US11464148B2
A nozzle holding mechanism of the invention is capable of holding multiple types of nozzles to a head of a component mounting device and includes: a magnet provided in a holding section of the head; and a magnetic material, attracted to the magnet, provided in a held section of the nozzle on the side held by the holding section of the head, at a position facing the magnet. The magnetic material is provided so as to have a gap between the magnetic material and the magnet while the nozzle is held by the head. The gap is adjusted to be larger or smaller in accordance with the type of the nozzle held by the head.
US11464140B2
A cooling system is described. The cooling system includes a cooling element having a central region and a perimeter. The cooling element is anchored at the central region. At least a portion of the perimeter is unpinned. The cooling element is in communication with a fluid. The cooling element is actuated to induce vibrational motion to drive the fluid toward a heat-generating structure.
US11464131B2
A system includes a cable management assembly movable between an extended position and a retracted position. The cable management assembly includes a first pair of brackets slidable with respect to each other as the cable management assembly moves between the extended position and the retracted position. The cable management assembly also includes a second pair of brackets slidable with respect to each other as the cable management assembly moves between the extended position and the retracted position. One of the first pair of brackets is pivotably coupled to one of the second pair of brackets.
US11464128B2
An electronic device having slots into each of which a circuit board is inserted includes faceplates attached respectively to the circuit boards on the side of an extraction direction. The faceplates each include two handle portions that are disposed respectively at both ends of a main body in the width direction and that extend in the extraction direction. The handle portion of one of two faceplates adjacent in the width direction that is located closer to the other of the faceplates, and the handle portion of the other faceplate that is located closer to the one faceplate, have respective distal ends shifted from each other in a thickness direction.
US11464127B2
A blind mating adapter unit is disclosed that is adjustably locatable on a server chassis. The blind mating adapter unit is rotatably adjustable to align the orientation of one or more fluid connectors on the blind mating adapter unit to a corresponding one or more mating fluid connectors on a coolant distribution manifold installed in a server rack. Alternatively, the blind mating adapter can be separable into two halves that can be positioned to align with, and blind mate to, the coolant distribution manifold. When the server is slid into place in the server rack, the fluid connectors on the blind mating adapter fluidly couple to the corresponding mating fluid connectors on the coolant distribution manifold. The blind mating adapter unit functions as an intermediate layer for server and rack fluid mating.
US11464122B2
A first engagement body is provided to one of two assembly members to be assembled with each other through a relative rotation operation pivoted about a relative rotational axis, and a second engagement body is provided to the other assembly member. The first engagement body includes a first and a second spaces, the first space being provided to allow rotation of a third opposing wall part of the second engagement body relative to the first engagement body, which is pivoted about the relative rotational axis until engagement between the first engagement member and a second engagement member of the second engagement body is completed, the second space being provided to allow rotation of a fourth opposing wall part of the second engagement body relative to the first engagement body, which is pivoted about the relative rotational axis until engagement of the first and the second engagement members is completed.
US11464121B2
A display-screen stretch and retraction auxiliary mechanism and an electronic apparatus are provided. The electronic apparatus includes a flexible display screen having an end fixed to a front face of the electronic apparatus, and another end extending via a side face of the electronic apparatus to a rear face of the electronic apparatus. The mechanism includes: a sliding member connected with the flexible display screen arranged on the rear face; a bracket slidably connected with the sliding member and arranged between the sliding member and the side face, and configured to be driven to apply a first action force towards the side face to the flexible display screen; and an elastic member having a first end connected to the sliding member and a second end fixed relative to the bracket, and configured to apply a second action force, facing away from the side face, to the sliding member.
US11464115B2
The present invention relates to a printing method comprising a step of printing a pattern on a substrate, preferably by ink jet printing, followed by a gold plating step by means of contact between the pre-printed pattern to be gold plated and a gold plating deposition device, such as a preferably conductive metal sheet, e.g. a multilayer film comprising a preferably conductive metal sheet.
US11464112B2
A touch LED component and a touch device, and the touch LED component includes a metal cap, a touch button sheathed on an inner wall of the metal cap, and an LED lamp bead coupled to an inner wall of the touch button, a first through hole formed at the top of the metal cap, an induction pin installed at the bottom of the touch button, and an anode pin and a cathode pin installed on both sides of the bottom of the LED lamp bead respectively. The touch device includes a touch panel, a circuit board, and plural touch LED components. The touch LED component with high integration can be packaged by carrier tapes to facilitate automatic plug-ins and simplify production and assembling processes for mass production. The touch device has the features of simple structure, high reliability, good effect and long life.
US11464093B2
In examples, an apparatus includes a transistor, a switch, a diode, a capacitor, a voltage divider, a second transistor, a resistor, and a controller. The transistor has a transistor drain, a transistor source, and a transistor gate. The switch is adapted to couple a power supply to the transistor drain through an inductor. The diode has a cathode and an anode, the diode cathode coupled to the transistor drain. The capacitor is coupled between the diode anode and ground. The voltage divider is coupled between the diode anode and ground and having a voltage divider output. The second transistor has a second transistor source and a second transistor gate. The resistor is coupled between the diode anode and the second transistor source. The controller is coupled to the transistor gate, the transistor source, the voltage divider output, the diode anode, the second transistor gate, and the second transistor source.
US11464089B2
A method for dynamically adjusting a PWM signal includes steps of: presetting a standard signal period and a standard duty ratio of an effective pulse; receiving a target duty ratio entered by a user and comparing the target duty ratio with the standard duty ratio; adjusting a duration of a signal period relative to the standard signal period while keeping a duration of the effective pulse unchanged to cause a duty ratio to reach the target duty ratio, when the target duty ratio is smaller than the standard duty ratio; adjusting the duration of the effective pulse while keeping the duration of the standard signal period unchanged to cause the duty ratio to reach the target duty ratio, when the target duty ratio is larger than the standard duty ratio, when the target duty ratio is equal to the standard duty ratio.
US11464083B2
A heating element is used, a periphery of the heating element is covered with a net-shaped conductor, the conductor and a carbon fiber bundle are electrically connected with a connecting tool at one end of the heating element, a periphery of the conductor is covered with an outer skin having flexibility, thermal conductivity and an insulating property, and the other end of the heating element is provided with a power supply terminal configured to supply power.
US11464067B2
According to some embodiments, a method for use in a network node of providing a radio resource control (RRC) state of a user equipment (UE) to a core network node comprises: receiving, from the core network node, a request to receive a notification of a transition of the UE between a first and second RRC state; determining the UE transitioned between the first and second RRC state; and sending the notification of the transition to the core network node. A method for use in a core network node of receiving RRC state information of a UE comprises: sending, to the network node, a subscription request to receive a notification of a transition of the UE between a first and second RRC state; and upon the network node determining the UE transitioned between the first and second RRC state, receiving the notification from the network node.
US11464065B2
Systems and methods for extending connectivity with a cellular network are disclosed herein. A UE may monitor a serving cell of the UE and a neighbor cell of the UE to determine whether there is a network condition wherein the UE is to transition to an out-of-service (OOS) state if it were to fall to an Radio Resource Control (RRC) Idle state. The UE may react by, before expiration of an inactivity period corresponding to a transition to an RRC Idle mode, initiating signaling activity with a radio access network (RAN) node of the serving cell. In other embodiments, the UE may determine, based on a number of secondary devices connected to the UE, to initiate signaling with the RAN node of the serving cell before expiration of an inactivity period and according to whether a maximum number of extensions of an extension activity period has been reached.
US11464064B2
Wireless communications using multiple active resources (e.g., bandwidth parts (BWPs)) are described. A wireless device may perform failure event detection, such as radio link monitoring (RLM) and/or beam failure detection (BFD), jointly or separately for multiple active resources (e.g., BWPs) based on one or more criteria.
US11464059B2
A method for simultaneously communicating with multiple communication devices in a wireless local area network is described. Multiple uplink data units are received that are simultaneously transmitted by multiple second communication devices. The multiple uplink data units include a management data unit and a traffic data unit. An acknowledgment data unit is generated to acknowledge receipt of the multiple data units. The acknowledgment data unit includes (i) an indication that indicates that the acknowledgment data unit is intended for the multiple second communication devices, and (ii) respective acknowledgment information fields for the multiple second communication devices. The respective acknowledgment information fields include a first acknowledgment information field for the management data unit and a second acknowledgment information field for the traffic data unit. The acknowledgment data unit is caused to be transmitted from the first communication device to the multiple second communication devices.
US11464057B2
Disclosed are a method and apparatus for high-speed processing of GTP-U packets in a mobile network. The packet processing method and the apparatus according to an embodiment implements the encapsulation or decapsulation of GTP-U packets in a mobile network in a hardware-based structure to process the LBO of the GTP-U packet at high speed. It achieves the processing and solves the difficulty of protocol interworking with the mobile core network as information for the encapsulation or decapsulation processing of the GTP-U packet independently is acquired through self-learning without the help of the mobile core network.
US11464056B2
A method and an apparatus for identifying a user in a radio access network (RAN), and a first node in the wireless communication system are provided. The method includes identifying a unique identifier of a UE, identifying a radio access network (RAN) UE identifier of the UE, and transmitting information related to a mapping relation between the RAN UE identifier and the unique identifier of the UE to a second node, based on the unique identifier of the UE.
US11464053B2
The present disclosure relates to a wireless communication system. Specifically, provided is a method and an apparatus for supporting same, the method comprising the steps of: obtaining random access procedure-related message A, message A including a physical random access channel (PRACH) preamble and a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH); transmitting message A; and receiving random access procedure-related message B as a response to message A, wherein the PUSCH comprises a demodulation reference signal (DM-RS), and PRACH preamble is mapped to (i) one or more DM-RS ports and (ii) one or more DM-RS sequences on the basis of indices of respective (i) one or more DM-RS ports and indices of respective (ii) one or more DM-RS sequences.
US11464051B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described to support scheduling aperiodic random access occasion resources. The aperiodic random access occasion resources may be dynamically scheduled by a primary secondary cell (PSCell) associated with a base station. When performing a random access procedure for the PSCell, the base station may initiate the random access procedure via an order transmitted to a user equipment (UE). The order may represent a unicast transmission addressed to the UE and may indicate for the UE to transmit a preamble to begin the random access procedure. The order may also indicate resources (e.g., an offset of time resources) and a preamble index for transmission of the preamble. The UE may receive the order and may transmit the preamble based on the information included in the order.
US11464045B2
An apparatus is configured to transmit at least one first random access request by using a first preamble to a first handover target cell or to a first beam provided by a serving cell. If the first random access request is responded, the apparatus carries out a synchronization to the first handover target cell or to the first beam provided by the serving cell. If the first random access request is not responded, the apparatus transmits at least one second random access request by using at least one second preamble to at least one second handover target cell or to at least one second beam provided by the serving cell. The apparatus stores information on not-responded first or second random access requests or resources not used for random access requests, wherein the information comprises preambles used. The apparatus transmits, after being synchronized, the stored information to either the first handover target cell, the at least one second handover target cell or the serving cell for being used in random access resource allocation.
US11464039B2
The present specification provides a method for transmitting and receiving physical signals and/or channels in a wireless communication system and an apparatus therefor. Specifically, a method for a terminal to receive a wireless signal and/or a channel in a wireless communication system may comprise the steps of: receiving, from a base station, downlink control information (DCI) for scheduling for one or more wireless signals and/or channels; and cross-receiving the one or more wireless signals and/or channels on a sub-block basis from the base station on the basis of the DCI.
US11464016B2
A communications device, and method, is configured with at least one of an indication of first communications resources of the wireless access interface which can be allocated on request to the communications device by a mobile communications network for transmitting signals to one or more other communications devices in accordance with the first mode of operation or an indication of second communications resources of the wireless access interface, which can be used by the communications device for transmitting signals to one or more other communications devices in accordance with a second mode of operation using a device to device communications protocol.
US11464011B1
A communication device determines that a communication channel to be used for a multi-user (MU) transmission spans a frequency bandwidth greater than 160 MHz. The communication device allocates one or more frequency resource units (RUs) for the MU transmission, including: in response to determining that the communication channel spans the frequency bandwidth greater than 160 MHz, selecting one or more frequency RUs from a second set of frequency RUs. The second set of frequency RUs omits at least some RUs of a smallest bandwidth that are included in a first set of RUs that is used for allocating frequency RUs for communication channels having bandwidths of at most 160 MHz. The communication device generates allocation information that indicates the allocation of the one or more frequency RUs for the MU transmission, and transmits the allocation information to one or more other communication devices in connection with the MU transmission.
US11464009B2
A method of routing a first signal in a telecommunication network is disclosed. The telecommunication network comprises plural nodes and uses time-division multiple access (TDMA) frames, with each TDMA frame divided into time slots and each time slot is divided into subslots. The method includes the step of transmitting a first signal from an initiating node in a first subslot. The method further includes the step of receiving the first signal at other nodes in the network in the first subslot, wherein the first signal is retransmitted in a second subslot subsequent to the first subslot. An improvement in the method includes the step of preparing for the retransmission at least one of a time-dispersed first signal or time-dispersed algorithmically related first signal by two or more nodes via a controller.
US11463990B2
In one aspect of the present invention, user equipment includes a reception unit configured to detect a synchronization signal or a physical broadcast channel from a base station; a resource selection unit configured to select, from resources determined based on configuration information for preamble transmission, a resource for transmitting a preamble according to the detected synchronization signal or the detected physical broadcast channel based on a mapping rule, with a period determined based on at least one of a period of a synchronization signal burst set that is a duration during which the synchronization signal or the physical broadcast channel can be transmitted and a period of a resource available for transmission of the preamble; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the preamble to the base station on the selected resource.
US11463987B2
Provided are a method for skipping contention resolution. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the method includes leaving radio resource control (RRC) connected state, while leaving RRC connected state, receiving information on timing advance in a paging occasion, adapting the timing advance and performing transmission based on the adapted timing advance.
US11463985B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for determining a time to stop monitoring a wireless channel for paging information. In some examples, a user equipment (UE) may identify a plurality of paging occasions associated with a wireless channel (e.g., of an unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band) and monitor the wireless channel for paging information from a base station during a first paging occasion of the plurality of paging occasions. The UE may determine a channel occupancy status of the base station with respect to the wireless channel and may determine a time to stop monitoring the wireless channel for paging information. The UE may ignore a remainder of the plurality of paging occasions based on the determined time to stop monitoring the wireless channel.
US11463984B2
Methods, devices, systems, and computer-readable media for supporting position estimation are disclosed. A method at a first user equipment (UE) device may comprise sending or receiving, via a sidelink channel, a ranging signal between the first UE device and a second UE device. The method may further comprise obtaining at least one ranging measurement based on the sending or receiving the ranging signal between the first UE device and a second UE device. The method may further comprise broadcasting, via the sidelink channel, (1) the at least one ranging measurement with a reference to the second UE device or (2) a position estimate for the first UE device based on the at least one ranging measurement.
US11463983B2
In a geographic area with limited satellite coverage, multiple signal sources are statically disposed along a path through the geographic area. To automatically determine geographic positions of the signal sources, signal data collected by a receiver moving along the path is received, where the signal data indicates changes, over a period of time, in strength of respective signals emitted by the signal sources. Indications of a first position of the receiver at a first time prior to entering the geographic area and a second position of the receiver at a second time subsequent to leaving the geographic area are received, and positions for the signal sources are determined using the received signal data and the received indications of the positions and the times. The determined positions for the signal sources are used to geoposition a device moving along the path.
US11463979B2
A disclosure in the present specification provides a method for user equipment initiating a service request procedure. The method includes a step of the UE receiving a paging message. The UE may be registered to both of a 3rd generation partnership project (3GPP) access and a non-3GPP access within the same PLMN. The paging message may include access type information that is used so as to indicate the non-3GPP access. The method may include a step of initiating a UE triggered service request procedure. The UE triggered service request procedure may be initiated by transmitting a service request message including a list of permitted protocol data unit (PDU) sessions. The service request message may include an empty list of the permitted PDU sessions if there is no PDU sessions that can be reactivated in the 3GPP access.
US11463976B2
Disclosed is a method for a first terminal, which supports a sidelink, to transmit signals in a wireless communication system. Specifically, the method may comprise: a step for receiving a sidelink synchronization signal (SLSS) from a second terminal; a step for acquiring information about a subframe boundary time point for timing synchronization, and information about a propagation delay time; and a step for transmitting a sidelink signal to the second terminal on the basis of the subframe boundary time point and a timing advance (TA) that is twice the length of the propagation delay time.
US11463966B2
A clutter-induced interference at a base station is mitigated through a command from the base station to a user equipment that commands the user equipment to transmit using an increased transmit power. During acquisition, the command may comprise a SIB. During a connected mode of operation, the command may comprise a TPC message, assistance information, an RRC message, or a DCI message.
US11463961B2
According to an aspect, there is provided a computing device for controlling terminal device uplink transmission power. Each terminal device is configured to determine uplink transmission power based on two power control parameters—a target received power for full pathloss compensation and a pathloss compensation coefficient. The computing device initializes a deep Q-learning network in which a state is defined as cell-specific pairs of the power control parameters, an action is defined as a selection of valid values of power control parameters for a cell and a reward is calculated based on the information on data traffic. The computing device trains the deep Q-learning network to approximate a Q value function, determines optimal power control parameters based on thereon and causes transmitting them to access nodes.
US11463956B2
A method, an apparatus, a base station, a user equipment (UE), and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The base station may encode a wakeup signal so that a preamble of the wakeup signal indicates whether the wakeup signal is relevant to the UE. The UE may select a technique for detecting the wakeup signal based at least in part on a partial, full, or no synchronization. In some aspects, the wakeup signal may be encoded with a system frame number. In some aspects, wakeup signals for guardband/standalone UEs are provided. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11463950B1
Systems and methods are provided for managing the power of a secondary node in an E-Utran/New Radio Dual Connectivity (ENDC)—configured wireless communication network. In response to determining that one or more transmission blocking conditions have been met, a master node communicates an instruction to the secondary node via a data connection cable or an X2 logical interface to not transmit downlink signals, reducing overall power network power consumption and inter-nodal inference when ENDC resources are not required.
US11463941B2
Embodiments of the application provide a method for determining system information, and a terminal device and a network device. The method comprises: a terminal device sending a first random access preamble to a network device; the terminal device receiving a media access control (MAC) protocol data unit (PDU) sent by the network device, wherein the MAC PDU comprises at least one random access response (RAR); and the terminal device determining, according to the at least one RAR, system information to be sent by the network device.
US11463927B2
A method, network node and wireless device are provided. A wireless device for wireless communications is provided. The wireless device includes processing circuitry including a processor and a memory, the memory configured to store instructions that, when executed by the processor, configure the wireless device to: receive activation information before a completion of a handover of the wireless device from a serving network node to a target network node where the activation information indicates a first set of a plurality of sets of reference signal configurations has been activated for reference signal feedback, and provide reference signal feedback based on the first set of the plurality of sets of reference signal configurations.
US11463918B2
A method in the embodiments of the application includes: obtaining, by a first network element, first data that corresponds to a service flow and that is on each of at least two network elements, where the first data that corresponds to the service flow and that is on each of the network elements includes a first identifier; obtaining, by the first network element based on the first identifier and the first data that corresponds to the service flow and that is on each of the network elements, second data that corresponds to the service flow, where the second data includes at least the first data that corresponds to the service flow and that is on each of the network elements.
US11463913B2
The radio base station includes a central node and a distributed node. The central node at least implements the functions of a PDCP layer. The distributed node at least implements the functions of a RLC layer. The distributed node transmits, to the central node, flow control information for performing flow control per each group of a plurality of user terminals. The central node performs flow control of data to be transmitted to the bearers assigned to a plurality of user terminals belonging to the each group, based on the flow control information.
US11463911B2
A radio access system includes: a set of radio access entities, in particular a set of gNBs and/or ng-eNBs, which are interconnected via respective first interfaces; and a centralized resource controller. Each radio access entity of the set of radio access entities comprises a centralized unit (CU) and at least one distributed unit (DU) coupled to the CU via a second interface. The centralized resource controller configured to assign computational resources to the CUs and the DUs of the radio access entities based on measurement reports received via the first interfaces and/or the second interfaces from the respective units, wherein the measurement reports comprise information about a computational resource utilization of the respective units.
US11463905B2
A mechanism for adaptively performing in-band network telemetry (INT) by a network controller is disclosed. The mechanism includes receiving one or more congestion indicators from a collector. An adjusted sampling rate is generated. The adjusted sampling rate is a specified rate of insertion of instruction headers for INT and is generated based on the congestion indicators. The adjusted sampling rate is transmitted to a head node, which is configured to perform INT via instruction header insertion into user packets.
US11463902B2
Wireless communication systems and methods related to quality of service mapping, are provided. A first user equipment determines a sidelink radio bearer identifier (SLRB ID) for a quality of service (QoS) flow from a plurality of rules. The rules identify different characteristics of the QoS flow. The SLRB ID is inserted into a header of a packet in the QoS flow. The QoS flow is mapped to a radio bearer that is mapped to an L2 link with other radio bearers that are mapped to other QoS flows. The L2 link transmits the radio bearers to a second UE as part of a broadcast, groupcast or unicast sidelink communication. Based on the SLRB ID, the second UE identifies requirements of the QoS flow.
US11463894B2
Disclosed is a virtual base station capable of hosting multiple network operators and/or private networks in a single compute environment. The virtual base station includes a plurality of virtual baseband processors configured to communicate with the plurality of mobile network operators, a supervisor module, a fronthaul network interface configured to be coupled to one or more remote units, and a KPI (Key Performance Indicator) coordinator module coupled to the supervisor module and the one or more virtual baseband processors. The base station may have on or more CBRS (Citizens Broadband Radio Service) Daemons to act as a proxy for obtaining grants to CBRS channels and allocating the CBRS channels to the mobile network operators.
US11463892B2
A method in a radio access network, RAN, node of a wireless communications network, wherein the communications network provides a connection of a user equipment, UE, to a data or core network, includes determining that a redundancy connection is required or is beneficial for the UE; determining available redundancy options that can be established for the UE; and selecting a redundancy option out of the plurality of available redundancy options to be activated for the UE, A corresponding RAN Node and a corresponding computer program are also provided.
US11463887B2
A system identifies first areas of a plurality of areas of a wireless network for wireless site installation. The system performs machine learning to associate measured network performance parameters within the wireless network with empirical data related to at least one of population, residential buildings, or business buildings within the identified first areas of the wireless network. The system optimizes, based on the machine learning, geographic placement of prospective wireless sites within each of the identified first areas of the wireless network to maximize improvements in network performance parameters associated with installing the prospective wireless sites. The system provides optimized wireless site placement recommendations for wireless site installation in each of the identified first areas.
US11463886B2
Wireless communications systems and methods related to coordinating shared radio resources for spectrum sharing are provided. A spectrum resource control unit allocates a first resource for exclusive access by a first network operating entity in a spectrum. The exclusive access is configured for at least one of a network information communication or a feedback communication. The spectrum resource control unit allocates a second resource in the spectrum for shared access by the first network operating entity and a second network operating entity. The shared access is configured for at least a downlink control information communication. The spectrum resource control unit transmits, to the first network operating entity and the second network operating entity, a configuration indicating the first resource allocated for exclusive access by the first network operating entity and the second resource allocated for shared access by the first network operating entity and the second network operating entity.
US11463883B2
This Application describes efficient cellular service transfer mechanisms to move cellular services that are based on cellular service credentials, e.g., eSIMs, between accessory wireless devices under various scenarios, including in some embodiments transfer of multiple eSIMs. The first and second accessory wireless devices and the primary wireless device are associated with a common user account. Transfer of credentials for cellular service access can occur between two accessory wireless devices via the primary wireless device, where the primary wireless device and the accessory wireless devices interact with applicable network-based servers.
US11463881B2
Systems and methods include a method for detecting and identifying access points. Signals transmitted by access points in one or more mobile telecommunications networks within range of a mobile wireless scanning system are received by the mobile wireless scanning system. A presence of the access points is detected by the mobile wireless scanning system. Locations of the access points are determined by the mobile wireless scanning system using the signals transmitted by the access points. The locations of the access points are logged by the mobile wireless scanning system. Location and identifying information for the access points are provided by the mobile wireless scanning system to a receiving client.
US11463880B2
A security analysis method for a control plane and a system therefor are disclosed. The method includes generating a test case for a security property unsuitable for a control plane operation, transmitting the generated test case to target equipment and receiving a response of the control plane for the test case from the target equipment, and diagnosing security for the security property of the target equipment by analyzing the received response. The generating includes generating the test case for the security property by modulating a value of a specific field in a control plane protocol header into a value unsuitable for an operation on standards.
US11463869B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may identify a multi-mode capability for communications by the UE within a frequency band, such that that UE may be capable of operating in any one of a half duplex time division duplex (TDD) mode and a full duplex frequency division duplex (FDD) mode within the frequency band. The UE may then transmit an indication of the multi-mode capability to a base station. The UE may receive, from the base station and responsive to the transmission of the indication, a communication format configuration that includes a partitioning between TDD mode communications and FDD mode communications for the frequency band.
US11463868B2
A method for operating a mobile device in a mobile communication network. The method comprises transmitting a mobile device component identifier to a network node within the mobile communication network. The mobile device component identifier identifies at least one hardware or software component of the mobile device. The mobile device component identifier is indicative of capability information specifying at least one capability of the mobile device for communication with the mobile communication network. A corresponding method for operating a network node is also provided.
US11463862B2
The present disclosure encompasses a system and a method for availing a data service by a user equipment [110] in an international location. In an embodiment, the user equipment [110], in the international roaming, transmits an attach request to a second network, wherein the user equipment [110] configured with a SIM [120]. The user equipment [110] then receives a rejection message or an acceptance message from the second network based on the attach request. On receiving the acceptance message, the user equipment [110] establishes a connection with the second network to extract an IMPI from the SIM, an IMSI from the IMPI; and a network parameter from the IMSI. The user equipment [110] then identifies a configuration parameter of the home network, corresponding to the network parameter. Finally, the user equipment [110] avails the data service using the configuration parameter.
US11463849B2
Data processing device, data analyzing device, data processing system and method for processing data
The present disclosure provides an enhanced computation of a data model for an intelligent data processing device. The data processing device may be a device having limited computational resources. Accordingly, a system model for processing the data is computed in the local device. Additionally, an enhanced model may be computed in a remote device like a cloud or a data center. For this purpose, the cloud or datacenter is provided with filtered data for computing an enhanced model. The cloud or datacenter may compute an enhanced model and forward the respective model to the local device if the enhanced model is better than the model locally generated.
US11463842B2
Some embodiments of the present disclosure provide a transmit point that transmits a downlink chirp sensing waveform (DL CSW) signal. A device receives the DL CSW signal and obtains a cloned chirp sensing waveform. The cloned chirp sensing waveform includes a parameter that can be uniquely associated with the device. The device transmits a UL cloned CSW signal based on the cloned chirp sensing waveform. The transmit point receives the UL cloned CSW signal and processes the UL cloned CSW signal to estimate a pose for the device and associate the estimated pose with the identity of the device.
US11463840B2
The disclosure is directed to navigating based on directionality. An embodiment determines a position and a direction of a mobile device, determines one or more paths from the mobile device to one or more destinations associated with a current location of the mobile device, and displays one or more direction indicators corresponding to the one or more paths to the one or more destinations.
US11463839B2
According to various embodiments, systems, computer program products, and computer implemented methods for cognitive location and navigation services for custom applications are disclosed. More specifically, the cognitive location and navigation services include, but are not limited to cognitive navigational guidance through a tourist attraction. For instance, a method includes receiving a request for cognitive navigational assistance through a tourist attraction; obtaining site-specific information about the tourist attraction from a site-specific server; determining whether a user profile describing user viewing preferences exists; and either: directing the user to navigate through the tourist attraction according to a path based on the existing user profile; or recommending a first exhibit to visit based at least in part on crowding levels at the tourist attraction and recording user behavior observed while viewing the first exhibit. Corresponding systems and computer program products are also disclosed.
US11463837B2
Examples of the disclosure describe systems and methods for presenting an audio signal to a user of a wearable head device. According to an example method, a first input audio signal is received. The first input audio signal is processed to generate a first output audio signal. The first output audio signal is presented via one or more speakers associated with the wearable head device. Processing the first input audio signal comprises applying a pre-emphasis filter to the first input audio signal; adjusting a gain of the first input audio signal; and applying a de-emphasis filter to the first audio signal. Applying the pre-emphasis filter to the first input audio signal comprises attenuating a low frequency component of the first input audio signal. Applying the de-emphasis filter to the first input audio signal comprises attenuating a high frequency component of the first input audio signal.
US11463825B2
A hearing instrument includes: a microphone for providing a first audio signal; a signal processor for processing the first audio signal into a second audio signal compensating a hearing loss of a user of the hearing instrument; a speaker connected to an output of the signal processor for converting the second audio signal into an output sound signal; a wireless communication unit configured for wireless data communication; and an antenna for electromagnetic field emission and/or reception, the antenna having a first antenna element and additional antenna elements, the first antenna element having a first branch and a second branch being connected with the wireless communication unit, the first branch having a first connecting region and the second branch having a second connecting region; wherein one or each of the additional antenna elements interconnects the first connecting region and the second connecting region.
US11463822B2
A hearing assistive device including an audio processing circuit with an analog-to-digital converter having an integrator integrating a voltage present in the summation point; a comparator comparing an output from the integrator with a reference voltage (Vref) and outputting a logical level in accordance with the comparison; a feedback loop coupling a feedback signal back to the summation point; and a reference voltage generation circuit being adapted to provide the reference voltage (Vref) being lower than a power supply voltage (Vbattery) and following the decay of the power supply voltage (Vbattery) with a predefined margin.
US11463818B2
A hearing system assists the hearing of a user and has a hearing instrument worn in or on the ear of the user. In operation, a sound signal from surroundings of the hearing instrument is received by an input transducer and modified in a signal processing step. The modified sound signal is output by an output transducer. A first signal component and a second signal component are derived from the received sound signal, wherein these signal components chronologically overlap. In the first signal component, the ego voice of the user is emphasized over the ambient noise, while in the second signal component, the ambient noise is emphasized over the ego voice of the user. The first signal component and the second signal component are processed in different ways in the signal processing step and combined after this processing to generate the modified sound signal.
US11463811B2
A speaker system is provided with a cabinet with a front face. At least one forward-firing driver is supported by the cabinet to project sound along a first axis that is generally perpendicular to the front face of the cabinet. At least one upward-firing driver is supported by the cabinet and arranged above the at least one forward-firing driver to project high frequency sound along a second axis that is angularly offset from the first axis at an acute splay angle. A controller is programmed to provide a mid-range frequency component of a front audio channel to the at least one forward-firing driver, and to provide a high frequency component of a top audio channel to the upward-firing driver.
US11463810B2
The present technology relates to a sound output control apparatus and a sound output control method that perform control to prevent a balance of a system from being disturbed when reproduction is performed using a plurality of wireless speakers. A sound output control apparatus includes a transmitter that transmits first setting information regarding a sound output of the sound output control apparatus, a receiver that receives second setting information regarding a sound output of another sound output control apparatus, and a controller that controls a sound pressure or a reproduction frequency range in which reproduction is performed, on the basis of the first setting information or the second setting information. The first setting information and the second setting information each include at least information regarding a temperature, information regarding an amplitude, information regarding a remaining capacity of a power supply, and/or information regarding the reproduction frequency range.
US11463808B2
A first seat noise control device corrects sound collected by a microphone to sound at a listening position of a user seated on a first seat, generates a cancel sound that cancels, at the first seat, the sound of a second seat audio source output from a second seat speaker by using an adaptive filter, and outputs the cancel sound from a first seat speaker. A second seat noise control device corrects the sound collected by the microphone to sound at the listening position of the user seated on the second seat, generates a cancel sound that cancels, at the second seat, the sound of a first seat audio source output from the first seat speaker using an adaptive filter, and outputs the cancel sound from the second seat speaker.
US11463804B2
A loudspeaker system with viscoelastic material affixed between two flexible panels is disclosed. The loudspeaker system dissipates the energy of motion, resulting in less pronounced resonant peaks. The effect may be especially evident at high frequencies, where energy is dissipated over many cycles in a shorter period of time. Also disclosed are the method of making the loudspeaker system and a method of using the loudspeaker system.
US11463796B2
An earphone includes a housing that defines a force input surface opposite a touch input surface. A spring member in the housing includes a first arm that biases a touch sensor toward the touch input surface. The spring member also includes a second arm that biases a first force electrode toward the housing and allows the first force electrode to move toward a second force electrode when a force is applied to the force input surface. A non-binary amount of the force is determinable using a change in a mutual capacitance between the first force electrode and the second force electrode. The mutual capacitance between the first force electrode and the second force electrode may be measured upon detecting a touch using the touch sensor.
US11463786B2
The current invention relates to a computer-generated method for optimizing placement of advertising content across multiple different devices. The system can allocate advertising campaigns and plans to various inventory types based on the probability of accurate consumer matching. Consumer matching can be achieved by generation of look-alike models in a consumer's device graph to predict future consumption behavior. The system includes an interface through which an advertiser can access relevant information about inventory and success of a given placement.
US11463785B2
Various systems, devices and methods automatically identify advertisements or other portions of television or other media content prior to broadcast using automated content analysis. Information about identified content may be used for any number of different purposes, including advertisement identification; advertisement replacement; second screen browsing or augmentation of identified content; tracking of times or places that ads or other content are viewed; and many others.
US11463784B2
A system for synchronizing media content playout includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a system memory storing a software code. The hardware processor executes the software code to receive a first state message from a first media player playing a first media content and a second state message from a second media player playing a second media content, the first media content and the second media content being the same media content. The software code further determines a coordination state for playout of the first media content and the second media content based on one or more of the first and second state messages, and transmits a first coordination message including the coordination state to the first media player and a second coordination message including the coordination state to the second media player to synchronize playout of the first media content and the second media content.
US11463783B2
A server may receive metadata associated with specific content in a transport signal stream from a content information service. The metadata may identify a point in time of the transport signal stream. The server may instruct an encoder to insert a marker into the transport signal stream corresponding to the point in time of the transport signal stream. The marker may indicate control of a trick mode to be enforced by a delivery platform subsequent to the point in time of the transport signal stream. The server may record the marker in a data store associated with the server.
US11463777B2
Apparatus, systems, articles of manufacture, and methods for viewer authentication are disclosed. An example system includes processing circuitry to execute computer readable instructions to send one or more instructions to cause the user device to: trigger collection of audio metering data from a sensed audio signal based on a programming schedule that is to identify when the program is to be broadcast; accept voting data from the user for a ballot presented in the program; transmit the audio metering data; and transmit the voting data. The processing circuitry also is to determine a level of exposure of the user to the program based on the audio metering data received from the user device; calculate a weighting score based on the level of exposure; and adjust the voting data based on the weighting score.
US11463771B2
Systems and methods are described for generating a super-interface that aggregates content identifiers from different content sources. A super-interface is generated for display. The super-interface comprises a first interface that comprises a first plurality of content items available from a first content source and a second interface that comprises a second plurality of content items available from a second content source. The second content source is different from the first content source. The first interface and the second interface are simultaneously accessible to a first device. A user preference is detected based on a user interaction with the first interface. The second interface is automatically updated to comprise identifiers of a third plurality of content items that are available from the second content source. The third plurality of content items is selected based on the detected user preference from the user interaction with the first interface.
US11463757B2
A sender transmits media streams at receiver-enabled resolutions. The sender, a media server that has multiple resolutions of media available to stream, is made aware of the capability of the receiver to process lower resolution media streams, including a super-resolution capability to enhance the lower resolution media stream using temporal and/or spatial information contained in the lower resolution media stream. The media server sends lower resolution streams to the receiver, thereby freeing up bandwidth on the communication channel for other uses. The receiver can notify the sender of events that affect the status of the super-resolution capability on the receiver, and the sender can adjust the resolution and bitrate of the media stream accordingly to optimize use of the communication channels and resources by encoding and transmitting high resolution video frames only when needed.
US11463753B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for downloading resources, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, and belongs to the field of Internet technology. The method includes: receiving a resource access request for a target resource from a client, and determining an access address of the resource access request, in which the access address carries an identifier of the target resource; querying a status of the target resource according to the identifier of the target resource carried in the access address; and sending, in response to the target resource being in a first status, a content distribution network address corresponding to the target resource to the client to cause the client to download the target resource according to the content distribution network address.
US11463745B2
A system control device that transmits a manifest file describing information necessary for acquiring video data to a viewing client in a system that performs distribution of the video data via a network includes: generation means for generating the manifest file on the basis of at least one of identification information indicating a viewer attribute, a time zone, and a state of the system according to a prescribed control policy; and transmission means for transmitting the manifest file generated by the generation means to the viewing client.
US11463743B2
Techniques and mechanisms described herein facilitate providing dynamic digital object placement in a video stream. An exchange network for engagements within video streaming content is maintained, and a number of engagement entities and content providers are connected to the exchange network. An engagement proposal is received from an engagement entity in the exchange network, containing media assets for an engagement and proposed engagement information. Content provider requirements are also received from a content provider in the exchange network, containing content provider requirements and one or more engagement surfaces associated with a video stream. The exchange network determines that the received engagement proposal matches the received content provider requirements. Once the exchange network matches the two entities, the media assets from the engagement entity are dynamically inserted into the video stream published by the content provider by mapping the media assets to the one or more engagement surfaces.
US11463741B2
Systems and methods enable video on demand playback startup times to be reduced. A redirect database is populated with redirect locators. A request from a device for an item of primary video content is received. A static manifest file is generated including locators corresponding to the requested item of primary video content and redirect database entries storing redirect locators to default interstitial media. The static manifest file is transmitted to the device. Potential items of interstitial media are identified by sources of interstitial media, and a first item of interstitial media is selected. A redirect locator in the redirect database is replaced with a redirect locator corresponding to the selected interstitial media. A request is received from the device directed to the redirect database location storing the redirect locator corresponding to the selected interstitial media. The selected interstitial media is streamed to the device.
US11463740B2
A Rules-Based Just-In-Time (RBJIT) content streaming engine collects information such as behavior, usage, movement, and preferences about a user, any groups that the user is associated with, and the set of all users in general. Based on this information, the RBJIT may preferentially select multimedia content and content suggestions for user display, increasing the likelihood that the surfaced content will be of interest to a user. In this way, browsing time for a user on a device with a limited form factor is reduced and network bandwidth is conserved by not surfacing content that the user ultimately will not view.
US11463732B2
Systems and methods described herein provide a new mechanism of video exportation which ensures that the process is done faster and that a single video can be exported to two or more destination at the same time. This document explains the steps involved in the creation of the video, processes involved in encoding, rendering, transmission/exportation, and playing the video. Figures are used in explaining or illustrating the flow of processes and showing the different devices used in accomplishing various activities in the exporting processes. The application will receive commands to perform the exporting from the destination. Overall, the application will be able to facilitate faster exportation of a video, almost twice the basic speed of the known video exportation systems and to multiple destinations unlike in exportation by the basic applications in use today.
US11463728B2
An image decoding method performed by a decoding apparatus according to the present invention comprises: a step of deriving an intra prediction mode for a current block; a step of deriving upper neighboring samples of a plurality of rows for the current block, and left neighboring samples of a plurality of columns; a step of deriving one row of upper reference samples on the basis of the upper neighboring samples; a step of deriving one column of left reference samples on the basis of the left neighboring samples; and a step of generating a prediction sample for the current block by using at least one of the upper reference samples and the left reference samples in accordance with the intra prediction mode.
US11463727B2
An intra-frame prediction method and device, according to the present invention, enables deriving an intra-frame prediction mode of a current block, determining a pixel line, among a plurality of pixel lines, for the intra-frame prediction of the current block, and carrying out the intra-frame prediction of the current block on the basis of the intra-frame prediction mode and the pixel line. In addition, a first reference pixel of the determined pixel line may be selectively filtered, and a prediction pixel of the current block may be selectively corrected, and thus the accuracy of the intra-frame prediction may be improved.
US11463711B2
Devices, systems and methods for applying intra-block copy (IBC) in video coding are described. In general, methods for integrating IBC with existing motion compensation algorithms for video encoding and decoding are described. In a representative aspect, a method for video encoding using IBC includes determining whether a current block of the current picture is to be encoded using a motion compensation algorithm, and encoding, based on the determining, the current block by selectively applying an intra-block copy to the current block. In a representative aspect, another method for video encoding using IBC includes determining whether a current block of the current picture is to be encoded using an intra-block copy, and encoding, based on the determining, the current block by selectively applying a motion compensation algorithm to the current block.
US11463710B2
A method for determining intra-prediction modes for prediction units (PUs) of a largest coding unit (LCU) is provided that includes determining an intra-prediction mode for each child PU of a PU, and selecting an intra-prediction mode for the PU based on the intra-prediction modes determined for the child PUs.
US11463704B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses are described for compressing digital content. The digital content may comprise a plurality of frames. The plurality of frames may comprise a plurality of crossfade frames. A first boundary frame of the crossfade frames may be determined. A second boundary frame of the crossfade frames may be determined. At least a portion of the crossfade frames may be coded as inter-predicted frames using a weighting factor and based on the first boundary frame or the second boundary frame.
US11463701B2
A prediction image generation method is provided. The method derives a down-sampled luminance image and a down-sampled neighboring luminance image by down-sampling the luminance image of a target block and a neighboring luminance image based on information related to a down-sampling and indicating one of a plurality of position relationships between at least one luma pixel and a chroma pixel. The method derives a neighboring chrominance image, parameters derived from the down-sampled neighboring luminance image and the neighboring chrominance image, and the prediction image by using the down-sampled luminance image and the parameters. The position relationships include that a position of the chroma pixel is identical to a position of one of the at least one luma pixel and that the position of the chroma pixel is located in an intermediate of two of the at least one luma pixel on a left side of a 2×2 luma pixel block.
US11463700B2
A video picture processing method includes: sampling an initial picture, to obtain a target picture; dividing the target picture, to obtain a plurality of sub-pictures; extending picture borders of a first-category sub-picture, to obtain an extended first-category sub-picture; downsampling the extended first-category sub-picture, to obtain a downsampled first-category sub-picture; encoding a second-category sub-picture and the downsampled first-category sub-picture, to obtain bitstreams; and writing location information and extension information of the plurality of sub-pictures into the bitstreams, where extension information of the first-category sub-picture is used to indicate that the picture borders of the first-category sub-picture have been extended and indicate extension widths of the picture borders, and extension information of the second-category sub-picture is used to indicate that picture borders of the second-category sub-picture have not been extended.
US11463694B2
Block-based coding of a picture is done by providing an intra-prediction coding concept according to which a certain block of the picture is intra-prediction coded using a certain intra-coding mode by partitioning the predetermined block into partitions which are, for reconstruction purposes, sequentially subject to spatial prediction using the intra-prediction coding mode signaled for the certain block followed by correcting the thus obtained predictor using a prediction residual so that for preceding partitions a reconstruction of the samples is available to the decoder at the time of processing the next, then current, partition.
US11463689B2
A device for decoding video data includes a memory configured to store the video data; and one or more processors configured to decode syntax information that indicates a selected intra prediction mode for the block of video data from among a plurality of intra prediction modes. The one or more processors apply an N-tap intra interpolation filter to neighboring reconstructed samples of the block of video data according to the selected intra prediction mode, wherein N is greater than 2. The one or more processors reconstruct the block of video data based on the filtered neighboring reconstructed samples according to the selected intra prediction mode.
US11463684B2
A decoding-side first generation unit generating, for a target unit, a first component prediction sample. A decoding-side linear prediction unit using the first component sample and a prediction coefficient to generate a linear prediction sample of a second component. A decoding-side second generation unit using the second component linear prediction sample to generate, for the target unit, a second component prediction sample. The decoding-side linear prediction unit uses a first coefficient as the prediction coefficient when the first component sample is equal to or below a threshold value, and uses a second coefficient, different from the first, as the prediction coefficient when the first component sample is greater than the threshold value. The threshold value is set on a parameter representing a distribution or change in a reference sample of the first component and/or the second component contained in a reference unit referenced for the target unit.
US11463681B2
There are disclosed various apparatuses, methods, and computer program products for coding volumetric video, where information of a three-dimensional scene is obtained and at least one projection plane for the scene is determined (602). At least a first projection direction is determined for a first part of the projection plane and a second projection direction is determined for a second part of the projection plane so that the first projection direction is different from the second projection direction (604). A first part of the scene is projected on the projection plane from the first projection direction (610); and a second part of the scene is projected on the projection plane from the second projection direction (610). The projection plane is encoded (612). Information of at least one projection plane of a three-dimensional scene, information of at least a first projection direction for a first part of the projection plane and a second projection direction for a second part of the projection plane are decoded. The first projection direction is different from the second projection direction. The decoded information is used to obtain reconstructed geometry data of different parts of the projection plane, and the reconstructed geometry data is used to form a reconstructed 3D image.
US11463680B2
Generating a three-dimensional (3D) map of an environment includes receiving, via a 3D-scanner that is mounted on a moveable platform, a 3D-scan of the environment while the moveable platform moves through the environment. The method further includes receiving via a two-dimensional (2D) scanner that is mounted on the moveable platform, a portion of a 2D-map of the environment, and receiving first coordinates of the scan position in the 2D-map. The method further includes associating the scan position with the portion of the 2D-map as a virtual landmark. In response to the movable platform being brought back at the virtual landmark, a displacement vector for the 2D-map is determined based on a difference between the first coordinates and a second coordinates that are determined for the scan position. A revised scan position is calculated based on the displacement vector, and the revised scan position is used to register the 3D-scan.
US11463678B2
A system for social interaction using a photo-realistic novel view of an event includes a multi-view reconstruction system for developing transmission data of the event a plurality of client-side rendering devices, each rendering device receiving the transmission data from the multi-view reconstruction system and rendering the transmission data as the photo-realistic novel view. A method of social interaction using a photo-realistic novel view of an event includes transmitting by a server side transmission data of the event; receiving by a first user on a first rendering device the data transmission; selecting by the first user a path for rendering on the first rendering device at least on novel view; rendering by the first rendering device the at least one novel view; and saving by the user on the first rendering device novel view date for the at least one novel view.
US11463673B2
Provided is a method for supporting an immersive media service by a media transmission device. The method comprises the steps of: determining at least one space among a plurality of spaces of interest (SOI) based on SOI description information; and transmitting, to a media reception apparatus, partial SOI description information among the SOI description information and partial immersive media data among immersive media data, wherein the partial SOI description and the partial immersive media data corresponds to the determined at least one SOI, wherein the partial SOI description information includes at least one of identification information for the at least one SOI, a space range indicator for an object of interest (OOI), a priority indicator for the OOI, or an object vector for the OOI.
US11463670B2
Provided is a method for creating a virtual reality content, storing the virtual reality content in a transmission buffer, and after that, managing the transmission buffer. A server creates the virtual reality content based on user's motion information, stores the virtual reality content in the transmission buffer and is allowed to modify the virtual reality content stored in the transmission buffer based on subsequently received user's motion information, so that the most recent user's motion information can be appropriately reflected in the virtual reality content. It is possible to provide a more immersive virtual reality service.
US11463659B2
A monitoring system of an embodiment includes an acquirer, an extractor, an encryption processor, and a generator. The acquirer is configured to acquire, from one or more monitoring cameras that capture an image of a work area in which presented information to be input is input to an input terminal, a captured image captured by the one or more monitoring cameras. The extractor is configured to extract the information to be input from the captured image acquired by the acquirer. The encryption processor is configured to encrypt the information to be input extracted by the extractor. The generator is configured to generate a replaced image in which the information to be input is made invisible, the replaced image comprising a partial image that displays information encrypted by the encryption processor at a position of the information to be input in the captured image acquired by the acquirer.
US11463651B2
A video system includes one or more media sources and a media server configured to communicate with a video viewing device through a network. The media server includes memory and a processor configured to perform a plurality of operations. The operations include receiving a video stream from the one or more media sources, where the video stream includes one or more sequences of a key frame followed by one or more secondary frames. The operations also include determining whether throttling is enabled for the video stream, dropping the one or more secondary frames with transmission of the key frame to the video viewing device based on determining that throttling is enabled, and transmitting the key frame and the one or more secondary frames to the video viewing device based on determining that throttling is disabled.
US11463648B1
An imaging device includes a photodiode array with a first and second photodiodes. First and second floating diffusions are configured to receive charge from the first and second photodiodes, respectively. An analog to digital converter (ADC) is configured to receive simultaneously first and second bitline signals from the first and second floating diffusions, respectively. The ADC is configured to generate a reference readout in response to the first and second bitline signals after a reset operation. The ADC next generates a first half of a phase detection autofocus (PDAF) readout in response to the first and second bitline signals after charge is transferred from the first PDAF photodiode to the first floating diffusion. The ADC then generates a full image readout in response to the first and second bitline signals after charge is transferred from the second photodiode to the second floating diffusion.
US11463647B2
An imaging device includes an imaging unit that generates image data on the basis of a first power voltage, an image processing unit that performs image processing on the image data on the basis of a second power voltage, a reference voltage generating unit that generates a first reference voltage on the basis of the first power voltage, and a first flag generating unit that generates a first flag signal for the second power voltage on the basis of a comparison of the second power voltage and the first reference voltage and outputs the first flag signal.
US11463638B2
A streaking correction circuit of the present disclosure includes a correction signal generation section and a correction process section. The correction signal generation section generates a correction signal on the basis of signals of light-shielded pixels of light-shielded portions provided at edge portions of a pixel array section having pixels, each including a light reception section, arranged in a matrix pattern. The correction process section performs a correction process on signals of effective pixels of the pixel array section by using the correction signal generated by the correction signal generation section. Then, the correction signal generation section divides a captured image into a plurality of regions relative to a position of a singular point in the captured image and generates a correction signal for each divided region by using signals of the light-shielded pixels. The correction process section performs the correction process by using the correction signal generated for each divided region.
US11463636B2
In one example, an apparatus comprises: a plurality of photodiodes, one or more charge sensing units, one or more analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), and a controller. The controller is configured to: enable the each photodiode to generate charge in response to a different component of the incident light; transfer the charge from the plurality of photodiodes to the one or more charge sensing units to convert to voltages; receive a selection of one or more quantization processes of a plurality of quantization processes corresponding to a plurality of intensity ranges; based on the selection, control the one or more ADCs to perform the selected one or more quantization processes to quantize the voltages from the one or more charge sensing units to digital values representing components of a pixel of different wavelength ranges; and generate a pixel value based on the digital values.
US11463635B2
Disclosed is an image sensing device and an operating method thereof, and the image sensing device may include a light detection circuit coupled between a low voltage terminal and a first node, a first transmission circuit coupled between the first node and a second node, a storage circuit coupled between the second node and a third node, a first coupling circuit coupled between the third node and a high voltage terminal, a second transmission circuit coupled between the third node and the first node, and a second coupling circuit coupled between the second node and the high voltage terminal.
US11463634B2
An array of pixels for charge domain binning in a CMOS image sensor, to increase the readout sensitivity of such a sensor. The array of pixels comprises at least two pixels in a common substrate. At least one of said pixels is configured or configurable to function as a pixel of a first type with a first, higher, charge collecting capability, for collecting charges generated by radiation impinging on the substrate. At least another one of said pixels is configurable to function as pixel of a second type, with a second, reduced, charge collecting capability, and as a pixel of the first type.
US11463632B2
There is provided a computer implemented method for displaying a video stream of a scene (100) captured by a video capture device on a display of a client device. The method comprising: detecting a new event (112) in the scene, determining a new event area (114) in the scene within which the new event is detected, checking whether a prior event has been detected within the new event area during a predetermined time period preceding the new event, upon no prior event being detected during the predetermined time period, adding a visual indicator (116) to an image frame (103) temporally corresponding to the detection of the new event and to a number of subsequent image frames (103) of the video stream, wherein the visual indicator coincides with the new event area, and wherein the step of adding the visual indicator comprises gradually changing an appearance of the visual indicator throughout the number of subsequent image frames, and displaying the video stream with the added visual indicator on the display of the client device. There is also provided a related client device and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium.
US11463625B2
An electronic appliance, includes: an imaging apparatus; a display apparatus; and a control apparatus, the control apparatus being configured to: extract, from a moving image captured by the imaging apparatus, subjects included in the moving image and information items each on one of the subjects; generate enlarged-view target information for selecting an enlarged-view target from among the subjects, with reference to the information items; select the enlarged-view target from among the subjects, with reference to the enlarged-view target information; and enlarge a region including the enlarged-view target, and cause the display apparatus to display the moving image.
US11463608B2
The present disclosure relates to devices, apparatus and methods of improving the accuracy of an image-based assay. One aspect of the present invention is to sandwich a sample between two plates and add reference marks in the sample areas of the plates, with at least one of the geometric and/optical properties of the reference marks being predetermined and known, and taking images of the sample with the reference marks, and applying a machine learning model in the analysis of the image-based assay.
US11463607B2
A camera module is disclosed. The camera module includes a camera housing, a camera assembly including a lens and an image sensor, at least a portion of the camera assembly being disposed inside the camera housing, and a guide plate connected to the camera assembly and the camera housing. The camera assembly is rotatable with respect to each of a first rotation axis and a second rotation axis, which are substantially perpendicular to an optical axis L of the lens. The guide plate includes a central portion disposed in a peripheral portion of the lens, a first portion and a second portion, which extend from the central portion in a direction of the first rotation axis and are rotatably connected to the camera assembly, and a third portion and a fourth portion, which extend from the central portion in a direction of the second rotation axis and are rotatably connected to the camera housing.
US11463604B2
A disclosed managing apparatus and image forming apparatus management system ensure confidentiality of information in an image forming apparatus while usability is maintained. An image forming apparatus acquires IC card identifying information with an IC card reader. A management server acquires a user ID associated with the acquired IC card identifying information and use limit information concerning use of the image forming apparatus. A process is performed in the image forming apparatus in accordance with the use limit information.
US11463602B2
An image processing method includes an acquisition step of acquiring image data by capturing printed matter, wherein first information and second information, indicating a type of the first information, are embedded in the printed matter as an electronic watermark, an extraction step of extracting the first information and the second information from the image data acquired at the acquisition step, and a processing step of processing the extracted first information by different processing methods in accordance with the extracted second information. Based on that the type of the first information indicated by the second information is a predetermined type, the extracted first information is processed at the processing step, by a predetermined processing method for access to an external device using the extracted first information and display of a web page based on the access.
US11463599B2
A communication apparatus configured not to execute displaying, based on the operation in the connection setting state being started, a screen for receiving an operation for stopping the operation in the connection setting state on a display unit of the communication apparatus.
US11463596B2
According to various embodiments of the present disclosure, it is possible to present on a home screen or an application screen such a display that an appropriate favorite setting for each of the home screen and the application screen is applied to the respective home screen or the respective application screen according to read card information.
US11463595B2
An image forming device includes an image forming unit performing image forming, a notifier playing a voice guidance of a service related to image forming for a user, a display that displays a message to a user, and a controller controlling the image forming unit, the notifier, and the display. The controller allows the notifier to start the voice guidance to perform image forming services. When the service is for the first time to a user, the controller allows the display to transition to the next screen after the voice guidance is played to the end, and on the other hand, when the service is repeated for the second or subsequent times to a user, the controller allows the notifier to stop playing the voice guidance halfway after screen transition to the next screen becomes possible, and then the controller allows the display to transition to the next screen.
US11463594B2
To make it possible for a user to easily perform partial editing for an unsettled file name or the like being displayed on a UI screen of the image processing apparatus. An editing a UI screen that takes a character string selected by a user as a target is displayed.
US11463581B1
Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, computer program products, and systems. Embodiments of the present invention can create an authentication mechanism for communication services utilizing a distributed recording system. Embodiments of the present invention can then, in response to receiving a request to connect with a device, utilize the created authentication mechanism to connect with or prevent connection with the device.
US11463580B2
A system for ring suppression facilitates notification and handling of unwanted calls as desired by a recipient, and in particular without disturbing the recipient. A new social dimension of call presentation logic is now available to callers. A telephony device is configured to receive an incoming call. The incoming call includes a calling line identity (CLI). On the telephony device, individual contacts in an address book are searched for a match to the CLI. If a match is found, a first phone action is activated (such as ringing the phone). If a match is not found in the address book for the incoming CLI, a second phone action is activated (such as not ringing the phone, and displaying the CLI). In other words, a call that is not in the address book of the recipient (B party) is silenced.
US11463579B2
A system and method are disclosed for capturing, tracking, analyzing and automating analog and digital interactions. Embodiments include a system comprising one or more end user systems, one or more entity systems, and a computer operatively coupled to a display device. The computer is configured to monitor one or more communications on first and second communication channels between the end user and entity systems, group the one or more communications on the first and second communication channels by communication subject, and display the grouped communications on the display device.
US11463569B2
A structural component includes a middle frame, a glass cover, and a touch control film. The glass cover and the touch control film are disposed in a stacked manner. The touch control film is disposed on a surface that is of the glass cover and that faces the middle frame, and a side edge of the touch control film and a side edge of the glass cover do not overlap completely. The glass cover is bonded using the first bonding adhesive, and the touch control film is bonded using the second bonding adhesive. The first bonding adhesive is bonded to an edge of the glass cover, and the bonding force of the first bonding adhesive is greater than the bonding force of the second bonding adhesive.
US11463563B2
An electronic device including an indicator is provided. The electronic device includes a first housing structure including a first face oriented in a first direction, and a second face oriented in a second direction opposite the first direction, a second housing structure including a third face oriented in a third direction, and a fourth face oriented in a fourth direction opposite the third direction, a hinge structure rotatably connecting the first housing structure and the second housing structure to each other, the hinge structure configured to provide a folding axis that is a rotating center of the first housing structure and the second housing structure, a flexible display extending from the first face to the third face across the hinge structure, and a hinge case disposed between the first housing structure and the second housing structure to accommodate the hinge structure therein to conceal or protect the hinge structure.
US11463559B1
The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media that generate compressed metric data for digital metrics utilizing a graph-based compression dictionary and time slice compression. For instance, the disclosed systems can utilize a dynamically modifiable graph-based compression dictionary to generate compressed metric label identifiers for metric labels of digital metrics. The graph-based compression dictionary can include nodes and edges corresponding to metric label segments and metric label identifier values, respectively. The disclosed systems can traverse the graph-based compression dictionary using a metric label to determine the corresponding compressed metric label identifier. The disclosed systems can further generate delta compression values for the metric values of the digital metrics. For instance, the disclosed systems can compare metric values within a single time slice (e.g., a time stamp) to generate corresponding delta compression values. In some cases, the disclosed systems further compare the metric values across a time window.
US11463548B2
A telecommunications edge cloud (TEC) element comprising a plurality of TEC hardware components comprising a computing component that includes one or more processors, a storage component that includes a memory, a networking component, with the TEC device being deployed between a client and a packet network, the computing component being configured to manage a computing resource in the computing component, a networking resource in the networking component, and a storage resource in the storage component, allocate the computing resource for a first application of the plurality of different applications, execute the first application using the computing resource, allocate the networking resource for a second application of the plurality of different applications, execute the second application using the networking resource, allocate the storage resource for a third application of the plurality of different applications, execute the third application using the storage resource.
US11463546B1
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example virtual assistants that allow communications with non-human entities. A virtual assistant associated with a non-human entity may communicate directly with a human user or may communicate with a second virtual assistant associated with the user. Example non-human entities include animals, toys, and connected devices. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11463544B1
A cloud infrastructure is configured and deployed for managing services executed on a cloud platform. The cloud infrastructure includes a control datacenter configured to communicate with one or more service datacenters. The service datacenter deploys one or more application programming interfaces (API's) associated with a service. The service datacenter also deploys an administration agent. The control datacenter hosts an engine that receives requests from users to perform administration operations by invoking the administration API's. In this manner, the control datacenter functions as a centralized control mechanism that effectively distributes administration operation requests as they are received from users to service datacenters that can service the requests. The cloud infrastructure provides an auditable, compliant and secure management system for administering services for distributed systems running in the cloud.
US11463541B2
Systems and methods for selecting content based on an event associated with a device identifier are provided. One or more processors can receive a request to serve content. The processors can identify a device identifier associated with the request. The processors can determine, from the device identifier, an event for which to serve content. The processors can determine, from the request, a length of time between a time the request to serve content is received and a time at which the event is scheduled to occur. The processors can select, based on the determined length of time and event parameters associated with the event, content for display and provide the selected content for display at a computing device associated with the device identifier.
US11463534B2
The systems and methods relate to updating a system of record by selectively generating record objects for the system of record according to information generated by parsing the electronic activities according to specific matching rules and/or filtering rules. By selectively generating the record objects in the specific manners described herein, the systems and methods can provide for better determinations about whether to generate new record objects that match the information generated by parsing the electronic activities, or to update an existing record object.
US11463524B2
A mobile Internet-of-Things (IoT) edge device, comprising a reconfigurable processor unit including a substrate; a die stack coupled to the substrate and having a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) die element and a reconfigurable die element capable of serving as storage memory or as configuration memory based on configuration information; and a processor coupled to the substrate and configured to cooperate with the die stack for processing data; and a processor-independent connectivity unit coupled to the reconfigurable processor unit and including an antenna; a radio-frequency chip (RFIC) coupled to the antenna and configured to receive incoming signals and transmit outgoing signals over the antenna; circuitry configured to translate the incoming signals to incoming data or transmit the outgoing data to outgoing signals; and a system interface configured to transmit the incoming data to the reconfigurable processor unit for processing, and configured to receive the outgoing data from the reconfigurable processor unit.
US11463523B2
Various examples are disclosed for performing dynamic chains of action for Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices. In some aspects, IoT event data is received from an IoT device. An IoT dependency graph is identified based on an initial IoT event specified by the IoT dependency graph. An IoT event subsequent to the initial IoT event is identified according to the IoT dependency graph. A command is transmitted to an IoT device to perform the IoT event.
US11463517B2
Systems and methods described herein perform computer vision (CV) model training in a distributed edge network. Regional Multi-access Edge Compute (MEC) clusters are provided with a local copy of a CV model and a local synthetic training data generator. A MEC cluster receives client data requiring computer vision and applies the local copy of the CV model to the client data. The MEC cluster detects an exception to the local copy of the CV model and generates local synthetic training data for the exception. The MEC cluster updates, based on the local synthetic training data, the local copy of the CV model to form an updated local CV model. The MEC cluster sends the local synthetic training data and the updated local CV model to a central network. The central network uses the local synthetic training data to update a master CV model and any other interconnected CV models.
US11463516B2
A system, method, and computer program are provided for distributed application execution using a cluster of mobile devices. In use, a wireless computing device included in a wireless mesh network of wireless computing devices identifies a wireless distributed application deployed to the wireless computing devices. Further, the wireless computing device manages execution of the wireless distributed application across the wireless computing devices.
US11463515B2
An acquisition unit acquires a state of a server including pieces of virtual CPE, and an instructing unit instructs CPE connected to the virtual CPE to control a communication band based on the state of the server. The instructing unit instructs the CPE to limit a communication band to a predetermined value or less based on a CPU usage rate acquired by the acquisition unit exceeding a predetermined threshold value. The instructing unit instructs the CPE to limit a communication band to a predetermined value or less in based on the number of connections of the CPE acquired by the acquisition unit being less than a predetermined threshold value. The acquisition unit acquires presence or absence of CPE not connected to the virtual CPE, and the instructing unit instructs the CPE to block communication based on the presence of CPE not connected to the virtual CPE.
US11463509B2
A computing system comprises a controller configured to detect a reassignment input to reassign all computing resources from a source server farm to a target server farm, a resource capacity reassignment component configured to incrementally reassign all of the computing resources from the source server farm to the target server farm, in a plurality of fixed increments, and a database move component configured to, after reassigning each fixed increment of the computing resources to the target server farm, move a set of databases, corresponding to a previously reassigned fixed increment of computing resources, from the source server farm to the target server farm, for servicing at the target server farm.
US11463508B1
Sharing data in a data exchange across multiple cloud computing platforms and/or cloud computing platform regions is described. An example computer-implemented method can include receiving data sharing information from a data provider for sharing a data set in a data exchange from a first cloud computing entity to a set of second cloud computing entities. In response to receiving the data sharing information, the method may also include creating an account with each of the set of second cloud computing entities. The method may also further include sharing the data set from the first cloud computing entity with the set of second cloud computing entities using at least the corresponding account of that second cloud computing entity.
US11463507B1
This disclosure describes, in part, techniques for generating captions for audio content items. For instance, a system may store a user profile that is associated with audio content items. When a user associated with the user profile requests captions, the system may determine which audio content items have available captions and which audio content items do not have available captions. For the audio content items that do not have available captions, the system may determine priorities for the audio content items. The system may then cause the captions to be generated based on the priorities. When the captions are generated, the system may update statuses of the audio content items to indicate that the captions are available. The system may further store the captions in a database that is accessible to the user.
US11463499B1
Once participants participate in a video conference the state of information during that video conference is retained for those participants. At a future time, when those participants again meet in a video conference the state of information that was retained is retrieved and presented for them again in the subsequent video conference based upon their identifiers. Information such as the whiteboard, the chat window, shared files, camera settings, images, background, video recording, etc. are retrieved and automatically presented in the new video conference. Alternatively, a participant may be asked if the state of information from a previous video conference should be retrieved. When a participant joins a conference, the current participants grant permission or not for the current contents to be viewed by the new participant. When a participant leaves the conference, or when they all leave, a triggering condition saves the state. Participants may join in a cross-platform conference and all content from a session in another platform is retrieved. Virtual reality may also be used.
US11463498B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for persisting state of a streaming application are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving data indicating interaction with third-party content that is displayed with first-party content at a client device. The interaction with the third-party content initiates an application request for a streaming version of an application (“streaming application”). The actions further include generating a representation of the streaming application in response to the interaction with the third-party content at the client device. The actions further include receiving data indicating a user interaction with the representation of the streaming application at the client device. The actions further include generating and storing data indicating a first state of the streaming application at a first time based on the user interaction with the representation of the streaming application.
US11463497B2
Various concepts for media content streaming are described. Some allow for streaming spatial scene content in a spatially unequal manner so that the visible quality for the user is increased, or the processing complexity or used bandwidth at the streaming retrieval site is decreased. Others allow for streaming spatial scene content in a manner enlarging the applicability to further application scenarios.
US11463492B1
A meeting host or moderator can control communications among participants in virtual breakout rooms without requiring the host to join a breakout room as a participant. The host can run conferencing software to instantiate a meeting room and breakout rooms associated with the meeting room. The host can control communications in the breakout rooms, such as by transmitting and/or receiving content through one or more channels established by the conferencing software. The host can transmit and/or receive content such as a real time audio stream, a transcription of the audio stream, a screen or window being shared, chat messages, and the like, without joining the breakout room.
US11463491B2
Systems and methods for facilitating intercom communication for one or more quick-service restaurant drive-throughs are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: capture sound from a customer placing an order; generate order information signals that represent the captured sound; encode signals to form order data packets; transmit the order data packets to a base station through a single pair of wires that is also used to provide power; decode information from the order data packets; and generate order sound based on the decoded information, such that the generated order sound is audible to a staff member of the quick service restaurant through a headset.
US11463481B2
This disclosure relates to method and system for certificate-less security management of interconnected hybrid resources. The method includes selecting at least one hybrid resource from a plurality of hybrid resources in network to install pre-calculated security configuration. The method further includes receiving a One Time Password (OTP) valid for pre-configured time period, in response to an identity generation request for a hybrid resource; installing security data payload including the OTP and the pre-calculated security configuration, in the hybrid resource; receiving an identity issuance request from the hybrid resource through a secure channel upon installation of security data payload in the hybrid resource; assigning unique identity to the hybrid resource upon successful validation of the OTP received in identity issuance request; and generating, upon assignment, metadata corresponding to the hybrid resource for a security association map (SAM) associated with the hybrid resource.
US11463478B2
A method provides for collecting data source images from multiple repositories. Application dependencies are discovered from the data source images. Status results are determined based on vulnerability and compliance scanning of all dependent sources for each data source image. The status results are aggregated across all data source images for each of the multiple repositories. Remediations are determined for violations indicated by the aggregated status results. Each of the remediations is aggregated and ordered to define a single global remediation solution.
US11463471B2
The disclosure relates to methods for establishing a secure communication link between a mobile station and a secondary base station in a mobile communication system. The disclosure is also providing mobile communication system for performing these methods, and computer readable media the instructions of which cause the mobile communication system to perform the methods described herein. Specifically, the disclosure suggests that in response to the detected or signaled potential security breach, the master base station increments a freshness counter for re-initializing the communication between the mobile station and the secondary base station; and the mobile station and the secondary base station re-initialize the communication there between. The re-initialization is performed under the control of the master base station and further includes deriving a same security key based on said incremented freshness counter, and establishing the secure communication link utilizing the same, derived security key.
US11463462B2
The present concepts relate to identifying entities based on their behavior using machine learning models. Where an entity may be a bot or a human, the entity's requests sent to a website are used to generate a graph. The graph may be used to create an image, such that the image reflects the entity's browsing behavior. A machine learning model, which has been trained using a first training set of images that correspond to bots and a second training set of images that correspond to humans, can determine whether the entity is a bot or a human by performing an image classification.
US11463459B2
An intrusion detection system that includes a processor configured to receive HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) data and to convert the HTTP data into a data tree object that links field values from the HTTP data. The processor is further configured to identify a field value from the data object tree and to determine a set of feature values for the field value corresponding with input features for the neural network model. The processor is further configured to apply the determined set of feature values to the neural network model to generate an attack vector array. The attack vector array includes flag bits that each correspond with an attack type. The processor is further configured to trigger an event in response to determining that at least one flag bit is set.
US11463458B2
A server includes a service processor hosted by a baseboard management controller (BMC) and independent of a CPU of the server. The service processor performs a set of monitoring tasks including performing a deep packet analysis on at least a subset of incoming packets. The deep packet analysis includes maintaining state information about the packets, examining the state information to identify an order in which the packets arrived, reassembling the packets into a new arrival sequence that is different from the order in which the packets arrived, matching the new arrival sequence to attack patterns stored in an attack pattern database, and upon the new arrival sequence matching an attack pattern, adding source Internet Protocol (IP) addresses associated with the packets to a blacklist.
US11463456B2
An incident manager application (IM) for responding to data security incidents in enterprise networks is disclosed. An IM tracks the incidents in an enterprise network by storing incident objects and incident artifact (IA) metadata created for the incidents, where the incident objects and IAs include information concerning the incidents. Incident response team (IRT) personnel of the enterprise networks can define action conditions within the IM that are associated with the incident objects. When the information within the incident objects and/or IAs meets the defined action conditions, the IM includes the objects that cause the action conditions to be satisfied in messages. Devices such as user account databases and configuration servers within the enterprise network can then download the messages and execute actions that reference the objects extracted from the downloaded messages to implement a response to the incidents.
US11463452B2
A method of propagating data packets in a network of nodes is disclosed. The method, implemented at one of the nodes, includes: collecting a set of first data packets during a first time period, the set including at least one data packet received from one or more first nodes in the network; obtaining a plurality of encoded data packets, each one of the plurality of encoded data packets being generated by combining two or more first data packets of the set using network coding; determining a mapping of the plurality of encoded data packets and the first data packets of the set to one or more neighbouring nodes connected to the node; and transmitting the plurality of encoded data packets and the first data packets of the set to the one or more neighbouring nodes according to the determined mapping.
US11463449B2
Techniques for authentication for key access are described. In the described techniques, interaction between a client device and an assistant device is utilized to authenticate the client device for access to protected functionality and/or content. For instance, proximity between the client device and the assistant device, and physical authentication of a user with the assistant device, are leveraged for authenticating the client device for access to the protected functionality and/or content.
US11463448B2
The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for access control for object instances. A method includes receiving, at a cloud application, a user request associated with a user. The user request corresponds to an instance of a first application artifact type. Role assignments for the user are retrieved from a cloud platform and a determination is made that the role assignments grant permission to the first application artifact type to the user. A determination is made that a first instance-based access policy exists for the first application artifact type. A determination is made regarding whether the first instance-based access policy grants permission for the user to access the instance. The user request is serviced in response to determining that the first instance-based access policy grants permission for the user to access the instance. The use request is denied in response to determining that the first instance-based access policy does not grant permission for the user to access the instance.
US11463444B2
A secure cloud-based privileged access management (CBPAM) service manages on-premise resources. While enrolling an on-premise authentication domain admin group, a secured cloud-based shadow administrating group (SCBSAG) is created; a SCBSAG security identification includes at least part of the enrollee's security identification. The SCBSAG belongs to a clean CBPAM authentication domain which may be secured by defense in depth controls such as time limits on authentication or authorization, password avoidance, least privilege, one-way syncing, and one-way trust. Management via the configured SCBSAG may be fostered by emptying the on-premise admin group, although a break glass account may be kept. CBPAM services direct administrative actions toward on-premise resources through SCBSAGs for cloud tenants, providing secure management control as a service, with broader geographic scope and lower maintenance burdens and costs than privileged access management approaches that are not cloud-based.
US11463437B2
A method can include detecting an activation of a networked device. The method can further include obtaining a hazard score corresponding to a degree of hazard associated with the networked device. The method can further include determining an activation confidence score corresponding to the activation of the networked device. The method can further include determining, based at least in part on the hazard score and the activation confidence score, an adjusted activation confidence score. The method can further include determining that the adjusted activation confidence score exceeds a threshold. The method can further include initiating a deactivation of the networked device in response to the determining that the adjusted confidence score exceeds the threshold.
US11463432B2
A method by a network device for assigning data types to data values included in application programming interface (API) responses sent by an API server to one or more API clients via an API. The method includes obtaining a first set of API responses from an endpoint of the API, generating a profile for the endpoint of the API based on analyzing the first set of API responses, where the profile of the endpoint indicates an expected structure of API responses and expected data types associated with data fields included in API responses, obtaining a second set of API responses, and using the profile of the endpoint of the API to assign data types to data values included in API responses in the second set of API responses.
US11463430B2
Techniques are provided for authenticating a user using shared secret updates. One method comprises, in response to a first authentication of a client using a given shared secret, updating, by the server, the given shared secret using information from the first authentication as part of a secret update protocol to generate an updated shared secret; and evaluating a second authentication using the updated shared secret. An anomaly may be detected when the client attempts the second authentication using a shared secret and the server determines that the shared secret was previously used for an authentication. The server may detect a breach of shared secrets of multiple users by monitoring a number of the detected anomalies across a user population and initiate a predefined recovery flow depending upon a number of impacted users.
US11463426B1
Various embodiments of the present technology use a combination of static and rotating access credentials to access target devices. Some embodiments start with a multi-factor authentication (MFA) token that can be used to log into the platform head-end. If approved, a landing page requesting login credentials can be presented to the user. The user can provide a username and password via landing page and select a PAM or CASB target. The system then issues a secondary access credential (e.g., a pin/token) that is unknown to the user and is placed into a vault. A dynamic credential can be dynamically generated at each request. The target device can use the static access credential from the vault and the dynamic access credential for access to the device. As such, even if the vault is comprised, the target device would be inaccessible without the dynamic token which constantly changing.
US11463411B1
A method in a virtual private network (VPN) environment, the method including receiving, at a first processor from a second processor, a connection request for obtaining VPN services; determining, by the first processor, custom headers including a timing header, an authorization header, a digest header, and a signature header; transmitting, by the first processor to the second processor, a response including the custom headers and a payload indicating a VPN server for providing the VPN services; and transmitting, by the second processor to the VPN server, a request for obtaining the VPN services based at least in part on authenticating the custom headers. Various other aspects are contemplated.
US11463395B1
A method is provided comprising a notification platform computer transmitting a first message to a first end user device requesting selection by the device of a first notification time at which to receive at least one notification. The method also comprises the computer transmitting a second message to a second end user device requesting selection by the second device of a second notification time at which to receive at least one notification. The method comprises the computer receiving a first response to the first message from the first device, the first response advising of a first selection of the first time. The computer receives a second response to the second message from the second device advising of a second selection of a second notification time, the second time differing from the first time.
US11463394B2
A server includes a processor and a memory storing a multiple channel message thread module with instructions executed by the processor to identify when participants at client devices are viewing a common message thread. An alternate channel communication prompt is supplied to the client devices. An alternate channel communication is delivered to the client devices in response to activation of the alternate channel communication prompt by at least one participant.
US11463387B1
Methods and apparatuses are described for capturing and utilizing context data in virtual assistant communication sessions. A chat-based communication session is established between a virtual assistant application and a remote device. An event manager captures a first data event of the virtual assistant application. A parent software application receives the first data event and selects one or more session context data elements using a callback function of the first data event. The event manager captures a second data event of the parent software application comprising the session context data elements. The virtual assistant receives the second data event and inserts one or more messages comprising the session context data elements from the second data event into the chat-based communication session.
US11463385B2
Some embodiments of the invention provide a forwarding element that can be configured through in-band data-plane messages from a remote controller that is a physically separate machine from the forwarding element. The forwarding element of some embodiments has data plane circuits that include several configurable message-processing stages, several storage queues, and a data-plane configurator. A set of one or more message-processing stages of the data plane are configured (1) to process configuration messages received by the data plane from the remote controller and (2) to store the configuration messages in a set of one or more storage queues. The data-plane configurator receives the configuration messages stored in the set of storage queues and configures one or more of the configurable message-processing stages based on configuration data in the configuration messages.
US11463383B2
Presented herein are techniques for redacting mirrored network packets prior to providing the mirrored packets to an intended recipient application, such as a third-party analysis application. More specifically, a multi-destination packet redaction device obtains mirrored network traffic that comprises one or more mirrored network packets. The multi-destination packet redaction device filters the mirrored network traffic to determine an intended recipient application of the one or more mirrored network packets and applies a redaction process to redact one or more portions of at least one of the one or more mirrored network packets. The redaction process is customized based on one or more attributes of the intended recipient application.
US11463370B2
Various example embodiments for supporting scalable deterministic services in packet networks are presented. Various example embodiments for supporting scalable deterministic services in packet networks may be configured to support delay guarantees (e.g., finite end-to-end delay bounds) for a class of traffic flows referred to as guaranteed-delay (GD) traffic flows. Various example embodiments for supporting scalable deterministic services in packet networks may be configured to support delay guarantees for GD traffic flows of a network based on a queuing arrangement that is based on network outputs of the network, a packet scheduling method that is configured to support scheduling of packets of the GD traffic flows, and a service rate allocation rule configured to support delay guarantees for the GD traffic flows.
US11463366B1
This disclosure is directed to network optimization in a complex joint network for increasing the network utility of the complex joint network. A computing device in the complex joint network may receive a data flow via a complex joint network. The computing device may determine, based on a network template, a mission utility associated with the data flow and a traffic class associated with the data flow. The computing device may control one or more quality of service decisions based at least in part on the mission utility associated with the data flow and the traffic class associated with the data flow.
US11463361B2
Examples disclosed herein relate to a system comprising a request transmitter to transmit a plurality of transaction requests from a first daemon to a central database, wherein the first daemon belongs to a plurality of daemons using the central database to communicate with each other to perform networking related functions. The system may include a baseline determiner to determine a baseline response time for receiving a response to the plurality of transaction requests, a transaction request transmitter to transmit a transaction request, belonging to the plurality of daemons, to the central database and a transaction requester determiner to determine that the central database is processing more requests that it can handle. The system may include a delay time generator to generate a delay time for a subsequent transaction request to the central database and a subsequent request transmitter to transmit the subsequent transaction request to central database.
US11463358B2
A device may receive, from a first device, a port control protocol (PCP) request that includes a customer side translator (CLAT) prefix and one or more private internet protocol version X (IPvX) addresses. The PCP request may be received via an internet protocol version Y (IPvY) network. The device may store the CLAT prefix and the one or more private IPvX addresses using a data structure. The device may receive a packet that includes a private IPvX of the one or more private IPvX addresses and a private IPvY address that includes the CLAT prefix and a second instance of the private IPvX address. The device may use an application layer gateway (ALG). The device may translate the private IPvX address to a public IPvX address using the CLAT prefix. The device may provide the packet that includes the public IPvX address to a second device that supports IPvX.
US11463356B2
A packet forwarding network may include spine and leaf switches that forward network traffic between end hosts. The packet forwarding network may be implemented on multiple network racks in a rack-based system. A controller may control the underlying spine and leaf switches to form on-premise virtual private cloud (VPC) resources. In particular, the controller may form enterprise VPC (EVPC) tenants, each having a virtual router that performs routing between different segments within the corresponding EVPC tenant. The different segments may separately include web, application, and database servers, as end hosts. The controller may form a system VPC tenant having a virtual system router that performs routing between different EVPC tenants. A segment in an internal VPC tenant formed by the controller and/or an external VPC tenant formed by the controller may provide external network access for one or more of the EVPC tenants.
US11463352B1
A technique is described for quantifying the effect of a perturbation on a property of a network link or flow, and to add a new flow, reroute an existing flow, or to reshape a flow, based on a quantitative estimation of the perturbation.
US11463346B2
A data processing method, a device, and a system, for performing different processing on data packets of varying degrees of importance in a same service flow, where the data processing method includes: A first device receiving a first data packet from a third device, where the first data packet carries transmission requirement indication information of the first data packet, where the first device is any intermediate device between a source device and a target device that correspond to the first data packet, and where the third device is a previous-hop device adjacent to the first device on a transmission path from the source device to the target device; the first device determining, based on the transmission requirement indication information of the first data packet, a processing policy corresponding to the first data packet; and the first device processing the first data packet according to the processing policy.
US11463343B2
Systems and methods of software-defined wide area network (SDWAN) device routing are provided using a cloud-based overlay routing service that utilizes, a cloud-BGP service (CBS), and a path computation module (PCM), and overlay agents (OAs) implemented on the tenant side. The Oas, CBS, and PCM may interact with each other, e.g., publish/update local states, route prefixes, etc. to create/maintain routing in the SDWAN.
US11463339B2
A first network device is configured to: transmit data packets and poll messages to a second network device; and receive, in response to each poll message, at least one status message from the second network device. The at least one status message indicates which of the data packets sent before that poll message have been correctly received at the second network device and/or have been lost. The first network device is configured to adapt a rate of transmitting the poll messages based on a set of parameters. Further, a second network device is configured to: receive data packets from a first network device; and transmit at least one unsolicited status message to the first network device, in case of certain conditions.
US11463335B2
A network analysis and management system includes a processor coupled to a communications interface and a non-transitory memory. The processor is configured to read instructions from the non-transitory memory to cause the system to perform operations comprising receiving log data associated with communication between a first user device and a network using a first protocol stack including a plurality of layers. A plurality of network events are generated based on the log data. Each network event is associated with a respective log data entry of the log data and a respective layer of the plurality of layers. First network analysis information is generated by correlating first and second network events using a correlation configuration associated with a network management task. A network management message is generated using the first network analysis information, and transmitted to one of the first user device and the network for performing the network management task.
US11463327B2
Provided are a commerce characteristic data reporting method and device, network slice arrangement method and device, storage medium, the method comprising: receiving software commerce characteristic data of a virtual network function (VNF) sent by a virtual net-work function manager (VNFM), and receiving resource commerce characteristic data of the VNF sent by a virtual infrastructure manager (VIM); obtaining commerce characteristic data of the VNF according to the software commerce characteristic data and resource commerce characteristic data; and reporting the commerce characteristic data of the VNF to a slice arrangement system, wherein the commerce characteristic data of the VNF is used in the slice arrangement system to arrange network slices.
US11463321B2
A method and apparatus for creating a custom service in a communication network are disclosed. For example, the method implemented via a processor determines that the custom service does not exist, receives one or more desired functions for the custom service, creates the custom service having the one or more desired functions and modifies one or more network elements within the communication network to perform the one or more desired functions to deploy the custom service.
US11463314B2
Techniques are disclosed for automatically inferring software-defined network policies from the observed workload in a computing environment. The disclosed techniques include monitoring network traffic flow originating from network interfaces corresponding to containers that execute components of an application, recording details of a new network connection or a change in the existing network connection, obtaining information concerning the components of the application, identifying metadata for a component involved in the new network connection or the change in an existing network connection based on a comparison of the details of the new network connection or a change in the existing network connection and the information concerning the components of the application, generating a network policy for the component using at least the metadata for the component, and integrating the network policy for the component into a deployment package for the application.
US11463310B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for management and monitoring of a blockchain network. An embodiment operates by configuring a node within a blockchain network to determine metadata about the blockchain network, wherein the blockchain network maintains a blockchain. The metadata is generated at the node, and provided to a solution manager. Using such a solution manager, it is possible to monitor, alert, and even react to changing conditions within the blockchain network.
US11463309B1
Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for receiving, by an IEE and from a target service, user action metadata and target information, the user action metadata representing an action of a user to the target service, determining that an integration recommendation is to be issued to the source service at least partially in response to the user action metadata, the integration recommendation recommending a service integration of the target service with the source service; and automatically executing, by the IEE, integration of the target service with the source service by calling an extension framework to generate an extension, the extension being installed in the source service, and calling a configuration framework to configure the source service having the extension installed therein, wherein, in response to the service integration, a user interface of the source service is populated with one or more fields of a user interface of the target service.
US11463308B2
Method and a system for routing data packets to/from a subnet of a home network to a visited network
A method and a system for enabling routing of traffic to/from a roaming host node roaming from a subnet of a home network to a visited network, the roaming host node assigned an IP address in the home network. The method comprises configuring, in a router of the visited network to which the roaming host node is connected, a subnet by assigning an IP address range to the subnet, the assigned IP address range being the same IP address range of the subnet of the home network; creating/configuring a tunnel between a router of the home network and the router of the visited network; and creating/configuring, in the router of the home network, a static route to route traffic destined to the roaming host node the traffic is routed through the tunnel, the IP address of the roaming host node being maintained unchanged in the subnet of the visited network.
US11463302B2
Provided is an information communication device which allows an appropriate transfer of communication data even in case of failure. This device includes: a communication unit which receives data transmitted from a device via a communication network; and a control unit which causes the communication unit to transmit data containing the data received to a first information processing device. If transmission of the data to the first information processing device fails, the information communication device identifies a second information processing device to which the data transmission process is assigned, based on information relating to the arrangement of each of one or more second information processing devices which information is relating to the second information processing devices, and information representing a priority level determined according to statistical information relating to the communication in each of the second information processing devices, and transfers the transmission data to the identified second information processing device.
US11463300B2
The disclosure provides an approach for remediating false positives for a network security monitoring component. Embodiments include receiving an alert related to network security for a virtual computing instance (VCI). Embodiments include collecting, in response to receiving the alert, context information from the VCI. Embodiments include providing a notification to a management plane based on the alert and the context information. Embodiments include receiving, from the management plane, in response to the notification, an indication of whether the alert is a false positive. Embodiments include training a model based on the alert, the context information, and the indication to determine whether a given alert is a false positive.
US11463298B2
A mediating apparatus, a device management system, a communication control method, and a non-transitory recording medium. The mediating apparatus displays on a display, a screen presenting communication connection status of the communication of the one or more devices, receives selection of a device to be registered in the mediating apparatus, among the one or more devices displayed on the screen presenting the communication connection status, receives a registration request to register the device in the mediating apparatus, and in response to the registration request, connect communication between the mediating apparatus and the device, after disconnection of communication between the remote management system and the device.
US11463290B2
A demodulation method and apparatus is disclosed that is for use on a modulated communication signal. The method includes receiving the modulated signal including a first set of complex symbols and at least one further set of complex symbols; applying a Forward Error Correction (FEC) decoding technique; applying a first phase estimation technique to the first set of symbols; applying a second phase estimation technique to the further set of symbols to determine phase information for the modulation signal using a first phase estimation means; and repeating in part using at least one further phase estimation means to identify the presence of phase rotation. Beneficially the method enables the use of large block sizes in the FEC technique.
US11463286B2
Examples described herein include systems and methods which include wireless devices and systems with examples of full duplex compensation with a self-interference noise calculator. The self-interference noise calculator may be coupled to antennas of a wireless device and configured to generate adjusted signals that compensate self-interference. The self-interference noise calculator may include a network of processing elements configured to combine transmission signals into sets of intermediate results. Each set of intermediate results may be summed in the self-interference noise calculator to generate a corresponding adjusted signal. The adjusted signal is received by a corresponding wireless receiver to compensate for the self-interference noise generated by a wireless transmitter transmitting on the same frequency band as the wireless receiver is receiving.
US11463285B2
A signal analysis apparatus includes a frequency conversion unit 10 that includes a first local oscillator 11 which outputs a first local oscillation signal SLO1 of a frequency fLO1, a first mixer 12 which generates a first spurious signal of a frequency fSP1, a first BPF 13 of a passed center frequency f0, a second local oscillator 14 which outputs a second local oscillation signal SLO2 of a frequency fLO2, and a second BPF 16 of a passed bandwidth W, and that performs frequency conversion of a measured signal SRF of a frequency fRF (center frequency fc), in which the frequency fLO1 and the frequency fLO2 are shifted using a frequency shift amount Δf that does not establish a relationship of −W/2≤|fSP1−f0±fIF2−Δf|−fIF2≤+W/2.
US11463283B1
This disclosure provides a split-path equalizer and a clock recovery circuit. More particularly, clock recovery operation is enhanced, particularly at high-signaling rates, by separately equalizing each of a data path and an edge path. In specific embodiments, the data path is equalized in a manner that maximizes signal-to-noise ratio and the edge path is equalized in a manner that emphasizes symmetric edge response for a single unit interval and zero edge response for other unit intervals (e.g., irrespective of peak voltage margin). Such equalization tightens edge grouping and thus enhances clock recovery, while at the same time optimizing data-path sampling. Techniques are also disclosed for addressing split-path equalization-induced skew.
US11463281B2
Methods and apparatus are disclosed that enable information about devices connected behind a gateway, such as a home gateway, to be made available to and used by other entities, such as servers and routers, on a communications network.
US11463271B1
Certain aspects of the disclosure are directed to communication bridging among disparate platforms in a remote communications environment involving first and second chat rooms. According to a specific example, a communications system is configured to provide remote communications services including a communication bridging service and another type of data communications services, in the remote communications environment. In certain embodiments the system may provide or generate connectivity data, such as a uniform resource locator (URL), to facilitate formation of the communication bridge, and may identify chat room protocols associated with the first and second chat rooms. The system is further configured to translate chat messages using the specifications for the first and second chat room protocols, and transmit chat messages between the first chat room and the second chat room.
US11463269B2
The techniques describe example network systems providing core-facing designated forwarder (DF) election to forward multicast traffic into an EVPN of a core network. For example, a first PE device of a plurality of PE devices participating in an EVPN comprises one or more processors operably coupled to a memory, wherein the one or more processors are configured to: determine that a first multicast traffic flow has started for the first PE device; in response, send a source-active (SA) route to indicate the first multicast traffic flow has started for the first PE device; receive, from a second PE device, a second SA route that indicates that a second multicast traffic flow has started for the second PE device; and perform an election of a core-facing DF from among the first PE device and second PE device, wherein the core-facing DF is configured to forward the multicast traffic into the EVPN.
US11463264B2
An information management method and system stores signatures (e.g., hashes or cryptographically unique IDs) corresponding to the individual data blocks of files or other data objects. The method and system may compare signatures for a file against a database of signatures for other stored files. If there are a threshold amount of matching signatures, the system can identify a relationship between the files, such as to identify potential security threats in the information management system.
US11463262B2
Various embodiments are generally directed to providing authentication and confidentiality mechanisms for message communication over an in-vehicle network. For example, authentication data associated with a communicating node may be transmitted over the network by encoding different predefined voltage levels on top of the message bits of the message being communicated. Different voltage levels may represent different encodings, such as a bit-pair or any bit combination of the authentication data. In a further example, messaging confidentiality between at least two communicating nodes may be achieved by pseudo-randomly flipping, or scrambling, the dominant and recessive voltages of the entire message frame at the analog level based on a pseudo-random control bit sequence.
US11463259B2
Disclosed is a system for managing trust. The system comprises at least one wearable device, at least one terminal device and a server arrangement. The server arrangement is configured to determine occurrence of a first type of event between a wearable device and another wearable device or a second type of event between the wearable device and a terminal device; receive a device ID and a class of each of the at least one wearable device and the at least one terminal device; receive a rating and process the rating to generate updated activity information for each of the wearable device, and the other wearable device or the terminal device; update a profile corresponding to each of the at least one wearable device or the at least one terminal device with the updated activity information and allocate an incentive for the profile based on the updated activity information.
US11463249B2
Embodiments are disclosed for fairness in gaming. The techniques include generating a public-private key pair for a bet with a gaming application. The techniques further include encrypting the bet using the generated public-private key pair. Additionally, the techniques include providing the encrypted bet to the gaming application. The techniques also include providing a private key of the public-private key pair in response to a notice from the gaming application indicating whether the bet is won.
US11463247B2
Generator of physically unclonable cryptographic keys (PUF) has two adjustable speed ring oscillators (GPRS, GPRS′), which outputs (o-GPRS, o-GPRS′) are connected to inputs (i1-DF, i2-DF) of a phase detector (DF), which output (o-DF) is connected to control inputs of the adjustable speed ring oscillators (s-GPRS, s-GPRS′) through a control system (US) and is also connected to a output (o-PUF) of the generator of physically unclonable cryptographic keys (PUF) through a sample and compare circuit (URP). Generator has a initializing input (i-UCH) connected to both initializing inputs of the adjustable speed ring oscillators (i-GPRS, GPRS′) and to the first input of the sample and compare circuit (i-URP), which second input (z-URP) is connected to the output (o-GPRS′) of one of adjustable speed ring oscillators (GPRS′).
US11463218B2
Disclosed are a frame transmission method and a communication device performing the same. The communication device transmits a null data packet (NDP)-announcement (NDP-A) including information on a plurality of communication devices participating in interference alignment and transmits an NDP including a common signal field and a common training field commonly applied to the plurality of communication devices.
US11463209B2
A wireless communication network serves User Equipment (UEs) over Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) layers. A primary access node wirelessly serves the UEs over a primary amount of MIMO layers in a primary radio channel having a primary channel size. A secondary access node wirelessly serves the UEs over a secondary amount of MIMO layers in a secondary radio channel having a secondary channel size. The primary access node selects a new primary channel size and a new secondary channel size based on the primary amount of MIMO layers and the secondary amount of MIMO layers. The primary access node wirelessly serves the UEs over the primary amount of MIMO layers in the primary radio channel having the new primary channel size. The secondary access node wirelessly serves the UEs over the secondary amount of MIMO layers in the secondary radio channel having the new secondary channel size.
US11463205B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine a plurality of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback for a plurality of sidelink communications. The UE may identify at least a subset of HARQ feedback from the plurality of HARQ feedback based at least in part on one or more parameters. The UE may transmit, on a sidelink, the at least the subset of HARQ feedback in a HARQ feedback occasion. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11463204B2
In an exemplary embodiment, a method performed by a first User equipment (UE) in a wireless system is provided. The method comprises transmitting, to a second UE, a sidelink data through a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH), identifying whether a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information in response to the PSSCH is received through a physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) from the second UE, generating HARQ-ACK report information based on the identified result related to the HARQ-ACK information and transmitting, to a base station (BS), the HARQ-ACK report information through a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) in a first slot.
US11463203B2
Embodiments described herein provide apparatus and methods for performing HARQ operations using parallel HARQ threads, where each new transmission of a MPDU/A-MPDU/PSDU triggers the activation of a HARQ thread. Each HARQ thread contains one or more HARQ coding words or coding units. A HARQ thread index is setup by a transmission opportunity (TXOP) holder for a corresponding PSDU and is used to identify HARQ threads. Multiple HARQ threads can be aggregated into one PPDU for transmission (or retransmission). The maximum number of HARQ threads can be negotiated between AP and non-AP STAs based on buffer requirements, for example. A HARQ thread can end when all MPDUs associated with the HARQ thread have been decoded or other predetermined conditions are met.
US11463199B2
A method performed by a user equipment (UE) wirelessly connected to a wireless communication network for facilitating transmission of a real-time media flow from a sender towards the UE is described. The method includes sending a request to the network, requesting a packet loss prediction and a throughput prediction for transmission of a real-time media flow from the network towards the UE. The method also includes receiving, from the network, information of a predicted UE throughput and a predicted UE packet loss predicted by the network in response to the sent request. In some embodiments, the method also includes sending the received information to a sender of the real-time media flow to the UE.
US11463197B2
A method for operating a communication device in a wireless communication system, according to the present embodiment, comprises the steps of: determining first information related to an aggregation level for a PDCCH and second information related to a mother code size for a polar code, the aggregation level being related to a first level to a fifth level, the mother code size being related to a first size to a third size, and the second information being determined according to the first information; determining whether the first information is determined to be the third level; and generating a CRC block comprising a masking sequence of a first type, when the first information is considered to be determined to be the third level.
US11463188B2
User equipment associated with a legacy network may utilize a bottom-to-top search technique to identify relevant control channel samples. Generating a control channel that is configured for the bottom-to-top search technique may lead to poor performance in a single-carrier waveform, which may be disadvantageous as networks move toward New Radio. In some aspects, described herein, a base station generates a control channel that is configured to minimize gaps in the control channel, and a user equipment performs a top-to-bottom search technique to identify relevant control channel samples. By using the top-to-bottom search technique, degradation of single-carrier waveforms is reduced and efficiency is improved.
US11463183B2
A signal analysis apparatus includes a first frequency conversion unit 10 that generates an intermediate frequency signal SIF2 and a second spurious signal SSP2 from a measured signal SRF of a frequency fRF (center frequency fc), and a second frequency conversion unit 25 that converts the intermediate frequency signal SIF2 and the second spurious signal SSP2 into an intermediate frequency signal SIF2′ of a frequency fIF2′ and a second spurious signal SSP2′ of a frequency fSP2′ by performing frequency shift of the intermediate frequency signal SIF2 and the second spurious signal SSP2 by a frequency shift amount Δf, in which the frequency shift amount Δf is a value that does not establish a relationship of −W/2≤fSP2′−fIF2′≤+W/2.
US11463175B2
An example system includes a first network device having first circuitry. The first network device is configured to perform operations including receiving data to be transmitted to a second network device over an optical communications network, and transmitting first information and second information to the second device. The first information is indicative of the data, and is transmitted using a first communications link of the optical communications network and using a first subset of optical subcarriers. The second information is indicative of the data, and is transmitted using a second communications link of the optical communications network and using a second subset of optical subcarriers. The first subset of optical subcarriers is different from the second subset of optical subcarriers.
US11463162B2
A scalable signal processing system is disclosed that processes digitized spectrum received from a constellation of satellites (or other sources), extracting multiple digital signals from multiple sources through multiple acquisition sites that is virtualized with high availability. A system of one or more antennas can receive a range of frequencies of raw spectrum covering multiple visible orbit planes, where a single antenna can receive signals from multiple satellite concurrently. This can be particularly useful when establishing a constellation satellites, where a number of satellites can be grouped together within an antenna's field of view. A group of digitizers receive the signals from the antennas and creates raw samples to form a spectrum sample pool. The spectrum sample pool is stored in a raw frame archive, where the digitizers and raw frame archive can be co-located and can also be co-located with one or more of the antennas.
US11463158B2
Systems and methods for controlling satellites are provided. In one example embodiment, a computing system can obtain a request for image data. The request can be associated with a priority for acquiring the image data. The computing system can determine an availability of a plurality of satellites to acquire the image data based at least in part on the request. The computing system can select from among a plurality of communication pathways to transmit an image acquisition command to a satellite based at least in part on the request priority. The plurality of communication pathways can include a communication pathway via which the image acquisition command is indirectly communicated to the satellite via a geostationary satellite. The computing system can send the image acquisition command to the selected satellite via the selected communication pathway. Data from the satellite can be relayed to ground-based stations via one or more relay satellites.
US11463149B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods for transmitting an uplink signal and a downlink signal. A method for transmitting an uplink signal comprises detecting whether there is a beam failure; if there is a beam failure, determining at least one of whether there is a candidate downlink transmission beam(s) or candidate downlink transmission beam information; and transmitting a beam failure recovery request message to a base station, the beam failure recovery request message being used for informing the base station of at least one of whether there is a candidate downlink transmission beam(s) or candidate downlink transmission beam information. A method for transmitting a downlink signal comprises detecting a beam failure recovery request message, determining at least one of whether there is a candidate downlink transmission beam(s) or candidate downlink transmission beam information in the UE; and transmitting a feedback message corresponding to the beam failure recovery request message.
US11463146B2
A method for selecting one or more TX beams to identify in a beam report. The method includes a UE obtaining i) a first interference value, 1a, associated with a first antenna arrangement and ii) a second interference value, 1b, associated with a second antenna arrangement. The method also includes the UE obtaining i) a power value, P1a, associated with the first antenna arrangement and with a first TRP TX beam and ii) a power value, P1b, associated with the second antenna arrangement and with the first TRP TX beam. The method further includes the UE determining a first final power value, Pn1, based on 1a and 1b and based on at least one of P1a, and P1b. The method also includes the UE using Pn1 to determine whether or not to include in the beam report an identifier for identifying the first TRP TX beam.
US11463138B2
Wireless communications systems and methods related to indicating antenna configuration information and neural network information are disclosed. Neural network information may be selected for an encoder side based on an antenna configuration of a first device housing the encoder. This information may be transmitted with the antenna configuration information to a second device, which may jointly train the neural network with the first device. The first device may further transmit one or more weights after the training, which are stored with the antenna configuration information at the second device as well. When a third device with similar antenna configuration as the first device establishes communication with the second device, the second device may transmit neural network information, as well as weights, to the third device. The third device may use this information, instead of default information, to speed up neural network initialization and training.
US11463132B2
A method relating to quasi co-location functionality for wireless communication includes: a radio access network device sending signaling to a terminal device, where the signaling includes a quasi co-location type and at least one set of configuration parameters associated with the quasi co-location type, and the terminal device applying one set of configuration parameters associated with the first quasi co-location type, to learn of at least two quasi co-located antenna ports effective when at least one channel large-scale characteristic parameter associated with the first quasi co-location type is applied.
US11463121B2
A vehicle includes: a location identification device to identify a location of the vehicle; a first antenna including an antenna body, a first feeding line connected to the antenna body, and a second feeding line including a phase delay device connected to the antenna body; a first wireless transceiver connected to the first antenna to provide a communication signal to the first antenna through the first feeding line or the second feeding line; and a controller. The controller is configured to control the first wireless transceiver to provide a communication signal to the first antenna through the first feeding line in a first communication mode, control the first wireless transceiver to provide a communication signal to the first antenna through the first feeding line and the second feeding line in a second communication mode, and switch to the second communication mode if the vehicle approaches a toll booth while operating in the first communication mode.
US11463117B2
A radio frequency module includes: a power amplifier; an inductor connected between the power amplifier and a power-supply terminal to supply a power-supply voltage to the power amplifier; a capacitor connected between a ground and a node that is located between the inductor and the power-supply terminal; a module substrate including a first principal surface and a second principal surface opposite to each other; and a plurality of post electrodes disposed on the second principal surface. Here, the inductor is disposed on the first principal surface or inside of the module substrate, and at least one of the power amplifier or the capacitor is disposed on the second principal surface.
US11463111B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an encoding/decoding method, apparatus, and system. The method includes: encoding information bits to obtain a first-level encoded code word; obtaining a sorting value of each check bit of the first-level encoded code word, and adjusting each check bit to a corresponding position according to the sorting value of each check bit, where the sorting value refers to a value of S when the check bit is related to first S information bits of the information bits in the first-level encoded code word, and S is a non-zero integer; and performing second-level encoding on the first-level encoded code word after positions of the check bits are adjusted, thereby obtaining a second-level encoded code word. The present disclosure is applicable to various communication systems.
US11463109B2
A low density parity check (LDPC) encoder, an LDPC decoder, and an LDPC encoding method are disclosed. The LDPC encoder includes first memory, second memory, and a processor. The first memory stores an LDPC codeword having a length of 64800 and a code rate of 3/15. The second memory is initialized to 0. The processor generates the LDPC codeword corresponding to information bits by performing accumulation with respect to the second memory using a sequence corresponding to a parity check matrix (PCM).
US11463106B2
A zero padding apparatus and method for fixed length signaling information are disclosed. A zero padding apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a processor configured to generate a LDPC information bit string by deciding a number of groups whose all bits are to be filled with 0 using a difference between a length of the LDPC information bit string and a length of a BCH-encoded bit string, selecting the groups using a shortening pattern order to fill all the bits of the groups with 0, and filling at least a part of remaining groups, which are not filled with 0, with the BCH-encoded bit string; and memory configured to provide the LDPC information bit string to an LDPC encoder.
US11463096B2
Disclosed is a zero-delay phase-locked loop frequency synthesizer based on multi-stage synchronization, which belongs to the technical field of integrated circuits. The zero-delay phase-locked loop frequency synthesizer comprises: a phase frequency detector, a charge pump, a loop pass filter, a voltage control oscillator and a multi-stage synchronization divider, wherein the phase frequency detector, the charge pump, the loop pass filter and the voltage control oscillator are connected in sequence; an output OUT of the voltage control oscillator is connected to an input IN of the multi-stage synchronization divider; and an output OUT of the multi-stage synchronization divider is connected to an input IN of the phase frequency detector, so as to form a feedback path.
US11463092B1
Methods and systems are described for generating early and late votes for a clock recovery system, each early or late vote associated with a detected transitional data pattern in a data stream, generating a first early-late vote measurement reflective of an imbalance between the early and late votes that are generated during a first time interval, generating a second early-late vote measurement reflective of an imbalance between the early and late votes that are generated during a second time interval, comparing the first and the second early-late vote measurements, and outputting a CDR-lock signal at least in part responsive to determining that the first and the second early-late vote measurements are within a predetermined threshold.
US11463091B2
An analog input device including at least one mounting panel and a matrix of analog push button assemblies mounted thereon. Each analog push button assembly including an analog pressure sensor including a pressure reception arrangement having an optical sensing sub-arrangement configured to measure an amount of light varied according to a pressure sensed at the pressure reception arrangement and an output terminal for outputting an analog signal corresponding to the amount of light measured, and a plunger element configured to exert the pressure on the pressure reception arrangement. The analog input device may include a multiplexer including an input side coupled to the push button assemblies and an output side; an analog-to-digital converter coupled to the output side of the multiplexer; a processor coupled to the analog-to-digital converter and configured to output a data packet; and a communication interface configured to transmit the data packet to a host computing device.
US11463085B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit includes multiple termination circuits that correspond to multiple target pins. The multiple termination circuits each include a first resistor and a first transistor coupled in series between the corresponding target pin and the ground. A second resistor is provided between the corresponding target pin and the control electrode of the first transistor. The enable circuit is arranged such that its output node is coupled to the control electrode of the first transistor, and configured such that (i) when the enable pin is set to the first state, the current is sunk from the output node, and (ii) when the enable pin is set to the second state, the output node is set to the low level.
US11463081B2
A driving circuit includes first and second driving units connected in parallel to each other, wherein both the first and second driving units start to supply a gate current to a gate of a switching device in a turn-on operation of the switching device, when a gate voltage of the switching device increases and has reached a threshold voltage of the switching device, the first driving unit continues to supply the gate current, and the second driving unit stops supply of the gate current before the gate voltage has reached the threshold voltage.
US11463080B2
A power switch circuit is disclosed. The power switch circuit includes an input terminal, an output terminal, a first switch, a second switch, a sensing switch and an adjusting circuit. The first switch is coupled to the input terminal. The second switch is coupled to the first switch and the output terminal. A first node between the first switch and the second switch has a first node voltage. A breakdown voltage of the second switch is higher than that of the first switch. The sensing switch is coupled to the input terminal and the first switch. The adjusting circuit is coupled to the first node and the sensing switch. A second node between the adjusting circuit and the sensing switch has a second node voltage. The adjusting circuit adjusts the second node voltage according to the first node voltage to make it equal to the first node voltage.
US11463078B2
An embodiment pulse-width modulation (PWM) modulator circuit comprises a first half-bridge stage having a first output node and a second half-bridge stage having a second output node. The first output node and the second output node are configured to have an electrical load coupled therebetween to apply thereto a PWM-modulated output signal. The circuit comprises a differential stage having input nodes configured to receive an input signal applied between the input nodes and produce a differential control signal for the first half-bridge stage and the second half-bridge stage. A current comparator is arranged intermediate the differential stage and the first and second half-bridge stages. The current comparator is configured to produce a PWM-modulated drive signal to drive the half-bridge stages as a function of the input signal applied between the input nodes in the differential stage.
US11463071B2
A system and method for providing asymmetrical filtering to improve performance in the presence of wideband interference is herein disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method for a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receiver includes detecting wideband interference in a received target GNSS signal, and applying an asymmetric filter to the received target GNSS signal to mitigate the detected wideband interference.
US11463058B2
The present invention provides a feedback system including a mixing circuit, a forward circuit, a feedback circuit, a feedback gain circuit and a control circuit. In the operations of the feedback system, the mixing circuit generates a mixed signal according to an input signal and a feedback signal, the forward circuit processes the mixed signal to generate an output signal, the feedback gain circuit and the feedback circuit generates the feedback signal according to the output signal, and the control circuit determines a feedback gain of the feedback gain circuit according to a gain of the forward circuit.
US11463049B1
A digitally modulated polar power amplifier uses a thin-oxide amplifying transistor with a protection diode. The polar power includes a driver amplifier in a driver stage that can receive a phase-modulated signal with a constant envelope and amplify the signal for the output stage, which includes only a single thin-oxide transistor, leading to improved efficiency over systems that require a thick-oxide transistor. A protection diode can be added between the output of the polar power amplifier and the supply voltage to limit the output to the sum of the supply voltage plus the forward voltage of the diode. Amplitude modulation can be achieved through dynamically turning on and off the digital power amplifier via an amplitude control word (acw) input signal.
US11463048B2
Systems, methods, and circuitries are provided for generating a power amplifier supply voltage based on a target envelope signal for a radio frequency (RF) transmit signal. An envelope tracking system includes a first selector circuitry and predistortion circuitry. The first selector circuitry is disposed in a selector module and is configured to input a plurality of voltages conducted on a first plurality of power lanes, wherein the first plurality of power lanes is part of a power distribution network; select a voltage from the plurality of voltages based on the target envelope signal; and provide the selected voltage to a supply lane connected to an input of the power amplifier that amplifies the RF transmit signal. The predistortion circuitry is configured to modify the RF transmit signal based on a selected power lane of the first plurality of power lanes that conducts the selected voltage.
US11463046B1
A resistor-capacitor (RC) oscillator with shared circuit architecture includes a current mirror circuit, a comparator circuit, a bias voltage generator, and a clock buffer. The current mirror circuit utilizes a plurality of transistors to perform current control, to adjust a second current on a second current path according to a first current on a first current path. The comparator circuit includes a first transistor, a second transistor, a resistor, and a capacitor, wherein a comparison result signal generated by the comparator circuit corresponds to a voltage of the capacitor. The bias voltage generator generates a bias voltage as a comparator reference voltage between the first transistor and the resistor. The clock buffer buffers the comparison result signal to generate an output signal. The bias voltage generator at least shares the resistor with the comparator circuit, and the RC oscillator may achieve targets of low cost and high performance.
US11463045B2
Provided is an oscillator circuit including an LC oscillator circuit, an amplitude detection circuit, and a bias generation circuit, in which the LC oscillator circuit includes an inductor and at least one variable capacitance element, the amplitude detection circuit detects an oscillation amplitude of the LC oscillator circuit and converts the oscillation amplitude into a DC voltage, and the bias generation circuit compares the DC voltage with a voltage for generating a bias signal, the voltage changing on the basis of a temperature fluctuation of the bias generation circuit, calculates a difference between the DC voltage and a voltage after the change, and generates, on the basis of the difference, a bias signal that reduces a fluctuation in the oscillation amplitude, to control the oscillation amplitude.
US11463043B2
A solar panel system is assembled into a three-dimensional volume with the solar cell(s) positioned on an inward facing surface to collect sunlight and reflect sunlight from different angles as the sun passes overhead. Embodiments may be mounted into the interior of a building with a top end of the module being positioned on or proximate a roof surface and disposed to collect sunlight into the module interior below the roof line. Some embodiments may be pyramidal shaped. Outdoor mounting of the solar panel module includes embodiments that may be held in a frame and rail mounted system.
US11463039B2
Provided is an energy harvester having excellent portability. The energy harvester includes a flat plate-shaped energy harvesting section and a pair of connectors that are electrically conductive. The energy harvesting section includes an electricity generating region that utilizes energy in the external environment to generate electrical power and metal foils. The metal foils extend from the electricity generating region to a peripheral part of the energy harvesting section. The electrical power of the electricity generating region is supplied to the metal foils. The peripheral part includes a pair of holes that expose part of each of the metal foils. Each of the connectors includes a spring, a terminal part that is electrically connected to the spring and is connectable to an external device, and a flat plate part that overlaps with the energy harvesting section. The springs are electrically connected to the metal foils exposed via the holes.
US11463028B2
A sensor (110) detects the angle of the output shaft (101a) of a synchronous motor (101). A multiple rotation processing unit (301) converts the angle of one rotation or more that is detected by the sensor (110) into a multiple rotation angle. A phase difference FB unit (305) performs feedback control in such a way that the phase difference between the electrical angle and the mechanical angle of the synchronous motor (101) is a target phase difference (306). A position FB unit (302) performs feedback control in such a way that the multiple rotation angle after conversion by the multiple rotation processing unit (301) is a target position (303).
US11463024B2
A power generation device is provided. A weight may vibrate in one direction as an axial direction in response to an external vibration. A beam may be arranged in at least one side with respect to the weight in the axial direction of the weight, and vibrate together with the weight. A piezoelectric element may be mounted on the beam. A guide may include a hollow guiding a movement of the weight in the axial direction. A stopper may be included in the weight. The stopper may restrict an amount of the movement of the weight in the axial direction within a predetermined amount. A stopper wall may stop the movement of the weight in the axial direction by contacting with the stopper.
US11463010B2
A switching module includes a switching unit and a determination unit configured to determine a function of the switching unit and an ON/OFF state of the switching unit. The switching unit is provided with a plurality of function determination resistors. The determination unit is configured to determine the function of the switching unit according to a combination of voltages applied to the plurality of function determination resistors corresponding to resistor values of the plurality of function determination resistors.
US11463005B2
In some examples, a converter circuit can be configured to operate in a buck-boost mode. The converter circuit can include a ramp generator that can be configured to generate first and second ramp signals that at least partially overlap respective portions of a buck-boost region during each intermediate clock cycle between clock cycles of a clock signal. By generating the first and second ramp signals during each intermediate clock cycle, first and second drivers can be provided to toggle switches of a power stage, such that an output voltage provided by the power stage can be averaged out over clock cycles of the clock signal to allow for a gradual transition between buck and boost modes of operation of the converter circuit. In some examples, the converter circuit can be configured to operate in a test mode and can be configured to implement trimming of a ramp signal.
US11462997B2
A direct-current (DC) converter for a permanent-magnet (PM) alternator for a vehicle, the DC converter including one or more pairs of step-down converters that are electrically in parallel operating at a fundamental switching frequency, wherein the two step-down converters in each pair are arranged to be switched out of phase, and wherein the two step-down converters in each pair are arranged adjacent to each other to mitigate conducted electromagnetic interference (EMI).
US11462991B2
Some aspects of the present disclosure provide for a circuit. In at least some examples, the circuit includes an integrator coupled between a first node and a second node and a filter coupled between the second node and a third node. The circuit further includes a buffer coupled between the third node and a fourth node and a first switch coupled between the fourth node and a fifth node. The circuit further includes a first capacitor coupled between the fifth node and a ground node, a first resistor comprising a first terminal coupled to the fifth node and a second terminal, a second switch coupled between the second terminal of the first resistor and the ground node.
US11462985B2
The present invention generally relates to a system for generating a linear movement, comprising an electromagnetically charged body (30, MM) free to move along a main direction, a static field generator (50, Bob), and two buffer elements (20,40; RM,RM; ML, ML; MA,MA; MF,MF). The movement of the electromagnetically charged body (30, MM) along the main direction is controlled by the static field generator (50, Bob) and by the buffer elements (20,40; RM,RM; ML, ML; MA,MA; MF,MF). The static field generator (50, Bob) is alternately supplied with a power profile such as to generate the displacement of the system in either orientation along said main direction with a frequency Ω obtained through the formula (I). Ω = A · f ( N ) with A ∈ ℕ 1 ≤ A ≤ 5 with N ∈ ℕ 1 ≤ N ≤ 100 f ( N ) = { f 1 ( N ) s e N = 2 k + 1 f 2 ( N ) s e N = 2 k with k ∈ ℤ f 1 ( N ) = { ( 2 · N ) + ( V c · 10 - 1 ) + [ 0 , 005 · ( 1 + ⌊ N 2 ⌋ ) ] } ± g 1 ( n ) f 2 ( N ) = { ( 2 · N ) + ( V c · 10 - 1 ) - [ 0 , 0 0 4 ( 1 + N 2 ) ] } ± g 2 ( n ) with V c = costante di Viswanath ≅ 1 , 13198824 g 1 ( n ) = n 2 · f 1 ( N ) · 10 - 2 with g 2 ( n ) = n 2 · f 2 ( N ) · 10 - 2 n ∈ ℕ 0 ≤ n ≤ 3 0 .
US11462984B2
The present invention provides a linear vibration motor, including a housing having an accommodating space, a vibrator disposed in the accommodating space, and a coil fixed in the housing and driving the vibrator to move. The vibrator includes a magnetic circuit system. The linear vibration motor further includes a restoring assembly fixed to the housing. The restoring assembly is made of magnetic steel and is magnetized along a direction perpendicular to a direction in which the vibrator moves. Compared with an existing spring structure, in the linear vibration motor of the present disclosure, a magnetic interaction force is formed between a restoring assembly and a vibrator to restore a vibrator. In this way, an anti-humidity and anti-high-temperature effect of the restoring assembly is improved by replacing an interaction force of a spring with a magnetic interaction force.
US11462969B2
A rotary apparatus includes a motor including a rotary shaft, a plurality of gears including an output gear, and a housing accommodating the motor and the plurality of gears. The housing is separable into a first housing and a second housing. The motor includes a first end portion and a second end portion located on an opposite side of the first end portion. The rotary shaft is derived from the first end portion. The second housing includes a first regulating portion regulating a position of a part of the motor on the first end portion. The first housing includes a projecting portion projecting toward the second housing side. The projecting portion urges the second end portion of the motor toward the first regulating portion side directly or via another member.
US11462964B2
The present invention provides a motor including: a rotating shaft; a rotor including a hole in which the rotating shaft is disposed; a stator disposed at an outside of the rotor; a housing configured to accommodate the rotor and the stator; and a sealing guide disposed to cover an opening formed in one side of the housing, wherein the sealing guide supports a terminal of the stator exposed at an outside of the housing.
US11462959B2
A permanent magnet of an embodiment comprises: a base magnet represented by a-b-c (a includes a rare earth-based element, b includes a transition element, and c includes boron (B)); and a coating layer coated on a surface of the base magnet, wherein the coating layer comprises a compound containing a metal having magnetism, the compound including: a phosphor (P); and a metal belonging to the fourth period in the periodic table.
US11462954B2
A method for adjusting a coil position includes: acquiring position offset indication information between a transmitting coil in a power transmitting device and a receiving coil in a power receiving device; wherein the power transmitting device is configured to wirelessly charge the power receiving device, and the position offset indication information is used to reflect a position offset between the transmitting coil and the receiving coil; and adjusting a position of the transmitting coil according to the position offset indication information.
US11462953B2
A dynamic transmit coil positioning system, e.g. for a wireless power transfer system. The positioning system has a drive unit, a movable platform, a transmit coil, an inverter and a controller. The controller is provided for positioning the movable platform via the drive unit to adjust an operating parameter of the transmit coil.
US11462952B2
A power transmitter is configured for transmission of wireless power, to a wireless receiver, at extended ranges, including a separation gap greater than 8 millimeters (mm). The power transmitter includes a control and communications unit and an inverter circuit configured to receive input power and convert the input power to a power signal. The power transmitter further includes a coil configured to transmit the power signal to a power receiver, the coil formed of wound Litz wire and including at least one layer, the coil defining, at least, a bottom face. The power transmitter further includes a shielding comprising a ferrite core and a magnetic backing, the magnetic backing configured to substantially back the bottom face of the coil.
US11462949B2
Disclosed herein is a system controller in electronic communication with at least one wireless base charger system coupled to a power source, at least one transmitting antenna, the wireless charging system configured to determine a location of at least one device receiver located within a physical space and to provide wireless energy delivery comprising directing one or more directional electromagnetic energy beams from at least one transmitting antenna to the location of the device receiver at a distance greater than or equal to 50 cm from the transmitting antenna; each device receiver configured to receive and convert one or more of the directional electromagnetic energy beams into electrical energy and store at least a portion of the electrical energy in an intermediary electrical storage device, and to direct electrical energy from the intermediary electrical storage device to a connected electronic device in electrical connection with the device receiver, to charge and/or power the connected electronic device. Methods of using the system are also disclosed.
US11462929B2
Electrochemical models for the lithium-ion battery are useful in predicting and controlling its performance. The values of the parameters in these models are vital to their accuracy. However, not all parameters can be measured precisely, especially when destructive methods are prohibited. In some embodiments of the present disclosure, a parameter estimation approach is used to estimate the open circuit potential of the positive electrode (Up) using piecewise linear approximation together with all the other parameters of a single particle model. Up and 10 more parameters may be estimated from a single discharge curve without knowledge of the electrode chemistry using a technique such as a genetic algorithm. Different case studies were presented for estimating Up with different types of parameters of the battery model. The estimated parameters were then validated by comparing simulations at different discharge rates with experimental data.
US11462920B2
A system for producing an active short circuit in an electric motor of a hybrid electric vehicle having a traction battery includes an inverter to be provided in communication with the motor and battery, and an inverter controller to generate driver signals to operate inverter switches to produce three-phase AC for the motor or to produce DC for battery charging. In response to motor speed exceeding a threshold, the controller is configured to generate driver signals to operate the inverter switches to produce an active short circuit in the motor to prevent battery overcharging. A processor and electric circuit are each configured to independently generate an active short circuit control signal operative to effectuate generation of the driver signals, the active short circuit produced based on an active short circuit control signal from the electric circuit in an absence of an active short circuit control signal from the processor.
US11462918B2
The present disclosure relates to a multifunction battery switch and method of connecting a battery pack to an external bus via the multifunction battery switch. The multifunction battery switch having a multifunctional controller, a plurality of switches, an inductor, and a resistor. Each of the plurality of switches is independently controllable via switch commands from the multifunctional controller. The inductor, the resistor, and the plurality of switches are arranged to define a buck-boost converter to selectively regulate power transfer between the battery pack and the external bus as a function of the switch commands from the multifunctional controller.
US11462916B2
A capacitor pre-charge circuit configured to avoid inrush to a capacitor can include a plurality of components configured to ramp a pre-charge voltage over time up to a voltage maximum such that the a pre-charge voltage-over-time curve is not an asymptote. The plurality of components can be configured to linearly ramp voltage, for example, to the voltage maximum. In certain embodiments, the circuit can include an integrated voltage sense circuit.
US11462910B2
There is provided a system for assigning power to a plurality of smart appliances. The system includes a plurality of smart outlet assemblies. Each of the smart outlet assemblies is paired to and in electrical communication with a respective one of the smart appliances. The system includes at least one smart breaker assembly in electrical communication with the smart outlet assemblies. The system includes a master server in communication with the smart breaker assembly. The system includes distributed databases used to exchange data among the smart outlet assemblies, the smart breaker assembly, and the master server. The master server selectively assign power to respective ones of the smart appliances via the smart breaker assembly based on the data. If the master server is unreachable, the smart breaker assembly is configured to selectively assign power to the smart appliances based on the data records.
US11462909B2
A method for identifying report triggering events in a power grid to improve stability in the power grid is provided. Energy flow information in the power grid is measured and report triggering events during a predetermined period of time are identified. The report triggering events include at least a predetermined number of load flow transitions where energy flows back from a load associated with the power grid to the power grid during the predetermined period of time and/or exceeding a threshold of time where an energy flow phase angle between voltage and current remains at or near 90 or 270 degrees indicating pure volt-ampere reactive (VAR) operation during the predetermined period of time. A report associated with each of the identified report triggering events is generated and includes a location indicating where the report triggering event occurred in the power grid. The reports are transmitted.
US11462898B2
A system includes a solid-state circuit breaker coupling between a power supply and an electrical load. The system also includes a gateway interface device communicatively coupled to the solid-state circuit breaker and includes a plurality of communication interfaces. In an embodiment, the gateway interface device includes a controller configured to perform operations including determining a connection status of at least one communication interface of the plurality of communication interfaces and determining a number of devices connected to the at least one communication interface, receive a signal from at least one device of the number of devices. In the embodiment, the operations may also include in response to receiving the signal, instructing the solid-state circuit breaker to disconnect the electrical load from the power supply.
US11462895B2
A junction box assembly includes an upper cover coupled to a lower cover assembly. The upper cover has a jump start terminal housing and a first through hole which accommodates a jump start terminal. The lower cover assembly includes a fuse assembly having an upper case and a lower case configured to hold a bus bar unit having a plurality of fuses. The upper case includes a collar and a first drain hole. The collar defines a second through hole and is concentric to the jump start terminal. The first drain hole is spaced apart from the fuses. The first drain hole is open to a second hole of the bus bar unit. The lower case includes a second drain hole open to the second hole. Accordingly, water is routed through the fuse assembly and away from the fuses so as to retain the functionality of the junction box assembly.
US11462889B2
The invention relates to an apparatus for igniting a fuel mixture. Set apparatus comprises an ignition system for generating a high-voltage ignition voltage as well as a circuit device comprising a circuit for superimposing a high-frequency signal on to the high-voltage ignition voltage. The apparatus further comprises a spark plug in an engine block as well as a transmission element for transmitting the ignition voltage, onto which the high-frequency signal has been superimposed, to the spark plug. The transmission element includes a contact element which is provided with an electrically conductive coating along at least one portion of the longitudinal axis of the contact element, the impedance of the coding being lower than the impedance of the contact element.
US11462886B2
A buried semiconductor optical device comprises a semiconductor substrate; a mesa-stripe portion including a multi-quantum well layer on the semiconductor substrate; a buried layer consisting of a first portion and a second portion, the first portion covering one side of the mesa-stripe portion, the second portion covering the other side of the mesa-stripe portion, and the first portion and the second portion covering a surface of the semiconductor substrate; and an electrode configured to cause an electric current to flow through the mesa-stripe portion, the buried layer comprising, from the surface, a first, second, and third sublayer, the first and third sublayer each consisting of semi-insulating InP, the first sublayer and the second sublayer forming a pair structure, the second sublayer being located above the multi-quantum well layer, and the second sublayer consisting of one or more layers selected from InGaAs, InAlAs, InGaAlAs, InGaAsP, and InAlAsP.
US11462876B2
A manufacturing method for an electric wire with a terminal includes: a first resin supplying step for discharging a curable resin material for internal use through a discharge port at a nozzle distal end after being caulked and crimped, and infiltrating the curable resin material for internal use into gaps between elemental wires while pressing out air in the gaps; a second resin supplying step for discharging a curable resin material for external use through the discharge port at the nozzle distal end, and covering the core wire exposed part in which the curable resin material for internal use is filled into the gaps, a core wire connection body, and a coating connection body with the curable resin material for external use from the outside; and a resin curing step for curing the curable resin material for internal use and external use by operating a resin curing device.
US11462874B2
A pair of crimping pliers for crimping, in particular for crimp joining, workpieces, has two oppositely arranged pressing jaws and two pliers jaws, wherein one pliers jaw is stationary and the associated pressing jaw is fastened to this stationary pliers jaw by means of a spring-loadable holder part. The holder part is fixedly connected at its end farthest from the pressing jaw to the pliers jaw. Between the stationary connection and the end of the holder part closest to the first pressing jaw, a stop connection is formed between the stationary pliers jaw and the holder part and comes into effect when a predetermined pressing force is exceeded.
US11462872B1
A cage assembly may define a part of a computing appliance. The assembly can include a cage formed by walls and defining a continuous interior volume bounded by a top face, a bottom face, a right face, a left face, a front face, and a rear face. A first edge connector may be within a leftward portion of the interior volume. A second edge connector may be within a rightward portion of the interior volume and positioned laterally from the first edge connector. The arrangement may permit engagement with multiple individual-width plugs (e.g., each bearing an individual paddle card) or a single plug (e.g., bearing multiple paddle cards spaced laterally from one another and aligned for engagement with the first and second edge connectors within the cage).
US11462867B2
A structure for fixing a connector to a fixing portion includes the connector and the fixing portion. The fixing portion includes a bracket and a fitting portion. The bracket is erected on the fixing portion. The connector includes a lock portion configured to, when the bracket is inserted into the lock portion by attaching the connector to the fixing portion, lock the bracket. The fitting portion is configured such that a part of the connector is fitted into the fitting portion when the connector is attached to the fixing portion. The bracket may be integrally molded with the fixing portion molded with a resin. The fitting portion may have a hole portion running along a fitting direction in which the connector is attached to the fixing portion, and a slit may be formed in the fitting portion.
US11462866B2
Disclosed is a plug power cord, which includes a plug including a main body, a live wire contact and a neutral wire contact, and a load wire. The load wire is connected with the live wire contact, and a protector is arranged between the load wire and the live wire contact, or, the load wire is connected with the neutral wire contact, and a protector is arranged between the load wire and the neutral wire contact.
US11462865B2
Various implementations and configurations of a user configurable electric power distribution apparatus are possible and may comprise: an electrical input unit comprising an electrical plug, wherein the input unit may be pluggable into an existing electrical outlet and may conceal the electrical outlet; an electrical output unit comprising one or more electrical receptacles, wherein the output unit and the input unit are not conjoined, the output unit can be located on a surface when the input unit is plugged into an electrical outlet, and the output unit can be separated by a distance from the input unit; an electrical interconnect, which may be modular, attached to both the input unit and the output unit, wherein electrical power received by the electrical plug may be available at an electrical receptacle comprised by the output unit; an optional ground fault circuit interrupter (GFCI); and an optional one or more USB power ports.
US11462863B2
A plug-in connector element includes an electrically conductive contact element, a housing, a contact protection element, and a temperature sensor accommodated at least in part within the contact protection element. The contact protection element is disposed so that, between the housing and the contact protection element, access to the electrically conductive contact element is prevented for an object having a diameter above a defined value. The temperature sensor measures a temperature of the electrically conductive contact element.
US11462856B2
A plug connector includes a housing holding plug contacts at a mating end for mating with a mating connector. The plug connector includes a latch received in a latch pocket and movable between a latched position and an unlatched position. The latch has a main body and a latch beam extending from the main body. The latch beam includes a latch hook configured to be received in a latch opening of the mating connector in the latched position to secure the plug connector to the mating connector. The plug connector includes a retention assist member engaging the latch having a main body and a ram extending therefrom with a latch retention support positioned rearward of the latch beam. A biasing member drives the retention assist member in a biasing direction into the latch to hold the latch hook in the latching position.
US11462851B2
A machine case includes a bottom cover and a top cover with a connection port, encloses a printed circuit board therein. An internal flat cable is equipped with a first connector at one end thereof and mounted upon a center region of the printed circuit board, and a second connector at another end thereof and disposed in the connection ports without electrically connecting to the printed circuit board. The second connector includes a plurality of contacts integrally formed within an insulator via insert-molding. A cable connector assembly includes an insulative housing having a mating port adapted to be mated with the connection port. A printed circuit board is embedded within the housing and forms mating pads on two opposite surfaces in a reversely symmetrical manner so as to have the two corresponding mating pads on two opposite surfaces in the diagonal direction share the same circuits.
US11462849B2
An electrical connector having an electrical conductor member with a first opening and a second opening. Grab rings mounted in the openings have inner diameters containing teeth with crests defining a superimposed inner diameter. The teeth of the grab rings deflect and frictionally engage the outer diameter of the wires to retain them in the openings. A sleeve of insulation material covers an exterior of the conductor member. The sleeve has ends that protrude past the openings and receive an insulation layer of the wires. Resilient electrical contact members are recessed from the grab rings in the openings. The electrical contact members have inner portions biased into contact with the electrical wires and outer portions biased into contact with the conductor member.
US11462836B2
A lensed base station antenna includes a first array that includes a plurality of radiating elements that are configured to transmit respective sub-components of a first RF signal, a second array that includes a plurality of radiating elements that are configured to transmit respective sub-components of a second RF signal and a skeletal RF lens positioned to receive electromagnetic radiation from a first of the radiating elements of the first array and from a first of the radiating elements of the second array. In some embodiments, the skeletal RF lens includes a plurality of layers of dielectric material that are separated by air gaps.
US11462835B2
The present disclosure generally relates to any device capable of wireless communication, such as a mobile telephone or wearable device, having one or more antennas. After measuring reflection coefficients of a device at three different DVC states, the reflection coefficient for all other DVC states can be calculated. Thus, based solely upon three reflection coefficient measurements, the antenna can be tuned to adjust for any changes in impedance at the antenna.
US11462834B2
An antenna module includes: an antenna package including a patch antenna; an integrated circuit (IC) package including an IC; a connection member configured such that a portion of the connection member is disposed between the antenna package and the IC package, and having a laminated structure electrically connecting the patch antenna to the IC; and a chip antenna disposed on the connection member and including a first electrode electrically connected to the IC, a dielectric body disposed on a surface of the first electrode, and a second electrode spaced apart from the first electrode and disposed on the dielectric body. The connection member includes a first region disposed between the antenna package and the IC package, and a second region extending farther than the antenna package in a direction different from a direction in which the connection member is laminated. The chip antenna is disposed in the second region.
US11462831B2
A radio frequency (RF) apparatus includes a radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) chip and an antenna module disposed on an upper surface of the RFIC chip. The antenna module includes a first antenna patch that is in parallel with the RFIC chip, the first antenna patch including a first penetration point, and a first power feed point connected to a first power feed line to transmit and receive a first RF signal of a first frequency band; and a second antenna patch disposed above the first antenna patch in parallel with the first antenna patch, the second antenna patch including a second power feed point connected to a second power feed line that penetrates through the first penetration point to transmit and receive a second RF signal of a second frequency band. The first penetration point is formed in a first region of the first antenna patch in which influence on an electric field generated by the first antenna patch via the first power feed point is minimized.
US11462829B2
An antenna module includes: a first radiator; a conductive sheet connected to the first radiator; a ground feeding point connected to the conductive sheet; a first feeding point connected to the first radiator; and at least one second feeding point apart from the first feeding point and connected to the conductive sheet at a position different from the ground feeding point, wherein the first feeding point, the first radiator, the conductive sheet, and the ground feeding point form a first path for radiating and receiving radio signals in a first frequency band, the second feeding point, the conductive sheet, and the first radiator form a second path for radiating and receiving radio signals in a second frequency band, and a central frequency of the first frequency band is not equal to that of the second frequency band.
US11462828B1
Technologies directed to a directional calibration antenna for calibration of an array antenna of a communication system are described. The communication system includes the array antenna which includes a number of antenna elements. The number of antenna elements are located in an area on a first side of a support structure. A directional antenna is located at a first height above a plane of the array antenna and at a periphery of the area. The directional antenna is pointed towards the array antenna and is located within a near field of the array antenna.
US11462817B2
A packaging structure, where the packaging structure includes: a first radiation plate, a second radiation plate, and a feeding part, where the second radiation plate is disposed below the first radiation plate, where a slot is disposed on the second radiation plate, where the slot is in a ring shape, where the feeding part is disposed below the second radiation plate, and where the feeding part includes a first feeding stub and a second feeding stub that are disposed independently of each other. Additionally, the first feeding stub and the second feeding stub are perpendicular to each other and disposed on a substrate below the slot, and the first feeding stub and the second feeding stub feed the first radiation plate using the slot.
US11462805B2
A vehicle traction battery assembly including a pair of battery cells and a busbar is provided. Each of the battery cells may include a terminal and one or more locating features. The busbar may span between the cells and define a pair of arms each having a member sized to at least partially interlock with the one or more locating features. The busbar may span between the cells such that the busbar covers at least a portion of upper surfaces defined by each of the cells. At least one of the terminal apertures may be spaced in between outer edges of the respective arms such that a first and second surface area provide space sufficient for weld spots.
US11462804B2
Various battery cell arrangements are presented herein. The battery cell can include an anode current collector. The battery cell can include a carbon-based anode coating layer that coats the anode current collector. A first bond between the anode current collector and the anode coating layer may have a first adhesion strength. The battery cell also includes a cathode, a separator layer that contacts the cathode, and a separator coating layer. The separator coating layer can be positioned between the anode coating layer and the separator layer. A second bond between the separator coating material and the anode coating material has a second adhesion strength. The second adhesion strength of the second bond may be greater than the first adhesion strength of the first bond.
US11462802B2
The present disclosure relates to a composition for manufacturing a secondary battery separator having excellent electrical conductivity and capable of minimizing occurrence of black scum on an electrode and a secondary battery thereof. The composition for manufacturing a secondary battery separator according to the present disclosure includes a polyethylene resin and an ionic liquid lubricant composition. The ionic liquid lubricant composition includes a pore-controlling agent, an ionic liquid, and paraffinic oil.
US11462799B2
A battery module includes a plurality of cylindrical battery cells, each having at least two electrode terminals of different polarities at one end portion; an upper case and an lower case including an accommodating portion where a space in which the cylindrical battery cells are inserted and accommodated is formed, a gas discharge path extending in front, back, left, and right directions to externally discharge a gas discharged from the cylindrical battery cells and where an open portion externally exposed is formed, and a gas discharge hole opened such that the gas discharge path is connected to the outside; a cover sheet between the upper case and the lower case to cover the open portion of the gas discharge path; and a plurality of wire type bus bars to electrically contact and connect the electrode terminals of the cylindrical battery cells to each other.
US11462797B2
A battery module may include a plurality of sub-modules arranged in a single direction, a cooling unit contacting one sides of the plurality of sub-modules to cool the plurality of sub-modules, and a heating unit contacting other sides opposing the one sides of the plurality of sub-modules to heat the plurality of sub-modules.
US11462783B2
Provided is an electric vehicle equipped with a battery mounted on a vehicle and capable of being charged by supplying electric power from outside of the vehicle; a temperature adjuster configured to adjust a temperature of the battery; and an air conditioner configured to control air-conditioning in a passenger compartment by a predetermined schedule, in which, if both an operating condition of the temperature adjuster and an operating condition of the air conditioner are established, the air conditioner operates after the temperature adjuster operates for a predetermined time.
US11462776B2
Embodiments of the invention provide a battery pack including a pack body and a plurality of terminals. The pack body has first and second main surfaces that are opposed to each other in a first axis direction, first and second end surfaces that are opposed to each other in a second axis direction orthogonal to the first axis direction, and first and second side surfaces that are opposed to each other in a third axis direction orthogonal to the first axis direction and the second axis direction. The plurality of terminals includes a positive terminal, a negative terminal, a temperature detection terminal, and a control terminal that are arranged on the first end surface along the third axis direction. The negative terminal is arranged between the temperature detection terminal and the control terminal and closer to the control terminal than the temperature detection terminal.
US11462768B2
A copolymer for constituting a polymer electrolyte for a solid-electrolyte lithium or sodium cell. A polymer electrolyte that is usable in combination with high-voltage cathode active materials and makes it possible to provide solid-electrolyte lithium or sodium cells and/or batteries having a high energy density that is sufficient even for use in electricity-based vehicles, the copolymer encompasses at least two ion-conductive polymers, the copolymer encompassing at least one polymer polymerized by ring-opening polymerization of at least one lactone and/or of at least one lactide and/or of at least one cyclic carbonate and/or of at least one cyclic carbamate and/or of at least one lactam and/or of at least one epoxide, and/or at least one polymer polymerized by radical polymerization of acrylonitrile and/or of at least one acrylonitrile derivative; and encompasses at least one polyacrylate having at least one repeating unit.
US11462756B2
A fuel cell system that includes: an ion exchanger that is provided at a circulation path and that restores insulation resistance of a coolant; a detector that is provided at the circulation path at a downstream side of a radiator in a circulation direction of the coolant and that detects conductivity of the coolant; and a controller that is electrically connected to the detector and a pump and that controls driving of at least the pump. In a state in which the pump is stopped and in a case in which the insulation resistance of the coolant, which is obtained from the conductivity of the coolant that has been detected by the detector, becomes equal to or less than a specific value, the controller starts the driving of the pump such that the coolant passes through the ion exchanger.
US11462755B2
To provide a fuel cell system configured to reduce the drying of the inside of the fuel cell stack and increase the power generation performance of the fuel cell stack by reducing a circulation gas flow rate during high temperature operation. Disclosed is a fuel cell system comprising: a fuel cell stack, an ejector, a first injector which supplies fuel gas to the ejector, a second injector which has a smaller fuel gas injection amount than the first injector and which supplies the fuel gas to the ejector, a third injector which supplies the fuel gas to fuel electrodes of the fuel cell stack, a fuel gas supplier, a first supply flow path, a second supply flow path which enables the supply of the fuel gas from the third injector to the fuel electrodes of the fuel cell stack, a circulation flow path, a temperature detector, and a controller.
US11462754B2
A fuel cell vehicle includes a fuel cell stack including a cathode flow field and an anode flow field, an atmospheric air pressure acquisition unit for obtaining pressure of atmospheric air, and a pump for sucking the atmospheric air and supplying an oxygen-containing gas to the cathode flow field through a supply channel. In the case where the temperature is predicted to be below freezing temperature after the time of stopping operation of the fuel cell stack, a scavenging period for the time of stopping operation is set based on the atmospheric air pressure, in order to perform scavenging of the cathode flow field by the oxygen-containing gas in a manner that the cathode flow field is placed in a predetermined humid state.
US11462750B2
A fuel cell vehicle includes a fuel cell, an air compressor configured to draw in and discharge air, a cooler configured to cool air discharged from the air compressor, a humidifier configured to humidify air cooled by the cooler and to supply the humidified air to the fuel cell, and a system frame on which the fuel cell is disposed. The system frame accommodates at least a portion of each of the cooler and the humidifier therein.
US11462748B2
A method of manufacturing a fuel cell separator, includes: stacking a first separator plate and a second separator plate having first and second protruding portions so that the first and second protruding portions protrude in a direction away from the first separator plate, the first and second protruding portions being adjacent to both sides of a first junction portion to be joined to the first separator plate; pressing the first and second protruding portions toward the first separator plate so that the first junction portion is pressed against the first separator plate; and joining the first junction portion to the first separator plate while the first junction portion is being pressed against the first separator plate, wherein in the pressing, the first junction portion is pressed against the first separator plate by elastic deformation of a first bent portion bent between the first junction portion and the first protruding portion.
US11462735B2
A carbonate precursor compound for manufacturing a lithium metal (M)-oxide powder usable as an active positive electrode material in lithium-ion batteries, M comprising 20 to 90 mol % Ni, 10 to 70 mol % Mn and 10 to 40 mol % Co, the precursor further comprising a sodium and sulfur impurity, wherein the sodium to sulfur molar ratio (Na/S) is 0.4
US11462733B2
Implementations described herein generally relate to metal electrodes, more specifically lithium-containing anodes, high performance electrochemical devices, such as secondary batteries, including the aforementioned lithium-containing electrodes, and methods for fabricating the same. In one implementation, an anode electrode structure is provided. The anode electrode structure comprises a current collector comprising copper. The anode electrode structure further comprises a lithium metal film formed on the current collector. The anode electrode structure further comprises a solid electrolyte interface (SEI) film stack formed on the lithium metal film. The SEI film stack comprises a chalcogenide film formed on the lithium metal film. In one implementation, the SEI film stack further comprises a lithium oxide film formed on the chalcogenide film. In one implementation, the SEI film stack further comprises a lithium carbonate film formed on the lithium oxide film.
US11462732B2
Process for making a coated electrode active material wherein said process comprises the following steps: (a) providing a particulate electrode active material according to general formula Li1+xTM1−xO2, wherein TM is a combination of Ni, Co and, optionally, Mn, and, optionally, at least one metal selected from Mg, Al, Ba, Ti and Zr, and x is in the range of from zero to 0.2, wherein at least 15 mole-% of the transition metal of TM is Ni, (b) treating said electrode active material with a compound of M1, wherein M1 is selected from Li, Al, B, Mg, Si, Sn, and from transition metals, or a combination of at least two of the foregoing, with or without a solvent, wherein said compound of M1 does not act as a cathode active material on its own, (c) optionally, removing compound of M1 which is not deposited on said particulate electrode active material, (d) performing a post-treatment by heating the material obtained after the step (b) or (c), if applicable, at a temperature from 300 to 800° C. in a rotary kiln or pendulum kiln.
US11462731B2
A method of preparing a lithium metal oxide having a nickel oxide layer formed on a surface thereof includes (1) complexing a nickel precursor onto a surface of a lithium metal oxide; and (2) calcining, through a heat treatment, the lithium metal oxide—the surface of which is complexed with the nickel precursor—obtained in step (1).
US11462724B1
A method for manufacturing electrodes includes mixing a powder to form a homogenous blend, injecting a lubricant into the homogenous blend to form a dough, kneading the dough to form a fibrillated dough, and outputting segments of the fibrillated dough. The method also includes processing the segments into a continuous plaque, drying the continuous plaque to form an active material sheet, laminating portions of the active material sheet to a current collector substrate to form an electrode blank, and sectioning the electrode blank into electrodes.
US11462722B2
Embodiments described herein relate generally to apparatuses and processes for forming semi-solid electrodes having high active solids loading by removing excess electrolyte. In some embodiments, the semi-solid electrode material can be formed by mixing an active material and, optionally, a conductive material in a liquid electrolyte to form a suspension. In some embodiments, the semi-solid electrode material can be disposed onto a current collector to form an intermediate electrode. In some embodiments, the semi-solid electrode material can have a first composition in which the ratio of electrolyte to active material is between about 10:1 and about 1:1. In some embodiments, a method for converting the semi-solid electrode material from the first composition into the second composition includes removing a portion of the electrolyte from the semi-solid electrode material. In some embodiments, the method includes mechanically compressing the intermediate electrode to remove the portion of electrolyte from the semi-solid electrode material.
US11462718B2
A display device includes a display panel including a light-emitting device to emit light; and an input sensor disposed on the display panel. The input sensor includes a first insulating layer disposed on the display panel; a first conductive layer disposed on the first insulating layer; a second insulating layer covering the first conductive layer; and a second conductive layer disposed on the second insulating layer. At least one of the first and second insulating layers includes a plurality of diffraction patterns arranged to diffract at least a portion of the light provided from the display panel.
US11462714B2
A display device capable of reducing a non-display area is disclosed. The disclosed display device includes a first through hole not overlapping with an organic cover layer surrounding at least one hole area disposed within an active area, and a second through hole passing through a substrate. Accordingly, it is possible to minimize a bezel area, which is a non-display area, and to prevent damage to a light emitting stack caused by a stripping process.
US11462711B2
A light-emitting device may include a first electrode, a second electrode, and a light-emitting layer therebetween. The first electrode may include a reflection layer and a metal oxide layer provided on the reflection layer. The metal oxide layer may be provided between the reflection layer and the light-emitting layer. The metal oxide layer may include molybdenum dioxide and an oxide of a group-V element, and a content of the group-V element to a total amount of the metal oxide layer may range from 2 at % to 10 at.
US11462705B2
A photodetector is provided, including an active layer configured to generate charge carriers of a first type and of a second type by absorption of electromagnetic radiation; a first electrode configured to collect the charge carriers of the first type; and a second electrode configured to collect the charge carriers of the second type, the first electrode including a layer configured to collect the charge carriers of the first type, the layer including self-assembled monolayers, and nanowires comprising metal and functionalized by the self-assembled monolayers, the self-assembled monolayers of the layer are configured to functionalize the nanowires and to modify a work function of a material forming the nanowires. A method for manufacturing a photodetector and an electrode for a photodetector are also provided.
US11462702B2
A light-emitting element having low driving voltage and high emission efficiency is provided. In the light-emitting element, a combination of a guest material and a host material forms an exciplex. The guest material is capable of converting triplet excitation energy into light emission. Light emission from the light-emitting layer includes light emission from the guest material and light emission from the exciplex. The percentage of the light emission from the exciplex to the light emission from the light-emitting layer is greater than 0 percent and less than or equal to 60 percent. The energy after subtracting the energy of light emission from the exciplex from the energy of light emission from the guest material is greater than 0 eV and less than or equal to 0.23 eV.
US11462690B2
An organic electroluminescence device includes a first electrode; a second electrode on the first electrode; and a plurality of organic layers between the first electrode and the second electrode, where a polycyclic compound represented by Formula 1-1 or Formula 1-2 is included in at least one organic layer of the plurality of organic layers. The polycyclic compound is represented by Formula 1-1 or Formula 1-2.
US11462682B2
A magnetic device may include a layer stack including a work function structure, a dielectric layer, and a ferromagnetic layer, where the ferromagnetic layer is positioned between the work function structure and the dielectric layer. The work function structure is configured to deplete electrons from the ferromagnetic layer or accumulate electrons in the ferromagnetic layer. A magnetization orientation of the ferromagnetic layer is configured to be switched by a voltage applied across the layer stack or by a voltage applied across or through the work function structure.
US11462675B2
A piezoelectric element comprising a compound represented by Formula 1, a piezoelectric device including the piezoelectric element, a vibration module including the piezoelectric device, and a display apparatus including the piezoelectric device are provided, where (1-x)(LizNa0.5-zK0.5)(Nb1-ySby)O3.xCaZrO3 [Formula 1] where x, y, and z have a range of 0.001≤x≤0.2, a range of 0≤y≤0.5, and a range of 0≤z≤0.2, respectively.
US11462673B2
A piezoelectric substrate attachment structure including a cable-shaped piezoelectric substrate, a press section provided adjacent to the piezoelectric substrate and pressed from an opposite side from the piezoelectric substrate, and a base section provided adjacent to the piezoelectric substrate on an opposite side from the press section. A ratio Eb/Ea of a Young's modulus Eb of the base section to a Young's modulus Ea of the press section being 10−1 or lower.
US11462664B2
An optoelectronic device includes a LED that is suited to the emission of a radiation and that includes an active layer, and a conversion layer that extends over the active layer of the LED and that includes a plurality of fluorophores suited to the conversion of the radiation emitted by the LED, wherein the conversion layer is confined laterally by a mirror reflecting both the radiation converted by the fluorophores and the radiation not converted by the fluorophores, and vertically between a first and a second multilayer reflective filters forming a resonant Fabry-Perot cavity that blocks the radiation not converted by the fluorophores and has a transmittance peak for the radiation converted by the fluorophores.
US11462646B2
A field-effect transistor including a semiconductor layer formed of an n-type metal oxide semiconductor, wherein the n-type metal oxide semiconductor includes indium oxide, wherein the indium oxide is n-type doped through introduction of one or more kinds of cations as dopants, and wherein the n-type metal oxide semiconductor has a peak detected at an angle corresponding to a (222) plane of indium oxide having a bixbite structure in an X-ray diffraction method using a two-dimensional detector.
US11462640B2
The present application provides a LDMOS transistor having a floating vertical field plate (VFP) and a manufacturing method thereof. The floating VFP comprises a floating field plate polysilicon layer and a laminated structure. The laminated structure comprises a stack of alternate layers of insulating material and ferroelectric material, and in the laminated structure, an outermost layer and an innermost layer are the insulating material. In the present application, the polarization in the ferroelectric material is set in the floating VFP with smaller size, the polarization of the ferroelectric layer enhances the “charge sharing” effect to produce higher breakdown voltage when the transistor is off; and the polarization of the ferroelectric material layer induces more electrons in the drift zone to reduce on resistance when the transistor is on. Accordingly, the increase of breakdown voltage and the reduction of on resistance can be achieved simultaneously.
US11462630B2
Embodiments described herein generally relate to doping of three dimensional (3D) structures on a substrate. In some embodiments, a conformal dopant containing film may be deposited over the 3D structures. Suitable dopants that may be incorporated in the film include halogen atoms. The film may be subsequently annealed to diffuse the dopants into the 3D structures.
US11462621B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a gate structure, a source region, a drain region, and a plurality of field plates. The gate structure is disposed on the semiconductor substrate. The source region and the drain region are disposed in the semiconductor substrate and located at two opposite sides of the gate structure in a first direction respectively. The field plates are disposed on the semiconductor substrate. Each of the field plates is partly located above the gate structure and partly located between the gate structure and the drain region. The gate structure is electrically connected with at least one of the field plates, and the source region is electrically connected with at least one of the field plates.
US11462618B2
An SOI semiconductor device includes a substrate, a buried oxide layer disposed on the substrate, a top semiconductor layer disposed on the buried oxide layer, a source doping region and a drain doping region in the top semiconductor layer, a channel region between the source doping region and the drain doping region in the top semiconductor layer, a gate electrode on the channel region, and an embedded doping region disposed in the top semiconductor layer and directly under the channel region. The embedded doping region acts as a hole sink to alleviate or avoid floating body effects.
US11462614B2
Semiconductor devices and their manufacturing methods are disclosed herein, and more particularly to semiconductor devices including a transistor having gate all around (GAA) transistor structures and manufacturing methods thereof. Different thickness in an epi-growth scheme is adopted to create different sheet thicknesses within the same device channel regions for use in manufacturing vertically stacked nanostructure (e.g., nanosheet, nanowire, or the like) GAA devices. A vertically stacked nanostructure GAA device may be formed with a topmost channel region that is thinner than a bottommost channel region. Furthermore, the topmost channel region of the GAA device may be formed with lightly doped drain regions with a highest concentration and/or a greater degree of lateral diffusion of implanted dopants as compared to the bottommost channel region.
US11462607B2
A display substrate includes: a base substrate having a display area and a peripheral area surrounding the display area; an electroluminescent device disposed on the base substrate and located in the display area, the electroluminescent device including an anode, an electroluminescent layer, and a cathode disposed in this order on the base substrate; a negative power line disposed on the base substrate and located in the peripheral area, the negative power line extending along a side of the base substrate and being electrically connected to the cathode; and an insulating layer between the base substrate and the negative power line, a side of the insulating layer close to the negative power line being provided with at least a trench. The trench is located in the peripheral area and extends in an extending direction of the negative power line, a part of the negative power line being located in the trench.
US11462603B2
A light emitting display device includes: a substrate; a semiconductor layer disposed on the substrate; a first insulating layer disposed on the semiconductor layer; a first gate conductor disposed on the first insulating layer; a second insulating layer disposed on the first gate conductor; a second gate conductor disposed on the second insulating layer; an interlayer insulating layer disposed on the second gate conductor; a data conductor disposed on the interlayer insulating layer; a passivation layer disposed on the data conductor; a diode first electrode disposed on the passivation layer; a partition wall disposed on the diode first electrode and including an opening overlapping the diode first electrode; a light emitting layer; and a diode second electrode. The data conductor includes a first inclined surface and a second inclined surface, and an area of the first inclined surface is different from an area of the second inclined surface.
US11462595B2
Disclosed are display panels and methods of fabricating the same. The display panel includes a base substrate having a pixel area and a peripheral area adjacent to the pixel area, a light emitting element on the base substrate to generate a first light and overlapping the pixel area, a light control layer on the light emitting element to convert the first light into a white light, and a color filter layer on the light control layer and includes a first color filter that allows penetration of the first light, a second color filter that allows penetration of a second light different from the first light, and a third color filter that allows penetration of a third light different from the first light and the second light.
US11462587B2
A display panel and a fabricating method thereof are provided. The display panel includes: a substrate; and an array of pixels on the substrate, each pixel having a sub-pixel region and a photosensitive region, wherein the sub-pixel region includes a light emitting structure; the photosensitive region is configured to sense light emitted by the light emitting structure and reflected by a finger; and the photosensitive region includes a photosensitive thin film transistor having a vertical channel with respect to the substrate.
US11462585B2
Disclosed is a resistive random access memory (RRAM). The RRAM includes a bottom electrode made of tungsten and a switching layer made of hafnium oxide disposed above the bottom electrode, wherein the switching layer includes a switchable filament. The RRAM further includes a resistive layer disposed above the switching layer and a bit line disposed above the resistive layer, wherein the resistive layer extends laterally to connect two or more memory cells along the bit line.
US11462583B2
A semiconductor device structure includes a metallization stack that has one or more patterned metal layers in a logic area and a memory area. At least one memory device is disposed above the metallization stack. A first level logic metal layer is coupled to a patterned metal layer of the one or more patterned metal layers in the logic area. A first level memory metal layer is formed above the first level logic metal layer and is coupled to a top electrode of the memory device stack. A distance between the one or more patterned metal layers in the logic area and the first level logic metal layer is smaller than the distance between the one or more patterned metal layers in the memory area and the first level memory metal layer.
US11462582B2
The present disclosure relates to a solid-state image pickup device, a manufacturing method, and an electronic apparatus, which can obtain high charge transfer efficiency from a photoelectric conversion unit to a floating diffusion layer. The floating diffusion layer is arranged in a rectangular shape so as to surround a gate electrode of a vertical transistor whose groove portion is rectangular. A reset drain is formed so as to be adjacent to the floating diffusion layer through a reset gate. A potential of the floating diffusion layer is reset to the same potential as that of the reset drain by applying a predetermined voltage to the reset gate. It is possible to apply the present disclosure to, for example, a CMOS solid-state image pickup device used in an image pickup device such as a camera.
US11462579B2
A method for forming a transfer gate includes (i) forming a dielectric pillar on a surface of a semiconductor substrate and (ii) growing an epitaxial layer on the semiconductor substrate and surrounding the dielectric pillar. The dielectric pillar has a pillar height that exceeds an epitaxial-layer height of the epitaxial layer relative to the surface. The method also includes removing the dielectric pillar to yield a trench in the epitaxial layer. A pixel includes a doped semiconductor substrate having a front surface opposite a back surface. The front surface forms a trench extending a depth zT with respect to the front surface within the doped semiconductor substrate along a direction z perpendicular to the front surface and the back surface. The pixel has a dopant concentration profile, a derivative thereof with respect to direction z being discontinuous at depth zT.
US11462573B2
A display panel includes a base substrate, a pixel including a thin film transistor and a display element, a first signal line connected to the pixel, and a second signal line disposed on a layer different from the first signal line. At least one of the first signal line and the second signal line includes a lower layer including a conductive material and an upper layer disposed on the lower layer and including a conductive material. The upper layer has an etch selectivity in a range equal to or greater than about 0.5 and equal to or smaller than about 3 with respect to the lower layer.
US11462571B2
A thin film transistor array panel includes a substrate; a plurality of gate lines that are formed on the substrate; a plurality of data lines that intersect the gate lines; a plurality of thin film transistors that are connected to the gate lines and the data lines; a plurality of color filters that are formed on upper parts of the gate lines, the data lines, and the thin film transistors; a common electrode that is formed on the color filters and that includes a transparent conductor; a passivation layer that is formed on an upper part of the common electrode; and a plurality of pixel electrodes that are formed on an upper part of the passivation layer and that are connected to a drain electrode of each of the thin film transistors.
US11462562B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device comprising: a first stacked structure in which first insulating layers and first conductive layers are alternately stacked; a second stacked structure in which second insulating layers and second conductive layers are alternately stacked; a first memory pillar provided in the first stacked structure; a first dividing structure dividing the first conductive layers; a second memory pillar provided within the second stacked structure and connected to the first memory pillar; a second dividing structure dividing the second conductive layers; a first alignment mark pillar provided in the first stacked structure and projecting from the first stacked structure; a second alignment mark pillar provided on the first alignment mark pillar; an alignment mark surrounded by the second alignment mark pillar.
US11462558B2
Embodiments of staircase structures of a three-dimensional memory device and fabrication method thereof are disclosed. The semiconductor structure includes a first and a second film stacks, wherein the first film stack is disposed over the second film stack and has M1 number of layers. The second film stack has M2 number of layers. M1 and M2 are whole numbers. The semiconductor structure also includes a first and a second staircase structures, wherein the first staircase structure is formed in the first film stack and the second staircase structure is formed in the second film stack. The first and second staircase structures are next to each other with an offset.
US11462555B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor storage device includes a first structural body on a semiconductor material. The first structural body having a plurality of first conductive films and a plurality of first insulating films that are alternately stacked. A first columnar body penetrates the first structural body and includes a first epitaxial layer on an end adjacent to the semiconductor material. A second columnar body also penetrates the first structural body and includes a second epitaxial layer on an end adjacent to the semiconductor material. A portion of the second epitaxial layer is doped with boron.
US11462546B2
A method may include providing a substrate, the substrate comprising a substrate base and a patterning stack, disposed on the substrate base. The substrate may include first linear structures in the patterning stack, the first linear structures being elongated along a first direction; and second linear structures in the patterning stack, the second linear structures being elongated along a second direction, the second direction forming a non-zero angle with respect to the first direction. The method may also include selectively forming a set of sidewall spacers on one set of sidewalls of the second linear structures.
US11462538B2
A novel semiconductor device is provided. A back gate voltage of a transistor including a gate and a back gate is adjusted based on the operating temperature. The operating temperature is acquired by a temperature detector circuit. The temperature detection circuit outputs the temperature information as a digital signal. The digital signal is input to a voltage control circuit. The voltage control circuit outputs a first voltage corresponding to the digital signal. The back gate voltage is determined by a voltage in which a first voltage is added to a reference voltage.
US11462532B2
A bidirectional transient voltage suppressor (TVS) circuit for data pins of electronic devices includes two sets of steering diodes and a diode triggered clamp device in some embodiment. In other embodiments, a bidirectional transient voltage suppressor (TVS) circuit for data pins of electronic devices includes two sets of steering diodes with a clamp device merged with a steering diode in each set. The TVS circuit is constructed to realize low capacitance at the protected nodes and improved clamping voltage for robust protection against surge evens. In some embodiments, the TVS circuit realizes low capacitance at the protected nodes by fully or almost completely depleting the P-N junction connected to the protected nodes in the operating voltage range. In this manner, the TVS circuit does not present undesirable parasitic capacitance to the data pins being protected, especially when the data pins are applied in high speed applications.
US11462526B2
A pixel structure of a display apparatus includes an electrode line, at least one ultra small light-emitting diode, and a connection electrode. The electrode line includes a second electrode separated from a first electrode and at a same level as the first electrode on a base substrate. The at least one ultra small light-emitting diode is on the base substrate and has a length less than a distance between the first and second electrodes. A connection electrode includes a first contact electrode connecting the first electrode to the ultra small light-emitting diode and a second contact electrode connecting the second electrode to the ultra small light-emitting diode.
US11462524B2
A light emitting structure includes a substrate, at least one light emitting chip disposed on the substrate and, a side wall disposed on the substrate and surrounding the at least one light emitting chip, a cover disposed on the side wall, an anti-reflective coating disposed on the cover, and a protective layer disposed on outside of the cover, wherein the cover, the side wall and the substrate define an enclosed space for accommodating the at least one light emitting chip.
US11462520B2
The present invention provides a chip integration module, including a die, a passive device, and a connecting piece, where the die is provided with a die bonding portion, the passive device is provided with a passive device bonding portion, the die bonding portion of the die and the passive device bonding portion of the passive device are disposed opposite to each other, and the connecting piece is disposed between the die bonding portion and the passive device bonding portion and is connected to the die bonding portion and the passive device bonding portion. The chip integration module of the present invention achieves easy integration and has low costs. Moreover, a path connecting the die to the passive device becomes shorter, which can improve performance of the passive device. The present invention further discloses a chip package structure and a chip integration method.
US11462503B2
Embodiments of bonded semiconductor structures and fabrication methods thereof are disclosed. In an example, a method for forming a semiconductor device is disclosed. A first interconnect layer including first interconnects is formed above a first substrate. A first bonding layer including first bonding contacts is formed above the first interconnect layer, such that each first interconnect is in contact with a respective first bonding contact. A second interconnect layer including second interconnects is formed above a second substrate. A second bonding layer including second bonding contacts is formed above the second interconnect layer, such that at least one second bonding contact is in contact with a respective second interconnect, and at least another second bonding contact is separated from the second interconnects. The first and second substrates are bonded in a face-to-face manner, such that each first bonding contact is in contact with one second bonding contact at a bonding interface.
US11462485B2
The present disclosure provides an electronic package. The electronic package includes a substrate, an electronic component, a plurality of conductive elements, a metal sheet and a molding layer. The electronic component is disposed on the substrate and electrically connected to the substrate. The conductive elements are disposed on the substrate and electrically connected with the grounding circuit on the substrate. The metal sheet is disposed above the electronic component and is in electrical contact with the conductive elements. The molding layer is formed between the substrate and the metal sheet to enclose the electronic component and the conductive elements. The present disclosure further provides a method of manufacturing the above electronic package.
US11462477B2
An interconnect structure and an electronic apparatus including the interconnect structure are provided. The interconnect structure includes a conductive layer; a dielectric layer configured to surround at least a part of the conductive layer; and a diffusion barrier layer disposed between the conductive layer and the dielectric layer and configured to limit and/or prevent a conductive material of the conductive layer from diffusing into the dielectric layer, and at least one of the dielectric layer and the diffusion barrier layer includes a boron nitride layer of a low dielectric constant.
US11462464B2
A fan-out semiconductor package including a redistribution line structure is provided. The fan-out semiconductor package includes a plurality of redistribution line insulating layers and a plurality of redistribution line patterns arranged on at least one of an upper surface and a lower surface of each of the plurality of redistribution line insulating layers; at least one semiconductor chip arranged on the redistribution line structure and occupying a footprint having a horizontal width that is less than a horizontal width of the redistribution line structure; and a molding member surrounding the at least one semiconductor chip on the redistribution line structure and having a horizontal width that is greater than the horizontal width of the redistribution line structure, wherein the plurality of redistribution line insulating layers have a cascade structure.
US11462463B2
Microelectronic assemblies, related devices and methods, are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a microelectronic assembly may include a package substrate having a surface; a die having a first surface and an opposing second surface; and a chiplet having a first surface and an opposing second surface, wherein the chiplet is between the surface of the package substrate and the first surface of the die, wherein the first surface of the chiplet is coupled to the surface of the package substrate and the second surface of the chiplet is coupled to the first surface of the die, and wherein the chiplet includes: a capacitor at the first surface; and an element at the second surface, wherein the element includes a switching transistor or a diode.
US11462462B2
Semiconductor packages may include a semiconductor chip including a chip pad and a lower redistribution that includes a lower redistribution insulating layer and a lower redistribution pattern. The lower redistribution insulating layer may include a top surface facing the semiconductor chip. The semiconductor packages may also include a molding layer on a side of the semiconductor chip and including a bottom surface facing the lower redistribution structure and a conductive post in the molding layer. The conductive post may include a bottom surface contacting the lower redistribution. The top surface of the lower redistribution insulating layer may be closer to a top surface of the conductive post than a top surface of the molding layer. A roughness of the top surface of the molding layer may be greater than a roughness of the top surface of the conductive post.
US11462452B2
A chip package structure including a chip, a stress buffer layer, a first insulating layer, a redistribution layer, a second insulating layer, and a solder ball is provided. The chip has an active surface, a back surface and a peripheral surface. The stress buffer layer covers the active surface and the peripheral surface, and the first insulating layer is disposed on the back surface. A bottom surface of the stress buffer layer is aligned with the back surface of the chip. The redistribution layer is electrically connected to the chip through an opening of the stress buffer layer. The second insulating layer covers the stress buffer layer and the redistribution layer. The solder ball is disposed in a blind hole of the second insulating layer and electrically connected to the redistribution layer. A top surface of the solder ball protrudes from an upper surface of the second insulating layer.
US11462432B2
A system is disclosed, which comprises a component carrier having a first side, and a second side opposite the first side; and a light source to couple light into the carrier. In an example, the carrier is to propagate, through internal reflection, at least a portion the light to both the first and second sides of the carrier. The portion of light may be sufficient to release a first component and second component affixed to the first and second sides of the carrier via a first photosensitive layer and second photosensitive layer, respectively.
US11462415B2
Methods for polishing dielectric layers using an auto-stop slurry in forming semiconductor devices, such as three-dimensional (3D) memory devices, are provided. For example, a stack structure is formed in a staircase region and a core array region. The stack structure includes a plurality of interleaved first material layers and second material layers. Edges of the interleaved first material layers and second material layers define a staircase structure on a side of the stack structure in the staircase region. A dielectric layer is formed over the staircase region and a peripheral region outside the stack structure. The dielectric layer includes a protrusion from the stack structure. The dielectric layer is polished using an auto-stop slurry to remove the protrusion of the dielectric layer.
US11462408B2
A method of forming an integrated circuit includes forming a patterned mask layer on a material layer, wherein the patterned mask layer has a plurality of first features, and a first distance between adjacent first features of the plurality of first features. The method further includes patterning the material layer to form the first features in the material layer. The method further includes increasing the first distance between adjacent first features of the plurality of first features to a second distance. The method further includes treating portions of the material layer exposed by the patterned mask layer. The method further includes removing the patterned mask layer; and removing non-treated portions of the material layer.
US11462407B2
An etching method includes: forming a second film on a workpiece target including a processing target film, a layer including a plurality of convex portions formed on the processing target film, and a first film that covers the plurality of convex portions and the processing target film exposed between the plurality of convex portions; etching the second film in a state where the second film remains on a portion of the first film that covers a side surface of each of the plurality of convex portions; and etching the first film in a state where the second film remains on the portion of the first film that covers the side surface of each of the plurality of convex portions, thereby exposing a top portion of each of the plurality of convex portions and the processing target film between the plurality of convex portions.
US11462405B2
A pattern-forming method includes forming a prepattern and including a first polymer is formed on a silicon-containing film on a substrate. An underlayer film including a second polymer is formed in recessed portions of the prepattern. A composition for directed self-assembled film formation including a third polymer is applied on the underlayer film and the prepattern. The first polymer includes a first structural unit. The second polymer includes: a molecular chain including the first structural unit and a second structural unit that differs from the first structural unit; and an end structure that bonds to one end of the molecular chain and includes at least one selected from the group consisting of an amino group, a hydroxy group and a carboxy group. The third polymer is a block copolymer including a block of the first structural unit and a block of the second structural unit.
US11462401B2
There is provided a substrate processing apparatus including: a process chamber configured to accommodate and process a plurality of substrates arranged with intervals therebetween; a first nozzle extending along a stacking direction of the substrates and configured to supply a hydrogen-containing gas into the process chamber; and a second nozzle extending along the stacking direction of the substrates and configured to supply an oxygen-containing gas into the process chamber, wherein the first nozzle includes a plurality of first gas supply holes disposed in a region extending from an upper portion to a lower portion of the first nozzle corresponding to a substrate arrangement region where the substrates are arranged, and the second nozzle includes a plurality of second gas supply holes disposed at an upper portion and a lower portion of the second nozzle to correspond to upper substrates and lower substrates of the substrates.
US11462396B2
Embodiments of apparatus for providing radiant energy in the form of electromagnetic radiation are provided herein. In some embodiments a radiation source for electromagnetic radiation includes a tubular body formed from a material transparent to electromagnetic radiation; a filament disposed within the tubular body; and a reflective coating disposed on a portion of the tubular body to form a reflective portion, wherein the reflective portion is configured to minimize reflection of electromagnetic radiation emanating from the filament during use back to the filament.
US11462395B1
The present disclosure relates to the technical field of calibration of basic parameters of mass spectrometers, and provides a method for on-orbit calibration of basic parameters of a mass spectrometer. Based on the characteristic that a molten silicate mineral can adsorb a gas in an environment, under vacuum conditions, a silicate mineral is heated to obtain the molten silicate mineral. The molten silicate mineral is put in an environment with a standard gas for adsorption, rapid cooling is conducted to obtain a standard sample, and the standard sample is preloaded into a thermal control device of the mass spectrometer. When the mass spectrometer enters a definitive orbit for testing a substance, on-orbit heating is conducted on the standard sample to make the adsorbed standard gas released into the mass spectrometer so as to achieve the calibration of the basic parameters of the mass spectrometer.
US11462390B2
Systems and methods for multi-level pulsing of a parameter and multi-level pulsing of a frequency of a radio frequency (RF) signal are described. The parameter is pulsed from a low level to a high level while the frequency is pulsed from a low level to a high level. The parameter and the frequency are simultaneously pulsed to increase a rate of processing a wafer, to increase mask selectivity, and to reduce angular spread of ions within a plasma chamber.
US11462384B2
A method of acquiring a dark-field image for a scanning transmission electron microscope is provided. The scanning transmission electron microscope includes a dark-field detector having an annular detection region which is capable of detecting electrons scattered at a specimen in a predetermined angular range, an objective lens, and an imaging lens group disposed at a stage following the objective lens. The method includes reducing an influence of a geometrical aberration on the electrons scattered in the predetermined angular range by shifting a focus of the imaging lens group from a diffraction plane of the objective lens.
US11462380B2
Systems, methods, and programming are described for inspecting a substrate having a pattern imaged thereon, including obtaining a plurality of selected target locations on the substrate, the selected target locations dependent on characteristics of the pattern, scanning the substrate with a plurality of electron beamlets, wherein the scanning includes individually addressing the beamlets to impinge on the selected target locations independently, detecting a reflected or a transmitted portion of the beamlets, and generating images of the selected target locations.
US11462378B2
An electromagnetic double-armature relay with an excitation coil comprises a first yoke and a second yoke, which are arranged on the excitation coil. The first leg of the first yoke serves as a support for a first armature and the first leg of the second yoke serves as a support for a second armature. The double-armature relay has a first comb which cooperates with the first armature, and a second comb cooperates with the second armature. In addition, the double-armature relay has at least two contact bridges, each of which is detachably arranged with a first end in the first comb and the second end in the second comb and comprises two contact rivets oriented in opposite directions, and fixed contacts which are arranged opposite the contact rivets of the contact bridge. The arrangement of the two yokes and armatures are such that the two combs perform opposing translational movements.
US11462377B2
The invention relates to an electric arc-blast nozzle (5) for a circuit breaker comprising a middle portion (7) forming a throat defining internally an axial passage (13) for interrupting an electric arc, and two end portions (9, 11) extending on either side of the middle portion (7) and being designed to receive respective arcing contacts (1) and (3) that are movable axially relative to each other. The middle portion (7) and the two end portions (9, 11) are made of a same dielectric material obtained from a composition comprising a fluorocarbon polymer matrix, at least one inorganic filler and micro-capsules of liquid heptafluoro-iso-butyronitrile. The invention also relates to a circuit breaker including such a nozzle (5).
US11462368B2
An actuator assembly for actuating an electrical switch housed in sealed electrical enclosure is disclosed. The actuator assembly includes a handle assembly including a handle positioned on an exterior of a cover of the sealed enclosure, a trip bracket positioned within the sealed enclosure and a shaft connecting the handle to the trip bracket. A slider actuator is slidably mounted over an electrical switch positioned within the enclosure and operatively associated with or coupled to a toggle of the electrical switch. The slider actuator has a drive link which is adapted to engage the trip bracket such that rotation of the handle activates the drive link which causes linear movement of the slider actuator to move the electrical switch between on and off positions. The use of the slider actuator allows a higher density of electrical switches to be stacked within the sealed enclosure.
US11462362B2
A high density energy storage system including a giant-colossal dielectric thin film material electrically insulating between two electrodes configured to have increased overlapping surface area.
US11462356B2
In an internal combustion engine use ignition device includes an ignition coil which has a primary coil and a secondary coil, that are wound around a core, a superimpose circuit which generates an output energy, that is to be superimposed with respect to a secondary current, produced in the secondary coil by the primary coil, a first switch element which is connected to the primary coil and turns on or off of a current to the primary coil, a second switch element which is connected to the superimpose circuit, and stops an operation in a case where the first switch element is turned on, and performs an operation in a case where the first switch element is turned off, and a common input terminal which receives a first driving signal for driving the first switch element and a second driving signal for driving the second switch element.
US11462349B2
A resonance damping element for a power converter having a positive busbar and a negative busbar, wherein the resonance damping element comprises a magnetic core formed with two openings through which the positive busbar and the negative busbar of the power converter are to be routed, respectively.
US11462347B2
A coil component includes an annular core and a first coil and a second coil wound around the core. The first coil and the second coil include first wire members and second wire members. The second wire members have end surfaces and which are brought into contact with side surfaces of first and second joining portions at tips of the first wire members. The first wire members and the second wire members are joined to each other with welding portions between the side surfaces of the first and second joining portions at the tips of the first wire members and the end surfaces of the second wire members interposed therebetween.
US11462338B2
A scintillation crystal can include a sodium halide that is co-doped with thallium and another element. In an embodiment, the scintillation crystal can include NaX:Tl, Me, wherein X represents a halogen, and Me represents a Group 1 element, a Group 2 element, a rare earth element, or any combination thereof. In a particular embodiment, the scintillation crystal has a property including, for radiation in a range of 300 nm to 700 nm, an emission maximum at a wavelength no greater than 430 nm; or an energy resolution less than 6.4% when measured at 662 keV, 22° C., and an integration time of 1 microsecond. In another embodiment, the co-dopant can be Sr or Ca. The scintillation crystal can have lower energy resolution, better proportionality, a shorter pulse decay time, or any combination thereof as compared to the sodium halide that is doped with only thallium.
US11462336B2
A pig for transporting a container of biohazardous material, wherein the container comprises a bottle and a bottle closure. The pig includes a body comprising a compartment dimensioned to receive the container; a cap attachable to the body for closing the compartment thereby to shieldingly contain the biohazardous material in the container, the cap including: a collar sealingly engageable with the body and having an opening therethrough in communication with the compartment thereby to provide access to the bottle closure; a cap closure sealingly engageable within the opening of the collar to sealingly close the opening and cause the bottle closure to be gripped within the cap, wherein when the collar is disengaged from the body while the cap closure is engaged within the opening of the collar, the container remains gripped within the cap. A system for transporting and providing access to a biohazardous material includes the pig and an insert sealingly engageable within the opening of the collar while the cap closure is removed, the insert comprising an injection port extending fully therethrough in axial alignment with the compartment thereby to guide insertion of a syringe centrally through the container closure and into the container. A compression member for insertion into a pig for transporting a container of biohazardous materials is also provided. The compression member includes a flange; and spaced apart fingers supported by the flange and together forming a circle, the fingers each having a substantially vertical component extending upwards from the flange and a substantially horizontal component extending inwards from an end of the substantially vertical component distal from the flange, the spaced apart fingers resiliently compressible inwardly against the container by compressive engagement of a complementary annulus of the pig into which the compression member is dimensioned to be inserted.
US11462335B2
A supporting force inspection device for inspecting a supporting force of a vibration suppression member interposed between bend portions of a plurality of heat transfer tubes of a steam generator includes: an acceleration sensor for detecting a vibration state of the bend portion; a sensor holding part disposed inside the heat transfer tube and configured to hold the acceleration sensor; and a vibration force generation part configured to generate a vibration force for vibrating the heat transfer tube along a plane in which a curvature circle of the bend portion exists. The vibration force generation part is configured to cooperate with the sensor holding part and vibrate the heat transfer tube along the plane in which the curvature circle exists.
US11462320B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for providing automated or semi-automated technical support for patients using medical devices, such as continuous glucose monitoring systems. Disclosed embodiments of automated tech support system include collection and storage of copies of streams of medical device data on multiple servers, analysis and comparison of data streams, remote tech support initiation and usage of the automated tech support system for providing improved products and services by storing and analyzing historical tech support data.
US11462318B2
A system for computer-aided triage includes a router, a remote computing system, and a client application. Additionally or alternatively, the system 100 can include any number of computing systems, servers, storage, lookup table, memory, and/or any other suitable components. A method for computer-aided triage includes receiving a data packet associated with a patient and taken at a first point of care; checking for a suspected condition associated with the data packet; in an event that the suspected condition is detected, determining a recipient based on the suspected condition; and transmitting information to a device associated with the recipient.
US11462315B2
A medical scan viewing system is conFIG.d to: receive a first medical scan and a second medical scan from a medical picture archive system, the first medical scan associated with a unique patient ID and a first scan date and the second medical scan associated with the unique patient ID and a second scan date; identify locations of anatomical landmarks in the first medical scan; identifying corresponding locations of the anatomical landmarks in the second medical scan; co-register the first medical scan with the second medical scan based on the locations of the anatomical landmarks in the first medical scan with the corresponding locations of the anatomical landmarks in the second medical scan; and present for display, via an interactive user interface, the first medical scan with the second medical scan, wherein the first medical scan and the second medical scan are synchronously presented, based on the co-registering.
US11462312B1
A medication inventory system may include a medication tray that includes compartments for storing respective medications with each medication having a respective medication identifier associated therewith. The medication tray may have a tray identifier associated therewith. The medication inventory system may also include a mobile wireless communications device configured to obtain images of the medication tray and generate a current medication stocking list of the medication tray from the images. The medication inventory system may also be configured to determine a desired medication stocking list for the medication tray based upon the tray identifier and determine at least one missing medication based upon the current medication stocking list and the desired medication stocking list.
US11462311B2
Apparatus for plotting pathological diagnoses on anatomical diagrams is provided. The apparatus may include a mapping tool. The mapping tool may identify a plurality of biopsy marker records including a received criterion. The mapping tool may identify a body part image associated with a body part image ID. The mapping tool may section the body part image into a first quadrant and a second quadrant. The mapping tool may loop through the plurality of biopsy marker records to identify an X,Y coordinate associated with each of the plurality of biopsy marker records. For each X,Y coordinate identifying a location within the first quadrant, the mapping tool may iteratively tally a first count for the first quadrant. For each X,Y coordinate identifying a location within the second quadrant, the mapping tool may iteratively tally a second count for the second quadrant.
US11462310B2
The de-identification system can be operable to receive, from at least one first entity, a medical scan and a corresponding medical report. A set of patient identifiers can be identified in a subset of fields of a header of the medical scan. A de-identified medical scan can be generated by replacing the subset of fields of the header of the medical scan with a corresponding set of anonymized fields generated by performing a header anonymization function. A subset of patient identifiers of the set of patient identifiers can be identified in the medical report. A de-identified medical report can be generated by replacing each of the subset of patient identifiers with corresponding anonymized placeholder text generated by performing a text anonymization function on the subset of patient identifiers. The de-identified medical scan and the de-identified medical report can be transmitted to a second entity via a network.
US11462309B2
An electrocardiogram (ECG) interpretation system is operable to receive a captured image of an ECG printout. A waveform detection function is performed on the captured image to determine a plurality of locations of a plurality of ECG waveforms in the captured image. A plurality of waveform images are generated by partitioning the captured image based on the plurality of locations, where each of the plurality of waveform images includes one of the plurality of ECG waveforms. A plurality of pseudo-raw ECG signal data is generated by performing a signal reconstruction function on each of the plurality of waveform images, where each of the plurality of pseudo-raw ECG signal data corresponds to one of the plurality of waveform images. Diagnosis data is generated by performing a diagnosing function on the plurality of pseudo-raw ECG signal data. The diagnosis data is transmitted to a client device for display via a display device.
US11462299B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for optimizing the determination of a phenotypic impact of a molecular variant identified in molecular tests, samples, or reports of subjects by way of regularly incorporating, updating, monitoring, validating, selecting, and auditing the best-performing evidence models for the interpretation of molecular variants across a plurality of evidence classes.
US11462297B2
Methods and compositions related to the selective, specific disruption of multiple ligand-receptor signaling interactions, such as ligand-receptor interactions implicated in disease, are disclosed. These interactions may involve multiple cytokines in a single receptor family or multiple ligand receptor interactions from at least two distinct ligand-receptor families. The compositions may comprise polypeptides having composite sequences that comprise sequence fragments of two or more ligand binding sites. The methods and compositions may involve sequence fragments of two or more ligand binding sites that are arranged to conserve the secondary structure of each of the ligands from which the sequence fragments were taken.
US11462285B2
The present technology relates to an electronic device. For example, the present technology relates to a memory device and a method of operating the memory device. A memory device according to an embodiment includes a memory cell, a page buffer, and a test performer configured to control the page buffer to sequentially apply a first test voltage and a second test voltage of a level lower than a level of the first test voltage to a sensing node of the page buffer through a bit line, and detect a defect of the sensing node according to whether a potential level of the sensing node is changed.
US11462281B1
Control logic in a memory device identifies a first group of wordlines associated with a first subset of memory cells of a set of memory cells to be programmed. A first dynamic start voltage operation including a first set of programming pulses and a first set of program verify operations is executed on a first portion of the first subset of memory cells to identify a first dynamic start voltage level, the executing of the first dynamic start voltage operation includes causing the first set of programming pulses to be applied to at least a portion of the first group of wordlines. A second set of programming pulses including at least one programming pulse having the first dynamic start voltage level are caused to be applied to the first group of wordlines to program a second portion of the first subset of memory cells of the set of memory cells. A second group of wordlines associated with a second subset of memory cells to be programmed is identified. A second dynamic start voltage operation including a third set of programming pulses and a second set of program verify operations are executed on a first portion of the second subset of memory cells to identify a second dynamic start voltage level.
US11462278B2
Embodiments herein disclose a method for managing seed value for data scrambling in a NAND memory. The method includes detecting, by a NAND controller, a first scrambling of the data of a word line in the NAND memory. The method further includes caching, by the NAND controller, at least one of a last written data of the word line post the first scrambling for each open block in a Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) for programming the word line, and a super page of the last written data of the word line in the DRAM for programming the super page. The method can be used to manage the seed value which is used for NAND page scrambling, which can reduce retention effect. As a result, the retention recycles for the NAND cells may be reduced, which may improve endurance.
US11462267B2
A system may include a multi-lead memristor. The multi-lead memristor may include a first lead, a second lead, a third lead, a first memristor material, and a second memristor material. The second lead may be positioned between the first lead and the third lead. The first memristor material may be positioned between the first lead and the second lead. The second memristor material may be positioned between the second lead and the third lead.
US11462263B2
A memory is provided that is configured to practice both a normal read operation and also a burst mode read operation. A column multiplexer selects from a plurality of columns using a pair of pass transistor for each column. The column multiplexer drives a true input node and a complement input node of an output data latch.
US11462260B2
A nonvolatile memory device includes a memory cell array and a row decoder. The memory cell array includes a plurality of mats. A first cell string of first mat is connected to a plurality of first word-lines, a first bit-line and a first string selection line. A second cell string of second mat is connected to a plurality of second word-lines, a second bit-line and a second string selection line. Each of the first and second cell strings includes a ground selection transistor, memory cells, and a string selection transistor coupled in series. The row decoder applies a first voltage to a third word-line among the plurality of first and second word-lines for a first period of time in a single mat mode and to apply a second voltage to the third word-line for a second period of time longer than the first period of time in a multi-mat mode.
US11462255B2
A memory device including: a plurality of pins for receiving control signals from an external device; a first bank having first memory cells, wherein the first bank is activated in a first operation mode and a second operation mode; a second bank having second memory cells, wherein the second bank is deactivated in the first operation mode and activated in the second operation mode; a processing unit configured to perform an operation on first data, output from the first memory cells, and second data, output from the second memory cells, in the second operation mode; and a processing-in-memory (PIM) mode controller configured to select mode information, indicating one of the first operation mode and the second operation mode, in response to the control signals and to control at least one memory parameter, at least one mode register set (MRS) value, or a refresh mode according to the mode information.
US11462248B1
A playback of a video may be generated to include accompaniment of music. For parts of the video that includes voice, an instrumental version of the music may be used. For parts of the video that does not include voice, a singing version of the music may be used.
US11462240B2
According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk device includes a disk, a head that has a write head that writes data to the disk and a read head that reads data from the disk, and a controller that changes an offset amount during read processing according to a vibration applied by a disturbance.
US11462238B2
The present system ensures that external noise sources do not taint sensor data recorded about a user's sleep parameters, to reduce false positives and false negatives, and provides a more accurate record of the user's sleep sounds, by cycling on and off noise sources. Additionally, the present system, in one embodiment, may be used to track changes in sound patterns from the user and from the environment. This may lead to early warning of health issues, as well as issues with the devices in the bedroom.
US11462235B2
A camera system for extracting a sound of a specific area includes: a camera device configured to receive video signals and audio signals from an area; at least one memory configured to store information about the area including data corresponding to the video signals and the audio signals from the area; and a processor configured to change an audio zooming point of the camera device from a first point, in an image of the area captured by the camera device, to a second point based on the information about the area, and perform a beam-forming on an audio signal corresponding to the second point.
US11462227B2
The present application discloses a method for determining a delay between signals, an apparatus, a device and a storage medium, and relates to voice technology. In the method, apparatus, device, and storage medium provided by the present disclosure, by performing down-sampling processing on the signals, the amount of calculation for determining the delay can be reduced, thereby improving the determination efficiency. Moreover, signal segments including alignment positions of the two signals can be estimated in the signal through a currently determined delay, and then the processing can be performed again on the signal segments. In this way, a range for determination can be gradually reduced, that is, an accurate delay can be obtained by just processing shorter signals, which not only ensures the accuracy of the determination, but also reduces the amount of data processing.
US11462225B2
Method and apparatus are provided for reconstructing a noise component of a speech/audio signal. A bitstream is received and decoded to obtain a speech/audio signal. A first speech/audio signal is determined according to the speech/audio signal. A symbol of each sample value in the first speech/audio signal and an amplitude value of each sample value in the first speech/audio signal is determined. An adaptive normalization length and an adjusted amplitude value of each sample value are determined according to the adaptive normalization length and the amplitude value of each sample value. A second speech/audio signal is determined according to the symbol of each sample value and the adjusted amplitude value of each sample value.
US11462208B2
Some techniques described herein determine a correction model for a dialog system, such that the correction model corrects output from an automatic speech recognition (ASR) subsystem in the dialog system. A method described herein includes accessing training data. A first tuple of the training data includes an utterance, where the utterance is a textual representation of speech. The method further includes using an ASR subsystem of a dialog system to convert the utterance to an output utterance. The method further includes storing the output utterance in corrective training data that is based on the training data. The method further includes training a correction model based on the corrective training data, such that the correction model is configured to correct output from the ASR subsystem during operation of the dialog system.
US11462202B2
In a first system signal processing unit, an adaptive filter generates a noise cancel sound, a first system selector selects an output of a first system auxiliary filter corresponding to a noise cancel position matching a detected position of a right ear of a user from a plurality of first system auxiliary filters corresponding to different noise cancel positions, and a first system subtractor subtracts the selected output from an output of a first microphone and outputs the subtracted result as an error signal to a first system adaptive filter and a second system adaptive filter of a second system signal processing unit. The noise cancel positions are arranged at predetermined intervals in a space where the user can move the right ear due to turning and side bending of the head within a predetermined range in the up-down and front-back directions.
US11462200B2
The present technology relates to a signal processing apparatus and method, and a program that can easily make a leaking sound difficult to hear. A signal processing apparatus includes a masking sound generation unit that, in a case where a first content is reproduced in a first region and a second content is reproduced in a second region by wave field synthesis using a speaker array, generates a masking sound for masking a sound of the first content and a sound of the second content heard in a region between the first region and the second region. The present technology can be applied to content reproduction systems.
US11462199B2
A hybrid actuator includes a housing for defining an external appearance, a stator having a coil, a vibrator having a permanent magnet which vibrates due to a mutual electromagnetic force with the stator, an elastic member for elastically supporting the vibrator relative to the housing, and a piezoelectric element attached to one surface of the housing.
US11462196B1
A musical instrument support has pivoting clamp members, with a first clamp member attached to a base member and a second clamp member attached to a shuttle member, with an adjustable distance between the two clamp members. The first clamp member and the second clamp member pivot independently of each other, thereby allowing attachment to a musical instrument having a variable or uneven body thickness. The musical instrument support may also have a socket attached to the bottom of the member. A support pillar may be attached to the base member, such as by a ball end of the support pillar received within the socket, which allows the angle of the support pillar to be changed with respect to the base member and with respect to the instrument. An opposite end of the support pillar may be attached to a leg support or extend to the floor.
US11462193B2
A control system for a switchable privacy display apparatus comprises an ambient light sensor and a display luminance controller arranged to control the luminance of the display in response to measured illuminance. High image visibility is provided for public mode operation while in privacy mode visual security level above a perceived privacy threshold may be obtained by means of control of image luminance, in response to the output of the ambient light sensor.
US11462189B2
A driving circuit for a display panel includes a common voltage generating circuit. The common voltage generating circuit is coupled to multiple common electrodes of the display panel and configured to provide multiple common voltages respectively to the common electrodes. During a frame period, the common voltage generating circuit respectively changes a voltage level of the common voltages at different time.
US11462183B2
A variety of methods for driving electro-optic displays so as to reduce visible artifacts are described. Such methods include (a) applying a first drive scheme to a non-zero minor proportion of the pixels of the display and a second drive scheme to the remaining pixels, the pixels using the first drive scheme being changed at each transition; (b) using two different drive schemes on different groups of pixels so that pixels in differing groups undergoing the same transition will not experience the same waveform; (c) applying either a balanced pulse pair or a top-off pulse to a pixel undergoing a white-to-white transition and lying adjacent a pixel undergoing a visible transition; (d) driving extra pixels where the boundary between a driven and undriven area would otherwise fall along a straight line; and (e) driving a display with both DC balanced and DC imbalanced drive schemes, maintaining an impulse bank value for the DC imbalance and modifying transitions to reduce the impulse bank value.
US11462180B1
In various embodiments, a system includes a mesh layer including a plurality of LEDs, where at least a subset of the LEDs is selectively controllable to control lighting of the mesh layer. The system further includes a screen layer at least partially aligned with the mesh layer, wherein the screen layer is configured to: be illuminated from behind by the mesh layer, and at least partially absorb light projected onto the screen layer.
US11462170B2
A scan driver includes: a plurality of first stages configured to sequentially output a plurality of intermediate scan signals based on a scan start signal; a plurality of masking transistors respectively connected to a plurality of output terminals of the plurality of first stages, and configured to selectively transfer the plurality of intermediate scan signals in response to a masking signal, respectively; and a plurality of second stages including a plurality of input terminals respectively connected to the plurality of masking transistors, and configured to selectively output a plurality of scan signals based on the plurality of intermediate scan signals selectively transferred by the plurality of masking transistors.
US11462167B2
A display device and a method of driving the same. The display device may include: a first pixel area including first pixels and first data lines coupled to the first pixels; a second pixel area including second pixels and second data lines coupled to the second pixels; a first non-pixel area disposed on one side of the first pixel area such that the first non-pixel area borders the first and second pixel areas; a data driver configured to output data signals corresponding to the first and second pixels through first and second output lines, respectively; and a switch unit including a first switch unit having a demux configured to alternately couple each of the first output lines to corresponding first data lines, and a second switch unit configured to couple the second output lines to the respective different second data lines.
US11462156B2
The present disclosure relates to a display device and a method of driving the same. The display device includes a substrate, a display panel including a first display area including first pixels, a second display area including second pixels, and a third display area disposed between the first and second display areas and including third pixels, and a component disposed between the substrate and the display panel so as to overlap the second display area. Transmittance of the second display area is higher than transmittance of the first display area and transmittance of the third display area, and the third pixels are controlled such that a luminance gradually changes according to a distance from the second display area.
US11462153B2
An LED display device includes an LED array and a driver system thereof. The LED display device is configured so that LEDs in the LED array can switch between receiving scan signals at their anodes or receiving scan signals at their cathodes.
US11462152B2
A display device includes: a pixel including a first transistor connected between a first node and a second node to generate a driving current; an emission driver supplying an emission control signal; a scan driver supplying first to fourth scan signals in a period in which the emission control signal is supplied; a data drive supplying a data signal; a power supply supplying a voltage of a first power source; and a timing controller controlling driving of the scan driver, the emission driver, the data driver, and the power supply The first scan signal controls a timing at which the voltage of the first power source is supplied to the first node or the second node. The power supply changes a level of the voltage of the first power source in one frame period.
US11462147B2
A display panel and an electronic device is provided. A voltage drop value of the clock input transistor of a pull-up module of m1st GOA unit connected to an n1st clock signal line is greater than a voltage drop value of the clock input transistor of a pull-up module of m2nd GOA unit connected to the n2nd clock signal line. Based on this circuit structure, a CK impedance difference existing in 8K ultra-high resolution electronic devices can be alleviated.
US11462139B2
A self-monitoring method of a display and a display are disclosed. The self-monitoring method of a display includes: inputting a first image test signal; acquiring a display parameter of the first image test signal; acquiring a first display parameter of at least one frame of image outputted, based on the first image test signal, by the display, in which each frame of image of the at least one frame of image corresponds to a corresponding first display parameter; comparing the display parameter of the first image test signal with the first display parameter, determining whether or not an image displayed by the display is matched with the first image test signal so as to acquire a first match result; and determining whether or not display abnormality presents in the display based on the first match result. The method can determine whether or not display abnormality presents in the display.
US11462133B2
An identification assembly for an article that includes a base, an identification plate, and a flexible cable, with the base being planar and having a top surface and a bottom surface, and comprising a plurality of magnet retainers, a plurality of corresponding magnets secured by the magnet retainers and protruding vertically from the top surface, a channel extending lengthwise along the top surface, wherein the height of the magnets is greater than the height of the channel; and the identifying plate being planar and comprising a top surface and a bottom surface, wherein the identifying plate is magnetically attracted to the magnets, and wherein the bottom surface is engaging said magnets; and the flexible cable being situated within the channel and extending beyond two sides of the base.
US11462127B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for enabling item selection in a widget. An example method comprises receiving at an electronic device, from a server, code instructing the electronic device to display a widget having a grid comprising one or more cells configured for point-and-click selection. The method further comprises displaying the grid in accordance with the received code and sending information associated with a currently selected cell to an assistive system on the electronic device. The method further comprises configuring the electronic device for keystroke operation of the widget. The method further comprises identifying a non-entry keystroke, and in response, determining a new cell associated with the grid, selecting the new cell, and sending information associated with the new cell to the assistive system for output to the user. The method further comprises identifying an entry keystroke and, responsive thereto, sending information associated with the new cell to the server.
US11462122B2
A system and method uses an electronic device with a camera and a viewing device to create an augmented reality environment by superimposing a virtual image onto a surface for a user to trace with a drawing apparatus. The system and method can be used to directly copy a virtual image onto a surface by hand and provides training, step by step drawing tools, and image verification. By looking through a user's device and following step by step lessons, the user is guided to complete an image.
US11462119B2
In one embodiment, the invention discloses a method for adapting educational content. The method comprises generating data for each of a plurality of students, the data pertaining to an aspect of the student's interaction with an educational system; combining the generated data to form a combined data set; analyzing the combined data set to identify clusters, each representing similar students according to a mathematical model; and adapting the educational system to provide a customized learning experience for a particular student based on an identified cluster.
US11462118B1
An approach to generating a learning path framework may be provided. A Cognitive Bot may monitor the knowledge stream of a subject matter expert (SME) to glean insights from the activities and events performed by the SME. The CogBot determine categories within the subject matter. The CogBot may tune a grade scoring engine using the insights gleaned from the knowledge stream as a threshold for the grade scoring module. The knowledge stream of a second user may be monitored by a CogBot. A grade score of the subject matter for the second user may be generated by the grade scoring engine. An expertise level associated with the categories may be determined. A learning path framework may be generated based on the generated grade score and expertise level.
US11462112B2
A method is provided in an Advanced Driver-Assistance System (ADAS). The method extracts, from an input video stream including a plurality of images using a multi-task Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), shared features across different perception tasks. The perception tasks include object detection and other perception tasks. The method concurrently solves, using the multi-task CNN, the different perception tasks in a single pass by concurrently processing corresponding ones of the shared features by respective different branches of the multi-task CNN to provide a plurality of different perception task outputs. Each respective different branch corresponds to a respective one of the different perception tasks. The method forms a parametric representation of a driving scene as at least one top-view map responsive to the plurality of different perception task outputs. The method controls an operation of the vehicle for collision avoidance responsive to the at least one top-view map indicating an impending collision.
US11462098B2
This application discloses an infrared light transmit apparatus and a mobile terminal in which the infrared light transmit apparatus is applied. The infrared light transmit apparatus includes an infrared light transmitter and a light cover, where the light cover includes a fixing post and a positioning station that are connected to each other; the fixing post includes a light-in surface and a light-out surface that are disposed opposite to each other and includes a side surface connecting the light-in surface and the light-out surface, the light-in surface is connected to the positioning station, the light-out surface is away from the positioning station, and the side surface is configured to fit a housing of the mobile terminal, so that the light cover is fastened to the housing; and a light concentration surface is formed on a side that is of the positioning station and that is away from the fixing post, the light concentration surface includes a concave curved surface, the light concentration surface faces towards the infrared light transmitter to receive infrared light transmitted by the infrared light transmitter.
US11462096B1
In an aspect, a method includes determining, by a processor of a vehicle, that an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) subscription of the vehicle is set to a low capability subscription. The method includes determining, by the processor, that the low capability subscription is unable to access a network at a current location of the vehicle based on the low capability subscription. The method also includes determining, by the processor and based on sensor data received from one or more sensors of the vehicle, a probability of an accident occurring to the vehicle. The method further includes determining, by the processor, that the probability satisfies a threshold. The method includes switching, by the processor, the OEM subscription from the low capability subscription to a high capability subscription.
US11462094B2
Systems and methods for identifying a condition associated with an individual in a home environment are provided. Sensors associated with the home environment detect data, which is captured and analyzed by a local or remote processor to identify the condition. In some instances, the sensors are configured to capture data indicative of electricity use by devices associated with the home environment, including, e.g., which devices are using electricity, what date/time electricity is used by each device, how long each device uses electricity, and/or the power source for the electricity used by each device. The processor analyzes the captured data to identify any abnormalities or anomalies, and, based upon any identified abnormalities or anomalies, the processor determines a condition (e.g., a medical condition) associated with an individual in the home environment. The processor generates and transmits a notification indicating the condition associated with the individual to a caregiver of the individual.
US11462092B2
A safety system for preventing child abandonment in a motor vehicle is provided. The safety system includes a device installable on a child safety seat, a safety belt, or a seat belt shoulder strap. The device includes a presence sensor configured to detect child safety seat occupancy, and a radio transmitter configured to emit a radio signal within a predefined transmission range and functionally connected to the presence sensor to receive a child safety seat occupancy signal and insert presence information into the radio signal. The safety system includes warning signal receiving devices configured to detect the radio signal within the predefined transmission range and extract presence information from the radio signal, and warning emission means. The presence sensor is a capacitive sensor. Each warning signal receiving device is configured to trigger the warning emission means after initially extracting presence information and subsequently detecting an interruption of the radio signal.
US11462089B1
A method and system is disclosed that can automatically detect smoking conditions for industrial flares. It can analyze live or historical video images to identify smoking conditions and generate a “Smoke Level” value in the range of 0 to 10 to represent the seriousness of the smoking events. The Smoke Level data can be sent to the plant distributed control system (DCS) or other control devices so alarms can be generated and automatic or manual control actions can be taken to stop the flare from smoking quickly. The Smoke Level data can also be saved in historical files for reporting and smoke event tracking purposes. Using the described method and system, industrial plants can comply with EPA regulations at all times, improve flare control and monitoring, be better prepared for EPA reporting and auditing, and save energy and manpower.
US11462087B2
A surveillance camera includes an imaging unit configured to output a video frame, and a control unit configured to set a search range in the video frame and to extract a tracking-target image by using a feature quantity of an image in the search range. In a case where an object image other than the tracking target is contained in the search range, the control unit masks a feature quantity of the object image and extracts the tracking-target image.
US11462067B2
In an embodiment, an in-vehicle apparatus includes a transmitter operable to transmit radio frequency control signals and communication circuitry configured to communicate with a remote computer via a network. The communication circuitry is configured to receive information from the remote computer via the network, the information pertaining to one or more controllable devices of a user account. The apparatus includes a processor configured to: communicate, via the communication circuitry, a transmitter identifier representative of a transmitter code of the transmitter with the remote computer; effect the movable barrier operator to change a state of a movable barrier by causing the transmitter to transmit a first radio frequency control signal to the movable barrier operator system; and effect the movable barrier operator to learn the transmitter by causing the transmitter to transmit a second radio frequency control signal to the movable barrier operator system.
US11462058B2
A system may include a device. The device may be configured to receive machine vibration data identifying a measure of vibration of a machine. The vibration, of the machine, may be caused by a combination of first vibration caused by a motion of components of an undercarriage of the machine and second vibration that is unrelated to the first vibration. The device may be configured to identify a segment, of the machine vibration data, corresponding to the first vibration; transform the segment, using a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT), into a signal in a frequency domain; and analyze the signal to identify a signature spectrum associated with the motion of components. The device may be configured to predict, based on the signature spectrum, an amount of wear of the components. The device may be configured to cause an action to be performed based on the amount of wear of the components.
US11462057B2
Provided is an information processing system including: a roadside apparatus placed at an entrance or an exit of a toll road or a pay facility; a display apparatus placed at the entrance or the exit; and a server capable of communicating with the roadside apparatus. The roadside apparatus includes: a radio communicator performing predetermined radio communications with an onboard apparatus loaded on the vehicle passing through the entrance or the exit; a communicator communicating with the server; and a processor transmitting user information regarding a user owning the vehicle received from the onboard apparatus via the radio communicator to the server via the communicator. The server includes a processor that: receives user information; when the user information is the user information regarding an advertiser, acquires advertisement information corresponding to the advertiser; and transmits an instruction to display the advertisement information on the display apparatus.
US11462055B2
A method of host-directed illumination for verifying the validity of biometric data of a user is provided that includes capturing biometric data from a user with an authentication device during authentication and directing illumination of the biometric data from a host authentication system during the capturing operation. Moreover, the method includes comparing illumination characteristics of the captured biometric data against illumination characteristics expected to result from the directing operation, and determining that the user is a live user when the illumination characteristics of the captured biometric data match the illumination characteristics expected to result from the directing operation.
US11462033B2
The present disclosure relates to method and system for performing classification of real-time input sample using compressed classification model. Classification system receives classification model configured to classify training input sample. Relevant neurons are identified from neurons of the classification model. Classification error is identified for each class. Reward value is determined for the relevant neurons based on relevance score of each neuron and the classification error. Optimal image is generated for each class based on the reward value of the relevant neurons. The optimal image is provided to the classification model for generating classification error vector for each class. The classification error vector is used for identifying pure neurons from the relevant neurons. A compressed classification model comprising the pure neurons is generated. The generated compressed classification model is used for performing the classification of real-time input sample.
US11462031B2
The present disclosure proposes a computer implemented of object recognition of an object to be identified using a method for reconstruction of a 3D point cloud. The method comprises the steps of acquiring, by a mobile device, a plurality of pictures of said object, sending the acquired pictures to a cloud server, reconstructing, by the cloud server, a 3D points cloud reconstruction of the object, performing a 3D match search in a 3D database using the 3D points cloud reconstruction, to identify the object, the 3D match search comprising a comparison of the reconstructed 3D points cloud of the object with 3D points clouds of known objects stored in the 3D database.
US11462026B2
An image processing device includes an edge detector to detect a portion in which a luminance difference between neighboring pixels changes in a direction that increases equal to or more than a first predetermined value as a positive edge and a portion in which the luminance difference between neighboring pixels changes in a direction that decreases equal to or more than a second predetermined value as a negative edge, a grouping portion configured to group the positive edges that have been detected into a positive edge group and the negative edges that have been detected into a negative edge group, and a boundary line setting portion configured to set, as a boundary line: (i) a line connecting end points between the positive edges in the positive edge group; or (ii) a line connecting end points between the negative edges in the negative edge group.
US11462025B2
There is disclosed a method and system for determining a predicted state of a traffic signal. A video of the traffic signal is received. Still images of the traffic signal are generated based on the video. A first machine learning algorithm (MLA) outputs a vector for each bulb in each still image, the vector indicating a predicted status of the bulb. A second MLA determines a predicted state of the traffic signal based on the vectors.
US11462024B2
A traffic signal information management system executes a region-of-interest calculation processing to calculate, based on a position information of a vehicle and a traffic signal information indicating the position of a traffic signal, a region of interest in which a traffic signal is presumed to be present in an image imaged by the camera, and also execute a traffic signal image detection processing to detect a traffic signal image included in the region of interest. The traffic signal information management system then execute an evaluation processing to perform a comparison between the position of the region of interest calculated by the region-of-interest calculation processing and the position of the traffic signal image detected by the traffic signal image detection processing and evaluate the certainty of the traffic signal information based on the comparison.
US11462018B2
Representative image generation technology is provided. A representative image generation method according to embodiments of the present invention includes automatically generating a representative image for a relevant content by recognizing an object in the content, such as a webtoon, an illustration, multiple images related to a particular product, or a user's photograph album.
US11462013B2
The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for recognizing a target object, an electronic device and a storage medium, relating to a field of artificial intelligence. The method includes the following. A target object is recognized from a first image displayed by an imaging camera. A first recognition result of the target object is obtained. The first recognition result of the target object is displayed in the first image. A second recognition result of the target object is obtained and displayed to replace the first recognition result.
US11462005B1
Described is a multiple-camera system and process for re-identifying an agent located in a materials handling facility based on anterior views of agents. An anterior view of a newly detected agent may be partitioned and color signatures generated for each partition. Likewise, stored anterior views of agents (candidate agents) that may potentially be the newly detected agent are partitioned and color signatures generated for each partition. Based on the color signatures, a similarity between the anterior view of the newly detected agent and the candidate agents is determined. The similarity may be used to either determine that the newly detected agent is one of the candidate agents or reduce the set of candidate agents that are considered during a manual review.
US11461999B2
The embodiments of this disclosure disclose an image object detection method, device, electronic equipment, and computer-readable medium. A specific mode of carrying out the method includes: performing region segmentation on a target image to obtain at least one image region; performing feature extraction on each image region in the at least one image region to obtain at least one feature map; generating a semantic relation graph and a spatial distribution relation graph based on the at least one feature map and the at least one image region; generating an image region relation graph based on the semantic relation graph and spatial distribution relation graph; determining a target image region from the at least one image region based on the image region relation graph; displaying the target image region. This implementation mode achieves an improvement of user experience and a growth of network traffic.
US11461996B2
Provided in the present disclosure are a method, an apparatus and a system for determining feature data of image data, and a storage medium. Wherein, the method comprises: acquiring features of image data, the features comprising a first feature and a second feature, wherein, the first feature is extracted from the image data using a first model, the first model being trained in a machine learning manner, and the second feature is extracted from the image data using a second model, the second model being constructed based on a pre-configured data processing algorithm; and determining feature data based on the first feature and the second feature. The present disclosure solves the technical problem that features recognized by the AI may not be consistent with human recognized features.
US11461993B2
Methods and media for determining a list of geographic location candidates from an image of an environment are described. Open-source data indicative of the Earth's surface may be obtained and compared with images obtained from online sources. The images may be automatically analyzed using a plurality of modular convolution neural networks to determined probabilities of interest, environment, and if the image is locatable. Further, the resulting images may be analyzed for skyline and ridgeline depth orders and Region of Interest. A geolocation depicted in the image may be determined by comparing the results of the analysis with global geographic data.
US11461992B2
An object detection system may generate regions of interest (ROIs) from an input image that can be processed by a wide range of object detectors. According to the techniques described herein, an image is processed by a light-weight neural network (e.g., a heatmap network) that outputs object center and object scale heat-maps. The heatmaps are processed to define ROIs that are likely to include objects. Overlapping ROIs are then merged to reduce the aggregate size of the ROIs, and merged ROIs are downscaled to a reduced set of pre-defined resolutions. Fully-convolutional, high-accuracy object detectors may then operate on the downscaled ROIs to output accurate detections at a fraction of the computations by operating on a reduced image. For example, fully-convolutional, high-accuracy object detectors may operate on a subset of the entire image (e.g., cropped images based on ROIs) thus reducing computations otherwise performed over the entire image.
US11461991B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for methods of developing a database of controllable objects in an environment. For example, a method includes a mobile device having a camera to capture images of objects in an environment. For each object, the method includes, in response to receiving a user selection of the object, training a machine-learning model to recognize the object. The method includes receiving a command associated with the object and receiving a plurality of images of the object and training the machine-learning model to recognize the object based on the plurality of images. The method further includes transmitting the trained model and the command to a wearable electronic device causing the wearable electronic device to save the trained machine-learning model to a data store and to associate the command with the trained machine-learning model.
US11461990B2
A method and system for image processing is provided. The method for image processing may include: obtaining an image data set, wherein the image data set includes a first set of volume data; and determining, by the at least one processor, a target anatomy of interest based on the first set of volume data. The determining of the target anatomy of interest may include: determining an initial anatomy of interest in the first set of volume data; and editing the initial anatomy of interest to obtain the target anatomy of interest. The target anatomy of interest may include at least one region of interest (ROI) or at least one volume of interest (VOI). The initial anatomy of interest may include at least one ROI or at least one VOI.
US11461989B2
A monitor method for detecting an object includes capturing an image; calculating an initial probability of the object existing in the image; applying a mask to cover a first portion of the image if the initial probability is higher than a threshold; calculating a first probability of the object existing in the image excluding the first portion; and using at least the first probability to detect the location the object in the image.
US11461988B2
The present invention is directed to a method of transferring a chunk of data between unconnected computing devices. A first chunk of data present in a source computing device can be in a first format that is binary data or nonstandard characters. Encoding, by the source computing device, the first chunk of data to a second chunk of data. The second chunk of data is in a format that is of standard characters. Capturing an image of the second chunk of data by an optical sensor. Receiving of the image by the target computing device. Processing of the image, by the target computing device, to the second chunk of data. Decoding, by the target computing device, the secondary chunk of data to the first chunk of data.
US11461985B2
A system for rendering and modifying three-dimensional models for interior design includes a modeling device configured to receive a current design of an interior space, generate a data structure representing the interior space, by populating a plurality of attributes of the data structure and generating a first three-dimensional model of a first portion of the interior space based on the current design, wherein the first three-dimensional model includes a first feature having a first attribute of the plurality of attributes, and wherein a second attribute of the plurality of the attributes is exterior to the first three-dimensional model, display the first three-dimensional model to a user, receive at least a command to modify the first attribute, modify the first three-dimensional model as a function of the at least a command to modify the first attribute, and modify the second attribute as a function of the modification to the first attribute.
US11461977B2
In one aspect, a controller for engaging with augmented reality (AR) content and/or virtual reality (VR) content includes a housing and a wrist strap engageable with the housing. The controller also includes at least one reel engageable with the housing and the wrist strap to move the housing relative to the wrist strap while the wrist strap is worn by a person to simulate force indicated in the AR or VR content.
US11461976B2
An augmented reality (AR) module receives a location notification including a current location from a client device. The AR module determines an AR tabletop view based on the current location. The AR tabletop view includes geographic information representing a geographic area that includes the current location. The AR module sends the AR tabletop view to the client device. The AR module receives a destination notification including a destination location within the represented geographic area. The AR module transitions the AR tabletop view into an AR world view based on the current location and the destination location. The AR module sends the AR world view to the client device for display.
US11461973B2
Embodiments described herein disclose methods and systems directed to locomotion in virtual reality (VR) based on hand gestures of a user. In some implementations, the user can navigate between locations using hand gestures that trigger teleportation. In other implementations, the user can separately control forward/backward movement and the direction orientation the user is facing. The separate control can either be with one hand when making different gestures or by using different hands to control movement and orientation. In some implementations, a dragging gesture by the user is interpreted by the VR system to trigger movement. In this way, the user can turn in place without moving forward, move forward without turning, or can move forward and turn, while controlling speed, all with a single gesture.
US11461970B1
An electronic apparatus performs a method of extracting color from a two-dimensional (2D) facial image of a real-life person that includes: identifying a plurality of keypoints in the 2D facial image based on a keypoint prediction model; rotating the 2D facial image until the selected keypoints from the plurality of keypoints are aligned; locating a plurality of parts in the rotated 2D facial image, wherein each part is defined by a respective subset of the plurality of keypoints; extracting, from the pixel values of the 2D facial image, the average color for each of the plurality of the parts defined by a corresponding subset of keypoints; and generating a personalized three-dimensional (3D) model of the real-life person that mimics the respective facial feature color of the 2D facial image using the extracted colors of the plurality of the parts in the 2D facial image.
US11461968B2
A computer-implemented method and system for modeling an outer surface, such as skin. The method includes, under the control of one or more computer systems configured with executable instructions, defining a plurality of microstructures such as microstructures to be displayed in microstructure locations on a geometric model of a character or inanimate object, and generating a volumetric mesh including the plurality of microstructures. The volumetric mesh is configured to be applied to the geometric model as an outer surface (e.g., skin) covering the geometric model.
US11461967B2
A method and apparatus for simulating clothes receive a user setting for an area in which shirring is to be expressed in a two-dimensional (2D) pattern of clothes modeled with a mesh including a plurality of polygons, obtain a first line and a second line parallel to the first line from the area based on the user setting, generate inner lines that are perpendicular to at least one of the first line and the second line of the area between the first line and the second line and that have regular intervals, align polygons included in the area of the 2D pattern based on the inner lines, and perform a draping simulation of three-dimensional (3D) clothes corresponding to the 2D pattern in which the shirring is expressed by the aligned polygons.
US11461963B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods that combine physics-based systems with machine learning to generate synthetic LiDAR data that accurately mimics a real-world LiDAR sensor system. In particular, aspects of the present disclosure combine physics-based rendering with machine-learned models such as deep neural networks to simulate both the geometry and intensity of the LiDAR sensor. As one example, a physics-based ray casting approach can be used on a three-dimensional map of an environment to generate an initial three-dimensional point cloud that mimics LiDAR data. According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a machine-learned geometry model can predict one or more adjusted depths for one or more of the points in the initial three-dimensional point cloud, thereby generating an adjusted three-dimensional point cloud which more realistically simulates real-world LiDAR data.
US11461961B2
Techniques are described for operating an optical system. In some embodiments, light associated with a world object is received at the optical system. Virtual image light is projected onto an eyepiece of the optical system. A portion of a system field of view of the optical system to be at least partially dimmed is determined based on information detected by the optical system. A plurality of spatially-resolved dimming values for the portion of the system field of view may be determined based on the detected information. The detected information may include light information, gaze information, and/or image information. A dimmer of the optical system may be adjusted to reduce an intensity of light associated with the world object in the portion of the system field of view according to the plurality of dimming values.
US11461946B2
A digital makeup artist system includes a mobile device, a database system storing cosmetic routine information, common makeup looks, cosmetic products for skin types and ethnicity, and user look preferences of a user. The mobile device includes a user interface for interacting with a digital makeup artist. The digital makeup artist performs an interactive dialog with the user in order to provide advice, including requesting a cosmetic consultation, acquiring information including types of makeup look, indoor or outdoor look, skin condition, facial problem areas, favorite facial features. The computation circuitry analyzes the user's face image to determine facial characteristics, and generates image frames to be displayed in synchronization with the interaction with the digital makeup artist to provide the advice, based on the analyzed face image, needs of the user, the stored cosmetic routine information, common makeup looks, cosmetic products for skin types and ethnicity, and the user look preferences.
US11461938B2
An object of the invention is to provide a user with information that serves as a material for determining whether an image generated by processing including a neural network is valid. A reception signal output by an ultrasonic probe that has received an ultrasonic wave from a subject is received, and an ultrasonic image is generated based on the reception signal. A trained neural network receives the reception signal or the ultrasonic image, and outputs an estimated reception signal or an estimated ultrasonic image. A validity information generation unit generates information indicating validity of the estimated reception signal or the estimated ultrasonic image by using one or more of the reception signal, the ultrasonic image, the estimated reception signal, the estimated ultrasonic image, and output of an intermediate layer of the neural network.
US11461931B2
Provided are systems and methods to perform colour extraction from swatch images and to define new images using extracted colours. Source images may be classified using a deep learning net (e.g. a CNN) to indicate colour representation strength and drive colour extraction. A clustering classifier is trained to use feature vectors extracted by the net. Separately, pixel clustering is useful when extracting the colour. Cluster count can vary according to classification. In another manner, heuristics (with or without classification) are useful when extracting. Resultant clusters are evaluated against a set of (ordered) expected colours to determine a match. Instances of standardized swatch images may be defined from a template swatch image and respective extracted colours using image processing. The extracted colour may be presented in an augmented reality GUI such as a virtual try-on application and applied to a user image such as a selfie using image processing.
US11461922B2
Image processing techniques are described to receive bounding box information that describes a bounding box located around a detected object in an image, determine one or more positions of one or more reference points on the bounding box, determine, for each reference point, 3D world coordinates of a point of intersection of the reference point and the road surface, and assign the 3D world coordinates of the one or more reference points to a location of the detected object.
US11461920B2
A system and method for recognizing an object. The system includes an imaging apparatus for capturing an image of an object and a processor for receiving the captured image of the object, and for, when it is determined that fewer than a predetermined number of objects have been previously imaged, for determining whether the image of the captured object includes one or more characteristics determined to be similar to a same characteristic in a group of previously imaged objects so that the captured image is grouped with the previously imaged objects, or whether the image of the captured object includes one or more characteristics determined to be dissimilar to a same characteristic in a group of previously imaged objects so that the captured image is not grouped with the previously imaged objects, and the image of the captured object starts another group of previously imaged objects.
US11461915B2
Techniques and systems are provided for determining one or more sizes of one or more objects. For example, a bounding region identifying a first object detected in an image can be obtained. A map including map points can also be obtained. The map points correspond to one or more reference locations in a three-dimensional space. The bounding region identifying the first object can be associated with at least one map point of the map points included in the map. Using the bounding region and the at least one map point, an estimated three-dimensional position and an estimated size of the first object detected in the image can be determined. In some examples, other information can be used to estimate the estimated three-dimensional position and an estimated size of the first object, such as radar information and/or other information.
US11461908B2
Disclosed are an image processing method and apparatus, and an image processing device. According to the image processing method and apparatus, and the image processing device, an infrared binocular camera collects images formed when a measured object is illuminated by a speckle pattern projected by a projection assembly to obtain a first image collected by a first camera and a second image collected by a second camera; and three-dimensional data of the measured object is determined according to a pair of images constituted by the first image and the second image. By means of the method, three-dimensional data of a measured object can be relatively accurately obtained through measurement, thereby improving precision and accuracy of measurement, and also precision requirements for a projection assembly are low, so that costs can be lowered.
US11461903B2
Accurate and rapid identification can be performed even when feature vectors of input pixels and background pixels are close. An image processing device includes: a feature extractor which extracts features of pixels from an input image and an input image of a different time; a quantization unit which reduces the number of gradations of features extracted by the feature extractor; a learning unit 107 which learns combinations of the features of pixels through a machine learning algorithm that performs nonlinear identification and constructs a network according to machine learning; an LUT generator 109 which generates an LUT that replaces arithmetic operations of the network constructed by the learning unit 107; a foreground region estimator 103 which rapidly estimates similarity of each pixel of the input image to a foreground by referring to the LUT generated by the LUT generator 109; and a boundary corrector 121 which classifies regions similar to the foreground estimated by the foreground region estimator 103 into the foreground, a background, and an unclassified region including boundary pixels of the foreground and the background and performs boundary correction only on the unclassified region.
US11461899B1
Disclosed is a method for detecting an infection stage of anthracnose pathogen with pre-analysis capacity, comprising: obtaining a plurality of sample sensing data sequences; obtaining a sample citrus leaf image; obtaining a first prediction result; if the first prediction result is that the sample citrus crop is not infected by anthracnose, obtaining sample Raman spectral data and sample hyperspectral data; obtaining a first judgment result, and obtaining a second judgment result; performing labeling to obtain second training data; training a neural network model to obtain a second anthracnose prediction model; obtaining a plurality of to-be-analyzed sensing data sequences; obtaining a to-be-analyzed citrus leaf image; obtaining a second prediction result; if the second prediction result is that the to-be-analyzed citrus crop is not infected by anthracnose, obtaining a third prediction result.
US11461881B2
A method for processing images comprising: capturing a plurality of degraded images of a first real-world environment with a first sensor; processing each degraded image with a first, untrained convolutional neural network, via a Deep Image Prior approach, to obtain a plurality of clean images, wherein each clean image corresponds to a degraded image; pairing each clean image with its corresponding degraded image to create a plurality of degraded/clean image pairs; training, via a supervised learning approach, a machine learning model to learn a function for converting degraded images into restored images based on the plurality of degraded/clean image pairs; capturing a second plurality of degraded images of a second real-world environment; and using the trained machine learning model to convert the second plurality of degraded images into restored images based on the learned function.
US11461866B1
A system and method are disclosed for image analysis of supply chain planning problems modeled as a linear programming (LP) problems. Embodiments include receiving an LP matrix representing constraints and variables of at least a portion of a supply chain planning problem, generating a sorted variable index for the variables of the LP matrix, generating a sorted constraint index for the constraints of the LP matrix, identifying functions of the variables and the constraints, selecting one or more colors of pixels of a supply chain problem image based, at least in part, on the identified functions of the variables and constraints, selecting locations of the pixels, and displaying a visualization of the supply chain problem image.
US11461863B2
Embodiments of the present invention include systems and methods for systematically evaluating idea quality in accordance with specified rules. In addition, such assessments may also be used to initiate workflows for improving the quality of a given idea. Some embodiments may provide for assessment of the novelty of idea in real-time (e.g., during an innovation or ideation session). Such initial assessments may further be updated in real-time as the idea is discussed further. Such assessment may rely on voice-activated and intelligence-driven searching of various data sources to identify the context of the idea so as to provide an objective basis for the assessment.
US11461862B2
Systems and methods for patent portfolio management and generation of analytics are described. A system comprises, for example, one or more modules. A first module is configured to combine data received from an official government source and from a docketing system. The data received may pertain to one or more assets of a patent portfolio. A second module is configured to generate a metric of the patent portfolio based on the combined data. The metric may measure a characteristic of the patent portfolio. A third module is configured to receive a request from a client device to display the metric. A fourth module is configured to, in response to the request to display the metric, display the metric in a user interface that includes one or more filtering elements that are selectable to request a filtering of the displayed metric.
US11461857B2
A management device is connected to an AC power line provided with a plurality of connection ports, each of which can be connected to an electric device including a power storage unit. The management device includes a measurement unit configured to measure an electric signal on the AC power line, a determination unit configured to determine a type of the electric device connected to the AC power line via a connection port in the plurality of connection ports based on a measurement result of the measurement unit, and a first prediction unit configured to predict an amount of power supply on the AC power line due to discharge of the power storage unit based on a determination result of the determination unit.
US11461847B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media facilitating automated testing of datasets including natural language data are disclosed. In the disclosed embodiments, rule sets may be used to condition and transform an input dataset into a format that is suitable for use with one or more artificial intelligence processes configured to extract parameters and classification information from the input dataset. The parameters and classes derived by the artificial intelligence processes may then be used to automatically generate various testing tools (e.g., scripts, test conditions, etc.) that may be executed against a test dataset, such as program code or other types of data.
US11461828B2
A system and method for providing payments is disclosed. A method can include establishing a wireless link between a mobile device and a merchant device. After an instruction is displayed on the mobile device, a combination of a first type of input and a second type of input are received on the mobile device, first type of input including at least one button press of a physical button and the second type of input received from a user to confirm a payment for the purchase. Based on the inputs, payment data is retrieved from a memory of the mobile device. The method includes receiving the payment data at the merchant device to make the purchase, wherein receiving the payment data, via the wireless link, at the merchant device to make the purchase is performed according to a protocol for communicating the payment data to the merchant device.
US11461825B2
A system comprising methods and apparatuses is provided for managing and optimizing shopping lists, purchased items, shopping visits, delivery schedules and reducing food waste. This system stores shopping lists of a user or shopping lists shared between a group of users. Upon entering the user to a certain vicinity where there is a store that sells an item which is pending on the shopping lists, the system sends reminding alerts to the user. Upon checking out from the store, the system marks as purchased on the shopping lists the purchased items. Upon storing the purchased items in associated containers, the system stores the locations of the items and updates the remaining amount of each of the items each time the user consumes part of each item. The system predicts the most optimized time of purchase and amount of the items to be purchased such that the least amount of food waste would occur and the least amount of delivery or shopping trips would be needed.
US11461821B2
There are provided systems and methods for a network of personalized devices determining data for shopping predictions. A personalized device may include processing components for determining purchase predictions for one or more items to purchase on behalf of a user. The purchase predictions may be based on personality traits and other information that may indicate interests of the user. The purchase predictions may also be based on purchase information for the item, including inventory of the item, price of the item, availability of the item to the user, or other factor. Once the purchase prediction is determined, the personalized device may generate a purchase request for the item from a merchant having the item at a physical merchant location accessible to the personalized device or a delivery device associated with the personalized device. The personalized device may retrieve and deliver the purchased item.
US11461816B1
A system for validation of healthcare provider bills includes obtaining an image of the bill on a mobile device which uses optical character recognition to resolve the patient identity, provider identity and amount due as alphanumeric characters. The system also receives adjudicated claims data from insurance companies in a non-standardized format. A claims conversion server converts the adjudicated claims data to a standardized machine-readable format. The standardized adjudicated claims data and provider bill are validated against each other in real-time so the patient can make payment in an accurate amount without having to first receive and decipher an EOB form.
US11461805B2
There are disclosed systems and methods for facilitating communications between individuals and enterprises and in particular, to methods and systems for tracking and attributing customer and/or customer prospect online and offline communications in association with a marketing campaign.
US11461797B2
Provided are a privilege granting device, a privilege granting method, and a program capable of providing motivation to continuously purchase a product by posting and checking, between shoppers having purchased the same product, that an activity associated with the product has been done. A post acceptor accepts, from a shopper having purchased a product, a post that the shopper has done an activity associated with the product. A publisher publishes the accepted post. A report acceptor accepts a report that another shopper having purchased the product has read the published post and checked a content of the read post. A determiner determines, when the shopper repurchases the product, a privilege to be granted to the shopper according to whether the report is accepted.
US11461787B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving an electronic text document. Identifying a context of the document based on mapping text from the document to entries in a plurality of concept libraries. Determining an intersection between a first entry in a first of the plurality of concept libraries and a second entry in a second of the plurality of concept libraries. Identifying a relationship between at least two concepts included in the document based on the intersection between the first entry and the second entry. Determining an intent of the document based on the context and the relationship between the at least two concepts. Automatically routing the document for further processing based on the determined intent.
US11461780B2
There are provided systems and methods for shared authentication for limited use of an associated account based on user location and connected devices. A user may own a location where another user may visit or rent. The user may have a payment account that may be used with merchants to purchase items that are associated with the location or offered with use of the location. The user may set up the payment account to have a shared authentication mechanism with other users that utilize the location to allow the other users to pay for items using the payment account. The authentication mechanism may be a credential that may be pushed to a device of one or more of the other users when the other users are at or nearby the location or may be information of the other users that may be matched during transaction processing.
US11461779B1
Techniques for transferring control of a system-user dialog session are described. A first speechlet component may interact with a user until the first speechlet component receives user input that the first speechlet component cannot handle. The first speechlet component may output an action representing the user input. A system may determine a second speechlet component configured to execute the action. The system may send the second speechlet component a navigator object that results in the second speechlet component handling the user interaction that the first speechlet component could not handle. Once the second speechlet component is finished processing, the second speechlet component may output an updated navigator object, which causes the first speechlet component to either further interact with a user or cause a current dialog session to be closed. The system may additionally maintain a data structure representing calling speechlet components and called speechlet components associated with the session.
US11461765B2
The present disclosure relates to an account system for optimizing transactions for a user. In one implementation, the system may include at least one processor and a storage medium storing instructions that, when executed, configure the at least one processor to perform operations. The operations may include receiving, from the merchant system, merchant information for the transaction, retrieving, based on the account number, a database record from a database, the database record comprising the plurality of financial accounts associated with the user and user preferences, determining financial account data associated with each of the plurality of financial accounts, determining, using an optimization algorithm, a preferred financial account from the plurality of financial accounts based on the financial account data, the user preferences, and the merchant information, and selecting, based on the determination, the preferred financial account to complete the transaction.
US11461758B2
Method for cash card payment in a payment station for debit and credit cards. The invention is characterised in that the cash card (1) comprises a processor and is caused to store a unique identity associated with a money amount, which exists at a money institution (3), such as a central bank, or which is caused to be transferred from a bank account or the corresponding, to the money institution, in that the transferred amount is caused to be stored on the cash card (1), in that the amount lacks a connection to the proprietor of the cash card except via the said identity, in that, at payment using the cash card (1), the amount to be paid is caused to be transferred, together with the said identity, from the cash card (1) to a payment terminal (5) comprising the said payment station, in that the payment terminal (5) is caused to store the paid amount together with the said identity and that a remaining amount after payment is counted down on the cash card and is stored on the cash card, and in that the payment terminal (5) is caused to activate the money institution (3) to transfer, using the identity, the amount to be paid using the cash card (1) to an account (7) belonging to the point of sale where the payment terminal (5) is located.
US11461753B2
An automatic vending method and apparatus, and a computer-readable storage medium, relating to the field of automatic vending machines. The method includes: obtaining an image from a photographed video stream of commodities in an automatic vending machine; positioning an image of a commodity picked up by a user from the image; obtaining a change value of load weight of a shelf where the commodity is picked up by the user; determining a possible combination of commodities corresponding to the change value of load weight according to a weight of each commodity in the automatic vending machine; recognizing information of the commodity corresponding to the image of the commodity picked up by the user according to a pre-established commodity feature library and in conjunction with the possible combination of commodities; and performing settlement automatically for the user according to the recognized information of the commodity.
US11461752B2
Described is a secure WiFi sharing system for use between neighbors or others in like proximity. The system may include a WiFi signal with an established network connection and a user computing device seeking to access the network connection through the WiFi signal. The system allows the user computing device to rent or share the WiFi signal through the system and establish a secure connection between the user computing device and the WiFi network without the need of sharing the SSID and/or the password. Further, the system automatically changes a user computing device to another WiFi signal on the system and in proximity if the signal strength of the connected WiFi signal drops below a minimum threshold.
US11461751B2
A first set of records and a second set of records different from the first set of records are obtained. A score that indicates indicating confidence that the first set of records and the second set of records correspond to a same individual is computed. As a result of the score reaching a value relative to a threshold, a device of an individual associated with the second set of records is caused to prompt the individual to confirm control of a first asset identified by first data within the first set of records. A message to a destination associated with the first asset is provided. As a result of a response to the message indicating that the individual is the same individual, an association between the second set of records and the first asset is stored and the device is caused to display details about the first and second sets of records.
US11461749B2
A smart card includes a plurality of display devices on an outside surface of a housing. Circuitry within the housing includes a processor, and communication circuitry configured to communicate with at least one computing device located within a geographic region around the smart card. The processor is configured to continuously receive a plurality of communication signals from the computing device, to continuously assess a geographic distance from the smart card to the fixed position of the computing device within the geographic region using the plurality of communication signals, to continuously activate or deactivate the plurality of display devices based on the geographic distance from the smart card to the fixed position of the computing device in the geographic region for providing a user with a directional indication, distance indication, or both, to the computing device in the geographic region.
US11461742B1
Example systems, methods and apparatus to process medical prescription order rejections are disclosed. An example computer-implemented method, executed by one or more processors, to process a medical prescription order rejection, the method comprising submitting, using one or more processors, a first order for a medical prescription to a third-party entity for payment, when the first order is rejected by the third-party entity, processing, with a machine learning model, the first order to form a second order for the medical prescription, submitting, using one or more processors, the second order for the medical prescription to a third-party entity for payment, and when the second order is approved by the third-party entity, notifying, using one or more processors, a prescription fulfillment entity that the medical prescription is available to be fulfilled.
US11461741B2
Systems and methods for identifying automotive parts in a salvage yard are provided. In particular, some embodiments include graphical user interfaces and backend systems that allow users to engage in remote inquiries of available automotive parts in salvage yard and perform a market analysis of those parts. A user makes a request for a type of recyclable assembly by providing the code associated with the parameters of the parts. The code is then compared to a recyclable part database that includes parts from several salvage yards. When a part is identified as being in a particular salvage yard, the user is notified of the location and is connected with on-site parts pullers. This is facilitated through geofencing and location aware sensors. Moreover, the user is provided with a market analysis to indicate the demand for the parts.
US11461737B2
The disclosed embodiments provide a system for processing data. During operation, the system obtains a function call for a function that calculates an attribute associated with a machine learning model. For each argument of the function call, the system identifies a parameter type of the argument, wherein the parameter type represents a type of data used with the machine learning model. The system also obtains a value accessor for retrieving features specific to the parameter type and obtains a value represented by the argument using the value accessor. The system then calculates the attribute by applying the function to the value and uses the attribute to execute the machine learning model.
US11461735B2
A system and method for zero-touch payroll management that enables an employer to automate payroll recording, approval, and disbursement, while giving employees increased flexibility in their working hours and pay scheduling and enabling processing of payroll based on real-time and predicted business cashflow.
US11461730B2
An objective of the present invention is to provide an in-vehicle device, an arrival notification system and an arrival notification method which can enable an arrival of the vehicle to be easily recognized by a user. The objective is achieved by causing a notification device with a communication function to generate a notification sound when the vehicle arrives at a delivery target, which can enable an arrival of the vehicle to be easily recognized by the user. I.e., this can cause the notification device to generate the notification sound more easily and it can be recognized by users more easily than an arrival notification method by merely sending an electronic mail.
US11461727B2
A plant evaluation system is configured to calculate performance of a plant while receiving setting of operating conditions of the plant and devices installed in the plant and simulating a secular change occurring in the plant during an evaluation target period included in the operating conditions. At least one of the devices is added, a selection of a component improving performance of a certain device is received, and an improvement of the performance of the device by the component is expected and the performance of the plant is calculated.
US11461726B2
A method, apparatus, and computer program product for digitally presenting statistically-relevant business insights into a set of business metrics for an organization. A computer system identifies a set of organizational characteristics from human resources data of employees of a plurality of organizations, and applies a selected inclusion criteria to the set of organizational characteristics to identify a set of candidate organizations. The computer system identifies a set of benchmark organizations from the set of candidate organizations, and creates a fixed panel of the benchmark organizations. The computer system applies the fixed panel to the human resources data of employees of a plurality of organizations to create an analysis dataset that consists of human resources data of employees of the benchmark organizations. The computer system generates a business insight into the set of business metrics of the organization based on the analysis dataset, and digitally presents the business insight.
US11461723B2
A system for generating financial projections for a business entity and providing a graphical visualization of the financial projections on a display is disclosed herein. The system receives as an input actual financial data of said business entity. The system sorts said actual financial data into predefined categories. The system uploads the sorted actual financial data into a database. The system generates projected financial data comprising projected income, projected balance sheet, and variance between said actual financial data and said projected financial data using a plurality of predefined algorithms in conjunction with inputted user selectable variable parameter values. The system generates graphical visualizations of said actual and projected data. The system transmits the graphical visualizations for display in an interactive manner. The projected financial data visualizations are modified in dependence on a user changing one or more of said selectable variable parameter values.
US11461722B2
Data processing systems and methods, according to various embodiments, are adapted for mapping various questions regarding a data breach from a master questionnaire to a plurality of territory-specific data breach disclosure questionnaires. The answers to the questions in the master questionnaire are used to populate the territory-specific data breach disclosure questionnaires and determine whether disclosure is required in territory. The system can automatically notify the appropriate regulatory bodies for each territory where it is determined that data breach disclosure is required.
US11461718B2
A system and a method are provided for a direct to store supply chain to bring high volume, bulk space products directly from suppliers, manufacturers, and vendors to retail locations, thereby bypassing retailer distribution centers. The system comprises an order management and invoicing system configured to facilitate demand signals from retail locations to manufacturers and vendors of desired products. A routing optimization system is configured to continually optimize an aggregate of orders so as to produce lowest-cost shipping solutions. A tracking and notification system is configured to provide manufacturers with clear tracking visibility of en-route deliveries once they leave manufacturing facilities.
US11461715B2
Techniques for text evaluation are provided. A curated dataset comprising a plurality of textual documents is received. A tree of classifiers is trained, based on the curated dataset, to identify use cases. A feature graph model is generated, based on the curated dataset, to determine textual similarity. A new document is received, and a plurality of requirements is extracted from the new document. For each requirement, one or more vector scores are generated by evaluating the requirement using the tree of classifiers, one or more feature scores are generated by evaluating the requirement using the feature graph model, and one or more use cases are identified for the new textual document based on the one or more vector scores and the one or more feature scores. An implementation is generated for the new document based on the one or more use cases.
US11461711B2
The present invention provides a computer-implemented system or an online platform to allow pest control company and inspector to access, manage and inspect plants or facilities. Specifically, the present invention provides a computer-implemented system or an online platform that provides tools for the pest control inspector to take one or more images of the bait station being inspected, incorporate notes pertaining to the bait station and save the images and notes on a secure webpage for future retrieval. The present invention also provides a computer-implemented system or an online platform for customers of the pest control company to monitor the tasks performed by the company and inspector by retrieving the images and notes saved by the inspector on a secure webpage.
US11461708B2
There is provided a controller that executes: calculating, based on information about behavior of a user, likelihood about future movement of the user; and outputting information about a service for the movement of the user based on the calculated likelihood.
US11461692B2
Single loop inductive sensors are widely deployed in infrastructure for traffic data collection, however, these loops currently provide little more than vehicle detection. A system and method are provided that enable single loop inductive sensors to be used for vehicle classification (e.g., identification as motorcycle, passenger car, bus, etc.). Classification may be done using the Federal Highway Administration's 13 class system. Initially a signature library is built from vehicle signatures with known classifications. Vehicle signature waveforms of unknown classification obtained from inductive loop sensors are analyzed to identify specific features in the waveform including the number of “peaks”, the first peak location and its magnitude. A classifier (e.g., K-nearest neighbor) uses a representation of the vehicle signature and the features to determine from the signature library the classification of the vehicle.
US11461690B2
A distributed, online machine learning system is presented. Contemplated systems include many private data servers, each having local private data. Researchers can request that relevant private data servers train implementations of machine learning algorithms on their local private data without requiring de-identification of the private data or without exposing the private data to unauthorized computing systems. The private data servers also generate synthetic or proxy data according to the data distributions of the actual data. The servers then use the proxy data to train proxy models. When the proxy models are sufficiently similar to the trained actual models, the proxy data, proxy model parameters, or other learned knowledge can be transmitted to one or more non-private computing devices. The learned knowledge from many private data servers can then be aggregated into one or more trained global models without exposing private data.
US11461688B2
A method of performing simultaneous entangling gate operations in a trapped-ion quantum computer includes selecting a gate duration value and a detuning frequency of pulses to be individually applied to a plurality of participating ions in a chain of trapped ions to simultaneously entangle a plurality of pairs of ions among the plurality of participating ions by one or more predetermined values of entanglement interaction, determining amplitudes of the pulses, based on the selected gate duration value, the selected detuning frequency, and the frequencies of the motional modes of the chain of trapped ions, generating the pulses having the determined amplitudes, and applying the generated pulses to the plurality of participating ions for the selected gate duration value. Each of the trapped ions in the chain has two frequency-separated states defining a qubit, and motional modes of the chain of trapped ions each have a distinct frequency.
US11461687B1
A system includes a network interface configured to access an enterprise data warehouse and an enterprise abbreviation list that maps enterprise terms to abbreviations. A processing device can communicate with the network interface and a memory device that stores instructions to analyze the enterprise data warehouse to determine name attribute scores based on occurrences of the enterprise terms and the abbreviations in the enterprise data warehouse. Execution of the instructions can also generate a scoring summary of phrases, apply fuzzy reasoning logic to identify one or more relationship patterns and weights for the phrases including at least one shared word to produce training data for a data model associated with the enterprise data warehouse, and update the data model with a new abbreviated field name associated with a new field name based on identifying a closest match of the new field name with the training data.
US11461680B2
Provided herein are a system, apparatus, device, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for identifying attributes in unstructured data files using a machine-learning model. In an embodiment, a server can receive a request to identify an attribute associated with a set of unstructured data files. The server can extract a first and second subset of features from each unstructured data file of the set of unstructured data files. The server can identify the attribute in the set of unstructured data files request based on each of the first and second subset of features using the machine-learning model.
US11461672B2
A system for question answering (QA) documents data ingestion decides to ingest the documents data through a first plurality of sub-pipelines including a first sub-pipeline having a first set of engines and a second sub-pipeline having a second set of engines being independent from the first set of engines. The system determines a subset of the documents data and decides to ingest the subset through a second plurality of sub-pipelines including a third sub-pipeline having a third set of engines and a fourth sub-pipeline having a fourth set of engines being independent from the third set of engines. A set of engines of the second plurality of sub-pipelines and a set of engines of the first plurality of sub-pipelines are in a common class. The system selects output data from the second plurality of sub-pipelines over corresponding output data from the first plurality of sub-pipelines and generates a knowledge base.
US11461660B1
A system and method for monitoring a circuit for impending failure includes measuring changes to frequency-domain impedance with a pair of analog-to-digital converters connected to a conductor while powering up, with or without interposing a series sense resistor for measuring applied current. Changes to frequency-domain impedance or power delivery voltage ratio are identified via a neural network trained to identify frequency-domain impedance associated with normal system behavior and general system failure mode. The neural network may be further trained to produce a predictive probability of specific failure mode types.
US11461656B2
An information processing device according to one embodiment includes a processor. The processor executes an acquisition step of acquiring a plurality of partial layers as a gene pool, the partial layers being candidates for elements of a deep learning model, a generation step of generating a new partial layer from the gene pool by using genetic programming, an evaluation step of evaluating each partial layer by incorporating, into a template of the deep learning model, each partial layer in the gene pool to which the new partial layer is added, and determining a plurality of partial layers to remain in the gene pool, and an output step of outputting the deep learning model into which the partial layer with a highest evaluation value is incorporated.
US11461653B2
A method for learning parameters of a CNN using a 1×K convolution operation or a K×1 convolution operation is provided to be used for hardware optimization which satisfies KPI. The method includes steps of: a learning device (a) instructing a reshaping layer to two-dimensionally concatenate features in each group comprised of corresponding K channels of a training image or its processed feature map, to thereby generate a reshaped feature map, and instructing a subsequent convolutional layer to apply the 1×K or the K×1 convolution operation to the reshaped feature map, to thereby generate an adjusted feature map; and (b) instructing an output layer to refer to features on the adjusted feature map or its processed feature map, and instructing a loss layer to calculate losses by referring to an output from the output layer and its corresponding GT.
US11461651B2
Systems, devices, and methods related to a Deep Learning Accelerator and memory are described. An integrated circuit may be configured with: a Central Processing Unit, a Deep Learning Accelerator configured to execute instructions with matrix operands; random access memory configured to store first instructions of an Artificial Neural Network executable by the Deep Learning Accelerator and second instructions of an application executable by the Central Processing Unit; one or connections among the random access memory, the Deep Learning Accelerator and the Central Processing Unit; and an input/output interface to an external peripheral bus. While the Deep Learning Accelerator is executing the first instructions to convert sensor data according to the Artificial Neural Network to inference results, the Central Processing Unit may execute the application that uses inference results from the Artificial Neural Network.
US11461644B2
Fully-supervised semantic segmentation machine learning models are augmented by ancillary machine learning models which generate high-detail predictions from low-detail, weakly-supervised data. The combined model can be trained over both fully- and weakly-supervised data. Only the primary model is required for inference, post-training. The combined model can be made self-correcting during training by adjusting the ancillary model's output based on parameters learned over both the fully- and weakly-supervised data. The self-correction module may combine the output of the primary and ancillary models in various ways, including through linear combinations and via neural networks. The self-correction module and ancillary model may benefit from disclosed pre-training techniques.
US11461643B2
An artificial intelligence engine that has two or more modules cooperating with each other in order to create one or more machine learning models that use an adaptive semantic learning for knowledge representations and reasoning. The modules cause encoding the representations and reasoning from one or more sources in a particular field with terminology used by one or more human sources in that field into a set of rules that act as constraints and that are graphed into a neural network understandable by a first machine learning model, and then ii) adapting an interpretation of that set of encoded rules. The understanding of that set of encoded rules is adapted by i) allowing for semantically similar terms and ii) by conclusions derived from training data, to create an understanding of that set of encoded rules utilized by the machine learning model and the AI engine.
US11461637B2
A generated algorithm used by a neural network is captured during execution of an iteration of the neural network. A candidate algorithm is identified based on the generated algorithm. A determination is made that the candidate algorithm utilizes less memory than the generated algorithm. Based on the determination the neural network is updated by replacing the generated algorithm with the candidate algorithm.
US11461630B1
Disclosed are systems and techniques for extracting user body shape (e.g., a representation of the three-dimensional body surface) from user behavioral data. The behavioral data may not be explicitly body-shape-related, and can include shopping history, social media likes, or other recorded behaviors of the user within (or outside of) a networked content delivery environment. The determined body shape can be used, for example, to generate a virtual fitting room user interface.
US11461629B1
A model visualizer visualizes a neural network model at a neuron level. The model visualizer receives a plurality of instances comprising a plurality of features, and receives a neural network model comprising a plurality of layers, each layer comprising a plurality of neurons. For each neuron of each layer, the model visualizer selects a group of instances that highly activate that neuron to generate a summary feature vector, calculates an average feature value of the summary feature vector, compares each feature value of the summary feature vector with the average feature value, and assigns an attribute to each element of the summary feature vector based on the comparison. The model visualizer visualizes the received neural network model based on the assignment to each neuron.
US11461626B2
The present disclosure provides a brain-like computing chip and a computing device. The brain-like computing chip includes is a many-core system composed of one or more functional cores, and data transmission is performed between the functional cores by means of a network-on-chip. The functional core includes at least one neuron processor configured to compute various neuron models, and at least one coprocessor coupled to the neuron processor and configured to perform an integral operation and/or a multiply-add-type operation; and the neuron processor is capable of calling the coprocessor to perform the multiply-add-type operation.
US11461623B2
Disclosed is a methods and apparatus which can improve defect tolerability of a hardware-based neural network. In one embodiment, a method for performing a calculation of values on first neurons of a first layer in a neural network, includes: receiving a first pattern of a memory cell array; determining a second pattern of the memory cell array according to a third pattern; determining at least one pair of columns of the memory cell array according to the first pattern and the second pattern; switching input data of two columns of each of the at least one pair of columns of the memory cell array; and switching output data of the two columns in each of the at least one pair of columns of the memory cell array so as to determine the values on the first neurons of the first layer.
US11461605B2
There is described a building automation system comprising a communication component, a processor, and an output component. The communication component scans the building automation system to discover devices, and the processor generates a visual code for a particular field device. The visual code identifies a uniform resource locator directed to a virtual node hosting environment of the building automation system associated with the field device. The output component produces the visual code at a physical material for exhibition in proximity to the field device. Thereafter, the hosting environment receives a status request, associated with the uniform resource locator, for the field device from a mobile device. The hosting environment generates point information associated with the field device based on information collected from the field device in response to receiving the status request. The communication component sends the point information to the mobile device.
US11461604B1
Embodiments of the disclosure provide for improved print position compensation, for example to improve accuracy of print job(s) performed by a printer. The print position compensation enables an offset of the time until printing occurs on a print media to account for changes and/or erroneous movement in a print media, such as due to slippage and/or other results of a force applied to the print media. Particular embodiments determine data values derived both for an output phase and a retraction phase of the printer's operation. Various embodiments generate a print position compensation based on sensor-based edge position distances determined during each of a media output phase and a media retraction phase. Alternatively or additionally various embodiments generate a print position compensation based on sensor-based media movement phase timestamp differentials determined during each of a media output phase and a media retraction phase.
US11461602B2
An image processing apparatus that converts input image data into halftone image data that a plurality of arranged nozzles ejecting ink can print and includes one or more hardware processors and one or more memories storing one or more programs configured to be executed by the one or more hardware processors, the one or more programs including instructions for correcting a pixel value of each pixel in the input image data in accordance with a characteristic of the nozzle and generating first halftone image data by performing halftone processing for a second frequency component whose frequency is lower than that of a first frequency component of frequency components corresponding to the corrected input image data. Here, the first halftone image data is data that is generated to be printed with first dots whose dot size causes adjacent dots to overlap.
US11461596B2
Methods and apparatus to adapt medical imaging interfaces based on learning are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a use monitor to monitor, in a first session, user actions and medical content data pertaining to operation of a clinical image display, a learning device including a processor to implement a learning network to develop a model for a subsequent session based on the user actions in relationship to a context of the medical content data. The model developed by defining contextual patterns of the user actions based on the context and the medical content data. The learning device is to update, prior to or during a second session subsequent the first session, a user interface based on the model.
US11461593B2
A method, a computer program product, and a computer system determine when to perform a federated learning process. The method includes identifying currently available contributors among contributors of a federated learning task for which the federated learning process is to be performed. The method includes determining a usefulness metric of the currently available contributors for respective datasets from each of the currently available contributors used in performing the federated learning process. The method includes, as a result of the usefulness metric of the currently available contributors being at least a usefulness threshold, generating a recommendation to perform the federated learning process with the datasets of the currently available contributors. The method includes transmitting the recommendation to a processing component configured to perform the federated learning process.
US11461590B2
According to examples, an apparatus may include a processor and a non-transitory computer readable medium on which is stored machine readable instructions that may cause the processor to identify Internet protocol (IP) addresses and connection attributes associated with the IP addresses. The instructions may also cause the processor to train a machine learning model using the IP addresses as inputs to the machine learning model and connection contexts as outputs of the machine learning model. The machine learning model may learn a first weight matrix corresponding to the IP addresses and a second weight matrix corresponding to the connection contexts. In addition, the connection contexts may be concatenations of the connection attributes associated with a corresponding IP address.
US11461579B2
Some embodiments include a special-purpose hardware accelerator that can perform specialized machine learning tasks during both training and inference stages. For example, this hardware accelerator uses a systolic array having a number of data processing units (“DPUs”) that are each connected to a small number of other DPUs in a local region. Data from the many nodes of a neural network is pulsed through these DPUs with associated tags that identify where such data was originated or processed, such that each DPU has knowledge of where incoming data originated and thus is able to compute the data as specified by the architecture of the neural network. These tags enable the systolic neural network engine to perform computations during backpropagation, such that the systolic neural network engine is able to support training.
US11461577B2
The invention provides a method for marking a machine learning model, said method comprising providing a training dataset, adding at least one anomaly to said training dataset, and training said machine learning model using said training dataset. This can for instance help to protect property rights on trained neural networks.
US11461576B2
A method includes receiving a first operation instruction; responsive to receiving the first operation instruction, determining whether one or more first images from a set of images comprise a first common feature; and responsive to determining that the one or more first images from the set of images comprise the first common feature, displaying the one or more first.
US11461571B2
The present disclosure relates to a system for reading a barcode independently of image resolution or scale of a captured barcode image. In one embodiment, the system includes an optical sensor and a processor. The optical scanner can scan a barcode, including a plurality of bars and spaces, into a scanned image. The processor can convert the scanned image into binary data. The processor can also calculate numbers of ones (1s) between zeros (0s) in the binary data and determine widths of one of i) each of the bars and ii) each of the spaces based on the calculated numbers of ones (1s). The processor can further calculate numbers of zeros (0s) between ones (1s) in the binary data and determine widths of the other one of i) each of the bars and ii) each of the spaces based on the calculated numbers of zeros (0s).
US11461567B2
Systems and methods for identification (ID) document verification using hybrid near-field communications (NFC) authentication and optical authentication are provided. An exemplary method includes receiving, by a client device, an image of an ID document. Based on the image of the ID document, a determination is made whether the ID document includes a near-field communications (NFC) chip that stores data comprising identifying information for an owner of the identification. Based on this determination of whether the ID document includes an NFC chip, the ID document is verified by selectively using at least one of NFC chip authentication and optical authentication, to obtain a verification result.
US11461564B2
The present invention relates to a technical field of the code scanning device, and in particular, to a handback-type code scanning terminal. The present invention discloses a handback-type code scanning terminal including a terminal body and a fixing member, the fixing member is used to fix the terminal body on a handback, a code scanning device and a gesture sensing device for triggering an on/off code scanning function of the code scanning device are disposed on the terminal body, the gesture sensing device is used to sense a lifting action of a thumb, and the thumb is a thumb of a hand for fixing the terminal body. The present invention does not have to use hands of an operator, and can release both hands of the operator to perform normal manual tasks, a code scanning operation is convenient, a working efficiency is improved, and a user experience is greatly improved.
US11461563B1
An inspection apparatus for optical inspection of a card insertion slot of a card reader. The apparatus includes a housing holding a magnifier lens assembly, the magnifier lens assembly being mounted through the housing, from a back face to a front face of the housing; at least two guiding elements, protruding outwards the front face of the housing; and at least two light sources located on a front side of the inspection apparatus. The inspection apparatus is further configured so that the at least two guiding elements, the at least two light sources, and an optical axis of the magnifier lens assembly are substantially contained in a same plane.
