US11382249B2
A component supply device comprises: a main body including a tape path which guides a component supply tape being sent in a longitudinal direction to a component supply position, and an introducing region which communicates with the tape path on a side opposite to the supply position in the longitudinal direction and introduces the supply tape into the tape path; and a tape position switching mechanism which switches the position of the supply tape in a vertical direction with respect to the tape path on the side opposite to the supply position. The tape position switching mechanism includes a supporter movable between a supporting position for supporting the supply tape from below and a non-supporting position separated from the supporting position in a width direction of the supply tape. The supporter releases the supply tape to move the supply tape downward from the supporting position to the non-supporting position.
US11382246B2
A board work system including: a conveying and holding device including a pair of rails configured to support a board, and a changing mechanism configured to change a distance between the pair of rails, the conveying and holding device being configured to convey the board supported by the rails and hold the board at a work position; a work device configured to perform work with respect to the board held by the conveying and holding device from an underside of the board; a moving device configured to move the work device; and a control device, the control device including an acquiring section configured to acquire a rail spacing distance that is the distance between the pair of rails, and an operation control section configured to control operation of the moving device based on the rail spacing distance acquired by the acquiring section.
US11382245B2
Electromagnetic interference (EMI) shields and methods for broadband EMI shielding are provided. An EMI shield disposed in a path of electromagnetic radiation blocks a broad range of frequencies (>about 800 MHz to
US11382244B2
Provided is a temperature-pressure complex sensor with an anti-radiation property including a first sensing material which is a porous conductive film, and second sensing materials which are dispersedly disposed on a surface of the first sensing material. The second sensing materials may include a conductive structure having a two-dimensional crystal structure, and nanoparticles having a radiation shielding property which are disposed between crystal layers of the conductive structure.
US11382241B2
In one embodiment, a cooling device for providing liquid cooling to a processor or a computing hardware/system includes a first cooling plate having a first liquid distribution channel integrated therein. The first cooling plate is to be positioned on a top surface of a processor to extract heat from the top surface of the processor using cooling liquid flowing through the first liquid distribution channel. The cooling device further includes a second cooling plate having a second liquid distribution channel integrated therein. The second cooling plate is to be positioned at a bottom surface of the processor to extract heat from the bottom surface of the processor using cooling liquid flowing through the second liquid distribution channel. The cooling device further includes a mounting mechanism to mount the first and second cooling plates onto top and bottom of the processor to sandwich the process in between with good thermal contact.
US11382237B1
A computer chassis can include an airflow channel for permitting airflow specifically to cool one or more power supply units (PSUs) within respective power supply receiving space(s). The chassis can include a baffle device positioned between the power supply receiving space and the airflow channel for directing airflow through the PSU into the airflow channel. The airflow channel can be located between first and second spaces of the chassis, each containing computing components. The baffle device can include a cable passthrough that receives a cable that facilitates communication between component(s) in the first space and component(s) in the second space. The baffle device can include one or more ribs that stop the PSU from being fully inserted into the power supply receiving space when the PSU is inserted in an incorrect orientation, thus signaling to the user to remove the PSU and re-insert it in a correct orientation.
US11382236B2
A controller includes: a casing having a rectangular solid shape and including a front panel including an intake port, a rear panel including a discharge port and opposed to the front panel, and a heat transfer wall including an opening portion and perpendicular to the front panel and the rear panel; a fan inside the casing that sucks outside air into the casing through the intake port and supply the air to the inside of the casing; a regenerative resistor inside the casing at a position where the regenerative resistor is exposed to the outside through the opening portion of the heat transfer wall, the regenerative resistor being insertable and detachable through the opening portion; electronic parts inside the casing and including a servo amplifier which makes the regenerative resistor consume electric power; and a lid body detachably attached to the heat transfer wall to seal the opening portion.
US11382235B2
A fixing bracket for a slide rail of an open rack includes a fixed cover, a sliding cover and plural fasteners. Both fixed and sliding covers cover the exterior of the slide rail, and the sliding cover can slide appropriately with limitation, and a pair of the slide rails are installed symmetrically on both sides of a chassis, and the fixing bracket is provided for fixing the chassis onto an open rack which is a rectangular enclosed frame structure similar to a door frame, and the fixed cover and the sliding cover have a first fixing plate and a second fixing plate configured to be corresponsive to the open rack. With a sliding design of the sliding cover, the fasteners can be used to fix the chassis onto the two opposite sides of the rack by adjusting the width of the open rack.
US11382233B2
A removable lever apparatus for inserting and removing computer equipment from a chassis module of a server rack includes a central rotatable structure, a long arm connected to and extending in a first direction away from the central rotatable structure, and a short arm connected to and extending in a second direction away from the central rotatable structure. The central rotatable structure includes a rotation stopper for limiting rotation about the axis of rotation between an inserting position and a removing position. The central rotatable structure also includes a retention structure for maintaining the coupling to the tray when the central rotatable structure is in a position other than the inserting position. The short arm is configured to engage a side wall of the chassis module when the central rotatable structure is rotated.
US11382229B2
A cable management device comprises cable management tray with a door that is connected to the cable management tray by a hinge, allowing the door to be opened without removing the door from the tray, and which also permits the door to be easily disengaged from the tray using a simple manual interaction that can be performed even if visibility to the hinge is limited.
US11382228B2
A dual-axis hinge assembly may include a casing defining a first slot and a second slot. Further, the dual-axis hinge assembly may include a first shaft and a second shaft received through the first and second slots, respectively. The first shaft and the second shaft may engage with a first housing and a second housing of an electronic device. Furthermore, dual-axis hinge assembly may include a foldable linkage disposed in the casing and connected between the first shaft and the second shaft. Furthermore, dual-axis hinge assembly may include an elastic member connected to the foldable linkage. The foldable linkage and the elastic member may enable the first shaft and the second shaft to slide along the first slot and the second slot to variably adjust a distance between a pivot axis of the first housing and a pivot axis of the second housing.
US11382227B2
A metrology device includes a housing, a lower support structure, a PCB coupled to the lower support structure, and a cover coupled to the lower support structure and the housing. The housing supports the cover in three coordinate directions. The lower support structure includes a first pillar that supports the PCB and mechanically couples with the cover. The first pillar causes the PCB to stand off from the lower support structure and causes the cover to stand off from the PCB. The metrology device also includes a second pillar that extends from the lower support structure to a base to cause the lower support structure to stand off from the base. The cover has a non-circle shape, and a cross section of the housing at a same elevation of the housing as an elevation of the cover within the housing is a circle.
US11382226B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a case, a mainboard, a cover and a locking module. The mainboard is disposed in the case. The cover covers the case. The locking module is disposed on the cover. The locking module includes a base, a latch, and a rotational member. The base is affixed to the cover. The latch is connected to the base, wherein the latch is moved between the first latch position and the second latch position relative to the base. The latch includes a recess and a protrusion. The rotational member is connected to the base. The rotational member is moved between the first rotational member position and the second rotational member position relative to the base. The rotational member includes a end portion, and the end portion is detachably connected to the recess. The locking module provides an automatic locking function.
US11382221B2
An information display device includes an information display part which displays information on a screen, a battery for supplying power to the information display part, a device housing having a plurality of sides surrounding the screen, wherein the information display part being attached to the device housing, wherein the device housing includes a battery insertion portion, in which the battery is attached and detached in a direction along the screen at one side of the plurality of sides.
US11382219B2
A multi-screen display apparatus includes two display screens, an optical element and an optical element fixing mechanism. The two display screens are arranged adjacent to each other, wherein the two display screens have an included angle. Each of the display screens has a display area and a frame surrounding the display area. The optical element is disposed between the two display screens and covers two adjacent sides of the frames of the two display screens and portions of the display areas of the two display screens. The optical element fixing mechanism includes a fixing cord, and the fixing cord is configured to fix the optical element to one of the two display screens.
US11382218B2
In a printed wiring board, when a plurality of wiring base bodies are collectively stacked, a constituent material of a first layer of an insulating resin film has a low melting point, so that the first layer is easily melted. Therefore, thermal welding on an upper surface of the wiring base body is reliably performed, and the wiring base bodies are bonded to each other with high reliability.
US11382215B2
An electronic element mounting substrate includes a first substrate that has a first main surface, has a rectangular shape, and has a mounting portion for an electronic element on the first main surface, and a second substrate that is located on a second main surface opposite to the first main surface, is made of a carbon material, has a rectangular shape, has a third main surface facing the second main surface and a fourth main surface opposite to the third main surface, in which the third main surface or the fourth main surface has heat conduction in a longitudinal direction greater than heat conduction in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, and that has a recessed portion on the fourth main surface.
US11382213B2
A printed circuit board includes: a first insulating layer; a first wiring layer at least partially buried in the first insulating layer; a second insulating layer disposed on an upper surface of the first insulating layer; a second wiring layer at least partially buried in the second insulating layer; and a cavity penetrating through the second insulating layer and a portion of the first insulating layer and exposing a portion of the upper surface of the first insulating layer as a bottom surface of the cavity. The first wiring layer includes a wiring pattern at least partially exposed from the first insulating layer by the cavity, an upper surface of the wiring pattern has a step structure with the upper surface of the first insulating layer exposed by the cavity, and a lower surface of the wiring pattern is coplanar with a lower surface of the first insulating layer.
US11382211B2
A flexible printed circuit board includes: a trunk portion; and a pair of branch portions as two portions branched from the trunk portion and arranged on a battery including multiple arrayed cells, in which for at least one branch portion of the pair of branch portions, bending is performed using a pair of parallel bending lines extending apart from the other branch portion as extending apart from the trunk portion, and the at least one branch portion is bent such that a direction of bending at one bending line of the pair of parallel bending lines and a direction of bending at the other bending line are directions opposite to each other.
US11382207B2
An electronic device module may include: a board; a ground electrode disposed on a first surface of the board; a sealing portion disposed on the first surface of the board; electronic devices mounted on the first surface of the board such that at least one of the electronic devices is embedded in the sealing portion; a first shielding wall connected to the ground electrode and disposed along a side surface of the sealing portion; and a shielding layer formed of a conductive material and disposed along a surface formed by the sealing portion and the first shielding wall.
US11382205B2
A heatsink shield with thermal-contact dimples can improve thermal-energy distribution in a radar assembly. The radar assembly includes a printed circuit board (PCB), the heatsink shield, a radome, and a housing. The PCB can include integrated circuits and other components, along with a thermally-conductive material that covers at least a portion of the PCB surfaces. The heatsink shield includes multiple dimples that thermally contact the thermally-conductive material. The heatsink shield is configured to distribute thermal energy produced at least in part by the PCB components to the housing. In this way, the described techniques and systems permit the radar assembly to better distribute thermal energy away from the PCB components to the rest of the PCB and through the housing.
US11382204B2
A multiple location dimming system may include a smart dimmer (e.g., a main load control device) and one or more remote dimmers (e.g., accessory devices) for controlling the amount of power delivered to a lighting load. The multiple location dimming system may be installed in place of a multiple location switch system (e.g., having three, four, or more multi-way switches), and may not require a neutral connection at any of the control devices of the multiple location dimming system. The main load control device and the accessory devices of the multiple location dimming system may be configured to display a present intensity level of a lighting load on one or more visual indicators. The accessory devices may have the same or different user interfaces as the main load control device, and may provide additional functionality over that which the main load control device offers.
US11382201B2
A lighting apparatus for show-business or entertainment sector comprises a light-radiation generator for projecting a lighting beam towards a lighting space that includes one or more undesired lighting zones. A motorization causes the lighting beam to scan the lighting space as a function of scanning-control signals as received by the lighting apparatus. Driving circuitry is provided, configured to control emission of the lighting beam, as well as processing circuitry configured to sense the scanning-control signals received and the scanning position of the lighting beam of the light-radiation generator. As a result of the detection of received scanning-control signals that can lead the lighting beam to being brought into the undesired lighting zone, the processing circuitry acts on the motorization and/or on the driving circuitry of the light-radiation generator, containing projection of the lighting beam directed towards the undesired lighting zone and preventing possible risks of a photobiological nature.
US11382193B1
A light fixture and a lighting system including the light fixture is disclosed. The light fixture can include a first light emitting diode (LED) on a printed circuit board (PCB) sized and configured to receive direct current power directly from a photovoltaic (PV) panel and sized to accommodate a maximum voltage output from the PV panel. The lighting system can include the PV panel and the light fixture with the first light emitting diode (LED) on the PCB.
US11382191B2
An electric power apparatus for an electric arc furnace comprises at least one electrode and is connectable to a power network to supply to the electrode the electric energy to generate an electric arc to melt a metal mass. The apparatus comprises an electric regulation unit interposed and connected to the power network and to the electrode and configured to regulate at least one electric quantity for powering the electrode. The apparatus comprises at least one detection device to detect the electric quantity, interposed between the electrode and the electric regulation unit, a positioning device to move the at least one electrode nearer to/away from the metal mass to be melted and a control and command unit.
US11382190B2
A defrosting system includes an RF signal source, two electrodes proximate to a cavity within which a load to be defrosted is positioned, a transmission path between the RF signal source and the electrodes, and an impedance matching network electrically coupled along the transmission path between the output of the RF signal source and the electrodes. The system also includes power detection circuitry coupled to the transmission path and configured to detect reflected signal power along the transmission path. A system controller is configured to modify, based on the reflected signal power, a value of a variable passive component of the impedance matching network to reduce the reflected signal power. The impedance matching network may be a single-ended network or a double-ended network.
US11382185B2
In the various illustrative embodiments herein, test devices are described with opposing sensor arrays, same side contacts, and an integrated heating element.
US11382172B2
It is presented a method for controlling uplink contribution from a plurality of remote radio heads in a combiner. The method is performed in a remote radio head controller and comprises the steps of: determining a first set of at least one remote radio head; determining a second set of at least one remote radio head, wherein the first set and the second set are disjoint; selecting a first uplink carrier for a first wireless device; selecting a second uplink carrier for a second wireless device; and applying a configuration such that the at least one remote radio head of the first set refrains from contributing on a first channel with uplink signals on the second uplink carrier and that the at least one remote radio head of the second set refrains from contributing on the first channel with uplink signals on the first uplink carrier.
US11382168B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to the field of communications technologies, and provide an RRC connection management method and apparatus, and a device. The method includes: sending, by UE when in an RRC idle mode, an uplink data request to an access network node by using a shared data sending resource, where the uplink data request includes uplink data and request information that is used for requesting to enter an RRC connected mode; and receiving, by the UE, an access network dedicated identifier of the UE from the access network node, where the access network dedicated identifier of the UE is determined by the access network node according to the request information, and the UE is in the RRC connected mode within a validity period of the access network dedicated identifier of the UE.
US11382164B2
The apparatus includes a processor configured to send, over a 3rd Generation Partnership project (3GPP) access, a notifying message regarding non-3GPP access to a user equipment, the user equipment being simultaneously registered to the communication network via the 3GPP access and via the non-3GPP access, the user equipment being in a connection management-idle state over the non-3GPP access. The method includes sending over a 3rd Generation Partnership project (3GPP) access a notifying message regarding non-3GPP access to a user equipment, the user equipment being simultaneously registered to a communication network via the 3GPP access and via the non-3GPP access, the user equipment being in a connection management-idle state over the non-3GPP access.
US11382157B2
Systems and methods described herein improve a customer experience for non-standalone cellular networks by displaying a secondary cell group (SCG) network icon after data activity ends while a user device likely remains in SCG coverage. When connected to the SCG, the user device detects inactivity on the connection and initiates a first timer, based on the detecting, while continuing to present an SCG-related icon. If the first timer expires while the user device is in an idle state, the user device initiates a second timer, while continuing to present the SCG-related icon. If the user device detects an active connection before expiration of the second timer, the user device initiates a third timer while continuing to present the SCG-related icon. If the user device fails to detect a connection to the SCG before expiration of the third timer, a master cell group (MCG)-related icon is displayed.
US11382154B2
A communication apparatus has a communication function for performing wireless communication using one of a first mode of performing first communication with a partner apparatus via another apparatus, a second mode of performing second communication with the partner apparatus not via another apparatus, and a third mode of concurrently performing the first communication and the second communication. When the third mode is the operation mode of the communication function, the communication apparatus controls the communication function so as to activate a function of the second communication after executing processing to establish a connection for the first communication. When the connection has not been established even after a predetermined time has elapsed since the start of connection processing for the first communication, the function for the second communication is activated even if the connection for the first communication has not been established.
US11382151B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that provide for truncated identification indicators. A user equipment (UE) may receive control signaling indicating a truncating configuration for an identification indicator. The truncating configuration may indicate a set of bits within an initial identification indicator to remove to generate a truncated identification indicator. The UE may remove the indicated set of bits and transmit the truncated identification indicator to a base station. The base station may receive the truncated identification indicator and reconstruct the initial identification indicator according to the truncating configuration. The base station may reconstruct the initial identification indicator by adding the set of bits (e.g., removed by the UE to generate the truncated identification indicator) to the truncated identification indicator.
US11382143B1
A multi-node communication network and a method. The multi-node communication network may include a plurality of nodes, wherein the multi-node communication network may be configured to use beaconless allocation of slots to reserve transmission resources. The method may include: providing a multi-node communication network comprising a plurality of nodes; and using beaconless allocation of slots to reserve transmission resources for the multi-node communication network.
US11382142B2
Provided are a random access method and device, a storage medium, and an electronic device. The method comprises: acquiring a random access resource pool or a random access type of a PRACH; receiving a random access response message according to the random access resource pool or the random access type. By means of the present disclosure, the technical problem in the related art that a resource conflict is caused due to the fact that a received RAR cannot be determined is solved.
US11382131B2
There is disclosed method of operating a receiving radio node (10, 100) in a wireless communication network, the method comprising receiving data signaling based on a data signaling indication, the data signaling indication indicating data signaling of an unspecified duration. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.
US11382116B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication in a shared spectrum. In some aspects, a user equipment may receive an indication of a set of starting offsets for an uplink communication, wherein the set of starting offsets includes at least one negative starting offset relative to a start of a slot or a mini-slot in which the uplink communication is configured to start; select a starting offset from the set of starting offsets; and transmit the uplink communication, wherein the uplink communication starts at a time indicated by the selected starting offset. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11382105B2
Methods and apparatuses for receiving and transmitting configuration information and a communication system. The method includes: configuring or predefining one or more transmission configuration indication states by a terminal equipment for one or more demodulation reference signal port groups. Hence, even in scenarios such as multiple TRPs or multiple panels, the receiving device may correctly and punctually receive transmission information transmitted by the transmitting device.
US11382100B2
Wireless communications systems and methods related to scheduling and communicating in an uplink direction over a medium shared by multiple network operating entities are provided. A first wireless communication device transmits, to a second wireless communication device, a message indicating an uplink allocation in a transmission slot, the uplink allocation including an allocation size based on an allowable listen-before-talk (LBT) delay in the transmission slot. The first wireless communication device receives, from the second wireless communication device, an uplink communication signal in the transmission slot, the uplink communication signal including an uplink data portion based on the allocation size and a filler portion associated with an LBT delay in the transmission slot.
US11382089B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure provide an information transmission method and device, a storage medium and an electronic device. The method includes that: a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) transmitted by a base station is received; and Channel State Information (CSI) is transmitted to the base station according to the PDCCH.
US11382077B2
A physical uplink control channel transmission method, a terminal, and a network-side device are provided. The method includes: determining a target cyclic shift parameter corresponding to each symbol according to an initial cyclic shift parameter and a random value associated with at least an index of the symbol; sending a physical uplink control channel according to the target cyclic shift parameter.
US11382073B2
A method of transmitting control information, a method of receiving control information, a base station and a terminal are provided. The method of transmitting control information includes: identifying the control information, wherein the control information at least comprises a first feature field and a second feature field, and a bit value of the first feature field is used to indicate a function and a length of the second feature field; sending the control information to a terminal device.
US11382071B2
Various systems and methods for establishing, configuring, and operating multi-access edge computing (MEC) communications, such as in connection with management of preferred channel allocations between two or more vehicle-to-everything (V2X) Radio Access Technologies (RATs), are discussed herein. In embodiments, a resource allocation (for example, channel allocations) for vehicle user equipment (vUEs) is determined based on a number of vUEs supporting each of one or more V2X RATs detected in one or more coverage areas of one or more Road Side Units (RSUs). Other embodiments are described and/or claimed.
US11382068B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive information identifying a semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) configuration for a broadcast or multicast (broadcast/multicast) communication. The UE may receive the broadcast/multicast communication in accordance with the SPS configuration. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11382067B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication method for simultaneous transmit and receive of data and a wireless communication terminal using the same, and more particularly, to a wireless communication method and an apparatus thereof which can efficiently perform simultaneous data transmission and reception even in an overlapped BSS environment. To this end, provided are a wireless communication method of a terminal, including: performing a backoff procedure for transmitting data; transmitting a first RTS frame when a backoff counter of the backoff procedure is expired; setting a transmission timer for waiting for transmitting the data when a second RTS frame is received in response to the transmitted first RTS frame; and waiting for transmitting the data based on the set transmission timer and a wireless communication terminal using the same.
US11382064B2
A method for determining paging time, which includes that: a user equipment (UE) determines a paging time unit corresponding to the UE according to an identifier of the UE, configuration parameters of paging time units, and preset rules, where the paging time units comprise a paging time unit of a first type and a paging time unit of a second type, and paging time units of different types correspond to different preset rules. A UE and a network device are also provided.
US11382060B2
The present invention provides a method and system for paging User Equipment (UE). According to embodiments, repetition of paging can help UEs to more reliably receive pages when they are operating in idle mode DRX, and in particular enhanced idle mode DRX (eDRX). The UE and the eNB are cooperatively configured to determine an eDRX time interval and a value for paging occasion (PO) repetition based on one or more parameters, such as UE mobility requirements; UE power requirements; latency requirements, and timing discrepancies between base stations. The base station transmits pages, and the UE monitors for said pages, with timing that is based on the eDRX time interval and the PO repetition values.
US11382059B2
A method for sending a positioning signal includes determining, by a first device, a first target access network useable to transmit the positioning signal. The first target access network includes at least a first access network or a second access network. The method further includes sending, by the first device, the positioning signal to a second device by the first target access network.
US11382050B2
Methods and apparatus for distinguishing between an antenna of a user equipment (UE) being blocked by a cover or by human tissue. The transmission power of uplink signals may be adjusted accordingly, with higher transmission power for open space (OS) or a cover and lower transmission power for tissue. One example method for wireless communications by a UE generally includes receiving a plurality of cross-polarization captures from multiple antenna arrays of the UE; detecting that the cross-polarization captures correspond to a first OS circle in an in-phase/quadrature (IQ) plane out of a set of possible OS circles for the UE; based on the detection, assigning the first OS circle as an active OS circle for the UE and deactivating other possible OS circles in the set; determining an environmental scenario corresponding to the active OS circle; and transmitting a signal using a transmission power based on the determined scenario.
US11382049B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method for transmitting and receiving data in a wireless communication system. A method by which a terminal transmits a power headroom report (PHR) in a wireless communication system, according to one embodiment of the present disclosure, can comprise the steps of: receiving signaling information including at least one indicator indicating PHR reporting for at least one cell among cells for a dual connectivity operation; and transmitting at least one PHR for the at least one cell corresponding to the at least one indicator. The at least one cell can be a primary cell (Pcell) serving the terminal and/or a primary secondary cell (PScell) serving the terminal.
US11382048B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may determine that uplink communications are to be performed between the UE and a first cell group associated with a first radio access technology (RAT) and between the UE and a second cell group associated with a second RAT. The UE may determine that the UE is configured for power sharing for the uplink communications with the first cell group associated with the first RAT and the second cell group associated with the second RAT. The UE may calculate, based at least in part on the power sharing and the uplink communications, a power reduction factor for the uplink communications between the UE and the second cell group. The UE may perform the uplink communications with the first cell group and selectively perform the uplink communications with the second cell group.
US11382043B1
Methods and systems are disclosed that can help to select an enhancement mode for uplink coordinated multipoint (CoMP). An exemplary method involves: determining a measure of remaining battery power of a first user equipment (UE), wherein the first UE is capable of uplink coordinated multipoint (CoMP) communication; determining a particular UE type of the first UE, wherein the particular UE type is one of a plurality of possible UE types; based at least in part on (a) the particular UE type of the first UE, and (b) the measure of remaining battery power of the first UE, selecting either a battery-saving mode or a throughput-enhancement mode as an uplink CoMP enhancement mode for the first UE; and providing uplink CoMP service to the first UE according to the selected uplink CoMP enhancement mode.
US11382037B2
A method of operating a terminal device in a wireless telecommunications system comprising the terminal device and a plurality of network access nodes, wherein the method comprises: establishing first wake-up signalling configuration information for a first network access node covering a current location for the terminal device, wherein the first wake-up signalling configuration information comprises an indication of a first wake-up signalling format to be transmitted by the first network access node in advance of transmitting a paging message to indicate the terminal device should seek to decode the paging message, and an indication of an associated first wake-up signalling validity period for the first wake-up signalling format.
US11382034B2
A network system comprises a first logic block providing a link to a first network via an access point of a WLAN and a second logic block communicating with a node of a second network (such as a WPAN) and configured to provide a link between the node and the first network via the access point. The network system is configured to maintain continuous connections to both the access point and the node while receiving power. The second logic block can communicate with the node using a modified communication protocol that is only partially compliant with an 802.11x communications protocol. A wireless hub can integrate a WPAN with a WLAN including, in part, a wireless circuit compliant with the WLAN standard (such as an 802.11x standard), a processor, and a memory. The wireless circuit can connect to the WPAN without losing connectivity (such as association and synchronization) to the WLAN.
US11382033B2
A system described herein may provide for the use of artificial intelligence/machine learning (“AI/MIL”) techniques to model energy usage information and energy saving techniques in various locations or regions (e.g., sectors) associated with one or more radio access networks (“RANs”) of a wireless network. The system may determine energy saving techniques, such as radio frequency (“RF”) transmission modification in time and/or frequency domains, antenna mode modification, cell sleep mode, beamforming parameters, and/or other suitable techniques to modify energy consumption at such sectors. The system may balance energy savings with maintaining Quality of Service (“QoS”) metrics at an acceptable level.
US11382032B2
The present disclosure provides a cell access method and device. The method is applied to a base station and can include generating RRC information that is used for instructing a terminal to determine a speed state of the terminal and a cell type of a cell to be accessed. The method can further include sending the RRC information to the terminal, so that the terminal determines the speed state and the cell type according to the RRC information and initiates access to the cell to be accessed when determining that the speed state and the cell type meet a preset cell access condition.
US11382020B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide an electronic device including processing circuitry and a method for beam failure recovery. The processing circuitry can determine whether beam failure occurs on at least one of a plurality of cells configured for serving an electronic device. When the beam failure is determined to occur on the at least one of the plurality of cells, the processing circuitry can send an uplink message that includes a first portion and a second portion to a network. The first portion indicating the beam failure is transmitted using a physical random access channel (PRACH) resource. The second portion indicates at least one of cell information of the at least one of the plurality of cells and new beam information of one or more new candidate beams for the at least one of the plurality of cells and is transmitted using a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) resource.
US11382015B2
A processing apparatus and method for network indication and a communications system in a procedure of RC-IWK. The processing method includes: a base station determines whether UE context release indication contains information on a cause of release indicating that a traffic of a UE is steered from the LTE to the WLAN, when the UE context release indication transmitted by an MME; and initiates a connection reconfiguration procedure to the UE so that the UE is kept in a connected state, in a case where the UE context release indication contains the information on the cause of release indicating that the traffic of the UE is steered from the LTE to the WLAN. Hence, a case, for example, where the UE not expecting to use the LTE is steered to the LTE system again, will not occur.
US11382012B2
A method and apparatus for deprioritizing access on an unlicensed band based on user equipment (UE) preference in a wireless communication system is provided. A wireless device attempts to access a cell on an unlicensed frequency and starts a timer. When the timer expires, if the wireless device is a licensed preferred wireless device, the wireless device deprioritizes the unlicensed frequency. If the wireless device is an unlicensed preferred wireless device, the wireless device deprioritizes only the cell. The wireless device performs a cell reselection according to the de-prioritization.
US11382008B2
A system and method of communication, comprising establishing a first connection between the user equipment and a first non-public packet switched network which assigns a first non-public packet switched network address to user equipment; establishing an open signaling channel which communicates between the user equipment and a remote server through a cellular telephone network according to a public switched telephone network address associated with an International mobile subscriber identity; communicating an identification of the first non-public network and the first non-public packet switched network address over the open signaling channel to the remote server; and establishing a real time voice communication from the remote server to the user equipment through the first connection based on a call routed through the remote server to the public switched telephone network address.
US11382007B2
This disclosure generally relates to systems, devices, apparatuses, products, and methods for wireless communication. A communication system may include a user equipment (UE) that receives a configuration for contention-free random access (CFRA) and a configuration for contention-based random access (CBRA). The UE determines a first random access resource. The first random access resource maps to one or more beams from a target base station. The UE determines a beam quality associated with the first random access resource. The UE initiates a random access request using the CFRA when the first random access resource is a contention-free resource, and the beam quality of the first random access resource is above a threshold beam quality. The UE initiates the random access request using the CBRA when the first random access resource is the contention-free resource, and the beam quality of the first random access resource is below the threshold beam quality.
US11382005B2
The one disclosure of the present specification proposes a method for managing session. The method may be performed by a session management function, SMF, node and comprise: generating a packet data unit, PDU, session for a user equipment, UE; receiving, from an access and mobility management function, AMF, node, information about the UE; and determining, based on the information, whether to transmit an indication for notifying a user plane function, UPF, node to discard a downlink data for the PDU session of the UE. The determination may be dependent on whether the PDU session corresponds to a first service provided to the UE.
US11382001B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a wireless broadband communication method, device, and system. The method provided in an embodiment of the present invention includes: establishing, by a macro base station, a Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection with a user equipment (UE); receiving, by a small cell, a configuration message sent, through a wired or wireless interface, by the macro base station; and establishing, by the small cell, a user plane connection between the small cell and the UE based on the RRC connection and the configuration message, and establishing a data bearer with the UE on the user plane connection.
US11381998B2
In order to enable, even when there exist a plurality of apparatuses configured to perform processing of an upper layer of the transport layer for one apparatus configured to perform processing of the transport layer or a lower layer, reliable communication with each of the apparatuses configured to perform the processing of the upper layer, via the transport layer, an apparatus includes a generating section 141 configured to generate a transport layer packet including identification information in a packet region different from a service data unit, the identification information being used in an upper layer of a transport layer, and a transmission processing section 143 configured to transmit the transport layer packet.
US11381988B2
Disclosed in the present application are an apparatus and method in a wireless communication system, and a computer readable storage medium. The apparatus comprises a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to determine one or more height thresholds for a user equipment according to at least one of base station-related information, cell-related information and user equipment-related information. According to at least one aspect of embodiments of the present disclosure, a proper height threshold is set for a communication scenario of an unmanned aerial vehicle, which helps to resolve and alleviate various problems that may exist in the communication scenario of the unmanned aerial vehicle.
US11381982B2
An example method includes obtaining a plurality of data items. Each data item includes an indication of a particular location, an indication that a wireless signal from a first access point was observed at that location, and an indication of a time at which the wireless signal from the first access point was observed at that location. The method also includes determining a locational stability of the first access point based on the data items. Determining the locational stability of the first access point includes clustering the plurality of data items into one or more clusters based on the locations indicated in the plurality of data items, determining whether the N most recent data items are associated with a common cluster, and determining whether a time span between the N most recent data items exceeds a threshold period of time.
US11381978B2
Method and device for allocating resources in a radio communication system providing resources for uplink transmission and/or for downlink transmission for a plurality of operators providing a service to a user equipment via the radio communication system, wherein the device includes a processor, memory and a transceiver, the processor being adapted to select a time division duplex configuration having an allocation of uplink transmission time and/or an allocation of downlink transmission time based on information regarding a sharing characteristic for the radio resources defined by a service level agreement between operators sharing the radio resources.
US11381968B2
The invention relates to a communication system (1) comprising a local mobile communication terminal (10) and a remote mobile communication terminal (20), configured to establish a direct mode link after prior authentication of the remote mobile communication terminal, the local mobile communication terminal (10) further comprising: a subscription database (11) adapted to include security information; a security management entity emulator (12) adapted to emulate an access interface to a subscription database (11), and, a proxy module (13) configured to relay an authentication request to the security management entity emulator (12) for the authentication of said remote mobile communication terminal (20) to the subscription database (11) of said local mobile communication terminal (10).
US11381963B2
A wireless communication method and device are provided. The method comprises operations as follows. A transmitted first data packet is processed by using a first key through a first protocol stack. A transmitted second data packet is processed by using a second key through a second protocol stack. The first protocol stack and the second protocol stack share at least one protocol layer.
US11381962B1
A device detection system is configured to determine whether a device is located within a venue. The device detection system provides user identifiers associated with a device to an anonymization server. The anonymization server provides anonymous identifiers to the device detection system corresponding to the user identifiers. A content distribution system provides content items for a campaign associated with the venue to users. The content distribution system provides user identifiers to the anonymization server and receives anonymous identifiers from the anonymization server. The content distribution system provides the anonymous identifiers to the device detection system. The device detection system compares the sets of anonymous identifiers to identify users that received a content item and subsequently visited the venue.
US11381953B2
A method of a first transportation vehicle for vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication, which includes receiving a first message from a remote transmitter having first information on a hazard related to a first geolocation indicated in the first message; determining second information on a second transportation vehicle; and comparing the first information and the second information and selectively transmitting a forwarded message based on the content of the first message to the second transportation vehicle based on the comparison of the first and the second information.
US11381945B2
Methods and systems for using and/or storing identity data associated with a device to direct communications to another device are described herein. A server may store identity data, such as subscriber identity module (SIM) data, associated with a device or user. The SIM data may be used to authenticate and/or register the device or user with a mobile network. Using the SIM data, other devices may use the capabilities of the first device. The server may receive, from another device, a request to access one or more capabilities of the first device. Based on the request, the server may send a request to register the SIM data with a mobile network. After registration of the SIM data with the mobile network, the server may be used to direct communications to the other device.
US11381944B2
The present invention relates to a method and device for transmitting a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) signal by a V2X transmission terminal in a wireless communication system. More particularly, the present invention comprises the steps of: broadcasting/multicasting a V2X signal to a plurality of reception terminals; and checking acknowledgement/negative-acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) for the plurality of reception terminals in an ACK/NACK resource region specifically associated with the V2X signal.
US11381943B2
A method includes obtaining, by a control platform, request information, where the request information carries an identifier of user equipment (UE) and an identifier of a vehicle-mounted device, and sending indication information to the UE based on the request information, where the indication information instructs the UE to disable or enable a vehicle-to-pedestrian (V2P) function to forbid or allow the UE to transmit a V2P message.
US11381942B2
Disclosed is a playback system including a master device and slave devices. The master device executes the following steps: selecting data for playback; obtaining the position information of the slave devices through a wireless positioning technique; ascertaining a distribution pattern according to the position information; comparing the distribution pattern with at least a part of the patterns of multiple predetermined modes and thereby selecting one from the predetermined modes as a playback mode; and determining the playback parameters of the slave devices according to the position information and the playback mode, or notifying the slave devices of their playback roles based on the playback mode and the position information to let the slave devices determine their own playback parameters. Each slave device includes a wireless communication circuit available to the wireless positioning technique, and the slave devices play synchronously according to the master device's control.
US11381940B1
A modified computer program for a mobile device, tethered for use with a specific server, including tethering data (metadata tethered to the specific server; features or functions tethered to the specific server). Servers can provide databases, remote processing or storage, virtual machines, or specialized hardware or software that performs specific functions. A method for developers to submit mobile apps for review and tethering by agents, who examine descriptions of, and possibly try out, those mobile apps. Agents can determine whether to modify a mobile app to tether (or re-tether) it, and if so, can provide tethering data. The system either recognize elements in the untethered mobile app that can be modified, and modify them to tether it; or, the system provides software hooks for execution from within the mobile app. The system automatically submits the tethered mobile app to an app store. Tethered mobile apps are modified to both end-user login and login to the tethered server at once. The system automatically recognizes when end-users download and use tethered mobile apps, alerts the developer of the mobile app, and automates payment from the server to the developer.
US11381935B2
Inter-alia, a method is disclosed comprising: obtaining one or more first fallback objects indicative of a geographic area that is covered by one or more cells of a communication network; obtaining one or more pieces of cell information indicative of a number of positioning requests that a respective cell of the one or more cells has received; determining one or more second fallback objects out of the one or more fallback objects; determining for an area of the respective second fallback object in that the needed level of accuracy for determining a position is not achievable, one or more cells based at least partially on the one or more pieces of cell information; and outputting the determined one or more second fallback objects and/or the determined one or more cells for usage in a generation of a radio map. It is further disclosed an according apparatus, computer program and system.
US11381932B2
A guidance information providing system includes a plurality of mobile shop vehicles and a server device. Each mobile shop vehicle of the mobile shop vehicles includes first circuitry and the server device includes second circuitry. The first circuitry is configured to acquire location information on the mobile shop vehicle and configured to send the location information on the mobile shop vehicle. The second circuitry is configured to acquire location information on the mobile shop vehicle, configured to generate map information indicating a layout of the plurality of mobile shop vehicles, and configured to output the map information.
US11381930B2
A system and method for creating a synchronized dynamic geolocation area and augmenting a view of the synchronized dynamic geolocation area with content based on one or more display parameters may be provided. An initiating user may generate a dynamic geolocation area that may track the location of the initiating user as the initiating user moves, and indicate content to associate with the geolocation area and one or more display parameters to associate with the content. A recipient user may be provided with an augmented view of the geolocation area based on the content and the display parameters. Further, a location of the recipient user may be synchronized with the geolocation area, such that as the recipient user or the geolocation area move, the augmented view may be modified to account for the movement.
US11381918B2
Disclosed herein is a nano membrane. The nano membrane includes an insulating layer having a thickness corresponding to a diameter of each of metal nanowires and configured to contain the metal nanowires therein, and the metal nanowires arranged to cross and having portions of side surfaces which protrude from one surface of the insulating layer.
US11381910B2
An electronic device includes a housing surrounding an exterior of the electronic device and including at least one opening, a sensor module including at least one sensor, a sound output device including sound output circuitry configured to output an acoustic-signal through the at least one opening, a memory, and a processor electrically connected to the sensor module and the sound output device, wherein the processor may be configured to: determine whether the electronic device is in a state where a foreign substance has entered into the electronic device through the at least one opening, determine whether the electronic device is in a first disposition state using the sensor module based at least on determining that the electronic device is in the state where the foreign substance has entered into the electronic device, and control the electronic device to output a specified acoustic-signal having a specified frequency band and a specified waveform through the sound output device based on the electronic device being in the first disposition state.
US11381905B2
An Acoustic meta material (AMM) device for passive amplification of sound is described. The AMM amplifier device employs a deep sub-wavelength resonator design with high refraction index, which uses resonant amplification of the bass sound. An array of sub wavelength, single frequency channels are used, each resonating and amplifying at a different frequency in the bass frequency range. This is accomplished by having many different channels, each with an opening extending in a same, common, or substantially common direction. Thus, sound emanating from a speaker in a first direction continues in this direction until reaching and entering the openings of the plurality of channels. The sound from the speaker is in all transmitted frequencies of, for example, a musical recording or the like. However, only a specific frequency and/or harmonics thereof are substantially propagated through each channel.
US11381897B2
Disclosed is an eartip for an earphone. The eartip includes a fixing portion formed to have a cylindrical shape with a bottom fixedly coupled to a nozzle of an earphone, a variable portion formed to have a cylindrical shape with a bottom coupled to a top of the fixing portion and to have a length and bending which are variable, and a contact portion formed of a flexible material and including an inner section having a cylindrical shape with a bottom coupled to a top of the variable portion and an outer section extending to be rounded downward from a top end of the inner section to surround at least parts of the inner section, the variable portion, and the fixing portion and to come into contact with an external auditory meatus of a user's ear.
US11381891B2
Systems and methods are provided for flexible wavelength assignments in a communication network. An optical adapter is provided for the systems and methods. The optical adapter has a first interface connected to an optical switch via a first optical cable, a second interface connected to a plurality of server ports via a plurality of second optical cables, and a controller coupled to a switch controller of the optical switch. The controller is configured to perform: obtaining instructions from the switch controller; and assigning, based on the instructions, one or more wavelengths for a time slot to one of the server ports, wherein the controller performs the assigning without direct communication with the server ports.
US11381882B2
A notifiable event pertaining to a series of videos may be detected, wherein detecting the notifiable event comprises searching a log pertaining to the series of videos. A user who has watched a portion of at least one video in the series of videos or at least one video in the series of videos may be determined, wherein the user is assigned an affinity score indicating a user interest to continue viewing the series of videos. A notification identifying the notifiable event pertaining to the series of videos may be generated, the notification comprising a reference to an unwatched next video in the series of videos. The notification may be transmitted to the user.
US11381880B2
Methods, systems, and media for presenting suggestions of media content are provided. In some implementations, the method comprises: determining an item of media content; determining a probability of the item of media content being watched at one or more times based on at least one of: a characteristic of a person; a characteristic of a group; and a characteristic of the item of media content; creating a user interface which suggests that the item of media content be watched at one or more times based on the determined probability; and presenting the user interface.
US11381877B2
A method for processing hybrid playing of multi-type multimedia includes: receiving a return instruction; determining whether a current address is a homepage address of the playing apparatus; when the current address is the homepage address, obtaining state switching information of a broadcast TV video and a video on demand (Vod) played by the playing apparatus; determining whether the obtained state switching information meets a preset condition; and when the state switching information meets the preset condition, cleaning up residual data of playing the Vod.
US11381871B2
An electronic apparatus includes a communicator connected to a Local Area Network (LAN), an inputter, a memory storing at least one computer executable instruction, and a processor. The processor outputs a content of a first channel received through the communicator, receives information associated with contents of a plurality of channels through the communicator and stores the information in the memory while the content of the first channel is being output, and based on an instruction change the first channel to a second channel while the content of the first channel is output, acquires information associated with the content of the second channel among the stored information associated with the contents of the plurality of channels from the memory, and decodes the content of the second channel received through the communicator by using the acquired information on the content of the second channel and outputs the decoded content.
US11381865B2
A media content presentation system extends other devices' capability of sharing media content via a presentation device. A computing device, if coupled to a plug-in device of the media content presentation system, can present media content via the presentation device. The computing device provides the media content to the plug-in device via a proprietary communication channel established by the plug-in device. The plug-in device then passes the media content to the display device for presentation. The display device receives user input and provides the user input to the computing device for adjustment of the media content according to the user input.
US11381863B2
There is provided a system including a memory and a processor configured to display a programming guide for a first media channel including a first media content scheduled to play at a first broadcast time and a second media channel including a second media content scheduled to play at a second broadcast time, receive a user input for creating a custom channel, the custom channel including the first media content obtained from the first media channel and the second media content obtained from the second media channel, create a custom content for the custom channel, in response to the user input, by obtaining the first media content from the first media channel at the first broadcast time and obtaining the second media content from the second media channel at the second broadcast time, receive a request for playing the custom channel, and display the custom content of the custom channel on a display.
US11381860B2
Methods and apparatus to correct for deterioration of a demographic model to associate demographic information with media impression information are disclosed. An example method includes estimating first and second ages of audience members based on demographic information; estimating a third age of an audience member who is not included in the audience members; applying a window function to the second ages to determine a distribution of ages based on the third age; multiplying window values by the first ages to determine corrected first age components; dividing a total of the corrected first age components by a sum of the window values to determine an estimated age of the audience member at a first time; and determining the corrected age of the audience member at a second time based on the estimated age of the audience member at the first time and a time difference between the first and second times.
US11381855B2
In one aspect, a method includes transmitting a request for supplemental content for use by a content-presentation device that is scheduled to perform a content-modification operation at a start-time and, in response to the request: receiving, into a first buffer of the content-presentation device, first supplemental content having a first video quality that is higher than or equal to a predefined threshold, and receiving, into a second, different buffer of the content-presentation device, second supplemental content having a second video quality lower than the predefined threshold. The method also includes within a predefined time period before the start-time, determining whether an entirety of the first supplemental content has been received into the first buffer. The method also includes based on the determination, selecting supplemental content from a set of supplemental content that includes the first and second supplemental content, and performing the content-modification operation using the selected supplemental content.
US11381853B1
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can be configured to determine a request for a video from a client device, wherein the video is associated with a plurality of reframed versions of the video. A reframed version of the video to provide in response to the request can be determined based at least in part on a consumption surface associated with the client device. The reframed version of the video can be provided to the client device for display.
US11381848B2
Methods, systems and devices for using flexible and efficient partitioning techniques are described. An exemplary method for visual media decoding includes applying, to a current visual media block, a partitioning process that splits the current visual media block into exactly four sub-blocks including at least one sub-block that has a size different from half of a width of the current visual media block times half of a height of the current visual media block, decoding, based on a bitstream representation, the four sub-blocks, and decoding, based on the four sub-blocks and the partitioning process, the current visual media block.
US11381846B2
An image processing device including a decoding section configured to decode an image from an encoded stream, a horizontal filtering section configured to apply a deblocking filter to a vertical block boundary within an image to be decoded by the decoding section, a vertical filtering section configured to apply a deblocking filter to a horizontal block boundary within an image to be decoded by the decoding section, and a control section configured to cause the horizontal filtering section to filter in parallel a plurality of vertical block boundaries included in a processing unit containing a plurality of coding units and cause the vertical filtering section to filter in parallel a plurality of horizontal block boundaries included in the processing unit.
US11381842B2
The present disclosure provides a computer-implemented method for encoding video. The method includes: determining whether a coded video sequence (CVS) contains equal number of profile, tier and level (PTL) syntax structures and output layer sets (OLSs); and in response to the CVS containing equal number of PTL syntax structures and OLSs, coding the bitstream without signaling a first PTL syntax element specifying an index, to a list of PTL syntax structures in the VPS, of a PTL syntax structure that applies to a corresponding OLS in the VPS.
US11381837B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for video coding. The method includes obtaining a reference picture in a reference picture list associated with a current coding block; generating an inter prediction based on a motion vector from a current picture to the reference picture; obtaining an intra prediction mode associated with the current coding block; generating an intra prediction of the current coding block based on the intra prediction mode; generating a final prediction of the current coding block by weighted averaging the inter prediction and the intra prediction; and determining whether the current coding block is treated as inter mode or intra mode for most probable mode (MPM) based intra mode prediction.
US11381821B2
A system includes code including obtaining code to obtain a first syntax element that indicates a first quantization index value; at least one second syntax element that indicates an offset value, a second quantization index value for another coefficient by combining the first quantization index value and the offset value to obtain a combined value, and modifying the combined value to be a predetermined minimum value as the second quantization index value, fourth obtaining code to obtain a quantization step size that corresponds to the second quantization index value; and determining code to determine a mode in which the coded image is to be decoded based on determining whether the first quantization index value is equal to a quantization index value associated with lossless coding, and based on determining whether the offset value is less than or equal to the quantization index value associated with the lossless coding.
US11381805B2
Disclosed techniques include audio and visual stream rendering modification based on device rotation metric. One or more media streams are received from a server. The one or more media streams are targeted for display on a handheld media stream playback device. An orientation of the handheld device is determined during playback of at least one of the one or more media streams on the handheld device. A change in orientation of the handheld device is detected. The change occurs during playback of the at least one of the one or more media streams. Based on detecting the change in orientation, a rotation angle of the handheld device is calculated. Based on the rotation angle, the playback of at least one of the one or more media streams is changed on the handheld device.
US11381804B2
An approach for projecting light may be implemented using a acousto-optical depth switch that uses surface acoustic waves produced along a substrate to guide image light to different areas. The surface acoustic waves may be generated on a substrate using a transducer. Surface acoustic waves of different frequencies can guide image light onto different optical elements at different physical positions. The optical elements may be configured to show objects in an image at different distances from a viewer.
US11381790B2
A video processing device according to an embodiment includes: a determination unit configured to determine whether pixel shift display is performed according to an original video; a control signal generation unit configured to generate a control signal indicating ON/OFF of the pixel shift display and a pixel display position when the pixel shift display is turned ON, based on a determination result by the determination unit; a display image generation unit configured to generate a display image from the original video, based on the determination result by the determination unit; and an addition unit configured to add the control signal to the display image.
US11381786B2
Disclosed are methods and systems for a security camera. In one embodiment, a mobile application is disclosed that generates a transparent camera activity with a camera preview undetectable by human eye. The camera activity can run on top of other applications of a mobile computing device and capture images and/or video of an unauthorized user without being detected.
US11381780B2
This disclosure is directed to an item-identifying cart that may be utilized by a user in a materials handling facility to automatically identify items that the user places in their cart, and update a virtual shopping cart to include items taken by the user. The mobile cart may include four capture assemblies that are disposed proximate to each of the four corners of a basket of the cart, and oriented such that their respective optical axes are directed towards an interior of a perimeter of the top of the basket, and above the top of the basket. The capture assemblies may include proximity sensors that are used to detect movement above the top of the basket, LEDs that illuminate items, and cameras that generate image data representing the items as they are placed in, or removed from, the cart.
US11381777B2
Parameters for overlay handling for immersive teleconferencing and telepresence for remote terminals
A method, computer program, and computer system for video conferencing is provided. Video data associated with an immersive teleconferencing session is received. A parameter associated with the video data is identified, whereby the parameter specifies overlay data associated with the immersive teleconferencing session. The video data is displayed with one or more overlays based on the identified parameter.
US11381776B2
A camera positioning device for eye-to-eye alignment in video conference applications is provided. The device can include a camera, a cord going from the camera to a computer, and a positioning component (e.g., a bracket) that connects the camera to the computer. The bracket allows for manual adjustment of the cord attached to the camera to maintain vertical and horizontal positioning and rotational stability of a camera for improved eye-to-eye alignment in video conference applications.
US11381764B2
The present disclosure relates to a sensor element and an electronic device that can further reduce noise. In a solid-state imaging apparatus that performs AD conversion in a pixel, a comparator circuit included in the pixel at least has: a comparing unit that compares a pixel signal output from a pixel circuit with a reference signal which is a slope signal whose level monotonously decreases with time; a band limiting unit that performs band limiting by narrowing a band of a signal that changes according to a result of comparison by the comparing unit; and an amplification unit that amplifies the signal whose band has been limited through the band limiting unit. The present technology can be applied to a solid-state imaging apparatus that performs AD conversion in a pixel, for example.
US11381739B2
An apparatus, system, and method are described for providing real-time capture, processing, and distribution of panoramic virtual reality (VR) content of a live event. One or more triggering events are identified and used to generate graphics and/or audio on client VR devices. For example, one embodiment of a method comprises: capturing video of an event at an event venue with a plurality of cameras to produce a corresponding plurality of video streams; generating a virtual reality (VR) stream based on the plurality of video streams; transmitting the VR stream to a plurality of client VR devices, wherein the client VR devices are to render VR environments based on the VR stream; detecting a triggering event during the event; and transmitting an indication of the triggering event to the plurality of client VR devices, wherein a first client VR device is to generate first event-based graphics and/or first event-based audio in accordance with the indication.
US11381738B2
A method for a mobile device to photograph a panoramic image includes: photographing, by a camera in the mobile device, a first image at a first time, and sensing, by a sensor in the mobile device, a first directing vector when the camera photographs the first image; sensing, by the sensor, an actually measured directing vector of the camera at a second time; photographing, by the camera, a second image, and sensing, by the sensor, a second directing vector when the camera photographs the second image, in case that a first trigger photographing threshold or a second trigger photographing threshold is reached; determining whether a photographing stop condition is satisfied, in case that the photographing stop condition is satisfied, generating a panoramic image based on the images photographed by the camera.
US11381737B2
An image quality of a captured image captured by a camera is adjusted to be close to a predetermined image quality. A first image quality evaluation value is obtained on the basis of developed image data obtained by performing development processing on captured image data. An image quality parameter group in the development processing is obtained to decrease a difference between the first image quality evaluation value and a second image quality evaluation value serving as a reference. Alternatively, a plurality of first image quality evaluation values is obtained on the basis of a plurality of pieces of developed image data obtained by performing development processing on each of a plurality of pieces of captured image data. An image quality parameter group in the development processing is obtained to decrease a difference between each of the plurality of first image quality evaluation values and a second image quality evaluation value.
US11381731B2
In order to provide a tilt control device capable of performing tilt control optimal at a high speed by controlling both a focus position and a tilt angle even when a scene changes such as in a case in which a subject changes, there is provided an imaging apparatus including a tilt control unit that performs tilt control by driving at least one of an imaging device and an imaging optical system, a focus lens driving unit that drives a focus lens, and a control unit that has a plurality of control modes for performing focus correction using at least one of the tilt control unit and the focus lens driving unit and selects one of the plurality of control modes in accordance with the number of subject areas displayed on an image screen.
US11381726B2
Systems, methods and non-transitory computer readable media for generating tasks from images of construction sites are provided. For example, image data captured from a construction site using at least one image sensor may be obtained. The image data may be analyzed to determine at least one desired task related to the construction site and to determine at least one parameter of the at least one desired task. The determined at least one parameter of the at least one desired task to provide information configured to cause the performance of the at least one desired task.
US11381724B2
The exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure relates to a camera module including a bobbin, a housing positioned at an outside of the bobbin, an elastic member coupled to the bobbin and the housing, a foreign object exhaust passage concavely formed at an upper surface of the housing, and an opening formed at the housing to open at least a part of the foreign object exhaust passage to an inside of the housing, wherein the foreign object exhaust passage is overlapped on at least a part of the housing-coupled elastic member to a vertical direction, whereby it is easy to wash foreign objects positioned between an elastic member and a housing to reduce an auto focus tilt defects generated after assembly.
US11381717B2
A camera module includes an imaging sensor, a light emitter, and a circuit board. The circuit board includes first and second rigid printed wiring boards, and a foldable flexible printed wiring board connecting the two. A surface of the first rigid printed wiring board on which the imaging sensor is mounted has a holder which is configured to hold the second rigid printed wiring board in a state in which a surface of the second rigid printed wiring board on which the light emitter is mounted and the surface on which the imaging sensor is mounted face the same direction. The holder is arranged at a position which is different from the imaging sensor, and holds the second rigid printed wiring board at a height higher than the surface of the first rigid printed wiring board.
US11381712B2
A method is described in which sets of corresponding colorimetric values are obtained. In a set, a colorimetric value is associated with a device color. A number of device colors are selected according to the color differences between colorimetric values associated with the same device color. A color calibration pattern is elaborated for a printer to be calibrated using the selected device colors and calibration is performed using the sets of colorimetric values.
US11381706B2
An image processing apparatus includes a processor configured to position a content image based on content data in a first area of a recording medium, and position a partial target image contained in the content image in a second area of the recording medium different from the first area.
US11381700B1
Provided is an image forming apparatus that determines the usage status of a function by a user and improves power consumption efficiency. The image forming apparatus is capable of switching between an energy saving mode and a normal mode in which power consumption is larger than that of the energy saving mode. The power supply control unit determines whether or not power is supplied depending on the usage status of the function by the user. The power supply control unit controls the power supply of the operation panel unit, the document reading unit, and the image forming unit to be turned on or off, respectively, when returning from the energy saving mode to the normal mode according to the determination.
US11381695B2
A scanner includes a reading section configured to read a medium being transported, a discharge roller pair configured to nip the medium read in the reading section by a first roller and a second roller and discharge the medium, and a rib disposed in a position overlapping the discharge roller pair in a medium transport direction, the rib protruding from the first roller side toward the second roller side out of the first roller and the second roller, the rib including a first rib disposed on one side in a width direction intersecting the medium transport direction with respect to the discharge roller pair and a second rib disposed on the opposite side of the first rib in the width direction with respect to the discharge roller pair.
US11381692B2
An image forming system includes: a recording material information detecting apparatus; an image forming apparatus; and a management server, wherein the recording material information detecting apparatus includes: a first hardware processor that detects recording material characteristic information; and a second hardware processor that acquires first environmental information, the image forming apparatus includes: an image former that forms an image on a second recording material; a third hardware processor that acquires second environmental information; a fourth hardware processor that transmits the second environmental information to the management server and requests the recording material characteristic information corresponding to the second environmental information; and a fifth hardware processor that sets an image formation condition for the image former to form the image on the second recording material, and the management server includes a sixth hardware processor.
US11381691B2
An electronic apparatus includes processing devices including first circuitry, a controller including second circuitry, and a memory storing a time-out time and an extension time. The first circuitry that detects an abnormality, transmits an abnormality occurrence notification, transmits a preparation completion notification, and transmits an extension request. The second circuitry transmits a restart preparation instruction to the processing devices excluding a source of the abnormality occurrence notification, waits for the preparation completion notification until an elapse of the time-out time. The second circuitry restarts the processing devices in response to the preparation completion notification from the processing devices or the elapse of the time-out time. The second circuitry extends the time-out time by the extension time in response to the extension request and restarts the processing devices in response to the preparation completion notification or the elapse of the extension time.
US11381686B2
A security system can be configured to mount to a power outlet. The security system can include an outwardly facing portion configured to face away from the power outlet and an inwardly facing portion having a first electrical prong and a second electrical prong that protrude into the power outlet to mount the security system to the power outlet. The security system can also include a detection system comprising a camera and a motion detector.
US11381676B2
Methods executed by a processor of computing device for launching a selected application on a computing device are disclosed. Various embodiments may include authorizing a user based on a fingerprint of a finger detected on a fingerprint sensor portion of a touchscreen display matching a fingerprint of an authorized user of the computing device, determining a selected application installed on the computing device from a selective engagement of the finger on the touchscreen display, continuous from the fingerprint sensor portion, which provides an indication of a user selection of an application, and unlocking the selected application in response to the selective engagement of the finger on the touchscreen display. In some embodiments, selection of an application may be based a continuous swipe movement by the finger on the touchscreen display from the fingerprint sensor portion toward an icon on the touchscreen display representing the selected application.
US11381668B2
Methods, systems, and devices for determining a subset of users from among a set of users based on a set of received information associated with a photograph, where the disposition of the information is used to first determine the subset and then perform facial recognition on the subset of photographs for each user in order to accurately identify each user or users present in the photograph.
US11381666B1
Systems and methods to manage and regulate the requests of multiple proxy clients are disclosed. In one aspect, the system and methods disclosed herein aids in configuring proxy server(s) with a rate-limit functionality. Configuration of the rate-limit functionality may be realized by, but not limited to, installing configuration file(s) and/or software application(s) on the proxy server(s). The configuration provides information about the list of restricted and unrestricted domains and their respective request limit specification in a given time frame. Therefore, each time before a proxy server forwards the clients' requests to a target domain, the proxy server checks and ensures that the request count to the particular target domain is well within the limit specified in the request limit specification. Thus, the embodiments described herein aid in preventing the IP addresses of proxy service providers from being blocked or denied from the target websites.
US11381662B2
A method, system, and computer-readable medium, including receiving a request to process a business object including an indication of at least one feature that can be invoked in the processing of the business object; determining the at least one feature associated with the business object based on the indication thereof included with the business object; determining whether the at least one feature associated with the business object can be executed by a second application based on an indication of a set of features supported by the second application; processing, in response to a determination that the at least one feature can be executed by the second application, the business object by the second application; and processing, in response to a determination that the at least one feature is not supported by the second application, the business object by a first application that supports a first set of features.
US11381659B2
Data representative of a physical feature of a morphologic subject is received in connection with a procedure to be carried out with respect to the morphologic subject. A view of the morphologic subject overlaid by a virtual image of the physical feature is rendered for a practitioner of the procedure, including generating the virtual image of the physical feature based on the representative data, and rendering the virtual image of the physical feature within the view in accordance with one or more reference points on the morphologic subject such that the virtual image enables in-situ visualization of the physical feature with respect to the morphologic subject.
US11381656B2
The concept of a service layer message template is introduced, which may be a request template or a response template. Message templates may be created and stored at the service layer. Each message template may contain a set of request or response parameters and their values. Once in place, an application can send a request to the service layer that does not include the request parameters contained in the message template (i.e. request template); instead, a message template identifier may be sent. Since request parameters are included in the message template and stored at the service layer, communication overhead between the service layer and the application (or another service layer) may be reduced.
US11381650B2
A system for analyzing data received from at least one mobile electronic device comprises a mobile electronic device and a server. The mobile electronic device includes a sensor configured to collect video, audio and/or imagery data, and the mobile electronic device is configured to initiate collection of data based on a command from a user of the mobile electronic device. The server includes a receiver configured to receive the video, audio and/or imagery data collected by the sensor of the mobile electronic device and a processing system. The processing system of the server includes a processor and is configured to, when a condition is met in accordance with a rule established on the server, issue a command to turn on the sensor of the mobile electronic device and enable the mobile electronic device to transmit the video, audio and/or imagery data collected by the sensor to the server, without any input by the user of the mobile electronic device. In addition, the video, audio and/or imagery data are collected by the sensor at a location of the mobile electronic device.
US11381647B2
The disclosed technology is generally directed to communications in an IoT environment. In one example of the technology, device twins for corresponding IoT devices are stored, wherein the device twins include metadata that is associated with the corresponding IoT devices. A schedule job instruction may be received, and at least one candidate IoT device among the IoT devices that is associated with the schedule job instruction may be identified. In some examples, executors associated with the at least one candidate IoT device are created, and jobs are executed via the executors such that the executors are capable of resuming execution after at least one of an outage or a failure.
US11381646B2
Examples are disclosed for remote management of a computing device. In some examples, a secure communication link may be established between a network input/output device for a computing device and a remote management application. Commands may be received from the remote management application and management functions may be implemented at the network input/output device. Implementation of the management functions may enable the remote management application to manage or control at least some operating parameters of the computing device. Other examples are described and claimed.
US11381639B1
Request routing in a network of computing devices. Back-end nodes associated with a request router send load reports to request routers. To select a back-end node for processing a request, a request router determines, based on the reports, estimated loads and corresponding errors of the estimated loads for respective nodes. A load balancing technique may be selected, based on the estimated loads and corresponding errors (e.g., round robin may be selected if the significance of an average error outweighs the difference between estimated load values for the nodes, or least estimated load may be selected of the difference between load values is greater than the average error). The selected technique is applied to choose one of the nodes to process the request. Load probability distribution may also be used for request routing, in combination with or separate from the selection based on the estimated loads.
US11381636B2
To address technical problems facing managing multiple sources of information from multiple vehicles, vehicular computing power may be exploited to process such information before sharing with others, which may help reduce network traffic overhead. A technical solution to improve this information processing over vehicular networks by using a hybrid Named Function Network (NFN) and Information Centric Network (ICN), such as in a hybrid NFN/ICN. An NFN may be used to orchestrate computations in a highly dynamic environment after decomposing the computations into a number of small functions. A function may include a digitally signed binary supplied by a car vendor or other trusted authority and executed within a controlled environment, such as a virtual machine, container, Java runtime-environment, or other controlled environment.
US11381635B2
Method for delivering content comprising the steps of: (i) generating and storing website content experiences, and storing a respective weighting for each experience; (ii) offering the stored website content experiences based on its weighting, and storing a record of the website content experience offerings; (iii) receiving user-initiated website content actions from the computer devices; (iv) storing the user-initiated website content actions from the computer devices in relation to the website content experience offered; (v) analysing the user-initiated website content actions in relation to the record of website content experience offerings to determine a frequency of website content experience actions in relation to a frequency of website content experience offerings, and (vi) adjusting the stored weighting of a website content experience in response to the determined frequency of website content experience actions in relation to the frequency of website content experience offerings satisfying a criterion and an associated statistical significance criterion.
US11381630B2
Techniques for transmitting data over a network in a representational state transfer (REST) application are provided. A request for data from a client computing device in a representational state transfer (REST) application is received and a wire protocol is selected based on user input from a plurality of wire protocols that will be used to transmit one or more objects to be returned by the request. The selected wire protocol is indicated to the client computing device and the one or more objects are transmitted to the client computing device using the determined wire protocol.
US11381620B2
Transmitting from a wireless router a live stream of time stamped multimedia packets from a server which is capable of providing a system time clock value is disclosed. The wireless router includes a queue for storing the time stamped multimedia packets received from the live streaming server. The wireless router also includes a processor for analyzing the priority of the time stamped multimedia packets stored in the queue, for comparing the time stamps to the system time clock value, for calculating a transmission time to a video client, and for determining a transmission window to transmit the time stamped multimedia packets. The time stamped multimedia packets are discarded if the packets cannot be transmitted within the transmission window, or the time stamped packets are immediately transmitted if they can be transmitted within the transmission window. The priority of the packets in queue may be re-sorted prior to transmission.
US11381615B2
Social network information may be shared across online service providers. Thus, one online service provider M that maintains a membership separate from a second online service provider N may nevertheless use the social network maintained by the second online service provider N to tailor content and/or services base on such social network information.
US11381614B2
Method and apparatus for applying reputation scoring to participants in a group chat session in a computer network. The group chat session is displayed in the form of a visually perceptible conversation arranged as a sequence of communications by a group of users of network accessible devices. Each user has an associated reputation score generated responsive to at least one characteristic of a previous communication by the associated user. Each network accessible device displays each communication using a visual indicia selected in relation to a magnitude of the associated reputation score for the user who generated the communication. The visible indica can take a variety of forms such as different sizes of comments, different color schemes, different fonts, and so on.
US11381613B2
Systems and methods for creating and accessing content items are provided. In some examples, a method can include receiving a user selection of an interface element located in a persistent user interface of an operating system desktop of a client device associated with a user account, identifying, based on a query to a meeting service, a meeting associated with the user account, displaying, in response to the user selection of the interface element, a set of user options for the meeting, the set of user options comprising an option to access a content item for the meeting, receiving a user selection of the option to access the content item for the meeting, and accessing, in response to the user selection, the content item.
US11381608B2
A method of communication over a cellular telecommunications network using an electronic device comprises communicating a session control signal between the electronic device and the cellular telecommunications network on a first radio channel provided by the cellular telecommunications network. The session control signal comprises identification data that identifies a remote party. The cellular telecommunications network uses the identification data to establish an IP-based communication session with the remote party. Content data for the IP-based communication session is communicated between the electronic device and the cellular telecommunications network on a second radio channel provided by the cellular telecommunications network.
US11381600B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for creating secure browser cookies. One of the methods includes providing an encrypted cookie request that requests encryption of a cookie of the digital component provider and includes a digital component request identifier; receiving an encrypted cookie generated by encrypting the cookie using the digital component request identifier and an encryption key, wherein the encrypted cookie is configured for inclusion in a request for digital components from the digital component provider for presentation on the webpage; generating a digital component request for digital components that includes the encrypted cookie and requests identification of a digital component selected for presentation on the webpage using the encrypted cookie; and transmitting the digital component request that includes the encrypted cookie and requests identification of a digital component selected for presentation on the webpage using the encrypted cookie.
US11381574B2
A server comprises a communications module; a processor coupled to the communications module; and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory storing processor-executable instructions which, when executed, configure the processor to receive, via the communications module and from a remote computing device, user input indicating a response to one or more prompts; generate an aspirational profile for a user based at least on the received user input; receive, via the communications module and from a monitoring application installed on the remote computing device, monitoring data; generate a behavior profile for the user based at least on the monitoring data; and when the behavior profile is misaligned with the aspirational profile, send, via the communications module and to the remote computing device, a notification indicating that the behavior profile is misaligned with the aspirational profile.
US11381572B2
A Pervasive Intermediate Network Attached Storage Application (PINApp) enables users to digitally assign (pin) a folder or drive to a cloud storage service for the purpose of sharing their digital content between devices. The PINApp enables users to engage cloud storage services without the need to upload the digital content to the same in order for the digital content to be viewed or shared.
US11381569B2
The present invention provides a system and method of modifying policy settings in an electronic device. An embodiment includes a plurality of access stations, each capable of wirelessly transmitting across a geographic region. A mobile electronic device, capable of roaming between regions is operable to establish a wireless link with the access stations. The device is owned by an office which sets communication policies determining through which access stations mobile device can place voice calls. This policy is stored on an office server as a database and periodically transmitted to the device as the device makes contact with the office server over the internet. Hence, the device maintains a copy of this policy database. When placing a voice call, the device first determines which access station is serving the region it is located in and then determines whether it is allowed to place a call through that access station using its policy database.
US11381565B2
Case management systems and techniques are disclosed. In various embodiments, a hierarchical permission model is received, comprising for each of at least a subset of case nodes comprising a hierarchical data model associated with a case model a corresponding set of case roles to be afforded permissions with respect to that case node and for each such case role a set of permissions to be associated with that case role with respect to that case node. The hierarchical permission model is used to enforce with respect to one or more case instances associated with the case model the permissions defined in the hierarchical permission model.
US11381559B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for batch registration and configuration of devices are disclosed. A plurality of devices are detected over one or more networks. Data indicative of the plurality of devices is provided through a user interface. Through the user interface, user input is received that indicates a selected plurality of the devices. The selected plurality of the devices are registered with a service provider environment. The selected plurality of the devices are authenticated using device-specific credentials and registered for device-specific accounts with the service provider environment. A configuration profile is deployed to the selected plurality of the devices.
US11381553B2
Techniques described herein are directed to a system and methods for enabling a transfer of access rights for an electronic device between users. In embodiments of the system, a first user (e.g., a transferor) may, upon determining that access rights should be granted to a second user (e.g., a transferee), generate a transaction record. The transaction record may then be provided to a registry network, which may verify a digital signature of the transaction record as well as a current ownership status. Upon verification, the transaction record may be written to an ownership registry and a mobile application server may be notified of the transaction. Once notified, the mobile application server may transmit a device key to a user device associated with the transferee. Once the device key has been received at the transferee user device, it may be used to issue commands to the electronic device.
US11381552B2
A service providing method comprises: receiving a microservice access request, which carries an identity authentication credential, transmitted by a client device; authenticating the client device's identity based on the identity authentication credential; determining a target microservice corresponding to the client device if the authentication of the client device's identity is successful; and providing the client device with the target microservice via a target application programming interface corresponding to the target microservice.
US11381551B2
Systems and methods for connecting a private device to a public device based on various connection parameters. For example, a media guidance application may receive a communication requesting to use the public device from a private device that is implementing a private interface application (e.g., Netflix™ a streaming media application). In response, the media guidance application may generate an authorization key that is unique to the private device and comprises connection parameters. The media guidance application may transmit the authorization key to the private interface application to initiate a session between the public device and the private device. Whenever a command is received from the private device, the media guidance application may verify the authorization key and determine whether the connection parameters are satisfied. In response to verifying the authorization key and the connection parameters, the public device may execute the received command.
US11381544B2
Embodiments of this application disclose a service type determining method and a related device. A first device obtains a dataset, where the dataset includes at least two 5-tuples. The first device determines a target feature (the target feature is used to indicate a service type corresponding to a target triplet) corresponding to the target triplet based on the dataset. In this way, the first device can identify the service type corresponding to the target triplet based on the target feature, to facilitate operations such as packet transmission traffic control or application identification based on the importance indicated by the service type.
US11381542B2
A network device having an embedded router (eRouter) providing connections for a plurality of client devices in a local area network, and an embedded cable modem (eCM) bridging communication between a wide area network (WAN) network and the eRouter. The network device also includes a memory, and at least one processor configured to execute instructions stored on said memory to cause said network device to implement an eRouter physical interface and an eCM physical interface according to a configuration file, and to transmit a generic routing encapsulation (GRE) domain name system (DNS) query to a DNS server from the eRouter physical interface or the eCM physical interface.
US11381541B2
Systems and methods are described for communication of a third-party application server with a third-party email client plug-in. The systems and the methods enable the third-party application server to provide a plug-in header contained in a message. The plug-in header may include an X-header. The X-header may be injected into the message. The plug-in installed within an email client receives the message. The plug-in is configured to process the plug-in header to identify one or more instructions to perform an action of one or more actions. The one or more instructions may relate to a property of a user and/or a property of the email client of the user. Responsive to the one or more instructions, the plug-in performs the action.
US11381540B2
Disclosed are some implementations of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for tracking electronic mail (email) events. Upon generating an email, a database entry including an email identifier associated the email is stored. A notification received from a client device is processed, where the notification indicates that the email associated with the email identifier has been opened. Responsive to processing the notification, the database entry associated with the email is identified using the email identifier and event information of the database entry is stored or updated to indicate that the email has been opened. The database entry associated with the email identifier is updated to include attributes of the email, where the attributes include a recipient identifier identifying a recipient of the email. Status information associated with the email may be provided using the database entry, where the status information indicates that the recipient has opened the email.
US11381517B2
Described embodiments provide systems and methods performing header protection. A device can receive from a client, a request relating to a first resource, for a second resource. The device can determine, using an identifier for the session, whether an address of the first resource has been previously accessed by the client during the session. The device can verify, using an address of the second resource, whether the address of the second resource is mapped to the address of the first resource for the session between the client and the device. The device can determine whether to provide access to the second resource responsive to the address of the first resource being previously accessed by the client during the session and the address of the second resource being mapped to the address of the first resource for the session.
US11381514B2
Methods and apparatus for non-sequential packet transfer. Prior art multi-processor devices implement a complete network communications stack at each processor. The disclosed embodiments provide techniques for delivering network layer (L3) and/or transport layer (L4) data payloads in the order of receipt, rather than according to the data link layer (L2) order. The described techniques enable e.g., earlier packet delivery. Such design topologies can operate within a substantially smaller memory footprint compared to prior art solutions. As a related benefit, applications that are unaffected by data link layer corruptions can receive data immediately (rather than waiting for the re-transmission of an unrelated L4 data flow) and thus the overall network latency can be greatly reduced and user experience can be improved.
US11381508B2
A method is performed by a computing device in a data transport network. The computing device receives congestion-related information corresponding to current conditions of a portion of the network. The computing device determines whether a data transport session has a fair-share protocol. When the data transport session has the fair-share protocol, determining a congestion policy for the data transport session, and applying, using the congestion-related information, the congestion policy to the data transport session.
US11381504B2
Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for reporting congestion in a network that includes several forwarding elements. In a data plane circuit of one of the forwarding elements, the method detects that a queue in the switching circuit of the data plane circuit is congested, while a particular data message is stored in the queue as it is being processed through the data plane circuit. In the data plane circuit, the method then generates a report regarding the detected queue congestion, and sends this report to a data collector external to the forwarding element. To send the report, the data plane circuit in some embodiments duplicates the particular data message, stores it in the duplicate data message information regarding the detected queue congestion, and sends the duplicate data message to the external data collector.
US11381493B2
Disclosed is a system and method for optimization of data transfer to a software service. In exemplary embodiments, a computer-implemented method for determining a transit appliance for data traffic to a software service through one or more interconnected networks comprising a plurality of network appliances, comprises determining performance metrics for each of the plurality of network appliances to at least one IP address associated with the software service, and selecting a transit appliance for data transfer to the IP address, the selected transit appliance based at least in part on the performance metrics.
US11381489B1
A data tracking method, which is performed by a data tracking apparatus in an edge cloud environment including at least one edge node communicating with an end device and a central cloud, includes receiving data from the end device by a first edge node, creating, by the first edge node, a tracing history and distributing the data to a plurality of edge nodes so as to allow the plurality of edge nodes to create tracing histories, transmitting the created tracing histories to the central cloud by the first edge node and the plurality of edge nodes, and verifying, by the central cloud, linkability of the tracing histories transmitted to the central cloud, storing the tracing histories, analyzing the tracing histories, and providing a data tracking function.
US11381475B1
Embodiments of a device and method are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method of network availability management of a network deployed at a customer site involves at a cloud server connected to the network, receiving network availability information of the network deployed at the customer site from at least one wireless sensor deployed at the customer site, at the cloud server, receiving wireless communications channel quality information of the network deployed at the customer site, and at the cloud server, automatically determining a service-level agreement (SLA) network availability metric based on the network availability information and the wireless communications channel quality information.
US11381464B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for testing and modeling the beamforming capabilities of a device under test (DUT) are disclosed. The method includes receiving, from a DUT, system information that correlates a plurality of resources to a plurality of synchronization system (SS) blocks transmitted by the DUT and receiving, from the DUT, the plurality of SS blocks. In response to receiving the plurality of SS blocks, the method further includes sending a random access procedure (RACH) message from an emulated user equipment to the DUT via a resource that is correlated per the system information to a predefined SS block that is specified in a beam model. The method also includes analyzing a beam switch indication message sent by the DUT to confirm that the DUT has restricted communication to the emulated user equipment via a beam signal corresponding to the predefined SS block.
US11381462B2
Aspects are described for managing a network of things and applications that are distributed, such as geographically or globally distributed. One exemplary aspect of the system and method is based on a centralized cloud-based processing unit that implements a Rule Processing Application (RPA) and compiles a set of User Rules. The execution of the User Rules is distributed across a number of independent Decision Making Algorithms (DMA). Each DMA can be implemented in one or more devices (e.g., servers, gateways, processing units, etc.) distributed across the network such as a worldwide network. One exemplary method also utilizes gateways within Local Area Networks (LANs) with the characteristics that (i) each gateway communicates with a centralized cloud-based processing unit and (ii) each gateway can respond to commands from the centralized cloud-based processing unit to alter the gateway's functionality and implement a DMA (in whole or in part).
US11381451B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable mediums for selecting and configuring a computing system to support a replicated application are disclosed. According to one example, a method includes capturing resource availability data associated with a plurality of computing systems, wherein each of the plurality of computing systems resides at a separate and distinct geographical site. The method further includes determining, for each of the plurality of computing systems, a suitability score based on the captured resource availability data and at least one external factor associated with the computing system, selecting one of the plurality of computing systems to host the replicated application based on the determined suitability scores, and establishing a logical environment on the selected computing system to support the enterprise application.
US11381448B2
The present disclosure relates generally to a system and method for synchronizing updates. A first cloud-based system may be embodied in a multi-instance or multi-tenant framework, and may provide for certain computing systems and configuration items. The first cloud-based system may include a probe system configured to retrieve a list of events from a second cloud computing system, wherein the list of events is representative of updates to resources provided by the second cloud computing system. The first cloud-based system may additionally include a sensor system configured to process the list of events to retrieve a payload for each event in the list of events. An update system may then update an updatable system included in the first cloud computing system based on the payload.
US11381445B2
Methods and apparatus in a fifth-generation wireless communications network, including an example method, in a wireless device, that includes determining a reporting quality threshold for a parameter related to channel state information (CSI); performing a measurement for each of a plurality of beams from a first predetermined set of beams for evaluation; evaluating the measurement for each of the plurality of beams against the reporting quality threshold; discontinuing the performing and evaluating of measurements in response to determining that the reporting quality threshold is met for one of the beams, such that one or more beams in the first predetermined set of beams are not measured and evaluated; and reporting, to the wireless communications network, CSI for the one of the beams.
US11381440B2
The present disclosure provides a method and a device in a base station used for Unlicensed Spectrum. The base station first transmits K1 radio signals in a reference time window and then receives K1 HARQ feedbacks, and performs Q1 energy detections respectively in Q1 time sub-pools on a first frequency sub-band; the K1 HARQ feedbacks are respectively used for determining whether the K1 radio signals are correctly received; a first radio signal is a radio signal of the K1 radio signals, the first radio signal carries part of bits comprised by a first bit block; a first HARQ feedback is used for determining whether the first radio signal is correctly received, HARQ feedback(s) other than the first HARQ feedback among the K1 HARQ feedbacks is(are) used for determining the Q1 time sub-pools. The present disclosure increases the chance of access to Unlicensed Spectrum and the utilization ratio of spectrum resources.
US11381435B2
Configuration for data and reference signal transmissions with shortened transmission time intervals
Techniques provide for identifying uplink resources that are to be used for uplink transmissions using shortened transmission time intervals (sTTIs), such as low latency or high reliability transmissions. A reference signal (RS) configuration for a three-symbol sTTI, including locations of one or more RS symbols and one or more data symbols within the sTTI may be identified. The RS configuration, along with the allocation of uplink resources, may be provided to a user equipment (UE) which may transmit uplink communications using the allocated uplink resources.
US11381434B2
Disclosed are a signal transmitting method, device and system, and a storage medium. The method includes: transmitting a first signal, the first signal includes at least one of: at least one first structure or at least one second structure. Each first structure includes at least one symbol group, each symbol group in the each first structure includes a cyclic prefix and at least one symbol, or a cyclic prefix, at least one symbol and guard time, and symbols of each symbol group occupy a same subcarrier or a same frequency resource in frequency domain. Each second structure includes at least one symbol group, each symbol group includes a cyclic prefix and at least one symbol, or a cyclic prefix, at least one symbol and guard time, and symbols of each symbol group in the each second structure occupy a same subcarrier or a same frequency resource in frequency domain.
US11381425B2
A semiconductor device includes a first chip and a second chip. The first chip includes a first circuit having a first output terminal. The second chip includes a second circuit having a second output terminal, which is electrically connected to the first output terminal via a first signal line. When the first chip and the second chip receive a first command, the second circuit calibrates an output impedance at the second output terminal through a first calibration operation based on an output impedance at the first output terminal.
US11381424B2
A wireless device, network node and methods are provided. The network node includes processing circuitry configured to configure an aperiodic sounding reference signal, A-SRS, switching trigger, and transmit the configured A-SRS 5 switching trigger to a wireless device. The A-SRS switching trigger is one of: a downlink control information, DCI, of a predetermined DCI format and a DCI of another predetermined DCI format for group switching. In one embodiment, the predetermined DCI format is one of 2, 2A and 3, and the other predetermined DCI format for group switching is 1A.
US11381413B2
The exemplary embodiments are related to a device, system and method for implementing an audio orientated immersive experience of an event presented at a user device. A server is connected to a user device. The server generates a virtual environment that corresponds to a site of an event. The server receives tracking data corresponding to an object of the event. The tracking data is incorporated into the virtual environment. The server identifies a predetermined condition and selects enhancement data based on the predetermined condition. The predetermined condition corresponds to the tracking data and the virtual environment. The server transmits a data stream to the user device, the data stream including the enhancement data.
US11381412B1
A conference participant is alerted as to an event during a conference responsive to a determination that a focus of the conference participant is other than on the conference. During the conference, an event associated with the conference participant is detected based on a real-time transcription of the conference. For example, the event may relate to a topic relevant to the conference participant or a request associated with a name of the conference participant. A determination is made that a focus of the conference participant is other than on the conference based on information associated with a device of the conference participant, such as input received from a camera associated with the device or a setting of an audio output device associated with the device. Based on that determination and the detected event, output is presented to alert the conference participant as to the event.
US11381403B2
A method, a system, and a computer program product for validating a transaction. A received request to validate a transaction in accordance with one or more validation rules in a plurality of validation rules is executed. Based on the executed validation request, a validation certificate associated with the transaction is generated. Validity of the validation certificate is determined. The transaction is stored on a blockchain network upon determining that the validation certificate is valid. Storage of the transaction on the blockchain network is prevented upon determination that the validation certificate is invalid.
US11381401B2
The technology disclosed herein provides a blockchain transactions forwarding mechanism that allows for tracking and notification from the originating blockchain through to a last blockchain and back again. An implementation of the system disclosed herein also provides a whitelist mechanism to provide a list of acceptable blockchains or nodes that may receive transactions. Yet another implementation provides a predetermined hop count that may be used as the maximum allowable hop counts that provides the number of times a transaction is allowed to be forwarded.
US11381399B2
A computer includes a processor and a memory, the memory storing instructions executable by the processor to collect a digital image that includes a plurality of pixels with a first sensor, input a reference data string, a key data string, and a set of collected data from a second sensor into a permutation generator that outputs a watermark data string, and embed the watermark data string in the digital image at specified pixels in the plurality of pixels.
US11381396B2
In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a processor to execute instructions and having at least a first logic to execute in a trusted execution environment, a secure storage to store a platform group credential, and a first logical device comprising at least one hardware logic. The platform group credential may be dynamically provisioned into the apparatus and corresponding to an enhanced privacy identifier associated with the apparatus. The first logical device may have a first platform group private key dynamically provisioned into the first logical device and corresponding to an enhanced privacy identifier associated with the first logical device, to bind the first logical device to the apparatus. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11381395B2
A computer system is provided. The computer system includes a memory and at least one processor coupled to the memory and configured to measure one or more environmental factors; convert the one or more environmental factors to entropy values by truncation or rounding of the one or more environmental factors to a selected number of bits; and combine the entropy values to generate an encryption key. The one or more environmental factors may include a location of the computer system, a current date and time, parameters of a network environment to which the computer system is connected, or an identification of a server to which the computer system is connected. The at least one processor is further configured to encrypt and/or decrypt at least a portion of a data file and/or at least a portion of a binary executable application using the encryption key.
US11381394B2
An encryption key generating engine includes a random number pool, an entangling string generator, and a control circuit. The random number pool stores a plurality of random bits, and values of the plurality of random bits are generated randomly. The entangling string generator provides an entangling string according to an input key. The control circuit is coupled to the random number pool and the entangling string generator. The control circuit retrieves a sequence of random bits from the plurality of random bits stored in the random number pool according to the input key, receive the entangling string from the entangling string generator, and entangle the entangling string with the sequence of random bits to generate a secret key.
US11381388B2
A storage device includes a nonvolatile memory device, and a controller that manages a data encryption key (DEK). The DEK is used to encrypt data to be written in a storage space of the nonvolatile memory device by a first user and to decrypt data read from the storage space. The controller grants a second user authority to access the storage space by encrypting the DEK based on a Diffie-Hellman (DH) algorithm, grants a second user authority to access the encrypted DEK, and decrypts the encrypted DEK based on the DH algorithm.
US11381386B2
A method may include transmitting a first public encryption key from to a control device and encrypting a first packet for a remote network device utilizing a first private encryption key correlated with the first public encryption key. The method may also include generating a second public encryption key and a second private encryption key and transmitting the second public encryption key to the control device. The method may additionally include receiving a first message from the remote network device that the remote network device received the second public encryption key from the control device, and after receiving the first message from the remote network device that the remote network device received the second public encryption key, encrypting a second packet utilizing the second private encryption key.
US11381382B2
An operating method of a memory controller includes generating a random value using a seed, generating encrypted intermediate data by encrypting plaintext data using the random value, and storing the seed and the intermediate data in a memory device. Ciphertext data is generated using the seed and the intermediate data based on Ring Learning with Error (RLWE).
US11381348B2
There is disclosed a method of operating a feedback radio node in a wireless communication network. The method includes transmitting Hybrid Acknowledgement Repeat Request, HARQ, feedback, according to a HARQ feedback timing, the HARQ feedback timing being based on one timing representation out of a set having a first timing representation and a second timing representation. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.
US11381347B2
A communication device receives a parallel hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) communication instruction, where the parallel HARQ communication instruction is used to instruct the communication device to send or receive data in a parallel HARQ manner, where the sending data in a parallel HARQ manner by the communication device is sending, by the communication device, at least one data packet with same content within a transmission time interval; and the receiving data in a parallel HARQ manner by the communication device is receiving at least one data packet with same content within a transmission time interval, and performing combined decoding on the received at least one data packet with same content; and the communication device sends or receives the data in the parallel HARQ manner according to the parallel HARQ communication instruction. According to the present invention, a delay of data transmission can be reduced.
US11381343B2
The present disclosure provides an uplink data transmission confirmation apparatus, device, and method. The apparatus includes the following. A transceiver module, configured to send uplink data to a base station; a detection module, configured to detect, within a first preset period, whether first physical downlink control channel signaling sent by the base station is received, and obtain a detection result; and a judging module, configured to determine, according to the detection result, whether the uplink data is successfully transmitted. According to the apparatus provided in embodiments of the present disclosure, physical downlink control channel signaling is reduced in a process of confirming, by the terminal in a coverage enhancement scenario, whether the uplink data is successfully transmitted; and whether an Msg3 is successfully transmitted can be confirmed.
US11381339B2
A method comprising reframing one or more QUIC frames into a packed frame; and applying network coding to the packed frame to generate a coded frame.
US11381336B2
A method of configuring an optical link with an optimized spectral efficiency and bit rate is provided. The method includes obtaining, by a controller of an optical network, a baseline configuration that includes a traffic mode that uses a predetermined channel spacing of a plurality of channels in a frequency spectrum. The plurality of channels are used for transmitting optical signals on an optical link in the optical network. The method further includes selecting three contiguous channels that include a center channel and two adjacent channels and while maintaining a performance parameter above or equal to a threshold value, moving the adjacent channels closer to the center channel and varying at least one transmission parameter, thereby reducing a spacing of the center channel. As such, a spectral frequency map is generated in which the channel spacing is reduced and an optical link is configured based on the spectral frequency map.
US11381332B2
A method for playing out a media program including a primary programming. The method includes storing the primary programming; forming first and second sets of content for play-out during a break in the primary programming, where the second set's duration differs by less than a predetermined amount from the duration of the first set of content transmitting, by a first mechanism, a base program including the primary programming and subsequently, during the break, the first set of content, and after the break, the primary programming; and transmitting, by a second mechanism, the primary programming at a first time offset to the transmitting by the first mechanism before the break and subsequently, during the break, the second set of content and after the break, the primary programming at a second time offset to the transmitting by the first mechanism, after the break, the first and second time offsets being different.
US11381331B2
A first prediction unit 83 predicts the amount of future communication quality deterioration or the presence or absence of occurrence of future communication quality deterioration in a communication section between one communication device and another communication device communicably connected to the one communication device by using a first learning model generated on the basis of first attributes being attributes related to a cause of communication quality deterioration in the communication section. A second prediction unit 84 predicts the amount of future communication quality deterioration or the presence or absence of occurrence of future communication quality deterioration outside the communication section regarding one communication device by using a second learning model generated on the basis of second attributes being attributes related to a cause of communication quality deterioration outside the communication section regarding the one communication device.
US11381328B2
Systems, methods, and devices detect variations in load impedances of wireless communications devices. Methods include determining a first distortion measurement of a transceiver based on a first comparison of a digital loopback path and a radio frequency (RF) loopback path, and determining a second distortion measurement of the transceiver based on a second comparison of the digital loopback path and the RF loopback path. Methods also include implementing, using a processor, a third comparison of the first distortion measurement and the second distortion measurement, and determining if there is a change in a load of the transceiver based on the third comparison.
US11381326B1
Systems and methods for dynamic maximum transmission unit determination are disclosed. For example, one or more triggering events may be detected to initiate determining whether to adjust transmission unit sizing for data transmission between devices. Received signal strength indicator (RSSI) values may be exchanged between the devices and those RSSI values may be utilized to determine a strength of a communication signal between devices. When the RSSI values are low, the communication signal strength may be weak and the devices may adjust the transmission unit size to be larger. In other examples when the RSSI values are high, the communication signal strength may be strong and the devices may adjust the transmission unit size to be smaller.
US11381314B2
A method for communicating from a transceiver including a sub-transceiver array includes setting the sub-transceiver array to emit an optical signal at an initial pointing angle, and modifying at least one of the sub-transceivers to emit a first optical sub-signal at a first pointing angle having a first offset from the initial pointing angle. The method further includes, during a first transmit period, transmitting to a receiving transceiver from the sub-transceiver array a first optical signal including the first optical sub-signal, at a first data rate. The method also includes further modifying the sub-transceiver to emit a second optical sub-signal at a second pointing angle having a second offset from the initial pointing angle, the second offset being smaller than the first offset, and, in a second transmit period, transmitting to the receiving transceiver from the sub-transceiver array a second optical signal including the second optical sub-signal.
US11381312B2
A redundancy system for data transport in a Distributed Antenna System (DAS) includes a plurality of Digital Access Units (DAUs). Each of the plurality of DAUs is fed by a plurality of data streams and is operable to transport digital signals between others of the plurality of DAUs. The redundancy system also includes a plurality of Digital Distribution Units (DDUs). Each of the plurality of DDUs is in communication with each of the plurality of DAUs using cross connection communication paths. The redundancy system further includes a plurality of Digital Remote Units (DRUs). Each of the plurality of DRUs is in communication with each of the plurality of DDUs using cross connection communications paths.
US11381310B2
An integrated communication and ranging system for use on a spacecraft includes: a laser module configured to emit at least one beam, a pointing module configured to direct the at least one beam toward a ground station and toward an object in space, and a detector module configured to detect a scattered portion of the at least one beam. The system further includes a control module configured to operate the pointing module to (i) transmit data to the ground station using the at least one beam and (ii) determine, using the detector module, a distance between the spacecraft and the object using the at least one beam.
US11381305B2
A satellite communication system is arranged for consecutively illuminating a plurality of contours on earth. The satellite communication system includes a modulator adjusting its transmission of data and dummy data to detected switching time instants, without causing too long delays or buffer overflows, or without impacting a return link synchronization. Traffic can be seamlessly switched to a redundant transmitter which is aligned with the beam hopping satellite to efficiently and reliably achieve synchronization.
US11381303B2
A method comprising determining, by a function, that a first satellite lacks processing or communication capabilities; and routing data traffic, by the function, from the first satellite to a second satellite, the second satellite having higher processing or communication capabilities than the first satellite. The processing and communication capabilities of the first and second satellite are directly related to their power availability, which is derived from solar energy means. Another method comprising determining, by a function, that a first satellite cannot provide computing or communication resources; migrating data, by the function, from the first satellite to a second satellite that can provide the computing or communication resources; computing the data, by the computing resources of the second satellite; and transmitting computed data, by the function, from the second satellite to the first satellite.
US11381296B2
A user equipment (UE) may communicate with a base station through a first active beam, the first active beam comprising a serving beam. The UE may receive a first reference signal and a second reference signal associated with beam tracking from the base station, where the first reference signal is received through a first beam of a first plurality of beams and the second reference signal is subsequently received through a second beam of a second plurality of beams, and where the beam tracking includes identifying a new beam for communication between the UE and the base station. The UE may communicate with the base station through a second active beam based on at least one of the first reference signal or the second reference signal associated with the beam tracking, the second active beam comprising the new beam.
US11381292B2
A method for sidelink (SL) control information (CSI) acquisition performed by a UE is provided. The method includes receiving a first SCI format from another UE, the first SCI format including resource allocation information of a second SCI format; receiving the second SCI format from the another UE based on the first SCI format, the second SCI format including a CSI request field and a source identifier (ID) field corresponding to the another UE; and generating a CSI report triggered by the second SCI format.
US11381291B2
The present disclosure relates to channel state measurement methods and apparatus. One example method includes selecting, by a network device from N channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) resources, a target CSI-RS resource and a target channel state information-interference measurement (CSI-IM) resource group associated with the target CSI-RS resource, where an ith CSI-RS resource in the N CSI-RS resources is associated with ni CSI-IM resource groups, and a kth CSI-IM resource group in the ni CSI-IM resource groups includes xik CSI-RS resources in the N CSI-RS resources except the ith CSI-RS resource, and sending, by the network device, first indication information by using first signaling, where the first indication information indicates the target CSI-RS resource and the target CSI-IM resource group.
US11381281B2
A power receiver is provided herein. The power receiver provides in-band communication with a power transmitter. The power receiver recognizes a change in frequency that identifies a training sequence and determines an impulse response with respect to the training sequence. The power receiver also cancels an effect of the impulse response during the in-band communication.
US11381275B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatuses, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for ranging procedures performed using antenna switching. In one aspect, a device initiating a ranging procedure may transmit a ranging request, which may include antenna switching capabilities of the initiating device, a request for antenna switching by a responding device during the ranging procedure, or both. Ranging signaling may be communicated between the initiating device and the responding device using different transmit antennas, receive antennas, or both. In some implementations, ranging messages transmitted by the responding device may include transmit antenna indices used for transmission of different ranging messages, and receive antenna indices used for reception of different ranging response messages. The initiating device may estimate a range relative to the responding device based on round trip times (RTTs) associated with different antenna pairs used during the ranging procedure.
US11381272B2
An apparatus and method are provided for controlling a transmission power of a wireless communications device to comply with an output energy limit during a measurement period, including calculating a target output energy based on a communications channel; calculating a first average output energy corresponding to a previous period having a duration substantially equal to the measurement period; calculating a second average output energy by low-pass-filtering the target output energy and the first average output energy; and limiting the transmission power of the wireless communications device based on an energy margin between the output energy limit and the second average output energy.
US11381266B1
In one implementation, a wireless communications terminal includes a multi-element antenna. In addition, the terminal includes preliminary signal combiners to combine received signals output by corresponding pairs of antenna elements. For each preliminary signal combiner, the signal output by a first of the pair of elements provides a model of interference present in the received signal output by the second of the pair of elements. The preliminary signal combiner is configured to combine the signal output by the first element with the signal output by the second element to produce an initial interference-mitigated signal. The terminal also includes phase shifters to apply complex weights to interference-mitigated signals to produce complex-weighted versions of the interference-mitigated signals and effectively steer a main beam of the antenna to facilitate reception of a desired signal and another signal combiner to combine the complex-weighted versions of the interference-mitigated signals to produce an interference-mitigated output signal.
US11381258B2
In one embodiment, a system includes a processor, and logic integrated with the processor, executable by the processor, or integrated with and executable by the processor. The logic is configured to cause the processor to write, by the processor, data to a storage medium of a data storage system using a partial reverse concatenated modulation code. The partial reverse concatenated modulation code comprises encoding the data by applying a C2 encoding scheme prior to encoding the data by applying one or more modulation encoding schemes, followed by encoding the data by applying a C1 encoding scheme subsequent to the encoding of the data with the one or more modulation encoding schemes.
US11381255B2
This invention presents a method and apparatus for vertical layered finite alphabet iterative decoding of low-density parity-check codes (LDPC) which operate on parity check matrices that consist of blocks of sub-matrices. The iterative decoding involves passing messages between variable nodes and check nodes of the Tanner graph that associated with one or more sub-matrices constitute decoding blocks, and the messages belong to a finite alphabet. Various embodiments for the method and apparatus of the invention are presented that can achieve very high throughputs with low hardware resource usage and power.
US11381254B1
A hard decoder includes an input data handler that receives and rearranges a low-density parity-check (LDPC) codeword, and a variable node updater that iteratively updates the rearranged LDPC codeword to generate an updated LDPC codeword during each decoding iteration of the rearranged LDPC codeword. The hard decoder further includes a syndrome generator that generates a syndrome vector associated with the updated LDPC codeword of each decoding iteration. During each decoding iteration, the rearranged LDPC codeword is updated based on a threshold value and the syndrome vector associated with the updated LDPC codeword of a previous decoding iteration and a validity of the updated LDPC codeword of the previous decoding iteration. The hard decoder further includes an output data handler that extracts a message from the updated LDPC codeword that is valid and outputs the extracted message.
US11381253B1
Techniques related to improving the decoding performance of codewords, such as LDPC codewords, are described. In an example, the error-correction capability of a decoding layer is improved, where the improvements may include lowering the error floor. To do so, higher order information is used in the decoding. Higher order information refers to, during the decoding of a variable node that is in error, using information that is not limited to the variable node and check nodes connected thereto, but includes information related to variable nodes that are also in error and connected to the variable node via satisfied check nodes and related to unsatisfied check nodes connected to such variable nodes.
US11381244B1
A new class of multiplier cells (analog or digital) is derived from a 1-bit full adder and an AND gate. The 1-bit full adder is derived from first and second majority gates. The multiplier cell can also be implemented with a combination of two majority gates with majority and AND functions integrated in each of them. The two majority gates are coupled. Each of the first and second majority logic gates comprise a capacitor with non-linear polar material. The first and second majority gates receive the two inputs A and B that are to be multiplied. Other inputs received by the first and second majority gates are carry-in input, a sum-in input, and a bias voltage. The bias voltage is a negative voltage, which produces an integrated AND function in conjunction with a majority function. The second majority gate receives additional inputs, which are inverted output of the first majority gate.
US11381242B2
According to an aspect of the present inventive concept there is provided 3D IC, comprising: a plurality of logic cells stacked on top of each other, each logic cell forming part of one of a plurality of vertically stacked device tiers of the 3D IC, and each logic cell comprising a network of logic gates, each logic gate comprising a network of horizontal channel transistors, wherein a layout of the network of logic gates of each logic cell is identical among said logic cells such that each logic gate of any one of said logic cells has a corresponding logic gate in each other one of said logic cells, and wherein each logic cell comprises: a single active layer forming an active semiconductor pattern of the transistors of the logic gates of the logic cell, and a single layer of horizontally extending conductive lines comprising gate lines defining transistor gates of the transistors, and wiring lines forming interconnections in the network of transistors and in the network of logic gates of said logic cell.
US11381241B2
A table-based state machine is improved by reducing critical dependence path. In one aspect, all current states for a given input are read from a state table circuit, and the next state and output are then selected therefrom by an output multiplexer based on the current state, removing dependence on the current state from the table read, and allowing the read(s) to be pipelined. In a further aspect, multiple input units are configured to operate on multiple inputs in parallel, with each input unit propagating its state table circuit for its current input to the next downstream input unit. Each downstream input unit is configured to use the propagated state table circuit to provide the state table circuit reads to the proper output multiplexer input. The number of possible output states for a given input may be dynamically reduced, reducing the size of the output multiplexer selecting the next state.
US11381240B2
Example MOSFET circuits include a first metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) having a gate, a source and a drain, and a second MOSFET coupled in series with the first MOSFET. The second MOSFET has a gate, a source and a drain. The MOSFET circuit also includes a controller configured to supply a same control signal to the gate of the first MOSFET and the gate of the second MOSFET to turn on or turn off the first MOSFET and the second MOSFET when a drain-source voltage of the first MOSFET and a drain-source voltage of the second MOSFET are substantially zero. Other MOSFET circuits and methods of operating MOSFET circuits are also disclosed.
US11381219B2
A vibrator device includes a base, a vibrator element attached to the base, and a lid housing the vibrator element between the base and itself and bonded to the base. The base has a semiconductor substrate including a first surface bonded to the lid and a second surface in a front-back relationship with the first surface, a first insulating layer placed on the first surface, first, second internal terminals placed on the first insulating layer and electrically coupled to the vibrator element, a second insulating layer placed on the second surface, and first, second external terminals placed on the second insulating layer and electrically coupled to the first, second internal terminals. The second insulating layer has a first external terminal region in which the first external terminal is placed and a second external terminal region separated from the first external terminal region, in which the second external terminal is placed.
US11381218B2
A high-frequency module includes a high-frequency switch, filters (21 to 23), (31 to 33), and connection circuits (41 to 46). The high-frequency switch has filter-side terminals (Ps1 to Ps 6). The filters (21, 22, 23) each include a plurality of filters having characteristics different from each other. The filters (31, 32, 33) each include one type of filter. The connection circuits (41, 42, 43) connect the terminals (Ps1, Ps2, Ps3) of the high-frequency switch to the common terminals (Pc21, Pc22, Pc23) of the filters (21, 22, 23), respectively. The connection circuits (44, 45, 46) connect the terminals (Ps4, Ps5, Ps6) of the high-frequency switch to the filters (31, 32, 33), respectively. The connection circuits (41, 42, 43) are shorter than the connection circuits (44, 45, 46).
US11381209B2
Disclosed is a method of operating an audio signal processing apparatus playing content including an audio signal. The method includes receiving the audio signal, receiving metadata including information related to a loudness of the audio signal, the metadata including loudness distribution information indicating, for each of a plurality of steps separated according to a loudness magnitude, a ratio between an amount of the audio signal corresponding to each of the plurality of steps of the audio signal and a total amount of the audio signal, and adjusting the loudness of the audio signal based on the metadata.
US11381208B1
The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and method for continuous time linear equalization. Embodiments include a differential amplifier including a first transistor and a second transistor, wherein the differential amplifier includes a peak-generating path and a peak-reduction path. Embodiments also include at least one switch and at least one capacitor located between a source and a drain of at least one of the first transistor and the second transistor to create a capacitive path between the source and drain, wherein the at least one switch and at least one capacitor are configured to reduce bandwidth.
US11381200B2
The invention relates to a device (1) for aligning a solar panel (20) with respect to an installation rail which is attached to a base, in particular a roof, prior to installation. The invention also relates to an assembly comprising at least one solar panel (20) and at least one such device (1) which is coupled to a frame (21) of the solar panel (20). The invention furthermore relates to a method for aligning a solar panel (20), with respect to an installation rail attached to a base, in particular a roof, prior to installation by using at least one such device (1), optionally followed by the installation of the at least one solar panel (20) to the support rail.
US11381192B2
Provided is a power conversion controller in which variation in reactive power among power conversion controllers can be inhibited while maintaining the running performance of vehicles. The power conversion controller includes a power factor setter that sets a power factor based on a detection value of an overhead line voltage, and a calculator that calculates a reactive current command value by multiplying an active current command value by a tangent of a power factor angle of the power factor. The power factor setter sets a reference value set in advance as the power factor if the detection value is within a reference range, sets a value smaller than the reference value as the power factor if the detection value is below the reference range, and sets a value larger than the reference value as the power factor if the detection value is beyond the reference range.
US11381189B2
The system determines that a multiphase electric motor is in a low-speed operating range, near stall. The system determines a duty cycle for each phase of the multiphase electric motor. The duty cycle includes a nominal component and a zero-sequence component configured to balance temperature rises of power electronics devices of the motor drive. Power electronics devices can include diodes, IGBTs, or other switches or devices. The system causes each duty cycle to be applied to a corresponding switch of the corresponding phase of the multiphase electric motor to cause current flow in the corresponding phase. The system may determine duty cycles corresponding to a thermal balance between a switch and a diode of a phase and a thermal balance between a pair of like devices of different phases, and then determine which duty cycle is closer to a predetermined value.
US11381187B2
A motor control apparatus that controls a first motor and a second motor that are synchronized includes a first motor control unit configured to control a driving voltage of the first motor based on the torque current instruction value, which is output based on a torque current of the first motor for the first motor, and a second motor control unit configured to control a driving voltage of the second motor based on the torque current instruction value, which is output based on a torque current of the second motor for the second motor, wherein the first torque correction unit or the second torque correction unit corrects the torque current instruction value for the first motor or the toque current instruction value for the second motor based on the torque current of the first motor and the torque current of the second motor.
US11381180B2
A linear actuator (1) comprises a spindle nut arranged to be moved between two end positions on a spindle driven by a DC motor (2). An end stop switch (31) is arranged to be activated when the spindle nut is in an end position. In its activated state, the end stop switch disconnects the motor current and connects a first diode (33) across the DC motor for short circuiting the motor when the current is interrupted. A second diode (32) is connected over the end stop switch for enabling the DC motor to drive the spindle nut out of said end position. An additional component (43) in series with the first diode reduces noise problems caused by motor current circulating through this diode during pulse pauses while the spindle nut is driven out of an end position by a pulse width modulated voltage via a cable from a control box.
US11381175B2
An AC-DC power conversion system provides extended voltage gain characteristic by virtue of controlling a duty cycle of operation associated with the desired input-to-output gain. The AC-DC power conversion system includes an AC-stage, first and second inductors, first and second voltage-doubler stages, a totem-pole rectifier stage, and a DC-stage coupled across the totem-pole rectifier stage. Each voltage-doubler stage includes a first terminal, a second terminal, and a third terminal, wherein a first terminal of the AC-stage is coupled by the first inductor to the first terminal of each voltage-doubler stage and by the second inductor to the third terminal of each voltage-doubler stage. The totem-pole rectifier stage includes first and second terminals coupled, respectively, to the second terminal of the first voltage-doubler stage and the second terminal of the second voltage-doubler stage.
US11381168B2
A switching power supply device includes first to fourth switches sequentially connected in series, an inductor, a first capacitor whose first end is connected to a connection node of the first switch and the second switch and whose second end is connected to a connection node of the third switch, the fourth switch, and the inductor, a second capacitor whose first end is connected to a connection node of the second switch and the third switch, and a controller that controls switching on and off of the first to fourth switches. In at least one of a first pair configured with the first switch and the third switch and a second pair configured with the second switch and the fourth switch, the controller shifts a timing of switching from off to on between two switches.
US11381158B2
A controller (203) comprises a processing system (205) for controlling a power electronic converter during a short circuit taking place in a direct voltage side of the power electronic converter. The processing system recognizes a direction of current in a phase (126-128) of an alternating voltage side of the power electronic converter, sets a high-leg controllable switch (108-110) of the phase to a conductive state while keeping a low-leg controllable switch (111-113) of the phase in a non-conductive state when the recognized direction of the current is outwards from the power electronic converter, and otherwise sets the low-leg controllable switch to the conductive state while keeping the high-leg controllable switch in the non-conductive state. Thermal loadings of freewheeling diodes (114-119) of the power electronic converter are reduced since currents needed to burn input fuses (122) of the power electronic converter are shared between the controllable switches and the freewheeling diodes.
US11381149B2
A switching element control circuit includes: a third electrode voltage control part which controls a third electrode voltage; a first electrode current detection part which detects a first electrode current which flows through the switching element; a memory part which stores information including an initial threshold voltage and an initial first electrode current, and a drain current characteristic of a threshold voltage; and a threshold voltage calculation part which calculates a threshold voltage at a time of operating the switching element based on information including the first electrode current, the initial threshold voltage, and an initial first electrode current, and information relating to the first electrode current characteristic of the threshold voltage, wherein the third electrode voltage control part controls the third electrode voltage based on a threshold voltage at the time of operating the switching element calculated by the threshold voltage calculation part.
US11381142B2
A rotor assembly for an electric machine includes a cylindrical rotor core, a set of posts extending radially outward from the rotor core defining a set of slots between adjacent posts, a set of windings formed by conductive wire wound in the set of slots having end turns extending axially beyond the rotor core, and a retention case overlying the end turns.
US11381140B2
A motor includes a sheet-like gasket for sealing the gap between a stator core and an encoder. The gasket has a structure including a metal plate and a sealing member covering the metal plate, and the gasket includes a first portion that is disposed at least between the end face on one end side of the stator core and the encoder and a second portion that has a structure including the sealing member with no metal plate and extends inward from the first portion to contact the projection.
US11381135B2
Provided is a rotor for an asynchronous rotary electrical machine with non-through shaft that includes a cylindrical magnetic mass gripped between two mounting flanges of two half-shafts, a cooling means capable of cooling the rotor and conductive bars housed within the magnetic mass and distributed substantially uniformly over a diameter of the magnetic mass. The cooling means includes, for each conductive bar, at least one cooling channel, opening onto the conductive bar according to an axial direction and located within the magnetic mass and at least one through hole arranged within each conductive bar in such a way that the cooling channel communicates with at least one hole arranged on the outer periphery of the magnetic mass.
US11381128B2
A stator includes first exterior members that surround sides of outer circumferential portions of coil ends on both end sides of an iron core, second exterior members connected to the first exterior members, and which surround sides of end portions of the coil ends in the axial direction, and mold members that cover the coil ends and are placed in contact with the first exterior members and the second exterior members. Holes are formed in the second exterior member on one end side, and a surface that faces the mold member, of the second exterior member on the one end side, is inclined in a manner so that a thickness thereof becomes continuously thinner toward the holes.
US11381127B2
An electric machine provided with a stator structure including internal and external layers of interleaved pre-wound coils made of rectangular wire coated with enamel insulation varnish is described herein. The two layers of pre-wound coils allow the use of slightly different size of pre-wound coils, which facilitates their insertion into the stator slots.
US11381123B2
The present disclosure provides hybrid stator core components for an axial flux motor stator and methods for making the same. The hybrid stator core component includes a molded soft magnetic composite material and a laminated component. In one variation, a laminated insert comprising a plurality of insulated layers is non-releasably seated within a molded soft magnetic composite material. In another variation, a hybrid stator core component has a molded soft magnetic composite core and a laminated shell comprising a plurality of layers disposed around at least a portion of the molded soft magnetic composite core.
US11381119B2
A method of controlling a power transmitter includes entering a negation phase with a power receiver including receiving a foreign object detection status packet from the power receiver, detecting whether a foreign object is present based on the foreign object detection status packet, and transmitting a NACK response to the power receiver indicating the power transmitter has detected the foreign object is present or transmitting an ACK response to the power receiver indicating the power transmitter has detected the foreign object is not present; and entering a power transfer phase including transmitting a first power to the power receiver in response to the transmitted NACK response and again detecting whether the foreign object is present while transmitting the first power, and transmitting a second power greater than the first power in response to the transmitted ACK response.
US11381115B2
The disclosure provides a wireless charging device including a metal frequency-selective box and an internal charging system disposed inside the metal frequency-selective box for wireless charging. The internal charging system includes a multi-antenna subsystem including N antenna units; N is an integer greater than 2, and the antenna units are dipole antennas, microstrip patch antennas, microstrip slot antennas, helical antennas, or dielectric resonator antennas. The N antenna units are evenly disposed, in a two-dimensional ring, on inner sides of four side faces of the metal frequency-selective box, or disposed on a three-dimensional curved surface of the entire inner side of the metal frequency-selective box. The device to be energized is disposed in the metal frequency-selective box and is surrounded by the N antenna units.
US11381114B2
Methods, apparatus and systems supporting coexistence of wireless transmission equipment in shared wireless medium environments. The techniques provided herein may be applied to various types of wireless transmission equipment. Under one example, a wireless power transmission system (WPTS) delivers power to wireless power receiver clients via transmission of wireless power signals using one or more frequencies and/or channels within shared wireless medium environments in which other wireless equipment is operating, such as access points and stations in wireless local area networks (WLANs). The WPTS is configured to co-exist with the operations of the other wireless equipment within the shared wireless medium environment by adapting its transmission operations to utilize frequencies or channels that do not interfere with other equipment and/or implementing co-channel and shared channels operations under which access to channels is implemented using standardized WLAN protocols such as PHY and MAC protocols used for 802.11 (Wi-Fi™) networks.
US11381110B1
Aspects are described for a device comprising a wireless transceiver configured to receive a radio frequency (RF) emission from a source device, an energy-harvesting unit configured to charge the first device wirelessly, using a first part of the RF emission, and a processor communicatively coupled to the transceiver. The processor is configured to modulate the first part of the RF emission based on information detected by the device and determine that an energy level of the device is above a threshold. The processor is further configured to transmit, in response to determining that the energy level is above the threshold, using the wireless transceiver, the modulated first part of the RF emission to the source device. The processor is further configured to transmit, in response to determining that the energy level is above the threshold, using the wireless transceiver, a second part of the RF emission wirelessly to another device to charge the other device.
US11381108B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for a versatile UPS. The versatile UPS is operative to provide power to a load and to an interconnected network for delivering electricity from producers to consumers (i.e., an electricity grid, or simply, “a grid”). The versatile UPS has a plurality of switches providing for a multiplicity of switching states. The output to the load, the grid, or both is dependent, at least in part, on the switching states. Related systems, methods and apparatus is also described.
US11381103B2
A variable voltage charging system for a vehicle includes an alternator operatively connected to an engine and configured to alternately output at least a low charge voltage to charge a low voltage storage device and a high charge voltage to charge a high voltage storage device. A switch is configured to switch between connecting the alternator to the low voltage storage device and connecting the alternator to the high voltage storage device. A controller is configured to control operation of the alternator and the switch between at least a low voltage mode and a high voltage mode. In the low voltage mode, the alternator outputs the low charge voltage and the switch is connecting the alternator to the low voltage storage device. In the high voltage mode, the alternator outputs the high charge voltage and the switch is connecting the alternator to the high voltage storage device.
US11381099B2
Distributing higher currents demanded by a power consuming load(s) exceeding overcurrent limits of a current limiter circuit for a power source in a power distribution system. The power distribution system receives and distributes power from the power source to a power consuming load(s). The power distribution circuit is configured to limit current demand on the power source to not exceed a designed source current threshold limit. The power distribution circuit includes an energy storage circuit. The power distribution circuit is configured to charge the energy storage circuit with current supplied by the power source. Current demanded by the power consuming load(s) exceeding the source current threshold limit of the power source is supplied by the energy storage circuit. Thus, limiting current of the power source while supplying higher currents demanded by power consuming load(s) exceeding the source current limits of the power source can both be accomplished.
US11381077B2
A clamp circuit including a power dissipation circuit having at least one transistor and a resistor which dissipates power from the surge across the resistor and the transistor by turning on the at least one transistor and forming a voltage divider between a source impedance and the resistor thereof disposed in series with a channel of the transistor; and the resistor holding a portion of transient pulse seen by the load to a low voltage and adding of the low voltage to a threshold voltage of the transistor; and a sub-circuit which tests a functionality of the power dissipation circuit.
US11381073B2
A DC voltage network includes at least three energy storage networks, each having an energy store supplying a DC voltage, and at least three power converters implemented as DC voltage converters. The energy store and the power converters are electrically connected at a common point, At least three DC voltage sub-networks are each connected to a respective power converter of the energy storage networks. A feed device connects a respective DC voltage sub-network to an AC voltage network. The DC voltage network may be installed in a vehicle, in particular a ship. In a method of controlling the DC voltage network in the event of a fault, at least one of the power converters is switched off to protect the DC voltage network, depending on the location of the fault.
US11381067B2
An explosion-proof line bushing and method for producing the line bushing. A prespecified amount of elastomeric material is applied to a line and completely surrounds the line in a flat section in the circumferential direction. The line is inserted into a passage opening of a bushing body. The bushing body is preferably plastically deformed. After the plastic deformation, the elastomeric material substantially fills the volume remaining between the formed bushing body and line. The elastomeric material is elastically deformed and presses both against the line and the formed bushing body so that flame-proof gaps are formed between the bushing body and the line. The applied mass of the elastomeric material is determined depending on the inner volume between the formed bushing body and the line remaining.
US11381062B2
A pushing tool for propelling cable into a duct. The pushing tool includes a drive wheel that is coupled with a base and a rotatable handle. A first cable guide and a second cable guide are configured to hold the cable. A duct guide is configured to hold the duct. Furthermore, a tension wheel is configured to interact with the drive wheel such that an orifice is formed between the tension wheel and the drive wheel, the orifice being configured to receive the cable. Upon rotation of the rotatable handle, the drive wheel interacts with the tension wheel to propel the cable into the duct.
US11381052B2
A laser device is provided that includes an element made of laser-active material and a cladding element bonded to the element so as to allow heat exchange by heat conduction between the cladding element and the element. The laser-active material emitting laser light when excited by pump light. The element being made of a glass. The cladding element being made of a material that exhibits an absorption coefficient for the pump light that is lower than a corresponding absorption coefficient of the glass. The element and cladding element being configured so that the pump light can be directed through the cladding element into the element and/or so that the pump light can be directed through the element into the cladding element.
US11381047B2
To provide a socket for electrical component that allows an electric component to be pushed down adequately in accordance with the kind of the contact pins or the terminal of the electrical component. An IC socket for electrical component comprising: a socket body 13 accommodating an IC package 11; a cover member 15 for pressing the accommodated IC package 11; and a lever member 17 for pressing the cover member 15. A long hole 23h is provided on the socket body 13 to movably support the cover member 15, a third shaft 33 supported by the long hole 23h is provided on the cover member 15, and the cover member 15 is configured to be closed so that the cover member 15 is pushed down along the long hole 23h.
US11381043B2
An electrical connector includes an insulative housing, a plurality of contacts assembled in the housing, a plurality of cylindrical mating ports located on and forwardly extending from a front face of the housing, and a plurality of LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes) disposed in the housing behind the front face thereof. The mating port includes a majority part and a minority part engaged with each other wherein the majority part has the material same with or similar to that of the housing and is spaced away from the LED while the minority part is essentially translucent or transparent for light transmission/guiding and intimately confronts the LED.
US11381042B2
In one example, the connector includes a body portion configured to be connected to a cord and a connection portion engaged with the body portion and comprising a plurality of conductors. The connection portion includes a conductive shield electrically connected to a plurality of the conductors when the connection portion is not engaged with the article of merchandise, and the connection portion also includes at least one ground conductor that is not electrically connected to the remaining conductors and/or the conductive shield when the connection portion is not engaged with the article of merchandise. At least one of the conductors and/or the conductive shield is configured to cooperate with the ground conductor to define a sense loop when the connector is engaged with the article of merchandise, and interruption of the sense loop is indicative of a security event.
US11381033B2
A self-locking connector provides an electrical connection between sources, equipment, devices, and the like. The self-locking connector generally includes first and second connector components with first and second housings that include corresponding electrically conductive elements, first and second magnetic elements, and first and second lock elements. One housing includes stationary and movable housing components. The connector components are brought into a coupled state with the corresponding electrically conductive elements providing an electrical connection. As the connector components are brought into the coupled state, the movable housing component automatically moves and brings the locking elements into locked engagement. The magnetic elements urge the connector components in the coupled state and the locking elements in locked engagement. The movable housing component is manually moved to bring the lock components out of locked engagement and the connector components out of the coupled state to break the electrical connection.
US11381032B2
An electrical plug connector terminates a twisted pair electrical cable. The electrical plug connector includes a base and a plug housing holding electrical contacts therebetween. The base includes a divider structure including separation walls. At least one of the separation walls defines an abutment surface against which a forward end of the electrical cable abuts when terminated by the electrical plug connector. The plug housing defines slots so that the electrical contacts are accessible. The electrical plug connector axially secures an outer jacket of the electrical cable against rearward movement relative to base. The at least one separation wall inhibits forward axial movement of the outer jacket of the electrical cable relative to the base.
US11381029B2
An electrical and receptacle and fixture system that provides a simple, safe and quick mechanical electrical connection for mounting electrical fixtures to a receptacle box and connecting electrical equipment. The connection system has dedicated fixture and receptacle as well as conversion adapters for existing electrical connections.
US11381022B2
A contact unit for use within a connector includes a primary piece essentially composed of an upper part and a lower part coupled with each other. The upper part includes an upper retaining section and a resilient upper contacting arm with an upper contacting section and an upper abutment section at a free end thereof. The lower part includes a lower retaining section and a resilient lower contacting arm extending downwardly with a lower contacting section and a lower abutment section at a free end thereof. A secondary piece is spaced from and opposite to the primary piece in a horizontal direction of the contacting arm, and includes an upper abutment region adapted to be abutted against by the upper abutment section of the upper contacting arm, and a lower abutment region adapted to be abutted against by the lower abutment section of the lower contacting arm.
US11381018B2
A connector (10) according to this disclosure includes an insulator (20) into/from which a connection object (60) can be inserted/removed and an actuator (50) capable of rotating between a closed position where the actuator closes relative to the insulator (20) and an opened position where the actuator opens relative to the insulator (20). The actuator (50) rotates from the removal side to the insertion side of the connection object (60) with respect to the insulator (20) when moving from the closed position to the opened position and holds the opened position independently.
US11381013B2
A connector includes an insulative housing having opposite upper and lower surfaces with a plurality of passageways extending therethrough, and a plurality of contacts retained in the corresponding passageways, respectively. Each contact includes a primary part and a secondary part discrete from each other. The primary part includes a first main body with a first spring arm extend upwardly through the upper surface for mating with the CPU, and a first soldering section around the lower surface. The secondary part includes a second main body with a second spring arm contacting the first main body, and a second soldering section around the lower surface. A solder ball is attached to the first soldering section and/or the second soldering section.
US11381008B2
A connection terminal includes a housing, a slide, and an insulation displacement contact. At least portions of the slide and the insulation displacement contact are received in the housing. The slide has an opening for inserting a conductor to be contacted. The slide is movable from a first position toward the insulation displacement contact to a second position in order to engage the insulation displacement contact with the conductor to be contacted. The slide has a tool abutment configured to transmit, to the slide, an assembly force of a robot-guided assembly tool for moving the slide from the first position to the second position.
US11380995B2
The present disclosure provides a two-dimensional antenna system. The two-dimensional antenna system includes a transmitting antenna array and a receiving antenna array. The transmitting antenna array includes one or more circularly polarized transmitting antennas having a first direction of rotation. The receiving antenna array includes two or more first circularly polarized receiving antennas having a second direction of rotation arranged in a first direction, and two or more second circularly polarized receiving antennas having the second direction of rotation arranged in a second direction. The first direction is perpendicular to the second direction, and the first direction of rotation is opposite to the second direction of rotation.
US11380993B2
Disclosed are embodiments of a transceiver front-end configured for a reduced noise figure (NF). Each of the embodiments includes an antenna, a transmitter branch and a receiver branch all connected to an input/output pad. The transmitter branch is coupled to the input/output pad (and thereby the antenna) by an impedance transformer. Only the receiver branch is selectively electrically connected to the input/output pad (and thereby the antenna) by a switch. A common matching network between the input/output pad and the switch provides both impedance matching and electrostatic discharge protection for the switch and the low noise amplifier, thereby reducing NF. Specific embodiments are disclosed for integration into specific technologies (e.g., fully depleted silicon-on-insulator (FDSOI) technology and fin-type field effect transistor (finFET) technology).
US11380976B2
An overboard tracking patch is an apparatus which increases the visibility and tracking capabilities of Personal Flotation Devices (PFDs) for more efficient tracking of overboard individuals. In a passive embodiment, the apparatus includes an outer layer, an intermediate layer, an attachment layer, and a processor. The outer layer increases the visibility of PFDs during both daytime and nighttime conditions. The intermediate layer provides radio identification capabilities for the remote tracking of PFDs using search radars. The attachment layer enables users to attach the present invention to a PFD. The processor stores PFD information and other identification data. In a hybrid active-passive embodiment, the apparatus also comprises a thermionic layer and a power-storage layer. The thermionic layer generates power due to the heat exchange between the body of the user and the thermionic layer. The power-storage layer serves to store power generated by the thermionic layer to power up the processor.
US11380967B2
In the stacked battery, a short-circuit current shunt part is electrically connected to the electric elements, and an insulating layer of the short-circuit current shunt part is constituted of material having a predetermined melting point or glass transition temperature. When heat is excessively generated in the battery due to internal short circuits etc. and the temperature of the battery reaches the melting point of the insulating layer, the insulating layer melts and its shape is changed to short-circuit the short-circuit current shunt part, and current flows from the electric elements into the short-circuit current shunt part. To measure the current flowing into the short-circuit current shunt part makes it possible to easily grasp excessive heat generation of the battery to suppress deterioration of the battery due to heat generation.
US11380965B2
A cell structure for a secondary battery includes an electrode assembly including a plurality of electrodes, a plurality of electrode tabs extending from the electrodes to an outside of the electrode assembly, and a plurality of lead tabs electrically connected to the electrode tabs and contacting the electrode assembly. In the cell structure, a part of each of the lead tabs is folded, and the electrode tabs are inserted into the folded part of each of the lead tabs.
US11380953B2
The present invention provides a fiber-reinforced aerogel material which can be used as insulation in thermal battery applications. The fiber-reinforced aerogel material is highly durable, flexible, and has a thermal performance that exceeds the insulation materials currently used in thermal battery applications. The fiber-reinforced aerogel insulation material can be as thin as 1 mm less, and can have a thickness variation as low as 2% or less. Also provided is a method for improving the performance of a thermal battery by incorporating a reinforced aerogel material into the thermal battery. Further provided is a casting method for producing thin fiber-reinforced aerogel materials.
US11380950B2
A battery module includes a cell stack having pouch-type battery cells provided to stand side by side and stacked in a horizontal direction, and a module housing configured to accommodate the cell stack. The module housing includes a lower plate provided in a rectangular plate form to support the cell stack at a lower portion of the cell stack; and a first left pressing plate and a first right pressing plate having elasticity and extending upwards at both side edge regions of the lower plate, which are provided side by side, to form an acute angle with respect to a vertically upper direction so that a gap between the first left pressing plate and the first right pressing plate becomes narrowed upwards. The first left pressing plate and the first right pressing plate are elastically biased to press both side surfaces of the cell stack.
US11380946B2
A coolant includes a refrigerant, a porous plate-shaped heat insulator, and an enclosure in which the refrigerant and the heat insulator are enclosed in a sealed state, and the heat insulator has a thermal conductivity per unit area of 300 W/(K·m2) or less and a thickness equal to or greater than 0.5 mm and equal to or less than 10.0 mm.
US11380945B2
A thermal management system and method for regulating the dissipation of a thermal load during operation of a vehicle. The thermal management system including one or more cooling loops configured to regulate the temperature of at least one battery pack; and an energy recovery mechanism configured to recover energy dissipated upon the occurrence of a thermal runaway event. The amount of energy recovered maintains the power level at or above the level exhibited by the battery pack prior to the occurrence of the thermal runaway event. Upon the occurrence of the thermal runaway event, the energy recovery mechanism transforms the cooling loop into a Rankine cycle loop or uses a Seebeck effect to recover energy.
US11380937B2
Provide is a non-aqueous electrolyte for lithium ion battery, comprising a compound represented by structural formula I: In formula I, R1, R2, R3 and R4 are each independently selected from hydrogen atom, fluorine atom, cyano group, hydrocarbyl group or halogenated hydrocarbyl group having 1-5 carbon atoms, oxygen-containing hydrocarbyl group having 1-5 carbon atoms, silicon-containing hydrocarbyl group having 1-5 carbon atoms, X is a —O—R5—CN group, R5 is a hydrocarbyl group or a halogenated hydrocarbyl group having 1-5 carbon atoms, m, n, z and y are integers of 0 or 1, and m+n+y+z≠0. When the non-aqueous electrolyte is used for lithium ion battery, the decomposition of electrolyte on the surface of electrode can be inhibited, and the high-temperature storage performance is improved with less gas generation and small expansion rate, therefore the high-temperature cycle performance and high-temperature storage performance of the battery are effectively improved.
US11380935B2
A resin composition for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery that includes a vinylidene fluoride copolymer having a constituent unit derived from vinylidene fluoride and a constituent unit derived from a fluorine-containing alkyl vinyl compound. A melting point, measured in accordance with ASTM D3418, of the vinylidene fluoride copolymer is from 105° C. to 125° C., and a mass fraction Wa of the constituent unit derived from the fluorine-containing alkyl vinyl compound in the vinylidene fluoride copolymer, a degree of crystallinity DC of the vinylidene fluoride copolymer, and a degree of amorphicity DA of the vinylidene fluoride copolymer satisfy Equation (1) below: 4.7≤Wa×(DC/DA)≤14 (1).
US11380920B2
Provided is a cogeneration system that includes a plurality of fuel cell devices capable of supplying heat and power to a heat load and a power load and a control device connected to the fuel cell devices. The control device determines an operation mode on the basis of at least one of a heat demand value and a power demand value. The control device controls a power generation efficiency and a heat recovery efficiency by controlling the fuel cell devices on the basis of the operation mode determined.
US11380916B2
The invention relates to a fuel cell (2) comprising at least one membrane/electrode unit (10) comprising a first electrode and a second electrode, which electrodes are separated from one another by a membrane, and comprising at least one polar plate (40) which comprises a first distribution region (50) for distributing a fuel to the first electrode and a second distribution region (60) for distributing an oxidation agent to the second electrode. The first electrode and the second electrode of the at least one membrane electrode unit (10) are electrically connected by means of a conductor (90). The invention also relates to a fuel cell stack (5) which comprises a plurality of the claimed fuel cells (2).
US11380910B2
A fuel cell includes a support substrate, at least one power generation element portion, at least one first gas channel, and at least one second gas channel. The power generation element portion is disposed on the support substrate. The first and second gas channels extend from a proximal end portion toward a distal end portion in the support substrate and are connected to each other at the distal end portion. The sum of a cross-sectional area of the at least one first gas channel is smaller than the sum of a cross-sectional area of the at least one second gas channel.
US11380905B2
The invention provides a gas diffusion layer for a fuel cell on which a microporous layer is disposed, which can have lower contact resistance with electrode catalyst layers and improved gas diffusion performance. The gas diffusion layer for a fuel cell of the disclosure has a conductive porous substrate layer and a microporous layer laminated in that order, wherein the microporous layer comprises carbon particles and a water-repellent resin, and has an impregnating portion that impregnates the conductive porous substrate layer and a non-impregnating portion that does not impregnate the conductive porous substrate layer, the thickness of the non-impregnating portion is greater than 0.0 μm and 20.0 μm or smaller, and the thickness of the impregnating portion is 29% or lower with respect to the total thickness of the microporous layer.
US11380902B2
The electrochemical cell has an anode, a cathode, and a solid electrolyte layer. The cathode contains a perovskite oxide expressed by the general formula ABO3 and includes at least one of Sr and La at the A site as a main component. The solid electrolyte layer is disposed between the anode and the cathode. The cathode includes a solid electrolyte layer-side region within 3 μm from a surface of the solid electrolyte layer side. The solid electrolyte layer-side region includes a main phase which is configured by the perovskite oxide and a second phase which is configured by Co3O4 and (Co, Fe)3O4. An occupied surface area ratio of the second phase in a cross section of the solid electrolyte layer-side region is less than or equal to 10.5%.
US11380900B2
Provided are an anode for a lithium secondary battery and a lithium secondary battery comprising the same. The anode comprises: a current collector; an anode active material layer disposed on the current collector; and a coating layer disposed on the anode active material layer and including an inorganic material and a binder polymer, wherein the binder polymer has a decomposition temperature of 100° C. to 400° C., and an elastic modulus of 1.0 GPa to 3.0 GPa at 220° C. or lower.
US11380898B2
The present invention relates to an electrolytic copper foil for a secondary battery and a method of producing the same, and more particularly, to an electrolytic copper foil for a secondary battery, which has little change in a physical property of a copper foil before and after vacuum drying in a process of producing an electrolytic copper foil, thereby exhibiting excellent cycle life in a battery test at a high-density negative electrode, and preventing cracking. The electrolytic copper foil for a secondary battery is produced from a plating solution containing Total Organic Carbon (TOC), zinc, and iron by using a drum, in which a ratio of the TOC to the zinc and the iron contained in the electrolytic copper foil follows Formula 1 below: TOC/(zinc+iron)=1.3 to 1.5 Formula 1
US11380893B1
Cathode active materials that include a metal compound having the formula MRx, where M is a metal, R is an atom, a molecule, or a radical having an oxidation state of −1, and x is a positive nonzero real number; and a metal oxide having the formula M′yOz, where M′ is a metal, and y and z are independently positive nonzero real numbers; provided that the metal compound and the metal oxide are in contact. The cathode active materials can be used to prepare cathodes that evolve little or no oxygen during operation. The cathodes can be economically incorporated into batteries that can provide high energy density.
US11380886B2
Disclosed herein are multiphase metal anodes useful in non-aqueous batteries. The anodes include at least one active metal and at least one conductive metal.
US11380883B2
Supplemental lithium can be used to stabilize lithium ion batteries with lithium rich metal oxides as the positive electrode active material. Dramatic improvements in the specific capacity at long cycling have been obtained. The supplemental lithium can be provided with the negative electrode, or alternatively as a sacrificial material that is subsequently driven into the negative electrode active material. The supplemental lithium can be provided to the negative electrode active material prior to assembly of the battery using electrochemical deposition. The positive electrode active materials can comprise a layered-layered structure comprising manganese as well as nickel and/or cobalt.
US11380877B2
An organic light emitting device includes a substrate layer, an anode disposed on the substrate layer, a pixel defining layer disposed on the anode and including bumps and openings spaced apart from each other, a light emitting functional layer disposed on the pixel defining layer, a polarizing layer disposed on the light emitting functional layer, and an encapsulation layer disposed on the polarizing layer for encapsulating the polarizing layer and the light emitting functional layer. The polarizing layer including a first inorganic layer, a first polarizing layer, a second inorganic layer, and a second polarizing layer, which are sequentially disposed. The first inorganic layer is disposed on the light emitting functional layer and the pixel defining layer, and the first polarizing layer and the second polarizing layer are disposed corresponding to the openings.
US11380868B2
A method of fabricating a display panel is provided. The method includes providing a substrate including a plurality of light emitting elements; forming a first protective layer on a side of the substrate; treating the first protective layer to obtain a first adhesive portion, a second adhesive portion, and a third adhesive portion, the third adhesive portion having an adhesive strength smaller than an adhesive strength of the first adhesive portion, and smaller than an adhesive strength of the second adhesive portion; and removing the third adhesive portion from the substrate to form a bendable portion of the substrate. The bendable portion of the substrate spaces apart a first portion of the substrate from a second portion of the substrate.
US11380863B2
Embodiments of a flexible electroluminescent (EL) device are described. An EL device includes a device stack and a flexible substrate configured to support the device stack. The device stack can include a anode and a cathode, a quantum dot (QD) film positioned between the anode and the cathode and configured to produce light having a first peak wavelength. The device stack further includes a patterned insulating layer disposed on the anode and configured to form electrically active regions in the device stack and to control emission of the light from the EL device through the electrically active regions. The EL device further includes an encapsulation layer disposed on the cathode.
US11380862B2
A display panel and method of manufacture are described. In an embodiment, a display substrate includes a pixel area and a non-pixel area. An array of subpixels and corresponding array of bottom electrodes are in the pixel area. An array of micro LED devices are bonded to the array of bottom electrodes. One or more top electrode layers are formed in electrical contact with the array of micro LED devices. In one embodiment a redundant pair of micro LED devices are bonded to the array of bottom electrodes. In one embodiment, the array of micro LED devices are imaged to detect irregularities.
US11380856B2
A flexible element configured to be disposed on a surface of a non-display substrate of a flexible display panel includes: a first base layer and a second base layer which are oppositely arranged with each other; and a buffer layer sandwiched between the first base layer and the second base layer. The flexible element can be bent around a bending axis. A projection of the buffer layer on a plane perpendicular to the bending axis is wave-shaped.
US11380853B2
Disclosed is an organic light emitting diode including a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; and a first emitting material layer, which includes a first host, a second host and a first dopant and disposed between the first and second electrodes. The first host is represented by Formula 1, the second host may be a triazine derivative, and the first dopant may be a red, green or blue dopant.
US11380850B2
The present invention relates to an organic electroluminescent device comprising a light-emitting layer B containing at least one host compound H of formula (I) wherein not more than two of the residues A1, A2, A3 and A4 are each N, X is O or S, and X′ is NRe, O or S. Further, the present invention refers to a method for generating light of a desired wavelength range by means of an organic electroluminescent device according to the present invention to which an electrical current is applied.
US11380848B2
The present invention discloses an organic compound represented by the following formula (1) and an organic electroluminescence device using the organic compound as the phosphorescent host material, the fluorescent host material, or the fluorescent dopant material. The organic compound may increase a current efficiency or half-life of the organic electroluminescence device.
US11380831B2
A thermoelectric conversion material consists of a non-doped sintered body of a magnesium-based compound, in which an electric resistance value is 1.0×10−4 Ω·m or less. The magnesium-based compound is preferably one or more selected from a MgSi-based compound, a MgSn-based compound, a MgSiSn-based compound, and a MgSiGe-based compound.
US11380829B2
A light emitting device includes a light emitting structure, first and second electrodes, and a shielding layer. The light emitting structure includes a first-type semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second-type semiconductor layer that are stacked along a stacking direction in such order. The first electrode is electrically connected to the first-type semiconductor layer. The second electrode is electrically connected to the second-type semiconductor layer. The shielding layer is connected to aside of the light emitting structure and is adapted to absorb or reflect incident laser light.
US11380823B2
Provided is a backlight module including a light source, a light guide plate, and a composite color-conversion layer. The light source emits a blue light. The light guide plate is optically coupled to the light source and the blue light transmits through the light guide plate. The composite color-conversion layer is disposed on the light guide plate. The composite color-conversion layer includes at least three different populations of quantum dots. The at least three different populations of quantum dots at least include a plurality of cyan quantum dots or a plurality of yellow quantum dots.
US11380820B2
In a light emitting device, a columnar part includes a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer different in conductivity type from the first semiconductor layer, and a light emitting layer disposed between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer, the first semiconductor layer is disposed between the substrate and the light emitting layer, the light emitting layer includes a first layer, and a second layer larger in bandgap than the first layer, the first semiconductor layer has a facet plane, the first layer has a facet plane, the facet plane of the first semiconductor layer is provided with the first layer, and θ2>θ1, in which θ1 is a tilt angle of the facet plane of the first semiconductor layer with respect to a surface of the substrate provided with the laminated structure, and θ2 is a tilt angle of the facet plane of the first layer provided to the facet plane of the first semiconductor layer with respect to the surface of the substrate.
US11380810B2
Luminescent solar concentrator (LSC) comprising at least one solution including at least one photoluminescent compound and at least one polyether polyol. Said luminescent solar concentrator (LSC) can be advantageously used in photovoltaic devices (or solar devices) such as, for example, photovoltaic cells (or solar cells), photoelectrolytic cells. In addition, said luminescent solar concentrator (LSC) can be advantageously used in photovoltaic windows.
US11380809B2
The present invention relates to a blind blade assembly for solar photovoltaic power generation including solar cells installed on one side thereof to enable solar photovoltaic power generation. In the blind blade assembly of the present invention, solar cells are provided in a prefabricated form, allowing the solar cells to be replaced and repaired individually. The blind blade assembly for solar photovoltaic power generation according to the present invention includes a blade frame 210 provided with a mounting groove 211; a plurality of solar cell panels 220 disposed in the longitudinal direction in the mounting groove 211; and fixing members 230 for connecting electrodes 223 between the solar cell panels 220 and for fixing seams.
US11380806B2
A variable capacitance III-N device having multiple two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) layers are described. In some embodiments, the device comprises a first source and a first drain; a first polarization layer adjacent to the first source and the first drain; a first channel layer coupled to the first source and the first drain and adjacent to the first polarization layer, the first channel layer comprising a first 2DEG region; a second source and a second drain; a second polarization layer adjacent to the second source and the second drain; and a second channel layer coupled to the second source and the second drain and adjacent to the second polarization layer, the second channel layer comprising a second 2DEG region, wherein the second channel layer is over the first polarization layer.
US11380798B2
A thin-film device includes a polysilicon element and an oxide semiconductor element. The polysilicon element includes a first part made of low-resistive polysilicon. The oxide semiconductor element includes a second part made of low-resistive oxide semiconductor. The first part and the second part are disposed to overlap each other and connected.
US11380797B2
Thin film core-shell fin and nanowire transistors are described. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a fin on an insulator layer above a substrate. The fin has a top and sidewalls. The fin is composed of a first semiconducting oxide material. A second semiconducting oxide material is on the top and sidewalls of the fin. A gate electrode is over a first portion of the second semiconducting oxide material on the top and sidewalls of the fin. A first conductive contact is adjacent the first side of the gate electrode, the first conductive contact over a second portion of the second semiconducting oxide material on the top and sidewalls of the fin. A second conductive contact is adjacent the second side of the gate electrode, the second conductive contact over a third portion of the second semiconducting oxide material on the top and sidewalls of the fin.
US11380783B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate and a fin feature over the substrate. The fin feature includes a first portion of a first semiconductor material and a second portion of a second semiconductor material disposed over the first portion. The second semiconductor material is different from the first semiconductor material. The semiconductor device further includes a semiconductor oxide feature disposed on sidewalls of the first portion and a gate stack disposed on the fin feature. The gate stack includes an interfacial layer over a top surface and sidewalls of the second portion and a gate dielectric layer over the interfacial layer and sidewalls of the semiconductor oxide feature. A portion of the gate dielectric layer is below the interfacial layer.
US11380781B2
The structure of a semiconductor device with source/drain contact structures and via structures and a method of fabricating the semiconductor device are disclosed. A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming a source/drain (S/D) region on a substrate, forming a S/D contact structure on the S/D region, and forming a via structure on the S/D contact structure. The forming of the via structure includes forming a via opening on the S/D contact structure, forming a non-metal passivation layer on sidewalls of the via opening, and depositing a via plug within the via opening in a bottom-up deposition process.
US11380780B2
A SiO2 layer 5 is formed in the bottom portion of a Si pillar 3 and on an i-layer substrate 2. Subsequently, a gate HfO2 layer 11b is formed so as to surround the side surface of the Si pillar 3, and a gate TiN layer 12b is formed so as to surround the HfO2 layer 11b. Subsequently, P+ layers 18 and 32 containing an acceptor impurity at a high concentration and serving as a source and a drain are simultaneously or separately formed by a selective epitaxial crystal growth method on the exposed side surface of the bottom portion of and on the top portion of the Si pillar 3. Thus, an SGT is formed on the i-layer substrate 2.
US11380776B2
Semiconductor devices and methods of forming the same are provided. A method according to the present disclosure includes forming a semiconductor element over a substrate, the semiconductor element including a channel region and a source/drain region, forming a dummy gate stack over the channel region of the semiconductor element, depositing a first spacer layer over sidewalls of the dummy gate stack, depositing a second spacer layer over the first spacer layer, wherein the second spacer layer includes at least one silicon sublayer and at least one nitrogen-containing sublayer, after the depositing of the second spacer layer, etching the source/drain region of the semiconductor element to form a source/drain recess, and after the etching, removing the second spacer layer.
US11380768B2
A device includes an active region, a gate structure, an epitaxial structure, an epitaxial layer, a metal alloy layer, a contact, and a contact etch stop layer. The gate structure is across the active region. The epitaxial structure is above the active region and adjacent the gate structure. The epitaxial layer is above the epitaxial structure. The metal alloy layer is above the epitaxial layer. The contact is above the metal alloy layer. The contact etch stop layer lines sidewalls of the epitaxial structure. The metal alloy layer is spaced apart from the contact etch stop layer.
US11380766B2
A transistor includes a quasi-intrinsic region of a first conductivity type that is covered with an insulated gate. The quasi-intrinsic region extends between two first doped regions of a second conductivity type. A main electrode is provided on each of the two first doped regions. A second doped region of a second conductivity type is position in contact with the quasi-intrinsic region, but is electrically and physically separated by a distance from the two first doped regions. A control electrode is provided on the second doped region.
US11380760B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate including a first active pattern and a second active pattern, a device isolation layer filling a first trench between the first and second active patterns, the device isolation layer including a silicon oxide layer doped with helium, a helium concentration of the device isolation layer being higher than a helium concentration of the first and second active patterns, and a gate electrode crossing the first and second active patterns.
US11380746B2
A display may include flexible substrate, a blocking layer on the flexible substrate, a pixel on the flexible substrate and the blocking layer, and a scan line, a data line, a driving voltage line, and an initialization voltage line connected to the pixel. The pixel may include an organic light emitting diode, a switching transistor connected to the scan line, and a driving transistor to apply a current to the organic light emitting diode. The blocking layer is in an area that overlaps the switching transistor on a plane, and between the switching transistor and the flexible substrate, and receives a voltage through a contact hole that exposes the blocking layer.
US11380738B2
Inorganic and organic LEDs are integrated in a single chip. In an integrated multi-color micro-LED display panel, arrays of different color micro LEDs are integrated with corresponding driver circuitry. Some colors of micro LEDs are inorganic micro LEDs, and other colors are organic micro LEDs. Inorganic versus organic can be selected on the basis of efficiency, for example using inorganic micro LEDs for blue pixels and organic micro LEDs for red and green pixels. In one approach, an array of pixel drivers is first fabricated on a supporting substrate. Multiple strata of micro LEDs are then stacked on top of the base substrate. The strata containing inorganic micro LEDs are fabricated first, with one color per stratum. A single stratum containing all of the organic micro LEDs is then fabricated at the top of the stack.
US11380732B2
A memory system may include separate amounts or types of resistive material that may be deposited over memory cells and conductive vias using separate resistive layers in the access lines. A first resistive material layer may be deposited over the memory cells prior to performing an array termination etch used to deposit the conductive via. The array termination etch may remove the first resistive material over the portion of the array used to deposit the conductive via. A second resistive material layer may be deposited after the etch has occurred and the conductive via has been formed. The second resistive material layer may be deposited over the conductive via.
US11380729B2
A method includes at least the following steps. A material layer is formed over an image capture chip. A patterned mask layer is formed on the material layer, wherein a pattern density of the patterned mask layer varies from a central region of the patterned mask layer to a periphery region of the patterned mask layer. The material layer is polished by using the patterned mask layer as a mask to form a lens layer including a single lens portion on the image capture chip.
US11380717B2
An array substrate includes a base substrate, at least one inorganic film layer, and at least one organic soft film layer. The organic soft film layer is disposed on a side of the inorganic film layer adjacent to the base substrate, and a side surface of the organic soft film layer adjacent to the inorganic film layer has a wavy shape. By using the inorganic film layer to generate a compressive stress on the organic soft film layer, the organic soft film layer is wavy, and the inorganic film layer is also wavy, which reduces the stress concentration of the panel when bending, and improves the bending performance of the flexible display panel.
US11380712B2
The disclosure relates to a display panel. The display panel may have a display area, a transition area, and a via hole area. The transition area may be between the via hole area and the display area. The display panel may include a substrate; an isolation structure on the substrate only in the transition area; and an encapsulation layer in both of the transition area and the display area. A first side surface of the isolation structure facing the via hole area may include a recess toward an interior of the isolation structure, and the encapsulation layer may include a cavity surrounding the isolation structure in the recess.
US11380711B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate having an active region defined by a device isolation film and providing a first channel region; a first source/drain region in the active region on first and second sides of the first channel region; a gate structure having a first gate insulating film, a shared gate electrode, and a second gate insulating film, sequentially arranged on the active region; a cover semiconductor layer on the second gate insulating film and electrically separated from the active region to provide a second channel region; a second source/drain region in the cover semiconductor layer on first and second sides of the second channel region first and second source/drain contacts respectively connected to the first and second source/drain regions; and a shared gate contact connected to the shared gate electrode.
US11380709B2
A memory element is provided that includes a portion of a bit line plug, a portion of a source line plug, a portion of a word line, a portion of a vertical semiconductor pillar disposed between the bit line plug, the source line plug and adjacent the word line, and a gate oxide including a ferroelectric material disposed between the vertical semiconductor pillar and the word line.
US11380701B2
Methods and structures of a three-dimensional memory device are disclosed. In an example, the memory device includes a substrate having one or more first recesses in a first region and one or more second recesses in a second region. A liner layer is disposed over the sidewalls and bottom of the one or more first recesses in the first region and an epitaxially-grown material is formed in the one or more second recesses in the second region. One or more NAND strings are formed over the epitaxially-grown material disposed in the one or more second recesses, and one or more vertical structures are formed over the one or more first recesses in the first region.
US11380698B2
A memory device with memory cell pairs each having a single continuous channel region, first and second floating gates over first and second portions of the channel region, an erase gate over a third portion of the channel region between the first and second channel region portions, and first and second control gates over the first and second floating gates. For each of the pairs of memory cells, the first region is electrically connected to the second region of an adjacent pair of memory cells in the same active region, and the second region is electrically connected to the first region of an adjacent pair of the memory cells in the same active region.
US11380685B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a semiconductor device (e.g., a gate-all-around (GAA) semiconductor device) comprising at least one superlattice fin. One example superlattice fin includes a first plurality of nanosheets composed of a first semiconductor material and a second plurality of nanosheets composed of a second semiconductor material, the second semiconductor material being different from the first semiconductor material, wherein a width of a first nanosheet in the first plurality of nanosheets differs from a width of a second nanosheet in the second plurality of nanosheets, the second nanosheet being adjacent to the first nanosheet.
US11380679B2
Integrated circuit architectures for load and input matching that include a capacitance selectable between a plurality of discrete levels, which are associated with a number of field effect transistors (FET) capacitor structures that are in an on-state. The capacitance comprises a metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) capacitance associated with each of the FET capacitor structures, and may be selectable through application of a bias voltage applied between a first circuit node and a second circuit node. Gate electrodes of the FET capacitor structures may be coupled in electrical parallel to the first circuit node, while source/drains of the FET capacitor structures are coupled in electrical parallel to the second circuit node. Where the FET capacitor structures have different gate-source threshold voltages, the number of FET capacitor structures in the on-state may be varied according to the bias voltage, and the capacitance correspondingly tuned to a desired value. The FET capacitor structures may be operable in depletion mode and/or enhancement mode.
US11380677B2
According to various embodiments, a transistor device may include a semiconductor structure having a trench formed therein. The semiconductor structure may include a buffer layer and a barrier layer arranged over the buffer layer. The trench may extend at least to the buffer layer. The transistor device may include a source terminal, a drain terminal, and a gate terminal arranged between the source terminal and the drain terminal. The gate terminal may extend into the trench. The transistor device may include an electrode component. The electrode component may include an electrode. The electrode component may extend into the trench where the electrode component is separated from the gate terminal. The electrode component may contact a side wall of the trench.
US11380668B2
A semiconductor device includes: a substrate extending in a first direction and a second direction intersecting with the first direction; a plurality of input/output pads disposed at one side of the substrate; a first circuit adjacent to the input/output pads in the first direction; a second circuit disposed to be spaced farther apart from the input/output pads in the first direction than the first circuit; a first memory cell array overlapping the first circuit; a second memory cell array overlapping the second circuit; first metal source patterns overlapping the first memory cell array and being spaced apart from each other in the second direction; and a second metal source pattern overlapping the second memory cell array and formed to have a width wider than a width of each of the first metal source patterns in the second direction.
US11380667B2
A memory device includes a first plurality of volatile memories, a non-volatile memory, and a controller coupled to the non-volatile memory and including a first controller output. The memory device further includes a registering clock driver (RCD) including a first RCD output, and a first multiplexer including a first mux input coupled to the first RCD output, a second mux input coupled to the first controller output, and a first mux output coupled to the first plurality of volatile memories. The first multiplexer can be configured to provide command/address signals from one of the RCD and the controller to the first plurality of volatile memories.
US11380665B2
A semiconductor device assembly, including an interposer comprising a glass material, a semiconductor die comprising a proximity coupling on a side of the interposer, and at least one other semiconductor die comprising a proximity coupling configured for communicating signals with the proximity coupling of the semiconductor die, on an opposing side of the interposer. The assembly may optionally be configured for optical signal communication with higher level packaging. Semiconductor device packages, systems and methods of operation are also disclosed.
US11380653B2
A die stack structure including a first die, an encapsulant, a redistribution layer and a second die is provided. The encapsulant laterally encapsulates the first die. The redistribution layer is disposed below the encapsulant, and electrically connected with the first die. The second die is disposed between the redistribution layer and the first die, wherein the first and second dies are electrically connected with each other, the second die comprises a body portion having a first side surface, a second side surface and a curved side surface therebetween, and the curved side surface connects the first side surface and the second side surface.
US11380649B2
The present disclosure provides a fan-out wafer-level packaging structure and a method for packaging the same. The structure includes: two or more semiconductor chips with a bonding pad, the semiconductor chips are arranged in a fan-out wafer array, and each of the semiconductor chips has an initial position, respectively; a plastic packaging layer, covering surfaces of the semiconductor chips and between the semiconductor chips, each of the semiconductor chips has an offset position, respectively, and the offset position has an offset distance relative to the initial position; a redistribution layer formed on the semiconductor chips, to realize interconnection between the semiconductor chips, the redistribution layer includes at least one first redistribution layer, the first redistribution layer is formed on a surface of the semiconductor chips and is aligned and in contact with the bonding pad of the semiconductor chips; and a metal bump formed on the redistribution layer.
US11380640B2
A semiconductor chip packaging method includes forming a bump on a wafer, forming a coating film covering the bump, laser grooving the wafer, plasma etching the wafer on which the laser grooving is performed, exposing the bump by removing the coating film covering the bump, fabricating a semiconductor die by performing mechanical sawing of the wafer, and packaging the semiconductor die.
US11380638B2
In one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first interconnection provided above the substrate, and a first pad provided on the first interconnection. The device further includes a second pad provided on the first pad, and a second interconnection provided on the second pad. Furthermore, the first pad includes a first layer provided in a first insulator above the substrate, and a second layer that is provided in the first insulator via the first layer and is in contact with the first interconnection, or the second pad includes a third layer provided in a second insulator above the substrate, and a fourth layer that is provided in the second insulator via the third layer and is in contact with the second interconnection.
US11380636B2
A semiconductor package includes a semiconductor chip, and including a passivation film disposed on an active surface and having a first opening exposing at least a portion of a connection pad of the semiconductor chip and a protective film disposed on the passivation film, filling at least a portion in the first opening, and having a second opening exposing at least a portion of the connection pad in the first opening, an encapsulant covering at least a portion of the semiconductor chip, and a connection structure disposed on the active surface of the semiconductor chip, and including a connection via connected to the connection pad in the first opening and the second opening and a redistribution layer electrically connected to the connection pad through the connection via. The second opening has a width narrower than a width of the first opening.
US11380629B2
Embodiments of 3D memory devices and methods for forming the same are disclosed. In an example, a method for forming a 3D memory device is disclosed. A peripheral circuit is formed on a first substrate. A first semiconductor layer is formed on a second substrate. A supporting structure and a second semiconductor layer coplanar with the supporting structure are formed on the first semiconductor layer. A memory stack is formed above the supporting structure and the second semiconductor layer. The memory stack has a staircase region overlapping the supporting structure. A channel structure extending vertically through the memory stack and the second semiconductor layer into the first semiconductor layer is formed. The first substrate and the second substrate are bonded in a face-to-face manner.
US11380620B2
A semiconductor package and methods of forming the same are disclosed. In an embodiment, a package includes a substrate; a first die disposed within the substrate; a redistribution structure over the substrate and the first die; and an encapsulated device over the redistribution structure, the redistribution structure coupling the first die to the encapsulated device.
US11380615B2
The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to tight pitch wirings and capacitors and methods of manufacture. The structure includes: a capacitor including: a bottom plate of a first conductive material; an insulator material on the bottom plate; and a top plate of a second conductive material on the insulator material; and a plurality of wirings on a same level as the bottom plate and composed of the second conductive material.
US11380600B2
A semiconductor apparatus having a silicon substrate layer at least portion of which is doped with dopants of a conductivity type; and at least one insulator layer formed above the silicon substrate layer, wherein the at least one insulator layer and the dopants of the silicon substrate layer have opposite electric charges.
US11380598B2
A package and a method of forming the same are provided. The package includes: a die stack bonded to a carrier, the die stack including a first integrated circuit die, the first integrated circuit die being a farthest integrated circuit die of the die stack from the carrier, a front side of the first integrated circuit die facing the carrier; a die structure bonded to the die stack, the die structure including a second integrated circuit die, a backside of the first integrated circuit die being in physical contact with a backside of the second integrated circuit die, the backside of the first integrated circuit die being opposite the front side of the first integrated circuit die; a heat dissipation structure bonded to the die structure adjacent the die stack; and an encapsulant extending along sidewalls of the die stack and sidewalls of the heat dissipation structure.
US11380596B2
A semiconductor test apparatus includes: a power supply; a high-voltage wire connecting high-voltage terminals of a plurality of semiconductor devices which are objects to be tested to a high-voltage side of the power supply; a low-voltage wire connecting low-voltage terminals of the semiconductor devices to a low-voltage side of the power supply; first switches connected in series to the semiconductor devices respectively, each of the first switches having one end connected to the low-voltage side of the power supply via the low-voltage wire and other end connected to the low-voltage terminal; second switches connected to the semiconductor devices respectively, each of the second switches having one end connected to the high-voltage terminal and other end connected to the low-voltage terminal; and a control circuit controlling the first switches and the second switches.
US11380594B2
Machine learning techniques are used to predict values of fixed parameters when given reference values of critical parameters. For example, a neural network can be trained based on one or more critical parameters and a low-dimensional real-valued vector associated with a spectrum, such as a spectroscopic ellipsometry spectrum or a specular reflectance spectrum. Another neural network can map the low-dimensional real-valued vector. When using two neural networks, one neural network can be trained to map the spectra to the low-dimensional real-valued vector. Another neural network can be trained to predict the fixed parameter based on the critical parameters and the low-dimensional real-valued vector from the other neural network.
US11380593B2
Methods of cutting fins, and structures formed thereby, are described. In an embodiment, a structure includes a first fin on a substrate, a second fin on the substrate, and a fin cut-fill structure disposed between the first fin and the second fin. The first fin and the second fin are longitudinally aligned. The fin cut-fill structure includes an insulating liner and a fill material on the insulating liner. The insulating liner abuts a first sidewall of the first fin and a second sidewall of the second fin. The insulating liner includes a material with a band gap greater than 5 eV.
US11380590B2
Embodiments of mechanisms for forming a semiconductor device are provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate. The semiconductor device also includes a first fin and a second fin over the substrate. The semiconductor device further includes a first gate electrode and a second gate electrode traversing over the first fin and the second fin, respectively. In addition, the semiconductor device includes a gate dielectric layer between the first fin and the first gate electrode and between the second fin and the second gate electrode. Further, the semiconductor device includes a dummy gate electrode over the substrate, and the dummy gate electrode is between the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode. An upper portion of the dummy gate electrode is wider than a lower portion of the dummy gate electrode.
US11380587B2
A wafer processing method includes a polyester sheet providing step of positioning a wafer in an inside opening of a ring frame and providing a polyester sheet on a back side or a front side of the wafer and on a back side of the ring frame, a uniting step of heating the polyester sheet as applying a pressure to the polyester sheet to thereby unite the wafer and the ring frame through the polyester sheet by thermocompression bonding, a dividing step of applying a laser beam to the wafer to form modified layers in the wafer, thereby dividing the wafer into individual device chips, and a pickup step of cooling the polyester sheet in each of the plurality of separate regions corresponding to each device chip, pushing up each device chip through the polyester sheet, then picking up each device chip from the polyester sheet.
US11380586B2
A cutting method includes: forming a reformed region in a workpiece; and after forming the reformed region in the workpiece, forming a groove in the workpiece along an intended cut line. In the forming a groove, a first dry etching process is performed from a front surface toward a rear surface of the workpiece. After the first dry etching process, a first pressure-reducing process is performed in which the workpiece is placed under an atmosphere of reduced pressure as compared to pressure during the first dry etching process. After the first pressure-reducing process, a second dry etching process is performed from the front surface toward the rear surface of the workpiece.
US11380584B2
Damage to a semiconductor device at the time of forming a via hole in which a through electrode is arranged is prevented. The semiconductor device includes a cylindrical insulating film, a front surface side pad, a conductor layer, and a back surface side pad. The cylindrical insulating film is configured in a cylindrical shape penetrating a semiconductor substrate. The front surface side pad is formed adjacent to a front surface of the semiconductor substrate inside the cylindrical insulating film. The conductor layer is arranged adjacent to the front surface side pad and an inner side of the cylindrical insulating film after removing the semiconductor substrate inside the cylindrical insulating film adjacent to the front surface side pad. The back surface side pad is arranged on a back surface of the semiconductor substrate and is connected to the front surface side pad via the conductor layer.
US11380583B2
A semiconductor device includes a first trench on a mandrel line through a top mask layer and stopping at a middle mask layer; and a second trench on a non-mandrel line through the top mask layer and stopping at the middle mask layer. A spacer material is removed from a structure resulting from etching the first trench and the second trench. The device includes a first via structure, formed using a removable material, in the first trench; a second via structure, formed using a removable material, in the second trench; an air-gap formed in a third trench created at a location of the spacer; a fourth trench formed by etching, to remove the first via structure and a first portion of a bottom mask layer under the first via structure; and a self-aligned line-end via on the mandrel line formed by filling the fourth trench with a conductive metal.
US11380580B2
The present disclosure relates to a method of forming an integrated chip. The method includes forming a memory device over a substrate and forming an etch stop layer over the memory device. An inter-level dielectric (ILD) layer is formed over the etch stop layer and laterally surrounding the memory device. One or more patterning process are performed to define a first trench extending from a top of the ILD layer to expose an upper surface of the etch stop layer. A removal process is performed to remove an exposed part of the etch stop layer. A conductive material is formed within the interconnect trench after performing the removal process.
US11380579B2
A self-aligned multiple patterning (SAMP) multi-color spacer patterning process is disclosed for formation of structures on substrates. Trenches and vias may be formed in the process. A trench memorization layer and a via memorization layer may be formed on the substrate. In one embodiment, the trench memorization layer and the via memorization layer are formed between the multi-color spacer patterning structures and a low-k interlayer dielectric layer. The use of the trench memorization layer and the via memorization layer allows the formation of trenches and vias in the low-k interlayer dielectric layer without causing damage to the low-k properties of the low-k interlayer dielectric layer.
US11380574B2
An electrostatic chuck includes: an electrically-conductive base plate including a first part, a second part at an outer circumference of the first part, and a gas inlet path for introducing a cooling gas; a first electrostatic chuck part configured to clamp a wafer on the first part, including a ceramic dielectric substrate that includes an embedded first clamping electrode and at least one through-hole communicating with the gas inlet path; and a second electrostatic chuck part configured to clamp a focus ring on the second part, including a ceramic layer that includes at least one through-hole for introducing a cooling gas and that includes at least a first layer contacting the focus ring when the second electrostatic chuck part clamps the focus ring, in which the first layer is less dense than the ceramic dielectric substrate. Thereby, the electrostatic chuck can increase the device yield.
US11380570B2
Apparatus and methods for determining wafer characters are disclosed. In one example, an apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes: a processing tool configured to process a semiconductor wafer; a device configured to read an optical character disposed on the semiconductor wafer while the semiconductor wafer is located at the apparatus for wafer fabrication; and a controller configured to determine whether the optical character matches a predetermined character corresponding to the semiconductor wafer based on the optical character read in real-time at the apparatus.
US11380567B2
Disclosed herein are a wafer purging-type shelf assembly and a buffer module having the same. The wafer purging-type shelf assembly includes: a shelf formed to support a wafer receiving container; a supply nozzle configured to be connected to an injection port of the wafer receiving container; and a gas supply line configured to supply an inert gas discharged from a factory gas facility to the wafer receiving container through the supply nozzle, wherein the gas supply line includes a proportional pressure control valve unit that adjusts a supply flow rate of the inert gas to the wafer receiving container by an area control method.
US11380559B2
An object is to suppress dew condensation in a carrier device. There is provided a carrier device comprising a body; a rotational part provided to be rotatable relative to the body; an arm supported on the rotational part; an end effector provided in a leading end portion of the arm and configured to hold a work; a gas supply unit configured to supply a gas to an arm-side internal space provided in an arm-side base portion of the end effector and/or in the leading end portion of the arm; and an exhaust unit provided in a body-side internal space that communicates with the arm-side internal space and configured to discharge the gas in the arm-side internal space and/or in the body-side internal space.
US11380555B2
A technique improves pattern features formed by etching and the uniformity of the features across the surface of a substrate. An etching method includes steps a), b), c), d), and e). Step a) includes placing, on a support, a substrate including a target film. Step b) includes partially etching the target film and forming a recess. Step c) includes setting the temperature of the support at a first temperature, and forming, on a sidewall of the recess, a first film having a first film thickness distribution. Step d) includes partially further etching the target film having the first film formed on the target film. Step e) includes setting the temperature of the support at a second temperature different from the first temperature, and forming, on the sidewall of the recess, a second film having a second film thickness distribution different from the first film thickness distribution.
US11380554B2
A method and system for the dry removal of a material on a microelectronic workpiece are described. The method includes receiving a workpiece having a surface exposing a target layer to be at least partially removed, placing the workpiece on a workpiece holder in a dry, non-plasma etch chamber, and selectively removing at least a portion of the target layer from the workpiece. The selective removal includes operating the dry, non-plasma etch chamber to perform the following: exposing the surface of the workpiece to a chemical environment at a first setpoint temperature in the range of 35 degrees C. to 100 degrees C. to chemically alter a surface region of the target layer, and then, elevating the temperature of the workpiece to a second setpoint temperature at or above 100 degrees C. to remove the chemically treated surface region of the target layer.
US11380523B2
Provided is a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus that can etch a metal film containing a transition metal element at high speed and with high accuracy by using a complexing gas. The semiconductor manufacturing apparatus includes: a vacuum container 60; a processing chamber 1 that is provided in the vacuum container, and includes a stage 4 on which a sample 3 formed with a metal film containing a transition metal element is placed; and a vaporization chamber 2 that is provided in the vacuum container, and includes a vaporizing nozzle unit 70 configured to vaporize a complexing gas raw material liquid supplied from an outside. A complexing gas obtained by vaporizing the complexing gas raw material liquid is introduced into the processing chamber to etch the metal film of the sample.
US11380522B2
An article for use in a plasma processing apparatus includes a gas supply pipe, and a component disposed in the gas supply pipe. The component is configured to cause radicals of gas passing through the gas supply pipe to be deactivated in the component.
US11380498B2
An electrical unit (1) for an electrical installation that is connected to an electrical network, comprising at least: a primary functional module (2) that is capable of for performing a current-switching function, and an additional functional module (5) for performing at least one function requiring an electrical power supply. The function of the additional functional module (5) is a function requiring an electrical power supply with the exception of a lighting function.
US11380496B2
A key module includes an actuation element with a cam nose and a contactor unit with a contact nose movable in the direction of the movement axis and transverse to the direction of the movement axis. Also, a contact element is formed and arranged for establishing electric contact with the contact nose. Moreover, the housing element accommodates the contact element, the contactor unit and the actuation element, wherein the actuation element and/or the cam nose includes a constructive element formed to deflect the contact nose from a rest position adjacent to the contact element in the direction along and/or transverse to the movement axis upon a defined movement of the actuation element, then abruptly release it so that the movable contact nose returns to the rest position and strikes the contact element and/or the housing element. Electric contact with the contact element is established and acoustic noise is produced.
US11380493B2
An electrolytic capacitor includes a capacitor element, a body case, and a sealing body. The capacitor element has a cathode foil and an anode foil wound up with a separator in between, and has a prescribed solution held between the cathode foil and the anode foil. The body case houses the capacitor element. The sealing body seals the body case. The solution is a fat-soluble antioxidant dissolved in a lypophilic solvent and the separator is configured to be in contact with the sealing body.
US11380491B2
Provided is a multi-layer chip ceramic dielectric capacitor, relating to the field of capacitor technologies. For the multi-layer chip ceramic dielectric capacitor provided in the present disclosure, first to fifth internal electrodes are reasonably arranged, and a first capacitance component, a second capacitance component, a third capacitance component and a fourth capacitance component are connected in series to form the capacitor, with the same capacitance, then according to the voltage division principle of capacitor, when each of the small capacitors connected in series bears a voltage of U0, the whole capacitor can withstand a voltage of 4U0. Therefore, the multi-layer chip ceramic dielectric capacitor, in a series structure, provided in the present disclosure can withstand higher direct current and radio-frequency voltages.
US11380485B2
An electronic component includes a body portion and an external electrode on a surface of the body portion. The external electrode includes a base electrode layer, a first Ni plated layer, and an upper plated layer. The first Ni plated layer is provided on the base electrode layer. The upper plated layer is provided above the first Ni plated layer. The first Ni plated layer has a S concentration of not less than about 5.2×1018 atoms/cm3.
US11380484B2
A multilayer electronic component includes a body including a first internal electrode and a second internal electrode alternately disposed in a first direction with a dielectric layer interposed therebetween, and including a first surface and a second surface opposing each other in the first direction, a third surface and a fourth surface opposing each other in a second direction, and a fifth surface and a sixth surface opposing each other in a third direction. A first external electrode is disposed on the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth surfaces. A second external electrode is disposed on one or more of the first and second surfaces, and a via electrode is exposed through a surface on which the second external electrode is disposed. A ratio W/L is 0.95 or more and 1.05 or less, where L is a length of the body and W is a width of the body.
US11380477B2
An air core dry type power reactor comprises upper and lower spider units and a coil including a plurality of cylindrically shaped winding layers including an outermost layer. The reactor further comprises a double wall sound shield including concentric a first roving cylinder and a second roving cylinder, the first roving cylinder positioned against the outermost layer but detached from the coil by a first airgap between the outermost layer and the first roving cylinder to reduce a structure-borne transmission of an acoustic energy or attached by ductsticks to the coil. The second roving cylinder is placed at a distance from the first roving cylinder to form an acoustic cavity between two double walls of the first roving cylinder and the second roving cylinder. The double wall sound shield further including a plurality of sound absorbent panels to attenuate resonances of the acoustic cavity between the two double walls of the first roving cylinder and the second roving cylinder. The plurality of sound absorbent panels comprises a layer of sound absorbing material and each of the plurality of sound absorbent panels is separated from the first roving cylinder by a second airgap.
US11380466B2
The present invention provides a ferrite sintered magnet comprising (1) main phase grains containing a ferrite having a hexagonal structure, (2) two-grain boundaries formed between two of the main phase grains, and (3) multi-grain boundaries surrounded by three or more of the main phase grains. The above ferrite sintered magnet comprises Ca, R, Sr, Fe and Co, with R being at least one element selected from the group consisting of rare earth elements and Bi, and comprising at least La. The number Nm of the above main phase grains and the number Ng of the above multi-grain boundaries in the cross section including the direction of the easy magnetization axis of the above ferrite sintered magnet satisfy the formula (1A): 50%≤Nm/(Nm+Ng)≤65% (1A).
US11380461B2
A superconducting flexible interconnecting cable connector for supercomputing systems is provided. The cable connector includes a base with a recessed area defined therein to receive superconducting flexible interconnecting cables and superconducting connecting chips to electrically connect the superconducting flexible interconnecting cables to each other. A cover is provided to cover the superconducting flexible interconnecting cables and the superconducting connecting chips when the cover is in a closed position. A compression device compresses the superconducting connecting chips together to secure the superconducting flexible interconnecting cables and the superconducting connecting chips inside the recessed area of the base when the cover is in the closed position.
US11380458B2
A covered electrical wire comprises a conductor and an insulating covering layer provided outside the conductor, the conductor being a stranded wire composed of a plurality of copper alloy wires composed of a copper alloy and twisted together, and has a wire diameter of 0.5 mm or less, the copper alloy containing Ni, or Ni and Fe in an amount of 0.1% by mass or more and 1.6% by mass or less in total, and P in an amount of 0.05% by mass or more and 0.7% by mass or less, with a balance being Cu and impurities, in the copper alloy, a ratio of precipitation of P to solid solution of P being 1.1 or more.
US11380456B2
An electromagnetic field control member includes an insulating member constituted of a cylindrical ceramic and having a plurality of through holes along an axial direction, a conductive member constituted of metal and closing the through holes so as to provide an opening that opens in an outer periphery of the insulating member, and a power supply terminal connected to the conductive member. The power supply terminal is located away from an inner wall of the insulating member forming the through holes, and has a first end and a second end in the axial direction, and at least one of the first end and the second end is located farther away from the inner wall than a central portion of the power supply terminal.
US11380454B2
A jaw position detection apparatus is configured to detect position information of at least one jaw moving in an arc, and includes a connecting component, a conversion mechanism, and a displacement sensor. The connecting component is fixed on a jaw. The conversion mechanism is connected to the connecting component, and the conversion mechanism is configured to convert an arc motion of the connecting component into a linear motion when the connecting component moves in an arc with the jaw. The displacement sensor is connected to the conversion mechanism, and configured to detect displacement information of the linear motion of the conversion mechanism.
US11380451B2
Simplified nuclear reactors include depressurization systems or gravity-driven injection systems or both. The systems depressurize and cool the reactor without operator intervention and power. An underground containment building may be used with the depressurization and injection systems passing through the same from above ground. Depressurization systems may use a rupture disk, relief line, pool, and filter to open the reactor and carry coolant away for condensation and exhausting. Injection systems may use a coolant tank above the nuclear reactor to inject liquid coolant by gravity into the reactor through an injection line and valve. The rupture disk and valve may be integral with the reactor and use penetration seals where systems pass through containment. Rupture disks and valves can actuate passively, at a pressure setpoint or other condition, through fluidic controls, setpoint failure, etc. The depressurization system and injection system together feed-and-bleed coolant through the reactor.
US11380450B2
Damper systems selectively reduce coolant fluid flow in nuclear reactor passive cooling systems, including related RVACS. Systems include a damper that blocks the flow in a coolant conduit and is moveable to open, closed, and intermediate positions. The damper blocks the coolant flow when closed to prevent heat loss, vibration, and development of large temperature gradients, and the damper passively opens, to allow full coolant flow, at failure and in transient scenarios. The damper may be moveable by an attachment extending into the coolant channel that holds the damper in a closed position. When a transient occurs, the resulting loss of power and/or overheat causes the attachment to stop holding the damper, which may be driven by gravity, pressure, a spring, or other passive structure into the open position for full coolant flow. A power source and temperature-dependent switch may detect and stop holding the damper closed in such scenarios.
US11380438B2
Apparatus and associated methods relate to the determination of local environmental air quality by processing data from a local device sensing a user's respiration-vocalization. In an illustrative example, respiration-vocalization for a CPAP user may be sensed by an airflow and/or air pressure sensor. Respiratory disturbance events, such as coughing, for example, may be detected. The sensed events, converted to respiration-vocalization data, may be collected to estimate the environmental air quality and/or particle density around the user. Some examples may estimate specific allergen concentrations by correlating user respiration-vocalization data with the respiration-vocalization data from users/patients with known airborne particle sensitivities. In some embodiments, regional environmental air quality data may be compared with respiration-vocalization data to produce local environmental air quality results. Various results may advantageously indicate specific allergen conditions in an area based on monitoring of a population of users of CPAP machines or other devices in widespread use.
US11380427B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon for protocol driven image acquisition are provided. In embodiments, a protocol is received by an image capturing device. The protocol comprises orders from a clinician, a workflow for capturing at least one image, or a combination thereof. At least one field for receiving metadata to be associated with the at least one image allows structured documentation to begin on the image capturing device. The at least one image and associated metadata are communicated to a medical information system. A patient is identified by the metadata or an existing patient to device association and the at least one image is associated with an electronic medical record for the patient.
US11380424B2
System and methods for alerting a healthcare provider to prescribed treatments having reduced or no effectiveness due to genetic composition is provided. A database containing treatments known to have reduced or no efficacy in persons having particular genetic markers is queried to determine whether any treatments prescribed by, or likely to be prescribed by, a healthcare provider to the patient are known to have reduced or no efficacy in persons having the same genetic markers as the patient. An alert containing such information is displayed at a healthcare provider system.
US11380421B2
Embodiments are directed to systems and methods for pathogen detection using next-generation sequencing (NGS) analysis of a sample. Embodiments may apply alignment algorithms (e.g., SNAP and/or RAPSearch alignment algorithms) to align individual sequence reads from a sample in a next-generation sequencing (NGS) dataset against reference genome entries in a classified reference genome database. Embodiments of the present invention may include classifying, filtering, and displaying results to a clinician that can then quickly and easily obtain the results of the sequencing to identify a pathogen or other genetic material in a sample that is being tested. A negative sample and a corresponding database can be used to remove contaminants from a list of candidate pathogens. Thus, embodiments are directed to a system that is configured to filter the results of a sequencing alignment and classify a sample quickly.
US11380419B1
A memory device comprises a memory array that includes memory cells and a memory controller operatively coupled to the memory array. The memory controller includes an oscillator circuit, internal memory, a processor core coupled to the oscillator circuit and the internal memory, and configured to load operating firmware during a boot phase of the memory device, voltage detector circuitry configured to detect a decrease in a circuit supply voltage of the memory controller during the boot phase, and logic circuitry configured to halt operation of the oscillator circuit and power down the processor core and the internal memory during the boot phase in a low power mode in response to detecting the decrease in the circuit supply voltage.
US11380408B2
A circuit includes a linear regulator operatively coupled with a memory array, the linear regulator including a primary switch to generate a regulated voltage usable to program memory cells of the memory array. A first digital-to-analog converter (DAC) includes an output coupled with the linear regulator. A pump regulator is operatively coupled with a charge pump, where the charge pump is to provide a supply voltage to the linear regulator. A second DAC includes an output coupled with the pump regulator. Control logic, operatively coupled with the first DAC and the second DAC, is to perform operations including: causing a first digital input value to be provided to the first DAC to selectively smooth noise on the supply voltage; and causing a second digital input value to be provided the second DAC to selectively adjust the supply voltage based on a programmable offset value.
US11380398B2
A storage device including a nonvolatile memory device that includes a nonvolatile memory cell array including a string including first and second memory cells stacked sequentially, and an OTP memory cell array that stores reference count values, the first and second memory cells respectively connected to first and second word lines; a controller including a processor that generates a read command for the first memory cell; a read level generator including a counter that receives the read command and calculates an off-cell count value of memory cells connected to the second word line, and a comparator that receives a first reference count value from the OTP memory cell array, compares the off-cell count value with the first reference count value to determine a threshold voltage shift of the second memory cell, and determines a read level of the first memory cell based on the threshold voltage shift.
US11380397B2
Apparatuses are described that include stacked arrays of memory cell strings and their methods of operation. Apparatuses include architectures that reduce the use of several common components, allowing greater device density and smaller device size for a given semiconductor area.
US11380396B2
The gate of the access transistor of a 1 transistor 1 resistor (1T1R) type RRAM cell is biased relative to the source of the access transistor using a current mirror. Under the influence of a voltage applied across the 1T1R cell (e.g., via the bit line), the RRAM memory element switches from a higher resistance to a lower resistance. As the RRAM memory element switches from the higher resistance to the lower resistance, the current through the RRAM cell switches from being substantially determined by the higher resistance of the RRAM device (while the access transistor is operating in the linear region) to being substantially determined by the saturation region operating point of the access transistor.
US11380390B2
A memory device includes a memory cell array including M memory cells connected to one bit line and configured to distributively store N-bit data, where N is a natural number of 2 or more and M is a natural number of 2 or more and less than or equal to N, the M memory cells including a first memory cell and a second memory cell having different sensing margins, and a memory controller including a page buffer, the memory controller configured to distributively store the N-bit data in the M memory cells and to sequentially read data stored in the M memory cells to obtain the N-bit data, and an operation logic configured to execute an operation using the N-bit data, the memory controller configured to provide different reading voltages to the first memory cell and the second memory cell.
US11380389B2
The memory comprises a first pass gate transistor, a second pass gate transistor, a third pass gate transistor, and a fourth pass gate transistor. On-resistance of the second pass gate transistor is smaller than that of the first pass gate transistor, so that first read current flowing from a first read/write port of a first group of read/write dual ports is equal to second read current flowing from a second read/write port of the first group of read/write dual port. On-resistance of the fourth pass gate transistor is smaller than that of the third pass gate transistor, so that third read current flowing from a first read/write port of a second group of read/write dual ports is equal to fourth read current flowing from a second read/write port of the second group of read/write dual port.
US11380388B2
In the examples disclosed herein, a memory array can have a first group of memory cells coupled to a first digit line at a first level and a second group of memory cells coupled to a second digit line at the first level. A third digit line can be at a second level and can be coupled to a main sense amplifier. A first vertical thin film transistor (TFT) can be at a third level between the first and second levels can be coupled between the first digit line and the third digit line. A second vertical TFT can be at the third level and can be coupled between the second digit line and the third digit line. A local sense amplifier can be coupled to the first and second digit lines.
US11380385B1
A memory device includes an input pad, a first rank, a second rank, a first voltage detector, and a second voltage detector. The input pad is configured to receive an input voltage. The first voltage detector is coupled to the input pad, the first voltage detector is configured to receive the input voltage, and the first voltage detector is configured to transmit the input voltage to the first rank. The second voltage detector is coupled to the first voltage detector through a first through-silicon via, the second voltage detector is configured to receive the input voltage, and the second voltage detector is configured to transmit the input voltage to the second rank according to a control signal transmitted from the first voltage detector through the first voltage detector, so as to decide a state of the second rank.
US11380382B2
Embodiments of the disclosure are drawn to apparatuses, systems, and methods for providing refresh logic, such as row hammer refresh circuitry, in a location on a memory die apart from a bank logic region of the memory die. In some examples, at least some of the components of the row hammer refresh circuitry may be shared between banks of the memory.
US11380372B1
Methods and devices related to transferring data between DRAM and SRAM. One method includes activating a first portion of a dynamic random access memory (DRAM), reading data from the first portion of the DRAM, latching the data from the first portion of the DRAM in one or more sense amplifiers, and writing the data from the one or more sense amplifiers to a first portion of a static random access memory (SRAM).
US11380370B2
Apparatus and methods that have a semiconductor charge pump can be implemented in a variety of applications. Such a charge pump can have a charge pump unit core that includes a pump section and a single passgate coupled to the pump section to transfer charge, where the single passgate is a n-channel metal-oxide semiconductor (NMOS) transistor coupled directly to an input and an output of the charge pump unit core. The transfer of charge can be based on a set of clock signals. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
US11380367B2
A thermally maintainable built-in storage tray structure can include a case main frame body; a storage unit tray is positioned within the case main frame body, and wherein the storage united is configured to be positioned at a front end of a server together with a mainboard and a PCI_E and the storage unit tray is moveably connected to the case main frame body and is capable of be pulling out of the case main frame body; a middle flip rack provided at a middle part and a rear flip rack provided at a rear part of the storage unit tray, the middle flip rack and the rear flip rack are hinged to the storage unit tray.
US11380363B1
Present embodiments pertain to systems, apparatuses, and methods for analyzing and reporting the movements in mechanical structures, machinery, and machine components, including one or more regions of interest in the object of interest, with processing of visual data related to such movements performed by reconstructing video images that have enhanced dynamic visual information related to the motion of the object, wherein examples of one or more enhancements optionally selected by a user may include filtering unwanted frequencies, amplifying the motion, changing the playback speed to decrease, freeze, or increase of the motion, and generating quantitative graphical representations of the motion that could not be achieved without the use of digital photography and image processing algorithms.
US11380360B2
A storage apparatus includes a disk-shaped recording medium, a motor configured to drive and rotate the recording medium, a head configured to read information from and write information to the recording medium, and a support member configured to support the recording medium when the recording bends in response to external vibration or shock. The support member supports the recording medium by making contact with the recording medium only when the external vibration or shock is applied to the storage apparatus.
US11380359B2
A video recording system is disclosed and claimed. In particular, the disclosed video recording system maintains a master stream of video and audio when recording is initiated, but also allows the user to create additional label streams by activating an input control. The label stream can be terminated by activating the input control a second time. The label stream comprises only the portion of the video and audio between the activations of the input control, while the master stream will contain all audio and video that is recorded on the device.
US11380358B2
Magnetic recording media including an interlayer configured to reduce lattice mismatch with adjacent layers of the media, such as an adjacent seed layer or an adjacent underlayer. In one example, an interlayer alloy is provided that includes tungsten (W) along with Cobalt (Co), Chromium (Cr), and Ruthenium (Ru). The atomic percentages of W and Ru within the interlayer are selected so that the amount lattice mismatch between the interlayer and its adjacent layers is below a preselected amount, such as below 3% as quantified by d-spacing. In some examples, the atomic percentage of Ru is greater than 25% and the atomic percentage of W is 2-10%. Methods of fabricating the magnetic recording media are also provided.
US11380357B2
The magnetic tape includes a non-magnetic support and a magnetic layer, in which an edge shape of the timing-based servo pattern, specified by magnetic force microscopy is a shape in which a difference between a value L99.9 of a cumulative distribution function of 99.9% and a value L0.1 of a cumulative distribution function of 0.1% in a position deviation width from an ideal shape of the magnetic tape in a longitudinal direction is 180 nm or less, and in which a difference between a spacing Safter measured on a surface of the magnetic layer by an optical interferometry after ethanol cleaning and a spacing Sbefore measured on the surface of the magnetic layer by an optical interferometry before ethanol cleaning is greater than 0 nm and 6.0 nm or less.
US11380352B2
According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording device includes a magnetic head, and an electrical circuit. The magnetic head includes a magnetic pole, a first shield, and a stacked body provided between the magnetic pole and the first shield. The stacked body includes a first magnetic layer, a second magnetic layer, a first layer provided between the first and second magnetic layers, and a first nonmagnetic layer provided between the first magnetic layer and the first layer. A change rate of an electrical resistance of the stacked body with respect to a change of a current density flowing in the stacked body has a first value when the current density is in a first range, a second value when the current density is in a second range, and a third value when the current density is in a third range.
US11380351B2
A method for pulmonary condition monitoring includes selecting a phrase from an utterance of a user of an electronic device, wherein the phrase matches an entry of multiple phrases. At least one speech feature that is associated with one or more pulmonary conditions within the phrase is identified. A pulmonary condition is determined based on analysis of the at least one speech feature.
US11380348B2
A method for correcting infant crying identification includes the following steps: a detecting step provides an audio unit to detect a sound around an infant to generate a plurality of audio samples. A converting step provides a processing unit to convert the audio samples to generate a plurality of audio spectrograms. An extracting step provides a common model to extract the audio spectrograms to generate a plurality of infant crying features. An incremental training step provides an incremental model to train the infant crying features to generate an identification result. A judging step provides the processing unit to judge whether the identification result is correct according to a real result of the infant. When the identification result is different from the real result, an incorrect result is generated. A correcting step provides the processing unit to correct the incremental model according to the incorrect result.
US11380347B2
In some examples, adaptive speech intelligibility control for speech privacy may include determining, based on background noise at a near-end of a speaker, a noise estimate associated with speech emitted from the speaker, and comparing, by using a specified factor, the noise estimate to a speech level estimate for the speech emitted from the speaker. Adaptive speech intelligibility control for speech privacy may further include determining, based on the comparison, a gain value to be applied to the speaker to produce the speech at a specified level to maintain on-axis intelligibility with respect to the speaker, and applying the gain value to the speaker.
US11380345B2
Transforming a voice of a speaker to a reference timbre includes converting a first portion of a source signal of the voice of the speaker into a time-frequency domain to obtain a time-frequency signal; obtaining frequency bin means of magnitudes over time of the time-frequency signal; converting the frequency bin magnitude means into a Bark domain to obtain a source frequency response curve (SR), where SR(i) corresponds to magnitude mean of the ith frequency bin; obtaining respective gains of frequency bins of the Bark domain with respect to a reference frequency response curve (Rf); obtaining equalizer parameters using the respective gains of the frequency bins of the Bark domain; and transforming the first portion to the reference timbre using the equalizer parameters.
US11380343B2
A method for encoding an audio signal, comprising using one or more algorithms operating on a processor to filter the audio signal into two output signals, wherein each output signal has a sampling rate that is equal to a sampling rate of the audio signal, and wherein one of the output signals includes high frequency data. Using one or more algorithms operating on the processor to window the high frequency data by selecting a set of the high frequency data. Using one or more algorithms operating on the processor to determine a set of linear predictive coding (LPC) coefficients for the windowed data. Using one or more algorithms operating on the processor to generate energy scale values for the windowed data. Using one or more algorithms operating on the processor to generate an encoded high frequency bitstream.
US11380341B2
In apparatus, methods, and programs for selecting pitch lag, an encoder obtains a first and a second estimates of a pitch lag for a current frame. A selected value is chosen by selection between the first and the second estimates, based on a first and a second correlation measurements. The second estimate is conditioned by the pitch lag selected at the previous frame. The selection is based on a comparison between: a downscaled version of a first correlation measurement associated to the current frame and obtained at a lag corresponding to the first estimate; and a second correlation measurement associated to the current frame and obtained at a lag corresponding to the second estimate.
US11380333B2
Systems and methods of diarization using linguistic labeling include receiving a set of diarized textual transcripts. A least one heuristic is automatedly applied to the diarized textual transcripts to select transcripts likely to be associated with an identified group of speakers. The selected transcripts are analyzed to create at least one linguistic model. The linguistic model is applied to transcripted audio data to label a portion of the transcripted audio data as having been spoken by the identified group of speakers. Still further embodiments of diarization using linguistic labeling may serve to label agent speech and customer speech in a recorded and transcripted customer service interaction.
US11380332B2
Provided is an information processing apparatus capable of reliably delivering a message to a third party desired by a user. Provided is an information processing apparatus including an acquisition unit configured to acquire information including a sound message, and a recognition unit configured to recognize a sender of the sound message, a destination of a message included is the sound message, and content of the message from the information acquired by the acquisition unit, in which the recognition unit generates information for inputting the destination of the message is a case where the destination cannot be uniquely specified.
US11380330B2
A processing device executing a component of a conversational recovery system receives an intent data and a first entity data identified from user input data. The processing device determines that the first entity data is associated with first content associated with a first component. The processing device additionally receives a text data of the user input data. The processing device determines a word in the text data that matches a keyword associated with second content associated with a second component. The processing device ranks the first component and the second component. The processing device generates message data that comprises an inquiry with respect to choosing the first content or the second content.
US11380328B2
A context-aware account management system is described. The system receives a partial request and parses the partial request to identify one or more characters in the partial request. The system determines a plurality of valid requests that include the one or more characters, for instance in response to querying one or more data structures and/or generating the valid requests using a trained machine learning model. The system generates a suggested request by selecting one of the plurality of valid requests, and in some cases, by identifying valid values for variables within the selected one of the plurality of valid requests by querying one or more data structures and/or generating the valid values using a trained machine learning model. The system outputs the suggested request and receives a confirmation in response. The system performs an action indicated by the suggested request using a user account indicated by the suggested request.
US11380320B2
An electric tool system, including an electric tool and a charger. The electric tool system includes: a voice obtaining component, obtaining voice information from a user; and a control module, obtaining instruction information generated based on the voice information, and controlling the electric tool system based on the instruction information to perform a corresponding action, where the electric tool system includes: a voice processing component, at least configured to generate information that corresponds to the voice information and satisfies a transmission format of a communications component; and the communications component, sending the information processed by the voice processing component to a server, receiving response information from the server, and providing the response information to the control module, where the instruction information includes the response information. The beneficial effects of the present invention are as follows: A user may directly send a request by using voice information, thereby conveniently obtaining various required information or implementing various controls, so that an electric tool system becomes a “personal worksite assistant” of the user, thereby extending the functions of the electric tool system.
US11380318B2
An evaluation system includes a speech data acquisition unit configured to acquire speech data from speech of a member engaged in a task, a speech recognition unit configured to recognize content of the speech from the speech data and convert the content into text data, a task data acquisition unit configured to acquire data indicating an action related to the task of the member and data indicating a task status, an extraction unit configured to extract conversation data related to the task from the text data based on the content of the speech recognized by the speech recognition unit, and an analysis unit configured to analyze correlations between the conversation data, the data indicating the action, and the data indicating the task status.
US11380310B2
Systems and processes for operating a digital assistant are provided. In an example process, low-latency operation of a digital assistant is provided. In this example, natural language processing, task flow processing, dialogue flow processing, speech synthesis, or any combination thereof can be at least partially performed while awaiting detection of a speech end-point condition. Upon detection of a speech end-point condition, results obtained from performing the operations can be presented to the user. In another example, robust operation of a digital assistant is provided. In this example, task flow processing by the digital assistant can include selecting a candidate task flow from a plurality of candidate task flows based on determined task flow scores. The task flow scores can be based on speech recognition confidence scores, intent confidence scores, flow parameter scores, or any combination thereof. The selected candidate task flow is executed and corresponding results presented to the user.
US11380306B2
Expansion of intent classification data utilizing batch utterance scheduling, by a processor in a computing environment. A set of unlabeled examples for intent processing is received by an intent builder iteratively defining an intent. The set of examples are separated into a first subset processed according to a first model and a second subset processed according to a second model. The first subset is incorporated into the intent builder during a building iteration and scheduling a first batch processing of the second subset processed according to the second model based on a scheduling criteria. The first batch processing of the second subset is initiated once the scheduling criteria is satisfied. Upon completion of the first batch processing, results of the completion are used to influence additional examples retrieved from the first subset and the second subset during a subsequent building iteration by the intent builder.
US11380305B2
A system and method for using, training, building, and managing a question and answer engine to automatically generate responses to an end-user is disclosed. Specifically, the method and system make use of a topic builder that uses cluster predictions to generate and identify a list of topics and subtopics. A question and answer database may then be sorted by topic and subtopic using a similarity scorer. New user utterances may be analyzed to identify questions, with a cluster predictor identifying the corresponding topic and subtopics for each question, and a similarity scorer may identify the closest known question for the user's question to a recommender as an answer. Analytics of new user utterances are tracked to update the historical utterance database and question and answer database, thus allowing continuous improvement of the engine.
US11380304B1
A system is provided for handling errors during automatic speech recognition by processing a potentially defective utterance to determine an alternative, potentially successful utterance. The system processes an ASR hypothesis, using a probabilistic graph, to determine a likelihood that it will result in an error. Using the probabilistic graph, the system determines an alternate utterance.
US11380300B2
In particular embodiments, an apparatus comprises a non-transitory computer-readable storage media and a processor coupled to the media executes instructions to: access a plurality of text, generate, using one or more natural language understanding (NLU) models, one or more scores for at least a portion of the plurality of text. The apparatus determines, based on the scores, one or more prosodic values corresponding to the portion of the plurality of text. The apparatus determines, based on the one or more prosodic values, one or more speech synthesis markup language (SSML) tags. The apparatus then generates, based on the prosodic values, SSML-tagged data comprising each determined SSML tag and that tag's location in the plurality of text.
US11380296B2
A modular fixture may include an LED light board and an LED driver positioned along a linear support structure, and includes at least two acoustic panels. The fixture further includes two-piece fasteners, some of which are positioned along the linear support structure, while others are positioned on an inward-facing surface of the acoustic panels. The two-piece fasteners are then able to removably secure the acoustic panels to the linear support structure.
US11380295B2
A sustaining device is described for prolonging the vibration of the strings of a stringed musical instrument, such as an electric guitar having two or three electromagnetic pickups. The pickups are all low impedance transducers that can function either as pickups or driver transducers, depending on whether they are connected to the input of the instrument pickup amplifier or to the output of the sustainer amplifier, respectively. When a transducer is being used as a sustainer driver, it cannot be simultaneously used as a pickup. Different methods of selecting transducers to function as pickups or drivers are described. The transducers, having only hundreds of wire turns instead of the usual thousands of turns for common pickups, have a flat audio frequency response that can be modified to produce a multitude of common pickup sounds by manipulating the transducer resonance frequency, bandwidth, and amplifier gain.
US11380282B2
A gamma voltage generating circuit includes N gamma voltage generating sub-circuits. Each gamma voltage generating sub-circuit includes a resistive voltage divider circuit and a plurality of gamma reference voltage output terminals. Each resistive voltage divider circuit includes a plurality of resistors connected in series, and any two resistive voltage divider circuits have a same resistance ratio of the plurality of resistors. The N gamma voltage generating sub-circuits include a first gamma voltage generating sub-circuit. The first gamma voltage generating sub-circuit further includes a gamma voltage generation circuit. Output terminals of the gamma voltage generation circuit are electrically connected to a highest gamma reference voltage output terminal and a lowest gamma reference voltage output terminal, respectively. Highest gamma reference voltage output terminals of the gamma voltage generating sub-circuits are connected, and lowest gamma reference voltage output terminals of the gamma voltage generating sub-circuits are connected.
US11380280B2
Provided are shift register, driving method thereof, gate driving circuit and display device. The shift register includes input circuit, pull-up circuit, reset circuit, at least one noise reduction circuit, and at least one pull-down node control circuit. At least one pull-down node control circuit is coupled to at least one pull-down node, low voltage signal terminal, and reset signal terminal, and configured to control voltage level of at least one pull-down node according to signal of reset signal terminal. At least one pull-down node control circuit controls level of at least one pull-down node to second level higher than or equal to on level in response to signal of reset signal terminal having on level, and controls voltage level of at least one pull-down node to third level between on level and first level in response to signal of reset signal terminal transitioning from on level to off level.
US11380279B2
The present disclosure is related to a display driving method. The display driving method may include obtaining a grayscale data voltage compensation table; calculating a value of VCOM shift amplitude corresponding to a row of sub-pixels on a display panel based on grayscale data voltages of a frame of an image to be displayed; obtaining a grayscale data voltage compensation value corresponding to the row of sub-pixels on the display panel based on the calculated value of VCOM shift amplitude and the grayscale data voltage compensation table; compensating grayscale data voltages actually inputted to the row of sub-pixels based on the grayscale data voltage compensation value to obtain compensated grayscale data voltages; and outputting the compensated grayscale data voltages to the row of sub-pixels during a display time of the frame of the image to be displayed.
US11380278B2
A driving circuit and a display device. The driving circuit uses a binding point voltage generation circuit to output first voltages, second voltages and a plurality of first voltage-divided binding point voltages. The two second voltages are voltage divided by a first voltage dividing circuit to generate a plurality of second voltage-divided binding point voltages. Each first data driving circuit outputs first amplified binding point voltages. Each second data driving circuit outputs second amplified binding point voltages. The first voltages, the second voltages, each first amplified binding point voltage, and each second amplified binding point voltage are inputted to each first data driving circuit and each second data driving circuit.
US11380275B2
An image processing method, an image processing method device, a display device and a computer-readable storage medium are provided. The image processing method includes: receiving an original display screen; determining a target area in the original display screen, wherein an initial brightness of the target area is larger than a maximum allowable brightness; determining a target grayscale value of the target area; and adjusting a grayscale value of the target area to the target grayscale value, so that the brightness of the target area does not exceed the maximum allowable brightness.
US11380265B2
A scan driver includes a plurality of stages, each including a first input part configured to transfer an input signal to a first set node in response to a second clock signal, a second input part configured to transfer a first clock signal to a first reset node in response to the input signal and the second clock signal, a first output part configured to output a third clock signal as a respective scan signal in response to a voltage of a second set node, a second output part configured to output a concurrent driving signal as the respective scan signal in response to a voltage of a second reset node, a first stress relieving transistor connected between the first set node and the second set node, and a second stress relieving transistor connected between the first reset node and the second reset node.
US11380260B2
An electronic device comprises a controller. The controller is configured to provide a first signal to a display of the electronic device to turn off the display. The controller is also configured to provide a second signal to the display to alter a gate source voltage of a drive transistor coupled to a light emitting diode (LED) of a pixel of the display while the display is turned off.
US11380259B2
The preset disclosure relates to a pixel driving circuit, a pixel driving method, an array substrate and a display device. The pixel driving circuit includes a pixel driving unit and an optical detection unit. The pixel driving unit is configured to drive a light-emitting element included in a pixel unit to emit light. The optical detection unit includes a photoelectric conversion sub-circuit and a switch control sub-circuit. The photoelectric conversion sub-circuit is configured to receive light emitted from the light-emitting element, and convert the light into an electrical signal. The switch control sub-circuit is configured to output the electrical signal under control of a first scanning signal. The pixel driving unit is configured to adjust brightness of the light emitted from the light-emitting element according to the electrical signal.
US11380257B2
A display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a pixel circuit structure, a data line and a voltage signal line. The data line is connected to the pixel circuit structure to provide a data signal; the voltage signal line is connected to the pixel circuit structure to provide a voltage signal, the voltage signal is a constant voltage signal; the pixel circuit structure includes a first stabilization capacitor provided between the data line and the voltage signal line.
US11380256B2
A pixel driving circuit may include a first switch circuit, a second switch circuit, a first initialization circuit, a drive circuit, a second initialization circuit, a compensation circuit, an isolation circuit, and an energy storage circuit.
US11380246B2
An electroluminescent display device comprises subpixels each including a pixel driving circuit driven in accordance with an initialization period, a sampling period and a light emission period. The pixel driving circuit includes a light emitting diode, a driving transistor including a gate connected to a first node, a drain connected to a second node, and a source connected to a third node, a first switching circuit turned on for the initialization period, providing an initialization voltage to the first node and providing a fixed voltage to the third node, a second switching circuit turned on for the sampling period, applying a data voltage to the third node and providing the initialization voltage to an anode of the light emitting diode, and a light emitting control circuit controlled by an emission signal and turned on for the light emission period to provide a high potential voltage to the third node.
US11380243B1
The present disclosure provides a shift register and a driving method thereof, a scan driving circuit, a display panel, and a display device. The shift register includes an input module; a control module; a reset module; a first output module; a second output module; and a stabilization module, that a phase of a signal output from the second output module lags behind a phase of a signal output from the first output module, and does not overlap with the phase of the signal output from the first output module.
US11380240B2
The preset disclosure provides a display control method, a timing controller IC and a display device. The method includes: acquiring a preset grayscale voltage of a target pixel unit and a backlight brightness of a backlight region corresponding to the target pixel unit, in a current output display frame; outputting a first grayscale voltage to the target pixel unit if the backlight brightness of the corresponding backlight region is less than or equal to a first preset brightness value; outputting a second grayscale voltage to the target pixel unit if the backlight brightness of the corresponding backlight region is greater than the first preset brightness value; wherein the second grayscale voltage is greater than the first grayscale voltage, and both the second grayscale voltage and the first grayscale voltage are greater than the preset grayscale voltage.
US11380239B2
The visibility of a display device under colored ambient light is improved. There is provided an image processing system for converting a color space represented by color components of image data. The image processing system includes a color space converter configured to correct the color components of the image data by converting the color space such that, with respect to particular color components in user-perceived color gamut widened by influence of chromatic adaptation caused by ambient light, the influence is maintained and such that, with respect to particular color components in user-perceived color gamut narrowed by the influence, the influence is canceled; and a display unit configured to display, as an output image, the image data using the corrected color components.
US11380233B2
A display device includes: a plurality of pixels connected to scan lines, emission control lines, data lines, and a power line; a scan driver configured to supply a scan signal to the scan lines; and an emission driver configured to supply an emission control signal to the emission control lines, wherein a voltage of a first power supplied to the power line during an inspection period has a pulse form alternating between a first level and a second level that is lower than the first level, and the display device is configured to maintain the voltage of the first power at a third level.
US11380232B2
A display screen quality detection method, an apparatus, an electronic device and a storage medium. The method includes receiving a quality detection request sent by a console deployed on a display screen production line, where the quality detection request includes a display screen image captured by an image capturing device on the display screen production line, performing image preprocessing on the display screen image, and inputting the preprocessed display screen image into a defect detection model to obtain a defect detection result, where the defect detection model is obtained by training with a historical defect display screen image using a deep convolutional neural network structure and an instance segmentation algorithm, determining, according to the defect detection result, quality of a display screen corresponding to the display screen image. The technical solution has high defect detection accuracy, good system performance, and high business expansion capability.
US11380229B2
System for disseminating visual information (1) including a luggage item (2) including an electronic display device adapted for presenting visual information in the direction of the outside environment, and a remote server (3). The luggage item (2) includes a position acquisition device, a communication device and a control device. The remote server (3) includes a communication unit and a control unit for storing visual information and positioning data and for controlling the unit for communication with the luggage item. The control unit is able to determine the visual information to be transmitted to the luggage item (2) as a function of the positioning data received from the luggage item (2).
US11380226B2
The present invention provides a method of setting light emission control of each light emission tool in an area more easily. The method of setting light emission control of each tool in an area of the present invention includes: a light emitting step of transmitting a freely-selected ID signal (Sn) to a plurality of tools in an area and emit light in response to receipt of corresponding ID signals to cause a tool (En) that has received the signal (Sn) to emit light; an imaging step of acquiring a light emission image (En) of the area after the signal (Sn) has been transmitted; a determining step of determining a position of the tool (En) that emitted light in the area based on the image (En); and a storing step of storing the position of the tool (En) in the area and the corresponding signal (Sn).
US11380224B2
A display apparatus, and a method for the display apparatus. The display apparatus includes a main frame, a magnet movably positioned on the main frame, and a light emitting diode (LED) module assembly detachably positioned on the main frame. The LED module assembly includes a plurality of LED modules, and a support frame on which the plurality of LED modules are installed, the support frame comprising a magnetic material interacting with the magnet. The display apparatus further includes a power cable configured to supply power to the plurality of LED modules, and a cover installed in the main frame to facilitate a connection of the power cable.
US11380217B2
Provided is an integrated steep slope collapse simulation system including: a base; a tower provided at one end of the base; a soil tank structure having one side being connected to the tower so that the soil tank structure is inclined, the soil tank structure being filled with soil, and the soil being rammed; a work platform provided with a working stand moving along the base and moving up and down; a soil moving device supplying soil to an interior of the soil tank structure; an artificial rainfall device provided above the soil tank structure, the artificial rainfall device injecting water downward toward the soil rammed inside the soil tank structure; and an underground water reproduction device injecting water upward through the bottom surface of the soil tank structure from the underside of the soil rammed in the soil tank structure. There is an effect that it is possible to accurately analyze an actual behavior of soil in the natural environment.
US11380211B2
Disclosed herein are systems, media, methods, and platforms for providing personalized mastery learning utilizing: a knowledge map; a plurality of learning activities, each learning activity comprising dynamically variable scaffolding, feedback, and content; a learning activity selection module selecting one or more learning activities for the learner; and a learning activity modification module dynamically varying one or more of the scaffolding, feedback, and content of at least one selected learning activity based on performance of the learner.
US11380210B2
Drone systems and methods for delayed package delivery includes, in an air traffic control system configured to manage UAV flight in a geographic region, communicating to one or more UAVs over one or more wireless networks; directing a UAV, in transit, to deliver a package to a delivery location and following a flight plan provided to the UAV by the air traffic control system or a drone operator, to hold a position; and directing the UAV to deliver the package after holding the position.
US11380195B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure can provide a road traffic analysis method and an apparatus. The method can comprise obtaining a traffic parameter of a road intersection by analyzing road traffic information of the road intersection, determining a reference adjustment length for each phase of a traffic signal cycle corresponding to each lane of the road intersection based on the road traffic information and the traffic parameter. The traffic signal cycle has one or more phases. The method can also comprise determining a first adjustment length when a difference between the reference adjustment length and the first adjustment length satisfies a condition associated with the lanes of the road intersection and the corresponding traffic parameter, and adjusting the phases of the traffic light cycle at the road intersection based on the first adjustment length for each phase.
US11380192B2
An autonomous mobile object includes a sensor unit configured to sense the condition of a road, an operation controller configured to cause the autonomous mobile object to move autonomously on the basis of an operation command, an obtainer configured to obtain surveyed place data, which is information about a surveillance target place and data relating to a method of surveillance associated with each other, and an information collector configured to collect information about the condition of the surveillance target place by the sensor unit when the autonomous mobile object reaches the surveillance target place while travelling on the basis of the operation command.
US11380191B2
A radio frequency connection between a controlling device and a one of a plurality of controllable appliances in an environment is used to determine when the controlling device is pointing more towards the one of the plurality of controllable appliances relative to remaining ones of the plurality of controllable appliances. When it is determined that the controlling device is pointing more towards the one of the plurality of controllable appliances relative to remaining ones of the plurality of controllable appliances, the controlling device automatically makes active a command codeset usable to transmit commands to command functional operations of the one of the plurality of controllable appliances.
US11380190B2
According to an aspect, there is provided an elevator communication system. The system comprises an ethernet bus, a safety master node communicatively connected to the ethernet bus and configured to communicate via the ethernet bus, and safety slave nodes communicatively connected to the ethernet bus and configured to communicate via the ethernet bus. The safety master node and the safety slave nodes are configured to communicate by using a time-triggered communication protocol. In the time-triggered communication protocol the safety master node is configured to send a polling diagnostic request message to the safety slave nodes by using a predetermined polling cycle.
US11380189B2
A urine detection method and a urine detection device are disclosed. The method includes the steps of: providing a capacitive humidity detection unit to be placed on a diaper, wherein the capacitive humidity detection unit is configured to detect a humidity of the diaper to generate a capacitance value; providing a processing unit to record an environmental capacitance value, wherein when the processing unit receives the capacitance value, it compares the capacitance value with the environmental capacitance value, when the capacitance value is greater than the environmental capacitance value, the processing unit generates a reminder signal; providing a reminder unit to generate a reminder when receiving the reminder signal. The urine detection device is used for performing the urine detection method.
US11380182B2
A monitoring system that is configured to monitor a property is disclosed. The monitoring system includes a thermal camera that is configured to generate a thermal image of the property. The monitoring system further includes a monitor control unit that is configured to receive, from the thermal camera, the thermal image. The monitor control unit is further configured to, based on the thermal image, determine a temperature of a portion of the property depicted in the thermal image. The monitor control unit is further configured to determine that the temperature of the portion of the property depicted in the thermal image satisfies a temperature threshold. The monitor control unit is further configured to, based on determining that the temperature of the portion of the property depicted in the thermal image satisfies the temperature threshold, select and perform a monitoring system action.
US11380181B2
A system for passively predicting and detecting falls using one or more dual-polarized Doppler radars and machine learning algorithms. The system is typically implemented for use in predicting or detecting falls in older adults and may be connected with various systems that can alert emergency services or hospice personnel in the event of a fallen individual. Furthermore, the system overcomes conventional radar systems by integrating vertical and horizontal micro-Doppler signatures into a combined signature which is analyzed by machine learning algorithms to correctly and expeditiously predict and detect a variety of human movements. The system also finds applications wherever micro-Doppler signals may be generated such as predicting or detecting behaviors or movements over time to detect and predict the onset of diseases and other disabilities.
US11380177B2
A monitoring camera having artificial intelligence includes an imaging unit, a communication unit that receives a parameter relating to a detection target from a terminal device, and a processing unit that constructs the artificial intelligence based on the parameter, and uses the constructed artificial intelligence to detect the detection target from an image captured by the imaging unit.
US11380174B2
A worker monitoring system. The system comprises a processor, a display, a data store, a non-transitory memory, and an application stored in the non-transitory memory. The application stores definitions of associations of electronic monitors to workers in the data store, receives information from the electronic monitors via a wireless communication link, based on accessing the data store, analyzes information from a plurality of electronic monitors associated with one of the workers, corroborates information from a first electronic monitor associated with the one or the workers using information from a second electronic monitor associated with the one of the workers, and based on the corroboration of the information from the first electronic monitor, and presents an alarm indication on the display.
US11380172B2
In various embodiments, there is provided a method of using an automated teller machine, wherein the ATM is coupled to a mobile phone of a user of the ATM via a Bluetooth low energy connection; a first string representative of what operating capabilities the ATM currently provides to the user is sent from the ATM to the mobile phone of the user via the Bluetooth low energy connection; and from the mobile phone, the first string is read to the user using a text-to-speech function, wherein based on the reading of the first string, the user knows what operating options the user currently has to use the ATM and can then use the ATM.
US11380170B2
The disclosed subject matter provides device operate table game systems that integrate live dealer interaction with one or more tangible game pieces at the game table. In one embodiment, a system includes one or more player devices physically coupled to a game table, wherein the one or more player devices respectively provide a player user interface for playing a game at the game table. The system also includes a dealer device coupled to the game table that provides a dealer user interface for playing the game at the game table, wherein the one or more player devices and the dealer device are communicatively coupled. The system further comprises computer executable stored in memory, including a player control component that receives player input commands via the player user interface that control player game moves in association with playing the game, and a game management component that tracks the player game moves.
US11380165B2
Gaming systems and methods which enable a player to skip a bonus event, such as a play of a triggered bonus game, in exchange for a placement of a sporting event wager.
US11380161B2
A fraud detection system which detects fraud in a game of performing collection and redemption of chips in accordance with a win or lose result includes a camera which captures an image of chips contained in a chip tray of a dealer, an image analyzing apparatus which analyses the image captured by the camera to detect an amount of the chips contained in the chip tray, a card distribution device which determines a win or lose result of a game, and a control device which compares the win or lose result of the game and the amount of the chips contained in the chip tray before and after collection and redemption of the chips to detect fraud.
US11380146B2
In one aspect, a method is carried out in a system including diagnosis plug-in device, a host server, diagnostics database suppliers, and on-board ECUs, with the method including coupling the diagnosis plug-in device to the diagnosis port of a vehicle of interest having a certain vehicle type defined at least by the Make/Model/Year/Powertrain of the vehicle of interest; causing the diagnosis plug-in device to listen on a diagnosis and receiving frames broadcasted by onboard ECUs; after said Bus Active condition is detected, determining a frame profile according to characteristics of the received frame-IDs; determining vehicle type from the frame profile, with the help of a frame profile lookup table; and providing a diagnosis stacks dataset database at the diagnosis plug-in device or at the host server, said diagnosis stacks dataset comprising at least available request/answer services for the vehicle type of interest.
US11380144B2
A vehicle running status field model-based information transmission frequency optimization method in the Internet of Vehicles belongs to the technical field of network communications. The method establishes a running status field model according to the real-time running status of a road vehicle to describe the degree of risk of the vehicle, the degree of risk can be used to dynamically adjust the transmission frequency of safety-critical information, and the transmission frequency of non-safety-critical information is adjusted through the real-time transmission frequency of safety-critical information to achieve the purpose of improving the utilization ratio of link. The method establishes the running status field model of a moving vehicle, uses the risk intensity of the vehicle in the running status field to describe the current running risk of the vehicle, and takes account of different application scenarios, thereby having generality. In addition, the improved network resource optimization method can effectively improve the communication efficiency of heterogeneous networks, and dynamically adjust the transmission frequency of safety-critical information through the magnitude of the risk intensity to improve the utilization ratio of link.
US11380142B2
A method is disclosed for measuring a driving event, a server device receiving first event data from a first motor vehicle, which first event data signal the driving event identified by a first detection apparatus of the first motor vehicle. The method further provides that the server device generates configuration data on a basis of the first event data in order to configure a second detection apparatus of a second motor vehicle that is different from the first detection apparatus of the first motor vehicle and sends the configuration data to the second motor vehicle in order to generate second event data that describe the driving event.
US11380131B2
A method and device for face recognition, a storage medium, and an electronic device are provided. The method includes the following. Face data to-be-tested is obtained. A first derived face data set related to the face data to-be-tested is generated according to the face data to-be-tested. For each of multiple derived face data in the first derived face data set, perform age determination, and generate an age distribution interval corresponding to the first derived face data set. Whether the age distribution interval matches a first reference age interval is determined. Upon determining that the age distribution interval matches the first reference age interval, age data corresponding to the face data to-be-tested is obtained according to the age distribution interval.
US11380130B2
Face authentication can easily be performed based on an input image including a mirror region reflected by a mirror without increasing a storage capacity of a database. With the database, for each face of a person to be authenticated, only one real front image is to be registered as a reference face image. A mirror image processing circuitry detects the mirror region from the input image and to subject a detected mirror region to lateral inversion processing to produce a processed image. A face detection processing circuitry detects a face image from the processed image to generate a detected face image. A face authentication processing circuitry compares the detected face image with the reference face image, to thereby perform face authentication.
US11380124B2
An electronic apparatus includes a display panel including a front surface and a rear surface opposite to the front surface. A lower panel includes a plurality of sheets stacked on the rear surface of the display panel and an opening penetrating the sheets. The opening exposes a portion of a rear surface of a first sheet that has a front surface opposite to the exposed portion of the rear surface that contacts the display panel. A fingerprint sensing unit includes a fingerprint sensor positioned in the opening and a sensing circuit board connected to the fingerprint sensor. The exposed portion of the rear surface of the first sheet contacts a portion of the sensing circuit board.
US11380123B2
An electronic device includes a housing including a cover glass and a back cover facing the cover glass, a display disposed inside the housing and including a plurality of pixels disposed in the display, a first printed circuit board interposed between the display and the back cover, a second printed circuit board interposed between the first printed circuit board and the back cover, a fingerprint sensor disposed on the first printed circuit board and configured to obtain fingerprint information of a user based on light reflected from a finger of the user making contact with the cover glass, and a processor disposed on the second printed circuit board and adjusting brightness of first-group pixels disposed at an area corresponding to the fingerprint sensor. The processor increases the brightness of the first-group pixels to be proportional to time in which the user makes contact with the cover glass with the finger.
US11380120B2
In a driving assistance device, a human body specifying unit acquires, as human body information, an image of a human body existing around a host vehicle in image data acquired by a camera. A quasi-skeleton estimation unit estimates a quasi-skeleton of the human body from the human body information. The radar or the LiDAR measures a distance to a part of the human body that corresponds to the quasi-skeleton.
US11380116B2
A computer-implemented method for using a machine learning model to automatically extract tabular data from an image includes receiving a set of images of tabular data and a set of markup data corresponding respectively to the images of tabular data. The method further includes training a first neural network to delineate the tabular data into cells using the markup data, and training a second neural network to determine content of the cells in the tabular data using the markup data. The method further includes, upon receiving an input image containing a first tabular data without any markup data, generating an electronic output corresponding to the first tabular data by determining the structure of the first tabular data using the first neural network and extracting content of the first tabular data using the second neural network.
US11380109B2
An autonomous vehicle (AV) includes at least one vehicle sensor that is configured, when the AV is stopped, to observe at least a first portion of a zone around the stopped AV. A portable device is operated by a user near the stopped AV. A control subsystem receives a communication from the portable device that includes information regarding whether a second portion of the zone around the AV is free of obstructions. The control subsystem receives AV sensor data from the at least one vehicle sensor. The control subsystem determines whether the first portion of the zone free of obstructions and whether the second portion of the zone is free of obstructions. If that both the first and second portions of the zone around the stopped AV are free of obstructions, the stopped AV is allowed to begin moving.
US11380108B1
The described techniques relate to predicting object behavior based on top-down representations of an environment comprising top-down representations of image features in the environment. For example, a top-down representation may comprise a multi-channel image that includes semantic map information along with additional information for a target object and/or other objects in an environment. A top-down image feature representation may also be a multi-channel image that incorporates various tensors for different image features with channels of the multi-channel image, and may be generated directly from an input image. A prediction component can generate predictions of object behavior based at least in part on the top-down image feature representation, and in some cases, can generate predictions based on the top-down image feature representation together with the additional top-down representation.
US11380106B2
Provided are a system, apparatus, and method for vehicle control and more particularly. The apparatus includes a first spatial information generator configured to generate first spatial information at a vicinity of a host vehicle, based on at least one of image data or sensing data, a vehicle specification receiver configured to receive first vehicle information, which is vehicle information of at least one of external vehicles existing the vicinity of the host vehicle and a second spatial information generator configured to generate second spatial information of the vicinity of the host vehicle by modifying the first spatial information based on the first vehicle information.
US11380099B2
A device, system and method for controlling a communication device to provide notifications of successful documentation of events is provided. The device receives a type of a recognized event occurring at a location of an edge device. The device determines, based on the type of the recognized event, one or more multimedia data types for collection to document the recognized event. The device causes the edge device to collect multimedia data of the one or more multimedia data types. The device receives an indication that the multimedia data has been stored successfully. The device determines whether the multimedia data has successfully documented the recognized event. When the multimedia data has successfully documented the recognized event, the device controls the edge device to provide a notification of successful documentation of the recognized event.
US11380096B2
In accordance with an aspect of the disclosure, an electronic device comprises a communication circuit; a display; at least one processor operatively connected to the display and the communication circuit; and a memory operatively connected to the at least one processor, wherein the memory stores instructions that, when executed, cause the at least one processor to perform a plurality of operations comprising: storing first raw image data in the memory; generating first small raw image data smaller in size than the first raw image data, from the first raw image data; transmitting the first small raw image data to a first external electronic device via the communication circuit; receiving information about an object region for identifying at least one object of the first small raw image data from the first external electronic device via the communication circuit; transmitting a first region of the first raw image data to a second external electronic device via the communication circuit based on a user input and the information about the object region; displaying first display image data corresponding to the information about the object region via the display; and identifying the user input associated with selection of the object region.
US11380080B2
An object recognition ingestion system is presented. The object ingestion system captures image data of objects, possibly in an uncontrolled setting. The image data is analyzed to determine if one or more a priori know canonical shape objects match the object represented in the image data. The canonical shape object also includes one or more reference PoVs indicating perspectives from which to analyze objects having the corresponding shape. An object ingestion engine combines the canonical shape object along with the image data to create a model of the object. The engine generates a desirable set of model PoVs from the reference PoVs, and then generates recognition descriptors from each of the model PoVs. The descriptors, image data, model PoVs, or other contextually relevant information are combined into key frame bundles having sufficient information to allow other computing devices to recognize the object at a later time.
US11380079B2
A system and method of correlating or coregistering medical images is disclosed herein that includes acquiring a surface image of the patient's skin surface using a surface detector assembly comprising a surface frame and a camera system registered to the surface frame. Positional coordinates of one or more surface landmarks in the surface image are determined and a medical image of the patient is acquired having the surface frame depicted therein. A second surface image of the patient's skin surface is acquired that at least partially overlaps the previously acquired surface image. Positional coordinates of one or more surface landmarks in the second surface image are determined and compared with surface landmarks in the previous surface image. Common surface landmarks are determined based on the comparison and the medical images are coregistered based on positional coordinates of the common surface landmarks.
US11380078B2
System and method are provided for scaling a 3-D representation of a building structure. The method includes obtaining images of the building structure, including non-camera anchors. The method also includes identifying reference poses for images based on the non-camera anchors. The method also includes obtaining world map data including real-world poses for the images. The method also includes selecting candidate poses from the real-world poses based on corresponding reference poses. The method also includes calculating a scaling factor for a 3-D representation of the building structure based on correlating the reference poses with the selected candidate poses. Some implementations use structure from motion techniques or LiDAR, in addition to augmented reality frameworks, for scaling the 3-D representations of the building structure. In some implementations, the world map data includes environmental data, such as illumination data, and the method includes generating or displaying the 3-D representation.
US11380069B2
A method of operating an augmented reality (AR) system includes capturing images of a first real-world workspace using a camera of a first head mounted AR device of the AR system being worn by a first user, processing the images using a first processor of the AR system to identify physical objects in the first real-world workspace and detect 3D positions of the identified physical objects in a 3D space corresponding to the first real-world workspace, rendering virtual objects representing the identified physical objects on the display of the first head mounted AR device at the respective 3D positions for the identified physical objects, manipulating a first one of the virtual objects using at least one hand-held controller of the AR system in a manner that mimics a performance of a first procedural task using the physical object associated with the first one of the virtual objects, recording the manipulation of the first one of the virtual objects that mimics the performance of the first procedural task as first augmented reality content, and storing the first augmented reality content in a memory of the AR system.
US11380064B2
An augmented reality (AR) platform supports concurrent operation of multiple AR applications developed by third-party software developers. The AR platform may include an application programming interface (API) that third-party software developers can use to integrate features of the AR platform into the overall user experience of their AR applications. The AR platform includes a feature set having a variety of AR-specific features that interact with and are accessible to the AR applications or AR layers that define a collection of AR content.
US11380063B2
A three-dimensional display method is provided and comprises: acquiring target space coordinates of a target marker in a physical space; converting the target space coordinates into rendering coordinates in a virtual space; acquiring data of a virtual object to be displayed, and rendering, based on the data of the virtual object and the rendering coordinates, the virtual object to obtain a left-eye display content and a right-eye display content of the virtual object; and displaying the left-eye display content and the right-eye display content. The left-eye display content is projected onto a first optical lens, the right-eye display content is projected onto a second optical lens, and the first optical lens and the second optical lens respectively reflect the left-eye display content and the right-eye display content to human eyes. The method can achieve alignment display of the virtual object with the target marker, and a stereoscopic display.
US11380062B2
To alleviate the load on the eyeglasses type electronic device, the present disclosure provides an electronic device comprising an optical driving assembly configured to emit image light corresponding to augmented reality information, an optical element in which the emitted image light is incident to form an output area, a front frame coupled to the optical element, a side frame coupled to the front frame to form a body of an eyeglasses shape together with the front frame, and a support member of a pad type coupled to the front frame to support at least one region of a wearer's nose, in which the support member includes a fixing area fixed to two left points and two right points of the front frame, and a flexible area deformable to closely fit the wearer's nose between the two left fixing areas and the two right fixing areas.
US11380048B2
A computer-implemented method for digital processing is provided. A set of tristimulus values representing a first color in a color space are received. A first representation of a first spectral curve corresponding to the first color is determined, where the first spectral curve is within a gamut of solid reflectances. A second representation of a second spectral curve corresponding to the first color is determined where the second spectral curve contains at least one reflectance wavelength outside the gamut of solid reflectances. Based on selection criteria, the first representation or the second representation is selected. The selected representation is then applied during digital processing.
US11380046B2
A system on a chip (SoC) includes a digital signal processor (DSP) and a graphics processing unit (GPU) coupled to the DSP. The DSP is configured to receive a stream of received depth measurements and generate a virtual bowl surface based on the stream of received depth measurements. The DSP is also configured to generate a bowl to physical camera mapping based on the virtual bowl surface. The GPU is configured to receive a first texture and receive a second texture. The GPU is also configured to perform physical camera to virtual camera transformation on the first texture and on the second texture, based on the bowl to physical camera mapping, to generate an output image.
US11380042B2
Hierarchical acceleration structures with implicitly represented nodes are used for intersection testing in a ray tracing system. Nodes of the hierarchical acceleration structure each represents a region in a scene and are linked to form the hierarchical acceleration structure. Data is stored representing the hierarchical acceleration structure including data defining the regions represented by a plurality of the nodes of the hierarchical acceleration structure. At least one node of the hierarchical acceleration structure is an implicitly represented node, wherein data represented by an implicitly represented node is not explicitly included as part of the stored data but can be inferred from the stored data. Intersection testing in the ray tracing system is performed in which, based on conditions in the ray tracing system, a determination is made as to whether testing of one or more rays for intersection with a region represented by a particular node of a sub-tree is to be skipped. The one or more rays are tested for intersection in accordance with the determination.
US11380036B2
A method for establishing visual images of models of battery status transforms data of one or more characteristic parameters collected in a period of time into multiple images composed by normalized pixels corresponding to the data. The multiple images are superimposed with one another to form variant image(s) with variant areas and further moving trends of the variant areas. The visualization of data and superimposition of the visualized images facilitates correlation and variation analysis among characteristic parameters of the battery module. The present invention transform data analysis to image analysis, and therefore, the present invention facilitates following analysis and model training, which can adapt to environmental changes, and indicate battery status and battery events efficiently and accurately.
US11380033B2
Based on a received digital image and text, a neural network trained to identify candidate text placement areas within images may be used to generate a mask for the digital image that includes a candidate text placement area. A bounding box for the digital image may be defined for the text and based on the candidate text placement area, and the text may be superimposed onto the digital image within the bounding box.
US11380032B2
An information processing apparatus includes an input receiving section that receives an input of a captured image in which a first object and a second object installed in association with the first object are recorded; a first image acquisition section that acquires a first object image that is an image of the first object extracted from the captured image; a second image acquisition section that acquires a second object image that is an image of the second object extracted from the captured image; and a display control section that displays both the first object image and the second object image, the display control section displaying the first object image and the second object image in a state where the second object image is movable relative to the first object image or in a state where the second object image is editable.
US11380028B2
Aspects of subject technology provide systems and methods for electronic drawing with handwriting recognition. An electronic device may include one or more processors configured to receive a drawing stroke input, generate a bitmap of values that represent the drawing stroke input, render the bitmap for display by a display of the device, generate a vector representation of the drawing stroke input, and store the generated bitmap and the generated vector representation.
US11380027B2
There are provided a medical image processing apparatus and a medical image processing method making it possible to reduce metal artifacts with no loss of a detailed structure in a metallic region. The medical image processing apparatus is configured to reconstruct a tomographic image from projection data of a subject in which metal material is included and includes a projection space correction section which corrects the projection data and thereby generates corrected projection data, an image space correction section which corrects the tomographic image by using the corrected projection data, and a coefficient setting section which sets a projection space coefficient which is used in the projection space correction section and an image space coefficient which is used in the image space correction section.
US11380018B2
A head-mounted display device (HMD) (100) configured to be worn by a user (121) is provided. The HMD comprises an at least partially see-through display (101), a front-facing camera (102) operative to capture a first image of a real-world scene, and processing means (104) which is operative to select a calibration object from one or more real-world objects, or parts thereof, (130-135) which are visible in the first image, and derive a calibration transformation for calculating a display position based on a real-world position, such that a virtual object which is displayed on the display at the display position is aligned with a corresponding real-world object located at the real-world position, as seen by the user.
US11380015B2
A method for the optical determination of an intensity distribution, includes a) producing a spatially inhomogeneous radiation field of electromagnetic radiation; b) producing a first relative movement between a position-resolving image sensor and the radiation source with the radiation field moving along a first measurement path over a sensor field of the image sensor, so it is scanned by a first measurement path region of the radiation field; c) recording a first image set with position-resolved images of the radiation field during the first movement; d) producing a similar second relative movement between the image sensor and the radiation source, along a second measurement path not parallel to the first movement path; d) similarly recording a second image set during the second relative movement; e) evaluating the position-resolved images of the first and second image sets at least at points of intersection, the locations of which are defined by evaluation lines; and f) determining a relative intensity distribution based on points of intersection of the evaluation lines to characterize the image sensor and/or the radiation field.
US11380010B2
An image processing device 10 includes: an extraction means 11 which extracts sub patches from a given plurality of input images combined pose probabilities; a filtering means 12 which filters the extracted sub patches and the pose probabilities; and a combining means 13 which combines the filtered sub patches and the filtered pose probabilities.
US11380004B2
An imaging device includes a pixel and a signal processor configured to apply a first set of control signals to the pixel to generate a first pixel signal, a second pixel signal, a third pixel signal, and a fourth pixel signal based on light reflected from an object. The signal processor is configured to apply a second set of control signals to the pixel to generate a fifth pixel signal, a sixth pixel signal, a seventh pixel signal, and an eighth pixel signal based on the light reflected from the object. The signal processor is configured to calculate a distance to the object based on comparisons between selected ones of the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth pixel signals.
US11379991B2
A method for digital image segmentation is provided. The method comprises training a neural network for image segmentation with a labeled training dataset from a first domain, wherein a subset of nodes in the neural net are dropped out during training. The neural network receives image data from a second, different domain. A vector of N values that sum to 1 is calculated for each image element, wherein each value represents an image segmentation class. A label is assigned to each image element according to the class with the highest value in the vector. Multiple inferences are performed with active dropout layers for each image element, and an uncertainty value is generated for each image element. The label of any image element with an uncertainty value above a predefined threshold is replaced with a new label corresponding to the class with the next highest value.
US11379984B2
Systems and methods for processing electronic images from a medical device comprise receiving a first image frame and a second image frame from a medical device, and determining a region of interest by subtracting the first image frame from the second image frame, the region of interest corresponding to a visual obstruction in the first image frame and/or second image frame. Image processing may be applied to the first image frame and/or second image frame based on a comparison between a first area of the first image frame corresponding to the region of interest and a second area of the second image frame corresponding to the region of interest, and the first image frame and/or second image frame may be provided for display to a user.
US11379982B2
A method for determining whether there is an abnormality in a brain includes steps of: receiving a to-be-determined (TBD) 3D brain image; implementing the calibration procedure on the TBD 3D brain image; generating a first TBD image of WM, a second TBD image of GM, and a third TBD image of CSF based on a multi-voxel pattern of the TBD 3D brain image; and inputting the first TBD image of WM into a first DNN model, the second TBD image of GM into a second DNN model, and the third TBD image of CSF into a third DNN model to determine whether there is an abnormality in the white matter, the gray matter and the cerebrospinal fluid, respectively.
US11379975B2
A computer-implemented method for processing 3D image data of a dento-maxillofacial structure is described wherein the method may comprise the steps of: receiving 3D image data defining a volume of voxels, a voxel being associated with a radiodensity value and a position in the volume and the voxels providing a 3D representation of a dento-maxillofacial structure; using the voxels of the 3D image data to determine one or more 3D positional features for input to a first deep neural network, a 3D positional feature defining information aggregated from the entire received 3D data set; and, the first deep neural network receiving the 3D image data and the one or more positional features at its input and using the one or more 3D positional features to classify at least part of the voxels of the 3D image data into jaw, teeth and/or nerve voxels.
US11379969B2
Machine learning approaches provide additional information about semiconductor wafer inspection stability issues that makes it possible to distinguish consequential process variations like process excursions from minor process variations that are within specification. The effect of variable defect of interest (DOI) capture rates in the inspection result and the effect of variable defect count on the wafer can be monitored independently.
US11379947B2
A system and method for rendering perspective adjusted views of a virtual object in a real-world environment is provided. A registration code is associated with a mobile device and includes an identification of the mobile device. The registration code is displayed on the mobile device and a copy of the registration code captured by at least one other device is received. Positions of the device and the other device are synchronized based on a size and proportion of the registration code captured by the other device. A virtual object is accessed and provided for display on the device and the other device. The display of the virtual object is adjusted on the device and the other device based on the synchronization of the device and the other device.
US11379946B2
A projector is provided with a correction information generator and an image information corrector described below. The correction information generator estimates a reference plane having a normal vector that is the cross product of the average of normal vectors in N regions in the result of measurement of the shape of a projection surface and a first vector corresponding to a component having the largest degree of dispersion among the N normal vectors. The correction information generator estimates an imaginary projection surface by causing the result of projection of the projection surface on the reference surface to rise upright with respect to the reference surface and generates image correction information based on the imaginary projection surface. The image information corrector generates correction image information from image information on a projection image and the correction information. The projector projects an image based on the correction image information on the projection surface.
US11379944B2
A texture processing pipeline in a graphics processing unit generates the surface appearance for objects in a computer-generated scene. This texture processing pipeline determines, at multiple stages within the texture processing pipeline, whether texture operations and texture loads may be processed at an accelerated rate. At each stage that includes a decision point, the texture processing pipeline assumes that the current texture operation or texture load can be accelerated unless specific, known information indicates that the texture operation or texture load cannot be accelerated. As a result, the texture processing pipeline increases the number of texture operations and texture loads that are accelerated relative to the number of texture operations and texture loads that are not accelerated.
US11379935B2
A control system for cost optimal operation of an energy facility including equipment covered by a maintenance contract includes equipment configured to operate during an optimization period and a controller. The controller modifies a cost function to include a maintenance cost term that defines a maintenance cost as a function of a rate variable and an equipment usage variable. The controller simulates a cost of operating the energy facility over the optimization period at each of a plurality of different values of the rate variable, selects a value of the rate variable that results in a lowest cost of operating the energy facility over the optimization period, performs an online optimization of the cost function with the rate variable set to the selected value to generate one or more setpoints for the equipment, and operates the equipment during the optimization period in accordance with the generated setpoints.
US11379917B2
A server and a method for credit management is provided. The server stores registration information for a plurality of electric charging facility devices. The server further receives electric charging information recorded for a period of time, from each of the plurality of electric charging facility devices. The server further transmits the electric charging information received from each of the plurality of electric charging facility devices to an electronic device associated with an energy regulatory authority. The server further receives first credit information associated with each of the plurality of electric charging facility devices from the electronic device. The first credit information is calculated based on the electric charging information. The server further transmits the received first credit information to each of the plurality of electric charging facility devices.
US11379913B1
The proposed system allows merchants to have more time to finalize payroll and to have access to capital for payroll processing. This system/process may include identifying eligible employer devices based on a risk score and transaction data received by the system. The system and process further includes providing an interface element via a user interface that activates a delay upon selection, and delaying initiation of an electronic payroll payment from a first date to a second date responsive to receiving selection of the interface element.
US11379909B2
Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with computerized item rental using beacons are described. In one embodiment, a method includes maintaining a data structure mapping user identifiers to beacon identifiers associated with rental items being rented by corresponding users. The example method may also receiving a beacon signal from a beacon device associated with a rental time. The example method may also include querying the data structure using a beacon identifier extracted from the beacon signal to determine if the rental item is rented or available for rent. The example method may also include creating an entry within the data structure to indicate that the rental item is now being rented.
US11379907B1
The present disclosure provides a computerized method item correlation including: receiving an indication of an order comprising at least one item; determining if the order is urgent based on an amount of time remaining until the items must ship to a customer; determining a location of each of a plurality of pickers; iteratively, for items in the order: identifying a picker closest to the item, the picker having a current job priority; correlating the closest picker and the item in a data structure; re-correlating, in the data structure, at least one item previously correlated with the closest picker to an alternate picker in response to the current job priority not being urgent; sending, to a user device of the closest picker, a location and item identifier associated with the item; and storing, in the data structure, a completion flag in correlation with the item upon receipt of an item-complete message.
US11379905B2
Aspects of the disclosure described herein provide for a streamlined system for developing an order fulfillment process. The system may include a stateless web resource application programming interface (API) supported by a server, which may be configured as an endpoint to receive order requests (e.g., via an e-commerce website) and generate an instance of a complex object based on the order request. The instance of the complex object may be generated according to an invocable action configured at the system and may include one or more nested data types corresponding to order parameters indicated by the order request. The instance of the complex object may be processed according to fulfillment rules to generate a response to the order request. The response to the order request may include an identification of an order fulfillment center, a fulfillment order, etc.
US11379902B2
A style-driven system may create a holistic shopping experience by generating a user interface (“UI”) with interactive controls and a single presentation for an outfit with two or more items selected from two or more different categories of goods having different utilities or purposes. The single presentation may provide a comprehensive and holistic presentation of the outfit by presenting the items together with a particular arrangement. The holistic shopping experience may include selecting a set of substitute items that are in a same category of goods as a particular item of the outfit and that have one or more style attributes in common with the particular item, and modifying the UI by presenting the set of substitute items for the particular item, and by replacing the particular item in the particular arrangement with a selected substitute item from the set of substitute items.
US11379898B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products for pressure-based apparel image searching are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes converting images in a product catalog of an electronic commerce website to a predetermined representation; storing the converted images in an index; determining a first object of interest within an image derived from a social media post and displayed on a screen, by detecting physical contact imparted by a user at a position on the screen corresponding to where the first object of interest is located; quantifying the amount of pressure applied by the user via the physical contact; determining additional objects of interest within the image based on the amount of pressure applied by the user; retrieving, from the index, images of products corresponding to the first object of interest and images of products corresponding to the additional objects of interest; and displaying the retrieved images on the screen.
US11379896B2
An information processing apparatus mounted on a vehicle is provided with a control unit configured to acquire information indicating an item that a user desires to check for a product, acquire manufacturing data of a sample of the product capable of checking the item desired to be checked by using the acquired information, and output the manufacturing data to a sample manufacturing apparatus in the vehicle.
US11379889B2
In at least some examples, a system comprises a first kiosk computer to display first content and to broadcast a first beacon signal, and a second kiosk computer to display second content and to broadcast a second beacon signal. A mobile device is to establish communications with the more proximate of the first and second kiosk computers as determined based on the first and second beacon signals and to cause new content to be provided to the more proximate kiosk computer. The more proximate kiosk computer is to display the new content.
US11379888B2
Water conservation through behavior modification is achieved by guiding a user of an App through a quiz interface illustrating facts about water usage, a simulation providing a simulated water conservation experience, a commitment interface inviting the user to save water, a social good interface to provide the user a good feeling about saving water and a personal water usage tracking system to help the user understand their progress toward water conservation.
US11379886B1
Systems and methods may incorporate machine learning techniques to evaluate the extent of damage caused to vehicles involved in an accident. The system will receive photos of a vehicle involved in an accident and retrieve data from a number of different sources and use the data to calculate the cost of repair for the vehicle. Data sources can include information of vehicles involved in similar accidents, information of similar vehicles involved in accidents, virtual reality models of vehicles obtained from a database provided by the manufacturer, etc. The system will continuously update machine learning algorithms by comparing calculated damage to actual repair costs and further update the appropriate databases.
US11379876B2
Enabling advertisers using a computer network such as the Internet and a match engine to submit their offerings to product, service, benefit seeking entities. In some embodiments, a database having accounts for the providers is made available. Accounts contain contact and billing information for an advertiser; and at least one offering having at least a description, a criteria set comprising one or more criterion factors, and a bid amount. An advertiser influences a position of an offering in the advertiser's account by first selecting offering relevant criteria. The advertiser enters the criteria and the description into a listing; influencing at least in part the position for the listing within a results page through an online bidding process. This results page is generated in response to a seeking entity query of the match engine. Pay for performance demographic, geographic, psychographic criteria/characteristics targeted directly advertising (frictionless advertising) is enabled.
US11379875B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, storing, in a database, information associated with a first item purchased by a user, the information comprising an identification of the first item and a time of purchase of the first item; receiving web browsing data based upon monitoring, by another device, web browsing of the user; determining, based upon the web browsing data that is received, whether the user is currently browsing at a shopping website, resulting in a determination; responsive to the determination being that the user is currently browsing at the shopping website, querying the database to determine an elapsed time since the time of purchase of the first item; responsive to the elapsed time meeting a threshold, generating a message to send to the another device monitoring the web browsing, the message informing the user of a suggested second item for the buyer to purchase, the suggested second item being a replacement for the first item; and sending the message to the another device for presentation to the user. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11379865B2
In an example embodiment, multiple machine learned models are used to continually learn from data to update various prediction models. Prediction of item prices, at the production and distribution point level, and utilizing this information along with other item information, such as crop yield, operational cost, and storage cost in the case of arming, may be used to solve the long- and short-term planning problems of farmers and help in decision making based on daily and the most up-to-date forecasts.
US11379864B2
A method of executing a double blind wine tasting event comprises providing a plurality of distinct wine bottles, a plurality of identical sleeves and a plurality of distinct covers. A first person places each of the wine bottles in a respective sleeve, with each of the sleeves including a respective distinct identifier. The first person keeps track of which wine bottle is placed in which sleeve. A second person then masks each of the identifiers with a respective cover, with each of the covers being removably attachable to the sleeves. The second person keeps track of which cover is masking which identifier. After these steps are carried out, a location of each of the wine bottles within the sleeves is unknown to every one of the participants. A plurality of carafes may be used as an alternative to the sleeves.
US11379853B2
A Certified Quick Response Code (“CQR”) is associated with a trusted Product Certificate Authority (“PCA”), which in turn is associated with a unique top-level domain (“TLD”). A CQR affixed to a product may point to a URL comprising the unique TLD. A consumer may know by virtue of the association of the TLD with the PCA that the product is legitimate, while a product manufacturer can better monitor counterfeit goods by further associating each CQR with a universal unique identifier.
US11379852B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods directed to authentication. Authentication data may be determined by previous authentications of a plurality of products. Sensor data, related to a first product, may be received. A current authentication of the first product may be executed based on the sensor data and at an authentication device. The execution may include identifying the first product based on the sensor data. The execution may further include identifying whether the current authentication is substantially similar the previous authentications based on whether the first product is substantially similar to the plurality of products. The execution may further include that when the current authentication is identified as not being substantially similar to the one or more of the previous authentications, authenticating the first product according to remote data and the sensor data. Otherwise, the first product may be authenticated according to the authentication data.
US11379846B2
Systems and methods are provided for authenticating a product over a payment network. A product identifier associated with a product to be authenticated may be included or appended to a conventional authorization request message or clearing message during processing of a payment transaction. The product identifier can be verified at a verification entity to determine whether the product is real or counterfeit. Authorization or settlement of the payment transaction can be approved/processed if the product is determined to be real. Authorization or settlement of the payment transaction can be declined/withheld if the product is determined to be counterfeit.
US11379841B2
A station device in a biometric pre-identification system uses identity to perform one or more actions. Identities are determined (such as via a backend) using biometric information. A biometric pre-identification device obtains biometric information and/or a digital representation thereof from a person approaching the station device. The biometric pre-identification device transmits such to the station device, facilitating the station to begin and/or perform various actions. The station device begins or performs the actions using the identity determined based on the biometric information before the person arrives at the station device.
US11379840B2
A method for enabling, via a digital wallet application, a smart card to operate as a primary smart card for a plurality of a user's smart cards. The primary smart card may include a microprocessor, a touch screen, a wireless interface and an embedded subscriber identification module (“E-SIM”) card. The method may include retrieving on the primary smart card, from the digital wallet application, a list of a plurality of smart cards, displaying on the touch screen of the primary smart card, a selectable list of the plurality of smart cards, receiving, via the touch screen, a selected smart card and storing the card data on the E-SIM of the primary smart card. When the primary smart card is within a pre-determined proximity to a point-of-sale (“POS”) device, the primary smart card may be configured to transmit the card payment data stored on the E-SIM to the POS device.
US11379839B1
A computer system and a transaction machine, such as an automated teller machine (ATM), can provide any payor to make a payment to a payee at the transaction machine. The transaction machine provides the payor a user interface to enter a passcode that uniquely identifies the payment transaction. The passcode can be generated by a provider computing system associated with the transaction machine and provided directly to the payee or through the payor prior to the transaction. The transaction machine provides the payor a user interface to enter an amount. The transaction machine also provides the payor the ability to make a payment at the transaction machine using various modes of payment such as cash, credit card, or cryptocurrency. The transaction machine verifies that the payment matches the user selected amount, and sends a payment notification to the payor.
US11379831B2
Some examples include establishing a secure communication session between a mobile device and a card reader. For instance, a trusted, remote validation server may be used to validate security information of a software module executing on the mobile device prior to the card reader and the software module establishing a secure communication session with each other. In some cases, the software module sends the security information of the software module to the validation server. The secure communication session between the software module and the card reader may be established based on a validation result of a validation process indicating that the security related information of the software module has been determined to be valid by the validation server.
US11379828B2
An example operation may include one or more of constructing a transaction proposal, by a computing system, wherein inputs to the transaction proposal are named using a blockchain naming system (BNS) that comprises ledger state addressing, oracles for addressing external data values, and user state addressing, the BNS providing a standard mechanism to name all blockchain resources using a universal resource indicator (URI).
US11379825B2
A method and system for enabling performance of a transaction. A first representation of a transaction policy, which depicts transaction policy options for fulfilling the transaction policy is displayed by a client computer. After a user selects a first transaction policy option, the client computer displays a second representation of the transaction policy, depicting at least one mechanism pertaining to the first transaction policy option for satisfying the requirements of the first transaction policy option. After the user selects a first mechanism, the client computer displays evidence options for each requirement of the first transaction policy option. After the user selects an evidence option for each requirement of the first transaction policy option, the client computer sends to a server transaction enablement information that includes evidence dictated by the selected evidence options to enable the server to perform the transaction.
US11379815B2
A system for event-based peer-to-peer resource transfers. The system comprising: a controller configured for tracking and confirming resource transfers, the controller being further configured to: generate a resource transfer for transferring a resource from a first user device to a second user device, wherein the resource transfer comprises a conditional event for triggering a transfer of the resource, and wherein the conditional event is accepted by the first user device and the second user device; receive the resource from the first user device, wherein the resource is held separate from the first user device and the second user device; determine that the conditional event has been executed by at least one of the first user device and the second user device; and based on the determining that the conditional event has been executed, trigger the transfer of the resource to the second user device.
US11379808B2
In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for orchestration of operations associated with a media content environment, including use of a prepare-proceed workflow process (workflow) that supports definition and use of different payment/billing systems or processes. A payment/billing server, for use with the media content environment dynamically generates workflows for use in processing payments associated with products. Upon receipt of a request to purchase a product, the payment/billing server generates a workflow to process a payment, including querying a product subsystem to determine pre-authorization steps required for purchase of the product and executing the pre-authorization steps; querying a transaction subsystem to determine a transaction information required for authorization; and querying a payment processor for authorization of the transaction. The payment/billing server then executes any required post-authorization steps, and communicates with the payment processor to capture the purchase.
US11379807B2
A method and system for processing a financial transaction initiated by a cardholder with a merchant. The cardholder initiates the transaction using a cardholder input device and transmits an authorization request message including transaction data received by the cardholder input device from a point of sale (POS) device associated with the merchant. The authorization request message is received by a computer system. The transaction data is validated, and an authorization response message is transmitted after validation. The cardholder input device may forward the authorization response message to the POS device for completing the transaction.
US11379805B2
A method to facilitate invoicing for transactions established utilizing a network-based transaction system includes supporting establishment of transactions between a plurality of entities in the network-based transaction system, and identifying as part of an invoice generation process, a plurality of transactions to which a first entity is a party. The method further includes identifying first and second transactions from the plurality of transactions that satisfy combinable criteria, and generating an invoice for at least the first and second transactions that satisfy the combinable criteria. The method can also be implemented in a system and on a machine-readable medium.
US11379801B2
A maintenance support system for a plurality of maintenance-target apparatus in a plant includes a maintenance information delivery unit that delivers maintenance information Im that indicates an operational status of each maintenance-target apparatus to maintenance personnel every preset time T, wherein the maintenance information delivery unit delivers predictive information If to the maintenance personnel at a specified time Tf between the previous delivery of the maintenance information Im and the next delivery of the maintenance information Im, the predictive information If providing predictions regarding the operational status of each maintenance-target apparatus at the next delivery of the maintenance information Im.
