US11534228B2
A surgical system that illuminates a surgical site using one or more illumination means is powered by radiofrequency energy produced by an electrosurgical generator. Illumination may occur whether or not current is being delivered from an active electrode to target tissue.
US11534223B2
Disclosed is a universal pedicle screw removal tool comprising a tapered shaft having an “L” shaped tip on one end and a generally square head on an opposite end. A lower section leads to a tapered section which is connected to a handle. The handle may include a set of serrations to provide increased grip. The handle is connected to the head. The tip is sized to engage the channel of a tuliped pedicle screw while the head is sized to engage a ratchet or other torque producing tool. In an alternate embodiment, the tip is “T” shaped. In another alternate embodiment, the handle section includes opposing members extending from the shaft to form a “T” shaped handle. In use, the tip is inserted into the channel of a tuliped pedicle screw while the shaft is rotated to unscrew the pedicle screw from a patient's bone.
US11534222B2
Tensioner instruments, systems, and methods of tensioning flexible bands in-situ. The tensioner instrument may include first and second pivoting arms with a base for pinching and pulling the flexible band to provide tension. The tensioner instrument system may include a clip inserter and a ratcheting tensioner for tensioning the band through an implant. The instruments may be configured to apply and maintain tension to the flexible band, thereby providing the desired correction to the spine.
US11534221B2
A bone material dispensing device is provided. The bone material dispensing device comprises a housing having a proximal end, a distal end, and a longitudinal axis. The proximal end has a first opening and the distal end has a second opening. The first opening and the second opening are configured to slidably receive at least a portion of a plunger. A tubular member is provided that is pivotably connected to the housing and is configured for lateral movement relative to the longitudinal axis of the housing. The tubular member comprises a proximal opening, a distal opening and a channel disposed therebetween. The proximal opening, the distal opening and the channel of the tubular member are configured to receive at least the portion of the plunger. The tubular member is movable in a first position to align the proximal opening of the tubular member with the second opening of the housing to allow the tubular member to receive at least the portion of the plunger to dispense the bone material. A method of implanting bone material with the bone material dispensing device is also provided.
US11534217B2
A load distributor for a sternum closure device comprises a wire receiving section configured to be attached to a wire of the sternum closure device, and a load distributing section. A tool for cutting the load distributor comprises a pair of jaws movable between a load distributor receiving position and a cutting position, wherein at least one of the jaws has substantially V-shaped cutting edges tapered towards the other jaw in an angle to the longitudinal extension of the tool.
US11534216B2
A handheld closing device for closing a bone closure device. The handheld closing device includes a main body portion with an end and a receiving member located at the end of the main body portion. The receiving member is configured for receiving the securing member of the bone closure device. The handheld closing device further includes a tightening member rotatably connected to the main body portion. The tightening member includes a receiving hole configured for receiving the strap of the bone closure device. The tightening member is configured for tightening the strap. The handheld closing device further includes a lever pivotally connected to the main body portion. The lever is configured for operably engaging with the securing member to position the securing member in its locked position.
US11534209B2
Connector assemblies, systems, and methods thereof. A connector has a first end that clamps to a first rod in an existing construct and a second end, connected to the first end, that clamps to a second rod in a new construct such that the new construct can be extended from the existing construct at an adjacent level as the existing construct.
US11534198B2
An adjustable loop stripper for stretching an arterial wall outwardly as plaque is excavated inwardly.
US11534186B2
A surgical device includes an elongate body extending from a proximal end to a distal end. The distal end of the elongate body defines a notch sized and configured to receive a reamer. A coupling assembly is supported by the elongate body and includes a reamer guide body disposed at the distal end of the elongate body. The reamer guide body configured to move between a first position and a second position in which the reaming guide body extends at least partially across the notch. A locking assembly is supported by the elongate body and is configured to releasably engage the coupling assembly to maintain the reamer guide body in the second position.
US11534177B2
A clip applier configured to apply a surgical clip to tissue. The clip applier may include first and second jaw members configured to engage distal portions of the surgical clip. The first and second jaw members may be configured to move relative to each other between an open configuration and a closed configuration. The clip applier may also include a stabilizing member having an end portion secured to the first jaw member. The stabilizing member may be configured to engage a proximal portion of the surgical clip and be compressed from a first configuration when the first and second jaw members are in the open configuration to a second configuration when the first and second jaw members are in the closed configuration. The stabilizing member may have at least one bend that facilitates compression of the stabilizing member.
US11534176B2
Devices and methods for treating vascular defects, such as, for example, balloon-type aneurysms, are described herein. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes an insertion portion and an expandable implant. The expandable implant is configured to be deployed in an aneurysm and is coupled to the insertion portion. The expandable implant has a first portion and a second portion coupled to the first portion. The expandable implant is movable between a first configuration in which the first portion and the second portion are substantially linearly aligned and a second configuration in which the second portion at least partially overlaps the first portion.
US11534173B2
A surgical stapling instrument includes an adapter assembly having a trocar assembly transitionable between extended and retracted configurations. The trocar assembly includes a first member rotatably supporting a lead screw, a second member, and a third member slidable relative to the second member. The second member is operatively coupled to the lead screw such that rotation of the lead screw causes axial displacement of the second member relative to the first member. The third member includes a trocar engageable with the anvil assembly for axial displacement therewith. The third member is transitionable between an engaged state, in which, the third member is operatively coupled to the lead screw such that rotation of the lead screw causes axial displacement of the third member relative to the second member, and a disengaged state, in which, the third member is operatively disengaged from the lead screw.
US11534166B2
A surgical stapler, a cartridge for a surgical stapler, a cutting mechanism for a surgical stapler, and a method of applying surgical staples in a patient are disclosed herein. The stapler may have an anvil movably coupled to a support jaw between a clamped configuration and a closed configuration. The cartridge may be configured to fit within an envelope diameter and to removably house a plurality of B-form staples, at least one of the plurality of B-form staples having a base length and a leg length, the leg length at least 53% of the envelope diameter. The cartridge may have slots shaped to house at least a second one of the plurality of staples at an angle oblique to the first one of the plurality of staples.
US11534162B2
A surgical tool for use with a robotic system that includes a tool drive assembly that is operatively coupled to a control unit of the robotic system that is operable by inputs from an operator and is configured to robotically-generate output motions. A drive system is configured to interface with a corresponding portion of the tool drive assembly for receiving the robotically-generated output motions and applying the output motions to a drive shaft assembly which is configured to apply control motions to a surgical end effector operably coupled thereto. A manually-actuatable control system operably interfaces with the drive shaft assembly to facilitate the selective application of manually-generated control motions to the drive shaft assembly.
US11534156B2
An instrument for performing thorascopic repair of heart valves includes a shaft for extending through the chest cavity and into a heart chamber providing access to a valve needing repair. A movable tip on the shaft is operable to capture a valve leaflet and a needle is operable to penetrate a capture valve leaflet and draw the suture therethrough. The suture is thus fastened to the valve leaflet and the instrument is withdrawn from the heart chamber transporting the suture outside the heart chamber. The suture is anchored to the heart wall with proper tension as determined by observing valve operation with an ultrasonic imaging system.
US11534152B2
A stabilizing retractor system for distal radius fracture repair includes a backing plate configured to support the back of the wrist and having a first side accessible on a first side of the wrist, a second side accessible on a second side of the wrist. A first soft tissue retractor is engageable with the backing plate and has a first radius engaging concavity on a first side, and a first soft tissue retracting surface on a second side. A second soft tissue retractor is engageable with the backing plate and has a second radius engaging concavity on a first side, and a first soft tissue retracting surface on a second side. The first and second tissue retractors may be advanced apart from each other to retract tissue, and retained by a tie which connects the first and second retractors around the back of the backing plate.
US11534148B2
A biopsy device includes a housing body, and a cannula assembly that has a first elongate cannula and a second elongate cannula coaxial with the first elongate cannula. The second elongate cannula has a lumen and a side wall having a vacuum side port in fluid communication with the lumen. A vacuum source is positioned in the housing body. The vacuum source has a chamber side wall having a chamber vacuum port. A seal is interposed in sealing engagement between the chamber vacuum port and the second elongate cannula. A trigger slide assembly is coupled to the housing body, and coupled to the cannula assembly, and is configured to move the second elongate cannula to align the vacuum side port of the second elongate cannula with the chamber vacuum port of the vacuum source to supply vacuum from the vacuum source to the lumen of the second elongate cannula.
US11534144B2
An ultrasonic probe includes: a plurality of transducers that perform electro-acoustic conversion on transmission pulses applied thereto to generate a transmission beam of ultrasonic waves; and transmission/reception circuits that are provided so as to correspond to each of the plurality of transducers. The transmission/reception circuits set transmission/reception switching timings at which the ultrasonic waves are switched from transmission to reception independently for each of the plurality of transducers.
US11534141B2
Methods for contrast-enhanced ultrasound imaging that implement coded multi-pulses in each of two or more different transmission events are described. Data acquired in response to the two different transmission events are decoded and combined. In some embodiments, the coded multi-pulses include two or more consecutive Hadamard encoded ultrasound pulses. In other embodiments, multiplane wave pulses can be used. Such multiplane wave pulses can be coded using Hadamard encoding, as one example. In addition, the multiplane wave pulses can be further coded using amplitude modulation, pulse inversion, or pulse inversion amplitude modulation techniques.
US11534140B2
A needle guide for use with a handheld probe having a connector protruding from a probe surface. The needle guide can include an upper portion including an upper surface, a lower portion defining a cavity to receive the connector of the handheld probe, and a needle channel. The needle channel can extend from a proximal portion of the upper surface to a distal end of the upper surface. The needle channel can have a fixed size. The needle guide can include a guide surface extending into the upper portion and the lower portion of the needle guide at a proximal end of the needle guide. The guide surface can include a concave shape with a conical surface that funnels into a proximal end of the needle channel.
US11534129B2
A radiation imaging system is provided. The system comprises a radiation imaging apparatus including a plurality of pixels for acquiring radiation image data and a detection unit for performing exposure control during radiation irradiation, and a radiation control apparatus configured to control a radiation source that irradiates radiation to the radiation imaging apparatus. The radiation imaging apparatus and the radiation control apparatus transmit signals that relate to exposure control by wireless communication. The radiation imaging apparatus, in a case where an irradiation stop signal indicating that radiation irradiation has been stopped is not received from the radiation control apparatus after a signal instructing to stop radiation irradiation has been transmitted to the radiation control apparatus and until a first time interval has elapsed, transmits a signal instructing to stop radiation irradiation to the radiation control apparatus again.
US11534124B2
A system with a gantry of a computed tomography device and a docking station and method are for cooling a component of the gantry. In an embodiment, the system includes a gantry of a computed tomography device, the gantry including a chassis and a heat store; and a docking station. The gantry is movable via the chassis relative to the docking station. The gantry and the docking station are detachably connectable to one another such that a detachable coolant-exchange connection for exchanging a coolant and/or a detachable heat-conduction connection for heat conduction is formed between the heat store and the docking station.
US11534118B2
Embodiments provide a stationary X-ray source for a multisource X-ray imaging system for tomographic imaging. The stationary X-ray source includes an array of thermionic cathodes and, in most embodiments a rotating anode. The anode rotates about a rotation axis, however the anode is stationary in the horizontal or vertical dimensions (e.g. about axes perpendicular to the rotation axis). The elimination of mechanical motion improves the image quality by elimination of mechanical vibration and source motion; simplifies system design that reduces system size and cost; increases angular coverage with no increase in scan time; and results in short scan times to, in medical some medical imaging applications, reduce patient-motion-induced blurring.
US11534110B2
A patient monitor can noninvasively measure a physiological parameter using sensor data from a nose sensor configured to be secured to a nose of the patient. The nose sensor can include an emitter and a detector. The detector is configured to generate a signal when detecting light attenuated by the nose tissue of the patient. An output measurement of the physiological parameter can be determined based on the signals generated by the detector. The nose sensor can include an inner prong and an outer prong to assist the nose sensor in securing to a patient's nose. The detector can be coupled to an inner post of the inner prong and can be configured to secure to an interior or exterior portion of the patient's nose.
US11534108B2
A wireless wearable sensor device, system, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium for screening for structural heart disease based on electrocardiogram, phonocardiogram, and/or accelerometer signals on a patient's skin surface.
US11534106B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for determining a user-specific hair treatment with determination and inclusion of the degree of damage of the hair. To this end, the content of cysteic acid is firstly determined with the aid of near-infrared and/or infrared spectra of the keratin fibres of an individual and a degree of damage is derived via a calibration model. Individual treatment advice is output on the basis of the determined degree of damage.
US11534085B2
Provided is a signal processing device capable of distinguishing and measuring a plurality of measurement targets even with simple configuration. The signal processing device including a reception processing unit that receives a response to a predetermined signal transmitted from a transmission antenna, and a determination unit that determines the plurality of measurement targets by a response to a plurality of signals corresponding to a second direction having a predetermined range different from a first direction having a predetermined range.
US11534079B2
A medical puncture device system includes a puncture device, a sensor, and an indicator system. The puncture device is configured to create a puncture through patient tissue and into an internal patient cavity to enable a medical tool to be inserted through the puncture into the cavity. The sensor is configured to generate a signal indicative of motion of the puncture device through the tissue into the cavity. The indicator system is operable by a controller to produce human-perceptible feedback in response to the signal generated by the sensor.
US11534077B2
The present disclosure provides apparatuses and computer readable media for measuring sub-epidermal moisture in patients to determine damaged tissue for clinical intervention. The present disclosure also provides methods for determining damaged tissue.
US11534076B2
Image generation apparatus, conductivity acquisition apparatus, image generation method, and program
An image generation apparatus includes a plurality of electrodes, a plurality of sensor cells, and a controller configured to provide a tomographic image of a measurement object on the basis of an intensity of a magnetic field generated by an alternating current supplied via the plurality of electrodes. The controller acquires the intensity of the magnetic field via the plurality of sensor cells.
US11534074B2
Systems and methods for predicting and treating relapses for neurological conditions in accordance with embodiments of the invention are illustrated. One embodiment includes a method for predicting and treating a clinical neurological condition relapse. The method includes steps for selecting a threshold heart rate variability value for a patient suffering from a clinical neurological condition, monitoring, using a cardiac monitor, the heart rate variability of the patient over time, providing an indicator that a relapse is imminent when the heart rate variability of the patient falls below the threshold heart rate variability value, and treating the patient using a transcranial magnetic stimulation device by applying an accelerated theta burst stimulation protocol where the transcranial magnetic stimulation target is the left prefrontal dorsolateral cortex.
US11534073B2
A blood pressure measuring device includes a device main body; a curler configured to bend along a circumferential direction of a wrist of a living body, and configured to come into contact with a portion of the wrist at least between a dorsal side and a palmar side; a strap on the device main body, configured to cover an outer surface of the curler; a sensing cuff arranged in a region of the wrist where arteries exist; a rubber plate on a side of the sensing cuff nearer to the curler and configured to elastically deform; a pressing cuff between the curler and the rubber plate and configured to press the sensing cuff; and a cuff on a side of the curler nearer to the living body and arranged on the dorsal side of the wrist.
US11534070B2
A blood pressure measurement device measures a blood pressure of a subject by a blood pressure measurement unit, detects a body sound of the subject during blood pressure measurement by a sound detection unit. The measured blood pressure and the detected body sound are recorded in association with each other by time information. The factor for the increase of measured blood pressure value can be specified by showing the chronological blood pressure measurement result along with checking the presence or absence of a body sound such as snoring etc.
US11534068B2
A system and method for positioning a scanning table are provided. The method may include obtaining a body length of an object; and determining the number of table positions for scanning the object based on a length of each scanning region of the scanning table, an initial length of an overlapping region of the scanning table at two adjacent table positions, and the body length of the object.
US11534064B2
Methods for automated segmentation system for retinal blood vessels from optical coherence tomography angiography images include a preprocessing stage, an initial segmentation stage, and a refining stage. Application of machine-learning techniques to segmented images allow for automated diagnosis of retinovascular diseases, such as diabetic retinopathy.
US11534063B2
An interpupillary distance measuring method, a wearable ophthalmic device and a computer readable storage medium are provided. The method includes: capturing at least one eye image; extracting corresponding one or two pupil image positions corresponding to a monocular pupil or pupils to two eyes in the at least one eye image; and determining an actual distance between the pupils of two eyes according to the one or two pupil image positions.
US11534060B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of tissue dissection. Specifically, the present disclosure relates to medical devices that lift and retract tissue during a dissection procedure to improve visualization of the target tissue and mitigate obstructions for dissection tools. In particular, the present disclosure relates to devices that transition from a constrained to an unconstrained bowed configuration to immobilize and retract the dissected portion of target tissue during a dissection procedure.
US11534056B2
A tip section of a multi-camera endoscope includes a front-pointing camera on a planar surface of a distal end of the tip section and two side-pointing cameras positioned on a cylindrical surface in proximity to the planar surface such that the side field of view provided by the two side-pointing cameras partially overlaps with the front field of view provided by the front-pointing camera. The tip section further includes a working channel configured for insertion of a surgical tool; and a pathway fluid injector for inflating and/or cleaning a body cavity into which the endoscope is inserted.
US11534054B2
A vent assembly configured to maintain predetermined positive and negative pressure differentials between gas within a compartment and the environment, such as a compartment defining an interior of an endoscope is provided. The vent assembly includes a first housing having an upper vent and a lower vent coupled to the compartment. A piston is movable from a closed position to a first position, and from the closed position to a second position. In the closed position the piston blocks the upper and lower vents. A positive pressure differential moves the piston so as to open the vent to allow gas to escape from the compartment. A negative pressure differential draws the piston from the closed position to a second position to allow gas to enter the compartment.
US11534048B2
Provided herein are a method of controlling operation of a washing appliance and a washing appliance being controlled by the method. The method may include displaying, on a user interface of the washing appliance, an estimated duration of a selected washing program for the washing appliance; displaying, on the user interface, a degree of ecological impact caused by the selected washing program; allowing a user to operate the user interface to change the duration of the selected washing program, wherein the washing appliance adapts the selected cleaning program to comply with the changed duration; and displaying on the user interface the degree of ecological impact caused by the selected washing program when complying with the changed duration.
US11534041B2
A surface cleaning apparatus has a cyclone chamber and a dirt collection chamber exterior to the cyclone chamber. The cyclone chamber has a sidewall extending from a first end to an axially opposed second end. A dirt outlet communicating with the dirt collection chamber is provided in the sidewall at a location intermediate the first and second ends of the cyclone chamber.
US11534033B1
The compression-mounted shower grab bar incorporates a grab bar, a plurality of mounting plates, a plurality of mounting caps, and a shower. The shower further comprises a first wall and a second wall. The compression-mounted shower grab bar is adapted for use by a client. The compression-mounted shower grab bar forms a structure the client can grasp for improved stability. The compression-mounted shower grab bar mounts between the first wall and the second wall of the shower. The plurality of mounting caps secures the grab bar to the plurality of mounting plates. The grab bar applies a compressive force that presses the plurality of mounting plates against the first wall and the second wall such that the grab bar is: a) secured to a fixed position in the shower; and, b) transfers the load of the client to the first wall and the second wall.
US11534031B2
An objective of the apparatus is to enable users to cut, seal, and crimp a sandwich. The apparatus is a sandwich maker that can apply pressure from both sides of the sandwich while sealing and crimping the sandwich, so as to make a perfectly rounded and spill proof sandwich. Additionally, the apparatus includes alignment pointers that enable users to create a crimped sandwich with perfectly crimped edges. Further, the apparatus includes multiple pieces and shapes that serve specific purposes and gives users the option to use them mutually exclusively. Furthermore, each of the different pieces of the apparatus have aesthetically appealing shapes and air gaps in the center, which enables users to release the sandwich easily.
US11534025B2
A convertible multipurpose cooking article for food products includes a mat for receiving food products, the mat including a first side and a second side extending between a first end and a second end, openings disposed throughout the mat, the mat being sufficiently flexible to be repeatedly flexed between an open configuration in which the mat is flat, and a closed configuration juxtaposing the first end and the second end in which the mat defines a continuous sidewall encircling a volume and the first side and the second side encircle opposed upper and lower openings to the volume, and a fastener assembly configured to be repeatedly secured, for securing the first end to the second end when the mat is in the closed configuration, and separated, the fastener assembly including a structure thereof proximate to the first end and a complemental structure thereof proximate to the second end.
US11534021B2
Automated replenishment of consumables is a growing area of interest for customers and businesses alike, in that it has the potential to both improve customer satisfaction and create a steady stream of orders for a consumable service or product. As recognized herein, kitchen appliances, including those for dispensing beverages, present specific challenges to integration with a replenishment service, especially where multiple packages or formats of consumables may be utilized by a single kitchen appliance. Aspects provided herein include methods, systems, and devices for tracking consumption of foodstuffs prepared by a kitchen appliance, including either counting discrete quantities of foodstuffs or estimating non-discrete quantities. A signal requesting replenishment of at least one foodstuff may be transmitted to a replenishment server based on the counting and/or estimating.
US11534019B2
A beverage machine that brews beverages from a beverage pod is described. The pod is container with a top surface and a bottom surface connected by a sidewall that form a cylinder. The pod contains whole brewing elements that can be ground into sub-elements by the brewing system for brewing into a beverage. The pod is actuatable between an open state and a closed state by a breaking system of the beverage machine. In the closed state the brewing elements are contained and in the open state the elements are released. The pod includes a failure mechanism on the sidewall that is engineered to fail when the pod is actuated by a breaking mechanism of the beverage machine. When actuated the failure mechanism fails such that the beverage pod can be pulled into a top portion and a bottom portion to release the brewing elements.
US11534017B2
The beverage brewing device, which is configured for use with a beverage brewer having an inlet probe for dispensing water and an outlet probe, includes a body defining a brew chamber configured to contain a dry beverage medium and at least one outlet probe receptacle extending upwardly from a bottom surface of the body. The outlet probe receptacle is sized and configured to receive an outlet probe of a beverage brewer. A lid is removably securable to the body and is engageable with the body to selectively enclose a top opening of the body. An inlet probe opening is defined in the lid for receiving an inlet probe of the beverage brewer. At least one filter is defined within the body, wherein the filter is configured to retain a dry beverage medium within the brew chamber while allowing a brewed beverage to pass through the brew chamber.
US11534001B2
A foldable articulated structure for supporting a seat or a bearing surface includes a first bracket which can be fastened to a wall and a second bracket which can be associated with a seat or a bearing surface. A first arm has a first end hinged to a first portion of the first bracket and a second end hinged to a first portion of the second bracket. A second arm has a first end hinged to a second portion of the first bracket and a second end hinged to a second portion of the second bracket. The foldable articulated structure is movable from a closed configuration in which the second bracket lies on a plane substantially parallel to the plane of the wall, to an open configuration in which the second bracket lies on a plane substantially orthogonal to the plane of the wall.
US11534000B2
A foldable chair has frames connected to one another by cross supports, bases connected to the frames by base supports and frame supports, with springs secured between the base supports and frame supports to allow for back and forth movement of the frames when a user is seated in the chair. The foldable chair includes a pliant membrane providing a seating surface for supporting the user.
US11533995B2
A cabinet pull-out comprises a first storage compartment and a second storage compartment and a pull-out frame, the pull-out frame connecting the first storage compartment to the second storage compartment. The first and the second storage compartment each are provided with a base. The pull-out frame comprises a carrier element which extends essentially rectangularly to the base area of the corresponding storage compartment. Each of the first and second storage compartments are provided with a front wall and a rear wall and two side walls each extending between the front wall and the rear wall. The carrier element is attached to an external side of the rear wall or one of the side walls. A loose storage compartment can be detachably coupled to one of the first or second storage compartments.
US11533979B1
The rotating lotion dispensing body brush is a brush. The rotating lotion dispensing body brush is adapted for use with a patient. The rotating lotion dispensing body brush is configured for use with a lotion. The rotating lotion dispensing body brush applies the lotion to the patient. The rotating lotion dispensing body brush comprises a brush structure, a control circuit, and a fluidic network. The brush structure contains the lotion, the control circuit, and the fluidic network. The control circuit pumps the lotion through the fluidic network. The control circuit rotates the brush structure. The fluidic network transports the lotion from the brush head to the patient.
US11533977B1
A nail sticker, a composition for the nail sticker and a method for preparing the composition are disclosed. Raw materials of the composition include a sizing material, which is made of the following raw materials in parts by weight: 45-85 parts of a UV thermosetting resin, 2-9 parts of a photoinitiator, 1.5-2 parts of a curing agent, 0.1-1 part of a thermal promoter, and 0.1-1 part of a leveling agent. The synchronization of the release of essential oil molecules with light/thermal curing promotes the essential oil molecules to be diffused to the interior of the sizing material more uniformly in a wider range, and during the curing and film forming of the nail sticker, an aroma spreads as tantalizing as that of baked food.
US11533963B2
A device for holding backless footwear on a person's foot includes an elongated seamless elastic strap, the strap extending in a longitudinal direction from a first end to a second end. First and second attachment mechanisms are disposed on the first and second ends of the strap, respectively. The strap can be attached to backless footwear having first and second portions on respective first and second lateral sides thereof by folding the first end of the strap around the first portion of the footwear and securing the first end to the strap between the first and second ends thereof by way of the first attachment mechanism, and by folding the second end of the strap around the second portion of the footwear and securing the second end to the strap between the first and second ends thereof by way of the second attachment mechanism.
US11533962B2
An article of footwear comprises an upper and a sole structure secured to the upper. The upper includes a side portion that has a first material composition at an exterior surface of the side portion. The exterior surface has a first coefficient of friction. The sole structure has a second material composition at an exterior surface of the sole structure that underlies the side portion of the upper. The exterior surface of the sole structure has a second coefficient of friction. The first coefficient of friction is substantially equal to the second coefficient of friction.
US11533952B2
An aerosol-generating system is provided, including: a cartridge assembly including an outer housing defining a mouthpiece having an air outlet, a cartridge having upstream and downstream ends and including first and second compartments, a mixing chamber extending between a downstream end of the cartridge and the mouthpiece air outlet, and a ventilation air inlet downstream of the cartridge; and an aerosol-generating device including a device inner housing defining a device cavity, an electrical heater configured to heat the cartridge, a power supply, a controller configured to control a supply of electrical power to the electric heater, and a device outer housing, such that when the upstream end of the cartridge is received within the device cavity, a first part of a downstream edge of the device outer housing abuts a first part of an upstream edge of the cartridge assembly outer housing to form a system outer housing.
US11533939B2
Various ingredients and compositions are prepared from Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni plant. The compositions can be used as bulking agents, and sweeteners in foods, beverages, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals.
US11533932B2
A device for transferring molten proteinaceous extrudate material from the exit of an extrusion cooker barrel to a cooling die whilst promoting or maintaining laminar flow of said molten extrudate.
US11533926B2
The present invention is a system and method for performing freeze drying of small quantities of a liquid for personal use, wherein a liquid material is disposed within a single-use container, the container is then coupled to a small-scale freeze-drying unit which extracts liquid from the material in the container using a freeze-drying process, and the freeze-dried material is then left in the container and the container is stored until rehydration. The container may be a specialized single-use container that may be used to rehydrate the liquid and then fitted with a delivery device to feed an infant or child.
US11533917B2
The invention relates to a method for producing gluten-free bakery and patisserie products and to the gluten-free bakery and patisserie products obtained, the method facilitating natural baking by means of the addition of between 60 and 110% of water to the mixture of ingredients, owing to the high water requirements of fibres that act as substitutes for the gluten in traditional baking, and the production of an oxygenated colloidal dough from this hydrated dough, to facilitate, when applicable, the subsequent leavening thereof, during and after the production of the colloidal dough. The leavened or unleavened gluten-free bakery and patisserie products obtained have organoleptic and rheological proprieties similar to those of products with gluten.
US11533910B2
The present invention relates generally to polyelectrolyte-layer forming block copolymers adsorbed at colloid interfaces in aqua solution and compositions and uses thereof. In particular, the present invention relates to agricultural material compositions comprising particles of at least one agricultural material and a polyelectrolyte-layer forming block copolymer. The present invention also relates to non-agricultural material compositions comprising particles of at least one non-agricultural material and a polyelectrolyte-layer forming block co-polymer.
US11533893B2
A method for external fish parasite monitoring in aquaculture, comprising the steps of: —submerging a camera (52) in a sea pen containing fish, the camera having a field of view; —capturing images of the fish with the camera (52); and—identifying external fish parasite on the fish by analyzing the captured images, characterized in that a target region within the field of view of the camera (52) is illuminated from above and below with light of different intensities and/or spectral compositions.
US11533883B2
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01077890. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01077890. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01077890 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01077890 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US11533880B1
A novel maize variety designated X95P897 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X95P897 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X95P897 through backcrossing or genetic transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are described. Maize variety X95P897, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X95P897 are provided. Methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X95P897 and methods of using maize variety X95P897 are disclosed.
US11533879B1
A novel maize variety designated X13P483 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X13P483 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X13P483 through backcrossing or genetic transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are described. Maize variety X13P483, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X13P483 are provided. Methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X13P483 and methods of using maize variety X13P483 are disclosed.
US11533869B1
A novel maize variety designated X00P582 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X00P582 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X00P582 through backcrossing or genetic transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are described. Maize variety X00P582, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X00P582 are provided. Methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X00P582 and methods of using maize variety X00P582 are disclosed.
US11533862B2
A method of selecting a plant variety for cultivation in a target area includes selecting a selection score function; estimating values of a first set of environmental parameters for a predefined future period of time for the target area and receiving a set of phenotype information including phenotypic trait measurements for a first sub-set of a plurality of plant varieties and a set o environmental parameters for said first sub-set. Furthermore, the method includes determining a prediction model for the phenotypic traits; using the prediction model to output predictions for phenotypic traits for the plurality of chosen plant varieties; using the selection score function to compute selection score values; and selecting at least one plant variety to be cultivated in the target area from the plurality of chosen plant varieties, based the computed selection score values of the plurality of chosen plant varieties.
US11533853B2
A calibration system for an agricultural vehicle includes: a motor-driven component; a motor coupled to the motor-driven component and configured to move the motor-driven component between a maximum distance position and a home position; and a controller operatively coupled to the motor. The controller is configured to: enter a component calibration mode; output a first movement signal to the motor to cause the motor to carry the motor-driven component toward the maximum distance position; determine that the motor-driven component has reached the maximum distance position; output a second movement signal to the motor to cause the motor to carry the motor-driven component toward the home position; and determine that the motor-driven component has reached the home position.
US11533849B2
An attachment for connection to a harvester comprises a plurality of picking devices (2) arranged next to each other and in a distributed manner along the working width. Each picking device (2) has a picking gap (6), below which are disposed at least two picking rotors (10) which can be driven to rotate in opposite directions, the picking rotors (10) being provided with flutes (12), which project in a radial direction beyond the rotor casing (16) and the enveloping circles (20) of which mesh with each other. To propose a way of easily adapting the picking rotors to different harvesting conditions without having to replace them all, the invention proposes for one or more shear bars (18) which are releasably connected to the picking rotor (10) and/or to the flutes (12) to be inserted in the intermediate space (22) between adjacent flutes (12) of a picking rotor (10), the shear bars filling portions of said intermediate space during a rotating movement of the picking rotors (10).
US11533848B2
A lawn mower includes a blade, a motor connected to the blade, and a housing storing the blade in the housing and is configured to mow grass underneath the housing. The lawn mower includes a grass container to contain the mowed grass and a connecting member that connects the housing to the grass container. The housing is provided with a ceiling opening communicating with a flow path inside the connecting member. The ceiling opening overlaps with a region corresponding to a rotation range, of the blade, projected upward along a drive shaft.
US11533840B2
Described herein are self-propel accessories for walk behind/push-driven machines/devices comprising: drive assembly motor(s) operatively connected to at least one power supply; at least one drive assembly for imparting drive from the drive assembly motor(s) to at least one accessory wheel assembly that is operatively connected to an output shaft of the drive assembly motor(s) and one of an axle or a drive engagement surface of the at least one accessory wheel assembly having accessory ground engagement wheel(s) coupled to at least one end of the axle for rotation therewith; a controller for the drive assembly motor(s) having an actuator for engaging the drive assembly motor(s); and an attachment assembly for coupling the drive assembly motor(s), the at least one drive assembly and the at least one accessory wheel assembly to a housing of the push-driven machine or device in place of a wheel assembly/sub-assembly of the push-driven machine or device.
US11540432B2
Disclosed in some embodiments is a chamber component (such as an end effector body) coated with an ultrathin electrically-dissipative material to provide a dissipative path from the coating to the ground. The coating may be deposited via a chemical precursor deposition to provide a uniform, conformal, and porosity free coating in a cost effective manner. In an embodiment wherein the chamber component comprises an end effector body, the end effector body may further comprise replaceable contact pads for supporting a substrate and the contact surface of the contact pads head may also be coated with an electrically-dissipative material.
US11540430B2
A display device includes a display panel, a heat radiation metal plate arranged on a rear surface or a side surface of the display panel, a printed circuit board arranged on a rear surface of the heat radiation plate so as to be connected to the display panel, and a conductive tape configured to cover the heat radiation plate and the printed circuit board. The conductive tape conductively connects the rear surface of the heat radiation plate to a ground terminal of the printed circuit board.
US11540429B2
A battery charger includes a housing having support structure for simultaneously supporting at least two batteries of different types for charging including a first battery of a first type and a second batter of a second type. The battery charger further includes charger electronics supported by the housing and operable to output charging current to charge the first battery and charging current to charge the second battery. A fan is operable to cause air flow through the housing. A fan speed of the fan is adjustable based on a temperature of the battery charger (i) while at least one of the at least two batteries is coupled to the battery charger for charging and (ii) while no batteries are coupled to the battery charger for charging.
US11540427B2
A converter includes a housing having a first interior and a second interior. The first interior is arranged separately from the second interior. Part of the first interior protrudes into the second interior and forms a heat-exchanger duct. A gaseous heat flow circuit is established within the first interior and flows in through an inlet opening of the heat-exchanger duct and flows out through an outlet opening of the heat-exchanger duct. The second interior forms a cooling duct. A gaseous cooling flow flowing through the cooling duct is established and flows around the heat-exchanger duct. The cooling duct is arranged in a region of overlap with the heat-exchanger duct in such a way that a first flow direction of the gaseous heat flow circuit runs substantially perpendicularly or parallel to a second flow direction of the gaseous cooling flow.
US11540426B2
The semiconductor device according to the present invention includes a semiconductor module, a cooling member, and a heat transfer member. The semiconductor module includes a switching element and a diode connected in antiparallel to each other. The heat transfer member is disposed between the semiconductor module and the cooling member so as to transfer heat generated by the switching element and the diode to the cooling member. The heat transfer member has a mounting surface on which the switching element and the diode are mounted side by side and a surface which is opposite to the mounting surface and is disposed in contact with the cooling member. In the heat transfer member, the thermal conductivity in a first direction parallel to the mounting surface is higher than the thermal conductivity in a second direction perpendicular to the mounting surface.
US11540415B2
A rack and system for cooling computing devices such as in a data center is disclosed. In one embodiment, the rack supports a plurality of computing devices and comprises a plurality of planar annular sector or trapezoidal shelves, each having one or more positions for holding computing devices. A number of vertical supports may hold the shelves in a vertically spaced arrangement, and an air barrier may be affixed to the rack and have openings that permit exhaust air to flow from the computing devices through the air barrier into a hot aisle. The rack may be configured to be connected to other similar racks to form a vertical annular cylinder, which may be tapered, and the computing devices may be installed to discharge exhaust at an angle relative to a centerline of the vertical annular cylinder to improve airflow.
US11540414B2
Several transportable datacenters are described. The transportable datacenters include transport systems allowing them to be transported between an assembly location and an operating location. The transportable datacenters also include a ventilation system for cooling processors positioned in racks in the datacenters. The ventilation system draws cold air from the environment, through processor bays containing the processors and then exhausts the air back to the environment.
US11540409B2
The triple sealing device for an electronics housing of smart instrumentation includes: an electronic board; a first housing which has the electronic board disposed therein and includes a first inlet port to allow a cable to pass therethrough; a second housing which is provided above the first inlet port of the first housing and coupled to the first housing, and includes a second inlet port to allow a cable to pass therethrough; an elastic block provided on an inner circumferential surface of the second inlet port; and a cable which is connected to the electronic board and extends outward after passing through the first inlet port and the second inlet port.
US11540406B2
A display stand holder includes a stand member, a base, a pivot member, and a latch device. The stand member is configured to be disposed on a planar surface. The lower end of the stand member is configured to be disposed on the planar surface. The base is slidably disposed in the stand member. The pivot member includes a mounting plate and at least one pivot plate. The pivot plate is pivotally connected to the base. The latch device includes a stop pin and an actuator. The stop pin is normally embedded into the limiting notch to limit a range of rotation of the pivot member relative to the base. The actuator is configured to push the stop pin to escape from the limiting notch, allowing the pivot member to further rotate to cause the mounting plate to be parallel to the planar surface.
US11540405B2
A server apparatus includes a frame having an opening, a storage device and a cover structure. The storage device is contained in the frame through the opening. A first abutting member is disposed at a side of the frame. The cover structure includes a first latch, a first resilient member and a cover covering the opening and having a first side portion. A first connection end portion of the first latch is movably disposed on the first side portion to make a first hook end portion of the first latch movable. The first resilient member is connected to the first latch and the first side portion to drive the first hook end portion to hook the first abutting member for fixing the cover at the opening.
US11540402B2
An adjustable computing device hanger can include a hangable support member; a first set of angling side members, pivotably coupled to the hangable support member, that include first side edge bumpers, and a second set of angling side members, pivotably coupled to the hangable support member, that include second side edge bumpers; and a first guide member that bridges the first set of the angling side members and a second guide member that bridges the second set of angling side members, where each of the first guide member and the second guide member includes a corresponding bottom edge bumper.
US11540400B2
The present disclosure provides a display device including a display apparatus. The display apparatus includes: a side frame; at least two display modules installed on the side frame and including a first display module and a second display module, display screens of the display modules facing a same direction; and a back housing installed on the side frame. An accommodation space is formed between the back housing and the side frame, the first display module is disposed in the accommodation space, a first surface of the back housing away from the display screen and a second surface of the second display module away from the display screen are located on a same plane and form an outer surface of the display apparatus away from the display screen, and the second display module is a display module other than the first display module among the at least two display modules.
US11540396B2
A circuit board structure includes a first sub-circuit board, a second sub-circuit board, and a third sub-circuit board. The first sub-circuit board has an upper surface and a lower surface opposite to each other, and includes at least one first conductive through hole. The second sub-circuit board is disposed on the upper surface of the first sub-circuit board and includes at least one second conductive through hole. The third sub-circuit board is disposed on the lower surface of the first sub-circuit board and includes at least one third conductive through hole. At least two of the first conductive through hole, the second conductive through hole, and the third conductive through hole are alternately arranged in an axial direction perpendicular to an extending direction of the first sub-circuit board. The first sub-circuit board, the second sub-circuit board, and the third sub-circuit board are electrically connected to one another.
US11540393B2
A multilayer substrate includes a stacked body including a first main surface, and a conductor pattern (including a mounting electrode provided on the first main surface, and a first auxiliary pattern provided on the first main surface). The stacked body includes a plurality of insulating base material layers made of a resin as a main material and stacked on one another. The first auxiliary pattern is located adjacent to or in a vicinity of the mounting electrode. The mounting electrode, in a plan view of the first main surface (when viewed in the Z-axis direction), is interposed between a different conductor pattern (the mounting electrode) and the first auxiliary pattern.
US11540389B1
A surface-treated copper foil including a treating surface, where the root mean square height (Sq) of the treating surface is in a range of 0.20 to 1.50 μm and the texture aspect ratio (Str) of the treating surface is not greater than 0.65. When the surface-treated copper foil is heated at a temperature of 200° C. for 1 hour, the ratio of the integrated intensity of (111) peak to the sum of the integrated intensities of (111) peak, (200) peak, and (220) peak of the treating surface is at least 60%.
US11540385B2
The disclosure relates to the technical field of backlight structures, and discloses a backlight source and a display device. The backlight source includes a light bar and a metal frame; the side, containing the light bar, of the metal frame has a notch; the light bar includes a light-emitting unit; the light-emitting unit includes a plurality of light-emitting groups; each light-emitting group includes at least one first light-emitting group and at least one second light-emitting group, the first light-emitting group includes N light-emitting elements, the light-emitting element numbered n is connected in series with the light-emitting element numbered n+1 successively, the light-emitting element numbered 1 and the light-emitting element numbered N are arranged adjacently, and the light-emitting element numbered 1 and the light-emitting element numbered 2 are the farthest apart.
US11540381B1
High propellant throughput Hall-effect thrusters (HETs) and components thereof are disclosed. A compact and high propellant throughput HET has an improved magnetic circuit that mostly shields the discharge chamber walls from high-energy ionized propellant, low-profile sacrificial pole covers to delay magnetic pole erosion, a unique discharge chamber subassembly, a mechanically crimped cathode emitter retainer to increase efficiency, a center-mounted hollow cathode, or a combination thereof. Such feature(s) may balance propellant throughput and thruster performance, minimize the volume of the thruster envelope, and/or simplify the thruster assembly.
US11540360B2
An induction heater device and a method for controlling an induction heating device are provided. The method may include determining a first target frequency of a first working coil corresponding to the drive command for the first working coil, determining a second target frequency of a second working coil corresponding to the drive command for the second working coil, and determining a final drive frequency of the first working coil and a final drive frequency of the second working coil based on the first target frequency and the second target frequency, respectively.
US11540359B2
An electronic vaping device includes a housing, a planar heater, a heater support, a tank, and a wick. The housing extends in a longitudinal direction and has a tip end and a mouth-end. The tip end is closed and the mouth-end has an opening therein. The heater support supports the planar heater. The tank contains a pre-vapor formulation and is configured to slide into and out of the opening of the mouth-end of the housing. The wick extends from the tank and is configured to be in contact with the planar heater when the tank is inserted in the housing.
US11540350B2
Disclosed herein are a number of example embodiments where a proxy node is used in a wireless network to expand the functionality of one or more wireless nodes on the network. The proxy node can include a circuit whose function is made available to an associated wireless node in the wireless network via proxy. The wireless nodes and one or more such proxy nodes can be arranged in a wirelessly connected environment to support a variety of remote management operations, including location tracking, status monitoring, and remote control. In an example embodiment, the wireless nodes can be deployed in a retail store and provide remote management and control over any combination of product display assemblies, locks, power strips, display shelves, display hooks, and other node types.
US11540348B2
Provided are methods and apparatuses for prioritizing Mission Critical Push to Talk Traffic during an emergency, related to wireless communication networks, and more particularly to mission critical services in Long Term Evolution (LTE) communication networks. A channel sensitive MCPTT prioritization scheduling method and system are provided to increase the download/upload. speeds for MCPTT users during the emergency situations. Also provided are methods and systems for prioritizing traffic for connected User Equipments (UEs) over idle UEs.
US11540338B2
In a telecommunication system comprising multiple switching nodes (10, 20, 30) having a respective local server (C1, C2, C3) and associated terminals (D1, D2, D3, D4) located within a network and a central DSS server (DSS) for controlling the telecommunication system by using a general switching protocol, the terminals (D1, D2, D3, D4) of a switching node (10, 20, 30) are controlled by the local server (C1, C2, C3) under a local protocol comprising control commands for node-internal call pickup. The pickup of a call directed from a third terminal (D4) to a first terminal (D3) assigned to a first switching node (10) through a second terminal (D1) assigned to another, second switching node (20) occurs across nodes by using the general switching protocol through transferring the control commands provided in the local protocol for call pickup to the general switching protocol and providing them across nodes through the central DSS server (DSS) to the multiple switching nodes (10, 20, 30) located within the network, and converting the registration of a terminal (D1, D2, D3, D4) for call pickup provided in the local protocol to the general switching protocol and forwarding it to the central DSS server.
US11540331B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some examples, a base station may select a profile from a set of profiles indicating a communication procedure and a measurement configuration based on one or more communication parameters associated with the base station and transmit an indication of the profile to a user equipment (UE). The UE may utilize the selected profile to modify the communication procedure for coverage enhancement. For example, if one or more conditions (e.g., signal threshold) of the measurement configuration are met, the UE may modify the communication procedure and communicate with the base station according to the modified communication procedure.
US11540330B2
The disclosed technology is directed towards associating a distributed unit (a baseband function) with a radio unit, corresponding to a service area, when the radio unit transitions from an idle state to an active state with respect to serving user equipment. When an idle radio unit receives a message requesting connection from a formerly idle user equipment, or user equipment to be served due to a handover, the message triggers assignment of a distributed unit to the radio unit, whereby the radio unit becomes active to serve the user equipment. If insufficient distributed unit capacity exists, a new distributed unit is dynamically instantiated and assigned to the radio unit. When a radio unit transitions from active to idle, the radio unit is disassociated from the distributed unit. If a distributed unit is not associated with any radio unit, the distributed unit is deactivated to reduce resource consumption.
US11540328B2
An electronic device according to various embodiments of the present invention may comprise a transmission module including a first transmission module and a second transmission module, and a processor. The processor may feedback-receive a transmission power of the first transmission module, calculate a difference value between a target transmission power and the transmission power of the first transmission module, determine a state of the first transmission module on the basis of the difference value, and turn off a transmission operation of the first transmission module and activate a transmission operation of the second transmission module in accordance with the determination that the state of the first transmission module is abnormal. Various other embodiments are possible.
US11540327B2
Wireless communications systems and methods related to performing random channel access are provided. A first wireless communication device communicates a random access configuration with a second wireless communication device in a first frequency spectrum. The random access configuration includes information associated with a channel characteristic difference between the first frequency spectrum and the second frequency spectrum. The first wireless communication device communicates a random access signal with the second wireless communication device in the second frequency spectrum based on the random access configuration. The first frequency spectrum is a millimeter wave (mmWav) frequency band. The second frequency spectrum is a non-mmWav frequency band.
US11540322B2
Disclosed are a method for performing a random access procedure between a terminal and a base station in a wireless communication system and a device supporting the same. More particularly, the present invention provides a description of a method for performing a random access procedure between a terminal and a base station in a wireless communication system capable of transmission or reception of a signal through a plurality of beams. The terminal is capable of communicating with at least one of another terminal, a terminal related to an autonomous driving vehicle, the base station or a network.
US11540321B2
One object is to provide a radio base station and a communication control method that can realize appropriate control on a user device even when a function of an upper layer such as MAC scheduler and a function of a radio physical layer are mounted separately. A communication control method according to the present invention is implemented in a radio base station (200) including a remote device (260) and a central aggregation device (210) and that performs radio communication with a user device (300). The communication control method includes transmitting including the central aggregation device (210) transmitting to the remote device (260) paging information that is information used for performing paging on the user device (300), and performing including the remote device (260) setting a downlink physical channel based on the paging information received from the central aggregation device (210) and performing the paging.
US11540318B2
Provided are a method and apparatus for determining a carrier set, a storage medium and an electronic device. The method includes following steps: a first carrier set corresponding to a predetermined logical channel group for a UE performing a sidelink transmission is determined, where the predetermined logical channel group includes one or more logical channels, and the logical channels in the predetermined logical channel group correspond to a same destination ID. The problem of lacking the method of determining a complete carrier set when the UE performs a sidelink transmission in the related art is solved, and a purpose of determining a carrier set required by the UE for determining the sidelink transmission is achieved.
US11540311B2
Provided are a method and an apparatus for transmitting grant-free based uplink data in a wireless communication system. Specifically, a terminal receives, from a base station, allocation information for a grant-free uplink resource that is semi-statically allocated. The terminal receives, from the base station, allocation information for a first reference signal used for initial transmission of uplink data and allocation information for a second reference signal used for retransmission of the uplink data. The terminal transmits the uplink data through the grant-free uplink resource by using the first reference signal. If decoding of the uplink data fails, the terminal receives, from the base station, an uplink grant corresponding to the second reference signal. The terminal retransmits the uplink data by using the second reference signal on the basis of the uplink grant. The first reference signal is commonly allocated to the terminal, and the second reference signal is specifically allocated to the terminal.
US11540303B1
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may alter, or otherwise cancel, a sidelink communication as a result of a cancelation indicator (CI) corresponding to a different UE to support automatic gain control (AGC) calibration. The UE may determine to cancel or alter sidelink resources that at least partially overlap in time and are adjacent to, yet non-overlapping, in frequency to a high priority transmission. In some implementations, the UE may cancel the sidelink communication from an earliest overlapping symbol to the end of a slot. In other implementations, the UE may cancel a portion of the sidelink communication and resume sidelink communications within the same slot. Additionally or alternatively, the UE may utilize one or more reference signals or symbols to enable AGC recalibration during the slot.
US11540295B2
A method for locating a source of interference external to a wireless telecommunications network includes establishing a grid of pixels that represents an area associated with a plurality of cellular antennas, assigning an elevation value to each pixel in the grid, determining a vertical gain for each of the plurality of cellular antennas, and determining respective probability values for pixels in the grid using the elevation values and the vertical gain, each of the respective probability values representing a probability that the source of interference external to the wireless telecommunications network is located at an associated pixel.
US11540290B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive an indication of a modified physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) configuration for low tier UEs; receive downlink control information (DCI) configured according to the modified PDCCH configuration; and process the DCI according to the modified PDCCH configuration. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11540286B2
Methods and devices for announcement messages for application aware scheduling in a wireless communication network include receiving, from the network node, an RRC Connection Reconfiguration message including an announcement message indicating a Network Type and Software Version Number, N-TSVN for an extended protocol. It may be determined that a UE Software Version Number, UE-SVN, is compatible with the N-TSVN received in the announcement message. The UE may transmit to the network node, an initial message including the UE-SVN, in response to the determining that the UE-SVN is compatible with the N-TSVN.
US11540271B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for selecting an uplink (UL) transmit beam by a user equipment (UE). A UE may receive, from a base station (BS), one or more beamformed downlink signals using one or more receive beams. The UE may select an uplink transmit beam based, at least in part, on the one or more beamformed downlink signals. The UE may transmit an uplink signal using the selected uplink transmit beam.
US11540261B2
A method for indicating the number of transmitting ports of User Equipment (UE), a network device, UE and a computer storage medium are provided. The method includes that: if performance degradation exists for a present Band Combination (BC), whether the performance degradation exists for a present frequency and bandwidth combination or not is determined to obtain a determination result; and it is determined based on the determination result to indicate a network side that the UE uses a first number or second number of transmitting ports, the first number is smaller than the second number.
US11540260B1
Solutions for physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) allocation, for example on a 5G network, include receiving, at a base station (BS) on a network, a session request message from a user equipment (UE) requesting a network session; based on at least receiving the session request message, determining a channel quality of a channel between the UE and the BS; based on at least the channel quality, selecting a first PUCCH format; and transmitting a message, from the BS, to the UE, instructing the UE to configure the PUCCH according to the first selected PUCCH format. Some examples further include: monitoring for a format change trigger; based on at least detecting the format change trigger, selecting a second PUCCH format different than the first PUCCH format; and transmitting a message, from the BS, to the UE, instructing the UE to configure the PUCCH according to the second selected PUCCH format.
US11540257B2
Wireless communications systems and methods related to communicating uplink control information (UCI) in a network operating over multiple aggregated unlicensed carriers are provided. A first wireless communication device communicates, with a second wireless communication device, a downlink communication signal. The first wireless communication device communicates, with the second wireless communication device, an unscheduled uplink communication signal including an uplink report associated with the downlink communication signal, the unscheduled uplink communication signal communicated based on a listen-before-talk (LBT) procedure. The uplink report includes at least one of an acknowledgement (ACK) for data in the downlink communication signal, a negative-acknowledgement (NACK) for the data in the downlink communication signal, or channel information based at least on the downlink communication signal.
US11540254B2
An apparatus and a method for allocating resources in a wireless communication system is provided. More specifically, a method of determining an uplink transmission resource region for performing a channel access procedure of the BS through a channel access procedure type and subcarrier spacing and determining configuration of downlink resources of the BS through scheduling information and slot structure information is proposed. A method of operating a terminal in a wireless communication system includes acquiring a maximum channel occupancy time (MCOT) of the terminal within an unlicensed band, determining a time interval which a base station (BS) can use for downlink signal transmission in the maximum channel occupancy time, transmitting the maximum channel occupancy time and time information related to the time interval to the BS and receiving a downlink signal from the BS during the time interval in the maximum channel occupancy time.
US11540251B2
The present disclosure is related to a method and apparatus for monitoring paging messages. A method for monitoring paging messages includes receiving wake up signal (WUS) configuration information; identifying whether a WUS mechanism is enabled; and monitoring a paging message in a paging occasion (PO) based on predefined PO monitoring configuration information. Wherein the predefined PO monitoring configuration information is associated with whether the WUS mechanism is enabled and at least one of the WUS configuration information and channel quality. The present disclosure improves the efficiency of paging remote units in a PO.
US11540242B2
A method of transmitting the reference signal includes: obtaining a plurality of candidate transmission positions of a reference signal according to an initial candidate transmission position of the reference signal, where the plurality of candidate transmission positions include the initial candidate transmission position; performing a channel detection before the reference signal is transmitted; and if channel idle is detected, transmitting the reference signal at a corresponding candidate transmission position, wherein reference signal position information carried by the reference signal comprises a reference signal index corresponding to the initial candidate transmission position and an offset between a current candidate transmission position and the initial candidate transmission position.
US11540225B2
The present invention is designed to control transmission power properly even when communication is controlled based on shortened processing time. A user terminal communicates in a cell where a shortened TTI, having a transmission time interval (TTI) length shorter than 1 ms, is used, and/or in a cell where communication is controlled based on shortened processing time, which is shorter than in existing LTE systems, and this user terminal has a receiving section that receives a DL signal, a transmission section that transmits a UL signal in response to the DL signal, and a control section that controls transmission power of the UL signal based on a power control command contained in downlink control information transmitted in a predetermined transmission time interval in which the DL signal is transmitted, or in a transmission time interval located before the predetermined transmission time interval.
US11540223B2
According to an aspect, there is provided an apparatus for controlling a terminal device. The apparatus monitors a current charge level of a rechargeable energy storage device of the terminal device and a current energy harvesting state of an energy harvesting device of the terminal device. When the current energy harvesting state corresponds to an energy harvesting state indicative of no energy being harvested, the apparatus causes the terminal device to operate in one of a first, second and third operating modes depending on a value of the current charge level relative to first and second thresholds. The first, second and third operating modes and the first and second thresholds are defined so that the uplink transmission functionality of the terminal device is disabled when the current charge level drops below the first threshold and the downlink transmission functionality of the terminal device is disabled when the current charge level drops below both thresholds.
US11540216B2
This disclosure provides an interactive electronic tag device communication system and method, including: a background server, a base station, an electronic tag device and an external device; the external device transmits first data to an electronic tag device through a second communication path; the electronic tag device receives the first data and transmits the same to a base station through a first communication path, and enters a fast monitoring mode; the base station receives the first data and transmits the same to background server; the background server generates a control instruction and second data, and transmits the same to the base station; the base station receives a fast wake-up instruction, the control instruction and the second data and transmits the same to electronic tag device through first communication path; the electronic tag device receives fast wake-up instruction, control instruction and second data, and switches to the normal monitoring mode after completing communication.
US11540211B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first node may transmit, to a second node, a first message providing a first indication of integrated access and backhaul (IAB) capability. The first node may receive, from the second node and in response to the first message, a second message providing a second indication of IAB capability. The first node may establish an IAB capable connection with the second node based at least in part on the first message and the second message. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11540208B1
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may monitor a search space associated with a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) corresponding to a multicast/broadcast (MBS) physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) for at least one MBS PDCCH communication having a payload that is scrambled according to a PDCCH payload scrambling sequence based on a value of a radio network temporary identifier (RNTI), wherein the value of the RNTI is equal to a group-RNTI (G-RNTI) or zero. The UE may receive the at least one MBS PDCCH communication. Numerous other aspects are described.
US11540193B2
Wireless network operations can choose a long-term evolution (LTE) and 5G new radio (NR) dual connectivity deployment architecture using LTE as the anchor radio access network (RAN) node and adding mmWave NR as a secondary node when available. However, dual LTE/NR radios can consume more power and contribute more heat, thus degrading performance of radio frequency components. The overheating can be addressed by the user equipment (UE) sending an information message to indicate areas in which it requests to operate with reduced capability. Consequently, the network can determine whether to grant the request, or the UE can switch between NR to LTE depending on NR downlink channel quality.
US11540189B2
A framework for a 6th generation (6G) ubiquitous wireless communications network is provided. A system comprises: a memory that stores executable instructions; and a processor, coupled to the memory, that facilitates execution of the executable instructions to perform operations. The operations comprise: obtaining first information associated with a first condition of a terrestrial radio network of terrestrial radio networks from a terrestrial controller that collects the first information from the terrestrial radio networks; determining second information associated with a resource of a satellite network, wherein the satellite network is integrated with the terrestrial radio networks to form an integrated network to which a mobile device connects, wherein a defined application is alternatively executable at the mobile device via any of a group of networks, the group comprising the satellite network and the terrestrial radio networks; and determining whether to re-assign the defined application from the terrestrial radio network to the satellite network based on a result of evaluating at least the first condition.
US11540172B2
This application discloses a load relocation method, apparatus, and a system. The method includes determining, by a communications network entity, a target access management entity for load relocation; and sending, to an access network entity, an identifier of an original access management entity and an identifier of the target access management entity or an address of the target access management entity with respect to the access network entity. The access network entity sends a message from UE to the target access management entity based on the identifier of the original access management entity carried in the message from the UE. In the foregoing solution, signaling overheads in a load relocation process are reduced and load relocation efficiency is improved.
US11540163B2
Aspects described herein relate to determining a group of relaying user equipment (UEs), selecting a sub-channel of multiple sub-channels for transmitting, to the group of relaying UEs, quality-of-service (QoS) traffic along with one or more other transmitting UEs in the time duration, and transmitting the QoS traffic to the group of relaying UEs in the same time duration over the sub-channel.
US11540162B2
The present invention discloses a wireless perception system energy and information transmission method of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm, comprising: building a wireless perception system architecture based on multi-UAV energy supply, wherein the system comprises a plurality of wireless powered sensors and a UAV swarm, and each sensor establishes connection with a UAV based on random access to realize network construction; designing energy and information transmission protocols in the swarm and between the swarm and the sensors, designing a joint optimization algorithm and solving optimal system configuration to obtain optimal transmission strategies. The present invention firstly proposes a joint optimization method of multi-network power allocation, time slot design and beam forming under the condition of multi-UAV autonomous collaborative energy supply, and also provides an efficient and reliable communication means for autonomous cooperative control of the UAV swarm.
US11540159B2
A method and apparatus for early frequency reporting for fast carrier aggregation (CA) and/or dual connectivity (DC) setup in a wireless communication system is provided. A wireless device reports, to a network, information informing that a neighbor frequency can be aggregated with a serving frequency using one of 1) carrier aggregation (CA), 2) dual connectivity (DC), or 3) both CA and DC.
US11540151B2
A large-scale radio frequency signal information processing and analysis system that provides advanced signal analysis for telecommunication applications, including band capacity and geographical density determinations and detection, classification, identification, and geolocation of signals across a wide range of frequencies and across broad geographical areas. The system may utilize a range of novel algorithms for bin-wise processing, Rayleigh distribution analysis, telecommunication signal classification, receiver anomaly detection, transmitter density estimation, transmitter detection and location, geolocation analysis, telecommunication activity estimation, telecommunication utilization estimation, frequency utilization estimation, and data interpolation.
US11540111B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first subscriber identity module (SIM) of a user equipment (UE) may detect that the UE is operating in a high mobility environment. The first SIM of the UE may transmit, to a second SIM operating in an idle mode, an indication that the UE is operating in the high mobility environment and an indication of a first frequency error estimation associated with the first SIM. The second SIM of the UE may operate in a high mobility mode using a second frequency error estimation that is based at least in part on the first frequency error estimation associated with the first SIM. Numerous other aspects are described.
US11540091B2
Optimal network resource consumption by dynamically controlling media bursts in Simultaneous PoC (Push-To-X (Push-To-Voice/Video/etc.) Over Cellular) calls. Embodiments disclosed herein relate to wireless communication networks, and more particularly to PoC calls performed using wireless communication networks. Embodiments herein disclose methods and systems for optimal network resource consumption by dynamically controlling media bursts, when a user is participating in simultaneous PoC sessions. Embodiments herein disclose methods and systems for optimal network resource consumption by enabling a user to selectively enable/disable multiple PoC sessions using MBCP “Activate” and “Deactivate” messages.
US11540087B1
A tracker that conserves battery power by keeping its cellular module off as long as its modules determine there is no need to turn the cellular module on. The modules include those for detecting motion, detecting whether the tracker is within confines of a geofence, detecting whether the GPS coordinates of the tracker correspond to those most common from past use or correspond to those for work/home, detecting whether wireless connectivity is available other then via a cellular network) and detecting whether the tracker is more than a predetermined distance away from a user's cellular device.
US11540083B1
Locations for mobile computers may be adaptively determined in a system which includes a server, a set of mobile computers, and an administrator computer. In such a system, the set of mobile computers may each be programmed with instructions operable to, when executed, transmit multiple forms of location information to the server. Additionally, the server may be programmed with a set of location determination routines and these routines may be used in determining a location for each of the mobile computers from the set of mobile computers. These locations may then be used to populate an interface of the administrator computer with icons at positions corresponding to the mobile computers' locations.
US11540082B2
According to various examples, a processing system is described comprising a plurality of hardware circuit components, each hardware circuit component configured to provide a processing functionality, a data path leading through the plurality of hardware circuit components, at least one programmable circuit and a controller configured to select one of the hardware circuit components to be replaced by the at least one programmable circuit, program the programmable circuit to provide the processing functionality provided by the selected hardware circuit component and configure the data path to lead through the programmable circuit instead of the selected hardware circuit component.
US11540077B2
Provided are a directional acoustic sensor that detects a direction of sound, a method of detecting a direction of sound, and an electronic device including the directional acoustic sensor. The directional acoustic sensor includes a sound inlet through which a sound is received, a sound outlet through which the sound received through the sound inlet is output, and a plurality of vibration bodies arranged between the sound inlet and the sound outlet, in which one or more of the plurality of vibration bodies selectively react to the sound received by the sound inlet according to a direction of the received sound.
US11540074B2
Provided are an electroacoustic transduction film capable of reproducing a sound with a sufficient sound volume at a high conversion efficiency, a manufacturing method thereof, an electroacoustic transducer, a flexible display, a vocal cord microphone, and a sensor for a musical instrument. The electroacoustic transduction film includes: a polymer composite piezoelectric body in which piezoelectric body particles are dispersed in a viscoelastic matrix formed of a polymer material having viscoelasticity at a normal temperature; two thin film electrodes laminated on both surfaces of the polymer composite piezoelectric body; and two protective layers respectively laminated on the two thin film electrodes, in which an intensity ratio α1=(002) plane peak intensity/((002) plane peak intensity+(200) plane peak intensity) between a (002) plane peak intensity and a (200) plane peak intensity derived from the piezoelectric body particles in a case where the polymer composite piezoelectric body is evaluated by an X-ray diffraction method is more than or equal to 0.6 and less than 1.
US11540073B2
Examples described herein involve configuring a playback device based on distortion, such as that caused by a barrier. One implementation may involve causing the playback device to play audio content according to an existing playback configuration, determining an existing frequency response of the playback device in a given system, and determining whether a difference between the existing frequency response of the playback device in the given system and a predetermined frequency response for the playback device is greater than a predetermined distortion threshold. If it is determined that the difference between the existing frequency response of the playback device and the predetermined frequency response for the playback device is greater than the predetermined distortion threshold, then the existing playback configuration of the playback device is changed to an updated playback configuration of the playback device and the playback device plays audio content according to the updated playback configuration.
US11540066B2
The present invention relates to a bone conduction speaker and its compound vibration device. The compound vibration device comprises a vibration conductive plate and a vibration board, the vibration conductive plate is set to be the first torus, where at least two first rods inside it converge to its center; the vibration board is set as the second torus, where at least two second rods inside it converge to its center. The vibration conductive plate is fixed with the vibration board; the first torus is fixed on a magnetic system, and the second torus comprises a fixed voice coil, which is driven by the magnetic system. The bone conduction speaker in the present invention and its compound vibration device adopt the fixed vibration conductive plate and vibration board, making the technique simpler with a lower cost; because the two adjustable parts in the compound vibration device can adjust both low frequency and high frequency area, the frequency response obtained is flatter and the sound is broader.
US11540064B2
There is presented a hearing aid configured to be arranged at least partly in the ear canal of a specific person, the hearing aid comprising a faceplate, a custom ear shell, adapted to fit or match with the ear canal of a specific person, the custom ear shell connected to the faceplate, a rechargeable battery, an induction coil for wireless charging of the rechargeable battery, wherein the induction coil is fixed to the ear shell and furthermore a method for providing a hearing aid, said method comprising obtaining data representative of a shape and/or size of an ear canal of a specific person, establishing a digital model of the custom shell of the hearing aid for said ear canal based on said data, wherein said providing includes determining a position and/or orientation of an induction coil in an inner space of said ear shell, which position and/or orientation increases or maximizes a distance from the outer ear to the faceplate.
US11540062B2
A system, including a first housing containing a speech processor that receives signals output by a microphone of the hearing prosthesis, a second housing removably connectable to the first housing at a bottom of the first housing, the bottom being at a first end of the first housing that is a wider end relative to a second end of the first housing opposite the first end and a first device removably connectable to the first housing when the second housing is disconnected from the first housing, wherein the first housing is part of a behind-the-ear (BTE) device, the second housing is part of a second device, and the system is a cochlear implant hearing prosthesis system.
US11540055B1
A headset includes a speaker, such as a side firing dipole speaker. The headset includes a front chamber that receives sound waves from a first side of the speaker and a rear chamber that receives sound waves from a second side of the speaker. A control leak channel connects the front chamber and the rear chamber. An acoustic mesh may be located within the control leak channel. The speaker configuration is configured to reduce total harmonic distortion of the speaker, particularly in ranges such as 3-6 kHz, while maintaining the broadband efficiency of the speaker.
US11540053B2
A synchronization method performed for a first piece of audio equipment connected to a wireless network via a first radio point that is identified by a first BSSID, the method comprising the steps of: detecting a second piece of audio equipment connected to the same wireless network and forming part of the same audio group; acquiring a second BSSID of a second radio point via which the second piece of audio equipment is connected to the wireless network, and then determining whether the first BSSID and the second BSSID are identical; if not, performing a selection stage to select an optimum radio point that is identified by an optimum BSSID; if the optimum BSSID is different from the first BSSID, connecting the first piece of audio equipment to the wireless network via the optimum radio point.
US11540049B1
System and method for enhancing audio reproduced by an audio reproduction device is described. A plurality of convolution coefficients are generated for a predefined space. A digital audio signal is modified based on the generated convolved digital audio signal to generate a convolved digital audio signal. The convolved digital audio signal is converted to a convolved analog audio signal. The convolved analog audio signal is fed to the audio reproduction device.
US11540044B2
A speaker device includes a frame, a vibration unit fixedly connected to the frame, a magnetic circuit unit having a magnetic gap, and a screen cloth. The vibration unit includes a diaphragm and a voice coil. The magnetic circuit unit includes a carrier, a first main magnet, an auxiliary magnet and a magnetic conductive plate. The magnetic conductive plate is fixed to the frame. The magnetic conductive plate includes a first central portion and a first edge portion; the auxiliary magnet is located at the first central portion. The first edge portion is provided with a through hole. The screen cloth is provided at a side of the carrier away from the diaphragm, and includes a second central portion and a second edge portion. The second edge portion is provided with a first groove recessed toward the magnetic conductive plate, corresponding to the through hole.
US11540041B2
A communication device configured for use in a user's ear canal including a sealing mechanism configured to acoustically seal a section of the ear canal and a sound conduit in acoustic communication with a sound source. The sound conduit has a first and second opening, a conduit housing, and a vent opening. To provide a reliable adjustment for the venting of sound waves between a sealed section of the ear canal and an ambient environment outside the sealed section, an acoustic valve having a valve member is moveably coupled with the conduit housing, which moveable coupling is configured to provide a relative motion of the valve member and the conduit housing, such that by such relative motion the acoustic valve provides for opening the vent opening, closing the vent opening, and/or adjusting a size of the vent opening. The communication device further includes an electrical actuator to activate the relative motion.
US11540040B2
A two-way radio system includes multiple units each having a hub, speaker, primary clip, secondary clip, antenna, and microphone. The hub has exterior and interior sides defining a hub cavity therebetween. The speaker is in the hub cavity and has an output directed to a speaker opening on the hub interior side. The primary clip extends from the hub for selective attachment to a wearer's ear such that the speaker opening is directed to the wearer's ear canal. The secondary clip extends outwardly from the hub exterior side such that the hub exterior side is between the secondary clip and the hub interior side. The secondary clip has an antenna support on an interior side of the secondary clip and an antenna cap on an exterior side of the secondary clip. The antenna support and the antenna cap define an antenna cavity, and the antenna is in the antenna cavity.
US11540038B2
The present disclosure may provide an acoustic device. The acoustic device may include a housing, at least one low-frequency acoustic driver, at least one high-frequency acoustic driver, and a noise reduction assembly. The housing may be configured to be rested on a shoulder of a user. The at least one low-frequency acoustic driver may be carried by the housing and configured to output first sound from at least two first sound guiding holes. The at least one high-frequency acoustic driver may be carried by the housing and configured to output second sound from at least two second sound guiding holes. The noise reduction assembly may be configured to receive third sound and reduce noise of the third sound.
US11540037B2
The present disclosure relates to a waterproof open earphone. The waterproof open earphone may include a housing, at least one button, at least one elastic pad, and at least one pair of speaker units. The housing may be placed on a head or at least one ear of a user while not blocking an ear canal of the user. The at least one button may be set on the housing, wherein each of the at least one button corresponds to a button hole. The at least one elastic pad may correspond to the at least one button, respectively, wherein each elastic pad prevents the corresponding button from moving relative to the button hole. Each pair of the at least one pair of speaker units may generate sound within a frequency range from two sound guiding holes through two sound guiding tubes.
US11540036B2
Various embodiments of an earbud for insertion into an ear canal and a hearing device that includes such earbud are disclosed. The earbud includes an elongated body having a first end, a second end, and a cavity that extends along a body axis between the first end and the second end of the elongated body. The earbud also includes a first flange connected to the elongated body, where the first flange includes a first end adjacent the first end of the elongated body, a second end, and a sound hole disposed in the first end of the first flange that is acoustically connected to the cavity of the elongated body. The first flange further includes a vent disposed through the first flange. The earbud also includes a second flange connected to the second end of the elongated body and including a first end adjacent the second end of the elongated body and a second end.
US11540034B2
A mesh assembly includes a mesh cover, and a stiffener configured to fix a position of the mesh cover, wherein the stiffener includes a body and an arm extending from the body, and wherein the arm includes a bending portion having an internal diameter of about 0.3 mm or more.
US11540032B1
An optical network communication system utilizes a passive optical network (PON) and includes an optical line terminal (OLT) having a downstream transmitter and an upstream receiver, and an optical network unit (ONU) having a downstream receiver and an upstream transmitter. The downstream transmitter is configured to provide a coherent downlink transmission, and the downstream receiver is configured to obtain one or more downstream parameters from the coherent downlink transmission. The system further includes a long fiber configured to carry the coherent downlink transmission between the OLT and the ONU. The ONU is configured to communicate to the OLT a first upstream ranging request message, the OLT is configured to communicate to the ONU a first downstream acknowledgement in response to the upstream first ranging request message, and the ONU is configured to communicate to the OLT a second upstream ranging request message based on the first downstream acknowledgement.
US11540030B2
The invention relates to simultaneous recording and uploading systems and methods, and, more particularly to a simultaneous recording and uploading of multiple files from the same conversation.
US11540028B2
The present disclosure discloses an information presenting method, terminal device, server and system. The method applies to a server providing an online streaming media playing service. When providing the online streaming media playing service for a terminal device, the method includes: determining whether the terminal device is to present information presentation; when determining that the terminal device is to present the information, sending a presentation time parameter to the terminal device, so that the terminal device presents the information in a time range indicated by the presented time parameter.
US11540022B2
Techniques segmenting a video using tags without modifying video data thereof are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, each tag is created to define a portion of the video, wherein the tags can be modified, edited, looped, reordered or restored to a create an impression other than that if the video was played back sequentially. The tags are so structured in a table included in a tagging file that can be shared or published electronically or modified or updated by others. Further the table may be modified to include one or more conditional or commercial tags.
US11540020B2
Provided are a method for realizing a video information preview, a client and a storage medium. The method for realizing a video information preview comprises: when it is detected that a progress bar is dragged, according to position information about dragging, positioning (100) corresponding preview information from a description file, wherein the description file is used for describing the preview information; and presenting (101) the positioned preview information.
US11540018B2
Methods, devices, and non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums are provided for distributing red envelops. The method includes following steps: generating red envelopes based on a user instruction; receiving a first request for accessing the red envelopes in response to a delay condition being fulfilled; calculating one or more amounts based on an audience number of online audiences at current moment; and placing the one or more amounts at a preset position of a container for displaying.
US11540005B2
Systems and methods are presented herein for recording portions of a media asset relevant to recording criteria. A media application receives input indicating the recording criteria and identifying a first keyword. The media application accesses a data structure to identify a first node associated with the first keyword. The data structure includes the first node and a plurality of nodes connected to the first node via a plurality of paths. The media application receiving audio component data for a portion of the media asset extracts a term from the audio component data, and identifies a second node in the data structure that is associated with the extracted term. The media application calculates a path score for the portion of the media asset based on a path size in the data structure between the first node and the second node. When the score is high enough, the portion of the media asset is recorded.
US11539996B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for storing configuration data as a set of master data and override data where one set of configuration data is defined as the master and every other set of configuration data is defined as override configuration data. A media guidance application may generate master configuration data including the most common configuration data used in the geographical region served by the media guidance application, and number of override configurations which contain only those data which differ from the master configuration data for a number of sub-regions of the geographical region. This reduces duplicative configuration data, and the media guidance application need only store one full set of configuration data, namely the master configuration data, and a number of smaller override configurations.
US11539993B2
Methods, systems, and media for presenting notifications indicating recommended content are provided. In some implementations, a method for presenting notifications of recommended content is provided, the method comprising: receiving an indication that a user device has initiated a casting session with at least one display device, wherein the indication includes an identifier of media content presented on the at least one display device during the casting session; storing the indication in a log in association with an identifier of the user device; receiving, from the user device, a request for recommended content to be presented on the at least one display device associated with the user device; in response to receiving the request, identifying a group of media content items based on at least one media content item that has been previously selected by a user account associated with the user device and based on an identifier of the at least one display device; generating a notification that includes an indication of the identified group of media content items and a selectable input that, when selected, causes the identified group of media content items to begin being presented on the at least one display device; and transmitting the notification to the user device, wherein transmitting the notification to the user device causes the notification to be presented on the user device.
US11539990B2
An apparatus, method, system, and computer-readable medium are provided for enhancing the quality of content. A determination may be made that a portion of the content received using a base feed or bitrate completed early. In response to that determination, an attempt may be made to download that portion of the content using a differential bitrate or feed corresponding to a higher quality. Another determination may be made whether the differential bitrate or feed download completed early, and if so, then the differential bitrate or feed may be used as a new base bitrate or feed for downloading additional portions of the content. The differential bitrate or feed download may also provide for a secondary playback of the content at higher quality.
US11539988B2
Systems and methods for real-time incorporation of user-produced content into a broadcast media stream are provided. A media title may be streamed to a producer computing device over a communication network. The producer computing device is associated with a channel for distributing the user-produced content in conjunction with the media title. Produced content may be captured from the producer computing device as the streamed media title is played on the producer computing device. Such captured produced content may be designated for the channel. The media title and the produced content may then be broadcast in real-time over the communication network to one or more subscriber devices subscribed to the channel. The media title and the produced content may be synchronized within the broadcast to reflect when the produced content was captured in relation to the media title as the media title was played on the producer computing device.
US11539987B2
One high-level aspect of a content-modification system and related methods may involve facilitating content modification by a content-presentation device of received broadcast content in a controlled manner, while under circumstances in which some events that can impact timing may be unpredictable. In particular, certain operations by a content-presentation device may involve matching received content with specific expected content as determined by one or another component of the content-modification system, in order to confirm proper conditions are met for the content-presentation device to proceed with, or continue, content-modification operations. It can happen the matching procedure becomes subject or susceptible to timing irregularities, or jitter. In some instances, jitter may impact the ability to derive the benefits of content modification. Accordingly, example embodiments herein are directed to systems and method for compensation and/or mitigating the effects of jitter.
US11539984B2
While a first playback device is a member of a synchronous media playback group with a second playback device using a first media playback protocol, and after a particular playback setting is enabled using the first media playback protocol, the first playback device receives, from a media source device, a first media stream using a second media playback protocol. The first and second media playback protocols are incompatible. The first playback device determines that the particular playback setting is enabled and that the synchronous media playback group includes the first playback device and the second playback device. Subsequently, the first playback device (i) generates a second media stream based on the received first media stream, the second media stream including information for synchronous playback with the first playback device, and (ii) transmits, to the second playback device, the second media stream using the second media playback protocol.
US11539983B2
Disclosed are a video transmission method, a client, and a server. The method includes: a recommended viewport for playing a virtual reality (VR) video is determined; and at least one video file corresponding to the recommended viewport is requested from a server.
US11539982B2
A video encoder may encode a picture of video data using merge estimation regions (MERs). The video encoder may determine merge candidate lists in parallel for coding units within a MER. The video encoder may also partition the picture of video data into coding units according to a constraint, wherein the constraint specifies that the partitioning is constrained such that, for each MER containing one or more coding units, the one or more coding units are completely in the MER, and for each coding unit containing one or more MERs, the MERs are completely in the coding unit.
US11539978B2
A method of video decoding performed by a video decoder includes receiving a coded video bitstream containing a current picture. The method includes determining whether a current block in the current picture is coded in intra block copy (IBC) mode. The method includes in response to a determination that the current block is coded in IBC mode, determining whether a mode with a motion vector offset is enabled for the IBC encoded current block. The method further includes in response to a determination that the mode with the motion vector offset is enabled for the IBC encoded current block, decoding the current block in accordance with an offset associated with the current block. Furthermore, the fractional offsets are not permitted for the IBC encoded current block.
US11539977B2
A method and apparatus of Inter prediction for video coding using UMVE (Ultimate Motion Vector Expression) are disclosed. According to this method, a base candidate is selected from an original Inter candidate list, where the base candidate has a base prediction direction. One or more extended candidates are derived by adding one or more offsets to the base candidate, where said one or more extended candidates have a same prediction direction as the base prediction direction. The extended candidates are then inserted into the original Inter candidate list to form an extended Inter candidate list for encoding or decoding. According to another method, the UMVE mode is treated as an additional AMVP (Advanced Motion Vector Prediction) mode.
US11539976B2
A data processing system for performing motion estimation in a sequence of frames having first and second frames each divided into respective sets of blocks of pixels, includes a vector generator configured to form motion vector candidates representing mappings of pixels between the first and second frames; and a vector processor configured to, for a search block of the first frame, identify a first motion vector candidate ending in a block of the second frame collocated with the search block and form an output vector for the search block which is substantially parallel to the first motion vector candidate and represents a mapping of pixels from the search block to the second frame.
US11539972B2
A method and an apparatus for encoding/decoding an image according to the present invention may determine a reference area that is a pre-reconstructed area spatially adjacent to a current block on the basis of reference information for specifying the position of a reference area used for predicting a current block and may predict the current block on the basis of the reference area.
US11539967B2
According to the disclosure of the present document, a chroma residual scaling factor is derived on the basis of information relating to an absolute value of a chroma residual scaling delta value and information relating to a sign of the chroma residual scaling delta value, and an LMCS procedure can be efficiently performed by applying explicit signaling to information relating to a value(s) of the chroma residual scaling factor.
US11539966B2
In various embodiments, a shot collation application causes multiple encoding instances to encode a source video sequence that includes at least two shot sequences. The shot collation application assigns a first shot sequence to a first chunk. Subsequently, the shot collation application determines that a second shot sequence does not meet a collation criterion with respect to the first chunk. Consequently, the shot collation application assigns the second shot sequence or a third shot sequence derived from the second shot sequence to a second chunk. The shot collation application causes a first encoding instance to independently encode each shot sequence assigned to the first chunk. Similarly, the shot collation application causes a second encoding instance to independently encode each shot sequence assigned to the second chunk. Finally, a chunk assembler combines the first encoded chunk and the second encoded chunk to generate an encoded video sequence.
US11539962B2
A decoding method for decoding an encoded picture which is partitioned into coding tree blocks which are further partitioned into coding blocks with different sizes, comprises parsing a first indication from the sequence parameter set (SPS)/picture parameter set (PPS)/slice header/tile header of a bit stream containing the encoded picture, determining the partition mode of the coding tree blocks, which are confined by block size restriction parameter and partition depth restriction parameter included in the SPS/PPS/slice header/tile header when the first indication is first value, or determining the partition mode of the multiple coding tree blocks, which are confined by default by block size restriction parameter and default partition depth restriction parameter when the first indication is second value or not presented in the SPS/PPS/slice header/tile header, and partitioning the coding tree blocks into the coding blocks according to the partition mode, and decoding the coding blocks.
US11539955B2
An image compression method includes parsing, by a processor, an image file to be compressed; and compressing, by the processor, the image file by ignoring a portion of bits of each pixel from among a plurality of pixels of the image file.
US11539954B2
An image processing device and method that enable suppression of an increase in the amount of coding of a scaling list. The image processing device sets a coefficient located at the beginning of a quantization matrix by adding a replacement difference coefficient that is a difference between a replacement coefficient used to replace a coefficient located at the beginning of the quantization matrix and the coefficient located at the beginning of the quantization matrix to the coefficient located at the beginning of the quantization matrix; up-converts the set quantization matrix; and dequantizes quantized data using an up-converted quantization matrix in which a coefficient located at the beginning of the up-converted quantization matrix has been replaced with the replacement coefficient. The device and method can be applied to an image processing device.
US11539953B2
A method for boundary partition of a current block is provided. The method includes obtaining a partition indicator from a received bitstream; determining whether the partition indicator indicates that the current block is to be split and whether the current block is a boundary block; and performing a non-inverse transform operation on an inside part of the current block when the partition indicator indicates that the current block is not to be split and the current block is a boundary block, wherein the inside part of the block is located within the picture. For the boundary block which is determined not to be split, a non-inverse transform operation is chosen. This avoids a normal inverse transform on the residuals of the inside part (within the picture) of the current block in the decoder, so number of blocks for the inverse transformation is decreased, and decoding complexity is thus reduced.
US11539951B2
A decoding method is presented. a type of split of a block into transform units is first decoded. A transform is then determined for each transform unit of said block responsive to said type of split. Finally, decoded transform coefficients of said transform units are inverse transformed using the determined transforms.
US11539937B2
A scanner includes a camera, a light source for generating a probe light incorporating a spatial pattern, an optical system for transmitting the probe light towards the object and for transmitting at least a part of the light returned from the object to the camera, a focus element within the optical system for varying a position of a focus plane of the spatial pattern on the object, unit for obtaining at least one image from said array of sensor elements, unit for evaluating a correlation measure at each focus plane position between at least one image pixel and a weight function, a processor for determining the in-focus position(s) of each of a plurality of image pixels for a range of focus plane positions, or each of a plurality of groups of image pixels for a range of focus plane positions, and transforming in-focus data into 3D real world coordinates.
US11539936B2
An imaging system includes a detector configured to obtain radiation data from one or more sources and a controller. The controller is configured to define plurality of buffers based on at least one initial condition. The radiation data includes a plurality of events. The controller is configured to receive an individual event of the plurality of events and determine if the individual event falls within a designated current buffer. Each of the plurality of events in the current buffer is corrected for pose and aligned in a common two-dimensional space. The plurality of events in the current buffer are reconstructed into a three-dimensional space, the reconstruction being done once for each of the plurality of buffers. The controller is configured to create a three-dimensional image based in part on the reconstruction in the three-dimensional space.
US11539925B2
A projector includes a light projector and a position adjuster. The light projector includes a holder holding a plurality of lenses and a movable frame element provided to be pivotable around the optical axis of the plurality of lenses and that pivots to move a target lens out of the plurality of lenses along the optical axis. The position adjuster includes an arm member connected to the movable frame element that pivots along with the movable frame element, an operation member provided to be pivotable around a pivotal axis substantially parallel to the optical axis and pivots when an end portion of the operation member opposite the arm member is moved, and a linkage mechanism that links the arm member to the operation member and causes the arm member to pivot in response to the pivotal motion of the operation member.
US11539908B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for utilizing different modulation coding schemes (MCSs) for different components of a video stream are disclosed. A system includes a transmitter sending a video stream over a wireless link to a receiver. The transmitter splits the video stream into low, medium, and high quality components, and then the transmitter modulates the different components using different MCS's. For example, the transmitter modulates the low quality component using a lower, robust MCS level to increase the likelihood that this component is received. Also, the medium quality component is modulated using a medium MCS level and the high frequency component is modulated using a higher MCS level. If only the low quality component is received by the receiver, then the receiver reconstructs and displays a low quality video frame from this component, which avoids a glitch in the display of the video stream.
US11539903B2
This invention provides an imaging apparatus comprising a storage storing correction values, a correction circuit which corrects captured image data based on the correction values, a first memory and a second memory, a transferring circuit which transfers the correction values in the storage to the correction circuit, a write circuit which writes the transferred correction values to either the first memory or the second memory, and a controller which controls, in a case where a transfer time of the correction values is longer than a time for image capture processing of one frame, so that, over an image capturing period of a plurality of frames, the write circuit writes new correction values to one of the first and second memory and the correction circuit corrects the captured image data using the current correction values in the other memory.
US11539897B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for determining the exposure setting of an imaging device having a set of exposure parameters. A target luma of the imaging device may be determined. A correspondence table may be obtained. The correspondence table may relate to a plurality of reference luma values and a plurality of groups of operation values of the set of exposure parameters, a group of operation values corresponding to a reference luma value. A reference luma value and a group of operation values of the set of exposure parameters may be identified based on the target luma and the correspondence table. An adjustment of at least one exposure parameter of the imaging device may be determined based on the identified group of operation values. The at least one exposure parameter of the imaging device may be adjusted based on the determined adjustment.
US11539887B2
This application discloses a video image anti-shake method and a terminal, and relates to the field of image processing, to implement compensation for translational shake in a Z direction. A video image anti-shake method includes: turning on, by a terminal, a camera lens, and photographing a video image by using the camera lens; detecting, by the terminal, shake on an X-axis, a Y-axis, and a Z-axis during photographing, where the Z-axis is an optical axis of the camera lens, the X-axis is an axis perpendicular to the Z-axis on a horizontal plane, and the Y-axis is an axis perpendicular to the Z-axis on a vertical plane; and performing, by the terminal, anti-shake processing on the video image based on the shake on the X-axis, the Y-axis, and the Z-axis. Embodiments of this application are applied to video image anti-shake.
US11539885B2
An image capture device may include one or more optical elements. One or more lens covers may be used to cover the optical element(s). Usage of the lens cover(s) with respect to the optical element(s) may be determined. The operation of the image capture device may be changed based on whether the lens cover(s) are on or off the optical element(s).
US11539882B2
Disclosed are methods and apparatuses for image data encoding/decoding. A method for decoding a 360-degree image includes the steps of: receiving a bitstream obtained by encoding a 360-degree image; generating a prediction image by making reference to syntax information obtained from the received bitstream; adding the generated prediction image to a residual image obtained by dequantizing and inverse-transforming the bitstream, so as to obtain a decoded image; and reconstructing the decoded image into a 360-degree image according to a projection format. Therefore, the performance of image data compression can be improved.
US11539880B2
The disclosure extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for producing an image in light deficient environments and associated structures, methods and features. The features of the systems and methods described herein may include providing improved resolution and color reproduction.
US11539874B2
The image-capturing apparatus (100) includes an image sensor (14), a focus detector (42) performing focus detection using output from the image sensor; and a controller (50) configured to cause the focus detector to perform the focus detection and configured to control emission of a light emitter for illuminating an object and movement of a focus element for focusing. The controller selectively performs: a first focus detection process that causes the focus detector to perform the focus detection with the focus element being stopped while causing the light emitter to intermittently emit light; and a second focus detection process that causes the focus detector to perform the focus detection with the focus element being moved while causing the light emitter to intermittently emit the light.
US11539869B2
Various embodiments include a camera having an actuator arrangement with a low-profile actuator arrangement. For example, the camera may include a voice coil motor (VCM) actuator to move a lens group and/or an image sensor of the camera. According to some embodiments, the VCM actuator may include one or more magnet-coil groups located beside an image sensor package of the camera. In some embodiments, a magnet-coil group may be located between the image sensor package and a side wall of the camera. Additionally, or alternatively, the magnet-coil group may at least partially extend (e.g., in a direction parallel to an optical axis defined by the lens group) past an upper surface of the image sensor and a bottom of the camera in some embodiments.
US11539868B2
A camera lens attaching portion 30 is fitted into an opening provided in a vehicle window 20. A lens of a camera 40 is attached to a lens attaching surface 31a of the camera lens attaching portion 30. A surface opposed to the lens attaching surface 31a is a window surface 31b. The window surface 31b is an inclined surface different from a window surface 22 of the vehicle window 20. Furthermore, the window surface 31b may be an inclined surface same as the window surface 22 of the vehicle window 20. The camera 40 images outside of the vehicle through the camera lens attaching portion 30 with an angle of view set within the window surface 31b of the camera lens attaching portion 30. It is possible to prevent reflection of a reflected image generated on a vehicle inner side of the vehicle window.
US11539866B2
A vehicular camera module includes a camera housing, an imager printed circuit board and a processor printed circuit board. An imager is disposed at a first side of the imager printed circuit board. A heat transfer element is accommodated in the camera housing and is in thermal conductive contact with an active cooling element and with a second side of the imager printed circuit board or the processor printed circuit board. Circuitry of the camera module is electrically connected to electrical connecting elements that electrically connect to a wire harness of a vehicle when the vehicular camera module is disposed at the vehicle. With the electrical connecting elements electrically connected to the wire harness of the vehicle, heat generated by operation of the vehicular camera module is drawn from the imager printed circuit board to the camera housing via the heat transfer element.
US11539861B1
In some examples, a device includes a printing device to generate an image on a substrate from a digital image, and a processor to: receive a scanned image of the image on the substrate, identify a plurality of image portions of the scanned image, identify horizontal color changes across a horizontal portion of the plurality of image portions, identify vertical color changes across a vertical portion of the plurality of image portions, compare the horizontal color changes and vertical color changes to corresponding horizontal color changes and corresponding vertical color changes of the digital image, and measure a presence of color plane misregistration, and the color, direction and magnitude of misregistration based on the comparison.
US11539860B2
An information processing apparatus is configured to perform information processing on a target. The information processing apparatus includes one or more processors; and one or more memories storing program instructions that cause the one or more processors to perform a plurality of processes, the plurality of processes including a first process of adding information to the target and a second process of obtaining the information; control each of the plurality of processes; and perform a correcting process of concurrently performing corrections with respect to the plurality of processes.
US11539858B2
A method of single-pass printing uses a printing system having first and second aligned printheads supplied with a same ink. The method includes the steps of: receiving first and second halftone images at the first and second printheads, respectively; printing the first halftone image from the first printhead; and printing the second halftone image from the second printhead. The first halftone image is based on a first dither pattern and the second halftone image is based on a second dither pattern, the first dither pattern being different than the second dither pattern.
US11539856B2
Provided is an image processing apparatus that enhances the distinctiveness of document having a color portion and outputs in monochrome. A monochrome visual determination unit determines whether or not the distinctiveness of the color portion is low when the document data having the color portion is output in monochrome. This color portion includes characters, electronic marks, and graphs, and they are after a specific keyword. A monochrome presentation unit presents to a user a warning or a result of modification when there is the color portion that the distinctiveness is determined to be low by the monochrome visual determination unit. The monochrome presentation unit presents a state in which the document data is output in monochrome by displaying a preview.
US11539855B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming section, an operation section, storage, and a controller. The image forming section forms a document image on a recording medium. The operation section includes a touch panel. The storage stores image data therein. The controller: converts document image data to two-dimensional barcode image data; randomly determines a position and an orientation of a two-dimensional barcode image to be located in a document image; stores to the storage the two-dimensional barcode image data together with information on the position and the orientation that are determined by the controller; and causes, only when a correct answer about the information on the position and the orientation is received from a user through the touch panel, preview display of the document image through converting the two-dimensional barcode image data back to the document image data.
US11539852B2
An image forming apparatus communicates with another device and includes a processor that controls the communication. A control unit controls the apparatus to operate in one of at least a first power saving state, a second power saving state, and a normal state. In the first power saving state, the apparatus is controlled so that an image forming unit, an image reading unit, and the control unit are not activated, and a communication device is activated. In the second power saving state, the apparatus is controlled so that at least one of the image forming unit and the image reading unit are not activated, and the communication device and the control unit are activated. In the normal state, the apparatus is controlled so that at least the image forming unit, the image reading unit, the communication device, and the control unit are activated.
US11539851B2
An apparatus includes a control unit configured to switch a power state among a first power state, a second power state, and a third power state, the first power state being a state where a device driver is loaded and a device is usable, the second power state being a state where the device driver is unloaded and the device is unusable, the third power state being a state where the device driver is unloaded and the device is unusable, power consumption in the third power state being less than power consumption in the second power state. Based on reception of a predetermined signal in a case where the information processing apparatus is in the third power state, the control unit causes the power state to transition from the third power state to the second power state.
US11539842B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for information streaming to a user interface via a networked contact center. In one example, a system includes communications computer circuitry to receive, at a networked contact center, a request to stream information to a user interface, the user interface being associated with the networked contact center and an agent to be contacted by others. Information streaming circuitry streams the requested information and to open a network connection between the user interface and a server of a networked contact center, and the information streaming circuitry keeps the network connection between the user interface and the server open as a persistent network connection to the user interface. The communications computer circuitry also pushes one or more events to the user interface via the persistent network connection to cause a change in the user interface without further network requests to the server from the user interface.
US11539841B1
A method of assisting an agent in real-time includes receiving a call interaction between a customer and an agent; identifying words spoken in the call interaction; providing the words to a behavioral models module; computing a score for a plurality of behavioral metrics; providing a phrase formed by the words to a knowledge article selection module; providing each score for the plurality of behavioral metrics to the knowledge article selection module; providing a plurality of knowledge selection rules to the knowledge article selection module; evaluating a combination of the phrase and the scores of the plurality of behavioral metrics against each of the plurality of knowledge selection rules; matching a knowledge selection rule to the combination; selecting a knowledge article associated with the matched knowledge selection rule; generating a visual representation of the selected knowledge article; and presenting in real-time the visual representation on a graphical user interface.
US11539832B2
A terminal screen-on/off control method includes receiving an operation instruction that is sent by a user by using a first terminal; if the operation instruction meets a preset condition, determining a current state of a screen of a second terminal, and if the current state of the screen is on, controlling the second terminal to turn off the screen; or if the current state of the screen is off, controlling the second terminal to turn on the screen. The preset condition is used to determine whether the second terminal is to turn the screen on/off. The first terminal can be directly used to control the second terminal to turn the screen on/off. This operation is very simple.
US11539827B2
A system includes a processor configured to detect the presence of a wireless network access point usable for vehicular communication. The processor is also configured to connect to the wireless access point and report connection information relating to the connected wireless access point to an entity capable of establishing direct cellular connection with a vehicle, identifying the connected wireless access point as an alternative communication method if cellular communication is unavailable.
US11539823B2
A muffling device includes an acquisition circuit, configured to obtain reference sound wave information of a user. The muffling device includes a modulation circuit, configured to analyze an acoustic wave characteristic of the reference sound wave information to obtain a characteristic parameter of the reference sound wave information. The muffling device includes a muffling circuit, configured to generate compensated sound wave information according to the characteristic parameter of the reference sound wave information. The muffling device includes a correction circuit, configured to compare muffed sound wave information superimposed by the compensated sound wave information and the reference sound wave information with the reference sound wave information, and feed back a comparison result to the muffling circuit. The muffling circuit can adjust the compensated sound wave information according to a fed back comparison result. The muffling device includes an output circuit, configured to output adjusted compensated sound wave information.
US11539820B2
A method, device, and computer-readable medium for packetizing a plurality of network abstraction layer (NAL) units of a picture using at least one processor, including obtaining the plurality of NAL units including a first NAL unit of the picture and a last NAL unit of the picture; splitting the first NAL unit of the picture into a first plurality of fragments and splitting the last NAL unit of the picture into a last plurality of fragments; packetizing the first plurality of fragments into a first plurality of fragmentation unit (FU) packets and packetizing the last plurality of fragments in to a last plurality of FU packets; and transmitting the first plurality of FU packets and the last plurality of FU packets, wherein a last FU packet of the last plurality of FU packets includes a last FU header including a last R bit, and wherein the last R bit is set to 1.
US11539807B2
The present application is directed to systems and methods for associating cookies of a linking system to a device identifier of the computing device. A server of a linking system can receive, from a browser of a computing device, a first request to access content via an encoded uniform resource locator (URL) link generated by the server and linked to a web page of the linking system. The server can redirect the browser of the computing device to the web page of the linking system. The server can receive a request to associate a cookie passed to a mobile application installed on the computing device with a device identifier of the computing device. The server can then associate the cookie with the device identifier.
US11539800B2
Disclosed is an electronic device. The electronic device of the present invention comprises: a communication unit; a storage unit for storing a uniform resource locator (URL) designated by an external electronic device and information on specific content provided in the designated URL; and a processor which, when a request for a connection to a designated URL is received from an external electronic device through the communication unit, identifies whether specific content can be provided in the designated URL, and in a case where the specific content cannot be provided, obtains information on another URL that provides content related to the specific content by using stored information, and transmits the obtained information on the another URL to the external electronic device through the communication unit.
US11539799B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provided herein generally include a system and a method of configuring and/or controlling the transfer of information between two or more electronic devices due to the interaction of an electronic device and a host identifier signal generating system. Embodiments of the disclosure may include a system and a method of distributing useful information received by or contained within a memory of the electronic device based on the receipt of a host identifier signal. The electronic device may then perform one or more desirable functions or processes based the portable electronic device's interaction with the host identifier signal generating system. Some aspects of the invention may include an apparatus, method and/or one or more computing device software applications that are configured to more easily setup, configure and/or control the presentation, distribution, collection and/or analysis of program information residing in a first electronic device to a second electronic device based on the interaction of the first electronic device with the host identifier signal generating system.
US11539780B2
Systems and methods for quick start-up of playback in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. Media content may be encoded in a plurality of alternative streams and a quick start-up stream. The quick start-up stream may include media content that is encoded at a lower quality that the alternative streams and may be encrypted with a different, less secure encryption process than that of the alternative streams. During a start-up of playback, the playback device streams the media content from a quick start-up stream until a metric, such as a decryption key for the alternative streams is met. The device then streams the media content from the alternative streams in response to the metric being met.
US11539773B2
A system for providing networked access to media signals, the system comprising at least one virtual media card configured to interface with at least one application that produces and/or consumes media signals, and/or at least one media interface configured to interface with at least one physical media card that produces and/or consumes media signals. The system may also comprise a network interface configured to enable the system to exchange media signals with other devices on a common network, and a reference clock configured to provide a common clock signal to the at least one virtual media card, the at least one media interface, and the common network. An advertisement and discovery module configured to identify when the at least one application is started and/or stopped and when the at least one media card is attached and/or detached from the system may also be provided. The advertisement and discovery module is configured to: (i) make I/O channels of the at least one media card available to the system and the common network, and (ii) make I/O channels of the at least one application available to the system and the common network.
US11539769B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for optimizing streaming content are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of determining that a user device participating in a content streaming service will transition from a first wireless service coverage area to a second wireless service coverage area that provides a lower quality wireless service relative to the first wireless service coverage area. The actions further include, prior to the user device transitioning from the first wireless service coverage area to the second wireless service coverage area, increasing a resource associated with the content streaming service and the user device. The actions further include, after the user device transitions from the first wireless service coverage area to the second wireless service coverage area, decreasing the resource associated with the content streaming service and the user device.
US11539764B2
A communication management system manages a session in which a plurality of terminal apparatuses shares a stroke image. The communication management system includes circuitry configured to: manage stroke information including a plurality of pieces of stroke data representing the stroke image; receive, from a first terminal apparatus, group operation information for designating one or more pieces of stroke data, which are operation targets, from among the plurality of pieces of stroke data; and restrict, based on the group operation information, an operation regarding the one or more pieces of stroke data by a second terminal apparatus, which is different from the first terminal apparatus.
US11539763B2
In some embodiments, during the SIP registration, the UE indicates in the REGISTER requests its support for ANBR as defined by ANBR attribute in the SDP and the P-CSCF indicates its support for the ANBR attribute in the SDP in the response for registration. In some embodiments, the P-CSCF serving a PLMN passes through the ANBR attribute in the SDP when the P-CSCF recognizes that the PLMN supports ANBR functionality. In some embodiments, the UE can include ANBR attribute in the SDP offer and answers when the P-CSCF indicates its support for the ANBR attribute in the SDP.
US11539756B2
A switch device is provided. The switch device includes a switch and a one-way link circuit, wherein the switch including a first port, a second port, and a third port. The third port coupled to the second port via a first path and coupled to the first port via a second path. An input terminal of the one-way link circuit is coupled to the first port.
US11539748B2
An orchestration system is described that is configured to receive a request to monitor compliance of an enterprise infrastructure and generate an infrastructure change that is associated with the compliance of the enterprise infrastructure, based at least in part on a set of predetermined criteria. In doing so, the orchestration system may further generate one or more infrastructure change events based at least in part on instances of the infrastructure change within the enterprise infrastructure. The orchestration system may further generate a verification report for the enterprise infrastructure, based at least in part on the one or more infrastructure change events, and transmit the verification report to a registered user associated with the request.
US11539747B2
A method for resuming a Transport Layer Security (TLS) session in a Service Function Chain comprising a plurality of Service Function nodes coupled to a Service Function Forwarder. A request is received at a first Service Function node to establish a TLS session, and a Pre-Shared Key (PSK) and a PSK identifier that uniquely correspond to the first Service Function node and the TLS session are generated. The PSK identifier is forwarded to one or more of the Service Function Forwarder and the plurality of Service Function nodes. A request to resume the TLS session is received from a client device that previously disconnected. It is determined that the connection request contains the PSK identifier, a second Service Function node is selected, and the TLS session is re-established between the client device and the second Service Function node using the same PSK as the prior TLS session.
US11539740B1
Methods, non-transitory computer readable media, and network traffic manager apparatus that assists with protecting a CPU during a DDOS attack includes monitoring network traffic data from plurality of client devices. Each of the plurality of client devices are classified as a valid device or a potential attacker device based on the monitoring. Next a determination of when CPU utilization of a network traffic manager apparatus is greater than a stored threshold value is made. The CPU utilization of the network traffic manager increases as a number of the plurality of client devices classified as the potential attacker device increases. One or more network actions are performed on the plurality of client devices classified as the potential attacker device to protect the CPU when the determination indicates the CPU utilization is greater than the stored threshold value.
US11539735B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for application placement can include the following processes. A security score service determines a respective security posture score for each of a plurality of candidate hosts of an enterprise network. A user then identify a set of performance parameters and security parameters for a host in an enterprise network to execute a workload thereon. An application placement engine selects a host from the plurality of candidate hosts having a security posture score matching the performance parameters and the security parameters for executing the workload. An application deployment engine places the workload on the host.
US11539723B2
Methods, computer-readable media, software, and apparatuses may assist a consumer in keeping track of a consumer's accounts in order to prevent unauthorized access or use of the consumer's identified subscriptions and financial accounts. The identified subscriptions and financial accounts may be displayed to the consumer along with recommendations and assistance for closing unused or unwanted financial accounts and subscriptions to prevent unauthorized access or use.
US11539722B2
Example methods and systems for a computer system to perform security threat detection are described. In one example, a computer system may intercept an egress packet from a virtualized computing instance to pause forwarding of the egress packet towards a destination and obtain process information associated a process from which the egress packet originates. The computer system may initiate security analysis based on the process information. In response to determination that the process is a potential security threat based on the security analysis, the egress packet may be dropped, and a remediation action performed. Otherwise, the egress packet may be forwarded towards the destination.
US11539720B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for computer network threat assessment. For example, methods may include receiving from client networks respective threat data and storing the respective threat data in a security event database; maintaining affiliations for groups of the client networks; detecting correlation between a network threat and one of the groups; identifying an indicator associated with the network threat, and, dependent on the affiliation for the group, identifying a client network and generating a message, which conveys an alert to the client network, comprising the indicator; responsive to the message, receiving, from the client network, a report of detected correlation between the indicator and security event data maintained by the client network; and updating the security event database responsive to the report of detected correlation.
US11539696B2
A relay server, an authentication system, and a relay method. The relay server receives an authentication request including authentication parameters from a device, determines whether the authentication parameters included in the authentication request are sufficient for an authentication process performed at an authentication server, assigns one or more missing authentication parameters to the authentication request when the authentication parameters included in the authentication request are determined to be insufficient, and relays the authentication request to the authentication server.
US11539692B2
Methods and apparatuses related to settings based access to data stored in quarantined memory media are described. Memory systems can include multiple types of memory media (e.g., volatile and/or non-volatile) and data (e.g., information included in) stored in the memory media are subject to risks of the data being undesirably exposed and/or viewable to the public. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, a particular portion and/or location in the memory media can provide a data protection scheme, and a setting associated with the data can include security protocols that can control the accessibility to the stored data. For example, a setting can be associated with data to be stored in a particular location of the memory media, and responsive to a request to access the data, the setting can initiate an authentication of the request.
US11539672B2
A network device communication system can configure network devices (e.g., a primary and secondary database) to send and receive sequences messages, such as replication data, over a channel comprising a plurality of private network nodes. The messages can be generated and encrypted using one or more key pairs and changing wrapping replication keys to send and receive the messages between different types of database deployments.
US11539666B2
An apparatus is provided, comprising: a volatile memory; a non-volatile memory; a first electronic circuit that is configured to operate as a wireless access point, the first electronic circuit including a wireless controller for accessing a wireless network; and a second electronic circuit that is operatively coupled to the first electronic circuit, the second electronic circuit including at least one processor configured to execute: (i) a first virtual machine that includes a wireless network authentication server, and (ii) a second virtual machine that includes a virtual private network (VPN) server, wherein the wireless network authentication server is configured to authenticate devices that attempt to join the wireless network; wherein the VPN server is arranged to encrypt data that is received at the apparatus to produce encrypted data, and forward the encrypted data to the wireless controller for transmission over the wireless network.
US11539651B2
A tool for controlling message distribution in a cooperative messaging environment (CME). The tool determines an availability of a plurality of messaging resources of a cooperative messaging environment (CME). The tool analyzes metadata associated with a first message from a first message producing application to determine an application property. Responsive to receiving a request from a first message consuming application to distribute the first message, the tool associates a first messaging resource of the CME with the first message consuming application. The tool distributes the first message to the first messaging resource of the CME from the first message producing application based, at least in part, on the availability of the plurality of messaging resources of the CME and the application property.
US11539630B2
Some embodiments provide a system that detects whether a data flow is an elephant flow; and if so, the system treats it differently than a mouse flow. The system of some embodiments detects an elephant flow by examining, among other items, the operations of a machine. In detecting, the system identifies an initiation of a new data flow associated with the machine. The new data flow can be an outbound data flow or an inbound data flow. The system then determines, based on the amount of data being sent or received, if the data flow is an elephant flow. The system of some embodiments identifies the initiation of a new data flow by intercepting a socket call or request to transfer a file.
US11539593B2
The embodiment of the present application discloses an activation method for a BWP and related products, including: a terminal receives a first downlink control signaling DCI, the first DCI is used by a scheduling terminal to transmit uplink data through a physical uplink shared channel PUSCH in a target time unit; the terminal receives a second DCI, and the feedback response information of the second DCI is transmitted in the target time unit, and the transmitting time of the second DCI is before the target time unit or the same as the target time unit; the terminal determines, according to the transmitting time of the second DCI, the feedback response information for the transmission of the second DCI through the PUSCH in the target time unit. The embodiment of the present application is beneficial to improvement of both the accuracy and reliability of data scheduling in a communication system.
US11539589B2
A Wi-Fi device includes a controller coupled to a writeable memory implementing a MAC and PHY layer and to a transceiver. Connection data stored in the writeable memory includes Wi-Fi connection parameters including≥1 router MAC level information or a most recently utilized (MRU) channel used, and IP addresses including≥1 of an IP address of the Wi-Fi device, IP address of the MRU router, an IP address of a MRU target server, and an IP address of a network connected device. An accelerated reconnecting to a Wi-Fi network algorithm is implemented by the processor is for starting from being in a network disconnected state, establishing current connection parameters for a current Wi-Fi network connection using the Wi-Fi connection parameters for at least one MAC layer parameter for the MAC layer.
US11539578B2
Machine data reflecting operation of a monitored system is ingested and made available for search by a data intake and query system (DIQS). A monitoring function may search the data ingested by the DIQS to determine instances of notable events in regards to the monitored system and may further determine a defined invokable action message (IAM) associated with a notable event instance. Processing ensues to send an IAM to a communications device used by support personnel. The IAM includes information about an action invocation message (AIM) suitable to cause the performance of an action that possibly remedies or improves an operational condition represented by the notable event. Support personnel engages a user interface representation corresponding to the AIM and the AIM is sent to a remedial node where performance of the action is invoked.
US11539568B2
There is provided an apparatus for detecting repetitive information in data packets communicated between a first node and a second node over a wireless network. The apparatus includes a processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to: (a) collect samples of a data communication signal transmitted between said first node and the second node over said wireless network at a plurality of respective times; (b) group the collected samples into a plurality of sequences of samples; (c) combine the sequences of samples into at least one united signal; and (d) based on an analysis of the at least one united signal, provide a signal indicative of repetitive information in a plurality of data packets carried by said data communication signal.
US11539567B2
Provided are a multi-carrier signal generation method, apparatus, and system. The method comprises: according to property information of a subframe, determining filter configuration information corresponding to said subframe (101); according to the filter configuration information, obtaining a multi-carrier signal of the filter bank corresponding to each of the filter configuration information (102).
US11539555B2
An N-tap feedforward equalizer (FFE) comprises a set of N FFE taps coupled together in parallel, a filter coupled between the (N−1)th FFE tap and the Nth FFE tap, and a summer coupled to an output of the set of N FFE taps. Each FFE tap includes a unique sample-an-hold (S/H) circuit that generates a unique time-delayed signal and a unique transconductance stage that generates a unique transconductance output based on the unique time-delayed signal. The filter causes the N-tap FFE to have the behavior of greater than N taps. In some examples, the filter is a first order high pass filter that causes coefficients greater than N to have an opposite polarity of the Nth coefficient. In some examples, the filter is a first order low pass filter that causes coefficients greater than N to have the same polarity as the Nth coefficient.
US11539550B2
Embodiments of the invention include a vehicle telematics device that performs vehicle CAN bus discovery using bit timing analysis. In an embodiment, the vehicle telematics device enters a vehicle CAN bus protocol discovery mode, samples a vehicle CAN bus signal, performs bit timing analysis of the CAN bus signal, calculates a BAUD rate of the vehicle CAN bus based on the bit timing analysis, determines a data packet format of data packets on the vehicle CAN bus, and identifies a vehicle CAN bus protocol from a plurality of vehicle CAN bus protocols based on the calculated BAUD rate and data packet format.
US11539544B2
An electronic apparatus and a controlling method in which a home appliance without a display and a user terminal directly communicate with each other so that a user can control the home appliance through the user terminal are provided. The electronic apparatus includes a communication interface configured to directly communicate with a user terminal, a storage configured to store a graphic user interface, and at least one processor configured to transmit the graphic user interface to the user terminal, and receive a user command through the graphic user interface transmitted to the user terminal.
US11539539B2
Methods and apparatus for taking a break after seamless transition between network conferences. In an embodiment, a method for taking a break after a transition between network conferences includes operations of attending a first network conference using a first conference state and a conferencing application, and displaying Up-Next conference status about a second network conference. The method also includes operations of receiving a request to enter a break mode after joining the second network conference, joining the second network conference using the first conference state and the conferencing application, and transmitting a break mode icon to participants in the second network conference.
US11539533B1
A system for access control includes an interface to receive an access request from a first user application for permission to access a first digital identity wallet application and a processor to: determine whether to grant access for the first user application to the first digital identity wallet application, wherein access is granted for the first user application to the first digital identity wallet application in response to the first user application belonging to a first circle of trust and the first digital identity wallet application belonging to the first circle of trust; and in response to determining to grant access for the first user application to the first digital identity wallet application, provide an access granting indication.
US11539529B2
The disclosure relates to system and method for facilitating designing of an Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure for deploying an IoT application. The method includes determining a Manhattan distance between each of a plurality of existing requirements and a new requirement, identifying one or more of the plurality of existing requirements corresponding to a minimum Manhattan distance, determining a relevancy score for each of the one or more identified existing requirements based on a similarity between the each of the one or more identified existing requirements and the new requirement, and providing one or more IoT components and one or more IoT designs corresponding to a similar existing requirement for facilitating designing of the IoT infrastructure. The similar existing requirement comprises one of the one or more identified existing requirement with a maximum relevancy score.
US11539523B1
Systems and techniques for data creation limits are described herein. In an example, a data creation limits system is adapted to receive data and split the data into a plurality of portions based on entity interests in each of the plurality of portions. The data creation limits system may be further adapted to generate respective tokens for each portion of the plurality of portions. The data creation limits system may be further adapted to assign an owner to a token of the respective tokens, the token corresponding to a portion of the plurality of portions and assigning the owner based on the owner having an entity interest in creation of the portion. The data creation limits system may be further adapted to generate a script, using the token, for access to the portion. The data creation limits system may be further adapted to save the portion including the token.
US11539522B2
A method for a system includes broadcasting with a first transceiver of a transit terminal to a smart device, a first identifier, receiving with the first transceiver from the smart device, an ephemeral ID not permanently associated with a user of the smart device, providing with the first transceiver to the smart device, a second identifier and a unique data packet, receiving with the first transceiver from the smart device a token determined by an authentication server in response to the second identifier and the unique data packet and wherein the token comprises a payload portion, determining with a processor of the transit terminal whether the token is valid, and directing with the processor a peripheral device to perform a user-perceptible action for the user, authorizing the user to enter or exit a transit system associated with the transit terminal in response to determining the token to be valid.
US11539516B2
The invention is notably directed to a method for encoding information. This method first comprises generating an encryption key according to polymorphic features of nucleic acids from one or more entities. Next, information is encrypted based on the generated key. Finally, the encrypted information is encoded into synthetic DNA. Another aspect concerns a method for retrieving information. Consistently with the above encoding scheme, synthetic DNA in provided, which encodes encrypted information. Such information is read by sequencing the synthetic DNA and by decrypting the information read using a decryption key. The latter is generated according to polymorphic features of nucleic acids from one or more entities (e.g., from the legitimate individual(s) requesting access to information). Thus, the encoded information cannot be interpreted unless a suitable decryption key is available. The invention is further directed to related DNA samples and systems, including DNA vaults.
US11539515B2
A method for performing privacy-preserving or secure multi-party computations enables multiple parties to collaborate to produce a shared result while preserving the privacy of input data contributed by individual parties. The method can produce a result with a specified high degree of precision or accuracy in relation to an exactly accurate plaintext (non-privacy-preserving) computation of the result, without unduly burdensome amounts of inter-party communication. The multi-party computations can include a Fourier series approximation of a continuous function or an approximation of a continuous function using trigonometric polynomials, for example, in training a machine learning classifier using secret shared input data. The multi-party computations can include a secret share reduction that transforms an instance of computed secret shared data stored in floating-point representation into an equivalent, equivalently precise, and equivalently secure instance of computed secret shared data having a reduced memory storage requirement.
US11539490B2
This application discloses a signal transmission method and a related device. The method may include: sending, by a first terminal, a first message to a network device, where the first message is used to indicate a transmission mode used by the first terminal to transmit a signal; receiving a second message sent by the network device, where the second message is used to indicate a resource used by the first terminal to transmit the signal; and transmitting the signal on the resource. According to the foregoing solution, a terminal may transmit a signal by using different transmission modes and resources.
US11539484B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The described techniques provide for dynamic updates to beam failure detection (BFD) reference signals (RSs) and path loss RS using medium access control-control element (MAC-CE) or downlink control information (DCI). For example, the quasi co-location (QCL) of periodic CSI-RS may be dynamically updated by the MAC-CE or DCI when the periodic CSI-RS is for BFD RS. Also, a semi-persistent CSI-RS or aperiodic CSI-RS may act as a BFD RS. An enhanced update procedure may be used to update the path loss RS dynamically using MAC-CE or DCI. In some cases, the path loss RS parameters updated via MAC-CE or DCI may overwrite the previously RRC configured path loss RS parameters. In another example, if the path loss RS is not configured, then the path loss RS by default may be the spatial relation reference signal of the corresponding uplink beam.
US11539483B2
Provided in embodiments of the present application are a wireless communication method and apparatus, capable of transmitting multiple SRS types. The method comprises: a terminal apparatus receiving trigger signaling sent by a network apparatus for triggering an aperiodic sounding reference signal (SRS); the terminal apparatus determining, according to the trigger signaling, an SRS type of the aperiodic SRS; the terminal apparatus determining, according to the determined SRS type, a resource and/or transmission mode for sending the aperiodic SRS; and the terminal apparatus sending to the network apparatus, on the basis of the determined resource and/or determined transmission mode, the aperiodic SRS.
US11539475B2
Provided are methods and apparatuses for transmitting sidelink hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback information. The method of a receiver user equipment (UE) includes: receiving configuration information on a physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) resource set, receiving a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) from a transmitter UE, determining a PSFCH resource used for transmitting the HARQ feedback information in response to the PSSCH in the PSFCH resource set based on pre-configured identification information, and transmitting the HARQ feedback information using the PSFCH resource.
US11539469B2
Provided are a method for a terminal resending data in a wireless communication system, and a communication device using same. The method comprises: receiving downlink control information (DCI) from a network; and resending data on the basis of the DCI, wherein the DCI includes an acknowledgement/not-acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) field.
US11539461B2
Embodiments of this application disclose an encoding method and a related device. The method includes: receiving a to-be-encoded code block whose length is L, where L is a positive integer; and encoding the to-be-encoded code block to obtain a forward error correction FEC code, where a valid information length K of the FEC code is an integer multiple of a largest prime factor of L, and a total length N of the FEC code is a sum of K and a product of 2 and an error correction capability T of the FEC code. According to the embodiments of this application, it can be ensured that an FEC codeword satisfies a requirement for a low latency and a high gain.
US11539460B2
A transmitter and receiver of a broadcasting signal and a method of processing the broadcasting signal are provided. The transmitter includes: a segmenter configured to segment an L1 signaling of a frame into a plurality of segmented L1 signalings such that each of the segmented L1 signalings has bits a number of which is equal to or smaller than a predetermined number; and an encoder configured to perform a Bose, Chaudhuri, Hocquenghem (BCH) and a low density parity check (LDPC) encoding, or the LDPC encoding without the BCH encoding, with respect to the segmented L1 signalings.
US11539453B2
A system for interconnecting a plurality of computing nodes includes a plurality of optical circuit switches and a plurality of electrical circuit switches. A first network stage comprises a first plurality of circuit switches selected from among the plurality of optical circuit switches and the plurality of electrical circuit switches. Each computing node among the plurality of computing nodes is optically coupled to at least one of the first plurality of circuit switches. A second network stage comprises a second plurality of circuit switches selected from among the plurality of optical circuit switches and the plurality of electrical circuit switches. Each circuit switch among the first plurality of circuit switches is optically coupled to each circuit switch among the second plurality of optical circuit switches.
US11539446B2
Disclosed is an optical receiver. The optical receiver includes a circuit board, a base member, a photodetector mounted on the base member, a transimpedance amplifier, and a capacitor. The base member is disposed between a first grounding pattern and a second grounding pattern on a first side of the circuit board. The transimpedance amplifier is mounted on the first grounding pattern. The capacitor is mounted on the second grounding pattern. The first wiring pattern and the second wiring pattern are apart from both the first grounding pattern and the second grounding pattern in a plan view of the first side. The first grounding pattern is electrically connected to the second grounding pattern through a grounding pattern formed on the first side.
US11539444B2
The invention provides an optical system and method for outputting a modulated signal comprising a single multimode interference (MMI) device having at least two inputs configured with a fixed phase and an output, wherein the output modulated signal is controlled by modulating the input power of at 5 least one of the inputs. The invention only requires a single MMI device to operate as the relative phase between the two inputs are fixed relative each other and one of the inputs can be used to modulate the output by modulating the power at a single input. In further embodiments, the invention shows how correct phases can be set by a single MMI device. Thus, no more than two 10 MMIs are required in conjunction with phase or amplitude modulating elements to fully generate a BPSK or QPSK signal.
US11539443B2
An example system includes a first network device having first circuitry. The first network device is configured to perform operations including receiving data to be transmitted to a second network device over an optical communications network, and transmitting first information and second information to the second device. The first information is indicative of the data, and is transmitted using a first communications link of the optical communications network and using a first subset of optical subcarriers. The second information is indicative of the data, and is transmitted using a second communications link of the optical communications network and using a second subset of optical subcarriers. The first subset of optical subcarriers is different from the second subset of optical subcarriers.
US11539441B1
A method for laser chirp precompensation includes modulating an amplitude of an optical signal, in response to an amplitude of one of (i) a chirp-compensated signal generated via distortion of an original modulated signal according to an inverse of a chirp-response function of a laser and (ii) a first signal derived from the chirp-compensated signal, to yield an amplitude-modulated optical signal. The method also includes modulating a phase of the amplitude-modulated optical signal in response to a phase of one of (i) the chirp-compensated signal and (ii) a second signal derived from the chirp-compensated signal to yield a chirp-compensated optical signal.
US11539440B2
Examples herein relate to optical systems. In particular, implementations herein relate to an optical system including an optical transmitter configured to transmit optical signals. The optical transmitter includes a first optical source and a second optical source coupled to the first optical source and injection seeded by the first optical source. The optical transmitter further includes an output coupler, the second optical source coupled to the optical coupler via an output waveguide and configured to emit light having multiple different wavelengths through the output waveguide. In some implementations, the second optical source is self-injection seeded.
US11539437B2
A signal processing device included in an optical reception device configured to receive a burst optical signal transmitted by one of a plurality of optical transmission devices, includes a symbol timing detecting unit configured to detect a symbol timing based on sample signals obtained by oversampling the burst optical signal converted into an electric signal with a sampling rate higher than a symbol rate, an adaptive equalization filter unit configured to perform an equalization process on the sample signals, and a timing matching unit configured to match timing such that, when the adaptive equalization filter unit takes in the sample signals, one of the taken-in sample signals corresponding to the symbol timing is given to a tap of which a tap coefficient has a maximum value among taps included in the adaptive equalization filter unit.
US11539435B2
Techniques and examples pertaining to single channel line-of-sight (LOS) communication are described. The transmitting end of the LOS communication involves direct modulation of a light emitted from a light emitter. The receiving end of the LOS communication involves receiving a video stream of the light emitter emitting the light, wherein the video stream comprises a plurality of video frames that are continuous in time. The receiving end of the LOS communication also involves converting the video stream to a binary string comprising a plurality of binary bits. Each of the binary bits corresponds to a respective one of the plurality of video frames, and the binary string contains a repeated binary pattern representing a message being conveyed. The receiving end of the LOS communication also involves extracting the binary pattern from the binary string and then decoding the binary pattern to obtain the message.
US11539433B2
Disclosed herein are methods, devices, and systems for providing timing and bandwidth management of ultra-wideband, wireless data channels (including radio frequency and wireless optical data channels). According to one embodiment, a hub apparatus is disclosed for providing out-of-band bandwidth management for a free-space-optical (FSO) data channel associated with a first device. The hub apparatus includes a processor, a memory coupled with the processor, an FSO transmitter coupled with the processor, and an FSO receiver coupled with the processor. The FSO transmitter may be configured to transmit a control signal comprising timing information and bandwidth management information.
US11539429B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station (BS), information identifying a slot configuration indicating a slot format for each of a plurality of slots for a wireless communication link between the UE and the BS, wherein the information identifying the slot configuration includes a full duplex slot format indicator that is associated with at least one full duplex slot that is to be used for full duplex communication. The user equipment may communicate based at least in part on receiving the information identifying the slot configuration, with the BS using the at least one full duplex slot. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11539426B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A communication device, such as a user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a base station of a non-terrestrial network, a random access request message associated with a random access procedure using a transport block size (TBS) and a power control specified for the random access request message (e.g., a payload of the random access request message) for the random access procedure. The random access request message including a random access preamble and a random access payload carrying a buffer status report (BSR) or uplink data, or both. The UE may then monitor a response window based at least in part on transmitting the random access request message. The UE may receive, from the base station of the non-terrestrial network, a response message of the random access procedure during the response window.
US11539425B2
A satellite communication system includes a first satellite in a geostationary orbit and a plurality of second satellites. Each of the second satellites is in a separate orbit with time-dependent projection on ground. The first satellite is adapted to communicate with one or more user terminals and to communicate with each of the plurality of second satellites via a respective inter-satellite communication link. Further, each of the second satellites is adapted to communicate with one or more feeder link stations. Also disclosed is a method of communicating in a satellite communication system.
US11539423B2
A method of performing, by a user equipment (UE), a beam failure recovery (BFR) procedure in a wireless communication system comprises performing a detection of a beam failure, transmitting a beam failure recovery request (BFRQ), and receiving a response to the BFRQ. The detection of the beam failure is related to at least one specific RS, and the at least one specific RS is related to a specific control resource set (CORESET) group of a plurality of CORESET groups.
US11539421B2
Provided is a beam recovery method in a wireless communication system. A beam recovery method performed by a user terminal (UE) may include receiving a beam reference signal (BRS) used for beam management from an enhanced Node B (eNB), when a beam failure event is detected, transmitting a control signal for a beam failure recovery request to the eNB; and, when beam reporting is triggered, reporting a beam measurement result to the eNB in a specific resource.
US11539414B2
Implementations of the present application provide a wireless communication method and device, being able to match a relatively flexible NR system in terms of CSI feedback. The method comprises: sending first information, the first information being carried in downlink control information (DCI), the first information being used to trigger the terminal to report aperiodic channel state information (CSI) or to report semi-persistent CSI; determining a first uplink time-domain position according to a time offset and a first downlink time-domain position acting as a starting point, the time unit length of the time offset being a time unit length of uplink transmission for CSI reporting, or being a time unit length of downlink transmission performed on the first downlink time-domain position; receiving the CSI reported by the terminal at the first uplink time-domain position.
US11539408B2
A transmission method simultaneously transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal at a common frequency performs precoding on both signals using a fixed precoding matrix and regularly changes the phase of at least one of the signals, thereby improving received data signal quality for a reception device.
US11539404B2
The present disclosure describes devices, systems, and methods for allocating bandwidth among communication links in a telecommunication system. Some aspects can involve identifying multiple transmission modes used to transmit downlink signals via remote units of a telecommunications system to groups of terminal devices. Each group of terminal devices may receive downlink signals using a respective transmission mode. Respective weights can be assigned to the groups of terminal devices based on the transmission modes. The downlink signals, which are provided to each remote unit associate with each group of terminal devices, can be configured using a respective signal power that is associated with a respective weight for the group of terminal devices associated with the respective remote unit.
US11539403B2
An operation method of a user device which performs near field communication (NFC) with a card reader includes downloading a service certification of a service, which the card reader provides, from a service authentication server through a network, sending status information of the user device to the card reader, receiving a service identifier (ID) which the card reader sends depending on the status information, performing an authentication process with the card reader based on a symmetric key when the service ID is present in the downloaded service certification, and sending an authentication success message to the card reader when the authentication process succeeds.
US11539401B2
Presented is a combo antenna module for preventing shadowing of a short-range communication antenna by forming a loop pattern, for short-range communication, in an inner circumferential region of a wireless power transmission antenna. The presented combo antenna module comprises a radiation pattern for wireless power transmission and a radiation pattern for short-range communication, which are disposed on a base substrate, wherein the transverse paths for entry and exit are made different for the radiation pattern for short-range communication so as to form a loop pattern in the inner area of the radiation pattern for wireless power transmission.
US11539391B2
A wireless communication apparatus 20 includes: a first communication unit configured to perform wireless communication that supports a plurality of wireless communication systems with different using frequency bands; a second communication unit configured to perform wired communication that supports a plurality of wired communication systems each with a different basic frequency used in data communication; and a switching unit configured to switch a wired communication system used in the wired communication by the second communication unit so that the basic frequency falls outside a predetermined frequency band including the using frequency bands of the wireless communication by the first communication unit.
US11539389B2
A single channel receiver includes an input terminal that receives an analog input signal, a mixer that down-mixes the analog input signal by use of a phase- and/or frequency-corrected oscillator frequency signal and shifts complex-valued information contained in the analog input signal to the real part (or alternatively to the imaginary part) to obtain an intermediate real-valued analog signal, an analog-to-digital-converter that converts the intermediate analog signal into an intermediate digital signal, a demodulator that demodulates the intermediate digital signal into a digital output signal, a phase tracking loop that detects zero-crossings in the intermediate digital signal to obtain phase error information representing a phase error in the intermediate digital signal, and an oscillator that generates the phase- and/or frequency-corrected oscillator frequency signal by compensating the phase and/or frequency error in the intermediate digital signal by correcting the phase of the oscillator frequency signal with the phase error information.
US11539387B2
Systems and methods for extracting polarized sub-signals from a dual-polarized signal includes isolating the polarized sub-signals using one or more filters. When a single filter is used to derive a first sub-signal, analog interference cancellation may be used to derive the second sub-signal. When two filters are used, the first and second sub-signals may each be derived using a corresponding filter.
US11539386B2
In the field of communications assemblies, particularly those arising in connection with high voltage direct current (HVDC) power converters, there is provided a communications assembly (10) that comprises a first module (12) which is arranged in operative communication with a second module (14A, 14B, 14C, 14D, 14E, 14F, 14G, 14H) via a communication conduit (16A, 16B, 16C, 16D, 16E, 16F, 16G, 16H). At least one of the first module (12) and the second module (14A, 14B, 14C, 14D, 14E, 14F, 14G, 14H) have a receiver (24) that includes a squelch filter (26) which is configured to operate in a first normal mode and a second test mode. The squelch filter (26) normally operates in the first normal mode to suppress a signal output (28) from the receiver (24) when the strength of an input signal (30) received by the receiver (24), via the communication conduit (16A, 16B, 16C, 16D, 16E, 16F, 16G, 16H), falls below a normal threshold. The squelch filter (26) selectively operates in the second test mode to suppress the signal output (28) from the receiver (24) when the strength of the input signal (30) received by the receiver (24), via the communication conduit (16A, 16B, 16C, 16D, 16E, 16F, 16G, 16H), falls below a test threshold higher than the normal threshold. When the squelch filter (26) is operating in the second test mode, a signal output (28) from the receiver (24) indicates a signal margin in the communication conduit (16A, 16B, 16C, 16D, 16E, 16F, 16G, 16H) that is at least equal to the difference between the test threshold and the normal threshold.
US11539377B2
A data transmission method for transmitting a data signal using four data signal levels during a unit interval and transmitting a data bus inversion (DBI) signal using two DBI signal levels during the unit interval, the method including: receiving n (n is a natural number) data, each of the n data including a first bit and a second bit; counting the number of data in which the first bit and the second bit have the same value among the n data; in response to the counting result being less than or equal to a predetermined number, transmitting the n data using the four data signal levels, together with a DBI signal having a first DBI signal level; and in response to the counting result being greater than the predetermined number, transmitting data, which is obtained by changing a value of either of the first bit and the second bit of the n data, using the four data signal levels, together with a DBI signal having a second DBI signal level different from the first DBI signal level.
US11539372B2
A signal control device includes a charge/discharge circuit, a sampling capacitor, and an AC conversion circuit. The charge/discharge circuit is capable of charging or discharging the sampling capacitor. The AC conversion circuit performs an AD conversion by converting an analog voltage value charged in the sampling capacitor into an AD conversion value that is a digital value. After a charge operation or a discharge operation to the sampling capacitor with the charge/discharge circuit, the AD conversion circuit performs the AD conversion, and a malfunction of the charge/discharge circuit is determined based on a diagnosis result of the AD conversion value.
US11539371B1
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) system. The DAC system generally includes a plurality of current sources, a plurality of calibration DACs, each coupled to a respective one of the plurality of current sources, a reference current source, and a current mirror having a first branch selectively coupled to the plurality of current sources, wherein a second branch of the current mirror is coupled to the reference current source. The DAC system also includes a first error DAC selectively coupled to the first branch and the second branch of the current mirror, and a second error DAC selectively coupled to the first branch and the second branch of the current mirror.
US11539369B2
A duty-cycle corrector circuit produces a clock signal with a given duty cycle (e.g., fifty percent) or with a substantially given duty cycle. The DC corrector circuit includes a delay-locked loop (DLL) circuit and a duty-cycle correction (DCC) circuit. The DLL circuit is operable to adjust a delay between local clock signals until the phase difference between the local clock signals equals or is substantially equal to zero. The DCC circuit is operable to adjust the duty cycles of the local clock signals until the duty-cycle error equals or is substantially equal to zero. The duty-cycle error equals or substantially equals zero when the duty cycles of the local clock signals equal or are substantially equal to fifty percent.
US11539361B2
To provide a semiconductor device signal transmission circuit for drive-control, a method of controlling a semiconductor device signal transmission circuit for drive-control, a semiconductor device, a power conversion device, and an electric system for a railway vehicle capable of preventing malfunction due to noise while speeding up or reducing loss of a switching operation. The semiconductor device signal transmission circuit for drive-control that is connected between a semiconductor device constituting an arm in a power conversion device and a drive circuit configured to drive the semiconductor device, including: an inductor; and an impedance circuit including a switch and connected in parallel with the inductor.
US11539358B2
The present invention relates to a circuit for protecting a switch of an electrical system, said protecting circuit comprising a variable electronic component having a physical characteristic the value of which varies by at least 10% as a function of temperature, the protecting circuit being configured to prohibit a current from passing through said switch when the intensity of said current exceeds a maximum allowed intensity threshold, said variable electronic component being connected in the protecting circuit such that the value of the maximum allowed intensity threshold is directly a function of said physical characteristic.
US11539357B2
An integrated circuit may include a power transistor coupled between a supply pin and an output pin; a current sensing circuit configured to sense a load current passing through the power transistor and to provide a respective current sense signal; a first configuration pin; a current output circuit configured to provide a diagnosis current at a current output pin; a diagnosis pin for receiving a diagnosis request signal; and a control circuit configured to: select a characteristic curve representing a current versus time characteristic dependent on a external circuit connected to the first configuration pin; generate a drive signal for the power transistor dependent on the selected characteristic curve and the current sense signal; and control—dependent on a pulse pattern of the diagnosis request signal—the current output circuit to set the value of the diagnosis current such that it represents the load current or the selected characteristic curve.
US11539355B2
Systems, methods, and devices are provided for a circuit for generating a pulse output having a controllable pulse width. Systems and methods may include a delay line having a plurality of stages. A delay per stage calculation circuit is configured to determine a per-stage delay of the delay line using a first clock input. A pulse generation circuit is configured to generate the pulse output using the delay line based on the per-stage delay using a second clock input, the second clock input having a lower frequency than the first clock input.
US11539354B2
Systems, methods, and devices are provided for a circuit for generating a pulse output having a controllable pulse width. Systems and methods may include a delay line having a plurality of stages. A delay per stage calculation circuit is configured to determine a per-stage delay of the delay line using a first clock input. A pulse generation circuit is configured to generate the pulse output using the delay line based on the per-stage delay using a second clock input, the second clock input having a lower frequency than the first clock input.
US11539349B1
An integrated circuit includes a signal output circuit configured to output a timing signal indicating first and second timings of respectively switching first and second switching devices, first and second hold circuits respectively configured to receive first and second voltages corresponding to temperatures of the first and second switching devices, hold the first and second voltages for first and second time periods, and output the received first and second voltages in response to the first and second time periods having elapsed, and first and second control circuits respectively configured to control switching of the first and second switching devices with first and second driving capabilities corresponding to the temperatures of the first and second switching devices, based on the first and second voltages outputted from the first and second hold circuits and first and second driving signals for driving the first and second switching device.
US11539340B2
The invention provides a film bulk acoustic resonator including a layered structure composed of a top electrode, a piezoelectric layer and a bottom electrode, and a substrate; a reflective interface is arranged between the bottom electrode and the substrate; and by defining the shape of all or part of the layered structure, the purpose of suppressing the lateral mode can be achieved, and without adding new process, the manufacturing cost of the device can be controlled, and the benefit of product development can be maximized.
US11539339B2
An audio signal processing apparatus is provided. The audio signal processing apparatus includes an input terminal receiving an input audio signal, a processor obtaining a difference between a playback loudness of the input audio signal and a desired loudness thereof and correcting a frequency band spectrum of an output audio signal for each of a plurality of frequency bands based on the difference between the playback loudness and the desired loudness of the input audio signal and a relationship between a loudness and a sound pressure for each of the plurality of frequency bands, and an output terminal outputting the output audio signal. The playback loudness is a loudness of the output audio signal when the input audio signal is output without the correction.
US11539329B2
A wideband envelope modulator comprises a direct current (DC)-to-DC switching converter connected in series with a linear amplitude modulator (LAM). The DC-DC switching converter includes a pulse-width modulator that generates a PWM signal with modulated pulse widths representing a time varying magnitude of an input envelope signal or a pulse-density modulator that generates a PDM signal with a modulated pulse density representing the time varying magnitude of the input envelope signal, a field-effect transistor (FET) driver stage that generates a differential PWM or PDM drive signal, a high-power output switching stage that is driven by the PWM or PDM drive signal, and an output energy storage network including a low-pass filter (LPF) of order greater than two that filters a switching voltage produced at an output switching node of the high-power output switching stage.
US11539323B2
An opening and closing body control apparatus for a vehicle includes an assist control portion configured to detect an operation of an opening and closing body of the vehicle by an operator or a user and control voltage applied to a motor serving as a drive source which applies a drive force to the opening and closing body during the operation of the opening and closing body by the operator or the user. The assist control portion applies an assist voltage and an offset voltage alternately to the motor to operate an assist control for applying the drive force to the opening and closing body. The assist voltage for rotating the motor at a rotation speed which corresponds to an operation speed of the opening and closing body and the offset voltage being lower than the assist voltage.
US11539310B2
An artificial muscle includes an electrode pair including a first electrode and a second electrode. One or both of the first electrode and the second electrode includes a central opening. The first electrode and the second electrode each include two or more fan portions and two or more bridge portions. Each fan portion includes a first end having an inner length, a second end having an outer length, a first side edge extending from the second end, and a second side edge extending from the second end. The outer length is greater than the inner length. Each bridge portion interconnecting adjacent fan portions at the first end.
US11539309B2
A zero-voltage zero-current soft switching type driving method for an ultrasonic motor is provided, relating to the technical field of driving of a two-phase actuator. The disclosure solves the problems of high loss, high heat amount and the like in a traditional ultrasonic motor driving circuit. The method provided realizes resonance between series inductors and buffer capacitors by means of an optimal design of the inductance of matching inductors, the capacitance of buffer capacitors, a dead time value and a delay time value, thereby causing a power tube to realize zero-voltage and zero-current switching. Two signal input ends of a two-phase pseudo full bridge inverter are connected to a power grid, and two signal output ends of the two-phase pseudo full bridge inverter are respectively connected to two signal input ends of a matching circuit; and the output ends of the matching circuit are respectively connected to a two-phase ultrasonic motor.
US11539308B2
A virtual resistive load feedback circuit for driving a piezoelectric actuator is provided that accounts for a hysteresis error and drift within the movement of the actuator. The circuit may include a voltage divider and charge divider. A voltage monitor signal corresponding to a voltage of a driver signal and a current monitor signal corresponding to a current provided to the amplifier are combined by an operational amplifier and include electrical characteristics of the actuator such that the circuit approximates a virtual load across the actuator. A feedback portion of the operational amplifier may include a resistor and capacitor connected in parallel to provide the voltage and charge divide functions. The use of the virtual resistive circuit allows for the piezoelectric actuator to be ground referenced, with no external components connected directly to the actuator while gaining the feedback effect to counter the hysteresis and drifts errors of the actuator.
US11539305B2
The disclosure relates to a modular arrangement of a converter for the electrical supply of a multi-phase electric motor. The modular arrangement includes multiple output stage modules, each module having a separate first housing. An output stage module is provided for each phase of the electric motor, wherein the output stage module has a phase intermediate circuit and an inverter circuit, together forming a commutation cell. The phase intermediate circuit supplies DC voltage and is electrically connected to the inverter circuit. The disclosure also relates to a motor arrangement and an aircraft having a motor arrangement of this type.
US11539303B2
An uninterruptible power supply (UPS) is provided that includes a split direct current (DC) link having a first capacitor coupled between a positive DC link terminal and a first node, and a second capacitor coupled between the first node and a negative DC link terminal. The UPS also includes a rectifier coupled to an input of the split DC link and a controller coupled to the rectifier. The rectifier includes first, second, and third legs, wherein each leg is configured to convert a first alternating current (AC) voltage received from an AC source into a DC voltage to be provided to the split DC link, and a fourth leg configured to balance DC link voltages of the first and second capacitors. The controller is configured to maintain functionality of the rectifier during at least one of a partial utility power outage, a full utility outage, and a failure of at least one of the first, second, third, and fourth legs.
US11539300B1
A DC to DC power converter device includes a controller, and a DC to DC resonant converter that includes first and second full bridge chopper circuits (FBCCs) and an LLC resonant converter coupled between the first and second FBCCs. To cause the DC to DC resonant converter to operate in a conversion mode where an input voltage received by the second FBCC is converted to an output voltage provided by the first FBCC, the controller controls switches of the second FBCC and switches of the first FBCC to transition between an ON state and an OFF state with the ON state reoccurring at a frequency lower than a resonant frequency of the DC to DC resonant converter, so that the output voltage can be higher than the input voltage.
US11539294B2
A multi-level power converter and a method using first, second, third and fourth switching elements, an inductor, and a flying capacitor are presented. A first terminal of the inductor may be connected to a switching terminal connecting the second and third switching elements. A first terminal of the flying capacitor may be connected to a terminal connecting the first and second elements. A second terminal of the flying capacitor may be connected to a terminal connecting the third and fourth switching elements. The multi-level power converter may have a first feedback circuit to generate control signals for setting the switching elements in a plurality of switching states for regulating an output voltage or an output current. The converter may have a second feedback circuit to generate control signals to allow the flying capacitor to be charged or discharged using an inductor current flowing through the inductor.
US11539286B2
A power supply circuit includes a power converter, an input voltage source, and a clamping circuit. The power converter has an input pin, an output pin, and an enable pin. The input voltage source is electrically connected to the input pin, and provides an input voltage to the input pin. The clamping circuit is electrically connected to the enable pin of the power converter. When the input voltage increases to at least a threshold input voltage, the clamping circuit is configured to activate the power converter to provide an output voltage at the output pin. When the input voltage decreases below the threshold input voltage, the clamping circuit is configured to deactivate the power converter and prevent the power converter from being re-activated within a predefined time period.
US11539285B2
A DC-to-DC converter includes a first DC side, a second DC side, a first capacitor, a first switch circuit, a magnetic element circuit, a second switch circuit, and a second capacitor. The DC-to-DC converter is adapted for converting between a first DC voltage and a second DC voltage. The magnetic element circuit is electrically coupled to the first switch circuit, and includes a plurality of magnetically coupled windings and an inductor. An oscillating current flowing in the first switch circuit is generated by controlling the first switch circuit and the second switch circuit, and an oscillating frequency of the oscillating current is determined by the capacitance of the first capacitor and the inductance of the inductor in the magnetic element circuit, and the first switch circuit and the second switch circuit are switched at a specific region of a wave trough of the oscillating current.
US11539281B2
A magnetically-coupled torque assist apparatus includes a movable (rotor) magnet configured to rotate about a rotor magnet axis extending through the rotor magnet, and a stationary (stator) magnet. The rotor magnet and the stator magnet have a gap therebetween. There is an equilibrium state position (ESP) of the rotor magnet where forces acting on the rotor magnet are balanced such that the rotor magnet is stationary about the rotor magnet axis. And when the rotor magnet is rotated from the equilibrium state position (ESP) to an elastically stressed state position (SSP), magnetic fields of the rotor magnet and the stator magnet generate a resultant magnetic force on the movable magnet that biases the movable magnet towards the equilibrium state position. In some embodiments, the stator and rotor magnets are configured to create a Halbach-effect magnetic field bloom, which contributes to the magnetic forces.
US11539278B2
In accordance with one aspect of the present disclosure, an electronic device includes a housing, a contact member attached to the housing, and a vibration generating device. The vibration generating device is fixed to the contact member or the housing. A gap is formed between a surface of the vibration generating device facing the housing and a surface of the housing facing the vibration generating device.
US11539277B2
The present disclosure relates to a motor for a seat sliding device of a vehicle, and includes a coil module in which a plurality of first coils and a plurality of second coils are seamlessly disposed in the circumferential direction to have a cylindrical shape. Therefore, the conventional stator core having a slot and a tooth for installing the coil is not used, thereby implementing miniaturization and light-weight of a motor. and the slot and the tooth do not exist, thereby reducing a cogging torque and reducing the vibration and noise of the motor.
US11539264B2
A vehicle electric motor including: a tubular-shaped stator core constituted by electromagnetic steel sheets that are laminated on each other; a rotor disposed inside the stator core so as to be rotated about an axis; and a housing storing therein the tubular-shaped stator core and the rotor, and including a circumferential wall and axially opposite end walls that are opposed to each other in a direction parallel with the axis. The stator core is fixed at one of its axially end portions to one of the axially opposite end walls of the housing. The housing includes a stator-core-inclination restraining portion that protrudes from an inner circumferential surface of the circumferential wall of the housing toward a part of an outer circumferential surface of the stator core, wherein the part is located on a side of the other of the axially end portions of the stator core.
US11539258B2
An electric oil pump includes a motor including a shaft, a pump driven via the shaft, and an inverter assembly located on a rear side of the motor and secured to the motor. The motor includes a rotor, a stator, and a motor housing that houses the rotor and the stator. The pump includes a pump rotor and a pump housing. The motor housing has a bottomed tubular shape that includes a bottom portion on a side of the inverter assembly, and the inverter assembly includes an inverter housing including a circuit board housing that houses a circuit board and a busbar holder. The busbar holder is on a side opposite to a terminal that is electrically connected to the circuit board with respect to the shaft in the circuit board housing.
US11539252B2
A flux machine includes a stator and a rotor. A set of electrical coil assemblies with side surfaces and sets of plural permanent magnets are arranged circularly on the stator and the rotor. Pole faces of the magnets are positioned adjacent to and spaced apart from side surfaces of permeable cores of the coil assemblies. In each coil assembly a pair of like pole faces of the magnets mutually face across the permeable core and a third magnet pole face faces transversely relative to the mutually facing pole faces of the pair of magnets.
US11539243B2
A wireless power receiving system includes two or more electrically small antenna arms and a common antenna ground. The two or more electrically small antenna arms are connected to the same common antenna ground and are close enough to one another to be strongly coupled. In some embodiments, the two or more electrically small antenna arms are tuned to the same functional frequency so that they load one another to create self-resonance. The wireless power receiving system receives the transmitted wireless power wave emitting from a wireless power transmitter without added lossy matching components.
US11539238B2
The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for economically optimal control of an electrical system. A two-stage controller includes an optimizer and a high speed controller to effectuate a change to one or more components of the electrical system. The high speed controller receives a set of control parameters for an upcoming extended time period. The control parameters include a plurality of bounds for an adjusted net power of the electrical system. The high speed controller sets an energy storage system command control variable (ESS command) based on a state of adjusted net power of the electrical system and the set of control parameters.
US11539225B2
A power control method for a charging system includes: detecting a power signal and an input voltage of the power signal; determining a charging protocol supported by the power signal; and determining whether to conduct a power switching circuit or not according to the input voltage of the power signal and the charging protocol supported by the power signal to provide power for an amplifier chip of the charging system.
US11539211B2
An intelligent impedance injection module is for use with transmission lines in a power grid. The intelligent impedance injection module has a plurality of transformer-less impedance injector units and a controller. The controller changes injector gain of the impedance injector units to compensate for current swings in a transmission line.
US11539196B1
An electrical outlet cover with a lid having an adjustable enclosure. The electrical outlet cover includes a base coupled to an electrical outlet and a hinged lid. The lid includes a frame with a central aperture and a telescoping enclosure with a flange at a front edge of a sleeve, the flange extending outward from the sleeve. The sleeve may include a ledge extending outward from the sleeve adjacent a back edge of the sleeve on at least two sides of the sleeve. The sleeve is slidably coupled within the central aperture and movable between an expanded position and a collapsed position. A front surface of the sleeve enclosure may include a window that extends forward of the sleeve walls and may further bulge forward of the front surface.
US11539193B2
A cable jacket removal device is used to selectively remove a sheath from a length of a sheathed cable. The cable jacket removal device includes a support frame, a drive shaft, and a motor. The support frame removably couples the removal device to the cable to be stripped. The drive shaft is coupled to the support frame. The motor is coupled to the drive shaft to selectively rotate the drive shaft to cause the removal device to travel along the cable to automatically remove a cable jacket from a predefined distance of the cable.
US11539183B2
A laser package is mounted on the printed circuit board. At least one thermal via extends through the printed circuit board, coupled to the laser package. A thermal bridge is coupled to the at least one thermal via on the bottom of the printed circuit board. A thermal paste connects the thermal bridge to a conductive ground plane on the bottom of the printed circuit board, and to a mechanical housing.
US11539182B2
A light source device includes: a laser diode; a substrate directly or indirectly supporting the laser diode; and a cap secured to the substrate and covering the laser diode. The cap includes a first glass portion configured to transmit laser light that is emitted from the laser diode, and a second glass portion. At least one of the first glass portion and the second glass portion includes an alkaline glass region. The first glass portion and the second glass portion are bonded together via an electrically conductive layer that is in contact with the alkaline glass region.
US11539180B2
A laser apparatus according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: a master oscillator; at least one amplifier disposed on an optical path of a first pulse laser beam output from the master oscillator; a sensor disposed on an optical path of a second pulse laser beam output from the at least one amplifier; and a laser controller. The laser controller causes the laser apparatus to perform burst oscillation based on a burst signal from an external device, and performs processing of controlling a beam parameter based on a sensor output signal obtained from the sensor in a burst duration, and processing of detecting self-oscillation light from the amplifier based on a sensor output signal obtained from the sensor in a burst stop duration.
US11539177B2
A relay assembly comprises a vital relay used in a vital circuit and configured to be rack-installed in an equipment room in a railroad case or a railroad housing for providing a modular solid-state current-limiting. The relay assembly further comprises a plurality of vital relay contacts to which a current flow is restricted by a single supply solid-state current limiter. The relay assembly further comprises a relay socket base assembly coupled to the vital relay. The relay socket base assembly includes a relay socket base including a plurality of vital relay contact prongs, a plug assembly including a plurality of printed circuit board (PCB) mounted contact terminals, and a plurality of contact terminals that provide a connection between the plurality of vital relay contact prongs and the plurality of printed circuit board (PCB) mounted contact terminals. The relay assembly further comprises an ancillary electrical control module.
US11539164B2
An electronic device includes a case module, a circuit board, a detachable module and a lever mechanism. The detachable module is detachably installed on the case module and slidable relative to the case module, and an electrical connector of the detachable module is mated with a mating electrical connector of the circuit board when the detachable module is installed on the case module and slides to an engaging position. The lever mechanism includes a lever component partially located between the case module and the detachable module, and an abutting component fixed on the case module. When the lever component is operated to pivot relative to the detachable module, the lever component cooperates with the abutting component in a contacting manner to drive the detachable module to slide, so as to disengage the electrical connector of the detachable module from the mating electrical connector of the circuit board.
US11539159B2
A plug connector for providing an electrical connection, having a collective seal with at least one passage opening and at least one electrically conductive plug contact, which is guided through the at least one passage opening of the collective seal. Also disclosed is a template for the passage opening to support the plug contact when the plug contact is guided through the passage opening of the collective seal.
US11539148B2
An electrical connector that includes an outer conductive shell that encloses at least one signal contact therein and includes a front end for mating with a mating connector and a back end opposite the front end for electrically connecting to a printed circuit board. A primary ground connection is located inside or outside of the outer conductive shell, the primary ground connection being configured to electrically engage the mating connector with the printed circuit board or coaxial cable. A secondary ground connection is located inside or outside of the outer conductive shell and is configured to electrically engage the mating connector with the printed circuit board or the coaxial cable.
US11539146B2
A phased array antenna comprising: a substrate; a plurality of circular polarized wideband antenna elements disposed on the substrate, wherein each element comprises two orthogonal feeds; wherein the plurality of elements are organized into subarrays and physically oriented such that constituent elements of each subarray are sequentially rotated with respect to each other about respective axes that are perpendicular to a surface of the substrate so as to allow RHCP and LHCP transmission and reception; a phase shifter communicatively coupled to the feeds of all the elements and configured to electronically any dynamically compensate for phase regression or progression introduced by the sequential rotation of the elements without relying on physical transmission lines of different dimensions, and further configured to introduce a progressive phase shift across a beam steering plane to enable beam steering of the phased array antenna.
US11539145B2
Provided is a dual-polarized antenna. The dual-polarized antenna includes a horizontal radiating unit and a vertical radiating unit. The horizontal radiating unit includes a power divider and a Vivaldi oscillator array. The Vivaldi oscillator array includes multiple Vivaldi oscillator units uniformly distributed in a circumferential direction of the Vivaldi oscillator array. The power divider includes multiple output ports in one-to-one correspondence with the multiple Vivaldi oscillator units. The multiple output ports of the power divider are coupled to the multiple Vivaldi oscillator units in a one-to-one correspondence. The vertical radiating unit is disposed on one side of the horizontal radiating unit and includes a vertically-polarized oscillator.
US11539143B2
An antenna system, includes a first substrate, a plurality of chips, and a waveguide antenna element based beam forming phased array. The waveguide antenna element based beam forming phased array includes a plurality of radiating waveguide antenna cells. Each radiating waveguide antenna cell includes a plurality of pins that are connected to ground. A body of each radiating waveguide antenna cell corresponds to the ground. The plurality of chips are electrically connected with the plurality of pins and the ground of each of the plurality of radiating waveguide antenna cells to control beamforming through a second end of the plurality of radiating waveguide antenna cells.
US11539135B2
The present disclosure relates to a display apparatus including a display panel, a bezel surface formed on a boundary of the display panel, and an antenna located on the bezel surface, wherein the antenna includes a composite right left handed (CRLH) structure including a series inductor, a series capacitor, a parallel inductor, and a parallel capacitor.
US11539133B2
An antenna structure includes a first radiation element, a second radiation element, a third radiation element, a fourth radiation element, and a dielectric substrate. The first radiation element is coupled to a ground voltage. The first radiation element includes a variable-width portion. The second radiation element has a feeding point. The second radiation element is adjacent to the first radiation element. The third radiation element is coupled to the variable-width portion of the first radiation element. The fourth radiation element is coupled to the second radiation element. The dielectric substrate has a first surface and a second surface which are opposite to each other. The second radiation element and the fourth radiation element are disposed on the first surface of the dielectric substrate. The first radiation element and the third radiation element are disposed on the second surface of the dielectric substrate.
US11539116B2
Various cellular plate assemblies are described. A plate may be present having a first side and a second side. Port connectors can be arranged on the first side of the radio plate. Each port connector is configured to be connected with a different port of a cellular radio or cellular antenna system. Cable ports can arranged on the second side of the radio plate. Each cable port can be connected with a corresponding radio port connector of the plurality of radio port connectors. Further, each cable port is keyed differently such that only a particular keyed cable assembly can be mated with the cable port.
US11539108B1
A reconfigurable quadrature coupler is disclosed. The reconfigurable quadrature coupler includes an input port transmission line connected to a first port, a coupled port transmission line and a coupled port transformer connected between the coupled port transmission line and a second port. The coupled port transformer is configured to have a selectable second port reflection coefficient. The reconfigurable quadrature coupler further includes an isolation port transmission line and an isolation port transformer connected between the isolation transmission line and a third port. The isolation port transformer is configured to have a selectable third port reflection coefficient. Also included is a through port transmission line and a through port transformer connected between the through port transmission line and a fourth port. The through port transformer is configured to have a selectable fourth port reflection coefficient.
US11539105B2
An attenuator is configured to attenuate and phase-shift a radiofrequency signal according to a control signal, having a plurality of first attenuation cells (A1, AN−1), configured to attenuate said radiofrequency signal by a predetermined value and activated according to a particular bit of the control signal, and implementing a combinatorial logic on the bits of the control signal that are used to control the first attenuation cells, and at least one second attenuation cell (B1, BM) configured to attenuate said radiofrequency signal by a predetermined value and activated according to a particular output implementing the combinatorial logic. A control node is also provided for an array antenna having such an attenuator, and an array antenna having an array of such control node and a satellite.
US11539102B2
A battery connector including a conductive plate configured to contact a first battery and a second battery so as to electrically connect the first battery and the second battery to each other, an upper fixer configured to be coupled the first battery, and a lower fixer configured to be coupled to the second battery.
US11539092B2
The application relates to a battery pack case and a battery pack. The battery pack case includes: a bottom plate and a side plate connected with the bottom plate, the bottom plate and the side plate surround to form an accommodating portion configured to accommodate a unit cell; the bottom plate is provided with a plurality of first grooves and a plurality of second grooves opening toward the accommodating portion, the plurality of first grooves are spaced apart from each other, the plurality of second grooves are spaced apart from each other, and the first grooves and the second grooves are arranged to cross each other. The bottom plate of the battery pack itself has good rigidity, is not prone to warp deformation, and can prevent the overflow of structural glue from contaminating the wiring harness or electrical components.
US11539083B2
A positive-electrode core laminate of a portion of a positive-electrode core on which no positive-electrode active material layer is formed is bonded to a positive-electrode current collector by ultrasonic bonding. A core recess is formed in a bonding region of the positive-electrode core laminate bonded to the positive-electrode current collector by ultrasonic bonding, a region of the positive-electrode core laminate in which the core recess is formed includes a solid-state bonding layer and a central layer, the solid-state bonding layer being formed by solid-state bonding between layers of the positive-electrode core, the central layer being disposed between the solid-state bonding layers formed on both faces of the positive-electrode core, and the first average grain size of metal crystal grains constituting the solid-state bonding layer is smaller than the second average grain size of metal crystal grains constituting the central layer.
US11539081B2
A method for integrating a thin film microbattery with electronic circuitry includes forming a release layer over a handler, forming a thin film microbattery over the release layer of the handler, removing the thin film microbattery from the handler, depositing the thin film microbattery on an interposer, forming electronic circuitry on the interposer, and sealing the thin film microbattery and the electronic circuitry to create individual microbattery modules.
US11539076B2
An electrolyte for a lithium secondary battery and a lithium secondary battery including the same, and more specifically, an electrolyte for a lithium secondary battery that can uniformly maintain a lithium ion concentration on the surface of a lithium metal negative electrode to inhibit the growth of lithium dendrites, even if a small amount of an additive comprising a functional group forming a bond with lithium metal and a polyethylene oxide chain interacting with lithium ion is contained.
US11539075B2
Disclosed are an electrolyte for a lithium secondary battery and a lithium secondary battery comprising the same. The electrolyte for a lithium secondary battery, according to an embodiment, can comprise: a nonaqueous organic solvent; a lithium salt; a first additive comprising a compound represented by a specific chemical formula; and a second additive including at least one of lithium difluorophosphate (LiPO2F2), a cyclic carbonate including a fluorine atom, and a dinitrile compound.
US11539071B2
A sulfide-impregnated solid-state battery is provided. The battery comprises a cell core constructed by basic cell units. Each unit comprises a positive electrode comprising a cathode layer and a positive meshed current collector comprising a conductive material which is further coated by oxide-based solid-state electrolyte. The cell unit further comprises a negative electrode comprising an anode layer and a negative meshed current collector comprising a conductive material which is further coated by oxide-based solid-state electrolyte. The positive and negative electrodes are stacked together to form the cell unit. The two coated oxide-based solid electrolyte layers are disposed between the positive and negative electrode as dual separators. Such a cell unit may be repeated or connected in parallel or bipolar stacking to form the cell core to achieve a desired battery voltage, power and energy. The cell core comprises a sulfide-based solid-state electrolyte dispersed in the pore structures of cell core.
US11539066B2
Methods, microbial fuel cells and microbial consortia for generating electrical current are provided according to the present invention which include providing a microbial consortium to an anode chamber of a microbial fuel cell, wherein the microbial consortium includes: 1) an engineered methanogen that contains a heterologous nucleic acid sequence encoding methyl-coenzyme M reductase derived from an anaerobic methane oxidizer, 2) an exoelectrogen microbe that produces electrically-conductive appendages and/or one or more types of electron carrier, and 3) a sludge, methane-acclimated sludge, a sludge isolate component, a methane-acclimated sludge isolate component chosen from Paracoccus spp., Geotoga spp., Geobacter spp., Methanosarcina spp., Garciella spp., humic acids; or a combination of any two or more thereof.
US11539060B2
A membrane humidifier for a fuel cell is disclosed. The membrane includes a middle case in which a plurality of hollow fiber membranes are accommodated; a cap case coupled to the middle case; a potting part formed at the end portions of the plurality of hollow fiber membranes; and an assembling member disposed between the end portions of the cap case and the middle case, and simultaneously coupling, so as to be airtight, a gap between the cap case and the middle case and a gap between the cap case and the potting part.
US11539058B1
A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell configured to produce electrical power by a chemical reaction of a flow of fuel and a flow of oxygen or air with an electrolyte and a cooling system configured to remove thermal energy from the fuel cell via a flow of coolant through the fuel cell. The fuel cell system includes one or more conductivity sensors configured to measure a change in conductivity of the coolant flow. A method of operating a fuel cell system includes producing electrical power at a fuel cell by a chemical reaction of a flow of fuel and a flow of air with an electrolyte, urging a flow of coolant through the fuel cell to remove thermal energy and ions from the fuel cell, and measuring a conductivity of the flow of coolant via one or more conductivity sensors.
US11539053B2
Herein discussed is an electrode comprising a copper or copper oxide phase and a ceramic phase, wherein the copper or copper oxide phase and the ceramic phase are sintered and are inter-dispersed with one another. Further discussed herein is a method of making a copper-containing electrode comprising: (a) forming a dispersion comprising ceramic particles and copper or copper oxide particles; (b) depositing the dispersion onto a substrate to form a slice; and (c) sintering the slice using electromagnetic radiation.
US11539050B2
Provided are a current collector, an electrode plate, a battery and an application of the current collector. The current collector includes an insulation layer and a conductive layer. The insulation layer is configured to bear the conductive layer, the conductive layer is configured to bear an electrode active material layer. A room temperature film resistance RS of the conductive layer meets a conditional expression: 0.016Ω/□≤RS≤420Ω/□. By the current collector of the present application, the short circuit resistance of the battery in case of an abnormal situation causing the short circuit can be greatly increased, and the short circuit current can be greatly reduced. Thus, influence of the short circuit damage on the battery is limited to a point range, and an interrupt in the current only occurs in a point range, without disrupting normal operation of the battery in a certain period time.
US11539043B2
A negative active material, a lithium battery including the negative active material, and a method of preparing the negative active material. The negative active material includes: a core particle including a silicon based alloy; carbon nanoparticles disposed on a surface of the core particle; and an amorphous carbonaceous coating layer disposed on at least a portion of a surface of the core particle. The negative active material may improve the lifetime characteristics of the lithium batteries.
US11539041B2
Silicon particles for use in an electrode in an electrochemical cell are provided. The silicon particles may have outer regions extending about 20 nm deep from the surfaces, the outer regions comprising an amount of aluminum such that a bulk measurement of the aluminum comprises at least about 0.01% by weight of the silicon particles. The bulk measurement of the aluminum may provide the amount of aluminum present at least in the outer regions.
US11539037B2
A positive active material for a rechargeable lithium battery includes a first positive active material including a secondary particle including at least two agglomerated primary particles, where at least one part of the primary particles has a radial arrangement structure, as well as a second positive active material having a monolith structure. The first and second positive active materials may both include nickel-based positive active materials. A method of preparing the positive active material, and a rechargeable lithium battery including a positive electrode including the positive active material are also provided.
US11539031B2
A number of new solutions for enhancing the extraction of waveguided mode and suppressing surface plasmon polariton mode in OLEDs are disclosed.
US11539029B2
A display device includes a substrate including a display area and a bending area adjacent to the display area, a conductive layer disposed on the substrate in the bending area, where the conductive layer is configured to transmit driving signals from a driving circuit to a display unit, and a bending protective layer disposed on the conductive layer in the bending area. The bending protective layer includes conductive particles. In the case of a crack in the conductive layer, the conductive particles within the bending protective layer may freely move and fill into the conductive layer, preventing a decrease in display performance.
US11539025B2
Provided are: a composition for an organic light emitting diode comprising an indole-based photocurable monomer, a non-indole-based photocurable monomer, and an initiator, and an organic light emitting display manufactured therefrom.
US11539019B2
A display substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device are disclosed. The display substrate includes a base substrate; a pixel defining layer on the base substrate, the pixel defining layer includes a plurality of openings, the pixel defining layer includes a first pixel defining layer, a conductive layer, and a second pixel defining layer which are stacked, in the pixel defining layer in at least a peripheral region of the display substrate, an orthographic projection of the conductive layer on the base substrate completely falls within an orthographic projection of the second pixel defining layer on the base substrate; and an electroluminescent unit including a transparent electrode the transparent electrode is electrically connected with the conductive layer in the pixel defining layer in at least the peripheral region of the display substrate.
US11539003B2
By providing a novel polycyclic aromatic amino compound having an amino substituent and having a plurality of aromatic rings linked via a boron atom, an oxygen atom, or the like, for example, as in the following formula, a selection range of a material for an organic EL element is widened. In addition, by using the novel polycyclic aromatic amino compound as a material for an organic electroluminescent element, an excellent organic EL element is provided
US11539002B2
Provided is a liquid crystal composition and a use thereof. The liquid crystal composition has a reverse-wavelength dispersion property and excellent high-temperature durability, and the liquid crystal composition can be applied to a retardation layer, a circularly polarizing plate, or a display device, for example, an organic light emitting display device.
US11538984B2
This spin element includes: a current-carrying part that extends in a first direction; and an element part that is laminated on one surface of the current-carrying part, wherein the current-carrying part includes a first wiring and a second wiring in order from a side of the element part, and wherein both of the first wiring and the second wiring are metals and temperature dependence of resistivity of the first wiring is larger than temperature dependence of resistivity of the second wiring in at least a temperature range of −40° C. to 100° C.
US11538982B2
A backing includes a plurality of backing plates that are laminated. Each backing plate includes a lead row and a backing material. Each lead includes a lead wire and an insulating coating. The insulating coating is integrated with the backing material, and an adhesive layer between them does not exist. Short-circuit between the leads may be prevented or reduced by the insulating coating. The backing plate is manufactured by a screen printing method.
US11538980B2
An actuator device has an electroactive polymer actuator (35) and an integrated piezoelectric transformer (30) whose primary side (32) and secondary side (34) are formed from different electroactive polymer materials. At least the secondary side (34) of the transformer shares a piezoelectric electroactive polymer layer (36) with the electroactive polymer actuator, so that lower external voltages can be applied to the device.
US11538978B2
There is provided a liquid discharge head including a piezoelectric body having a plurality of individual electrodes and a first common electrode, and a plurality of conductor layers. The plurality of individual electrodes have first to fourth individual electrode arrays, and the first common electrode has first and second extending portions, a plurality of first projecting portions, and a plurality of second projecting portions. Each of the first projecting portions overlaps partially with one of the plurality of individual electrodes forming the second individual electrode array along the stacking direction, and each of the second projecting portions overlaps partially with one of the plurality of individual electrodes forming the third individual electrode array along the stacking direction. The plurality of conductor layers are formed between the plurality of first projecting portions and the plurality of second projecting portions, without contacting the first common electrode and without contacting each other.
US11538975B2
A thermoelectric generator system including: a first surface having a first material configured to undergo a phase change at a first temperature; an actuator configured to retract the first material from contacting a heat source upon the heat source reaching a predetermined temperature higher than the first temperature; and a thermoelectric generator having a hot side and a cold side, the first material being on the hot side. The thermoelectric generator system can further include a second material configured to undergo a phase change at a second temperature, the second temperature being lower than the first temperature, the second material being on the cold side of the thermoelectric generator.
US11538973B2
A display device includes a substrate and pixels. The substrate includes: a display area including pixel areas, each including a first area and a second area; and a non-display area enclosing at least one side of the display area. The pixels are disposed on the pixel areas, each pixel including light emitting elements. Each pixel further includes: a pixel circuit part disposed on the first area and including at least one transistor and at least one capacitor; and a display element part disposed on the second area and including an emission area to emit light. Each of the pixel circuit part and the display element part has a multi-layer structure including one or more conductive layers and one or more insulating layers. At least one layer of the pixel circuit part and at least one layer of the display element part are disposed in a same layer.
US11538969B2
In one embodiment, the optoelectronic semiconductor component comprises at least one semiconductor chip for generating a primary radiation, and also an optical body disposed optically downstream of the semiconductor chip. A reflector surrounds the optical body laterally all around in a positively locking manner and is configured for reflecting the primary radiation and visible light. The optical body has a base surface facing the semiconductor chip and an exit surface facing away from the semiconductor chip. The optical body tapers in a direction away from the semiconductor chip. A quotient of the base surface and a height of the optical body is between 1 mm and 30 mm inclusive.
US11538967B2
Disclosed is a display device. The display device includes: a light transmissive plate including a first front surface, a rear surface facing the first front surface, and a hole positioned behind the first front surface and connected to the rear surface; and a display film attached to the rear surface of the plate, in which the display film includes a light transmissive substrate having a second front surface attached to the plate, an electrode layer formed on the second front surface, and a light source electrically connected to the electrode layer, and the light source is positioned in the hole.
US11538966B2
A method of manufacturing a light emitting device, the method includes: preparing an intermediate structure including a supporter, a plurality of light emitting elements arranged on the supporter, a covering layer arranged on the supporter and surrounding the light emitting elements, and wiring electrodes each arranged on and straddling the covering layer and a corresponding one of the light emitting elements: preparing a board including light-reflective resin arranged on a surface of the board; pressing the intermediate structure against the light-reflective resin arranged on the board, with the wiring electrodes facing the light-reflective resin; curing the light-reflective resin to form a light-reflective resin layer; and removing the supporter.
US11538964B2
An optoelectronic semiconductor chip may include an active region configured to emit electromagnetic radiation during operation of said optoelectronic semiconductor chip. The optoelectronic semiconductor chip comprises conversion elements arranged to convert the wavelength of the electromagnetic radiation emitted by the active region during operation, and at least one barrier at least partially impermeable to the electromagnetic radiation emitted by the active region. The barrier is disposed in a lateral direction between the conversion elements, the lateral direction being parallel to the main extension plane of the semiconductor body, and the barrier extending transversely to the lateral direction. The active region has at least two emission regions which can be driven separately from each other, and each of the conversion elements is disposed in a radiation direction of the electromagnetic radiation emitted from one of the emission regions. A method for manufacturing an optoelectronic semiconductor chip is also disclosed.
US11538962B2
A light-emitting element includes: a first n-type nitride semiconductor layer; a first light-emitting layer located on the first n-type nitride semiconductor layer; a p-type GaN layer located on the first light-emitting layer; an n-type GaN layer located on the p-type GaN layer and doped with an n-type impurity at an impurity concentration higher than that of the first n-type nitride semiconductor layer; a non-doped GaN layer located between the p-type GaN layer and the n-type GaN layer, a thickness of the non-doped GaN layer being not more than a width of a depletion layer formed by the n-type and p-type GaN layers; a second n-type nitride semiconductor layer located on the n-type GaN layer and doped with an n-type impurity; a second light-emitting layer located on the second n-type nitride semiconductor layer; and a p-type nitride semiconductor layer located on the second light-emitting layer and doped with a p-type impurity.
US11538954B2
An exemplary wearable brain interface system includes a head-mountable component and a control system. The head-mountable component includes an array of photodetectors that includes a photodetector comprising a single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) and a fast-gating circuit configured to arm and disarm the SPAD. The control system is for controlling a current drawn by the array of photodetectors.
US11538947B2
A photovoltaic unit that includes a biological interface for sensing an electrical signal from the biological tissue, the biological interface including a multilayered piezoelectric amplifier including a composite impulse generating layer including a matrix of a piezo polymeric material and dispersed phases including piezo nanocrystals and carbon nanotubes. The photovoltaic unit also includes a transducer structure comprising a fiber substrate having quantum dots present on a receiving end of the fiber. The receiving end of the fiber receiving the electrical signal. The quantum dots converts the electrical signal to a light signal.
US11538937B2
Fin trim plug structures for imparting channel stress are described. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a fin including silicon, the fin having a top and sidewalls. The fin has a trench separating a first fin portion and a second fin portion. A first gate structure including a gate electrode is over the top of and laterally adjacent to the sidewalls of the first fin portion. A second gate structure including a gate electrode is over the top of and laterally adjacent to the sidewalls of the second fin portion. An isolation structure is in the trench of the fin, the isolation structure between the first gate structure and the second gate structure. The isolation structure includes a first dielectric material laterally surrounding a recessed second dielectric material distinct from the first dielectric material, the recessed second dielectric material laterally surrounding an oxidation catalyst layer.
US11538936B2
A semiconductor device includes: an n−-type epitaxial layer having an element main surface; a p−-type body region, an n+-type source region, and n+-type drain regions; and a gate electrode including a second opening and first openings formed in a portion separated from the second opening toward the drain regions, wherein the body region selectively has a second portion exposed to the first openings of the gate electrode, and wherein the semiconductor device further includes a p+-type body contact region formed in the portion of the body region exposed to the first openings and having an impurity concentration higher than an impurity concentration of the body region.
US11538931B2
A semiconductor device includes a carrier generation layer disposed on a channel layer, a source contact and a drain contact disposed on the carrier generation layer, and a gate contact disposed between the source contact and the drain contact. The semiconductor device further includes a number N of conductive stripes disposed directly on the carrier generation layer in an area between the drain contact and the gate contact, and a number M of conductive transverse stripes disposed directly on the carrier generation layer in the area between the drain contact and the gate contact. Each of the N conductive stripes extends from and is electrically coupled to the drain contact. Each of the M conductive transverse stripes is aligned non-parallel to the N conductive stripes and is not in direct physical contact with the N conductive stripes.
US11538927B2
Semiconductor structures and the manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. An exemplary manufacturing method includes forming a stack of a first type and a second type epitaxial layers on a frontside of a semiconductor substrate, patterning the stack to form a fin-shaped structure, depositing a dielectric layer on sidewalls of the fin-shaped structure, and recessing the dielectric layer to expose a top portion of the fin-shaped structure. A top surface of the recessed dielectric layer is above a bottom surface of the stack. The exemplary manufacturing method also includes forming a gate structure over the top portion of the fin-shaped structure, etching the semiconductor substrate from a backside of the semiconductor substrate, and etching at least a bottommost first type epitaxial layer and a bottommost second type epitaxial layer through the trench.
US11538916B2
A semiconductor device including a substrate; a fin active region on the substrate and extending in a first direction; a gate structure extending across the fin active region and extending in a second direction; a source/drain region in the fin active region on a side of the gate structure; an insulating structure covering the gate structure and the source/drain region; and contact structures penetrating through the insulating structure and respectively connected to the source/drain region and the gate structure, wherein one of the contact structures includes a seed layer on the gate structure or the source/drain regions and including lower and upper regions, the lower region having a first grain size and the upper region being amorphous or having a grain size different from the first grain size, and a contact plug on an upper region of the seed layer and having a second grain size.
US11538908B2
A semiconductor device (100, 100′, 100″) and a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device (100, 100′, 100″). The semiconductor device (100, 100′, 100″) includes a substrate (104, 106), a GaN layer (112), and an AlGaN layer (114). The GaN layer (112) is located between the substrate (104, 106) and the AlGaN layer (114). The device further includes at least one contact (130, 132, 134), comprising a central portion (150) and an edge portion (152), and a passivation layer (160) located at least between the edge portion (152) of the contact (130, 132, 134) and the AlGaN layer (114). The edge portion (152) is spaced apart from an upper surface of the passivation layer (160). The edge portion (152) may be spaced apart from the passivation layer (160) by a further layer (170) or by an air gap (172).
US11538907B2
A semiconductor memory device includes first conducting layers and a first semiconductor layer opposed to the first conducting layers. If a concentration of the dopant in the first semiconductor layer is measured along an imaginary straight line, the concentration of the dopant has: a maximum value at a first point, a minimum value in a region closer to the first conducting layer than the first point at a second point; and a minimum value in a region farther from the first conducting layer than the first point at a third point. The second point is nearer to an end portion of the first semiconductor layer on the first conducting layer side than that on the opposite side. The third point is farther from the end portion on the first conducting layer side than that on the opposite side.
US11538905B2
Techniques are disclosed for forming nanowire transistors employing carbon-based layers. Carbon is added to the sacrificial layers and/or non-sacrificial layers of a multilayer stack forming one or more nanowires in the transistor channel region. Such carbon-based layers reduce or prevent diffusion and intermixing of the sacrificial and non-sacrificial portions of the multilayer stack. The reduction of diffusion/intermixing can allow for the originally formed layers to effectively maintain their original thicknesses, thereby enabling the formation of relatively more nanowires for a given channel region height because of the more accurate processing scheme. The techniques can be used to benefit group IV semiconductor material nanowire devices (e.g., devices including Si, Ge, and/or SiGe) and can also assist with the selective etch processing used to form the nanowires. The carbon concentration of the sacrificial and/or non-sacrificial layers can be adjusted to facilitate etch process to liberate nanowires in the channel region.
US11538891B2
A display panel, a method for fabrication a display panel, and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a display area, and a non-display area surrounding the display area and a first bezel area being in the non-display area; a substrate; a wiring layer, disposed on the substrate and in the non-display area, and including at least one first lead and at least one second lead, and at least a partial line segment of the at least one first lead and at least a partial line segment of the at least one second lead are disposed in the first bezel area; a polarizer disposed on a side of the wiring layer away from the substrate; and a first light-emitting layer, at least distributed in the first bezel area and, along a direction perpendicular to the substrate, disposed between the substrate and the wiring layer.
US11538889B2
A display apparatus includes a base substrate including an opening area which transmits light, an opening peripheral area which is a non-display area surrounding the opening area, and a display area surrounding the opening peripheral area, a thin film transistor disposed on the base substrate, a light emitting structure electrically connected to the thin film transistor, and a loop-type antenna electrode disposed on the base substrate in the opening peripheral area to surround the opening area.
US11538884B2
An array substrate, an electroluminescent display panel, and a display device are disclosed. The array substrate includes: a base substrate, and a first signal line, an insulating layer and a second signal line provided sequentially on the base substrate in a direction perpendicular to the base substrate; wherein the first signal line has a first portion and a second portion, the first portion has a resistance higher than a resistance of the second portion, and at least a part of the first portion is overlapped with the second signal line, and the second portion is non-overlapped with the second signal line.
US11538873B2
A display screen and an electronic equipment are provided. The display screen comprises a middle frame, a display panel and an optical fingerprint sensor. The display panel is superimposed on the upper surface of the middle frame, and the through-hole provided on the middle frame and extending through the upper and lower surfaces of the middle frame is filled with a transparent body, the optical fingerprint sensor is disposed beneath the transparent body.
US11538867B2
The present disclosure provides an electroluminescent display apparatus including a substrate including a first subpixel, a second subpixel, and a third subpixel, a first electrode in each of the first subpixel, the second subpixel, and the third subpixel on the substrate, a bank provided in a boundary between any two of the first subpixel, the second subpixel, and the third subpixel to cover an edge of the first electrode, a protection layer on the first electrode and the bank, a light emitting layer on the protection layer, and a second electrode on the light emitting layer.
US11538861B2
Disclosed is a variable resistance memory device including a first conductive line extending in a first direction parallel to a top surface of the substrate, memory cells spaced apart from each other in the first direction on a side of the first conductive line and connected to the first conductive line, and second conductive lines respectively connected to the memory cells. Each second conductive line is spaced apart in a second direction from the first conductive line. The second direction is parallel to the top surface of the substrate and intersects the first direction. The second conductive lines extend in a third direction perpendicular to the top surface of the substrate and are spaced apart from each other in the first direction. Each memory cell includes a variable resistance element and a select element that are positioned at a same level horizontally arranged in the second direction.
US11538860B2
Methods, systems, and devices for memory arrays having graded memory stack resistances are described. An apparatus may include a first subset of memory stacks having a first resistance based on a physical and/or electrical distance of the first subset of memory stacks from at least one of a first driver component or a second driver component. The apparatus may include a second subset of memory stacks having a second resistance that is less than the first resistance based on a physical and/or electrical distance of the second subset of memory from at least one of the first driver component or the second driver component.
US11538854B2
A system includes a first quantum circuit plane that includes a first qubit, a second qubit and a third qubit. A coupled-line bus is coupled between the first qubit and the second qubit. A second circuit plane is connected to the first quantum circuit plane, comprising a control line coupled to the third qubit. The control line and the coupled-line bus are on different planes and crossing over each other, and configured to mitigate cross-talk caused by the crossing during signal transmission.
US11538853B2
A micro LED transparent display has a first display surface and a second display surface, which are opposite to each other. The micro LED transparent display includes a substrate, pixels and at least one grating layer. The first display surface and the second display surface are located on two opposite sides of the substrate, respectively. The pixels are arranged in arrays on the substrate, each of the pixels includes micro LEDs, and the micro LEDs are electrically connected to the substrate. The grating layer is disposed on the substrate, and the micro LEDs are located between the grating layer and the substrate. Lights generated from the micro LEDs of the pixels can be controlled by the grating layer, and the lights partially penetrate through the first display surface and are partially reflected and penetrate through the second display surface.
US11538846B2
A display includes a display portion formed of an array of unit pixels that each respectively include a light source pixel and a detector pixel. The display includes a control driver including a light source driver and a data driver which are respectively connected to each light source pixel, and a detector driver which is connected to each detector pixel. The display includes a controller configured to control the control driver to operate the display portion in a first mode, a second mode, and a third mode that are each different from each other.
US11538845B2
Disclosed is a light receiving element including an on-chip lens, a wiring layer, and a semiconductor layer disposed between the on-chip lens and the wiring layer. The semiconductor layer includes a photodiode, a first transfer transistor that transfers electric charge generated in the photodiode to a first charge storage portion, a second transfer transistor that transfers electric charge generated in the photodiode to a second charge storage portion, and an interpixel separation portion that separates the semiconductor layers of adjacent pixels from each other, for at least part of the semiconductor layer in the depth direction. The wiring layer has at least one layer including a light blocking member. The light blocking member is disposed to overlap with the photodiode in a plan view.
US11538838B2
Designs of image sensing devices by including a substrate layer including a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements, a plurality of grid structures disposed over the substrate layer, a plurality of color filter layers each of which is disposed between adjacent grid structures, a plurality of over-coating layers formed over the color filter layers, and a plurality of microlenses formed over the over-coating layers. Each of the grid structures includes an air layer, and a capping film formed to cap the air layer, and an upper portion of the air layer is formed to protrude upward from the over-coating layer.
US11538835B2
The disclosure discloses an array substrate, a method for manufacturing the same, a display panel and a display device. The array substrate includes a base substrate; a plurality of data lines and a plurality of dummy leads, wherein the plurality of data lines and the plurality of dummy leads are in the same layer on the base substrate, and the plurality of data lines and the plurality of dummy leads extend along the first direction; and at least one dummy lead includes a plurality of wires which extend in the first direction and are disconnected with one another.
US11538834B2
A display device includes a substrate; at least one data line disposed on the substrate; a first pattern disposed on the substrate and spaced apart from the data line; a first insulating layer at least partially disposed on the data line and the first pattern; an active layer disposed on the first insulating layer and at least partially overlapping with the first pattern; a first gate insulating layer disposed on the active layer; and a first electrode disposed on the first gate insulating layer and overlapping with the active layer, wherein the first electrode does not overlap with the data line in a direction parallel to an upper surface of the first insulating layer.
US11538829B2
A memory device and a manufacturing for the same are provided. The memory device comprises a channel line, word lines, a first switch, and a second switch. Memory cells for a memory string are defined at intersections between the channel line and the word lines. The first switch is electrically connected with the channel line. The second switch is electrically connected with the channel line. The first switch is electrically connected between the second switch and the memory cells.
US11538824B2
Embodiments of a three-dimensional (3D) memory device and method for forming the 3D memory device are provided. In an example, the 3D memory device includes a plurality of conductor layers extending over a substrate, a channel structure vertically extending through the conductor layers to the substrate, and a source structure extending through the conductor layers to the substrate. The channel structure may include a blocking layer having a plurality of blocking portions disconnected from one another. Each of the blocking portions may include (i) a vertical blocking portion under a respective conductor layer, and (ii) at least one lateral blocking portion covering a respective lateral surface of the respective conductor layer. The channel structure may also include a memory layer having a plurality of memory portions disconnected from one another, each of the memory portions under and in contact with the respective vertical blocking portion.
US11538823B2
The invention discloses a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) device and a method of fabricating such DRAM device. The DRAM device according to the invention includes a plurality of bit lines formed on a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of first isolation stripes, a plurality of second isolation stripes, a plurality of transistors formed between the first isolation stripes and the second isolation stripes, a plurality of word lines, and a plurality of capacitors formed above the first isolation stripes and the second isolation stripes. The semiconductor substrate defines a longitudinal direction, a transverse direction, a normal direction, a plurality of columns in the longitudinal direction, and a plurality of rows in the transverse direction. The first isolation stripes and the second isolation stripes extend in the longitudinal direction. Each transistor corresponds to one of the columns and one of the rows. The transistors on one side of each first isolation stripe and the transistors on the other side of said one first isolation stripe are staggeredly arranged. Each word line corresponds to one of the columns and connects the gate conductors of the transistors along the corresponding column. Each capacitor corresponds to one of the transistors and connects the source region of the corresponding transistor.
US11538816B2
An integral multifunction chip is provided. The integral multifunction chip includes an electronic fuse and an interface fuse. The interface fuse and the electronic fuse are disposed in parallel and integrated in a single chip. In a case where only a single chip is provided, the integral multifunction chip of the present disclosure can be selectively operated in a working mode of the electronic fuse or the interface fuse, so that convenience of use of the integral multifunction chip can be improved.
US11538808B2
Disclosed herein are memory cells and memory arrays, as well as related methods and devices. For example, in some embodiments, a memory device may include: a support having a surface; and a three-dimensional array of memory cells on the surface of the support, wherein individual memory cells include a transistor and a capacitor, and a channel of the transistor in an individual memory cell is oriented parallel to the surface.
US11538805B2
A structure includes a semiconductor substrate including a first semiconductor region and a second semiconductor region, a first transistor in the first semiconductor region, and a second transistor in the second semiconductor region. The first transistor includes a first gate dielectric over the first semiconductor region, a first work function layer over and contacting the first gate dielectric, and a first conductive region over the first work function layer. The second transistor includes a second gate dielectric over the second semiconductor region, a second work function layer over and contacting the second gate dielectric, wherein the first work function layer and the second work function layer have different work functions, and a second conductive region over the second work function layer.
US11538794B2
A power converter includes: at least one pair of first and second semiconductor devices including multiple first and second semiconductor chips, having first and second switching elements providing upper and lower arms, and multiple first and second main terminals having at least one of multiple first and second high potential terminals and multiple first and second low potential terminals; and a bridging member providing an upper and lower coupling portion, together with the first low and second high potential terminals. The first and second semiconductor chips are arranged in line symmetry with respect to first and second axes and in line symmetry with the second axis as a symmetry axis to differentiate the arrangement of the second low potential terminal with respect to the second high potential terminal from the arrangement of the first low potential terminal with respect to the first high potential terminal.
US11538792B2
Disclosed are semiconductor packages and/or methods of fabricating the same. The semiconductor package comprises a package substrate, a first semiconductor chip mounted on the package substrate, a second semiconductor chip mounted on a top surface of the first semiconductor chip, and a first under-fill layer that fills a space between the package substrate and the first semiconductor chip. The package substrate includes a cavity in the package substrate, and a first vent hole that extends from a top surface of the package substrate and is in fluid communication with the cavity. The first under-fill layer extends along the first vent hole to fill the cavity.
US11538783B2
A semiconductor package including a semiconductor chip, a redistribution layer structure disposed under the semiconductor chip, a bump pad disposed under the redistribution layer structure and having an upper structure of a first width and a lower structure of a second width less than the first width, a metal seed layer disposed along a lower surface of the upper structure and a side surface of the lower structure, an insulating layer surrounding the redistribution layer structure and the bump pad, and a bump structure disposed under the bump pad. A first undercut is disposed at one end of the metal seed layer that contacts the upper structure, and a second undercut is disposed at an other end of the metal seed layer that contacts the lower structure.
US11538766B2
A packaged electronic device includes first conductive leads and second conductive leads at least partially exposed to an exterior of a package structure, and a multilevel lamination structure in the package structure. The multilevel lamination structure includes a first patterned conductive feature having multiple turns in a first level to form a first winding coupled to at least one of the first conductive leads in a first circuit, a second patterned conductive feature having multiple turns in a different level to form a second winding coupled to at least one of the second conductive leads in a second circuit isolated from the first circuit, and a conductive shield trace having multiple turns in a second level spaced apart from and between the first patterned conductive feature and the second patterned conductive feature, the conductive shield trace coupled in the first circuit.
US11538763B2
A display device comprises a display panel substrate and a glass substrate over said display panel substrate, wherein said display panel substrate comprises multiple contact pads, a display area, a first boundary, a second boundary, a third boundary and a fourth boundary, wherein said display area comprises a first edge, a second edge, a third edge and a fourth edge, wherein said first boundary is parallel to said third boundary and said first and third edges, wherein said second boundary is parallel to said fourth boundary and said second and fourth edges, wherein a first least distance between said first boundary and said first edge, wherein a second least distance between said second boundary and said second edge, a third least distance between said third boundary and said third edge, a fourth distance between said fourth boundary and said fourth edge, and wherein said first, second, third and fourth least distances are smaller than 100 micrometers, and wherein said glass substrate comprising multiple metal conductors through in said glass substrate and multiple metal bumps are between said glass substrate and said display panel substrate, wherein said one of said metal conductors is connected to one of said contact pads through one of said metal bumps.
US11538754B2
Methods and devices are described herein for random cut patterning. A first metal line and a second metal line are formed within a cell of a substrate and extend in a vertical direction. A third metal line and a fourth metal line are formed within the cell and are perpendicular to the first metal line and the second metal line, respectively. A first circular region at one end of the first metal line is formed using a first patterning technique and a second circular region at one end of the second metal line is formed using a second patterning technique. The first circular region is laterally extended using a second patterning technique to form the third metal line and the second circular region is laterally extended using the second patterning technique to form the fourth metal line.
US11538750B2
A terminal structure includes a wiring layer, a protective insulation layer, an open portion, and a connection terminal. The protective insulation layer covers the wiring layer. The open portion extends through the protective insulation layer in a thickness-wise direction to expose part of an upper surface of the wiring layer. The connection terminal is formed on the wiring layer exposed from the open portion. The open portion includes a wall surface, a depression, and a projection. The wall surface extends downward from an upper surface of the protective insulation layer. The depression is depressed into the protective insulation layer from the wall surface toward an outer side of the open portion. The projection is formed under the depression, continuously with the depression, and projected from the depression into the open portion further inward than the wall surface in a plan view. The depression is filled with the connection terminal.
US11538747B2
Interposer structure, semiconductor package comprising the same, and method for fabricating the same
Provided is an interposer structure. The interposer structure comprises an interposer substrate, an interlayer insulating film which covers a top surface of the interposer substrate, a capacitor structure in the interlayer insulating film and a wiring structure including a first wiring pattern and a second wiring pattern spaced apart from the first wiring pattern, on the interlayer insulating film, wherein the capacitor structure includes an upper electrode connected to the first wiring pattern, a lower electrode connected to the second wiring pattern, and a capacitor dielectric film between the upper electrode and the lower electrode.
US11538743B2
A microelectronic device has a first die attached to a first die pad, and a second die attached to a second die pad. A magnetically permeable member is attached to a first coupler pad and a second coupler pad. A coupler component is attached to the magnetically permeable member. The first die pad, the second die pad, the first coupler pad, the second coupler pad, and the magnetically permeable member are electrically conductive. The first coupler pad is electrically isolated from the first die, from the second coupler pad, and from external leads of the microelectronic device. The second coupler pad is electrically isolated from the first die and from the external leads. The first die and the second die are electrically coupled to the coupler component. A package structure contains at least portions of the components of the microelectronic device and extends to the external leads.
US11538740B2
A semiconductor package includes a first lead with first and second ends extending in the same direction as one another. At least one second lead has first and second ends and is partially surrounded by the first lead. A die pad is provided and a die is connected to the die pad. Wires electrically connect the die to the first lead and the at least one second lead. An insulating layer extends over the leads, the die pad, and the die such that the first end of the at least one second lead is exposed from the semiconductor package and the second end of the first lead is encapsulated entirely within the insulating layer.
US11538739B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses for a power card for use in a vehicle. The power card includes an N lead frame, a P lead frame, and an O lead frame each having a body portion and a terminal portion. The O lead frame is located between the N lead frame and the P lead frame. The power card includes a first power device located between the N lead frame and the O lead frame, with a first side coupled to the body portion of the N lead frame and a second side coupled to the body portion of the O lead frame. The power card includes a second power device located between the O lead frame and the P lead frame, with a first side coupled to the body portion of the O lead frame and a second side coupled to the body portion of the P lead frame.
US11538736B2
A semiconductor module including a cooling apparatus and a semiconductor device mounted on the cooling apparatus is provided. The cooling apparatus includes a cooling fin arranged below the semiconductor device, a main-body portion flow channel through which a coolant flows in a predetermined direction to cool the cooling fin, a first coolant flow channel that is connected to one side of the main-body portion flow channel and has a first inclined portion upwardly inclined toward the main-body portion flow channel, and a conveying channel that, when seen from above, lets the coolant into the first coolant flow channel from a direction perpendicular to the predetermined direction or lets the coolant out of the first coolant flow channel in the direction perpendicular to the predetermined direction.
US11538731B2
Embodiments disclosed herein include electronic packages with improved thermal performance. In an embodiment, the electronic package comprises a first package substrate, a first die stack over the first package substrate, and a heat spreader over the first die stack. In an embodiment, the heat spreader comprises arms that extend out past sidewalls of the first package substrate. In an embodiment, the electronic package further comprises an interposer over and around the heat spreader, where the interposer is electrically coupled to the first package substrate by a plurality of interconnects. In an embodiment, the electronic package further comprises a second package substrate over the interposer, and a second die over the second package substrate.
US11538724B2
A processing method of a workpiece used when the workpiece is processed is provided. The processing method of a workpiece includes a disposing step of disposing the workpiece in a gas containing a substance that generates an active species that reacts with the workpiece, a measurement step of measuring the distribution of the thickness of the workpiece disposed in the gas, and a laser beam irradiation step of irradiating the workpiece in the gas with a laser beam of which the power is adjusted based on the distribution of the thickness measured in the measurement step. In the laser beam irradiation step, the removal amount by which a region irradiated with the laser beam in the workpiece is removed by the active species is controlled by irradiating the workpiece with the laser beam of which the power is adjusted.
US11538723B2
Disclosed are embodiments of an improved apparatus and system, and associated methods for optically diagnosing a semiconductor manufacturing process. A hyperspectral imaging system is used to acquire spectrally-resolved images of emissions from the plasma, in a plasma processing system. Acquired hyperspectral images may be used to determine the chemical composition of the plasma and the plasma process endpoint. Alternatively, a hyperspectral imaging system is used to acquire spectrally-resolved images of a substrate before, during, or after processing, to determine properties of the substrate or layers and features formed on the substrate, including whether a process endpoint has been reached; or before or after processing, for inspecting the substrate condition.
US11538715B2
The present invention provides a stage which comprises: a plate-shaped member having a mounting surface on which a workpiece to be processed is mounted and a rear surface facing the mounting surface, said plate-shaped member being provided with a through hole that penetrates through the mounting surface and the rear surface; and an embedded member disposed inside the through hole. This stage is configured such that the surface of the embedded member is provided with at least one of a concave portion and a convex portion.
US11538712B2
A suction holder for sucking and holding a holding target member includes a sucker, a tube bellows connected to a lower end of the sucker, and a tube arranged inside the tube bellows and having an upper end positioned lower than an upper end of the sucker. A lower opening of the tube is communicated with a suction source and the holding target member is contacted with the upper end of the sucker to form a closed room, and the inside of the closed room is placed into a negative pressure state to hold the holding target member.
US11538710B2
There is provided a carrier plate removing method for removing a carrier plate from a workpiece disposed on a top surface of a carrier plate via a provisional bonding layer. The carrier plate removing method includes a stepped portion forming step of forming a stepped portion in which the workpiece projects sideward as compared with the carrier plate by processing the carrier plate so as to remove a peripheral portion of the carrier plate along a peripheral edge of the carrier plate from an undersurface side opposite from the top surface of the carrier plate, a carrier plate holding step of holding the carrier plate by a carrier plate holding unit, and a removing step of removing the carrier plate from the workpiece by applying a force from the carrier plate side to the stepped portion, and moving the workpiece in a direction of separating from the carrier plate.
US11538704B2
A processing method of a workpiece in which the workpiece with a plate shape is processed by using a vacuum chamber is provided. In the processing method of a workpiece, a negative pressure is caused to act on a holding surface from a suction path, and suction holding of the workpiece is executed by a chuck table. Then, the gas pressure in the vacuum chamber is reduced to at least 50 Pa and at most 5000 Pa. Then, while the suction holding of the workpiece is executed, an inert gas in a plasma state is supplied to the workpiece, and voltages are applied to electrodes disposed in the chuck table to execute electrostatic adhesion of the workpiece by the chuck table. Then, a processing gas in a plasma state is supplied, and dry etching of the workpiece is executed.
US11538703B2
A substrate housing container (1) includes (i) a container body (10) having one end that is provided with an opening (11) and another end that is provided with a mount element (12) on which substrates (W) are stacked, the mount element 12 facing the opening (11), and (ii) a cover (20) to cover the opening (11), wherein the cover (20) includes a lid portion (21) to cover the opening (11) and at least two holding members (22) disposed on the lid portion (21), the holding members (22) being configured to swing in a central direction of the lid portion (21) and to press outer sides of the substrates (W) accommodated in the container body (10) with the substrates (W) stacked, the container body (10) has guide grooves (13) to make tips (22a) of the holding members (22) move from an outer side of the mount element (12) to an inner sides of the mount element (12) to guide the tips (22a) of the holding members (22) to positions at which the holding members (22) press the outer sides of the substrates (W), and the guide grooves (13) are formed as a dent on surfaces of the mount element (12).
US11538694B2
A method of manufacturing a module is disclosed. In one example, the method comprises providing at least one solder body with a base portion and an elevated edge extending along at least part of a circumference of the base portion. At least one carrier, on which at least one electronic component is mounted, is placed in the at least one solder body so that the at least one carrier is positioned on the base portion and is spatially confined by the elevated edge.
US11538693B2
A substrate processing method is provided. In the method, a substrate is provided. A monomer that is chemically bonded to the substrate is supplied onto the substrate. An initiator for polymerizing the monomer is supplied to the substrate having the supplied monomer thereon, thereby forming a polymer film.
US11538692B2
A method for processing a substrate includes performing a cyclic process including a plurality of cycles, where the cyclic process includes: forming, in a plasma processing chamber, a passivation layer over sidewalls of a recess in a carbon-containing layer, by exposing the substrate to a first gas including boron, silicon, or aluminum, the carbon-containing layer being disposed over a substrate, purging the plasma processing chamber with a second gas including a hydrogen-containing gas, an oxygen-containing gas, or molecular nitrogen, and exposing the substrate to a plasma generated from the second gas, where each cycle of the plurality of cycles extends the recess vertically into the carbon-containing layer.
US11538686B2
A semiconductor structure and a method for forming the same are provided. The method includes: providing a base, a pattern transfer material layer being formed above the base; performing first ion implantation, to dope first ions into the pattern transfer material layer, to form first doped mask layers arranged in a first direction; forming first trenches in the pattern transfer material layer on two sides of the first doped mask layer in a second direction, to expose side walls of the first doped mask layer; forming mask spacers on side walls of the first trenches; performing second ion implantation, to dope second ions into some regions of the pattern transfer material layer that are exposed from the first doped mask layers and the first trenches, to form second doped mask layers; removing the remaining pattern transfer material layer, to form second trenches; and etching the base along the first trenches and the second trenches, to form a target pattern. The present disclosure improves the accuracy of pattern transfer.
US11538677B2
Exemplary methods of semiconductor processing may include flowing a silicon-containing precursor, a nitrogen-containing precursor, and diatomic hydrogen into a processing region of a semiconductor processing chamber. A substrate may be housed within the processing region of the semiconductor processing chamber. The methods may also include forming a plasma of the silicon-containing precursor, the nitrogen-containing precursor, and the diatomic hydrogen. The plasma may be formed at a frequency above 15 MHz. The methods may also include depositing a silicon nitride material on the substrate.
US11538671B2
In time-series data indicating light emission of plasma when plasma processing is carried out on a sample by generating the plasma, an analysis apparatus creates combinations of a plurality of light emission wavelengths of elements and a plurality of time intervals within a plasma processing interval and calculates, for each of the combinations of the wavelengths and the time intervals, a correlation between an average value of light emission intensity and the number of times the plasma processing is carried out on the samples for each of the combinations of the wavelengths and the time intervals that have been created. Thereafter, the data analysis apparatus selects, as a combination of the wavelength and the time interval used to observe or control the plasma processing, a combination of a wavelength of light emitting from a specific element and a specific time interval having a maximum correlation.
US11538667B2
A stage includes a stage body having a placement surface and a radio-frequency electrode embedded in the stage body. The stage body is made of ceramics, and the radio-frequency electrode extends in a thickness direction of the stage body in a region below an outer periphery of the placement surface.
US11538657B2
An alignment system that realizes high reproducibility of position information during re-observation and in which a user can efficiently and easily re-observe an area of interest is provided. An alignment system that enables correlative observation between the imaging device 104 and the charged particle beam device 100, in which a plurality of positional alignment points are set on a sample carrier in a state where a sample is placed on the sample carrier, the alignment controller 153 obtains a transformation matrix that transforms a coordinate system of the imaging device and a coordinate system of the charged particle beam device based on position information and magnification of each of the plurality of positional alignment points when a first image is imaged by an imaging device and position information and magnification of each of a plurality of positional alignment points when observing by a charged particle beam device, and transforms a field of view designated for the first image into field-of-view information of the charged particle beam device by using the transformation matrix.
US11538654B2
Thermally isolated captive features disposed in various components of an ion implantation system are disclosed. Electrodes, such as repellers and side electrodes, may be constructed with a captive feature, which serves as the electrode stem. The electrode stem makes minimal physical contact with the electrode mass due to a gap disposed in the interior cavity which retains the flared head of the electrode stem. In this way, the temperature of the electrode mass may remain higher than would otherwise be possible as conduction is reduced. Further, this concept can be applied to workpiece holders. For example, a ceramic platen is manufactured with one or more captive fasteners which are used to affix the platen to a base. This may minimize the thermal conduction between the platen and the base, while providing an improved mechanical connection.
US11538653B2
The present invention discloses an ion beam lithography method based on an ion beam lithography system. The ion beam lithography system includes a roll-roll printer placed in a vacuum, and a medium-high-energy wide-range ion source, a medium-low-energy wide-range ion source and a low-energy ion source installed on the roll-roll printer. The ion beam lithography method includes: first coating a polyimide (PI) substrate with a dry film, etching the dry film according to a preset circuit pattern, then using the ion beam lithography system to deposit a wide-energy-range metal ion on the circuit pattern to form a film substrate, and finally stripping the dry film off the film substrate to obtain a printed circuit board (PCB).
US11538650B1
A solid-state circuit breaker comprises a breaker housing and an air gap driving mechanism that is a permanent magnet based. The air gap driving mechanism includes a pair of opposing contacts, a first permanent magnet to generate a static magnetic field and a coil actuator to generate a dynamic magnetic field. The first permanent magnet and the coil actuator are positioned relative to each other such that the dynamic magnetic field generated by the coil actuator can either enhance or cancel the static magnetic field of the first permanent magnet. Hence a combination of the static magnetic field from the first permanent magnet and the dynamic magnetic field from the coil actuator can either drive the pair of opposing contacts open or drive the pair of opposing contacts close.
US11538638B2
A grid array capacitor can be used to physically and electrically couple an integrated circuit (IC) package to a printed circuit board (PCB). The grid array capacitor includes an inner conductor and an inner dielectric coaxially surrounding the inner conductor. A secondary conductor can be located to surround, in a coaxial orientation, the inner dielectric. Both the inner conductor and the secondary conductor can be electrically connected to the IC package and to the PCB. In certain applications, the structure of the inner conductor, inner dielectric, and secondary conductor can provide capacitance used to decouple electronic circuits.
US11538634B2
A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes a multilayer body including layered ceramic layers and having a rectangular parallelepiped shape, and first and second outer electrodes covering both end surfaces of the multilayer body and extending from both the end surfaces so as to cover at least portions of a first main surface, a second main surface, a first side surface, and a second side surface of the multilayer body. An insulating layer is provided on a surface of the first main surface of the multilayer body. The first outer electrode and the second outer electrode disposed on the first main surface side are disposed on the insulating layer.
US11538631B2
A dielectric composition includes a main ingredient having a perovskite structure represented by ABO3, where A is at least one of Ba, Sr, and Ca and B is at least one of Ti, Zr, and Hf, and a first accessory ingredient. The first accessory ingredient comprises 0.1 mole or more of a rare earth element, 0.02 mole or more of Nb, and 0.25 mole or more and 0.9 mole or less of Mg, a sum of contents of the rare earth element and Nb is 1.5 mole or less.
US11538630B2
A method of producing a core-shell particle includes introducing a barium titanate-based base powder and an additive to a reactor, and exposing the barium titanate-based base powder and the additive to a thermal plasma torch to obtain core-shell particles including a core portion having barium titanate (BaTiO3) and a shell portion including the additive and formed on a surface of the core portion.
US11538624B2
There are provided a wire wound inductor and a manufacturing method thereof according to an exemplary embodiment in the present disclosure. The wire wound inductor according to an exemplary embodiment in the present disclosure includes a winding coil, a magnetic core embedding the winding coil, and an adhesive portion disposed between the magnetic core and the winding coil and enclosing the winding coil.
US11538613B2
The disclosure provides an inductor and a method for producing the same. The inductor includes a first core made of a first magnetic material; at least two windings, configured to be twisted with each other and embedded within the first core, each winding having a pair of terminals extending out of the first core.
US11538611B2
The present disclosure discloses a method for the magnetism stabilizing treatment of a permanent magnet material. The method can include the following steps: providing a permanent magnet material having a positive temperature coefficient of coercivity; magnetizing the permanent magnet material at a temperature T3 with a range of −200 degree centigrades to 200 degree centigrades; and performing a magnetism stabilizing treatment towards the permanent magnet material with temperature decreased in a range of the temperature T3 to a temperature T4, or at the temperature T3.
US11538610B2
The invention relates to hard magnets that include an intermetallic compound having the general composition XaX′bYcZd where X and X′ independently from one another are representative of a 3d transition metal with unpaired electrons; Y is a 4d or 5d transition metal of groups 5, 8, 9, or 10 Z is a main group element of groups 13, 14 or 15; a and d independently from one another represent a number between 0.1 and 2.0; and b and c independently from one another represent a number between 0.0 and 2.0; such that a+b+c+d is between 3.0 and 4.0.
US11538608B2
A wire harness includes an electric wire, a braided conductor covering the electric wire, a grommet having a tubular insertion portion through which the electric wire and the braided conductor are inserted, a water stop sheet sandwiched between an inner peripheral surface of the insertion portion and the braided conductor, and a fixture attached to the insertion portion so as to reduce a diameter of the insertion portion. The water stop sheet includes a base material layer having a plurality of pores communicating with each other in a thickness direction of the water stop sheet and a sealing compound layer laminated on the base material layer. The sealing compound layer is deformed so as to enter gaps between thin conductor wires constituting the braided conductor and the pores of the base material layer.
US11538607B2
A conductor assembly for transmitting power includes a former that defines a shape, a superconductor material disposed around the former, and a thermally insulating jacket (TIJ) disposed around and spaced apart from the superconductor material. An outer surface of the superconductor material and an inner surface of the TIJ can define an annulus through which a coolant can flow. The conductor assembly can also include an external layer, disposed around an outside surface of the TIJ, to provide structural support to the conductor assembly. The conductor assembly can also include an electrical insulation layer disposed around the outside surface of the TIJ or around the superconductor material.
US11538601B2
A nuclear microbattery is disclosed comprising: a radioactive material that emits photons or particles; and at least one diode comprising a semiconductor material arranged to receive and absorb photons or particles and generate electrical charge-carriers in response thereto, wherein said semiconductor material is a crystalline lattice structure comprising Aluminium, Indium and Phosphorus.
US11538599B2
A nuclear reactor cooled by liquid metal or by molten salts, provided with a heat exchanger, having inlet of the primary fluid in the lower part and circumferential outlet window in the vicinity of the free surface of the primary fluid in the cold collector. The outlet window is located in an intermediate position with respect to the tube bundle partially raised with respect to the free surface in the cold collector and supplied with primary fluid throughout its height by means of an ancillary device for creating an underpressure in the cover gas of the exchanger with respect to the cover gas in the vessel. The raising of the exchanger and the positioning of the outlet window in the vicinity of the free surface of the primary coolant help to minimize the displacement of primary fluid in the event of accidental release of secondary fluid inside the heat exchanger.
US11538595B2
A method for generating DICOM images as part of a real-time virtual medical consultation includes receiving, by a handheld patient device associated with a patient, a DICOM image associated with the patient generated by a diagnostic device, encrypting, by the handheld patient device, the DICOM image and linking the encrypted DICOM image to a unique patient identifier associated with the patient, wherein the handheld patient device is one of a tablet computer and a smartphone, and transmitting, by the handheld patient device, the encrypted DICOM image to a server configured to provide a DICOM viewer option within a secure telemedicine platform accessible by a medical professional and executed by the server.
US11538585B2
A method of detecting abnormalities in ECG signals by providing an ECG signal to a neural network, performing a first series of convolution operations to a first subset of layers and in a final layer, and determining a plurality of preliminary classification estimates, each preliminary classification estimate corresponding with a time segment of the ECG signal. Furthermore, determining input data for a second subset of layers of the neural network by concatenating the preliminary classification with the output of a layer of the first subset of layers that precedes the final layer of the first subset of layers. Within the second subset of layers of the neural network, performing a second series of convolution operations. In a final layer of the second subset, determining plurality of final classification estimates, each final classification estimate corresponding with a time segment of the ECG signal.
US11538580B2
Method and system for providing basal profile modification in insulin therapy for use with infusion devices includes periodically monitoring the analyte levels of a patient for a predetermined period of time in order to determine, based on the monitored analyte levels, an appropriate modification factor to be incorporated into the underlying basal profile which was running at the time the periodic monitoring of the analyte levels were performed.
US11538572B2
A user input obtainer receives an image movement instruction including identification information specifying a position shift or an image capture time shift to be performed and also including a displacement amount. When the identification information specifies the position shift, a slice position selector determines a tomographic image at a destination of the position shift based on the displacement amount from a set of tomographic images captured at the same time. On the other hand, when the identification information specifies the image capture time shift, the image capture time selector determines a tomographic image at a destination of the shift based on the displacement amount from sets of tomographic images that are identical to each other in terms of a patient, an examination portion, and a modality. A displaying image obtainer reads out the determined tomographic image from an image storage device and gives it to a display information generator.
US11538563B2
A peer system of subjects with health-related issues is formed based on an association of subjects and a particular type of electronic device or devices which provides information related to a specific health-related issue or issues obtained from particular subjects. By means of such associations, subjects can transmit to and receive messages from other subjects associated with the same type of electronic device. One way to associate subjects with health-related issues is through an association of a subject with a type or types of sensors. For example, each monitoring device may be associated with a subject, and the type or types of sensor or sensors may be associated with the subject and/or monitoring device. Devices, systems, methods and computer program products may be provided leveraging this association for various applications, e.g., management of the health care of subjects, peering among subjects with a common heath-related issue or issues, advertising, research and other applications involving such subjects.
US11538562B1
Described herein are methods and systems to send/receive medical data from one or more electronic devices to a secondary medical unit in delayed, intermittently-connected, low-bandwidth (DIL) environments. An application executing on the electronic devices may, in response to detecting a disruption within a communication network, execute an offline communication protocol to transmit medical data among a predetermined number of other electronic devices, wherein the offline communication protocol does not use the communication network. The application may then receive a request from a server of the secondary medical unit to transmit at least a part of the medical data. In response to authenticating the request, the application then transmits the medical data using an online communication protocol that uses the communication network or using an offline communication protocol.
US11538542B2
A semiconductor device which shifts a low-level signal is provided. In an example, a first transistor including a first terminal electrically connected to a first wiring and a second terminal electrically connected to a second wiring, a second transistor including a first terminal electrically connected to a third wiring and a second terminal electrically connected to the second wiring, a third transistor including a first terminal electrically connected to a fourth wiring and a second terminal electrically connected to a gate of the second transistor, a fourth transistor including a first terminal electrically connected to a fifth wiring, a second terminal electrically connected to a gate of the third transistor, and a gate electrically connected to a sixth wiring, and a first switch including a first terminal electrically connected to the third wiring and a second terminal electrically connected to a gate of the first transistor are included.
US11538537B2
A memory device is provided. The memory device includes an array of memory cells arranged, a plurality of word lines, and a peripheral circuit configured to perform multi-pass programming on a selected row of memory cells coupled to a selected word line. The multi-pass programming includes a plurality of programming passes. Each of the programming passes includes a programming operation and a verify operation. To perform the multi-pass programming, the peripheral circuit is configured to, in a non-last programming pass of memory cells, perform a negative gate stress (NGS) operation on a memory cell in the selected row of memory cells between the programming operation and the verify operation; and at a same time, perform a NGS operation on a memory cell in an unselected row of memory cells coupled to an unselected word line of the word lines. The unselected word line is adjacent to the selected word line.
US11538533B2
A non-volatile memory device including: a memory cell array including non-volatile memory blocks connected to a plurality of word lines, a plurality of bit lines and a common source line; a common source line driver configured to supply a common source line voltage to the common source line; a page buffer unit configured to supply a bit line voltage to at least one of the plurality of bit lines; a control logic circuit configured to adjust the common source line voltage and the bit line voltage; and a channel initialization circuit, wherein the channel initialization circuit sets the common source line voltage and the bit line voltage to an initialization pulse, and the channel initialization circuit applies the initialization pulse between a plurality of read sections in which a read voltage is applied to at least two of the plurality of word lines.
US11538531B2
Provided herein may be a memory device, a method of operating the same and a page buffer. The memory device may include a plurality of memory cells and a plurality of page buffers. The plurality of page buffers may be coupled to the plurality of memory cells through a plurality of bit lines. The plurality of page buffers may perform a bit line precharge operation of precharging first bit lines coupled to first memory cells, among the plurality of memory cells, to a first voltage, the bit line precharge operation being included in a memory operation of detecting threshold voltages of the first memory cells, and clamp potentials of second bit lines coupled to second memory cells, among the plurality of memory cells, to a second voltage during the memory operation.
US11538530B2
A semiconductor device is provided which includes: a first group including a plurality of first memory blocks; a second group including a plurality of second memory blocks; a first common source line connected to the first group; a second common source line connected to the second group; a source line voltage supplying circuit supplying a source line voltage; a first switch controlling a connection between the first common source line and the source line voltage supplying circuit; and a second switch controlling a connection between the second common source line and the source line voltage supplying circuit. When one first memory block among the plurality of first memory blocks of the first group is selected, the first switch may be turned on, and the second switch may be turned off.
US11538529B2
Methods of operating a memory, and memories having a controller configured to cause the memory to perform such methods, include applying a plurality of first voltage levels to an access line, applying a plurality of second voltage levels to a control gate of a string driver connected to the access line for a first portion of the plurality of first voltage levels with each second voltage level of the plurality of second voltage levels being greater than a respective first voltage level by a first voltage differential, and applying a plurality of third voltage levels to the control gate of the string driver for a second portion of the plurality of first voltage levels with each third voltage level of the plurality of third voltage levels being greater than a respective first voltage level by a second voltage differential less than the first voltage differential.
US11538526B2
The present disclosure includes apparatuses, methods, and systems for charge separation for memory sensing. An embodiment includes applying a sensing voltage to a memory cell, and determining a data state of the memory cell based, at least in part, on a comparison of an amount of charge discharged by the memory cell while the sensing voltage is being applied to the memory cell before a particular reference time and an amount of charge discharged by the memory cell while the sensing voltage is being applied to the memory cell after the particular reference time.
US11538524B2
A resistive random-access memory (ReRAM) cell formed on a silicon over insulator substrate (SOI) is provided. The ReRAM includes a SOI substrate, a first MOSFET and a second MOSFET, each of which having a drain port, a gate port, a source port, and a bulk port. The drain port of the second MOSFET is connected to the source port of the first MOSFET; a first resistive element and a second resistive element, each having a first port and a second port, wherein the first ports of both resistive elements are connected to the drain of the first MOSFET; a first word line and a second word line connected to the gate port of the first MOSFET and the second MOSFET, respectively; and the state of the ReRAM cell is determined upon applying a predefined potential.
US11538522B1
Methods and systems include memory devices with a memory array comprising a plurality of memory cells. The memory devices include a control circuit operatively coupled to the memory array and configured to receive a read request for data and to apply a first voltage to the memory array based on the read request. The control circuit is additionally configured to count a total number of the plurality of memory cells that have switched to an active read state based on the first voltage and to apply a second voltage to the memory array based on the total number. The control circuit is further configured to return the data based at least on bits stored in a first and a second set of the plurality of memory cells.
US11538521B2
A method is disclosed that includes causing a first set of a plurality of voltage pulses to be applied to memory cells of a memory device, a voltage pulse of the first set of the voltage pulses placing the memory cells of the memory device at a voltage level associated with a defined voltage state. The method also includes determining a set of bit error rates associated with the memory cells of the memory device in view of a data mapping pattern for the memory cells of the memory device, wherein the data mapping pattern assigns a voltage level associated with a reset state to at least a portion of the memory cells of the memory device. The method further includes determining whether to apply one or more second sets of the voltage pulses to the memory cells of the memory device in view of a comparison between the set of bit error rates for the memory cells and a previously measured set of bit error rates for the memory cells.
US11538520B1
A memory device is provided that includes at least one resistive memory cell, a negative capacitance field effect transistor (NC-FET) serving as a voltage amplifier, and a switch enable circuit connecting NC-FET to the memory cell. The NC-FET includes a regular FET having a metal gate terminal and a ferroelectric capacitor. The NC-FET gate terminal forms one plate of the ferroelectric (FE) capacitor. The ferroelectric capacitor includes a ferroelectric dielectric material deposited between a formed upper gate conductive contact and he metal gate terminal. To provide further flexibility, a metal layer can be deposited before the deposition of the ferroelectric material to form a MIM-like FE capacitor so that the capacitance of FE capacitance can be independently tuned by choosing the right height (H), width (W), and length (L) to achieve desired matching between |CFE| and Cox where Cox is the gate oxide capacitance and CFE is the ferroelectric capacitance.
US11538519B2
Methods and devices for adjusting a read threshold voltage of bitlines are provided. One such method includes adjusting a read threshold voltage of bitlines coupled to memory points of a memory circuit. The read threshold voltage is initially set to a first value. First data are written in the memory points and second data are read from the memory points. The second data are compared to the first data, and the threshold voltage is decreased by a second value in response to a comparison error of one of the second data with the corresponding first data.
US11538513B2
An output, representing synaptic weights of a neural network can be received from first memory elements. The output can be compared to a known correct output. A random number can be generated with a tuned bias via second memory elements. The weights can be updated based on the random number and a difference between the output and the known correct output.
US11538510B2
Methods of operating a memory device are disclosed. A method may include receiving a write command, and in response to the write command, performing a write operation without precharging a local input/output line subsequent to receipt of the write command and prior to performing the write operation. Another method may include receiving a read command, performing a read operation in response to the read command, and receiving an additional command without precharging the local input/output line subsequent to performing the read operation and prior to receiving the additional command. Memory devices and systems are also disclosed.
US11538498B2
Example techniques may involve managing playback of media content by a playback device. In an example implementation, a playback device receives, via the network interface from a control device of the media playback system, an instruction to queue a container of audio tracks into a queue for playback by the playback device, wherein the container of audio tracks and consists of: (a) an album, (b) a playlist, or (c) an internet radio station. While the playback device is playing back the queue and before each audio track of the playlist is played back, the playback device determines whether the respective audio track is associated with a negative preference. If the respective audio track is associated with the negative preference, the playback device advances playback over the respective audio track to the next audio track within the queue.
US11538494B2
In the magnetic recording and reproducing device, a distal end width of the first magnetic pole in the recording element is substantially the same as a distal end width of the second magnetic pole; the reproducing element width of the reproducing element is equal to or less than 0.8 μm; and in the magnetic recording medium, a number distribution A of equivalent circle diameters of a plurality of bright areas in a binarized image of a secondary electron image obtained by imaging a surface of the magnetic layer with a scanning electron microscope at an acceleration voltage of 5 kV, and a number distribution B of equivalent circle diameters of a plurality of dark areas in a binarized image of a secondary electron image obtained by imaging the surface of the magnetic layer with a scanning electron microscope at an acceleration voltage of 2 kV satisfy predetermined number distribution, respectively.
US11538492B2
An information processing apparatus configured to: access blocks having a fixed size provided such that, among magnetic tapes having a redundant configuration, reverse time of one of the magnetic tapes and read time of the other magnetic tapes are identical; insert into each of the magnetic tapes a single first dummy block immediately after reversal of a first wrap; and insert one or more second dummy blocks into each of the other magnetic tapes immediately before the reversal of the first wrap such that different numbers of the one or more second dummy blocks are inserted into the different other magnetic tapes and inserting into each of the other magnetic tapes immediately after the reversal of the first wrap one or more third dummy blocks a number of which is equal to a number of the one or more second dummy blocks in each of the other magnetic tapes.
US11538483B2
Disclosed are various aspects of postponing or migrating tasks from a first assistant device to another assistant device. In some examples, an assistant device can facilitate task completion. Tasks can be recommended for postponement based upon the complexity of the task, a historical user profile, or the location of the assistant device.
US11538476B2
A terminal device is provided and includes a communication interface including circuitry, a display and at least one processor configured to control the communication interface to transmit a user voice including a plurality of intents to an external server, based on word use information included in the user voice and summary information regarding the user voice generated based on user-related information being received from the external server, control the display to display the received summary information, based on a user feedback regarding the summary information being input, transmit information regarding the user feedback to the external server, and based on response information regarding the user voice generated based on the user feedback being received from the external server, control the display to provide the response information.
US11538473B2
The present disclosure relates to methods, computer programs, and computer-readable media for processing a voice audio signal. A method includes receiving, at an electronic device, a voice audio signal, identifying spoken phrases within the voice audio signal based on the detection of voice activity or inactivity, dividing the voice audio signal into a plurality of segments based on the identified spoken phrases, and in accordance with a determination that a selected segment of the plurality of segments has a duration, Tseg, longer than a threshold duration, Tthresh, identifying a most likely location of a breath in the audio associated with the selected segment and dividing the selected segment into sub-segments based on the identified most likely location of a breath.
US11538472B2
This document describes a data processing system for processing a speech signal for voice-based profiling. The data processing system segments the speech signal into a plurality of segments, with each segment representing a portion of the speech signal. For each segment, the data processing system generates a feature vector comprising data indicative of one or more features of the portion of the speech signal represented by that segment and determines whether the feature vector comprises data indicative of one or more features with a threshold amount of confidence. For each of a subset of the generated feature vectors, the system processes data in that feature vector to generate a prediction of a value of a profile parameter and transmits an output responsive to machine executable code that generates a visual representation of the prediction of the value of the profile parameter.
US11538470B2
A system includes at least one communication interface, at least one processor operatively connected to the at least one communication interface, and at least one memory operatively connected to the at least one processor and storing a plurality of natural language understanding (NLU) models. The at least one memory stores instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to receive first information associated with a user from an external electronic device associated with a user account, using the at least one communication interface, to select at least one of the plurality of NLU models, based on at least part of the first information, and to transmit the selected at least one NLU model to the external electronic device, using the at least one communication interface such that the external electronic device uses the selected at least one NLU model for natural language processing.
US11538465B1
Systems and methods to group terms based on context to facilitate determining intent of a command are disclosed. Exemplary implementations to train a model: obtain a set of writings within a particular knowledge domain; obtain a vector generation model that generates vectors for individual instances of the terms in the set of writings; generate a first set of vectors that represent the instances of a first term and other vectors that represent instances of the other terms of the set of writings; train the vector generation model to group the vectors of a similar context in a space of a vector space; obtain a transcript include a new term generated from user audio dictation; generate a new vector that represent the instance of the new term; obtain the space; compare the new vector with the space; utilize the new term as the first term.
US11538460B2
A first playback device is configured to perform functions comprising: detecting sound, identifying a wake word based on the sound as detected by the first device, receiving an indication that a second playback device has also detected the sound and identified the wake word based on the sound as detected by the second device, after receiving the indication, evaluating which of the first and second devices is to extract sound data representing the sound and thereby determining that the extraction of the sound data is to be performed by the second device over the first device, in response to the determining, foregoing extraction of the sound data, receiving VAS response data that is indicative of a given VAS response corresponding to a given voice input identified in the sound data extracted by the second device, and based on the VAS response data, output the given VAS response.
US11538454B2
Methods and systems are described herein for generating an audible presentation of a communication received from a remote server. A presentation of a media asset on a user equipment device is generated for a first user. A textual-based communication is received, at the user equipment device from the remote server. The textual-based communication is transmitted to the remote server by a second user and the remote server transmits the textual-based communication to the user equipment device responsive to determining that the second user is on a list of users associated with the first user. An engagement level of the first user with the user equipment device is determined. Responsive to determining that the engagement level does not exceed a threshold value, a presentation of the textual-based communication is generated in audible form.
US11538450B2
An apparatus for improving the sound of a vehicle according to one embodiment of the present invention, may comprise: a window open/closed detection sensor for detecting the open/closed state of a window of the vehicle; a car door open/closed detection sensor for detecting the open/closed state of a car door of the vehicle; a speed sensor for measuring the speed of the vehicle; a microphone; a memory; and a processor for adjusting a coefficient of an adaptive filter used for an engine order cancellation (EOC) function, on the basis of the opened degree of the window and the speed, when the car door is closed, the window is open, and the magnitude of noise inputted to the microphone is less than or equal to a threshold magnitude.
US11538439B2
Systems and methods for adjusting light emitted from a display of a device are provided. The adjusting includes obtaining, from light of an environment detected by at least one sensor, a measured color of light of the environment, and obtaining, from light of the environment detected by at least one sensor, a measured brightness of light of the environment. In response to the obtaining the measured color and the measured brightness of light, a color of light emitted from the display is adjusted from an initial color prior to the adjusting to a target color that matches the measured color. Further, a brightness of light emitted from the display is adjusted from an initial brightness emitted by the display prior to the adjusting to a target brightness that matches the measured brightness of light.
US11538432B2
An input stage configured to differentially amplify an input signal and an output signal, a first current mirror and a second current mirror configured to receive a differential current from the input stage, an output stage including first and second output transistors, respectively including a gate connected to the first and second current mirrors, and a slew rate compensation circuit configured to (i) mirror a comparison current generated by comparing a voltage of a first input signal with a voltage of a second input signal, and (ii) provide the mirrored comparison current to the gate of the first or second output transistor.
US11538422B2
A pixel of a light emitting display device includes: a switching transistor which transfers a data voltage in response to a gate writing signal, a storage capacitor which stores a storage voltage, a driving transistor which generates a driving current based on the storage voltage stored in the storage capacitor, an emission transistor which selectively forms a path of the driving current in response to an emission signal, a light emitting diode which emits light based on the driving current, and a diode initialization transistor which transfers an initialization voltage to the light emitting diode in response to the emission signal. The storage voltage corresponds to a value obtained by subtracting a threshold voltage of the driving transistor from the data voltage.
US11538417B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a light emission control shift register and method thereof, a gate driving circuit, and a display device. An input circuit outputs a signal of a signal input terminal to a first node. A first control circuit outputs a voltage of a first voltage terminal to a second node. A second control circuit transmits the voltage of the first voltage terminal to a third node. A third control circuit transmits the voltage of the first voltage terminal to a fourth node, and the third control circuit can further transmit the voltage of the second voltage terminal to the fourth node. A fourth control circuit transmits the voltage of the first voltage terminal to a signal output terminal, and the fourth control circuit can further transmit the voltage of the second voltage terminal to the signal output terminal.
US11538404B2
The present disclosure provides a pixel driving structure and a display panel. The pixel driving structure includes a pulse width modulation driving circuit, a pulse amplitude modulation driving circuit, and a buffer circuit. The pulse width modulation driving circuit is configured to control a pulse width of a driving current supplied to the light emitting device to be driven according to a pulse width modulation data voltage; the pulse amplitude modulation driving circuit is configured to control an amplitude of the driving current supplied to the light emitting device to be driven according to a pulse amplitude modulation data voltage; and the buffer circuit is electrically coupled between the pulse width modulation driving circuit and the pulse amplitude modulation driving circuit and is configured to adjust a rate at which the pulse width modulation driving circuit applies a pulse width modulation voltage to the pulse amplitude modulation driving circuit.
US11538396B2
Provided are a display device, a drive circuit, and a driving method. An accurate threshold voltage compensation value is calculated by finely and incrementally correcting the threshold voltage compensation value in real time during display driving. Consequently, a threshold voltage is accurately and rapidly compensated for.
US11538391B2
The present application discloses a driving method for a display panel, a driving device thereof and a display device. The driving method includes: performing square wave conversion on drive data received by each channel to obtain data line signals, where square wave signals generated by the conversion of different gray scales in the corresponding drive data have an identical high level, and the time of low level output is different.
US11538388B2
A light regulation method is described that includes: obtaining actual brightness of light of a first color in a pixel unit, based on brightness and color coordinate of a pinhole light-emitting area, brightness and color coordinate of a first sub-pixel light-emitting area in the pixel unit, and relative position information of the pinhole light-emitting area and the pixel unit; obtaining standard brightness of the light of the first color in the pixel unit under a preset gray-scale white balance, based on the color coordinates of the first sub-pixel light-emitting area, a second sub-pixel light-emitting area and a third sub-pixel light-emitting area; and comparing the actual brightness with the standard brightness of the pixel unit, and changing the brightness of the first sub-pixel light-emitting area until the actual brightness of the light of the first color in the pixel unit is equal to the standard brightness of the light of the first color.
US11538385B2
A gate driving unit includes: a pull-up node denoising circuit; a pull-down node control circuit; a pull-up node control circuit; and an energy storage circuit. The pull-up node denoising circuit is configured to, under control of a potential of the pull-down node, control coupling or discoupling between the first pull-up node and the input terminal. The pull-down node control circuit is configured to, under control of a control voltage, control the potential of the pull-down node; under control of a potential of the second pull-up node, control coupling or discoupling between the pull-down node and the input terminal. The pull-up node control circuit is configured to, under control of an anti-leakage control voltage, control coupling or discoupling between the first pull-up node and the second pull-up node, and configured to maintain the potential of the second pull-up node. The energy storage circuit is configured to store electric energy.
US11538382B2
The present disclosure discloses a driving integrated circuit for a display which is configured using MIM capacitors. The driving integrated circuit includes a first circuit formed in a substrate corresponding to a first region of a chip, a second circuit formed in the substrate corresponding to a second region of the chip, a first MIM capacitor formed in a first layer over the substrate and having a first capacity for the first circuit, and a second MIM capacitor formed in a second layer over the substrate and having a second capacity for the second circuit.
US11538376B2
An apparatus can manage a folding performed on a flexible device. The apparatus includes a foldable display, at least one sensor coupled to the foldable display, and a processor. The at least one sensor includes at least two sensing elements each of the at least two sensing elements is arranged asymmetrically with respect to each other along the foldable display. The processor is configured to determine at least one of a location and an angle of folding of the foldable display based on sensed values detected from the at least two sensing elements. The processor is also configured to render content on the foldable display based on the location and the angle of the folding.
US11538373B2
The disclosure provides an interactive projection system and an interactive display method of the projection system. The interactive projection system includes a biologically-modeled housing, a first projection device disposed inside the biologically-modeled housing and an interactive sensing device, and a controller. The biologically-modeled housing includes a light-transmissive curved projection area. The first projection device projects the first physiological image onto the curved projection area. The interactive sensing device obtains the input signal. The controller is electrically connected to the first projection device and the interactive sensing device to identify the input signal and obtain user instructions. The controller controls the first projection device to project the second physiological image to the curved projection area according to user instructions. The first physiological image and the second physiological image display the physiological features corresponding to the curved projection area at a position on the biologically-modeled housing.
US11538366B2
The present disclosure discloses a display panel and a detecting method thereof. By providing at least one resistance sensor in a bending region, an extending direction of the resistance sensor is perpendicular to an extending direction of an axis for bending and overlaps with the axis for bending. By electrically connecting the resistance sensor to a detecting circuit, a change of the resistance value of the resistance sensor can be reflected as a change of voltage.
US11538363B2
A lightweight training aid is disclosed including selectively positioned posable appendages for use in various training exercises. The training aid may be formed of one or more separable and distinct portions including a head module, a torso module and a leg module, and combinations thereof. The head module and/or leg module may be releasably coupled to the torso module by interchangeable mounting arrangements. Appendages of the training aid may be posable, at least within a set range of motion, within any of a potentially infinite number of orientations. Methods of using such a training aid also are disclosed.
US11538356B2
A method includes determining user content to be provided in a number of formats to a number of network-connected devices associated with a user. The number of network-connected devices are of a plurality of device types. The method further includes determining a fulfillment goal based at least in part on the user content, and generating a multi-fragment application package based at least in part on the respective device types of the number of network-connected devices. The multi-fragment data package includes an adaptable presentation layer that includes instructions for presenting respective fragments of the multi-fragment application package on the number of network-connected devices in accordance with the fulfillment goal. The method further includes providing the respective fragments of the multi-fragment application package to the number of network-connected devices.
US11538355B2
A method for predicting a condition of living-being in an environment, the method including capturing image-data associated with the at-least one person and based thereupon determining a current-condition of the person; receiving content from a plurality of content-sources with respect to said at least one person being imaged, said content defined by at least one of text and statistics; defining one or more weighted parameters based on allocating a plurality of weights to at least one of the captured image data and the received content based on the current-condition; and predicting, by a predictive-analysis module, a condition of the at-least one person based on analysis of the one or more weighted parameters.
US11538347B2
A UAV delivery control system is disclosed. Sensors detect operation parameters associated with the UAV as the UAV maneuvers along an airborne delivery route. A UAV operation controller monitors UAV route parameters as the UAV maneuvers along the airborne delivery route. The UAV route parameters are indicative as to a current environment of the airborne delivery route that the UAV is encountering. The UAV operation controller automatically adjusts the operation of the UAV to maintain the operation of the UAV within an operation threshold based on the operation parameters and the UAV route parameters. The operation threshold is the operation of the UAV that is maintained within an overall airborne operation radius of the UAV from a return destination thereby enabling the UAV to execute the delivery of the package along the airborne delivery route and to return to the return destination.
US11538340B2
The network system triggers registration of the start of a transport journey in response to a communication of a transport user device and a transport provider device with each other, performs a continuous coordinated proximity monitoring to verify the identity of a transport user and a transport provider vehicle, and triggers registration of the end of the transport journey through communication of the transport user device and the transport provider device with each other.
US11538338B2
A device can receive, from a client device, information identifying a location of the client device and determine at least one of an expected future location of the client device or the expected route of the client device based on the information identifying the location of the client device and at least one of: information identifying one or more expected possible routes e associated with the client device, or information identifying a route history associated with the client device, determine, based on the expected future location of the client device, information representing a map fragment and can determine speed limit information associated with the map fragment and, transmit, to the client device, the information representing the map fragment and the speed limit information, wherein the client device is to use the information representing the map fragment and the speed limit information to determine a speeding event associated with a vehicle.
US11538330B2
The Emergency Automatic Gunshot Lockdown (EAGL) System detects gunshots and executes at least one predetermined adaptive response action, such as notifying law enforcement of an active shooter, providing access control measures such as locking down soft target areas, and alerting building occupants of an active shooter situation. A gunshot is detected and verified using a triple validation system. Once a firearm is discharged, the EAGL system sends “real time” data to building officials, law enforcement, and building occupants notifying them of an active shooter situation. Simultaneously, predetermined commands are sent to access control devices for perimeter, office, classroom, and other soft target areas to lockdown and stay secure, to keep the shooter from entering these soft target areas, and to prevent shooter from entering other buildings.
US11538328B2
Techniques for locating and identifying mobile devices are described. According to various embodiments, an ambient sound signal may be detected using a microphone of a mobile device. Thereafter, it may be determined that the ambient sound signal corresponds to a predefined user query for assistance in locating the mobile device. A predefined response sound corresponding to the predefined user query may then be emitted, using a speaker of the mobile device. Additionally, user identification information may be displayed on a screen in response to detecting contact with the mobile device using at least one of an accelerometer and a gyroscope.
US11538323B2
A telematics system and method for monitoring objects in a space having a worker and a lifting apparatus or piece of equipment is described. The telematics system may comprise a base station in communication with a plurality of portable units. The portable units may comprise a position sensor and may secure to a lifting apparatus, worker, or other person or equipment. The portable units may communicate the location of the lifting apparatus, worker, or other person or equipment to the base station. The base station may compare or dynamically generate a safety zone around the locations of the lifting apparatus, worker, or other person or equipment to the base station. The base station may issue an alert if a lifting apparatus, worker, or other person or equipment comes within a predetermined distance of or within the safety zone around a different lifting apparatus, worker, or other person or equipment.
US11538320B2
Provided is a parking space information system including at least one sensor set up for detecting vehicle data of vehicles in the parking space, an evaluation device set up for receiving the detected vehicle data and for determining a drive type of the vehicle depending on the detected vehicle data, and set up for outputting the determined drive type.
US11538307B1
Systems and methods are provided that facilitate various types of live casino gameplay for a player that is not physically present at the gaming table. Players can participate in the live gameplay via a computing device at their home, in the casino hotel, or any other suitable location. One or more cameras are positioned proximate to the table game that provide a live video stream for the player to view on their computing device. A delegate of the player is physically present at the table game and interacting with casino personnel running the table game. Real-time communication is facilitated between the delegate and the player. The player provides instructions to the delegate and the delegate carries out the instructions at the table game in real-time.
US11538291B2
A refuse vehicle comprising a chassis, a body assembly coupled to the chassis, the body assembly defining a refuse compartment, and a thermal event monitoring system comprising one or more sampling elements configured to sample an environmental condition associated with a portion of the refuse vehicle and a processing circuit configured to receive a sample from the one or more sampling elements and determine a presence of a thermal event indicating at least one of a fire or an overheating component.
US11538289B2
Artificial intelligence device mounted on vehicle to perform self-diagnosis, and method for the same
An artificial intelligence device mounted on a vehicle is provided. A sensing unit acquires a gyroscope sensor value, an acceleration sensor value, a GPS sensor value, and a proximity sensor value. If the acquired data satisfies a predetermined reference value, a processor inputs the acquired sensor values to an artificial intelligence model, acquires whether an impact requiring self-diagnosis occurs and impact direction information as a result value, selects an ECU module to perform self-diagnosis according to the acquired result value, and performs self-diagnosis.
US11538288B2
A diagnostic system of a vehicle includes: a diagnostic port configured to: connect to a diagnostic device; and receive a request for data from the vehicle from the diagnostic device; a private module connected to a controller area network (CAN) bus of the vehicle and to the diagnostic port; a public communication module configured to wirelessly connect to computing devices within a passenger cabin of the vehicle, where the public communication module is partitioned from the CAN bus of the vehicle; a second module connected to the private module; and an automotive audio bus (A2B) connecting the second module with the public communication module, where the second module is configured to selectively read data from the public communication module via the A2B in response to the request.
US11538277B2
An image processing method includes receiving an image frame, detecting a face region of a user in the image frame, aligning a plurality of preset feature points in a plurality of feature portions included in the face region, performing a first check on a result of the aligning based on a first region corresponding to a combination of the feature portions, performing a second check on the result of the aligning based on a second region corresponding to an individual feature portion of the feature portions, redetecting a face region based on a determination of a failure in passing at least one of the first check or the second check, and outputting information on the face region based on a determination of a success in passing the first check and the second check.
US11538272B2
An apparatus for measuring a signal is provided. The apparatus for measuring a signal may include a sensor configured to generate pixel data representing a fingerprint image of an object by detecting light scattered or reflected from the object and a processor configured to acquire the fingerprint image of the object based on the pixel data and acquire a pulse wave signal based on the fingerprint image and the pixel data.
US11538269B2
An optical fingerprint sensor (OFPS) for use with a liquid-crystal display (LCD) panel having a backlight module is positioned under the backlight module and captures an image of a fingerprint sensing area on the LCD panel through an aperture in both a reflector and a metal shield of the backlight module. The OFPS includes a sensor layer, a wafer-level optic layer bonded to the sensor layer and an infrared pass filter (IRPF) coating formed on a substantially flat top surface of the wafer-level optic layer. An OFPS may be formed with a flat top and may include a wafer-level optic layer having one or more lenses to direct light generated by a light source beneath the wafer-level optic layer. The wafer-level lenses may be bonded with the fingerprint scanner. The flat top of the OFPS may be made with an IRPF coating.
US11538262B2
Multiple field of view (FOV) systems are disclosed herein. An example system includes a bioptic barcode reader having a target imaging region. The bioptic barcode reader includes at least one imager having a first FOV and a second FOV and is configured to capture an image of a target object from each FOV. The example system includes one or more processors configured to receive the images and a trained object recognition model stored in memory communicatively coupled to the one or more processors. The memory includes instructions that, when executed, cause the one or more processors to analyze the images to identify at least a portion of a barcode and one or more features associated with the target object. The instructions further cause the one or more processors to determine a target object identification probability and to determine whether a predicted product identifies the target object.
US11538260B2
A data conversion processing unit converts a second group including a plurality of reflection point data units in which a reflection point corresponding to each reflection point data unit belongs to a three-dimensional object among a first data unit group into a third group including a plurality of projection point data units by projecting the second group onto a horizontal plane in a world coordinate system. A clustering processing unit clusters the plurality of projection point data units of the third group into a plurality of clusters based on positions of these units on the horizontal plane. A space of interest setting unit sets a space of interest for each cluster by using the plurality of reflection point data units corresponding to the plurality of projection point data units included in each cluster.
US11538259B2
The present disclosure provides a method and system to operationalize driver eye movement data analysis based on moving objects of interest. Correlation and/or regression analyses between indirect (e.g., eye-tracking) and/or direct measures of driver awareness may identify variables that feature spatial and/or temporal aspects of driver eye glance behavior relative to objects of interest. The proposed systems and methods may be further combined with computer-vision techniques such as object recognition to (e.g., fully) automate eye movement data processing as well as machine learning approaches to improve the accuracy of driver awareness estimation.
US11538257B2
A method of detecting occupants in a vehicle includes detecting an oncoming vehicle and acquiring a plurality of images of occupants in the vehicle in response to detection of the vehicle. The method includes performing automated facial detection on the plurality of images and adding a facial image for each face detected to a gallery of facial images for the occupants of the vehicle. The method includes performing automated facial recognition on the gallery of facial images to group the facial images into groups based on which occupant is in the respective facial images, and counting the final group of unique facial images to determine how many occupants are in the vehicle.
US11538253B2
An apparatus and method for compensating for an error of a vehicle sensor for enhancing performance for identifying the same object are provided. The apparatus includes a rotation angle error calculator that calculates a rotation angle error between sensor object information and sensor fusion object information. A position error calculator calculates a longitudinal and lateral position error between the sensor object information and the sensor fusion object information. A sensor error compensator calculates a sensor error based on the calculated rotation angle and a position error. In calculating the rotation angle error, the sensor error compensator corrects an error of the sensor object information based on the rotation angle error, and compensates for the sensor error based on the longitudinal and lateral position error between the corrected sensor object information and the sensor fusion object information.
US11538251B2
Provided is a method for controlling a vehicle, including: receiving a plurality of visual sensor signals containing three-dimensional visual information outside and inside the vehicle; receiving a plurality of audio sensor signals containing three-dimensional audio information outside and inside the mobile vehicle; determining three-dimensional spatial positions of at least two objects and object cognitive information of the at least two objects according to at least a portion of the plurality of visual sensor signals and at least a portion of the plurality of audio sensor signals, wherein the at least two objects include at least one object outside the vehicle and at least one object inside the vehicle; obtaining a circumstance information of the vehicle according to the object cognitive information; and determining operation instructions for the vehicle according to the circumstance information.
US11538250B2
A system and method for self-learning operation of gate paddles is disclosed. Opening and closing of the gate paddles requires timing and other settings to avoid injury and fare evasion. Self-learning allows a machine learning model to adapt to new data dynamically. The new data captured at a fare gate improves the machine learning model, which can be shared the other similar fare gates within a transit system so that learning disseminates.
US11538244B2
Implementations of the subject matter described herein provide a solution for extracting spatial-temporal feature representation. In this solution, an input comprising a plurality of images is received at a first layer of a learning network. First features that characterize spatial presentation of the images are extracted from the input in a spatial dimension using a first unit of the first layer. Based on a type of a connection between the first unit and a second unit of the first layer, second features at least characterizing temporal changes across the images are extracted from the first features and/or the input in a temporal dimension using the second unit. A spatial-temporal feature representation of the images is generated partially based on the second features. Through this solution, it is possible to reduce learning network sizes, improve training and use efficiency of learning networks, and obtain accurate spatial-temporal feature representations.
US11538226B2
An information processing device includes a vegetation analysis section configured to analyze a vegetation state of a monitoring area on the basis of detection information acquired from a detection unit and indicating a status of the monitoring area, a restricted area determination section configured to define a restricted area, where entry is restricted, in the monitoring area on the basis of the vegetation state, and a guidance information providing section configured to provide a terminal device with guidance information indicating restrictions on entry into the restricted area.
US11538220B2
A tangible object virtualization station including a base capable of stably resting on a surface and a head component unit connected to the base. The head component unit extends upwardly from the base. At an end of the head component opposite the base, the head component comprises a camera situated to capture a downward view of the surface proximate the base, a lighting array that directs light downward toward the surface proximate the base. The tangible object virtualization station further comprises a display interface included in the base. The display interface is configured to hold a display device in an upright position and connect the display device to the camera and the lighting array.
US11538215B2
A graphics processing system has a rendering space which is divided into tiles. Primitives within the tiles are processed to perform hidden surface removal and to apply texturing to the primitives. The graphics processing system includes a plurality of depth buffers, thereby allowing a processing module to process primitives of one tile by accessing one of the depth buffers while primitive identifiers of another, partially processed tile are stored in another one of the depth buffers. This allows the graphics processing system to have “multiple tiles in flight”, which can increase the efficiency of the graphics processing system.
US11538203B2
Methods and systems are provided for displaying visualizations of a vehicle's capability with respect to an input query corresponding to a prospective action to modify operation of the vehicle. One method involves identifying one or more input query parameters, obtaining current status information for the vehicle, identifying one or more performance constraints for the vehicle, and determining a capability envelope for the vehicle for satisfying the one or more input query parameters for the prospective action based at least in part on the current status information and the one or more performance constraints. The capability envelope includes a plurality of potential trajectories for the vehicle different from a reference trajectory for the vehicle. The method provides graphical indicia of the one or more input query parameters and the capability envelope with respect to the reference trajectory on a navigational map display.
US11538197B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for channel-wise autoregressive entropy models. In one aspect, a method includes processing data using a first encoder neural network to generate a latent representation of the data. The latent representation of data is processed by a quantizer and a second encoder neural network to generate a quantized latent representation of data and a latent representation of an entropy model. The latent representation of data is further processed into a plurality of slices of quantized latent representations of data wherein the slices are arranged in an ordinal sequence. A hyperprior processing network generates a hyperprior parameters and a compressed representation of the hyperprior parameters. For each slice, a corresponding compressed representation is generated using a corresponding slice processing network wherein a combination of the compressed representations form a compressed representation of the data.
US11538194B2
A reference imaging system including a planar reference piece. The reference imaging system further includes a three-axis gantry for positioning the planar reference piece at a plurality of points in a 3D coordinate system. Additionally, the reference imaging system includes a yaw actuator for adjusting the yaw angle of the object. Furthermore, the reference imaging system includes a pitch actuator for adjusting the pitch of the object. Moreover, the reference imaging system includes a computer processing unit for controlling the 3D position, pitch and yaw of the planar reference piece.
US11538191B2
A indicator is moved from a first position based on a line-of-sight input to a second position according to a moving operation performed on an operating member that receives a user operation different from the line-of-sight input, (a) calibration of an input position in accordance with the line of sight, on a basis of the first position and the second position, is not performed in a case where an instruction operation for executing specific processing at a position of the indicator is not performed, and (b) calibration of the input position in accordance with the line of sight is performed on a basis of the first position and the second position in a case where an instruction operation for executing the specific processing is performed in a state in which there is no additional moving operation, and a specific condition is satisfied.
US11538187B2
A radiographic system includes a storage unit configured to store a plurality of imaging methods in association with a plurality of imaging protocols, a determination unit configured to determine whether an imaging method of an imaging protocol associated with an examination order matches at least one of the plurality of imaging methods stored in the storage unit, and an image processing unit configured to apply, in a case where the determination unit determines that the imaging method matches at least one imaging method, an image processing condition of an imaging protocol corresponding to the at least one imaging method to a radiographic image captured based on the imaging protocol associated with the examination order.
US11538186B2
Systems and techniques are provided for linking subjects in an area of real space with user accounts. The user accounts are linked with client applications executable on mobile computing devices. A plurality of cameras are disposed above the area. The cameras in the plurality of cameras produce respective sequences of images in corresponding fields of view in the real space. A processing system is coupled to the plurality of cameras. The processing system includes logic to determine locations of subjects represented in the images. The processing system further includes logic to match the identified subjects with user accounts by identifying locations of the mobile computing devices executing client applications in the area of real space and matching locations of the mobile computing devices with locations of the subjects.
US11538181B2
A method for automated flushness measurement of point cloud rivets, including: extracting a rivet outline by adopting an RANSAC circle fitting algorithm, and determining a center, a radius and a normal vector of an outline circle; extracting point cloud of a rivet head for a single rivet outline; extracting point cloud around the rivet for the single rivet outline; and generating a distance color difference map reflecting rivet flushness according to the point cloud of the rivet head and the point cloud around the rivet. According to the present invention, the point cloud of the rivet head and the point cloud around the rivet can be respectively extracted, and the distance color difference map reflecting the rivet flushness is generated according to the point cloud of the rivet head and the point cloud around the rivet, so that the rivet flushness is rapidly and effectively measured.
US11538178B2
Techniques are described for a multiple-phase process that uses machine learning (ML) models to produce a texturized version of an input image. During a first phase, using a pix2pix-based ML model, an automatically-generated image that depicts structured texture is generated based on an input image that visually identifies a plurality of image areas for the structured texture. During a second phase, a neural style transfer-based ML model is used to apply the style of a style image (e.g., a target image from the training dataset of the pix2pix-based ML model) to the texture image generated at the first phase (the content image) to produce a modified texture image. According to an embodiment, during a third phase, the generated texture image produced at the first phase and the modified texture image produced at the second phase are combined to produce a structured texture image with a moderated amount of detail.
