US11496190B2
This application provides a full-duplex communication method and an apparatus. The method includes: when sending a first signal to a first device by using a first transmit sector, receiving, by a third device by using a first receive sector, a second signal sent by a second device. A coverage area of the third device in a receiving direction may be divided into at least one receive sector, the at least one receive sector forms one receive sector group, and the third device may receive the second signal by using the first receive sector that is in the receive sector group and that is different from the first transmit sector. In this way, the third device can simultaneously receive a signal and send a signal by using different sectors, to implement full-duplex transmission, and reduce mutual interference between signal sending and signal receiving, thereby improving communication quality of the full-duplex transmission.
US11496185B2
A method for modulating a signal including operating a circuit in a first arrangement during a first operating interval and switching the circuit between the first arrangement and a second arrangement during a first modulation interval to vary a load on the circuit to produce a first amplitude shift keying (ASK) signal. The method further includes detecting a voltage on the circuit crossing a threshold level and operating the circuit in the second arrangement during a second operating interval. The method also includes switching the circuit between the second arrangement and the first arrangement during a second modulation interval to vary the load on the circuit to produce a second ASK signal.
US11496174B1
When the ultra-low power mm-scale sensor node does not have a crystal oscillator and phase-lock loop, it inevitably exhibits significant carrier frequency offset (CFO) and sampling frequency offset (SFO) with respect to the reference frequencies in the gateway. This disclosure enables efficient real-time calculation of accurate SFO and CFO at the gateway, thus the ultra-low power mm-scale sensor node can be realized without a costly and bulky clock reference crystal and also power-hungry phase lock loop. In the proposed system, the crystal-less sensor starts transmission with repetitive RF pulses with a constant interval, followed by the data payload using pulse-position modulation (PPM). A proposed algorithm uses a two-dimensional (2D) fast Fourier transform (FFT) based process that identifies the SFO and CFO at the same time to establish successful wireless communication between the gateway and crystal-less sensor nodes.
US11496160B2
A radio telescope array is provided for tracking radio sources that are essentially infinitely stable and resilient transmitters. The radio telescope array may be implemented with just a few antennas in different applications, such as an ionospheric density gradiometer or an imaging scintillometer. Data received at the radio telescope array may be utilized for various purposes, for example, to analyze ionospheric variations, study bursts of radio emission or monitor cosmic objects.
US11496157B2
A bit interleaving method involves applying a bit permutation process to a QC-LDPC codeword made up of N cyclic blocks each including Q bits, and dividing the codeword after the permutation process into a plurality of constellation words each including M bits, the codeword being divided into F×N/M folding sections, each of the constellation words being associated with one of the F×N/M folding sections, and the bit permutation process being applied such that each of the constellation words includes F bits from each of M/F different cyclic blocks in a given folding section associated with a given constellation word.
US11496156B2
Provided are a data processing method and device. The data processing method includes: performing Polar code encoding on an input bit sequence having a length of K bits to obtain an encoded bit sequence having a length of N bits, and determining a bit sequence to be transmitted from the encoded bit sequence according to a data characteristic of an information bit sequence and a predetermined rate matching scheme. K is a positive integer and N is a positive integer greater than or equal to K.
US11496144B2
In one embodiment, a droop reference, comprising: a programmable low pass filter configured to filter a supply voltage; and a digital-to-analog converter configured to provide a scaled version of the filtered supply voltage.
US11496141B2
A radar system includes: a processing device arranged to generate a plurality of phase shifting digital signals; a plurality of transmitting devices for generating an RF beam according to the plurality of phase shifting digital signals during a first mode; a plurality of first receiving devices for generating a plurality of first digital signals according to a plurality of first incoming signals, respectively, during a second mode; and a plurality of second receiving devices for generating a plurality of second digital signals according to a plurality of second incoming signals, respectively, during the second mode. The processing device is further arranged to distinguish a first object and a second object when the RF beam hits the first object and the second object, and the first object and the second object have a same radial speed and are located at a same range.
US11496133B1
Embodiments may provide a radiation hardened low-power data acquisition system-on-chip (SOC) suitable for space flight. The various embodiments may provide the radiation hardened low-power data acquisition SOC having a radiation hardened semiconductor die, a radiation hardened multiplexer integrated on the radiation hardened semiconductor die and configured to receive a plurality of analog signals and selectively output an analog signal of the plurality of analog signals, at least one radiation hardened analog to digital converted integrated on the radiation hardened semiconductor die and configured to convert the analog signal to a digital signal, and a radiation hardened serial communication interface integrated on the radiation hardened semiconductor die and configured to output the digital signal. The various embodiments may provide a computing having a processor and the radiation hardened low-power data acquisition SOC electrically coupled to the processor such that the digital signal is output to the processor.
US11496131B2
A switching element drive device that reduces a switching loss while suppressing noise with an inexpensive configuration, is provided. The switching element drive device includes a current sensor configured to measure a load current flowing through a load, a voltage sensor configured to measure an input voltage inputted from a power supply, and a control part configured to output a command value of a gate drive voltage to a gate drive voltage supply part, the gate drive voltage supply part being configured to supply the gate drive voltage for driving a switching element disposed between the power supply and the load, wherein the control part is further configured to determine the command value of the gate drive voltage based on the load current and the input voltage.
US11496130B2
A radio frequency switch circuit includes a negative voltage generating circuit, a notch network, a logic control circuit, and a radio frequency switching circuit. The logic control circuit can be configured to, upon being driven by the negative voltage signal generated by the negative voltage generating circuit, control the operating modes of the radio frequency switching circuit; and the notch network is connected between the negative voltage generating circuit and the logic control circuit. As such, the influence of radio frequency signals generated by the radio frequency switching circuit can be filtered through the notch network, and the interference of radio frequency signals to the negative voltage generating circuit can be reduced, thereby improving the performance of the radio frequency switch circuit, for example in insertion loss, isolation and harmonic suppression.
US11496125B2
A driver circuit controls a first switch element. A first resistor is connected between the driver circuit and the first switch element. A second switch element is connected to the first switch element. An overcurrent detector circuit controls the second switch element based on an overcurrent current flowing through the first switch element. A second resistor is connected between the overcurrent detector circuit and the second switch element. The first and second resistor is set such that a turn-off time of the first switch element when the second switch element is turned on by the overcurrent detector circuit is longer than a turn-off time of the first switch element when the first switch element is turned off by the driver circuit.
US11496121B2
An improved ramp generator enables a very high degree of linearity in an output voltage ramp signal. Output ramps of the output voltage ramp signal are alternatingly produced from two preliminary ramp signals during alternating time periods. Preliminary ramps are produced at different preliminary ramp nodes that are alternatingly connected to an output node. The preliminary ramps continuously ramp during and in some cases beyond, e.g., before and/or after, the time periods. In some embodiments, switches alternatingly connect two capacitors to at least one current source, a reset voltage source, and the output node to alternatingly produce the preliminary ramps.
US11496120B2
A flip-flop with glitch protection is disclosed. The flip-flop includes a differential amplifier circuit that generates amplifier output signals based on an input data and clock signals and precharges a true data node when a clock signal is inactive. A latch circuit is coupled to the differential amplifier and includes a latch node. Responsive to a current value of the input data signal having a first logic state, the latch node is set at a logic value equivalent to the precharged value during an active phase of the clock signal. Responsive to the current value of the input data signal having a second logic state complementary to the first, during the active phase of the clock signal, the latch circuit causes the latch node to be set to a logic value complementary to the precharged value, using the clock signal and the current value of the input data signal.
US11496117B1
A method for updating a stable cuckoo filter used for membership testing of data streams, executed by a processor, is described. The method includes the steps of: performing a first hash on a first element to be inserted into the stable cuckoo filter to determine a first candidate bucket; performing a second hash on a fingerprint of the first element to determine a second candidate bucket; selecting a target candidate bucket from a group consisting of the first candidate bucket and the second candidate bucket; inserting the first element into the target candidate bucket; updating the stable cuckoo filter according to one or more of a random update strategy, an insertion failure update strategy, a scanning strategy, a skip scanning update strategy, a blocked design strategy and a local time-sensitive update strategy; and obtaining an updated stable cuckoo filter.
US11496116B2
An acoustic wave filter device includes at least one series arm resonator and a parallel arm resonator. The series arm resonators and the parallel arm resonator are defined by acoustic wave resonators, an interdigital transducer electrode of the series arm resonators is an apodized interdigital transducer electrode subjected to apodization weighting, in the interdigital transducer electrode of the parallel arm resonator, an intersecting portion includes a central region and low acoustic velocity regions provided at both outer side portions of the central portion, an acoustic velocity of an acoustic wave in the low acoustic velocity region is lower than an acoustic velocity of an acoustic wave in the central region, and a high acoustic velocity region where an acoustic velocity of an acoustic wave is higher than that of the low acoustic velocity region is provided at an outer side portion of each of the low acoustic velocity regions.
US11496092B2
A solar power system may comprise a back sheet that comprises an interconnect circuit coupling a plurality of cell tiles. A tiled solar cell, comprising a solar cell and encapsulating and glass layers, is inserted into the cell tiles of the back sheet. Each solar cell is individually addressable through the use of the interconnect circuit. Moreover, the interconnect circuit of the back sheet is programmable and allows for dynamic interconnect routing between solar cells.
US11496084B2
A gate voltage control/gate resistance changing circuit (21) is accommodated in the same package (P1) as a switching element (11), and outputs a driving signal to the switching element (11) to control turning on and off of the switching element (11). When an external signal is input from outside of the package (P1) to a terminal (3c) of the package (P1), a changing unit (221) accommodated in the package (P1) changes the switching speed of the switching element (11) based on the signal.
US11496078B2
A method for determining a rotor position of a BLDC motor with a magnetic rotor and stator having at least one exciter coil to which an exciter voltage is applied in accordance with a commutation process, comprises: interrupting the exciter voltage applied to the exciter coil, wherein the exciter voltage has a profile with at least one first section in which the profile of the exciter voltage has a non-vanishing finite gradient, wherein the exciter voltage in the first section is interrupted, and wherein at the time of interruption the exciter voltage has a value different from zero; capturing a voltage induced in the exciter coil by the magnetic rotor; restoring the exciter voltage to a value different from zero; and determining a rotor position of the rotor with respect to the exciter coil on the basis of the captured induced voltage.
US11496068B2
The present invention relates to an energy harvesting apparatus using triboelectrification. The energy harvesting apparatus of the present invention may include: a housing formed in an accommodation space in the energy harvesting apparatus; an electrification sheet accommodated to be rolled into the housing; an elastic body provided in the housing and providing elastic force so that the electrification sheet is rolled into the housing; and an electrode unit provided on the electrification sheet or on the periphery of the electrification sheet and electrificating the electrification sheet through friction while the electrification sheet is pulled or rolled.
US11496066B2
An alternator and a rectifier thereof are provided. The rectifier includes a transistor and a gate voltage control circuit. A control end of the transistor receives a gate voltage. The gate voltage control circuit generates the gate voltage according to a voltage difference between an input voltage and a rectified voltage. The gate voltage control circuit detects a first time point when the voltage difference is less than a first preset threshold voltage, provides the gate voltage during a first time interval after the first time point to turn on the transistor, and sets the voltage difference to a first reference voltage. The gate voltage control circuit regulates the gate voltage to set the voltage difference to a second reference voltage during a second time interval after the first time interval. The first time interval is independent of a cycle of the input voltage.
US11496061B2
Asymmetric power converter includes an upper bridge switch, a lower bridge switch, a primary winding, a first secondary winding, a second secondary winding, a control circuit. The first secondary winding and the second secondary winding output a first output voltage and a second output voltage of a secondary side of the asymmetric power converter respectively, and voltage polarity of the first secondary winding is different from voltage polarity of the second secondary winding. The control circuit controls the lower bridge switch and the upper bridge switch according to the first output voltage and the second output voltage, respectively.
US11496051B2
A power converter includes two flying capacitors coupled to a network of switches, two inductors and a driver. The network of switches has a first switch to couple the first flying capacitor to a first port, a first ground switch to couple the first flying capacitor to ground, a second switch to couple the second flying capacitor to the first port, a second ground switch to couple the second flying capacitor to ground. The driver drives the network of switches with a sequence of states comprising a first state. In the first state the first port is coupled to a second port via a first path and a second path. The first path includes the first switch, the first flying capacitor and the first inductor. The second path includes the second switch, the second flying capacitor and the second inductor; the ground port is decoupled from the second port.
US11496049B2
A continuous time digital signal processing (CT DSP) token includes a first signal indicating a change has occurred and a second signal indicating a direction of the change. An amplitude generation circuit operates to generate an amplitude value x in response to the token. A power estimation circuit processes the amplitude value x to generate a digital power signal in accordance with the formula: x2±2x+1.
US11496048B2
A power supply with duty cycle limiting circuit includes a conversion circuit, a drive circuit, a control unit, and a duty cycle limiting circuit. The duty cycle limiting circuit converts a control signal into a control voltage, and determines whether a power switch of a power supply is turned off according to the control voltage and a threshold voltage to limit a duty cycle of the power switch.
US11496045B2
The present disclosure provides methods and circuits of multi-output hybrid voltage regulators that generate multiple lower level DC voltages lower than the magnitude of an input voltage provided to an input node of the regulator. The disclosed methods and circuits can be applied to today's Large conversion ratio DC-DC converters that allow them to support same power conversion functionality for multiple output voltages with one core switched capacitor network sharing passive components and switches with less voltage ratings, and therefore, reduce the implementation space to save cost as well as improve efficiency. Sample applications include, but are not limited to, PoL converters for data centers and telecommunication systems with better efficiency and compactness for higher conversion ratio.
US11496043B2
An on-board charger is provided with a bulk capacitor adapted to couple to a vehicle traction battery and a relay for receiving electrical power from an external power supply and to pre-charge the bulk capacitor. A power factor correction (PFC) circuit is connected between the bulk capacitor and the relay. The PFC circuit includes a switch that is adjustable between an on-position and an off-position. The switch enables current flow from the relay to the bulk capacitor in the off-position. A snubber circuit is coupled to the switch to damp a transient voltage present at the switch during a transition from the on-position to the off-position. A processor is programmed to control the switch.
US11496041B2
The invention provides a gate drive device, a gate drive method, a power semiconductor module, and an electric power conversion device capable of reducing a negative gate surge voltage. The gate drive device drives a semiconductor device constituting an arm in an electric power conversion device. Before a turn-off start of a drive arm, in a counter arm, a voltage between one main terminal of the semiconductor device and a gate terminal of the semiconductor device is charged to a voltage value that is larger, in a positive direction, than a negative voltage of a negative gate power supply and smaller than a gate threshold voltage of the semiconductor device.
US11496020B2
Flywheel based electrical energy management system and device. The device will often comprise at least one shaft mounted flywheel, each flywheel comprising a flywheel mass that contains a plurality of permanent magnets. The flywheel spins within at least one stator comprising a plurality of magnetic pickup coils configured so that the flywheel mass can rotate freely within the stator. The flywheel may be placed in a vacuum chamber and be supported by magnetic bearings. The flywheel shaft(s) are typically connected to one or more axial mounted motor generators, and the system further typically comprises a storage battery and control processor. The system handles a variety of different and not always stable input power sources, and converts this to continuous, efficient and stable electrical power. The system can handle a variety of clients, such as buildings, electric vehicles, and the like, and can operate under a variety of challenging conditions.
US11496019B2
Waterproof with inverter housing having connector mounting portion for accommodating sealing members
The present invention may provide a motor comprising an inverter housing in which a substrate is disposed, a connector which is mounted on the inverter housing and electrically connects the substrate and a cable and wherein the connector includes a body and a first terminal coupled to the body, one side of the first terminal is in electrical contact with the substrate, the other side of the first terminal is in contact with the cable, wherein the inverter housing includes a connector mounting portion which accommodate the body of the connector, sealing members seal a gap between the connector mounting portion and the connector.
US11496010B2
Fault-tolerant radial flux rotary electric machines are provided. One such machine comprises: a permanent magnet rotor having fourteen poles; and an alternate-wound stator having sixteen slots and four coil pairs, each coil pair forming part of one of four independent electrical phases.
US11496001B2
A power transmitter may send a digital ping to a receiver. The power transmitter may transfer power to the receiver. The power transmitter may receive a report from the receiver which may comprise a received power value. The power transmitter may determine a transmitted power parameter value, which may be based on a threshold value subtracted from a transmitter power and based on transmitter losses subtracted from the transmitter power. The power transmitter may determine that the received power value is less than the determined transmitted power parameter value and may send an analog ping to the receiver in response to a determination that the received power value is less than the determined transmitted power parameter value. The power transmitter may measure a decay pattern of the analog ping. The power transmitter may determine that the receiver comprises a friendly foreign object. The power transmitter may update the threshold value.
US11496000B2
Foreign object detection for a wireless power transmitter can be performed using a reference Q-factor and measured Q-factor. The reference and measured Q-factors are compared to determine where a foreign object is present. The comparison is adjusted based on one or more additional parameters.
US11495998B2
A device comprises a plurality of power converters, a resonator block and a connection block. The plurality of power converters is coupled to a power port having a voltage. Each power converter comprises a plurality of switch networks, and each switch network has a plurality of power switches. The resonator block comprises a plurality of resonators. Each resonator has a resonant capacitor and is coupled to one of the plurality of power converters. The connection block comprises a switching component and is coupled to one of the plurality of resonators, and the connection block and the said resonator are configured such that the device operates in a wireless charging mode with the resonator block activated or a wired charging mode with the connection block activated.
US11495984B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide for a circuit. In at least some examples, the circuit includes a dual-role port for transferring power to the circuit and from the circuit. The circuit also includes a micro-processing unit. The micro-processing unit is configured to control the circuit to operate as a sink device to receive power from a source device via the dual-role port when the power supply includes a first amount of stored energy, detect, at the dual-role port, a change in a termination resistance of the source device, and control the circuit to limit power transfer from the circuit to the power supply via the dual-role port when the power supply changes in status from a sourcing state to a sinking state.
US11495971B2
A method for exchanging or feeding electric power into an electricity supply grid that has a grid frequency using a converter-controlled generator at a grid connection point is provided. The method includes feeding in electric power depending on a control function, where the electric power may comprise active and reactive power, and the control function controls the power depending on at least one state variable of the grid. It is possible to select between a normal control function and a support control function, different from the normal control function, as the control function. The normal control function is selected when it has been detected that the grid is operating stably and the support control function is selected when a grid problem, grid fault or an end of the grid fault has been detected. The support control function controls the fed-in power to counteract an oscillation in the grid.
US11495969B2
A method for detection of a sub-synchronous oscillation in a power system includes measuring a three-phase measurement signal of an electric system value, analyzing the measurement signal to detect an oscillation component of the measurement signal having an oscillation frequency lower than a system frequency of the power system, deciding whether the detected oscillation component at the oscillation frequency qualifies as a sub-synchronous oscillation, and disconnecting a generator from the power system that might be affected by the sub-synchronous oscillation. To detect sub-synchronous oscillations with low computational effort and good accuracy, an amplitude of each phase of the oscillation component is calculated and compared against a threshold, a sub-synchronous oscillation is detected upon exceeding the threshold during a given time delay, and a fault signal is generated upon detecting a sub-synchronous oscillation. A device having a processing unit is also provided.
US11495953B2
An enclosure for breaking out a trunk cable includes: a base having a generally flat surface adapted for mounting to a mounting surface; a shell having a front and two side walls extending from opposite sides of the front and two opposed end walls, the side walls of the shell mounted to the base to form a cavity; a plurality of connectors mounted to each of the side walls; and a trunk cable routed into the cavity through one of the end walls, the trunk cable comprising a plurality of power conductors and/or a plurality of optical fibers. The power conductors and the optical fibers are connected with respective ones of the plurality of connectors.
US11495950B2
A top cover includes a cover portion and a jump start terminal cover. The cover portion includes a peripheral wall. The peripheral wall includes a side portion that extends along a first plane. The cover portion includes an opening configured to house a jump start terminal. The opening includes a plurality of tabs that are spaced apart from each other so as to define a corresponding slot. One of the slots is a side-slot which extends orthogonal to the side portion of the peripheral wall. The jump start terminal cover is configured to cover the jump start terminal. The jump start terminal cover includes a plurality of prongs corresponding to the number of slots one of the prongs engages the side-slot.
US11495947B2
A cable retainer insert for a multi-strand cable includes a cable contact portion and a plurality of cable receptacles in the cable contact portion circumferentially spaced from each other. Each of the cable receptacles receives a strand of the multi-strand cable. Each of the cable receptacles has a cable strand insertion opening at a radially outward end and a bottom at an opposite radially inward end. A circle inscribed in each of the cable receptacles and touching the bottom of the cable receptacle extends radially outward beyond the cable strand insertion opening.
US11495943B2
A bus bar protector is configured to cover a bus bar having a flat plate portion and a standing portion standing from an end of the flat plate portion, and includes a first cover that covers one face of the bus bar and a second cover that covers another face of the bus bar. The first cover includes a first flat plate cover that covers the flat plate portion of the bus bar, and a first standing cover that covers the standing portion of the bus bar. The second cover includes a second flat plate cover that covers the flat plate portion of the bus bar, and a second standing cover that covers the standing portion of the bus bar. The first standing cover includes a pair of engagement pieces arranged to project toward the second standing cover and bent toward each other to engage with the second standing cover.
US11495940B2
A light emitting device includes a wiring board having a first wiring layer and a second wiring layer adjacent to the first wiring layer via an insulating layer, and a laser having a cathode electrode and an anode electrode, mounted on the wiring board, and driven through low-side driving. The first wiring layer includes a cathode wire connected to the cathode electrode, an anode wire connected to the anode electrode, and a first reference potential wire connected to a reference potential. The second wiring layer includes a second reference potential wire connected to the reference potential. An area of an overlap between the second reference potential wire and the anode wire is larger than an area of an overlap between the second reference potential wire and the first reference potential wire.
US11495934B1
A laser system may include one or more seed lasers to generate a pulsed seed beam including one or more laser pulses, a pulse pattern generator to generate an intermediate patterned burst-mode beam from at least one laser pulse from the pulsed seed beam, where the pulse pattern generator includes splits the at least one laser pulse from the pulsed seed beam along two or more delay paths and combines light along the two or more delay paths to a common optical path, and where the intermediate patterned burst-mode beam includes laser pulses with a selected pattern of inter-pulse spacings associated with the two or more delay paths. The laser system may further include power amplifiers to amplify the intermediate patterned burst-mode beam to form an amplified patterned burst-mode beam, where the amplified patterned burst-mode beam includes amplified laser pulses with the selected pattern of inter-pulse spacings.
US11495933B2
An assembly system includes a positioning unit adapted to clamp and position a cable, a supply unit adapted to supply a connector, and an insertion unit adapted to insert an end of the cable into the connector by moving the connector. The supply unit includes a conveyor belt having a side to which ends of a plurality of connectors in a row of connectors are connected, a cutting device configured to cut each connector of the row of connectors from the conveyor belt, and a conveyor configured to move the conveyor belt, so as to move the connectors individually to the cutting device.
US11495922B2
A multifunctional high-voltage connector and a battery product are disclosed. The multifunctional high-voltage connector includes: a fuse, a socket, and a plug. The socket includes a base and a socket terminal. The plug includes a seat and a plug terminal. The base includes: a first main body portion; a first accommodating portion, protruding from the first main body portion; and a second accommodating portion, protruding from the first main body portion and provided to be spaced apart from the first accommodating portion. The fuse is accommodated in the first accommodating portion. At least a part of the socket terminal is accommodated in the second accommodating portion. The seat of the plug is inserted into the second accommodating portion of the base.
US11495919B2
In a connector assembly in which a connector that includes a first terminal, a second terminal, a ground terminal including a shielding portion (plate portion) positioned between the first terminal and the second terminal, and a shell having conductivity and a frame-like shape and a mating connector that includes a first mating terminal and a second mating terminal that are connected with the first terminal and the second terminal respectively, a mating ground terminal including a mating shielding portion (mating plate portion) positioned between the first mating terminal and the second mating terminal, and a mating shell having conductivity and a frame-like shape are fitted to each other, the ground terminal and the shell are integrally formed through bending processing for metal plate. The ground terminal and the mating ground terminal are connected with each other through elastic contact between the shielding portion and the mating shielding portion.
US11495917B2
An electrical connector has a row of signal contacts, and a ground shield disposed inwardly from the signal contacts. Each of the signal and ground contacts has a first segment and a second segment. Each first segment defines a mounting end that can mount to a first electrical component, and each second segment defines a mating end that can mate with a second electrical component. The first and second segments of each signal contact and the ground contact are angularly offset from one another so as to define an angle of between 75 degrees and 105 degrees between the first and second segments. The first and second segments of each signal contact and the ground contact can be coupled to one another to define the angle. Alternatively, the signal and ground contacts can be bent along a common bend line that intersects the signal contacts and the ground contact.
US11495914B2
The present disclosure provides a connector assembly. The connector assembly includes a connector housing adapted to engage with a corresponding counter-connector housing. A lever including a first lever arm and a second lever arm is pivotably and sealingly mounted to the connector housing. Each lever arm includes interlocking means for connecting the first lever arm to the second lever arm at a first location. The interlocking means of each of the first lever arm and the second lever arm are configured to define complementary symmetrical surfaces that interlock with one another when the lever arms are pivotably mounted to the connector housing. On mounting the lever arms to the connector housing, the lever is configured to move about the connector housing between an open state and a closed state to secure the counter-connector housing to the connector housing.
US11495905B2
An electrical plug connector includes a metallic shell, a first insulated housing, a second insulated housing, a first terminal module, and a second terminal module. The first terminal module includes the first terminals and the first assembling block combined with each other to form a one-piece member, and then the first insulated housing is further combined with the first terminal module. The second terminal module includes the second terminals and the second assembling block combined with each other to form a one-piece member, and then the second insulated housing is further combined with the second terminal module. The four-piece component is assembled into the metallic shell. Accordingly, the number of the components for manufacturing the connector can be reduced, thereby simplifying the assembling procedure for the connector.
US11495902B2
The invention relates to an electrical conductor (1) having an electrical contact element (2) that is associated in particular with an interface (21) and has at least one electrical contact point (17), wherein the conductor (1) has a bundle (3) of electrical individual cores (4). Provision is made for the individual cores (4) to be carbon-nanostructure-based fibers (CNB), in particular carbon nanotubes (CNT), and for a segment (9) of each individual core (4) to have at least the one contact point (17) of the contact element (2). The invention further relates to an electrical interface (21).
US11495899B2
A data communication system can include a low-profile electrical connector that is sized to be mounted onto a PCB in a gap between the PCB and a heat sink that overhangs from an IC that is mounted to the PCB. The data communication system further includes an electrical cable that extends from the electrical connector to an optical transceiver. A cable management laminate can route the electrical cables along a predetermined path. The data communication system can be disposed in a system tray that is configured to force air over the heat sink. The airflow over the heat sink can be adjustable.
US11495893B2
In a first contact of a connector, an insulation-displacement connection portion has two insulation-displacement blades and has a narrow slit and a wide slit. The insulation-displacement blades are different from each other in position in a first direction and correspond to the narrow slit. The insulation-displacement blades are obliquely intersected with the first direction. The narrow slit and the wide slit extend in the front-rear direction. In the first direction, the insulation-displacement blade is located between the narrow slit 362 and the wide slit 364. In a second direction, a middle of the wide slit 364 is different from a middle of the narrow slit 362 in position. When covered wire is pushed into the narrow slit, it is pressed on the insulation-displacement blades at different timings in order.
US11495887B2
The invention relates to a wire antenna suitable for operating in at least one frequency band, including a plurality of stacked layers, including at least one radiating element placed on a support layer, said support layer being placed on a spacing substrate placed on a reflective plane, characterised in that it includes at least one resistive grille having a resistive surface with predetermined resistance, including at least one set of repetitive, non-contiguous empty patterns, said grille being placed between the spacing substrate and the reflective plane.
US11495886B2
Satellites require a suitable antenna for line of sight microwave communication with the ground. Disclosed here is an Archimedean spiral antenna backed by a copper cavity containing quadruple conical perturbations. The antenna meets the required size, mass, transmitting power, bandwidth, and circular polarization for a satellite (e.g., CubeSat) environment while providing immunity to the mounting position.
US11495865B2
Described herein is a multilayer microporous film or membrane that may exhibit improved properties, including improved dielectric break down and strength, compared to prior monolayer or tri-layer microporous membranes of the same thickness. The preferred multilayer microporous membrane comprises microlayers and one or more lamination barriers. Also disclosed is a battery separator or battery comprising one or more of the multilayer microporous films or membranes. The inventive battery and battery separator is preferably safer and more robust than batteries and battery separators using prior monolayer and tri-layer microporous membranes. Also, described herein is a method for making the multilayer microporous separators, membranes or films described herein.
US11495864B2
Provided are a separator for a secondary battery and an electrochemical device using the same. More particularly, a composite separator which has a lower Gurley permeability after curing than that before curing when forming a heat-resistant coating layer having low resistance, does not have a Gurley permeability which is greatly increased as compared with the Gurley permeability of a porous substrate itself before forming a coating layer to have an overall low Gurley permeability, and has a high surface hardness to have penetration stability, is provided.
US11495859B2
A battery comprising a first housing element (2) and a second housing element (3) that jointly form an inner chamber (5) for receiving a battery module (10), wherein the second housing element (3) forms a second temperature control structure (102) on a face that is facing the inner chamber (5) and in particular is facing the first housing element (2), and a cover element (100) is connected to the second housing element (3) in such a manner that a temperature-controlling fluid receiving device (112) through which temperature-controlling fluid can flow is delimited by the cover element (100) in a fluid-tight manner with respect to the inner chamber (5) and the second temperature control structure (102) is embodied in such a manner that the temperature-controlling fluid can flow around it.
US11495848B2
One embodiment of the present disclosure relates to a secondary battery module. A secondary battery module includes a plurality of battery cells; and a first frame configured to accommodate and cool the plurality of battery cells, wherein the first frame includes: a housing configured to accommodate the plurality of battery cells; and at least one cooling plate coupled to one surface of the housing, interposed between groups of one or more battery cells among the plurality of battery cells disposed in the housing, and configured to fix the plurality of battery cells and dissipate heat generated from the plurality of battery cells.
US11495845B2
An energy storage device including an electrode terminal, and a case having a case first surface on which the electrode terminal is disposed, and a case second surface, a conductive member, and a first insulating member including a facing portion that faces the case second surface in the first direction, and is disposed between the case second surface and the conductive member, and an extending portion extending from the facing portion in a second direction intersecting the first direction are provided, and in a third direction intersecting the first direction and the second direction, the extending portion is disposed closer to the case first surface on which the electrode terminal is disposed than a case third surface facing the case first surface of the case.
US11495844B2
A charging device for charging an energy accumulator unit, in particular a battery pack, of a hand-held power tool. The charging device includes a cooling device for cooling the energy accumulator unit, in particular the battery pack, a charger housing, which at least in sections forms an outer housing, and a receptacle unit which may detachably accommodate the energy accumulator unit, and is provided to accommodate the energy accumulator unit in a connected state and/or hold it at the charging device. The cooling device is provided to form an airflow directed onto the energy accumulator unit in such a way that the airflow at least in sections flows around the energy accumulator unit.
US11495842B2
A heat dissipating structure for a battery is provided between a heat source and a cooling member and enables heat dissipation from the heat source by conducting heat from the heat source to the cooling member. The heat dissipating structure includes: a thermally conductive sheet containing at least one of metal, carbon, and ceramic and settable between the heat source and the cooling member; and a cushion member at least partially covered with the thermally conductive sheet.
US11495840B2
A battery pack may include a plurality of battery cells, a cell retainer and a heat exchanger assembly. The cell retainer may define a plurality of cell reception slots configured to retain respective ones of the battery cells. The cell retainer may define an enclosure that fixes the battery cells and is not penetrated by any cooling apparatus. The cell retainer may be in thermal communication with the battery cells to transfer heat away from the battery cells. The heat exchanger assembly may be in thermal communication with the cell retainer and external to the cell retainer to at least passively transfer heat away from the cell retainer while the battery pack is operated in a discharge mode. The cell retainer may include a thermally conductive material capable of transferring heat to the heat exchanger assembly and also storing at least some of the heat.
US11495836B2
A control unit for a battery system, comprising: a microcontroller configured to generate a first control signal; a monitoring unit configured to generate a fault signal indicative of the operational state of the microcontroller; a first signal source configured to generate a state signal indicative of a system state; a comparator circuit configured to generate an intermediate control signal based on a first control signal and a fault signal; the comparator circuit further comprising a comparator node, the comparator circuit configured to transmit the intermediate control signal to the comparator node; wherein the first signal source is connected to the comparator node to transmit the state signal to the comparator node; the comparator circuit further comprises a comparator connected to the comparator node and configured to generate a switch control signal based on a voltage on the comparator node and based on a threshold voltage.
US11495823B2
An apparatus for separating battery plates includes a work surface for receiving a stack of battery plates, and an alignment mechanism for aligning the battery plates on the work surface. The work surface is movable between a first position in which it is angled with respect to a horizontal plane and a second position in which it is substantially aligned with the horizontal plane. When the work surface moves between the first and second position adjacent battery plates of the stack are displaced relative to each other.
US11495819B2
A molten carbonate fuel cell assembly includes a cathode electrode; an anode electrode; an electrolyte matrix disposed between the cathode electrode and the anode electrode; a cathode current collector abutting the cathode electrode; and a first electrolyte composition stored in the cathode electrode, the first electrolyte composition comprising a first mixture of a eutectic Li/Na carbonate electrolyte doped with one or more additive materials, wherein the one or more additive materials comprise one or more of SrO, BaCO3, BaO, SrCO3, and combinations thereof.
US11495817B2
A cell according to the present disclosure includes: a solid electrolyte layer including a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface; a fuel electrode on the first surface; an air electrode on the second surface; and a middle layer between the second surface and the air electrode. The middle layer=is a CeO2-type sintered body containing Si, the content of Si equivalent to or less than 150 ppm in terms of SiO2. A cell stack device includes a cell stack in which the plurality of cells is aligned. A module includes: a storage container; and the cell stack device that is housed in the storage container. A module housing device includes: an external case; the module and an auxiliary equipment that drives the module, which are housed in the external case.
US11495816B2
A method for producing a liquid composition containing a fluoropolymer having sulfonic acid groups, trivalent cerium ions and water, by (1) irradiating a solution containing at least one cerium compound selected from cerium carbonate, cerium hydroxide and cerium oxide, the fluoropolymer and the water, with light at least partially in a wavelength region from 300 to 400 nm so that the ultraviolet irradiance on the surface of the solution is at least 0.1 mW/cm2 or (2) adding a reducing agent to a solution containing at least one cerium compound selected from cerium carbonate, cerium hydroxide and cerium oxide, the fluoropolymer and the water.
US11495813B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to a membrane-electrode assembly comprising a membrane structure with an anode layer, a cathode layer, and a membrane layer, wherein the membrane layer is positioned between the anode layer and the cathode layer. The membrane-electrode assembly furthermore comprises an anode-side gas-diffusion layer arranged on the anode layer and a cathode-side gas-diffusion layer arranged on the cathode layer. Furthermore, at least one of the anode-side gas-diffusion and the cathode-side gas-diffusion layers has a structure on the side facing away from the membrane structure. According to some embodiments, the structure comprises a plurality of columns for forming a laterally-open flow field, wherein the columns have support surfaces for supporting a bipolar plate.
US11495812B2
Disclosed are a method of manufacturing a membrane-electrode assembly and a membrane-electrode assembly manufactured using the same. The method includes forming a laminated structure, and treating the laminated structure, for example, by drying and heat treating. The laminated structure includes a release film, an anode layer, a porous support layer, and a cathode layer.
US11495807B2
A fuel cell module is configured or operated, or both, such that after a shut down procedure a fuel cell stack is discharged and has its cathode electrodes at least partially blanketed with nitrogen during at least some periods of time. If the fuel cell module is restarted in this condition, electrochemical reactions are limited and do not quickly re-charge the fuel cell stack. To decrease start up time, air is moved into the cathode electrodes before the stack is re-charged. The air may be provided by a pump, fan or blower driven by a battery or by the flow or pressure of stored hydrogen. For example, an additional fan or an operating blower may be driven by a battery until the fuel cell stack is able to supply sufficient current to drive the operating blower for normal operation.
US11495801B2
The invention relates to a battery electrode foil comprising an aluminium alloy, wherein the aluminium alloy has the following composition in weight percent: Si: 0.07-0.12% by weight, Fe: 0.18-0.24% by weight, Cu: 0.03-0.08% by weight, Mn: 0.015-0.025% by weight, Zn: ≤0.01% by weight, Ti: 0.015-0.025% by weight, Zn: ≤0.01% by weight, Ti: 0.015-0.025% by weight, Mn: 0.015-0.025% by weight, Zn: ≤0.01% by weight, Ti: 0.015-0.025% by weight, wherein the aluminium alloy can contain impurities up to a maximum of 0.01% in each case, up to a maximum of 0.03% in total, but the proportion of aluminium must be at least 99.5% by weight; wherein the battery electrode foil has intermetallic phases of a diameter length of 0.1 to 1.0 μm with a density of ≤9500 particles/mm2. The invention further relates to a process for the production of a battery electrode foil, its use for the production of accumulators, and accumulators containing the battery electrode foil.
US11495799B2
To provide a negative electrode of a lithium ion battery excellent in cycle life characteristics. The negative electrode for a lithium ion battery includes an Si-based material as an active material, wherein a skeleton-forming agent including a silicate having a siloxane bond or a phosphate having an aluminophosphate bond as an ingredient is present on the surface and inside of an active material layer, and the skeleton of the active material is formed with the skeleton-forming agent.
US11495786B2
A battery with many cavities that form tiny reaction zones having voids. During charging, lithium metal forms in each cavity on the anode current collector. The formation of lithium metal in each of the many thousands of small cavities that are isolated from each other prevents the buildup of significant quantities of lithium metal in one location. The combination of tiny reaction zones and voids allows lithium metal to form without stressing the structure of the battery cell.
US11495784B2
A process for delineating a population of electrode structures in a web is disclosed. The web has a down-web direction, a cross-web direction, an electrochemically active layer, and an electrically conductive layer. The process includes laser machining the web in at least the cross-web direction to delineate members of the electrode structure population in the web without releasing the delineated members from the web and forming an alignment feature in the web that is adapted for locating each delineated member of the electrode structure population in the web.
US11495779B2
The present disclosure discloses a pixel defining layer and a manufacturing method thereof, an array substrate and a display device, and belongs to the field of display technology. The pixel defining layer includes a plurality of pixel defining structures arranged in an array, wherein the pixel defining structure includes a first bottom surface and a second bottom surface opposite each other, and a side surface located between the first bottom surface and the second bottom surface. Since the side surface is non-planar, the structure between the side surface and the bottom surface close to the base substrate constitutes a capillary structure. During the inkjet printing process, the solution in which the organic light emitting material is dissolved can spread more evenly under the attraction of the capillary structure.
US11495770B2
A display apparatus capable of reducing a defect occurrence rate includes a display panel, a metal plate including an opening and located under the display panel to contact a lower surface of the display panel to support the display panel, and a filling layer filling the opening and including a material different from a material of the metal plate.
US11495767B2
A photoelectronic device includes an active layer containing inorganic particles, and an oxide semiconductor layer containing zinc (Zn), silicon (Si), and oxygen (O), where the oxide semiconductor layer and the active layer are stacked layers. The photoelectronic device further includes a multilayer transparent electrode over or under the active layer, wherein the oxide semiconductor layer serves as a part of the multilayer transparent electrode.
US11495763B2
Provided is a light-emitting element with high external quantum efficiency and a low drive voltage. The light-emitting element includes a light-emitting layer which contains a phosphorescent compound and a material exhibiting thermally activated delayed fluorescence between a pair of electrodes, wherein a peak of a fluorescence spectrum and/or a peak of a phosphorescence spectrum of the material exhibiting thermally activated delayed fluorescence overlap(s) with a lowest-energy-side absorption band in an absorption spectrum of the phosphorescent compound, and wherein the phosphorescent compound exhibits phosphorescence in the light-emitting layer by voltage application between the pair of electrodes.
US11495762B2
An imaging element which is formed by sequentially stacking at least an anode, an anode-side buffer layer, a photoelectric conversion layer, and a cathode, in which the anode-side buffer layer includes a material having structural formula in which thiophene and carbazole are combined.
US11495761B2
A photoelectric conversion device includes a first electrode and a second electrode facing each other, an organic photoelectric conversion layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, and a charge auxiliary layer between the first electrode and the organic photoelectric conversion layer. The organic photoelectric conversion layer is configured to absorb light in at least a portion of a wavelength spectrum of incident light and to convert the absorbed light into an electrical signal. The charge auxiliary layer includes a metal and an oxide. The oxide may be an oxide material that excludes silicon oxide such that the charge auxiliary layer does not include silicon oxide.
US11495758B2
A composition including a platinum-containing organometallic compound, a first compound, a second compound, and a third compound, and an organic light-emitting device including the same wherein the composition does not comprise iridium, the Pt-containing organometallic compound, the first compound, the second compound, and the third compound are different from each other, the first compound comprises at least one electron transport moiety, the second compound and the third compound do not include a metal, each of an absolute value of a HOMO energy level of the second compound and an absolute value of a HOMO energy level of the third compound is 5.30 eV to 5.85 eV, the difference between the absolute value of the HOMO energy level of the second compound and the absolute value of the HOMO energy level of the third compound is 0.01 eV to 0.30 eV.
US11495750B2
The present disclosure relates to an organic electroluminescent compound and an organic electroluminescent device comprising the same. By comprising the organic electroluminescent compound of the present disclosure, an organic electroluminescent device having low driving voltage, high luminous efficiency, and/or excellent lifespan characteristics can be provided.
US11495744B2
The purpose of the present invention is to provide: an organic semiconductor composition suitable for preparing an organic thin film by a solution method, an organic thin film obtained by using the organic semiconductor composition, and a practical field effect transistor which uses the organic thin film. The practical field effect transistor which uses the organic thin film has small variances in mobility and a threshold value, while maintaining a high mobility. Disclosed in the present specification is an organic semiconductor composition including an organic semiconductor compound, an insulation compound, an organic solvent A, which is a good solvent for the insulation compound, and an organic solvent B, which is a poor solvent for the insulation compound and has a higher boiling point than the organic solvent A. The mass ratio a:b of the organic solvent A and the organic solvent B is 1:8 to 8:1.
US11495741B2
A SOT device includes a bismuth antimony dopant element (BiSbE) alloy layer over a substrate. The BiSbE alloy layer is used as a topological insulator. The BiSbE alloy layer includes bismuth, antimony, AND a dopant element. The dopant element is a non-metallic dopant element, a metallic dopant element, and combinations thereof. Examples of metallic dopant elements include Ni, Co, Fe, CoFe, NiFe, NiCo, NiCu, CoCu, NiAg, CuAg, Cu, Al, Zn, Ag, Ga, In, or combinations thereof. Examples of non-metallic dopant elements include Si, P, Ge, or combinations thereof. The BiSbE alloy layer can include a plurality of BiSb lamellae layers and one or more dopant element lamellae layers. The BiSbE alloy layer has a (012) orientation.
US11495740B2
According to one embodiment, a magnetoresistive memory device includes: a first ferromagnetic layer; a stoichiometric first layer; a first insulator between the first ferromagnetic layer and the first layer; a second ferromagnetic layer between the first insulator and the first layer; and a non-stoichiometric second layer between the second ferromagnetic layer and the first layer. The second layer is in contact with the second ferromagnetic layer and the first layer.
US11495738B2
A dual magnetic tunnel junction (DMTJ) is disclosed with a PL1/TB1/free layer/TB2/PL2 configuration wherein a first tunnel barrier (TB1) has a substantially lower resistance×area (RA1) product than RA2 for an overlying second tunnel barrier (TB2) to provide an acceptable magnetoresistive ratio (DRR). Moreover, first and second pinned layers, PL1 and PL2, respectively, have magnetizations that are aligned antiparallel to enable a lower critical switching current that when in a parallel alignment. The condition RA1
US11495736B2
A semiconductor device includes a plurality of magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) structures in an interlayer insulating layer on a substrate. A blocking layer is on the interlayer insulating layer and the plurality of MTJ structures. An upper insulating layer is on the blocking layer. An upper interconnection is on the upper insulating layer. An upper plug is connected to the upper interconnection and a corresponding one of the plurality of MTJ structures and extends into the upper insulating layer and the blocking layer. The blocking layer includes a material having a higher absorbance constant than the upper insulating layer.
US11495731B2
A piezoelectric actuator assembly is described. The assembly including a first layer including a top and a bottom surfaces. The assembly including a second layer having a top and a bottom surfaces, the bottom surface of the second layer is disposed over the top surface of the first layer. The assembly including a third layer having a top and a bottom surfaces, the bottom surface of the third layer is disposed over the top surface of the second layer. The assembly includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a third electrode, and a fourth electrode. The third electrode is configured to be shorter than the second electrode such that the active PZT length of the second layer and the third layer is shorter than the active PZT length of the first layer.
US11495729B2
Highly deformable heterostructures utilizing liquid metals and nanostructures that are suitable for various applications, including but not limited to stretchable electronic devices that can be worn, for example, by a human being. Such a deformable heterostructure includes a stretchable substrate, a conductive liquid metal on the substrate, and nanostructures forming a solid-liquid heterojunction with the conductive liquid metal.
US11495728B2
A piezoelectric device includes a piezoelectric body at least a portion of which can bend and vibrate, an upper electrode on an upper surface of the piezoelectric body and in which distortion of a crystal lattice is reduced as a distance from the upper surface of the piezoelectric body increases, a lower electrode on a lower surface of the piezoelectric body and in which distortion of a crystal lattice is reduced as a distance from the upper surface of the piezoelectric body increases, and a support substrate below the piezoelectric body, in which a recess extending from a lower surface of the support substrate toward the lower surface of the piezoelectric device is provided.
US11495721B2
A system, a thermoelectric generator, and a method for generating electricity are provided. The system includes a thermoelectric generator, a cooling system, and a heating system. The cooling system includes a cold side module configured to hold a predetermined volume of air, a subterranean heat exchanger including an underground conduit, the underground conduit having a first end configured to receive ambient air and a second end coupled to the inlet of the cold side module, and an air exhaust coupled to the outlet of the cold side module and having one or more valves configured to control an airflow from the subterranean heat exchanger towards the air exhaust. The heating system includes a first solar concentrator to collect light rays, a hot side module, and a fiber optic cable to transport the collected light rays to the hot side module.
US11495720B2
A heat dissipation structure of the door leaf of an LED display box, comprising a box frame (100) and a box door leaf (200), a heat collection cavity (300) is simultaneously formed in the box frame (100) and on the backs of the LED display modules, when working, a number of the LED display modules are energized and emitting light, and the light is irradiated forward, and the heat generated by the operation of the LED display modules is concentrated in the heat collection cavity (300), the box door leaf (200) comprises an outer door leaf plate (210) and an inner lining board (220), wherein the inner lining board (220) is arranged on the inner side (211) of the outer door leaf plate (210), and at the same time, a ventilation and heat dissipation channel (400) is formed between the inner lining board (220) and the outer door leaf plate (210), the ventilation and heat dissipation channel (400) is in communication with the heat collection cavity (300), the ventilation and heat dissipation channel (400) comprises an air inlet (410) and an air outlet (420), wherein the air inlet (410) is in communication with the heat collection cavity (300), and the air outlet (420) is arranged on the outer door leaf plate (210), the box heat source part (500) is fixedly connected to the inner side (221) of the lining board, and at the same time, the box heat source part (500) is located in the heat collection cavity (300).
US11495693B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a substrate having a first active area and a second active area in proximity to the first active area. A trench isolation region is between the first active area and the second active area. A source line region is disposed in the first active area and adjacent to the trench isolation region. An erase gate is disposed on the source line region. A floating gate is disposed on a first side of the erase gate. A first control gate is disposed on the floating gate. A first word line is disposed adjacent to the floating gate and the first control gate and insulated therefrom. A second control gate is disposed on a second side of the erase gate and directly on the trench isolation region. A second word line is disposed adjacent to the second control gate and insulated therefrom.
US11495687B2
The present disclosure describes various non-planar semiconductor devices, such as fin field-effect transistors (finFETs) to provide an example, having one or more metal rail conductors and various methods for fabricating these non-planar semiconductor devices. In some situations, the one or more metal rail conductors can be electrically connected to gate, source, and/or drain regions of these various non-planar semiconductor devices. In these situations, the one or more metal rail conductors can be utilized to electrically connect the gate, the source, and/or the drain regions of various non-planar semiconductor devices to other gate, source, and/or drain regions of various non-planar semiconductor devices and/or other semiconductor devices. However, in other situations, the one or more metal rail conductors can be isolated from the gate, the source, and/or the drain regions these various non-planar semiconductor devices. This isolation prevents electrical connection between the one or more metal rail conductors and the gate, the source, and/or the drain regions these various non-planar semiconductor devices.
US11495678B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a transistor region, a diode region, a boundary trench gate, and a carrier control region. The boundary trench gate is provided in a boundary portion between the transistor region and the diode region. The carrier control region is provided as a surface layer of the semiconductor substrate at a position closer to the boundary trench gate than the source layer located between the boundary trench gate and the trench gate. A concentration of first conductivity type impurities contained in the carrier control region is higher than a concentration of the first conductivity type impurities contained in the source layer or a concentration of second conductivity type impurities contained in the carrier control region is lower than a concentration of the second conductivity type impurities contained in the source layer.
US11495676B2
Stress is introduced into the channel of an SOI FinFET device by transfer directly from a metal gate. In SOI devices in particular, stress transfer efficiency from the metal gate to the channel is nearly 100%. Either tensile or compressive stress can be applied to the fin channel by choosing different materials to be used in the gate stack as the bulk gate material, a gate liner, or a work function material, or by varying processing parameters during deposition of the gate or work function materials. P-gates and N-gates are therefore formed separately. Gate materials suitable for use as stressors include tungsten (W) for NFETs and titanium nitride (TiN) for PFETs. An optical planarization material assists in patterning the stress-inducing metal gates. A simplified process flow is disclosed in which isolation regions are formed without need for a separate mask layer, and gate sidewall spacers are not used.
US11495674B2
A method of forming source/drain features in a FinFET device includes providing a fin formed over a substrate and a gate structure formed over a fin, forming a recess in the fin adjacent to the gate structure, forming a first epitaxial layer in the recess, forming a second epitaxial layer over the first epitaxial layer, and forming a third epitaxial layer over the second epitaxial layer. The second epitaxial layer may be doped with a first element, while one or both of the first and the third epitaxial layer includes a second element different from the first element. One or both of the first and the third epitaxial layer may be formed by a plasma deposition process.
US11495661B2
A semiconductor device including a barrier layer surrounding a work function metal layer and methods of forming the same are disclosed. In an embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate; a first channel region over the semiconductor substrate; a second channel region over the first channel region; gate dielectric layers surrounding the first channel region and the second channel region; work function metal layers surrounding the gate dielectric layers; and barrier layers surrounding the work function metal layers, a first barrier layer surrounding the first channel region being merged with a second barrier layer surrounding the second channel region.
US11495657B2
A process is provided for forming a thin film resistor (TFR) in an integrated circuit (IC) device. A TFR film is formed and annealed over an IC structure including IC elements and IC element contacts. An oxide cap is formed over the TFR film, which acts as a hardmask during a TFR etch of the TFR film to define a TFR element, which may eliminate the use of a photomask and thereby eliminate post-etch removal of photomask polymer. TFR edge spacers may be formed over lateral edges of the TFR element to insulate such TFR element edges. TFR contact openings are etched in the oxide cap over the TFR element, and a metal layer is formed over the IC structure and extending into the TFR contact openings to form metal contacts to the IC element contacts and the TFR element.
US11495653B2
An organic light emitting display device includes a substrate having a sub-pixel area and a pad area, a light shielding layer in the sub-pixel area, a thin film transistor on the light shielding layer in the sub-pixel area, a light emitting diode connected to the thin film transistor, a lower pad electrode in the pad area, a first insulating layer covering the lower pad electrode to expose a portion of the lower pad electrode, an upper pad electrode connected to the lower pad electrode, and a second insulating layer between the first insulating layer and the upper pad electrode, the second insulating layer overlapping the upper pad electrode so that an end portion of the second insulating layer coincides with an end portion of the upper pad electrode.
US11495649B2
The application relates to the technical field of display, and discloses a display substrate, a method for preparing the same, and a display panel. The display substrate includes a base substrate, a pixel circuit layer and a flat layer sequentially arranged on the base substrate, and anodes located on a side, away from the base substrate, of the flat layer and corresponding to pixel units one by one, wherein a plurality of grooves of which openings are away from the base substrate are formed in the flat layer, a boss is formed between each two adjacent grooves, and an orthographic projection of each pixel unit on the base substrate is overlapped with an orthographic projection of a corresponding groove on the base substrate; and in each pixel unit: the anode is formed on the boss, a hollow structure is arranged at a part, opposite to a corresponding groove of the flat layer, of the anode, and an orthographic projection of the anode on the base substrate is located within an orthographic projection of the boss on the base substrate. The flat layer is provided with openings and thus can accommodate anode deficiencies generated by the anodes; and the hollow structures of the anodes can avoid dark spots finally caused by anode deformation generated by high-pressure washing, and therefore, the yield is increased.
US11495644B2
A display apparatus, display device and control method thereof, and non-transient computer-readable storage medium are provided. The display apparatus includes a display substrate and an ultrasonic transducer. The ultrasonic transducer includes a receiving electrode layer, which is disposed between two opposite bottom surfaces of the display substrate, and other parts of the ultrasonic transducer are disposed outside the display substrate. The display substrate includes a first pixel circuit and a first light emitting device, and the first light emitting device and the receiving electrode layer are respectively connected with the corresponding output terminals of the first pixel circuit.
US11495637B2
Provided are a resistive random access memory and a method of manufacturing the same. The resistive random access memory includes a stacked structure and a bit line structure. The stacked structure is disposed on a substrate. The stacked structure includes a bottom electrode, a top electrode and a resistance-switching layer. The bottom electrode is disposed on the substrate. The top electrode is disposed on the bottom electrode. The resistance-switching layer is disposed between the bottom electrode and the top electrode. The bit line structure covers a top surface of the stacked structure and covers a portion of a sidewall of the stacked structure. The bit line structure is electrically connected to the stacked structure.
US11495632B2
A semiconductor image sensor includes a substrate having a first side and a second side that is opposite the first side. An interconnect structure is disposed over the first side of the substrate. A plurality of radiation-sensing regions is located in the substrate. The radiation-sensing regions are configured to sense radiation that enters the substrate from the second side. A plurality of isolation structures are each disposed between two respective radiation-sensing regions. The isolation structures protrude out of the second side of the substrate.
US11495622B2
The present application discloses a display panel, a manufacture method and a display apparatus. The display panel includes a first substrate; the first substrate includes a base, a first metal layer, an insulating layer and a second metal layer; the second metal layer includes horizontal zones and oblique zones; each of the oblique zones is inclined from a first height to a second height; the first height is greater than the second height; a thickness of each of the horizontal zones of the second metal layer is greater than a thickness of each of the oblique zones of the second metal layer; and a width of each of the oblique zones of the second metal layer is greater than a width of each of the horizontal zones of the second metal layer.
US11495618B2
In an embodiment, a device includes: a source line extending in a first direction; a bit line extending in the first direction; a back gate between the source line and the bit line, the back gate extending in the first direction; a channel layer surrounding the back gate; a word line extending in a second direction, the second direction perpendicular to the first direction; and a data storage layer extending along the word line, the data storage layer between the word line and the channel layer, the data storage layer between the word line and the bit line, the data storage layer between the word line and the source line.
US11495617B2
Device, systems, and structures include a stack of vertically-alternating tiers of materials arranged in one or more decks of tiers. A channel opening, in which a channel pillar may be formed, extends through the stack. The pillar includes a “shoulder portion” extending laterally into an “undercut portion” of the channel opening, which undercut portion is defined along at least a lower tier of at least one of the decks of the stack.
US11495605B2
Provided are a semiconductor structure and a manufacturing method thereof. The manufacturing method includes the following steps. A substrate having a capacitor region and a periphery region is provided, wherein a transistor is formed in the substrate in the capacitor region, and a conductive device is formed in the substrate in the periphery region. A capacitor is formed on the substrate in the capacitance region, wherein the capacitor is electrically connected to the transistor, and an upper electrode layer of the capacitor extends onto the substrate in the periphery region. A protective layer is formed on the upper electrode layer. A doped layer is formed in at least the surface of the protective layer in the capacitor region. An etching process is performed using the doped layer as a mask to remove the protective layer and the upper electrode layer in the periphery region.
US11495601B2
A semiconductor device that can be miniaturized or highly integrated is provided. The semiconductor device includes a capacitor, an electrode, and an interlayer film. The transistor includes a semiconductor layer, a gate, a source, and a drain; the transistor and the capacitor are placed to be embedded in the interlayer film. Below the semiconductor layer, one of the source and the drain is in contact with the electrode. Above the semiconductor layer, the other of the source and the drain is in contact with one electrode of the capacitor.
US11495595B2
The semiconductor device of the present invention includes a semiconductor substrate, a switching element which is defined on the semiconductor substrate, and a temperature sense element which is provided on the surface of the semiconductor substrate independently from the switching element and characterized by being dependent on a temperature.
US11495594B2
An electrostatic protection circuit and a manufacturing method thereof, an array substrate, and a display device are provided. The electrostatic protection circuit includes: at least one first transistor and at least one second transistor. A gate electrode and a first electrode of the first transistor are connected to a first signal line, and a second electrode of the first transistor is connected to a second signal line. A gate electrode and a first electrode of the second transistor are connected to the second signal line, and a second electrode of the second transistor is connected to the first signal line.
US11495593B2
A semiconductor device includes a composite pn-junction structure in a semiconductor substrate, wherein the composite pn-junction structure has a first junction grading coefficient m1, with m1≥0.50. The composite pn-junction structure includes a first partial pn-junction structure and a second partial pn-junction structure, wherein the first partial pn-junction structure has a first partial junction grading coefficient m11, and wherein the second partial pn-junction structure has a second partial junction grading coefficient m12. The first partial junction grading coefficient m11 is different to the second partial junction grading coefficient m12, with m11≠m12. At least one of the first and second partial junction grading coefficients m11, m12 is greater than 0.50, with m11 and/or m12>0.50. The first junction grading coefficient m1 of the composite pn-junction structure is based on a combination of the first and second partial junction grading coefficients m11, m12.
US11495588B2
Various circuit boards with mounted passive components and method of making the same are disclosed. In one aspect, a method of manufacturing is provided that includes at least partially encapsulating a first plurality of passive components in a molding material to create a first molded passive component group. The first molded passive component group is mounted on a surface of a circuit board. The first plurality of passive components are electrically connected to the circuit board.
US11495581B2
In a semiconductor module, semiconductor chips are each provided with a drain portion on one of a pair of surfaces facing each other, and a source portion and a gate portion on the other surface. Substrates each include three power supply patterns capable of transmitting power supplied from a power supply, and at least two signal patterns capable of transmitting a control signal. The three power supply patterns and the two signal patterns extend in parallel to each other along a first direction. Among the three power supply patterns, two of them are capable of mounting the semiconductor chips and connectable to the drain portions of the mounted semiconductor chips, and remaining one of them is connectable to the source portions of the semiconductor chips. The two signal patterns are connectable to the gate portions of the semiconductor chips.
US11495580B2
A Multi-Chip Module (MCM) package includes a substrate having a plurality of metal terminals and at least a first die attach area. An encapsulant is around the substrate including on at least a portion of the topside and at least a portion of the bottomside of the package. At least a first device including at least two device terminals is attached face up on the first die attach area. At least a second device including at least two device terminals is flip-chip attached and stacked on the first device. At least one of the first device and second device include a transistor. At least one metal clip is between the first device and second device including a plurality of clip portions isolated from one another connecting at least one device terminal of each of the first device and second device to respective metal terminals of the plurality of metal terminals.
US11495572B2
A semiconductor package device includes a transparent carrier, a first patterned conductive layer, a second patterned conductive layer, and a first insulation layer. The transparent carrier has a first surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface and a third surface extended between the first surface and the second surface. The first patterned conductive layer is disposed on the first surface of the transparent carrier. The first patterned conductive layer has a first surface coplanar with the third surface of the transparent carrier. The second patterned conductive layer is disposed on the first surface of the transparent carrier and electrically isolated from the first patterned conductive layer. The first insulation layer is disposed on the transparent carrier and covers the first patterned conductive layer.
US11495570B2
A method of forming a wire loop in connection with a semiconductor package is provided. The method includes the steps of: (1) providing package data related to the semiconductor package to a wire bonding machine; (2) providing at least one looping control value related to a desired wire loop to the wire bonding machine, the at least one looping control value including at least a loop height value related to the desired wire loop; (3) deriving looping parameters, using an algorithm, for forming the desired wire loop; (4) forming a first wire loop on the wire bonding machine using the looping parameters derived in step (3); (5) measuring actual looping control values of the first wire loop formed in step (4) corresponding to the at least one looping control value; and (6) comparing the actual looping control values measured in step (5) to the at least one looping control value provided in step (2).
US11495563B2
Two transistor rows are arranged on or in a substrate. Each of the two transistor rows is configured by a plurality of transistors aligned in a first direction, and the two transistor rows are arranged at an interval in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. A first wiring is arranged between the two transistor rows when seen from above. The first wiring is connected to collectors or drains of the plurality of transistors in the two transistor rows. The first bump overlaps with the first wiring when seen from above, is arranged between the two transistor rows, and is connected to the first wiring.
US11495557B2
A semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same are provided. The method includes providing a first substrate. The method also includes forming a first metal layer on the first substrate. The first metal layer includes a first metal material. The method further includes treating a first surface of the first metal layer with a solution including an ion of a second metal material. In addition, the method includes forming a plurality of metal particles including the second metal material on a portion of the first surface of the first metal layer.
US11495556B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor structure is provided. The method includes: providing a semiconductor chip comprising an active surface; forming a conductive bump over the active surface of the semiconductor chip; and coupling the conductive bump to a substrate. The conductive bump includes a plurality of bump segments including a first group of bump segments and a second group of bump segments. Each bump segment has a same segment thickness in a direction orthogonal to the active surface of the semiconductor chip, and each bump segment has a volume defined by a multiplication of the same segment thickness with an average cross-sectional area of the bump segment in a plane parallel to the active surface of the semiconductor chip. A ratio of a total volume of the first group of bump segments to a total volume of the second group of bump segments is between 0.03 and 0.8.
US11495555B2
Techniques for fabricating a cored or coreless semiconductor package having one or more magnetic bilayer structures embedded therein are described. A magnetic bilayer structure includes a magnetic layer and a dielectric layer. For one technique, fabricating a cored or coreless semiconductor package includes: depositing a seed layer on a build-up layer; forming a raised pad structure and a trace on the seed layer; removing one or more uncovered portions of the seed layer to uncover top surfaces of one or more portions of the build-up layer; applying a magnetic bilayer structure on the raised pad structure, the trace, any unremoved portion of the seed layer, and the top surfaces of the one or more portions of the build-up layer, the magnetic bilayer structure comprises a magnetic layer and a dielectric layer; and forming a conductive structure on the raised pad structure. Other techniques are also described.
US11495554B2
A configurable capacitance device includes a semiconductor substrate including a plurality of integrally formed capacitors; and a separate interconnect structure coupled to the semiconductor substrate, wherein the separate interconnect structure is configurable to electrically couple two or more of the plurality of integrally formed capacitors together in a parallel configuration.
US11495551B2
A power semiconductor module includes a plurality of power semiconductor chips. A housing accommodates the power semiconductor chips. A first module electrode on a first side of the housing electrically is connected to a first chip electrode of the power semiconductor chips. A second module electrode on a second side of the housing electrically is connected to a second chip electrode. A surge arrester arrangement with a surge arrester is accommodated in the housing such that a first electrode of the surge arrester arrangement is provided at the first side of the housing and a second electrode of the surge arrester arrangement is provided at the second side of the housing. The power semiconductor chips are arranged in an annular region in the housing and the surge arrester arrangement is arranged within the annular region.
US11495546B2
A substrate having an electronic component embedded therein includes a core substrate including first and second wiring layers disposed on different levels and one or more insulating layers disposed between the first and second wiring layers, having a cavity in which a stopper layer is disposed on a bottom surface of the cavity, and including a groove disposed around the stopper layer on the bottom surface; an electronic component disposed on the stopper layer in the cavity; an insulating material covering at least a portion of each of the core substrate and the electronic component and disposed in at least a portion of each of the cavity and the groove; and a third wiring layer disposed on the insulating material. The stopper layer protrudes on the bottom surface.
US11495540B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide a semiconductor apparatus including a plurality of structures. A first one of the structures comprises a first stack of transistors that includes a first transistor formed on a substrate and a second transistor stacked on the first transistor along a Z direction substantially perpendicular to a substrate plane of the semiconductor apparatus. The first one of the structures further includes local interconnect structures. The first transistor is sandwiched between two of the local interconnect structures. The first one of the structures further includes vertical conductive structures substantially parallel to the Z direction. The vertical conductive structures are configured to provide at least power supplies for the first one of the structures by electrically coupling with the local interconnect structures. A height of one of the vertical conductive structures along the Z direction is at least a height of the first one of the structures.
US11495535B2
A system and method for detecting and measuring electrostatic discharge during semiconductor assembly are described. A semiconductor device fabrication process forms a conductor between two metal routes in a series path on a semiconductor die. The series path is between a bump on the die and a substrate tie. The two metal routes have a width greater than a threshold based on a metal width capable of conducting a critical current density caused by an electrostatic discharge event without conductive failure or breakdown. The conductor has a width less than the threshold. When an electrostatic discharge event occurs, if the current exceeds a critical amount of current, the conductor experiences conductive breakdown and current ceases to flow. During later testing, this series path is tested for open connections, which indicate whether the conductor acting as an electrical on-die fuse experienced conductive failure during assembly of a semiconductor chip.
US11495529B2
Implementations of a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) die may include a silicon layer including a first side and a second side, and an insulative layer coupled directly to the second side of the silicon layer. The insulative layer may not be coupled to any other silicon layer.
US11495527B2
A semiconductor module includes a base member including a circuit board on which a positive electrode pad and a negative electrode pad are provided and on which a semiconductor device is mounted to be electrically coupled to the positive electrode pad and the negative electrode pad, a housing that is attached to the base member so as to surround the positive electrode pad and the negative electrode pad, the housing being formed in a frame shape, a first electrode plate that is electrically coupled to the positive electrode pad, the first electrode plate having a flat plate portion, and a second electrode plate that is electrically coupled to the negative electrode pad, the second electrode plate having a flat plate portion. The flat plate portion of the first electrode plate and the flat plate portion of the second electrode plate are arranged in a parallel-plate configuration within the housing.
US11495514B2
Disclosed embodiments include multiple thermal-interface material at the interface between an integrated heat spreader and a heat sink. A primary thermal-interface material has flow qualities and a secondary thermal-interface material has containment and adhesive qualities. The integrated heat spreader has a basin form factor that contains the primary thermal-interface material.
US11495511B2
A semiconductor package structure and a method for manufacturing a semiconductor package structure are provided. The semiconductor package structure includes a semiconductor package device, a first constraint structure and a second constraint structure. The first constraint structure is connected to the semiconductor package device. The second constraint structure is connected to the semiconductor package device and under a projection of the semiconductor package device.
US11495497B2
An embodiment of a semiconductor switch structure includes source contacts, drain contacts, gates and fins. The contacts and gates are elongated in a first direction and are spaced apart from each other in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The gates are interspersed between the contacts. The fins underlie both the contacts and the gates. The fins are elongated in the second direction and are spaced apart from each other in the first direction. A contact via extends through one of the contacts without contacting a gate or a fin. A gate via extends through one of the gates without contacting a contact or a fin. A contact-gate via is in contact with both a contact and a gate but not a fin.
US11495494B2
An integrated circuit includes a substrate, an isolation feature disposed over the substrate, a fin extending from the substrate alongside the isolation feature such that the fin extends above the isolation feature, and a dielectric layer disposed over the isolation feature. A top surface of the dielectric layer is at a same level as a top surface of the fin or below a top surface of the fin by less than or equal to 15 nanometers.
US11495493B2
Implementations of die singulation systems and related methods may include forming a plurality of die on a first side of a substrate, forming a seed layer on a second side of a substrate opposite the first side of the substrate, using a shadow mask, applying a mask layer over the seed layer, forming a backside metal layer over the seed layer, removing the mask layer, and singulating the plurality of die included in the substrate through removing substrate material in the die street and through removing seed layer material in the die street.
US11495491B2
A semiconductor device structure and a method for forming a semiconductor device structure are provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a semiconductor substrate and a first conductive structure over the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor device structure also includes a first dielectric layer surrounding the first conductive structure and a second dielectric layer over the first dielectric layer. The semiconductor device structure further includes a second conductive structure partially surrounded by the second dielectric layer and partially surrounded by the first conductive structure. In addition, the semiconductor device structure includes an interfacial layer separating the first conductive structure from the second conductive structure.
US11495489B2
Various embodiments of the present application are directed towards a method for forming a semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) substrate with a thick device layer and a thick insulator layer. In some embodiments, the method includes forming an insulator layer covering a handle substrate, and epitaxially forming a device layer on a sacrificial substrate. The sacrificial substrate is bonded to a handle substrate, such that the device layer and the insulator layer are between the sacrificial and handle substrates, and the sacrificial substrate is removed. The removal includes performing an etch into the sacrificial substrate until the device layer is reached. Because the device layer is formed by epitaxy and transferred to the handle substrate, the device layer may be formed with a large thickness. Further, because the epitaxy is not affected by the thickness of the insulator layer, the insulator layer may be formed with a large thickness.
US11495487B1
Methods for etching a semiconductor structure and for conditioning a processing reactor in which a single semiconductor structure is treated are disclosed. An engineered polycrystalline silicon surface layer is deposited on a susceptor which supports the semiconductor structure. The polycrystalline silicon surface layer may be engineered by controlling the temperature at which the layer is deposited, by grooving the polycrystalline silicon surface layer or by controlling the thickness of the polycrystalline silicon surface layer.
US11495484B2
A 3D semiconductor device, the device including: a first level including a first single crystal layer, the first level including first transistors, where the first transistors each include a single crystal channel; first metal layers interconnecting at least the first transistors; and a second level including a second single crystal layer, the second level including second transistors, where the second level overlays the first level, where the second level is bonded to the first level, where the bonded includes oxide to oxide bonds, where the second transistors each include at least two side-gates, and where through the first metal layers power is provided to at least one of the second transistors.
US11495483B2
Exemplary substrate support assemblies include an electrostatic chuck body defining a substrate platform. The substrate platform may be characterized by an upper surface. The platform may define a purge aperture. The platform may include a plurality of mesas that are disposed in an inner region of the upper surface. Each of the mesas may protrude upward from the upper surface. The platform may include a sealing band that extends upward from the upper surface in a circumferential pattern and partially encircles the inner region of the upper surface. Top surfaces of the mesas and sealing band may form a support surface for a substrate. The sealing band may define a number of gaps. The assemblies may include a support stem coupled with the electrostatic chuck body, a heater embedded within the electrostatic chuck body, and a backside gas source that is coupled with the purge aperture of the support surface.
US11495482B2
There is provided a method of automatically supervising a transfer operation of a transfer device including an optical sensor, the optical sensor having a light emitting part and a light receiving part provided in a head of a holding part for holding a substrate, the method including: acquiring a change in intensity of a first reflected light reflected off a first object by radiating a light from the light emitting part toward the first object below the holding part and receiving the first reflected light reflected off the first object by the light receiving part, while horizontally moving the holding part; and specifying an end position of the first object based on the change in intensity of the first reflected light.
US11495478B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for efficiently performing active thermal control during device testing are disclosed. A device testing system includes a device under test, a thermal structure on top of the device under test, and a controller configured to determine when to apply and remove thermal energy to the device under test through the thermal structure. The thermal structure includes a thermal transfer block that transfers thermal energy to and from the device under test below the thermal transfer block. The thermal structure also includes a coolant block above the thermal transfer block that removes thermal energy from the thermal transfer block. There is no heating element between the coolant block and the thermal transfer block. Rather, the thermal structure includes a heating element in a wall of the thermal transfer block. Therefore, an unobstructed thermal path exists from the device under test to the coolant block.
US11495459B2
Methods and systems for selectively depositing a p-type doped silicon germanium layer and structures and devices including a p-type doped silicon germanium layer are disclosed. An exemplary method includes providing a substrate, comprising a surface comprising a first area comprising a first material and a second area comprising a second material, within a reaction chamber; depositing a p-type doped silicon germanium layer overlying the surface, the p-type doped silicon germanium layer comprising gallium; and depositing a cap layer overlying the p-type doped silicon germanium layer. The method can further include an etch step to remove the cap layer and the p-type doped silicon germanium layer overlying the second material.
US11495451B2
A non-transitory medium includes instructions to control a spin coating device to render a cleaning nozzle of the spin coating device below a base plate and out of optimal exposure to a substrate material placed on a spin chuck when the base plate is engaged with the spin chuck. In response to disengagement of a lid from the base plate, the non-transitory medium also includes instructions to disengage the base plate from the spin chuck to lower the base plate to a locking point whereupon a portion of the cleaning nozzle below the base plate passes through a hole in the base plate and emerges completely out of and above the base plate, and instructions to clean the bottom surface and/or the edges of the substrate material utilizing the cleaning nozzle based on an optimal exposure to the bottom surface and the edges of the substrate material.
US11495450B2
A multi-zone heater with a plurality of thermocouples such that different heater zones can be monitored for temperature independently. The independent thermocouples may have their leads routed out from the shaft of the heater in a channel that is closed with a joining process that results in hermetic seal adapted to withstand both the interior atmosphere of the shaft and the process chemicals in the process chamber. The thermocouple and its leads may be enclosed with a joining process in which a channel cover is brazed to the heater plate with aluminum.
US11495446B2
A film formation device includes a target holder configured to hold a target for emitting sputtering particles in a processing space inside a processing chamber, a sputtering particle emitting part configured to emit the sputtering particles from the target, a sputtering particle shielding plate having a passage hole through which the emitted sputtering particles pass, a shielding member provided to shield the passage hole, a movement mechanism configured to move the shielding member in the horizontal direction, and a controller. The controller controls the shielding member, which has the placement portion on which a substrate is placed, to be moved in one direction of the horizontal direction, and controls the sputtering particles to be emitted from the target. The sputtering particles passed through the passage hole are deposited on the substrate.
US11495441B2
In one embodiment, a plasma processing device may include a dielectric window, a vacuum chamber, an energy source, and at least one air amplifier. The dielectric window may include a plasma exposed surface and an air exposed surface. The vacuum chamber and the plasma exposed surface of the dielectric window can cooperate to enclose a plasma processing gas. The energy source can transmit electromagnetic energy through the dielectric window and form an elevated temperature region in the dielectric window. The at least one air amplifier can be in fluid communication with the dielectric window. The at least one air amplifier can operate at a back pressure of at least about 1 in-H2O and can provide at least about 30 cfm of air.
US11495435B2
Described herein is a technique capable of capable of uniformly processing a surface of a substrate even when an inductive coupling type substrate processing apparatus is used. According to one aspect of the technique, there is provided a substrate processing apparatus including: a process chamber in which a substrate is processed; a gas supply part configured to supply a gas into the process chamber; a high frequency power supply part configured to supply a high frequency power; a plasma generator including a resonance coil wound on a side of the process chamber, the plasma generator configured to generate a plasma in the process chamber when the high frequency power is supplied to the resonance coil; and a substrate support on which the substrate is placed such that a horizontal center position of the substrate in the process chamber does not overlap with a horizontal center position of the resonance coil.
US11495426B2
An electromagnetic switch for a starting device of an internal combustion engine may include a coil carrier, a coil winding, and a piston. The coil carrier may have a carrier wall which encloses a cavity. The coil winding may have a coil wire wound on a side of the carrier wall facing away from the cavity which provides a magnetic field within the cavity. The piston may be axially adjustable in the cavity. The piston may be disposed in a passive position and may be adjusted axially in a direction of a core. In the passive position, the piston and the core may define an axial gap therebetween in the cavity. The coil wire may have a first winding section and a second winding section wound in opposing directions. At least one winding of the second winding section may axially overlap the axial gap.
US11495421B2
A keyswitch includes a bottom board, a cap structure, a lifting mechanism, and an elastic member. The lifting mechanism is detachably connected to the cap structure and the bottom board to make the cap structure movable upward and downward relative to the bottom board. The elastic member is connected to the cap structure so as to be detached from the lifting mechanism together with the cap structure when the cap structure is separate from the lifting mechanism.
US11495419B2
A switch device includes two fixed contacts and a movable contact of which position is changed when an operation unit is operated to selectively contact the fixed contacts. The switch device also includes a snap action mechanism that switches a contact state of the movable contact with the fixed contacts by deforming a spring portion in accordance with an operation amount of the operation unit. The switch device also includes a control unit that determines an operation state of the operation unit based on a detection signal received from the fixed contacts and the movable contact.
US11495414B2
A solar cell system and a flexible solar panel are disclosed herein. The solar cell system includes a glass housing, a set of rows of solar cells each defining a front side and a rear side and arranged within the glass housing. The solar cell system can also include a reflective element disposed in the glass housing and facing the rear side of the set of rows of solar cells and a first terminal coupled to a first end of the set of rows of solar cells, traversing through and sealed against the first end of the glass housing. The solar cell system can be configured with other solar cell systems into the flexible solar panel that is deployable in a wide range of potential applications.
US11495402B2
The invention relates to a device (11) and a method for producing transformer cores (12), the device comprising a retaining system (19) having a stacking table (18) for collecting sheets of metal (16) from which a transformer core (12) is constructed and having at least two positioning aids for the sheets, the stacking table forming a positioning surface (26) for the positioning aids and being equipped with the positioning aids, the stacking table and the positioning aids being realized such that a free positioning and a location-independent fastening of the positioning aids within the positioning surface is possible, the device having a positioning system (25) by means of which the positioning aids can be disposed on and/or be removed from the stacking table.
US11495401B2
A system automatically detecting that an authorized game device or object with a rechargeable battery is close to or in contact with a wireless charging pod for the gaming device or object, automatically initiating and managing charging operations for authorized game device, and automatically deactivating the charging operations when the rechargeable batteries are fully charged, or when the authorized game device is moved out of wireless charging range.
US11495400B2
A transformer comprising a primary winding and a secondary winding. The primary winding has N2 number turns and having a first terminal and a second terminal. The secondary winding has having N1 fractional portions, which together form a full turn, are in close proximity to the primary winding to establish coupling between the primary winding and the N1 fractional coil portions, the transformer turn ratio from the primary winding to the secondary winding is N2:(N3/N1) where N2 is an integer equal to or greater than 1, N1 is an integer greater than or equal to 2, and N3 is an integer greater than or equal to 1. Also disclosed is a stacked integrated transformer having a primary winding and secondary winding of which one or both have a waterfall structure and a portion of which functions as a ground connected shield between the secondary winding and the primary winding.
US11495389B2
Radio frequency filtering circuitry blocks certain frequencies in an outgoing signal so that the signal may be transmitted over a desired frequency. The radio frequency filtering circuitry includes a first inductor having a first coil and a second inductor coupled to and disposed within the first coil. The second inductor has a second coil and a third coil symmetrical to the second coil. When current is applied to the radio frequency filtering circuitry, the current in the second coil causes a first induced current in the first coil and the current in the third coil causes a second induced current in the first coil, wherein the second induced current is approximately equal in magnitude and opposite in direction to the first induced current. As such, the second induced current may compensate for the first induced current.
US11495376B2
The present invention discloses rare earth-bonded magnetic powder and a preparation method therefor. The bonded magnetic powder is of a multilayer core-shell structure, and comprises a core layer and an antioxidant layer (3), wherein the core layer is formed by RFeMB, R is Nd and/or PrNd, and M is one or more of Co, Nb, and Zr; and the core layer is coated with an iron-nitrogen layer (2). In addition, the present invention also discloses the preparation method for the rare earth-bonded magnetic powder and a bonded magnet. The oxidation and corrosion of magnetic raw powder during phosphorization and subsequent treatment process are effectively prevented, thereby further improving the long-term temperature resistance and environmental tolerance of the material.
US11495373B2
A grommet includes a tapered barrel part and a tape winding spatula part. The tapered barrel part includes a large diameter cylindrical portion, a small diameter cylindrical portion, and an elastic deformation portion disposed between the large diameter cylindrical portion and the small diameter cylindrical portion. A fitting groove to be fitted in a through hole of a panel, is formed on the large diameter cylindrical portion. A thick walled portion is formed on an inner side of the elastic deformation portion. The tape winding spatula part is connected to the small diameter cylindrical portion and holds a wire harness passed through therein.
US11495367B2
A multi-leaf collimator is provided. The multi-leaf collimator may include a plurality of leaves configured to shield radiation beams. At least two leaves of the plurality of leaves may be movable in a direction parallel to each another. Each leaf of at least some of the plurality of leaves may be configured to be movable between at least two positions. At least one of the at least two positions may be adjustable.
US11495359B2
A method and system for determining a patient's risk of developing an infection is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system and method includes extracting patient data from one or more databases corresponding to a pool of patients receiving treatment; using one or more predictive models with the extracted patient data to generate, for each of the patients in the pool of patients, a respective patient risk score for developing an infection within a selected time period; generating a report including at least a portion of the identified subset of the pool of patients and their respective patient risk scores; and transmitting the report to one or more health care facilities, the one or more health care facilities further identifying one or more patients from the portion of the identified subset of the pool of patients for interventional treatment, consultation, training, or combinations thereof.
US11495354B2
Systems, methods and computer-readable media are provided for facilitating clinical decision support and managing patient population health by health-related entities including caregivers, health care administrators, insurance providers, and patients. Embodiments of the invention provide decision support services including providing timely contextual patient information including condition risks, risk factors and relevant clinical information that are dynamically updatable; imputing missing patient information; dynamically generating assessments for obtaining additional patient information based on context; data-mining and information discovery services including discovering new knowledge; identifying or evaluating treatments or sequences of patient care actions and behaviors, and providing recommendations based on this; intelligent, adaptive decision support services including identifying critical junctures in patient care processes, such as points in time that warrant close attention by caregivers; near-real time querying across diverse health records data sources, which may use diverse clinical nomenclatures and ontologies; improved natural language processing services; and other decision support services.
US11495351B2
A method of calibrating a monitoring device to generate calibrated vital sign data using a calibration device includes positioning the monitoring device in a first position on a patient, generating vital sign data with a sensing assembly of the positioned monitoring device, and processing the vital sign data with the calibration device to determine if the vital sign data is calibrated vital sign data or uncalibrated vital sign data. The method also includes generating a calibrated data signal if the vital sign data is calibrated vital sign data, generating a reposition signal if the vital sign data is uncalibrated vital sign data, and repositioning the monitoring device on the patient until the calibrated data signal is generated.
US11495350B2
An information processing apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention includes a situation specifying unit configured to specify a part of a situation of the measurement subject on the basis of the number of measurements of the biological information in each situation of the measurement subject at the time of measuring biological information of the measurement subject by a biological information measuring unit, a current situation detecting unit configured to detect a current situation of the measurement subject, and a support information output unit configured to output support information relating to measurement of the biological information if the current situation corresponds to the measurement promoting situation.
US11495342B2
Disclosed medical data processing method for planning an external ventricle drainage placement, wherein the method comprises executing, on at least one processor (3) of at least one computer (2), the following steps: a) patient image data describing at least one image of an anatomical structure of a patient is acquired (S1); b) atlas data describing a model of the anatomical structure is acquired (S2); c) mapping data describing a mapping of the patient image data to the atlas data is determined (S3); d) spatial relationship data is acquired (S4) which describes a predetermined spatial relationship between at least one potential trajectory for placing the external ventricle drainage in the anatomical structure on the one hand and a surface of the anatomical structure on the other hand; e) entry point data is determined (S5) which describes the position of an entry point (13) of the external ventricle drainage on the surface of the anatomical structure based on the mapping data and the spatial relationship data.
US11495340B1
A medication vending device is provided with at least three distinct vending modes. A first vending mode causes the device to output a prompt at the respective dose time. The prompt communicates to the patient that a dose of medication should be vended from the device by the patient and immediately consumed. A second vending mode causes the device to automatically vend a dose of medication at the respective dose time without requiring any action by the patient. A third vending mode causes the device to immediately vend a dose of medication without requiring any action by the patient. The third vending mode allows for selection of a daily dose time from the plurality of daily dose times, and selection of one or more future dates, so as to cause immediate vending of the medication doses for the selected daily dose time for the selected one or more future dates.
US11495328B2
Disclosed herein is Arrowland, a web-based software tool for inputting, managing and viewing multiomics data, such as transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics and fluxomics data in an interactive, intuitive and multiscale system.
US11495322B2
Described herein are embodiments related to first-pass continuous read level calibration (cRLC) operations on memory cells of memory systems. A processing device determines that a first programming pass of a programming operation has been performed on a memory cell of a memory component. The processing device performs a cRLC operation on the memory cell to calibrate a read level threshold between a first first-pass programming distribution and a second first-pass programming distribution before a second programming pass of the programming operation is performed on the memory cell.
US11495313B1
An integrated circuit (IC) includes a non-volatile memory and boot circuitry. The boot circuitry is configured to boot the IC, including reading from the non-volatile memory one or more values indicative of whether production testing of the IC was completed successfully, and initiating a responsive action if the one or more values indicate that the production testing was not completed successfully.
US11495310B2
A method for erasing non-volatile memory including applying a first voltage pulse to a non-volatile memory cell to perform a first erase operation of the non-volatile memory cell and determining that a threshold voltage of the non-volatile memory cell is greater than a test voltage. The method further comprising updating a dedicated memory location with a value; and checking the non-volatile memory cell to determine whether the threshold voltage of the non-volatile memory cell is less than an erase-verify voltage to verify that the first erase operation has been performed successfully.
US11495305B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array and a peripheral circuit. The memory cell array includes at least two planes. The peripheral circuit performs a memory operation on a selected plane of the at least two planes during a single plane operation and performs a dummy operation on an unselected plane of the at least two planes.
US11495304B2
A control method of a memory device is provided. When a target memory cell whose source is connected to a first source line needs to be read, a word line controller provides a first voltage to a word line corresponding to the target memory cell and also provides the first voltage to a word line corresponding to the next row of the target memory cell, so that the period when the word line corresponding to the target memory cell remains at the first voltage overlaps the period when the word line corresponding to the next row of the target memory cell remains at the first voltage. When the target memory cell needs to be read, a source line controller provides a second voltage to the first source line, and provides a third voltage to the second source line; the third voltage is not equal to the second voltage.
US11495299B2
Memory devices, systems including memory devices, and methods of operating memory devices and systems are provided, in which at least a subset of a non-volatile memory array is configured to behave as a volatile memory by erasing or degrading data in the event of a changed power condition such as a power-loss event, a power-off event, or a power-on event. In one embodiment of the present technology, a memory device is provided, comprising a non-volatile memory array, and circuitry configured to store one or more addresses of the non-volatile memory array, to detect a changed power condition of the memory device, and to erase or degrade data at the one or more addresses in response to detecting the changed power condition.
US11495283B2
Some embodiments include an integrated assembly having a memory array over a base. First sense-amplifier-circuitry is associated with the base and includes sense amplifiers directly under the memory array. Vertically-extending digit lines are associated with the memory array and are coupled with the first sense-amplifier-circuitry. Second sense-amplifier-circuitry is associated with the base and is offset from the first sense-amplifier-circuitry. Control circuitry is configured to selectively couple the digit lines to either a voltage supply terminal or to the second sense-amplifier-circuitry.
US11495277B2
An apparatus includes a control clock generation circuit configured to generate a first toggling reference clock from a first internal clock and generate a second toggling reference clock from a first inverted internal clock, when a read operation is performed. The apparatus also includes a strobe signal generation circuit configured to generate a data strobe signal whose level transitions during a toggling period in synchronization with the first and second toggling reference clocks.
US11495269B2
An isolating system for dampening vibrations to or from audio equipment includes a mounting bracket secured to a support surface and a lower isolator assembly engaged with the mounting bracket. An upper isolator assembly engages the audio equipment and is positioned above the lower isolator assembly. The upper and lower assemblies are engaged with one another via aligned pairs of resilient, vibration-dampening isolators and associated connector members. The connector members extend between the isolators and are long enough to prevent direct contact between the upper and lower isolators. The isolating system is configured to allow a user to pivot the audio equipment about a vertical axis to change the position of the equipment in a horizontal plane. The isolating system is further configured to allow the user to pivot the audio equipment about a horizontal axis to change the position of the equipment in a vertical plane.
US11495257B2
The magnetic recording medium includes a non-magnetic support; and a magnetic layer including ferromagnetic powder and a binding agent on the non-magnetic support, in which an isoelectric point of a surface zeta potential of the magnetic layer is equal to or smaller than 3.8.
US11495251B1
A write shield of a magnetic head includes a pair of first side shields and a pair of second side shields. The pair of first side shields each include a first side wall and a second side wall. The pair of second side shields each include a third side wall. The third side wall of one of the pair of second side shields is continuous with the first side wall of one of the pair of first side shields. The third side wall of the other of the pair of second side shields is continuous with the first side wall of the other of the pair of first side shields.
US11495245B2
An urgency level estimation technique of estimating an urgency level of a speaker for free uttered speech, which does not require a specific word, is provided. An urgency level estimation apparatus includes a feature amount extracting part configured to extract a feature amount of an utterance from uttered speech, and an urgency level estimating part configured to estimate an urgency level of a speaker of the uttered speech from the feature amount based on a relationship between a feature amount extracted from uttered speech and an urgency level of a speaker of the uttered speech, the relationship being determined in advance, and the feature amount includes at least one of a feature indicating speaking speed of the uttered speech, a feature indicating voice pitch of the uttered speech and a feature indicating a power level of the uttered speech.
US11495244B2
A computer may train a single-class machine learning using normal speech recordings. The machine learning model or any other model may estimate the normal range of parameters of a physical speech production model based on the normal speech recordings. For example, the computer may use a source-filter model of speech production, where voiced speech is represented by a pulse train and unvoiced speech by a random noise and a combination of the pulse train and the random noise is passed through an auto-regressive filter that emulates the human vocal tract. The computer leverages the fact that intentional modification of human voice introduces errors to source-filter model or any other physical model of speech production. The computer may identify anomalies in the physical model to generate a voice modification score for an audio signal. The voice modification score may indicate a degree of abnormality of human voice in the audio signal.
US11495239B2
The following coding scenario is addressed: A number of audio source signals need to be transmitted or stored for the purpose of mixing wave field synthesis, multi-channel surround, or stereo signals after decoding the source signals. The proposed technique offers significant coding gain when jointly coding the source signals, compared to separately coding them, even when no redundancy is present between the source signals. This is possible by considering statistical properties of the source signals, the properties of mixing techniques, and spatial hearing. The sum of the source signals is transmitted plus the statistical properties of the source signals, which mostly determine the perceptually important spatial cues of the final mixed audio channels. Source signals are recovered at the receiver such that their statistical properties approximate the corresponding properties of the original source signals. Subjective evaluations indicate that high audio quality is achieved by the proposed scheme.
US11495234B2
A data mining device, and a speech recognition method and system using the same are disclosed. The speech recognition method includes selecting speech data including a dialect from speech data, analyzing and refining the speech data including a dialect, and learning an acoustic model and a language model through an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm using the refined speech data including a dialect. The user is able to use a dialect speech recognition service which is improved using services such as eMBB, URLLC, or mMTC of 5G mobile communications.
US11495230B2
Method starts with processing, by a processor, audio signal to generate audio caller utterance and transcribed caller utterance. Processor generates identified tasks based on transcribed caller utterances. Processor obtains member context associated with member identification and obtains available tasks associated with member identification. Processor determines lengths of time associated with available tasks, respectively. Lengths of time associated with available tasks are lengths of time that the available tasks have been available. Processor determines messaging data associated with available tasks, respectively, that is based on dates of receipt of messages pertaining to available tasks. Processor, using a predictive analysis neural network, generates a predictive analysis result that is based on the available tasks, the lengths of time associated with the available tasks, or messaging data associated with the available tasks. Predictive analysis result includes at least one matched task that is relevant to caller. Other embodiments are disclosed herein.
US11495227B2
An Artificial Intelligence (AI) based user intent analyzer system analyzes a received user query to determine an intent of the user query and enables execution of processes on a backend system based on the user intent. The user query is divided into a plurality of portions and the portions with extraneous information are discarded. The remaining portions are parsed with a plurality of parsers. The output from the plurality of parsers is processed for extraction of the entities, entity attributes, verbs, and verb arguments. The entities and verbs are further filtered using knowledge graphs and the remaining entities and verbs are mapped to sub-intents using intent mapping rules retrieved from the knowledge graphs. The sub-intents are mapped to the final intent using process rules associated with the process to be executed by the backend system in response to the user query.
US11495223B2
An electronic device according to various embodiments may comprise a memory in which one or more applications are installed, a communication circuit, and a processor, wherein the processor is configured to acquire audio data during execution of a designated application among the one or more applications, wherein the acquiring of audio data comprises an operation of storing, in the memory, at least a portion including multiple pieces of phoneme information among the audio data, when a designated condition is satisfied, transmit the at least portion to an external electronic device so that the external electronic device generates designated information for execution of at least one application among the one or more applications by using at least a part of the multiple pieces of phoneme information stored before the designated condition is satisfied, and on the basis of the designated information, execute the at least one application in relation to the designated application.
US11495222B2
Disclosed is an electronic device. The electronic device includes a processor configured to execute one or more instructions stored in a memory to: control a receiver to receive a speech signal; determine whether the received speech signal includes speech signals of a plurality of different speakers; when the received speech signal includes the speech signals of the plurality of different speakers, detect feature information from a speech signal of each speaker; determine relations between pieces of speech content of the plurality of different speakers, based on the detected feature information; determine a response method based on the determined relations between the pieces of speech content; and control the electronic device such that an operation of the electronic device is performed according to the determined response method.
US11495220B2
Disclosed is an electronic device. The electronic device may execute an application for transmitting and receiving at least one of text data or voice data with another electronic device using the communication module, in response to occurrence of at least one event, based on receiving at least one of text data or voice data from the another electronic device, identify that a confirmation is necessary using the digital assistant based on at least one of text data or voice data being generated based on a characteristic of ab utterance using a digital assistant, generate a notification to request confirmation using the digital assistant based on confirmation being necessary, and output the notification using the application. A method for identifying that a confirmation is necessary may include identifying using voice data or text data that is received from another electronic device using a rule-based or AI algorithm. When a confirmation is necessary is identified using the AI algorithm, the method may use machine learning, neural network, or a deep learning algorithm.
US11495216B2
The disclosure includes using dilation of speech content from an interlaced audio input for speech recognition. A learning model is initiated to determine dilation parameters for each of a plurality of audible sounds of speech content from a plurality of speakers received at a computer as an audio input. As part of the learning model, a change of each of a plurality of independent sounds is determined in response to an audio stimulus, the independent sounds being derived from the audio input. The disclosure applies the dilation parameters, respectively, based on the change of each of the independent sounds. A voice print is constructed for each of the speakers based on the independent sounds and the dilation parameters, respectively. Speech content is attributed to each of the plurality of speakers based at least in part on the voice print, respectively, and the independent sounds.
US11495215B1
Techniques for speech processing using a deep neural network (DNN) based acoustic model front-end are described. A new modeling approach directly models multi-channel audio data received from a microphone array using a first model (e.g., multi-geometry/multi-channel DNN) that includes a frequency aligned network (FAN) architecture. Thus, the first model may perform spatial filtering to generate a first feature vector by processing individual frequency bins separately, such that multiple frequency bins are not combined. The first feature vector may be used similarly to beamformed features generated by an acoustic beamformer. A second model (e.g., feature extraction DNN) processes the first feature vector and transforms it to a second feature vector having a lower dimensional representation. A third model (e.g., classification DNN) processes the second feature vector to perform acoustic unit classification and generate text data. The DNN front-end enables improved performance despite a reduction in microphones.
US11495208B2
In some embodiments, recognition results produced by a speech processing system (which may include two or more recognition results, including a top recognition result and one or more alternative recognition results) based on an analysis of a speech input, are evaluated for indications of potential errors. In some embodiments, the indications of potential errors may include discrepancies between recognition results that are meaningful for a domain, such as medically-meaningful discrepancies. The evaluation of the recognition results may be carried out using any suitable criteria, including one or more criteria that differ from criteria used by an ASR system in determining the top recognition result and the alternative recognition results from the speech input. In some embodiments, a recognition result may additionally or alternatively be processed to determine whether the recognition result includes a word or phrase that is unlikely to appear in a domain to which speech input relates.
US11495202B2
A single-step method of generating a three dimensional (3D) printed article includes: selecting a first metastructure and a second metastructure; designing and constructing a first transitional metastructure that transitions from the first metastructure to the second metastructure; depositing a first layer comprising the first metastructure; seamlessly connecting the first and first transitional metastructures by depositing a first transitional layer comprising the first transitional metastructure on the first layer; and seamlessly connecting the first transitional and second metastructures by depositing a second layer comprising the second metastructure on the first transitional layer.
US11495199B2
The present invention discloses an integrated karaoke device, including a microphone and a sound box. The sound box includes a sound chamber containing a loudspeaker. The integrated karaoke device further includes a connecting part made of flexible material that is fixedly connected between a bottom of the microphone and a top of the sound chamber. The use of a flexible material connecting part rather than a solid structural part reduces the transmission to the microphone of sound vibration generated by the sound box. The beneficial effect of implementing the present invention is that a flexible material connecting part is fixedly connected between the bottom of the microphone and the top of the sound chamber, and meanwhile, a gap is kept between the bottom of a printed circuit board (PCB) and the top of the sound chamber; and because the flexible material connecting part can effectively reduce sound vibration, the transmission of vibration to the microphone from the sound box can be effectively eliminated, thereby preventing squealing, and enabling integration of the microphone and the sound box for use in karaoke.
US11495195B2
The present teaching relates to method, system, medium, and implementations for data transfer in LED display. A signal signaling a timing for a next data transfer is received. In response to the signal, a next data transfer instruction is obtained that instructs reading a bit-based image block of an image from a memory. The bit-based image block is transferred, according to the next data transfer instruction, from the memory via a bus connected thereto, to one of a pair of alternate buffers pointed to by a write buffer pointer. Then, the write buffer pointer is toggled to point to another of the pair of alternate buffers and the process repeats. The bit-based image blocks alternately stored in the buffers are later retrieved and displayed on the LED display.
US11495193B2
A vehicle display system includes a vehicle detection device detecting at least one other vehicle present in surroundings of a host vehicle, a vehicle speed detection device detecting a speed of the host vehicle, a display device displaying the host vehicle and the at least one other vehicle respectively as vehicle icons, and a display control part configured to control a content of display of the display device. When the speed of the host vehicle is equal to or less than a predetermined value, the display control part is configured to blank out the display of or display transparently at least a part of a vehicle icon of a following vehicle detected by the vehicle detection device and positioned at a rear of the host vehicle in a driving lane of the host vehicle.
US11495190B2
Apparatus for determining configuration settings for a display apparatus includes a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor where the processor is configured to determine configuration settings for a display apparatus in dependence on one or more first input parameters indicative of one or more conditions that affect a user experience when a user views content reproduced on the display apparatus, predict an expected user response as a result of operating the display apparatus according to the determined configuration settings, search for an updated set of configuration settings that are expected to produce a user response closer to an intended result than the predicted user response, and control the display apparatus to operate according to the updated set of configuration settings.
US11495184B2
Control method of electronic ink screen, display control device and electronic ink display apparatus
A control method of an electronic ink screen includes: outputting a first color driving signal to pixel(s) expected to display a first color in the electronic ink screen. The first color driving signal includes a first dither signal and a first color first pull-up signal in adjacent periods. The first dither signal includes a first rectangular wave signal, a first electric field cancellation signal and a first constant voltage signal. The first constant voltage signal is configured to drive first color charged particles in the pixel(s) expected to display the first color to move toward a side proximate to a display surface of the electronic ink screen, and the first color first pull-up signal is configured to drive the first color charged particles in the pixel(s) expected to display the first color to move toward the side proximate to the display surface of the electronic ink screen.
US11495181B2
The display device includes a display panel in which a first display area and a second display area adjacent to the first display area are defined, a data driving circuit which drives the plurality of data lines, a scan driving circuit which drives the plurality of scan lines, and a driving controller which receives an image signal and a control signal, and controls the data driving circuit and the scan driving circuit based on an operation mode, where the driving controller includes a luminance deviation compensation unit which compensates for luminance deviation of the first display area and the second display area when the operation mode is a multi-frequency mode in which the first display area is driven at a first frequency and the second display area is driven at a second frequency different from the first frequency.
US11495179B2
An array substrate has a display area and a peripheral area located outside the display area. The display area includes two first sides that are substantially parallel and arc sides connected to ends of the first sides. The array substrate includes at least one gate driving circuit. Each gate driving circuit includes GOA units sequentially distributed along each arc side in at least one arc side and active GOA units sequentially distributed along a first side connected to the arc side. The GOA units includes at least one active GOA unit and at least one dummy GOA unit. Each active GOA unit is configured to provide a driving signal to at least one sub-pixel. A distance between two adjacent GOA units in the GOA units is approximately same as a distance between two adjacent active GOA units in the active GOA units.
US11495177B2
The present invention provides an image processing circuit for compensating image data for a display panel used for displaying first and second image patterns respectively having first and second current loadings. The image processing circuit is used for: receiving a first original image data of the first image pattern and a second original image data of the second image pattern having the same brightness value for a pixel at the same location; converting the first original image data into a first final image data to compensate for an IR drop according to the first current loading; and converting the second original image data into a second final image data to compensate for the IR drop according to the second current loading. The first final image data and the second final image data have substantially the same brightness value for the pixel at the same location.
US11495172B2
A flat-panel display comprises a display substrate, an array of pixels distributed in rows and columns over the display substrate, the array having a column-control side, and column controller disposed on the column-control side of the array providing column data to the array of pixels through column-data lines. In some embodiments, rows of pixels in the array of pixels form row groups and each column of pixels in a row group receives column data through a separate column-data line. In some embodiments, each pixel in each column of pixels in the array of pixels is serially connected and each pixel in the array of pixels comprises a token-passing circuit for passing a token through the serially connected column of pixels.
US11495169B2
The present disclosure relates to a pixel circuit including a light emitting unit, a processing circuit and a driving circuit. The processing circuit is configured to receive a frame display signal, and is configured to calculate the frame display signal to generate a driving duty cycle corresponding to a driving period according to a driving current value. The driving circuit is electrically connected to the processing circuit and the light emitting unit, and is configured to drive the light emitting unit during the driving period according to the driving duty cycle, the driving current value and a driving frequency.
US11495168B2
A display device includes a substrate, a driving circuit structure and a light emitting device. The light emitting device is disposed on the driving circuit structure and electrically connected to a driving thin film transistor in the driving circuit structure, wherein a device conductive layer includes a first section electrically connected to a first carrier transmitting layer through a first conductive connecting structure and a second section electrically connected to a second carrier transmitting layer through a second conductive connecting structure. A minimum distance between a topmost surface of the first section and the substrate is greater than a minimum distance between a topmost surface of the second conductive connecting structure and the substrate, and a minimum distance between a topmost surface of the second section and the substrate is greater than a minimum distance between a topmost surface of the first conductive connecting structure and the substrate.
US11495167B2
An infinitely expandable display device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a plurality of display units including a plurality of data drivers connected through a bidirectional interface circuit, and a timing controller commonly connected to the display units through the bidirectional interface circuit. Each of the data drivers includes a first reception circuit configured to receive a first interface signal in a first direction, a first transmission circuit configured to transmit the first interface signal in the first direction, a second reception circuit configured to receive a second interface signal in a second direction opposite the first direction, a second transmission circuit configured to transmit the second interface signal in the second direction, and a switch circuit SWP connected to the first transmission circuit, the second transmission circuit, and the second reception circuit.
US11495160B2
Systems and methods for a multi-primary color system for display. A multi-primary color system increases the number of primary colors available in a color system and color system equipment. Increasing the number of primary colors reduces metameric errors from viewer to viewer. One embodiment of the multi-primary color system includes Red, Green, Blue, Cyan, Yellow, and Magenta primaries. The systems of the present invention maintain compatibility with existing color systems and equipment and provide systems for backwards compatibility with older color systems.
US11495158B2
A splicing display device, including a control board, a first panel, and a second panel, is provided. The control board includes an output terminal. The first panel and the second panel are disposed in a same column. The first panel is coupled to the output terminal. The first panel includes a first gate driving unit, a first signal line, a first bypass line, and a second bypass line. The second panel is coupled to the first panel. The second panel includes a second gate driving unit. The control board provides a first signal and a second signal to the first panel through the output terminal. The first signal is transmitted to the first gate driving unit through the first signal line and is transmitted to the second panel through the first bypass line. The second signal is transmitted to the second gate driving unit through the second bypass line.
US11495155B2
A pixel circuit includes a light emitting element, a first driver transistor, a second driver transistor, and a first compensation capacitor. A first terminal of the first driving transistor is configured to receive a power signal, and a second terminal of the first driving transistor is electrically coupled to the light emitting element. A first terminal of the second driving transistor receives the power signal, and a control terminal of the second driving transistor is electrically coupled to the light emitting element. The first compensation capacitance is electrically coupled to a control terminal of the first driving transistor and the second terminal of the second driving transistor, respectively.
US11495150B2
A content distribution node that distributes content to display devices which are arranged in a spaced apart sequence along a pathway of vehicles for display to passengers. The content distribution node receives from a mobile gateway node of a vehicle, through a Light Fidelity signal receiver circuit, a profile message containing profile information related to the vehicle. The content distribution node selects, from among content files available in a content repository, a set of video frames for distribution to the display devices based on the profile information. The content distribution node distributes different video frames among the set of video frames to different ones of the display devices with timing of the distribution that allows the video frames among the set to be displayed on respective ones of the display devices in the sequence before arrival of the vehicle within a field-of-view of at least one of the display devices.
US11495149B2
A display apparatus includes a first circuit board and a plurality of first light emitting display units. The first circuit board has a first surface and a first board edge connected to the first surface. The first light emitting display units are disposed on the first surface. Each of the first light emitting display units has a plurality of first pixel areas and includes a first driving circuit layer electrically bonded to the first circuit board and a plurality of first light emitting devices. The first light emitting devices are disposed on one side of the first driving circuit layer away from the first circuit board and are electrically bonded to the first driving circuit layer. At least one of the first light emitting display units has a first side edge parallel to the first board edge. The first board edge is drawn back from the first side edge.
US11495143B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a wearable device for simulating wounds and injuries received during a trauma event. Aspects of the present disclosure further relate to a medical training device for Trauma Emergency Casualty Care and Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC). A wearable device may be worn by a live human (e.g., trauma actor) or simulated body (e.g., full/partial manikin, drag dummy, etc.). The medical trainers disclosed herein may include one or more simulated injuries, which may be operational or merely to provide more realism. The medical trainers disclosed herein may further include features directed toward to internal and/or external trauma injuries.
US11495139B2
A method for creating personalized lesson recommendations for a user is provided. In some embodiments, the method includes assigning a skill profile to the user, where the skill profile includes a skill vector associated with one or more fine-grained skills of the user. The method also includes assigning a difficulty profile to a task to be practiced by the user, where the difficulty profile includes a task difficulty vector associated with one or more fine-grained skills of the task. Further, the method include prioritizing the task within a list of recommended tasks offered to the user based on a comparison between the skill profile of the user and the difficulty profile of the task.
US11495135B2
An unmanned aerial system and a method are disclosed. An unmanned aerial system may include: a telematics service server; an unmanned aerial apparatus; and a vehicle. In particular, the telematics service server obtains a destination of the unmanned aerial apparatus, a movement path of the vehicle, a current location of the unmanned aerial apparatus, and a current location of the vehicle, and also searches for the vehicle with which the unmanned aerial apparatus is able to move in collaboration. The telematics service server controls a collaborative movement between the unmanned aerial apparatus and the vehicle, and the unmanned aerial apparatus transmits and receives information for the collaborative movement from the telematics service server. In addition, the vehicle carries the unmanned aerial apparatus according to a request from the telematics service server, and moves together with the unmanned aerial apparatus.
US11495134B2
A ground collision avoidance method in an ownship vehicle is disclosed. The method includes: retrieving position measurements for the ownship vehicle and for a dynamic obstacle; retrieving mapping data from an airport map database that includes coordinate data for airport travel pathways; adjusting a position measurement for the ownship vehicle and a position measurement for the dynamic obstacle based on coordinate data retrieved from the airport map database and historical aircraft movement data; predicting a series of future positions for the ownship vehicle that are constrained by airport surface operation rules; predicting a series of future positions for the dynamic obstacle that are constrained by airport surface operation rules; calculating whether a potential collision is imminent; and causing a collision alert to be displayed when the processor has determined that a potential collision between the ownship vehicle and the dynamic obstacle is imminent.
US11495129B2
A method involves accelerating the electronic determination of high quality solutions to routing problems by utilizing determined optimized time windows for precomputing optimal path matrices to reduce computer resource usage. The use of traffic windows defined based on changes in rates of change of speeds for traffic on road segments allows for more rapid determination of a set of one or more high quality solutions as compared to requiring on-demand, in-process determination of a shortest path for a particular time during comparison of paths or routes performed as part of a process for determining high quality solutions to the routing problem.
US11495124B2
The described technology is generally directed towards generating a simulated virtual experience that represents predicted interaction of a user/vehicle with traffic in a traffic zone. A user who is considering entering a traffic zone (e.g., that charges a fee for usage) can request a simulated virtual experience of what is likely to occur if the user decides to enter. Based on the simulated virtual experience, which can be a graphical visualization in 3D, the user can make an informed decision as to whether to enter and pay, or not enter. User-specific data such as user preferences and other provided criterion can be used with respect to generating the simulated virtual experience. For current users about to enter the zone, current traffic data is used along with historical data in generating the simulated virtual experience.
US11495123B2
A method for pedestrian crossing alert, the method may include receiving, by a vehicle computerized system, pedestrian crossing indicators; obtaining sensed information regarding an environment of the vehicle; processing the sensed information, wherein the processing comprises searching for at least one of the pedestrian crossing indicators; autonomously determining, when finding the at least one of the pedestrian crossing identifiers, that the vehicle is approaching a pedestrian crossing; and generating an alert when determining that the vehicle is approaching the pedestrian crossing.
US11495122B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for automating bulk location-based actions in response to disaster events. A system obtains data defining zones related to different geographic locations and configures a set of preferences for each zone. One of the preferences is a command for responding to an event. The system detects a disaster event and determines that a location affected by the event is related to a zone defined at the system. The system obtains sensor data generated by a sensor in the zone that is connected to a monitoring system for the zone. The system generates an alert based on the sensor data and the command and provides the alert to a client device of an entity that manages properties in the zone. The alert provides an assessment of how the disaster event affects items at properties in the zone.
US11495112B2
A computer-implemented method for detecting medical emergency events may include, via one or more processors, data sensors, and/or transceivers: (1) obtaining sensor data indicative of kinetic actions of a user; (2) analyzing the sensor data to associate the sensor data with a one or more kinetic actions of the user; (3) comparing the one or more kinetic actions of the user with a model of kinetic actions to determine whether the one or more kinetic actions correspond with the model of kinetic actions, with the model being indicative of a medical emergency event; and (4) upon determining that the one or more kinetic actions correspond with the model, contacting medical emergency responders to request medical emergency services for the user. As such, medical emergency events being experienced by a user can be detected, and medical emergency responders may be quickly contacted to provide essential emergency medical services to the individual.
US11495092B2
The present disclosure relates generally to a gaming device that facilitates user interactions with multiple games. Illustratively, a method of facilitating a lottery game is provided that includes receiving, from a gaming device, an indication of an outcome of a game that was executed by the gaming device, identifying a user of the gaming device when the outcome of the game occurred, then assigning a lottery number to the user of the gaming device for a next execution of the lottery game, where the lottery number is selected based on the outcome of the game.
US11495091B2
A gaming system for enabling the simultaneous play of real-money, wager-based gaming and free, play-for-fun gaming is described. The gaming system is configured to deliver a fun game to a client in conjunction with a real-money gaming event and to initiate play of a fun game upon a predesignated triggering event of the real money game. The fun game is played by a plurality of players and fun game controller directs game information to a fun game server. Fun game information can be displayed for multiple players to drive competitive-type play among players and can be used to provide awards and incentivize play.
US11495087B2
A method, apparatus, article of manufacture, and a memory structure for transferring a monetary value from a first gaming station to a second gaming station by use of biometric data are disclosed. Each station includes a biometric sensor that provides biometric data that is used in the transfer of the payout.
US11495077B1
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for ATM deposit jammed item imaging and transaction completion are described herein. A transaction system detects, based on information provided by a sensor coupled to the transaction system, an interrupted transaction. The transaction system receives partial transaction information related to the interrupted transaction. The transaction system also receives an image associated with the interrupted transaction from a computing device. The transaction system determines additional transaction information based at least on the image. The transaction system may execute operations related to the interrupted transaction based on the additional transaction information.
US11495073B2
Described are systems and techniques for leveraging a virtual distributed trustless database using access-enabling codes. The computations use private codes. Each computation includes the information from all previous computations so that a chain of computations is maintained and controlled. A central system insures that dual computations do not occur.
US11495068B1
A package delivery system for secured delivery of packages without the need for a person to be present to accept them in person is disclosed. The package delivery system includes a vertical structure such as a wall, a door, and a garage door; a package delivery door dispositioned within the vertical structure; and one or more user devices in communication with the package delivery door via a network.
US11495065B2
An indicator assembly includes, among other things, a vehicle model that is configured to communicate with a vehicle. The indicator assembly further includes an indicator portion of the vehicle model. The indicator portion is configured to indicate a status of the vehicle based on a communication sent to the vehicle model.
US11495054B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for motion-based human video detection are disclosed. A method includes generating a representation of a difference between two frames of a video; providing, to an object detector, a particular frame of the two frames and the representation of the difference between two frames of the video; receiving an indication that the object detector detected an object in the particular frame; determining that detection of the object in the particular frame was a false positive detection; determining an amount of motion energy where the object was detected in the particular frame; and training the object detector based on penalization of the false positive detection in accordance with the amount of motion energy where the object was detected in the particular frame.
US11495053B2
A system, method and apparatus for detecting facial expressions according to EMG signals.
US11495049B2
A method, storage media and neural network for rebuilding biometric feature is provided. The method includes inputting the partial texture image obtained to the neural network and outputting a predictive value of an entire texture image that is output by the neural network. The above technical solution is via the neural network used to process images and the neural network includes the feature value layer. A plurality of the partial texture images is converted to the feature values at the technical level, and the composite calculation of a plurality of partial texture images is avoided on the application level. Because the entire texture image is not synthesized in the end, data leakage and theft are avoided. Thus, the security of the method for analyzing texture image is improved.
US11495047B2
A display module, a touch method and a terminal are disclosed. The display module includes: a signal reading mechanism; a fingerprint collection mechanism comprising a plurality of pixel circuits, the plurality of pixel circuits being divided into a plurality of groups, each group of pixel circuits being connected to the signal reading mechanism, a first switching unit being provided on a connection line of at least one group of pixel circuits and the signal reading mechanism; and a control mechanism respectively connected to the first switching unit and the signal reading mechanism respectively, wherein the control mechanism is configured to control at least one group of pixel circuits to be connected to the signal reading mechanism through the first switching unit, and to control the signal reading mechanism to read fingerprint signals collected by the at least one group of pixel circuits connected to the signal reading mechanism.
US11495045B2
An image acquiring apparatus includes: a light irradiation unit configured to be capable of radiating light modulated with a modulation signal in a predetermined frequency band; photosensors configured to be capable of receiving the light radiated from the light irradiation unit, the light including reflected light reflected by an object, and the photosensors being arranged in a matrix; and a generation unit configured to generate a DC component from an electrical signal output from the photosensor due to the light received by the photosensor on the basis of the predetermined frequency band or the modulation signal.
US11495041B2
The technology described in this document can be embodied in a method that includes obtaining, by one or more image acquisition devices, a first image of a portion of a human body under illumination by electromagnetic radiation in a first wavelength range, and obtaining a second image of the portion of the human body under illumination by electromagnetic radiation in a second wavelength range. The method also includes generating, by one or more processing devices, a third image or template that combines information from the first image with information from the second image. The method also includes determining that one or more metrics representing a similarity between the third image and a template satisfy a threshold condition, and responsive to determining that the one or more metrics satisfy a threshold condition, providing access to the secure system.
US11495032B2
A sensing apparatus is configured to measure a target person without being attached to the target person, and is configured to generate information associated with the target person from outputs of at least a part of sensors of a plurality of sensors that are different from each other in at least one of a sensor type and location. The sensing apparatus is provided with: a specifier configured to specify at least one of clothes and physical features of the target person from images obtained by imaging the target person; and a determinator configured to determine one or a plurality of sensors, which are the at least the part of sensors, from the plurality of sensors, on the basis of the specified at least one of the clothes and the physical features.
US11495028B2
According to various aspects, an obstacle analyzer may include: one or more sensors configured to receive obstacle identification information representing one or more identification features of an obstacle and obstacle condition information associated with one or more conditions of the obstacle; and one or more processors configured to identify the obstacle based on the received obstacle identification information and generate an identification value corresponding to the identified obstacle, determine a rating value representing a risk potential of the identified obstacle based on the received obstacle condition information, and store the rating value assigned to the identification value of the identified obstacle in one or more memories.
US11495021B2
A picture annotation method, includes: converting, into a video image, multiple pictures in a set of pictures to be annotated; performing video annotation on the video image to obtain an annotation result; and using the obtained annotation result as an annotation result of each picture in the set of pictures to be annotated according to a correspondence between a video frame in the video image and a picture in the set of pictures to be annotated.
US11495005B2
An image sensor comprises a pixel array having a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix, a readout unit that controls readout of signals from the plurality of pixels, an output unit that outputs the read signals as an image signal and an extraction unit that performs feature amount extraction processing to extract a feature amount using the read signals. The readout of the signals by the readout unit and the feature amount extraction processing by the extraction unit are processed in parallel.
US11495003B1
Techniques for placing and manipulating multiple three-dimensional (3D) models using mobile augmented reality (AR) are described. One technique includes receiving a first request to initialize an AR simulation of a first product for sale within a physical environment. In response to the first request, a first 3D model of the first product for sale is rendered onto the screen. After rendering the first 3D model, a second request to visualize a second product for sale within the physical environment is received during the AR simulation of the first product for sale. In response to the second request, a second 3D model of the second product for sale is rendered onto the screen with the first 3D model.
US11495001B2
A system of properly displaying chroma key content is presented. The system obtains a digital representation of a 3D environment, for example a digital photo, and gathers data from that digital representation. The system renders the digital representation in an environmental model and displays that digital representation upon an output device. Depending upon the context, content anchors of the environmental model are selected which will be altered by suitable chroma key content. The chroma key content takes into consideration the position and orientation of the chroma key content relative to the content anchor and relative to the point of view that the environmental model is displayed from in order to accurately display chroma key content in a realistic manner.
US11494983B1
This application discloses methods, systems, and computer-implemented virtualization software applications and computer-implemented graphical user interface tools for remote virtual visualization of structures. Images are captured by an imaging vehicle of a structure and the captured images are transmitted to a remote server via a communication network. Using virtual 3D digital modeling software the server, using the images received from the imaging vehicle, generates a virtual 3D digital model of the structure and stores it in a database. This virtual 3D digital model can be accessed by remote users, using virtualization software applications, and used to view images of the structure. The user is able to manipulate the images and to view them from various perspectives and compare the before-the-damage images with images taken after damage have occurred. Based on all this the user is enabled to remotely communicate with an insurance agent and/or file an insurance claim.
US11494970B2
A bounce light map for a scene is determined for use in rendering the scene in a graphics processing system. Initial lighting indications representing lighting within the scene are determined. For a texel position of the bounce light map, the initial lighting indications are sampled using an importance sampling technique to identify positions within the scene. Sampling rays are traced between a position in the scene corresponding to the texel position of the bounce light map and the respective identified positions with the scene. A lighting value is determined for the texel position of the bounce light map using results of the tracing of the sampling rays. By using the importance sampling method described herein, the rays which are traced are more likely to be directed towards more important regions of the scene which contribute more to the lighting of a texel.
US11494965B2
Techniques are provided for hand drawing an animation motion path for an object to follow on a graphical user interface (GUI). The motion path may be drawn with a user's finger or drawing device, such as an Apple Pencil®, by selecting a drawing tool (e.g., a freehand tool and/or straight line tool). A new motion path may be added to an existing motion path, such that the new motion path is an extension of the existing motion path. The new motion path may also be added to an end point of an existing motion path, such that the new motion path is a different segment of a motion path and is associated with a new key frame. A motion path segment may be split into additional segments with new key frames, reshaped using editing points, redrawn, and/or deleted from the overall motion path.
US11494961B2
A sticker generating method is provided. The method includes: acquiring a background image, where the background image includes a target object; displaying a display area of a sticker and an anchor point of the sticker in the background image; receiving an import instruction for the sticker; importing a resource of the sticker according to the import instruction and displaying the resource of the sticker in the display area of the sticker; dynamically selecting a tracking area based on a position of the anchor point of the sticker, where the tracking area is an image area in the target object; and generating the sticker based on the display area, the tracking area, and the resource of the sticker.
US11494957B2
A computer-implemented method for correction of a voxel representation of metal affected x-ray data. The method comprises a first 3D deep neural network receiving an initial voxel representation of x-ray data at its input and generating a voxel map at its output, the map identifying voxels of the initial voxel representation that belong to a region of voxels that are affected by metal. A second 3D deep neural network receives the initial voxel representation and the map generated by the first 3D deep neural network at its input and generating a corrected voxel representation, the corrected voxel representation including voxel estimations for voxels that are identified by the voxel map as being part of a metal affected region, the first 3D deep neural being trained on the basis of training data and reference data that include voxel representations of clinical x-ray data of a predetermined body part of a patient.
US11494947B2
A system comprises an encoder configured to compress attribute information and/or spatial for a point cloud and/or a decoder configured to decompress compressed attribute and/or spatial information for the point cloud. A point cloud attribute transfer algorithm may be used to determine distortion between an original point cloud and a reconstructed point cloud. Additionally, the point cloud attribute transfer algorithm may be used to select attribute values for a reconstructed point cloud such that distortion between an original point cloud and a reconstructed version of the original point cloud is minimized.
US11494945B2
An image analysis device according to the present invention includes: an image capturing unit that captures a subject; a light emitting unit that emits light to the subject; a control unit that causes the image capturing unit to capture a first image of the subject while causing the light emitting unit to emit light and causes the image capturing unit to capture a second image of the subject while not causing the light emitting unit to emit light; and an estimation unit that estimates color of the subject based on a differential value between color information on the first image and the color information on the second image.
US11494930B2
The present disclosure relates generally to the operation of autonomous machinery for performing various tasks at various industrial work sites, and more particularly to the volumetric estimation and dimensional estimation of a pile of material or other object, and the use of multiple sensors for the volumetric estimation and dimensional estimation of a pile of material or other object at such work sites. An application and a framework is disclosed for volumetric estimation and dimensional estimation of a pile of material or other object using at least one sensor, preferably a plurality of sensors, on an autonomous machine (e.g., robotic machines or autonomous vehicles) in various work-site environments applicable to various industries such as, construction, mining, manufacturing, warehousing, logistics, sorting, packaging, agriculture, etc.
US11494928B2
A method for predicting a three-dimensional representation in a three-dimensional scene, using one or more two-dimensional representations, obtained from at least one image generated by a camera. The method includes obtaining a forest of regression trees, and for the at least one image: extracting a 2D representation associated with one or more positions within the image; predicting a 3D representation, corresponding to the extracted 2D representation, using the regression tree forest includes a set of possible associations between at least one 2D representation and a 3D representation, each possible association resulting from a predictive model; evaluating one or more of the possible associations of the regression tree forest, according to a predetermined confidence criterion; and updating the regression tree forest including a deactivation of one or more possible associations, depending on the evaluation of the possible associations.
US11494927B2
Systems and methods for self-supervised depth estimation using image frames captured from a vehicle-mounted camera, may include: receiving a first image captured by the camera while the camera is mounted at a first location on the vehicle, the source image comprising pixels representing a scene of the environment of the vehicle; receiving a reference image captured by the camera while the camera is mounted at a second location on the vehicle, the reference image comprising pixels representing a scene of the environment; predicting a depth map for the first image comprising predicted depth values for pixels of the first image; warping the first image to a perspective of the camera at the second location on the vehicle to arrive at a warped first image; projecting the warped first image onto the source image; determining a loss based on the projection; and updating predicted depth values for the first image.
US11494925B2
A method for depth image acquisition, a device (10) for depth image acquisition, and an electronic device (100) are provided. The method includes the following. An image of a field is obtained to determine a region of interest (ROI) in the image of the field. A current distance to the ROI is obtained. A time-of-flight depth camera (20) is controlled to obtain a current depth image of the field in response to the current distance being greater than a first distance. Both a dual camera (30) and the time-of-flight depth camera (20) are controlled to obtain the current depth image of the field in response to the current distance being not greater than the first distance.
US11494917B2
Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and method for identifying three-dimensional zone areas for use in relation to the monitoring of physical movement of a target monitor device.
US11494910B1
A computer-implemented system and method for predicting an embryo outcome by processing video image data of the embryo. The method includes receiving image data derived from video of a target embryo taken at substantially real-time frame speed during an embryo observation period of time. The video contains recorded morphokinetic movement of the target embryo occurring during the embryo observation period of time. The movement is represented in the received image data and the received image data is processed using a model generated utilizing machine learning and correlated embryo outcome data.
US11494904B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for assessing the quality of medical images of at least a portion of a patient's anatomy, using a computer system. One method includes receiving one or more images of at least a portion of the patient's anatomy; determining, using a processor of the computer system, one or more image properties of the received images; performing, using a processor of the computer system, anatomic localization or modeling of at least a portion of the patient's anatomy based on the received images; obtaining an identification of one or more image characteristics associated with an anatomic feature of the patient's anatomy based on the anatomic localization or modeling; and calculating, using a processor of the computer system, an image quality score based on the one or more image properties and the one or more image characteristics.
US11494902B2
Methods, devices, and systems are provided for quantifying an extent of various pathology patterns in scanned subject images. The detection and quantification of pathology is performed automatically and unsupervised via a trained system. The methods, devices, and systems described herein generate unique dictionaries of elements based on actual image data scans to automatically identify pathology of new image data scans of subjects. The automatic detection and quantification system can detect a number of pathologies including a usual interstitial pneumonia pattern on computed tomography images, which is subject to high inter-observer variation, in the diagnosis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
US11494901B2
A telepathology system is associated with an edge network shared among participating users for remote control of a microscope. The microscope includes a camera operable to receive image data of a specimen. The telepathology system is capable of receiving image data from the microscope, pre-processing the image data at network edge, sending the pre-processed image digitally to the participating users via a web server on the edge network, and controlling the image data, via instructions from the participating users.
US11494893B2
A device may receive, from a user device, connector panel information associated with a connector panel. The connector panel may provide a connection, via a port, for a service of a network. The device may receive an image that depicts a physical configuration of the connector panel. The device may process, using a port analysis model, the image to identify a port status of a port of the connector panel. The device may determine, based on the port status, that the port is available for the connection. The device may provide, to the user device, instructions for using the port for the connection. The device may obtain a verification that the connection has been established via the port. The device may perform one or more actions associated with providing the service.
US11494889B2
Provided are an imaging evaluation map, an imaging evaluation map generating device, an imaging evaluation map generating method, and an imaging evaluation map generating program capable of easily making an imaging plan. A coordinate space setting section (31) that sets a coordinate space including an object, an imaging candidate position setting section (32) that sets a plurality of imaging candidate positions in the coordinate space, an imaging condition setting section that sets an imaging condition for the object (33), a characteristic part setting section (34) that sets a plurality of characteristic parts for the object, an evaluation standard setting section (35) that sets an evaluation standard for imaging based on the imaging candidate position and the imaging condition for each characteristic part, an evaluation value calculating section (36) that calculates an evaluation value that represents an evaluation of imaging in a case where an object is imaged under the imaging condition set by the imaging condition setting section (33) at the imaging candidate positions set by the imaging candidate position setting section (32) for each imaging candidate position, and an imaging evaluation map generating section (37) that generates an imaging evaluation map in which the evaluation value is determined for each imaging candidate position are provided. In a case where the evaluation value for each imaging candidate position is calculated, the evaluation value calculating section (36) calculates individual evaluation values for the respective characteristic parts according to the evaluation standard, and calculates a sum of the obtained individual evaluation values for the respective characteristic parts as the evaluation value.
US11494888B2
Provided is an oil leakage detection apparatus by which oil leakage detection is performed even for colorless oil with high detection accuracy and without complicating the apparatus. The oil leakage detection apparatus of the invention includes a distance measurement unit configured to measure a distance to the oil-input machine, an ultraviolet light source configured to irradiate the oil-input machine with ultraviolet light, a color imaging unit configured to capture an image of the oil-input machine irradiated with ultraviolet light, an image processing unit configured to diagnose oil leakage of the oil-input machine based on the distance measured by the distance measurement unit and the captured image of the color imaging unit, and a display unit configured to display a processed image processed by the image processing unit. Further, an oil leakage detection method of the invention includes measuring a distance from an oil-input machine, irradiating the oil-input device with ultraviolet light, capturing an image of the oil-input machine irradiated with ultraviolet light, diagnosing oil leakage of the oil-input machine based on the measured distance and the captured image, and displaying a processed image after the diagnosis processing.
US11494883B1
In one embodiment, a computing system may render an image to be output by a display which sequentially outputs pixel rows of the image at a row-to-row velocity. The system may predict, based on eye-tracking data, an eye-motion velocity within a timeframe for displaying the image. The system may determine a predicted retina projection displacement for each pixel row based on the row-to-row velocity and eye-motion velocity. The system may determine a first correction displacement for each pixel row based on the predicted retina projection displacement. The system may determine a cumulative correction displacement based on the first correction displacement. The system may determine, for each pixel row, a second correction displacement based on the first correction displacement of that pixel row and the cumulative correction displacement. The system may warp each pixel row using the associated second correction displacement and output the warped pixel rows using the display.
US11494880B2
Embodiments relate to generating an image pyramid for feature extraction. A pyramid image generator circuit includes a first image buffer that stores image data at a first octave, a first blur filter circuit, a first spatial filter circuit, and a first decimator circuit. The first blur filter circuit generates a first pyramid image for a first scale of the first octave by applying a first amount of smoothing to the first image data stored in the first image buffer. The first spatial filter circuit and the first decimator generate second image data of a second octave that is higher than the first octave by applying a smoothing and a decimation to the first image data stored in the first image buffer. The first spatial filter circuit begins processing the first image data before the first blur filter circuit begins to process the first image data.
US11494874B2
Apparatus and methods for the non-uniform downsampling of captured panoramic images. In one embodiment, a computing device is disclosed that includes a processing apparatus and a non-transitory computer readable apparatus comprising a storage medium have one or more instructions stored thereon. The one or more instructions, when executed by the processing apparatus, being configured to: receive captured images, the captured images obtained using two or more image sensors; non-uniformly downsample the received captured images; and encode the non-uniformly downsampled images. In some variants, the non-uniformly downsampled images take into account a desired area of interest within the captured images. In some implementations, the computing device includes an image capture device. Methods and non-transitory computer readable apparatus are also disclosed.
US11494871B2
An apparatus comprises processing circuitry configured to receive a plurality of training image data sets and a plurality of predetermined displacements. The processing circuitry is further configured to use the training image data sets and predetermined displacements to train a transformation regressor in combination with a discriminator in an adversarial fashion by repeatedly alternating a transformation regressor training process in which the transformation regressor is trained to predict displacements, and a discriminator training process in which the discriminator is trained to distinguish between predetermined displacements and displacements predicted by the transformation regressor.
US11494868B2
An embodiment of a graphics apparatus may include a context engine to determine contextual information, a recommendation engine communicatively coupled to the context engine to determine a recommendation based on the contextual information, and a configuration engine communicatively coupled to the recommendation engine to adjust a configuration of a graphics operation based on the recommendation. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
US11494861B2
A Mobile Lawyer system includes a 360 degree HD video camera configured for mounting on a vehicle; a display screen configured for mounting inside the passenger compartment of a vehicle; and a Mobile Lawyer App downloaded and installed on a mobile telephone in communication with the video camera and display screen, configured, upon command from a user, to notify an attorney located remotely via a cellular and/or computer network, and to display a video image of the remote attorney on the display screen (or the screen of the mobile telephone), and to live-stream a 360 degree video captured by the video camera to the Internet for viewing by the remote attorney and for cloud storage. The introduction of a lawyer on-demand into a police encounter can help to defuse and de-escalate the situation. The lawyer can serve as a live observer, witness, and intermediary who can provide live legal guidance to the user.
US11494849B1
A query processing server for providing scalable architectures in repricing is provided. The query processing server includes a gateway platform for processing communications and a repricing engine. The query processing server processor is configured to receive a repricing request from a frontend server. The query processing server processor is also configured to define a set of repricing periods. The query processing server processor is further configured to transmit a creation instruction to the repricing database server to create a repricing status database and queue. The query processing server processor is also configured to determine a set of claims data queries for execution based on the set of scenario data and to query the repricing database server with the set of claims data queries. The query processing server processor is configured to perform a repricing analysis using the set of claims data responses and the set of repricing periods.
US11494845B1
A predictive insurance underwriting system. An electronic life insurance policy application processing apparatus accepts data describing a consumer. An underwriting desktop processing apparatus receives the data. An underwriting rules processing apparatus determines, based on the data describing the consumer, whether the consumer is eligible for expedited underwriting of a life insurance policy covering the consumer. If it is determined that the consumer is eligible for expedited underwriting, a tele-interview processing apparatus collects first additional data relating to the consumer during a telephonic interview and, in response to a request from a processing unit, one or more third party databases transmit second additional data relating to the consumer. The processing unit is configured to: process the data collected via the electronic life insurance policy application, and the first additional data, using a predictive model that employs machine learning algorithms and generate a first score; process the second additional data to generate a mortality risk score; if the first score at least meets a first threshold score, and the mortality risk score meets at least a second threshold score, and at least certain business rules are met, generate data describing terms of a life insurance policy. A policy issuance system offers the terms of the life insurance policy to the consumer.
US11494836B2
A system and method that varies the terms and conditions of a subsidized loan includes a data collection circuit structured to receive data related to an item of collateral that provides security for a loan; a valuation circuit structured to determine a value for the item of collateral based on the received data and a valuation model; a smart contract circuit structured to create a smart lending contract, wherein the smart lending contract specifies a covenant defining a required value of the item of collateral; and a loan management circuit comprising: a value comparison circuit structured to compare the value of the item and the specified covenant and determine a collateral satisfaction value, an automated agent circuit structured to automatically implement loan related activities in response to the collateral satisfaction value, wherein the loan related activities comprise: issuing a notice of default or a foreclosure action.
US11494833B2
A system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and a computer-implemented method for providing digital avatars. A first request message is received for requesting a digital representation of a first target user combined with a target product for an online marketplace application on a first client device. The first request message is associated with a first user identifier indicative and a product identifier. Based on the first user identifier, a first user record is selected from a first database. The first user record includes measurement data. Based on the product identifier, a product record is selected from a second database. Based at least on the measurement data of the first user record and the selected product record, model data of the target product is determined and provided to the first client device.
US11494832B2
A method for securely enabling a user to create a listing for equipment on an equipment online marketplace platform is disclosed. The method may include: receiving a request from a user to create a listing for the equipment on the equipment online marketplace platform; prompting the user to upload one or more images or documents of the equipment; receiving the one or more images or documents of the equipment from the user, the one or more images or documents containing information of the equipment; determining whether an identity of the equipment is verified based on the information of the equipment in the one or more images or documents; and if the identity of the equipment is verified, enabling the user to create a listing for the equipment on the equipment online marketplace platform.
US11494829B2
A number of embodiments can include a system. The system can include one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage devices storing computing instructions. The computing instructions can be configured to run on the one or more processors and perform: receiving, from a customer electronic device of a customer, a request for an order comprising one or more goods; determining an estimated fulfillment time for the order; promising the one or more goods of the order for receipt by the customer at a receivable clock time based on the estimated fulfillment time; after promising the one or more goods of the order for receipt by the customer at the receivable clock time, detecting a delay condition associated with making ready at least a portion of the one or more goods of the order; in response to detecting the delay condition, waiting a predetermined amount of time comprising a percentage of a previous time for performing a delayed activity associated with the delay condition; and after waiting the predetermined amount of time, communicating a notification of the delay condition to a receiving party. Other embodiments are described herein.
US11494813B2
According to one embodiment, an information processing device includes a processing circuit having programmed instructions to: determine a cart location of a shopping cart that is moved by a customer and used for transportation of a merchandise purchased by the customer; and provide a notification for promoting a return of the shopping cart to a return area for returning the shopping cart in response to a determination that (i) the shopping cart is located in a place outside of the return area and (ii) a stay time of the shopping cart at the place outside the return area exceeds a threshold length of time.
US11494811B1
A marketing analytics pipeline includes an opportunity detection analytics hub and a marketing platform, wherein the opportunity detection analytics hub is configured to use trend data reports from a consumption database to fit statistical models based on streaming consumption and interaction patterns of social media UGC (user generated content) and to send growth and re-engagement opportunities to a marketing action analytics hub, and wherein the marketing platform is configured to interact with the marketing action analytics hub to create targeted marketing campaigns based around high growth potential audiences. In a further aspect, the opportunity detection analytics hub includes an offline prediction model generation component and an online opportunity detection component that receives both current streaming consumption and social media UGC interaction data for a plurality of media IP assets and identifies opportunities from the combination of these two data sources that could not be detected if analyzed separately, inclusive of a case where significant changes are detected in social media UGC interaction patterns, but are not yet detected in streaming consumption.
US11494805B2
A method for targeted advertisement includes transmitting a pre-filter to the user device, responsive to contextual information from a user device, to determine, using a processor, one or more inferences based on physical browsing information, collected at the user device, in compliance with one or more privacy policies of the user. The method also includes receiving one or more inferences determined by the pre-filter from the user device and transmitting one or more targeted advertisements to the user device based on one or more inferences.
US11494803B2
A method includes determining, by a computing system, a probability of whether at least a threshold portion of a particular advertisement will be presented on a particular content presentation device, and a cost associated with presentation of the particular advertisement on the particular content presentation device. The computing system calculates an expected revenue associated with presentation of the particular advertisement based on the probability and the cost. When the expected revenue exceeds a threshold revenue, the computing system communicates the particular advertisement to the particular content presentation device.
US11494799B1
Aspects of the disclosure support a server that supports a method for action tracking and deeds between multiple parties using a blockchain. The method may include providing a marketplace for projects, receiving a selection of a project, deploying a smart contract, determining a funding amount is transmitted to the smart contract, and activating a monitoring service. The monitoring service may monitor a data feed of an external system to determine whether a triggering action is performed. The data feed may include data corresponding to actions performed on the external system by a plurality of user identifiers in association with the sponsor. The method may further include causing a funding release action to be executed by the smart contract in accordance with the triggering action being performed, such that at least a portion of the funding amount to the sponsor, a provider for the project, or both.
US11494797B1
An electronic system may a remote computer that may parse an electronic message received by a mobile wireless communications device of a given user for a keyword indicative of a desired item for purchase. The remote computer may obtain a user identifier associated with the given user for a retailer loyalty program for a given retailer. The remote computer may also access the retailer loyalty program based upon the user identifier and generate an electronic shopping list for the given retailer based upon the access to the retailer loyalty program and send the electronic shopping list to the mobile wireless communications device. The shopping list may include the desired item for purchase. The remote computer may also generate a digital promotion associated with at least one item on the electronic shopping list and send notification of the digital promotion to the mobile wireless communications device.
US11494791B2
Systems as described herein may include predicting item level data based on merchant advertisement information. A transaction pattern may be detected. The merchant advertisement information may be retrieved and parsed to generate a price list. A number of transactions that each shares a common payment amount may be determined and the number may reach a threshold value. Items from the price list may be matched with the common payment amount. The transaction records may be updated to indicate likely item level transaction information. In a variety of embodiments, the likely transaction information may be presented to a user.
US11494782B1
In one embodiment, a method includes identifying an equity reward offer to be provided to a user, wherein the equity reward offer corresponds to an amount of equity associated a merchant, and redemption of the equity reward offer causes the corresponding amount of equity to be added to an equity account of the user, updating a redemption status of the equity reward offer based on activity of the specified user on the payment service and a pre-condition of the equity reward offer, such as a purchase associated with the merchant, and upon determining that the pre-condition has been satisfied, sending, to the client device associated with the specified user, instructions to display a notification message indicating that the equity reward offer can be redeemed using the payment account of the user to cause the associated amount of equity to be added to the equity account of the user.
US11494770B1
Systems and methods are described for facilitating payments and transactions using social background checks. Such systems and methods may use social networks with both individual members communicating over a network to a social authentication computing system. The authentication of transactions associated financial institutions are determined through the use of relationship measures based on social media interactions. Transactions and services available to a user are determined based on a measure of social identity through the use of social media platforms. Available contact and interaction data from one or more social media platforms is leveraged to analyze a level of trust that a transaction is not a consequence of fraudulent activity. Transactions that have a low level of risk of being a consequence of fraudulent activity are benefited through faster transaction times and other improvements.
US11494760B1
Some examples of the present disclosure relate to generating artificially intelligent entities represented on a blockchain using a non-fungible token (NFT). In one such example, a system can generate an NFT on a blockchain. The NFT can represent an artificially intelligent entity. The system can also generate a personality dataset on the blockchain, the personality dataset describing personality characteristics of the artificially intelligent entity. The system can then correlate the NFT to the personality dataset, thereby assigning the personality characteristics to the artificially intelligent entity. Once generated, the artificially intelligent entity may reside in a virtual ecosystem in which it can perform tasks and learn over time.
US11494751B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for determining electric pulses to provide to an unattended machine based on remotely-configured options. An example method includes: detecting presence of the unattended machine in proximity to the mobile device. After detecting the presence, the method includes: receiving, from a server, information about a first set of remotely-configured options. In response to receiving the information about the first set of remotely-configured options, the method includes: displaying user interface objects that allow for selection of respective options in the first set of remotely-configured options. After detecting a selection of a first user interface object, receiving, from the server, specifications regarding electric pulses to be provided to the unattended machine by a pulse-providing device. After sending an authorization grant and the specifications to the pulse-providing device, the method includes: receiving an indication that the electric pulses were provided to the unattended machine according to the specifications.
US11494740B1
Techniques for providing alerts in a system that implements an organizational management platform to manage applications for an organization are disclosed. The method can include accessing organizational data associated with the organization. A rule having a condition for activation of a trigger can be received from a user interface. A dependency map having data objects that are associated with the rule can be generated by the system. A change in a first data object from the data objects can be determined. Additionally, a dependency between the rule and the first data object can be determined based on the dependency map. Moreover, the condition for the activation of the trigger can be determined to be satisfied based on the determined change. Subsequently, an action associated with the activation of the trigger can be performed based on the condition for the activation of the trigger being satisfied.
US11494735B2
A method, computer program product, and computing system for obtaining encounter information of a patient encounter; processing the encounter information to generate an encounter transcript; and processing the encounter transcript to locate one or more procedural events within the encounter transcript.
US11494719B2
The present disclosure describes systems and method for performing a vulnerabilities assessment of an organization. A campaign controller executes one or more simulated phishing campaigns directed to a plurality of users of an organization, using a plurality of models determined by the campaign controller based at least on identification of the organization. The campaign controller stores to a database the results of execution of the one or more simulated phishing campaigns and based on the results, the campaign controller determines one or more vulnerabilities to phishing for the organization. In one embodiment, the campaign controller determines a percentage of the plurality of users of the organization that are phish-prone. In some embodiments, the users of the organization that are phish-prone interacted with a link of a simulated phishing communication.
US11494715B2
A film creation and management system and platform enables efficient, cost-effective, collaborative, and secure creation of filmed or interactive content. A system and platform for creating high-resolution filmed content in an efficient, fast, secure, and collaborative manner are described. The system is a wide-ranging filming tool and film management system that enables cost-effective creation and manipulation of 8K or other high-resolution content. It has interfaces and tools for managing all stages of the film creation process from story development to post production, including marketing and administration. One objective of the system is to facilitate the transition of creating high-resolution content to a property that has a business outcome, thereby facilitating the transition from art to commerce.
US11494713B2
Systems and methods for evaluating robotic process automation (RPA) are provided. RPA data from a plurality of RPA related data sources is received. Each of the RPA related data sources is associated with a different RPA product. One or more measures of interest are calculated based on the RPA data. The one or more calculated measures of interest are output.
US11494710B1
Methods and systems of optimization constraint adaptation for long-term target achievement. One system includes an electronic processor configured to divide a multiple time-step optimization problem into a plurality of successive single time-step optimization problems. The processor is configured to determine a first optimal variable value for a first single time-step optimization problem and determine a first resulting value of a secondary quantity based on the first optimal variable value. The processor is configured to determine a first divergence of the first resulting value from a first target value and determine a cumulative target divergence based on the first divergence. The processor is configured to determine a first target value adjustment for a second time-step based on the cumulative target divergence, adjust a first original target value of the secondary quantity for the second time-step using the first target value adjustment, and output the adjusted first original target value for display.
US11494706B2
Socially distant seating arrangement management includes loading a seating chart for a seating area of an event venue into memory of a computer, setting both a social distancing parameter and also a seat width parameter for seats in the seating area and computing a number of successive seats with a combined width according to the seat width parameter minimally exceeding the social distancing parameter. The method further includes enabling for selection in a user interface to the seating chart, available ones of the seats in a selected row of the seating area that are separated from one another by the computed number of the seats and disabling from selection in the user interface, the seats separating the available ones of the seats. Finally, the method includes recording in the memory of the computer, different selections in the seating chart by different end users of the available ones of the seats.
US11494704B2
An information processing method includes acquiring a first prediction result by inputting evaluation data to a first model; determining an anomaly in the first prediction result based on the first prediction result and reference information; acquiring a second model based on the determination result; acquiring a second prediction result by inputting the evaluation data to the second model; determining an anomaly in the second prediction result based on the second prediction result and the reference information; acquiring a third model based on the determination result; acquiring a third prediction result by inputting the evaluation data to the third model; determining an anomaly in the third prediction result based on the third prediction result and the reference information; and if the anomaly in the third prediction result is recognized as being identical to the anomaly in the first prediction result, outputting information about a training limit of the first model.
US11494698B2
A method and an electronic device for selecting influence indicators by using an automatic mechanism are provided. The method includes following steps. Raw data is obtained, where the raw data includes a body-related variable and a plurality of to-be-measured indicators corresponding to the body-related variable. The body-related variable is set as a target parameter. The body-related variable and the to-be-measured indicators are input into a plurality of validation models, and the to-be-measured indicators are sorted according an output result of the validation models to obtain ranking data. Importance of the to-be-measured indicators is calculated by using a screening condition according to the ranking data, so as to select a candidate indicator from the to-be-measured indicators. An influence indicator is determined by calculating a correlation between the candidate indicator and the body-related variable.
US11494689B2
There is provided systems and methods for training a classifier. The method comprises: obtaining a classifier for classifying data into one of a plurality of classes; retrieving training data comprising a set of observations and a set of corresponding labels, each label representing an assigned class for a corresponding observation; and applying an agent trained by a reinforcement learning system to generate labeled data from unlabeled observations and train the classifier using the training data and the labeled data according to a policy determined by the reinforcement learning system.
US11494688B2
Embodiments provide systems and methods for learning extract, transform, and load mappings by example. A plurality of features can be extracted from a source schema and a target schema. Example ETL mappings can be provided to a machine learning algorithm that comprise definitions for extracting data from source tables and loading the extracted data into target tables. Using the machine learning algorithm and based on the source schema, target schema, and extracted features, one or more ETL rules can be predicted that define logic for extracting data from the source schema and loading the extracted data into the target schema. Additional ETL mappings can be generated based on the predicted ETL rules, the additional ETL mappings providing additional definitions for extracting data from the source schema and loading the extracted data into the target schema.
US11494679B2
Embodiments disclosed herein generally relate to a method and system for oil and gas predictive analytics. A computer system receives a set of production information for a well located in a region. The computing system generates a set of general reference groups comprising one or more reference wells for the region. The computing system determines whether the set of production information for the well includes the threshold amount of production information. The computing system selects a subset of reference wells from the general reference groups based on one or more traits of the well. The computing system generates a reference curve based on the set of production information associated with each reference well in the subset of reference wells. The computing system fits a decline curve to the reference curve, to determine an estimated ultimate recovery of the well.
US11494675B2
A method of determining a second alimentary provider is disclosed. The method inputs an order for an alimentary combination from a user. The alimentary combination is prepared by a first alimentary provider. The method classifies a plurality of alimentary providers. The method computes a alimentary provider score for a plurality of second alimentary combinations prepared by the plurality of alimentary providers as a function of a first machine-learning process, the machine learning process trained by training data correlating alimentary provider scores to alimentary combinations. The method selects a second alimentary provider from the plurality of alimentary providers as a function of the alimentary provider score. The method outputs the second alimentary provider to the user. A system of determining a second alimentary provider is also disclosed.
US11494673B2
A system, a method and a computer program product are provided to determine user profile of one or more users in one or more buildings, using a machine learning model. The system may include at least one memory configured to store computer executable instructions and at least one processor configured to execute the computer executable instructions to obtain mobility features associated with the one or more buildings in a geographic region. The processor may be configured to determine using a trained machine learning model, one or more transport modes for the one or more buildings. The processor may be further configured to obtain indoor mobility data of the one or more users based on the one or more transport modes for the one or more buildings. The processor may be further configured determine the user profile of the one or more users in the one or more buildings.
US11494672B2
In some example embodiments, a computer-implemented method may include training a machine learning model in a first database instance using a machine learning algorithm and a training dataset in response to receiving a request to train, serializing the trained machine learning model into a binary file in response to the training of the machine learning model, recreating the trained machine learning model in a second database instance using the binary file in response to receiving a request to apply the machine learning model, and generating an inference result by applying the recreated trained machine learning model on the inference dataset in the second database instance.
US11494667B2
Example aspects of the present disclosure are directed to systems and methods that enable improved adversarial training of machine-learned models. An adversarial training system can generate improved adversarial training examples by optimizing or otherwise tuning one or hyperparameters that guide the process of generating of the adversarial examples. The adversarial training system can determine, solicit, or otherwise obtain a realism score for an adversarial example generated by the system. The realism score can indicate whether the adversarial example appears realistic. The adversarial training system can adjust or otherwise tune the hyperparameters to produce improved adversarial examples (e.g., adversarial examples that are still high-quality and effective while also appearing more realistic). Through creation and use of such improved adversarial examples, a machine-learned model can be trained to be more robust against (e.g., less susceptible to) various adversarial techniques, thereby improving model, device, network, and user security and privacy.
US11494664B2
A computer-implemented infrastructure providing a consistent graphical user interface that supports user-controlled organizing, storing, accessing and sharing of heterogeneous personal information of a specific user uses computer processes executed by a server system. The computer processes include receiving a set of items of information from a computing device operated on behalf of the specific user; for each item of information in the received set of items, obtaining, as a result of parsing the received set of items, new information; feeding to an artificial intelligence engine the new information, and other user information stored in association with an internal account of the specific user, in order to produce derived information; and storing the new information and the derived information, in a storage system in communication with the server system, in an encrypted format, and associating such stored item of information with an internal account of the specific user; wherein the stored items of information are made accessible only in accordance with permissions controlled by the specific user.
US11494662B2
Today, product developers with customized small batch production needs come across the problem of finding capable and flexible manufacturers, while manufacturers face underutilization due to inconsistent demand. In this disclosure, a digital manufacturing framework is presented to address the challenge of matching the underutilized manufacturers with the new product developers. This disclosure presents a Production as a Service (PaaS) framework to connect users (consumers or product developers) who have customized small batch manufacturing needs, with manufacturers that have existing underutilized resources. PaaS is a cloud-based, centralized framework based on a service oriented architecture (SOA) that abstracts the manufacturing steps of a product as individual (production) service requests. PaaS creates a market place for small-to-mid sized manufacturing industry by coordinating multiple manufacturers to provide the requested services. Using PaaS, the user is able to reach many capable manufacturers at once, and receive quotations for the production request. On the other end, PaaS reduces the effort required to find new customers and enables manufacturers to easily submit quotations to increase the utilization of their resources.
US11494657B2
Some embodiments of the invention provide a novel method for training a quantized machine-trained network. Some embodiments provide a method of scaling a feature map of a pre-trained floating-point neural network in order to match the range of output values provided by quantized activations in a quantized neural network. A quantization function is modified, in some embodiments, to be differentiable to fix the mismatch between the loss function computed in forward propagation and the loss gradient used in backward propagation. Variational information bottleneck, in some embodiments, is incorporated to train the network to be insensitive to multiplicative noise applied to each channel. In some embodiments, channels that finish training with large noise, for example, exceeding 100%, are pruned.
US11494652B2
A property vector representing extractable measurable properties, such as musical properties, of a file is mapped to semantic properties for the file. This is achieved by using artificial neural networks “ANNs” in which weights and biases are trained to align a distance dissimilarity measure in property space for pairwise comparative files back towards a corresponding semantic distance dissimilarity measure in semantic space for those same files. The result is that, once optimised, the ANNs can process any file, parsed with those properties, to identify other files sharing common traits reflective of emotional-perception, thereby rendering a more liable and true-to-life result of similarity/dissimilarity. This contrasts with simply training a neural network to consider extractable measurable properties that, in isolation, do not provide a reliable contextual relationship into the real-world.
US11494651B2
A control system for automatic operation of a coker, the control system. The control system includes a drum feeder operable to modulate a feed of oil into a coke drum of the coker. The control system further includes a controller with a processing circuit. The processing circuit obtains a target coke rate indicating a target rate at which to accumulate coke within the coke drum. The processing circuit further uses a neural network model to generate a target coker feed rate predicted to result in the coke accumulating within the coke drum at the target coke rate. The target coker feed rate indicates a target rate at which to feed the oil into the coke drum. The processing circuit further operates the drum feeder using the target coker feed rate to modulate the feed of oil into the coke drum.
US11494635B2
A server accesses a plurality of users' sessions with the web server. Each user session indicating a page flow of a corresponding user session for a plurality of web pages provided by the web server. The server generates a learning model using a neural network based on the plurality of users' sessions. The learning model is configured to predict a next user activity based on a current page flow of a current user session. The next user activity indicating one of continuing the current user session by visiting another web page provided by the web server and ending the current user session. The server dynamically adjusts a content of a web page based on the predicted next user activity.
US11494634B2
Maximum expressivity can be received representing a ratio between maximum and minimum input weights to a neuron of a neural network implementing a weighted real-valued logic gate. Operator arity can be received associated with the neuron. Logical constraints associated with the weighted real-valued logic gate can be determined in terms of weights associated with inputs to the neuron, a threshold-of-truth, and a neuron threshold for activation. The threshold-of-truth can be determined as a parameter used in an activation function of the neuron, based on solving an activation optimization formulated based on the logical constraints, the activation optimization maximizing a product of expressivity representing a distribution width of input weights to the neuron and gradient quality for the neuron given the operator arity and the maximum expressivity. The neural network of logical neurons can be trained using the activation function at the neuron, the activation function using the determined threshold-of-truth.
US11494631B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses for implementing advanced content retrieval are described. Machine learning methods may be implemented so that a system may predict when a user device may experience network disconnections. The system may also predict the type of content one or more applications on the user device may seek to download during the network disconnection period. Neural networks may be trained based on user activity log data and may implement machine-learning techniques to determine user preferences and settings for advanced content retrieval. The system may predict when a user may want to download content in advance, the type of content the user may be interested in, anticipated network connectivity, and anticipated battery consumption. The system may then generate recommendations for the user device based on the predictions. If a user agrees with the recommendations, the system may obtain and cache the content.
US11494629B2
Certain aspects provide a circuit for in-memory computation. The circuit generally includes a first memory cell, and a first computation circuit. The first computation circuit may include a first switch having a control input coupled to an output of the first memory cell, a second switch coupled between a node of the first computation circuit and the first switch, a control input of the second switch being coupled to a discharge word-line (DCWL), a capacitive element coupled between the node and a reference potential node, a third switch coupled between the node and a read bit-line (RBL), and a fourth switch coupled between the node and an activation (ACT) line.
US11494622B2
A method for configuring hardware for implementing a Deep Neural Network (DNN) for performing an activation function, the hardware comprising, at an activation module for performing an activation function, a programmable lookup table for storing lookup data approximating the activation function over a first range of input values to the activation module, the method comprising: providing calibration data to a representation of the hardware; monitoring an input to an activation module of the representation of the hardware so as to determine a range of input values to the activation module; generating lookup data for the lookup table representing the activation function over the determined range of input values; and loading the generated lookup data into the lookup table of the hardware, thereby configuring the activation module of the hardware for performing the activation function over the determined range of input values.
US11494621B2
Implementations detailed herein include description of a computer-implemented method. In an implementation, the method at least includes receiving an application instance configuration, an application of the application instance to utilize a portion of an attached accelerator during execution of a machine learning model and the application instance configuration including an arithmetic precision of the machine learning model to be used in determining the portion of the accelerator to provision; provisioning the application instance and the portion of the accelerator attached to the application instance, wherein the application instance is implemented using a physical compute instance in a first location, wherein the portion of the accelerator is implemented using a physical accelerator in the second location; loading the machine learning model onto the portion of the accelerator; and performing inference using the loaded machine learning model of the application using the portion of the accelerator on the attached accelerator.
US11494612B2
A domain adaptation module is used to optimize a first domain derived from a second domain using respective outputs from respective parallel hidden layers of the domains.
US11494602B2
An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable image bearer, a transfer rotator, a detector, and circuitry. The image bearer bears an image. The transfer rotator transfers the image from the image bearer onto a recording medium sandwiched and conveyed between the image bearer and the transfer rotator. The detector detects length information indicating a length, in a direction of conveyance of the recording medium, of the image on the recording medium. The circuitry corrects a correction value, based on the length information detected by the detector and a target value of the length information, to correct an image magnification, in the direction of conveyance of the recording medium, of the image to be formed on the recording medium. The circuitry controls an image forming operation of forming the image on the recording medium with the correction value.
US11494599B2
A method for correcting tone-level non-uniformities in a digital printing system includes printing a test target having a set of uniform test patches. The printed test target is automatically analyzed to determine tone-level errors as a function of cross-track position for each of the test patches. A tone-level correction function is determined and represented using a set of one-dimensional feature vectors which specifies tone-level corrections as a function of cross-track position, pixel value and time. Corrected image data is determined by using the tone-level correction function to determine a tone-level correction value for each image pixel responsive to the input pixel value, cross-track position and time. The corrected image data is printed using the digital printing system to provide a printed image with reduced tone-level errors.
US11494593B2
This application relates to apparatus and methods for optimizing hyperparameters for machine learning models. In some examples, a computing device configures a machine learning model with a first set of hyperparameters from a pool of hyperparameters. The computing device may execute the machine learning model to generate a validation score, and may update parameters of a probability determination model based on the validation score. Further, the computing device may execute the probability determination model to generate probabilities corresponding to the first set of hyperparameters. The computing device may also determine a second set of hyperparameters from the pool of hyperparameters based on the generated probabilities, and may configure the machine learning model with the second set of hyperparameters. The computing device may repeat the process of generating validation scores, updating the parameters, and generating probabilities to determine sets of hyperparameters until at least one condition is satisfied.
US11494592B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for converting data to a tiling format when implementing convolutional neural networks are disclosed. A system includes at least a memory, a cache, a processor, and a plurality of compute units. The memory stores a first buffer and a second buffer in a linear format, where the first buffer stores convolutional filter data and the second buffer stores image data. The processor converts the first and second buffers from the linear format to third and fourth buffers, respectively, in a tiling format. The plurality of compute units load the tiling-formatted data from the third and fourth buffers in memory to the cache and then perform a convolutional filter operation on the tiling-formatted data. The system generates a classification of a first dataset based on a result of the convolutional filter operation.
US11494589B2
Techniques for performing a prediction task using a multi-modal statistical model configured to receive input data from multiple modalities including input data from a first modality and input data from a second modality different from the first modality. The techniques include: obtaining information specifying the multi-modal statistical model including values of parameters of each of multiple components of the multi-modal statistical model, the multiple components including first and second encoders for processing input data for the first and second modalities, respectively, first and second modality embeddings, a joint-modality representation, and a predictor; obtaining first input data for the first data modality; providing the first input data to the first encoder to generate a first feature vector; identifying a second feature vector using the joint-modality representation, the first modality embedding and the first feature vector; and generating a prediction for the prediction task using the predictor and the second feature vector.
US11494588B2
A method, system and computer program product to generate a training data set for image segmentation applications, comprising providing a set of input documents of a first format. The input documents each comprise one or more pages. The input documents are split into individual document pages and parsed. Parsing comprises identifying a predefined set of items including position information of the position of the predefined set of items in the individual document pages; generating a bitmap image of a second format for each individual document page of the first format. The bitmap image comprises a predefined number of pixels. A mask is generated for each individual document. The mask comprises the predefined number of pixels of the corresponding bitmap image. Generating the mask comprises assigning an encoded class label to each pixel of the mask based on the position information of identified items of the predefined set of items.
US11494581B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide an object collating device and an object collating method that enable matching of images of a dividable medical article with desirable accuracy and easy confirmation of matching results. In the object collating device according to the first aspect, when the object is determined to be divided, the first image for matching is collated with the image for matching (the second matching image) for the objects in the undivided state, so that the region to be matched is not narrowed, and matching of the images of the dividable medical article is achieved with desirable accuracy. In addition, since the first and second display processing is performed on the images for display determined to contain the objects of the same type, matching results can easily be confirmed.
US11494577B2
The present disclosure describes method, apparatus, and storage medium for identifying an identification code. The method includes obtaining, by a computer device, a to-be-detected picture. The computer device includes a memory storing instructions and a processor in communication with the memory. The method also includes detecting, by the computer device, an identification code in the to-be-detected picture to obtain a detection result, the detection result comprising target information of a target code corresponding to the identification code; sampling, by the computer device, the target code according to the target information, to obtain a sampled image; and decoding, by the computer device, the sampled image, to obtain an identification result corresponding to the identification code.
US11494575B2
A robotic system is disclosed that include an articulated arm and a first perception system for inspecting an object, as well as a plurality of additional perception systems, each of which is arranged to be directed toward a common area in which an object may be positioned by the robotic arm such that a plurality of views within the common area may be obtained by the plurality of additional perception systems.
US11494573B2
Disclosed in the present specification is a self-checkout device to which hybrid product recognition technology is applied and which helps a user to more conveniently and quickly make a payment. The self-checkout device according to the present specification photographs a product with a plurality of cameras, and then recognizes a barcode by detecting a barcode region from the captured images and, simultaneously, extracts a feature point of the images such that a product can be recognized through the calculation of the proportion that matches with a reference image of the product. Thus, a product can be quickly recognized through barcode recognition and packaging paper recognition in a product image.
US11494571B2
The disclosed embodiments are generally directed to improving feature detection of rapidly acquired images using camera-enabled mobile devices involving a 2-D decal code, such as a QR code, for improving the reading accuracy of a rapid diagnostic antigen or antibody or enzymatic colorimetric directed test, such as for COVID-19 diagnosis. One primary issue with evaluating a Covid-19 rapid test is detecting and quantifying positive test lines from sampled test strips based on digital images of the test strip. Aspects of the present invention contemplate masking a QR code to improve the sample image resolution and contrast. Other aspects of the present invention contemplate methods and techniques to evaluate a test line on the sample image by enhancing an intensity curve along the test line and control line containing area by way of calculating the instantaneous change in pixel intensity and evaluating the position and intensity of those signals.
US11494557B1
Systems and methods are described for disambiguating terms, a challenging problem in computational linguistics. An ambiguous term may be regular words or phrases, or preferably abbreviations or acronyms. A potentially ambiguous term may be identified from an information source, and has two or more potential meanings. For each potential meaning, context and frequency of the potential meaning are determined. Context may include section headings, nearby concepts, or all relevant concepts within the information source. Frequency may reflect frequency of the candidate concepts within literature, medical literature, patient records, or another information source. Context, frequency, or both for each potential meaning can support a computer technology algorithm to select one potential meaning over others.
US11494551B1
Processing a first document using a first service that includes a first machine learning model. One embodiment provides a method that includes receiving, over a network, the first document including a first form field and identifying a first value associated with a first entity. The method also includes obtaining a first subset of documents from the first service, analyzing, using the first machine learning model, the first subset of documents to extract a second document including a first value and a second value, automatically populating the first form field with the first value or the second value, and providing, via a graphical user interface, the first document to a user to be validated. The method also includes saving a validated first document to a database, transmitting the validated first document to a second service, and updating the first machine learning model with the validated first document.
US11494542B2
A semiconductor device includes: an active area in a transistor layer; contact-source/drain (CSD) conductors in the transistor layer; gate conductors in the transistor layer, and interleaved with the CSD conductors; VG structures in the transistor layer, and over the active area; and a first gate-signal-carrying (GSC) conductor in an M_1st layer that is over the transistor layer, and that is over the active area; and wherein long axes correspondingly of the active area and the first GSC conductor extend substantially in a first direction; and long axes correspondingly of the CSD conductors and the gate conductors extend substantially in a second direction, the second direction being substantially perpendicular to the first direction.
US11494541B2
Aspects relate to a photonic processing system, an integrated circuit, and a method of operating an integrated circuit to control components to modulate optical signals. A photonic processing system, comprising: a photonic integrated circuit comprising: a first electrically-controllable photonic component electrically coupling an input pin to a first output pin; and a second electrically-controllable photonic component electrically coupling the input pin to a second output pin.
US11494539B2
The design of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) pass transistors is provided via generating a first plurality of transistor leakage currents by simulating different dopant configurations in a transistor; generating a second plurality of transistor leakage currents by simulating, for each dopant configuration of the different dopant configurations, a single trap insertion in the transistor; fitting the first and second pluralities of transistor leakage currents with first and second leakage current distributions; combining the first and second leakage current distributions to produce a third leakage current distribution; generating a third plurality of statistically generated leakage currents for a specified trap density for the transistor based on the first leakage current distribution, on the second leakage current distribution and on a specified trap density; and modeling and evaluating a DRAM cell including the transistor based on the third plurality of statistically generated leakage currents.
US11494532B2
Techniques and a system to facilitate simulation-based optimization on a quantum computer are provided. In one example, a system includes a quantum processor. The quantum processor performs a quantum amplitude estimation process based on a probabilistic distribution associated with a decision-making problem. Furthermore, the quantum processor includes a simulator that simulates the decision-making problem based on the quantum amplitude estimation process.
US11494529B1
The present invention relates generally to a system for acquiring images of real stone slabs, visualize them virtually them in a 1:1. ratio, and design and view the final installation in 2D and 3D with the actual slabs instead of sample photography. This feat is achieved by the combination of multiple systems. Which include: 1.—A process to take the photographies 2.—A computer system to store and manage a virtual warehouse of actual slab images, 3.—a 1:1 display system, 4.—a catalog application and 5.—a visualization tool.
US11494514B1
A method includes utilizing a user computing device to remove privacy information. The user computing device may obtain a vehicle identification number associated with a target vehicle that has a target in-vehicle device from which privacy information of a user is to be removed. Using the vehicle identification number, the user computing device may obtain vehicle parameters associated with the target vehicle. The user computing device may obtain a privacy information removal file comprising an instruction set associated with removing privacy data from candidate in-vehicle devices, and may present the instruction set. The user computing device may obtain a user feedback experience. The user feedback experience may include a confirmation of removal of the privacy information from the at least one candidate in-vehicle device, user comments, a voice recording, or an image, captured by a camera of the user computing device, of the at least one candidate in-vehicle device.
US11494508B2
Systems and methods for securing objects in a computing environment. Objects are encrypted using keys that are also encrypted after encrypting the objects. In order to access the objects, a master key that is unknown to the service storing the objects and/or managing the keys is used to decrypt the keys so that the objects can be decrypted with the decrypted key. Thus, a key is needed to access the key needed to access the object. The master key is typically maintained separately from all of the encrypted objects and corresponding encrypted keys.
US11494501B2
A policy-based printing system is implemented to allow access to a private domain to print using a public domain. The private domain includes private servers that store documents. The public domain includes servers and a printing device. A public policy server uses a domain list and a protocol connection with a private authentication server to validate a user and identify which private domain to access. The public policy server receives requests from the printing device to process a print job of a document in the private domain. A mobile device is used to coordinate the retrieval and printing of the document using an application. A kiosk may be used to send the document to the printing device from the mobile device.
US11494500B1
A request to replicate a first account maintained by a data platform is received. Based on the request, account data associated with the account is accessed. The account data comprises security configurations for the first account. In response to the request, the first account is replicated using the account data. A second account results from replicating the first account. The replicating of the first account comprises automatically replicating the security configurations for the first account to the second account. The replicating of the security configurations comprises replicating an identity management configuration of the first account; replicating an authorization configuration of the first account; and replicating an authentication configuration of the first account.
US11494498B2
A method for securing data in a storage grid is provided. The method includes generating a storage key from key shares of at least two storage clusters of a storage grid having at least three storage clusters and generating a grid key from the storage key and an external secret. The method includes encrypting data with the grid key to yield once encrypted data and encrypting the once encrypted data with the storage key to yield twice encrypted data. The method includes storing the twice encrypted data in a first storage cluster of the storage grid and storing the twice encrypted data in a second storage cluster of the storage grid, wherein at least one method operation is performed by a processor.
US11494497B2
A method of operating a user device includes: detecting whether the user device is located within a restricted zone by a monitoring entity of the user device; and limiting access to the user device by the monitoring entity in response to detecting the user device as being outside the restricted zone.
US11494479B2
Various embodiments set forth techniques for managing access to a resource at a device. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a request by an application to access a resource, determining that an application permission associated with the application and the resource grants the application access to the resource, where the application permission includes a signature of a permission review entity associated with the resource, and granting the request to access the resource based on the application permission. The permission review entity associated with the resource may be authorized through device permissions specified by an implementer or provider of the device.
US11494478B2
Provided are USB connector-free device and method, the device comprising: a host computer 10; a mobile device 20; and an ultra-high-speed module 30, wherein the host computer 10 comprises a USB module, the mobile device (20) comprises: a mobile device USB module (21) connected to the USB module of the host computer (10); mobile device hardware (22) matching with a hardware layer of the mobile device USB module (21); and a mobile device RF module (23) wirelessly matching with the mobile device hardware (22), and the ultra-high-speed module (30) comprises: an ultra-high-speed RF module (31) wirelessly communicating with the mobile device RF module (23); ultra-high-speed module hardware (32) matching with the ultra-high-speed RF module (31) by hardware; and a memory module (33) performing wire-communication with the ultra-high-speed module hardware (32).
US11494477B2
Systems and methods are provided for calculating authenticity of a human user. One method comprises receiving, via a network, an electronic request from a user device, instantiating a video connection with the user device; generating, using a database of questions, a first question; providing, via the network, the generated question to the user device; analyzing video and audio data received via the connection to extract facial expressions, calculating, using convolutional neural networks, first data and second data corresponding predetermined emotions based on facial expressions and audio data; generating candidate emotion data using the first and second data; determining whether the candidate emotion data predicts a predetermined emotion, and generating a second question to collect additional data for aggregating with the first and second data or determining the authenticity of the user and using the determined authenticity to decide on the user request.
US11494474B2
A method of authentication of a user is provided. The method comprises capturing a brain activity signal from a user; comparing the brain activity signal with reference data; and determining, based at least in part on the comparison, whether the identity of the user can be confirmed. Also provided is a computing device comprising at least one processor and at least one memory. The computing device is adapted to: communicate with a brain activity sensing system to capture a brain activity signal from the user; provide the captured brain activity signal to an authentication service computing system; and authenticate the user based at least in part on the result of a comparison with reference data received from the authentication service computing system. A system comprising the computing device and a brain activity sensing system, and am authentication service computing device are also provided.
US11494472B2
Systems and methods provide voice activated authentication over time. A user can be registered with a voice authentication system based on a voiceprint profile of common words. This user voiceprint profile can be used in an ongoing secondary authentication as a hands-free head-mounted wearable device is used over time. Upon a user logging into a hands-free head-mounted wearable device voiceprints can be collected during a session. These collected voiceprints can be compared with a user voiceprint profile for a user authorized to operate the hands-free head-mounted wearable device. Such a comparison can include an analysis of frequency, duration, and amplitude for the voiceprints. When the voiceprints match, the login of the user can be maintained based on this secondary authentication using the voiceprints matched to the user voiceprint profile.
US11494459B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for customizing a set of restrictions for a hashtag or other user-defined annotation that violates guidelines or rules of an online resource based on automated and manual review. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems trigger manual review of user-defined annotations in a social networking system, determine various metrics based on both manual and automated review of content including a particular user-defined annotation, and generate a customized set of restrictions for the user-defined annotation based on those metrics. More specifically, the system can generate and utilize various manual review metrics and a moderated media metric to generate a custom set of restrictions for a user-defined annotation.
US11494455B2
A framework for implementing just-in-time decision support analytics within a business application deployment are provided. In one set of embodiments, the framework enables an application user to be presented with analytics that are in-context and in-place with respect to an operational workflow carried out by the user, where “in-context” means that the presented analytics are directly relevant to, and tailored for, the specific business context of the user's operational workflow, and “in-place” means that the analytics are displayed to the user within the same UI/application used to execute the operational workflow, and at the same time the workflow is actually executed. These characteristics advantageously ensure that the user is provided with the insights he/she needs to make confident business decisions and facilitates real-time decision making for time-critical operations.
US11494451B2
Methods and apparatus for generating, in response to a search query of a user, a personal search result that identifies a physical location previously interacted with by the user, such as a physical location previously visited by the user. Some implementations are directed to methods and apparatus for determining whether a search query is a personal locational query indicating a desire for information related to one or more physical locations previously interacted with by the user. Some implementations are directed to methods and apparatus for determining search parameters for such a personal locational query. Some implementations are directed to methods and apparatus for searching private content of the user to determine physical locations previously interacted with by the user that are responsive to such a personal locational query. Some implementations are directed to methods and apparatus for generating personal search results that identify determined physical locations previously interacted with by the user.
US11494448B2
The lock time of a database upon the execution of a series of processes is decreased, and the load of the implementation/modification of the database server device upon changing the application destination of the Web system is reduced. A database server provides a prescribed simple API, and comprises a request processing unit, an SQL creation unit, and an SQL processing unit. In the database server device 120, when a plurality of divided requests are received from the Web server device as the request for requesting a series of processing, the SQL processing unit executes SQL integration processing of temporarily storing the generated SQL sentences until generation of the SQL sentences is ended for all of the plurality of divided requests, and integrating and editing the plurality of temporarily stored SQL sentences and creating the whole SQL sentence after generation of the SQL sentence is ended for all of the requests.
US11494439B2
A method, computer program product, and a system where a processor(s) obtains a universe of social media items posted to a social media platform at a given time. The processor(s) determines a likelihood of each item of the universe of social media items becoming viral by linking each item of the universe to a breakout pattern based on predefined dimensions and bucketing each item into a defined grouping by a measure of anticipated virality of the item. The processor(s) applies a susceptible-infected-recovered (SIR) model as a differential equation to the bucketed items to determine an equilibrium and one or more breakout points. The processor(s) determines if a social media item will become viral based on whether the item matches at least one or the one or more breakout points.
US11494437B1
Embodiments of system and method for performing object-modifying commands in an unstructured storage service are described. Embodiments may include utilizing one or more nodes to implement an unstructured storage service including a service interface configured to service data storage requests and data retrieval requests from remote clients. The unstructured storage service is configured to isolate access to each of multiple storage domains of the service to different clients. Embodiments may also include receiving from a given remote client, a request to store a data object to a given storage domain of the service. The request further specifying a command to modify source data for the object prior to storing the object. Embodiments may also include using the unstructured storage service to perform the command without exporting the source data from the unstructured storage service to the given remote client prior to completion of the command.
US11494425B2
A method of extracting data from documents is provided. The method comprises receiving input of a number of documents and input of a schema of data items available for extraction from the documents. The documents are parsed into a machine-readable representation, and data items in the machine-readable representation are identified according to the schema. Interpretations of data items are propagated within the documents to disambiguate identified data items, and identified data items are matched with other data items in the documents according to the schema. Only identified data items that include a minimal set of interpretations specified by the schema are extracted.
US11494424B2
This disclosure relates generally to data integration, and more specifically to artificial intelligence based data integration of entities post market consolidation. The method includes extracting, using one or more text mining models, metadata associated with at least one category of each of the participating entities of the deal, from data sources associated with the entities. The disclosed system dynamically configures an assessment for the at least one category based on the metadata by using a set of Natural Language Processing (NLP) rules. The assessment includes parameters associated with the data integration of the entities. Response to the assessment is obtained from users belonging to the entities. An artificial intelligence (AI) based processing model assigns a similarity score to the responses, where the similarity score is indicative of extent of match between distinct responses obtained from the entities. A recommendation engine recommends a data integration model based on the similarity score.
US11494405B2
An apparatus in one embodiment includes at least one processing device comprising a processor coupled to a memory, with the at least one processing device being configured to maintain a replication journal for recording replication write requests in a storage system, to detect a failure impacting the replication journal, and to initiate recovery of the replication journal responsive to the detected failure. In conjunction with the recovery of the replication journal, the at least one processing device is further configured to maintain a lock contention table that characterizes lock contentions between address lock ranges required for the recovery of the replication journal and address lock ranges required by other write requests in the storage system, and to utilize the lock contention table to resolve one or more potential deadlocks that would otherwise prevent completion of the recovery of the replication journal. Other embodiments include methods and computer program products.
US11494393B2
The present teaching relates to method and system for generating a stream of content items. A plurality of entities associated with a time-window are obtained, wherein each entity of the plurality of entities is associated with at least one content item. For each entity, a first parameter with respect to the time-window, a second parameter with respect to previous time-windows, and a trendiness score based on a function of the first parameter and the second parameter are respectively calculated. A graph based on one or more entity-pairs is generated, wherein each entity-pair of the one or more entity-pairs satisfies a first criterion. A stream of content items is generated based on the graph, wherein each content item in the stream of content items corresponds to at least one of the one or more entity pairs.
US11494390B2
Some aspects of this disclosure involve generation of crowd-based results based on measurements of affective response of users. In some embodiments described herein, sensors are used to take measurements of affective response of at least ten users who were at a certain location. The measurements may include various values indicative of physiological signals and/or behavioral cues of the at least ten users. Some examples of locations in this disclosure include vacation destinations, businesses, establishments that provide entertainment, certain geographical regions, and virtual environments. User interfaces are configured to receive data describing a location score computed based on the measurements of the at least ten users, which represents the affective response of the at least ten users to being at the certain location. The user interfaces may be used to report the location score (e.g., to a user who may be interested in visiting the certain location).
US11494389B2
A recommendation system includes: an input operation mode recognition unit configured to recognize a mode of an input operation from a user to an input device; a user mood estimation unit configured to estimate a mood of the user, based on the mode of the input operation; a proposal activity information acquisition unit configured to access an activity database, to extract a proposal activity suitable for the mood of the user, and to acquire information on the proposal activity; and an output control unit configured to allow an output device to output the information on the proposal activity, the output device being used by the user.
US11494388B2
An information processing apparatus includes: an output management information storage unit in which one or more pieces of output management information having an output condition, which is a condition for outputting emotion information and is a condition related to content, and emotion information are stored; an input information accepting unit that accepts input information that is content; an output information acquiring unit that judges whether or not information acquired using the content accepted by the input information accepting unit matches each of the one or more output conditions, and acquires emotion information that is paired with each of the one or more matching output conditions, from the output management information storage unit; and an information output unit that outputs the one or more pieces of emotion information acquired by the output information acquiring unit.
US11494386B2
A shared database platform can interface with a cluster computing platform over a network through a connector. The data transferred over the network can include metadata result packages that can be distributed to worker nodes of the cluster computing platform, which receive the metadata objects and access the result data for further processing on a staging platform, such as a scalable storage platform.
US11494382B2
Systems and methods for retrieving a set of ordered items from a distributed database. A plurality of ordered items may be stored at a cache. The plurality of ordered items may have a length of N+B at a first instant in time. A first instruction to delete a first item of the plurality of ordered items may be received. A second instruction to add a second item to the plurality of ordered items may be received. The first instruction and the second instruction may be stored in a change log. A request for the first N items of the plurality of ordered items may be received. The first instruction may be executed by deleting the first item from the plurality of ordered items. The second instruction may be executed by adding the second item to the plurality of ordered items. The first N items of the plurality of ordered items may be sent in response to the request.
US11494380B2
Systems and methods are described for establishing and managing components of a distributed computing framework implemented in a data intake and query system. The distributed computing framework may include a master and a plurality of worker nodes. The master may selectively operate on a search head captain that is chosen from the search heads of the data intake and query system. The search head captain may distribute configuration information for the master and the distributed computing framework to the other search heads, which in turn, may distribute that configuration information to indexers of the data intake and query system. Worker nodes may be selectively activated for operation on the indexers based on the configuration information, and the worker nodes may additionally use the configuration information to contact the master and join the distributed computing framework. This approach may provide numerous benefits, including improved security, flexibility in the selection of worker nodes, and redundancy for failures of physical components of the data intake and query system.
US11494377B2
Systems and methods for solving queries on image data are provided. The system includes a processor device coupled to a memory device. The system includes a detector manager with a detector application programming interface (API) to allow external detectors to be inserted into the system by exposing capabilities of the external detectors and providing a predetermined way to execute the external detectors. An ontology manager exposes knowledge bases regarding ontologies to a reasoning engine. A query parser transforms a natural query into query directed acyclic graph (DAG). The system includes a reasoning engine that uses the query DAG, the ontology manager and the detector API to plan an execution list of detectors. The reasoning engine uses the query DAG, a scene representation DAG produced by the external detectors and the ontology manager to answer the natural query.
US11494374B2
Database requests are processed in a distributed database system comprising a central database subsystem and a plurality of local database subsystems comprising a first local database subsystem. The central database subsystem receives a second database request indicating at least one unique identifier of at least one database result of a plurality of database results which have been stored with corresponding unique identifiers by the first local database subsystem in response to a first database request received at the first local database subsystem. The at least one database result identified by the at least one unique identifier is retrieved from the first local database subsystem, processed and stored persistently in a database of the central database subsystem. At least the first local database subsystem and the central database subsystem may operate according to the New Distribution Capability (NDC) standard.
US11494364B1
A computerized system and method may include, in response to receiving a blockchain via a communications network that includes information associated with an event, parsing, by a blockchain parsing engine being executed by a blockchain node, the information to identify a status state of an item related to the event. The blockchain may be inclusive of the information along with the status state of the item may be stored in a storage unit. An event tracking engine may determine from the parsed information that the status state of the item transitioned from a first state to a second state. Responsive to the event tracking engine determining that a qualifying state is satisfied by the item being in the second state, automatically executing, by the blockchain node, a smart code inclusive of initiating communications between a first party and a second party.
US11494359B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for providing index and storage management for multi-tiered databases. An embodiment operates by receiving a request to create an index on a multi-tiered database including both an in-memory store and a disk store. A multi-store table associated with the index is determined, wherein the multi-store table includes both a first set of data stored on the memory store and a second set of data stored on the disk store. Either the first set of data or the second set of data on which to create the index is selected based on the request. The index for the selected set of data of the multi-store table is generated. The index is stored on either the disk store or the memory store as corresponding to the selected set of data for which the index was generated.
US11494355B2
A size associated with a content file is determined to be greater than a threshold size. In response to the determination, file metadata of the content file split and stored across a plurality of component file metadata structures. The file metadata of the content file specifies tree structure organizing data components of the content file and each component file metadata structure of the plurality of component file metadata structures stores a portion of the tree structure. A snapshot tree is updated to reference the plurality of component file metadata structures for the content file.
US11494345B2
This disclosure relates generally to decentralized storage and more particularly to method and system for blockchain based decentralized storage with dynamic data operations. Conventional decentralized storage are limited in capacity thereof to enable dynamic data operations on the sectors stored at them. In an embodiment, the disclosed method and system enabled dynamic data operations such as modification, insertion, and deletion on the stored sectors by leveraging blockchain to achieve publicly verifiable fully stateless Provable Data Possession. Moreover, the disclosed system enables data integrity in decentralized storage with dynamic operations using scheme based on Merkle hash tree and blockchain to provide a transparent verification framework with high detection probability of malicious hosts.
US11494331B2
A representative reconfigurable processing circuit and a reconfigurable arithmetic circuit are disclosed, each of which may include input reordering queues; a multiplier shifter and combiner network coupled to the input reordering queues; an accumulator circuit; and a control logic circuit, along with a processor and various interconnection networks. A representative reconfigurable arithmetic circuit has a plurality of operating modes, such as floating point and integer arithmetic modes, logical manipulation modes, Boolean logic, shift, rotate, conditional operations, and format conversion, and is configurable for a wide variety of multiplication modes. Dedicated routing connecting multiplier adder trees allows multiple reconfigurable arithmetic circuits to be reconfigurably combined, in pair or quad configurations, for larger adders, complex multiplies and general sum of products use, for example.
US11494327B2
A data processor capable of suppressing variation in latency during a bus access is provided. The data processor according to one embodiment includes a ring bus through which a plurality of relay circuits, being coupled to a plurality of bus masters and a plurality of slaves, are coupled in the shape of a ring. Each of the relay circuits includes: an arbitration circuit which arbitrates an adjacent request packet of an adjacent relay circuit and a bus request packet of a nearest bus master with use of priority of these request packets, and outputs the request packet after arbitration to a next relay circuit; and a priority adjustment circuit which adjusts priority of the bus request packet according to the number of relay circuits through which the bus request packet passes before reaching its destination.
US11494314B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods may provide for an eventually-consistent distributed caching mechanism for database systems. As an example, the system may include a recently updated objects (RUO) manager, which may store object identifiers of recently updated objects and RUO time-to-live values of the object identifiers. As servers read objects from the cache or write objects into the cache, the servers may also check the RUO manager to determine if the object has been updated recently enough to be at risk of being stale or outdated. If so, the servers may invalidate the object stored at the cache as it may be stale, which results in eventual consistency across the distributed database system.
US11494311B2
A computer system includes physical memory devices of different types that store randomly-accessible data in memory of the computer system. In one approach, access to memory in an address space is maintained by an operating system of the computer system. A virtual page is associated with a first memory type. A page table entry is generated to map a virtual address of the virtual page to a physical address in a first memory device of the first memory type. The page table entry is used by a memory management unit to store the virtual page at the physical address.
US11494305B2
A linked list searching method and device are configured to search a linked list by using a cache memory. The method includes the operations of: writing the linked list in a memory; writing the data of a first node in a first row of a tag memory of the cache memory, and writing an address of the first node in a first row of a data memory of the cache memory; writing the data of a second node in a second row of the tag memory, and writing the address of the second node in a second row of the data memory; and searching the data of the second node in the tag memory to directly retrieve the address of the second node when searching the address of the second node in the linked list according to the data of the second node.
US11494296B2
A user definition of a memory shape can be received and a multidimensional, contiguous, physical portion of a memory array can be allocated according to the memory shape. The user definition of the memory shape can include a quantity of contiguous columns of the memory array, a quantity of contiguous rows of the memory array, and a major dimension of the memory shape. The major dimension can correspond to a dimension by which to initially stride data stored in the memory shape.
US11494290B2
A system and method of generating one or more integration tests are disclosed herein. A computing system receives a URL from a client device. The URL corresponds to a website hosted by a third party server. The computing system generates a recurrent neural network model for testing of the website. The one or more variables associated with the recurrent neural network model are defined by a genetic algorithm. The computing system inputs code associated with the website into the recurrent neural network model. The recurrent neural network model learns a plurality of possible paths through the website by permutating through each possible set of options on the website. The recurrent neural network mode generates, as output, a plurality of integration tests for at least the test website. The computing system compiles the plurality of integration tests into a format compatible with a testing service specified by the client device.
US11494288B2
In some examples, test relevancy prediction for code changes may include ascertaining files for a commit for a build, and for each test of a plurality of tests, determining a score based on a weight assigned to a file of the ascertained files. Test relevancy prediction for code changes may further include ordering each test of the plurality of tests according to the determined score, and identifying, based on the ordering of each test of the plurality of tests, tests from the plurality of tests for which the score exceeds a specified threshold. The identified tests may represent tests that are to be applied to the build.
US11494283B2
A storage system has a QOS recommendation engine that monitors storage system operational parameters and generates recommended changes to host QOS metrics (throughput, bandwidth, and response time requirements) based on differences between the host QOS metrics and storage system operational parameters. The recommended host QOS metrics may be automatically implemented to adjust the host QOS metrics. By reducing host QOS metrics during times where the storage system is experiencing high volumes of workload, it is possible to throttle workload at the host computer rather than requiring the storage system to expend processing resources associated with queueing the workload prior to processing. This can enable the overall throughput of the storage system to increase. When the workload on the storage system is reduced, updated recommended host QOS metrics are provided to enable the host QOS metrics to increase. Historical analysis is also used to generate recommended host QOS metrics.
US11494278B2
A service system and a server capable of increasing an operation rate of a production base are provided. The server acquires operation information of a component mounter in a mounting work from a host computer in the production base. The server generates analyzed result data obtained by analyzing the operation information based on the types of the manufacturers (component manufacturer and the package manufacturer) of electronic component and the package. The server transmits the generated analyzed result data to host computers in the other production bases.
US11494274B2
A communication system that is capable of migrating setting values of different items from respective backup source apparatuses. The communication system includes a management apparatus that manages backup data of first and second backup source apparatuses, and a communication apparatus that communicates with the management apparatus. The management apparatus includes a processor that executes instructions to hold first backup data obtained from the first backup source apparatus, and hold second backup data obtained from the second backup source apparatus. The communication apparatus includes a processor that executes instructions to obtain a first setting value of a first item from the first backup data received from the management apparatus, obtain a second setting value of a second item that is different from the first item from the second backup data received from the management apparatus, and set up the first setting value and the second setting value.
US11494261B2
A method of temperature compensation to read a flash memory device includes determining a state of the flash memory device. An action is selected with a maximum Q-value from a Q-table for the current state during exploitation. A read operation of a code word from the flash memory device is conducted using one or more parameters according to the selected action. The code word is decoded with an error correction code (ECC) process.
US11494248B2
A warm mission-mode reset may be performed in a portable computing device. Assertion of a signal indicating an error condition may be detected. In response to detection of the signal indicating an error condition, a signal indicating a request to preserve memory contents may be provided to a DRAM subsystem. Then, in response to a signal acknowledging the DRAM subsystem is preserving the memory contents, a system reset signal may be asserted.
US11494247B2
A model generation apparatus (2000) acquires component failure data in which a usage status is associated with a failure record of a component. The model generation apparatus (2000) generates, for each of a plurality of component groups, a prediction model for predicting the number of failures of each component included in the component group by using the component failure data relating to the component belonging to the component group. The prediction model computes a prediction value of the total number of failures of the components belonging to a corresponding component group from the usage status, and computes a prediction value of the number of failures of each component belonging to the component group from the computed prediction value of the total number of failures.
US11494246B1
Disclosed herein are embodiments of systems, methods, and products comprises a server for efficiently processing electronic requests. The server receives a plurality of predictive computer models and a specification file for each model for registration. The server extracts validation codes for each model based on the specification file. When the server receives an electronic request, the API layer of the server validates the request by verifying the inputs of the request satisfying the validation codes of the corresponding model. If the electronic request is invalid, the server returns an error message immediately; otherwise, the API layer of the server sends the electronic request to the model execution layer. Within the model execution layer, the server executes the corresponding model based on the request inputs and generates output results. The model execution layer transmits the output results back to the API layer, which transmits the output results to the user device.
US11494243B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to enabling access transaction systems to accept different communication protocols. In some embodiment, an access device receives, from a portable device, an indication that a transaction is to be performed by exchanging transaction information between the portable device and a remote computer, wherein the remote computer is configured to communicate using a first communication protocol. Next, the access device determines that the portable device is configured to communicate using a second communication protocol. The access device then converts communications between the portable device and the remote computer from the second communication protocol to the first communication protocol to assist the portable device and the remote computer in exchanging the transaction information.
US11494224B2
An apparatus includes a CPU core, a first cache subsystem coupled to the CPU core, and a second memory coupled to the cache subsystem. The first cache subsystem includes a configuration register, a first memory, and a controller. The controller is configured to: receive a request directed to an address in the second memory and, in response to the configuration register having a first value, operate in a non-caching mode. In the non-caching mode, the controller is configured to provide the request to the second memory without caching data returned by the request in the first memory. In response to the configuration register having a second value, the controller is configured to operate in a caching mode. In the caching mode the controller is configured to provide the request to the second memory and cache data returned by the request in the first memory.
US11494216B2
A method for capturing VM resources for forensics includes receiving an indication of compromise (IoC). The indication of compromise indicates an attack is imminent against a virtual machine. The method also includes, in response to receiving the IoC and before the attack begins, snapshotting a memory state of memory used by the virtual machine and increasing a level of auditing of the virtual machine from a standard level of auditing to a heightened level of auditing. The heightened level of auditing generates data representative of all accesses to the memory used by the virtual machine. After the attack against the virtual machine has begun, the method includes maintaining the heightened level of auditing for a threshold period of time, notifying a user of the virtual machine of the indication of compromise, and storing the data in memory external to the virtual machine.
US11494206B2
Methods and apparatus directed to utilizing an automated messaging system to initiate and/or adapt a dialog with at least one user, where the dialog occurs via user interface input and output devices of at least one computing device of the user. In some of those implementations, the automated messaging system identifies at least one task associated with the user and initiates the dialog with the user based on identifying the task. The automated messaging system may initiate the dialog to provide the user with additional information related to the task and/or to determine, based on user input provided during the dialog, values for one or more parameters of the task. In some implementations, the automated messaging system may further initiate performance of the task utilizing parameters determined during the dialog.
US11494204B2
Techniques for resolving multiple user requests from multiple user accounts by an interactive interface are described. An interactive interface can obtain a first multi-dimensional context graph for a first user account and a second context graph for a second user account. Each graph comprises correlated contexts related to the user account. The interface can also receive a first user request associated with the first user account and a second user request associated with the second user account; determine, based on the first graph, a first current context and one or more first previous contexts for the first user request; determine, based on the second graph, a second current context and one or more second previous contexts for the second user request; determine one or more interrelationships between the first and the second graphs; and resolve the user requests based on the contexts and the interrelationships.
US11494199B2
A system and method for knob refinement. A method includes determining an ordered list of knobs organized with respect to impact on the target metric for a system based on a plurality of historical sets of target metric measurements; determining a second system configuration based on the ordered list of knobs and a first set of target metric measurements recorded for the system when the system is configured according to a first system configuration, the system having a plurality of knobs, wherein the second system configuration includes at least one knob of the plurality of knobs that is reconfigured as compared to the first system configuration; and applying one of the first system configuration and the second system configuration, wherein the applied system configuration is determined based on the first set of target metric measurements and a second set of target metric measurements.
US11494197B2
A pre-boot screen can be accessed remotely. A remote access BIOS module can be employed on a computing system to logically split a GPU into a local screen rendering part and a remote access part and to logically split GPU memory into a local screen memory region and a remote access memory region. The remote access part of the GPU can access a pre-boot screen that has been copied to the remote access memory region and create network packets with payloads containing the pre-boot screen. The remote access part can then cause the network packets to be transferred to a NIC for delivery to a remote computing system. A remote access application on the remote computing system can extract and display the pre-boot screen. The remote access application can relay any user input back to the remote access BIOS module which can then cause the user input to be implemented locally.
US11494196B2
In an information-processing device a controller executes a storage process to store a command program in a memory. The command program supports the target device and outputs commands to the target device. In a case where the memory does not store the command program, an OS executes a plug and play process for a target device triggered by connection of the target device to the communication interface, and records in the memory unspecified device information indicating that the target device is unknown. In a case where the memory stores the unspecified device information, the OS does not complete a setup process even if the memory stores the command program. The controller executes, after executing the storage process, a deletion process to delete the unspecified device information from the memory so that the OS can complete the setup process.
US11494192B2
A processing element is implemented in a stage of a pipeline and configured to execute an instruction. A first array of multiplexers is to provide information associated with the instruction to the processing element in response to the instruction being in a first set of instructions. A second array of multiplexers is to provide information associated with the instruction to the first processing element in response to the instruction being in a second set of instructions. A control unit is to gate at least one of power or a clock signal provided to the first array of multiplexers in response to the instruction being in the second set.
US11494188B2
A single instruction multiple thread (SIMT) processor includes execution circuitry, prefetch circuitry and prefetch strategy selection circuitry. The prefetch strategy selection circuitry serves to detect one or more characteristics of a stream of program instructions that are being executed to identify whether or not a given data access instruction within a program will be executed a plurality of times. The prefetch strategy to use is selected from a plurality of selectable prefetch strategies in dependence upon the detection of such detected characteristics.
US11494178B2
Various methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided for background updating an application. An example computer-implemented method includes activating a group-based communication browser session within a first display window of an apparatus. The computer-implemented method also includes transmitting an update request for the group-based communication browser session to a group-based communication system upon determining that a window focus of the apparatus is on a second display window. The computer-implemented method further includes receiving an update for the group-based communication browser session. The computer-implemented method still further includes caching the update for the group-based communication browser session via a memory of the apparatus. The computer-implemented method also includes refreshing the group-based communication browser session based at least in part on the update upon determining that the window focus of the apparatus changes to the first display window. Corresponding apparatuses and computer program products are also provided.
US11494175B2
Methods and systems for monitoring use, determining risk, and pricing insurance policies for a vehicle having one or more autonomous or semi-autonomous operation features are provided. According to certain aspects, a computer-implemented method for real-time determination of the status of autonomous operation features of an autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle may be provided. With the customer's permission, the operation of the autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle may be monitored to obtain operating data from one or more autonomous operation features. An operating status of the autonomous features may be determined based upon the operating data. After which, a change in the operating status of the autonomous features may be identified, and a report containing information regarding the change in the operating status of the autonomous features may be generated. Insurance discounts may be provided to risk averse customers that maintain their autonomous vehicles, and associated accident avoidance functionality, in good working condition.
US11494173B2
There is disclosed herein examples of systems and procedures for performing software updates for vehicles. The vehicles may be scheduled for the software updates based on information related to the vehicles. Update systems may determine when the vehicles have entered service ranges of the update systems for the scheduled software updates and may initiate the software updates in response to determining that the vehicles have entered the service ranges. Progress of the software updates may be monitored and displayed on a dashboard system overseeing the software updates of the vehicles.
US11494172B2
A method for monitoring medical data is disclosed, the method being applicable to a system comprising a portable medical device, a mobile communications device, and, optionally, a medical care server. The portable medical device and the mobile communications device each comprise at least one interface for data transfer. The method comprises a step of establishing a download link between the mobile communications device and a download server. The method comprises a step of selecting an appropriate communication software package from a plurality of communication software packages for controlling data transfer between the mobile communications device and the portable medical device from the download server. Further, the method comprises a download step for downloading communication software package from the download server to the mobile communications device and a step of installation of the communication software package on the mobile communications device.
US11494170B2
A proxy compiler may be used within a native execution environment to enable execution of non-native instructions from a non-native execution environment as if being performed within the native execution environment. In particular, the proxy compiler coordinates creation of a native executable that is uniquely tied to a particular non-native image at the time of creation of the non-native image. This allows a trusted relationship between the native executable and the non-native image, while avoiding a requirement of compilation/translation of the non-native instructions for execution directly within the native execution environment.
US11494168B2
Disclosed herein is a software technology for facilitating an interactive conversational session between a user and a digital conversational character. For instance, in one aspect, the disclosed process may involve two primary phases: (1) an authoring phase that involves a first user accessing a content authoring tool to create a given type of visual conversation application that facilitates interactions between a second user and a digital conversational character in an interactive conversational session, and (2) a rendering phase that involves the second user accessing the created visual conversation application to interact with the digital conversational character in an interactive conversational session. In one implementation, accessing the created visual conversation application may involve detecting an object and identifying information associated with the detected object. The digital conversational character involved in the interactive conversational session may be superimposed onto a real-world environment.
US11494156B1
A cable connection information display system includes a cable having a first cable connector, and a first cable connection information display subsystem that is included on the cable adjacent the first cable connector. The first cable connection information display subsystem includes a first display device, and a first connection information receiving subsystem that is coupled to the first cable connector and the first display device. The first connection information receiving subsystem receives first connection information, which identifies at least a first computing device and a first port, via the first cable connector and from the first computing device that includes the first port that is connected to the first cable connector. The first connection information receiving subsystem then provides the first connection information for display on the first display device to identify the first computing device and the first port.
US11494140B2
The disclosed system presents to a user a first group of options representing information to include in a label. The system receives a first selection of a portion of the options representing first selected information to include in the label. Upon receiving the first selection of the portion of the options, the system adjusts a second group of options presented to the user based on the first selection. The system receives a second selection of a portion of the second group of options indicating a second selected information to include in the label. The system sends the first selected information and the second selected information to a printer.
US11494137B2
A policy-based printing system is implemented to allow access to a private domain to print using a public domain using a corporate personal identification number (PIN) and a public PIN. The private domain includes private servers that store documents. The public domain includes servers and a printing device. A public policy server uses a domain list and a protocol connection with a private authentication server to validate a user and identify which private domain to access. The public policy server retrieves a policy from a private policy server that configures the parameters for printing using the public domain. The print job data is provided to a public file server until the public policy server confirms that the print job can be sent to the printing device.
US11494127B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure measure a state of a storage group within a storage array. The embodiments also increase or decrease a compression ratio corresponding to input/output (I/O) operations on the storage group based on a target data reduction ratio (DRR) of the storage array, an expected performance envelope, and a compressibility factor of the storage group.
US11494126B1
A data storage device includes a memory device and a controller coupled to the memory device. The controller is configured to receive a command, such as from a host device, to write data to the memory device, perform toggle mode (TM) encoding on the data, and send the TM encoded data to the memory device. The memory device is configured to receive the TM encoded data, decode the TM encoded data, and write the decoded data to a location within the memory device. The memory device is further configured to receive a read command to read data from a location within the memory device, read the data, TM encode the data, and send the TM encoded data to the controller. The controller is configured to receive and decode the TM encoded data, and send the decoded data to a host device.
US11494123B2
A memory system includes a non-volatile memory, and a controller configured to issue a first command requesting a first operation to the non-volatile memory and a second command to the non-volatile memory. The second command may be for requesting a duration time of the first operation or for requesting an execution stage of the first operation. In accordance with the information returned by the non-volatile memory in response to the second command, the controller issues a third command requesting a completion status of the first operation to the non-volatile memory. The first operation may be a data read operation, a data write operation, or a data erase operation.
US11494120B2
Memory transactions in a computing device may be scheduled by forming subsets of a set of memory transactions corresponding to memory transaction requests directed to a DRAM. Each subset may include transactions identified by the same combination of direction (read or write) and DRAM rank as each other. The transactions selected for inclusion in each subset may be determined based on efficiency. One of the subsets may be selected based on a metric applied to each subset, and the transactions in the selected subset may be sent to the DRAM.
US11494118B2
A storage device includes a nonvolatile memory; a controller configured to control a write operation of the nonvolatile memory according to a write request received from a host and transmit a response to the write request to the host; and write buffers configured to store write data received with the write request. The controller is further configured to: set a response transmission delay time based on an available size of the write buffers, a minimum response transmission delay time, and a maximum response transmission delay time, transmit the response to the write request to the host after the response transmission delay time passes, and dynamically adjust, as the available size of the write buffers changes, the response transmission delay time within a range from the minimum response transmission delay time to the maximum response transmission delay time.
US11494112B2
Disclosed is a method for maintaining operation log information stored in a non-volatile memory of a storage device. The method includes the steps of: configuring a buffer area of a volatile memory; caching the operation log information into the buffer area; writing the operation log information stored in the buffer area into a predetermined storage area of the non-volatile memory; repeatedly updating the operation log information to the predetermined storage area; and initializing the storage device, which includes the following steps of enabling a watchdog timer in a controller; fetching the latest operation log information by reading the predetermined storage area when the watchdog timer counts a predetermined time and the storage device does not complete the initialization; configuring the storage device to perform a force low-level formatting after the latest operation log information is fetched; and disabling the watchdog timer when the storage device completes the initialization.
US11494108B2
The present disclosure generally relates to creating virtualized block storage devices whose data is replicated across isolated computing systems to lower risk of data loss even in wide-scale events, such as natural disasters. The virtualized device can include at least two volumes, each of which is implemented in a distinct computing system. Each volume can be implemented by at least two computing devices, a first of which is configured as a primary device to which reads from and writes to the volume are directed. Of the two volumes, one can be indicated as primary, indicating authority to accept reads to and writes from the virtualized device. A primary device of the primary volume, on obtaining a write to the volume, can replicate the write to both a secondary device of a primary volume and to the secondary volume.
US11494105B2
A copy of files of a primary storage system are stored at a secondary storage system. The metadata associated with the copy of the files of the primary storage system stored at the secondary storage system are analyzed to determine at least a portion of a hierarchical storage tier management plan for the primary storage system including by identifying one or more files to be migrated from a first tier of storage of the primary storage system to a different storage tier. An implementation of at least a portion of the hierarchical storage tier management plan is initiated.
US11494104B2
A memory system comprising a first storage region which stores first firmware corresponding to an external first electronic control apparatus; a second storage region which stores second firmware corresponding to an external gateway and third firmware corresponding to the first electronic control apparatus; and a controller configured to transmit the second firmware and the third firmware to the gateway on the basis of a first command received from the gateway, and transmit the first firmware to the gateway on the basis of a second command received from the gateway.
US11494095B1
A method includes receiving, by a processing device, signaling indicative of a power cycle (PC) to a memory device (MD) having a first signal indicative of a Power On Operation and a second signal indicative of a Power Off Operation, and determining an Average Power On Time (APOT) of the MD based, at least in part, on a quantity of power cycles (n) to the MD over a predetermined time interval (PTI), and for each PC over the PTI, an amount of time between receipt of the first signal and the second signal. A sum of each of the amount of time between receipt of the first signal and the second signal in the PTI provides a total power on time (T) to the MD, and the APOT is equal to T/n. When the APOT is less than (<) a threshold APOT value, determining a frequency at which to perform media scan operations and performing media scan operations involving the MD at the determined frequency.
US11494093B2
Provided are a data processing method and apparatus capable of rapidly searching for data compressed and stored in non-volatile storage means by compressing a data record, stored in a volatile in-memory database, in a partition unit, storing the compressed data record in the non-volatile storage means, and storing, in a table of the volatile in-memory database, a storage key to uniquely identify each of partitions stored in the non-volatile storage means and sorting information used to determine a partition for a data record.
US11494085B2
The present invention provides a method for accessing a flash memory module, wherein the flash memory module comprises at least one flash memory chip, each flash memory chip comprises a plurality of blocks, each block comprises a plurality of pages, and the method comprises: sending a read command to the flash memory module to ask for data on at least one memory unit; and analyzing state information of a plurality of memory cells of the memory unit based on information from the flash memory module to determine a decoding method adopted by a decoder.
US11494082B2
According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a nonvolatile memory including a plurality of memory chips and a controller. The controller acquires a first command from a first queue, transmits the acquired first command to a first memory chip, thereafter acquires a second command from a second queue, and transmit the acquired second command to a second memory chip when a first command processing speed based on a time until execution of a command using the first memory chip is completed after transmission of the command to the first memory chip is started is lower than a second command processing speed based on a time until execution of a command using the second memory chip is completed after transmission of the command to the second memory chip is started.
US11494076B2
A storage usage management system includes a storage usage management subsystem coupled to first and second storage devices. The storage usage management subsystem collects first write usage data from use of the first storage device by a host mapped to the first storage device, determines that second write usage data from use of the first storage device by the host exceeds first metric(s) associated with the first write usage data by a first threshold, and collects the second write usage data and third write usage data from immediately subsequent use of the first storage device by the host. If the storage usage management subsystem determines that the second and third write usage data exceed second metric(s) associated with the first write usage data by a second threshold, it uses the second and third write usage data to determine whether to remap the host to the second storage device.
US11494073B2
Systems and methods for interactive objects including conductive lines are provided. An interactive object may comprise a capacitive touch sensor comprising two or more non-crossing conductive lines that form at least a first conductive line pattern. The first conductive line pattern may comprise a first, second, and third sequence of the two or more non-crossing conductive lines relative to a respective first, second, and third input direction. The interactive object may be configured to detect touch input to the capacitive touch sensor based on a change in capacitance associated with the two or more non-crossing conductive lines, identify at least one of the first, second, or third line sequence based on the touch input to the capacitive touch sensor, and determine a respective gesture corresponding to the first, second, or third sequence of two or more non-crossing conductive lines.
US11494070B2
One or more embodiments of the present disclosure include a content management system that allows a user to easily activate a camera while viewing digital content. For example, a content management system can provide a graphical user interface that includes a scroll element that allows a user to navigate through digital content. In addition, a user can interact with the scroll element to activate a camera. For instance, a user can activate a camera by scrolling the scroll element to and/or beyond a particular position.
US11494065B2
An object of the present disclosure is to improve usability. One embodiment of the present invention is a non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a program for causing an information processing apparatus to function as: a first display control unit configured to display an area a user can edit on a fingernail area in a finger image on a first screen that displays the finger image for each finger; and a second display control unit configured to display a second screen that enlarges and displays the editable area in response to user instructions to designate a position outside the area in a specific finger image corresponding to the area of an editing target via the first screen.
US11494053B2
The operating method according to the invention is implemented in a computing device comprising a central processing unit, man-machine interface means including a display screen, and an operating system including a graphical user interface. The method comprises an implementation in the graphical user interface of a first metaphor in the form of a zoomable space (E3) appearing on the viewing screen and of a second metaphor in the form of a card (CT1, CT2) contained in the zoomable space, and a display in the cards of graphical representations corresponding to various types of digital objects as a function of a plurality of links between the objects and the cards, the plurality of links being established between the objects and the cards by at least some interactions via the graphical user interface between a user and the operating system.
US11494050B2
Disclosed is an electronic device and a method for controlling the electronic device. The method for controlling an electronic device includes: searching for an external device connectable to an electronic device; requesting information, from an external device identified by the searching, about an application installed in the external device; receiving, from the external device, information corresponding to the installed application; identifying at least one application, among a plurality of applications included in the information corresponding to the installed application, which is executable by the electronic device; displaying, on a display, at least one icon corresponding to the at least one identified application based on the information corresponding to the installed application; and based on one of the at least one icon being selected, requesting information required for execution of an application corresponding to the selected icon by communicating with the external device and executing the application installed in the external device.
US11494049B2
A method for displaying an application icon on a terminal, includes: receiving an operation on an application icon displayed on a display interface of the terminal; and determining and displaying a dynamic picture of the application icon according to the operation.
US11494045B2
An electronic apparatus and an object information recognition method by using touch data thereof are provided. Touch sensing is performed in the case where no object touches a touch panel to obtain a specific background frame through the touch panel. A current touch sensing frame is obtained through the touch panel. Touch background data of a plurality of first frame cells in the specific background frame is respectively subtracted from touch raw data of a plurality of second frame cells in the current touch sensing frame to obtain a background removal frame including a plurality of cell values. The background removal frame is transformed into a touch sensing image. The touch sensing image is inputted to a trained neural network model to recognize object information of a touch object.
US11494041B2
A touch panel, a manufacturing method thereof, and an electronic device are provided. The touch panel includes a main body region and a bending region, and the bending region is an region in which the main body region extends along a first direction, and bends relative to the main body region; the main body region includes a first touch region; the bending region comprises a second touch region; and a distribution density of touch sensors in the second touch region along the bending direction of the bending region is higher than a distribution density of touch sensors in the first touch region along the first direction. The touch panel can effectively compensate the influence of bending on the touch signal amount and effectively improve the touch performance of the touch region located in the bending region.
US11494040B2
A stacking structure includes a substrate, a silver nanowire layer provided on a top of the substrate, and a metal layer provided on a top of the silver nanowire layer. The silver nanowire layer includes a plurality of silver nanowires and an indium tin oxide (ITO) covered on the plurality of silver nanowires. The silver nanowire layer has an overall thickness that is 2.35 to 24 times as thick as a thickness of the ITO. A touch sensor including the above described stacking structure is also disclosed.
US11494037B2
A method including applying a first excitation voltage to an electrode of a touch sensor which charges a capacitive node associated with the electrode from a first voltage level to a second voltage level that is greater than the first voltage level. A first measurement measures a charge to change from the first voltage level to the second voltage level. A second excitation voltage is applied to the electrode which charges the capacitive node from the second voltage level to a third voltage level that is greater than the second voltage level. The capacitive node is discharged from the third voltage level to a fourth voltage level that is less than the second voltage level. A second measurement measures a charge to change from the third voltage level to the fourth voltage level. A measured charge signal is generated based on the first measurement and the second measurement.
US11494033B2
A display apparatus includes: a substrate having a first display area and a second display area; and a touch driving circuit configured to: receive first sensing signals of first touch sensors on the first display area; receive second sensing signals of second touch sensors on the second display area; generate first touch values based on the first sensing signals; generate second touch values based on the second sensing signals; generate corrected touch values by correcting the second touch values; and determine a touch location based on the first touch values and the corrected touch values.
US11494026B2
Techniques and apparatuses are described that implement touch sensors and electronic devices including touch sensors. In some implementations, the touch sensor includes a sensing portion and a contact portion extending from the sensing portion. While the sensing portion is configured to be placed in proximity to an interior surface of a housing of an electronic device to detect a touch on the housing, the contact portion is bent to electrically couple the sensing portion to a circuit board via two distinct electrical paths.
US11494024B2
A signal processing apparatus includes a first signal processing circuit and the second signal processing circuit. The first signal processing circuit receives a first signal. The first signal processing circuit has a power end connecting to a first voltage and a reference ground end. The second signal processing circuit receives a second signal. The second signal processing circuit has a power end which is electrically coupled to the reference ground end of the first signal processing circuit or equals the reference ground end of the first signal processing circuit. The second signal processing circuit has a reference ground end connecting to a second voltage.
US11494021B2
Embodiments of the disclosure relate to touch display devices. Display pads and touch pads may be arranged on the same side of a display panel by removing a portion of a second substrate to thereby expose the touch pads to the outside after attaching the second substrate on which the touch pads are arranged to a first substrate on which the display pads are arranged. Since the touch pads are positioned higher than the display pads in the area that does not overlap the display pads, bonding between the pads and the printed circuit may be easy to perform. Since the number of pads that may be arranged increases, it is possible to easily implement a large-area, high resolution touch display device.
US11494008B2
A mouse pad includes a mouse pad body and a mobile device support area, and the mobile device support area is flatly extended from a side of the mouse pad body and can be turned clockwise, so that the mobile device support area sticks out in a direction towards the top of the mouse pad body to form a mobile device support stand. Users can use the mouse pad or the transformed mobile device support stand alone or use the mouse pad body for the operation of a mouse while using the transformed mobile device support stand to achieve the effect of watching a mobile device.
US11494001B2
Methods and systems related to the field of gesture detection are disclosed herein. A system for a personal head wearable device includes a first electrode and a second electrode. The first electrode and the second electrode measure a bioelectric signal. The system further includes one or more non-transitory computer readable media storing instructions which, when executed by the system, cause the system to analyze the bioelectric signal to recognize a gesture signal in the bioelectric signal using a stored signature model for the gesture signal, and generate an interface signal upon recognizing the gesture signal in the bioelectric signal. The gesture signal is one of a double jaw clenching signal, a triple jaw clenching signal, and a long jaw clenching signal.
US11493994B2
An input device, method, and system enabling a switch input operation of various equipment by moving a body part other than hands and feet. Input by body movement, such as a wink, is achieved by an input device including: a detector which includes a first contact electrode placed at a first position of a body part and a second contact electrode placed at a second position of the body part, the detector configured to measure a biological signal between the first contact electrode and the second contact electrode, and to detect a low-frequency component inclusive of the biological signal; and a discrimination processor configured to determine, based on a signal from the detector, presence or absence of an input movement of the body part in a vicinity of the first position, and/or presence or absence of an input movement of the body part in a vicinity of the second position.
US11493982B2
Systems, methods, and circuitries are provided for controlling a microcontroller (MCU) on a per-application basis. A control system includes a microcontroller unit (MCU) including a first application group and a second application group. The first application group includes at least one hardware component not associated with the second application group. The control system includes a power management integrated circuit (PMIC). The PMIC includes monitoring circuitry configured to monitor the first application group to detect a first application group fault condition and monitor the second application group to detect a second application group fault condition. Based on the monitoring, the PMIC provides a first reset signal to the first application group that does not reset the second application group or provides a second reset signal to the second application group that does not reset the first application group.
US11493981B1
The present disclosure discloses a rapid frequency searching method and apparatus for a data processing device, and a data processing device. The method includes: gradually raising a frequency of a computing chip from an initial frequency point to a target frequency through at least one first frequency point at an initial output voltage of a power source of the data processing device, wherein the duration when the computing chip is located at each of the at least one first frequency point is shorter than the duration when the computing chip is located at each of the at least one first frequency point in a routine frequency searching process; and after the computing chip achieves the target frequency, adjusting the output voltage of the power source of the data processing device and the frequency of the computing chip according to at least one output voltage value and at least one second frequency point in combination with test tasks delivered to the computing chip and feedback results from the computing chip to obtain a limit frequency of the computing chip and an output voltage, corresponding to the limit frequency, of the power source of the data processing device.
US11493973B2
An electronic device that is able to operate by receiving a power supply from a host device through a Universal Serial Bus (USB). The electronic device acts as a first sink device and is connected to a second sink device that is able to operate by receiving a power supply from the host device through the USB and the connection to the first sink device. Each of the first sink device and the second sink device is provided with a CC terminal that obtains power supplying capability information from the host device, a pull-up or pull-down resistor connected to the CC terminal, and a GND terminal that grounds a circuit of the CC terminal and the pull-up or pull-down resistor. The electronic device changes a state of grounding of the pull-up or pull-down resistor to the GND terminal, in one of the first sink device and the second sink device.
US11493966B2
An electronic device according to various embodiments of the present invention comprises: a housing including a front surface and a rear surface facing the direction opposite to the front surface; a support plate rotatably coupled to the rear surface of the housing, and rotating around a first axis from a position in which the support plate is in close contact with a partial area of the rear surface to an open state in which the support plate forms an angle with respect to the rear surface; and a hinge structure having at least a portion accommodated inside the housing, and rotatably coupling the support plate to the housing. Therein, the hinge structure can comprise: a first guide member mounted on and fixed to the inner side surface of the housing; a second guide member mounted on and fixed to one surface of the support plate; and a gear module for linking the first guide member and the second guide member, wherein the first axis can be positioned on the rear surface on the outside of the housing. The electronic device can vary according to embodiments.
US11493964B2
The present invention relates to a device (100) for a portable user apparatus (102), including a portion (104) which can be folded over the user apparatus (102), said foldable portion (104) including at least two detection layers, each kept at a reserve potential and including at least one capacitive detection electrode: a first of said layers being arranged to carry out a function of capacitive detection of at least one control object located on one side of said foldable portion (104); a second of said layers being arranged so as to carry out a function of capacitive detection of at least one control object located on the other side of said foldable portion (104), with a view to triggering a function in the user apparatus (102). The invention also relates to an apparatus (10) provided with such an accessory device.
US11493962B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes as a foldable housing, a first housing structure which includes a first face facing a first direction, a second face facing a second direction opposite to the first direction, and a first side member surrounding at least part of a space between the first face and the second face and including at least one second conductive portion, and a second housing structure which includes a third face facing a third direction, a fourth face facing a fourth direction opposite to the third direction, and a second side member surrounding at least part of a space between the third face and the fourth face, a flexible display extending from the first face to the third face, and at least one camera disposed to the camera mounting region.
US11493941B2
The invention concerns a thermostatic valve (1) comprising a closed hollow body (2), a first opening leading into the hollow body (2), referred to as the inlet opening (4), a second opening leading into the hollow body (2), referred to as the main outlet (5), a third opening, substantially perpendicular to the second opening, leading into the hollow body (2), referred to as the bypass outlet (7), and a seal (11) allowing the inlet opening (4) to be alternately separated from the main outlet (5) or the bypass outlet (7). The seal (11) comprises a thermostatic actuator (12) and a skirt (13) which is made of plastic material and has at least one window (19) suitable for being traversed by a fluid, the skirt (13) being capable of sliding in the hollow body (2), along an axis that substantially coincides with the axis of the thermostatic actuator (12), between a first position in which the skirt (13) seals the main outlet (5), such that the fluid flows between the inlet opening (4) and the bypass outlet (7), and a second position in which the skirt (13) leaves the main outlet (5) open and seals the bypass outlet (7), such that the fluid from the inlet opening (4) can pass through the window (19) and flow through the main outlet (5).
US11493938B1
Image data is used to determine wind speed and wind direction during takeoff and landing by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The flight data, including image data, may be received using sensors onboard the UAV and/or the flight data may be received from other sources, such as nearby anemometer, cameras, other UAVs, other vehicles, and/or local weather stations. Machine learning models may train using the flight data gathered by the UAVs to determine the wind velocity based on image data. The UAV may adjust flight control settings to generate side forces to overcome the predicted wind velocity.
US11493936B2
A platooning management device, a vehicle system including the same, and a method thereof are provided. The platooning management device includes a processor that calculates driving costs of vehicles in a platooning line, and compares the driving costs of the vehicles to determine whether it is necessary to change a location of a leading vehicle in the platooning line. When it is necessary to change the location, the processor performs location change control. A storage stores driving costs obtained by the processor and information received from the vehicles in the platooning line.
US11493934B2
An autonomous vehicle, system and method of operating an autonomous vehicle. The system includes a communication module and a processor. The communication module sends a first set of Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) data over a first communication channel and a second set of GPS data over a second communication channel. The second set of GPS data is an authenticated data set. The processor operates the autonomous vehicle using the first set of GPS data, and compares the first set of GPS data to the second set of GPS data to verify the integrity of the first set of GPS data. A first value for a vehicle parameter based on the first set of GPS data is compared to a second value for the vehicle parameter based on data from a vehicle-based sensor. The first set of GPS data is rational when the difference is less than a selected threshold.
US11493933B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for driving on the basis of characteristics of a driving surface, and a robot for implementing the same, and a method for driving on the basis of characteristics of a driving surface, according to one embodiment of the present disclosure, comprises the steps in which: a sensing module of the robot senses an adjacent driving surface to generate characteristic information of the driving surface, and a control unit of the robot stores position and characteristic information of the driving surface in a map storage of the robot; the controller of the robot sets a function to be applied to the driving surface in response to the characteristic information of the driving surface, or generates a movement path selectively including the driving surface corresponding to start and end points of the robot; and the controller controls a moving unit and a functional unit of the robot according to the set function or the movement path.
US11493931B2
Provided herein are a method of extracting a feature from an image using a laser pattern and an identification device and a robot including the same, and the identification device for extracting a feature from an image using a laser pattern, which includes a first camera coupled to a laser filter and configured to generate a first image including a pattern of a laser which is reflected from an object, a second camera configured to capture an area overlapping an area captured by the first camera to generate a second image, and a controller configured to generate a mask for distinguishing an effective area using the pattern included in the first image and extract a feature from the second image by applying the mask to the second image.
US11493928B2
A trajectory generation apparatus according to an embodiment includes an arithmetic unit capable of generating a positional trajectory of a movable part of a robot, in which: the arithmetic unit is further capable of generating a velocity trajectory of the movable part; and a predetermined time before switching a trajectory along which the movable part is moved from the velocity trajectory to the positional trajectory, the arithmetic unit predicts a position of the movable part at the time of the switching and generates the positional trajectory that starts from the predicted position.
US11493920B2
Various examples are directed to systems and method operating an autonomous vehicle. A vehicle system may receive a plurality of inputs from a user of a vehicle, where the plurality of inputs includes a first labeling input received from the user and a first alert input received from the user. After determining that no user input has been received for an input threshold time, the vehicle system provides an alert prompt to the cockpit output device. This may cause the cockpit output device to provide the alert prompt to signal to the user to provide an alert input indicating that the user is alert.
US11493917B2
Methods, devices and systems for remotely operating a machine using a communication device. In one aspect, a method includes generating images showing at least one operating range of the machine by using at least one camera of the machine, transmitting the generated images and an image of an operating surface of the machine to the communication device via a radio network, displaying at least one of: the operating surface image and at least one of the generated images on an operating display of the communication device, accepting machine operation commands input by an operator using the operating display, and then transmitting the machine operation commands via the radio network, thereby remotely operating the machine.
US11493910B2
A processing system for processing objects using a programmable motion device is disclosed. The processing system includes a perception unit for perceiving identifying indicia representative of an identity of a plurality of objects received from an input conveyance system, and an acquisition system for acquiring an object from the plurality of objects at an input area using an end effector of the programmable motion device. The programmable motion device is adapted for assisting in the delivery of the object to an identified processing location. The identified processing location is associated with the identifying indicia and the identified processing location is provided as one of a plurality of processing locations. The system also includes a delivery system for receiving the object in a carrier and for delivering the object toward the identified processing location.
US11493903B2
Methods and systems for a data marketplace in a conveyor environment includes a self-organizing data marketplace. The self-organizing data marketplace includes at least one data collector and at least one corresponding conveyor in an industrial environment, wherein the at least one data collector is structured to collect detection values from at least one sensor of a power roller of the at least one corresponding conveyor; a data storage structured to store a data pool comprising at least a portion of the detection values; a data marketplace structured to self-organize the data pool; and a transaction system structured to interpret a user data request, and to selectively provide a portion of the self-organized data pool to a user in response to the user data request.
US11493902B2
An industrial machine management system includes circuitry that collects changeable setting data of an industrial machine, determines, based on the setting data at each time point of multiple time points, whether a change has been made to the setting data, and outputs change information regarding the change when the change is determined as having been made to the setting data.
US11493893B2
An integrated intelligent building management system is disclosed and includes a cloud management system having a cloud configuration platform, an intelligent building system corresponding to a building and having a ground configuration platform, and an intelligent building kit connected with multiple equipment in the building. The cloud configuration platform establishes multiple cloud configuration files. The intelligent building system obtains one cloud configuration file according to the MAC address and performs a ground configuration procedure confined by the cloud configuration file. When the intelligent building kit communicates with the intelligent building system, the ground configuration platform activates a configuration module corresponding to the kit category of the intelligent building kit to perform configuration to the intelligent building kit and establishes a ground configuration file, and the ground configuration platform exports the ground configuration file to the intelligent building kit to finish the ground configuration procedure.
US11493891B2
A model (8) is based on mathematical-physical equations. The model models the production of a particular output product (1) from at least one input product (2) supplied in each case to an installation in the raw materials industry on the basis of operation (B) of the installation. During production of the output products (1), the installation is controlled by a control device (5) in such a manner that particular actual operation (B) of the installation corresponds as far as possible to particular desired operation (B*) of the installation. The desired operation (B*) is determined by the control device (5) using the model (8) of the installation. The model (8) is parameterized according to a number of first model parameters (P1) for the purpose of modelling the installation. After a multiplicity of output products (1) have been produced in each case, actual sizes (A) of the output products (1) in the particular multiplicity are compared with expected sizes (A′) of the output products (1) in the particular multiplicity. On the basis of the comparison, the first model parameters (P1) are newly determined and the model (8) in the control device (5) is newly parameterized according to the new values of the first model parameters (P1). After this time, the desired operation (B*) is determined by the control device (5) using the newly parameterized model (8) of the installation in the raw materials industry. The expected sizes (A′) are determined by means of the model (8), wherein the determination of the expected sizes (A′) is based on the actual operation (B) of the installation.
US11493888B2
A delay circuit with multiple dependencies on various environmental parameters is disclosed. The delay circuit is configured to receive an input signal. The delay circuit includes a first circuit configured to generate a first amount of delay, wherein the first amount of delay has a direct relationship to a first environmental parameter. The delay circuit also includes a second circuit configured to generate a second amount of delay such that the second amount of delay has an inverse relationship to a second environmental parameter. The delay circuit is configured to generate a delayed output signal based on the first and second amounts of delay generated by the first and second circuits.
US11493887B2
Provided according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is a radiation shield 10 including a shield wall surrounding a hollow region capable of accommodating therein atoms for an optical lattice clock 100, the shield wall having, provided therein, at least two apertures communicating with outside. A geometrical shape of an inner wall surface of the shield wall is configured such that a difference between BBR shifts found under two conditions does not exceed a predetermined value over a range of position of atoms, the BBR shifts being caused in atoms 2 by emitted radiation emitted by the inner wall surface, incoming radiation leaking in from the outside through the apertures, and a reflection component of the emitted radiation and incoming radiation at the inner wall surface, the two conditions being a condition where the inner wall surface exhibits mirror reflection and a condition where the inner wall surface exhibits diffuse reflection, the range being where clock transition operation is carried out in the optical lattice clock, the inner wall surface facing the hollow region. Provided according to other embodiments of the present disclosure also are the optical lattice clock 100 including such a radiation shield, and a design method for the radiation shield.
US11493886B2
A watch including a control member that is able to manage at least one first function of the watch and at the same time to control one or more additional electronic functions. The control member, for example a crown or a push-piece head, is mounted on the elongate element defining a central axis and passing through a wall of the watch middle. At least one strain gauge is mounted around the elongate element and arranged so as to produce an electrical signal representing a radial force exerted by the elongate element on the strain gauge when a user laterally exerts a force on the control member. A processor generates at least one command on the basis of the electrical signal, for example to enable the user to navigate in a menu or a calendar displayed on a digital screen.
US11493885B2
A display mechanism (10) for a timepiece (1000), with a leap year display integrated in a month display, comprising a control mechanism (3) that drives, once per month, about an axis (D), a month display wheel set (2) arranged underneath a dial (1), having a month window (1C) in a quadrant allowing the display of only one quarter of the month display wheel set (2), which completes one revolution in four years, and bears, on an angular sector of 90°, at least one characteristic leap year marking, and either carries indices, each arranged to indicate one month on a static month scale of the dial (1), or equidistant month markings, wherein one of the month markings is pointed to by a fixed mark of the dial (1).
US11493882B2
Timepiece regulator comprising a detached lever escapement mechanism, and a resonator with a quality factor Q including at least one inertia element including an integral impulse pin cooperating with a fork of the lever, this inertia element being subjected to the action of elastic return means directly or indirectly fixed to the plate and being arranged to cooperate indirectly with an escape wheel set comprised in the escapement mechanism, this resonator mechanism is a resonator with a virtual pivot rotating about a main axis (DP), with a flexure bearing subjected to the return force of at least two flexible strips attached to the plate, defining together a virtual pivot with a main axis (DP), the lever pivoting about a secondary axis (DS), and the fork is enlarged in comparison to the fork of a conventional Swiss lever.
US11493880B2
A control portion of an image forming apparatus causes an operation of a first fan start and then causes a second fan to start. The time when the operation of the second fan starts is from a predetermined time before the time when the leading end of one sheet reaches a fixing nip to the time when the rear end of the one sheet passes through the fixing nip. In this way, since the second fan operates after the first fan operates, fine particle dust is hardly discharged to the outside of the image forming apparatus, and it is possible to suppress dew condensation inside the image forming apparatus.
US11493876B2
An assembly for an image forming device includes an electrical connector movable relative to a frame of the image forming device between a retracted position and an extended position. In the retracted position the electrical connector is disengaged from a first corresponding electrical connector of a first replaceable unit and a second corresponding electrical connector of a second replaceable unit when the first and second replaceable units are installed in the image forming device. In the extended position the electrical connector is engaged with the first corresponding electrical connector of the first replaceable unit and the second corresponding electrical connector of the second replaceable unit when the first and second replaceable units are installed in the image forming device.
US11493874B2
A control circuit of an image forming apparatus outputs a pulse signal. A clock signal generation circuit generates a clock signal, based on the pulse signal. A pulse signal conversion circuit generates a pulse conversion control signal of a voltage value associated with a duty ratio of the pulse signal. An AC voltage generation circuit generates an AC voltage of a frequency based on the clock signal. Either the AC voltage generation circuit or a DC voltage generation circuit generates a voltage whose amplitude or voltage value increases as a voltage value of the received pulse conversion control signal increases, and whose amplitude or voltage value decreases as a voltage value of the pulse conversion control signal decreases.
US11493873B2
Disclosed is a layer transfer device for transferring a transfer layer onto a toner image formed on a sheet, in which a replacement of a film cartridge is easy for a user. The layer transfer device includes a housing, a film cartridge, and a holder. The film cartridge includes a supply reel including a supply shaft on which a multilayer film including a supported layer including a transfer layer, and a supporting layer supporting the supported layer is wound, and a take-up reel including a take-up shaft on which to take up the multilayer film. The holder supports the film cartridge, and is installable into and removable from the housing while supporting the film cartridge.
US11493872B2
A static elimination device includes: a first static elimination member that makes contact with a medium that is transported; a second static elimination member arranged such that the medium is inserted between the first static elimination member and the second static elimination member; and a power source that applies a voltage to at least one of the first static elimination member or the second static elimination member, in which at least one of the first static elimination member and the second static elimination member has an elastic body.
US11493859B2
A mechanism that enables developer replenishment by a simpler structure and a mechanism that enables more user-friendly developer replenishment are provided. An attachment port to which a developer supply bottle containing a developer stored therein is detachably attachable is disposed in an interior of an image forming apparatus. The developer supply bottle can be attached when the cover is in an open state. According to this image forming apparatus, when the developer supply bottle is attached to the attachment port, the developer inside the developer supply bottle moves into a developer housing chamber by its own weight.
US11493857B2
An image forming apparatus includes a latent image forming portion configured to form a latent image on an image bearing member; a developing device including a container configured to store toner and a developing member configured to supply the toner to the latent image formed on the image bearing member to form a toner image; an environment sensor configured to detect environmental information related to an environment in which the developing device is placed; and a controller configured to control switching between a first mode and a second mode, in which a number of prints per unit time is less than that in the first mode. The controller is configured to perform switching from the first mode to the second mode based on an update value obtained by adding or subtracting over time an index value weighted in accordance with the environmental information detected by the environment sensor.
US11493846B2
According to one embodiment, a pattern forming method includes forming a resist film including a first core material pattern and a second core material pattern, on a first film laminated on a substrate; forming a second film at least on sidewalls of the first and second core material patterns; removing the first core material pattern while not removing the second core material pattern and the second film; and processing the first film by using, as a mask, the second core material pattern and the second film.
US11493845B2
An anti-reflective coating composition is provided. The anti-reflective coating composition of the present invention can be useful in preventing a pull-back phenomenon in which an anti-reflective coating layer tears on a corner of a pattern of a substrate during a heat curing process and improving gap-filling performance of the pattern since a crosslinker is attached to a polymer in the composition and the content of the low-molecular-weight crosslinker in the composition is minimized to regulate a heat curing initiation temperature.
US11493844B2
The present invention provides a photosensitive resin composition for a flexographic printing plate, the photosensitive resin composition including at least a hydrophilic copolymer (A), a thermoplastic elastomer (B), a photo-polymerizable monomer (C), a photo-polymerization initiator (D), a plasticizer (E), and an acidic group-containing polymer (F), wherein the photosensitive resin composition for the flexographic printing plate has an acid value of 1 to 100 mgKOH/g, as measured by neutralization titration.
US11493842B2
The present invention provides a photomask including a substrate, a circuit pattern on the substrate, an electrostatic discharge (ESD) ring on the substrate and an ESD line on the substrate. The ESD structure surrounds the circuit pattern. The ESD line extends between an edge of the substrate and the ESD structure, in which the ESD line includes an edge portion extending beyond an end of an edge of the ESD structure, and the edge portion of the ESD line includes at least one comb-shaped structure.
US11493824B2
A solid state electrically variable focal length lens includes a plurality of concentric rings of electro-optical material, wherein the electro-optical material comprises any material of a class of hydrogen-doped phase-change metal oxide and wherein each respective concentric ring further includes a transparent resistive sheet on a first face of the respective concentric ring, wherein the transparent resistive sheet extends along the first face, and a first voltage coupled between a first end and a second end of the transparent resistive sheet, wherein the first voltage may be varied to select an optical beam deflection angle.
US11493818B2
An autonomous light management system for a window includes an electrochromic film stack comprising an electrochromic layer on a first transparent electrode, an ion storage layer on a second transparent electrode, and an electrolyte sandwiched between the ion storage and electrochromic layers. The electrochromic film stack exhibits a transmissive state or an absorptive state depending on charging or discharging of the electrochromic layer. The light management system further comprises an array of power units disposed on a front surface of the electrochromic film stack, where each power unit comprises at least one solar microcell. Collectively, the solar microcells cover an area no greater than about 6% of a total area of the front surface. The array of power units is configured to control the charging and discharging of the electrochromic layer, thereby manipulating light transmission through the electrochromic film stack.
US11493810B2
A display panel and a fabricating method thereof are provided. The display panel is provided with a bending region and a non-bending region. The display panel has a flexible substrate, a first line layer, an insulating layer, and a second line layer, which are layer-stacked. The first line layer has first lines. The insulating layer corresponding to each of the first lines is provided with at least two through holes penetrating the insulating layer. The through holes are defined at two ends of the bending region adjacent to the non-bending region. The second line layer has second lines. The second lines are aligned with the first lines in a one-to-one manner. The second lines extend and penetrate the through holes to electrically connect to the first lines. The fabricating method has steps: providing a flexible substrate, fabricating a first line layer, an insulating layer, a second line layer.
US11493807B2
A substrate on which a specific type spacer is formed, a substrate comprising an alignment film formed on the spacer, and an optical device using such a substrate are disclosed herein. By controlling the shape of the spacer formed on the substrate, even when the alignment film is formed on the top of the spacer and the orientation treatment is performed, the uniform orientation treatment can be performed without any influence by the step or the like of the spacer, whereby a substrate or the like capable of providing a device having excellent optical performance can be provided.
US11493802B2
A display device including a display panel, and a backlight unit configured to provide light to the display panel are discussed. The backlight unit can include a light emitting section including a plurality of light emitting devices disposed on a substrate, and a light source protection layer disposed on the plurality of light emitting devices, a light conversion sheet having a plurality of light conversion patterns disposed in positions corresponding to the plurality of light emitting devices, respectively, a phosphor film disposed on the light conversion sheet, and at least one reflector including a plurality of holes on the substrate. An air gap is disposed between a top surface of the at least one reflector and a bottom surface of the light conversion sheet.
US11493798B2
Provided are a display panel, a preparation method thereof, and a display apparatus. The display panel includes a first substrate and a second substrate disposed oppositely, and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the first substrate includes a black matrix layer and a color filter layer which are sequentially disposed on a first base substrate; at least one of the first substrate and the second substrate further includes a spacer; and the black matrix layer includes at least one first black matrix, and an orthographic projection of each first black matrix on the first base substrate covers an orthographic projection of the spacer on the first base substrate.
US11493796B2
Disclosed are a display screen module and a terminal device. The display screen module may include: a backlight module, an LCD screen arranged above the backlight module, a light-transmissible cover plate arranged above the LCD screen, a first light source arranged in a backlight light source of the backlight module, a reflective component arranged between the LCD screen and the cover plate, and a light-receiving module configured to receive light reflected by the reflective component so as to carry out fingerprint recognition.
US11493792B2
An electronic device includes a liquid crystal display device having a first substrate, a second substrate bonded to the first substrate, with liquid crystal material held between the first substrate and the second substrate, and an upper polarizing plate affixed to the second substrate. A protective member is disposed over the upper polarizing plate, and an adhesive member is disposed between the protective member and the upper polarizing plate without an air layer between the protective member and the upper polarizing plate. The protective member is configured as a protective cover of the electronic device.
US11493786B1
An eyewear device is disclosed including a frame, a temple connected to a lateral side of the frame, an array of light emitting diodes (LEDs) to emit light patterns on an inner surface of the frame or the temple within a peripheral view of a wearer of the eyewear, a processor coupled to the eyewear device, and a memory accessible to the processor. The memory stores programming for execution by the processor and notification patterns corresponding to the LEDs. Execution of the programming configures the eyewear device to identify an event for presentation to the wearer, select a notification pattern corresponding to the identified event, and display the selected notification pattern to the wearer by selectively illuminating the LEDs.
US11493785B2
Ophthalmic lenses and light filters containing special additives that have fluorescence emission in the near infrared region of wavelengths—in order to enhance phototherapy for the human eye when it is exposed to sunlight and artificial lighting.
US11493765B2
Techniques are disclosed for facilitating image relay for wearable devices with thermal imaging devices attached thereto. In one example, a system includes an attachment configured to releasably couple to an exterior surface of a wearable apparatus. The attachment includes an infrared sensor assembly configured to capture a thermal image of a scene. The attachment further includes a display component configured to provide data indicative of the thermal image. The system further includes an optical relay component configured to couple to an interior surface of the wearable apparatus. The optical relay component is further configured to receive the data from the display component and relay the data within the wearable apparatus to facilitate presenting the data for viewing by a user while wearing the wearable apparatus. Related devices and methods are also provided.
US11493756B2
Reduction or elimination of negative consequences of reflected stray light from lens surfaces is achieved by propagating a laser beam through an eccentric pupil that excludes the optical axis of the system, which is rotationally symmetric. In such systems, stray light reflections eventually are focused onto the unique optical axis of the system, in either a real or virtual focal region. By using an eccentric pupil, all damage due to focusing of the stray light lies outside of the beam. These focal regions can, e.g., be physically blocked to eliminate beam paths that lead to optical damage, re-pulse beams and parasitic lasing.
US11493749B2
A tunable optical electrowetting element having a liquid-liquid interface shape controlled by an applied voltage. Circuitry for applying a voltage to the electrowetting element is configured to apply a shaped voltage signal comprising a first fast-rising signal combined with a second fast-rising signal. The second signal is selected to damp oscillations in the liquid-liquid interface caused by the first signal.
US11493739B2
A lens system is configured to form an image on an imaging element having a quadrilateral shape disposed on an optical axis, and includes a first free-curved lens being asymmetrical with respect to the optical axis. A free-curved surface of the first free-curved lens has positive refractive power at an intersection point between a circle separated from the optical axis by a length having a predetermined ratio with respect to a minimum image height and a first surface passing through the optical axis and parallel to longer sides of the imaging element, and negative refractive power at an intersection point between a circle separated from the optical axis by a length having the predetermined ratio with respect to the minimum image height and a second surface passing through the optical axis and parallel to shorter sides of the imaging element.
US11493732B2
A lens system forms an image on an imaging element having a quadrilateral shape disposed on an optical axis. The lens system includes a second free-curved lens being asymmetrical with respect to the optical axis. A sag amount of the second free-curved lens in a circle separated from the optical axis by a length having a predetermined ratio with respect to a minimum image height has extrema outside of a first intersection points between a first surface passing through the optical axis and parallel to longer sides of the imaging element and the circle, and a second intersection point between a second surface passing through the optical axis and parallel to shorter sides of the imaging element and the circle. Each of the extrema is greater than the sag amount at the first intersection point or the second intersection point by 0.01 mm or greater.
US11493709B2
Aspects described herein include an apparatus comprising a receptacle comprising a cage dimensioned to receive a pluggable optical module into an interior volume, An opening is defined in an exterior surface of the cage. The apparatus further comprises a heat sink assembly rigidly attached to the cage. The heat sink assembly comprises a thermal interface material extending through the opening into the interior volume. The thermal interface material is configured to compress when the pluggable optical module is received into the interior volume and contacts the thermal interface material.
US11493706B2
A multi-speed transceiver device includes a chassis having an optical cable connector coupled to a transceiver processor, and an optical waveguide coupling. A data receiving subsystem in the chassis couples the transceiver processor to the optical waveguide coupling, includes data receiving optical waveguides, and transmits first data received from the transceiver processor to the optical waveguide coupling over a number of the data receiving optical waveguides that depends on a first data transmission speed at which the first data was received. A data transmission subsystem in the chassis couples the transceiver processor to the optical waveguide coupling, includes data transmission optical waveguides, and receives second data via the optical waveguide coupling and over a number of the data transmission optical waveguides that depends on a second data transmission speed at which the second data was received, and then transmits that second data to the transceiver processor.
US11493700B2
Fiber optic connectors comprising compact footprints along with cable assemblies and methods for making the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, the optical connector comprises a housing and a ferrule. The housing comprises a longitudinal passageway between a rear end and a front end. The optical connectors disclosed may be tunable for improving optical performance and may include a spring for biasing the ferrule to a forward position as desired.
US11493699B2
Fiber optic connectors, cable assemblies and methods for making the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, the optical connector comprises a housing and a multifiber ferrule. The housing comprises a longitudinal passageway between a rear end and a front end, and, a part of the rear portion of the housing comprises a round cross-section and a part of the front portion of the housing comprises a non-round cross-section.
US11493697B2
An optical fiber adapter (10) comprises: a housing (1), a front portion of the housing (1) is provided with at least two accommodating cavities (19) which penetrate in a front-rear direction, are arranged sided by side, and are closed circumferentially, and a rear portion of the housing (1) is provided with a mounting base (14); at least two optical fiber plugs (2) provided on the mounting base (14), each optical fiber plug (2) comprises a positioning member (21), a ferrule (22) fixed to the positioning member (21) and extending forwardly, an optical fiber (23) exposed to a front end of the ferrule (22), a sleeve (24) fitted on an outer periphery of the ferrule (22) and a positioning cylinder (25) further sheathed on an outer periphery of the sleeve (24), a front end of the positioning cylinder (25) extends forwardly into the accommodating cavity (19), a rear end of the positioning cylinder (25) is fixed to the positioning member (21), an outer periphery of the positioning member (21) is provided with a first flange (211); and at least a fixing cover (3) locked on the mounting base (14) of the housing (1), the fixing cover (3) and the mounting base (14) are assembled to form a first latching groove (4), the first latching groove (4) correspondingly accommodates the first flange (211) of the optical fiber plug (2) and positions the first flange (211) of the optical fiber plug (2). The optical fiber adapter (10) can shorten the size of the rear portion and save the occupied space inside the cabinet.
US11493694B2
An electro-optic combiner includes a polarization splitter and rotator (PSR) that directs a portion of incoming light having a first polarization through a first optical waveguide (OW). The PSR rotates a portion of the incoming light having a second polarization to the first polarization to provide polarization-rotated light. The PSR directs the polarization-rotated light through a second OW. Each of the first and second OW's has a respective combiner section. The first and second OW combiner sections extend parallel to each other and have opposite light propagation directions. A plurality of ring resonators is disposed between the combiner sections of the first and second OW's and within an evanescent optically coupling distance of both the first and second OW's. Each of ring resonators operates at a respective resonant wavelength to optically couple light from the combiner section of the first OW into the combiner section of the second OW.
US11493691B1
An optical system is provided including a photonic integrated circuit and an optical lens system. The photonic integrated circuit includes an emission interface surface and a spatial array of apertures. The spatial array of apertures has a high numerical aperture (NA) of greater than 0.2 and includes a plurality of apertures spatially distributed across the interface surface. The optical lens system interfaces the photonic integrated circuit with free space by: receiving emitted light from the spatial array of apertures and altering a trajectory of the emitted light into the free space and receiving returning light from the free space and altering a trajectory of the returning light, such that the returning light is received by the spatial array of apertures.
US11493683B2
According to one embodiment, an illuminating device includes a lightguide plate including a curved emitting surface, and an incidence surface including a side edge curved along the emitting surface, a printed circuit board facing the incidence surface, and light sources mounted on the printed circuit board. Each light source includes a light-emitting center, a pair of connection terminals, and a central axis extending through the connection terminals and the light-emitting center. The light sources are arranged along a curved mounting line extending along the curved side edge of the incidence surface on the printed circuit board. The light-emitting centers are located on the mounting line, and the central axes are parallel to each other.
US11493679B2
A backlight unit for a display device includes: a light guide including a light incident surface; a substrate facing the light incident surface; a plurality of light sources on one surface of the substrate facing the light incident surface; and a first member disposed between the substrate and the light incident surface to space the light sources apart from the light guide. The first member includes: a support on one surface of the substrate that do not include the light source, the support having a first surface facing the light incident surface and a second surface facing the light sources; and a first layer disposed on the first surface and the second surface of the support to improve luminance uniformity across the light incident surface.
US11493678B2
An optical film includes: a protective layer; and a contrast ratio improvement layer including a first resin layer and a second resin layer facing the first resin layer, the second resin layer and the first resin layer being sequentially stacked from a lower surface of the protective layer, wherein the second resin layer has a refractive index greater than that of the first resin layer. The first resin layer has a patterned portion with at least two embossed optical patterns and flat sections immediately adjacent to and between the embossed optical patterns. The patterned section is in at least a portion thereof facing the second resin layer. A polarizing plate including the optical film and a liquid crystal display apparatus including the polarizing plate are also provided.
US11493677B2
Optical films are disclosed that include a plurality of interference layers. Each interference layer reflects or transmits light primarily by optical interference. The total number of the interference layers is less than about 1000. For a substantially normally incident light in a predetermined wavelength range, the plurality of interference layers has an average optical transmittance greater than about 85% for a first polarization state, an average optical reflectance greater than about 80% for an orthogonal second polarization state, and an average optical transmittance less than about 0.2% for the second polarization state.
US11493670B2
An optical system that produces a digital image of a field of view, comprising: a) a sensor array of light sensors that produces an output signal indicating an intensity of light received by each light sensor; b) one or more optical elements that together project an image of the field of view onto the sensor array, including at least one sectioned optical element comprising a plurality of sections, at least two of the sections differing in one or both of size and shape, each section projecting onto the sensor array an image of only a portion of the field of view, the different sections projecting images of different portions of the field of view to non-overlapping regions of the sensor array.
US11493669B2
An anti-reflective structural body is constituted of an integrally molded article and includes an anti-reflective structure formed on a base surface that constitutes an outer surface of the molded article, and the anti-reflective structure includes a plurality of recesses, each being formed to be recessed from the base surface independently of mutually adjacent recesses and having an inclined surface, which is inclined with respect to the base surface and forms at least one punctiform or linear apex portion at a bottom portion.
US11493660B2
The inspection device includes: a conveyance route that conveys an inspection object at moving speed v; a first magnetic detector and a second magnetic detector that detect a magnetic field of a magnetic foreign object contained in the inspection object; an amplifying unit that amplifies detection signals of the first magnetic detector and the second magnetic detector; and a computation processing unit that performs processing of multiplying the detection signal of the second magnetic detector by a signal obtained by delaying the detection signal of the first magnetic detector. The first magnetic detector and the second magnetic detector each include one magnetic sensor and the magnetic sensors form a pair.
US11493659B2
A sonic tool is activated in a well having multiple casings and annuli surrounding the casing. Detected data is preprocessed using slowness time coherence (STC) processing to obtain STC data. The STC data is provided to a machine learning module which has been trained on labeled STC data. The machine learning module provides an answer product regarding the states of the borehole annuli which may be used to make decision regarding remedial action with respect to the borehole casings. The machine learning module may implement a convolutional neural network (CNN), a support vector machine (SVM), or an auto-encoder.
US11493648B2
A radiation monitor includes a radiation detection unit detecting radiation, and an optical fiber transmitting photons emitted from a light emitting element of the radiation detection unit, wherein the radiation detection unit includes a first light emitting element generating a photon in response to incident radiation, a chemical compound part having chemical compounds which generate charged particles by nuclear reactions with incident neutrons, and a second light emitting element being located between the first light emitting element and the chemical compound part and generating a photon in response to radiation.
US11493645B2
A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided to estimate the reference position associated with fingerprint data by selectively utilizing an online positioning system. In the context of a method and in an instance in which a global navigation satellite system is available for location determination, the method determines the location of a data collection device in conjunction with the collection of fingerprint data. In this instance, the location is determined based upon information provided by the global navigation satellite system. However, in an instance in which the global navigation satellite system is unavailable for location determination, the method provides, via a computer network, an online positioning system with at least some fingerprint data collected by the data collection device. In this instance, the method also determines the location of the data collection device in conjunction with the fingerprint data based upon information provided by the online positioning system.
US11493638B2
A multipath (MP) carrier phase detector is disclosed that uses phase differences in the output of Early/Prompt/Late (EPL) correlation for MP detection. Embodiments may take coherent integrations of EPL correlator outputs and determine the respective carrier phase of each output. Phase differences can then be computed, and integer cycles and biases can be removed. MP can then be identified if a maximum phase difference of the EPL correlator outputs are determined to be above a certain threshold. According to some embodiments, false positives may be reduced by averaging phases and/or phase differences over a plurality of samples, and/or if a threshold number of consecutive MP detections have been made.
US11493615B2
Described herein are systems and methods that detect an electromagnetic signal in a constant interference environment. In one embodiment, the electromagnetic signal is a light signal. A constant interference detector may detect false signal “hits” generated by constant interference, such as bright light saturation, from valid signals. The constant interference detector determines if there is constant interference for a time period that is greater than a time period of the valid signal. In one embodiment, if a received signal exceeds a programmable threshold value for a programmable period of time, when compared to previously stored ambient light, a control signal is generated to inform the next higher network layer of a sudden change in ambient light. This control signal can be used to either discard the present return or process the signal in a different way. A constant interference detector may be a component of a LIDAR system.
US11493610B2
A lidar system that includes a laser source and a scannable mirror can be controlled to adaptively schedule the firing of laser pulse shots at range points in a field of view. A first plurality of laser pulse shots that are fired during a scan of the mirror in a first scan direction can trigger the detection of a region of interest in the field of view. In response to this detection, a second plurality of laser shots targeting the region of interest can be scheduled for the next return scan of the mirror in the opposite direction.
US11493608B2
A LIDAR device for scanning a scanning angle using at least one beam includes at least one beam source generating the at least one beam, a rotatable deflection unit deflecting the at least one beam, and a detector receiving the at least one beam after reflection on an object, where at least two cylindrical lenses are situated in a beam path of the at least one beam between the beam source and the deflection unit, at least one cylindrical lens is rotatable.
US11493597B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for detecting a malfunction of at least one environment sensor of a motor vehicle operating while the motor vehicle passes a predefined gate region of a road network. Detection data is determined based at least in part on sensor data from the at least one environment sensor. A deviation of the detection data from reference data is determined. The reference data describes at least one object actually present in the gate region. An entry regarding a malfunction of the at least one environment sensor is stored when the deviation fulfills a predefined indicator criterion.
US11493588B2
A system and method for determining an Angle of Arrival (AOA) for frequency modulated communications. The system may include first and second antennas spaced apart from each other by a distance, and configured to receive wireless communications in the form of a modulated signal. The system may determine a phase difference between the received signals based on one or more samples of a dedicated portion of the received signals, where one or more aspects of the dedicated portion is variable.
US11493584B2
In a method (100 to 208) in which hyperpolarizable tracer molecules (20, 88 to 98) are hydrogenated and then optionally also hyperpolarized for magnetic resonance imaging, it is provided that, in a first method step (104, 202), a hydrogen solution (10, 12, 4) having a saturation factor of at least 50% be prepared and that the hydrogenation reaction (186 to 190, 206) not be triggered until a subsequent, second method step (106, 204). An apparatus (1) with which the method of the invention (100 to 208) is executable is also provided.
US11493579B2
Embodiments relate to MRI RF multi-tune coil elements, arrays, and MRI systems comprising such elements. One example embodiment comprises: a LC coil comprising one or more matching points; and two or more matching branches, each of which connected to the LC coil at matching point of the one or more matching points that is associated with that matching branch, wherein each matching branch comprises an associated set of one or more RF traps configured to block each frequency of two or more frequencies other than a frequency associated with that matching branch, and wherein each matching branch is configured to match to an associated predetermined impedance at the frequency associated with that matching branch.
US11493576B2
The present disclosure relates to techniques for the selection of one or more measuring coils in magnetic resonance imaging. Herein, account can be taken of a preselection in the selection of the one or more measuring coils from a plurality of candidate coils.
US11493575B2
A three-axis vector optically pumped magnetometer includes a cell filled with an atomic gas subjected to an ambient magnetic field the projection of which on three rectangular coordinate axes defines three components thereof, and a photodetector arranged to receive a probe beam that passed through the cell. The photodetector includes a plurality of measurement units arranged in a plane transverse to a direction of propagation of the probe beam, the measurement units each providing a photodetection signal. The magnetometer further comprises a processing unit configured to determine, for each measurement unit and from the photodetection signal, a measurement associated with the measurement unit of each of the three components of the ambient magnetic field; calculate at least one difference between the measurements, associated with different measurement units, of a component of the magnetic field; and deliver a gradiometric measurement signal including the at least one difference calculated.
US11493567B2
A magnetic sensor device includes a first chip including a first magnetic sensor, a second chip including a second magnetic sensor and a third magnetic sensor, and a support having a reference plane. The first magnetic sensor includes at least one first magnetic detection element, and detects a first component of an external magnetic field. The second magnetic sensor includes at least one second magnetic detection element, and detects a second component of the external magnetic field. The third magnetic sensor includes at least one third magnetic detection element, and detects a third component of the external magnetic field. The first chip and the second chip are mounted on the reference plane.
US11493562B2
A method for estimating the aging of a battery of a motor vehicle with a combustion engine, the vehicle including an electric starter, a temperature sensor for the temperature of the coolant, a speed sensor for the speed of the combustion engine and a computer for managing the drive system of the vehicle. The method includes, each time the combustion engine is started, the steps of the computer determining the value of the speed of the combustion engine and the value of the temperature, if the determined value of the speed is higher than a speed threshold, incrementing a first counter, if the determined value of the speed is lower than the speed threshold, incrementing a second counter, detecting the aging of the battery when the value of the second counter is higher than a predetermined alert threshold.
US11493561B2
Disclosed is a method for producing a sensor and a battery pressure detecting sensor produced thereby, which operate in a short mode when a pressure of a standard level or more is applied, thereby preventing the breakage and ignition of a battery due to swelling. The disclosed battery pressure detecting sensor disposes a membrane sheet formed with a first accommodation hole under a conductive sheet, has a part of the conductive sheet connected to a first terminal through a first accommodation hole, and has the membrane sheet connected to a second terminal.
