel to and from which a camera body can be attached and detached, wherein the lens barrel includes: a first barrel having a first engagement part that engages with a first part of the camera body; a second barrel disposed inside the first barrel, the second barrel having a second engagement part that engages with a second part of the camera body, and having an optical system; and a drive unit that drives the second barrel in relation to the first barrel.
US11372314B2
The present invention is a protective enclosure for a camera, formed of front and rear housings that are joined together by a weather resistant seal. An internal cavity is formed in which the camera may be located. The front housing includes a window that allows light to pass through, where the lens of the camera preferably is placed to line up with the window. A hood is provided around the window to provide shielding for the window and to divert rainwater away from the window. The housing includes support brackets for mounting the camera within the internal cavity. The front and rear housings are attached to each other by fasteners, with a weather resistant seal at the joining of the two parts. The rear part of the housing includes a weather resistant power port, through which power and/or data can be supplied to the camera.
US11372307B2
Provided is an optical modulator having an optical modulation high frequency line through which a high frequency electrical signal can be efficiently input to an optical modulation region and which is in a broadband. High frequency lines of an optical modulator, that is, an input high frequency line, an optical modulation high frequency line, and an output high frequency line have a line configuration in which each of the input high frequency line and the output high frequency line is divided into a plurality of segments, and adjacent segments of the plurality of the segments have different characteristic impedances and propagation constants. The input high frequency line and the output high frequency line may be implemented by changing a width or a thickness of a signal electrode formed on a dielectric forming a micro-strip line between adjacent segments. The characteristic impedances and the propagation constants may be changed by changing a dielectric constant of the dielectric instead of changing the width or the thickness of the signal electrode.
US11372305B2
The present invention is directed to an electrophoretic display device comprising microcells filled with an electrophoretic fluid and a dielectric layer, which comprises a first type of magnetic filler material, a second type of nonmagnetic filler material, and a polymeric material. The first and second types of filler material physically interact with each other and they are fixed and aligned in the dielectric adhesive layer in a direction perpendicular to a plane of the dielectric layer. The dielectric layer exhibits anisotropic conductivity having higher conductivity in the z direction compared to the other two orthogonal directions.
US11372301B2
A display device includes a first conductive layer including horizontal scan lines, and island-type electrodes, which are spaced apart from the horizontal scan lines; a first insulating layer disposed on the first conductive layer; a second conductive layer disposed on the first insulating layer, the second conductive layer including data lines, and a plurality of vertical scan lines; a second insulating layer disposed on the second conductive layer; and a third conductive layer disposed on the second insulating layer and including first shield electrodes, which cover first edges of the vertical scan lines, and second shield electrodes, which are spaced apart from the first shield electrodes, and cover second edges of the vertical scan lines, wherein the vertical scan lines are electrically connected to the island-type electrodes via contact holes that extend through the first insulating layer.
US11372286B2
A light source device includes a plurality of light sources arranged in a matrix, a substrate, and a reflective member. The reflective member includes first walls defining a first region entirely surrounded by the first walls in a plan view, and second walls located on an outer side of the first walls, the second walls defining a second region having an opening facing outside of the reflective member and a third region. An area of the second region is greater than an area of the third region in the plan view. The light sources are disposed respectively in the first region and in the second region while none of the light sources is disposed in the third region.
US11372276B2
A display device including a peripheral circuit portion with high operation stability. The display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate. A first insulating layer is on a first plane of the first substrate, and a second insulating layer is on a first plane of the second substrate. An area of the first plane of the first substrate is the same as an area of the first plane of the second substrate. The first plane of the first substrate and the first plane of the second substrate face each other. A bonding layer is between the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer. A protection film is in contact with the first substrate, the first insulating layer, the bonding layer, the second insulating layer, and the second substrate.
US11372265B2
A lens element adapted for a person including a holder including a refraction area having a refractive power based on a prescription for correcting an abnormal refraction of the person, a plurality of optical elements placed on at least one surface of the holder to at least one of: slow down, retard, or prevent a progress of the abnormal refraction of an eye of the person, and at least one layer of at least one coating element covering at least a zone of at least one optical element and at least a zone of the holder on which the optical elements are placed, wherein said at least one layer of at least one coating element adds an optical power of 0.1 diopter in absolute value in specific wearing conditions when measured over said zone of the optical element covered by said at least one layer of at least one coating element.
US11372260B2
The present disclosure provides an anti-shake mechanism of a curved camera device. The camera device is an optical system including a reflecting member having a reflecting surface that bends an optical axis and is configured to perform a hand-shake correction by rotating the reflecting member. The reflecting member is disposed between a camera lens group and a camera element in such a manner that the reflecting member rotates about rotation axes, one of the rotation axes being perpendicular to a plane defined by an optical axis of the camera lens group and an optical axis reflected by the reflecting member, and the other one of the rotation axes being parallel with the reflected optical axis or parallel with the optical axis of the camera lens group.
US11372256B2
Provided is an optical element including: a main body which is formed of a medium capable of transmitting first light and second light having a wavelength longer than that of the first light, in which the main body includes an incident region into which the first light and the second light are incident, in which a gap which is inclined with respect to the incident region and in which a medium having a refractive index with respect to the first light and the second light lower than that of the main body is disposed is provided inside the main body, and in which a gap width from an interface bordering the main body and the gap is larger than a penetration length of an evanescent wave of the first light at the interface and is smaller than a penetration length of an evanescent wave of the second light at the interface.
US11372255B2
An optical mouse operated with respect to an illuminated surface outside the optical mouse is provided. The optical mouse includes a light source configured to emit a light beam, and a light pipe including a first optical element and a second optical element. The light beam enters the light pipe through the first optical element, and then propagates in the light pipe from the first optical element to the second optical element without reflection, and then leaves the light pipe through the second optical element, and then illuminates the illuminated surface. The light pipe does not have any protrusion extending therefrom and attached to a front surface of the light source.
US11372251B2
Systems, devices, and methods for electrical connection between components of wearable heads-up displays are described. A wearable heads-up display can include a first arm and a second arm, bridged by a front frame. The first arm can carry electrical components, the second arm can carry a power source, and the front frame can carry a set of electrically conductive current paths which provide electrical coupling between the power source and the electrical components. The first arm and the second arm can each rotate about a respective hinge relative to the front frame. A flexible, dynamic set of electrically conductive current paths can couple the electrical components in the first arm to the set of electrically conductive current paths in the front frame, and another flexible, dynamic set of electrically conductive current paths can couple the power source in the second arm to the connector in the front frame.
US11372249B2
Provided is an information processing device that includes a recognition unit that recognizes, based on a result of sensing by a sensor unit corresponding to a viewpoint position of a user, a hand gesture performed by the user to move, closer to a first object, a second object so that the positional relation between the first object and the second object becomes a first positional relation. The information processing device further includes a correction unit that corrects the user's interocular parameter related to virtual object display on a display unit based on a result of recognition of the hand gesture when it is determined that a predetermined end condition is satisfied. At least one of the first object and the second object is a virtual object.
US11372229B2
The present invention discloses an adjusting hand wheel set having a zero position limiting function and a sight. The adjusting hand wheel set includes an adjusting hand wheel, a zeroing screw, a hand wheel seat, a hand wheel buckle cover, an adjusting base and an adjusting screw, where a linkage ring is disposed in the adjusting hand wheel, and a linkage protrusion integrally formed with the linkage ring is disposed on an outer wall of the linkage ring along any radius direction of the linkage ring. The adjusting hand wheel set further includes a stop ring, an upper port of the stop ring is internally provided with a ring surface integrally formed with the stop ring, the ring surface is provided with a linkage groove along any radius direction of the ring surface, and a first limit protrusion is disposed on a bottom surface of the ring.
US11372227B2
A microsection sample stabilizer for aligning and stabilizing a microsection sample for microscopic inspection includes a frame including a base and at least one leveling portion supported by the base. The at least one leveling portion can define a viewing window for a microscope. The microsection sample stabilizer includes an interior region within the frame, and at least one compliant device operable within the interior region of the frame and operable to be supported by the base. The compliant device receives and supports the microsection sample, and biases the microsection sample against the at least one leveling portion of the frame to stabilize the microsection sample, such that an examination plane surface of the microsection sample is aligned and viewable through the viewing window by the microscope.
US11372214B2
The present disclosure provides a camera lens including six lenses, having good optical characteristics, having a wide angle and having a bright F number. The camera lens includes, from an object side: a first lens having a negative refractive power; a second lens having a positive refractive power; a third lens having a positive refractive power; a fourth lens having a negative refractive power; a fifth lens having a positive refractive power; and a sixth lens having a negative refractive power. The camera lens satisfies prescribed conditions.
US11372195B2
A lens module is provided. The lens module includes: a fixing frame; a lens assembly arranged in the fixing frame; an elastic suspending assembly connected between the fixing frame and the lens assembly to suspend the lens assembly within the fixing frame; a first magnet arranged on the lens assembly; a focusing coil arranged on the fixing frame and configured to cooperate with the first magnet to drive the lens assembly to move along an optical axis direction; a second magnet arranged on the lens assembly; and an anti-shake coil arranged on the fixing frame and configured to cooperate with the second magnet to drive the lens assembly to move along a second direction perpendicular to the optical axis to compensate for shaking of the lens assembly in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis. With the invention, the shaking of the lens assembly in the fixing frame is compensated.
US11372188B2
The present disclosure relates to fiber optic cable clamps and fiber optic cable clamp assemblies that includes cable clamps having bracket slots that receive bracket arms for securing a plurality of cable fan-outs at or near their point of connection to telecommunications equipment.
US11372182B2
An optical fibres connector for an optoelectronic active implantable medical device (AIMD) for implantation in a living body is provided. The optical fibres connector includes a male component (M) coupled to a first set of optical fibres, a female component (F) coupled to a second set of optical fibres or optical elements, and a coupling component (C) for reversibly locking the male and female components in a coupled position. The optical fibres or optical elements are in perfect alignment. The coupling component includes a fixed element (40f) and a rotatable element (40r) all optical fibres (41f) and optical elements of the connector remaining static upon rotation of the rotatable element, reversibly locking the male and female components in the coupled position is achieved by rotating the rotatable element with respect to the fixed element.
US11372179B2
A connector includes a cage and a heat-radiation element. A top wall of the cage includes an opening, and first engaging structures extending from the top wall of the cage toward an outside of the cage at a periphery of the opening. The heat-radiation element is disposed on the cage corresponding to the opening, and first notches corresponding to the first engaging structures are disposed on side walls of the heat-radiation element. Each first engaging structure passes through the corresponding first notch to engage the heat-radiation element on the cage. The cage has a receiving cavity and supporting structure at a bottom of the receiving cavity. When a mating connector is inserted into the receiving cavity, a bottom of the mating connector is supported by the supporting structure, a top of the mating connector abuts against the heat-radiation element through the opening, and the heat-radiation element remains substantially stationary.
US11372178B2
An electrical connector includes a heat dissipation module with a first end and a second end opposed to the first end and two receptacle connectors located at the second end. The first and second ends define a transceiver-mating direction such that, when a transceiver is inserted into the first end of the heat dissipation module in the transceiver-mating direction, the transceiver mates with one of the two receptacle connectors, and in the heat dissipation module, air flows parallel to the transceiver-mating direction between the first and second ends and flows between the two receptacle connectors.
US11372169B2
Waveguide substrates, waveguide substrate assemblies, and methods for fabricating waveguide substrates are disclosed. In one embodiment, a waveguide substrate includes an input edge, an output edge, and at least one waveguide within the waveguide substrate. The waveguide substrate further includes at least one input alignment feature within the input edge adjacent to the input end of the at least one waveguide, wherein the at least one input alignment feature is fabricated from a material of the waveguide substrate. The waveguide substrate may also include at least one output alignment feature within the input edge adjacent to the output end of the at least one waveguide, wherein the at least one output alignment feature is fabricated from the material of the waveguide substrate.
